0 812 1547 1561 1600 1638 1663 1665 1686 1700
-1737 1741 1742 1745 1749 1755 1756 1758 1759 1762
-1767 1777 1780 1783 1790 1798 1800 1803 1808 1819
-1820 1824 1825 1826 1829 1831 1835 1838 1845 1847
-1850 1854 1855 1857 1858 1860 1862 1865 1866 1867
-1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1876 1877 1878
-1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888
-1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
-1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
-1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
-1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
-1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
-1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948
-1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
-1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
-1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
-1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988
-1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
-1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
-2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
-2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Date: 0’s
-Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO’s
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 812
-Description: Agobard, the
-archbishop of Lyon, France, writes De Grandine et Tonitruis (“On Hail
-and Thunder”), in which he condemns pagan folk beliefs, such as the
-notion of a “certain region called Magonia, from which ships, navigating
-on clouds, set sail to transport back to this same region the fruits of
-the earth ruined by hail and destroyed by the storm.” He cites an
-episode in which some foolish peasants capture “three men and one woman
-who they said had fallen from these ships.” Brought out in front of an
-enraged mob, Agobard intervenes and prevents their lynching, persuading
-the crowd that the charges are false and absurd. Some ufologists
-interpret this as a visitation from an alternate reality or an abduction
-case, while Jean-Louis Brodu observes that in the 9th century the
-atmosphere was likened to an ocean in which aerial ships could navigate
-from point to point on the earth. Miceal Ross argues that Magonia is a
-corruption of Magonianus, relating to the city of Mahón, the port of the
-island of Menorca, Spain. (Jean-Louis Brodu, “Magonia: A Re-Evaluation,”
-Fortean Studies 2 (1995): 198–215; Miceal Ross, “Anchors
-in a Three-Decker
-World,” Folklore 109 (1998): 63–75; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 23–24;
-Clark III 1213–1214; Vallée and Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher,
-2009, pp. 70–73;
-Pierre Chambert-Protat, “Florus
-de Lyon et les Extra- terrestres,”
-Florus de Lyon, November 4, 2014; Pierre Lagrange, “Agobard,
-la Magonie et les ovnis,” Actualité, no. 440 (October 2017): 28–29;
-Wikipedia, “Magonia
-(mythology)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 0
Date: 12/15/1547
-Description: Mariners in the port of Hamburg, Germany, see a fireball
-moving to the south. Its rays are so hot that passengers cannot remain
-inside the ships. Thinking the vessels are about to burn, they hide and
-take cover. (Simon Goulart, Thrésor d’histoires admirables et mémorables
-de nostre temps, Geneva, 1600, vol. 1,
-p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1
Date: 4/4/1561
-Description: Dusk. A “frightening vision” is seen in the sky above
-Nuremberg, Germany, said to be observed by many. Printer Hans
-Glaser describes in his broadside many blood-red, blue, and black
-balls or discs near the Sun. “They were three alongside each other,
-sometimes four in a square, and several alone, and between these balls
-blood- colored crosses” are seen. Two “great pipes” (cannon) are also
-observed, and everything starts to “fight against each other.” The
-battle lasts about one hour, then the burning balls fall to the earth
-and vanish on the ground. Although cited as a possible early UFO report,
-the narrative is simply about a battle in the sky by phantom armies told
-as an allegory of what awaits an unrepentant humanity on Judgment Day.
-(Hans Glaser, Himmelserscheinung
-über
-Nürnberg am 14. April 1561, Holzschnitt, 1561; Carl Jung, Flying
-Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Mentor ed., 1969, pp. 103–104,
-between pp. 120–121;
-Ulrich Magin, “A UFO in the Year 1561,” Fortean Times 283 (February
-2012): 40–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2
Date: 1600’s
-Description: Significant sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Charles
-Fort
Date: 1638
-Description: English clergyman and philosopher John
-Wilkins writes The Discovery of a World in the Moone, in which he
-highlights the similarities of the Earth and the Moon (seas, mountains,
-atmosphere) and concludes that the Moon is likely to be inhabited by
-living beings, whom the calls “Selenites.” (Maria Avxentevskaya, “How
-17th Century Dreamers
-Planned to Reach the Moon,” Real Clear Science, December 2,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3
Date: 1638
-Description: Night. John Everett and two companions are crossing the
-Muddy River near Boston, Massachusetts, in a boat when a “great light”
-appears above them. It darts back and forth across the river, sometimes
-hovering and “flaming up,” for about 2–3 hours. After they stop watching
-it, they discover that their boat has moved about one mile against the
-current to the place where they had embarked. (John Winthrop, The
-History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Little, Brown, 1853, vol. 1,
-pp. 349–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4
Date: 8/15/1663
-Description: 12:00 noon. The faithful gathered in a church in a village
-near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia, hear a loud noise outside
-and see a large ball of fire descend from the north and then head south
-following the lake, low over its surface. The fireball seems to measure
-about 140 feet across and has blue smoke issuing from its sides. Two
-fiery rays extend from its front part. Less than an hour later, a
-similar fireball reappears over the same lake. Moving from south to
-west, the object again disappears. It reappears a third time a short
-while later, this time larger than before, and stays over the lake for
-an hour and a half. Peasants in a boat try to get close to it, but the
-heat is too intense. The water of the lake is illuminated to a depth of
-30 feet, and fish are seen swimming away from the object, which then
-flies off to the west. (Akty istoricheskie, sobranye i izdanye
-Arkheografischeskaia Kommissiia, Vol. 4, Saint Petersburg, 1842, pp. 331–332;
-Hobana and Weverbergh 54–61; Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, Wonders in
-the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, pp. 215–217;
-Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (March 2012): 31;
-Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-pp. 157–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5
Date: 4/8/1665
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Numerous wonders are seen in the sky over
-Stralsund, Germany, including ships, large flocks of birds, fire, and
-smoke, as well as a dark “round flat form like a plate and like a big
-man’s hat” that hovers above St. Nicholas Church for one hour. Witnesses
-include several fishermen who later complain of tremors in their hands
-and feet. (Eine
-abgebildete Beschreibung von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen
-Lufft-Kriege und Schiff-streite, Leipzig,
-1665; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating
-UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 23–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6
Date: 1686
-Description: French philosopher Bernard
-le Bovier de Fontenelle writes Conversations on the Plurality of
-Worlds, in which he speculates on extraterrestrial life. He imagines
-Venusians to be “little black people, scorched with the Sun, full of
-fire, very amorous.” (Wikipedia, “Conversations
-on the Plurality of Worlds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7
Date: 1700’s
-Description: Significant sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Charles
-Fort
Date: 12/5/1737
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Physician Thomas
-Short witnesses a blood-red luminous display in the sky around
-Sheffield, England, which moves from west to north and then to the east.
-The cause seems to be one or more clouds in which are embedded brilliant
-lights as bright as the full moon that give off slow-moving streamers or
-rays. The display is accompanied by unseasonable heat and lasts until
-10:30 p.m. Short hears that a similar phenomenon is seen at the same
-time in Venice, Italy, and Kilkenny, Ireland, where it appears as a
-bursting fireball. (Thomas Short, “An
-Account of Several Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
-Society 41 (1741): 625–627)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 8
Date: 12/6/1737
-Description: Afternoon. A large, blood-red object is seen in the western
-sky at Bucharest, Wallachia [now Romania]. It lingers for two hours
-before splitting up then reuniting once again. The phenomenon is said to
-have occurred at night in the Banat region. (Hobana and Weverbergh 222;
-Romania 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 9
Date: 9/21/1741
-Description: Dawn. Parson-naturalist Gilbert
-White wakes up at his vicarage in Selborne, Hampshire, England, and
-finds the neighboring clover fields matted all over with a thick coat of
-cobwebs, laced with dew. The dogs are blinded by it when they attempt to
-hunt. At 9:00 a.m. more cobwebs fall from the sky and continue until
-dusk. They are “perfect flakes or rags; some near an inch broad, and
-five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they
-were considerably heavier than the atmosphere.” The fall extends to the
-neighboring villages of New Alresford and Bradley. (Gilbert White, The
-Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), Letter
-XXIII)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 10
Date: 12/16/1742 (approximate)
-Description: 8:40 p.m. Physician Cromwell
-Mortimer, secretary
-of the Royal Society, is walking through St. James’s Park in
-Westminster, London, England, when he sees a light ascend from behind
-the trees and houses in the southwest. When it reaches 20° against the
-sky, it takes a horizontal path with an undulating motion before
-disappearing in the northeast after a full 30 seconds. The front part is
-luminous with a frame-like structure behind it, and it has a faint
-trail. The date is questionable since Mortimer calls this a “Thursday”
-and December 16 was a Sunday. ([A
-Note by Cromwell Mortimer], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
-Society 43 (1745): 524–525)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 11
Date: 7/14/1745
-Description: Astronomer George
-Costard observes a meteoric stream of fire that persists for at
-least one hour at Standlake Broad west of Oxford, England. (“Part of a
-Letter from the Reverend Mr. Geo. Costard to Mr. John Catlin, concerning
-a Fiery Meteor Seen in the Air on July 14, 1745,” Philosophical
-Transactions of the Royal Society 43 (1745): 522–524)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 12
Date: 11/4/1749
-Description: 11:50 a.m. The crew of the HMS
-Montagu watches
-a large blue fireball, apparently low on the water, head directly toward
-them from the northeast and explode some 150 feet away from the ship,
-causing some damage to the mast, before it continues on toward the
-southwest. The incident takes place in the North Atlantic Ocean some 240
-miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain. (Chalmers, “An
-Account of an Extraordinary Fireball Bursting
-at Sea,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 46 (1752):
-366–367; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia:
-Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 67–75; Martin Shough
-and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021,
-pp. 105–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 13
Date: 3/1755
-Description: German philosopher Immanuel
-Kant publishes Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens,
-in which he theorizes that distance from the Sun determines the
-intelligence level of a world’s inhabitants; thus, the people who live
-on Mercury are the stupidest, and the Venusians are only dimly
-brighter—making any Jupiterians and Saturnians much smarter than
-earthlings. (Wikipedia, “Universal
-Natural History and Theory of the Heavens”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 14
Date: 1756
-Description: Scottish astronomer James
-Ferguson writes Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s
-Principles, proclaiming the certainty of a plurality of inhabited worlds
-“peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless
-progression in perfection and felicity.” (James Ferguson, Astronomy
-Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, 8th ed., London, 1790, p. 6;
-Matthew Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, Basic Books, 2008, pp. 189–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 15
Date: 1758
-Description: Swedish theologian and mystic Emanuel
-Swedenborg writes in The Earths in the Universe that that he has
-conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and
-the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond the solar system. From
-these encounters, he concludes that the planets are all inhabited and
-that such an enormous undertaking as the universe cannot have been
-created for just one race on one planet. (Emanuel Swedenborg, The
-Earths in the Universe, London, 1875; Richard Smoley, “Is
-There Really Life on Other Planets?”
-Swedenborg Foundation, February 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 16
Date: 4/27/1759
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Following a clap of thunder, a flat, pale object
-is seen “dancing” in the sky over Longdon, Somerset, England. It is
-joined by three similar objects, all of which move from west to east for
-30 seconds and disappear in a cloud. (London Universal Chronicle, May 5,
-1759; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating
-UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 83–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 17
Date: 8/9/1762
-Description: 12:00 noon. An amateur astronomer named de Rostan is
-observing the Sun at Lausanne, Switzerland, when he notices a large,
-spindle-shaped body moving across the solar disc from east to west at a
-slower rate of speed than sunspots move. It is surrounded by a thin
-“nebulosity.” An observer named Croste in Solothurn, Switzerland, also
-observes the object, but French astronomer Charles
-Messier, who is also taking solar measurements in Paris, France,
-does not see it. It remains visible until September 7, when it passes
-the Sun’s western limb. (“Observation Astronomique,”
-Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1766, pp. 106–107; “An
-Account of a Very Singular Phaenomenon
-Seen in the Disk of the Sun,” Annual Register, 1766, pp. 120–122;
-Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2,
-Anomalist, 2021, pp. 33–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 18
Date: 9/9/1767
-Description: A cloud “like a house on fire” that soon takes on a
-pyramidal form is seen traveling along the course of the River Isla near
-Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. It moves northeast to the confluence of
-the River Ericht and follows that stream to the west toward Blairgowrie
-where it disappears. It is accompanied by strong winds that destroy two
-houses. (Annual Register 1767, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 19
Date: 6/17/1777
-Description: 11:46 a.m. French astronomer Charles
-Messier views a large number of round, dark-brown globules passing
-in front of the disc of the sun for 5 minutes from west-southwest to
-east-northeast. He sees them through an achromatic refractor at the
-naval observatory located in the Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France. His
-estimate of their size (one-600th the size of the solar disc) puts them
-near the limit of resolution for his telescope, but Messier claims the
-objects are far away and in focus. (Charles Messier, “Observation
-singulaire d’une prodigieuse quantité de
-petits globules qui ont passé devant le disque du soleil, le 17 juin
-1777,” Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, 1777,
-pp. 464–472; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the
-Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 7–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 20
Date: 1780’s
-Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
-Type: scientific advanced
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1783
-Description: British astronomer William
-Herschel has been observing the lunar surface since the mid-1770s in
-Bath, England, and writes journal entries in which he details sightings
-of immense trees, forests, and pastures, comparing it to the English
-countryside. By 1778, he is seeing circular formations that he thinks
-are towns and villages. He also notes canals, roads, and patches of
-vegetation, but never writes about it publicly, since he knows that
-telescopic observations can be tricky. (George Basalla, Civilized Life
-in the Universe, Oxford University, 2006, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 21
Date: 8/18/1783
-Description: 9:15–9:30 p.m. An unusually bright bolide is observed in
-the British Isles on a clear, dry night. Analysis indicates that the
-meteor has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the North Sea, before
-passing over the east coast of Scotland, England, and the English
-Channel; it finally breaks up, after a passage within the atmosphere of
-around 1,000 miles, over southwestern France or northern Italy. Perhaps
-the most prominent witness is Tiberius Cavallo, an
-Italian natural philosopher who happens to be among a group of people on
-the terrace at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, at the time the
-meteor appears. (Wikipedia, “1783
-Great Meteor”; Tiberius Cavallo, “Description
-of a Meteor, Observed Aug. 18, 1783,” Philosophical Transactions of
-the Royal Society 74 (1784): 108–111; Charles Blagden, “An
-Account of Some Late Fiery Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of
-the Royal Society 74 (1784): 202–232; Martin Beech, “The
-Great Meteor of 18th August 1783,” Journal of the British
-Astronomical Association 99 (1989): 130–134; Kaushik Patowary, “The
-Great Meteor of 1783,” Amusing Planet, September 8, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 22
Date: 6/12/1790
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Several farmers in Alençon, Normandy, France, see
-a large globe surrounded by flames and making a whistling sound. The
-object slows, oscillates, and moves toward the top of a hill, unearthing
-some plants along the slope. The heat is so intense that grass and small
-trees start burning. In the evening the sphere is still warm. Witnesses
-include two mayors, a doctor, and three other authorities in addition to
-the dozens of peasants who are present. A kind of door opens and a
-person emerges. He is dressed in a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all
-the people, says some words that are not understood. He runs into the
-woods. The sphere explodes silently, throwing pieces everywhere, and
-these pieces burn until they are powder. The original source is
-allegedly from a June 17 report by a Police Inspector Liabeuf and
-forwarded to the French Academy of Sciences. However, the Academy
-reported in 2006 that it has no knowledge of such a report in its
-archives. Probable hoax. (Alberto Penoglio, “Antichi Visitatori
-dal Cielo,” Clypeus 3, n. 3 (1966): 13–14; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 60–61;
-“1790
-UFO Crash or Time Traveller?”
-Cool Interesting Stuff, June 1, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 23
Date: 9/10/1798
-Description: Before midnight. Schoolmaster Alexander Campbell and one
-other person observe a “remarkable comet, or meteor” at Alnwick,
-Northumberland, England. It rapidly increases in brightness, changing
-from a star-like object to a shape like “two half-moons, back to back,
-having a short luminous stream between the two backs” over the course of
-5 minutes. (Annual Register 1798, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 24
Date: 1800’s
-Description: Significant sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Charles
-Fort
Date: 2/22/1803
-Alternate date: 3/24/1803
-Description: An attractive young woman aged 18–20 years old arrives on a
-beach aboard a “hollow ship” (Utsuro-bune) that looks like a rice
-cooking pot or incense burner in Hitachi province, Japan. Fishermen
-bring her inland to investigate further, but the woman is unable to
-communicate in Japanese. She is dressed in a foreign fashion made of
-unknown fabrics and is clutching an ornate box also marked with the
-unknown script. The vessel is covered in hieroglyphs that no one can
-decipher. The fishermen return her and her vessel to the sea, where it
-drifts away. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu
-(1825), Hyōryū kishū (1835), and Ume-no-chiri (1844), but no official
-records mention it. (Wikipedia, “Utsuro-bune”;
-Kazuo Tanaka, “Did a Close Encounter of the Third Kind Occur on a
-Japanese Beach in 1803?” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 4 (July/August
-2000): 37–60; Masaru Mori, “The Female Alien in a Hollow Vessel,”
-Fortean Times 48 (Spring 1987): 48–50; Junji Numakawa, “On
-a UFO-Shaped Boat in 1803,” UFO Criticism 1, no 1 (January 2001):
-2–3; Tanaka Kazuo, “‘Utsurobune’:
-A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan,” nippon.com, June 26,
-2020; Shoichi Kamon [pseud. of Tanaka Kazuo], The Mystery of
-Utsuro-bune: Ancient UFO Encounter in Japan? Flying Disk Press,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 25
Date: 5/16/1808
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Swedish lichenologist Erik
-Acharius watches a stream of dark-brown spherical objects moving
-slowly through the sky in a straight line over Biskopsberga, near
-Skänninge, Sweden. Some hover temporarily and speed up, while others
-fall to earth. The objects appear in the western sky and stream to the
-east for 2 hours. Some are apparently linked together in groups of
-three, six, or eight, and all of them have some kind of trail. A few of
-them fall in the vicinity of K. G. Wettermark, who has also been
-observing. They resemble soap bubbles and dissipate quickly, leaving a
-film like cobweb. (Erik Acharius, “Besynnerligt
-Meteor-Phenomén,” Konglige Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handligar,
-ser. 2, vol. 29 (July/September 1808): 215–218; “Account
-of an Extraordinary
-Meteoric Phenomenon,” North American Review 3 (1816): 320–322;
-Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1,
-Anomalist, 2019, pp. 18–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 26
Date: 8/13/1819
-Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. A brilliant white fireball streaks across
-the sky at Amherst, Massachusetts. The next morning, Erastus Dewey finds
-a strange substance 20 feet from his front door and assumes it is
-residue from the meteorite. It is about 8 inches in diameter, resembles
-an upside-down salad dish, and consists of buff-colored pulpy substance
-with an overwhelmingly bad smell. It is covered with a nap that, when
-removed, causes the interior to liquefy and form a starchy substance. A
-couple days later, it largely dissipates. Geologist Edward Hitchcock thinks
-it is some kind of “gelatinous fungus” common to the area in the late
-summer. (Rufus Graves, “Account
-of a Gelatinous Meteor,” American Journal of Science 2 (1820):
-335–337; Edward Hitchcock, “On
-the Meteors
-of Nov. 13, 1833,” American Journal of Science 25 (1834): 354,
-362–363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 27
Date: 2/12/1820
-Description: 10:45 a.m. A German astronomer and cleric named Steinheibel
-watches a clearly defined dark orange-red spot traversing the disc of
-the Sun in about five hours. (Joseph Johann von Littrow, “Further
-Note on the Supposed
-Observation of an Intra-Mercurial Planet on the 12th of February,
-1820,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 22 (1862):
-276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 28
Date: 1824
-Description: Bavarian astronomer Franz
-von Gruithuisen of Munich, Germany, writes Discovery of Many
-Distinct Traces of Lunar Inhabitants, Especially of One of their
-Colossal Buildings, in which he announces his discovery of a city on the
-Moon in the rough terrain to the north of Schröter crater that he names
-the Wallwerk. This region contains a series of somewhat linear ridges
-that have a fishbone-like pattern, and, with the small refracting
-telescope he is using, can be perceived as resembling buildings complete
-with streets. His claims are readily refuted using more powerful
-instruments. Gruithuisen also thinks that the mysterious “ashen light”
-observed on Venus’s dark side is due to a festival of fire in honor of
-the “ascension of a new emperor to the throne of the planet.” Later, he
-speculates that the illumination is caused by burning jungles to create
-new farmland. (“Gruithuisen’s
-Lunar City,” whatsupinthesky.com; David Dunér, “Venusians:
-The Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate,”
-Journal of Astronomical Data 19, no. 1 (2013): 162; Andrew May, “The
-Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 (October 2017): 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 29
Date: 1825
-Description: Ampère published his “Ampère’s law.”
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 4/1/1826
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Stone mason Johannes Becker hears a noise
-resembling thunder at Rastpfuhl, northwest of Saarbrücken, Germany, and
-sees a grayish object “like two pieces of tin” approaching the earth
-with lightning speed and expanding itself like a sheet before falling to
-earth, apparently not far away. After one minute there is another sound
-like thunder and a strong whirlwind, as if coming from an impact. Pastor
-Köllner collects testimony from other nearby witnesses and visits the
-supposed landing site but finds no burn marks or meteoritic stones.
-(Ernst Chladni, “Über
-eine merkwürdige meteorische Erscheinung, am 1 April 1826, nicht weit
-von Saarbrücken,”
-Annalen der Physik und Chemie 7 (1826): 373–377; Martin Shough and Wim
-van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 31–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 30
Date: 8/20/1829
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A man on the York Road east of Leeds, England,
-sees a moon-like object split into two halves, the upper half of which
-gives off an apparent shaft of light. He sees two human figures visible
-to the waist, one of which has a red cloth around its head. The object
-is visible for more than one hour and is seen by others, during which
-time a cloud passes in front of it. (“Celestial
-Phenomena,” York Herald, August 22, 1829, p. 2; Chris Aubeck and
-Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History,
-Anomalist, 2015, pp. 111–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 31
Date: 1831
-Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of
-induction
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 5/11/1835
-Description: At the Palermo Observatory in Italy, astronomer Niccolò
-Cacciatore detects a starlike object in the Southern sky between the
-constellations Virgo and Crater moving at a slow rate that might
-indicate a planet beyond Uranus. It is nowhere to be seen during his
-next observation on May 14. (“Supposed New Planet,” American Journal of
-Science 31 (1837): 158–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 32
Date: 8/25/1835
-End date: 8/31/1835
-Description: The New York Sun publishes a series of six articles on the
-alleged discovery by English astronomer John Herschel of
-plants, animals, and winged people on the lunar surface. Using a huge
-and powerful telescope, Herschel supposedly sees herds of bison-like
-quadrupeds, a spherical amphibious creature, and a bipedal beaver that
-lives in huts. The humans are man-bats “covered, except on the face,
-with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a
-thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs.” The article
-is an elaborate hoax. Herschel hasn’t observed life on the moon at all,
-nor is Herschel even aware of the story until much later. The
-announcement causes enormous excitement throughout America and Europe.
-Authorship of the article is usually attributed to Richard Adams Locke,
-a reporter who is working for The Sun at the time. Locke publicly admits
-to being the author in 1840, in a letter to the weekly paper New World,
-although his intent is satire, not misinformation. (Wikipedia, “Great
-Moon Hoax”; Richard Adams Locke, The
-Moon Hoax, Gowans, 1859)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 33
Date: 1838
-Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission
-across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: link
Date: 1838
-Description: Scottish minister and science writer Thomas
-Dick publishes Celestial Scenery: The Wonders of the Planetary
-System Displayed, in which he suggests that every planet in the Solar
-System is inhabited. At his home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, he computes
-that the Solar System contains 21.9 trillion inhabitants, 53.5 billion
-of them on Venus. This is done comparing the surface area of each planet
-and the population density of England. (Thomas Dick, Celestial
-Scenery, Harper,
-1838)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 34
Date: 6/18/1845
-Description: 10:30 p.m. The British brig Victoria, captained by George
-Henry Caithness, is
-becalmed in the Strait of Sicily about 30 miles southwest of Licata,
-Sicily, Italy, when a huge wind suddenly blows from the east for two
-hours. Then the wind suddenly stops, and the crew feels an overpowering
-heat and smells a sulfuric stench. At this moment three “luminous
-bodies” emerge from the sea about one-half mile away and remain visible
-for 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter the wind picks up again. (This could
-be a magma plume from an undersea volcanic vent.) Around 7:10 p.m., at
-Ainab, Lebanon, two objects five times as large as the moon, joined by
-“streamers or appendages,” are observed in the west and remain visible
-for one hour, moving slowly on an easterly course. The objects are so
-bright they are painful to look at. A possible outgassing event from the
-Madrepore subsea vent. (“Atmospherical
-Phenomena,” London Morning Chronicle, August 8, 1845, p. 5; The
-Athenaeum, August 19, 1848, p. 833;
-James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors,
-1860–61,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of
-Science, 1861, pp. 30–31;
-Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in
-History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 139–152; Martin Shough and Wim van
-Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021,
-pp. 115–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 35
Date: 3/19/1847
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A woman and her companion are in Highbury East,
-London, England, when they notice what seems to be a fire balloon
-ascending slowly in the west, seemingly over Hampstead. It shoots out
-“several fiery coruscations” and turns into an intensely radiant cloud,
-which moves on further west. Its light shines down on the houses below.
-Suddenly another bright cloud appears above the first. After 2–3
-minutes, a fiery ball drops from the upper cloud to the lower one,
-followed by two others. Soon after this, both clouds disappear. (“Meteoric Stones,”
-Littell’s Living Age 56 (1858): 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 36
Date: 9/15/1850
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Senior medical officer Elisha
-Kent Kane and other crew members of the USS
-Advance,
-participating in the First Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic to
-determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition,
-watch a balloon-like object over the Wellington Channel between
-Cornwallis and Devon islands, Nunavut, Canada. It is floating slowly
-northward and appears to be 2 feet long by 18 inches wide. After a short
-time, a small object appears below it. (Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S.
-Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Harper and Brothers,
-1854, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 37
Date: 3/21/1854
-Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Washington, D.C., see a brilliant light
-in the sky overhead “like a coal of fire glowing,” red in color and
-stationary. It is visible for 20–30 minutes before it fades away. (“Atmospherical
-Phenomenon,” Gettysburg (Pa.) Adams Sentinel, March 27, 1854,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 38
Date: 1/22/1855
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness walking in the public square in New
-Haven, Connecticut, sees a brilliant red fireball in the sky near the
-star Gamma Draconis. At first it is stationary but after 15 seconds it
-moves slowly toward the east with a slight undulatory motion. It passes
-below the star Eta Ursae Majoris and disappears not far from Denebola in
-the constellation Leo. The object is visible for 10 minutes. (“Meteoric
-Phenomenon,” New York Times, January 25, 1855, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 39
Date: 6/19/1857
-Alternate date: 6/20/1857
-Description: Sunset. A large cloud moves in over Carbondale,
-Pennsylvania, from the northwest, accompanied by considerable wind. It
-emits a dark-looking substance that falls to the ground, where it
-becomes highly luminous. It moves toward a large barn and passes through
-its center, setting it on fire, and continues on in a straight course
-for the woods, burning up the underbrush. It makes a path about 16 feet
-wide for a distance of 3 miles, and it finally stops against an outcrop
-of anthracite coal 60 feet in thickness. It leaves a sulfurous mass
-behind. (“Extraordinary Meteoric
-Phenomenon,” Baltimore (Md.) Sun, June 27, 1857, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 40
Date: 7/10/1858
-End date: 1/7/1943
-Description: Nikola Test born (dies 1/7/1943)
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1860
-End date: 1864
-Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 7/20/1860
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A poem by Brooklyn, New York, poet Walt
-Whitman, “Year
-of Meteors (1859-60),” published in a later edition of Leaves of Grass,
-describes a “strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting
-over our heads.” For many years, no one could identify the event. Then
-in 2000, Texas State University–San Marcos physicist Donald W.
-Olson discovered a painting by Hudson River artist Frederic
-Edwin Church depicting two large meteors streaming across the sky
-and dated July 20, 1860. An examination of contemporary newspapers
-revealed that this was probably Whitman’s meteor procession. Around 9:40
-p.m., two meteors with trails, one behind another, are seen in New York,
-Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Norfolk, and other locations
-in the East, proceeding slowly from northwest to southeast for nearly
-one minute. They are as bright as Venus. A rare event, and little
-understood until 1913, a meteor procession occurs when an earth-grazing
-meteor breaks apart and the fragments travel across the sky in the same
-horizontal path. Olson and his colleagues finally publish their
-discovery in the July 2010 issue of Sky & Telescope. (“The
-Wonders of the Heavens: The Meteor Train,” Brooklyn (N.Y.) Evening
-Star, July 21, 1860, p. 2; “The
-Meteor of Friday Night,” New York Herald, July 22, 1860, p. 1;
-“Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery,” Office of
-Media Relations, Texas State University, May 28, 2010; David Dickinson,
-“Remembering
-the Great Meteor Procession of 1860,” Universe Today, July 20,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 41
Date: 8/2/1860
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Another seeming procession of two meteors is
-observed in Norfolk, Virginia, moving with an undulating motion in the
-western sky in a northerly direction. One of the lights is clear red and
-the other is greenish, and they both emit flashes of light, leaving a
-sparkling trail. The phenomenon is also seen in Pittsburgh,
-Pennsylvania. Some unnamed contemporary scientists compare it to the
-July 20 meteor procession. (“Another Splendid
-Meteor,” Baltimore (Md.) Sun, August 6, 1860, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 42
Date: 11/1862
-Description: Early morning. Magistrate Osman
-Edward Middleton hears a “peculiar rushing noise” at Morpeth, New
-South Wales, and looks up to see a dark object traveling rapidly toward
-the southeast. It appears to be revolving on its axis. ([Letter],
-Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, November 20, 1866, p. 5; Chris Aubeck
-and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History,
-Anomalist, 2015, pp. 167–173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 43
Date: 1865
-Description: French novelist Jules
-Verne publishes From the Earth to the Moon. It tells the story of
-the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons
-enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun
-and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian
-armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a
-lunar landing. (Wikipedia, “From
-the Earth to the Moon”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 44
Date: 1865
-Description: James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the
-Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an
-electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close
-agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light
-is an electromagnetic wave.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 12/1865
-Description: The British Board of Trade asks Trinity House to
-investigate the “false lights” of the Durham, England, coast, mysterious
-revolving lights seen above a rocky headland at Whitburn by mariners
-negotiating a hazardous stretch of the northeast coast. Between 1860 and
-1870, more than 150 ships are wrecked on the rocks near Whitburn after
-following a light or lights in the sky that they wrongly believe are
-from a lighthouse at the mouth of the Tyne. A commission led by Rear
-Admiral Richard
-Collinson meets in Sunderland on December 28 to interview witnesses
-and determine whether salvagers are responsible for the lights that are
-causing shipwrecks. Although the commission decides that the false
-lights are not deliberately lit, they are puzzled about the true cause.
-The lights and wrecks continue until January 1871 when the Souter
-Lighthouse is erected on Lizard Point. (“False
-Lights on the Durham Coast,” Newcastle Weekly Courant, January 12,
-1866, p. 5; David Clarke, “Britain’s
-First X-File?” August 14, 2010; David Clarke, “The False Lights of
-Durham,” Fortean Times 266 (October 2010): 40–42; Martin Shough and Wim
-van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 77–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 45
Date: 6/21/1866
-Description: The US Hydrographic Office is established by Congress. It
-is assigned to the Navy Bureau of Navigation and collects reports from
-ships’ officers on observations of various marine phenomena, hazards,
-and other activities. Among the reports collected are meteors, ball
-lightning, and other celestial and meteorological phenomena. (Wikipedia,
-“United
-States Hydrographic Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 46
Date: 11/4/1867
-Description: 3:00–4:00 p.m. James E. Beveridge is passing the mill by
-the Waterworks Reservoir in Chatham, England, when he and the miller see
-numerous black discs moving in the air to the west, some in groups,
-others scattered. They are visible for more than 20 minutes. In passing
-in front of the sun they appear like large cannon shot. Several groups
-pass over his head, disappearing suddenly, and leaving puffs of grayish
-brown smoke. (“Three
-Strange Stories,” Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine 2 (1867):
-130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 47
Date: 6/8/1868
-Description: 9:50 p.m. John Lucas Sr., an observer at Radcliffe
-Observatory, Oxford University, England, notices a comet- like object
-with a trail a bit west of Polaris. As he is pointing it out to some
-others, it begins moving west. It moves in a straight line at first,
-then moves south for a bit, then continues to the north. They watch it
-for 4 minutes until it disappears below the northwestern horizon. (“Remarkable
-Meteor,” English Mechanic 7 (July 10, 1868): 351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 48
Date: 7/1868
-Description: A strange “aerial construction” bearing lights and making
-engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as
-a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise.
-Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close
-observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth
-century.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 638; Anatomy 11 (Vallee)
-Location: Copiago, Chile
-ID: 1
Date: 7/25/1868
-Description: Engineer Frederick
-William Birmingham of Parramatta, New South Wales, watches a bizarre
-procession of the faces of two prominent Australians (Archbishop of
-Sydney Frederic
-Barker and New South Wales Premier James Martin)
-through the air as well as a vessel he calls an “ark.” He hears a voice
-suggesting that “That’s a machine to go through the air.” The voice
-comes from a “spirit” whom he describes as “like a neutral tint shade
-and the shape of a man in his usual frock dress.” After the ark
-maneuvers for a while in the air, the spirit says, “Have you a desire or
-do you wish to enter upon it?” He is then lifted up and carried through
-the air into the object about 60 feet away. The spirit guides him into
-the “pilot house” of the machine where he is given some papers with
-formulas on them that will help him construct a flying machine. He
-observes another UFO-like craft on March 9, 1873, and later attempts to
-build a mechanical replica of what he has seen. (Bill Chalker, “The
-Mystery of a Machine
-to Go through the Air: A UFO Vision?” 1998; Clark III 60–65; “Did
-Frederick William Birmingham Build
-a Flying Machine Based on His Bizarre 1868 UFO ‘Vision’ in Parramatta,
-NSW, Australia?” TheOzFiles, November 30, 2013; Chris Aubeck and
-Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History,
-Anomalist, 2015, pp. 185–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 49
Date: 1869
-Description: French poet and inventor Charles
-Cros is convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus
-are the lights of large cities on those planets. He spends years
-petitioning the French government to build a giant mirror to communicate
-with the Martians and Venusians by burning giant lines on the deserts of
-those planets. (Alissa Walker, “A
-French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on
-Mars,” Gizmodo, October 16, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 50
Date: 8/7/1869
-Description: About 4:45 p.m. During a total solar eclipse, four amateur
-observers in St. Paul’s Junction [possibly a railroad stop between
-Maynard and West Union], Iowa, both with and without instruments
-independently notice a bright object below the lunar disc and just
-outside the solar corona. There are no visible stars in that position in
-the sky. (“Was
-It the Intra-Mercurial Planet?” Astronomical Register 7 (1869):
-227–228; John Russell Hind, “Stellar
-Objects Seen during the Eclipse of 1869,” Nature 18 (1878):
-663–664)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 52
Date: 8/7/1869
-Description: 12:00 noon. Four or five witnesses watch a luminous object
-land in a vacant lot about 200 yards north of the village of Adamstown,
-Pennsylvania. It is originally square-shaped but shoots up into a column
-about 3–4 feet high and 2 feet thick. The object glitters like a “column
-of burnished silver.” It gradually fades away and disappears after 10
-minutes. No unusual traces are found on the lot. (“Singular Phenomenon,”
-Lancaster (Pa.) Daily Evening Express, August 10, 1869, pp. 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 51
Date: 3/22/1870
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Frederick William Banner, master of the
-barque Lady of the Lake, is sailing in the North Atlantic 400 miles
-north of the Equator and 860 miles from the coast of West Africa when he
-sees a “curious- shaped” light-gray cloud in the south-southeast. It is
-circular, with four rays or arms extending from the center to the edge,
-and a curved tail. It is visible for about 50 minutes until it is too
-dark to see. (Frederick William Banner, “Extract
-from Log of Barque ‘Lady of the Lake,’” Quarterly Journal of the
-Royal Meteorological Society 1 (1873): 157; Martin Shough and Wim van
-Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 89–
-109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 53
Date: 9/26/1870
-Description: A luminous object with a tail is seen in the constellation
-Lyra by Reginald
-Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath, second
-secretary of the British legation to the North German Confederation, in
-Berlin, Germany. Possibly a light pillar reflection caused by a bright
-arc-light source at a military installation on Eiswerder island.
-(Brabazon, “A
-Meteor,” London Times, September 30, 1870, p. 9; Martin Shough and
-Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 111–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 54
Date: 1871
-Description: English astronomer Richard
-A. Proctor writes Other Worlds Than Ours, in which he discusses the
-question of the plurality of worlds in the light of new facts. He
-suspects that Venus is likely the “abode of living creatures not unlike
-the inhabitants of earth.” (Richard A. Proctor, Other
-Worlds Than Ours, Appleton, 1871)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 55
Date: 8/1/1871
-Description: 10:43 p.m. Astronomer Jérôme
-Eugène Coggia at Marseille Observatory, France, watches a slow,
-blood-red fireball move across the sky and change course twice before
-falling to the earth. He sees it for 20 minutes and 20 seconds. Possible
-earth-grazing meteor or a candle balloon. (Jérome Eugène Coggia, “Observation
-d’un bolide, faite
-à Observatoire de Marseille le 1er août,”
-Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 73
-(1871): 397–399; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the
-Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 117–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 56
Date: 12/7/1872
-Time: 0100 hours
-Description: At King’s Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an
-irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied
-by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado,
-felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 189 (Vallee)
-Location: Banbury, Great Britain
-ID: 2
Date: 1873
-Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
-as a summary of his work on electromagnetism
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1873
-Description: English-American geologist and psychometrist William
-Denton of Wellesley, Massachusetts, publishes volume 3 of The Soul
-of Things, in which he describes his astral visit to Mars along with his
-sister Anna Cridge and wife Elizabeth. He finds it harbors a thriving
-civilization with a technology based on aluminum. He reports that they
-soar above traffic on their individual fly-cycles and seem particularly
-fond of air travel, with as many as 30 Martians occupying some of the
-large flying conveyances. (William Denton, Soul of Things, Wellesley,
-Mass.: Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1873, vol. 3, pp. 171–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 57
Date: late 3/1873
-Description: Evening. Thomas Inman and his son are traveling home from
-the village of Taylorsville [now Philo], Ohio, and are possibly in
-Bristol Township when they see a bright light descending swiftly with a
-roaring noise. It strikes a short distance in the road [probably
-Lawrence Road] ahead of them, flickers and flares, then fades. A man
-dressed in a suit of black carrying a lantern emerges from the object.
-He walks a few paces and steps into a buggy, which Inman has not noticed
-before. The buggy begins to move silently and quickly, even though there
-is no horse attached to it, until it reaches a deep gully, into which it
-plunges and disappears. Historian William Alexander
-Taylor, who
-supplies the story to the New York Herald, vouches for the witnesses.
-(“Very
-Like a Whale,”
-New York Herald, April 8, 1873, p. 7; Clark III 1123–1124; Chris Aubeck
-and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History,
-Anomalist, 2015, pp. 175–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 58
Date: 4/24/1874
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Chemist and astronomer Vojtěch
-Šafařík of Prague [now in the Czech Republic] sees “an object of so
-peculiar a character that I do not know what to make of it.” It is a
-dazzling white object slowly crossing the moon. He first sees it in
-front of the moon, then watches it against the “deep blue sky like
-Sirius or Vega in daylight.” (Vojtěch Šafařík, “Telescopic
-Meteors,” Astronomical Register 23 (1885): 205–211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 59
Date: 8/13/1874
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A large, “luminous electric cloud” flies over
-the western edge of Pascagoula, Mississippi, from the northwest to the
-southeast. It illuminates the ground and emits heat so intense that some
-witnesses think their houses are about to ignite. When last seen over
-the Gulf of Mexico, it renders the spars and rigging of a ship
-“distinctly visible.” (“Singular
-Phenomenon,” Pascagoula (Miss.) Star, August 22, 1874, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 60
Date: 12/21/1876
-Description: 8:30–8:45 p.m. A bright bolide that explodes and breaks up
-into a group of 20–100 smaller balls is seen over a wide swath of the US
-from Topeka, Kansas, to western Pennsylvania. Over Columbus, Ohio, it is
-described as “a cluster or flock of meteors seemingly huddled together,
-like a flock of wild geese, and moving with the same velocity and grace
-of regularity. The color of their light was a yellowish red, like red
-rocket-balls.” A stony chondrite falls 3 miles northwest of Rochester,
-Indiana, at the same time. (James Glaisher, et al., “Report on
-Observations of Luminous Meteors during the Year 1876–77,” Report of the
-British Association for the Advancement of Science 47 (1877): 98, 149–152;
-Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1,
-Anomalist, 2019, pp. 144–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 61
Date: 10/1877
-Description: Astronomer Giovanni
-Schiaparelli reports seeing canali on the Martian surface from Brera
-Observatory in Milan, Italy, during the Great Opposition. While the term
-“canals” indicates an artificial construction, its proper translation as
-“channels” implies that the observed features are natural configurations
-of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term
-“canals,” various assumptions are made about life on Mars; as these
-assumptions are popularized, the canals become famous, giving rise to
-waves of hypotheses, speculation, and fiction about the possibility of
-intelligent life on Mars—the Martians. (Wikipedia, “Martian
-canal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 62
Date: 1/22/1878
-Description: John Martin is out hunting near his ranch 6 miles north of
-Dallas, Texas, when he notices a dark object high in the southern sky.
-It is so bright it hurts his eyes as it moves with great speed to
-directly over his head. The object is “about the size of a large saucer”
-and looks like a large balloon. It speeds away rapidly. (“A
-Strange Phenomena,”
-Dallas Daily Herald, January 23, 1878, p. 4; Patrick Gross, “The
-First Publicized Flying ‘Saucer’ Report?”;
-“Dallas
-1878,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 63
Date: 7/29/1878
-Description: About 12:30 p.m. Astronomers James
-Craig Watson, director of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Observatory, and Lewis
-Swift, an
-amateur from Rochester, New York, both claim to see a planet-like object
-close to the Sun during the total solar eclipse. Watson, observing from
-Separation, Wyoming, places the object about 2.5° southwest of the Sun
-and estimates its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, observing from a location
-near Denver, Colorado, sees what he takes to be an intra-mercurial
-planet about 3° southwest of the Sun. He estimates its brightness to be
-the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which is also
-visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the object.
-Both Watson and Swift describe the object as red in color. Watson says
-it has a definite disc, unlike stars, which appear as shimmering
-pinpoints of light. (James C. Watson, “On
-the Discovery of an Intra-Mercurial
-Planet,” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 (1878): 230–233;
-Lewis Swift, “Letter
-from Mr. Lewis
-Swift, Relating to the Discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets,”
-American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 (1878): 313–315; Richard Baum
-and William Sheehan, In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s
-Clockwork Universe, Plenum, 1997, pp. 185–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 64
Date: 3/14/1879
-End date: 4/18/1955
-Description: Albert Einstein born
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 5/15/1879
-Time: 2140
-Description: Two very large “wheels” were seen spinning in the air and
-slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m.
-Distance between the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min.
-Witnesses aboard the ship “Vultur”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round up 17; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Persian Gulf
-ID: 4
Date: 1880
-Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the
-sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow “drawn” to it, but succeeded
-in backing away in spite of his terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 2O6 (Vallee)
-Location: Eastern Venezuela
-ID: 5
Date: 1880
-Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and
-shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without
-result. The apparition stunned them with something described as “blue
-fire.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Aldershot, Great Britain
-ID: 3
Date: 3/22/1880
-Description: About 6:00 a.m. A large number of brilliantly luminous
-bodies are seen to rise from the horizon and pass from east to west at
-Kattenau, East Prussia [now Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia].
-They move through space “like a string of beads.” Possible meteor
-procession. (“A
-Remarkable Phenomenon,” Nature 22 (May 20, 1880): 64; Martin Shough
-and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 169– 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 65
Date: 3/26/1880
-Time: evening
-Description: Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as
-they heard voices coming from a “strange balloon,” which flew over them.
-It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike
-device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not
-understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly
-toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Lamy, New Mexico
-ID: 6
Date: 3/26/1880
-Description: Night. The train depot operator and a few friends are
-walking at Galisteo, New Mexico, when they hear loud voices and laughter
-coming from a “large balloon” shaped like a fish approaching from the
-west. A flower is dropped from the car of the balloon to which is
-attached a slip of silk-like paper on which Chinese characters are
-written. The next morning, searchers find a cup of peculiar workmanship,
-but both artifacts are purchased by a “wealthy young Chinaman” and a
-“collector of curiosities” who visits town on March 28, although this
-part of the tale seems facetious and racist. The yarn is typical of
-sensational newspaper hoaxes that have no basis in reality. (“Galisteo’s
-Apparition,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, March 29, 1880, p. 3; “Solved
-at Last,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, April 5, 1880, p. 4; Clark
-III 69–70, 592; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-3, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 66
Date: 6/1880 (approximate)
-Description: David Muckle and W. R. McKay of East Kent [now
-Chatham-Kent], Ontario, are in a field on Muckle’s farm when they hear a
-loud explosion and see a cloud of stones flying upward. They go to the
-spot and find a circular area, 16 feet across, that has been swept clean
-of vegetation. (“A
-Curious Phenomenon,” Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald, July 7, 1880,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 67
Date: early 7/1880
-Description: A train is running on the Chattanooga Railroad near
-Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a thunderstorm when the engineer sees a
-large ball of fire rushing down the rails to the engine. As it passes
-under the locomotive, he feels a shock that jars the entire train. There
-is a loud explosion “opposite the ladies’ car” and a telegraph pole is
-splintered from top to bottom. (“Passengers
-Shocked by Lightning,” Memphis (Tenn.) Public Ledger, July 15, 1880,
-p. 2; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1
-(Spring 2002): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 68
Date: 7/28/1880
-Description: 6:00 p.m. C. A. Youngman and Ben Flexner are looking out a
-drugstore window at 2nd and Chestnut streets in Louisville, Kentucky,
-when they see something in the air coming from the direction of the Ohio
-River bridge. As it approaches them, it appears to be a man surrounded
-by machinery, which he is working with his hands and feet. The object is
-too high to make out the details of its construction. The man moves off
-to the south, pedaling constantly. Around 8:00 p.m., the Royster family
-of Madisonville, Kentucky, watches a circular flying object with a ball
-at each end moving above the train depot. (“More
-Monkeying,” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, p. 4;
-“The
-Flying Machine,” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, August 6, 1880,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 69
Date: 9/30/1880
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A brilliant object is seen crossing the sky in
-Columbus, Georgia, at a very low altitude. Coming from the south, it
-heads northeasterly in a horizontal line. It appears made of three
-perfectly developed balls of an equal size and equidistant from each
-other. The first ball emits a tail that envelops the two following and
-extends behind them. The tail is luminous except at the far end, where
-it is indistinct and nebulous. It is visible for a full 50 seconds and
-continues on its course without falling. (“Wonders
-of a Meteor,” Marion (Ohio) Star, October 5, 1880, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 70
Date: 6/11/1881
-Time: 0400
-Description: The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future
-king of England, were cruising aboard “La Bacchante” when an object
-resembling a fully lighted ship was seen (“a phantom vessel all
-aglow”).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 637; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia
-ID: 7
Date: late 10/1881
-Description: An unusual fall of spider web occurs near the coast of Lake
-Michigan at Milwaukee, Green Bay, Fort Howard, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee
-County, Wisconsin. The webs seem to come from “over the lake” and fall
-from a great height. The strands are from 2 feet to several yards long,
-strong in texture, and very white. No spiders are seen. (“A
-Rain of Spider Webs,” Scientific American 45 (1881): 337)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 71
Date: 7/6/1882
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer N. S. Drayton in Jersey City
-Heights, New Jersey, watches a red object without a trail move across
-the sky from the constellation of Ursa Minor to Capricorn in 45 seconds.
-(N. S. Drayton, “A Supposed
-Meteor,” Scientific American 47 (July 22, 1882): 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 72
Date: 11/17/1882
-Description: 6:00 p.m. An auroral beam is observed from the Royal
-Observatory, Greenwich, London, by astronomer Edward
-Walter Maunder and by John
-Rand Capron from his private observatory on Hog’s Back, Surrey,
-England, in association with a geomagnetic storm. The beam is described
-in detail in various ways, including as a “beam,” “spindle,” “definite
-body” with a Zeppelin-like shape and pale green color, passing from
-horizon to horizon above the moon. The phenomenon transits the sky in
-approximately 75 seconds. (Wikipedia, “November
-1882 geomagnetic
-storm”; J. Rand Capron, “The
-Auroral Beam of November 17, 1882,” Philosophical Magazine, ser. 5,
-15 (1883): 318–339; Edward Walter Maunder, “A
-Strange Celestial Visitor,” The Observatory 39 (May 1916): 213–215;
-Paul Fuller, “The
-Life and Times of John Rand Capron (1829–1888),” The Antiquarian
-Astronomer 8 (March 2014): 21–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 73
Date: 2/5/1883
-Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness at Lake Glasfjorden, near Arvika,
-Sweden, spots a meteor-like object high on the horizon moving from
-southeast to northwest. It makes several minor course changes, varies
-its color from white to yellow, and emits some sparks. After 18 seconds,
-it changes its course to the southeast and is so low to the ground that
-its light is reflected in the lake. By this time, it has a distinct
-tail. Total duration is 50 seconds. (“On
-February 5,
-at 6.45 p.m.,” Nature 27 (March 1, 1883): 423)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 74
Date: 8/12/1883
-End date: 8/13/1883
-Description: Astronomer José
-Árbol y Bonilla, director
-of the El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas,
-Mexico, is observing the sun by eyepiece projection when he and an
-assistant see a large number of small bodies crossing the solar disc.
-Over the course of two days, they count a total of 447 dark objects.
-They seem bright as they approach the sun but are dark as they pass
-across its face. He takes several photographs and suspects that they are
-relatively near the earth. Mexican astronomers in 2011 suggested that a
-comet may have split into several pieces; these objects were estimated
-to have had a size of between 150 and 3,350 feet, and to have passed
-only 334 to 5,000 miles from the Earth; they thought a fragmented Comet
-12P/Pons-Brooks was one possibility, in which case Earth barely avoided
-multiple Tunguska events or even a mass extinction; this was reported in
-the media and disputed in October 2011; but the source of these objects
-could also have been comet C/1883 D1 (Brooks-Swift) or even a third,
-unknown comet that year; the event also coincided with the annual
-Perseid meteor shower; even migrating birds cannot be ruled out. (José
-Á. y Bonilla, “Passage
-sur le disque
-solaire d’un essaim de corpuscles,” L’Astronomie 4 (1885): 347–350;
-Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and
-Guadalupe Cordero, “Interpretation
-of the Observations Made in 1883 in Zacatecas
-(Mexico): A Fragmented Comet That Nearly Hits the Earth,” Earth and
-Planetary Astrophysics (2011); “Billion-Ton
-Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883,”
-MIT Technology Review, October 17, 2011; “Did
-a Massive Comet Almost Wipe Out Humans in 1883?” The Week, January
-8, 2015; “OT- 1883
-Zacatecas Observation of Objects before Sun Were Not 12P/Pons-Brooks
-Fragments,” October 17, 2011; Phil Plait, “Did
-a Fragmenting Comet nearly Hit the Earth in 1883? Color Me Very
-Skeptical,” Bad Astronomy, October 17, 2011; Martin Shough and Wim
-van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 189–207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 75
Date: 6/6/1884
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Rancher John W. Ellis and some of his ranch hands
-in south-central Dundy County, Nebraska, allegedly see a blazing object
-fall from the sky and crash into many pieces, burning the grass and
-fusing the sand. The light is so intense it blinds one of them. The
-newspaper suggests it is a “vessel belonging originally to some other
-planet.” The remains of the object are said to have dissolved in a
-rainstorm. However, the tale is actually a fictional story written by a
-correspondent in Benkelman. (“A
-Celestial Visitor,” Lincoln (Neb.) Daily State Journal, June 8,
-1884, p. 5; “The
-Magical Meteor,” Lincoln (Neb.) Daily State Journal, June 10, 1884,
-p. 4; Jerome Clark, “Spaceship and Saltshaker,” IUR 11, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1986): 12, 21; Clark III 593)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 76
Date: 7/3/1884
-Description: 8:30 p.m. L. C. Yale of Norwood, New York, watches an
-object with a long tail move slowly from east to west. It has a “nucleus
-like a globe, as large as the moon, surrounded by a bright ring, two
-dark lines crossing the nucleus in vertical direction, the lines larger
-in the middle, straight on inside, curved on outside, tapering both ways
-to points.” The general appearance is of a “gigantic sword of fire,
-moving handle first.” (“A
-Great Meteor,” Illustrated Science Monthly 2 (1884): 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 77
Date: 1885
-Description: The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is
-widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was
-the first car put into series production.
-Type: industrial advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 2/16/1885
-Description: Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly
-flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River
-some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The snow-covered
-hill glows like red-hot iron for several feet around, gleaming through
-the storm for several minutes, then growing dim and disappearing. (“Mysterious
-Light,” Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, March 25, 1885, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 78
Date: 2/25/1885
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Sailing in the North Pacific some 800 miles west
-of Victoria, British Columbia, Captain John Waters of the barque
-Innerwick and his mate see the sky turning fiery red. Suddenly a large
-fireball appears above the ship and falls hissing into the sea about 150
-feet away from them, causing a wave of water to impact the ship.
-Electrical discharges run through the rigging and the masts. (“Frightful
-Experience at Sea,” Sacramento (Calif.) Record-Union, March 3, 1885,
-p. 1; “Notes
-and News,” Science 5 (1885): 242–243; Martin Shough and Wim van
-Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021,
-pp. 177–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 79
Date: 11/2/1885
-Time: dawn
-Description: A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m.
-Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green
-flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the
-ferry-boat pier.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Scutari, Turkey
-ID: 8
Date: 1886
-Description: French novelist Jules
-Verne publishes Robur the Conqueror, which describes the appearance
-of mysterious objects and strange lights in the sky all over the world.
-It turns out that the sightings are of a flying machine, invented by the
-novel’s anti-hero Robur, who kidnaps people and takes them on board the
-airship. (Wikipedia, “Robur
-the Conqueror”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 80
Date: 10/24/1886
-Description: Night. Nine persons who are sleeping in a hut some 10 miles
-from Maracaibo, Venezuela, are awakened by a loud humming noise and a
-dazzling light that illuminates the interior. The people begin to pray
-but they start vomiting as extensive swellings appear on the upper part
-of their bodies, especially around the face and lips. They feel no heat,
-although the light has a smoky appearance and a peculiar smell. The next
-morning, the swellings subside but leave black blotches. By November 2,
-the skin peels off and the blotches are round sores. Portions of their
-hair falls off. Trees around the hut show no damage until November 2,
-when they suddenly wither. The symptoms are similar to those of ionizing
-radiation syndrome. (Warner Cowgill, “Curious
-Phenomenon in Venezuela,”
-letter, Scientific American 55 (December 18, 1886): 389; Clark III 949;
-Patrick Gross, UFO
-Reports from
-the Past)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 81
Date: 11/1886
-Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and
-receive controlled radio waves.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: link
Date: 3/19/1887
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Captain Cornelis Dirks Swart of the Dutch bark
-J.P.A. sees a “meteor in the shape of two balls” during a storm in the
-North Atlantic about 590 miles northeast of Bermuda. One ball is black
-and the other is luminous and oblong. The luminous object descends with
-a roar and lights up the ship and surrounding water. The crew feels heat
-from the object even as solid lumps of ice fall on the deck and the
-rigging becomes iced. The side of the ship where it falls turns
-partially black and the copper plating is blistered. The wind increases
-to “hurricane force.” (“Rare
-Electrical Phenomenon at Sea,” American Meteorological Journal 4
-(July 1887): 98–99; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia:
-Investigating UFOs in History, 2015, pp. 205–217; Martin Shough and Wim
-van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021,
-pp. 201–210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 82
Date: 11/12/1887
-Description: Midnight. Captain R. F. Moore of the English steamer SS
-Siberian, sailing 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland,
-watches an enormous fireball rising from the sea to the height of 15
-feet. It travels against the strong wind and comes close to the ship,
-then turns to the southeast and disappears. The object is seen for about
-2 minutes. Moore says he has seen this phenomenon before and considers
-it a sign of stormy weather. (“Globular
-Lightning,” Science 10 (1887): 324; Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “On
-Globular Lightning,” American Meteorological Journal 6 (February
-1890): 437, 442–443; Theo Paijmans, “Fiery Objects Rising from
-the Oceans,” Charles Fort Institute Blogs, July 6, 2007; Martin Shough
-and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021,
-pp. 151–174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 83
Date: 11/12/1887
-Time: 2400
-Description: A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean
-by witnesses aboard the “Siberian.” It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew
-against the wind, and came close to the ship, then “dashed oft” toward
-the southeast. Duration: 5 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean
-ID: 9
Date: early 9/1888
-Description: 3:15 p.m. During a severe thunderstorm, after a flash of
-lightning and a peal of thunder, witnesses see a huge flame at Highland
-Lake, near Winsted, Connecticut. The water is parted for yards by a huge
-ball of fire at least 10 feet in diameter, and billows rise on either
-side to a height of 20 feet. The light moves toward the head of the lake
-with great velocity. When it is within 100 yards of the shore, another
-flash of lightning strikes, and the fireball disappears. The waters of
-the lake remain disturbed for hours. (“A
-Ball of Fire on a Lake,” Hagerstown (Ind.) Exponent, September 12,
-1888, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 84
Date: 2/7/1889
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A cylindrical luminous object passes over Oella,
-Maryland, at only several hundred feet altitude. It lights up the
-village “as brilliantly as if by a strong electric lamp.” It curves and
-appears to descend to the ground one mile away. It follows the course of
-the Patapsco River to the north for several seconds. (“A
-Brilliant Meteor,”
-Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, February 9, 1889, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 85
Date: 4/20/1889
-End date: 4/30/1945
-Description: German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and
-was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was
-central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in
-Austria-Hungary.
-Type: historical figure
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: Winter 1889
-Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on
-wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs
-Type: scientific event
-Reference: link
Date: 1890’s
-Description: The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was
-demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that,
-Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists.
-Type: Wikipedia
-Reference: link
Date: 6/13/1891
-Description: Day. An unnamed witness claims to see a “meteor” explode
-with a loud noise over the Wasson & Miller flour mill and cotton gin
-in Dublin, Texas. The object looks like “a bale of cotton suspended in
-the air after having been saturated in kerosene oil and ignited, except
-that it created a much brighter light” that dazzles people standing
-several hundred feet away. The object shatters into pieces before it
-hits the ground, the fragments setting the grass and weeds on fire. In
-addition to the fragments is a scrap of paper with writing in a strange
-language. (“Dublin 1891,”
-Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 86
Date: 7/12/1891
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Theodore Street in Ottawa, Ontario,
-see over the rifle range a cigar-shaped balloon with a bright light on
-one end and a fan on the other traveling from south to north. (MacLeod
-(Ont.) Gazette, July 16, 1891; Clark 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 87
Date: 9/2/1891
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Alonzo
-M. Swan and L. D. Dodson (an equestrian recovering from an illness)
-are camped in Coyote Canyon [now within the Sandia National Laboratory
-complex], New Mexico, to benefit from the mineral springs there when
-they see a brilliant light rise above a mountain to the south. As it
-moves closer against the wind, they see it has a series of “electric arc
-lights” around it and a “pole” or rudder that is similarly lit. The
-object is in view for nearly two hours. Another lighted object appears
-from the southwest and approaches the first object, but clouds prevent
-any further observation. Swan sees a lighted object again on September
-4, although this time it could be a star. (“Strange
-Mid Air Ships,” Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Weekly Citizen, September 12,
-1891, p. 3; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia:
-Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 219–237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 88
Date: 1/1892 (approximate)
-Description: George
-W. Crusselle and S. D. Cuthereil from the USS
-Thetis are wandering among the salt water lagoons on the west coast
-of Baja California, Mexico, when they see a luminous object with smooth
-edges about 30 feet in diameter approaching from the ocean at an
-altitude of 50 feet. It changes shape from circular to an hourglass and
-moves swiftly to the surface of a lagoon, covering it with a “brilliant
-halo of light.” It rises moments later, changing its shape frequently,
-and moving swiftly in a zigzag fashion. After 15 minutes it disappears
-inland. (George W. Crusselle, “The
-Coast Survey,” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1892, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 89
Date: 3/23/1892
-Description: Evening–1:00 a.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, watch a
-balloon over the city that casts rays of light from an electrical
-apparatus. It remains stationary until 1:00 a.m., then it takes off to
-the west. Other supposed balloons are seen March 22 or earlier over
-Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; and Modlin Fortress (in Nowy Dwór
-Mazowiecki), Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland. As they
-remain stationary for as long as 40 minutes, some assume they are
-piloted by German spies. (“Spying
-by Balloon,” New York Evening World, March 25, 1892, p. 1; “Balloons
-As German Spies,” New York Times, March 26, 1892, p. 3; “Steering
-Military Balloons,” Birmingham Daily Post, March 31, 1892, p. 8;
-Clark 45; Brett Holman, “The
-Phantom Balloon Scare of 1892,” Airminded, July 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 90
Date: 4/16/1892
-Description: Witnesses at Przemyśl Fortress, Poland, see a bright point
-of light in the north that seems to be a sphere emitting searchlight
-beams above and below it. The object is hovering at an altitude of 2,100
-feet and begins circling. (Poland 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 91
Date: 6/1/1892
-Description: Night. A large balloon carrying a searchlight and four
-passengers passes over Newark, New Jersey, descending as low as 20 feet
-from the ground. (Trenton (N.J.) Times, June 2, 1892; Clark III
-70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 92
Date: 6/19/1892
-Description: Night. J. L. Shaw of Conyers, Georgia, sees a mysterious
-light in the sky from which balls of fire fall to the ground near him.
-(“Saw
-Balls of Fire,” Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1892, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 93
Date: 8/30/1892
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Several people in Waxahachie, Texas, see a “kind
-of balloon” with colored lights passing over the northern part of the
-city after hearing a man shouting a greeting. (“What
-Was It?” Galveston (Tex.) Daily News, September 2, 1892, p. 6; Clark
-III 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 94
Date: 9/20/1892
-Description: Large quantities of a white, thread-like substance fall
-from the sky during a rainstorm at Gainesville, Florida. Samples are
-sent to arachnologist George
-Marx of the US Department of Agriculture, who performs a chemical
-analysis that shows it to be from migrating spiders. (“Spider
-Web from the Clouds,” Scientific American 67 (1892): 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 95
Date: 2/24/1893
-End date: 2/25/1893
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Charles
-James Norcock, captain of the corvette HMS
-Caroline,
-is sailing about 16 miles south of Jeju Island, South Korea, in the
-Korea Strait when the officer of the watch observes some round lights
-resembling “Chinese lanterns festooned between the masts of a lofty
-vessel.” They are moving slowly north and appear to be in the air
-between the ship and the Hallasan volcano on Jeju. They are visible
-until roughly 12:00 midnight, sometimes appearing as a mass, other times
-strung out more in an irregular line. The ship’s crew observes them
-again the next night as they are sailing east from Port Hamilton [now
-the Korean islands of Geomundo]. This time they are visible until dawn.
-Although there are some odd characteristics of this observation, the
-likeliest explanation is that they are inferior mirages of distant
-fishing boats, as atmospheric conditions are favorable on these dates.
-(Charles J. Norcock, “An
-Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North China Sea,”
-Nature 48 (1893): 76–77; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption
-of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 253–281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 96
Date: 8/18/1893
-Description: Sunrise. People living near the small hamlet of Leslie in
-Cumberland County, Kentucky, notice that the sun has a peculiar color.
-Thousands of small discs, seemingly about the size of a wagon wheel,
-appear in the sky, all of them in motion. They appear round in shape
-from far away, but when closer to the ground they change to triangles,
-squares, or odd forms. Their colors vary: Some are bright red, others
-green or black, but when they are close to the ground they are all a
-deep purple color. All are silent. The phenomenon lasts about one hour,
-during which time the villagers fear it is judgment day. (“Judgment
-Day,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1893, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 97
Date: 1894
-End date: 1895
-Description: The first practical radio transmitters and receivers
-invented in by Guglielmo
-Marconi using radiotelegraphy
-Type: industrial advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 2/1894 (approximate)
-Description: Capt. Corning of the British schooner W. and H. Witherspoon
-sees several lights rise from the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of
-Florida. They ascend to a height of 25 feet, explode, and disappear.
-(“Cum
-Grano Salis,”
-Lowell (Mass.) Daily Sun, February 8, 1894, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 98
Date: 5/1894
-Description: During the opposition of Mars, the idea that Schiaparelli’s
-canali are really irrigation canals made by intelligent beings is first
-hinted at, and then adopted as the only intelligible explanation, by
-American astronomer Percival Lowell in
-Flagstaff, Arizona, and a few others. The visible seasonal melting of
-Martian polar icecaps fuels speculation that an advanced alien race
-indigenous to Mars has built the canals to transport the water to drier
-equatorial regions. Newspaper and magazine articles about Martian canals
-and “Martians” capture the public imagination. Lowell publishes his
-views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1906), and Mars
-As the Abode of Life (1908). He remains a strong proponent for the rest
-of his life of the idea that the canals were built for irrigation by an
-intelligent civilization. (Wikipedia, “Martian
-canal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 99
Date: 6/7/1894
-Description: Astronomers Percival
-Lowell and William
-H. Pickering at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, see two
-“dazzling white specks” for a few moments on the south polar cap of
-Mars. The most likely explanation is the reflection of sunlight from ice
-on the surface or ice crystals in clouds. (Percival Lowell, Mars,
-Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 ed., pp. 86–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 100
Date: 7/20/1894
-Description: Sunset. Bernard Parry and his wife are near Marriott [now
-Marriott-Slaterville], Utah, when they see a “small black cloud” in the
-northeast quickly approaching them. It grows bigger, then smaller, as
-they watch it. When it is only 450 feet away, it stops and hovers. Its
-sides seem to be folded up toward the center. Many small black-and-
-white objects (birds?) are moving in its center. Suddenly the object
-pivots to the east and moves away toward Ogden. (Ogden (Utah) Standard,
-July 26, 1894)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 101
Date: late 11/1894
-Description: 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Mennonite farmers Henry
-W. J. Smith and Benjamin
-W. Blue see a luminous ball in the northeastern sky about 30° above
-the horizon some 3 miles west of Manchester, Kansas. The object, in the
-shape of a “casket,” shoots toward the west 3° then returns to its
-original position. As it maneuvers near them, it opens several times,
-revealing various entities each time, from a crowned man to a “haughty
-woman” and a military leader. The original report appears in the
-Evangelical Visitor. (“Battle
-in the Heavens,” Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times, October 6, 1894,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 102
Date: 1895
-Description: French parapsychologist Albert
-de Rochas is asked to hypnotize a family friend, “Mireille,” who is
-suffering from some ailment. In one of her sessions, Mireille describes
-how she is rising in space, which she describes as luminous and peopled
-with phantoms. Subsequent sessions reveal that she has visited Mars and
-other planets in astral form. Mars has canals, of course, but also
-Martians who are less intelligent than earthlings. (Hilary Evans,
-“Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 103
Date: 8/1895
-Description: US psychical researcher James
-Hyslop begins investigating a case of automatic writing by Sarah
-Harper Cleaveland (“Mrs. Smead”)
-in Onondaga County, New York. She keeps records of her planchette
-experiments and puts them at Hyslop’s disposal. In August, she makes
-several references to the planet Mars and Jupiter. She provides a crude
-map of Jupiter’s surface, and the planet is said to be the “babies’
-heaven.” At the next sitting, she draws a map of Mars, the different
-zones named in the Martian language; she gives several communications
-about the inhabitants and the canals. Martian revelations cease for
-another 5 years until September 1900, when the communications return in
-a developed state. She draws men, boats, houses, and flowers, named in
-Martian and written in hieroglyphic characters. Some of the sketches (a
-self-winding double clock) are very ingenious, while others (a Martian
-airship) are peculiar but unconvincing. (Hilary Evans, “Martians of the
-1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 104
Date: 8/31/1895
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer James
-Murray watches a “brilliant luminous body” move slowly over the
-Oxford University campus in Oxford, England, toward the east. At roughly
-the same time, other observers in London see a similar meteor pass over
-slowly for about 5 minutes, and A. Warren Melhuish sees it at Margate,
-Kent, around 10:15 p.m. (J. A. H. Murray, “Remarkable
-Meteoric (?) Appearance,” London Times, September 4, 1895, p. 3; “Remarkable
-Meteoric Appearance,” London Times, September 6, 1895, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 105
Date: 11/8/1895
-Description: X-Rays discovered
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1896
-Description: Author Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when
-he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did
-not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Magic Without Tears, by A. Crowley (Vallee)
-Location: Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps
-ID: 10
Date: 7/1/1896
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A mysterious balloon passes over Winnipeg,
-Manitoba, to the east at an estimated 2,000 feet. It is lost to view
-after 20 minutes (“A Mysterious Balloon,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free
-Press, July 2, 1896, p. 4; “They
-Think It’s Andreé’s,” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1896, p. 1; Clark III
-70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 106
Date: 7/3/1896
-Description: The chief of the Kispiox people and a group of Canadian
-trappers see a brightly lit balloon traveling north near Blackwater
-Lake, British Columbia. The same day, a First Nations boy sees something
-similar at the Skeena River, British Columbia. (“It Was No Dream,”
-Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, August 13, 1896, p. 2; Brett
-Holman, “Believing
-Is Seeing,” Airminded, May 2, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 107
Date: mid 7/1896
-Description: Night. Chester
-N. Crotsenburg, a
-postal clerk on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, is on a
-train heading north from Princeton, Missouri, when he notices a round,
-dull-rose-colored light low on the western horizon. It then rises in
-height to 45°, and appears to be pacing the train, keeping a half-mile
-or one mile distance. After the train reaches Lineville, Iowa (13.7
-miles away), it passes out of sight behind buildings. Possibly the moon.
-(“Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 26 (August 1898): 358; Martin
-Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist,
-2019, pp. 291–304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 108
Date: 8/11/1896
-Description: Charles
-Abbott Smith of San Francisco, California, is granted a patent for a
-cylindrical airship with a cone- shaped bow, “two wings hinged at the
-upper part of the vessel,” and a compartment for machinery and
-passengers. (US Patent, “Air-ship,”
-granted August 11, 1896)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 109
Date: 10/1896
-Description: Evening. A Miss Hagstrom is riding a bicycle on Telegraph
-Avenue in Oakland, California, when she notices an object with a
-powerful headlight moving toward the west and gradually descending. (“Saw
-the Mystic Flying Light,”
-San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 110
Date: late 10/1896
-Description: Fruit rancher Constant
-T. Musso and his family in Bowman, California. watch three bright
-lights moving toward the east at about 100 mph. (“Mission
-of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 111
Date: early 11/1896
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Louis
-Charmak and one other person in Woodland, California, notice three
-bright lights in the southwestern sky moving toward the northeast. As
-they reach Main Street, they rise another 100 feet in the air. They are
-close together and followed by a white trail of light. (“Was
-It an Airship?” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, November 24, 1896,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 113
Date: early 11/1896 (approximate)
-Description: Evening. Some of the employees at the Sutro Heights estate
-[now Sutro Heights Park in the Richmond District] of San Francisco,
-California, Mayor Adolph
-Sutro watch a brilliant light approaching from the sea at a height
-of 500 feet. Two lights are visible, one a “misty-looking mass” and the
-other a searchlight. The object disappears in the direction of the city
-and turns to the north just before it passes from view. Another report
-suggests that the object passe over Seal Rocks and shone its searchlight
-on the seals. (“The
-Apparition of the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 112
Date: 11/17/1896
-Description: Afternoon and evening. A mystery airship wave begins in
-California when residents of the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento see
-a high-flying object moving slowly in a circle, leaving a trail of
-smoke. Around 6:30 p.m., a light resembling an electric arc lamp appears
-in the night sky above Sacramento. Horse trainer David Carl notices it
-close to the ground and hears a voice saying, “We are too low down here.
-Send her up higher.” Hundreds watch as it passes at low altitude for 30
-minutes, avoiding buildings and hills. Some people claim to hear voices,
-either arguing or singing. R. L. Lowry sees four men pushing the vessel
-by its wheels. The witnesses include streetcar workers Charles Lusk and
-Granville
-C. Snider, who
-watch the object rise and fall as it moves southwest. (Wikipedia, “Mystery
-airship”; “Voices
-in the Sky,” Sacramento (Calif.) Evening Bee, November 18, 1896,
-p. 1; “Strange
-Craft of the Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 19, 1896, p. 1;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs:
-A History,
-1896, The
-Author, 1974; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982;
-Clark III 70–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 114
Date: 11/20/1896
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Passengers on a streetcar in Oakland, California,
-notice a “peculiar-looking contrivance” high in the sky and moving in a
-westerly direction toward San Francisco. It has a powerful headlight and
-another light on the bottom. It is also seen over Folsom, San Francisco,
-Sacramento, Modesto, Manteca, Sebastopol, and several other cities later
-in the evening and is reportedly viewed by hundreds of witnesses. (“Saw
-the Mystic Flying
-Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13; Wikipedia, “Mystery
-airship”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 116
Date: 11/20/1896
-Description: Afternoon. D. H. Risdon is working in an orchard near
-Tagus, California, when he spots an object “like an immense sheet”
-moving against the wind at a “considerable elevation.” (“Saw
-the Mystic Flying Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896,
-p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 115
Date: 11/22/1896
-Description: 7:05 p.m. M. H. Cohen, a conductor on the Hayes Street
-line, sees an aerial light at about 300–400 feet altitude when he is at
-Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California. Other people on the
-streetcar also watch the light, which is moving across the Golden Gate
-and flashing periodically. When the streetcar disembarks at 1st Street
-at 7:13 p.m., Cohen and the others see the light over the Twin Peaks
-downtown. At the top of Pierce Street hill, Cohen sees it returning from
-Twin Peaks, and at 7:51 p.m. he watches it from Ashbury Street. Airships
-are seen later at Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, San Jose, California,
-and Tacoma, Washington. (“The
-Apparition of
-the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 119
Date: 11/22/1896
-Description: San Francisco attorney George
-D. Collins announces that he represents the airship inventor, a
-“very wealthy man who has been studying the subject of flying machines
-for fifteen years” and who moved to California from Maine in 1889. He
-claims the airship is a 150-foot metal contraption with two canvas wings
-18 feet wide and shaped like a bird’s tail. It has been built in
-Oroville and is now hidden in the San Francisco, California, area as the
-inventor deals with technical problems. However, people in Oroville
-sense a hoax, as they know of no such inventor. On November 24, Collins
-complains to the San Francisco Call that another newspaper, the San
-Francisco Examiner, has been printing falsehoods about him, including an
-interview with another attorney, Frederick Bradley. Suspicion falls on
-an itinerant dentist from Maine, Elmer H. Benjamin, who insists his only
-inventions are dental fittings. A prominent citizen of Oakland, George
-H. Carleton, claims to know the inventor but has been sworn to
-secrecy. Former California Attorney General William
-H. H. Hart soon claims to represent the mystery inventor, who has
-fired Collins for talking too much. But Hart is also blabbing
-prolifically, saying that two or three airships exist (a second built in
-an eastern state) and his role is to “consolidate both interests.” Hart
-asserts that the airship can carry four men and 1,000 pounds of dynamite
-for dropping on Havana, Cuba. (Clark III 71–73; “A
-Lawyer’s Word for That Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November
-22, 1896, p. 36; “Collins
-Sticks to His Airship Story,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23,
-1896, p. 12; San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “Have
-We Got ’Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “Coy
-Mr. Collins and His Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24,
-1896, p. 9; “The
-Apparition of the Air,”
-San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1; “Mission
-of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1;
-“Hart
-Stands by His Ship,” “Hart
-Confirms the Story from Sacramento,” San Francisco Call, November
-26, 1896, p. 1; “Three
-Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1;
-Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2003,
-pp. 249–315)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 117
Date: 11/22/1896
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Another mystery light moving in a wavering
-fashion toward the southwest is seen in Sacramento, California, by many
-people. At times it disappears, then flashes out again with renewed
-brilliance. Edward Carragher, owner of the Saddle Rock Restaurant, views
-the light through binoculars and is able to see a large object
-supporting an arc lamp. Cigar store vendor Jacob Zemansky watches the
-undulating light through a telescope until it fades into nothingness.
-(“Have
-We Got ’Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “A
-Winged Ship in the Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 118
Date: 11/23/1896
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A bright light is seen west of Chico, California,
-traveling to the northwest. The same or similar light is seen west of
-Red Bluff, California flying west at about 2,000 feet. After a few
-minutes it descends to 1,000 feet. It disappears over the Coast Range.
-(“Mission
-of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 120
Date: 11/24/1896
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Several passengers on a train crossing the bay
-from San Francisco to Oakland, California, see an airship alternately
-stop, hover, and move on. Minutes later, 6th Street in Oakland is
-overflowing with onlookers as the object passes above Broadway, flashing
-its light. One spectator is watching through binoculars and says the
-airship’s turns causes the searchlight to shine in different directions.
-Among the witnesses are Col. Thomas
-F. Garrity, city
-electrician George
-H. Carleton, George
-Hatton of the Oakland Tribune, and Melvin Holmes. (“Mission
-of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 121
Date: 11/25/1896
-Description: Evening. A mystery light flies in circular patterns around
-Sacramento, California, at a rapid rate of speed. Observers include
-Deputy Secretary of State George A. McCalvy, District Attorney Frank
-D. Ryan, and E. D. McCabe, the governor’s personal secretary. It is
-three times as large as Venus, also visible. The light is observed for
-20 minutes then reappears later in the evening. A Professor Dodge of
-Galt, California, claims he can make out the “outlines of a dark body”
-just above the light. (Clark III 73; “Hart
-Confirms the Story from Sacramento,”
-San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 122
Date: 11/25/1896
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Col. H. G. Shaw and Camille Spooner are riding in
-a carriage near Lodi, California, when their horse stops suddenly.
-Looking up, they see three slender beings about 7 feet tall. Shaw walks
-up to them and asks them where they are from; they reply in an odd
-warbling language. He notes that they are hairless and wear no apparent
-clothing. The eyes are large and lustrous, and they each seem to be
-carrying and egg-shaped light and a breathing apparatus under the left
-arm. Shaw claims the beings try to lift him but they are not strong
-enough. They then notice a 150-foot airship hovering 20 feet above the
-water close to a bridge. The three beings float to the craft, open a
-door in the side, and disappear inside. The ship flies quickly out of
-sight. Shaw speculates that the beings are from Mars. (“Three
-Strange Visitors,” Stockton (Calif.) Evening Mail, November 27,
-1896, p. 1; Patrick Gross, UFOs
-in the Daily Press)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 123
Date: 11/26/1896
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer John Bawl and his family see an airship
-moving to the southwest over his residence on Monroe Street near
-Franklin Street in San Jose, California. It is lunging sharply from side
-to side and has a pair of flapping wings and a red light on the bottom.
-Musician and President of the University of the Pacific Moses
-Smith Cross also
-sees the strange aerial light when he is visiting a colleague two blocks
-away. (“It
-Flitted over San Jose,”
-San Francisco Call, November 28, 1896, p. 1; “Three
-Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 124
Date: 11/26/1896
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Electrician Case Gilson and three other men see
-an unlighted airship in a clear sky 1,000 feet over Oakland, California.
-It is flying northward against the wind and looks like a “great black
-cigar with a fishlike tail.” The body is at least 100 feet long and
-looks as if it is made of darkened aluminum. It is seen again at 8:30
-p.m. and disappears in the direction of San Francisco. (Clark III 73;
-“Says
-He Saw It,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1; “Saw
-the Airship at Close Range,” San Francisco Call, December 2, 1896,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 125
Date: 11/27/1896
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A prominent attorney and others in Woodland,
-California, see a cluster of lights attached to an apparent airship
-moving at an altitude of about 500 feet at about 25 mph. It remains
-visible for an hour. (“More Airship
-Stories,” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, November 29, 1896,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 126
Date: 11/28/1896
-Description: Percy Drew watches an enormous airship with a red light
-over Oakland, California. (“Says
-He Saw It,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 127
Date: 12/1/1896
-Description: Harry
-Lytle watches an airship as it flies toward the southwest over the
-Coast Ranges 3 miles north of Rumsey, California. He claims to recognize
-it as an “aircycle,” kind of a winged balloon with a pedal-driven
-propellor, plans for which he submitted to E.
-W. Brown of Davis, California, and which they constructed in 1893.
-He calls it the Nonesuch. On an alleged test flight to Los Angeles on
-March 2, 1893, the device was stolen by some “hoboes.” He assumes the
-airship is his stolen invention. (“The
-Mystery Solved,” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, December 8, 1896,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 128
Date: 12/4/1896
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Travelers on a freight train between Dixon and
-Elmira, California, see two large, bright lights moving parallel with
-them at about 1,000 feet altitude. The lights outdistance the train and
-disappear to the southwest. (Clark III 74; “The
-Airship Again,” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, December 7, 1896,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 129
Date: 12/26/1896
-Description: Early morning. Dairy farmer Ezekiel Sergeant and a hired
-man have just finished milking their cows near Wilmington, Delaware,
-when they hear strains of music in the air. Then a bottle falls at
-Sergeant’s feet and breaks into pieces. He sees an enormous, fish-shaped
-airship with extended wings, a large tail, and a bright searchlight.
-Amid the shattered glass he finds a slip of paper allegedly written by
-Capt. James Dashiel and Thomas Murphy on the airship Icarus that is
-sailing from Salt Lake City to Cuba. (“Saw
-an Air-Ship,” Philadelphia (Pa.) Times, December 28, 1896,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 130
Date: mid 1/1897
-Description: Just after sunset. People in Acampo, California, see an
-airship the size of a small house, seemingly built of canvas, and moving
-to the southeast. It looks “like a cigar box with a spark of fire in
-it.” (“Airship
-Reported Again,”
-Stockton (Calif.) Evening Mail, January 22, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 131
Date: 1/31/1897
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A “large, glaring light,” apparently from an
-airship, is seen for nearly 30 minutes west of Hastings, Nebraska,
-hovering, ascending, descending, and moving at a “most remarkable
-speed.” (“See
-an Air Ship
-at Hastings,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, February 2, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 132
Date: 2/1897
-End date: 7/1897
-Description: The mystery airship wave continues, from Nebraska and
-Colorado to Texas and Ohio. Hoaxes and pranks pollute the information
-pool in a major way during this era and the planet Venus and other
-celestial objects undoubtedly play a major role, but many airship
-reports emanate from manifestly sober, puzzled citizens, and they
-continue long after the initial excitement subsides. To all appearances,
-they are objects of some kind, but since newspapers rarely question
-witnesses critically about details at this time, little can be deduced
-from the mass of reports. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949, The
-author, 1971; Roger L. Welsch, “This
-Mysterious Light Called an Airship: Nebraska Saucer Sightings,
-1897,” Nebraska History 60 (1979): 92–113; Daniel Cohen, The Great
-Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File,
-The author, 1982; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part I,” IUR 16, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1991): 4–23; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part II,” IUR 16, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1991): 20–21, 24; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship
-Mystery, Pelican, 2004; Jerome Clark, “UFOs or Mystery Airships?” IUR
-31, no. 4 (March 2008): 8–14, 29; J. Allen Danelek, The Great Airship of
-1897, Adventures Unlimited, 2009; Dennis Crenshaw and P. G. Navarro, The
-Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the
-1800s, Anomalist, 2009; Clark III 75–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 133
Date: 2/4/1897
-Description: Night. A dozen people returning home from a prayer meeting
-in Inavale, Nebraska, see a bright light passing overhead. Six smaller
-lights are placed at intervals around a larger dark body. After 10
-minutes it returns at a lower altitude, now visible as a conical object
-30–40 feet long with two sets of wings and a large rudder. Voices can be
-heard plainly. (“Air
-Ship Is Seen
-at Inavale,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, February 6, 1897, p. 6)
-February 17 —Night. Hy Smith, Charles Braternitz, and Harry Reese see a
-bright light moving to the east just west of Big Springs, Nebraska. The
-light repeatedly rises up about 300 feet then descends quickly, sending
-out sparks. (“Seen near
-North Platte,” Kearney (Neb.) Hub, February 18, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 134
Date: mid 2/1897
-Description: Residents of Valley Falls, Kansas, can see the outlines of
-an airship behind a large light that passes over the town. (“The
-Supposed Kansas Airship,” Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe, February 27,
-1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 135
Date: 2/26/1897
-Description: 10:15 p.m. People at the railway depot in Falls City,
-Nebraska, see an object with a large searchlight in the northern sky.
-According to dispatcher Ike Chidsey, it is moving west at 60 mph and
-also has a red light. Chidsey alerts other Missouri Pacific train
-stations to the west. Over the next four and a half hours, the object is
-seen over Stella, Beatrice, Wymore, Hastings, Kenesaw, and Hartwell.
-(“The
-Supposed Kansas Airship,” Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe, February 27,
-1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 136
Date: 3/13/1897
-Description: Night. A bright fireball appears in the west over North
-Loup, Nebraska, moving up and down erratically. It occasionally throws
-out sparks. (“That
-Strange Light Again,” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, March 16,
-1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 137
Date: 3/14/1897
-Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with a “big engine headlight” flies
-over South Omaha, Nebraska, and remains visible for 30–40 minutes. It is
-moving to the west and disappears behind some buildings. One of the
-witnesses is Isaac
-J. Copenharve, a
-compositor for the Omaha Bee. (“Visions
-of an Air Ship,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, March 16, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 138
Date: 3/23/1897
-End date: 3/26/1897
-Description: Night. Residents of Belleville, Kansas, watch a lighted
-airship moving at 75 mph and “lighting up the houses and city like an
-immense meteor.” It hovers for 20–30 minutes, changes direction, and is
-seen on four nights in succession. At 9:20 p.m. on March 25, workers at
-the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot and others in
-Belleville watch a bright light pass above the city for 45 minutes. It
-disappears to the northwest and reappears two more times. (“Say
-They Saw an Air-Ship,” Kansas City (Mo.) Times, March 27, 1897,
-p. 5; “It Flies
-at Night,” Kansas City (Mo.) Journal, March 28, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 139
Date: 3/26/1897
-Time: night
-Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor
-dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was
-dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Sioux City, Iowa
-ID: 11
Date: 3/27/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A blood-red light appears in the western sky over
-Topeka, Kansas, moving northward parallel with the horizon until after
-20 minutes it disappears “with a flicker.” Among the witnesses is Kansas
-Gov. John
-W. Leedy, who
-describes it as a “very strange light.” Harold
-T. Chase, editor of the Topeka Capital, is on the State House steps
-with Leedy and says the object is a large, oblong shape. (“Strange Light
-in the Sky,” Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital, March 28, 1897, p. 1; “Neither
-Star Nor Planet,” Kansas City (Mo) Times, March 29, 1897, p. 1; “Airship
-Is Seen by Gov. Leedy,” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 140
Date: 3/28/1897
-Time: 2230
-Description: The majority of the population observed an object arriving
-from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward
-slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to
-watch it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 185 (Vallee)
-Location: Omaha, Nebraska
-ID: 12
Date: 4/1/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. J. E. Gunn, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel,
-and other residents of Everest, Kansas, watch a 30- foot-long object
-that looks like a canoe suspended from a balloon. Two wings are visible
-on each side. Its light appears to dim when the object is moving and
-glows brightly when hovering. (“Air
-Ship Headed toward Omaha,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897,
-p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 142
Date: 4/1/1897
-Description: Night. Residents of Galesburg, Michigan, see a brilliant
-white light passing overhead. It is attached to a black object that
-emits a crackling sound. Human voices are heard distinctly. (“The
-Airship Story Spreads,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gazette, April
-2, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 143
Date: 4/1/1897
-Time: 2100
-Description: The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling.
-It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When
-directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It
-was seen to rise up at fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to
-come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it
-remained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud, which it
-illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Everest, Kansas
-ID: 13
Date: 4/1/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Strange lights appear in the sky south of Kansas
-City, Kansas, zigzagging and crossing the horizon. (“Air
-Ship Headed toward Omaha,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897,
-p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 141
Date: 4/2/1897
-Description: Evening. People in Wesley, Iowa, view a cone-shaped object
-with windows in the side through which light is visible. It is traveling
-slowly toward the northwest. (“Wesley
-Saw the Air Ship,” Algona (Iowa) Republican, April 7, 1897,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 144
Date: early 4/1897
-Description: An airship allegedly lands near Elburn, Illinois, where
-some farmers run across it. It is made of “some light substance like
-aluminum.” Two aeronauts are repairing the vehicle and will only say
-that they are flying from the Pacific to the Atlantic by following the
-Chicago and North Western Railway. (“That Blooming Ship,” Rockford
-(Ill.) Daily Republic, April 12, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 146
Date: 4/4/1897
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Dairy farmer Dick
-Butler is returning to his farm in Wolf Creek Township, Iowa, after
-delivering milk in Sioux City when he notices an electric-like light on
-his right about 200 feet away in a cornfield. He can see a dark object
-with light coming through its windows. It appears to be a “long, narrow
-car, resembling a corset box in shape,” some 30–35 feet long and 6–7
-feet high. Above the car floats a cigar-shaped bag about the same length
-and 8–10 feet thick. When his horses see the object, they bolt and
-tumble his wagon into the ditch. By the time Butler recovers, the object
-is moving briskly in a descent to the south. He watches it as it moves
-out of sight. (“Air Ship Again,” Marshalltown (Iowa) Evening
-Times-Republican, April 9, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 145
Date: 4/6/1897
-Description: 2:00 a.m. James Southard gets lost on his ranch near Peru,
-Nebraska, looking for strayed cattle. He notices a light on a bar in the
-Missouri River, and it turns out to be on a landed airship 200 feet
-long, whose crew are apparently repairing its searchlight. The aeronauts
-answer all of Southard’s questions, telling him that “the craft is
-loaded with several tons of dynamite and is bound for Cuba” to bomb
-Spanish ships. (“Boarded
-the Airship,” Auburn (Neb.) Granger, April 9, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 147
Date: 4/8/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Many people in towns along the Burlington, Cedar
-Rapids, and Northern Railroad from West Liberty to Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
-see an object with a “bright glaring headlight,” a glistening steel
-body, and wings on either side. It makes a hissing noise as it glides
-through the air. By 10:00 p.m., it fades from view to the north of Cedar
-Rapids. (“Airship Appears in Iowa,” Chicago Record, April 9, 1897,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 148
Date: 4/9/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people in Chicago, Evanston, Niles
-Center, and Schermerville, Illinois, see an airship earing multicolored
-lights and swinging a huge white searchlight from side to side. Nearly
-800 witnesses on Davis Street in Evanston watch the object, estimated to
-be 400 feet in length. Using binoculars, the outline of a structure can
-be seen behind the powerful light. By 9:30 p.m., the airship is last
-seen over South Chicago. Northwestern University astronomer George
-W. Hough, director of the Dearborn Observatory, tells the newspapers
-he is sure the airship is the star Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse). (“See
-Airship or
-a Star,” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1897, pp. 1–2; “California
-Airship on the Wing,” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 149
Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright white light with red and green lights
-on either side of it is observed by many residents of Quincy, Illinois,
-flying low above the Mississippi River on the city’s west side. At one
-point it is no more than 400–500 feet above the ground. The light is
-attached to a metallic cigar-shaped object. Two wings extend from the
-sides and on top is some kind of superstructure. Witnesses estimate its
-length to be 50–100 feet. The object ascends, moves east, then south,
-then west, hovers above South Park for a few minutes, then moves north
-and stops again. It reverses direction and leaves toward the south at
-“tremendous speed.” (“The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy (Ill.) Morning
-Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 153
Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Policemen, firemen, and many other residents of
-Jacksonville, Illinois, see a bright light moving swiftly from east to
-west a few hundred feet in the air. The light sways from side to side
-and throws out beams several hundred feet in length. When it is above
-the city, the object the light is attached to can be seen as metallic
-and long with possible wings. Some witnesses can hear voices. The object
-reverses direction over Jacksonville, throwing its searchlight in all
-directions, and disappears to the east. (“The Airship over Quincy,”
-Quincy (Ill.) Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 152
Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A noise draws residents of Platte City,
-Missouri, outside where they can see a hovering object 100 feet long and
-20 feet wide. Two immense wings on either side are moving up and down.
-Greenish light beams shine down on Main Street from its back and front.
-Suddenly there is a hissing sound and explosions and the object moves
-away to the northeast. (“Saw
-the Airship,” Buffalo (N.Y.) Enquirer, April 12, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 151
Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: Evening. Witnesses in Marshfield, Wisconsin, see a
-cone-shaped airship with a bright headlight moving south of town. (“Hides
-in the Woods,” Chicago Chronicle, April 11, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 150
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 7:45 p.m. John
-Lee and others in Benton Harbor, Michigan, watch an airship rapidly
-moving north-northwest for 15 minutes. With the naked eye it looks like
-a huge ball of fire, but through opera glasses it resembles a cluster of
-soft yellow lights. (“Air Ship Seen Here,” Benton Harbor (Mich.) Evening
-News, April 12, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 157
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. R. G. Adams and his parents at 3126 Fourth Avenue
-South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a lighted, cigar-shaped object
-flying low towards the southwest. Through binoculars it appears to be
-18–20 feet long. A square light that changes from white to green to red,
-depending apparently on its speed, is on top. Hundreds of other people
-also see the object over the next four hours, maneuvering above Lake
-Minnetonka and eventually receding into the northeast. (“Does He Hail
-from Mars?” St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, April 12, 1897, p. 4; “Wonder! Mysterious
-Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13,
-1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 158
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. An airship approaches Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from
-the northeast over Lake Michigan and heads toward the southwest. It
-stops and hovers 1,000 feet above City Hall for 15 minutes. (“Airship
-Myth Yet Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 159
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 12:30 a.m. John Peterson, E. K. Rowley, George
-Moody, Bayard
-Taylor French, and
-other residents of Hawarden, Iowa, see a conical object about 60 feet
-long with four sets of 15-foot wings. It is flying so low (about 600
-feet) that they can hear machinery, voices, and laughter. Two red lights
-are positioned on the tail end and a large searchlight is in the front.
-After three minutes it moves off to the north. (“Another Wonderful
-Tale,” Des Moines (Iowa) Leader, April 13, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 154
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A bank clerk in Decatur, Illinois, sees an
-object “like two monster cigars with three bright headlights” moving to
-the north. (“Saw
-the Air Ship,” Decatur (Ill.) Evening Republican, April 12, 1897,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 161
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: After 10:30 p.m. Stuart Mackroth is riding a bicycle just
-east of Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota, when a flying machine “shaped like
-an ordinary boat” passes overhead. It has red and green lights on each
-side and a powerful electric light in front. Inside he can see men,
-women, and children, all moving about “as if very busy.” (“Wonder! Mysterious
-Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13,
-1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 160
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 5:30 a.m. An alleged photo of an airship is taken at 4356
-East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois, by an
-ex-policeman named Walter
-R. McCann and George A. Overrocker, who provide copies to several
-newspapers. The Chicago Tribune photo editor pronounces it a fake
-because it looks like it is taken by a Kodak with a small lens that
-cannot achieve a panoramic view. A later report claims that McCann has
-photographed a piece of canvas on which an airship is painted. (“Airship
-Myth Yet Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5; “Airship
-Is All a Joke,” Chicago Chronicle, April 13, 1897, p. 2; Wautauga
-(N.C.) Democrat, April 27, 1897, p. 1; Clark III 78; Wikimedia Commons,
-“Mystery airship 1897”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 155
Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Gary Carlton Jr. watches a flat object looking
-like a “big piece of yellow canvas” pass over Bloomington, Illinois, at
-a high altitude toward the northeast. (“The
-Air Ship,” Bloomington (Ill.) Daily Pantagraph, April 12, 1897,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 156
Date: 4/12/1897
-Time: 1430
-Description: On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville,
-an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the
-craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left
-majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street
-and Franklin Metcalf.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 186; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Nilwood, Illinois
-ID: 14
Date: 4/12/1897
-Description: Morning. F. L. Bullard, engineer on the Fast Mail train on
-the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, says he caught sight of an
-airship moving parallel with the train shortly after his Engine 950 left
-downtown Chicago. The train is moving at 70 mph, and by the time it
-reaches Lisle, Illinois, the object is far ahead. Bullard estimates it
-is moving at 100–150 mph. (“Air-Ship
-Distances a Train,” St. Louis (Mo.) Globe-Democrat, April 13, 1897,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 162
Date: 4/12/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. During a rainstorm in Lincoln, Illinois, more
-than 50 people stand on Pulaski Street to watch a light moving to the
-northeast. John Fitzgerald sees a V-shaped object with a bright
-searchlight moving rapidly toward Lincoln. It changes course, the light
-changes from white to green, and the object disappears behind clouds.
-(“Was It the Airship?” Lincoln (Ill.) Weekly Courier, April 13, 1897,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 163
Date: 4/12/1897
-Time: 1800
-Description: A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km
-north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the
-Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came
-sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair
-the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself
-was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left
-toward the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 186,187 (Vallee)
-Location: Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois
-ID: 15
Date: 4/13/1897
-Description: Night. Mayor Charles
-Merritt Seely and other people in Canton, South Dakota, watch a
-winged airship passing to the north over the town with a red light in
-front and a green light in back. (“Airship
-Is Seen by Moonlight,”
-Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 15, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 165
Date: 4/13/1897
-Description: Before sunrise. Augustus Rodgers, a farmer living two miles
-south of Louisville, Kentucky, goes outside to attend to his livestock.
-He sees an oblong object, some 40 feet long by 15 feet tall, flying
-about 400 feet in the air at 100 mph. His wife comes out to watch it
-with him, and they both see “a form like that of a man” standing in the
-front and directing its course. (“Airship Passed in the Night,”
-Louisville (Ky.) Evening Post, April 13, 1897, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 164
Date: 4/13/1897
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Frederick Chamberlain and O. L. Jones are riding
-one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, when they notice a figure in a
-clearing, walking around as if he is looking for something. They turn
-off the road to investigate and hear a cracking sound followed by a
-rushing noise. A moment later they notice a gray-white object that looks
-like the top of a covered wagon. It has two rows of four red or green
-lights. The object rises quickly at a sharp angle to clear the treetops.
-They can make out no machinery or wings or rudders or even an outline of
-the object. In the mud, Chamberlain finds 14 footprints, each 2 feet
-long, 6 inches wide, “arranged seven on each side, and in an oblong
-pattern.” Adam Thielen, a nearby farmer, independently sees a dark
-object with red and green lights flying overhead about the same time.
-(“Adam Saw the Airship Light,” St Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, April 15,
-1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 166
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A brownish cigar-shaped object with wings passes
-south of Marion, Indiana, coming from the northwest. Six passengers can
-be seen on board. (“Six
-Men Seen in the Airship,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 15,
-1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 170
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 3:00 p.m. An airship looking like an “immense bird”
-approaches Gas City, Indiana, from the northwest. As it draws nearer,
-witnesses see that it is cigar-shaped and “propelled by broad canvas
-wings.” The object lands briefly one mile from town, terrifying some
-farm animals. As a crowd rushes toward it, it takes off and vanishes to
-the east. (“In
-Daylight,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 169
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Farmers see an airship land about 3 miles
-northwest of Howard City, Michigan, and some go to investigate. Inside
-the craft is a “strange man” dressed in heavy furs although he seems “to
-have no use for them, as he was almost naked and seemed to be suffering
-from the heat.” The man is 9.5 feet tall and speaks in a musical
-language that, however, sounds like bellowing. One farmer gets too
-close, and the giant kicks him severely enough to break his hip. (“Trip
-of the Airship,” Saginaw (Mich.) Courier-Herald, April 17, 1897,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 168
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Early morning. Marble merchant David
-W. Paul is traveling with a party of workmen from Burlington to
-Frankfort, Indiana. When they are at the middle fork of Wildcat Creek,
-they hear a “swishing, roaring sound” and see an object with a blinding
-white searchlight and smaller green and yellow lights. The object is
-cigar-shaped with wings or fins. It descends to just above the treetops,
-hovers there for a moment, then rises and noisily shoots off to the
-southwest. (“That Mysterious Airship,” Indianapolis Sentinel, April 15,
-1897, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 167
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Just after 9:00 p.m. Farmhand John Halley and vintner Adolf
-Wenke see an airship land on Jefferson Street three miles west of
-Springfield, Illinois. They supposedly converse with one of its
-occupants, a bearded scientist who is outside the craft. Inside, they
-can see another man and a woman. The scientist says little other than
-“as soon as Congress recognizes Cuban belligerency his air ship would be
-heard from.” (“Mystery Solved,” Springfield (Ill.) News, April 15, 1897,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 173
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Night. The Rio Grande Railroad operator at Cresson, Texas,
-sees an object about 60 feet long and “resembling the top of a passenger
-coach in shape” with a powerful searchlight in the front and several
-smaller lights on the sides. It is moving to the southwest at a
-“terrific rate of speed” and has wings “something like that of a bat.”
-It turns to the southeast after passing the station and disappears in
-the clouds after a few minutes. (“Sighting the Air Ship,” Dallas (Tex.)
-Morning News, April 16, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 176
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Night. A man in Denton, Texas, is watching the stars with
-binoculars when he notices a shadow crossing the Moon. It is caused by a
-large cigar-shaped object with wings moving slowly to the southeast. In
-the front it has a powerful searchlight, and along the side appear a row
-of lighted windows. It remains in sight for 20 minutes. A woman also
-sees possibly the same object “bounding along through space like a
-balloon.” (“The Air Ship Again,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April 15,
-1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 175
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Night. Many persons in Mount Vernon, Illinois, including
-Mayor Barton
-C. Wells, allegedly
-see an object “resembling the body of a huge man swimming through the
-air with an electric light on his back.” (“Airship’s Travels,”
-Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial Tribune, April 16, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 174
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. James McKensie is feeding hogs on his farm north
-of Casstown, Ohio, when he hears an odd noise like a flock of geese
-passing overhead. Looking up, he sees an object with wings and a rudder
-flying slowly along about 150 feet in the air, and he distinctly hears
-music. As it disappears, he thinks he hears a human voice, and something
-large and white is thrown overboard. (“Talking
-Heard by the Citizens,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 16, 1897,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 172
Date: 4/14/1897
-Time: 1500
-Description: An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of
-John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to
-stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some
-repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and
-flew toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 188 (Vallee)
-Location: Gas City, Indiana
-ID: 16
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the “Sea Wing,” was fishing with
-S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was
-a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. A man, about 25 years old,
-wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the
-object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year old child. When the “Sea
-Wing” came close to the craft, a large, colored balloon rose from the
-object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 m and circled
-“like a hawk” before flying away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 189 (Vallee)
-Location: Cleveland, Ohio
-ID: 17
Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 7:30 p.m. An airship 100 feet long and 20 feet high in the
-center lands in a meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham,
-Iowa. A large crowd of men and boys sets out to examine the object, but
-when they are within several hundred feet, it rises with a loud whirring
-sound and moves away to the northwest. Two men can be distinctly seen
-inside, one carrying a lantern that he waves as the airship ascends.
-(“Airship Positively Seen,” Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye, April 16, 1897,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 171
Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped airship with a
-row of red lights along the sides passes above Emerson, South Dakota.
-(“That
-Ubiquitous Airship,” Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, April 17, 1897,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 181
Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a
-strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a
-woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to
-Springfield in 30 min and that the crew. was making electrical
-repairs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Springfield, Illinois
-ID: 21
Date: mid 4/1897
-Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A man in Eldridge, North
-Dakota, sees an airship that looks like a car attached to a large,
-kite-shaped structure with wings. It stops and changes course. At one
-point the man is close enough to hear a humming sound. Some of the time
-it displays colored lights; at other times it is completely dark. (“He
-Saw the
-Air Ship,” Jamestown (N. Dak.) Weekly Alert, April 22, 1897,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 184
Date: mid 4/1897
-Description: Early evening. J. W. Lansing sees a cigar-shaped airship
-twice in Grinnell, Iowa. It moves in various directions, sometimes
-against a strong wind. (“He Saw It,” Springfield (Ill.) News, April 26,
-1897, p. 1) Mid-April – Night. F. Crocker is sitting near the window of
-his apartment on Barr Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he notices a
-yellowish light coming from the west. It seems attached to a pear-shaped
-object with the apex pointed downward. Two yellow rays of light come
-from its sides as it sways to and fro in the air. He calls R. J. (or R.
-T.) and J. L. Tretheway, who live in the apartment below his, and they
-also glimpse the object, which is in sight for 20 minutes. (“Sighted
-Here,” Fort Wayne (Ind.) Weekly Gazette, April 15, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 183
Date: mid 4/1897
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Railroad conductor Capt. Jim Hooton is hunting
-near Homan, Arkansas, when he hears a loud mechanical sound like an air
-brake. Investigating, he discovers an airship undergoing repairs. The
-aeronauts are not very communicative, so once the repairs are complete,
-they reenter the airship and take off with a loud hissing sound. (“Saw
-the Air Ship,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, April 22, 1897,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 182
Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Farmersville, Texas, notice a dim
-light traveling toward the city from the south at 60– 80 mph. Thinking
-it might be a meteor heading toward the Earth, more people gather
-outside to watch. City Marshal Brown is in the western part of town
-making his rounds, and the “ship or balloon” passes overhead about 200
-feet in the air. Brown can see two men in the object and something like
-a large Newfoundland dog. He can hear them talking but cannot understand
-what they are saying. (“Airship Seen in Galveston,” Galveston (Tex.)
-Daily News, April 18, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 180
Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Night. An airship with red, green, and white lights lands
-on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Five witnesses see an odd-looking
-man in a fur coat emerge and walk to a farmhouse belonging to Melvin
-Bannister, whose dogs are barking fiercely. The stranger points a
-lantern-like device at them and sends them running. Bannister answers
-the door and converses awkwardly with the man, who is speaking an odd
-language, but loans him a hammer, some nails, and a can of skim milk.
-The man returns the tools, along with a strange coin. The airship takes
-off with a whizzing sound. (“Brunswick
-and Drammen,” Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader, April 17, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 178
Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Willie
-Mahon, ex-Marshal
-French, and other residents of Dunkirk, Ohio, watch a winged object “as
-large as a wagon bed” pass over the town toward the east. It has
-propellers on each end, a red light in front, and a greenish-yellow
-light on the tail. Voices can be heard coming from the object. (“Seen at
-Dunkirk,” Kenton (Ohio) News-Republican, April 16, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 179
Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Late evening. Telegraph repairman Patrick
-C. Byrnes is operating a railroad handcar about 7 miles west of
-Cisco, Texas, when he sees a light a little distance from the track on
-the south side. Knowing there is no farmhouse in the area, he goes to
-investigate. It is a landed cigar-shaped airship about 200 feet long and
-50 feet across at its widest point. Several men are repairing its
-searchlight, and they tell him that the craft is loaded with several
-tons of dynamite for bombing Spanish troops and ships in Cuba. (“Oft-Seen
-Air-Ship,” Fort Worth (Tex.) Register, April 18, 1897, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 177
Date: 4/15/1897
-Time: morning
-Description: A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It
-seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David
-Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north
-of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of
-it but it “spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North.” Two
-strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves.
-Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of
-Linn Grove saw the craft in flight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 190 (Vallee)
-Location: Linn Grove, Iowa
-ID: 18
Date: 4/15/1897
-Time: nightfall
-Description: A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground
-followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66,4 (Vallee)
-Location: Howard-Artesian, South Dakota
-ID: 19
Date: 4/15/1897
-Time: 2100
-Description: A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy,
-was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and
-Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white
-light. After Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly,
-although the train was then running at 65 km/h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 190 (Vallee)
-Location: Perry Springs, Missouri
-ID: 20
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: Night. Judge John
-Spencer Bounds is riding in a buggy in Hillsboro, Texas, when his
-horse whirls around in fright. A brilliant light as if from an arc lamp
-shines on him for less than a minute and then moves over to a nearby
-field. The light suddenly ascends to an altitude of 1,000 feet. As he
-watches, the searchlight blinks out and smaller lights surrounding a
-dark object become visible. The object moves slowly to the south and
-disappears. (“Seen near Hillsboro,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April
-17, 1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 190
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 12:03 a.m. An airship and a smaller “trailer which followed
-it very closely” are seen by residents of Danvers, Illinois. The objects
-are made of aluminum-like material, and its “occupants were dressed in
-western style.” (“The Aerial
-Mystery,” Bloomington (Ill.) Daily Pantograph, April 17, 1897,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 185
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A group of people returning home from a lodge
-meeting in Bay City, Michigan, notice a large conical object approaching
-from the south and slowly descending to about 50 feet altitude above
-Center Avenue. A red light appears at either end of a body that is
-apparently 50–75 feet long. It shines with a dull red glow, as if there
-are lights on its upper side. The object moves away to the northeast.
-(“Air Ship a Reality,” Saginaw (Mich.) Courier-Herald, April 16, 1897,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 186
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: Morning. A large object passes slowly over Linn Grove,
-Iowa, heading north. Five men—James
-Evans, F.
-G. Ellis, Ben
-Buland, David
-Evans, and
-Joe
-Croskey—jump into a rig and follow it 4 miles north of town where it
-has landed. But when the pursuers get within 2,100 feet of the airship,
-it spreads out four massive wings and ascends again. The two occupants
-have extremely long beards and make desperate efforts to conceal
-themselves. They toss two enormous boulders “of unknown composition” out
-of the airship. (“More
-Air Ship Fakes,” Indianapolis Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 187
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: While wandering in the hills east of Springfield, Missouri,
-W.
-H. Hopkins, a traveling insurance agent, spots a landed airship in a
-clearing. Next to it is a nude female with hair down to her waist. As
-she picks flowers, she speaks in an unknown language with a musical
-voice and fans herself as if the day is hot. In the shade cast by the
-craft lies a naked man with shoulder-length hair and a long beard. After
-a few minutes, Hopkins approaches the woman, who shrieks and runs toward
-the man. Hopkins speaks soothingly and the two aeronauts relax. Hopkins
-asks where they come from, and they point upward, pronouncing a word
-that sounds like “Mars.” The two examine Hopkins’s clothing, hair, and
-watch with great curiosity. They show him the interior of the ship but
-take off shortly afterward, “laughing and waving their hands.” (“Golden
-Haired Girl Is in It,” St. Louis (Mo.) Post- Dispatch, April 19,
-1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 188
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge
-saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke
-to him for a few minutes before leaving again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 191 (Vallee)
-Location: Downs Township, Illinois
-ID: 22
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 12:00 midnight. C. G. Williams is walking across a field
-two miles south of Greenville, Texas, when he comes across a brilliant
-light and a large, cigar-shaped object resting on the ground. Three
-aeronauts emerge from it; two go to work on the ship, and the third
-approaches Williams and asks him to mail some letters. The man tells him
-that the airship runs on electricity and that his invention was
-perfected in a small town in New York State. (“C. G. Williams Saw It,”
-Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 191
Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Howard
-R. Bolander, superintendent of the Ohio Bicycle Works in Marion,
-Ohio, is looking at the night sky when he sees the light from a
-cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. Its light looks like an
-incandescent lamp. (“Is
-Your Credulity in Condition for the Only True Airship Story?” Marion
-(Ohio) Daily Star, April 17, 1897, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 189
Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. George Alverson, Alex Oxford, and Charley Hunter
-are walking on Manchester Street near the Cincinnati Southern Railway
-trestle bridge in Lexington, Kentucky. An airship lands and settles in a
-vacant lot about 600 feet away. They hurry forward but are stopped by a
-man who has just emerged from the machine. He is carrying a bucket,
-which he fills with water from a nearby spring. He declines to answer
-any of their questions, reenters the airship, and flies away to the
-southeast. (“Talked
-with the Airship Man,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 19, 1897,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 195
Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A large white light attached to a cigar-shaped
-object passes over Trenton, Tennessee, at an altitude of about 1,500
-feet. It has a red light on the left side and a green light on the
-right. The object remains in sight for 5 minutes then disappears to the
-east. (“Trenton
-Has ’Em,” Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1897,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 194
Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 6:00 a.m. An airship is said to collide with the tower of
-Judge James
-Spencer Proctor’s windmill in Aurora, Texas, causing it to explode
-and strew debris over several acres. The pilot (reportedly “not of this
-world,” or a “Martian” according to an alleged Army Signal Service
-officer named Thomas
-Jefferson Weems from nearby Fort Worth), does not survive the crash
-and is buried “with
-Christian rites” at the Aurora Cemetery. Wreckage from the crash site is
-either dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill or
-ends up with the alien in the grave. Adding to the mystery is the story
-of Brawley
-Oates, who purchases Judge Proctor’s property around 1935. Oates
-cleans out the debris from the well in order to use it as a water
-source, but later develops an extremely severe case of rheumatoid
-arthritis, which he claims is the result of contaminated water from the
-wreckage dumped into the well. As a result, Oates seals up the well with
-a concrete slab and places an outbuilding on the spot in 1945. The
-entire yarn is widely regarded as a hoax, although Proctor’s windmill
-apparently did exist. (Wikipedia, “Aurora,
-Texas, UFO incident”; “A Windmill Demolishes It,” Dallas Morning
-News, April 19, 1897, p. 5; Donald B. Hanlon, “Texas
-Odyssey of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966):
-9–10; H. Michael Simmons, “Once
-upon a Time in the West,” Magonia, no. 20 (August 1985); Wallace O.
-Chariton, The Great Texas Airship Mystery, Wordware, 1991; Thomas E.
-Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (March 2012): 8–10; Clark III
-316–318, 592–593; “Aurora
-1897,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014;
-Mutual UFO Network, “Aurora,
-TX Crash, 1897,” May 14, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 193
Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 1:30 a.m. R. E. Draughon, a night watchman at a lumber
-plant in Beaumont, Texas, sees a “globular” object with a bright light
-the size of a star in one end. It is moving to the northwest at a high
-altitude. (“Seen at Beaumont,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April 18,
-1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 192
Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s
-windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Aurora, TX
Date: 4/17/1897
-Time: morning
-Description: At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky
-for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked
-and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. “His talk,
-while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings.” One farmer went
-near him and received a blow that broke his hip.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 196 (Vallee)
-Location: Williamston, Michigan
-ID: 23
Date: 4/18/1897
-Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with lights on both ends is seen
-southeast of Lyons, Nebraska, traveling to the northwest. Some young
-observers estimate it is moving at 4–6 mph. When the object is south of
-Bancroft it makes 2–3 large circles and then moves to the southwest.
-(“Airship’s
-Lamp Is Lighted,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 20, 1897,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 197
Date: 4/18/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. W. E. Roe, captain of the Ohio River packet T. M.
-Barnsdall, as well as watchman Elmer Hardy and engineer Litus Kinnard,
-sees a light high in the air above the river as the riverboat is lying
-at Sistersville, West Virginia. It seems to be moving to the northwest
-but at other times it retraces its course. Around 12:00 midnight it
-disappears over a hill to the west. (“The Airship Seen near Marietta,”
-Marietta (Ohio) Daily Register, April 19, 1897)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 196
Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A bright light moves from the northwest over
-Cochransville [now a ghost town], Monroe County, Ohio, where it hovers
-for 20 minutes, flashing red, white, and green lights. Through
-binoculars a cone-shaped object with large fins on either side can be
-discerned. It is apparently 180 feet long. (“Hovered over the Town,”
-Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial Tribune, April 20, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 201
Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Rancher Alexander
-Hamilton, his son Will, and his hired hand Gid Heslip are awakened
-by a noise in the cattle pen of their ranch at Yates Center, Kansas.
-They watch as a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped airship with a carriage
-underneath descends to about 30 feet above the ground. Two men, a woman,
-and three children are heard talking in the carriage. They see a calf
-caught in a nearby fence with a cable knotted around its neck that
-connects to the airship above. They cut the cable and the airship floats
-away. A few weeks later, Hamilton admits he made the story up. (Clark
-III 130, 593; Jerome Clark, “The Great Airship Hoax,” Fate 30, no. 2
-(February 1977): 94–97; Jerome Clark, “The
-Leroy, Kansas, Calfnapping Hoax of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 22,
-no. 6 (April 1977): 26; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd,
-Mead, 1981, pp. 92–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 202
Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: After 11:00 p.m. John
-R. Ligon, an
-agent for a brewery in Houston, and his son Charley notice
-lights in a pasture a few hundred yards away near Beaumont, Texas. They
-walk over and discover four men moving around a large dark object, who
-ask for water. They accompany Ligon to his house, each bringing two
-baskets, which they fill and return. One of the men identifies himself
-as “Wilson” and says they are traveling in a flying machine that has
-been over the Gulf of Mexico and is now headed toward Iowa. Ligon says
-the airship is 130 feet long and 20 feet wide, propelled by four large
-wings and powered by electricity. Wilson gives Ligon a tour of the ship
-and says it is one of five built in a small Iowa town. Rabbi Aaron
-Levy of Beaumont also claims to have met aeronauts from a landed
-airship near the city around the same time. (“Inspected
-the Air Ship,” Houston (Tex.) Daily Post, April 21, 1897, p. 2; “The
-Airship,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 25, 1897, p. 7; Jerome
-Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 5–6;
-Clark III 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 203
Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 12:00 noon. George Dunlap, a man known to Davis
-H. Tucker, physician
-at the Harlem Prison Farm [now the Jester State Prison Farm] in Fort
-Bend County, Texas, is riding in the country near Lake Charles,
-Louisiana, when he sees an airship moving toward him about half a mile
-distant. It makes a loud whistling noise, scaring his horses and causing
-him to be thrown from the buggy. As the horses flee, the ship lands, a
-rope comes down, and two men rush over to apologize. They are the owner
-Mr. Wilson (formerly of Fort Worth, Texas) and his friend Scott Warren.
-The man is taken into the airship and introduced to two others, a
-Mr. Waters and a Hispanic man. Wilson tells him the airship is sustained
-by a gas, and that several of them have been built. (“Was Aboard an
-Airship,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, May 16, 1897, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 200
Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 1:30 a.m. As people are returning from a party at the
-Armory Hall in Natchitoches, Louisiana, they see a bright light attached
-to a massive airship in the form of a balloon with a cigar-shaped
-undercar. The light dims while it is over the city and intensifies again
-when it has passed beyond it. It moves in undulations and is visible for
-30 minutes. (“The
-Airship Seen in Louisiana,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 21,
-1897, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 198
Date: 4/19/1897
-Time: 2230
-Description: Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle
-and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated
-cigarshaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath
-showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They
-approached within 50 m of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a
-searchlight. Inside it were “six of the strangest beings” the witness
-had seen, also described as “hideous.” They spoke a language no witness
-could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of
-a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next
-day.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 16; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Leroy, Kansas
-ID: 24
Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A man in El Paso, Texas, sees a cigar-shaped
-object with lighted portholes on each side. The object approaches from
-the east and passes overhead at 500 feet. Voices from the craft are
-heard. (“The
-Air Ship Seen in El
-Paso,” El Paso (Tex.) Herald, April 20, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 199
Date: 4/20/1897
-Description: Henry
-Heintz of Elkton, South Dakota, patents an airship consisting of a
-cigar-shaped balloon and a structure for passengers beneath it. At some
-point he allegedly brings his invention out for a test flight in front
-of the Elkton blacksmith shop. The airship rises 8 feet into the air
-before plopping to the ground. (US Patent, “Air
-Ship,” granted April 20, 1897; Ruth Becken, A History of Elkton,
-[City of Elkton,] 2000, p. 94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 204
Date: 4/20/1897
-Time: 1800
-Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan
-when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a
-clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels,
-and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark
-glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants.
-The witness was told this was indeed “The Airship” and that it used
-compressed air for propulsion. Hooton saw the wheels spin as the craft
-rose and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Homan, Arkansas
-ID: 25
Date: 4/20/1897
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Sheriff Henry
-W. Baylor of Uvalde, Texas, sees a bright light and hears strange
-voices behind his house. He finds a landed airship and its crew of three
-men, one of whom is named “Wilson” (from Goshen, New York), who inquires
-after an acquaintance, C.
-C. Akers of Eagle Pass, Texas. After procuring water from a hydrant
-in Baylor’s yard, the men board the airship, which speeds away northward
-toward San Angelo. County Clerk Henry J. Bowles sees the airship as it
-passes over Getty Street in Uvalde. Akers tells a reporter in Galveston
-that he knew a New Yorker named Wilson when he lived in Fort Worth in
-1876–1877. Baylor’s seemingly compelling testimony disintegrates after
-he confesses in late May to making the whole story up, possibly in
-collusion with Akers. (“The Airship in West Texas,” Galveston (Tex.)
-Daily News, April 24, 1897, p. 3; “The Airship
-at Uvalde,” Weimar (Tex.) Mercury, May 1, 1897, p. 6; “Airship
-Story Exploded,” Weimar (Tex.) Mercury, May 22, 1897, p. 7; Jerome
-Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 6–7;
-Clark III 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 205
Date: 4/21/1897
-Description: 12:30 a.m. An employee of the Picayune newspaper in New
-Orleans, Louisiana, steps outside the office and sees an airship, 50–60
-feet long and bearing a powerful searchlight. He returns to tell his
-colleagues, but by the time they come out, the airship is gone. (“The
-Airship,” New Orleans Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 206
Date: 4/21/1897 (approximate)
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A man is riding his horse between Lancaster and
-Baltimore, Ohio, when something scares his horse. He sees an object with
-two brilliant white lights on either end landing in a nearby field. He
-tethers his horse and approaches the object, which seems as large as a
-house. Inside he can see two men conversing, so he walks up to ask them
-questions. One of the aeronauts seems to be Japanese and the other
-speaks English with a British accent. The craft is called the
-Aeribarque, and they are on a test flight. The aeronaut says that they
-often land in remote areas and come to nearby towns for supplies or
-mechanical parts, posing either as tourists or “harmless cranks trying
-to invent perpetual motion.” After giving the witness a demonstration of
-the electrical lighting system, they take off into the sky. (“Aeribarque,
-That’s It’s Official Name,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 25,
-1897, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 207
Date: 4/21/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Confectioner John
-S. Scheer, Frank
-King, and Frank Mulick of Erie, Pennsylvania, watch a cigar- shaped,
-winged object moving north at a relatively high rate of speed. It has a
-large propeller on its tail end, but it flies silently and disappears
-over Lake Erie. (“Passed over Erie,” Erie (Pa.) Daily Times, April 22,
-1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 208
Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A ball of fire is seen moving slowly and
-horizontally from southwest to northeast over Kokomo, Indiana. Some
-people can distinguish the faint outlines of a cigar-shaped object and
-wings. The light is white with a reddish tint and no more than 300 feet
-in altitude. The witnesses include Harry
-M. Grimes, William
-E. Sollenberger, and
-banking executive Frank
-McCarty. (“The Mysterious Air Ship,” Kokomo (Ind.) Daily Tribune,
-April 23, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 210
Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Prominent citizens, including the mayor, observe
-a low-flying airship heading slowly southwest above Kenly, North
-Carolina. Its sails “resembled mosquito netting to the naked eye.” The
-outlines of two people aboard are plainly visible. (“Men
-Seen in the Airship,” Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, April 25,
-1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 209
Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously
-and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object
-circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding
-lights, it went dark when it landed. Barclay was met by a man who told
-him his purpose was peaceful and requested some common hardware items to
-repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took off “like a
-bullet out of a gun.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 192; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Rockland, Texas
-ID: 26
Date: 4/22/1897
-Time: 2400
-Description: Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one
-of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking
-outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He
-walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw
-water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the
-crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not
-follow the explanation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 193; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Josserand, Texas
-ID: 27
Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Frank Nichols, a farmer living 2 miles east
-of Josserand, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. Outside, he sees a
-huge airship in his cornfield. Before he can get close, two men with
-buckets ask him if they can draw water from his well. Nichols consents
-and in return they give him a tour of the vessel, whose motive power is
-“highly condensed electricity.” One aeronaut tells him that five
-airships have been built in an Iowa town. (“That
-Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 26, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 212
Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. John
-M. Barclay wakes up when he hears a whirring noise that causes his
-dogs to bark wildly outside his home near Rockland, Texas. He goes
-outside and sees an oblong airship with wings and brilliant lights. When
-he first sees it, the object is hovering 150 feet above the ground. It
-circles a few times then lands in a nearby pasture. Barclay goes down to
-investigate with his Winchester rifle, but the lights go out as he gets
-closer. Some 90 feet away from the airship he is stopped by a man who
-asks him to put his rifle down. He identifies himself as “Smith” and
-gives Barclay $10 to purchase lubricating oil, two chisels, and
-bluestone. When Barclay returns with the materials, the aeronaut will
-only say he is from “anywhere,” adding that “we will be in Greece
-tomorrow.” (“Supplies
-for Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 211
Date: 4/23/1897
-Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was
-surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the
-ground. “It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but
-judging from their looks one would take them to be Japanese.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Farish, in Allende Letters - Award Special, 1968 (Vallee)
-Location: McKinney Bayou, Arkansas
-ID: 28
Date: 4/23/1897
-Description: Night. Henry
-A. Hooks and A.
-W. Hodges of Kountze, Texas, allegedly meet two aeronauts named
-Wilson and Jackson when their airship suffers a gas leak and lands. (“That
-Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 213
Date: 4/24/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Howard Warn is outside his home in Toledo, Ohio,
-when he notices bright, multicolored lights moving rapidly toward the
-southwest. The lights are attached to a cigar-shaped object at an
-altitude of 500 feet. He calls his father, Milo
-S. Warn, and
-they watch the lights until the object disappears into heavy clouds to
-the southwest. (“Say They Saw the Airship,” Cleveland (Ohio) Plain
-Dealer, April 28, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 215
Date: 4/24/1897
-Description: An airship in need of repairs lands near Stringers Ridge on
-the other side of the river from Chattanooga, Tennessee. An unnamed
-journalist talks to one of the aeronauts, who identifies himself as
-Prof. Charles Davidson of Sacramento, California, the inventor of the
-airship, which can travel as fast as 93 mph. (“Is
-This a Reality?” Knoxville (Tenn.) Morning Tribune, April 25, 1897,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 214
Date: 4/25/1897
-Time: evening
-Description: People returning from church observed a heavy object being
-dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope
-got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure
-to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After
-about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went
-back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was
-small and dressed in a lightblue uniform.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 194; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Merkel, Texas
-ID: 29
Date: 4/25/1897
-Description: Night. William
-F. Whittier, editor of the Sunbury (Ohio) News-Item, sets up his
-camera in the printing office to take lightning photographs. He manages
-to take a photo of a nearby lightning strike and develops it the
-following morning. The negative shows not only the lightning but the
-outline of what seems to be an airship. Whittier makes many copies of
-the photo and sells them to Sunbury residents. (“Fairy Story: A Sunbury
-Editor Takes a Photograph,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily Journal, April 28,
-1897)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 217
Date: 4/25/1897
-Description: Evening. As some residents of Merkel, Texas, are leaving a
-church service, they notice a heavy, anchor- shaped object being dragged
-by a large rope that is attached to an airship in the sky not far above
-them. After 10 minutes, a small figure dressed in a blue sailor suit
-starts climbing down the rope. But when he sees people watching him, he
-cuts the rope and returns to the airship, which moves away to the
-northeast. The anchor goes on exhibit at a local blacksmith shop. (“Anchor
-of the Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 28, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 216
Date: 4/26/1897
-Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted
-object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage.
-When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became
-visible on the underside of the dark object, which supported an
-elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to the south, 5 km from
-Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he saw the
-object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to
-the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 195 (Vallee)
-Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas
-ID: 30
Date: 4/28/1897 (approximate)
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Hiram
-C. LaGrone hears a disturbance among his horses on his ranch at
-Deadwood, Texas. Stepping outside, he sees a brilliant, multicolored
-light approaching from the southwest. It slows, hovers, then lands in a
-field. LaGrone walks up and discovers five men, two of whom take rubber
-bags and procure water from his well. The other three tell him that this
-is one of five airships touring the country (and the same one that
-landed in Beaumont on April 19). (“The
-Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 30, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 218
Date: 5/2/1897
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Edwin Shaffer is driving a rig about one-half
-mile west of Cassville, Indiana, when he encounters a landed airship 40
-feet long. The object spooks his horse, which will not run past it.
-Shaffer claims the airship is crewed by midgets who speak no English.
-(“The Air Ship at Cassville,” Kokomo (Ind.) Daily Tribune, May 4, 1897,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 219
Date: 5/4/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Louis Dumhoff, a physician living at 112 Garfield
-Place in Cincinnati, Ohio, sees a red, egg-shaped light, “the rays
-escaping in the center and at each end.” It passes to the southeast in
-about 5 minutes, moving in a zigzag, up-and-down course. Conductor J. C.
-Gaupel and attorney W. J. Klein also see the light in the same
-neighborhood. (“Airship,”
-Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, May 5, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 220
Date: 5/6/1897
-Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest
-of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km
-farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km
-farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights.
-The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that
-they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the
-machine, about 2O m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a
-woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the
-men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard
-and suggested that the policemen fly with them “to a place where it does
-not rain.” The same witness went back through the same spot 40 min later
-and found nothing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
-ID: 31
Date: 5/6/1897
-Description: During a rainstorm five miles west of Hot Springs,
-Arkansas, Deputy Sheriff John McLemore and Constable John J. Sumpter
-Jr. see a light in the sky descend behind a hill one half-mile away.
-After seeing two persons carrying lights, they draw their rifles and
-demand to know who is there. A man with a long, dark beard tells them
-that he and two others are traveling around the country in an airship
-and hope to end up in Nashville, Tennessee. He invites the officers to
-take a ride and transport them to somewhere dry, but they tell him they
-prefer to get wet. They return to the spot 40 minutes later and the
-airship is gone. (“Swore
-They Saw It,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, May 9, 1897, p. 1; “Swear
-They Saw It,” Arkadelphia (Ark.) Southern Standard, May 14, 1897,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 221
Date: 5/9/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Abe Parker of Norwalk, Ohio, sees an object with
-10–12 bright white and red lights moving slowly over the town for about
-10 minutes. Other witnesses report hearing music coming from it. An
-unnamed young witness, who follows the object out of town for about one
-mile after it passes over Main Street, says the shadow cast by the
-object is round. (“That Airship Again,” Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer,
-May 11, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 222
Date: 5/11/1897
-Description: 10:00 a.m. John
-E. Hopley is one of a small group of people in Sandusky, Ohio, who
-watch a “fleecy white bulk” floating far away to the west. Through
-binoculars the object looks like a white bird with long black wings.
-Hopley guesses that it is 1–2 miles high, 20 miles away, and 60–80 feet
-long. (“The
-Air Ship: John E. Hopley Sees
-This Modern Invention,” Bucyrus (Ohio) Evening Telegraph, May 11,
-1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 223
Date: 7/4/1897
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses in Lexington, Kentucky, see
-a lighted object silhouetted against a storm cloud in the southwest
-moving to the north at 500 feet altitude. When it nears the city, the
-light goes out and it disappears after passing over the western part of
-the city. (“The
-Air Ship or Its Twin Brother Passes over Lexington,”
-Lexington (Ky.) Morning Herald, July 5, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 224
Date: 7/29/1897
-Description: Sunset. Farmer Andrew
-Henderson sees a large, unlighted, oblong object with a suspended
-car and a huge sail drifting to the northeast over his farm three miles
-from Whitemouth, Manitoba. He estimates it is only a half-mile away.
-(“Could It Be Andree?” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, July 31, 1897,
-p. 1; “Big Balloon Story,” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, August 2, 1897,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 225
Date: 8/26/1897
-Description: 6:45 p.m. An airship with an attached car is seen moving
-steadily southwest above Asheville, North Carolina, by Dr. Willard
-P. Whittington and two other men who are standing on Grove Street.
-It is about one mile in altitude. (“Maybe
-It Was Andree on His Return?” Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, August 27,
-1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 226
Date: 8/28/1897
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Luther
-Myers hears dogs barking outside his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
-When he looks through the window, he sees a rapidly moving airship with
-a light on each end. It has a propeller and rotates as it moves forward.
-(“Our
-Closeby Neighbors,”
-Chambersburg (Pa,) Valley Spirit, September 1, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 227
Date: 9/7/1897
-Description: 2:00 p.m. V. H. Hollingsworth and his family in Ellsworth
-(between Sherman and Denison), Texas, see an unusual object approaching
-from the east. It has a fan-like wheel on front and fin-like projections
-on the side. (“The
-Air Ship,” Marshall (Tex.) Evening Messenger, September 9, 1897,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 228
Date: 11/2/1897
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Engineer Charles W. West sees a balloon of
-unusual size passing southwest above Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It looks
-like an inclined cylinder with rounded ends and has a car suspended from
-it. After 20 minutes it passes out of sight. (“Saw
-the Man Who Saw the Ship,” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1897,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 229
Date: 11/19/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A telegraph operator in Kellogg, Iowa, sees a
-bright, bluish light moving rapidly to the southwest. He notifies the
-operator at Colfax, Iowa, and people in the depot there also see it.
-(“See
-the Airship,” Chicago (Ill.) Chronicle, November 20, 1897,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 230
Date: 12/5/1897
-Description: Early morning. Engineer John J. Hussey and fireman John
-Henderson of the Great Northern Railroad in northern Minnesota see a
-“large, white long light which seemed surrounded by some dark objects”
-near Deerwood. Other employees of the Great Northern and Northern
-Pacific railways also view the light (“Was
-It an Air-Ship,”
-Saint Paul (Minn.) Globe, December 7, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 231
Date: 1898
-Description: English author H.
-G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds, one of the earliest
-stories to portray a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial
-race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed
-protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London as southern
-England is invaded by Martians. (Wikipedia, “The
-War of the Worlds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 232
Date: 1/10/1898
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Rome, Georgia, watch a blue light
-“attached to some dark and indistinguishable object” as it flies from
-the northwest to the east. (“Star-Gazing
-in Rome,” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, January 11, 1898, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 233
Date: 2/4/1898
-Description: Mid-day. The postmaster of Greifswald,
-Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany, and 11 other persons see an
-object crossing the Sun’s disk. They watch the object approach the Sun
-for 15 minutes, take one hour to pass, and stay visible for another hour
-until clouds obscure it. (Martin Brendel, “Ueber
-ein 1898 Febr. 4 in Greifswald
-beobachtetes Phänomen,” Astronomische Nachrichten 145 (1898):
-333–334)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 234
Date: 5/2/1898
-Description: Dusk. Bystanders in front of the Pearson building in
-downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania, notice a bright arc light moving in
-from the southwest just below the clouds and remaining visible for 5
-minutes. (“A
-Mysterious Light,”
-New Castle (Pa.) News, May 4, 1898, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 235
Date: 6/1/1898
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Harry
-McCandliss is riding in the country near Emporia, Kansas, when he
-sees a cigar-shaped object flying toward the northwest at about 300
-feet. It is suspended from a balloon and is peppered with electrical
-lights. At one point the lights go out then reappear. A searchlight beam
-in the front skitters in different directions. It ascends to 600 feet
-and is lost to view. ([News
-note], Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, June 2, 1898, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 236
Date: 10/4/1898
-Alternate date: 10/3/1898
-Description: Night. At Fort Washita, Oklahoma, Mrs. William Peveto
-(possibly Mary
-Peveto) watches a fireball (probably the same one as October 4)
-descend. A few minutes later, distracted by the meteor, she is standing
-in her kitchen when a “female ghost” appears and chats with her for a
-few minutes, saying that if she would follow her, she will lead her to a
-fortune. Peveto becomes terrified, and the entity flees through a closed
-door. The entity visits her again on other nights, again talking about
-treasure in the basement. They continue until February 1899 when they
-occur nightly. At one point the ghost claims to have been murdered years
-ago in Fort Washita and shows her strangle marks around her neck.
-Poltergeist phenomena (tables moving) occur and a male ghost also talks
-to her. Peveto becomes ill and apparently moves away from the place.
-(“Ghosts at Old Fort Washita,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, October 20,
-1898; “Old Fort Washita Ghosts: Mrs. Peveto Contributes Another Uncanny
-Chapter to the Record,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, March 26, 1899; Theo
-Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 (May 2012):
-30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 238
Date: 10/4/1898
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A brilliant object passes over Italy, Greenville,
-Garland, and Blossom, Texas. Initially moving in an easterly direction,
-it seems to change course and shoot upwards then burst, throwing out
-three distinct objects, one red, the other white, and the last one blue.
-The red and blue lights die out, but the white one continue a few
-seconds before it too bursts, emitting a shower of sparks. Blossom
-merchant Dick Moore says the light is so glaring that he thinks his
-“house was falling on him.” About 2.5 miles north of Sherman,
-12-year-old George Campbell is riding with his father when they see the
-fireball descending, apparently coming as close as 3 feet above the
-ground before moving upward; they can hear a buzzing noise and think the
-object is about 10 feet in diameter. (“Aerial Phenomena in Texas,”
-Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, October 5, 1898; “The Meteor,” Dallas
-Morning News, October 7, 1898; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in
-Texas,” Fortean Times 286 (May 2012): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 237
Date: 1899
-Description: Swiss psychologist Carl
-Jung investigates his 15-year-old cousin, Hélène
-Preiswerk (“S.W.”), in Basel, Switzerland, who claims to be a
-spiritualist medium. Her trances frequently involve journeys to other
-planets. She claims that Martians have flying machines, and they
-irrigate the land with canals and artificial lakes. (Hilary Evans,
-“Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 240
Date: 1899
-Description: Serbian-American inventor Nikola
-Tesla is working in his laboratory near Colorado Springs, Colorado,
-when he observes unusual signals from his receiver that he speculates
-are communications from another planet. He mentions them in a letter to
-a reporter in December 1899 and to the Red Cross Society in December
-1900. Reporters treat it as a sensational story and jump to the
-conclusion Tesla is hearing signals from Mars. In 1901, Tesla writes
-that it has not been immediately apparent to him that he is hearing
-“intelligently controlled signals” and that the signals could have come
-from Mars, Venus, or other planets. It is possible that he is
-intercepting Guglielmo
-Marconi’s European experiments in July 1899—Marconi may have
-transmitted the letter S (dot dot dot) in a naval demonstration, the
-same three impulses that Tesla hinted at hearing in Colorado—or signals
-from another experimenter in wireless transmission. Brian
-Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla’s signals to
-pulsars, which are not identified until 1968. (Nikola Tesla, “Talking
-with the Planets,” Colliers Weekly 26 (February 9, 1901): 4–5;
-Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Dorset Press, 1989 ed., pp. 111–113;
-Daniel Blair Stewart, Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer, Frog, 1999, p. 372;
-Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty
-Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 11; W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla:
-Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University, 2013, p. 315;
-Brian Dunning, “The
-Black Knight Satellite,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 365, June 4,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 239
Date: mid 1/1899
-Description: Late night. People returning from a dance near McMahan,
-Texas, see a group of stars in formation, moving in one direction. A few
-miles further east, hunters camping on a hilltop see the full outline of
-an airship with headlights and windows. (Dallas (Tex.) News, January 25,
-1899; Clark III 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 241
Date: 1/26/1899
-Description: 11:00 p.m. People outside the opera house in McAlester,
-Oklahoma, watch an airship “like a railway car suspended from a large
-balloon-like arrangement” pass overhead. It shines a bright searchlight
-along the ground. ([News
-note], Garfield County (Okla.) Democrat, February 9, 1899,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 242
Date: 6/1/1899
-Description: Late evening. Observers in Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai,
-Russia, see a blue sphere about 28 inches in diameter flying silently
-from south to north near the steamboat Kazak Ussuriyskiy moored on Lake
-Khanka. It is seen for 20 minutes, then it returns later in the evening
-flying north to south at greater speed, disappearing 11 minutes later.
-(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 243
Date: 7/4/1899
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A mystery balloon floats across the sky in
-Spokane, Washington, from southwest to northeast. Before it disappears,
-it ascends so high that “nothing but a small black ball far up in the
-heavens could be discerned.” (“Who
-Owns the Big Balloon?” Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, July 5, 1899,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 244
Date: 10/1899
-Description: Midnight. Physician Malcom McKinnon is driving home to
-Fosston, Minnesota, in his carriage when a dazzling ball of white light
-crosses the road ahead about one-quarter of a mile away, lighting up the
-road like daylight. It resembles an electric arc lamp and moves slowly
-from north to southeast about 3 feet above the ground, throwing the
-field furrows into visible relief. As it passes closer, McKinnon sees
-that it is clearly “disk shaped, about the size of an umbrella.” It is
-in sight for 30 minutes. (Minneapolis Minnesota Journal, October 25,
-1899; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating
-UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 239–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 245
Date: 1900
-Description: Psychic medium Catherine-Elise
-Müller (under the pseudonym “Hélène Smith”) of Geneva, Switzerland,
-becomes famous with the publication of Des Indes à la Planete Mars (From
-India to the Planet Mars) by Théodore
-Flournoy, professor
-of psychology at the University of Geneva. The medium and the
-psychologist remain very close until 1900, when the book is first
-published, documenting her various series of somnambulatory trances in
-which she experiences a civilization on Mars and her former lives: the
-“Martian” cycle, “Ultramartian” cycle, “Hindu,” “Oriental,” and “royal”
-cycles. She writes out the Martian communications on paper and
-translates them into French, popularizing automatic writing. (Society
-for Psychical Research, PSI Encyclopedia, “Hélène
-Smith”; Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1986): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 246
Date: summer 1900
-Description: Dusk. A 12-year-old girl is walking back to her farm from
-Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales, when a large disc- shaped object about 14
-feet in diameter silently passes above her and over a nearby meadow.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 13–14) Mid-summer —
-3:00 a.m. Perrian
-A. McGilvra, 14, is returning on horseback from a dance near
-Reedsburg, Wisconsin, when his horse begins acting up. He sees a large,
-dark, dirigible-shaped object passing over a grove of poplar trees. The
-trees bend like they are in a strong windstorm, but he notices no wind.
-The object flies over his head with a whooshing sound. The horse remains
-frightened even after the object leaves. (Clark III 1161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 247
Date: 12/1900
-Description: Percival
-Lowell at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, records a shaft
-of light that projects from a “well-known geographical point” on Mars
-for 70 minutes. (“Science
-Notes,” Scientific American 84 (1901): 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 248
Date: summer 1901
-Description: Day. A 10-year-old boy is walking home to Bournbrook, West
-Midlands, England, through a path behind his family’s garden when he
-comes upon a large box-shaped device with a small, centrally placed
-turret. The only opening is a door, through which two small men (less
-than 4 feet tall) in military uniforms (but no insignia), each wearing
-an odd-looking cap with a wire sticking up on both sides, step out. One
-stays by the door, but the other walks toward the boy and waves him
-away. The beings go back in the craft, a bright flash surrounds it, and
-it shoots into the air with a whooshing sound. (Clark III 261; Jenny
-Randles and Philip Barnet, “Humanoids Encountered
-in 1901?” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March 1979): 28–29; “UFO
-Britannia: Part 1, The Early Years,”
-Above Top Secret, December 19, 2012; Jenny Randles, “The ‘Wes’ Effect 1:
-The Hut That Flew,” Fortean Times 309 (Christmas 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 249
Date: 5/13/1902
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A blue-colored fireball appears over Austin,
-Texas, and ascends into the sky until it disappears. (Austin (Tex.)
-Daily Tribune, May 14, 1902; Clark III 1168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 250
Date: 10/28/1902
-Time: 0305
-Description: Three persons aboard the “Fort Salisbury,” including Second
-Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea
-ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 641; Anatomy 20 (Vallee)
-Location: Gulf of Guinea
-ID: 32
Date: 3/17/1903
-Description: Mid-evening. Madge
-Brosius, 12, and her father Charles see
-a “huge object like a gigantic ripe cucumber with slightly tapered ends”
-over the family farm in Helmer, Indiana. Its inside is illuminated, and
-it has 8 windows in two rows of four each. Her father estimates it is
-100 feet long. It begins moving away from him as he moves toward it,
-zigzagging like a child’s balloon losing air. (Madge Brosius Allyn, “The
-Flying Cucumber of 1903,” Fate 24, no. 3 (March 1971): 45–47; Clark III
-1162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 251
Date: 9/29/1903
-End date: 10/3/1903
-Description: An implement dealer named U.
-G. Griffith is on his way home in Van Meter, Iowa. As he approaches,
-he notices a strange point of light like a spotlight emanating from the
-top of the Mather & Gregg’s building. He approaches cautiously, but
-the light sails across the street. He tells others about the experience,
-and over the next few days several people report a half-human,
-half-animal entity with large bat-like wings. The townsfolk chase the
-creature toa local mine shaft, down which it disappears, never to be
-seen again. (Clark III 1216–1218; Craig Woolheater, “The Van Meter
-Visitor,” Cryptomundo, May 9, 2013; Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee
-Nelson, The Van Meter Visitor, On the Road, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 252
Date: 12/17/1903
-Description: Inventors Orville
-and Wilbur Wright make the first controlled, sustained flight of a
-powered, heavier- than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer 4 miles south
-of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. (Wikipedia, “Wright
-Flyer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 253
Date: 1904
-Description: Late afternoon. Wirt
-M. Covert, 17, and Arthur
-B. Eldert are returning on horseback from a grocery store in
-Dixboro, Michigan, when they see a large object in the air moving west
-behind the steeple of the Dixboro United Methodist Church. He compares
-its shape to the Confederate ironclad Virginia and it has a thick mast
-sticking up from its center and orange light shining through some
-windows. Suddenly it rises at about a 60° angle over the hills, tipping
-its mast back, and disappears. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 254
Date: 1904
-Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two
-whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north
-of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew
-toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a
-hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hartle 164 (Vallee)
-Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana
-ID: 33
Date: 2/28/1904
-Description: Mid-evening. The steamer USS
-Supply is
-transporting the ill Governor of Guam, William
-Elbridge Sewell, from
-Guam to San Francisco, California. About 300 miles west-southwest of San
-Francisco, commanding Lt. Frank
-Herman Schofield observes three objects “beneath the clouds, their
-color a rather bright red.” As they approach the ship they appear to
-soar, passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds,
-they appear to “be moving directly away from the earth. The largest had
-an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end
-forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun, and the third,
-about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the surface appeared
-to be most remarkable.” The objects are in sight for over two minutes by
-three people. Barry
-Greenwood thinks they are meteors, but Bruce
-Maccabee is not so sure. (Frank H. Schofield, “Remarkable Meteors,”
-Monthly Weather Review 32 (March 1904): 115; Bruce Maccabee, “Even More
-Remarkable,” IUR 9, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 14–15; Bruce Maccabee, “Meteors?
-Even More Remarkable,” 2005; NICAP, “Three
-Red Objects Sighted from USS Supply”; Barry Greenwood, “The
-USS Supply Sighting of 1904,”
-UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 (September 1998): 2–6; Martin Shough and Wim
-van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 329–351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 255
Date: 6/1904
-Description: 10:00 p.m. When Tony Darby goes outside to the well on his
-farm 5 miles north of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, he notices two round,
-orange-colored, silent objects hovering 5–6 feet from the ground near
-the barn. He estimates they are the size of wagon wheels. One of the
-objects is 2 feet behind and to the left of the other. Running back to
-the house, he calls for his mother and brother, and all three walk
-toward the objects, which move away slightly then stop when the
-witnesses stop. Soon the objects move steadily away to the northeast,
-still maintaining their relative positions, at about the speed of a man
-walking. They pause briefly in a small hollow, then continue over a
-small hill and out of sight. (Lore and Deneault, pp. 91–92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 256
Date: 1905
-Description: Frederick
-Spencer Oliver’s book A Dweller on Two Planets is published
-posthumously. It is a narrative channeled by Oliver in Yreka,
-California, through automatic writing and mental dictations by a spirit
-calling itself Phylos the Tibetan, an Atlantean who reveals his story
-from 1883 to 1886. The book deals with deep esoteric subjects including
-karma and reincarnation and describes Phylos’s final incarnation in 19th
-century America where his Atlantean karma plays itself out. In that
-incarnation (as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the
-Theo-Christic Adepts) he travels to Venus in an astral body while his
-physical form remains at a temple inside Mount Shasta, California.
-(Wikipedia, “A
-Dweller on Two Planets”; Frederick Spencer Oliver, A
-Dweller on
-Two Planets, Baumgardt,
-1905)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 257
Date: 8/3/1905
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Farmer John A. Jackson is driving a herd of hogs
-from Silsbee (a former settlement 6 miles southwest of El Centro) to
-Imperial, California, when a bright light flashes on him from above. He
-is momentarily blinded, and the hogs start running away. Jackson sees it
-is a searchlight from an airship about 100 feet long and propelled by
-wings that move up and down. It has smaller lights along the sides.
-Jackson wakes up W. E. Wilsie, who lives nearby, and they watch it
-disappear to the northeast. Another farmer, A. J. Morey, also glimpses
-the airship. (“Aerial
-Navigation in Imperial Valley,” Imperial (Calif.) Press, August 5,
-1905, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 258
Date: 9/6/1905
-Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper
-published
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 1906
-Description: Herbert
-Vern DeMott, 10, watches an object come down near his family’s water
-well in Mitchell, South Dakota. As he approaches it, a door rolls back
-and he is welcomed inside by two human-like occupants who are sitting
-inside on camp stools. They converse with him fluently, but he does not
-know where they come from. He sees a lever that apparently can cut off
-the earth’s “magnetism,” allowing the object to rise. The occupants take
-water from the farm’s horse trough to be “used in making electricity.”
-(“DeMott
-Rock Study Crosses Continents,” Albany (Oreg.) Democrat-Herald,
-August 27, 1973, p. 11; Clark III 261; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-22, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 259
Date: 1/4/1906
-Description: Night. Martin Meyerson is on the beach at Paia, Maui,
-Hawaii, when he sees a green object with the shape and diameter of the
-full moon appear from behind the southern slopes of the Wailuku
-Mountains. It is so bright it illuminates the cane fields below, then
-travels like a “slow-pitched baseball” and disappears behind Mount
-Haleakala to the southeast. (Clark III 1168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 260
Date: 9/16/1906
-Description: Late afternoon. Hundreds of people in Indianapolis,
-Indiana, see a “cigar-shaped object” like an airship pass over the city.
-It is seen first in Irvington and then floats over the southern side of
-the business district where it is distinctly seen from downtown. Some
-estimate it to be 2,000 feet in the air; the watchman at the courthouse
-tower looks at it through binoculars but cannot see any detail. It
-disappears to the west. (“Ship
-Founders in Air,” Indianapolis Star, September 17, 1906, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 261
Date: 10/7/1906
-Description: 5:00 p.m. An airship again floats over the southeastern
-portion of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is seen by many as it turns
-northeast and disappears in the distance. (“Ship
-Floats over City: Hundreds See It in Flight,” Indianapolis Star,
-October 8, 1906, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 262
Date: 11/1906
-Description: Dusk. Roy Russell and four other cotton-pickers are taking
-a brief respite from work 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma, when
-they see a fiery object shaped like a stovepipe. From an initial
-altitude of 60 feet, the object sinks down, comes toward them, and
-passes within 16 feet at eye level. Then it seems to flatten out and
-just blacks out. Another similar object follows and then several others.
-Russell watches them for 20 minutes. (“Recalls Fiery
-1906 U.F.O.,” Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune, May 4, 1966, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 263
Date: 4/20/1907
-End date: 4/26/1907
-Description: The Nashville American prints some tall tales about
-encounters with occupants of a balloon who land briefly in various
-places (usually near a spring) around central Tennessee. The witnesses
-include a farmer named W. A. Smith, Walter Stephenson, Herman Schubert,
-Asa Hickerson, and A. Mollycoddle. The aeronauts are dressed strangely,
-play music, and speak a foreign language. (Nashville (Tenn.) Sunday
-American, April 21–23, 28, 1907; “Here’s
-a Weird Tale,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 25, 1907, p. 6;
-Theo Paijmans, “The Tennessee Aeronaut Flap of 1907,” Fortean Times 313
-(May 2014): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 264
Date: summer 1907
-Description: While playing along the shore of a lake near Vilppula [now
-Mänttä-Vilppula], Finland, a group of boys see a light come from over
-the water and settle on the beach nearby. A door opens, and human-like
-beings emerge, sending the youths running. Searchers who come to the
-site later find traces and footprints. (Clark III 261; Center for UFO
-Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1900-1909, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 265
Date: 7/2/1907
-Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Bishop John
-Stephen Michaud is talking with Vermont ex-governor Urban
-A. Woodbury at
-the corner of Church and College streets in Burlington, Vermont, when
-they hear a loud explosion and see a torpedo-shaped object about 6 feet
-long and 8 inches in diameter suspended in the air about 300 feet away.
-It is dark, with several tongues of flame issuing from it at various
-points, as if its covering is ruptured. It slowly begins to move to the
-southeast. The explosion has either knocked down or stunned a horse in
-College Street. A strong downpour of rain ensues shortly afterward.
-Although described as a “possible case of ball lightning,” the object
-appears more likely to have been an exploded balloon that someone has
-attached fireworks to in preparation for a Fourth of July celebration.
-(William H. Alexander, “A
-Possible Case of Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 35 (July
-1907): 310–311; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the
-Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 354–372, reprinted in “Revisiting
-the Bishop’s Torpedo,” Fortean Times 387 (Christmas 2019): 44–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 266
Date: 7/7/1907
-Description: 6:40 p.m. W. E. Thomas is watching a vivid sunset in
-Phoenix, Arizona, when he sees a “blue disk floating in the heavens
-apparently close to the sun.” It passes in front of the sun, completely
-covering it. Other discs appear until there are seven of them. His wife
-also sees the objects, which are constantly in motion, changing
-directions and sometimes moving in a straight-line formation. The disks
-are visible for another hour until sunset, when they are last seen as
-blue blotches. (“Phoenix
-Man Sees Blue Stars,” Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen, July 11, 1907,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 267
Date: 1908
-Description: The English ship “Mohican,” piloted by Capt. Urghart, was
-going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud
-which “magnetized” everything on board. The compass was observed to
-swing wildly. When seamen tried to move some chains on the bridge, they
-found that they were glued to the metal floor. Suddenly the cloud rose
-and was seen above the sea for some time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 197 (Vallee)
-Location: Coast of Delaware
-ID: 34
Date: 3/30/1908
-Description: 10:15 p.m. F. W. Longbottom in Queens Park, Chester,
-England, is photographing the Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194) in Canes
-Venacti with a 12.25-inch reflector. When the plate is developed, it
-shows an unknown nebulous object some 25 minutes of arc northeast of the
-galaxy. He does not see the object when he examines the same spot again
-on April 6. (F. W. Longbottom, “Comet
-or ———?” The Observatory 31 (1908): 215–216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 268
Date: 5/1908
-Description: Late evening. Helen C. Peterson sees a string of lighted
-beads in the sky over Great River, Long Island, New York. The first
-light stops and as the others reach it, they seem to bump into it. It
-grows a little bigger, appearing like a large star. Suddenly it begins
-to spin like a pinwheel, but without sparks. The motion stops and what
-looks like a very bright star takes off at great speed toward the
-southeast. (Clark III 1168–1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 269
Date: summer 1908
-Description: Repeated sightings of unidentified airships, sometimes
-flying against the wind, take place in Denmark. They usually have wings
-and searchlights; on one occasion, an antenna is seen jutting from the
-front end. Other reports are of oddly shaped clouds from which a
-searchlight emanates, sweeping the ground. (Willy Wegner, “The Mystery
-‘Airship’ over Denmark in 1908,” The UFO Register 8, no. 1 (November
-1977): 3–8; Clark III 1163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 271
Date: 6/30/1908
-Description: 7:14 a.m. A large explosion takes place near the
-Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate [now Krasnoyarsk
-Krai], Russia. Evenki natives and Russian settlers in the hills
-northwest of Lake Baikal observe a column of bluish light, nearly as
-bright as the sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there
-is a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to
-the explosion report that the source of the sound moves from the east to
-the north of them. The sounds are accompanied by a shock wave that
-knocks people off their feet and breaks windows hundreds of kilometers
-away. The explosion over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian taiga
-flattens 770 square miles of forest and possibly causes up to three
-human casualties. The event is generally attributed to the air burst of
-a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact
-crater has been found. The object disintegrates at an altitude of 3–6
-miles rather than hitting the surface of the Earth. The area is so
-remote that the site is not inspected until 1927 by a team led by
-Russian mineralogist Leonid
-Kulik, who finds a zone about 5 miles across where trees are
-scorched and devoid of branches but still standing upright. More exotic
-explanations for the event include a black hole impact, antimatter, a
-UFO crash (as recently as 2004 by Russian ufologist Yuri Labvin), a
-nuclear explosion, and an inadvertent experiment by Nikola
-Tesla. (Wikipedia, “Tunguska
-event”; Hobana and Weverbergh 10–30; John Baxter and Thomas Atkins,
-The
-Fire Came By: The Riddle
-of the Great Siberian Explosion, Doubleday,
-1976; Surendra Verma, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow,
-2005; Vladimir Rubtsov, The Tunguska Mystery, Springer, 2009; Phil
-Plait, “Aliens
-Saved Tunguska!”
-Bad Astronomy, May 29, 2009; Mark Peplow, “Rock
-Samples Suggest Meteor Caused Tunguska Blast,”
-Nature, June 10, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 270
Date: 6/30/1908
-Description: Unexplained explosion in the taiga, equivalent to a
-thermonuclear blast, sometimes interpreted as the crash of an
-interstellar vehicle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 18; Challenge 99 (Vallee)
-Location: Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR
-ID: 35
Date: 7/25/1908
-Description: About 6:00 p.m. A “large airship sailing very high” is seen
-passing from north to south over the Forestville neighborhood of
-Bristol, Connecticut. It seems to be an elongated gas bag under which a
-framework with a propeller is suspended. After “maneuvering” a while, it
-stops and circles over Lake Compounce then changes course toward the
-southwest. An East Bristol man named Wilson later claims it was a
-pig-shaped balloon he had sent up for his daughter’s birthday party, but
-“balloon” sightings continue in Massachusetts through December. (“Large
-Airship Seen Sailing over East Part of Bristol, Ct.,” Boston Herald,
-July 26, 1908, p. 16; “The Lake Compounce Airship,” Willimantic (Conn.)
-Daily Chronicle, July 29, 1908, p. 26; Clark III 1163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 272
Date: 7/26/1908
-Description: A special agent force in the Department of Justice,
-forerunner of the FBI, is created by Attorney General Charles
-Bonaparte. Its first chief is Stanley
-Finch. Attorney General George
-W. Wickersham renames the force the Bureau of Investigation in March
-1909. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline, March
-31, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 273
Date: 10/1908
-Description: Skipper J. H. Stockman of the smack Superb is fishing in
-the North Sea 35 miles out of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, when he sees
-a large “star” rise out of the water and approach his ship. He signals
-it with a red flare, and to his surprise he is immediately answered with
-a red flare above him. He then shows a white flare and receives a blue
-flare in response. The object appears sausage-shaped and carries a
-single light. It disappears in the direction of the Netherlands. (East
-Anglian Daily Times, May 20, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Clark III
-1163; David Clarke, “Scareships
-over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999);
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-17, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 274
Date: 10/1/1908
-End date: 5/26/1927
-Description: The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the
-Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable
-automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans.
-The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient
-fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual
-handcrafting.
-Type: industrial advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1909
-Description: Night. Frederick
-G. Hehr sees a bright white light executing a “curious dance” over a
-village one mile away in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. A minute
-later the light suddenly streaks in his direction, coming within 300
-feet as it passes by at 60 feet altitude. Three seconds later it is
-gone. (“Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 5 (July 1951): 95–96;
-Clark III 1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 275
Date: 3/4/1909
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Charles Maberly, an organist at St. Michael’s
-Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, is returning home from choir
-practice when he sees a bright searchlight attached to a torpedo-shaped
-dirigible heading west at 200 feet altitude. He walks for about 50 yards
-watching it. As it passes out of sight, he hears three explosions at
-regular intervals. (London Evening News, May 18, 1909; Carl Grove, “The
-Airship Wave of 1909: A
-Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1970): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 276
Date: 3/23/1909
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Police Constable James Kettle of Peterborough,
-England, sees a powerful light about 1,200 feet in the air above
-Cromwell Road making an engine-like buzz. The light is on a dark,
-fast-moving oblong object. It is in view for about 3 minutes.
-(Peterborough Advertiser, March 27, 1909; “Aerial
-Mystery,” London Standard, May 17, 1909, p. 7; Carl Grove, “The
-Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review
-16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 9; David Clarke, “Scareships
-over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6
-(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 277
Date: 5/9/1909
-Description: 11:20 p.m. Miss H. M. Boville notices from her bedroom
-window at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, a “large dark object looming
-out of the sky” and traveling slowly from the east. After a few seconds
-it remains nearly stationary for a few minutes in front of her window,
-and she sees the outline of a torpedo-shaped airship about 1,300 feet in
-altitude. It rises higher then travels swiftly to the west toward
-London. It shows two powerful searchlights at each end very briefly.
-(London Evening News, May 15, 1909; Carl Grove, “The
-Airship Wave of 1909:
-A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1970): 10; David Clarke, “Scareships over
-Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 278
Date: 5/13/1909
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Harrison of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England,
-sees a “long, dark object” moving swiftly overhead just above treetop
-level. It carries a searchlight that illuminates the road, farm
-buildings, trees, and everything it touches. (“Mystery of the Air,”
-London Daily Express, May 14, 1909, p. 1; David Clarke, “Scareships
-over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6
-(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 280
Date: 5/13/1909
-Description: Night. C. W. Allen and two other men are motoring through
-Kelmarsh, Northampton, England, when they hear a loud explosion in the
-air followed by the rumbling of an engine. Allen sees an oblong dark
-shape, perhaps 100 feet long, with lights in front and behind moving at
-an altitude of 500–600 feet. They dimly perceive some men on a platform
-below it. It passes out of sight at 20 mph northeast toward
-Peterborough. (East Anglian Daily Times, May 13, 1909; Carl Grove, “The
-Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review
-16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 11; David Clarke, “Scareships
-over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6
-(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 279
Date: 5/16/1909
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A Mrs. Wigg, who lives near Belle Vue Park on
-Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, wakes up to an engine-like
-sound. She looks out her window and sees a long, dark, bottle-shaped
-object pass by at a low altitude. She thinks she can see a man in front,
-steering the craft. Other people in Lowestoft hear engine sounds and
-flashes of light around the same time. (East Anglian Daily Times, May
-18–19, 1909; Norfolk News, May 19, 1909, p. 13; David Clarke, “Scareships
-over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6
-(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 281
Date: 5/17/1909
-Description: The subject of mystery airships is brought up in a debate
-in the House of Commons. Arthur
-Fell, MP for Great Yarmouth, England, had asked Secretary of State
-for War Richard
-Haldane if he could give the number of dirigibles, either built or
-in progress of being built, in Germany. Haldane replies that 7 dirigible
-airships have been built and another 5 are under construction. Horatio
-Myer, MP
-for Lambeth North, follows up by asking Haldane: “Will the honourable
-gentleman, in any report he may circulate, tell us about a certain
-dirigible supposed to be hovering about our coast?” The question is
-greeted with laughter and Haldane does not reply. (Neil R. Storey,
-Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain during the First
-World War, History Press, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 282
Date: 5/18/1909
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Charles Lethbridge (part-time dock worker and
-Punch-and-Judy showman) is traveling on a “spring cart” from Senghenydd
-on his way home to Cardiff, South Wales. At the summit of Caerphilly
-Mountain he sees a long, tube-shaped object sitting on the grass by the
-roadside, with two men busily working on something. They are wearing
-heavy fur coats and fur caps that fit tightly over the heads. Lethbridge
-proceeds to about 60 feet of them when they notice him and start jumping
-up and jabbering in a foreign language. They quickly pick up something
-from the ground, then jump into a little carriage suspended from the
-object (with wheels at the bottom), which rises into the air in a
-zig-zag fashion. When it clears the telegraph wires, two electric lights
-shine out and the craft heads toward the southeast. Lethbridge returns
-to the site with a newspaper reporter and they find signs of trampling
-in the grass for about 45 feet. They also pick up a small red French
-military label, letterhead from a London stockbroker, many newspaper
-clippings with references to airships or the German army, and a tin box
-with paste for polishing metal. (“Airship
-Mystery,” The Guardian (London), May 20, 1909, p. 7; “Mystery of the
-Air,” London Daily Express, May 20, 1909, p. 1; Nick Redfern, “UFOs
-over Wales: A 1909 Wave,” Mysterious Universe, May 23, 2016; Brett
-Holman, “What
-the Showman Saw,” Airminded, November 17, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 283
Date: 5/18/1909
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains
-when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men
-wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not
-understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object
-had flown off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 198; Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
-Location: Caerphilly, Wales
-ID: 36
Date: 5/19/1909
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A Mr. Chatten, grocer’s assistant, is
-cycling home to Tharston, Norfolk, England, when he is dazzled by a
-bright light with a bluish tinge overhead. It switches off for a few
-seconds, and Chatten can see a long, cigar-shaped object 300–400 feet
-above him, moving rapidly toward Norwich. On its underside is a
-framework with a yellow light at each end. (“Airship Mystery,” London
-Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1909, p. 12; Brett Holman, “Saturday,
-May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 286
Date: 5/19/1909
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A lone motorcyclist observes a glowing light
-traveling in a straight trajectory overhead near Wroxham, Norfolk,
-England. As it passes, the motorcycle headlight fails. It begins working
-again after the UFO passes. (East Anglian Daily Times, May 21, 1909;
-Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving
-Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Saturday,
-May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 285
Date: 5/19/1909
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Robert Westlake, railroad signalman at King’s
-Junction in the Queen Alexandra Dock at Cardiff, Wales, sees a
-cigar-shaped object flying swiftly at perhaps 2,600 feet and making a
-whizzing noise. It has two lights and is moving eastward. Some dock
-workers who are loading the SS Arndale also see the object for “a minute
-or two.” It passes over the Bristol Channel towards Weston-super-Mare.
-Aeronaut Percival
-G. Spencer says that he recently sold several of his “man-lifting”
-25-foot-long model airships to advertising firms in the UK, one of them
-in Cardiff. (London Globe, May 19, 1909; Brett Holman, “Wednesday,
-19 May 1909,” Airminded, May 19, 1909; London Standard, May 21,
-1909; Brett Holman, “Friday,
-21 May 1909,” Airminded, May 21, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 284
Date: 6/16/1909
-Time: 0410
-Description: An elongated object following a west to east trajectory
-flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two
-fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a
-steady flight of about 9 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
-Location: Donghoi, Annam
-ID: 37
Date: 7/1909
-End date: 8/1909
-Description: A mystery airship wave begins in New Zealand with numerous
-sightings of unusual nocturnal lights and airships seen in both daytime
-and nighttime. The sightings are at first most intense over the southern
-end of South Island. In the following weeks the reports appear to move
-northward and by August, Australia also falls under the grip of what
-press accounts call “aerialitis.” (Bill Chalker, “Early
-Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The
-New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020; Clark III
-65–67; Brett Holman, “Scareships
-over Australia—1,” Airminded, October 20, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships
-over Australia—II,” Airminded, October 23, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships
-over Australia—III,” Airminded, October 25, 2010; Robert E.
-Bartholomew, “The
-Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909,” NZ Skeptics, May 1, 1998; Hilary
-Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009,
-pp. 479–483)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 287
Date: 7/23/1909
-Description: 12:00 noon. Mrs. James Russell and several schoolchildren
-in Kelso, New Zealand, see an airship shaped like a boat that flies
-toward them from the east, circles above the school, and returns in the
-same direction. It seems to have a propeller. (Bill Chalker, “Early
-Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Bryan Dickeson, “The
-’1909 Kelso
-Airships’ of New Zealand,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 288
Date: 7/30/1909
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Two men working on a dredge on the Mataura River
-north of Gore, New Zealand, see a lighted object descend out of the
-mist. It appears to be a narrow, boat-shaped craft that circles the
-dredge over a period of several minutes, rising and falling like a bird,
-and varying its speed. Two figures can be seen inside. It disappears
-into the mist, leaving behind a yellow glare. (Bill Chalker, “Early
-Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The
-New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 289
Date: 8/3/1909
-Description: Night. A man is riding in Waipawa, New Zealand, when his
-horse becomes nervous. He sees a large, gray, torpedo-shaped object
-passing overhead. Three persons are visible in it, one of whom shouts to
-him in an unknown language. The object rises to a great height, showing
-lights fore and aft. After circling around, it disappears behind a hill.
-(Clark III 261; Hawkes Bay Herald, August 6, 1909; Tony Brunt, “The
-New Zealand UFO
-Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 290
Date: 8/7/1909
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Four young men at brick kilns near the railway
-station in Goulburn, New South Wales, see a bright, pale blue light
-arise from behind some hills to the east. After ascending, it circles
-back in the direction it came from. The object is said to be visible
-every night from August 5–10. (“The
-Goulburn ‘Airship,’” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, August 11,
-1909, p. 10; Bill Chalker, “Historical
-Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3
-(Nov.–Dec. 1983): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 291
Date: 8/9/1909
-Description: Night. Residents of Moss Vale, New South Wales, watch a
-large lighted object like an airship float over the town. (“Is
-It an Airship?” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, August 10, 1909,
-p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 293
Date: 8/9/1909
-Description: 7:30–8:00 p.m. A flying object with lights on its front and
-back sails at a great altitude from west to east over Concord, New
-Hampshire, eventually disappearing into a cloud. Capt. Lyman
-Jackman at first thinks it is a balloon, but its estimated speed of
-45–50 mph against the wind leads him to think otherwise. (“Air Ship or
-Meteor,” Concord (N.H.) Evening Monitor, August 10, 1909, p. 3) At about
-the same time, Bertha Niles of Vale Perkins, Quebec, watches a similar
-lighted object moving west to east. (“Air Ship or What?” Concord (N.H.)
-Evening Monitor, August 13, 1909, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 292
Date: 8/18/1909
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Four men (Capt. Edward P. Sisson, Ernest T.
-Newton, Prentice Lanphear, and Edward M. Knapp) at the Coast Guard
-life-saving station on the south side of Fishers Island, New York, see a
-winged airship 60 feet long and 20 feet wide. Moving swiftly against the
-wind, it moves in from the northeast, its engines whirring and a
-dazzling white light at its head. Two dark figures can be seen in the
-center of the object. Visible for 3 minutes, the object moves off to the
-west. (“Fishers Islanders See Big Aeroplane,” Providence (R.I.) Journal,
-August 19, 1909, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 294
Date: 8/22/1909
-Description: Evening. Residents of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, watch a
-mystery airplane that emits a large puff of smoke. It descends and flies
-off to the north. (“Airship
-over Montclair,” New York Times, August 24, 1909, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 295
Date: 9/1909
-Description: 7:30 p.m. E. B. Hanna of South Windham, Connecticut,
-watches a high-flying, meandering “searchlight” along Windham Center
-Road for about an hour. After heading toward him, it changes direction
-and moves southward. (“What Mr. Hanna Saw May Have Been the Worcester
-Airship,” Willimantic (Conn.) Chronicle, December 14, 1909, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 296
Date: 9/3/1909
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Several hundred residents of Bloomingdale,
-Indiana, see a “dirigible balloon” pass over the city for 15 minutes.
-The car beneath the gas bag is plainly visible. (“Sights
-Strange Airship,” Indianapolis Star, September 4, 1909, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 297
Date: 9/20/1909
-Description: During the opposition of Mars, astronomer Eugène
-Antoniadi uses the 83cm aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory in
-Paris, France, to observe Mars. He sees no canals. The outstanding
-photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi
-Observatory in the French Pyrenees also bring formal discredit to the
-Martian canal theory, and the notion of canals begins to fall out of
-favor. Around this time, spectroscopic analysis also begins to show that
-no water is present in the Martian atmosphere. (Wikipedia, “Martian
-canal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 298
Date: 9/30/1909
-Description: Evening. A balloon “supposed to be from Chicago” passes
-over Edinburgh, Indiana. Its anchor somehow gets entangled in
-high-tension wires of the traction station for the Indianapolis,
-Columbus, and Southern interurban rail. It moves south to Taylorsville a
-few minutes later, and it is so low to the ground that the occupants are
-able to talk to passersby. (“Tramp
-Balloon Snaps Wires,” Indianapolis Star, October 1, 1909,
-p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 299
Date: 10/1909
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Rev. Ruth Smith and some church members are
-riding in a wagon in La Porte, Indiana, when the horses rear and a
-blinding light splashes across the road. A large structure resembling
-two inverted bowls, separated by a row of lights, is hovering, with
-several phosphorescent beams extending to the ground. It is encircled in
-a corona of light and begins moving slowly. After 15 minutes, it blinks
-out. (Lore and Deneault, p. 97;
-Clark III 1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 300
Date: 12/13/1909
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A. W. Norris of Mabelvale, Arkansas, sees a
-bright, bobbling light moving through the air about 300 feet above him
-from the south. (“Airship
-Flies near Little Rock, Perhaps,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette,
-December 15, 1909, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 301
Date: 12/22/1909
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Many residents of Worcester, Massachusetts, see a
-“brilliant ray” emitted by a large black object 1,000 feet high in the
-southwestern sky. After circling over the town, the object heads to the
-west, where it is seen over Marlboro. It returns to Worcester between
-7:00 and 7:30 p.m., flying at low altitude and sporting a searchlight.
-One policeman thinks he sees enormous wings; others detect one or two
-figures inside. The airship is attributed to a Worcester businessman
-named Wallace
-E. Tillinghast, who has told the Boston Herald on December 12 that
-he has invented a heavier-than-air monoplane and has made more than 100
-test flights at night to Boston and New York City. But Tillinghast never
-offers his aircraft for public viewing, and people gradually realize it
-is a hoax. (“Tells of Flight 300 Miles in Air,” Boston Herald, December
-13, 1909, p. 1; “Airship
-Seen in Two
-Cities,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909, p. 1; Clark III 1165;
-Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew, “The
-Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,” New England Quarterly 75,
-no. 3 (September 2002) :466–376; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew,
-Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 483–486)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 302
Date: 12/23/1909
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Thousands of citizens of Boston, Massachusetts,
-and neighboring communities see an airship with lights flying at an
-altitude of around 400 feet. Alex Randall of Revere reports wings, tail,
-and propeller, but other observers only see a cylindrical shape at most.
-(“Skyship of Mystery Flies above Boston,” Boston Journal, December 24,
-1909, p.1; Clark III 1165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 303
Date: 12/24/1909
-Description: In Providence, Rhode Island, author H.
-P. Lovecraft sees what people are claiming is Tillinghast’s airplane
-bearing a powerful searchlight, but he identifies it as the planet
-Venus. (“City Is Airship Mad,” Providence (R.I.) Journal, December 25,
-1909, p. 2; “Providence Men See Searchlight in Sky,” Providence (R.I.)
-Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 14; H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays,
-Volume 3: Science, ed. S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus, 2005, p. 99; Clark III
-1165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 304
Date: 1/1910
-Time: 2300
-Description: Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a
-policeman -saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man
-appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an
-unknown language. The opening closed, and the object accelerated and was
-lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stuart 24 (Vallee)
-Location: Invercargill, New Zealand
-ID: 38
Date: 1/12/1910
-Description: 9:30 a.m. An unknown cigar-shaped aircraft is seen moving
-over Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the northeast. It returns on January 13.
-(“Airship
-in the Air,” Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times, January 13, 1910,
-p. 7; “Another
-Airship Flying,” Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times, January 14, 1910,
-p. 6; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-20, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 305
Date: 1/12/1910
-Description: 4:30 p.m. An unknown airship flies high over Huntsville,
-Alabama, against the wind, from southwest to northeast, disappearing
-over the crest of Chapman Mountain. (“Strange
-Airship,” Huntsville (Ala.) Journal, January 13, 1910, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 306
Date: 1/14/1910
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Two men on Summit Hill in Knoxville, Tennessee,
-see a large airship moving south. Its outlines are distinct. The men
-hear a hum of machinery and see sparks from “its motors.” (“Positive
-That They Saw an Airship,”
-Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, January 15, 1910, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 307
Date: summer 1910
-Description: Morning. Lawrence J. Crone is playing on a baseball field
-in the Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a
-metallic, brown, blimplike object, more than 100 feet long, hovering
-above a pine tree 200 feet away. It has a row of colored, rectangular
-windows. Through one he can see as many as 20 strange entities taking
-turns looking at him. Their heads are pointed, and they are dressed in
-light-colored garments with a fur-like texture. Each has small dots for
-eyes and a slit for a mouth. Two other young men also see the object and
-are badly frightened. (Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-20, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 308
Date: summer 1910
-Description: Night. Carl H. Darden is riding near Vernal, Utah, when he
-notices that his horse is acting strangely. He dismounts and walks the
-horse into a clearing, where he sees a row of lights a few feet above
-the ground. They are attached to a huge, hovering disc. After watching
-it a while, he steps toward it, and it makes a buzzing sound as if in
-warning. As he advances, it rises slowly into the sky until it reaches
-an altitude of several hundred feet, when it suddenly streaks off to the
-north. (Clark III 1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 309
Date: 10/25/1910
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A mystery airship is seen at Minderoo Station,
-Western Australia, by Mrs. A. J. Roe, wife of the station manager. She
-says it “looked compact, like a dirigible balloon, but it appeared to be
-squarer and more like an aeroplane. The sun shone on it, and flashes
-came from it, as though reflected from something revolving, or from
-metal work.” Three station hands also see the object. (“Mysterious
-Airship Sighted at Onslow,” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, December
-5, 1910, p. 9; Bill Chalker, “Early
-Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Brett Holman, “Scareships
-over Australia—IV,” Airminded, October 27, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 310
Date: 10/27/1910
-Description: 1:10 a.m. An airship with a powerful headlight and red and
-green taillights is seen flying at 600 feet above Swift Current,
-Saskatchewan. Observers at Irvine, Alberta, see it at 4:45 a.m. going
-west. It is also seen at Medicine Hat, Alberta, flying southwest. (“Unknown
-Aeronaut in Alberta,” Calgary (Alberta) Herald, October 27, 1910,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 311
Date: 10/29/1910
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Two objects flying at a great altitude are seen
-over East Providence, Rhode Island, by newspaper workers and others up
-early. They are too distant to be recognized as dirigibles or balloons,
-but they resemble luminous pumpkins. One is far ahead of the other, but
-both are “cutting pigeon wings, looping aerial loops, circling and
-diving like birds and generally doing skylark stunts.” (“Aviators Seen
-High Up in Air near City,” Providence Journal, October 30, 1910,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 312
Date: 1/9/1911
-Description: Harvard astronomer William
-H. Pickering tells the Boston Post that he believes Venus is
-populated by “huge monsters and lizards such as roamed the earth ages
-ago.” He adds that “If human life exists on Venus, the people do not
-live as we do.” (“Olden
-Monsters Inhabit Venus?” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1911,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 313
Date: 5/5/1911
-Description: 5:00 p.m. William Nixon is working at his father’s sawmill
-18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia, when he sees a flying
-machine carrying two men, one of whom is dressed in dark clothing. He
-estimates it is traveling from south to northwest at about 1,000 feet.
-(“Mysterious
-Airships,” Perth West Australian, May 15, 1911, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 314
Date: 7/22/1911
-Description: Evening. A ball of fire the size of the full moon is seen
-for several hours at Durango, Colorado. For a time it grows even larger,
-then diminishes in size until it disappears entirely. (“Large
-Ball of Fire Is Seen in the Sky,” Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette, July
-25, 1911, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 315
Date: 8/3/1911
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Adam
-H. McCullough and his wife Carrie are
-driving on Brinkerhoff Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio, when they notice a
-light, as brilliant as an arc light, in the northern sky. It has an
-apparent size of 6 inches and looks to be about 50 feet up. It remains
-visible for several minutes then fizzles out. (“A Phenomenon,”
-Mansfield (Ohio) News, August 4, 1911, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 316
Date: 4/8/1912
-Description: Sunset. Charles Tilden Smith at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire,
-England, observes the apparent fan-shaped shadow of a stationary object
-45° in the sky against the altostratus cloud layer. The dark patch
-remains stationary against the moving clouds and is visible for 30
-minutes. Meteorologist Charles
-John Philip Cave suspects the object is a pilot balloon. (Charles
-Tilden Smith, “Clouds
-and Shadows,” Nature 89 (1912): 168; Charles J. P. Cave, “Clouds and
-Shadows,” Nature 89 (1912): 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 317
Date: 4/15/1912
-Description: Sinking of the Titanic
-Type: disaster
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: fall 1912
-Description: About 2:30 p.m. C. F. Rowling, 15, and two friends see
-three perfectly round, pale-green objects less than a mile away in the
-northern sky over Alameda, California. They are traveling in parallel
-with the horizon in a vertical formation (one atop the other) and
-heading west. They are completely silent and 75–100 feet in diameter. He
-watches them for 10 seconds before they pass behind some trees. (Clark
-III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 318
Date: 10/14/1912
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Noise from an unseen aircraft startles the
-residents of Sheerness, Kent, England. Nearby at Eastchurch, residents
-light flares to guide the craft in case it needs to land. The incident
-comes up in a debate in Parliament on November 21. MP William
-Joynson-Hicks asks First Lord of the Admiralty Winston
-Churchill whether the government has any zeppelins capable of
-traveling at 60 mph, but Churchill answers no. However, some authorities
-conclude that the incident is caused by the intrusion of the LZ
-13 Hansa Zeppelin
-over British airspace. (“The
-Alleged Visit of a Foreign Airship,” London Times, November 22,
-1912, p. 8; Brett Holman, “The Sheerness
-Incident,” Airminded, October 14, 2007; Brett Holman, “Secrets
-of the German Aërial Fleet—I,” Airminded, May 29, 2013; Hilary Evans
-and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 486–487;
-UFOFiles2, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 319
Date: 1/4/1913
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Council worker John Hobbs hears aerial motors at
-Dover, England, and sees a light speeding toward him from the sea in a
-northeasterly direction. It is moving steadily despite a gale-force
-wind. Two other people, tradesman Mr. Langley and Police Constable
-Pierce, hear the noise but do not see the object. (“Unknown Aircraft
-over Dover,” London Times, January 6, 1913, p. 6; “Mysterious
-Airship,” London Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1913; Brett Holman, “Monday,
-6 January 1913,” Airminded, January 6, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 320
Date: 1/6/1913
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two lights “thought to be the lamps of an
-airship” maneuver in the sky over Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan,
-Wales. (“Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, January 7, 1913, p. 5;
-Brett Holman, “Friday,
-10 January 1913,” Airminded, January 10, 1913)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 321
Date: 1/17/1913
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Capt. Lionel
-Lindsay, chief constable of Glamorganshire, watches a large,
-fast-moving object above Cardiff, Wales, leaving in its wake a dense
-volume of smoke. Other witnesses see the light moving west from Cardiff
-at considerable speed. (“An
-Airship over Cardiff,” London Times, January 21, 1913, p. 10; Brett
-Holman, “Tuesday,
-21 January 1913,” Airminded, January 21, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 322
Date: 1/25/1913
-Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. Several people see a mysterious aircraft
-over the Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England. It is traveling
-about 25 mph and carries a brilliant light. (“Aircraft
-over Liverpool,” London Times, January 28, 1913, p. 13; Brett
-Holman, “Tuesday,
-28 January 1913,” Airminded, January 28, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 323
Date: 1/25/1913
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Villagers of Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales, watch a
-mystery airship with searchlights that turns south and leaves in the
-direction of Carmathenshire. (“Mystery Airship,” London Daily Express,
-January 30, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Thursday,
-30 January 1913,” Airminded, January 30, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 324
Date: 1/27/1913
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A resident of Stretford, Greater Manchester,
-England, sees an aircraft “like a huge ball” passing silently overhead
-in a southerly direction. He estimates its speed at 40 mph and its
-altitude as 700 feet. It has a yellowish light that later turns light
-red. When it is over Eccles, it turns westward in the direction of
-Liverpool. (“Is It a German Airship?” London Daily Express, January 31,
-1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “Friday,
-31 January 1913,”
-Airminded, January 31, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 325
Date: 1/29/1913
-Description: 8:00 p.m. An airplane with a powerful searchlight is seen
-over Iași, Romania, coming from the direction of Russia. It maneuvers
-over the town for 10 minutes and then moves toward the barracks. Troops
-are mustered out and signals are given for the aviator to land. Two
-warning shots are fired, but the lights go out and the object
-disappears. Other mystery aircraft are seen this month at military
-barracks in Focşani, Brăila, and Târgovişte. (“‘Russian
-Aeroplane’ Scare in Roumania,” Manchester Guardian, January 31,
-1913, p. 9; Romania 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 326
Date: 2/1/1913
-Description: Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is
-seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine. Another mystery plane, making
-signals, is spotted over Ternopil, Ukraine. (London Globe, February 4,
-1913, p. 3; “Airplane Fired at,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913,
-p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 327
Date: 2/2/1913
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. Trubshaw of East Croydon, England, sees an
-airship come in from the southeast and disappear rapidly to the
-northwest. Rays of light stream from it on the right and the left and
-downward. Others see the object, said to be moving with the wind.
-(“Mysterious Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913,
-p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 329
Date: 2/2/1913
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Robert Lawrence Thornton sees an airship pass
-over his house in Framfield, East Sussex, England. (“The Mystery
-Airships,” London Daily Express, February 4, 1913, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 330
Date: 2/2/1913
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Police Constable Church at Aberavon, Wales,
-watches an airship flying for an hour over Swansea Bay and the Mumbles.
-(“Another
-Mysterious Airship,” London Times, February 3, 1913, p. 6; Brett
-Holman, “Monday,
-3 February 1913,” Airminded, February 3, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 328
Date: 2/5/1913
-Description: Evening. Numerous witnesses in Newport, Cardiff, and Neath,
-South Wales, watch a “dirigible” carrying a bright light pass in a
-northwesterly direction. (“The
-‘Mysterious Airship,’” Manchester Guardian, February 6, 1913, p. 9;
-Brett Holman, “Thursday,
-6 February 1913,” Airminded, February 6, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 331
Date: 2/9/1913
-Description: 9:00 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor procession is seen from
-locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda,
-and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total
-recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles. The meteors are particularly
-unusual in that there is no apparent radiant—no point in the sky from
-which the meteors appear to originate. Witnesses are surprised to see a
-procession of between 40 and 60 bright, slow-moving fireballs moving
-from horizon to horizon in a practically identical path. Individual
-fireballs are visible for at least 30 to 40 seconds, and the entire
-procession takes some 5 minutes to cross the sky. Subsequent observers
-also note a large, white, tailless body bringing up the rear, but the
-various bodies making up the procession continue to disintegrate and
-travel at different rates throughout their course, so that by the time
-observations are made in Bermuda, the leading bodies are described as
-“like large arc lights in appearance, slightly violet in colour,”
-followed closely by yellow and red fragments. Research carried out in
-the 1950s by Alexander
-D. Mebane uncovers a handful of reports from newspaper archives in
-the northern United States. At Escanaba, Michigan, the Press states the
-“end of the world was apprehended by many” as numerous meteors travel
-across the northern horizon. In Batavia, New York, a few observers see
-the meteors and many people hear a thundering noise, while other reports
-are made in Nunda and Dansville, New York (where several residents again
-think the world is ending) and Osceola, Pennsylvania. The observations
-are analyzed in detail later in 1913 by the astronomer Clarence
-Chant, leading him to conclude that as all accounts are positioned
-along a great circle arc, the source is a small, short-lived natural
-satellite of the Earth. One curious feature of the reports, highlighted
-by Mebane, is that several appear to indicate a second meteor procession
-on the same course around 5 hours later, although the Earth’s rotation
-means that there is no obvious mechanism to explain this. One observer,
-A. W. Brown from Thamesville, Ontario, reports seeing both the initial
-meteor procession and a second one on the same course at 2:20 a.m. the
-next day. Chant’s original report also refers to a series of three
-groups of “dark objects” that pass on the same course as the previous
-meteors from west to east over Toronto on the afternoon of February 10,
-which he suggests are “something of a meteoric nature.” (Wikipedia, “1913
-Great Meteor Procession”;
-Clarence A. Chant, “An
-Extraordinary Meteoric Display,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical
-Society of Canada 7 (1913): 145–191; Alexander D. Mebane, “Observations
-of the Great Fireball Procession of 1913
-February 9, Made in the United States,” Meteoritics 1, no. 4 (1956):
-406–421; Condon, pp. 570–571;
-Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn
-Press, 2006, pp. 31–35; “Sample
-Press Coverage
-of the 1913 Meteor Procession,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12
-(September 2006): 7; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of
-the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 383–385)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 332
Date: 2/21/1913
-Description: Evening. An airship is seen at several locations around
-Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It alternately flies and hovers,
-flashing a searchlight and skirting the roofs of houses before vanishing
-to the north at “great speed.” At one point a group of businessmen
-waiting for a train at the Church Fenton railway station are treated to
-the sight of a powerful searchlight running along the tracks. Other
-witnesses hear the whir of motors as the vehicle passes by. (“The
-Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 24, 1913, p. 7; “Night
-Raids by Air,” London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1; Brett
-Holman, “Monday,
-24 February 1913,” Airminded, February 24, 2013; Brett Holman, “Tuesday,
-25 February 1913,” Airminded, February 25, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 333
Date: 2/25/1913
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Coast guards at Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, see
-a bright light traveling to the west and report it to the Admiralty. Roberrt
-Falconer Jameson watches it through binoculars and sees that the
-lights are attached to a cone-shaped craft. A little later, the object
-appears over Hull, seen by crowds in the city center and Paragon
-Interchange for over an hour. It alters its course frequently and hovers
-occasionally. (“Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, February 26,
-1913, p. 11; Brett Holman, “Wednesday,
-26 February 1913,” Airminded, February 26, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 334
Date: 3/13/1913
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two women walking along a forest road by the
-Schwielowsee between Caputh and Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany, observe an
-airship catch fire and explode. The fire brigades of three villages, 40
-riflemen from a local garrison, and several police officers and medical
-attendants rush to the scene. They search the woods south of Potsdam
-until early morning but find nothing. Though the women are considered
-trustworthy, they are accused later of hoaxing the report. Later, airman
-Lt. Zwickau claims that he was firing rockets while flying from Leipzig
-to Döberitz in order to see his way in the night. (“An Airship
-Catastrophe near Potsdam?” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 3;
-“The Tale of the Airship,” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 4;
-“Phantom Airships,” London Daily Telegraph, March 14, 1913, p. 15; “Mysterious
-Airship near Berlin,” Manchester Guardian, March 14, 1913, p. 8;
-Brett Holman, “Friday,
-14 March 1913,” Airminded, March 14, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 335
Date: 4/8/1913
-Description: 8:23 p.m. An airship reappears over Cardiff, Wales, once
-again seen traveling at high speed to the southwest by Chief Constable
-Lionel
-Lindsay. (“The
-Cardiff Aerial Mystery Again,” Manchester Guardian, April 9, 1913,
-p. 9; Brett Holman, “Wednesday,
-9 April 1913,” Airminded, April 9, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 336
Date: 5/1913
-Alternate date: 5/1914
-Description: Morning. Silbie
-J. Latham, 12, is working with his brothers Sid and
-Clyde on
-a cotton farm 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas. Their two dogs, on
-the other side of a picket fence 50–75 feet away, begin barking and
-howling. The boys stop work and go to investigate. They see a little
-man, dark green in color and 18 inches high, who “looked like he was
-sitting on something.” His arms are hanging down by his sides. He has a
-Mexican-looking hat on, but no other clothes. Right after the boys get
-there, the two dogs jump him and tear him to pieces. Blood and internal
-organs spew out, but it doesn’t cry out. The boys go back and check the
-spot the next day, but the remains are gone. (Clark III 262; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, October
-19, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 337
Date: 6/29/1913
-Description: Sunset. An aerial object passes over Lansing, Michigan,
-from southeast to northwest at a great height. It moves swiftly, taking
-only 3 minutes. (“Strange
-Aircraft Passes over Lansing at Great Rate of Speed Sunday,” Lansing
-(Mich.) State Journal, June 30, 1913, p. 3; Clark III 1167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 338
Date: 10/1913
-Description: Swiss astronomer Fritjof Le Coultre at the Geneva
-Observatory in Switzerland reports seeing “bluish-white flashes” on Mars
-for 17 consecutive nights. Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona,
-also observes them. However, astronomer Guillaume
-Bigourdan at the Paris Observatory thinks the flashes are merely
-“auto- suggestion.” (“Is
-Mars Trying to Signal Us?” Santa Cruz (Calif.) Evening News,
-November 24, 1913, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 339
Date: 1914
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Hans M. Schnitzler, 7, is sitting in his front
-yard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, when he hears a musical humming sound
-and sees a 30-foot domed object about 25 feet away hovering about 10
-feet above the ground across the street in front of a church. An opening
-appears and eight small entities emerge and begin singing a melody over
-and over again. Then they return inside. The object rises slowly and
-disappears behind the church. He remembers the melody and plays it on
-his harmonica years later. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 (Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 340
Date: 1/1/1914
-Description: The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took
-off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL,
-about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat
-Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the
-way for today’s daily transcontinental flights.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Date: 3/1914
-Description: Twilight. A farmer is returning to his house at Lajoumard,
-Haute-Vienne, France, when he sees a round, green, luminous object
-hovering just above a hilltop. Several small beings emerge, walk around
-the machine, and go back inside. The object takes off. (Clark III 262;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, March
-3, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 341
Date: 6/1914
-Time: 0400
-Description: Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a
-field a shining cigarshaped object with illuminated windows. Near it
-were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. He
-approached them, but they went aboard the object as soon as they
-appeared to be aware of his presence. A door closed, and the craft took
-off silently, climbing vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten April, 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Hamburg, Germany
-ID: 39
Date: 6/1914
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen sees a cigar-shaped object with
-luminous portholes in a field next to his house in Hamburg, Germany.
-Near it are 4–5 dwarfs about 4 feet tall. He walks toward them, but they
-flee inside the ship, which ascends and disappears. (Clark III 262;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-28, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 343
Date: summer 1914
-Description: Mid-afternoon. For about 60 minutes at Mount Lyndhurst
-Station, South Australia, an unusual substance floats by at a constant
-altitude. Some pieces, 6–8 inches long, fall to earth and leave no
-trace. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR
-27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 342
Date: 7/28/1914
-End date: 11/11/1918
-Description: World War 1
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 8/1914
-Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical
-craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men
-wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose,
-plunging it into the water. On the opposite side were three men dressed
-in light brown, wearing square masks down to their shoulders. Seeing the
-witnesses, they reentered the craft except for one dwarf, wearing shoes
-with a curved, pointed tip, who remained outside while the craft rose 3
-m above the water and shot upward, leaving a short trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 199 (Vallee)
-Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
-ID: 40
Date: 8/1914
-Description: William J. Kiehl, 18, is with seven others in a small cove
-along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. They see a strange machine on
-the surface of the lake. Two little men wearing square masks and
-purple-green coveralls are working with a hose leading from the water to
-inside the UFO. Three other figures, dressed in khaki, are adjusting
-some rods that are pulsating with various colors. The beings notice the
-group watching them and run into the machine, which starts vibrating
-with colors. It starts to ascend, but one being has not made it inside
-and is hanging on. After hovering 12 feet in the air to balance itself,
-it rapidly accelerates upward. A likely hoax. (“Old-Timer Tells
-of Outer Spacemen in Letter to Wanaque Police Officer,” Paterson
-(N.J.) News, August 15, 1966, p. 9; Clark III 262; Lorenzen, Encounters
-with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 344
Date: 8/10/1914
-End date: 8/11/1914
-Description: Night. Maj. Becke, commander of defenses at
-Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, reports that two or three
-cigar-shaped airships are seen above the Vickers shipyard. Soldiers fire
-upon them with machine guns and the only anti-aircraft battery on the
-west coast. (UFOFiles2, p. 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 345
Date: 8/11/1914
-End date: 9/9/1914
-Description: Many British residents in South Africa observe a mystery
-monoplane that is assumed to be on a German reconnaissance mission. Most
-of the sightings are at night and at a distance. The government issues a
-statement on August 29 that there are no Union airplanes in South
-Africa, so any mystery aircraft are assumed to be enemies and should be
-fired upon. (“The Aeroplane,” Cape Times, August 21, 1914; “Aeroplanes
-in the Union,” Cape Times, August 22, 1914, p. 7; “Mysterious Airship at
-Sanday,” Pretoria News, August 24, 1914, p. 5; “Aeroplane Mystery,”
-Johannesburg Star, August 26, 1914, p. 4; “The Mysterious Aeroplane,”
-Cape Argus, August 27, 1914, p. 5; “Aviator Discusses Air Visitors,”
-Cape Times, September 5, 1914, p. 5; Hilary Evans and Robert E.
-Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 487–489)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 346
Date: 8/13/1914
-Description: 7:30 p.m. High Constable Hobson and numerous residents of
-Sweaburg, Ontario, see “two large aeroplanes” pass from east to west.
-Sporadic sightings of mystery airplanes continue in the region for the
-next two weeks. (“Reports Aeroplanes over Oxford Village,” London Free
-Press, August 13, 1914, p. 2; “Three Aeroplanes Scan Topography of the
-Province, London (Ont.) Free Press, September 5, 1914, p. 8; Barry
-Greenwood, “And
-Yet More
-in 1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 (September 2006): 6; Hilary
-Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009,
-p. 491)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 347
Date: 8/14/1914
-Description: Afternoon. A large ball of fire sweeps over the southeast
-portion of Montpelier, Vermont, seen by employees of the C. P. Gill
-stone cutting plant near the Winooski River. It is accompanied by a loud
-noise. One man says the heat of the object has scorched his hands. The
-plant motor stops as the object passes over, and insulation from some
-electrical wires is found burned off. (“Great
-Ball of Fire,” Rutland (Vt.) Daily Herald, August 18, 1914, p. 5)
-Autumn (or 1915) — Dusk. A man is having an outdoor meal with his family
-in Bujoreanca, Romania, when they see a reddish object moving to the
-east 60 feet above the ground, causing trees to bend from its movement,
-and making a whistling noise. It leaves a trail of glowing sparks and
-reappears for 6–7 days in the same position. (Hobana and Weverbergh
-224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 348
Date: 9/1914
-Description: Two schoolboys named Uden and Hopkins are wandering along
-Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales, when they encounter an unexpected
-mist. Two white humanoid figures with piercing eyes and unusually tall
-hats are standing at the edge of it. They approach, and the boys take
-off. (Clark III 262–263; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-March 5, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1910–1939, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 349
Date: 9/9/1914
-Description: Mid-day. Amateur astronomer William
-Herbert Steavenson points his 3-inch refracting telescope in West
-Norwood, south London, England, at the planet Mercury, then about 8°
-distant from the Sun, when a round, luminous object the apparent size of
-the planet, but brighter, speeds across his field, passing centrally
-from south to north in about 3 seconds. A few seconds later, another
-appears going in the same direction. More follow, and the display
-continues until at least 3:00 p.m. when the sky becomes overcast. He
-watches several hundred bodies pass; about half are perfectly round and
-the rest are dumbbell shaped. All the objects are well defined and
-intrinsically brighter than Venus. The prevailing color is yellowish
-white. Steavenson sends a telegram to the Rev. T.
-E. R. Phillips at Ashstead, Surrey, but the sky is now overcast and
-he cannot confirm the observation. Steavensen thinks high-altitude seeds
-are the most likely explanation. (W. H. Steavenson, “Bright
-Objects Observed
-near the Sun,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 25
-(1914): 36–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 350
Date: 10/10/1914
-Description: Afternoon. Albert Alfred Buss is observing the sun using a
-spectrographic telescope at Manchester, England, when he sees an
-“absolutely black spindle-shaped object” against the sun. (Albert Alfred
-Buss, “Cosmic and
-Terrestrial Flotsam and Jetsam,” English Mechanic 100 (October 14,
-1914): 256)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 351
Date: 11/21/1914
-Description: Some 20–30 people watch an airship flying at 2,300 feet
-descend to about 1,300 feet and shine a searchlight on a passing ship
-near Skjaervser lighthouse on the island of Mindlandet, Nordland,
-Norway. (“Airship at Tjølta,” Morgenbladet, November 25, 1914, p. 2;
-Clark III 1167–1168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 352
Date: 12/15/1914
-Description: 4:10 p.m. The crew of a Hull trawler, the SS Ape, is
-streaming toward Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, when they see a
-“black object astern” which gradually approaches them. It turns and
-heads for the Lincolnshire coast where it vanishes in the fog.
-(UFOFiles2, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 353
Date: 2/14/1915
-Description: 9:15 p.m. The mayor and three city constables of
-Brockville, Ontario, see the lights of unknown aircraft crossing the
-St. Lawrence River heading for Ottawa. They can hear the sound of
-motors. A second flying machine is heard as it crosses the river from
-the direction of Morristown, New York. Three balls of fire drop from it
-into the river. Two more objects pass from the east and west ends of
-Brockville. The mayor, who has seen one of the planes flash a
-searchlight beam that lights up a city block, tells the police chief to
-alert the mayor and police chief in Ottawa. At 9:30 p.m., the mayor of
-Gananoque, Ontario, reports that two invisible aircraft are heard flying
-over his town. Prime Minister Robert
-Borden hears about the reports and orders the lights on Parliament
-Hill to be turned off at 11:15 p.m. The entire city follows suit 5
-minutes later. The airplanes do not reappear, but Ottawa is placed on
-high alert. Later, Brockville police find two paper balloons that might
-explain the sightings. (“Ottawa in Darkness Awaits Airplane Raid,”
-Toronto Globe, February 15, 1915, pp. 1–2; “Scare
-in Ottawa over an Air Raid,”
-New York Times, February 15, 1915, p. 1; Brett Holman, “The
-Air Raid That Didn’t,” Airminded, February 13, 2014; Hilary Evans
-and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 492–493; Chris
-Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press,
-2006, pp. 36–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 354
Date: 2/15/1915
-Description: Early morning. Residents in a Toronto, Ontario, suburb
-notify police of a “strange aeroplane” hovering above their homes.
-Later, a man in Guelph sees “three moving lights passing over” the
-Ontario Agricultural College. He alerts other residents in his boarding
-house and they watch the silent lights until dawn. (Chris Rutkowski and
-Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006,
-pp. 37–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 355
Date: 4/26/1915
-Description: Possibly the first UFO film ever made, The Mysterious
-Airship premieres in the United States. A lost two-reel French short
-produced by the Ideal Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and
-distributed by United Film Service, the film does involve a mysterious
-airship built by aeronauts, but it is more of a murder mystery. (“United
-Film Service,” The Moving Picture World 24 (May 1, 1915): 806; Barry
-Greenwood, “UFO
-Feature Film:
-In 1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 (September 2006): 2–4; Barry
-Greenwood, “The
-Mysterious Airship:
-An Early Silent Film, Update,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 (May
-2015): 1–3; Internet Movie Database, “The
-Mysterious Airship”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 356
Date: 5/24/1915
-Description: The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly
-issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a
-government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a “crime against
-humanity” in reference to that regime’s persecution of its Christian
-minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
-Type: historical event
-Reference:
-[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)
Date: late 6/1915
-Description: Just before dawn. Cecilia Peel Yates of Ashburton, Devon,
-England, is awakened by her dogs barking. She sees outside her bedroom
-window a bright light in the sky bearing north. It disappears in the
-direction of Haytor rocks on Dartmoor. This incident is followed by
-others at Hexworthy and Dartington in July and August, so much so that
-British Naval Intelligence sends two officers out to investigate. (Nick
-Redfern, “UFOs
-and the Military, 1915:
-Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; Nick Redfern, “UFOs
-and the Military, 1915: Pt. 2,” Mysterious Universe, May 8,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 357
Date: 8/21/1915
-Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud
-engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was
-observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated
-in an affidavit.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview 45; LDLN 82; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Gallipoli, Turkey
-ID: 41
Date: 9/4/1915
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two British Naval Intelligence officers, Lt. Col.
-William
-Price Drury and Lt. C. Brownlow, on Dartmoor, Devon, England, watch
-a “bright white light, considerably larger in appearance than a planet”
-ascend steadily from a meadow to a height of 50–60 feet. It then swings
-300 feet or so to the left and suddenly vanishes. The officers have been
-investigating reports of similar lights seen in the region during the
-summer. In December, GHQ Home Forces issues a 16-page confidential
-report on the investigation and concludes there is “no evidence on which
-to base a suspicion that this class of enemy activity ever existed” and
-that 89% of the reports are explained. Some “moving lights in the air”
-are attributed to marsh gas. (Nick Redfern, “UFOs
-and the Military, 1915:
-Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; UFOFiles2, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 358
Date: 11/1915
-Description: Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what
-are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of
-Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 1916 (approximate)
-Description: Mrs. Whiteland of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, sees from an
-open window a “round platform” on which nearly a dozen men wearing blue
-uniforms and little round hats stand gripping a handrail. It is moving
-in the air about 30 feet above the house and coming from the direction
-of a nearby marsh. It moves toward a railway yard and disappears behind
-some houses. (Clark III 263; “The
-Aldeburgh Platform,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1969), pp. 23–24; “The
-Aldeburgh Platform,” parts 1–3; David Halperin, “UFOs,
-Screen Memories, and
-the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery,” April 8, 2016; Chris Aubeck and
-Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History,
-Anomalist, 2015, pp. 299–314)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 359
Date: 1/31/1916
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Royal Flying Corps Lieut. Reginald
-Maxwell is cruising his B.E.2c biplane at 10,000 feet near Romford,
-Essex, England, patrolling for German Zeppelins. He sees an “artificial
-light” to the north. He follows it northeast for 20 minutes, but it
-moves higher and he loses it in the clouds. At the same time, Royal
-Flying Corps pilot Sub-Lieut. J. Eric Morgan, also flying a B.E.2c at
-5,000 feet near Rochford, Essex, and looking for Zeppelins, sees an
-object about 100 feet away with a row of windows “like a railway
-carriage with the blinds drawn.” He tries to close on it, but his engine
-is malfunctioning. When he fires his pistol at it, the lights rise and
-rapidly disappear. Morgan is forced to make a crash landing.
-(Capt. Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Great Britain, 1914–1918,
-Sampson, Low, Marston, 1925, pp. 81–82;
-David Clarke, “Britain’s First Military UFO Encounter?” Part
-1 and Part
-2, The
-Real UFO Project, 2004; UFOFiles2, p. 10;
-Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,”
-August 10, 2021, and “Near
-Rochford,” August 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 360
Date: 2/29/1916
-Description: 4:30 a.m. John Tullyson, head watchman at Globe Elevators,
-and John Gustavson at the Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin,
-hear an engine noise and see a large flying object “50 feet wide and 100
-feet long,” with three lights, “one on each end and one in the middle.”
-Moving swiftly at 600 feet altitude, the object carries a long rope
-trailing behind it with a large object attached to it. Three “men” are
-inside the craft, one of them sitting in the front of the machine. The
-other two seem to be looking around. Possible Chinese lantern or
-airplane. (“Mysterious Aeroplane Continues Nocturnal Trips over
-Superior,” Superior (Wis.) Telegram, February 29, 1916, p. 5; Clark III
-263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March
-16, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 361
Date: 3/12/1916
-Description: Early evening. Claude D. McGee is walking home from a trip
-to a ranch outside Lowry, South Dakota, when he sees a strange glowing
-light in the hills ahead of him. Suddenly the light swings in a huge arc
-down into the valley but stays close to the wall of hills where it comes
-to rest. It stays there a few moments then swings back to where it had
-been about 2 miles away. It repeats the action twice then disappears.
-(Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 362
Date: 5/4/1916
-Description: Evening. Astronomers Charles
-Dillon Perrine and Anna
-Estelle Glancy observe an object resembling a comet at the National
-Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina. It is moving remarkably fast, moving
-10° toward the sun within an hour and passes below the horizon. It has a
-prominent tail of 8°–10° in length. (“Comet
-or Meteor?” Scientific American 115 (1916): 493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 363
Date: 7/19/1916
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Walter H. Eager and another witness in
-Huntington, West Virginia, watch a nebulous object in the shape of a
-dirigible that slowly fades from view. Possibly a light pillar created
-by a nearby blast furnace. (Walter H. Eager, “An
-Unusual Aurora,” Scientific American 115 (1916): 241; Martin Shough
-and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019,
-pp. 391–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 364
Date: 12/17/1916
-Description: On the Western front in Europe, Canadian soldier Maurice
-Philipp Tuteur and two sergeant majors watch a Zeppelin-like object
-rise into the clouds in the rear of their lines. It darts ahead at an
-estimated speed of 200 mph, turns around, darts backward, and shoots up
-and disappears. (“I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959,
-pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 365
Date: 4/1917
-Description: Night. Residents of the African American neighborhood of
-Charlotte, North Carolina, report hearing strange, motor-like noises in
-the air at night for several nights. Some have fleeting glimpses of the
-swiftly moving dark objects that are causing the noise. (“The
-Colored People Are Seeing Visions,” Charlotte (N.C.) News, April 11,
-1917, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 366
Date: 4/13/1917
-Description: Early morning. Two National Guardsmen from Company L of the
-Sixth Massachusetts Infantry are stationed on the bridge linking
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, when they hear the noise
-of an airplane. They see an unidentified aircraft circling near the
-bridge. When it descends, apparently to make a pass at the bridge, one
-of the guardsmen panics and fires his rifle at it. It moves off and
-disappears in the distance. Other vague reports continue through April
-30. (“Hunt for Aircraft Base,” Manchester (N.H.) Union, April 14, 1917,
-pp. 1, 3; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist,
-2009, pp. 496–497)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 367
Date: 5/13/1917
-Description: Three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima,
-Portugal—Lúcia
-dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and
-Jacinta Marto—report seeing a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding
-rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the
-most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.” The
-woman wears a white mantle edged with gold and holds a rosary in her
-hand. She asks them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray
-“the Rosary every day.” The children had seen an “angel” at the cove
-since the spring of 1916. (Wikipedia, “Our
-Lady of Fátima”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 368
Date: 6/13/1917
-Description: The three children at Fátima, Portugal, again see the lady,
-who reveals that Francisco
-and Jacinta will be “taken to heaven” soon, but Lúcia will
-live longer to spread the message. The lady also purportedly reveals to
-the children a vision of hell and entrusts a secret to them, described
-as “good for some and bad for others.” (Wikipedia, “Our
-Lady of Fátima”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 369
Date: 8/13/1917
-Description: Some 18,000 people have been flocking to Fátima and nearby
-Aljustrel, Portugal, drawn by reports of visions and miracles. The
-assembled multitude hears thunder and witnesses lightning in a clear
-blue sky. Then the sun grows pale and a cloud hovers above the oak tree
-where the apparitions usually appear. Provincial administrator Artur
-de Oliveira Santos, believing that these events are politically
-disruptive, takes the children into custody, jailing them before they
-can reach the Cova da Iria. Santos interrogates and threatens the
-children to get them to divulge the contents of the secrets.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 370
Date: 8/19/1917
-Description: Instead of the promised apparition in the Cova da Iria on
-August 13, the children see the Virgin Mary at nearby Valinhos,
-Portugal. She asks them again to pray the rosary daily, speaks about the
-miracle coming in October, and asks them “to pray a lot.” Late Summer —
-12:30 p.m. John Boback is walking along railroad tracks in Youngstown,
-Pennsylvania, when he hears a swishing sound and sees an elliptical
-object about 100 feet away on the ground in a pasture. It has portholes
-emitting ligt from the interior and a smooth surface. Moments later the
-object ascends smoothly in a gradual climb and flies away to the east.
-(Lore and Deneault, pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 371
Date: early 9/1917
-Description: Witnesses at Salida, Colorado, watch distant moving lights
-flicking on and off over a period of several days. Through a telescope,
-one light appears to be a revolving wheel with lights on it. (Arlene
-Shovald, “Edwards’ UFO Sighting Not Salida’s First,” Salida (Colo.)
-Mountain Mail, September 7, 1995; Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 372
Date: 9/13/1917
-Description: With the three children in attendance, the crowd at the
-Cova da Iria, Portugal, see a “luminous globe” sail across the sky. A
-white cloud envelops the children and the oak tree. A rain of white
-roses is said to have fallen out of the heavens but dissolves just
-before landing. Behind the cloud, the crowd can see Lúcia talking
-to the invisible lady.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 373
Date: 10/1917
-Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks
-between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object
-with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left.
-He watched the object for 1-2 min until it took off with a high-pitched
-sound, rising gradually like a slow plane. Its size was that of an
-average car. The top of the object was a dome with elongated windows
-through which figures could be seen.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hartle 157 (Vallee)
-Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 42
Date: 10/1917
-Description: Seven-year-old Elizabeth
-Klarer and her older sister Barbara have their first alleged
-encounter with a UFO on their parents’ farm Connington in the
-KwaZulu-Natal midlands, South Africa. While playing outside the
-farmhouse, Elizabeth claims to witness a giant orange-red wheel rolling
-across the sky. The plummeting object, also described as a fiery
-pockmarked meteor or planetoid, is intercepted by a silver disc bathed
-in a pearly luster. Around this time Elizabeth begins receiving
-occasional telepathic messages from a friendly space alien named Akon.
-(Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond the Light Barrier, Howard
-Timmins, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 374
Date: 10/13/1917
-Description: After some newspapers report that the Virgin Mary has
-promised a miracle for the last of her apparitions, a huge crowd,
-possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, including reporters and
-photographers, gathers at Cova da Iria, Portugal. What happens then
-becomes known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” Various claims are made as to
-what really happened. The three children report seeing a panorama of
-visions during the event, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows,
-Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Saint Joseph blessing the people. Father
-John de Marchi, an Italian Catholic priest and researcher who wrote
-several books on the subject, included descriptions by witnesses who
-believe they observed a miracle created by Mary, the mother of Jesus.
-After a period of rain, the dark clouds break and the Sun appears as an
-opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It appears significantly duller than
-normal and casts multicolored lights across the landscape, the people,
-and the surrounding clouds. The Sun then seems to careen towards the
-earth before zigzagging back to its normal position. Witnesses report
-that their previously wet clothes become “suddenly and completely dry,
-as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked
-because of the rain that had been falling.” Not all witnesses report
-seeing the Sun “dance.” Some people only see the radiant colors, and
-others, including some believers, see nothing at all. The only known
-picture of the Sun taken during the event does not show anything
-unusual. No unusual solar phenomena are observed by scientists. Some
-theologians, scientists, and skeptics have offered alternative
-explanations that include psychological suggestibility of the witnesses,
-temporary retinal distortion caused by staring at the intense light of
-the Sun, a sundog, and optical effects caused by natural meteorological
-phenomena. The Miracle of the Sun is interpreted by others as a UFO
-event. Investigator Joe
-Nickell thinks that the effects are “a combination of factors,
-including optical effects and meteorological phenomena, such as the sun
-being seen through thin clouds, causing it to appear as a silver disc.
-Other possibilities include an alteration in the density of the passing
-clouds, causing the sun’s image to alternately brighten and dim and so
-seem to advance and recede, and dust or moisture droplets in the
-atmosphere refracting the sunlight and thus imparting a variety of
-colors.” (Wikipedia, “Miracle
-of the
-Sun”; Clark III 484–485; “O
-Milagre do Fátima,” Ilustração Portuguesa, no. 610 (October 29,
-1917): 353– 355; John de Marchi, The
-True Story of Fatima, St. Paul,
-Minn.: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1956; Joe Nickell, “The
-Real Secrets of Fatima,” Skeptical Inquirer 33, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 2009): 14–17; Jeffrey S. Bennett, When the Sun Danced,
-University of Virginia, 2012; Auguste Meessen, “Apparitions
-and Miracles of the Sun,”
-in Science, Religion, and Conscience, Actas do Forum International,
-Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência, October 23–25, 2003,
-Santos, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 375
Date: 3/1/1918
-Description: Early morning. A woman at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New
-Zealand, sees two distinct “seaplanes” flying together near the surface
-of the water. They soon diverge, one going in the direction of the
-eastern hills and both getting lost in the clouds. (“Seaplanes
-over Tasman Bay,” Nelson Colonist, March 2, 1918, p. 4; Brett
-Holman, “The
-Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—1,” Airminded, August 28,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 377
Date: summer 1918
-Description: 7:30 p.m. At an isolated ranch 60 miles from Malta,
-Montana, 9-year-old Theodore
-Warren sees a cigar- shaped “airship” with windows that shine with
-greenish light. It flies in from the mountains in the east and hovers
-above the ranch house. He watches it for a while, and then it “whooshes”
-away to the northwest. (Ione Warren Conway, “A UFO(?) from the Past,”
-IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 378
Date: 8/12/1918
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. Two women at Durie Hill, Whanganui, New
-Zealand, see an airplane moving swiftly off the South Spit heading
-toward the south. It disappears behind Landguard Bluff. Other witnesses
-come forward to corroborate the sighting. (“Aeroplane
-off Wanganui,” Wanganui Chronicle, August 13, 1918, p. 4; Brett
-Holman, “The
-Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 379
Date: 8/13/1918
-Description: Evening. Mr. C. Rawlinson is cycling to a dance on
-Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand, when he sees a bright star
-against some mountains about 6 miles away. It starts flashing red and
-white and moves closer and downward, then rises to 400–500 feet and
-performs other maneuvers. He rides home to tell his sisters, who also
-see the light until about 8:30 p.m., when it moves off to the sea. (“Local
-and General,” Wellington Dominion, August 14, 1918, p. 4; Brett
-Holman, “The
-Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 380
Date: 10/1918
-Description: During operations against the Bolshevik Army in Tulgas,
-Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, soldiers of the US 339th Infantry Regiment
-watch a round object the color of burnished copper, with a faint light
-and vapor obscuring much of its shape. (Letter to J. Allen Hynek; Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 381
Date: 11/11/1918
-Description: End of World War 1
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: winter 1918 (approximate)
-Description: Edwin T. Bauhan and other soldiers at Rich Field in Waco,
-Texas, see a noiseless, flame-colored, cigar-shaped object 100–150 feet
-long flying overhead at an altitude of 500 feet. (Lore and Deneault, p. 105;
-Clark III 1170; “1918
-Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4
-(Winter 1954): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 376
Date: 1919
-Description: Wireless inventor Guglielmo
-Marconi claims that he has detected large-wavelength radio signals
-from Mars. He claims the most frequent signal is the Morse code for “S,”
-or three short dots. The signals, however, are subsequently traced to an
-experiment conducted by chemist Irving
-Langmuir at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New
-York. (“‘Hello,
-Earth! Hello!’” White Earth (Minn.) The Tomahawk, March 18, 1920,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 382
Date: 1/22/1919
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. A brilliant light the size of a tennis
-ball appears in a garden at Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England. When the
-witness approaches it, it moves away at a leisurely pace and passes
-through wire netting. It follows the top of a hedge, turns right, and
-ascends until it finds a break in the high branches of a tree, where it
-hovers for 3 minutes before flying on. The witness then notices his
-neighbor’s farm is illuminated with bright white light. Several minutes
-later, the sphere returns to the garden, hovers another 3 minutes, then
-approaches the witness. As it does so, it turns from white to orange. It
-moves away, stops above a neighbor’s garden, travels along a hedge,
-traverses a field, and circles a row of houses before soaring into the
-sky and disappearing. The light is seen for 40 minutes. (Mark Ian
-Birdsall, “The Luminous Pearl of 1919,” Quest International 10, no. 2
-(1991): 26–27; Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 383
Date: 6/2/1919
-Description: 9:30 a.m. A tiny circular cloud appears in an otherwise
-cloudless sky over Ottertail, Minnesota. Suddenly it expands to several
-times its size. Seconds later, the window that the witness is watching
-through starts to shake and creak. By the time it stops, the cloud has
-expanded more and now has a ragged appearance, bending toward the earth.
-A black object shoots out of the bottom of the cloud, leaving a vapor
-trail, and begins making 6–7 barrel rolls. It then peels off in a
-straight line, headed north. (Clark III 1170; “Supersonic Jet in 1919?”
-IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 384
Date: 6/28/1919
-Description: Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June
-1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the
-state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 7/1919
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A young brother and sister who live on a farm
-near Webster City, Iowa, hear a strange chirping sound while out
-playing. They turn and see a brown-green object under a tree near a
-creek 75 feet from them. They notice a similarly colored figure standing
-in a door that has been lowered down. It makes strange guttural sounds.
-They see another figure running toward the stream leading to a pond.
-This smaller one dips up some water into a can. The larger figure seems
-to be hurrying the smaller figure back into the object. The door slams
-shut with a metallic sound, and the vehicle rises up quickly with its
-three legs still out and goes over a hill. The soil where the object had
-been is covered with round spots that resemble cane marks. (Clark III
-263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-23, 2009) Late summer — 10:00 p.m. Harry Anderson, 13 (or 16), is out
-riding with his family and two friends when their car runs out of oil
-east of Barron, Wisconsin. A passing farmer offers to give them some
-oil, and Harry accompanies him 2 miles away to his farmhouse. Harry
-walks back to the car alone and sees 20 little men walking in single
-file towards him. Their heads are bald, and the figures are dressed in
-leather “knee pants” held up by suspenders. They are mumbling but pay no
-attention to him. Terrified, he continues and does not look back.
-([Jerome Clark], “Encounters with Little Men,” Fate 31, no. 11 (November
-1978): 83–86; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-24, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 385
Date: 12/1/1919
-Description: Boni & Liveright publishes Charles
-Fort’s first book of scientific anomalies, The Book of the Damned.
-Fort gathers reports of objects or “vessels” that he humorously
-speculates might be visitors from a multitude of worlds that have come
-to earth over the centuries. Among his wilder expressions is the
-suggestion that floating land masses in the sky harbor civilizations and
-oceans. Fort also speculates that someone is fishing for us and that an
-alien race considers us its property, warning off all interlopers. It
-receives positive reviews from Ben
-Hecht and Booth
-Tarkington. (Wikipedia,
-“The
-Book of the Damned”; Clark III 506–507; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles
-Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 173–174;
-Ulrich Magin, “The Book of the Damned,” Fortean Times 386 (December
-2019): 38–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 386
Date: 1920
-Description: Day. Stanley
-Clason, 10,
-is walking across his uncle’s pasture in northern Montana when he sees
-an object traveling from northwest to southeast. It has a “long, slim,
-pointed shape” and appears “silvery in color.” (“Report from the
-Readers,” Fate 7, no. 4 (April 1954): 115–116; Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 387
Date: 1/16/1920
-Description: First meeting of the League of Nations
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-See also: 4/20/46
Date: 6/3/1920
-Description: Day. Jesse
-Clark Linch is fishing on a pond near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when he
-sees a soundless, blue, disc- shaped object emerge from behind a grove
-of 100-foot-high maple trees. It flies across the pond and lands 15 feet
-away. Linch gets up and walks toward it, but it rises up, slowly moves
-over some trees to the west, and disappears. (“Mini UFO Landed near Mt.
-Pleasant in 1920,” The UFO Examiner 2, no. 2 (June 1978): 8, 19; “Man
-Visited by Strange Object While Fishing in Iowa in 1920,” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 382 (February 2000): 12; Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 389
Date: summer 1920
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A group of young people, including sisters
-Louise and Marie Grasset, returning from a dance at Nontron, Dordogne,
-France, observe small beings in the air above a wooded area. Luminous
-balls surround the figures, who are giving off “musical sounds.” (Clark
-III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October
-3, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 388
Date: late 10/1920
-Description: 3:00 a.m. C. B. Alves sees four flying discs 50 miles north
-of Freeport, Texas, when he is out fishing with some friends. They look
-like two big silver plates set edge to edge. Each appears to be about 25
-feet in diameter and 10 feet thick at the center. (“Report from the
-Readers,” Fate 8, no. 2 (February 1955): 122–123; Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 390
Date: 11/2/1920
-Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh
-PA
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
Date: 1921
-Description: Undocumented report of an “abduction” by two beings.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Marseilles, France
-ID: 43
Date: 1921
-Description: An 8-year-old is playing in the hillocks near a canal in
-Marseille, France. He is suddenly accosted by two tall, slender men
-wearing apparent diving suits who drag him into a strange looking
-“tank.” After a while, an opening appears in the ceiling, and in a few
-moments he finds himself back on the ground. He must walk all afternoon
-to get back to the place where the UFO picked him up 5 minutes earlier.
-(Clark III 264; [Letter], “J’ai voyagé en soucoupe,” Paris-Match, no.
-291, October 23, 1954; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-7, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 391
Date: late 7/1921
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Annie Baker of 39 Highland Road, Southsea,
-Portsmouth, England, sees a “strange looking bladder like monster the
-shape of an airship only much wider” during a thunderstorm. It is
-luminous and remains stationary for several minutes but moves away and
-disappears quickly. (UFOFiles2, pp. 13–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 392
Date: 7/29/1921
-Description: The Council on Foreign Relations is incorporated. Founded
-by corporate lawyer Elihu
-Root, the organization brings diplomats, high-level government
-officials, and academics together with lawyers, bankers, and
-industrialists to engineer foreign policy. The first issue of Foreign
-Affairs is published in September 1922. (Wikipedia, “Council
-on Foreign Relations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 393
Date: 9/1921
-Description: The British Air Ministry has asked the public to submit
-reports on observations of ball lightning to its Meteorological Office.
-The results are summarized by geophysicist Harold
-Jeffreys, who
-notes very little uniformity in the observations, with little agreement
-on size, duration, color, or shape. (Harold Jeffreys, “Results of
-the Ball Lightning Inquiry,” Meteorological Magazine 56 (September
-1921): 208–211; UFOFiles2, pp. 13–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 394
Date: 9/1/1921
-Description: J. H. C. Macbeth of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
-announces that inventor Guglielmo Marconi is
-convinced he has intercepted wireless signals from Mars while cruising
-in the Mediterranean Sea on his mobile laboratory and yacht, the
-Electra. The signals are regular and “produced high in the meter band.”
-One of them resembles the letter “V” in the Marconi Code. (“Marconi
-Sure Mars Flashes Messages,” New York Times, September 2, 1921,
-p. 1; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and
-Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 395
Date: 10/9/1921
-Description: Harvard University astronomer William
-Henry Pickering claims that he has discovered, through two years of
-observation, vegetation growing in lunar craters that contain water and
-a source of heat. They seem to form strips or “canals” that vary
-according to season. (“Says
-2 Crops a Day Grow on the Moon,” New York Times, October 9, 1921,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 396
Date: 1922
-Description: Starting this year, ghost lights are seen every year until
-1932 in the desert near the Oregon Canyon Ranch, McDermott, Nevada. They
-look like lanterns or car headlights in the distance. More than 50 of
-the sheepherders in the area have seen the lights, including Tito
-Bengoa, the brother of Frank and
-Christopher
-Bengoa of the King’s River Ranch near Orovada. (Kenneth Arnold,
-“Phantom Lights in Nevada,” Fate 1, no. 3 (Fall 1948): 96–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 397
Date: 1922
-Description: County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence
-Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine
-(4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in
-the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the
-entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the
-sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied
-soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early
-pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their
-rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored
-car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave
-entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame
-throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in
-shape and glowing and of a shiny metal.
-Type: UFO sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: County Donegal, Ireland
Date: 2/22/1922
-Time: 0500
-Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard
-a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight.
-It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a
-creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the
-object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed
-without results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 22 (Vallee)
-Location: Hubbell, Nebraska
-ID: 44
Date: summer 1922
-Description: Many witnesses in Warsaw, Poland, see a silvery object,
-shaped like two hemispheres divided by a rotating ring, that shoots a
-beam of light and ascends with a loud noise. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs
-and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 15; Poland
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 399
Date: summer 1922
-Description: A teenage couple, William O’Brien and Irma (later married
-surname is Hinz), walking home from a movie in Detroit, Michigan, see a
-large disc-shaped object hovering above a vacant lot on South Dragoon
-Street. Rectangular windows surround the perimeter of the UFO’s base.
-Seated at those windows are 20 or so bald- headed beings with close-set
-eyes. They stare at the witnesses, who become unnerved and leave. (Clark
-III 264; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1910–1939, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 398
Date: 9/9/1922
-Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the
-ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out,
-but nothing was found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 639 (Vallee)
-Location: Barmouth, Wales
-ID: 45
Date: 1923
-Description: A photograph shows a domed disc hovering near the church
-tower in Sebeş, Romania. (Romania 10-11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 401
Date: 1923
-Description: Two DePauw University college students, Andrew Wallace
-Crandall and Herrick
-Greenleaf, watch a revolving red object pass over Greencastle,
-Indiana. The object, round and glowing, moves silently from northeast to
-southwest, then vanishes. (Lore and Deneault, p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 400
Date: 10/1923
-Description: Boni & Liveright publishes New Lands by Charles
-Fort, who writes about odd aerial and astronomical observations: “It
-seems no more incredible that up in the seemingly unoccupied sky there
-should be hosts of living things than that the seeming blank of the
-ocean, should swarm with life.” (Wikipedia, “New
-Lands”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the
-Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 198–199; Clark III 507, 1098)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 402
Date: 1/1924
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Perry G. Powers and Duncan Miller are returning
-to a ranch when they see a beam of light shining on the snow in the
-Osage Hills, Oklahoma. It emanates from a large oval-shaped object with
-white dots of light on the side and blue flame at the trailing end. It
-makes a slight hissing noise and moves out of sight over the horizon in
-less than 3 minutes. (UFOEv, p. 129;
-“1924
-Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4
-(Winter 1954): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 403
Date: 8/22/1924
-Description: Mars enters an opposition closer to Earth than at any time
-in the century before. In the US, a National Radio Silence Day is
-promoted during a 36-hour period in August 21–23, with all radios quiet
-for 5 minutes on the hour, every hour, just in case the Martians take
-the opportunity to communicate with Earth. At the US Naval Observatory
-in Washington, D.C., an SE-950 radio receiver is lifted 1.9 miles above
-the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9
-kilometers, using a “radio photo message continuous transmission
-machine” recently invented by Amherst College and Charles
-Francis Jenkins of Washington. The program is led by retired
-astronomer David
-Peck Todd with the military assistance of Chief of Naval Operations
-Adm. Edward Walter
-Eberle, with
-William
-F. Friedman (US Army chief cryptographer), assigned to translate any
-potential Martian messages. The device records radio signals on
-chemically treated film. One signal consists of a “fairly regular
-arrangement of dots and dashes along one side” and on the other “at
-almost evenly spaced intervals … curiously jumped groups each taking the
-forms of a crudely drawn human face.” Todd tells a reporter, “It may not
-be a message from Mars, but if it isn’t from Mars, where is it from?”
-Astronomer Frederick
-E. Fowle of the Smithsonian thinks they are “disturbances introduced
-by solar or terrestrial causes not yet understood.” Other scientists
-suggest the images are caused by static discharge from a passing trolley
-car, malfunctioning radio equipment, or the natural symphonic radio
-waves produced by Jupiter. (Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,”
-IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 20; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from
-Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 11–12;
-Kristen Gallerneaux, “Reaching
-for Mars,” Past Forward, August 23, 2016; Jessica Leigh Hester, “Everybody
-Shut Up! We’re Listening for Mars,” Atlas Obscura, August 3,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 404
Date: fall 1924
-Description: Dusk. A hunter in a rowboat on Okanagan Lake, British
-Columbia, sees a faint blue light moving from northeast to southwest. It
-temporarily disappears behind a mountain but reappears and approaches
-the boat, passing it at a distance of 200 feet and a speed of 30–40 mph.
-The object is pearly silver in color with faint dark blue light at the
-rear. After moving a quarter mile away, it ascends and disappears at
-terrific speed. (Clark III 1171–1172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 405
Date: 1925
-Description: Thomas Green is riding with another young man on a farm
-near Moora, Western Australia, when they come across an object “like two
-saucers placed edge on edge” resting on a paddock. Some oval-shaped
-windows are visible, and it is resting on four legs splayed outwards.
-The two decide to return home. Several days later they return and find
-the earth “scuffed about” on the spot. (Bill Chalker, “Historical
-Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3
-(Nov./Dec. 1983): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 406
Date: 6/1925
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A driver stops his Ford Model T to watch a
-300-foot-long, cigar-shaped object flying south toward Chicago,
-Illinois. Red sparks are peeling away from its nose and it has
-multicolored lights. As it passes in front, the driver feels a heat
-wave. (San Diego (Calif.) Evening Tribune, August 12, 1965; Clark III
-1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 407
Date: 1926
-Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
-Type: UFO sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Himalaya Mountains
Date: 1926
-Alternate date: 1927
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A 14-year-old girl is tending cows in a meadow
-between Brzezie and Ujazd, Poland. Suddenly the cows become agitated and
-pull on their halters. She notices three cement-colored spherical
-objects some 650 feet away in a field to the north. In front of each is
-a small entity dressed in greenish uniforms. (Poland 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 408
Date: 1/1926
-Description: Aviator Bert
-Acosta is flying somewhere between Wichita, Kansas, and Colorado
-Springs, Colorado, when he notices 6 or so objects that look like
-manhole covers flying off his starboard wing 600 feet away. They keep
-pace with his plane for 5 minutes. Finally they turn, change course, and
-fly away. (Jacques Vallée, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Ace ed., 1965, p. 49;
-Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,” August 6, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 409
Date: 6/1926
-Description: After midnight. Farmer Ion Bunescu is with his horses on
-the Leurda plateau near Colun, Romania, when he sees a light ascend from
-the village of Cârța. An illuminated globe moves toward him with a light
-so strong that it brightens the River Olt some 2.5 miles away. Hobana
-and Weverbergh 224–225; Romania 9–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 410
Date: 8/1926
-Description: Dusk. Frank Tezky and his father watch 6 disc-shaped
-objects in Westmont, Illinois. Five smaller discs are trailing in a
-straight line behind a much larger one, moving west beneath cirrus
-clouds, which reflect the light cast by the objects. (Clark III
-1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 411
Date: late 9/1926
-Description: 11:00 p.m. An Air Mail pilot named Colin Murphy is
-repeatedly buzzed by a huge glowing object one hour after he takes off
-in his DH-4 biplane from Salt Lake City, Utah. The object is a
-90-foot-long cylinder with no wings or propeller. Every time the object
-approaches closer than 150 feet, his engine sputters and misfires. He is
-forced to land in a sheep pasture, whereupon the object shoots away to
-the south. Possible hoax. (Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,” August 5, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 412
Date: 10/27/1926
-Description: Attorney and “telepathist” Hugh Mansfield Robinson, who has
-been in contact with a female Martian entity named Oomaruru since 1918,
-convinces the central radio office in London, England, to send out a
-message, “MMM opesti nipitia secomba” over the airwaves. He intends for
-it to be picked up by Martian wireless. The next day, he claims that
-Oomaruru telepathically told him that only the first three letters had
-been received. Robinson describes the Martians as 7–8 feet tall with
-large ears, a wealth of black hair, and almond eyes. Over the years he
-continues receiving messages from Oomaruru while in a trance and
-attempting to send signals to Mars. Psychic investigator Nandor
-Fodor, who has attended some of Robinson’s séances, calls him “as
-slippery as a human eel.” (Earl J. Johnson, “Imagination
-Runs Wild about Visit of Martian Realm,” Pomona (Calif.) Bulletin,
-October 28, 1926, p. 1; “Doctor
-Files Mars Message by Radio ‘At Sender’s Risk,’” Vancouver (B.C.)
-Sun, October 28, 1926, p. 18; Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind, Garrett,
-1959, pp. 259–269;
-Clark III 1018–1019; Marc Hartzman, “Earth
-to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact
-Martians via Radio,” Weird Historian, February 22, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 413
Date: 11/1926
-Description: Early evening. Playing hide-and-seek with friends in
-Bolton, Lancashire, England, Henry Thomas slips into a backyard and
-finds three figures dressed in odd suits made of silvery gray rubber
-tubes. They are looking into a window in the back of a house. A tube
-extends from their helmets into a tank on each figure’s back. They turn
-to look at him and he sees their heads are pale and “shaped like
-lightbulbs” and they have slits for mouths. Thomas runs away. (“1926:
-Humanoid Hide and Seek,” ThinkAboutIt; Clark III 264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 414
Date: 1927
-Description: For a few weeks, 10-year-old Cecil
-“Danny” McGann, his family, and other farmers in the area of
-Fernvale, New South Wales, are terrorized by dancing aerial lights
-during the night, the unusual deaths of their cattle and pigs, mystery
-intruders, apparitions, circular areas of scorched grass, large and
-unfamiliar birds, bizarre noises, and strange men in odd suits. McGann
-is still terrified of this series of events when he relates them to UFO
-investigator Bill
-Chalker in 1985. (Clark III 485–491; Bill Chalker, “Physical
-Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 415
Date: summer 1927
-Description: Reece
-Andrew Lacey, 9,
-sees a large fish-like object with “big fins extended outward near the
-front, and small, short ones near the rear” in Wolfe County, Kentucky.
-(“Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 2 (December 1958): 111–112;
-Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 416
Date: 7/1927
-Description: Agricultural engineer Gheorghe Achimescu sees a smoke-gray,
-cylindrical object fly silently from west to east over the village of
-Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania, at an altitude of 650–950 feet. He estimates
-it is about 50 feet long with a diameter of 10 feet. (Hobana and
-Weverbergh 152–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 417
Date: 8/5/1927
-Description: Explorer Nicholas
-Roerich and others in his caravan observe a UFO near Qinghai Lake,
-Tibet. “We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and
-shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing
-our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest,
-and we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time
-to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly the oval form with
-the shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun.”
-(Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929, pp. 361–362;
-Brad Sparks, “Analysis:
-Roerich Case, Aug. 5, 1927”) Late summer — Long delayed echoes—radio
-echoes that return to the sender several seconds after a radio
-transmission has occurred—are first observed by civil engineer and
-amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals from his home near Oslo, Norway. The
-cause of LDEs remains unknown, although A. G. Shlionsky has proposed 15
-different explanations. (Wikipedia, “Long
-delayed echo”; Carl Størmer, “Short
-Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis,” Nature 122 (1928): 681; Sverre
-Holm, “The
-Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” March 16,
-2004; Sverre Holm, “15
-Possible Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” November 6,
-2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 418
Date: 10/18/1927
-Description: Richard Sweed is driving west on the outskirts of
-Bakersfield, California, when he sees a bluish-gray metallic disc with
-portholes take off from the ground at a 45° angle. It is about 60 feet
-in diameter and makes a whining sound. He examines the spot where the
-object had rested and finds the sand “fused like glass crystals.”
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 419
Date: 1/3/1928
-Description: Kansas journalist Charles
-Benedict Driscoll begins writing about ball lighting in his
-syndicated column, “The World and All,” keeping the subject alive for
-many years. (Charles B. Driscoll, “The
-World and All,” Lexington (Ky.) Herald, January 3, 1928, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 420
Date: 5/1928
-Description: Mystic and white supremacist William
-Dudley Pelley claims he has an out-of-body experience in which he
-travels to other planes of existence devoid of corporeal souls. He
-describes his experience in an American Magazine article titled “My
-Seven Minutes in Eternity,” expanded to a book 1933 as Seven Minutes in
-Eternity. In later writings, he describes the experience as
-“hypo-dimensional.” During this event, he meets with God and Jesus, who
-instruct him to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. He
-later claims that the experience gives him the ability to levitate, see
-through walls, and have out-of-body experiences at will. (William Dudley
-Pelley, “Seven
-Minutes in Eternity” with Their Aftermath, Robert
-Collier, 1929; Clark III 1285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 421
Date: 6/13/1928
-Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Something like a “great blurred electric
-light” appears over Miami, Florida, for more than 30 minutes. One
-witness, amateur astronomer R. C. Fahrion, describes it as a comet
-without a tail, but it does not move, is of an “enormous size,” and
-disappears very suddenly. (“Miami
-Astronomers Unable to Identify Light in Sky,”
-Miami Herald, June 14, 1928, p. 1; “Miamians
-Watch Sky Mystery, Mistaken for Tailless Comet,” Miami News, June
-14, 1928, p. 12; Clark III 1172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 423
Date: summer 1928
-Description: A 6-year-old girl sees a black, faceless, 5-foot-high
-figure with a large head and dangling arms in a field off Anstey Lane,
-Leicester, England. She thinks it is a scarecrow but notices a “large
-globe on legs” near the figure. She wakes up her father (who is resting
-in the open air) but when she turns around, the scarecrow and the globe
-are gone. (Pauline Berger, “The
-Disappearing Scarecrow,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1969): 29; Clark III 264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 422
Date: 10/1928
-Description: Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up
-a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the
-first of the American bases on the continent and was
-well-equipped.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antarctica
Date: early 11/1928
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Norman
-H. Sabie and Thorsten
-Sabie are driving cattle near Milton, North Dakota, watch a round,
-metallic object, like a “soup bowl turned upside down,” speed by at a
-low altitude (15–20 feet), emitting 4–5 rays of light that illuminate
-the ground and startle cattle. It makes a sound like air pouring through
-a tube. (UFOEv, p. 129;
-Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 424
Date: 11/28/1928
-Description: French diplomatic scholar Henri
-Pensa writes that a silvery object trailing fire is seen in Rodez,
-Aveyron, France, coming from the “direction of Mars.” He says that in
-the winter of 1927–1928, he has seen a bright light, usually between
-8:00 and 11:00 p.m., that brightens the landscape. (Giuseppe Stilo, “Francia,
-1928: Marte
-Attacca?” Cielo Insolito, October 2, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 425
Date: 1929
-Description: In Hertford, England, a 5-year-old girl and her 8-year-old
-brother have such an unsettling experience that they do not talk about
-it themselves until about 1960, and the woman herself does not reveal it
-to outsiders until 1970. They are playing in a garden when they hear
-engine sounds and see a tiny (12 or 15 inches wide) biplane coming over
-the fence from the direction of an orchard. It swoops down, nearly
-hitting a trash can, and lands for a few seconds before resuming its
-flight. While it is stationary, the girl can see a “perfectly
-proportioned tiny pilot wearing a leather flying helmet, who waved to us
-as he took off.” (Gordon Creighton, “A
-Weird Case from the Past,”
-Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): 30; Clark III
-1173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 426
Date: Spring 1929
-Description: SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds
-of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The
-day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft
-from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged
-its size to be tremendous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3
-ff5))
-Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
Date: 6/12/1929
-Time: 2300
-Description: Levis Brosseau, 2O was returning home when he saw a dark
-object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m
-of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth.
-He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the dark object take
-off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size of
-object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Fermeneuve, Canada
-ID: 46
Date: 6/12/1929
-Description: 11:00 p.m. As he is driving home at Ferme-Neuve, Quebec,
-Levis Brosseau, 20, sees something like a black cloud with a yellow
-light resting on a hillside. He gets out to investigate and discerns a
-structured object 50 feet in diameter. Outside of it, 4–5 small men of
-yellowish color are moving quickly about. Soon the object flies
-overhead, “purring like a milk separator,” and he hears two voices
-arguing. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index
-1910–1939, p. 31;
-Clark III 264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 427
Date: 7/1929
-Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of
-light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly,
-vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30
-min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jan., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Robsart, Canada
-ID: 47
Date: 9/1929
-Description: Medical student William Walton is crossing a street in Oak
-Park, Illinois, when he sees a very bright yellowish-white light like
-two saucers pressed together. It approaches his position, and he hears a
-humming sound like the throbbing of a turbine and feels heat and
-pressure. The object passes over him at about 100 feet altitude, but the
-force knocks him to his knees. After it passes, he detects an odor of
-sulfur. (Linda Zimmerman, More Hudson Valley UFOs, Eagle Press,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 428
Date: 10/4/1929
-Description: US stock market crashes
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City, New York
Date: 11/29/1929
-Description: Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first
-to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little
-America to the Pole and return.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antartica
Date: 1930
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A woman is driving the family car in an isolated
-hilly area of Texas when she rounds a curve and sees a huge object about
-100 feet across by the side of the road. A small door is open with steps
-leading down to the ground. One side of the object is braced up by two
-slender legs with round plates for feet. A man of normal size comes
-walking toward her and forces her to stop. He seems to speak to her
-telepathically, telling her to leave the road and make a shortcut
-through a gully. Some 8–10 other figures walk forward, much smaller and
-with slanted eyes. They are wearing tan coveralls and tight caps.
-Despite potential damage to her car, she drives through the gully as the
-larger man walks alongside. The next thing she remembers is walking up
-to her porch at her home 15 miles away. It is around 12:00 midnight. In
-March 1968, having read Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney
-Hill case, she writes to the Colorado project and offers herself for
-hypnosis and research. Edward
-Condon files the letter under “psychological” and does not respond.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th
-Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 4–5; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-29, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 429
Date: 1930
-Description: Day. Schoolboys and teachers at the Barton Hill Academy in
-Bristol, England, watch a cigar-shaped metallic object speed across the
-sky faster than a dirigible. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
-1969, pp. 16–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 430
Date: 1930
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two men walking along a lane at Tomintoul,
-Scotland, see a white light “like a meteor.” When it gets brighter, they
-can see figures moving inside it. The witnesses think it is a ghost
-light. (Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-20, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 431
Date: spring 1930
-Alternate date: spring 1931
-Description: 7:00 p.m. As he walks down a country road near Newberry,
-Michigan, high school student Ralph Newman sees a “distinctly green
-fireball” in the low eastern sky that moves from south to north. About
-the size of the full moon, its light brightens the countryside, then it
-vanishes. (Clark III 1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 432
Date: 5/1930
-Description: Day. A top-shaped object 40 feet wide lands in a garden in
-Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rankin and their two
-daughters can see the head and shoulders of a figure inside wearing a
-tight-fitting outfit and helmet. Some 5–10 minutes later the object
-ascends quietly and is gone. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index
-1910–1939, p. 33;
-Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-15, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 433
Date: 1/1/1931
-Description: 1:00 a.m. J. Stewart Childerhose and his brother, two
-farmers of Cobden, Ontario, see an object with a brilliant white light
-on its front illuminating treetops on the shore of Muskrat Lake. Green
-and white lights twinkle on its tail end. It moves in a rectangular
-path, then speeds up suddenly and climbs out of sight. (Lore and
-Deneault, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 434
Date: 1/26/1931
-Description: Author Tiffany
-Thayer founds the Fortean Society during a dinner with Charles
-Fort in the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City in order to promote
-his books and ideas. (Wikipedia, “Fortean
-Society”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the
-Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 239–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 435
Date: 2/1931
-Description: Charles
-Fort writes in Lo!, published this month, that “Unknown, luminous
-things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth,
-and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living
-things that occasionally come from somewhere else.” (Wikipedia, “Lo!”;
-Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural,
-Tarcher, 2008, pp. 235–243; Clark III 507–508, 1098)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 436
Date: 5/1931
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Pasquale Masala is out riding his horse with a
-friend a few miles southeast of Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy. When they
-reach a megalithic tomb known as Nuraghe Trudumeddu, they dismount to
-enjoy the view. Suddenly, a strange object the size and shape of a
-football emerges from the partially blocked entrance of the tomb. It
-travels at a height of about 3 feet above the ground at a constant speed
-of about 10–15 mph and enters a thick patch of undergrowth. Marsala runs
-after it for about a half mile and notices that the bushes part in front
-of the object and close up after it passes. His companion is frightened
-and insists on returning to the village. (Mary Boyd, “An
-Early Italian Cross-Country Case,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3
-(December 1974): 21; 1Pinotti 13– 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 437
Date: 6/6/1931
-Description: Aviator Francis
-Chichester sees a dull gray-white “airship” as he is making the
-first solo flight in a Gypsy Moth seaplane from New Zealand to Australia
-over the Tasman Sea. (Francis Chichester, The Lonely Sea and the Sky,
-Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, p. 165;
-Keith Basterfield, “Aviator
-Francis Chichester’s Classic Sighting: Is the Date
-Wrong?” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, May 29,
-2018; Patrick Gross, “Francis Chichester
-Sighting, 1931”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 438
Date: summer 1931
-Description: Alice May Williams of Auckland, New Zealand, begins writing
-letters over a two-year period to Edison
-Pettit and Seth
-Barnes Nicholson, astronomers
-at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California, describing her
-encounters with telepathic aliens who fly in a circular machine “like a
-great big lamp.” She writes that “The Planet mars is inhabited by human
-spirits like us can talk eat & drink wear clothes, but have great
-power. They are something people of this earth have never seen.” Their
-ships “are round like the moon with airtight shutter at the front,
-glass. The machine must be built with some light material, airproof
-fireproof, waterproof. The inside must be like a room, 2 beds tables
-& chairs.” Much of her information seems to be derived from articles
-in the Auckland Star about conditions elsewhere in the solar system.
-(David Herkt, “Who
-No: Letters from Alice May Williams,”
-Speaker: Public Address, September 3, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 439
Date: 1932
-Description: Danish pilots Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet and Lt. Tage Andersen
-are flying an H.M.II (Heinkel HE 8) seaplane over eastern Greenland as
-part of a photogrammetric survey. Suddenly, Andersen notices they are
-being followed by a hexagonal metallic object about a mile behind them.
-(Rufus Drake, “UFO Crisis over Greenland,” Saga, October 1976,
-pp. 36–38, 54, 60; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,” August 8, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 440
Date: 4/1932
-Alternate date: 5/1932
-Description: Terry F. Lapeza sees an aluminum-like disc with yellowish
-lights or “portholes” on the underside, about 100 feet in diameter over
-Durham, New York. It is moving north at about 300 mph. (UFOEv, p. 129)
-Early summer (or early summer 1933)— 7:30 p.m. Teenager Fred W. Van Sant
-and his brother Milton see 7–8 “meteors flying in a bunch” over hills
-east of Oakland, California. They maintain the same altitude from east
-to west in a great arc. The objects are silent and are so bright they
-seem to be emitting their own light. (NICAP case file; Clark III
-1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 441
Date: 6/1932
-Description: Evening. Reuben
-D. Knight is standing on the porch of his farmhouse near Wattsburg,
-Pennsylvania, when he notices a bright speck of light approaching from
-some woods to the south. Growing in size, it comes to within 4 feet of
-him and appears as a silvery-blue ball about 14 inches in diameter. It
-travels in a loop and circles back to the woods in a steady path of
-35–40 mph. After it circles past him again, he calls his wife and she
-sees the ball make a final loop before it disappears in the woods.
-(NICAP case file; Clark III 1175; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-August 19, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 442
Date: 1933
-Description: Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he
-spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support,
-in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antartica
Date: 1933
-Description: Earl J. Duncan and a Native American boy are in a truck
-near Fort Washakie, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian Reservation. As
-they reach the crest of a hill, they see three perfectly round,
-pulsating, orange-red balls about 900 feet away. They are moving “in
-absolute alignment” about 20 feet from the ground toward the nearest
-mountain range. After 5 minutes of silent movement they disappear over a
-nearby mountain. (NICAp case file; Clark III 1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 443
Date: 1/30/1933
-Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 3/4/1933
-End date: 4/12/1945
-Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 6/1/1933
-Description: English mountaineer Frank
-Smythe, during
-the British Mount Everest Expedition in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal,
-is heading for camp at 27,500 feet when he sees two dark objects
-floating in the blue sky. In shape they resemble kite balloons, except
-that one appears to possess short squat wings. As they hover motionless,
-they seem to pulsate in and out as though they are breathing. A minute
-or two later they disappear behind mountain mist. (Frank S. Smythe, Camp
-Six: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition, Hodder and
-Stoughton, 1937, pp. 264–265;
-Barry Greenwood, “UFOs
-on Mt. Everest in 1933,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 (July 1999):
-2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 447
Date: 6/13/1933
-Description: An unknown aircraft allegedly crashes at Magenta, just west
-of Milan, Italy. The Italian government establishes a top-secret group,
-Gabinetto Ricerche Speziale/33, to examine the craft. It is headed by
-Prime Minister Benito
-Mussolini, Foreign Minister Galeazzo
-Ciano, and Air Marshal Italo
-Balbo, with scientific support from Guglielmo
-Marconi and astronomer Gino
-Cecchini. Debris
-is reportedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI- Marchetti aircraft
-company in Vergiate, Varese. Journalists are ordered to keep silent
-about the incident due to national security. (Good Need, pp. 12–15;
-Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo,
-2001; 2Pinotti 179–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 448
Date: summer 1933
-Time: Morning
-Description: A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this
-town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in
-diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door.
-Pushing it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many
-instruments, no occupant. Smell of ammonia.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Chrysville, Pennsylvania
-ID: 48
Date: summer 1933
-Description: Night. Frank Van Keuren is fishing with others along the
-waterway off Beach Haven, New Jersey. Suddenly they are illuminated by a
-searchlight coming from an object moving slowly and silently about 1,000
-feet in the air. It goes on to circle some radio towers about 8 miles
-away, flooding them with light. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, pp. 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 446
Date: summer 1933
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A man who still insists on anonymity in 1964 is
-driving near Cherryville, Pennsylvania, when his car gets a flat tire.
-As he is jacking it up, he sees a faint violet light in the field on his
-right. Curious, he walks about 200 feet toward the light and sees a
-bell-shaped object about 10 feet in diameter and 6 feet high on the
-grass. Light is issuing from a circular door about 1 foot in diameter.
-He pushes it and it swings open. Putting his head inside, he cannot see
-much because of the peculiar light coming from the ceiling. The chamber
-inside is about 6 feet in diameter, 4 feet high, and full of tubing and
-dials on a console. An ammonia scent pervades the room, which is notably
-chilly. The man then walks around the object, touching the surface,
-which is slick, metallic, and cold. After 10 minutes, he goes back to
-the car, replaces the tire, and drives home. (“Flying
-Saucer Spotted
-in 1933,” Allentown (Pa.) Sunday Call-Chronicle, February 16, 1964,
-pp. B1–B2; Clark III 1175–1176; “1933
-Sighting Reported,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 7–8; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, July
-16, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 445
Date: summer 1933
-Description: For weeks, strange lights in the sky are reported around
-Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan. Curious about the reports, two young men and a
-woman drive to the lake from Napawin. On their way they see a glow near
-the horizon, so they park and trek a quarter mile into the woods where
-they can see a large, oval-shaped craft sitting on legs. From an open
-central doorway shines a bright orange glow; a ladderlike stairway
-extends downward with a dozen figures dressed in silver suits moving up
-and down the steps. They appear to be repairing the craft. The witnesses
-watch for 30 minutes when they decide to return to their truck and get
-closer. Two nights later they return and find imprints and burn marks,
-which they photograph. Two of them write an article that they submit to
-magazines, which refuse to publish what they consider outlandish
-fiction. (John Brent Musgrave, “Saskatchewan,
-1933: UFO Stops
-for ‘Repairs,’” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 16–17;
-Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-15, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 444
Date: 7/4/1933
-Description: The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany,
-after all other parties are banned or split up.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 7/5/1933
-Description: Evening. Four RAF Hawker Fury I biplanes flying over
-Sussex, England, encounter a gigantic light that shines directly into
-the center of their formation from a higher altitude. Two Hawkers
-experience mechanical trouble and separate. Capt. Nigel Tompkins and Lt.
-Bruce H. Thomas make emergency landings when both their planes’ engines
-quit. On his way down, Thomas passes so close to the light that it
-causes burns on his face and hands. Probable hoax. (History of the III
-Fighter Squadron, RAF, London Press, 1947; Jan Aldrich, “Aircraft/UFO Encounters
-Prior to 1942,” Project 1947; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,” August 3, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 449
Date: 7/31/1933
-Alternate date: 8/1/1933
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Somewhere between Butt Valley Reservoir and
-Humbug Valley, California, high- school science teacher Paul M. Barry
-Jr. is skywatching when he sees two objects shoot across the sky. They
-are solid, prolate spheroids with a green luminescence. Their brightness
-changes considerably as they approach the zenith and diminish as they
-approach the horizon. He thinks they are 8–10 miles distant. The two
-objects disappear and are followed by a third. (Clark III 1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 450
Date: fall 1933
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A chemist in Contra Costa County, California,
-hears a humming sound outside coming from the northeast. Looking out the
-window, he sees the yard bathed in a steady blue-purple light. Suddenly
-the light goes out and the humming ends with a “pow” sound. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 451
Date: late 11/1933
-Description: After sunset. A lone observer sees what appears to be an
-aircraft land on ice-covered lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden. It takes
-off and circles the lake for one hour, during which time it projects a
-powerful searchlight on the lake’s surface. However, local police
-interview the witness and suspect that he was looking at Venus. (Swords
-361)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 452
Date: 12/24/1933
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden, see beams
-of light coming from a machine that seems to be searching the ground
-below. The beams are “blinding.” The sighting is part of a wave of
-“ghost flier” reports of gray monoplanes without identifying markings
-that are reported over rural areas of Scandinavia from November 15,
-1933, through February 11, 1934. The Swedish Military Record Office
-accumulates 96 reports from Sweden, 234 from Norway, and 137 from
-Finland, and the Swedish Air Force undertakes at least two
-reconnaissance missions in search of the mystery planes. More than 50%
-of the reports take place between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., when Venus is
-low over the horizon. (Strange Company 7; Hilary Evans and Robert E.
-Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 497–499; Swords 361–363;
-Anders Liljegren, “Ghost
-Flier Mystery
-Still Unresolved,” AFU Newsletter 41 (September 2001): 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 453
Date: 12/28/1933
-Description: The 4th Swedish Flying Corps begins an investigation of the
-ghost flyers. (John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes
-of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1970): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 454
Date: 12/30/1933
-Description: Swedish customs sends a request for air support to Gen. Eric
-Virgin, head
-of the Swedish Air Force, to help apprehend the ghost fliers who could
-be smuggling liquor into Sweden. However, he is cautious and wants more
-information to evaluate. (Swords 361–362; Good Above, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 455
Date: 1934
-Description: INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J.
-Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the
-sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were
-soundless and moved at a snail’s pace. Duncan’s sighting has many things
-in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes,
-as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
-Location: Fort Washakie, WY
Date: 1/1934
-Description: George
-Adamski, who
-has been a lecturer and counselor on spiritual topics since about 1928,
-opens the Monastery of the Royal Order of Tibet at 758 Manzanita Drive,
-Laguna Beach, California. The monastery serves as his home and
-headquarters until 1940. (George M. Eberhart, “George Adamski—New Age
-Meets the Space Age,” IUR 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 20; “Laguna
-Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September
-27, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 456
Date: 1/2/1934
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Olof Hedlund is taking a walk in Sorsele,
-Västerbotten, Sweden, when he hears an engine above him. There is a full
-moon and visibility is good. He sees an airplane fly over the city from
-the west, passing directly above the train station. It turns three times
-in wide circles, then it takes off to the north, following the railroad
-tracks. It is at about 1,300 feet altitude and visible for 15 minutes.
-(John A. Keel, “Mystery
-Aeroplanes of the
-1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970):
-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 457
Date: 1/9/1934
-Description: A mystery airplane is seen again over Västerbotten
-province, Sweden. The Swedish Air Force loses two aircraft trying to
-discover where the plane is based. (“Mystery
-Plane Reported,” New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 11; Strange
-Company 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 458
Date: 1/10/1934
-Description: Gen. Pontus
-Reuterswärd, chief
-of armed forces in Upper Norrland, Sweden, recommends to officials of
-Norrbotten County that they request assistance from the Air Force to
-deal with the ghost fliers. Norrbotten administrator Bernard Gärde is
-skeptical of the “vague and unreliable” reports at first. (Swords
-361–362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 459
Date: 1/22/1934
-Description: A mystery aircraft flies over the military fortress at
-Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, seen by 30 soldiers, and Reuterswärd alerts
-the press that planes had flown over restricted military areas. (John A.
-Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes
-of the 1930s, Part III—The Landings,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1971): 17; Swords 362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 460
Date: 1/27/1934
-Description: Swedish MP Arvid
-Lindman puts a question to Prime Minister Per
-Albin Hansson, asking
-what action the government plans to take about the ghost fliers. (Swords
-362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 461
Date: 2/1/1934
-Description: Night. A mystery aircraft flies in circles for two hours
-over central London, England. Its engine is noisy, and its course can be
-clearly seen by its lights. On February 6, Under-Secretary of State for
-Air Philip
-Sassoon claims that it was an RAF plane carrying out a training
-exercise in coordination with ground forces. (John A. Keel, “Mystery
-Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1970): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 462
Date: 2/2/1934
-Description: Night. A large unidentified airplane is seen over eastern
-Finland close to the Russian frontier, apparently scouting the district.
-Flights of ghost planes and mysterious lights have been seen for the
-past month over Helsinki and Vyborg, Finland, as well as Sweden and
-Norway. The Scandinavian mystery fliers continue to be seen into 1935.
-(“Finnish
-Alarm Grows over ‘Ghost’ Planes,” New York Times, February 4, 1934,
-p. 9; Strange Company 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 464
Date: 2/2/1934
-Description: Prime Minister Hansson tells
-the Swedish Parliament that most ghost flier sightings are
-misidentifications or fantasy, while others are unsolved. (Swords
-362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 463
Date: 2/12/1934
-Description: Norrbotten, Sweden, administrator Bernard Gärde officially
-requests assistance of the Air Force with the ghost fliers. But air
-surveillance has actually been taking place since early January. (Swords
-362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 465
Date: 3/4/1934
-Description: Sweden calls off its hunt for the ghost fliers, although
-sightings are still being reported. Even though 24 airplanes
-participated in the search, no Swedish pilot has seen a ghost flier.
-Soldiers on the ground occasionally report sound from a motor or lights
-in the sky. (Swords 362–363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 466
Date: 4/30/1934
-Description: Gen. Reuterswärd tells
-the press that several ghost flier reports in January had been of real,
-unidentified aircraft involved in a violation of Sweden’s airspace. MP
-Elof
-Lindberg accuses him of not being competent enough to draw such a
-conclusion. (Good Above, p. 13;
-Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 467
Date: 6/11/1934
-Description: Night. Two mystery airplanes circle around London, England:
-“The machines were low enough for their outlines, as well as their
-navigation lights, to be clearly visible against the sky.” Regulations
-prohibit RAF planes from flying over London at less than 5,000 feet.
-(John A. Keel, “Mystery
-Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1970): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 468
Date: 6/19/1934
-Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established,
-replacing the Federal Radio Commission.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: summer 1934
-Description: Day. 9-year-old Coral
-E. Lightner and two friends watch a white object “like an open
-umbrella without the ribs or spurs” glide silently through the sky from
-the west-southwest to the northwest over Barron, Wisconsin. It moves
-silently with a slight undulation before it disappears after 20 seconds.
-(Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 15–16;
-“The
-Wisconsin Flying Saucer That Changed UFO Research Forever,”
-Wisconsin Frights, September 20, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 469
Date: 7/29/1934
-Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born
-in Elizabeth, NJ.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Elizabeth, NJ
Date: 8/9/1934
-Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Musician Leon
-M. Thompson is boating on Keuka Lake in western New York when he
-notices an odd cloud on the west side of the lake. It is in the form of
-an elongated cone some 60–75 feet in length and 10–15 feet in diameter
-at its largest point. Suddenly the sky lights up in a flash and the
-cloud emits a fireball that arcs across the lake to the east and leaves
-a fiery train. It falls on a cottage and throws up a cloud of mist or
-steam that slowly dissipates. (“Ball
-of Fire Brings Thrill to Fisherman,” Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette,
-August 4, 1934, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia:
-Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 315–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 470
Date: 1935
-End date: 1937
-Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War
-Type: UFO activity
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Ethiopia
Date: 1935
-Description: Astronomer Arthur
-M. Harding writes that “Surely there must be some forms of life on
-Venus that are not so very different from what we find on earth.”
-(Arthur M. Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down
-to Earth, Garden City Publishing, 1935, p. 408)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 472
Date: 1935
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Edward Winters of the US 4th Coast Artillery
-Regiment watches a dull-red, Zeppelin-shaped object flying over the
-Panama Canal Zone at high speed from the Pacific to the Atlantic for
-about 30 minutes. Later it returns, moving in the opposite direction
-farther away. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 471
Date: 1/10/1935
-Description: Charles Spayde, the operator of a telegraph station west of
-Lima, Ohio, claims that he has been receiving a “series of strange,
-unintelligible signals” that are broad in wavelength and “come in all
-over the dial.” He is convinced they are not static or mechanical
-disturbances and they do not originate on this planet. (Jerome Clark,
-“Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 473
Date: 1/22/1935
-Alternate date: 1/23/1935
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A woman in Vienna, Virginia, sees a
-lightning-like flash in the southwest that flares up several times then
-dies down. It seems to come from a “great blazing light, almost a ball
-of fire,” that is moving around the horizon. It is lost to view in the
-southeast. (“A correspondent from Vienna, Va., writes,” Science 81
-(1935): 294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 474
Date: spring 1935
-Description: Night. A Mr. Aerts sees a brilliant circular object “like
-aluminum” in the sky above the roofs of nearby houses in Mechelen,
-Belgium. It lands and he sees two small occupants come out of the rear;
-they wear square helmets with short antennas and are apparently
-examining the exterior surface. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1910–1939, p. 42;
-Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 475
Date: 4/5/1935
-Description: Dusk. A farmer named Mora sees a large, round, brilliant
-object descend and hover just above the ground near his property in
-Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain. Several small beings appear and stroll
-around it. (Clark III 264–265; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April
-9, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 476
Date: 5/1935
-Description: Radu Popescu and his cousin are walking by the Olt River
-near Drăgășani, Romania, when they come upon what seems to be a Romany
-wagon. They see five figures—one next to the object, two farther away,
-and another two next to a boat on the shore. Suddenly the figures run
-toward the object, something black covers it, an antenna appears, and it
-rises up above the river. It turns to a white color as it moves away.
-(Romania 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 477
Date: 7/1/1935
-Description: The US Division of Investigation officially becomes the
-Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline, March
-31, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 478
Date: 7/8/1935
-Description: The Swedish Chief of Staff releases its final report on
-ghost fliers. After concluding that 42 of the 487 reports investigated
-by Sweden, Norway, and Finland are of actual aircraft violating borders,
-the military admits the phenomenon is at least partially real. (Swords
-363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 479
Date: 1936
-Description: Atmospheric physicist William
-Jackson Humphreys, after examing 280 cases, argues that ball
-lightning is caused by persistence of vision, meteorites,
-will-o’-the-wisp, brush discharge, and other natural phenomena. (W. J.
-Humphreys, “Ball
-Lightning,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76
-(1936): 613–626)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 480
Date: 1936
-Description: Late evening. Mrs. E. P. Higgins and another member of the
-Canal Zone Astronomical Society observe a moving orange-red star passing
-from north to south near Miraflores Lake, Panama. Suddenly it halts and
-travels in three small circles from right to left. (Lore and Deneault,
-pp. 112–113;
-Clark III 1176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 481
Date: 1/1936
-Description: George
-Adamski’s Royal Order of Tibet publishes Universal Jewels of Life as
-a free monthly newsletter for those attending his meetings in Laguna
-Beach, California. Besides Adamski, talks are also given by Marguerite
-Weir, Alice Wells, and others. Beginning in May, the Royal Order has a
-weekly 15-minute slot on local radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and
-KMPC in Los Angeles. He also publishes Wisdom of the Masters of the Far
-East, a summary of his “ageless wisdom” teachings. (“Laguna
-Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September
-27, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 482
Date: 6/26/1936
-Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable
-transverse twin rotor helicopter
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: link
-Location: Germany
Date: 8/17/1936
-Description: A metallic disc with a diameter of 33–40 feet is seen
-flying soundlessly near Venice, Italy. It has windows and alternating
-white and red lights. Two fighters from a nearby air base attempt to
-intercept it but cannot reach it. After maneuvering for an hour and
-passing above Mestre, Veneto, it appears more like a torpedo-shaped
-object. Two other smaller, domed discs are also seen following it. A
-report on the incident is sent to Foreign Minister Galeazzo
-Ciano. (Good
-Need, p. 12;
-Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo,
-2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 483
Date: fall 1936
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Louie
-R. Lindblad and five companions from Texarkana, Arkansas, are fox
-hunting in Bowie County, Texas [around the current site of the Red River
-Army Depot] when they observe numerous star- like objects in a circular
-formation. Occasionally a light would fly across the circle and take up
-another position until they all seem to relocate. They watch the display
-for about 30–40 minutes. (MUFON UFO Journal, no. 150, August 1980,
-p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 484
Date: 10/1936
-Description: Night. Holger Berg and another worker at the Civilian
-Conservation Corps in Eklutna, Alaska, are walking south toward
-Anchorage when the see a light approaching them from the south. It is
-attached to a cigar-shaped object embedded in a blue-green haze and
-making a strange buzzing noise. As the object passes directly overhead,
-they notice it actually has a triangular shape and multicolored lights
-on its tail end. Frightened, they dive into a nearby snowbank then run
-back to Eklutna. (Marler 64–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 485
Date: 10/10/1936
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Capt. Mario Rossi, flight instructor at the
-airfield at Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy, is flying a Savoia- Marchetti
-SM.62 at 12,465 feet over Talamone, Italy, when he sees an unusual light
-ahead of his plane. He follows the light, which is at a slightly higher
-altitude and moving at nearly 440 mph. Rossi loses it after flying into
-a cloud for 12 minutes and finding himself over Elba. (Ernesto Thayaht,
-“Three
-Sightings in Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1955):
-6; 1Pinotti 15–16; “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 486
Date: winter 1936
-Description: Robert Damion, an astronomer of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes,
-France, who has a private observatory in the Alps, claims that for
-several nights a “certain portion of the sky in the vicinity of Mars”
-has been lit up with a deep bluish tint for 40 seconds each time. He is
-convinced that Mars is trying to signal Earth. (“Strange
-Light from Mars
-Called Signal to Earth,” Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, March 11,
-1936, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 487
Date: 1/1937
-Description: A man who later becomes an administrator in a Missouri
-state agency chases a disc-shaped object in his private aircraft over
-Van Buren, Missouri. (Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The
-First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 488
Date: 1/1/1937
-Description: Noon. Pilot Howard S. Behr is flying a Curtiss-Wright CW-15
-Sedan at 3,000 feet over Virginia on his way to Raleigh, North Carolina.
-Suddenly he sees an object beginning to cross his flight path about
-1,000 feet below him. It looks like a gondola, gun-metal gray in color,
-with both of its ends turned up. He estimates it is about 35– 40 feet
-long and traveling at 150 mph. It moves off to his left and disappears.
-(Jerome Clark, Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs, Citadel, 2003,
-p. 6; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 489
Date: 1/4/1937
-Description: New ghost flier sightings around the fortress at Boden,
-Norrbotten, Sweden, have prompted Gen. Pontus Reuterswärd to
-alert Minister of Defence Janne
-Nilsson about the possibility of foreign spies. (Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 490
Date: late 1/1937
-Description: Ghost fliers return to Västerbotten, Sweden. A light is
-seen wandering near the horizon east of Umeå. A light brighter than a
-headlight is reported from a community near Dorotea. A light similar to
-position lights on an aircraft flies over a village outside Stensele.
-(Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 491
Date: 2/11/1937
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The crew of the fishing vessel Fram is departing
-Kvalsvik, Norway, when they notice a “large aeroplane” with red and
-green glowing lights resting on top of the water. The captain turns the
-boat around to offer assistance, but the object’s lights go out and it
-is cloaked in a “cloud of smoke” and vanishes. (Strange Company
-11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 492
Date: 2/15/1937
-Description: MP Elof
-Lindberg demands in the Swedish Parliament that a commission with
-civil experts, not military, should investigate the ghost flier
-intrusions. He suspects the military has embellished the reports to
-direct more resources to the northern region and to the Air Force in
-general. (Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 493
Date: 5/19/1937
-Description: Lindberg’s
-request for a civilian ghost flier investigation is rejected by Swedish
-Minister of Defence Janne Nilsson, who
-explains that no new facts have surfaced and few new observations have
-been reported. (Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 494
Date: 5/30/1937
-Description: Amateur astronomer Latimer
-J. Wilson of Nashville, Tennessee, is observing Mars through a
-12-inch reflector when he sees a series of intermittent bright flashes
-across the south polar cap. A line of tiny white spots seems to extend
-across the cap, some coalescing to swell in a brilliant white spot that
-quickly becomes yellow, then red- yellow, the “phenomenon passing from
-left to right across the polar cap.” (Latimer J. Wilson, “Apparent
-Flashes Seen
-on Mars,” Popular Astronomy 45 (1937): 430; Walter H. Haas, “Flashes
-on Mars Observed in 1937 and Some
-Random Remarks,” The Strolling Astronomer 45, no. 1 (Winter 2003):
-43–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 495
Date: summer 1937
-Description: An object allegedly falls from the sky in Langenau [now
-Czernica, Poland] into a field belonging to Eva Braun’s
-family and is retrieved by German soldiers. It supposedly winds up in Wernher
-von Braun’s laboratory, but the story is probably mythical. (Poland
-116–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 496
Date: 9/1937
-Description: Tiffany
-Thayer publishes the first issue of the Fortean Society Magazine
-(retitled Doubt in 1944) in New York City. (Fortean Society Magazine 1,
-no. 1 (September 1937); Clark III 516)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 497
Date: 9/10/1937
-End date: 9/12/1937
-Description: George
-Adamski’s Royal Order of Tibet organizes a festival in Laguna Beach,
-California, dramatizing the “teachings of the universal masters” and a
-round-table discussion focusing on the “present day needs in unifying
-all mankind.” (“Laguna
-Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September
-27, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 498
Date: 1938
-Description: Harvey L. Sperry, 13, sees a white, vapor-like object
-moving at 5–10 mph at less than 100 feet altitude from north to south in
-Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its rim seems to be “composed of two interwoven
-parts revolving and moving in opposite directions.” (Lore and Deneault,
-p. 136;
-Clark III 1176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 500
Date: 1938
-Description: The Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation begin
-contributing large amounts of money to the Council on Foreign Relations.
-They create various Committees on Foreign Relations throughout the
-country, which later become governed by the American Committees on
-Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., funded by a grant from the
-Carnegie Corporation. Influential men are chosen in several cities and
-are brought together for discussions in their own communities as well as
-participating in an annual conference in New York. These local
-committees serve to influence local leaders and shape public opinion to
-build support for the council’s policies, while also acting as “useful
-listening posts” through which the Council and US government can “sense
-the mood of the country.” (Wikipedia, “Council
-on Foreign Relations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 499
Date: 2/1938
-Description: Raymond
-A. Palmer is hired as editor of Amazing Stories magazine, owned by
-Ziff-Davis in Chicago, Illinois. He immediately sets out to enliven the
-periodical, which is close to folding. Concentrating on “space opera”
-stories, he expands its size to more than 200 pages and encourages
-readers to contribute content. (Wikipedia, “Raymond
-A. Palmer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 501
Date: summer 1938
-Description: Midnight. Artist Malcolm B. Perry sees what looks like a
-Navy blimp moving east to west over Somerville, Massachusetts. It has
-apparent portholes in the sides, and he can see the silhouette of
-someone looking at him. Other figures are taking turns looking through
-portholes. It disappears below some low clouds. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The
-Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 20–21; “1938: Perry’s Alien,” UFO Roundup
-5, no. 37 (September 4, 2000); Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 502
Date: 7/25/1938
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A lieutenant and his aide see a strong light
-coming from a hovering lens-shaped object near Guadalajara, Spain. It is
-over 35 feet in diameter and 15 feet high. A platform with two moving
-figures is lowered from underneath. A blue beam from the object shines
-on the witnesses, who feel a sudden chill. The platform rises back up,
-and the object glows with an intense white light and flies away.
-(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue
-of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, 1976, p. 2;
-Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 503
Date: fall 1938
-Description: (Or following year.) Two persons saw a strange “frog-man” 1
-m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The
-mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. The
-skin was brown-green, compared to pegamoid, hands normal. The creature
-walked in a peculiar “but elegant” fashion, the head waving up and down
-while the legs moved “carefully.” When pursued, the creature accelerated
-very fast, with feet “fluttering.” About 100 m away it vanished
-completely’.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Juminda, Estonian coast
-ID: 49
Date: 10/1938
-Description: Dusk. A man is in a cornfield with his father near Alger,
-Ohio, when an object moves up and hovers about 500 feet above the field.
-The tractor motor stops running. The object is about 100 feet in
-diameter and has a ring of pulsating, multicolored lights around it.
-Soon it makes a right-angle turn and vanishes in the sky, after which
-they get the tractor working again. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman
-Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 504
Date: 10/22/1938
-Description: Italian Lt. Col. Mario
-Pezzi reaches a record altitude of 56,850 feet in a Caproni Ca.161.
-It is still the highest a manned, propeller-driven biplane has gone.
-(Wikipedia, “Mario
-Pezzi (aviator)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 505
Date: 10/30/1938
-Description: 8:00 p.m. “The War of the Worlds” episode of the American
-radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, directed
-and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson
-Welles, is an adaptation of H.
-G. Wells’s
-novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It is performed and broadcast live
-in New York City as a Halloween episode over the Columbia Broadcasting
-System radio network. The episode becomes famous for allegedly causing
-panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is
-disputed as the program has relatively few listeners. In the days after
-the adaptation, widespread outrage is expressed in the media. The
-program’s news-bulletin format is described as deceptive by some
-newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the
-broadcasters and calls for regulation by the FCC, which declines. Some
-government agencies in the US, Germany, and Russia take note of how
-segments of the population are easily manipulated into thinking fiction
-is fact. According to Annie
-Jacobsen, the confusion allegedly inspires Joseph
-Stalin to create a similar scenario with a fake alien crash in the
-US. (Wikipedia, “The
-War of the Worlds (1938
-radio drama)”; John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History
-of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original
-Script, McFarland, 2009; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 22,
-211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 506
Date: 10/30/1938
-Description: Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed
-and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for
-inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience
-that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is
-disputed.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City, New York
Date: 12/17/1938
-Description: The process of nuclear fission is discovered by chemist Otto
-Hahn and his assistant Fritz
-Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie in Berlin,
-Germany, producing barium by bombarding uranium with neutrons. (Atomic
-Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 507
Date: 1939 (approximate)
-Description: Sisters Lucile and
-Allene
-Holt, daughters
-of Rev. Turner
-Hamilton Holt, claim they are separately told by their father, a
-cousin of Secretary of State Cordell
-Hull, that
-Hull personally showed Holt a wrecked circular craft of some kind and
-glass jars holding unknown creatures. These are stored in a sub-basement
-of the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Both sisters are told the
-story when Holt is a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in
-Greenwich, Ohio, before 1947, but researchers can find no confirmation
-in any of Hull’s papers or memoirs. (William E. Jones and Eloise G.
-Watson, “Pre–World War II ‘Creature’ Retrieval?” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter
-2001–2002): 6–9, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 508
Date: 1939
-End date: 1941
-Description: Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President
-Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time
-they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington
-Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete
-extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and
-continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of
-America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in
-1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The
-expedition continued without him.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Antartica
Date: 1/13/1939
-Description: The process of nuclear fission is explained theoretically
-in Stockholm, Sweden, by Lise
-Meitner and her nephew Otto
-Robert Frisch, who compares it to the biological fission of living
-cells. (Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 509
Date: 1/25/1939
-Description: A Columbia University team conducts the first nuclear
-fission experiment in the US in the basement of Pupin Hall on the south
-side of 120th Street in New York City. The experiment involves placing
-uranium oxide inside an ionization chamber and irradiating it with
-neutrons, then measuring the energy released. The results confirm that
-fission is occurring and hints strongly that it is the isotope
-uranium-235 that is undergoing fission. (Richard Rhodes, The Making of
-the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986, pp. 267–270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 510
Date: 1/26/1939
-Description: The Carnegie Institution of Washington holds a press
-conference at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in
-D.C. to announce the discovery of nuclear fission. (Atomic Heritage
-Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”)
-Late summer — A girl sleeping in the back yard of her home in Fort
-Worth, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. She sees a small object
-approaching from the east at an altitude of 20–30 feet. When it gets
-close, it descends to the level of her bed and hovers briefly at the
-foot, so close that she can touch it. It has the shape of an “old-time
-Mississippi steamboat with a deck around the bottom.” Strata or veins
-run through it, and a soft, blue-green glow surrounds it. It is 3 feet
-around and 1 foot high. It rises suddenly and disappears. (“Woman
-Says Strange Object Flew
-by Her Bed in Yard,” Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram, March 24,
-1950, p. 23; Clark III 1176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 511
Date: 8/1939
-Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet
-aircraft, made its first flight
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 8/2/1939
-Description: Hungarian-American physicist Leo
-Szilárd writes a confidential letter to President
-Roosevelt, in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward
-Teller and Eugene
-Wigner. He has persuaded Albert
-Einstein to sign it as well. The letter warns that Germany might
-develop atomic bombs and suggests that the United States should start
-its own nuclear program. It results in the establishment of research
-into nuclear fission by the US government, and ultimately to the
-creation of the Manhattan Project. Delayed by the outbreak of war in
-Europe, the letter is eventually hand-delivered to Roosevelt by
-economist Alexander
-Sachs on October 11. Roosevelt gives the letter to his aide, Brig.
-Gen. Edwin
-“Pa” Watson with the instruction: “Pa, this requires action!”
-(Wikipedia, “Einstein–Szilard
-letter”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 513
Date: early 8/1939
-Description: George Pârvu and four other schoolchildren are playing in
-an open field in Armășești, Romania, when they see a bright light in the
-sky moving in a zigzag fashion. It circles a few times then descends in
-their direction, getting bigger and brighter. The egg-shaped object
-hovers silently at an altitude of 230–260 feet. Suddenly it becomes a
-dull coppery color and lands about 140 feet away. Two of the children
-flee but Pârvu and two others remain. The bottom of the object has a
-ring of small turbine blades that look like paddles in a water mill. It
-seems to be 16 feet high. A hatch opens and two little men about 4 feet
-tall come out, dressed in gray diving suits. They walk toward the
-children, one of them holding a rectangular box pointing at the ground.
-The children approach them, holding hands, but when they are about 23
-feet away the other man points a thick stick-like device at them and
-they are no longer able to move forward. The little men bow in their
-direction, waist deep, then turn around and reenter the object, which
-takes off. The children find a circular area of yellowed grass where the
-object had been. Pârvu feels energized, but one of the other boys is
-temporarily sick. Pârvu encounters what he perceives to be the same
-object in August 1944, August 1949, and the summer of 1954 (in the
-center of Bucharest). (George Pârvu, La voia destinului, CNI Coresi,
-2011; Romania 124–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 512
Date: 8/2/1939
-Description: Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President
-Roosevelt stating “it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction
-in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large
-quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it
-appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate
-future… This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of
-bombs”
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 9/1/1939
-End date: 9/2/1945
-Description: World War 2
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 10/1939
-Description: An egg-shaped object with 8 spots like portholes is
-observed through an astronomical reflector telescope at Wisconsin
-Rapids, Wisconsin. (Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold, UFO
-Research Coalition, 2007, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 514
Date: 10/21/1939
-Description: After reading Szilárd’s
-letter, Roosevelt creates
-an Advisory Committee on Uranium, which meets for the first time at the
-National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. The committee consists
-of NBS Director Lyman
-James Briggs, Army Lt. Col. Keith
-F. Adamson, and Navy Cmdr. Gilbert
-C. Hoover. It is attended by physicists Fred
-L. Mohler from the National Bureau of Standards and Richard
-Brooke Roberts from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and
-Szilárd, Wigner,
-and Teller.
-Einstein is
-invited but declines to attend. Adamson is skeptical about the prospect
-of building an atomic bomb, but is willing to authorize $6,000
-(equivalent to $107,000 in 2018 dollars) for the purchase of uranium and
-graphite for Szilárd and Enrico
-Fermi’s experiments into producing a nuclear chain reaction at
-Columbia University. (Wikipedia, “S-1
-Executive Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 515
Date: 11/13/1939
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A building foreman is driving past a deserted
-farm near Brockworth, Gloucester, England, when he hears a high-pitched
-humming sound. He watches a gray, bell-shaped object hovering about 20
-feet above a field 100 feet away. He estimates it is about 25 feet
-across. Dark window-like patches are visible on the side. A “curtain” of
-blue-green light emanates from the underside. After about two minutes,
-the green light retracts into the base of the object. The object then
-tilts to an angle of about 80° and moves away without a sound. (Jenny
-Randles and Peter Warrington, Science and the UFOs, Basil Blackwell,
-1985, p. 3;
-Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 (July 2019): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 516
Date: 1940
-Description: Astronomer Royal Harold
-Spencer Jones publishes Life on Other Worlds, an essay on the
-cosmos, the possibility of life arising, science’s tools, the
-development of the Earth, solar system bodies without atmospheres, the
-giant gas planets, Venus, Mars, the origin of solar systems, and
-possibilities for life beyond the solar system. (H. Spencer Jones, Life
-on Other Worlds, Macmillan,
-1940; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994):
-141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 517
Date: 3/1940
-Description: George
-Adamski moves from Laguna Beach to a property along the Star Route
-in Valley Center, California, about 9 miles from where Palomar
-Observatory is under construction to set up a spiritual retreat. He
-acquires a 15-inch telescope to create an interest in astronomy. (“Palomar
-Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,”
-The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 518
Date: 3/1940
-Description: US physicist John
-R. Dunning and colleagues at Columbia University verify the
-hypothesis of Danish physicist Niels
-Bohr that fission is more readily produced in the rare uranium-235
-isotope than the abundant uranium-238 isotope. Dunning begins
-investigating gaseous diffusion as a process for enriching uranium.
-(Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 519
Date: 3/1940
-Description: Otto
-Robert Frisch and Rudolf
-Peierls, two researchers at the University of Birmingham in
-England—who ironically have been assigned to investigate nuclear weapons
-by Australian physicist Mark
-Oliphant because, as enemy aliens in Britain, they are ineligible to
-participate in secret war work—issue the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. It
-contradicts the common thinking of the time that many tons of uranium
-would be needed to make a bomb, requiring delivery by ship. The
-calculation in the memorandum shows that a bomb might be possible using
-as little as 1–10 kilograms of pure uranium-235, which would be quite
-practical for aircraft to carry. (Wikipedia, “Frisch–Peierls
-memorandum”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 520
Date: spring 1940
-Description: Afternoon. Walking down a street in Hinsdale, Illinois,
-William T. Powers sees five disc-shaped objects in the northern sky.
-They are traveling together at 100–200 mph and disappear into a cloud.
-(Clark III 1177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 522
Date: 3/22/1940
-Description: Franklin
-D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8381, creating the three security
-levels for the most important documents: Restricted, Confidential, and
-Secret. (US President, Executive Order No. 8381, “Defining
-Certain Vital
-Military and Naval Installations and Equipment,” March 22,
-1940)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 521
Date: 4/10/1940
-Description: The first meeting of the MAUD Committee in England,
-established in response to the Frisch-Peierls memorandum to determine if
-an atomic bomb is feasible, meets in the Royal Society committee room in
-Burlington House, London. The original members are physicists George
-Paget Thomson, James
-Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Mark
-Oliphant, and Philip
-Burton Moon; physicists Patrick
-Blackett, Charles
-Drummond Ellis, and
-chemist Norman
-Haworth are subsequently added, along with a representative of the
-Director of Scientific Research at the Ministry of Aircraft Production
-(MAP). (Wikipedia, “MAUD
-Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 523
Date: mid 5/1940
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Lavern
-P. Zewiske and his father Paul are
-checking some recently planted corn on their farm near Fairbank, Iowa. A
-gray object with multiple hooked “hairs or tentacles” moving around on
-the bottom passes overhead at 500–1,000 feet. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 524
Date: 5/21/1940
-Description: President Franklin
-D. Roosevelt authorizes the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance
-and wiretapping on US spies, saboteurs, or suspicious individuals. (“Warrantless
-FBI Electronic Surveillance,” US Senate, Select Committee to Study
-Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final
-Report, April 23, 1976, pp. 271–351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 525
Date: 5/26/1940
-End date: 6/4/1940
-Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Dunkirk
Date: summer 1940
-Alternate date: summer 1941
-Description: Near St. Clair, Pennsylvania, as he is walking along a
-country road, young Frank Sever hears a loud noise in the nearby woods.
-He sees something like an “aluminum building” partly concealed in the
-trees. A short distance from it he sees “six small men milling about or
-looking for something on the ground.” Thinking they are ghosts, he runs.
-Later he comes back and confirms there is no building on the spot.
-(Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 526
Date: 7/10/1940
-End date: 10/31/1940
-Description: Battle of Britain
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Britain
Date: 7/10/1940
-Description: Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval
-Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 8/11/1940
-Description: The RAF Bomber Command issues a report on “Phenomena
-Connected with Enemy Night Tactics” concerning unidentifiable aircraft
-observed by bombing crews over the coast of Holland and the Ruhr Valley
-of Germany. The report suggests the sightings are either due to observer
-strain or German “experimental apparatus.” (Strange Company 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 527
Date: 1941
-Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1941
-Description: Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California
-watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude
-Type: UFO sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Bakersfield, CA
Date: 1941
-Description: A physicist and his wife are traveling notrh on US Highway
-99 north of Bakersfield, California, and pull off to the side to watch a
-long, slender object of a blazing red, green, and yellow color moving
-about 8 miles east of them. It is traveling at about 50 mph at an
-altitude of 200–300 feet and is clearly outlined against the foothills.
-It seems to be several times longer than a bomber. (“Recent
-Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, January 1957, p. 5) Early spring —
-9:00–9:30 p.m. Rev. William
-Guy Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau,
-Missouri, is summoned to an apparent airplane crash one Saturday. When
-he arrives at the scene, about 15 miles from town, he finds a
-weird-looking craft “broken and scattered all around,” but smooth and
-rounded without edges or seams. A cockpit with a chair facing an
-instrument panel remains intact. Police officers, military men, and
-plain-clothes individuals are sifting through the wreckage. He also sees
-three non-human bodies about 4 feet tall with long arms, oversized
-heads, and large eyes. He says a prayer for them, and afterward sees
-someone take a photo of an alien propped up by the arms between two
-plainclothesmen. The following evening, he is given a copy of the photo
-by a member of his congregation (thought to be Garland
-D. Fronabarger), but he loans it later to someone who never returns
-it. Huffman’s wife Floy reveals
-the story to her granddaughter, Charlette Mann, on her deathbed in 1984,
-who relates the story to ufologist Leonard
-Stringfield. (Clark III 343–344; Paul Blake Smith, MO41: The
-Bombshell before Roswell, W&B Publishers, 2015; Billy Booth, “1941
-Cape Girardeau, Missouri Crash,” liveabout.com, February 5, 2019; Kevin
-Randle, “Cape
-Girardeau UFO Crash, 1941,” A Different Perspective, December 5,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 528
Date: 3/1941
-Description: The Chain Home radars placed around the English coastline
-detect a formation of blips moving across the English Channel. RAF
-fighters are sent to intercept, but their crews see nothing and the
-blips fade. The radar returns are characterized as radar “angels,”
-invisible targets in the clear atmosphere. (David Clarke, “The Radar
-Angels,” Fortean Times 195 (May 2005): 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 529
Date: 3/17/1941
-Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for
-coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast
-Type: military
-Reference: link
-Location: West Coast
Date: 3/17/1941
-Description: The Western Defense Command is established as the command
-formation of the US Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the
-Pacific Coast and training soldiers prior to their deployment overseas.
-(Wikipedia, “Western
-Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 530
Date: Late 4/1941
-Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)
-Type: UFO crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 5/1941
-Description: With the help of the American Legion, volunteers are
-recruited into the Aircraft Warning Service, the civilian arm of the
-Army’s Ground Observer Corps. On the east coast, the AWS is under the
-auspices of the Army Air Force’s 1st Interceptor Command based at
-Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York. On the west coast, the AWS is
-under the auspices of the 4th Interceptor Command based in Riverside,
-California. On both coasts, observation posts, information centers, and
-filter centers are established. (Wikipedia, “Aircraft
-Warning Service”; Project 1947, “Aircraft
-Warning Service (AWS): Freeman Observation Post #52”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 531
Date: late 6/1941
-Description: About 5:30 p.m. Helen Michailoff and her mother are in
-Odessa, Ukraine, when they see a raspberry-red object slowly moving east
-and emitting smoke. Thinking it is a bomb, they rush to the basement,
-but there is no explosion. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 535
Date: 6/20/1941
-Description: The Army Air Corps becomes the US Army Air Forces to
-provide the air arm greater autonomy. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Army Air Forces”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 532
Date: 6/26/1941
-Description: The first draft of the final report of the MAUD Committee
-is written by George
-Paget Thomson and circulates among committee members. It concludes
-that an atomic bomb is feasible. Vannevar
-Bush receives a copy. Without the help of the MAUD Committee the
-Manhattan Project would have started months behind. Instead, they are
-able to begin thinking about how to create a bomb, not whether it is
-possible. (Wikipedia, “MAUD Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 533
Date: 6/28/1941
-Description: Roosevelt establishes
-the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Vannevar
-Bush is appointed director. It subsumes the National Defense
-Research Committee, whose Uranium Committee becomes the Uranium Section
-of the OSRD, soon renamed the S-1 for security reasons. To the S-1
-Section, Vannevar Bush adds American physicist Samuel
-King Allison, Russian-American
-physicist Gregory
-Breit, American physicist Edward
-Condon, physicist
-Lloyd
-P. Smith, and Henry
-DeWolf Smyth. American physicist Ross
-Gunn is dropped in line with an NDRC policy not to have Army or Navy
-personnel in the sections. Lyman
-James Briggs remains the chairman, with American physicist George
-B. Pegram as the vice chairman. (Wikipedia, “Office
-of Scientific Research
-and Development”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 534
Date: 7/3/1941
-Description: The Northrop N-1M, an experimental “flying wing” aircraft
-with a 38-foot wingspan, is first flown at Baker Dry Lake in the Mojave
-Desert, California, by test pilot Vance
-Breese for several hundred yards. He reports that the aircraft can
-fly no higher than 5 feet. After this is corrected, the N-1M takes
-another 28 flights through November. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-N-1M”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 536
Date: 7/11/1941
-Description: Roosevelt establishes
-the Office of the Coordinator of Information, a forerunner of the Office
-for Strategic Services, headed by lawyer William
-J. Donovan. It is tasked with collecting and analyzing national
-security information. (Wikipedia, “Office
-of the Coordinator of Information”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 537
Date: 9/1941
-Description: Night. Seaman Mar Doroba, Anthony Kornilak, and others on
-the British troopship SS
-Pulaski in the Mozambique Channel see a “strange globe glowing with
-greenish light, about half the size of the full moon.” They watch it for
-more than an hour before it disappears. (Strange Company 17; Lore and
-Deneault, pp. 130–131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 538
Date: early 10/1941
-Description: A possible UFO crash/retrieval takes place during
-preparations for the US Army’s Carolina maneuvers in south central North
-Carolina (possibly in or around the Uwharrie National Forest). The
-sketchy story is based on the participation of Pvt. Guy
-B. Simeone, who relates a few details about a crash and dead “little
-people” to his family in a letter and phone call. Walter
-N. Webb reports on his investigation of the incident in 1996.
-(Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941:
-Part 1,” IUR 21, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 20–28; Walter N. Webb, “An
-Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 2,” IUR 22, no.
-1 (Spring 1997): 28–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 540
Date: 10/2/1941
-Description: German test pilot Heini
-Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 623 mph in a
-rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163A at Peenemünde, Germany. (Wikipedia,
-“Heini
-Dittmar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 539
Date: 10/9/1941
-Description: Roosevelt approves
-an atomic weapons program after meeting with Office of Scientific
-Research and Development Director Vannevar
-Bush and Vice President Henry
-A. Wallace. On Bush’s advice, Roosevelt chooses the US Army to run
-the project rather than the Navy, although the Navy has shown far more
-interest in the field, and is already conducting research into atomic
-energy for powering ships. Bush’s negative experiences with the Navy has
-convinced him that it would not listen to his advice and cannot handle
-large-scale construction projects. (Cameron Reed, “Manhattan Project
-Mystery,” Forum on the History of Physics, Spring 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 541
Date: early 12/1941
-Description: Army Lt. Walter Hanson and his wife are stranded in the
-Georgia countryside when they run out of gas. They see a star-like
-object that swiftly moves in circles counterclockwise. Suddenly it stops
-and takes off obliquely. (Strange Company 17–18; Lore and Deneault, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 542
Date: 12/8/1941
-Description: Around noon. Red Cross volunteer Yoshio
-Taketa is resting on the lawn of the Kuhio School in Honolulu,
-Hawaii, with 9 others. The smoke is still rising from the Pearl Harbor
-attack to the west. One of them notices a round white object at about
-20,000 feet overhead. It floats away slowly. (Clark III 501)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 543
Date: 12/18/1941
-Description: With the US at war, funding for an atomic bomb is now
-available in amounts undreamed of the year before. At the S-1 Section
-meeting, American physicist Ernest
-Lawrence asks for $400,000 for electromagnetic separation, and the
-section immediately recommends granting it. MIT physicist Karl
-Taylor Compton is allocated $340,000 for nuclear reactor research at
-Columbia and Princeton, and $278,000 at the University of Chicago.
-Another $500,000 is earmarked for raw materials. His proposed schedule
-is no less breathtaking: to produce a nuclear chain reaction by July
-1942, and an atomic bomb by January 1945. In January 1942, he creates
-the Metallurgical Laboratory, centralizing the work at the University of
-Chicago. (Wikipedia, “S-1
-Executive Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 544
Date: 12/22/1941
-Description: Electrical engineer George Bogner stops his car at the
-corner of St. Agnes Avenue and Pleasant Street in Utica, New York, to
-watch a round, metallic object speed silently across the sky. He
-estimates it at 100 feet in diameter and moving at 300 mph. (Strange
-Company 18; Lore and Deneault, pp. 140–141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 545
Date: 1942
-Description: Naval Intelligence Officer Bernard M. Baruch Jr. develops a
-submarine reporting network, Communication Instruction for Reporting
-Enemy Sightings on which CIRVIS is modeled in 1948. (US Naval War
-College, Master
-Script for “Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy
-Sightings,” undated; NICAP, “Capt. Bernard Baruch
-Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 546
Date: 1942
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A woman returning home in Prouvy, Nord, France,
-finds herself face-to-face with three small entities with large round
-heads and short beards. They have large, luminous yellow eyes and wear
-tight, one-piece suits with a metallic sheen that leave only their faces
-exposed. The beings stare at her without moving, so she goes inside to
-get her husband, but by the time they return the entities have gone.
-(Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index
-1940–1949, p. 3;
-Clark III 265; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-26, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 547
Date: 2/24/1942
-End date: 2/25/1942
-Description: Battle of LA
-Type: military
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2/24/1942
-End date: 2/25/1942
-Description: The Battle of Los Angeles takes place, a rumored enemy
-attack and subsequent anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles,
-California. Air raid sirens sound throughout Los Angeles County on the
-night of February 24. A total blackout is ordered, and thousands of air
-raid wardens are summoned to their positions. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th
-Coast Artillery Brigade begins firing .50 caliber machine guns and
-12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at reported aircraft; more
-than 1,400 shells are eventually fired. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor
-Command are alerted, but their aircraft remain grounded. The artillery
-fire continues sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The “all clear” is sounded
-and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m. Several buildings and
-vehicles are damaged by shell fragments, and five civilians die as an
-indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire. Three are killed in car
-accidents in the ensuing chaos and two die of heart attacks attributed
-to the stress of the hour-long action. The incident is front-page news
-along the Pacific coast and earns some mass media coverage. Within hours
-of the end of the air raid, Secretary of the Navy Frank
-Knox holds a press conference, saying the entire incident was a
-false alarm due to anxiety and “war nerves.” Knox’s comments are
-followed by statements from the Army on February 26 that reflect General
-George
-C. Marshall’s belief that the incident was caused by commercial
-airplanes used as a psychological warfare campaign to generate panic.
-Some contemporary press outlets suspect a cover-up. Rep. Leland
-M. Ford (R-Calif.) calls for a congressional investigation, saying,
-“none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the
-category of ‘complete mystification’ … this was either a practice raid,
-or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity
-raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern
-California’s war industries.” The Japanese government, after the war
-ended, declares that they had flown no airplanes over Los Angeles during
-the war. In 1983, the US Office of Air Force History attributes the
-event to a case of “war nerves” triggered by a lost weather balloon and
-exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. A
-number of fake documents about this incident have been circulated by Timothy
-S. Cooper. (Wikipedia, “Battle
-of Los
-Angeles”; Clark III 1176–1177; NICAP, “Battle
-of Los Angeles”; Lore and Deneault, pp. 74–87;
-Good Above, pp. 15–17;
-Good Need, pp. 17, 31;
-“No Bombs Dropped, No Planes Shot Down,” Los Angeles Herald Express,
-February 25, 1942, p. 1; “Japanese
-Carry War to California Coast,” Life, March 9, 1942, pp. 19–23;
-Brett Holman, “New
-Light on the Battle of Los Angeles,” Airminded, April 20, 2011;
-David Marler, “The
-Battle of LA UFO
-Incident,” OpenMindsTV YouTube channel, October 9, 2018; Strange
-Company 19–22; Robert Wood, “‘Leaked’
-Documents Shed New Light on Outcome of ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’”
-MUFON UFO Journal, June 2010, pp. 3–7; US Office of the Chief of
-Military History, “History of the Western Defense Command, 17 March
-1941–30 September 1945,” five ms. vols., Appendix no. 5, “Chronology of
-Enemy Operations on Pacific Coast of Continental United States,”
-pp. 25–27; History, Fourth Anti-Aircraft Command, January 9, 1942, to
-July 1, 1945, pp. 112–124; Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, The
-Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations,
-Office of Air Force History, 1948, pp. 283–286;
-Lorraine Boissoneault, “The
-Great Los Angeles
-Air Raid Terrified Citizens—Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped,”
-Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2018; Patrick Gross, “Los
-Angeles, February 25, 1942”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 548
Date: 2/26/1942
-Description: Army Chief of Staff George
-C. Marshall writes Roosevelt that
-as many as 15 unknown commercial aircraft, flying at various speeds up
-to 200 mph and at elevations from 9,000 to 18,000 feet, were responsible
-for the Battle of Los Angeles. (presidentialufo.com, “General George
-Marshall Secret Memo to President Roosevelt about the Unidentified
-Objects over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942”; Good Above, pp. 17,
-446)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 549
Date: 2/26/1942
-Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, C.G.
-Marshall stating: UFO’s appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday
-morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition
-against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no
-planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA
-Document, OCS 21347–86.)
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p15,446)
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 2/26/1942
-Description: Royal Netherlands Navy cruiser HNLMS
-Tromp, returning to Australia after the Battle of Badung Strait (off
-Bali in Indonesia), reports a large, aluminum disc speeding above it in
-the Timor Sea and maneuvering for nearly 4 hours. It departs at an
-estimated 3,500 mph. (“Australasia,”
-Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1957): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 550
Date: 3/5/1942
-Description: Benjamin Smith, formerly of the Army Air Corps, sees
-several blinking lights moving slowly over the Middle River adjacent to
-Essex, Maryland. They circle the river two or three times then
-disappear. Smith reports the incident to local police, who then inform
-Naval Intelligence. (Towson (Md.) Union News, March 6, 1942; Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 551
Date: 3/9/1942
-Description: The Air Service Command becomes a major Army Air Forces
-unit to support logistical functions. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 552
Date: spring 1942
-Description: Rev. Robert H. Moore and six other persons attending the
-Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, watch a
-small, light-gray, rectangular object over the northern part of town for
-10 minutes. (Lore and Deneault, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 553
Date: 4/1/1942
-Description: The Materiel Division of the Air Service Command assumes
-responsibility for R&D and procurement and is redesignated as the
-Air Corps Materiel Command. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 554
Date: 4/27/1942
-Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study
-completed
-Type: project study
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 5/1942
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Abdon Gonzales Tello, 13, and other boys see a
-silvery, cigar-shaped object in the sky to the west of Miraflores, Peru.
-Its ends are cut off at sharp angles, and it takes 20 seconds to proceed
-to the south and out of sight. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
-1969, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 555
Date: 6/1942
-Description: Col. James
-C. Marshall is selected to head the Manhattan Project. (Wikipedia,
-“Manhattan
-Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 556
Date: 6/13/1942
-Description: Roosevelt establishes
-the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, with
-Gen. William
-J. Donovan at
-its head. (Wikipedia, “Office
-of Strategic Services”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 557
Date: 6/13/1942
-Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the
-CIA, begins operations
-Type: historical
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 6/19/1942
-Description: Roosevelt abolishes
-the S-1 Section and replaces it with the S-1 Executive Committee, tasked
-with the technical and contractual aspects of producing an atomic bomb,
-while the Army handles engineering, construction, and site selection.
-American chemist James
-B. Conant is appointed as its chairman, and Lyman James
-Briggs, Karl
-Taylor Compton, Ernest
-Lawrence, and
-American chemists Eger
-V. Murphree and Harold
-C. Urey as
-its other members. Roosevelt approves the committee’s recommendation to
-move to the pilot plant stage and build piles to produce plutonium and
-electromagnetic, centrifuge, and gaseous diffusion plants to produce
-uranium-235. (Wikipedia, “S-1
-Executive Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 558
Date: summer 1942
-Description: 5:50 p.m. An RAAF pilot is on flying patrol off the Tasman
-Peninsula, Tasmania, following reports by fishermen of strange lights on
-the waters of Bass Strait. A “singular airfoil of glistening bronze
-color” appears out of a cloudbank. It’s about 150 feet long, 50 feet in
-diameter, and has a dome on top. It accompanies his plane for a few
-minutes before departing at “a hell of a pace.” It turns again and dives
-into the ocean, throwing up a “whirlpool of waves.” (Bill Chalker, “Australian
-A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 (October 1982):
-6–7) Late summer — Pvt. Albert Lancashire, 27, is standing guard at
-Cresswell radar station near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland,
-England, when he sees a cloud-enshrouded light approaching from the
-North Sea. As it descends, he is drawn up into it by a beam. Small men
-grab him and carry him into the craft, where he sees other human figures
-of normal height, including an apparent captain with dark hair and
-goggles. He is made to lie down on a couch or table. He has only vague
-memories of what happens next, but he thinks a medical exam is
-performed. He wakes up back at his sentry post. (Center for UFO Studies,
-HUMCAT
-Index 1940–1949, p. 4;
-“New Time Lapse Case from England Uncovered,” MUFON UFO Journal 107
-(October 1976): 1–18; Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 561
Date: 6/25/1942
-Alternate date: 3/25/1942
-Description: Midnight. Flight Lt. Roman (Ray) Sabiński of the 301 Polish
-Bomber Squadron is flying an RAF Wellington bomber after returning from
-a run on the Ruhr Valley, Germany; he sees a bright copper-colored light
-the “size of the moon” following the aircraft over the Zuiderzee in
-Holland. When it gets within 200 yards, the rear gunner shoots at it
-with all four machine guns. After two minutes, it moves at terrific
-speed to the port side, and the front gunner starts firing at it.
-Sabiński takes evasive action, but the object keeps pacing him. Finally,
-it moves in front of the bomber, stays there a while, then takes off at
-fantastic speed. (Strange Company 23–25; Gordon W. Creighton. “Foo
-Fighters,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 (March/April 1962): 15;
-Patrick Gross, “Pilot
-Reports”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 559
Date: 8/1942
-Description: Evelyn M. Howell and two other adults see a huge
-cigar-shaped object hovering near them between Lafayette Township and
-Newton, New Jersey. It has “two rows of windows” that give off blue,
-green, white, and red fluorescent lights. They watch it for 10 minutes,
-after which it silently and slowly takes off. Howell and her husband see
-a similar object on the drive home to Ogdensburg, New Jersey. (Clark III
-1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 562
Date: 8/5/1942
-Description: Early morning. The Navy destroyer USS
-Helm is on its way to the Solomon Islands in preparation for the
-Guadalcanal landings. A radio blackout is in effect. An aircraft
-approaches, a full alert is sounded, and three cruisers (Vincennes, Quincy, Astoria)
-and seven other ships open fire on it. The object is not hit and
-proceeds to circle around the fleet. An anonymous sailor on security
-detail on the Helm watches it through binoculars and sees it as 90 feet
-in diameter, oval, with a round dome on top. The ships continue to fire
-on the UFO, which attains extremely high speeds. Commanding Officer Chester
-Edward Carroll later hears that the aircraft is neither German nor
-Japanese. (Strange Company 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 563
Date: 8/12/1942
-Description: Day. Sgt. Stephen J. Brickner of the 1st Marine Division on
-Tulagi in the Solomon Islands is cleaning his rifle when an air-raid
-warning is sounded. He dives into his foxhole looking to the sky. He
-hears a roaring sound unlike that of an aircraft. Soon he sees a
-formation of more than 150 silvery objects, in straight lines of 10 or
-12. The objects seem to wobble slightly. They are flying faster than
-Japanese planes and are soon out of sight. (Good Above, p. 18;
-Strange Company 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 564
Date: 8/13/1942
-Description: The Manhattan Engineering District, with Brig. Gen. James
-C. Marshall as district engineer, is established by Chief of the US
-Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Eugene
-Reybold. (Wikipedia,
-“Manhattan
-Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 565
Date: 8/29/1942
-Description: Army Air Corps control tower operator Pvt. Michael Solomon
-sees two small reddish objects descend near the AAC Advanced Flying
-School at Columbus, Mississippi, then speed away. He later contacts
-government officials and officers from the school in attempting to
-confirm his sighting. (Clark III 1177; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 566
Date: 9/23/1942
-Description: Col. Leslie
-Groves is promoted to brigadier general and becomes director of the
-Manhattan Project. The Military Policy Committee, consisting of Vannevar
-Bush (with James
-B. Conant as his alternative), Maj. Gen. Wilhelm
-D. Styer, and
-Rear Adm. William
-R. Purnell, is created to oversee the project. (Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 567
Date: 9/25/1942
-Description: RAF Bomber Command’s Operational Research Section releases
-a report titled “A Note on Pyrotechnic Activity over Germany.” An
-unnamed Flak Liaison Officer has coordinated the reports from No. 3 and
-No. 5 Groups and determines there are two types of phenomena: a ball of
-fire that is shot from the ground and drips multicolored fragments, and
-multi-part flares. Another type involves “small coloured balls” that
-climb to 7,000 feet. (Strange Company 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 568
Date: 9/29/1942
-Description: US Under Secretary of War Robert
-P. Patterson authorizes the Corps of Engineers to acquire 56,000
-acres in Tennessee for Site X, which will become the Oak Ridge,
-Tennessee, laboratory and production site. (Wikipedia, “Oak
-Ridge, Tennessee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 569
Date: 10/3/1942
-Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space,
-85–90km
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: Germany
Date: 10/7/1942
-Description: Land at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is acquired by eminent domain
-for Clinton Engineer Works. (Wikipedia, “Clinton
-Engineer Works”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 570
Date: late 1942 (approximate)
-Description: According to records released in August 2010, Prime
-Minister Winston
-Churchill supposedly classifies for 50 years an alleged UFO incident
-because of fears it could create mass panic. The incident allegedly
-involves an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in Europe.
-The aircraft is over or near the English coastline when it is allegedly
-intercepted by a strange metallic object that matches the aircraft’s
-course and speed for a time before shooting away. The plane’s crew
-photograph the object, which “hovered noiselessly” near the aircraft
-before moving off. According to the documents, details of the cover-up
-emerge when a man writes to the government in 1999 seeking to find out
-more about the incident. He describes how his grandfather, who served
-with the RAF, was present when Churchill and Gen. Dwight
-Eisenhower discussed how to deal with the encounter. However, the
-evidence is hearsay and somewhat questionable. (UFOFiles2, pp. 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 560
Date: 10/19/1942
-Description: Leslie
-Groves approves J.
-Robert Oppenheimer to coordinate the scientific research of the
-Manhattan Project at the Site Y laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
-(Wikipedia, “Manhattan
-Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 571
Date: 11/15/1942
-Description: Teams under physicists Herbert
-L. Anderson and Walter
-Zinn have constructed 16 experimental nuclear reactors under the
-Stagg Field stands at the University of Chicago. (Wikipedia, “Metallurgical
-Laboratory”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 572
Date: 11/25/1942
-Description: The Los Alamos site in New Mexico is acquired for Project
-Y. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Y”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 573
Date: 11/28/1942
-Description: 10:40–10:45 p.m. Capt. Lever and the No. 61 Squadron crew
-of an RAF Lancaster are returning from a bombing raid on Turin, Italy,
-when about 10–15 miles southwest of the city they see an object 200–300
-feet long traveling southeast at a speed of 500 mph. It has four pairs
-of red lights spaced along its body and is flying on a level course.
-Five minutes later, as the Lancaster approaches the Alps at 14,000 feet,
-the crew sees the object again traveling southwest up a valley. It
-disappears when the red lights go out. (UFOFiles2, pp. 25–26;
-Strange Company 34–35; Good Need, pp. 18–19, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 574
Date: 12/1942
-Alternate date: 1/1943
-Description: THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out
-walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna
-Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she
-says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger
-coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized
-follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an
-endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or
-plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were
-cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped
-form. Each “coach” was identical in size and shape except the first,
-which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped
-appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely
-fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
-Location: Columbia, PA
Date: 12/1942
-Description: 8:00 p.m. RAAF Lt. Bruce
-Clyde Lumsden is flying a Hawker Hurricane heading for the French
-coast. About 7,000 feet over the mouth of the River Somme, France, he
-observes two orange lights climbing, one slightly above the other. He
-completes a full turn, putting the lights behind him on the port side.
-They now appear brighter and larger. When they reach his altitude, they
-stop climbing and stay at his altitude. He makes another full turn, but
-the objects stay with him. Lumsden dives to 4,000 feet, but the lights
-match his maneuvers. He increases his speed to 260 mph and gradually
-leaves them behind. His squadron mates do not believe him, but the next
-night another squadron member has a similar encounter with a green
-light. (Strange Company 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 576
Date: 12/1942
-Description: A Technical Data Laboratory is established at Wright Field
-near Dayton, Ohio, as part of the Army Materiel Command. Its operations
-include the evaluation of foreign aircraft and related equipment. (US
-Air Force, “National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage,” July
-31, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 575
Date: 12/2/1942
-Description: Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining
-nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment
-led by Enrico Fermi
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 12/2/1942
-Description: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, goes critical at
-the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico
-Fermi, achieving
-a self-sustaining reaction just one month after construction was
-started. (Wikipedia, “Chicago
-Pile-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 577
Date: 12/27/1942
-Description: The Northrop N-9M, a prototype flying wing bomber with a
-wingspan of 60 feet, makes its first test flight at Jack Northrop Field
-[now Hawthorne (Calif.) Municipal Airport] with pilot John
-Wescott Myers. Through May, 44 more flights are made, nearly all
-terminated by mechanical failures. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-N- 9M”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 578
Date: 1943
-Description: SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a
-former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe
-railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San
-Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted
-to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by
-George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to
-fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells
-heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or
-disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10
-minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the
-saucers disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5)
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 1/7/1943
-Description: Nikola Test dies
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: United States
Date: 1/15/1943
-Description: During a US bombing raid over Cherbourg, Manche, France,
-several crews see “large numbers of projectiles resembling ‘schools of
-flying fish,’ about a foot long and similar to incendiary bombs, coming
-up from a direction of the town.” (Strange Company 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 579
Date: 1/16/1943
-Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium
-production
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Hanford, WA
Date: 1/16/1943
-Description: Leslie
-Groves approves development of the Hanford site in Washington State
-for plutonium production. (Wikipedia, “Hanford
-Site”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 580
Date: 2/9/1943
-Description: Land for a plutonium production complex is acquired at
-Hanford, Washington. (Wikipedia, “Hanford
-Site”) February 18 — Construction begins for Y-12, a massive
-electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge,
-Tennessee. (Wikipedia, “Y-12
-National Security Complex”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 581
Date: 2/18/1943
-Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation
-plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Date: Spring 1943
-Description: Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly
-flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped
-Type: UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away
-Reference: link
-Location: Laguna Beach, California
Date: 4/1/1943
-Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 4/1/1943
-Description: Los Alamos Laboratory is established in New Mexico and
-begins operations. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Y”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 582
Date: 4/5/1943
-Description: 9:50 a.m. Flight instructor Gerry A. Casey and a student
-pilot in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 watch a radiant- orange, elliptical
-disc dive at their aircraft near Long Beach, California. There is no
-propellor and it has a rounded hump above and below. It hovers alongside
-with a slight wobble, then accelerates, turns from orange to white, and
-climbs out of sight in 2 seconds. (Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1943”; Gerry A. Casey, “UFO: The Time for the Telling Has
-Come,” Tacoma (Wash.) Western Flyer, July 7, 1989, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service 241 (August 1989), p. 3; Patrick Gross, “Observation
-at Long Beach, 1943”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 583
Date: 4/9/1943
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Kazimierz Bzowski and other resistance fighters
-are monitoring a fire in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. They notice a
-flying object approaching them at about 60 mph. Through binoculars it
-appears to be a sphere colored with tangled strips of both raspberry and
-blue-green colors. Bzowski estimates it is at an elevation of 200 feet
-and is about 25 feet in diameter. They observe German and Lithuanian
-snipers on Bonifraterska street shooting at it, although the bullets
-seem to pass through it. The object alters course and heads toward Old
-Town, then stops dead and shoots away at great speed. (Poland 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 584
Date: 5/1943
-Description: Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high
-explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but
-apparently Einstein turned him down.
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Princeton, NJ
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 5/1943
-Description: Capt. Gordon W. Cammell is flying an RAF Lancaster bomber
-back over the English Channel when he and his entire crew see a “huge
-orange ball on or near the sea” 7,000–8,000 feet below them. Over the
-next 10 minutes, they watch it project a bright and constant light.
-(Strange Company 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 585
Date: 5/19/1943
-Description: The Northrop N-9M flying wing bomber prototype crashes 12
-miles west of Muroc Army Air Base [now Edwards AFB], California, killing
-its pilot Max
-Constant. (Wikipedia,
-“Northrop
-N-9M”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 586
Date: 5/26/1943
-Description: Late night. Capt. Ray Smith and copilot Sgt. Gordon N.
-Cockcroft are flying at 18,000 feet in a Halifax bomber on a run near
-Essen, Germany, when they see a silvery-gold cylindrical object, larger
-than their aircraft, on the port side. It has several evenly spaced
-portholes. It is hovering at a 45° angle. After 20–30 seconds it climbs
-away at high speed. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 4–6; Strange
-Company 40; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1943”; John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, Haunted Skies: The
-Encyclopaedia of British UFOs: Volume 1, 1940–1959, Fortean Words,
-2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 587
Date: 6/1943
-Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks
-Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
Date: 6/1943
-Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command meets
-with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, to ask them
-to develop a jet fighter. (Wikipedia, “Skunk
-Works”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 588
Date: 6/2/1943
-Description: Construction begins on K-25, the gaseous diffusion plant at
-Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Wikipedia, “K-25”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 589
Date: 6/15/1943
-Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News
-Bulletin
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/1943
-Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly
-Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: Burbank, CA
Date: 7/1943
-Description: Lockheed Engineer Kelly
-Johnson and other associate engineers hand-deliver a proposal for
-the XP-80 jet fighter to the Air Tactical Service Command. Two days
-later, the go-ahead is given to Lockheed to start development, and the
-Skunk Works is born in Burbank, California, with Johnson at the helm.
-The name supposedly comes from the L’il Abner comic strip, which has a
-place called “Skonk Works” where a strong beverage is brewed from
-skunks, old shoes, and other ingredients. (Wikipedia, “Skunk
-Works”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 590
Date: 7/1/1943
-End date: 3/31/1944
-Description: Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National
-Archives.
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/18/1943
-End date: 10/15/1944
-Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/18/1943
-Description: A French prisoner in a German labor camp near Gdynia,
-Poland, is walking to work along the Baltic Sea when he sees a flat,
-metallic object embedded in the sand. A human figure is standing next to
-it, apparently trying to dig it up. When he passes by, the figure,
-apparently an Asian woman with long blonde hair and dressed in a tight-
-fitting overall, turns in his direction. The witness assumes she is the
-famous German aviator Hanna
-Reitsch and helps her dig the experimental aircraft out of the sand.
-The object is 20 feet in diameter and looks like two metallic saucers
-put together. The woman touches the witness’s chest with her hand and
-points to the sky. She touches her belt and a door in the object opens.
-She crawls inside, the door closes, and the object ascends and departs
-at a tremendous speed. (Jean Sider, Ultra Top-Secret: Ces OVNIs qui font
-peur, Axis Mundi, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 591
Date: 9/1943
-Description: During an air battle between the Germans and Russians, a
-member of the Spanish Blue Division fighting with the Germans near
-Pushkin outside Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Russia, notices a
-disc-shaped object above the planes. It appears to be observing the
-battle, then disappears at a fantastic speed. (Antonio
-Ribera, Platillos Volantes en Iberoamerica y España, Santiago
-Pomaire, 1968, pp. 411–412)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 592
Date: 9/1943
-Description: Ray
-Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories magazine, receives a letter from a
-reader named Richard
-S. Shaver, who claims to have discovered “Mantong,” a proto-language
-that is the source of all earthly languages. In Mantong, each sound has
-a hidden meaning, and by applying this formula to any word in any
-language, one can decode the secret meaning. Palmer applies the formula
-to several words and realizes Shaver might be onto something.
-(Wikipedia, “Richard
-Sharpe Shaver”; Clark III 609; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean
-Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 593
Date: 9/1943
-Time: 0400
-Description: Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a
-large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road.
-It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100
-m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said
-to have been found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Oncativo, Argentina
-ID: 50
Date: 9/6/1943
-Description: 9:50 a.m. During an aerial fight over Stuttgart, Germany,
-the crews of two aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group, commanded by
-Capt. Raymond P. Ketelson, observe two round objects “resembling silvery
-discs” floating downward through the aircraft formation. One hits the
-wing of a B-17 bomber, setting it on fire. The bomber does not return
-from the mission. (Strange Company 43) Autumn — A Polish bomber unit
-based in England claims that silver-blue balls of fire appeared near
-their wing on six missions when they raided the Nazi V-1 weapons plant
-in Peenemünde, Germany. RAF intelligence officer Michael
-Bentine debriefs them later and asks, “But what did it do to you?”
-They reply, “Nothing.” Bentine points out, “Well it was not a very
-effective weapon, was it?” (UFOFiles2, p. 20;
-David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “The Foo
-Fighters: The RAF Experience,” The Real UFO Project, January
-2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 594
Date: 10/1943
-Alternate date: 11/1943
-Description: 11:00 p.m. 2Lt Thomas
-J. Duzynski is stationed at Camp Ibis on the west side of the Dead
-Mountains Wilderness northwest of Needles, California. Taking a stroll
-outside his tent, he notices an elliptical- shaped object traveling to
-the south at high speed parallel to the ground between himself and the
-mountains. It banks sharply, almost on edge, and gains altitude,
-disappearing in seconds. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 598
Date: 10/1943
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Wilberta
-Finley, an air spotter for the Civil Air Patrol, notices a “huge
-dark aerial object approaching” her home in Santa Barbara, California,
-facing the Goleta Valley. Moving low and soundlessly, it barely skims
-over a nearby hill. From its front a beam of light shoots down, and at
-intervals it swings from side to side as if scanning the hills and homes
-below. (“Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 11 (November 1958):
-116–118; Clark III 1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 595
Date: 10/10/1943
-Description: Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford
-site in Washington. (US Department of Energy, Office of History and
-Heritage Resources, “Hanford
-Becomes Operational,” August 7, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 596
Date: 10/14/1943
-Description: Night. A group of B-17s from the 384th Bombardment Group
-are returning from a mission over Germany when they see a cluster of
-silver-colored discs in the path of their formation and closing with the
-bombers. The crews talk back and forth, discussing and confirming the
-sight before them. They describe the objects as “about one inch thick
-and three inches in diameter…gliding down slowly in a very uniform
-cluster.” One of the bombers goes directly through the cluster “with
-absolutely no effect on engines or plane surface,” even though one is
-heard to strike the tail assembly. A mass of black debris about 3-4 feet
-long is also observed. (Clark III 502; Martin Caidin, Black Thursday,
-Dell, 1962, pp. 188–190; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now!
-Lyle Stuart, 1967, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 597
Date: 11/1943
-Description: Ray
-Palmer publishes an article, “An Ancient Language?” on the language
-of Mantong in the January 1944 issue of Amazing Stories and enters into
-correspondence with Richard
-S. Shaver, who responds with a 10,000- word document titled “A
-Warning to Future Man.” Shaver writes of advanced prehistoric races who
-built underground cities before abandoning Earth for another planet
-because of damaging radiation from the Sun. Those ancients also
-abandoned some of their own offspring here, a minority of whom remained
-noble and human “Teros,” while most degenerate over time into a
-population of mentally impaired sadists known as “Deros”— short for
-“detrimental robots.” Shaver’s robots are not mechanical constructs, but
-robot-like due to their savage behavior. These Deros still live in the
-cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping surface-dwelling people by
-the thousands for meat or torture. Deros can be blamed for nearly all
-misfortunes, from minor “accidental” injuries or illnesses to airplane
-crashes and catastrophic natural disasters. Though generally confined to
-their caves, the Deros sometimes travel in spaceships or rockets, and
-have dealings with equally evil extraterrestrials. Shaver claims to
-possess first-hand knowledge of the Deros and their caves, insisting he
-had been their prisoner for several years. The article stirs
-considerable reader interest, and the pages of Amazing Stories are soon
-filled with stories and articles about the “Shaver mystery.” (Wikipedia,
-“Richard
-Sharpe Shaver”; [Richard] S. Shaver, [Letter], “An
-Ancient Language?” Amazing Stories 18, no. 1 (January 1944):
-206–207; [Ray Palmer,] “Mantong: The
-Language of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 (March 1945): 71,
-206; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 136–137;
-Clark III 872; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray
-Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 599
Date: 11/4/1943
-Description: The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, goes
-critical. The Y-12 plant is separating uranium- 235 from natural
-uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform
-electromagnetic isotope separation. (Wikipedia, “X-10
-Graphite Reactor”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 600
Date: 12/1943 (approximate)
-Description: Matt P. Dillingham is on evening duty adjacent to Mullinix
-Field [now Bonriki International Airport] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific
-Ocean. He begins receiving radar plots showing a north-south track to
-the west moving at 750 mph. It disappears, but two other targets on the
-same trajectory appear, moving at the same speed. The same targets are
-repeated for several nights following. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6
-(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 601
Date: 12/2/1943
-Description: Night. Some 105 German Junkers Ju 888 bombers attack the
-port of Bari, Italy, a key supply center for Allied forces. 28 Allied
-ships are sunk, including the US Liberty ship SS
-John Harvey, which
-is carrying mustard gas intended for retaliation in case German forces
-use chemical warfare. Liquid sulfur mustard from the bombs spills into
-waters already contaminated by oil from the other damaged vessels. The
-many sailors who abandoned their ships into the water become covered
-with the oily mixture. The wounded are pulled from the water and sent to
-medical facilities whose personnel are unaware of the mustard gas.
-Medical staff focus on personnel with blast or fire injuries. Within a
-day, the first symptoms of mustard poisoning appear in 628 patients and
-medical staff, including blindness and chemical burns. That puzzling
-development is further complicated by the arrival of hundreds of Italian
-civilians also seeking treatment, who have been poisoned by a cloud of
-sulfur mustard vapor that blows over the city when some of John Harvey’s
-cargo exploded. As the medical crisis worsens, little information is
-available about what is causing the symptoms, because US military
-command want to keep the presence of chemical munitions secret from the
-Germans. By the end of the month, 83 of the 628 hospitalized military
-victims have died. The number of civilian casualties, thought to have
-been even greater, cannot be accurately gauged since most have left the
-city to seek shelter with relatives. (Wikipedia, “Air
-raid on Bari”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 602
Date: 12/11/1943
-Description: US bombers conduct a daylight raid on Emden, Germany, and
-observe an unknown object about the size of a Thunderbolt aircraft over
-the target area. It passes below the bombers in a straight line and at
-terrific speed, leaving a vapor trail that persists. (Strange Company
-51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 603
Date: 12/14/1943
-Description: Night. British 255 Night Fighter Squadron leader Patrick
-Hardy Vesey Wells is flying his Bristol Beaufighter on a patrol
-mission around Naples, Italy, when he and his navigator notice a small
-bright light behind them. It stays on their tail, moving from side to
-side. After 1–2 minutes it goes off in another direction. (Strange
-Company 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 604
Date: winter 1943
-Description: Day. While on a bombing mission over central Germany,
-Sgt. Louis
-Kiss, a tail gunner on the Phyllis Marie, a B-17 of the 390th
-Bombardment Group, sees an odd-looking sphere approach the plane from
-behind and below. It seems to be the size of a basketball and shimmery
-gold. The object hovers just above one wing, then passes over the top to
-the other wing where it hovers again. Soon it moves to the rear and gets
-caught in the B-17’s backwash and disappears. (“First
-Official Foo-Fighter Records Discovered,” Just Cause, no. 32 (June
-1992): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 605
Date: winter 1943
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Harry G. Barnes, a member of the Washington,
-D.C., Metropolitan Police Department stationed at No. 1 Precinct, sees
-three oval-shaped objects in V-formation speeding eastward across the
-northeast sky. The objects have pulsating, greenish-red exhausts that
-occasionally flare and curl around them. (UFOEv, p. 64;
-Clark III 1177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 606
Date: 1944
-Description: Richard Shaver’s stories re. UFO
-Type: paranormal phenomenon
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 1944
-Description: During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st
-Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed
-saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii.
-Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a
-clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like
-device spinning inside.
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C)
Date: 1944
-Description: George
-Adamski and his followers move closer to Palomar Mountain,
-California, along the Road to the Stars where his long-time associate
-Alice K. Wells sets up a roadside café, Palomar Gardens. According to
-coworker Charlotte Blodget, “Each member of the group shared in the
-manual labor that went into this effort, and since heavy restrictions
-were still in effect regarding materials [in the war’s aftermath],
-anything available had to serve.” Adamski builds a “small observatory”
-to house his 15-inch telescope to study the skies. (“Palomar Mountain,
-1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case,
-September 22, 2019; George M. Eberhart, “Palomar Gardens Café,” IUR 30,
-no. 3 (May 2006): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 608
Date: 1944
-Description: During a mission to bomb oil fields in Romania, a Russian
-Tupolev Tu-2 piloted by Maj. Bajenov and Boris Surikov are flying over
-southwest Ukraine at an altitude of 3 miles when a large, elliptical
-object approaches them. The bomber starts shaking, the oil pressure
-rises, and Surikov feels a strong electrostatic charge. Even after the
-object passes, the bomber’s wings are covered with glowing discharges.
-(Good Need, pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 607
Date: 1/15/1944
-Description: The Materiel Command becomes the AAF Materiel Command.
-(Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 609
Date: 2/1944
-Description: 2:30 a.m. An Australian Beaufort bomber is flying at 4,500
-feet over Bass Strait, Australia, when it is joined by an object like a
-“dark shadow” with a flickering flame coming out of its rear. It appears
-only 100–150 feet away and stays with the bomber for 18–20 minutes,
-during which time its radio and direction-finding instruments fail. It
-shoots away at 700 mph. (Bill Chalker, “Australian
-A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 (October 1982):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 610
Date: 2/9/1944
-Description: RAF No. 5 Group issues a report of its investigation on
-“Rocket Phenomena,” concluding that the air crews are seeing either
-rockets fired from aircraft, parachute rockets, or high-explosive
-projectiles at maximum altitudes of 18,000 feet. Reports of objects
-changing their course are either defects causing erratic flight or light
-flak tracers reaching their highest point and descending. (Strange
-Company 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 611
Date: 2/20/1944
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Two guards of the 3rd Marine Division on
-Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands see what they first assume are the
-headlight beams of a truck coming from a swamp about three-quarters of a
-mile from their position. It moves laterally about 50 feet and they see
-it is a circular light about 50–60 feet long and 20 feet high. It then
-rises into the air about 25 feet and heads in the direction of the
-guards at about 45 mph. It makes a 45° turn and passes about 100 feet
-above the trees of a coconut grove. Several days later, a 200-foot cut
-in the reeds is discovered in the approximate spot where the light
-originated. (Alvin G. McNish, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 612
Date: 2/23/1944
-Description: Brig. Gen. George
-C. McDonald is appointed assistant chief of staff for intelligence
-for the newly created US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. “Many months
-preceding the collapse of Germany, McDonald recognized the imperative
-need for the creation of a new type of intelligence activity to
-investigate and exploit air intelligence objectives in Germany and
-liberated countries. This unique system was established and consisted of
-a great number of highly qualified technical and scientific personnel to
-exploit all the worldwide aeronautical research developments of Germany.
-This resulted in the collection of priority intelligence information of
-value in the prosecution of the war against Japan; technical and
-non-technical information of immediate operational significance and
-value; as well as a substantial portion of important documents and
-personnel of the German Air Ministry that enabled the US Army Air Forces
-to undertake long-range research with respect to many valuable- phases
-of air doctrine, research, employment, organization, procedure, and
-plans of the German air force.” Among the personalities involved in the
-operation are some who will become involved in UFO investigations in the
-future: Col. John
-A. O’Mara, Col. Howard
-H. McCoy, Col.
-Harold
-E. Watson, and Col. Malcolm
-D. Seashore. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Strategic Air Forces in Europe”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 613
Date: 2/24/1944
-Description: Night. Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, three
-silver objects are seen by an RAF bomber returning from a mission over
-Schweinfurt, Germany. They resemble Zeppelins but move independently of
-the wind. (Strange Company 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 614
Date: 3/1944
-Description: An Army Air Force pilot flying a B-17 sees a fast-moving,
-glowing green object light up the cockpit and speed out of sight over
-the horizon at Carlsbad, New Mexico. (UFOEv, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 615
Date: 3/1/1944
-Description: The first prototype H.IX V1, an unpowered glider with fixed
-tricycle landing gear, is tested in Germany, but there is an accident
-when the pilot attempts to land without first retracting an
-instrument-carrying pole extending from the aircraft. The design is
-taken from the Horten
-brothers and given to Gothaer Waggonfabrik. (Wikipedia, “Horten
-Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 616
Date: spring 1944
-Alternate date: 1945
-Description: Two grammar school teachers are driving in the mountains
-near Auberry, California, when their car stalls and they see a
-cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes along the side hovering in a
-nearby ravine. They watch it for several minutes until it begins moving
-slowly out of the ravine, ascends, and shoots away to the west at a
-tremendous speed. The car engine remains stalled for a while, then
-starts by itself. (“Past
-Sightings Come to Light,”
-APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 617
Date: 4/1944
-Description: Late afternoon. Near the Eastern front in western Slovakia,
-a man is standing on a hill near his home when he sees a dark round
-object moving at high speed to his right for less than one minute. It
-moves at a steady speed and is followed by another object about 20
-seconds later. As many as 6 others appear, and five are visible at one
-time, each beginning as a pinpoint of light, growing bigger, then
-decreasing back to a pinpoint. The display lasts for about 5 minutes.
-(“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 618
Date: 4/1944
-Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262,
-is introduced
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 4/5/1944
-Description: The Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge has sent 200 grams of enriched
-uranium to Los Alamos. Italian-American physicist Emilio
-Segrè receives the first sample and within 10 days discovers that
-the spontaneous fission rate is too high for use in a gun-type fission
-weapon (because of pu-240 isotope present as an impurity in the pu-239).
-(Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 619
Date: 4/26/1944
-Description: Night. RAF pilot Arthur Horton of the 622 Squadron is
-returning from a bombing mission to Essen, Germany, when he is followed
-by four orange balls of light with “short stubby wings” and emitting
-sparks, two on each side of the aircraft. He takes evasive action with
-his Lancaster, but the objects follow all his maneuvers for 10 minutes.
-When they reach the coast of Holland, they seem to “burn themselves
-out.” (Strange Company 64–65; UFOFiles2, pp. 16,
-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 620
Date: 5/29/1944
-Description: The Aircraft Warning Service is deactivated. (Wikipedia,
-“Aircraft
-Warning Service”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 621
Date: 6/1944
-Description: Edward W. Ludwig is commanding a small, Coast Guard–manned
-cargo vessel near Palmyra Atoll. While looking for a lost Navy patrol
-plane, he observes a bright aerial sphere that alternately moves and
-stops for 30 minutes. (“True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 3, no. 8
-(December 1950): 82–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 623
Date: 6/1944
-Description: 12:30 p.m. David
-A. K. Morris, a fitter with Service Unit 10 of the Royal New Zealand
-Air Force, takes a swim with a friend at Torokina Beach, Bougainville
-Island, Papua New Guinea. They see “a huge, dark-gray, seemingly
-metallic, bulbous mass hanging out of a large cumulus cloud.” It moves
-silently, its outline fading into the cloud and out of sight. It
-resembles a Zeppelin or the R101 airship,
-only bigger. (D. Morris, “RNZAF
-Camp UFO Sighting
-of 1944,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 622
Date: 6/10/1944 (approximate)
-Description: The Liberty ship SS
-George E. Badger is off Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, when gunner
-Edward Breckel sees
-a “dark ellipsoidal object” on the horizon about 5 miles away. “Blunted
-on each end like a sausage,” the silent craft remains in view for 3
-minutes, moving slowly at about 15 feet above the surface of the water.
-(Strange Company 67; “The
-Case for the ‘Sea-Saucer,’” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 10 (January 7, 1955):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 624
Date: summer 1944
-Description: Day. Asa
-Howard Jr. is outside the barracks at RAF Molesworth in
-Cambridgeshire, England, when he and other airmen see a pencil-shaped,
-metallic object moving faster than a jet about a mile away. While
-watching it for about 2 minutes, they see it pass behind a small cloud
-before it disappears. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 634
Date: summer 1944
-Description: Mid-day. Franceen Andron is at Camp McCain, southeast of
-Grenada, Mississippi, when she sees a large, fat, cigar-shaped object
-that changes from dull black to gray to “fog blue.” It is joined by
-three smaller discs that appear below it after emerging from a cloud.
-The large object disappears first, followed by the discs, which race
-away in different directions. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 633
Date: summer 1944
-Description: Fred Wieland and some friends are riding their bicycles on
-a footpath adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York
-City. As they climb a hill, they look up and see a cigar-shaped object
-“broadside” to them. It is of smooth metallic construction with no
-windows or openings. They race to the top of the hill for a better look,
-but by then the object has completely disappeared. (Clark III
-1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 632
Date: summer 1944
-Description: 5:00 p.m. François Panes watches a cigar-shaped object at
-an altitude of about 5,000 feet above the Kamensko Forest north of
-Blovice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic], glittering brightly with
-no wings, no rudder, and no propeller. It is about 150 feet in diameter
-and 300–400 feet long. The object is lit up from underneath. It slowly
-descends, after which it rises up again and vanishes into the blue sky
-after 10–15 minutes. (Hobana and Weverbergh 215–216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 631
Date: early 7/1944
-Description: 10:30 a.m. During Allied operations in the area around
-Loreto, Castelfidardo, and Osimo, in Ancona province, Italy, Antoni
-Szachnowsky, of the 2nd Polish Artillery Regiment, notices an
-egg-shaped, glistening, metallic, motionless object. The Polish Army
-anti-aircraft gun fires on it, then the German batteries join in.
-Eventually both sides stop, and the object remains motionless for a
-minute. Then it tilts at a 45° angle, moves rapidly upward, and
-disappears. (“1944: An Italian Foo-Fighter?” UFO Sightings Italia, no.
-2, March 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 625
Date: 7/4/1944
-Description: Oppenheimer reveals
-Segrè’s
-final measurements to the Los Alamos staff, and the development of the
-gun-type plutonium weapon “Thin Man” is abandoned. Designing a workable
-implosion design (Fat Man) becomes the top priority of the laboratory,
-and design of the uranium gun-type weapon (Little Boy) continues.
-(Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 626
Date: 7/6/1944
-Description: German test pilot Heini
-Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 702 mph in a
-rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163B at Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany.
-(Wikipedia, “Heini
-Dittmar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 627
Date: 7/9/1944
-Description: Afternoon. After a successful air strike by the US 449th
-Bombardment Group against the Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești,
-Romania, witness Grigore Zmeuranu sees a round, yellowish object flying
-from the north at a speed about 3-4 times that of an aircraft. It leaves
-a short vapor trail, moves over the bombed area, and returns silently in
-the same direction. (Hobana and Weverbergh 226–227; Strange Company
-71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 628
Date: 7/17/1944
-Description: The Air Service Command and the AAF Materiel Command are
-placed under AAF Materiel and Services. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 629
Date: late 7/1944
-Description: Evening. Jaakku Kivistö is serving in the Finnish Army as a
-noncommissioned medical officer stationed on a farm near Impilahti,
-Karelia [now Russia], by Lake Ladoga. He notices a large object next to
-the corn-drying building on a steep hillside that he at first takes for
-a military truck. As he walks closer, he sees it is reddish in color,
-moving slowly about 150–230 feet in the air, 100 feet long, and has a
-row of black windows. It moves off quickly in the direction of the lake
-and vanishes. (“A
-Close Encounter from the Year 1944,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1985,
-no. 1, pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 630
Date: 8/1944
-Description: Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These
-left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195,
-which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a
-passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in
-Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 8/1944
-Description: Night. Officer George Todt of the 38th Regiment, Second
-Infantry Division, is between Saint-Lô and Vire, Normandy, France, when
-he sees a cherry-red light one-fifth the size of the moon moving
-silently west at 120 mph towards Omaha Beach. It stops over the American
-lines and hovers for 14 minutes. It expands and contracts regularly
-every few seconds. Col. Francis
-Henry Boos and another officer also observe it. (Strange Company 78–
-79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 635
Date: 8/11/1944
-Description: Shortly after midnight. Capt. Alvah
-M. Reida is piloting a B-29 bomber based at Kharagpur, India, on a
-bombing mission over Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia, when his right
-gunner and copilot notice a sphere “probably five or six feet in
-diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color” that
-constantly throbs, at about 12,500 feet, pacing them about 1,500 feet
-off the starboard wing. It keeps up with the B-29, then flying at 210
-mph. Reida tries to shake it off his plane, but it stays in the same
-relative position until, after 8 minutes, it makes an abrupt 90° turn
-and accelerates rapidly, disappearing in the overcast. (UFOEv, p. 23;
-Strange Company 71–75; Good Above, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 636
Date: 8/11/1944
-Description: Night. RAF Warrant Officer Ronald R. Claridge is over
-France aboard a No. 7 Squadron Lancaster bomber returning from a bombing
-run on La Pallice, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, when his
-radar screen goes blank. Another crewman shouts to look at a vast
-disc-shaped object with a long row of lights on their starboard side.
-They watch it for 3 minutes, then it shoots away in a flash of light.
-Later he draws a watercolor painting to show how the UFO dwarfed the
-bomber. (UFOFiles2, pp. 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 637
Date: mid 8/1944
-Description: 11:00 a.m. During the Warsaw Uprising in Poland, Zenon
-Sergisz notices a German bomber passing by, as well as three bright
-points of light that descend as the bomber moves away. The lights are
-flattened spheres that move low behind some buildings then rise up at an
-angle and disappear. (Poland 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 638
Date: 8/17/1944
-Description: The Allied command creates the Combined Intelligence
-Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), charged in part with investigating the
-strange balls of fire. (Strange Company 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 639
Date: late 8/1944
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A nurse, Mrs. E. M. Church, on her way to a tram
-station in Christchurch, New Zealand, sees an object like an “upturned
-saucer” resting on the ground near the road. It seems to be 20 feet
-across and 9 feet high. Two beings, not quite 4 feet tall, are inside,
-visible through a rectangular window. A third stands motionless, just
-outside an open door. All three seem to be looking toward the lights of
-a nearby fairground. The nurse cannot decide if their skin color is
-green or they are dressed in green, but all are encased in a transparent
-oblong box. The head takes up half of their bodies and there are no
-apparent legs or arms. She inadvertently makes a noise, and the outside
-figure notices her. Its helmet flips over automatically, and it drifts
-inside the object, which rises up and disappears in the clouds. (Center
-for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1940–1949, p. 12; Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 641
Date: late 8/1944
-Description: Sgt. Ness and another man of the mine-laying platoon of the
-175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, see a large rectangular
-object “like a railroad boxcar” with no apparent source of propulsion
-move steadily at about 90 mph over the front lines near Brest, Brittany,
-France, and out to sea. At one point the object passes in front of the
-moon, briefly obscuring it from view. (Lore and Deneault, pp. 120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 640
Date: end of 8/1944
-Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of
-someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that “made
-consciousness dissolve” and left a strange cloying smell behind
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Mattoon, Illinois
-ID: 51
Date: 8/31/1944
-Description: The Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command is formed
-as the result of the merging of the Materiel and Air Service Commands.
-(Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 642
Date: 9/1944
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Canadian Army Lance Cpl. Carson Yorke is just
-outside Antwerp, Belgium, during a German bombardment. He steps out of
-his vehicle and sees a glowing globe traveling at about 30 mph and 40
-feet altitude from the front lines toward the city (in the same course
-that the German V-2s are following). It seems to be 3–4 feet in diameter
-and looks “as though it was cloudy glass with a light inside.” It
-disappears from view, then is followed by another, then five others in
-succession. (Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish, “The
-Mysterious ’Foo Fighters’
-of WW II,” Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 644
Date: 9/1944
-Description: Dusk. Three Oak Ridge workers (a man named Nelson, A. C.
-Butler, and Albert Profitt) are driving 2 miles southeast of Oliver
-Springs, Tennessee, when a strange object appears about 50 feet ahead of
-them at the level of their windshield. It is glossy white in color and
-about 30 feet long and 4 feet wide. Nelson eases the car up to the
-object, but it withdraws; when he stops, it also stops. Soon the light
-rises high in the air and disappears over Black Oak Ridge. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp, 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 643
Date: 9/2/1944
-Description: Two chemists are killed, and Arnold
-Kramish almost killed, after being sprayed with highly corrosive
-hydrofluoric acid while attempting to unclog a uranium enrichment device
-that is part of the pilot thermal diffusion plant at the Philadelphia
-Navy Yard. (Wikipedia, “Arnold
-Kramish”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 645
Date: 9/6/1944
-Description: The Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee holds its
-first meeting in London, England. Present are Air Commodore K. C. Buss
-(Air Ministry), Gen. George
-C. McDonald (AAF Director of Intelligence), Lt. Col. Lewis
-F. Powell Jr., Col. Howard
-McCoy (chief of the Air Technical Section), Howard
-P. Robertson (CalTech physicist), and Cmdr. Ian
-Fleming (Admiralty). (Strange Company 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 646
Date: 9/7/1944
-Description: First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris.
-V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to
-anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of
-100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea
-level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about
-spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces,
-initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no
-official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas
-mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began
-referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 10/1944
-Description: Late night. Members of a family who live in an isolated
-area on the outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania, are awakened by a loud
-noise and flash of light. The father goes to the door, where he sees a
-4.5-foot-tall figure dressed in a brown robe. Fifteen feet to its left
-are five other figures dressed in luminous brown metallic suits. Their
-heads seem large, with only a slit for a mouth. The arms are long, with
-long thin fingers. Three of them enter the house and the father
-accompanies them to a landed craft nearby. He remembers nothing else
-when he wakes up in the morning. A round, burned circle 20 feet from the
-house and 25 feet in diameter is found the next day. (Clark III
-265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 647
Date: 10/1944
-Description: Nellie Carlin and another woman are about to drive to work
-in St. Paul, Minnesota, when they see what seems to be an airplane about
-to crash. It abruptly stops 20 feet above their heads, revealing itself
-to be a brown, bullet- shaped object with a flat end “like frosted glass
-with a bright light behind it.” It makes a crackling noise, turns right,
-and ascends at great speed. (Clark III 1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 648
Date: late 10/1944
-Description: 9:30 p.m. 1Lt. J. B. Douglas Jr. and other soldiers of the
-489th Armored Field Artillery near Weert, Netherlands, watch a bright
-silvery object through field glasses moving silently from northwest to
-southwest through an arc of 90° in about 30–45 minutes. (UFOEv, pp. 30,
-129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 649
Date: 10/28/1944
-Description: Physicist David
-T. Griggs, a
-civilian adviser on radar to the War Department, is asked by Gen. Henry
-H. “Hap”
-Arnold to look into incidents of unusual aerial phenomena in Europe
-and interview pilots. He later moves his investigation to the Pacific
-Theater. His report to Arnold at the end of the war has never been
-located. He was interviewed by James
-E. McDonald on April 10, 1969. (Michael D. Swords, “David Griggs and
-the Foo Fighters,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 17–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 650
Date: 10/30/1944
-Description: Late night. RAF Flight Engineer Maurice Juberley of the 640
-Squadron is returning from a bombing mission over Köln, Germany. His
-Halifax III is flying at 19,000 feet above the clouds when the rear
-gunner reports a ball of orange fire closing in on them. He orders an
-evasive maneuver and loses the light. (Strange Company 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 651
Date: early 11/1944
-Description: Night. Lieut. Col. Oris
-B. Johnson’s 422d Night Fighter Squadron, equipped with P-61 Black
-Widow fighters, reports seeing 15–20 mystery objects every night over
-Germany, either alone or in formations of four. Johnson says he could
-accept that the reports are rocket planes or night fighter jets.
-(Strange Company 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 652
Date: 11/3/1944
-Description: The Japanese Army launches the first of some 9,300 Fu-Go
-bomb-bearing fire balloons intended to land in North America to instill
-fear and terror. About 300 are found or seen in America. It is likely
-that more of them land in unpopulated areas. On November 4, a US Navy
-patrol craft discovers one of the first Fu-Go balloons floating off San
-Pedro, Los Angeles, California. National and state agencies are placed
-on heightened alert status when balloons are found in Wyoming and
-Montana before the end of the month. (Wikipedia, “Fu-Go
-balloon bomb”;
-Franklin Matthias, “Japanese
-Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 653
Date: 11/4/1944
-Description: Night. RAF Lancaster bombers over Solingen, Germany, report
-what they call “scarecrow” dummy airplanes that explode with a sheet of
-flame and dense black smoke. (“German
-Dummy Planes Explode Amid Our Own,”
-New York Times, November 6, 1944, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 654
Date: 11/8/1944
-Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 11/12/1944
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A radio station in Santiago, Chile, broadcasts a
-version of The War of the Worlds in Spanish in which Martians land in
-Puente Alto, causing a panic and the death by heart attack of at least
-one person in Valparaíso. (John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A
-History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the
-Original Script, McFarland, 2009, pp. 99–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 655
Date: 11/16/1944
-Description: 11:55 p.m. Lt. J. L. Besmond, officer of the day on the USS
-Gilliam, enroute from Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea, to Leyte Gulf,
-Philippines, observes an unusual object at a distance of 21 miles. Fire
-Control Officer P. Kendall Bruce describes it as a bright green globe
-that rises from behind the ship and moves in a “perfect parabola at
-great speed, finally disappearing behind the horizon to the north.”
-(NICAP, “UFO
-Observed from USS Gilliam”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 656
Date: 11/24/1944
-Description: Capt. William
-D. Leet’s B-17 crew (part of the 2nd Bombardment Group, 5th Wing of
-the Fifteenth Air Force) is returning from bombing a target at
-Klagenfurt, Austria. While flying over northeastern Italy near Trieste,
-Leet notices a blinding light and feels an intense heat. It goes away
-quickly, but seconds later he sees a “round amber light” sitting off the
-left wingtip of the B-17. It is bright and perfectly circular. Leet
-orders the gunners not to shoot at it. Sgt. Harris, the upper gunner,
-thinks it is 10 feet in diameter and 150–300 feet away. The object stays
-with them over the Adriatic Sea for 50 minutes, until it “just turned
-off” like a light bulb. (Strange Company 90–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 657
Date: 11/29/1944
-Description: Night. A Bristol Beaufighter crew (pilot Lieut. Edward A.
-Schlueter and radar observer Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night
-Fighter Squadron, and intelligence officer Capt. Fred
-B. Ringwald as observer) is on a bombing mission and flying above
-the Rhine River north of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. They see “eight
-to 10 bright orange lights off the left wing…flying through the air at
-high speed.” Neither the airborne radar nor ground control registers
-anything nearby. Schlueter and Meiers also see red lights on November 26
-above Mannheim, Germany. (Zoe Crasney, “What
-Were the Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?”
-Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, August 2016; Strange Company
-93–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 659
Date: 11/29/1944
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Reginald
-Herbert Mortimer and his daughter Frances are on the Bruce Peninsula
-between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, Ontario, when they hear a hissing
-sound behind them and see 9 disc-shaped objects pass overhead at
-approximately 2,000 feet. Moving three abreast in a square
-configuration, they are lost to sight over the lake. (Clark III
-1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 658
Date: 11/30/1944 (approximate)
-Description: As the USS
-Gilliam is transporting troops from Leyte Gulf to Lingayen Gulf,
-Luzon, Philippines, Lieut. JG Kendall Bruce, fire control officer on the
-ship, observes a bright green, globe-shaped object rising out of the
-nearby headlands and disappears to the north, It is too slow for a
-missile. [Same event as November 16?] (NICAP, “UFO
-Observed from USS Gilliam”; Strange Company 95–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 660
Date: 12/13/1944
-Description: SHAEF in Paris, France, issues a press release identifying
-the fireballs as a “new German weapon” and that the Ninth Air Force has
-reported seeing “many silver balls floating in the air above enemy
-territory.” An Army Air Force spokesman says on December 20 that the
-silver balls have “no detectable effects” on Allied planes. He does not
-know whether or not they are metallic. (Strange Company 96, 101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 661
Date: 12/14/1944
-End date: 12/28/1944
-Description: Numerous balls of light are reported by the Night Fighter
-Squadrons during bombing raids over Germany. Pilot and operations
-officer Charlie
-Horne of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron suggests calling the
-objects “foo fighters,” a name gleaned from the men’s favorite comic
-strip, “Smokey Stover” by cartoonist Bill Holman. The
-comic follows the escapades of a madcap fire fighter who calls his fire
-truck the “Foomobile.” Smokey Stover often states, “where there’s foo,
-there’s fire.” (“More
-Foo-Fighter Records Released,” Just Cause, new ser., no. 33
-(September 1992): 2–6; Strange Company 96–111; Swords 3–5; “The
-Foo Fighters of World War II,
-Part One,” Saturday Night UFOria; Clas Svahn, “The Origin of the
-Expression ‘Foo Fighter,’” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 18; Don Berliner,
-with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Hunneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The
-Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 47–49;
-Barry Greenwood, “Foo
-Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17
-(December 2015): 2–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 662
Date: 12/23/1944
-Description: Night. Navy Lt. George
-Arents III and copilot Lt. Elon Forster are flying a military DC-3
-at 9,000 feet between Blackstone and Richmond, Virginia, when they
-notice a cigar-shaped object hovering below them at about 4,000 feet. It
-appears to be 200 feet long and has two horizontal rows of blue-lighted
-windows and a flaming exhaust coming out of its tail. (Jan Aldrich) Late
-December through February 1945 — Radar operators at Naval Air Station
-Pasco, Washington, report unusual blips that appear out of nowhere and
-proceed from northwest to southeast. A Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter is
-scrambled on at least two occasions with orders to shoot down anything
-that appears to be hostile, but nothing is seen. In another incident,
-Lt. JG Clarence R. Clem accompanies Lt. Commander Richard Brown and
-Ensign C. T. Neal to a waiting aircraft and Brown takes off in pursuit
-of a ball of fire that quickly leaves him behind as it speeds off to the
-northwest and is lost to radar. On another occasion, naval officer R. W.
-Hendershot, flying an SNJ aircraft, is asked by ground radar to make
-contact with two high-altitude blips flying at the speed of a single-
-engine Piper Cub. Though he can see nothing, he is convinced the blips
-are real. (Strange Company 142; Nukes 43–44; Project 1947, “UFOs
-over Hanford: Cdr. R. W. Hendershot,” June 22, 2014; Robert L.
-Hastings, “Reports Confirm
-UFO Activity at the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant during World War
-II,” UFOs & Nukes, August 9, 2015; Headquarters Fourth Air
-Force, “Air
-Defense Measures at Hanford Engineering Company,” January 23, 1945;
-Robert L. Hastings, “Former
-US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered above the Hanford
-Atomic Plant
-during World War II,” UFOs & Nukes, October 5, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 663
Date: 1945
-Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down
-rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark.
-The event took place 35 km northwest of the town.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
-ID: 52
Date: 1945
-Description: (Approximate date.) Radar signals secretly bounced off the
-Moon during WW2 according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J.
-Lee.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: link
-Location: New Jersey
Date: 1945
-Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US
-Type: anomalous phenomenon
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 1945
-Description: Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using
-70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the
-“Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production,
-component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on
-Earth.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
-See also: 1947
Date: 1/1945
-Description: Ray
-Palmer edits, rewrites, and publishes Richard S. Shaver’s
-description of the cave-dwelling Dero for the March 1945 issue of
-Amazing Stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.” The issue sells
-out and generates quite a response. Between 1945 and 1949, many letters
-arrive attesting to the truth of Shaver’s claims (tens of thousands of
-letters, according to Palmer). The correspondents claim that they, too,
-have heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the Hollow Earth.
-(Wikipedia, “Richard
-Sharpe Shaver”; Richard S. Shaver, “’I Remember
-Lemuria,’” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 (March 1945): 12–70; Walter
-Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 137–144;
-Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver,
-Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction,
-McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “The Shaver
-Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part
-1),” July 4, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 664
Date: 1/2/1945
-Description: Col. Clayton
-Lawrence Bissell, in the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Chief of
-Staff for Intelligence, sends SHAEF in Paris a classified message
-seeking an explanation for the red balls of fire pacing planes. No
-response has been located to date. ([Clayton Lawrence] Bissell, [message],
-January 2, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO Reports,
-1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 667
Date: 1/2/1945
-Description: 2:30 a.m. USAAF Lieut. Jack Green and navigator Lieut.
-Warren Barber, 653rd Bombardment Squadron, are conducting a
-reconnaissance flight in a Mosquito over the Netherlands and northern
-Germany when they encounter two balls of fire on three occasions pacing
-their plane. Barber describes them as a “pair of fog lights, shooting up
-to 60 or 70,000 feet.” (Strange Company 114–116, 208–209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 665
Date: 1/2/1945
-Description: The New York Times publishes an article stating that the
-foo fighters are German weapons. Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th
-Night Fighter Squadron says he has been followed by foo-fighters twice.
-“A foo-fighter picked me up at 700 feet and chased me 20 miles down the
-Rhine Valley [Germany]. I turned to starboard and two balls of fire
-turned with me. I turned to the port side and they turned with me. We
-were going 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right up with
-us.” (“Balls
-of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters in Night Assaults over Germany,”
-New York Times, January 2, 1945, pp. 1, 4; Strange Company
-117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 666
Date: 1/16/1945
-Description: Lt. Col. Leavitt
-Corning Jr. of the XII Tactical Air Command sends a secret memo to
-the assistant chief of air intelligence requesting further information
-on the “Night Phenomenon.” (Strange Company 126–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 668
Date: 1/20/1945
-Description: First Tactical Air Force Executive Officer Maj. Samuel
-V. Boykin responds to Corning asking
-for more particulars about the reports. (Strange Company 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 669
Date: 1/22/1945
-Description: British prisoners being force-marched out of the German
-Heydebreck labor camp (near modern Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland) see a
-four-engine bomber overhead. Behind it is a “brilliant light” that is
-following it closely. (Clark III 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 670
Date: 1/30/1945
-Description: Capt. Fred
-B. Ringwald, intelligence
-officer for the 415 Night Fighter Squadron, responds to Corning’s
-January 16 request by offering a summary of 14 foo fighter reports from
-December 14, 1944, to January 29, 1945. (Strange Company 129–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 672
Date: 1/30/1945
-Description: 12:10 a.m. A 415th Night Fighter Squadron crew observes two
-amber-colored “lights in the air at 2,000 feet” between Wissembourg,
-Bas-Rhin, France, and Landau, Germany. They seem to be about a foot in
-diameter and 20–50 feet apart. The lights follow their Bristol
-Beaufighter, closing in to about 1,000 feet before disappearing.
-(Strange Company 129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 671
Date: 2/1945
-Description: Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by
-Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto:
-“Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945”.
-Type: ufological event
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 2/1945
-Description: Meade
-Layne founds the Borderland Sciences Research Associates in San
-Diego, California, and publishes the first issue of its newsletter, The
-Round Robin. Working with local medium Mark
-A. Probert, who channels “etheric” entities from discarnates with
-advanced knowledge of spirit and cosmos, Layne and BSRA seek to explore
-the mysteries of the invisible world. (Borderland Sciences Research
-Associates, [History];
-Clark III 876; Håkan Blomqvist, “Round
-Robin and
-Contactee History,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, March 30, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 673
Date: 2/2/1945
-Description: The first flight of the H.IX V2 is made in Oranienburg,
-Germany. All subsequent test flights and development are done by Gothaer
-Waggonfabrik in Gotha. By this time, the Horten
-brothers are working on a turbojet-powered design for the Amerika
-Bomber contract competition and do not attend the first test flight. The
-test pilot is Leutnant Erwin
-Ziller. Two further test flights are made in February. There are
-reports that during one of these test flights, the H.IX V2 undertook a
-simulated dogfight with a Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational
-jet fighter, and that the H.IX V2 outperformed the Me 262. However, the
-Me 262 is considered by many as unsuitable for fighter missions, being
-slow in turning. (Wikipedia, “Horton
-Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 675
Date: 2/2/1945
-Description: The first Hanford plutonium arrives at Los Alamos. (Atomic
-Heritage Foundation, “Atomic
-Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 674
Date: 2/7/1945
-Description: Afternoon. Several F6F fighters on patrol (one piloted by
-Ensign Norman
-P. Stark) from the USS
-Wasp aircraft carrier anchored at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline
-Islands are told to investigate a radar target at 30,000 feet some 10
-miles west of the fleet. Before they can reach altitude, the object
-moves back to the west at high speed. They catch a brief visual glimpse
-of it. (LCDR Norman P. Stark, “A
-WWII F6F Navy Fighter Pilot’s Experiences in
-the Pacific,” Battle of Saipan, January 1, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 676
Date: 2/10/1945
-Description: The Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald reveal Bill
-Donovan’s plans for a postwar intelligence agency and publishes a
-secret memo he has sent to Roosevelt proposing
-its creation. The article compares the proposed agency to the Gestapo.
-Knowing that Americans want a smaller federal government after the war,
-Roosevelt is not entirely sold on Donovan’s proposal, although Donovan
-feels reasonably confident that he can talk the president into the idea.
-J.
-Edgar Hoover disapproves of Donovan’s plan, which he sees as a
-direct threat to FBI authority, even though Donovan has stressed that
-his agency will operate only abroad, not domestically. (Walter Trohan,
-“Super-Spy
-Idea Denounced As New Deal OGPU,” Chicago Tribune, February 10,
-1945, p. 1; Central Intelligence Agency, “Origins
-of CIA,” August 3, 2005; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to
-9/11, Simon & Schuster, 2002, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 677
Date: 2/11/1945
-Description: Air Commodore Colin
-McKay Grierson, RAF assistant chief of staff A2, refers Ringwald’s
-report to the Air Ministry. (Strange Company 133–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 678
Date: mid 2/1945
-Description: As their C-47 prepares to land at Biggs Field, Fort Bliss,
-El Paso, Texas, S/Sgt Ralph Bayer is alarmed to see an aircraft
-approaching from the left and only 900 feet below them. The object is
-about 30 feet long and a dull, flat gray in color, and it travels in a
-straight course 500 feet above the ground until it disappears. (Clark
-III 1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 679
Date: 2/18/1945
-Description: Disaster strikes during the third test flight of the H.IX
-V2 in Gotha, Germany. Erwin
-Ziller takes off without any problems to perform a series of flight
-tests. After about 45 minutes, at an altitude of around 800 meters, one
-of the Jumo 004 turbojet engines develops a problem, catches fire and
-stops. Ziller is seen putting the aircraft into a dive and pulling up
-several times in an attempt to restart the engine and save the precious
-prototype. He undertakes a series of four complete turns at a 20° angle.
-Ziller does not use his radio or eject from the aircraft. He already is
-unconscious as a result of the fumes from the burning engine. The
-aircraft crashes just outside the boundary of the airfield. Ziller is
-thrown from the aircraft on impact and dies from his injuries two weeks
-later. The prototype aircraft is completely destroyed. (Wikipedia, “Horton
-Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 680
Date: 2/22/1945
-Description: Night. A B-24 bomber flying near Chichijima in the
-Ogasawara (Bonin) Archipelago, Japan, sees an object trailing exhaust.
-It is also picked up on radar and follows the plane for about 20 miles
-before disappearing off the screen. (Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 681
Date: 3/1945
-Description: A man is squirrel hunting in a wooded area near Belfast,
-Maine, when he sees a huge, elongated object just above the trees. He
-runs after it, thinking it is a dirigible about to crash. The object
-crashes into the trees at the far edge of a clearing, splitting a huge
-pine tree down the middle. He smells burned rubber. The object seems to
-be as big as several B-36 bombers. As he stands there stunned, the
-lowest end of the craft begins to rise and he hears a humming sound of
-increasing intensity. After it rises to a horizontal position, it begins
-to spin faster and faster and the hum becomes very intense. Suddenly one
-end spews a shower of fine, silvery threads that glint in the sunlight.
-The object begins to change to a white metallic color and it takes off
-straight up at fantastic speed. (“I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying
-Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1178–1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 683
Date: 3/1945
-Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very
-slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end
-of a clearing. The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it rested briefly
-on the ground, then lifted again with a humming sound, started to spin,
-released a shower of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up,
-disappearing in seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS May., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Belfast, Maine
-ID: 53
Date: 3/1945
-Description: Aboard the US attack transport “Delarof,” 14 sailors saw a
-dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly
-away after circling their ship.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 30 (Vallee)
-Location: Aleutian Islands
-ID: 54
Date: 3/1945
-Description: The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
-begins production. (Wikipedia, “K-25”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 682
Date: 3/1945
-Description: Ray
-Palmer travels to Barto, Pennsylvania, and spends a weekend with Richard
-Shaver and his wife. He witnesses Shaver’s channeling trances and
-the different voices describing the cavern world that he generates
-during his sleep. (Wikipedia, “Richard
-Sharpe Shaver”; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds,
-Loompanics, 1989, pp. 137–144;
-Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver,
-Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction,
-McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “The
-Shaver Mystery—Richard
-Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part 1),” July 4,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 684
Date: 3/10/1945
-Description: A Japanese Fu-Go balloon strikes a high-tension wire on the
-Bonneville Power Administration in Washington State. The balloon causes
-sparks and a fireball that results in the power being cut.
-Coincidentally, the largest consumer of energy on this power grid is the
-Hanford site of the Manhattan Project, which suddenly loses power. The
-officer in charge at Hanford, Col. Franklin
-Matthias, says “it shut down the plant cold, and it took us about
-three days to get it back up to full power again.” (Franklin Matthias,
-“Japanese
-Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 685
Date: 3/12/1945
-Description: Nearly a week after the US Army launches Operation
-Lumberjack to cross the Rhine River, the Ho 229 is included in the
-Jäger-Notprogramm (Emergency Fighter Program) for accelerated production
-of inexpensive “wonder weapons.” The prototype workshop is moved to the
-Gothaer Waggonfabrik (Gotha) in Friedrichroda, Germany. In the same
-month, work commences on the third prototype, the Ho 229 V3. (Wikipedia,
-“Horton
-Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 686
Date: 3/17/1945
-Description: Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first
-use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a
-German target during the war
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 3/18/1945
-Description: Night. A 416th NFS crew is flying a Mosquito 25 miles
-northwest of Florence, Italy. Suddenly a light is flying alongside them
-at 13,000 feet. It doesn’t appear on the radar screen. The pilot turns
-the plane toward the light, keeping on its tail, pursuing at 260 mph and
-climbing to 16,000 feet. Suddenly the light disappears. (Strange Company
-148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 688
Date: 3/18/1945
-Description: Grierson writes
-to Samuel
-V. Boykin that the Air Ministry thinks the fireballs are either
-Me-262’s or flak rockets. (Strange Company 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 687
Date: late 3/1945
-Description: At least two residents of Dresden, Germany, see a round,
-flat, silver-colored object without propellors or wings hovering
-silently in the air. It suddenly disappears like a “burst soap bubble.”
-(“Weltrundschau,”
-Weltraumbote, no. 32/22 (July/Aug. 1958): 14–15; Clark III 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 689
Date: 3/22/1945
-Description: 1:00 p.m. The USS
-New York is off New Guinea preparing to rejoin the Seventh Fleet.
-Gunner Cpl. Donald Pratt is preparing for a Japanese attack when he sees
-a shiny silver object hovering directly over the battleship. It remains
-stationary over the ship for 30 minutes and is tracked on ship radar.
-Two antiaircraft guns fire on the object, but it does not move or seem
-affected. Capt. Kemp
-C. Christian Sr. orders the guns to stop. Immediately the object
-shoots up and away at a fantastic rate of speed. (Strange Company
-151–152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 690
Date: 3/25/1945
-Description: Around 10:30 p.m. Company A of the US 44th Armored Infantry
-Battalion is bivouacked on a hill along the Autobahn between Mannheim
-and Darmstadt, Germany, when 6–7 circular, glowing, yellow-orange
-objects approach at 150 feet, roughly following the road. They are not
-in strict formation and seem individually controlled. John G. Norris
-recalled that after 5–6 minutes they are hidden by the trees. (Strange
-Company 153– 154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 691
Date: 3/26/1945
-Description: During an air operation, Lieut. Calvin
-P. Lamb (pilot), Lieut. James G. Holmes (radar observer), and
-Sgt. John W. McIsaac (gunner) notice lights on an airborne object. The
-lights follow them through a few turns but move away as the crew orbits
-north of Iwo Jima, Japan. They give chase, obtaining a slight target on
-the aircraft radar, then the object pulls out of sight. A similar
-lighted object is again seen March 28 by Lieut. William
-F. Sill (pilot), Flight Officer George W. Hayden (radar observer),
-and PFC William Brasvell (gunner). (Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 692
Date: 3/27/1945
-Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany
Date: 4/1945
-Description: Ray
-Palmer publishes a second story by Richard
-Shaver, “Thought
-Records of Lemuria,” in the June issue of Amazing Stories. Here it is
-revealed that Shaver’s knowledge of the cave world and Lemuria isn’t
-really a “racial memory,” as the first story had asserted. Shaver,
-working in a factory, heard voices speaking to him, apparently through
-his welding gun. (Richard S. Shaver, “Thought
-Records of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no 2 (June 1945):
-16–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 694
Date: 4/1945
-Description: During operations around Okinawa, Japan, the radar crew on
-the aircraft carrier USS
-Independence frequently notices strange radar returns that move at
-slow speeds (30–70 mph). Aircraft and destroyers sent to search for them
-never find anything. These radar ghosts are usually detected 25–30 miles
-away at an altitude of 1,500 feet, but occasionally 3,500 feet. The
-primary diagnostic for these false returns is their speed. The Navy
-nicknames them the “ghost of Nansei-shoto” after the Japanese name for
-the Ryukyu Islands, of which Okinawa is one. (Strange Company
-183–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 693
Date: 4/3/1945
-End date: 4/4/1945
-Description: US B-29 bombers over Honshu, Japan, encounter numerous
-balls of light tagging along with them. (Strange Company 157–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 695
Date: 4/7/1945
-Description: Walter
-and Reimar Horten, German designers associated with wingless
-aircraft, are arrested by US troops near Göttingen, Germany. (Lance
-Cole, Secret Wings of World War II: Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms
-Race, Pen & Sword, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 696
Date: 4/10/1945
-Description: As part of the Manhattan Project, 18 people in the US are
-injected with plutonium in doses ranging from 95 to 5,900 nanocuries
-without their knowledge or consent. The intent is to study how plutonium
-is absorbed into the digestive tract. The last experiment is conducted
-on July 18, 1947. (Wikipedia, “Unethical
-human experimentation
-in the United States”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 698
Date: 4/10/1945
-Description: 11:00 p.m. James L. Hendry sees from his porch in
-Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a bright light that seems to be directly above
-Fisherville, 3 miles to the east. Its brightness fluctuates and it seems
-to be moving directly toward his location, casting a light beam
-downward. After 10 minutes, it goes out “like a snuffed candle.” (“A
-Meteor?” Louisville Times, April 14, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 697
Date: 4/12/1945
-End date: 1/20/1953
-Description: President Harry S. Truman in office
-Type: historical event
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/12/1945
-Description: Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry
-S. Truman is sworn in as president.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 699
Date: 4/17/1945
-Description: Maj. Gen. James
-P. Hodges writes a memorandum to Gen. Henry
-H. “Hap” Arnold, saying that infrared devices are now available to
-take photographs of “balls of fire” in the Pacific. (Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 700
Date: 4/22/1945
-Description: The USS
-Lewis Hancock is northeast of Okinawa, Japan, when the SG radar
-picks up an unidentified target at 6 miles heading their way at 70–115
-mph. Its movements are erratic. Two miles out, the ship identifies a
-“tight formation of more than fifty birds.” (Strange Company 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 701
Date: 4/24/1945
-Description: The USS
-Audubon is headed for Okinawa, Japan, with US Army passengers and
-equipment. Radar operators pick up “unidentified aeroplanes” heading
-their way. The screens show a blip, alternately fuzzy and strong, some 8
-miles away headed down the starboard side at 25 mph. Still, nothing can
-be seen visually, and the radar operator suggests that it is a flock of
-birds. (Strange Company 184–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 702
Date: 4/25/1945
-Description: 9:45 a.m. Acting Squadron Leader Kit Francis Williams of
-the RAF 617 Bomber Squadron is flying a Lancaster with 25 other aircraft
-to bomb Hitler’s headquarters at Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the Bavarian
-Alps. Just after a turn near Kaiserslautern, Germany, at 16,500 feet,
-Williams witnesses an object like a large woolly blanket that takes up
-his entire windshield. He thinks it could be as much as 4–5 miles wide.
-It moves vertically and is gone in an instant. Suddenly his aircraft
-loses its electrical power and loses one of its bombs. He and his bomber
-and engineer get severe headaches. They return to base in England after
-regaining power. (Keith Basterfield, “Observation
-by Pilot over Germany, 1945,” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena—Scientific Research, November 14, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 703
Date: 4/26/1945
-Description: Gen. Curtis
-LeMay’s XXI Bomber Command’s Air Intelligence staff produces a
-5-page report representing the most up-to-date information and theories
-on the balls of fire but cannot find a good explanation for them.
-(Strange Company 162–163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 704
Date: 5/1945
-Description: German scientist Viktor
-Schauberger, who
-has been using inmates from the Mauthausen concentration camp to help
-him develop new aircraft and submarine engines, is captured by Allied
-forces in Leonstein, Austria. Supposedly his devices and documents,
-which allegedly include a prototype flying saucer, are kept under lock
-and key. He is released in March 1946 and moves to Linz, Austria, but
-the Americans do not confiscate his workshop and laboratory materials,
-although they prohibit him from further military experimentation.
-(Wikipedia, “Nazi UFOs”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 705
Date: 5/3/1945
-Description: Early morning. Nine B-24’s with the 11th Bombardment
-Group’s 431st Squadron are heading out on a bombing mission against
-Japanese air installations on Truk [now Chuuk] Atoll in Micronesia. One
-plane over Fala Island sees two objects at their altitude of 11,000
-feet, changing from cherry red to orange then white, then dying out and
-turning cherry red again. Both follow the B-24 through all sorts of
-evasive actions. (“B-24
-Sights Circles
-of Light,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 (September 1998): 8; Strange
-Company 163–165; NICAP, “May 2,
-Truk Atoll Sighting”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 706
Date: 5/5/1945
-Description: A pregnant woman, Elsie Mitchell, and five children are
-killed when they discover a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that has landed
-in the forest of Gearhart Mountain near Bly in southern Oregon.
-(Wikipedia, “Fu-Go balloon
-bomb”) May 23 and 25 — Night. In the wake of two B-29 raids on
-Tokyo, Japan, both nights, businessman Iomoyo Okado looks up from his
-air raid shelter and sees slow-moving “roundish objects, like hot cakes,
-about 20 square yards” in diameter, and silent. They are blue or gray in
-color. (“‘Flying
-Hot Cakes’ over Tokyo in 1945,” St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, July
-12, 1947, p. 6; Clark III 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 707
Date: 6/1/1945
-Description: The Army Air Force approves a Northrop-recommended change
-for installing eight jet engines in each of two modified YB-35
-piston-driven flying wings, which are redesignated YB-49s. (Wikipedia,
-“Northrop
-YB-49”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 711
Date: 6/1/1945
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A shiny, tubular object, 5–6 feet long, is
-observed over Morganton, North Carolina. It streaks toward the
-northwest, blue flame shooting from the rear. After it vanishes in the
-mountains near Lake James, witnesses hear an explosion. (Loren E. Gross,
-The
-Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949, The
-author, 1971, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 712
Date: 6/9/1945
-Description: XXI Bomber Command Air Intelligence issues an Air
-Intelligence Report on the balls of fire in the Pacific Theatre. The
-Truk sighting is attributed to an unknown Japanese experimental
-aircraft, though not a jet. (Strange Company 177–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 713
Date: Summer 1945
-Description: Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US
-Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to
-intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers.
-These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret
-Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above
-42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the
-unknown craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Alien Base”, Timothy Good, page 152 (photos)
-Location: Hanford, WA
Date: summer 1945
-Description: Radioman Robert S. Crawford and 13 other sailors aboard the
-US Army Transport Delarof see
-a large, dark sphere rise out of the ocean east of Adak in the Aleutian
-Islands, Alaska. The UFO, showing darkly against the setting sun, climbs
-almost straight up for a few moments, then it arcs into level flight,
-and circles the ship two or three times. All the observers are convinced
-it is a large object. Crawford estimates the UFO is 150–250 feet in
-diameter. The gun crews hold their fire. After several minutes, it
-disappears to the south. (NICAP, “Large
-Object Emerges
-from Sea near the Delarof”;
-“The
-Question of Submerging UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, o. 5 (March
-1968): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 710
Date: summer 1945
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. Future ufologist Ann
-Druffel is on a bus returning from her summer job in Long Beach,
-California, when she sees out of the left-hand window a bright,
-stationary, yellowish-white light in the northeastern sky. It looks like
-Venus but has a yellow color. She gets off the bus and still watches it,
-walking home. Soon she sees it is moving slowly to the northwest. She
-gets her mother to view it as well. Druffel thinks it is too high to be
-a coastal defense balloon. Druffel watches it for 90 minutes, after
-which it takes on some “activity.” Some 10–15 pieces of light begin
-separating from it, fading from view after moving several diameters away
-from the large object. (Ann Druffel, “UFO Sightings by UFO Researchers:
-The ‘Inaccessible Cases,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 139 (September 1979),
-pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR
-29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 708
Date: summer 1945
-Description: Future ufologist Illobrand
-von Ludwiger sees an object like a black plate, whose diameter is
-one-eighth that of the Moon, flying against the wind below the clouds,
-in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO
-Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 709
Date: 6/26/1945
-Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on
-10/24/1945
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City
Date: 7/1945
-Description: When several balloon-shaped objects appear above Selfridge
-Field [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount Clemens,
-Michigan, the base commander asks for a volunteer to attack them as
-possible Japanese balloon bombs. Jean Kisling, serving with a Free
-French Air Force detachment as an instructor on P-47 Thunderbolts,
-accepts the challenge. He chases one “well beyond the service ceiling of
-the P-47D” and opens fire with 8 machine guns. The object shoots away
-sideways on edge, leaving a contrail. (Good Need, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 716
Date: 7/1945
-Description: In northern Okinawa, Japan, on a bluff looking toward the
-South China Sea, Artillery Capt. William
-A. Mandel sees a cigar-shaped object with a lighted tail moving at
-eye level at about 200 –300 mph at an elevation of no more than 400
-feet. He estimates its length at 30–40 feet and its diameter at 6–8
-feet. (Project 1947, “UFO Reports,
-1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 715
Date: 7/1945
-Description: The 9th Bombardment Group on Tinian in the Northern
-Marianas: “During our night missions in June and July a UFO phenomenon
-was reported. Our air crews started sighting balls of fire, i.e.,
-glowing objects about the size of a full moon which flew around in the
-vicinity of our flying patterns over Japan. One of our crews reported
-that one of the objects followed their airplane halfway to Iwo Jima. I
-saw them on two missions. I don’t remember any reports of any hostile
-action by these objects and the reports of sightings stopped after a
-couple of months. The object of these reports was dismissed by some
-experts as the planet Venus. And, after these reports started coming in,
-some crews did mistake the rising full moon as one of these balls of
-fire. Some reports speculated that these balls of fire were exhausts
-from a Japanese development called a Baka Bomb, but exhaust flames can
-only be seen from the rear; and these objects appeared to have the same
-size and intensity in whatever direction they were traveling. I have
-never heard of any official assessment as to what these objects were. I
-had an occasion to ask General LeMay about
-them several years after the war and he had no explanation. I am sure
-that what I saw was neither Venus nor the moon nor a Baka Bomb.”
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 24; Henry C. Huglin,
-“Group
-Commander’s Reminiscences,” in Lawrence S. Smith, et al., History of
-the 9th Bombardment Group (VH), 9th Bomb Group Association, 1995,
-pp. 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 714
Date: 7/1/1945
-Description: The Air Technical Service Command is moved into T-2
-Intelligence. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 717
Date: mid 7/1945
-Description: Noon. Pilot Rolan D. Powell and five other F6F Hellcat
-pilots at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, are scrambled after radar
-reports a fast-moving object over the nearby Hanford facility. They see
-a bright object with a saucer-like appearance at. It is the size of
-three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined
-like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color. It hovers in a fixed
-position at 65,000 feet and then goes straight up and disappears.
-(NICAP, “Huge
-Saucer over Nuclear Reactor—Radar/Visual”; Strange Company 188;
-Patrick Gross, “Alleged
-UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant, July 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 719
Date: 7/16/1945
-Description: The first detonation of a nuclear weapon (an
-implosion-style plutonium-based bomb) takes place at the Trinity site on
-what is now the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
-At this time, the bomb’s price tag, adjusted for inflation, is $28
-billion. (Wikipedia, “Trinity
-(nuclear test)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 718
Date: 7/16/1945
-Description: First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km)
-southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile
-Range)
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 18.6
Date: 7/20/1945
-Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff establish Operation Overcast, a
-forerunner to Project Paperclip, a secret recruitment program to aid in
-postwar military research. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency is
-established to conduct the operation. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Paperclip”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 720
Date: 7/24/1945
-Description: President Truman discloses
-to Soviet leader Joseph
-Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons. Stalin feigns
-little surprise, since he already knows this through espionage. (Gene
-Dannen, “Truman
-Tells Stalin, July 24,
-1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 721
Date: 8/1945
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, staying in a sauna
-along lake Längelmävesi, Finland, wakes up and sees a 35-foot dazzling
-ball of fire streaking in her direction along the opposite shore. She
-throws herself to the floor, but when nothing happens she looks outside
-and sees a big dog, frozen in terror, its gaze fixed on the lake and a
-dark log-like object, 6 feet long, gliding through the water with a
-tall, slender man at the prow. He is dressed in a green coverall. On the
-other side another man sits steering an engine enclosed within a big
-glass bulb. (Ilona Johansson- Paasonen, “Humanoideja
-Längelmävedellä?” Vimana 1970, no. 3/4, pp. 22–24; Ilona
-Johansson-Paasonen, “Humanoids
-at Längelmävesi,” FSR Case Histories 13 (February 1973): 3–4; Clark
-III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 723
Date: 8/1945
-Description: The Army Signal Security Agency persuades ITT, RCA, and
-Western Union to continue the wartime cable intercept program, both
-foreign and domestic, now called Project SHAMROCK. No courts, no
-warrants. It remains secret from Congress and the President. (Wikipedia,
-“Project
-SHAMROCK”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 722
Date: 8/6/1945
-Description: 8:15 a.m. An atomic bomb (a fission weapon containing 64
-kilograms of Uranium-235, Little Boy) is detonated 1,900 feet above
-Hiroshima, Japan, by the Enola
-Gay. The weapon is considered very inefficient, with only 1.7% of
-its material fissioning, but it is enough to obliterate the city. Some
-78,000 people die instantly or immediately afterward in the firestorm.
-By the end of the year, another 25,000 will also sicken and die from
-radiation exposure. (Wikipedia, “Atomic
-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 724
Date: 8/6/1945
-Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000
-soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Hiroshima, Japan
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 16
Date: 8/7/1945
-Description: During a press conference with the Seattle Times, Col. Franklin
-Matthias, officer in charge at the Hanford Engineer Works in
-Washington, admits the plant has had problems with aerial intrusions,
-but that radar has been installed and an arrangement made with the Navy
-to intercept any unidentified aircraft. (Project 1947, “UFOs
-over Hanford:
-Commander R. W. Hendershot”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 725
Date: 8/9/1945
-Description: 11:01 a.m. Another atomic bomb (an implosion-type plutonium
-weapon, Fat Man) is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by Bockscar. Although
-the bomb is more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima, its effects
-are confined by hillsides to the narrow Urakami Valley. At least
-35,000–40,000 people are killed, and 60,000 others are injured.
-(Wikipedia, “Atomic
-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 726
Date: 8/9/1945
-Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000
-killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Nagasaki, Japan
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 21
Date: 8/10/1945
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Pianist Doris La Fountain is driving home along
-Market Street after finishing a concert at a night club in East Paterson
-[now Elmwood Park], New Jersey. She is accompanied by music store
-proprietor Thomas Brino and
-James Shaw of Clifton, New Jersey. For about 5 minutes they watch a
-brilliant red and green rectangular object maneuver at ground level
-about 70 feet away. It shoots off into the sky and disappears. (“Seeing
-Saucer Sweet Music to a Pianist,” New York Daily News, September 8,
-1957, Passaic-Bergen Sec., p. 22; Lore and Deneault, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 727
Date: 8/16/1945
-Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: San Antonio, NM
Date: 8/16/1945
-Description: A UFO allegedly crashes near San Antonio, New Mexico, and
-is discovered by Jose Padilla, 9, and Remigio Baca, 7, when they are
-looking for a cow. The crashed saucer has created a gouge, and they can
-see entities moving around inside. They collect two shiny metal parts
-from the periphery of the crash site. A recent analysis shows that the
-metal is of terrestrial origin. (Paola Leopizzi Harris, “The
-Reme Baca and Jose Padilla Witness Case,”
-The UFO Chronicles, November 30, 2010; John Greenewald, “Analysis
-of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly from
-a Crashed Unidentified Aerial Object (San Antonio, New Mexico, August
-16, 1945),” The Black Vault, February 1, 2017; Jacques Vallee and
-Paola Leopizzi Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, StarWorksUSA,
-2021; Kevin D. Randle, “Trinity:
-The Best Kept Secret—A
-Critique,” A Different Perspective, June 2, 2021; Jacques Vallée,
-“The
-Other Lessons of Trinity,” Trinity blog, December 6, 2021; Kevin D.
-Randle, “Jacques Vallée
-and Ten Unexplained UFO Cases and Metallic Debris,” A Different
-Perspective, December 16, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 728
Date: 8/21/1945
-Description: Manhattan Project physicist Harry
-Daghlian is conducting an after-hours experiment at the remote Omega
-Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico when his hand slips. The
-test assembly he has built—a ball of plutonium surrounded by tungsten
-carbide bricks—goes critical. He sees a momentary blue flash and is
-struck by a wave of gamma and neutron radiation amounting to more than
-500 rem. He disassembles the experiment, walks away, and admits himself
-to medical care. He falls into a coma and dies on September 15, the
-first person to die accidentally from close exposure to nuclear fission.
-(Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019,
-pp. 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 729
Date: 8/22/1945
-Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic
-bomb effort
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Moscow, Russia
Date: 8/28/1945
-Description: Twelve 5th Air Force intelligence specialists flying on a
-C-46 approaching Iwo Jima (in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan) see three
-white, teardrop-shaped objects paralleling the plane. Navigational
-needles go wild, the engine sputters, and the plane falters until the
-objects speed away. One of the passengers is future UFO investigator Leonard
-Stringfield. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-pp. 9–10; Strange Company 191–193, 209–211; NICAP, “C-46
-Encounters Objects / Magnetic Compasses ‘West Wild’”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 730
Date: 9/1945
-Description: Policy adviser Ferdinand
-Eberstadt writes for Secretary of the Navy James
-Forrestal a report recommending a complete realignment of national
-security organizations. (Wikipedia, “Eberstadt
-Report”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 733
Date: 9/1945
-Description: The US Army atomic bomb production unit, Z Division, named
-for its director, Jerrold
-R. Zacharias from Los Alamos, New Mexico, moves to Oxnard Field, New
-Mexico, from Wendover Field [now Airport], Utah, to be closer to Los
-Alamos. This marks the beginning of Sandia Base [now part of Kirtland
-AFB]. Nearby Kirtland Field is used as a B-29 base for aircraft
-compatibility and drop tests. By October, all the staff and facilities
-at Wendover are transferred to Sandia. As reservist officers are
-demobilized, they are replaced by about 50 hand- picked regular
-officers. (Wikipedia, “Manhattan
-Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 732
Date: 9/1945
-Description: The first group of seven German rocket scientists arrive at
-Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, through Operation Overcast:
-Wernher
-von Braun, Erich
-W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, Eberhard
-Rees, Wilhelm
-Jungert, and Walter Schwidetzky. By the end of the year, they and two
-other groups are moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands, New
-Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees.” (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Paperclip”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 731
Date: 9/2/1945
-Description: End of WW2
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 9/20/1945
-Description: The OSS is dissolved by Executive Order, effective October
-1, scattering personnel through the Departments of State and War. The
-Research and Analysis Branch is transferred to the State Department. The
-War Department takes over Secret Intelligence (SI) and Counter Espionage
-(X2), which are rolled up into the Strategic Services Unit (SSU) headed
-by Brig. Gen. John
-Magruder, the former OSS Deputy Director of Intelligence who
-oversees the OSS liquidation. Most of the other personnel are cashiered.
-(Wikipedia, “Office
-of Strategic
-Services”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 734
Date: 9/26/1945 (approximate)
-Description: Night. Machinist Mate First Class George M. Reynolds,
-attached to the submarine tender USS
-Beaver with Submarine Squadron 45, anchored in Buckner Bay, Okinawa,
-Japan. He is on the main deck when he sees a bluish light move to the
-south, turn right, go over to the west, stop, and stand still. When it
-moves again, it goes back to the general area it started from. (Strange
-Company 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 735
Date: 10/1945
-Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services
-Unit (SSU), begins
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Langley, VA
Date: 10/1945
-Description: 8:00 p.m. While driving a car between Bryan and Stryker,
-Ohio, Gerald
-M. Kryling and his wife Thelma approach a bright light about 50 feet
-in the air and 20 feet from the road near some high-tension wires. It
-appears to be a 35-foot oval object with an amber-colored opening like a
-window that has shadows moving around inside. It takes off horizontally
-at great speed and then moves straight up. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 736
Date: 10/2/1945
-Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch
-test
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
-Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/9/1945
-Description: Brig. Gen. George
-C. McDonald, AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. Elwood
-Richard Quesada in
-answer to a request for the investigation into wartime “balls of fire.”
-Exhaustive investigations of German technical personnel and US and UK
-sources reveal no confirmation of German involvement with the phenomena.
-(Macdonald–Quesada
-correspondence, October
-1945)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 737
Date: 10/15/1945
-Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch
-test
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
-Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/24/1945
-Description: United Nations charter in full force
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City, New York
Date: 11/1945
-Description: Operation Overcast is renamed Project Paperclip.
-(Wikipedia, “Operation
-Paperclip”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 738
Date: 12/1945
-Description: Lt. Col. Jo Chamberlin’s article on foo fighters appears in
-American Legion Magazine. Intelligence officers have ordered him not to
-state his military rank or position, but he is a special aide to Gen. Henry
-H. “Hap” Arnold. (Jo
-Chamberlin, “The
-Foo Fighter Mystery,” American Legion Magazine 39, no. 6 (December
-1945): 9, 43–47; “Foo
-Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17
-(December 2015): 2–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 739
Date: 12/5/1945
-Description: A training flight (Flight 19) of five TBM Avenger torpedo
-bombers disappears while over the Atlantic Ocean. The squadron’s flight
-plan is scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
-for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile
-leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returns to base. A report
-by Navy investigators concludes that flight leader Lt. Charles
-C. Taylor mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after
-his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open
-sea and away from land. The report is later amended by the Navy to read
-“cause unknown” to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft
-and 14 men. One of the search-and-rescue aircraft deployed to look for
-them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappears. The report
-attributes the loss of the PBM aircraft to an explosion in midair while
-searching for the flight. According to contemporaneous sources, the
-Mariner has a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily
-loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long
-search-and-rescue operation. A tanker off the coast of Florida sees an
-explosion and a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for
-survivors. The weather is becoming stormy by the end of the incident.
-None of the Avenger bombers have been found. (Wikipedia, “Flight
-19”; Larry Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery— Solved, Harper
-& Row, 1975, pp. 97–122;
-Larry Kusche, The
-Disappearance of Flight 19, Harper
-& Row, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 740
Date: 1946
-End date: 1951
-Description: Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the
-White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 1946
-Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened
-(Uranium enrichment)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1946
-Description: Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the
-Soviet “Los Alamos” (Weapons design and research, warhead
-assembly)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1946
-Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition
-(Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the
-aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest
-Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost
-1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the
-coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was
-involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a
-documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won
-an Academy Award for best documentary.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antarctica
Date: 1946
-Description: Dancers on the roof of a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey,
-watch the rapid passage of four square-shaped lights, reddish in color
-and aligned side by side, moving from the east and disappearing in the
-west in less than 60 seconds. One witness, meteorologist and RAF pilot
-George Raymond Leatherbarrow, estimates their altitude at 50,000 feet
-based on reflections on cirrus clouds. (G. R. Leatherbarrow, “Two
-Early UFO Cases from the Middle East,”
-Awareness 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1976): 4–5; Clark III 1177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 742
Date: 1946
-Description: A farmer named Gunyon in Westerham, Kent, England, calls
-the British Technical Intelligence staff asking that the Air Ministry
-come and remove one of these “darned contraptions” which has fallen on
-his farm. The intelligence officers ask for directions and are told to
-drive from Croydon to Westerham, turning onto a lane when they reach a
-pub called The White Dog. Amid great security, two staff cars are
-dispatched, but fail to find the farm. They locate a pub called The
-White Hart and a farmer named Bunyan, who strenuously denies having made
-the call. Although the incident appears to be a hoax, few people can
-reach the Technical Intelligence staff and convince them to make a field
-visit. Indeed, the intelligence officers believe that former Air
-Intelligence scientist Reginald
-Victor Jones, who has been skeptical of foo fighters and ghost
-rockets, is behind the affair. Jones writes that a signal is received
-from Gen. Douglas
-MacArthur’s staff in Tokyo, asking for confirmation of a report that
-a Russian flying bomb had recently crashed in England. The other
-Director of Intelligence on the Air Staff, Air Commodore Roland Eugene
-Vintras, suggests to Jones that this might tie in with the “Westerham
-Incident.” (R. V. Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, pp. 507–513;
-“UFO
-Britannia: Part 2—World War Foo and Post
-War Cover Ups,” Above Top Secret forum, December 19, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 744
Date: 1946
-Description: American astrophysicist Charles
-Greeley Abbot writes that he thinks Earth might make contact with
-Venusians, coming into “fluent communication by wireless with a race
-brought up completely separate, having their own systems of government,
-social usages, religions, and surrounded by vegetation and animals
-entirely unrelated to any here on earth.” (Charles Greeley Abbot, The
-Earth and the Stars, Van Nostrand, 1946, p. 110;
-Roger D. Launius, “Venus-Earth-Mars:
-Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar
-System,” Life 2, no. 3 (2012): 255–273)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 743
Date: 1946
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile consists of 9 atomic bombs. (Ryan
-Crierie, “U.S.
-Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 741
Date: 1946
-Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Scandinavia
Date: 1/10/1946
-Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off
-Moon
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Medium
-Location: New Jersey
Date: 1/10/1946
-Description: The Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, issues a
-restricted-access document, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten
-Brothers by Capt. N. LeBlanc, detailing the drawings, photos, models,
-and documents relating to aircraft designed by Nazi aircraft designers
-the Horten
-brothers that were recovered in Germany by Allied forces. (N.
-LeBlanc, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers, Air Material
-Command, Technical Intelligence summary report no, F-SU-1110-ND, January
-10, 1946; H. P. Dabrowski, The Horten Flying Wing in World War II: The
-History and Development of the Ho 229, Schiffer, 1991; Kevin D. Randle
-and Donald R. Schmitt, “Roswell and the Flying Wing,” IUR 18, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1993): 3; John Powell, “The
-Horten Flying
-Wings,” War Bird Forum, July 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 745
Date: 1/18/1946
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A US C-54 transport plane is at 7,000 feet over
-the French countryside on its way to Paris, France. Suddenly the pilot
-sees a brilliant “shooting star” about 35° above the horizon. It streaks
-down below the eastern horizon, then reappears and moves in a hyperbola
-before falling again. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History:
-1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 746
Date: 1/22/1946
-Description: President Truman creates
-a National Intelligence Authority (State, War, Navy, Chief of Staff, and
-a presidential representative with the DCI as a non-voting member) for
-policy and coordination and a Central Intelligence Group for operations
-under it. Rear Adm. Sidney
-Souers heads the CIG as Director of Central Intelligence.
-(Wikipedia, “National
-Intelligence Authority”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 747
Date: 2/21/1946
-Description: 8:30 p.m. One or more meteors are seen in west Finland and
-the counties of Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Kopparberg [now Dalarna],
-Gävleborg, Uppsala, Östergötland, and Skaraborg [now Västra Götaland] in
-Sweden. It supposedly sets a farmhouse on fire in Vaasa province,
-Finland. It leaves a long trail of smoke in the sky. (Archives for the
-Unexplained, “Case
-XXX: The Meteor That Did Not Start a Fire”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 748
Date: 2/26/1946
-Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Scandinavia
Date: 3/1946
-Description: The Air Technical Service Command becomes the Air Materiel
-Command. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 749
Date: 3/5/1946
-Description: 6:00 p.m. João Prestes is returning on foot from a fishery
-on the banks of the Tietê River to his sister’s home in Araçariguama,
-São Paulo, Brazil. As he is entering the house, a light from outside
-strikes and envelopes him. He becomes dizzy and confused but manages to
-get up and go inside. He summons Araci Gomide, a nurse who has served in
-the military with him. Gomide describes his friend as being literally
-cooked, with his flesh detaching from his bones, injuries on his feet
-and ankles, and his feet clenched like the claws of a bird. His arms are
-burned and the flesh on his fingers is falling off. His chest, neck, and
-face also seem to be burned but not charred or red. Prestes dies on the
-way to a hospital in Santana di Parnaíba at 3:00 a.m. (Clark III
-166–167; Brazil 17–21; Pablo Villarubia Mauso, “The
-Incredible Saga of João Prestes,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 750
Date: 3/6/1946
-Description: The Western Defense Command is deactivated. (Wikipedia, “Western
-Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 751
Date: 3/6/1946
-Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is
-deactivated
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Pacific Coast Region, US
Date: 3/14/1946
-Description: Dusk. Paul Cummings Jr. is driving east on US Highway 136
-about 10 miles east of Havana, Illinois, with Douglas Gowdy. A bright
-orange ball appears in the road about 1 mile ahead, gliding down the
-highway only one foot above the pavement and possibly touching both
-shoulders of the road. When it is within 2,000 feet, Cummings pulls the
-car over and stops, and they rush out to lie down in a ditch, fearing an
-explosion. When they look up again, the object is nowhere in sight.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 752
Date: 3/15/1946
-Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad
-33
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 4/1946
-Alternate date: 5/1946
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. Richard R. Hill and Stanley Ogdrzyiak
-are driving in an open convertible on the Country Club Road near
-Lafayette, New York. Suddenly they see a gleaming, metallic,
-cigar-shaped object in the sky. It remains motionless at 5,000–10,000
-feet altitude, which at that height would make it 300–400 feet long.
-After 2 minutes, it disappears instantaneously. (“Case
-84,” CRIFO Newsletter 2, no. 3 (June 3, 1955): 4; Clark III
-1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 755
Date: 4/2/1946
-Description: The Strategic Services Unit is transferred to the new
-Central Intelligence Group and becomes the Office of Special Operations.
-(Wikipedia, “Strategic
-Services Unit”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 753
Date: 4/16/1946
-Description: First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching
-5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to
-cutoff)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 5.5km
Date: 4/20/1946
-Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United
-Nations (UN)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 4/25/1946
-Description: While ice fishing at Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario, Don
-Cameron and his family watch 12–14 small disc- shaped objects descend at
-a 45° angle about 75 feet away. They come spinning down on the ice, rise
-2 feet into the air, then come down again. Cameron walks toward them,
-and they ascend and shoot away at the same angle and direction. They
-find black marks on the snow and ice. (Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 754
Date: 5/1946
-End date: 12/1946
-Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Scandinavia
Date: 5/1946
-Description: Day. Navy Lieutenant Andrew A. Titcomb is on leave and
-picking oranges at his wife’s family home at La Grange, north of
-Titusville, Florida, when he hears a whistling noise and sees a dark
-“flying football” directly overhead at about 1,000 feet elevation moving
-at 125 mph. It appears 15–20 feet in diameter and flies in an arc to the
-southeast. It disappears in a cloudbank. (UFOEv, p. 6;
-Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 756
Date: 5/10/1946
-Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33,
-112.6km altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 112.6km
Date: 5/13/1946
-Description: Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic
-missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Astrakhan Oblast
Date: 5/13/1946
-Description: A rocket is seen traveling over Helsinki, Finland, in a
-southwesterly direction at 1,000 feet. It supposedly moves at supersonic
-speed, emitting a magnesium-like light and a trail of smoke. (Jan L.
-Aldrich, comp., The Ghost
-Rocket File, Fund
-for UFO Research, 2000, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 758
Date: 5/13/1946
-Description: The Soviets establish a rocket center called NII-88 [now
-TsNIIMash] at Kaliningrad [now Korolyov], Russia, northeast of Moscow.
-Missile designer Sergei
-Korolev is appointed chief designer of Section 3 on long-range
-missiles. Stalin declares Korolev’s name a secret, which it remains
-until his death in 1966. Russia keeps dozens of its captured German
-scientists here, working on special projects until 1955. (Wikipedia, “TsNIIMash”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 757
Date: 5/18/1946
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Gösta
-Carlsson, later
-to become founder and owner of Cernelle AB, is walking in the forested
-area of Kronoskagen near Ängelholm, Sweden, when he sees a disc-shaped
-machine more than 50 feet in diameter. On the top is a cupola with oval
-windows, and beneath it are an oblong “fan,” two legs, a small ladder,
-and openings. A man dressed in a white, one-piece outfit gestures to
-Carlsson to stop. Two other occupants, three of them women, all wearing
-suits and transparent helmets, are nearby. One of the males points a
-boxlike device at the witness, who leaves the scene but returns by a
-different route 30 minutes later, just in time to see the UFO depart. A
-concrete model of the UFO is dedicated in 1963 as a memorial.
-(Wikipedia, “UFO-Memorial
-Ängelholm”; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “The
-Ängelholm Landing Report,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1972): 15– 17; Anders Liljegren, “High-Quality
-Investigation of 1946 CEIII Case,” AFU Newsletter, no. 38 (March
-1995): 2–3; Clark III 528–529; Clas Svahn, “Gösta
-Carlssons möte,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, July 10, 2018;
-Håkan Blomqvist, “UFO-Sweden
-Memories: Ängelholm 1996,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, July 1, 2020;
-Clas Svahn and Gösta Carlsson, Mötet i gläntan: Sveriges mest kända
-närkontakt med UFO, 3rd ed., Parthenon, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 759
Date: 5/21/1946
-Description: Two motorists report an elongated craft resembling a rocket
-or Zeppelin over Stora Mellösa, Sweden. One of the witnesses sees two
-short wings, although the other cannot see any despite watching the
-object for 5 minutes. (Swords 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 760
Date: 5/24/1946
-Description: 2:20 a.m. Witnesses in Landskrona, Sweden, see a wingless,
-cigar-shaped object, spurting sparks from its tail. About 300 feet above
-the ground, it is moving at airplane speed toward the southwest. (Loren
-E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History:
-1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1; Göran Jansson,
-“Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 761
Date: 5/28/1946
-Description: The Aftonbladet newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden, is the
-first to use the term “Spökraket” (ghost rocket) in a headline. (Swords
-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 762
Date: 5/29/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 112.6km
Date: 5/31/1946
-Description: 11:43 a.m. A huge, metallic, wingless cigar moves rapidly
-at 1,000 feet altitude over Katrineholm, Sweden. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-pp. 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 763
Date: 6/6/1946
-Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is created by the
-Secretaries of War and the Navy to coordinate research efforts. (Joint
-Research and Development Board, Organization
-Authority Record, June 6, 1946)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 766
Date: 6/9/1946
-Description: Night. An enormous light drops earthward over Sala, Sweden,
-leaving a long, fiery trail. An explosion is heard. Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 767
Date: 6/9/1946
-Description: 10:17 p.m. A rocket-like light passes over Helsinki,
-Finland, at 10,000 feet leaving a smoke trail and making a distant
-rumble. A luminous afterglow lasts 10 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 768
Date: 6/10/1946
-Description: Lieut. Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg replaces Souers as
-director of the CIG. He expands it and wins the right to collect
-intelligence in Latin America. (CIA Historical Staff, Chronology
-1946–65, vol. 1,
-1946–1955, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 769
Date: 6/12/1946
-Description: The Swedish Defense staff secretly orders reports of
-unknown rockets to be collected by military and civilian defense units
-in Sweden. (Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 770
Date: 6/13/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 117.2km
Date: 6/18/1946
-Description: A first-strike scenario, the Pincher war plan, is created
-by the US military to strike Moscow and the Caucasus with 50 nuclear
-weapons if the Soviets invade the Middle East. It is never officially
-approved, but the Joint Chiefs agree to use it for planning purposes.
-(Phillip S. Meilinger, “The
-Early War Plans,” Air Force Magazine, December 1, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 771
Date: summer 1946
-Description: Day. Eleanor Hancock is in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
-looking southwest toward Cheyenne Mountain when two shining silver
-objects appear, moving rapidly in tandem from east to west toward the
-escarpment. Just before they reach the mountain, they turn sharply
-upward, still in formation, and disappear. (Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 765
Date: summer 1946
-Description: Late evening. Two women on a walk in Johannesburg, South
-Africa, see an aerial object hovering 5 feet above the roof of a nearby
-hotel. It is shaped like a saucer with a round, golden ball in the
-center, evenly split between the top and bottom sections. They hear a
-clicking noise, and the ball drops through the saucer until it is level
-with the roof. More clicks are heard, and the ball rises through and
-above the saucer 8–9 feet. In the space between the ball and the disc
-the witnesses see two figures larger than normal height (7 feet),
-fair-complexioned and broad-shouldered, with short wavy hair. They are
-wearing white uniforms with stiff collars and stand motionless until the
-object floats away and is lost to view. (John Judge, “Near-Landing
-in 1946 in Johannesburg,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March
-1979): 14–16; Clark III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 764
Date: 6/25/1946
-Description: A four-engine Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber makes its
-first test flight from Jack Northrop Field [now Hawthorne Municipal
-Airport] to Muroc Army Air Field [now Edwards AFB] in California.
-(Wikipedia, “Northrop
-YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 772
Date: 6/26/1946
-Description: The commander of the military district in Morjärv, Sweden,
-issues instructions on how to report incidents with “certain kind of
-light phenomena’ that might be associated with “tests made by foreign
-powers with guided weapons.” (Swords 12).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 773
Date: 6/28/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude
-(nose separation failure)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 107.8km
Date: 7/1946
-Description: Amazing Stories publishes four short articles in its
-September 1945 issue by William C. Hefferlin, each describing a
-wonderful new invention that has come to the author, according to editor
-Ray
-Palmer, “from
-Tibet by mental telepathy.” One of the inventions is a “circle-winged
-airplane.” In later issues, Hefferlin and his wife Gladys go on to
-describe the Rainbow City, an underground Martian city beneath
-Antarctica where the flying saucers originate. (“A
-Description of Rainbow City from the Hefferlin Manuscript (Hollow
-Earth)”; Walter Kafton- Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics,
-1989, pp. 160–167;
-Clark III 610)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 774
Date: 7/1946
-Description: Day. A long, silver-colored cigar appears suddenly out of
-the haze over Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts, moves noiselessly
-over the water, then disappears suddenly. (Lore and Deneault, p. 148;
-Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 775
Date: 7/1946
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Hans Sorensen is cycling near Viskinge, Denmark,
-when he sees three discs flying silently overhead. The underside is
-uneven and dull gray, but they are like “polished mirrors” on top.
-(Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History:
-1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 776
Date: 7/1/1946
-Description: Able nuclear test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
-Radio-controlled autopilots are installed in eight B-17 bombers,
-converting them into remote-controlled drones that are then loaded with
-automatic cameras, radiation detectors, and air sample collectors. Their
-pilots operate them from mother planes at a safe distance from the
-detonation. The drones can fly into Able’s mushroom cloud, which would
-have been lethal to crew members. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Crossroads”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 777
Date: 7/3/1946
-Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is established.
-Essentially it is Vannevar
-Bush’s existing cadre of brain trust from the still active Office of
-Scientific Research and the postwar Joint New Weapons Committee. Added
-to this are other reconstituted R&D committees and advisers like Lloyd
-Berkner of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The original
-founding members are physicist Alfred
-Lee Loomis, biologist Caryl
-Parker Haskins, physicist Luis
-Walter Alvarez, physicist
-William
-Shockley, and George
-Doriot. Two military representatives each from the Army, Navy, and
-Air Force complete the board’s membership. Counting Bush, this makes a
-board of 12. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and
-Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001):
-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 778
Date: 7/5/1946
-End date: 12/1946
-Description: Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at
-Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that
-radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also
-speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled.
-Type: Newspaper Article
-Reference: link
-Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: 7/6/1946
-Description: Astronomer Bertil
-Lindblad, after
-consulting with the Swedish Defense staff on ghost rocket reports,
-remarks that the “adjective ‘cigar-shaped’ is something new.” (Anders
-Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 780
Date: 7/6/1946
-Description: A special ghost rocket investigations committee is formed
-with Col. Bengt
-Jacobsson from the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration
-as chairman. Other members are Henry
-Kjellson and Eric Malmberg from the Air Administration; Maj. Nils
-Ahlgren and Capt. Gerdt
-Stangenberg from the Air Defense department; chemist Gustaf
-Ljunggren; physicist Martin
-Fehrm; and Olof
-Kempe from the Defense Radio Institute. They hold at least 12
-meetings, beginning on July 10. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 13;
-Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33; Swords 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 779
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: About 3:00 p.m. A housewife near Sörbo, Sweden, is washing
-on the shore of Södra Barken when she sees a falling object coming from
-the northeast. It changes color from blue to green and has a long tail.
-It tumbles into the lake about 320 feet away. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 786
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A young man in Mockfjärd, Sweden, sees a
-silver-colored star diving toward the ground with a whistling noise. It
-comes down about 490 feet away from him, and he is blinded by the
-intense light. He thinks it crashes into Mt. Landholm. A powerful
-burning smell lingers for 15 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946,
-the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 787
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 3:35 p.m. Many people see a bright red, rocket-like object
-moving swiftly over Turku, Finland, and leaving a short trail. It casts
-shadows on the ground. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 788
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A member of the US legation sees a silent ghost
-rocket falling rapidly over Stockholm, Sweden, according to a July 11
-telegram from State Department official Christian
-M. Ravndal to Washington, D.C. Hundreds of other observations take
-place over central Sweden. Ravndal suggests that the Soviets are trying
-to intimidate the Swedes. (Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, p.11; Clark III 524, 527; Good Above, p. 20;
-Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.p. 6,
-betw. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 784
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Two people on the north side of Vaxön, Sweden,
-watch a glowing white object with a blue-white tail streak across the
-sky in about 2 seconds, disappearing to the southeast. Around the same
-time, a witness at Järna Station in Södertälje sees an object “like a
-glass flask in a thermos” descending from a high altitude. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 783
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Erik
-and Asa Reuterswärd take a photo of a greenish-white daylight meteor
-by a lake at Guldsmedshyttan, northwest of Lindesberg, Sweden. They are
-atop a forest watchtower and have a good view of the object. The image
-is circulated to newspapers throughout Sweden; however, the photo
-probably shows an unusual daylight meteor, not a ghost rocket. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 12–13; Clas Svahn, “The 1946 Ghost Rocket Photo,”
-`IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 12–14, 23; Swords 13–14; Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna:
-Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 782
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:35 p.m. Efrain Johnson sees a strange, cigar- or
-sugarloaf-shaped object to the east of Ockelbo, Sweden. It shines like
-silver and appears “like some glistening mass.” It falls to the ground
-and is gone in a few moments. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 785
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: A journalist finds three dubious fist-size fragments, one
-of iron and the other two slag-like, after a bright projectile is seen
-over a beach at Njurunda, Sweden. (Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, p. 12; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 781
Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 134.4km
Date: 7/10/1946
-Description: A brilliantly glowing projectile trailing luminous smoke
-crashes into a beach near Norrvikssand, Sweden. Airline pilot Torvald
-Linden and other witnesses find a shallow crater a little more than 3
-feet in diameter. A mass of slag-like material, some of it reduced to
-powder (which burns the hands when touched) is found at the site and
-collected into bags. A journalist from Svenska Dagbladet on July 11
-finds a “burnt-brown object with a hollow cylinder” with a diameter of
-about 1–2 inches. Military authorities take over the site. The debris is
-taken to Dr. B. Backlund at a laboratory in Kubikenborg, who finds it
-contains paper with microscopic black-and-white squares like a screen.
-Some porous, rust-colored fragments are also present. The same day, the
-beach is visited by Lt. Col. Rudberg,
-Capt. C. Ljungdahl, and Capt. R. Westlin, who conclude that the material
-has been in the area for a long time. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-pp. 10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 789
Date: 7/10/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A bluish flying cigar 10–12 times the diameter of
-the full moon in length passes over Stockholm, Sweden. (Loren E. Gross,
-UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 790
Date: 7/12/1946
-Description: Swedish Intelligence agrees to cooperate in sharing ghost
-rocket information with the British military attaché in Stockholm,
-Sweden, Maj. de Salis. (Swords 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 791
Date: 7/12/1946
-Description: Day. The railway station master at Gryon, Vaud,
-Switzerland, is watching a B-24 Liberator flying overhead at 15,000 feet
-when he also sees a “flying bomb” looking like a big star traveling
-northeast at about 250 mph. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 792
Date: 7/12/1946
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Inga Eriksson is in her garden in Usta, Örebro,
-Sweden, when she hears a sharp, sizzling sound in the air and sees three
-silvery triangular objects traveling horizontally from east to west.
-They are visible only for 2 seconds, but her mother notes that the
-electrical power has gone out in their home. (AFU case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 793
Date: 7/15/1946
-Description: The Swedes provide the British attaché with analytical
-reports of all observations to date. (Swords 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 794
Date: 7/16/1946
-End date: 7/18/1946
-Description: US Secretary of the Navy James
-Forrestal makes an unexpected visit to Stockholm, Sweden, to meet
-with the Swedish Defense Minister Allan
-Vougt and two members of the special committee on ghost rockets.
-(Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 795
Date: 7/18/1946
-Description: 12:00 noon. Sigvat Skaug and his son, who live along Lake
-Mjøsa in southeastern Norway, and his sister Åse Tandberg watch two
-rocket-like objects about 7 feet long pass over their heads at a very
-low altitude. They fall simultaneously into the lake, throwing the water
-several feet into the air. The objects look like V-1 rockets and come in
-low from the west at about 150 feet, causing the trees to sway. They
-fall into the lake about 1.2 miles from the western shore and 4.3 miles
-from Minnesund. (NICAP, “‘Ghost
-Rocket’ Crashes into Lake”; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 18–19; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, pp. 19–20; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The
-Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash
-Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27 (Jan./Dec. 1984): 1–5; Swords 16;
-Clark III 526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 797
Date: 7/18/1946
-Description: Three workers see a ghost rocket above Ortviken, Sweden.
-Shortly afterward, Gunnar Falck watches a silvery cylinder moving over
-the northern part of Sundsvall. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 798
Date: 7/18/1946
-Description: Two British intelligence officers arrive in Stockholm to
-meet with their counterparts in Sweden. One is from the Air Ministry
-(Squadron Leader Barrie Heath) and the other (Maj. Malone) is from
-MI10(a), a branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence. (Swords
-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 796
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km
-altitude (oxygen pump explodes)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 4.8km
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 11:15 a.m. In the village of Bölebyn, Sweden, Leonard
-Danielsson and his sons Kjell, Dan, and Hans see an “aeroplane” moving
-against the wind to the southwest. The boys say it looks like a large,
-metallic milk canister. It travels from horizon to horizon in about 20
-minutes before disappearing in the northwest. (Swords 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 799
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Kurt Larsson, 11, is fishing at the north end of
-Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden, when he hears a roaring sound. A huge column
-of water rises out of the lake as if a mine has detonated. Military
-officers from Boden investigate, but the lake is too muddy to send in a
-diver. They conclude that whatever fell is buried in 15 feet of mud.
-(Swords 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 800
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 11:45 a.m. Many witnesses see a gray, winged rocket crash
-into Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden, with a loud bang close to the southwest
-bank. Knut Lindbäck says it generates a high plume of water when it hits
-the surface, “followed by another cascade as if something had
-detonated.” Water lilies and other aquatic plants are torn up and thrown
-on the shore. Lieut. Karl-Gösta Bartoll from the Boden engineer corps
-arrives the next day to supervise the salvage operation. Engineers
-Roland Rynniger and lab technician Torsten Wilner from the Defense
-Research Department also arrive with a Geiger counter. A three-week
-search turns up no traces of metal, even though the evidence points to
-an underwater explosion. (NICAP, “‘Ghost
-Rocket’ Crashes into Lake”; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, pp. 20–26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 20, 76; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The
-Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27
-(Jan./Dec. 1984): 1–5; Swords 17–20, 24; Clark III 525, 526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 801
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Karl and Tyra Axberg are sitting on the porch of
-their cabin on Lake Vassarajärvi in Norrbotten County, Sweden, when they
-hear a loud noise. A projectile comes in at a very low angle and hits
-the water at a 30° angle, continuing underwater for about 600 feet. A
-military team led by Karl-Gösta Bartoll can find no trace of a “ghost
-bomb.” (Swords 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 802
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 3:40 p.m. Ingrid Hansson is sunbathing with her father on a
-floating jetty at the northern end of Lake Marmen, near Sunnanå, Sweden.
-She hears a violent roaring over the water and looks up to see an object
-bouncing along the surface, stirring up a wake. The object has created a
-water column 66 feet high upon impact. (Swords 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 803
Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: Maj. Gen. George
-C. McDonald prepares a memorandum for the Commander of the Army Air
-Forces Gen. Carl
-Spaatz on reports of “rockets” over Scandinavian countries. (Jan L.
-Aldrich, comp., The
-Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 9–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 804
Date: 7/24/1946
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Engineer Tennlund sees a small cigar-shaped
-object with a pair of small wings south of Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden. It
-comes from the direction of Norway (west) at great speed with no sound.
-Tennlund thinks it crashes into Vänern lake. (Anders Liljegren and Clas
-Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 805
Date: 7/25/1946
-Description: The Swedish military states that ghost rockets are not
-meteors. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost
-Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 806
Date: 7/25/1946
-Description: Baker nuclear test, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
-(Wikipedia, “Operation
-Crossroads”; Fran Ridge, “The Baker
-Blast: Cause for Alarm?” May 4, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 807
Date: 7/27/1946
-Description: British Air Attaché Capt. Henderson informs the Foreign
-Office in London, England, that cooperation with Swedish Air Staff
-should be kept from the Americans. (David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out
-of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002; Joel Carpenter, “Guided
-Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords
-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 808
Date: 7/28/1946
-Description: Night. Sections of Oslo, Norway, are shaken by two violent
-aerial explosions. An “intense white light” accompanies the blasts.
-(London Daily Telegraph, July 29, 1946; Clark III 526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 809
Date: 7/29/1946
-Description: Norway begins censoring ghost rocket reports just as Sweden
-is doing. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946,
-the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 810
Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A customs officer on the Norway-Sweden border
-watches a silvery torpedo with short wings. The object moves in from the
-south but changes direction with a sharp turn and continues east with a
-whining sound. (Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,”
-UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 813
Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: 3:12 p.m. William Jorgensen, a soldier at the fort at
-Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden, sees a silent flying object with
-short wings at a distance of about 6,560 feet. It is moving faster than
-a jet aircraft. (Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,”
-UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 812
Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Two objects shaped like dark crosses are seen in
-the sky over Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. (Anders Liljegren and Clas
-Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 811
Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 161.5km
Date: 8/1946
-Description: Day. Charles A. Johnson is driving on US Highway 41 along
-Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, when he sees three silver
-discs going from east to west in a triangular formation. (Clark III
-1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 814
Date: 8/1946
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man sees a pan-shaped object near a road
-in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. A small entity holding an acacia branch is
-nearby. The being enters the object through an opening on the underside.
-Afterward, traces of burning on the ground are detected. (Center for UFO
-Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1940–1949, p. 20; Clark III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 815
Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: 6:00 p.m. AF Capt. Jack E. Puckett is flying over Tampa,
-Florida, in a C-47 transport and sees a long cylinder twice the size of
-a B-29 with luminous portholes. After 3 minutes, it disappears at a
-speed of 1,500 mph. (“Rocket
-Craft Encounter Revealed by World War 2 Pilot,” UFO Investigator 1,
-no. 2 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 15; UFOEv, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 820
Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: President Truman signs
-the Atomic Energy Act, transferring the control of atomic energy from
-military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. It categorizes
-information on atomic energy as “born classified,” even if it is not
-created by any US government agency. “Restricted Data” is not a level of
-classification; rather, a document can be classified as Confidential,
-Secret, or Top Secret, while also containing Restricted Data. In
-addition, a document containing Restricted Data can also contain
-Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. In this way, a document can
-be classified as Secret (S), Secret//Restricted Data (S//RD), or
-Secret//Restricted Data- Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information
-(S//RD-CNWDI), depending on the type of information it contains.
-(Wikipedia, “United
-States Atomic Energy Commission”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 817
Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: Truman approves
-the establishment of the Office of Naval Research for “planning,
-fostering, and encouraging scientific research” in relation to naval
-power and national security. (Wikipedia, “Office
-of Naval Research”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 818
Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: Col. Edwin
-Kennedy Wright, Vandenberg’s
-executive assistant at the Central Intelligence Group, sends a
-memorandum to President Truman saying
-the ghost rockets conform to a V-1 shape and seem to be launched from
-the USSR. The report notes that the missiles can turn and fly circular
-courses, seemingly indicating radio control. Most information comes from
-the military attaché in Sweden and the conclusions are from the director
-of intelligence for the War Department general staff. (Swords 21–23; Jan
-Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998):
-10, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 819
Date: early 8/1946
-Description: An astronomer and meteorologist is looking at some clouds
-through a telescope in Stockholm, Sweden, and sees a luminous object
-that he estimates is about 90 feet long, torpedo-shaped, and metallic.
-It has a “tapered tail that spewed glowing blue and green smoke and a
-series of fire balls.” The object explodes with a terrific flash. (“Sweden
-Plans Radar Fight on ‘Rockets,’” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1946,
-p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History:
-1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 816
Date: 8/5/1946
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A fast-moving, silent, circular object glitters
-in the sun over Skåne, Sweden, as it heads toward the south-southwest at
-a high altitude. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 822
Date: 8/5/1946
-Description: 6:26 p.m. A luminous object is seen by a motorist near
-Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 821
Date: 8/6/1946
-Description: The US delegation in Budapest, Hungary, reports that a
-German scientist now working for the Russians has revealed that the
-Soviets have developed guided rockets called V-3 and V-4 that are able
-to fly a round trip of 700 miles. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
-Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 823
Date: 8/7/1946
-Description: Swedish Lt. Lennart Neckman of the Defense Staff’s Air
-Defense Division sees a clear, yellow flame passing low and slow over
-the countryside. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 825
Date: 8/7/1946
-Description: A Top Secret message from the Commander-in-Chief Air
-Forces, Pacific, to Gen. Lauris
-Norstad, War Department Operations, requests guidance on the current
-classification of the substitute code word “Majestic” for Operational
-Plan Olympic (the invasion of Northern Japan). The plan has been
-downgraded to Restricted (Message CM1472 IN). The answer is that both
-code words had been declassified by the JCS on October 8, 1945 (Message
-CM96908 OUT 8 Aug 1946). (Jan Aldrich; Murray Bott, “Military
-Codenames ‘Olympic’ and ‘Majestic,’”
-UFO UpDates, April 4, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 824
Date: 8/8/1946
-Description: Chief of Swedish Air Defense Maj. Nils Ahlgren says that
-some of the rockets are seen at low altitude, maneuver in half circles,
-and appear to come from the south. (Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 826
Date: 8/11/1946
-Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in central and southern
-Sweden see “ghost bombs” that fly from south to north, giving off a
-brilliant blue-white light. Sometimes two of the objects are seen flying
-together. Some witnesses see smaller silver balls come out of the larger
-objects, which are variously described as cylinders and torpedoes with a
-“wide nose” and “fire-spurting tail.” Stockholm is said to be “near the
-boiling point” with ghost rocket speculation. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 33–
-39; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, pp. 38–40; Clark III 525; Anders Liljegren and
-Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-p. 37; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO
-Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 50–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 828
Date: 8/11/1946
-Description: 8:47 p.m. Astronomer Bertil
-Lindblad sees an exploding fireball in Ljugarn on Gotland, Sweden.
-(Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna
-1947,” January 2005, p. 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 827
Date: 8/12/1946
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A twin-engine Saab 18 Swedish Air Force bomber
-crashes and explodes near Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden, killing three
-airmen. Rumors circulate that it collided with a ghost rocket, but an
-investigation indicates that the pilot lost control. (Good Need, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 829
Date: 8/12/1946
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A torpedo-shaped ghost rocket moves slowly over a
-seaport town in southern Sweden, barely grazing the roofs and trailing
-smoke. It continues out to sea and seems to come down on a small island.
-Two men go out to investigate, but the island is too overgrown to allow
-a search. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the
-Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 830
Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: The New York Times says the ghost rocket situation is
-extremely dangerous and that Sweden will not tolerate such violations.
-(“Swedes
-Use Radar in Fight on Missiles,” New York Times. August 13, 1946,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 833
Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: The US naval attaché and the Assistant US military attaché
-in Stockholm interview three Swedish Air Force officers assigned to the
-General Staff who say that they believe the objects are rockets. (Joel
-Carpenter, “Guided Missiles
-and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 834
Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: Capt. Roscoe
-H. Hillenkoetter, US naval attaché in Paris, forwards as top secret
-a report by the French government on ghost rocket activity in
-Scandinavia. It states that “a good number of these projectiles are of
-the V- 1 type in the form of a torpedo with two small wings.” A map
-shows them originating in the Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] area,
-Russia. (Swords 21; Good Need, pp. 38–39;
-Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter
-1998): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 831
Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: Afternoon. A troop of Boy Scouts in Denmark see a
-rocket-like object moving quickly at an altitude of 1,600 feet. They can
-see small side wings and fins. A blue-white light streams from the
-bottom, and it diverges from a straight course to a 35° curve. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 835
Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped object flies past a witness at
-Karlskrona, Sweden, at a distance of only 150 feet. Only 5 feet long, it
-emits a faint green light and trails smoke from the rear. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946,
-the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 836
Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: The Hungarian report of August 6 causes Maj. Gen. Stephen
-J. Chamberlin, Army
-assistant chief of staff for intelligence, to ask Budapest for further
-information. Top-secret requests are sent to military attachés in
-London, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen asking for listings of
-all ghost rocket reports, as well as V-3 and V-4 missiles. The military
-attaché in Oslo reports that a Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea has
-been transmitting code to shore stations regarding the ghost rockets.
-The military attaché in Moscow asks other European officials about where
-the rockets originate and gets several answers, which he forwards on to
-Chamberlin: Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; or Peenemünde, Germany.
-Gen. Joseph
-T. McNarney of the US Forces in Europe Theater replies that
-Peenemünde is a likely origin, since the site has been refurbished. The
-military attaché in Stockholm suspects Hiiumaa, Peenemünde, or Parikkala
-in Finland, while the naval attaché in Stockholm thinks that Łeba,
-Poland, is the launch site. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
-Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 832
Date: 8/14/1946
-Description: The New York Times reports that Secretary of State Dean
-Acheson is “very much interested” in the ghost rockets. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 46; “2
-Swedes Escape
-a ‘Ghost Rocket,’” New York Times, August 14, 1946, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 837
Date: 8/14/1946
-Description: 10:02 a.m. Swedish Air Force pilot Lieut. Gunnar Irholm and
-his signaler, Cpl. Möller, are flying a B-18A bomber at 650 feet 4 miles
-northeast of Malingsbo in central Sweden when they see a dark
-cigar-shaped object approaching on their left. It has no visible wings,
-rudders, lights, flame or projections of any type. It appears to follow
-the terrain at 370–430 mph, maintaining the same height, then vanishes
-into a storm cloud. (“Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence
-Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner,
-Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects
-Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, pp. 33–35;
-Swords 15–16; “Cigar
-Sighted from B-19 Bomber,” AFU Newsletter, no. 44 (September 2002):
-1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 838
Date: 8/15/1946
-Description: Night. Several residents of the east side of Waterloo,
-Iowa, see an object buzzing rapidly around some trees. It gradually
-ascends, surrounded by a cloud of white vapor, and disappears high in
-the sky. One person calls it “a great white bird; another, a bomb.” Mrs. Russell
-Lampman says that the object is “6 feet, 3 inches tall, like a large
-man, and rather rectangular in shape.” She and her husband watch
-it for an hour after it starts hovering about 20– 25 feet above a nearby
-alley. (Al Starr, “Street Scene,” Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Times, August
-18, 1946, p. II-1; “Well,
-We Saw It First!” Waterloo Daily Courier, July 7, 1947, p. 2;
-Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports: 1946”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 839
Date: 8/15/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude
-(Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 6.4km
Date: 8/16/1946
-Description: Col. L. H. Johnson, US naval attaché in Stockholm,
-transmits a “Top Secret Report R334-46 of 13 August 1946 Subject: SWEDEN
-Guided Missiles Rocket Sightings Over Sweden.” It concludes: “No
-tangible evidence to date as to nature or origin of rockets reported
-over Sweden, although Swedish Defense Staff insists that they are
-rockets.” (Joel Carpenter, “Guided
-Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Jan L.
-Aldrich, comp., The
-Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 32–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 840
Date: 8/16/1946
-Description: A missile produces an enormous explosion over Malmö,
-Sweden, that shakes or breaks many windows. Some witnesses think they
-can see fragments of the object falling to earth. (“Windows
-Broken by Rocket Bomb,” Manchester Guardian, August 17, 1946, p. 6;
-Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 841
Date: 8/18/1946
-Description: 8:00 or 10:00 p.m. An aerial object like a 9-foot cigar is
-seen moving slowly on the north side of Copenhagen, Denmark. It explodes
-with extraordinary force. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 843
Date: 8/19/1946
-Description: The US military attaché in Moscow reports on the visit of
-Maj. Stig
-Wennerström of the Swedish Air Force, who reveals that radar
-indicates the ghost rocket launch site is at Peenemünde, Germany. The
-rockets appear to be radio-controlled, carry no warheads, are
-self-destructive, and are plotted over a range of 620 miles. Sometimes
-they follow zigzag courses. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
-Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 844
Date: 8/19/1946
-Description: Two US experts on aerial warfare, aviation legend General
-Jimmy
-Doolittle and British Group Captain Douglas
-Bader, and
-General David
-Sarnoff, president
-of RCA, arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, ostensibly on private business, and
-independently of each other. The official explanation is that Doolittle,
-who is now vice-president of the Shell Oil Company, is inspecting Shell
-branch offices in Europe, while Sarnoff, a former member of General Dwight
-D. Eisenhower’s London staff, is studying the market for radio
-equipment. However, the story indicates that the Chief of the Swedish
-Defense Staff, Col. C. R. Kempf, makes no secret that he “was extremely
-interested in asking the two generals advice and, if possible, would
-place all available reports before them.” However, Doolittle denies the
-correlation to Barry
-Greenwood in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence to support
-a collaboration. (Joel Carpenter, “Guided
-Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Loren E.
-Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 53–54; Clark III 527; Swords 21, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 845
Date: late 8/1946
-Description: Margaret Sprankle, a civilian employee at Tinker AFB near
-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is returning from work when she sees, about 300
-feet away, a large, metallic, lens-shaped structure about 75 feet in
-diameter. On the lower right side are 12–14 square windows; in each,
-visible from the shoulders up, is a figure. Their heads are very round.
-The object rotates 90° on its vertical axis and silently flies northwest
-and disappears in seconds. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1940–1949, p. 22; Clark III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 842
Date: 8/21/1946
-Description: The General Staff in Norway issues a memorandum to the
-press asking it not to mention any ghost rockets seen over the country
-and to pass on all reports to the military Intelligence Department. In
-Sweden, the ban is limited to any mention of where the rockets are seen
-to land or explode. (London Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1946; Good
-Above, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 846
Date: 8/22/1946
-Description: Director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) Lt.
-Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg writes a top secret memo to President
-Truman via Adm. William
-D. Leahy, stating
-that the “weight of evidence” points to Peenemünde (which has become a
-Soviet naval base), East Germany, as the origin of the ghost rockets,
-and that a US military attaché in Moscow has been told by a “key Swedish
-Air Officer” [Wennerström]
-that radar course-plotting leads to the conclusion that Peenemünde is
-the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range
-developments of V-1s being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test
-purposes and “do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for
-intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.”
-(Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles
-and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Barry Greenwood, “Significant
-Ghost Rocket Documents
-Available,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 15 (June 2015): 1–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 848
Date: 8/22/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude
-(Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 0km
Date: 8/22/1946
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Photographer Gösta Skog takes a color film of a
-ghost rocket at Getå, 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden. The
-cigar-shaped object appears out of a cloud at 3,000 feet, trailing
-exhaust. The film turns out to be overexposed. (Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna:
-Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017;
-Swords 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 847
Date: 8/23/1946
-Description: The British Foreign Office states that English radar
-experts, including Reginald
-Victor Jones, having
-returned from Sweden, had “submitted secret reports to the British
-government on the origin of the rockets.” (Good Above, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 849
Date: 8/24/1946
-Description: Evening. A Norwegian student and a Swedish engineer are
-boating on a small river “somewhere in Sweden” when a light approaches
-them from the southeast. It resembles a full moon and emits an intense
-light: “As it passed immediately overhead, it grew so bright you could
-see a well as on a sunny day.” The object, about 10 feet long, releases
-four stars that fall silently to the ground. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost
-Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 852
Date: 8/24/1946
-Description: Admiral Henry
-Kent Hewitt, Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, writes a letter
-to the US naval attaché in Oslo, Norway, on “Rocket Bombs or Guided
-Missiles over Norway and Sweden.” Two “missiles” have fallen into a lake
-near Oslo, and the US Navy is “very interested.” ([Adm. Henry Kent
-Hewitt], Letter to US Naval Attaché, Oslo, “Rocket
-Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden,” August 24,
-1946)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 851
Date: 8/24/1946
-Description: Stockholm Air Attaché Maj. Gen. Alfred
-A. Kessler Jr. informs the War Department that the Ghost Rockets are
-an “unintentional hoax which developed naturally but which exploited by
-Defense staff by implication and lack of frankness possibly interest
-defense budget and to alert west against east.” (Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles
-and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 850
Date: 8/26/1946
-Description: The US military attaché in Stockholm reports that the
-Swedes, possibly worried about a Soviet veto of their application for UN
-membership, have canceled their request for British radar equipment.
-(Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter
-1998): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 853
Date: 8/29/1946
-Description: The American embassy in Stockholm tells the State
-Department that the ghost rockets are probably Soviet missiles. (Loren
-E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 63A;
-[Memo
-on telegram
-of August 27, 1946]; Good Above, pp. 22,
-447)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 854
Date: 9/1946
-Description: German rocket engineer Walter Ziegler tells Army CIC that
-400 men from his former rocket group at Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW)
-in Munich, Germany, are invited by Russian military officers to a fancy
-dinner, wined and dined, then taken home. Several hours later, all 400
-are woken up by the Russians and forced to take a trip. (Ziegler is not
-among them.) They are transported by train to a small town (“Kubischew”)
-outside Moscow, Russia, where they remain and work on secret military
-rocket projects under terrible conditions. (Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 855
Date: 9/1/1946
-End date: 9/2/1946
-Description: Late night and early morning. Rocket-shaped objects are
-seen over northern Greece, according to Prime Minister Konstantinos
-Tsaldaris. Physicist
-Paul
-Santorinis is placed in charge of an investigation. He rules out
-Russian missiles, but the Army ends the investigation in 1947. (Clark
-III 525; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946,
-the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 62–63; Good Above, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 856
Date: 9/4/1946
-Description: Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800
-UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from
-Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C.
-by our Military and Naval Attaches
-Type: top secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p22,447)
-Location: Sweden
Date: 9/7/1946
-Description: British pilot Edward
-Mortlock Donaldson attains an airspeed record of 616 mph in a
-Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 at Littlehampton, England. (Wikipedia, “Edward
-Donaldson (RAF officer)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 857
Date: 9/9/1946
-Description: The scientific advisor to MI6, English physicist Reginald
-Victor Jones, considers the ghost rockets a social panic phenomenon.
-An RAF Intelligence report, “Investigation of Reported Missile Activity
-over Scandinavia,” identifies eight types of ghost rocket sightings:
-iron cylinder, magnesium-like light, white core surrounded by
-blue-green, shining ball with tail, torpedo-shape, black object with
-flame, small rocket, small missile. It takes the daytime reports
-seriously but concludes are probably only a few genuine reports of
-actual missiles. (Joel Carpenter, “Guided
-Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords
-26–27; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-pp. 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 858
Date: 9/11/1946
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Justin
-B. Rinaldi is standing in a friend’s backyard in Engle, New Mexico,
-when he hears a loud whirring sound and sees a black object whiz by. It
-is pointed at one end, has a narrow body, and what appear to be fins on
-the tail. It is traveling fast at an altitude of 75 feet. Rinaldi sees
-it hit a clump of trees at a ranch house and the “branches parted like a
-great force had struck.” He and friends go to the site but can find
-nothing. (“Flying
-Disc Tales Bring 2 Reports from Engle Area,” Albuquerque Journal,
-June 29, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 530)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 861
Date: 9/11/1946
-Description: Jack
-Northrop grounds the XB-35, which has suffered gearbox and propeller
-control problems, until the Army Air Force can fix its propulsion
-system. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 860
Date: 9/11/1946
-Description: The Chief of Naval Intelligence requires naval attachés to
-forward information on Soviet rocket research and operations including
-launches from submarines. (NARA, US Naval Intelligence files; Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 859
Date: 9/12/1946
-Description: Cmdr. Robert
-A. Winston, acting naval attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, writes to the
-London naval attaché in a secret air mailgram that he suspects there is
-a secret British-Swedish collaboration on ghost rocket information
-designed to keep the US from learning the truth. (Jan Aldrich,
-“Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 862
Date: mid 9/1946
-Description: Two luminous globes that shine “like an electric arc” are
-seen flying in a straight line over Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
-(Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 863
Date: 9/18/1946
-Description: Two greenish globes, one following close behind the other,
-zoom over Castanheira, Portugal. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 864
Date: 9/21/1946
-Description: Chemist Gustaf
-Ljunggren of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute
-summarizes for the Swedish Defense staff his analysis of 27 finds of
-mysterious substances, allegedly from ghost rockets. None are
-radioactive and all have mundane explanations. (Anders Liljegren and
-Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-pp. 33–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 865
Date: 9/22/1946
-Description: 3:15 a.m. A rocket-shaped object is seen for 90 seconds
-over Florence, Italy. It makes an abrupt turn, then speeds south toward
-Rome. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed.,
-p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 866
Date: fall 1946
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Gladys McCage and her 4-year-old son see a
-yellowish-orange light coming from the northwest at a “terrific speed”
-toward their farm 8 miles north of O’Neill, Nebraska. Its color changes
-to red as it approaches, and soon it is hovering above the witnesses.
-They run toward the house and the cigar-shaped object swings up to the
-northeast. McCage says it is as big as a football field, has windows,
-and is making a loud noise. A yellowish- blue-green flame is shooting
-out near the back, and it is traveling too fast for any plane at the
-time. (Clark III 530)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 868
Date: 9/30/1946
-Description: David
-Sarnoff, in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City,
-says that the “ghost bombs are no myth but real missiles.” (Joel
-Carpenter, “Guided
-Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”;
-“Sarnoff
-Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,” New
-York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 1, 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 867
Date: 10/1946
-Description: Ray
-Palmer publishes a letter from Maurice
-Doreal (pseudonym of Claude D. Dodgin) of the Brotherhood of the
-White Temple in Denver, Colorado, regarding the “Shaver mystery.” Doreal
-claims intimate knowledge of the subterranean realms, which he claims
-are inhabited by the Black Brotherhood and protected by “space-warps.”
-In 1949 Doreal claims to have visited caves inside Mount Shasta,
-California, inhabited by Atlantean masters. He equates Shaver’s Dero
-with an evil group of Lemurians. (Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean
-Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 154–160;
-Charmaine Ortega Getz, “The (Sort of) Amazing Story of Maurice Doreal
-and the Brotherhood of the White Temple Revealed at Last,” Weird
-Colorado, September 6, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 869
Date: 10/1/1946
-Description: The US Military Attaché in London, England, writes a
-top-secret memo to the War Department complaining that the British “may
-not have given us all information on reported rockets over Scandinavia.”
-(Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The
-Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 870
Date: 10/9/1946
-Description: Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over
-southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established
-contact and reported it would return
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: rg
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 10/9/1946
-Description: Evening. George
-Adamski and some associates are watching a meteor shower associated
-with Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner when they see a “gigantic spacecraft”
-hovering above the mountain ridge south of Mount Palomar, California. He
-claims to meet a military officer a few weeks later who assures him that
-the object was indeed from another world. Others in San Diego see an
-object with a long, tube-shaped fuselage, giant wings, and two red
-lights. The medium Mark
-Probert later tells the press that he has established psychic
-communication with the occupants and the object is called the Kareeta.
-(“Sparks
-Fly As Comet Passes Earth,” Los Angeles Daily News, October 10,
-1946, p. 3; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001,
-pp. 28–29; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel,
-1954, pp. 41–48;
-Curt Collins, “1946,
-Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in California,”
-The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 871
Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 173.8km
Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at
-White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion
-performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 104.6km
Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Waltraut Anlauf, a telephone operator in
-Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, sees small, elongated
-flashes at a great height in the sky. They look like cigars and are
-luminescent white in front and bluish-white in back. She sees about 10
-objects pass per minute. Sometimes there is an interruption of about 10
-minutes, and then new groups appear. The sighting lasts one hour.
-Possibly these are part of the Taurid meteor shower. (Clark III
-529)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 872
Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: The defense staff in Sweden admits it cannot explain the
-ghost rockets because reports are too vague. About 80% appear to be
-meteors (“celestial phenomena”), although radar has tracked a few
-unusual targets. The report concludes that they are not V-type bombs.
-(“Swedish
-Inquiry Fails to Solve Rocket Case,” New York Times, October 11,
-1946, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., pp. 71–72; Good Above, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 873
Date: 10/21/1946
-Description: Two persons on the shore of a lake in southern Sweden hear
-a whistling sound in the air, like a “flock of birds.” They see an
-object moving over the trees at a low altitude. It is dart-shaped and
-has short wings and a “ball-shaped tip.” It falls into the lake and
-possibly explodes on impact. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the
-Ghost Rockets, The
-Author, 1988 ed., p. p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 874
Date: 11/1946
-Description: The War Department issues a press release on how German
-scientists are helping out at Wright Field, Ohio. (Dolan, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 875
Date: 11/7/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude
-(Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: .32km
Date: 11/21/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude
-(Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 102.4km
Date: 11/29/1946
-Description: A top secret Air Intelligence report, “Significant
-Developments of Scientific Warfare in Russia,” designates the ghost
-rockets as “V-5” weapons produced by the Siebel Works in Halle, Germany.
-(Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter
-1998): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 876
Date: 12/3/1946
-Description: The Swedish military reports that about 100 impacts were
-investigated by the Defense Research Institution and not found to be
-rockets. (Joel Carpenter, “Guided
-Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part
-Three”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 877
Date: 12/5/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude
-(Control system failed at altitude)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 152.9km
Date: 12/10/1946
-Description: Gen. Curtis
-LeMay answers an inquiry from Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart
-Symington about establishing interim projects at the Air Materiel
-Center (AMC). LeMay’s answer: The Commander of AMC on his own volition
-may establish an interim project; however, to continue the project it
-must be approved for the next budget cycle. (Air Force Historical
-Research Agency, Maxwell AFB; Jan Aldrich, “Secret
-Twining Letter: ‘The
-Reported Phenomena Are Real,’” October 11, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 878
Date: 12/17/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude
-(Rocket exploded at 440s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 184.4km
Date: 12/23/1946
-Description: Jacobsson’s
-ghost rocket committee issues its final report on 987 ghost rocket
-cases, stating that 225 reports had been made in full daylight. More
-than 100 reports describe spool-shaped objects with or without wings. It
-concludes: “Despite the extensive effort, which has been carried out
-with the means available, and seven months after the first observations,
-no actual proof that a test of rocket projectiles has taken place over
-Sweden has been found.” (Swords 26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s,
-a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 75–76;
-Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 879
Date: 1947
-Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project
-plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: N 58 39 E 59 47
Date: 1947
-Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project
-plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of
-the most contaminated places on Earth.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
Date: 1947
-Description: Cmdr. Bernard Baruch Jr. makes 44 trips at his own expense
-to lobby for the implementation of the peacetime Communication
-Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings (CIRES) message system. He
-meets with DCI Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg, Rear
-Adm. Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart
-Symington, Rear
-Adm. Earl
-E.
-Stone, Vice Adm. Arthur
-W. Radford, Rear Adm. John
-E. Gingrich, Adm. DeWitt
-Clinton Ramsey, Maj. Gen. Robert
-W. Harper, Lieut.
-Gen Idwal
-H. Edwards, Vice Adm. Ralph
-Riggs, Capt. Richard Burke (USCG), and about 20 other officials.
-(NICAP, “Capt. Bernard
-Baruch, Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 880
Date: 1947
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Air Force pilot Edwin
-T. Yeoman is returning home with his wife Eva after
-going to a movie in Sacramento, California. As they drive northeast,
-they see a stationary light hovering at an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet
-above Roseville. After watching it for 5 minutes, the light gets
-brighter, rises vertically for several thousand feet, makes an abrupt
-90° turn, and shoots across the horizon from east to west. (CUFOS case
-file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 881
Date: 1947
-Description: Einstein sees “Greys” for the first time
-Type: rumor
-Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
-Location: Roswell, NM
-Attributes: Einstein
-Attributes: channeled
Date: 1/1947
-Description: W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still
-serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just
-out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy
-they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged
-Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt
-trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed
-saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed
-top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to
-have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or
-heavy equipment.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
-Location: Papago Indian Reservation
Date: 1/1/1947
-Description: The civilian US Atomic Energy Commission assumes
-responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project.
-The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assumes responsibility for all
-aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control. (Wikipedia,
-“United
-States Atomic Energy Commission”; Wikipedia, “Armed
-Forces Special Weapons Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 882
Date: 1/7/1947
-Description: SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A laboratory analysis of the
-cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky
-established presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome,
-and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon department
-of geology and mineral industries, said it gives reasonable basis for
-the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction.
-Largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army
-investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice
-shower occurred Saturday confined to a fifteen foot square area of Hill
-Military Academy.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box
-3 ff5)
-Location: Portland, OR
Date: 1/9/1947
-Description: The US Defense Department’s Intelligence Review, no. 49,
-contains a four-page summary of ghost rocket sightings and suggests some
-may have been Soviet test missiles or jet airplanes. (“Ghost Rockets
-over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US
-Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio
-Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research
-Coalition, December 1995, pp. 33–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 883
Date: 1/10/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude
-(Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 116.2km
Date: 1/16/1947
-Description: 11:30 p.m. An RAF Mosquito plane chases an unidentified
-target detected on radar at RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station [now closed]
-near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, moving at a speed calculated to be
-faster than sound at an altitude of 38,000 feet over the North Sea, 50
-miles north of the Netherlands acoast. It descends to 17,000 feet and
-takes controlled, evasive action. The plane pursues it for 40 minutes,
-even though the pilot cannot see it visually, until he loses it over the
-Norfolk coast. (UFOFiles2, p. 29;
-ClearIntent, p. 151;
-Sparks,
-p. 16; David Clarke, “Operation
-Charlie,” 2002; Martin L. Shough, “A
-New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,”
-April 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 884
Date: 1/17/1947
-Description: 11:37 p.m. After two unidentified targets similar to
-yesterday’s are reported by RAF Neatishead, northeast of Norwich,
-England, over the North Sea, another radar track enters the Eastern
-Sector area, and an RAF Mosquito piloted by Flight Lt. William Kent is
-scrambled to 18,000 feet. Kent attempts to close in, but his onboard
-radar is unable to keep it on track because the target is “jerking
-violently” and taking evasive action. After 20 minutes, the target
-descends below 2,000 feet and is lost from ground radar. Unofficially
-the radar operators give the intruder a name—Charlie—and when the Air
-Ministry later begins a concerted effort to solve the mystery, its code
-name is “Operation Charlie.” (Martin L. Shough, “A
-New Study of the British ’Ghost Airplanes’
-of 1947,” April 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 885
Date: 1/20/1947
-Description: In London, Ben
-Lockspeiser, chief
-scientist for the UK Ministry of Supply, after meeting with Swedish
-scientists and air force authorities, informs the American naval attaché
-in London, England, Cmdr. Jenkins, that the Swedes doubt the rockets are
-from Russia but prefer that the US and UK continue to think so. Natural
-phenomena and popular imagination are considered the causes. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 886
Date: 1/23/1947
-Description: Night. Three senior RAF officers are visiting RAF
-Neatishead in Norfolk, England, for an interception exercise when an
-unidentified radar target makes another appearance at 28,000 feet. RAF
-Mosquitos from Yorkshire are scrambled, but by the time the aircraft
-reach the area, the target is gone. (Martin L. Shough, “A New
-Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 887
Date: 1/23/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude
-(Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 49.9km
Date: 1/27/1947
-Description: RAF Flying Officer Stewart of the Northern Signals Area,
-after investigating the Operation Charlie radar incidents at RAF
-Neatishead, England, issues a report, no longer extant, that suggests
-that some of the targets are radiosonde balloons released by the USAAF’s
-8th Weather Squadron in Downham Market, Norfolk. However, RAF and Air
-Ministry sources continue to refer to the sightings as unexplained over
-the following months. (Martin L. Shough, “A
-New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April
-2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 888
Date: 1/29/1947
-Description: Secretary of War Robert
-P. Patterson and Secretary of the Navy James
-V. Forrestal issue a memorandum that formally establishes the Armed
-Forces Special Weapons Project, a new agency to take over responsibility
-for the aspects of nuclear weapons that still remain under the military.
-It is to be jointly staffed by the Army and Navy. Los Alamos
-Laboratory’s ordnance engineering Z Division and AFSWP establish
-themselves at Sandia Base, New Mexico, bringing the strict secrecy that
-has prevails at Los Alamos. (Wikipedia, “Armed
-Forces Special
-Weapons Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 889
Date: 2/6/1947
-Description: Around 7:30 a.m., Frederick
-Walter Flavel and his wife Emma are walking to their house in Lock,
-South Australia, when they see five gray, oblong objects rise apparently
-from the sea and move from northwest to southeast. At 9:00 a.m., Ronald
-Ernest Ellis and two other railroad workers in Port Augusta, South
-Australia, watch five white or light-pink egg-shaped objects moving
-across the sky from north to south at about 6,000 feet. They quiver,
-cast shadows on the ground, and move out of sight in a few seconds.
-(NICAP, “Five
-Objects Cast Shadows”;
-Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in
-History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 329–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 890
Date: 2/8/1947
-Description: A US Navy Privateer bomber flying over Sweden picks up
-signals that might be directing rockets. (Letter from US Naval Forces
-Europe, London, to Chief of Naval Operations; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 891
Date: 2/9/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins
-writing essay competition
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Location: Coral Gables, FL
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 2/17/1947
-Description: Capt. J. B. Pearson Jr., US naval attaché in London,
-England, sends an intelligence report to the Chief of Naval Intelligence
-about his conversation with Col. Westergard, head of the Airplane Design
-Section for the Swedish Air Ministry. Westergard tells him some 40% of
-the 1,000 ghost rocket sightings are “reliable.” They seem to originate
-in Peenemünde, Germany, and fly toward Finland. The best observation is
-from an artillery officer who sees an object in his optical range finder
-and follows it for about 90 seconds. It is in level flight at 4.5 miles
-distance and is about 36 feet long and torpedo shaped. (Loren E. Gross,
-The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 892
Date: 2/20/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude
-(Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 109.4km
Date: 2/28/1947
-Description: Capt. Emmet
-O’Beirne, Chief
-of the Defensive Air Branch, writes a memorandum to the chief of the
-USAF Office of Air Intelligence about the branch’s interview with H. W.
-Flickinger, vice president for exports at Republic Aircraft Corp. after
-his return from Sweden: “He stated that he had seen one of the Swedish
-‘spook rockets’ in flight, which resembled the V-1 buzz bomb but was
-somewhat smaller. The noise of this missile was more that of a rocket
-than like a V-1.” (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 893
Date: 3/7/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 165.2km
Date: 3/17/1947
-Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young
-students to find their directions”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 3/21/1947
-Description: A cigar-shaped object with smoke coming from its tail is
-seen flying from east to west at considerable height over southern
-Sweden by several witnesses. It looks metallic and is about 60 feet
-long, flying slowly. The object seems to turn around and fly back
-eastward briefly. (“‘Phantom
-Bomb’ Returns to Skies over Sweden,” New York Times, March 22, 1947,
-p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January
-1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 894
Date: 4/1947
-Description: The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories is devoted in its
-entirety to “proofs” of Richard
-Shaver’s claims and includes four of his novellas. Vincent
-Gaddis has written a prescient article on UFOs, titled “Visitors
-from the Void.” (David Halperin, “The
-Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria
-(Part 2),”
-July 11, 2014; Richard S. Shaver, “Formula
-from the Underworld,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 (June 1947): 10–29;
-Vincent H. Gaddis, “Visitors
-from the Void,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 (June 1947):
-159–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 895
Date: 4/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A.
-Minczewski watches a silvery disc through a theodolite while tracking a
-ceiling balloon in Richmond, Virginia. It is traveling east to west at
-less than 15,000 feet and has a flat bottom and a dome on top. (NICAP,
-“Silvery
-Disc Seen through Theodolite”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 62; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 17–21; Sparks, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 896
Date: 4/1/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 129.2km
Date: 4/8/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 102.2km
Date: 4/15/1947
-Description: The US Naval Attaché in Stockholm issues a secret
-intelligence report, “Sweden: Guided Missiles, Alleged Rockets over
-Sweden.” Both the naval and military attachés agree that there is
-nothing to the ghost rocket episode. No foreign missiles have overflown
-or landed in Sweden, according to the evidence a, vailable. “Swedish
-officials prefer to dismiss it as an unexplained press sensation.”
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 897
Date: 4/17/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km
-altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 142.4km
Date: 4/17/1947
-Description: Col. Oliver
-G. Haywood Jr. of the Atomic Energy Commission writes a memorndum to
-Harold
-A. Fidler at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
-saying: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to
-experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion
-or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work should be
-classified ‘secret.’” (Advisory Committtee on Human Radiation
-Experiments, memo, “Documents Retrieved from Oak Ridge Operations: The
-Atomic Energy Commission’s Declassification Review of Reports on Human
-Experiments and the Public Relations and Legal Liability Consequences,”
-December 6, 1994; Wikipedia, “Unethical
-human experimentation in the United States”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 898
Date: late 4/1947
-Alternate date: early 5/1947
-Description: 12:05 p.m. Mrs. William Down and Mrs. H. G. Olavick of
-Tucson, Arizona, see an unusual, fleecy cloud in an otherwise cloudless
-sky. Moving around it in “yo-yo fashion” are a number of small discs
-with a dull-white finish. They move up and down and sideways,
-occasionally disappearing into or behind the cloud. They watch the
-objects for 5–7 minutes, then all the discs disappear above the cloud,
-while a larger object emerges from the cloud and moves eastward. Behind
-it comes a V-formation of nine of the smaller discs, which then climbs
-at high speed toward the northeast and disappears in 2–3 seconds. The
-witnesses assume the objects are some new type of aircraft. (Bloecher,
-p. ix;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1
-(Spring 2004): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 899
Date: 5/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Harry Bentrup Jr. is on his porch in Jennings,
-Missouri, when a circular object surrounded by a ring of luminous green
-lights swoops in quickly from the east, hovers above him for 15 seconds,
-then takes off to the west. (MUFON case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 900
Date: 5/1/1947
-Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg
-as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the
-actual beginning of the CIA in 1961.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 5/1/1947
-Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe
-H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt
-Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 902
Date: 5/1/1947 (approximate)
-Description: Mrs. W. C. Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, watches two objects
-“like tennis balls” fly over her yard. (“Three Memphians Say They Saw
-Objects,” Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, July 7, 1947, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 901
Date: 5/5/1947
-Description: Hillenkoetter writes
-to Baruch, saying that his CIRES plan is “on the verge of being put into
-effect.” (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 903
Date: 5/10/1947
-Description: Rose Slawuta of Newark, New Jersey, sees a shining,
-elliptical object with a gold band around it approaching fron the west.
-(Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, July 7, 1947; Bloecher, p. I-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 904
Date: 5/14/1947
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A spherical object 3-4 feet in diameter is seen
-over Budapest, Hungary, passing southeast to northwest at about 3,000
-feet altitude in a flat trajectory. (Allied Control Commission for
-Hungary; George Mitrovic, The
-Gateways to the Gods, Kindle,
-2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 905
Date: 5/15/1947
-Description: 4:11 p.m. A Hermes test missile (V-2) at White Sands
-Proving Ground, New Mexico, goes off course and lands 6 miles east of
-Alamogordo five and a half minutes after launch. Commanding Officer Lt.
-Col. Harold R. Turner blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. The
-official explanation is that the V-2 had a defective fin. Trade
-consultant and former state representative Jon
-Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object
-was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have
-been responsible for the failed test. (“V-2
-Goes Astray, Lands in Six Miles of Alamogordo,” Las Cruces (N.Mex.)
-Sun-News, May 16, 1947, p. 1; Good Need, pp. 55–57;
-Wikipedia, “Hermes
-program”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 906
Date: 5/15/1947
-Description: A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches
-135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames
-“peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon
-Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was
-seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been
-responsible for the failure.
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 135.2km
Date: 5/15/1947
-Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times
-longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly
-5/21/47)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Date: 5/17/1947
-Alternate date: 5/19/1947
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Byron B. Savage, an RCA field engineer, sees a
-frosty-white or silvery elliptical object about the size of a B-29
-heading northwest at 10,000 feet over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at three
-times the speed of a jet (about 1,800 mph). As it noiselessly passes
-overhead, it appears to be circular. (NICAP, “Round
-and Flat Object
-Observed by Field Engineer”; Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of
-the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28; Sparks, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 907
Date: 5/19/1947
-Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction
-of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Date: 5/19/1947
-Description: Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran Dean
-A. Hauser and six other Pike’s Peak Railway workers (including Ted
-Weigand, Marion Hisshouse, T. J. Smith, L. D. Jamison) at Manitou
-Springs, Colorado, are taking a lunch break when they watch a silver
-object come in from the northwest, hover overhead, and gyrate at 1,000
-feet. The UFO is moving “erratically in wide circles” and reflects light
-like it is made of metal. After 20 minutes it disappears in a straight
-line to the west-northwest. (“Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’
-Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p. I-1;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January
-1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000,
-pp. 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 908
Date: 5/19/1947
-Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction
-of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Date: late 5/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Colden
-R. Battey, a physician from Augusta, Georgia, is fishing 10 miles
-off St. Helena Sound, near Beaufort, South Carolina. He notices a
-formation of four disc-like objects flying overhead in a southeasterly
-direction at a terrific rate of speed. The discs appear to be spinning
-on their axes and are at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. They are
-silvery and appear highly polished, and on their undersides Battey can
-see a circular rim or projection, about one-quarter of the way from the
-edges. No sound is heard as they fly overhead. The formation speeds out
-of view in less than 20 seconds. (NICAP, “Four
-Discs Flying Overhead”; Bloecher, p. I-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 909
Date: 5/29/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude
-(Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s
-and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico.
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 79.3km
Date: 5/29/1947
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A Hermes II test missile (a modified V-2) is
-launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to test the
-“Organ,” a series of ramjet air intakes designed to take pressure
-measurements. The missile travels south instead of north and lands in
-the Tepeyac Cemetery, 3 miles south of Juárez, Mexico, creating an
-international incident. It leaves a crater 50 feet wide and 24 feet
-deep. German scientists Wernher
-Von Braun and Ernst
-Steinhoff are conducting the test. (Wikipedia, “Hermes
-program&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1674889728048267&usg=AOvVaw21w5H7PR0bJxyaVhiz6Kw9)”;
-J. Terry White, “The
-Hermes II Incident,” White Eagle Aerospace, May 2, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 910
Date: 5/31/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class
-photo in newspaper
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: Coral Gables, FL
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 6/1947
-Description: AMC civilian engineer W. R. Presley takes a muddy photo of
-a UFO at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is most likely a photographic flaw.
-(Hynek UFO Report, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 911
Date: 6/1947
-Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law,
-“Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Majestic
-Document
-Attributes: Einstein
-Attributes: majestic
Date: 6/2/1947
-Description: Private pilot Forrest
-Wenyon is flying over Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and sees a silvery,
-jar-shaped object cross in front of his plane. It has a silver-white,
-fiery exhaust. (NICAP, “Jar-Shaped
-Object Crosses in Front of Aircraft”;
-Bloecher, p. III-9;
-Sparks,
-p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 912
Date: 6/4/1947
-Description: Project Mogul flight number 4 is allegedly launched from
-Alamogordo Army Air Field. (Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights
-and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23; Robert J. Durant,
-“Project
-Mogul Still
-a Flight of Fancy,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 17–27; David
-Rudiak, “The
-Phony Mogul Balloon Trajectory,”
-2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Mogul
-and Roswell,” A Different Perspective,” July 11, 2013; Kevin D.
-Randle, “A
-Few Facts about Project Mogul,” A Different Perspective, August 12,
-2013; Kevin D. Randle, “Truth about
-Mogul,” A Different Perspective, April 4, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 913
Date: 6/9/1947
-Description: A still-unlocated air intelligence summary is released,
-alleging that the Soviets in eastern Siberia are producing (or may be
-able to produce) 1,400 (or 1,800) aircraft based on the Horten
-brothers’ VIII-type, low-aspect, disc- shaped design by 1952. A
-Russian aviation historian thinks that the factories in question are at
-the time producing copies of the German Messerschmidt Me 262 jet
-fighter. A correct, more detailed summary of the intelligence report is
-published in December 1948 in Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79,
-“Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.” (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 914
Date: 6/10/1947
-Time: 2300
-Description: Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise from the ground in Mexican
-territory. It took a definite spherical shape and vanished in less than
-ten seconds among the stars.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Douglas, Arizona
-ID: 55
Date: 6/10/1947
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Gyorik Ferenc and others on Arena Street [modern
-Dózsa György út] in Budapest, Hungary, watch four yellow-red discs
-moving toward the northwest in a straight-line formation for about 30
-seconds. They are about 165 feet apart. The objects make a small arc
-around a corner of a park before disappearing. (Project
-Blue Book
-record; Joe Brill, “UFOs behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 76,
-March 1974, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 915
Date: 6/11/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day
-of high school (estimate)
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 6/12/1947
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Lovena
-Erickson sees two high-speed, round objects at a high altitude over
-Weiser, Idaho. They move up and down twice and leave a vapor trail that
-persists for more than an hour. (NICAP, “June
-12, 1947, Weiser,
-Idaho”; Bloecher, p. II-8; Sparks,
-p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 916
Date: 6/17/1947
-Time: 1030
-Description: John A. Petsche, electrical worker and another witness
-independently saw a disk-shaped object, which seemed to land near
-Tintown.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Bisbee, Arizona
-ID: 58
Date: 6/18/1947
-Description: Day. E. H. Sprinkle is one of a half-dozen Eugene, Oregon,
-residents who spot a formation of round objects “racing overhead” on a
-course to the northeast. Watching from Skinner’s Butte outside town.
-Sprinkle takes a snapshot of the objects with an inexpensive camera as
-they race over. Enlargements of the photograph show “seven dots” in a
-formation “shaped like an X or a Y, lined up across the sky.” Newspaper
-photographers say the dots “might be a fault in the developing process”
-that sometimes appears on a negative that has not been agitated properly
-in the developer. (“Local
-Man Asserts Flights Seen Here,” Eugene (Oreg.) Guard, June 26, 1947,
-p. 1; Bloecher, p. IV-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 917
Date: 6/19/1947
-Description: Maj. Gen. Stephen
-Chamberlin, head
-of War Department Intelligence, authorizes three electronic signals
-intelligence flights between July 1 and August 1 to look for radio
-signals over the Baltic Sea. The Swedish military is told that they are
-training flights. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 919
Date: 6/19/1947
-Description: USAAF Col. Albert
-Boyd reaches a world airspeed record of 624 mph in a Lockheed P-80R
-Shooting Star at Muroc AFB [later Edwards AFB], California. (Wikipedia,
-“Albert
-Boyd”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 918
Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Maury Island Incident
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Medium
-Reference: link
-Attributes: metals
Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: 11:55 a.m. Guy
-R. Overman watches several silvery objects moving below a plane at
-Spokane, Washington. (NICAP, “Eight
-Disc-Shaped Objects As Big As a House”; Bloecher, p. II-18;
-Sparks,
-p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 920
Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped
-objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget
-Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal.
-Officially regarded as hoax.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ruppelt (Vallee)
-Location: Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington
-ID: 56
Date: 6/21/1947
-Time: 1150
-Description: Eight disk-shaped objects the size of a house, were seen
-flying at 1000 km/h. A civilian woman stated that the objects fell with
-a deadleaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the
-Saint Joe River, in Idaho.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Spokane, Washington
-ID: 57
Date: summer 1947
-Description: Naval Cmdr. L.
-H. Witherspoon sees a disc-shaped UFO flash over the airport at
-Pittsburg, Kansas. (UFOEv, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 949
Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops
-metal residue.
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Maury Island, WA
-Attributes: metals
Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Log salvager Harold
-A. Dahl is patrolling east of Maury Island, Washington, with his
-15-year-old son Charles and two crewmen when he allegedly sees six
-doughnut-shaped objects. Five of them are circling the sixth, which
-seems distressed. When it is directly above the boat at 500 feet, it
-supposedly spews some hot slag-like material that breaks Charles’s arm
-and kills his dog. Dahl claims he filmed the objects. (Clark III 721;
-John A. Keel, “The Maury Island Caper,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes,
-1987, pp. 40–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 921
Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: Dahl claims
-he is visited by a mysterious dark-suited man who knows all about the
-sighting. He tells his associate Fred
-L. Crisman, and
-they allegedly go to the beach to pick up fragments. Dahl mails Ray
-Palmer in Chicago, Illinois, some fragments. (Clark III 721; Kenn
-Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999;
-Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “The
-Maury Island UFO Incident,” February 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 922
Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: Evening. Yale University astrophysicist Lyman
-Spitzer is speaking on WTIC radio in Hartford, Connecticut, and
-speculates that if life on Mars developed a bit earlier than on earth,
-it is possible that Martians have been civilized for millions of years.
-“Unless they had spent some time in a large city or had landed
-sufficiently recently to be photographed, we would have no record of
-their being here,” he says, and that “any few men who had seen them
-would probably not be believed by anyone else.” (“Mars
-May Be Peopled, Says Yale Speaker,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, June
-23, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 455)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 925
Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: Edward
-Louis DeRose in Greenfield, Massachusetts, sees a small,
-round-shaped, silvery-white object moving in a northwesterly direction
-faster than a speeding plane at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. The
-object stays in view for 8–10 seconds until obscured by a cloud bank. It
-reflects the sunlight strongly as if is made of polished aluminum or
-silver. (Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying
-Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell,
-Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October
-6, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 923
Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: 3:30 p.m. G.
-Oliver Dickson sees a shiny disc “a little like a blimp” flying
-north to south about 3,000 feet above Mount Franklin just north of El
-Paso, Texas. He estimates it is about 40 feet across and 5 feet thick.
-(“More El
-Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying
-Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, June 29, 1947,
-pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 924
Date: 6/23/1947
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Richard
-L. Bitters and his wife Martha are
-returning from a movie in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when they see a saucer-like
-object flying an uneven course in the sky. (“Saucer
-Just Didn’t Fit Editor’s Idea of a ‘Scoop,’” Madison Wisconsin State
-Journal, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Bloecher, p. III-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 927
Date: 6/23/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Disabled stunt pilot Richard Rankin views 10
-flat, circular objects flying in a V-formation over his house in
-Bakersfield, California. About two hours later, 7 of the objects are
-seen flying in the opposite direction. (Bloecher, p. II-3;
-Sparks, p. 17;
-Kevin D. Randle, “More
-Pre-Arnold UFO Sightings,” A Different Perspective, June 30,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 926
Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying
-saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost
-1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and
-between 45 to 50feet long
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Fred M. Johnson, a prospector in the Mount
-Adams, Oregon, area, sees 5-6 oval objects with tails about 30 feet in
-diameter. He watches one through a telescope. They are not flying in any
-sort of formation and as they bank in a turn, the sunlight flashes off
-them. As they approach, Johnson notices that his compass begins to spin
-wildly. When the objects finally vanish in the distance, the compass
-returns to normal. Johnson’s report is the very first “unidentified”
-case in the Project Sign files. (NICAP, “Prospector
-Compass Incident”; Bloecher, p. IV- 3;
-Clark III 170–171; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Three,”
-IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 6–7; Martin Shough, “The
-Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010, pp. 106,
-109–110; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 932
Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Idaho Lieutenant Governor Donald
-S. Whitehead and Justice of the Peace Jacob
-M. Lampert see an object with a brilliant head and a smoky tail from
-an office window in downtown Boise, Idaho. It dips from view after about
-20 minutes. (“Whitehead,
-Lampert, Join ‘Disc List,’” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1947,
-p. 9; Bloecher, pp. III-18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 931
Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Boise, Idaho, businessman Kenneth
-Arnold, flying his CallAir Model A-2 from Chehalis to Yakima,
-Washington, sees a string of nine objects flying in an echelon formation
-past Mount Rainier, Washington. At first he assumes they are jets, but
-he can see no trails. They cover the 50-mile distance between Rainier
-and another peak in 1 minute 42 seconds. He estimates their speed to be
-at least 1,200 mph. The objects swerve in and out of the smaller peaks,
-flipping from side to side in unison, dipping, and presenting their
-lateral surfaces, which reflect the bright sunlight and cause the
-flashes he saw earlier. They are in view for about two and a half
-minutes and are last seen heading south over the last high peak of Mount
-Adams. Arnold tells the airport staff about it in Yakima at 4:00 p.m.
-and they call ahead to Pendleton, Oregon, to alert them of Arnold’s
-arrival at an air show and his story. A large crowd awaits him, and a
-discussion follows. The consensus is that Arnold has seen guided
-missiles. But no such technology exists at the time that can match the
-objects’ description and performance, and the late 1990s explanation
-that Arnold observed a flight of white pelicans is equally improbable.
-Researcher Martin Shough concludes
-in 2010: “Examination of the sighting report in detail improves its
-evident internal consistency, rather than degrading it, and study of the
-principal contending explanations reveals that they are each very much
-less attractive when tried out in quantitative detail against the best
-information than they may appear at first sight.” (Wikipedia, “Kenneth
-Arnold UFO Sighting”; [Project
-Blue Book file]; NICAP, “Kenneth
-Arnold Sighting”;
-Center for UFO Studies, [clippings
-and reports]; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the
-Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 9–13; Bloecher, p. I-2–3;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-Kenneth Arnold Sighting, June 24, 1947”;
-Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-pp. 48–53; John A. Keel, “Kenneth
-Arnold and the F.B.I.,” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 (August
-1987): 2–12; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, pp. 5–9; Bruce Maccabee,
-“The Arnold Phenomenon: Part One,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995):
-14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Two,” IUR 20, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1995): 10–13, 24; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors,
-Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press,
-1998, pp. 14–22;
-Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 54–59;
-Martin Shough, “The Singular
-Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010; Bruce Maccabee, Three
-Minutes in June: The UFO Sighting That Changed the World, The Author,
-2017; Nigel Watson, “Was It a Bird? Was It a Plane?” Fortean Times 355
-(July 2017): 46–49; Clark III 169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 930
Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: 1:50 p.m. Railroad engineer Charles Kastl sees 9 or 10
-spinning discs in the air about 12 miles east of Joliet, Illinois. They
-are a string of flat circular objects “going faster than anything I’ve
-ever seen.” Kastl can see no connecting link between them, but they act
-as though the leading disc has a motor in it to power the others,
-because when it flips, the others do as well. When it rights itself, the
-others also right themselves. (“Flying
-Discs Seen
-by Railroad Man,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, June 28, 1947, p. 2;
-Schopick, pp. 1–2;
-NICAP, “Engineer Reports
-10 Shiny Flat Discs”; Kevin D. Randle, “The
-June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting,” A Different Perspective, March 20,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 929
Date: 6/24/1947
-Alternate date: 6/30/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Bill
-Schuening, a
-farmer, is driving his pickup truck down a remote rural road 25 miles
-north of Pendleton, Oregon, when he hears a loud humming sound. Coming
-over a rise, he sees in a nearby field a large disc-shaped object
-hovering 5–6 feet off the ground. He can also see two short (3 feet
-tall) figures wearing green suits and white helmets standing underneath
-the object. The figures suddenly vanish, and the craft then shoots
-towards the Columbia River, makes a big circle, and flies towards the
-mountains. (NICAP, “Man
-Sees Figures
-Standing near Disc”; Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-7, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 928
Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer,
-Washington
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Mt. Rainer, WA
Date: 6/25/1947
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. W. I. Davenport is working on the
-roof of a house at 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri,
-when he hears the sound of a motor. Looking up, he sees 9 objects
-approaching from the east. They are aluminum-colored and leave vapor
-trails. (“Puzzle
-in Sky Whiz,” Kansas City (Mo.) Star, June 26, 1947, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 934
Date: 6/25/1947
-Description: Kenneth
-Arnold goes to the East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon, and
-speaks with reporters Nolan Skiff and William
-C. Bequette. Arnold
-says the “saucer-like” objects were racing over the Cascade Mountains
-with a peculiar weaving motion “like the tail of a Chinese kite.” Bill
-Bequette writes the first saucer news story for the newspaper. He does
-not use the term “flying saucer,” but headline writers in other papers
-use it (such as the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 26), and reporters
-start picking it up. (“Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says
-Flier,” Pendleton East Oregonian, June 25, 1947, p. 1; “Flying
-Saucers Puzzle Pilot,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1947, p. 1;
-Clark III 170; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers,
-1952, Palmer, pp. 13–15; Pierre Lagrange, “A Moment in History: An
-Interview with Bill Bequette,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 15, 20; “Saturday
-Night Uforia: ’It Seems Impossible—But There It Is,’” Daily Kos,
-April 18, 2009; Phil Wright, “The
-Sighting,” Portland East Oregonian, June 16, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 933
Date: 6/26/1947
-Description: Northrop delivers a second four-engine XB-35 flying wing
-aircraft to Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 937
Date: 6/26/1947
-Description: Kenneth
-Arnold is interviewed live on KWRC radio in Pendleton, Oregon, by
-broadcaster Theodore
-A. “Ted” Smith. (Patrick
-Gross, “About
-the June 25, 1947, Interview on WKPG Radio by Bill Bequette”; “Kenneth
-Arnold Interviewed
-by Bill Bequette [actually Ted Smith],” Nutsandbolts UFO YouTube
-channel, December 12, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 936
Date: 6/26/1947
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Mrs. J. M. Harrison watches a large fireball pass
-toward the northwest from her residence at 4639 South Oakenwald,
-Chicago, Illinois. It breaks up into two dozen small discs that whirl
-around rapidly. (“Dr. Urey Scoffs
-at ‘Atom Angle’ to Flying Disks,” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1947,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 935
Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Clyde Homan sees two groups of loosely bunched
-objects, rocking back and forth as they fly noiselessly above Woodland,
-Washington. The objects are bright, flat, and moving at an estimated 600
-mph. (Bloecher, pp. II-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 942
Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: Day. Capt. Robert
-D. Dwan, a
-pilot out of Alamogordo Army Air Field [now Holloman AFB], New Mexico,
-is flying a private plane near Engle, New Mexico, at 3,000 feet, when he
-looks down and sees a “ball of fire, with a fiery blue tail behind it.”
-The object is about 2,000 feet below him, and he is “certain it is a
-meteorite.” The object disintegrates as he watches it. (Bloecher, pp. III-9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 941
Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: In a United Press dispatch from Pendleton, Oregon, Kenneth
-Arnold expresses frustration over the furor that his saucer sighting
-has caused. A preacher has called him from Texas to say that the flying
-discs are “harbinger of doomsday.” A woman recognizes Arnold in a
-Pendleton café and runs out shrieking that he is “the man who saw the
-men from Mars.” He says the whole thing has gotten out of hand: “Half
-the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon, and
-screwball. I wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks.” (“Report
-of ‘Flying
-Saucers’ Causes Furor; Texas Preacher Calls Flock for World’s End,”
-Medford (Oreg.) Mail Tribune, June 27, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 940
Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: Pentagon Army AF Public Relations Officer Capt. Tom Brown
-says the army has no idea what the discs are. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 939
Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: 9:50 a.m. Mrs. W. B. Cummings is driving about 5 miles
-southeast of San Antonio, New Mexico, when she sees a bright silver
-object descending quickly in the east. It leaves a short white trail.
-White Sands officials say there has been no missile testing since June
-12. (“More
-El Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso
-(Tex.) Times, June 29, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 938
Date: 6/28/1947
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Two pilots and two intelligence officers
-(Capt. Wilson
-H. Kayko, Capt. John H. Cantrell, 1st Lt. Theodore Dewey, and
-Capt. Redman) at Maxwell Field [now Maxwell AFB] in Montgomery, Alabama,
-see a bright light zigzagging across the sky for 25 minutes. When it is
-directly overhead, the UFO makes a sharp 90° turn and disappears to the
-south. (NICAP, “Object
-Zig-Zags with Bursts of Speed”; Bloecher, p. III-3;
-Sparks,
-p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 944
Date: 6/28/1947
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Lieut. Eric
-B. Armstrong, flying an F-51 at 6,000 feet 30 miles north of Lake
-Mead, Nevada, sees a formation of 5–6 objects streak by his plane. They
-are in close formation at an estimated speed of 285 mph. (NICAP, “Formation
-of 5–6 Objects Head toward P-51”; Bloecher, p. III-10;
-Sparks,
-p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 943
Date: 6/29/1947
-Description: Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C.
-J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see
-UFO’s 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which
-would probably be Pad 33).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: White Sands, NM
Date: 6/29/1947
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Carl
-J. Zohn, a
-guided missile expert with the Naval Research Laboratory, is 20 miles
-east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to observe a V-2 rocket launch
-scheduled for July 3. Between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., he is riding out to
-the testing grounds with John R. Kauke and NRL scientist Curtis
-C. Rockwood (and his wife Nancy) when they see a silvery disc flying
-at 8,000–10,000 feet. It has no appendages, wings, tail, or propellers.
-After about 60 seconds it disappears. (NICAP, “Naval
-Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Discs”; Bloecher, p. III-18;
-Sparks, p. 18;
-Evelyne Tsezana, “Grandpa
-Zohn Saw UFOs in New Mexico,” Geni, April 6, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 945
Date: 6/30/1947
-Time: 0910
-Description: A Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the south
-when he saw two circular objects diving at “unconceivable” speed. They
-were gray, about 3 m in diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of
-the Grand Canyon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona
-ID: 59
Date: 6/30/1947
-Description: 9:10 a.m. Naval Lt. William G. McGinty is flying a P-80
-from Williams AFB [now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport], Arizona, near the
-Grand Canyon when he observes two circular objects diving at
-inconceivable speed and landing 25 miles south of the canyon. (NICAP,
-“P-80
-Pilot Sees Circular Objects Dive and Land”; Bloecher, p. II-12; Sparks, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 946
Date: 6/30/1947
-Description: Around this time the Air Force Research and Development
-office of the Air Materiel Command organizes an informal project at
-Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, to collect UFO reports in the interests of
-national security. The project officer at Wright Field is Lt. Col. Edward
-G. Nabell Jr. (Sparks,
-p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 948
Date: 6/30/1947
-Description: Eighth Air Force Brig. Gen. Roger
-M. Ramey and intelligence officer Col. Alfred
-Kalberer hold a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on the flying
-discs. Ramey thinks people are “seeing heat waves.” Kalberer labels the
-sightings as “Buck Rogers stuff.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 947
Date: 7/1947
-Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a
-detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/47) and 15 other UFO
-encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the
-conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or
-seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying
-around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.)
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 6/24/47
-See also: 9/23/47
Date: 7/1947
-Description: Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12
-group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the
-crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 9/24/1947
Date: 7/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits
-Princeton and studies under Einstein
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Bragalia
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/1/1947
-End date: 7/3/1947
-Description: US Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico and one
-at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque allegedly track an object
-“flitting around” the sky, frequently returning but finally disappearing
-on the night of July 4. Much of this story originates with
-now-discredited Roswell witness Frank
-Kaufmann, who claims he was ordered to bring a group of radar
-experts to Alamogordo to evaluate unexplained radar targets at White
-Sands Missile Range. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 159;
-Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p. 8;
-Jim Wilson, “Roswell
-Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53; Kevin D. Randle,
-“Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19;
-Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002):
-9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 958
Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and
-Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at
-speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With
-the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three
-facilities go on full alert.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands, NM
-Location: Alamogordo, NM
-Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Day. Animal ecologist Charles
-K. Gunn, his
-wife, and two passengers are driving near North Bedeque, Prince Edward
-Island, when they see a bright, shapeless object speeding along in the
-sky for 30 seconds. (Bloecher, p. III-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 951
Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: A target is picked up on radar at Chitose Air Base,
-Hokkaido, Japan, moving 16 miles north at speeds in excess of 500 mph.
-The blip instantly reverses course four times, breaks into two objects,
-then merges into one again. (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar
-Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for
-Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26,
-1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 952
Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Meteorologist Ellwood E. Unger and his wife
-watch a round, orange, luminous object going about 100 mph after they
-leave a movie theater in Louisville, Kentucky. (Bloecher, p. III-2;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 955
Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Col. Alfred
-Kalberer holds another press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, and
-brings astronomer Oscar
-Monnig along to comment that the discs are “an interesting study in
-human psychology.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 953
Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Night. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chamber of Commerce
-official Max
-Hood sees a bluish disc zigzagging for about 30 seconds. (Bloecher,
-p. III-17;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947
-June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 954
Date: 7/1/1947 (approximate)
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Mrs. A. M. King is with another passenger on the
-deck of the Union-Castle Mail SS
-Llandovery Castle as
-it is steaming through the Mozambique Channel. They notice a star-like
-object traveling fast toward the ship. It shines a strong beam of light
-on the water within 150 feet of the ship, then descends, the beam
-shortening and becoming brighter as it nears the water. Soon the light
-switches off and they can see a metallic object that looks like a cigar
-with the end cut off. It remains about 20 feet above the sea, moving
-parallel with the ship. King estimates it is about four times the length
-of the ship and four times as tall. After a few seconds, a large flame
-erupts from the rear of the object. It vanishes soundlessly in the
-darkness. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 956
Date: 7/1/1947
-End date: 7/3/1947 (approximate)
-Description: According to Annie
-Jacobsen’s informant, EG&G engineer Alfred
-O’Donnell, the upcoming Roswell, New Mexico, crashes are the result
-of a psychological warfare operation by Soviet leader Joseph
-Stalin to fly into US airspace two disc- or wing-shaped aircraft
-based on a Horton
-brothers design obtained at the end of World War II. One craft
-allegedly contains living dwarves or children (human guinea pigs) who
-had been surgically altered using similar methods to those used in
-Auschwitz concentration camp by Nazi doctor Josef
-Mengele. This aircraft is remotely controlled by the crew of the
-second craft. The idea is to land the first aircraft in a visible
-location in the US, perhaps in Washington, D.C. The children would exit
-the craft and present themselves to the highest echelons of the
-government. However, the two aircraft crash in the New Mexico desert
-and, he claims, the Atomic Energy Commission is put in charge of the
-remains. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 367–374;
-Kremlin 30–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 957
Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Spectators at a baseball game at the Cincinnati
-(Ohio) Milling Machine Company watch two slow- moving discs hovering
-above the field for 10 minutes. (“100
-at Ball Game Tell of Seeing Two Mystery Saucers,” Cincinnati (Ohio)
-Post, July 7, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 959
Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Dan
-Wilmot see an oval object like two inverted saucers pass over their
-house moving northwest in Roswell, New Mexico. (Sparks,
-p. 19; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 159;
-Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell
-Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 960
Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: Roswell area crash
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
-Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: Roswell area crash
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1
Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in
-the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped
-object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to
-supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies
-strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and
-in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on
-silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Magdalena, N.M.
Date: early 7/1947
-Description: A cyclist near Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime,
-France, encounters an oval object, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, resting
-on the road 100 feet in front of her. Two small beings dressed in
-outfits and headgear are busy around it. When she honks her horn, the
-entities scurry into the object, entering it through a 20-inch opening.
-The UFO rises, oscillates, and streaks away. (Clark III 267; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, August
-81, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 950
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 8:55 a.m. William F. LeFevre watches a shiny, mirror-like
-disc zoom over River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado, at
-several thousand feet and make a 45° turn before vanishing toward the
-southwest. (Denver Post, July 5, 1947; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann
-Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose
-Press, 1998, p. 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 961
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: Morning. Project Mogul Flight number 8, a cluster of
-plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. (Kevin D.
-Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 962
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer John F. Cole watches a group
-of 10 objects moving northwest near Harborside, Maine, at 600–1,200 mph.
-Each is 50–150 feet wide. The objects are milling about in loose
-formation like a “swarm of bees” for 10–15 seconds. (NICAP, “Astronomer
-Observes Ten Large Objects”; Bloecher, p. III-18;
-Sparks, p. 19;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 963
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Air Research
-Center at Wright Field, Ohio, and the army intelligence service are
-looking into the flying discs. An INS dispatch states that Commander of
-the Army Air Force Gen. Carl
-Spaatz has asked Wright Field to look into such reports. Air
-Materiel Command’s Lt. Gen. Nathan
-F. Twining tells Idaho Evening Statesman reporter David
-N. Johnson that officials are indeed looking into the discs and that
-Wright Field has no comparable technology. Lieut. William
-C. Anderson, Wright Field public relations officer, says there is no
-confirmation that the discs exist. Maj. Paul
-Gaynor says the Army Air Force needs more concrete information.
-German scientists working at Wright Field are asked about the discs, but
-they say they have heard nothing about any such experiments in Europe.
-(“Army
-Gets Around to Checking ’Flying Discs’
-and Is Mystified,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1947, p. 1; Dave
-Johnson, “AAF
-Investigates Reports of Mysterious
-Air Objects,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 3, 1947, pp. 1, 9;
-“Military
-Says ‘No Results’ in Disc Probe,”
-Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 4, 1947, p. 2; “Weird
-‘Flying Saucers’ Seen over 10 States,” New York Daily News, July 4,
-1947, Final ed., p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 964
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Farmer Ewen McNeill in Village Green, east of
-Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, sees a black, rocket-shaped
-projectile trailing a blindingly white flame and a smoke trail pass
-overhead as he is working his fields. It seems to be flying at 10,000
-feet and is visible for 15 seconds. Around the same time, a resident of
-Augustine Cove watches an “object the size of an apple” traveling south
-at high speed. (Bloecher, p. II-17;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 965
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Walter Johnson and her family see 8–9 discs
-flying out of the southern sky 6 miles west of Saint Maries, Idaho, over
-the St. Joe River. The objects came in “very fast, slow down jerkily,
-then flutter to the ground like leaves.” Mrs. Johnson thinks the objects
-are about the size of a “five-room house.” When they reach a clearing in
-the timber, they appear to “settle Down” a few at a time. Mrs. Johnson
-reports the sighting to intelligence officers at the Spokane Army Air
-Base [now Fairchild AFB], and an intensive air search is carried out by
-two missions of the National Guard’s 116th Fighter Group. Local
-sheriff’s deputies also make a ground search, but no traces of alanding
-can be found. (“‘Saucer’
-Reports Increase As
-Sky Is Searched in Vain,” Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, July 7,
-1947, pp. 1, 6; “Dishman
-Residents Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ Land,” Spokane (Wash.)
-Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, p. 6; Bloecher, p. II-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 966
Date: 7/3/1947
-Time: 2:30 PM EDT
-Description: Witness: astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me.
-Watched 10-15 seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms
-to their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest. A loud roar
-was heard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Harborside, Maine
-ID: 0
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
-Location: Magdalena, NM
Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Project Mogul Flight number 9, a cluster of
-plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. (Kevin D.
-Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 967
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 9:12 p.m. United Air Lines Flight 105 pilots Capt. Emil J.
-Smith and First Officer Ralph Stevens are flying from Boise, Idaho, to
-Seattle, Washington, when they see a formation of five discs over
-Emmett, Idaho, silhouetted against the sunset. Stewardess Marty Morrow
-sees them as well. The objects appear to merge and speed away to the
-northwest. Another group appears and arranges itself in a straight line.
-The nine objects are seen at least 12 minutes over a distance of 45
-miles. (“View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot,
-Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947;
-Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1947”; NICAP, “5 Discs
-Sighted by United Flight”; Bloecher, pp. III-10–11;
-Sparks,
-p. 20; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952,
-Palmer, pp. 18–19; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,”
-in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House
-Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29,
-1968, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 983
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: During a thunderstorm near Corona, New Mexico, W.
-W. “Mack” Brazel hears a tremendous thunderclap that sounds like an
-explosion but is somehow different from the rest of the thunder. Others
-in the area report the same phenomenon. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R.
-Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 985
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 11:27 p.m. Army Signal Corps radar sites in southern New
-Mexico supposedly continue to track a mysterious object. Kirtland AFB’s
-commander scrambles a fighter jet piloted by Kenny Chandler to locate
-the object, but he cannot find it. Before midnight, Frank
-Kaufmann allegedly sees a brilliant glow on the radar display,
-pulsates a number of times, then explode in a starburst. The belief is
-that the object has now crashed. Jim
-Ragsdale and “Trudy Truelove” supposedly see a bright flash of light
-and hear a roaring sound that passes overhead. Ragsdale knows that
-something has struck the ground close to their campsite. (Kevin D.
-Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell,
-Evans, 1994, p. 160;
-Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 36;
-Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell
-Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 14; Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Truth about the Jim Ragsdale Story,” IUR 21, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 13–16,
-29–30; Jim Wilson, “Roswell
-Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53; The Roswell
-Files, “Jim
-Ragsdale,” April 11, 1998; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell
-Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank
-Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 9–11, 26; Kevin D. Randle,
-“Jim
-Ragsdale’s Roswell
-Tale,” A Different Perspective, April 22, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 986
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 1:05–5:30 p.m. Many people in Portland, Oregon—including
-KOIN newsman Frank Cooley, deputy Clark County Sheriff Fred
-Krives, Portland
-police officer Kenneth
-A. McDowell, and Oregon highway patrol Sgt. Claude Cross—view five
-large discs moving at high speed to the east, two flying south and three
-to the east, with an oscillating or wobbling motion, sudden 90° turns or
-zigzagging. Radio reports alert other officers (including Walter
-Lissy, Robert
-Ellis, and
-Earl
-Patterson, all
-WWII veterans) who see the metallic objects that look like a disc or
-hubcap or pie-pan or half-moon flashing in the sun. No vapor trail or
-noise (except possible humming) is reported. (NICAP, “Seven
-Discs Observed by Many Witnesses”; Bloecher, pp. II-9, III-15;
-Sparks,
-p. 20; “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Discs over State; Many Seen
-during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947,
-“UFO
-Reports, 1947”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 58; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann
-Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,”
-IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 974
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. C. J. Bogne and other witnesses in a car near
-Redmond, Oregon, see four discs flying past Mt. Jefferson on a straight
-course at high speed. (Ruppelt, p. 20;
-Bloecher, p. II-9;
-Sparks, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 972
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Lenora Woodruff wakes up in her home at 184 S.
-Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey, when several airplanes fly
-overhead. She looks out and sees a “strange goldenish platter” moving
-swiftly across the sky. It disappears in a second. (“South
-Plainfield Woman Reports Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ Formation,”
-Bridgewater (N.J.) Courier-News, July 5, 1947, p.1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 968
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Harry Hale, production manager of the Portland
-Oregonian, sees one shiny disc moving swiftly just west of Beaverton,
-Oregon. (“Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Disks over State; Many Seen
-during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947,
-“UFO
-Reports, 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 973
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: After 4:00 a.m. Mrs. Martin Kole is awakened in her home in
-Alexandria, Virginia, by something shining through her bedroom window.
-She sees a large, roiund object hovering in the southwestern sky. She
-watches it for a few minutes, then goes back to bed. (Bloecher, p. II-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 969
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one
-heavily injured, one surviving
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
-Location: Magdalena, NM
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in
-PNW
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Pacific Northwest
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: The United Press service rounds up theories about the
-flying discs. It quotes Army Air Force “experts” saying that the
-sightings might be caused by weather conditions, or meteorites, or
-foreign aircraft that it is “our responsibility to know about it and
-take proper action.” Occultist Ole J. Sneide from San Francisco,
-California, thinks they are “oblate spheroid space ships from other
-planets” with hidden bases on the dark side of the moon. This is
-apparently the first public mention of an extraterrestrial origin for
-flying saucers in the media. (“U.S.
-Stops ‘Laughing
-Off’ Stories of Flying Disks,” Hollywood (Calif.) Citizen-News, July
-3, 1947, p. 1; “Flying
-Disks Said ‘Space
-Ships’ from Other Solar Systems,” Bryan (Tex.) Eagle, July 3, 1947,
-p. 8; “Buck
-Rogers Special,” Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, July 4, 1947,
-p. 2; Curt Collins, “A
-1947 Pioneer of the UFO Extraterrestrial Hypothesis,”
-The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 16, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 970
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Sunset. M. K. Leisy, a junior intern at the Institute of
-the Pennsylvania Hospital at 44th and Market streets in Philadelphia, is
-reading on the porch of the hospital when he hears a loud roar. A large
-transport plane passes overhead, but he also sees a dark sphere with a
-luminous halo around it moving below the clouds at a moderate speed. It
-disappears into the clouds. (“Flying
-Discs Seen
-over City,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher,
-pp. II-14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 982
Date: 7/4/1947
-Time: 8:17 PM PDT
-Description: Witnesses: United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer
-Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while
-four objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds,
-with one high and to the right of the others.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: over Emmet, Idaho
-ID: 1
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Sunset. Henry
-Seay, a
-farmer living 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, watches three
-yellow discs flying overhead to the southwest, dropping sparks, and
-frightening his cattle and horses. The following night it happens again
-and the cows go into a panic, running off to the other side of the
-pasture. Some kind of dust falls on Seay, although it does not burn.
-After several seconds, the object rises up vertically 30–40 feet and
-shoots off horizontally at 50 mph. (Bloecher, p. IV-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 981
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue
-Book Report includes state and local police witnesses
-Type: mass ufo sighting
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Portland, OR
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 7:00 p.m. George Aster and others at Hauser Lake, Idaho,
-watch a flying disc for 30 minutes as it hovers with a lateral
-oscillation about 30° above the horizon at an estimated 20,000 feet. It
-shoots straight up and vanishes when a small aircraft approaches it.
-(“Disks
-Seen Here Today, Is Report,” Spokane (Wash,) Spokesman- Review, July
-7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. II-6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 980
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 10:30 a.m. CAA official Irving C. Allen is flying a small
-aircraft near Moscow, Idaho, when he sees a white disc moving north for
-5 minutes as it crosses his path several miles in front of him.
-(Bloecher, p. III-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 971
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 6:30 p.m. United Press correspondent John C. Corlett, along
-with artist V. H. Selby and their wives, see a white disc speeding over
-Boise, Idaho, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. It takes about 3
-seconds to disappear. (“View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds
-Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July
-5, 1947; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 979
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Coast Guard Yeoman Frank
-Ryman photographs a round disc over his home at 12321 22nd Street
-NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington. The object is in sight for 4–5
-minutes and is seen by at least 20 others, traveling 500 mph. The photo
-shows a small, blurred white oval against a background of sky, but when
-enlarged the object is quite distinct. The Air Force explains it as a
-weather balloon. (“Observers
-Report Discs over
-Entire Western Area,”
-Salt Lake City Deseret News, July 5, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. IV-3–4;
-London UFO Research Unit, “Seattle,
-Washington, America, North America”; Michael D. Swords, “Can
-You Learn Anything from UFO Photos,
-Part Two,” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Kenneth Lloyd Larson, “A
-Summer 1947 Sighting,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 978
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. Private pilot Dan Whelan and passenger
-Duncan Underhill are flying at 5,000 feet west of Long Beach,
-California, when they see a disc about 2,000 feet above them, traveling
-at 400–500 mph. They estimate it is 40–50 feet in diameter and flying
-north-northwest. (“‘Air
-Disc’ Mystery Grows, Baffles
-U.S.,” Hollywood (Calif.) Citizen-News, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3;
-Bloecher, p. III-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 977
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Nova Hart and his wife Marveline are picnicing
-off Old Saint Charles Road west of Pattonville, Missouri. They see a
-saucer-shaped object, ribbed like a “parachute canopy,” gliding slowly
-(50–60 mph) and silently from south to north about 300 feet off the
-ground. It seems to have a propellor attached to a red conical structure
-on its underside and is about 20–25 feet in diameter. (Bloecher, p. II-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 976
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 2:50 p.m. Seven people at Twin Falls Park, seven miles east
-of Twin Falls, Idaho, watch a group of discs in a rough V-formation
-flying at great speed. A second flight of 9–10 objects circle overhead
-in a loose formation. They gain altitude rapidly and move to the west.
-(“Flying
-Saucer Mystery Grows,” Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen, July 5, 1947,
-p. 4; Bloecher, p. II-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 975
Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: The first of the special flights from Washington, D.C.,
-arrives at Roswell Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico (presumably
-to investigate the radar reports claimed by Frank
-Kaufmann). On the plane is Warrant Officer Robert Thomas. Thomas and
-his companions are in uniform upon arrival, but quickly change to
-civilian clothes. Thomas wants an on-site briefing as soon as it can be
-arranged. These men remain at RAAF throughout the later retrieval.
-(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
-Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 160–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 984
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 5:01 a.m. Project Mogul Flight number 10, a cluster of
-plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. (Kevin D.
-Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 989
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and
-family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a
-polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio
-station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the
-Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at
-20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned
-and maneuverable.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3
-ff5)
-Location: Portland, OR
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Following the rain the night before, Brazel inspects
-the pastures surrounding the J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of
-Corona, New Mexico. Riding with him is the young son of the Proctors, William
-D. Proctor. During the inspection, Brazel discovers a large debris
-field. Scattered on the slopes and into the sinkhole and depressions are
-plastic-like beams, pieces of lightweight balsawood-like material only
-stronger, light metallic foil (which doesn’t stay bent or folded,
-resumes its original shape, and won’t tear), and heavy-gauge
-monofilament. The debris is thick enough that the sheep refuse to cross
-the field and are driven around it to water more than a mile away.
-Brazel, taking a few scraps of the material, heads to the home of his
-closest neighbors, Floyd and
-Loretta Proctor. He
-shows them “a little sliver” of material that he can neither burn nor
-cut. Some of the beams have symbols on them that reminds Brazel of
-Chinese ideograms. The Proctors suggest he take it into town to show the
-sheriff. (Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Did a Balloon Crash at
-Roswell?” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 4–5; Kevin D. Randle and
-Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans,
-1994, pp. 27– 32, 161;
-Michael D. Swords, “Roswell:
-Clashing Visions of the Possible,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 11–13,
-33– 35; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t
-Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 14–19, 30; Donald R.
-Burleson, “Roswell
-Trajectory Feasibility,” Center for UFO Studies; Michael D. Swords,
-GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO
-Research, 2005, pp. 125–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 992
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 5:30 a.m. According to discredited Roswell witness Frank
-Kaufmann, a small contingent of men from Roswell Army Air Field in
-New Mexico drive north on what is now US Highway 285. Near mile marker
-132, they turn off the road and began driving across the desert,
-stopping from time to time to cut the barbed-wire fencing. They discover
-a heel-shaped craft measuring about 25 feet long and 12 feet wide
-embedded in a cliff. The soldiers find civilians on the site already.
-Besides the archaeologists, a local man named Larry Campbell (later
-called Jack Armstrong or Cactus Jack) also claims to have been there.
-They escort them off while others secure the area. Five bodies are
-allegedly found on the site. The impact site is cleaned and secured by
-11:30 a.m. Annie
-Jacobsen has interviewed Alfred
-O’Donnell, later an engineer at EG&G, who tells her that one of
-the objects crashed and was recovered by the Joint Chiefs, including the
-airframe, propulsion equipment, and the power plant. It has no wings or
-tail. The fuselage is round and there is a dome on top. Inside there are
-Cyrillic letters stamped or embossed in a ring running around the
-inside. Army intelligence officers suspect that the craft is the
-brainchild of German airplane engineers, Walter
-and Reimar Horten, working for the Russian military. A frantic
-search to find what happened to the brothers allegedly takes place;
-informants like Austrian physicist Adolf
-Smekal of Frankfurt, Germany, provide leads, with confusing results
-for several months. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161;
-Thomas J. Carey, “The Strange Saga of ‘Cactus Jack,’” IUR 22, no. 1
-(Spring 1997): 3–11; Jim Wilson, “Roswell
-Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53; Jacobsen, Area
-51, pp. 36–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 990
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Later that evening, Brazel removes
-the large, circular piece of the debris from the range. Brazel either
-loads it into the back of his truck or drags it along behind. He stores
-it in a livestock shed about three miles north of the crash site. (Kevin
-D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
-Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 994
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Archaeologists, including William
-Curry Holden, working the sites around Roswell, New Mexico, stumble
-across an impact site where an object has crashed. One of them heads to
-the closest phone to tell Sheriff George
-A. Wilcox of the discovery of the remains of a crashed aircraft of
-some kind. Wilcox calls the local fire department to alert them about
-the crash. One truck, with Dan
-Dwyer on it, responds to the call. The site is about 35–40 miles
-north of Roswell. The Roswell Fire Department, escorted by members of
-the Roswell Police Department, makes a run along Pine Lodge Road
-northwest of Roswell. They are among the first civilians to stumble
-across the impact site. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
-Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 33–36;
-Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Casting the
-Net,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 3–8, 23–24; Thomas J. Carey, “The
-Continuing Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Closing the Circle,”
-IUR 19, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 4–12; Kevin D. Randle and Anthony
-Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 (July
-2009): 6–8, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 988
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 10:00 a.m. W/O Robert Thomas and his crew proceed to the
-impact site. The bodies, originally covered by sheets, are now in
-lead-lined body bags. Only those with the highest clearance are allowed
-close to the center of the impact. Guards are posted, facing out, to
-keep the curious away. According to researcher Kathy Kasten, the dead
-bodies are taken to Roswell Army Air Field, but one is still alive and
-taken to Fort Stanton [now closed] in Lincoln, New Mexico, whose Marine
-Hospital was used to confine troublesome German and Japanese detainees
-during World War II. Allegedly, aerospace physician William
-Randolph Lovelace II travels there from Albuquerque to examine the
-survivor, who reportedly dies one week later and is buried in the Fort
-Stanton cemetery. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161;
-Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017,
-pp. 204–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 991
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Acting on what he claims are orders from Brig.
-Gen. Martin
-F. Scanlon of the Army’s Air Defense Command, discredited Roswell
-witness Frank
-Kaufmann returns to Roswell Army Air Field from Alamogordo to alert
-Colonel William
-H. Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, about a potential
-crash. (Jim Wilson, “Roswell
-Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 987
Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Automobile dealer Kjell
-Qvale and dozens of others see a triangular formation of silvery
-discs flying south near Auburn, California. They appear directly
-overhead and are in view for 3–4 minutes, disappearing one at a time,
-but not over the hdorizon. (“Skeptical
-Experts Call Disc
-Reports ‘Mass Illusion,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 8, 1947,
-p. 1; Bloecher, p. II-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 993
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Because of the distance to the ranch over roads
-that are less than adequate, Brazel,
-Marcel,
-and Cavitt do
-not arrive until after dark. They stay at the “Hines” house (an old
-ranch house close to the debris field), eat cold beans, and wait for
-daylight. Marcel runs a Geiger counter over the large piece of wreckage
-Brazel has stored in the cattle shed. He detects no sign of radiation.
-(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
-Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1002
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Army Staff Sgt. Ira
-L. Livingston watches a procession of glowing round objects moving
-at 500 mph over Birmingham, Alabama. A new one appears every 5 seconds.
-Many others report UFOs in the area between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Robert
-Crossland, a copy reader for the Birmingham Age-Herald, takes a photo
-that shows two round white spots close together. (Bloecher, pp. III-3–4,
-IV-4;
-Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great
-Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1001
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Colonel William
-H. Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, entrusted with
-oversight of the first and only atomic-bomb strike force in the world,
-the 509th Bomb Group, orders Jesse
-A. Marcel, the air intelligence officer, to investigate the debris
-report. Marcel immediately drives to the sheriff’s office. Marcel
-interviews Brazel, examines
-the pieces of the material that Brazel brought in, and decides he had
-better visit the ranch to examine the field for himself. Marcel, taking
-some of the debris with him, returns to the base and reports to
-Blanchard on what he has seen. Blanchard, convinced that he is in
-possession of something highly unusual, perhaps Soviet, alerts the next
-higher headquarters. Marcel and Blanchard all know this is from not any
-type of balloon. Marcel returns to the sheriff’s office with the senior
-counterintelligence agent assigned to the base, CIC Captain Sheridan
-W. Cavitt. They
-escort Brazel back to his ranch and examine the debris field. Acting on
-orders from Major General Clements
-McMullen, deputy
-commander of the Strategic Air Command, Blanchard obtains more of the
-debris from the sheriff’s office. It is sealed in a courier pouch and
-loaded on an airplane to be flown on to the Fort Worth Army Air Field,
-where it is given to Colonel Thomas
-J. DuBose for transport on to Washington, D.C. After Marcel and
-Cavitt leave with Brazel, the two deputies return to say they did not
-find the debris field but observed a burned area in one of the pastures.
-There the sand has been turned to glass and blackened. It looks as if
-something circular has touched down. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R.
-Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 37–40, 164;
-Good Need, p. 89;
-Nukes 482–483)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1000
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Francis Howell and his wife are in their yard at
-317 Ash Street in Tempe, Arizona, when they see an object floating down
-to the ground with a kite-like motion. It appears to be about 2 feet
-across and made of aluminum. It disappears behind some trees. The
-Howells and some neighbors walk toward the place where it apparently has
-landed, and they see the disc ascend at a 45° angle and move at high
-speed toward the northwest. (“Tempeans
-See ‘Disc,’” Phoenix Arizona Republic, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher,
-p. II-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 999
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 2:45 p.m. David
-A. Kenney, an aircraft instruments engineer, and two others watch an
-oval-shaped UFO flying at a high altitude for nearly 2 minutes near
-Encampment, Wyoming. (Bloecher, p. III-17);
-David Kenney, “Right Place, Right Time,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006):
-28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 998
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Day. Army Air Corps Capt. James
-H. Burniston and his wife watch a round, flat object that oscillates
-on its lateral axis of travel three quarters of the way across the sky
-in a few seconds at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field [now Travis AFB]
-near Fairfield, California. (NICAP, “Round
-Flat Object Size of C-54”; Bloecher, p. III-3;
-Sparks, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 997
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Maj. A. B. Browning and the crew of a B-25 flying
-over Clay Center, Kansas, see a silvery disc about 30–50 feet in
-diameter slightly lower than their plane. It paces them for a while then
-shoots off. (NICAP, “30–50ʹ Circular
-Object Paces B-25, Accelerates”; Bloecher, p. III-11;
-Sparks,
-p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 996
Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Brazel gets
-up early, completes his chores, and then drives into Roswell, New
-Mexico, about 75 miles away. He stops at the office of Sheriff George
-A. Wilcox. Contrary
-to published reports, Wilcox is excited about the find and suggests the
-military at the Roswell Army Air Field [now closed] be notified. While
-waiting for the military officers to arrive, Wilcox dispatches two of
-his deputies to the ranch. They have only the directions given by
-Brazel, but both men are familiar with the territory; and Wilcox
-believes they will be able to find the debris field. KGFL reporter Frank
-Joyce calls Wilcox, who tells him Brazel is in his office with an
-interesting story. Brazel allegedly gets on the phone with Joyce and
-mentions debris and a stench from dead bodies. (Kevin D. Randle and
-Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans,
-1994, pp. 163–164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 995
Date: 7/6/1947
-Time: Daytime
-Description: Witnesses: Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston.
-Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail rolled
-from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast to the
-southeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California
-ID: 2
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh
-took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in
-the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither
-did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look
-like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge
-on against a dark sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3
-ff5 )
-Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg’s activity log: 1:10 p.m., answers a Toronto Star
-reporter’s question about possible secret military aircraft. Vandenberg
-says no AAF planes are looking for discs, but National Guard planes are
-looking into the discs on their own. 1:50 p.m., Stephen Leo, public
-relations officer for AF Secretary Stuart Symington, calls
-concerning the Shreveport, Louisiana, incident. 1:55 p.m. Leo and
-Gen. Curtis
-LeMay discuss the discs. Col. Warren, at Ellington Field [now
-Ellington Airport] in Houston, Texas, calls concerning the Shreveport
-disc. 4:20 p.m., Col. Warren calls back and says the incident is a hoax.
-(David Rudiak, “Lt.
-Gen. Hoyt S.
-Vandenberg and Roswell,” Roswell Proof, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1009
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Five students on a practice baseball field at
-Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, see three metallic oval objects
-flying swiftly and silently in a triangular formation overhead. They
-seem to be about 10 feet in diameter and are flying east over the
-Olentangy River. They are out of sight within 10 seconds. (Bloecher, p. II- 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1014
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: A hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana. A 16-inch aluminum disc
-with smoke coming out of it is found. Army investigators find “Made in
-USA” on the disc. It is one of many homemade gadgets, weather balloon
-radar targets, circular saws, and other disc-like debris that people
-find or make in order to have some fun in the press or with gullible
-saucer-seekers. (Sparks, p. 21;
-“Speaking
-of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,”
-Life, July 21, 1947, p. 14; ClearIntent, p. 149;
-Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A
-Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 15–17; Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Hoover Memo Again,”
-A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015; Maurizio Verga, “Here
-They Are! Early Crashes of Flying Saucers,
-a Visual History,” Cielo Insolito, no. 6 (March 2018): 8–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1006
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Orrin
-Williams and his wife Albertine, along
-with Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Grant, are fishing on Great Pond near Rome,
-Maine, when they see a “spinning rocket” come out of the southern sky
-and stop abruptly overhead, where it hovers as a ball of fire. A similar
-object comes from the east, passing close by the first one. A third
-object approaches from the east and stops by the first object before
-moving on. The first object then retraces its path to the south at high
-speed. The display lasts several minutes. (Bloecher, p. II-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1015
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. William
-A. Rhodes, an
-independent scientist and inventor in Phoenix, Arizona, takes two photos
-of a dark, heel-shaped disc at his home at 4333 N. 14th Street. The
-photos are reproduced in the July 9 issue of the Arizona Republic. A few
-weeks later, an Army Air Corps Intelligence officer from Hamilton Army
-Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California, visits Rhodes and takes the
-prints and negatives, but Rhodes is unable to get them back. However, Kenneth
-Arnold obtains them on a later visit to Hamilton, and they wind up
-with James
-E. McDonald. Rhodes
-actually has an informal top-secret clearance because of his invention
-of a degaussing device for ships. He dies in 2007 at the age of 90.
-(NICAP, “The
-Rhodes Photo Case”; Bloecher, p. IV-4;
-Michael D. Swords, “Can
-You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July
-5, 2012; Swords 53, 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1016
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Charles Crockett, 15, is walking along Western
-Avenue in Manchester, Maine, when he sees a cluster of luminous objects
-to the west, just above the treetops on the north end of Cobboseecontee
-Lake. They are still visible when he arrives home and alerts his mother
-and grandmother. Possible searchlight beams. (“’Flying Saucers’
-Still Seen Flitting in
-N.E. Sky,” Bangor (Maine) Daily News, July 8, 1947, pp. 1–2;
-Bloecher, p. II-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1017
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Louisville Times photographer Al
-Hixenbaugh is at Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville,
-Kentucky, when he notices three “fiery balls” in the sky. He takes a
-5-second exposure, capturing two of the objects that show as slightly
-curved streaks. He estimates they are 1–2 miles away, moving at 200 mph,
-and at an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet. Robert Delara of 2745 West
-Market Street also sees the three objects shooting northward.
-(Louisville (Ky.) Times, July 8, 1947; “‘Flying
-Liver Pills’ over Kentucky,” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 9, 1947,
-p. 1; Bloecher, pp. IV-4–5;
-“La
-Fotografía (y la Pélicula) Al Hixenbaugh 1,” Marcianitos Verdes,
-February 5, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1018
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Capt. Robert
-J. Southey and Clem
-Hackworthy are flying a private aircraft near East Troy, Wisconsin,
-when they see a fast-moving silver object flying southeast from Eagle to
-Muskego, covering 17 miles in 20 seconds (approximately 3,060 mph). They
-try to photograph it, but it quickly disappears, then suddenly reappears
-about 10 miles away. (Bloecher, pp. III-11–12;
-Sparks,
-p. 22; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2001, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1010
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: A meeting is held in the office of Brig. Gen. George
-F. Schulgen, chief
-of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence.
-It is decided to investigate five flying disc incidents with “qualified”
-observers and obtain detailed statements: two in Seattle, Washington;
-one in Boise, Idaho; one in Palm Springs, California; and one in
-Washington State. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July
-7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1011
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: John
-Philip Bessor of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, writes to the US Air
-Force to offer his own theory that UFOs are “a form of space animal, or
-creature, of a highly attenuated (ectoplasmic?) substance, capable of
-materialization and dematerialization, whose propellant is a form of
-telekinetic energy.” (“Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 4 (May/June
-1951): 88; John P. Bessor, “Are the Saucers Space Animals?” Fate 8, no.
-12 (December 1955): 6–12; Curt Collins, “The
-1947 ET Hypothesis of John P. Bessor,” The Saucers That Time Forgot,
-February 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1012
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 5:20 p.m. Radar technician David W. Chase watches a
-disc-shaped object passing overhead at Medford, Oregon. It appears to be
-flying at 600–700 mph on edge at right angles to the surface of the
-earth, though following its contours at 500–1,000 feet. The object gives
-off a bright light. (Bloecher, p. III-18;
-Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 (January
-1951): 63–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1013
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: AMC commander Lieut. Gen Nathan
-Twining unexpectedly flies to Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF in New
-Mexico, remaining there until July 11. Army Air Forces Commander Gen. Carl
-Spaatz is supposedly “vacationing” in Washington State. He tells
-reporters he knows nothing about the flying discs. (Kevin D. Randle and
-Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans,
-1994, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1005
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Brazel takes
-Marcel and
-Cavitt out
-to the debris field. It is three-quarters of a mile long and 200–300
-feet wide. A gouge starting at the northern end of it extends for
-400–500 feet toward the other end. It looks as if something has touched
-down and skipped along. The largest piece of debris is recovered at the
-southern edge of the gouge. The debris is as thin as newsprint, but
-incredibly strong. There is foil that, when crumpled, unfolds itself
-without a sign of a wrinkle, I-beams that flex slightly and have some
-symbols on them, and material resembling Bakelite. Marcel and Cavitt
-walk the perimeter of the field and then range out looking for more
-details or another crash site but find nothing else. Finally, they
-return and spend the remainder of the day collecting debris. They load
-the rear of Marcel’s car and then the jeep carryall driven by Cavitt.
-About dusk they begin the trip back to Roswell. (Don Schmitt and Kevin
-D. Randle, “The Roswell Material,” IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1991):
-10–11; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 27–29,
-165;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Don’t Bother Me with the Facts…,” IUR 18, no. 3
-(Jan./Feb. 1993): 16–17, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris: A
-Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1995): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark
-Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An
-Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995): 7–9, 19–22; Kevin D. Randle,
-“Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 3–5, 24; Robert
-A. Galganski, “Roswell: Connecting the Debris Field and the Impact
-Site,” IUR 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 11–17; Robert A. Galganski, “The
-Glue Explanation Just Won’t Stick,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998):
-3–7; Robert A. Galganski, “An Engineer Looks at the Project Mogul
-Hypothesis,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 3–6, 32; Thomas J. Carey,
-“Will the Real Sheridan Cavitt Please Stand Up?” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall
-1998): 14–21; Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell:
-Anatomy of a Myth,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1
-(1998): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “A
-Different View of ’Roswell: Anatomy of
-a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 (1998):
-103–125; Robert M. Wood, “Critique
-of ‘Roswell:
-Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1
-(1998): 127–140; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel
-Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 13–19; Robert A. Galganski,
-The Roswell Debris Field: An Engineer’s Perspective, Fund for UFO
-Research, 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel
-Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective, September
-19, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1004
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:55 a.m. Newspaper editor John Brackett and his wife Wilma
-see an object streak across the sky in Reno, Nevada, leaving a trail of
-bluish-white vapor. It is high in the sky and traveling at about 1,000
-mph. (“Tiny
-Speck Whizzes
-across Sky Here at Unbelievable Rate of Speed; Many Reno Persons See
-Small Object,” Reno Nevada State Journal, July 8, 1947, p. 14;
-Bloecher, pp. III-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1007
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Flight instructor Kenneth Jones out of Elkhart,
-Wisconsin, is practicing take-offs and landings with a student near
-Koshkonong. They watch a disc descending vertically on edge through the
-alto-cumulus clouds at 6,000 feet, stop at 4,000 feet, assume a
-horizontal orientation, and fly horizontally for 15 seconds, covering 23
-miles at 5,500 mph. At one point it heads straight towards them on a
-course of about 120°, then stops again (apparently overhead) and
-disappears. (Bloecher, p. III-11;
-Sparks, p. 22;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the
-Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental
-Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1008
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A special flight (the first) leaves Roswell AAF
-for Andrews AAF in Washington, D.C. Some of the debris and the bodies
-are on that flight. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1003
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles
-northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (crash)
-Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k
-ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and
-crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner
-Type: anomalous incident
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in
-Spokane area
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Spokane, CA
Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix,
-Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford,
-flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet.
-It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the
-horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer
-flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a
-bright blue-white light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )
-Location: Medford, OR
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 6:29 p.m. An Associated Press story goes out that a Fort
-Worth Army Air Field officer (Newton)
-has identified the Roswell debris as a weather balloon. (Kevin D. Randle
-and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans,
-1994, pp. 46–52, 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1036
Date: 7/8/1947 (approximate)
-Description: British radio and TV entertainer Hughie
-Green is driving across the US. About 250 miles west of
-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he hears an announcement that a flying
-saucer “had crashed in New Mexico and that the Army were moving in to
-investigate. Later the program was interrupted again and quite a few
-details were given.” When he arrives at Philadelphia, there is nothing
-in the newspapers or on the radio. (“Star
-Puzzled,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no 1 (Spring 1955): 3; Clark III
-319; “Hughie
-Green: ‘Peripheral Witness to Roswell?’” Above Top Secret forum,
-October 20, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1027
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Rep. Lyndon
-B. Johnson (D-Tex.) requests information on the flying discs from
-the War Department. Someone from Gen. Carl
-Spaatz’s office writes back on July 21 to tell him the Army Air
-Forces are looking into it, but there is “no indication” that the discs
-are “new or unusual missiles or aircraft.” (Swords 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1026
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: The Army Air Force issues a press release saying that,
-based on a “preliminary study,” the flying discs are not secret
-bacteriological weapons designed by a foreign power, experimental army
-aircraft, or spaceships. However, Army and Navy officials are not
-certain what they are. (“‘Saucer’
-Dept.—All Designs,” Racine (Wis.) Journal Times, July 8, 1947,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1025
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Col. William
-Blanchard dictates a press release about the Roswell recovery to
-Public Information Officer Lt. Walter
-Haut, who
-delivers the release to radio stations around noon (the first apparently
-to Frank Joyce at KGFL) and the newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico.
-(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
-Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1024
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 9:30 a.m.–9:20 p.m. Five separate UFO sightings take place
-at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB] in southern California, the Air Force’s
-aircraft testing and development center. Ruppelt says
-these are the first sightings “that really made the Air Force take a
-deep interest in UFOs.” At 9:30 a.m., 1st Lt. Joseph
-C. McHenry and three others see three discs heading in a westerly
-direction. At 10:10 a.m., XP-84 test pilot Maj. Jowell
-C. Wise sees a yellowish-white object at 10,000 feet traveling about
-200 mph. At 11:50 a.m., Maj. Richard
-R. Shoop, Col. S. A. Gilkey, and Capt. John
-P. Stapp are sitting in an observation truck at Rogers Dry Lake and
-see a round, white aluminum-like object descending from 20,000 feet for
-about 90 seconds; it has two knobs or thick fins on the top. Around 4:00
-p.m., a pilot flying an F-51 some 40 miles south of Muroc sees a “flat
-object of a light-reflecting nature”; it is flying too high for him to
-climb up to it. At 9:20 p.m., spherical objects are again seen in the
-area, this time at 8,000 feet and moving against the wind at 300 mph.
-(NICAP, “Observers
-Sight Saucer over Base”; NICAP, “Object
-Observed by Four Witnesses in Observation”; NICAP, “Object
-Descends to Ground Level, Rises”;
-NICAP, “Flat
-Object with Fin Observed by F-51 Pilot”; Bloecher, pp. III-4,
-12; Clark III 783–784; Sparks, pp. 22–23; Patrick Gross, “The
-Muroc Army Air Field Incidents”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1023
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Cavitt and
-Lewis
-S. Rickett, who
-has returned from an assignment in Carlsbad, New Mexico, drive a staff
-car to the impact site north of Roswell, followed by MPs. They are
-stopped by the guards who are still posted. When they arrive, they see
-that a small containment of debris remains that Rickett is allowed to
-examine. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1022
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 7:30 a.m. The regular 9:00 a.m. Roswell Army Air Field
-staff meeting is moved up 90 minutes. The main topic for discussion is
-Marcel and
-Cavitt reporting
-an extensive debris field near Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico,
-approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell. A preliminary briefing is
-provided by Blanchard about
-the separate impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell.
-Samples of wreckage are passed around the table. Pieces that resemble
-metal foil, paper-thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual
-markings along their length are handed from man to man, each voicing
-their opinion. No one is able to identify the crash debris. (Kevin D.
-Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell,
-Evans, 1994, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1021
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Marcel and
-Cavitt visit
-with Blanchard in
-his quarters and tell him what they have seen. Blanchard calls base
-Provost Marshal Maj. Edwin
-D. Easley and orders him to post guards on the roads around the
-debris field. Armed guards encircle the primary areas, denying access to
-anyone without official business. Easley is directed to locate Brazel and
-have him escort the MPs to the debris field. Blanchard calls Eighth Air
-Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, and advises them of the new
-find. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1020
Date: 7/8/1947
-Time: 9:30 AM PDT
-Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt
-Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time
-while two disc-shaped or spherical objects–silver and apparently
-metallic–flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them later flew a
-tighter circle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Muroc Air Base, California
-ID: 3
Date: 7/8/1947
-Time: 1200
-Description: An Air Force major observed a metallic object, reflecting
-sunlight oscillate, go down to ground level, and rise again.
-Simultaneously it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Muroc Air Field, California
-ID: 60
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force
-captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)
-Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special
-plane to Wright Field
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and
-was recovered near Roswell NM
-Type: teletype
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A, RECOVERY)
-Location: Dallas, TX
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying
-disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this
-office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near
-Roswell, N.M., this date…Information provided this office because of
-national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources)
-attempting to break the story of location of disc today…(the recovered
-disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for
-examination…Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise
-(FBI) results of examination.”
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 7/2/47
-See also: 7/7/47
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein:
-“absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO
-files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to
-a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at
-any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be
-attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of
-the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant
-metal or alloy not yet known.”
-Type: FOIA release
-Reference: Medium
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident
-fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University
-Type: Newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Blanchard decides
-it is time to “go on leave.” Too many phone callers into the base are
-asking to speak with him. He, along with a few members of his staff,
-drive out to the Corona, New Mexico, debris field. Those left at the
-base are told to inform the reporters that the colonel is now on leave.
-(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
-Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167;
-Kevin D. Randle, “When a Leave Is Not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the
-Roswell Timeline,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 18–20; Karl T.
-Pflock, “Taking Liberties with a Leave,” IUR 20, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995):
-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1030
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 5:17 p.m. Special Agent Percy
-Wyly II in the Dallas, Texas, FBI office sends a teletype headed
-“Flying Disc, Information Concerning” to J.
-Edgar Hoover and Strategic Air Command in Cincinnati, Ohio,
-expressing some doubt about the balloon explanation: “telephonic
-conversation between [Eighth Air Force] and Wright Field had not borne
-out this belief. Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by
-special plane for examination.” Wyly receives this information from Maj.
-Edwin M. Kirton at Fort Worth. Roswell mortician Glenn
-Dennis, intrigued by inquiries from the base about small caskets,
-visits the base hospital but is turned away forcibly; a nurse friend
-(possibly 1st Lt. Adeline
-“Eileen” M. Fanton) warns him to leave before he gets into trouble
-and supposedly tells him that three alien bodies had been found. Other
-witnesses to recovered bodies include T/Sgt Ernest
-R. Robbins, Maj.
-Edwin
-D. Easley, Ruben and Pete Anaya, New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Joseph Montoya, Sgt. Melvin
-E. Brown (who says the bodies looked Asian), Capt. Oliver
-“Pappy” W. Henderson,
-Staff Sgt. Robert
-A. Slusher, and Charles
-H. Forgus. ([Wyly’s
-teletype message]; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 168–169; Good Need, pp. 91–93;
-Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air
-Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 10; Nick Redfern, The Roswell
-UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 97–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1035
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 4:30 p.m. The Roswell Daily Record carries the “RAAF
-Captures Flying Saucer” story. In Fort Worth, Texas, Ramey issues
-a statement saying the Roswell officers were fooled and that the
-material is a Rawin target device suspended by a Neoprene rubber
-balloon. (“Rawin” is a method of determining wind speed and direction by
-using radar or radio waves to track a balloon carrying either a
-radar-sensitive target or radio transponder.). The debris is switched
-for the newspaper photographer, James
-Bond Johnson, at a press conference held by Ramey and Col. Thomas
-J. DuBose in late afternoon. Johnson takes six photos of the debris
-and leaves after 20 minutes. One of the photos shows Ramey holding a
-piece of paper (the “Ramey memo”) with words written on it;
-unfortunately, the resolution is inadequate to decisively “deblur” the
-text using modern technological methods. A weather officer, Maj. Irving
-Newton, is
-called in to identify the debris as from a balloon. A photo of Newton
-with the debris is taken by another photographer. (Kevin D. Randle and
-Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans,
-1994, pp. 41–43, 168; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Fort
-Worth, July 8, 1947: The Cover-Up Begins,” IUR 15, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1990): 21–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Fort Worth Press Conference: The J. Bond Johnson Connection,” IUR 15,
-no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1990): 5–16; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell
-Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 8–12, 30; Donald R.
-Burleson, “Deciphering the Ramey Memo,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000):
-3–6, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t
-Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 14–19, 30; James Houran and
-Kevin D. Randle, “Interpreting the Ramey Memo,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer
-2002): 10–14, 26–27; Donald R. Burleson, “On Blobs and Chiaroscuro,” IUR
-27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 24; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “’A Message
-in a Bottle’: Confounds in Deciphering the Ramey Memo from the Roswell
-UFO Case,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 16, no. 1 (2002):
-45–66; Barry Greenwood, “An
-Observation on the Ramey Memo,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 11 (March
-2004): 1–8; James Houran, A
-Search for Meaning in the Ramey Document: From the
-Roswell UFO Case, Fund
-for UFO Research, 2006; Dennis Balthaser, “Interview:
-James Bond Johnson (Roswell
-Wreckage Photographer),” The UFO Chronicles, March 27, 2006; Barry
-Greenwood, “Ramey
-Memo Redux:
-Line 5,” UFO Historical Revue, no 13 (September 2009): 5–19; Kevin
-D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century, The Author, 2016; Nick Redfern,
-The Roswell UFO Conpsiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 232–238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1034
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 4:26 p.m. Thomas Dale is flying a small plane at 2,800 feet
-over Alton, New Hampshire, with passenger Jere Stetson. They see a
-metallic object some 2 miles away to the east and some 1,500 feet below
-their aircraft. It approaches them at great speed before veering to the
-north. They estimate it is 20 feet long and “not exactly round.”
-(Bloecher, p. III-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1033
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 3:50 p.m. An Army National Guard pilot flying near Mount
-Baldy, California, observes a flat object, reflecting light, about the
-size of a fighter. He gives chase, attempting to keep it in sight, but
-is unable to do so. (Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying
-Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell,
-Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,”
-A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1032
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:41 p.m. The press release is put on the United Press
-wire.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1031
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Marcel stops
-at home in Roswell to show his wife Viaud and
-son Jesse
-Jr. some of the Corona, New Mexico, crash debris. Over the next hour
-they examine it on the kitchen floor. Marcel Sr. says it is a flying
-saucer. Marcel is not breaking regulations since nothing has yet been
-classified. With the help of his son, Marcel loads it into the car to be
-taken to Roswell AAF. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166;
-Robert J. Durant, “C. B. Moore’s Mogul Tape,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer
-1998): 7–9, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut
-Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 8–12, 30; Karl T. Pflock, et al.,
-“Debris Details,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1019
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:26 p.m. Haut’s
-press release about the recovered disc reaches the Associated Press
-wire. The story announces: “The army air forces here today announced a
-flying disc had been found” the previous week. It says that the disc is
-recovered by intelligence officers of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell
-Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico, with the help of local ranchers
-and the Chavez County Sheriff’s Office. It adds that the disc is being
-loaned by Maj. Marcel “to
-higher headquarters.” (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1029
Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Marcel goes
-on a B-29 special flight (the second) to Fort Worth Army Air Field,
-Texas, with the wreckage to report to Gen. Roger
-M. Ramey. The pilot is Lt. Col. Payne
-Jennings Jr. with Lt. Col. Robert Barrowclough riding
-in the bombardier’s seat. Only a few packages are loaded onto the plane.
-One, a triangular package about two feet long, is wrapped in brown
-paper. The other three are about the size of shoe boxes. They are so
-light that it feels as if there is nothing in them. When it lands in
-Fort Worth, the enlisted soldiers on the plane are ordered to remain
-aboard until a guard is posted and Marcel gets off taking one of the
-packages that he has been carrying on his lap. According to Flight
-Engineer M/Sgt. Robert
-Porter, the soldiers go to the mess hall once the guard is posted.
-The remaining debris is transferred to a B-25 that is flying to Wright
-Field in Dayton, Ohio. Marcel goes to Ramey’s office and puts the
-package on his desk. They both go to a map room, where Marcel shows him
-where the debris was found. When they return to Ramey’s office, Marcel
-sees that the package he brought has been substituted by a torn-up
-weather balloon. Ramey proposes a plan that possibly originates from his
-bosses at the Pentagon. Attention needs to be diverted from the more
-important impact site north of Roswell by acknowledging the Corona
-location. Too many civilians are involved, and the press is already
-alerted. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 167–168;
-Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Flight to Fort Worth: From
-Complicity to Cover-Up,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 7–13, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1028
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: Brig. Gen. George
-F. Schulgen, chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army
-Air Force Intelligence, requests FBI help with the problem of the flying
-discs from Special Agent S.
-Wesley Reynolds. Army intelligence claims they are not Army or Navy
-craft. He says that Air Corps Intelligence is utilizing all its
-scientists to study the cases to see whether they are natural or
-artificial or inspired by “individuals of Communist sympathies with the
-view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.” (E. G.
-Fitch, [FBI
-memo], July 10, 1947; ClearIntent, p. 148;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July
-7th–July 10th,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1051
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 12:50 p.m. Vandenberg and
-Symington meet
-with the Joint Chiefs.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1046
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Doolittle,
-Vandenberg, and
-Symington meet
-in the office of Army Chief of Staff Dwight
-D. Eisenhower. Maj.
-Gen. Lauris
-Norstad, director of the Plans and Operations Department, is also
-present. (Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset,
-2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1044
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Constable Eric Kearsey sees four yellowish discs
-flying in close formation above Grand Falls, Newfoundland. He calls
-other people to watch them as well. They are moving at high speed to the
-east with a dipping motion. At 11:40 p.m., an egg-shaped object “the
-size of a barrel head” passes overhead in the same direction.
-(St. John’s (Newf.) Evening Telegram, July 9, 1947; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2001, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1053
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Electrician Raymond Edward Lane and
-his wife are picking huckleberries near Midland, Michigan, when they
-hear a kind of “puff” noise nearby. Looking up, they see a ball of
-white, sparkling fire, like a Fourth of July sparkler, about the size of
-a bushel basket, no more than 100 feet away. It is hovering several feet
-above a stretch of sand. After about 10 or 15 seconds, the light goes
-out and the object vanishes. The only thing that remains is a peculiar
-dark substance on the sand and some metallic fragments. Lane collects
-fragments of the material in a tin can and brings them the next morning
-to Robert S. Spencer, a senior researcher at the Dow Chemical Company
-materials research laboratory in Midland. Spencer goes to the site with
-Lane and Dow’s internal security chief Edward Fales. Spencer has the Dow
-spectroscopy laboratory analyze the fragments and reports that the shiny
-pellets are largely silver mixed with a bit of silicon. They conclude
-that it consists of fused sand. By the end of September, the lab has
-analyzed ashlike powder found at the site. It turns out to be thorite
-that is slightly radioactive, mixed with magnesium hydroxide and other
-trace minerals. The conclusion is that the sighting is the result of
-some kind of home-made fireworks experiment, although Dow chemist John
-Josef Grebe suspects it might have been a small missile. (NICAP, “Object
-Hovers over Sand”; Bloecher, pp. IV-2–3;
-Joel Carpenter, “The
-Midland Fireball: Dow Chemical, UFOs, and Evidence,” IUR 23, no. 3
-(Fall 1998): 28–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1052
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: RAAF officers locate Mack
-Brazel and take him to the base for questioning, then to the Roswell
-Daily Record and radio station KGPL for a revised, sanitized version of
-his story, this time saying he found the debris on June 14. Copies of Haut’s
-original press release are recovered. Three fully loaded C-54’s carry
-debris to Los Alamos, New Mexico, via Kirtland AFB, according to Robert
-E. Smith, First Air Transport Unit. A crate allegedly carrying alien
-bodies is flown from Roswell to Fort Worth in a B-29, according to Staff
-Sgt. Robert
-A. Slusher, who says he was on board. (Don Schmitt and Kevin D.
-Randle, “Roswell, July 9, 1947,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 4–6,
-23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash
-at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 53–58, 169–171;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995):
-3–5, 24; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel
-Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 13–19; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie
-Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective,
-September 19, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1038
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: Late afternoon. 1Lt Chester
-P. Barton, stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, is
-sent by Maj. Edwin
-D. Easley to go to the crash site and report back to him about what
-is going on. He gets no closer than about 50 feet from the wreckage,
-which appears to have burned. He is convinced it is the remains of a
-B-29 bomber. He remains at the site for about 90 minutes then reports
-back to Easley. (Joseph Stefula, “The Roswell Testimony of Chester P.
-Barton,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 21–23, 29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1050
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 4:17 p.m. Vandenberg meets
-with Maj. Gen. Emmett
-O’Donnell Jr., director of information for the Army Air Force.
-(Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1049
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Vandenberg and
-Symington meet
-again.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1048
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 12:17 p.m. Idaho Statesman aviation editor and former B-29
-pilot David
-N. Johnson, flying
-in an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 Texan, sees a black object standing
-out against the clouds as he prepares to land at Gowen Field [now Boise
-Airport], Boise, Idaho. Johnson takes 10 seconds of 8mm motion-picture
-film (but it shows no trace of the object). It makes a slow roll, then
-makes a stair-step climb, then disappears into the clouds. (NICAP, “AT-6
-Encounters Black Disc”; Bloecher, pp. III-12–13;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author,
-2001, pp. 39–43, 55; Sparks,
-p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1047
Date: 7/9/1947
-Time: 12:17 PM PDT
-Description: Witness: Idaho statesman aviation editor and former (AAF)
-B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. Watched for more than 10 seconds from an Idaho
-Air National Guard AT-6 while a black disc, which stood out against the
-clouds, made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Meridian, Idaho
-ID: 4
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 10:30 a.m. President Truman meets
-with Sen. Carl
-Hatch (D-N.Mex.).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1042
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: The FBI interviews Capt. Emil J. Smith and copilot Ralph
-Stevens at Boise (Idaho) Municipal Airport about their July 4 sighting.
-(ClearIntent, p. 151;
-Good Above, pp. 253–254)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1039
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 1:00 a.m. William Valetta sees 5–6 domed discs streaking
-eastward as he stands outside his house at 4328 South Emerald Avenue in
-Chicago, Illinois. They make a swishing noise and he sees a blue flame
-underneath each of them. Smoke seems to be coming from the tops.
-(Bloecher, pp. II-13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1037
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: US Sen. Glen
-H. Taylor (D-Idaho) says he hopes the saucers will turn out to be
-space ships from another planet, whose hostility might end all our
-“petty arguments on earth.” (“‘Can’t
-Laugh Off Saucers,’ Says Senator,” Boston Globe, July 9, 1947,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1040
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: The US Army Air Force issues classified orders requiring
-reports of any “saucer-like” objects to be investigated and passed on to
-T-2 Technical Intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, with summaries sent to
-the Pentagon. However, most of the early cases still go directly to the
-Air Force Office of Intelligence at the Pentagon. (Michael David Hall
-and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind
-Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1041
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart
-Symington meets with Lt. Gen. James
-Doolittle and Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg. The
-conversation is presumably about the flying discs. (Donald R. Schmitt,
-UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1043
Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 11:58 a.m. Vandenberg calls
-President Truman.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1045
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air
-Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to
-determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they
-are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the
-assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who
-first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has
-been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or
-Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p148)
-Reference: link
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude
-(Early yaw led to termination at 32s.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 16.25km
Date: 7/10/1947
-Time: Between 3 and 5 PM local time
-Description: Witnesses: three ground crewmen, including Mr. Leidy, for
-Pan American Airways. Watched briefly while one translucent disc- or
-wheel-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail and then
-ascended and cut a path through the clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 5
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J.
-Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10
-months, 21 days old.
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: Roswell debris and bodies have been flown from Fort Worth
-to Wright Field, according to future Brig. Gen. Arthur
-Exon, then
-stationed at Wright Field, Ohio, who says that a special unit is created
-to study them. The story is slightly corroborated by Jack
-G. Tiffany Jr., whose father Jack
-G. Tiffany Sr. is one of the crew members that flies debris from
-Fort Worth to Dayton. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth
-about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 61–66;
-Thomas J. Carey and Donald J. Schmitt, Inside the Real Area 51, New
-Page, 2013, pp. 165–175; Nukes 483–486)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1055
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: FBI agent E. G. Fitch forwards Schulgen’s
-request to Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D.
-Milton “Mickey”
-Ladd at FBI headquarters in a memo titled “Flying Disks.” Ladd adds
-a note saying that the “Bureau does not believe it should go into these
-investigations” because many cases are “pranks.” Associate FBI Director
-Clyde
-Tolson adds, “I think we should do this,” while J.
-Edgar Hoover writes, “I would do it but before agreeing to it we
-must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the La.
-Case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory
-examination.” (E. G. Fitch, [FBI
-memo], July 10, 1947; RosRept, pp. 25– 26;
-Good Above, p. 541;
-Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Hoover Memo Again,” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1054
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 10:00 a.m. John
-H. Janssen, aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, takes a
-photo of four luminous objects as he is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at
-10,000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey. Three of the objects are
-silvery white, while the fourth is a dull metallic color. (“‘Flying
-Saucers’ Invade Morristown; 4 Discs Photographed
-near Airport,” Paterson (N.J.) Evening News, July 11, 1947, p. 10;
-NICAP, “07-10-1947
-USA, New
-Jersey, Morristown”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1056
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Lt. Gen. Curtis
-LeMay, deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at the
-Pentagon, meets with Vandenberg, Maj.
-Gen. Leslie
-Groves, and Lt. Gen. Robert
-Miller Montague.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1057
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Three civilian airline mechanics (John N. Mehrman
-Jr., Robert Leidy, and John E. Woodruff) at Ernest Harmon AFB [now
-Stephenville International Airport] are returning from a fishing trip
-and driving up a mountain road near Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland.
-They see a bluish-black exhaust trail that has cut through some clouds
-leaving a “hole.” Woodruff sees a disc-shaped object the apparent size
-of a C-54 transport plane coming out of the clouds and traveling at a
-terrific rate of speed. The hole remains in the cloud for more than an
-hour. Leidy takes two Kodachrome photos of the exhaust trail. The
-sighting later impresses Project Sign personnel to the extent that they
-ask questions about UFO effects on clouds. (NICAP, “Harmon
-Field Photo”; Sparks, p. 24;
-Michael D. Swords, “Can
-You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July
-5, 2012; Swords 38–39; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, pp. 44– 45;
-Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34,
-no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 8–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian
-UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 49–50; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s
-UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 167, 264–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1062
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: Mac Brazel is still being held at a guest house on the
-Roswell, New Mexico, base. The officers try to convince him not to say
-anything about what he has seen. They also try to prevent him talking to
-reporters. He is given a physical by doctors at the base hospital.
-(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at
-Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1063
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 4:47 p.m. University of New Mexico astronomer Lincoln
-LaPaz, his
-wife Leota, and two daughters, Jean and Mary, are driving west on
-Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when they see a sharply
-outlined, white ellipsoidal object wobbling in the sky to the west about
-25 miles away. They watch it for about 30 seconds, then it disappears
-behind a cloud, but reappears 5 seconds later further to the right. He
-estimates its size as 245 feet long and 100 feet thick at the maximum,
-with a horizontal speed of 120–180 mph and a vertical speed of 600–900
-mph. It moves silently with no vapor trail. It resembles no known
-aircraft. (NICAP, “200ʹ
-Ellipsoidal Object Sighted
-by La Paz Family”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
-We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 84; Bloecher, p. III-19;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July
-7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 58; Sparks,
-p. 24; James E. McDonald, “Statement on
-Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1061
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 4:25 p.m. A V-2 launch is aborted at White Sands Proving
-Ground, New Mexico, after 32 seconds due to an early yaw. Gen. Gen. Nathan
-Twining stops at White Sands before returning to Wright Field,
-Ohio.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1060
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 2:40 p.m. Secretary of War Robert
-P. Patterson meets with Groves and
-Montague.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1059
Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Doolittle and
-Vandenberg meet
-with Truman.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1058
Date: 7/11/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAAF Col. Bruce
-H. Perry and Maj. William
-E. Geyser, 59th AACS Group, see a round 2–3 foot or 10-foot aluminum
-or silver-metallic sphere traveling at great speed to the south of
-Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska.
-Estimated altitude is 3,000–4,000 feet. (NICAP, “Round
-3ʹ Aluminum
-Object at Great Speed”; Sparks,
-p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1065
Date: 7/11/1947
-Description: Debriefings of all military participants in the debris
-recovery operation take place. They are taken into a room in small
-groups and told that the recovery is highly classified and not to talk
-about it. Military personnel warn civilians around Roswell, New Mexico,
-that they are not to talk about what happened. (Kevin D. Randle and
-Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans,
-1994, pp. 72–76,
-172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1064
Date: 7/11/1947
-Description: A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a
-visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that
-the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in
-Germany was coming here.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: Kenneth
-Arnold is interviewed at the Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho, by Lt. Frank
-M. Brown and Capt. William
-L.
-Davidson, who
-have flown in from Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato,
-California. He also submits a written statement to Army Air Force
-intelligence, referring to the objects as “saucer-like.” At the end of
-the report he draws a picture of what the objects appeared to look like
-at their closest approach to Mt. Rainier, Washington. He writes, “They
-seemed longer than wide, their thickness was about 1/20th their width.”
-As to motion, Arnold writes, “They flew like many times I have observed
-geese to fly in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked
-together.” (James Easton suggests in 2007 that Arnold may have seen
-pelicans, based on their movements, but this seems unlikely.) While they
-are at Arnold’s house, Brown and Davidson hear that pilot Emil J. Smith
-is in Boise on a layover, and all three go to the airport to talk to
-him. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer,
-1952, pp. 21–23; Kenneth Arnold, “Confidential,”
-Project 1947; Frank M. Brown, “Memorandum
-for the Officer in Charge,” July 16, 1947; James Easton, “Kenneth
-Arnold and the
-Pelicans,” UFO Conjectures, April 4, 2007; Martin Shough, “The
-Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,”
-June 2010; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding:
-New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter
-1998): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1066
Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: The FBI conducts a shorter follow-up interview with
-Capt. Emil J. Smith. (ClearIntent, p. 153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1067
Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Seamen John C. Kennedy and Ben Bobberly are on
-duty at Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point [now closed and
-redeveloped as Magnuson Park], Seattle, Washington. They notice a
-silvery disc-shaped object flying overhead to the east at 12,000 feet.
-At about the same time, Arnold
-Bergh and James Calahan watch three silvery discs flying quickly
-north from their location near North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in
-Seattle. (Bloecher, p. III-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1069
Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why
-the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed
-these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my
-airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a
-completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).”
-Type: declassified statement
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-G, p16)
Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast
-on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July
-17th, or the 24th)
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: 6:30 p.m. USAAF Maj. Edward Graham and others at Elmendorf
-AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska, see a
-balloon-like grayish object, 10 feet long, flying northwest at 100 mph
-at an altitude of 1,500 feet and following the contour of mountains 5
-miles away. It is paralleling the course of a landing C-47. (Sparks, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1068
Date: 7/13/1947
-Description: 5:48 p.m. Warren
-Baker Eames is driving with his wife Alice on
-State Highway 2 near Gardner, Massachusetts, when they see a large,
-silvery, disc-shaped object in the sky ahead, moving west. As they
-watch, its nearest edge dips down toward them and it accelerates in a
-sudden burst of speed to the west-northwest. (Bloecher, p. III-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1070
Date: Mid 7/1947
-Description: In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he
-stated: “…the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers
-were real and not manmade…the technology represented by the (recovered)
-disc…was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood
-immediately…Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a
-military secret. This would mean containing all information about it
-within some small group.”
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 1/31/49
Date: 7/15/1947
-Description: Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar
-Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”…before agreeing (to the
-investigation of crashed saucers)…we must insist upon full access to
-discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army
-grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E, p541, RECOVERY)
Date: 7/15/1947
-Description: Mack
-Brazel is returned home after an extensive interrogation at Roswell
-AAF, New Mexico. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about
-the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1071
Date: 7/15/1947
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Col. Frank
-A. Flynn is flying a Vultee BT-13 Valiant over Concord, California,
-when a group of 12–15 objects approaches and passes him. At first he
-takes them for birds, but he can see no necks or wings and they are
-moving in excess of 200 mph. They are moving in a see-saw fashion at
-three different altitudes about 200 feet apart, and they appear to be
-about 15 feet across, white on the top and gray and black on the bottom.
-At their closest point, they are about one mile away. Flynn turns his
-plane around to pursue them, but they outdistance him quickly.
-(Bloecher, p. III-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1072
Date: 7/16/1947
-Description: An initial report on the Ernest Harmon AFB case in
-Newfoundland is written up by a base intelligence officer. (Michael
-David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the
-Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1073
Date: 7/19/1947
-Description: The antiaircraft command base of the Chinese Nationalist
-Government Air Force spots a UFO over Lanzhou City, Gansu, China. It is
-50 feet long and has an apparent rudder and two jet pipes in the back.
-About 8:00 p.m., witnesses in Gansu province watch a red object cross
-the sky in 2 seconds. (Paul Dong, The Four Major Mysteries of Mainland
-China, Prentice-Hall, 1984, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1074
Date: 7/21/1947
-Description: Life magazine publishes a pictorial news story on the
-flying discs. (“Speaking
-of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks
-Breaks Out over the U.S.,” Life, July 21, 1947, pp. 14–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1076
Date: 7/21/1947
-Description: A more detailed report on the Ernest Harmon AFB incident is
-sent to the Pentagon. (Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred
-Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4
-(Winter 1998): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1075
Date: 7/22/1947
-Description: Ray
-Palmer writes to Kenneth
-Arnold and tells him about the Maury Island, Washington, case,
-asking him to look into it. (Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry
-into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of
-Investigation, 1947”;
-Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952,
-p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1077
Date: 7/23/1947
-Description: José C. Higgens and some assistants are surveying a field
-in Campina do Amoral in the Colônia Goio-Bang, located between Luiziana
-and Mamboré, Paraná, Brazil. On hearing a sharp sound, they see a
-grayish-white disc- shaped object about 100 feet in diameter, which soon
-lands and rests on curved metal feet. His assistants flee, but Higgens
-goes up to examine it. He sees a small, glass window, then two
-odd-looking beings observing him curiously. A door opens in the craft,
-and three other hairless beings dressed in transparent overalls. They
-have large, round eyes with eyebrows and pronounced eyelashes. Their
-legs are disproportionately long and they are about 7 feet tall. One
-points a small tube at Higgens. They are speaking in an unknown,
-sonorous language. He walks toward the door and can see only a small
-cubicle, bordered by another door, and several portholes. Higgens by
-gestures asks where they are from and the leader draws a map in the
-dirt, indicating a seventh planet, presumably Uranus. He eludes them by
-pretending to look for his wife and goes into a hidden spot in the
-woods. After 30 minutes the beings climb into the object and take off.
-(Wikipedia, “Caso
-José Higgens”; Clark III 576– 577; Brazil 21–23; Mark Cashman,
-“Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1
-(Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1079
Date: 7/23/1947
-Description: Day. John
-H. Janssen, aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, is
-flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 6,000 feet near the Morristown Airport in
-New Jersey. He sees a flash of light, the engine gives out, and the
-plane seems to be motionless. Then he sees two UFOs (this time with
-portholes) and manages to get the propeller going again. This is one of
-the first cases of “vehicle interference” UFO cases involving an
-airplane. (NICAP, “07-10-1947 USA,
-New Jersey, Morristown”; John H. Janssen, “My Encounter with Flying
-Disks,” Fate 2, no. 3 (September 1949): 12–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1078
Date: 7/23/1947
-Description: A group of survey workers ran away as they heard a hissing
-noise and saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures
-through, a window. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent
-suits, with oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or
-eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They
-were over 2 m. tall. They drew the solar system and pointed to Uranus as
-if to suggest that was their point of origin.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 163; FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil
-ID: 61
Date: 7/24/1947
-Description: Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The
-Immediate Need for World Law”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 7/25/1947
-Description: Day. Leonard Robertson is riding his motorcycle northeast
-of Dumas, Texas, when he sees a flash of light to his left. An oval
-object like a bubble is floating over a field about one mile away.
-Suddenly the object explodes, so Robertson takes a side road to the
-field where he retrieves a piece of metal “lighter than aluminum foil”
-about 30 inches long and 24 inches wide. There are two small holes in it
-and the center seems to be burned. (“Perryton Man
-Displays Proof of Saucer Story,” Amarillo (Tex.) Daily News, August
-6, 1947, p. 1; “Salvage
-from Mystery Blast,”
-Amarillo (Tex.) Daily News, August 9, 1947, p. 5; Curt Collins, “The
-Texas UFO Crash Debris Photo from July
-1947,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 21, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1082
Date: 7/25/1947
-Description: A memorandum over the signature of Maj. Lester
-M. Garrigues states that by order of Col. Blanchard,
-the nine men who had been assigned duties in the recovery of the
-Roswell, New Mexico, crash are relieved from duty on that project.
-However, it is now largely considered a forgery by Frank
-Kaufmann. Garrigues has assumed duties in China prior to this and is
-no longer in Roswell. (Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell
-Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank
-Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1081
Date: 7/25/1947
-Description: Intelligence agents from the Fourth Air Force, Lt. Frank
-M. Brown and Capt. William
-L. Davidson, visit
-Kenneth
-Arnold in Boise, Idaho, and tell him to contact them if he runs
-across any interesting UFO evidence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1080
Date: 7/26/1947
-Description: President Truman signs
-the National Security Act, a major restructuring of the military and
-intelligence agencies. It creates a unified National Military
-Establishment (Army and Navy) and a Department of the Air Force, both
-under the new Secretary of Defense. The Joint Research and Development
-Board becomes the R&D brain center. Each of the three service
-secretaries maintains quasi-cabinet status. It establishes the National
-Security Council to advise the president and the Central Intelligence
-Agency, the first peacetime intelligence agency in the US. The CIA is
-prohibited from conducting domestic surveillance, but Allen
-Dulles ensures it can handle “other functions” affecting “national
-security” without scrutiny from Congress or (sometimes) the president.
-Much of the CIA’s funding initially comes from wealthy Americans. The
-act creates the first black military and intelligence budget.
-(Wikipedia, “National
-Security Act of 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1083
Date: 7/27/1947
-Description: Capt. Davidson and
-Lt. Brown interview
-Richard Rankin. The FBI finds that the CIC agents have also interviewed
-Kenneth
-Arnold, Capt. Emil
-J. Smith, Flight Officer Ralph Stevens, and Boise Stateman Editor David
-N.
-Johnson about their UFO sightings. Leverett
-G. Richards, aviation
-editor of the Portland Oregonian, informs the FBI of this information.
-He also calls Lieut. Gen. Nathan
-Twining, who leaves “the impression that the AAF instituted this
-investigation to wash out the disc reports since they are definitely not
-of AAF origin.” (Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14,
-1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1085
Date: 7/27/1947
-Description: Ray
-Palmer wires Kenneth
-Arnold $200 to investigate the Maury Island, Washington, case.
-(Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer,
-pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1084
Date: 7/28/1947
-Description: 8:34 p.m. Capt. Charles F. Gibian and First Officer Jack
-Harvey are piloting United Air Lines Flight 105 and descending above
-Mountain Home, Idaho, in preparation for landing in Boise. Harvey sees
-an object that seems to be another aircraft ahead of them and to the
-south, but it rapidly moves to the northwest in a weaving fashion,
-diminishing in size and vanishing from view. (“United
-Air Lines Crew Reports Sighting Flying
-Saucer between Mountain
-Home and Boise,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947,
-pp. 1–2; Bloecher, pp. III-13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1087
Date: 7/28/1947
-Description: After assessing the Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland,
-report, Gen. Schulgen orders
-Col. Howard
-M. McCoy, deputy
-commander of T-2 intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, to send a top-level
-assessment team (possibly Alfred
-Loedding or Col. William
-R. Clingerman Jr.) to Stephenville “immediately” and report directly
-to the Pentagon afterwards. McCoy suspects German or Russian technology.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 33–34; Swords 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1086
Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: 6:55 a.m. Kenneth
-Arnold is flying to Tacoma, Washington, to investigate the Maury
-Island mystery. As he is over Union, Oregon, preparing to land at La
-Grande to refuel, he sees a cluster of 25 small (24–30 inches) brass-
-colored discs with a spot in the middle moving at a terrific speed. They
-come within 1,200 feet of his aircraft before veering away. At La
-Grande, he phones aviation editor David
-N. Johnson about his sighting, then reaches Tacoma at dusk. He gets
-a room (502) at the Winthrop Hotel, where a room and a bath have already
-been mysteriously reserved for him. Harold
-A. Dahl visits Arnold that night, then takes him to Fred
-Crisman’s place to see some Maury Island fragments. Arnold thinks it
-looks like lava. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the
-Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 25–38; Bloecher, pp. I-15–16, III-14;
-Clark III 720–721)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1089
Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: A memo from FBI agent E. G. Fitch says that Special Agent
-Reynolds has
-met with Gen. Schulgen again,
-who assures him that “all discs recovered would be made available for
-the examination by the FBI agents.” (ClearIntent, pp. 149–150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1088
Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: 2:50 p.m. Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William
-H. Ryherd and ex-AAF B-29 pilot 1Lt Ward Stewart see two round,
-shiny, white objects near Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato,
-California. The objects are 15–25 feet in diameter and are flying at
-about 750 mph at an altitude of 6,000–10,000 feet heading south. One
-object flies straight and level; the other weaves from side-to-side like
-an escort fighter. (Bloecher, p. III-5; Sparks, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1090
Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury
-Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for
-analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl
-leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern
-Oregon area.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Medium
Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude
-(Near vertical trajectory.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 160.7km
Date: 7/29/1947
-Time: 2:50 PM PDT
-Description: Witnesses: Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William
-Rhyerd, ex-AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Watched for unknown length of
-time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot
-diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight.
-One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side
-like an escort fighter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hamilton Air Base, California
-ID: 6
Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: Arnold calls
-United Airlines pilot Capt. Emil J. Smith and asks him to come listen to
-the Maury Island, Washington, story. Smith arrives in Tacoma in the
-afternoon and cross-examines Dahl and
-Crisman.
-Smith stays with Arnold at the Winthrop Hotel. Journalist Ted
-Morello of United Press calls Arnold and says that a crackpot has
-been calling him, explaining everything that is going on in the hotel
-room, including conversations with Smith when they are alone. They try
-but fail to locate a listening device in the room. (Kenneth Arnold and
-Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 38–46; Clark
-III 721)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1091
Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: The FBI issues a policy statement on “Flying Discs,” saying
-that sightings should be investigated to see whether an “individual
-might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria, or
-playing a prank.” (“Flying Disks,” Section B, Bureau Bulletin no. 42,
-Series 1947, in Black Vault FBI documents compilation, p. 48;
-ClearIntent, p. 150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1092
Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: A memo with the subject line, “Recovery ‘Flying Discs,’”
-purportedly written by Maj. Edwin
-D. Easley, acknowledges that the Roswell, New Mexico, crash could
-“represent an interplanetary craft of some kind.” However, it is now
-largely considered a forgery by Frank
-Kaufmann. (Kevin
-D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002):
-8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall
-2002): 9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1093
Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: The Garrett Estimate, an Air Force Base Intelligence Report
-on “Flying Discs”—an informal estimate of the situation based on 16
-reports selected by Collections Officer Lt. Col. George
-D. Garrett—says that the “flying saucer situation is not all
-imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is
-really flying around.” Also, “Lack of topside inquiries . . . give more
-than ordinary weight to the possibility that this is a domestic project,
-about which the President, etc., know.” The study is passed up the line
-to Gen. George
-Schulgen and Hoover at
-the FBI for comment, subtly indicating that investigating a domestic
-project is a waste of time. (Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying
-Discs,” July 30, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
-Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 32–33, 57–61; Swords 39,
-474–475; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, Nathan
-Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October 6,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1094
Date: 7/31/1947
-Description: Crisman and
-Dahl bring
-heavy fragments and white metal from the Maury Island case to the
-Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington. They cannot locate the
-photos. Arnold calls
-Brown and
-Davidson at
-Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California. They quickly depart for
-Tacoma. Morello calls
-Arnold and says his informant knows that Brown and Davidson are on their
-way in a B-25. They arrive in the late afternoon. The five men talk
-until 11:00 p.m., when Crisman offers to go home and get more Maury
-Island fragments. He returns with slightly different, more slag-like
-rock stuffed in a large cereal box, which is loaded into Brown’s army
-vehicle. Brown and Davidson leave to go back to Hamilton for Air Force
-Day the next day. Morello calls again and says his informant told him
-everything about what has just taken place. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray
-Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 46–57; [FBI
-teletype, August 6, 1947], pp. 87–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1095
Date: 7/31/1947
-Description: Capt. Edward
-Ruppelt: “By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was down
-tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air
-Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you
-inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the
-U.S.’s atomic arsenal. . . [At T-2 there was] confusion almost to the
-point of panic.” (Ruppelt, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1096
Date: 8/1947
-Description: T-2 Intelligence and Army Air Force Intelligence hold
-meetings over the next two months and prepare documents requesting an
-authorized project to investigate UFOs, per General LeMay’s
-1946 instructions.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1098
Date: 8/1947
-Description: USAF fighter pilot W. Boyce sees a hovering disc above
-Media, Pennsylvania. (UFOEv, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1097
Date: 8/1947
-Description: The Air Materiel Command headquarters replaces T-2
-Intelligence with the Technical Intelligence Department, tasked with
-producing reports and estimates on foreign air weapons. It begins to
-develop a photoanalysis capability.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1099
Date: 8/1947
-Description: The Denver Post runs a story that claims the military is
-building a secret base consisting of huge caverns for atomic weapons
-defense purposes. The article says the new base is in the Manzano
-Mountains southeast of Sandia Base, New Mexico. The military responds by
-issuing a statement that operations and construction near Sandia Base
-are top secret. In fact, however, the Armed Forces Special Weapons
-Project is building one of several bases around the country that will be
-used for nuclear weapons storage. The AFSWP code-names the base “Site
-Able.” (Wikipedia, “Sandia
-Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1100
Date: 8/1/1947
-Description: A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold
-Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-link
Date: 8/1/1947
-Description: Brown and
-Davidson make
-a stop at McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, to speak with
-intelligence officer Maj. George
-Sander, then
-board the B-25 for Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato,
-California. It explodes and crashes near Kelso, Washington, at 1:30
-a.m., 20 minutes after taking off, when the left engine catches fire. An
-army hitchhiker and engineer parachute to safety. Brown and Davidson
-fail to signal distress or bail out. After hearing the news, Arnold calls
-Palmer and
-offers to return his money. Palmer says to just mail him some fragments.
-Arnold and Smith visit Morello and
-Dahl and
-Crisman.
-They talk to Tacoma Times reporter Paul Lantz in
-the hotel lobby, who writes the article “Sabotage Hinted in Crash of
-Army Bomber at Kelso.” Debris from the crash is not discovered until
-2007. (“Air Force Day Marred As B-26 Crashes Here,” Longview (Wash.)
-Daily News, August 1, 1947, p. 1; “‘Flying
-Saucers’ Figure in Two
-Air Crash Deaths,” Galveston (Tex.) Daily News, August 3, 1947,
-pp. 1, 5; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers,
-Palmer, 1952, pp. 57–72; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “The
-Maury Island UFO Incident,” February 2014; Leslie Slape, “Marker
-Placed near Kelso to Honor Pilots in ’47 Crash,” Longview (Wash.)
-Daily News, August 3, 2007, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1101
Date: 8/3/1947
-Description: Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying
-‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported
-to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Medium
Date: 8/3/1947
-Description: Smith contacts Maj. Sander, who
-relieves Arnold and
-Smith of all their fragments. He shows them a smelting lot where he
-finds similar pieces of slag. Smith and Arnold check out of the Winthrop
-Hotel in Tacoma, Washington. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming
-of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 73–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1102
Date: 8/4/1947
-Description: Pilots Capt. Jack Peck and
-Vince Daly see a smooth UFO northwest of Bethel, Alaska, dead ahead as
-they are flying a DC-3 for Al Jones Flying Service. Peck hauls back on
-his controls to bring his plane up to safer altitude. Now 1,000 feet
-higher, the pilots glance downward and spot the UFO closer but on a
-changed course. Still dark against the sky, it looks to be as large as a
-C-54. Intrigued, Peck dives on the object as it pulls away, doing his
-best to get a better view, but it speeds up to an estimated 500 mph and
-is lost to view in four minutes. (NICAP, “Smooth
-Black Object Crosses Path of DC-3”; Harold D. Johnston, “Matters
-of National Interest,” August 5, 1947; Sparks,
-p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1103
Date: 8/6/1947
-Description: An FBI memo from E. G. Fitch to D.
-Milton Ladd identifies either Brown or
-Davidson as
-a CIC agent on a top secret mission. (Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry
-into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
-1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1104
Date: 8/7/1947
-Description: The Seattle, Washington, FBI office interrogates Crisman and
-Dahl and
-announces the Maury Island incident is a hoax. The FBI file notes that
-Dahl stated that “if questioned by the authorities he was going to say
-it was a hoax because he did not want any further trouble over the
-matter.” Dahl’s daughter Louise admits in 2007 that the whole story was
-made up, as did her brother Charles in the late 1960s, who called
-Crisman a “smooth-talking con artist.” The affair had started as a joke
-and blossomed into something worse. Associated Press reporter Elmer
-Vogel says that Dahl’s wife had compelled him to tell Vogel the truth.
-Morello also
-speaks to Crisman, who admits the story is baseless. (Clark III 721;
-Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952,
-pp. 105–111; Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry
-into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
-1947”; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy,
-IllumiNet, 1999; Anthony Bragalia, “Maury
-Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!” UFO Digest, July 8,
-2010; Brian J. Robb, “Conspiracy Central: The Life and Lies of Fred Lee
-Crisman,” Fortean Times 355 (July 2017): 32–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1105
Date: 8/8/1947
-Description: Lt. Col. Donald
-L. Springer,
-assistant chief of staff for army intelligence at the Fourth Air Force,
-who has just returned to Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato,
-California, from Tacoma, Washington, says “there is not sufficient
-evidence or testimony available to this headquarters to conclude whether
-or not the reports of so- called flying disks in the Tacoma area or any
-other area have any basis of fact.” He adds that the Maury Island crash
-“did not occur.” (“Fourth
-Air Force Drops Disc Inquiry; Search Held Futile,” San Francisco
-Examiner, August 9, 1947, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1106
Date: 8/9/1947
-Description: John
-Derry, serving
-as acting general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, proposes a
-set of guidelines that restate the proposition that secrecy can be based
-on reasons other than national security. The definition of Confidential
-that he proposes goes beyond the Army and Manhattan Project rules:
-“CONFIDENTIAL: Documents, information or material, the unauthorized
-disclosure of which, while not endangering the National security, would
-be prejudicial to the interests or prestige of the Nation or any
-Governmental activity, or individual, or would cause administrative
-embarrassment, or be of advantage to a foreign nation shall be
-classified CONFIDENTIAL.” The Derry memo calls for review by a
-classification board assembled from the AEC’s regional sites. In
-September, this board assembles in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The available
-documentation does not show that Derry’s proposed rules go into effect,
-but it does show that the Classification Board blesses the illustrations
-of matter that “should be graded” Secret or Confidential. The former
-category includes “certain selected human administration experiments
-performed under MED [Manhattan Engineer District].” (US Advisory
-Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, “Final Report,” October 1995,
-chapter
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1107
Date: 8/13/1947
-Time: 1300
-Description: Two boys and their father saw a sky-blue object 100 m away
-and 25 m above ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although
-the object itself did not spin. It made a swishing sound. Shape:
-inverted plate, 7 m diameter and 3.5 m thick. There was a red flame on
-one side of the top.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho
-ID: 62
Date: 8/13/1947
-Description: The San Francisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau hears a
-rumor from a US intelligence source that Soviet agents have been ordered
-to solve the mystery of flying saucers. It reports that the Kremlin
-believes that the discs are connected with Army experiments in
-anti-radar weaponry. (San Francisco (Calif.) Examiner, August 14, 1947,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1109
Date: 8/13/1947
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Albert
-Clarence Urie and his two sons Billy and
-Kenneth see a straw hat–shaped, sky-blue object about 10 wide, 10 feet
-high, and 20 feet long. It has “pods” on the side emitting flames and is
-flying along the Snake River Canyon six miles west of Blue Lakes Ranch
-near Twin Falls, Idaho. The UFO is moving up and down towards them at
-1,000 mph and an altitude of 75 feet about 1/2 mile away. Urie is about
-300 feet from the object, which is about level with him and silhouetted
-against the canyon wall. It disappears behind a hill about one mile
-away. Hynek, for
-Project Blue Book, later identifies it as an “atmospheric eddy.” (“Flying
-Saucer Reported Flashing
-Down Canyon at 1,000 Miles Per Hour; Two
-Others Seen,” Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News, August 15, 1947, pp. 1,
-8; NICAP, “Snake
-River Case”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 34;
-Sparks,
-p. 26; Story, pp. 337–338);
-Patrick Gross, “Snake
-River, August 13, 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1108
Date: 8/14/1947
-Time: 0900
-Description: R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the ground and two dwarfs less
-than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts.
-They had oversized heads, greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes
-without eyelashes or eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They
-wore something similar to crash helmets. The center of their belts
-projected a “vapor,” and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong
-electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight
-talonlike fingers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS 67, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Raveo, Italy
-ID: 63
Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: The first Gallup poll on UFOs shows that 90% of Americans
-have heard of flying saucers; 33% don’t know what they are, 39% consider
-them hoaxes or misidentifications, 16% consider them US or Russian
-secret weapons. The ETH is not mentioned. (Project 1947, “August
-1947 Gallup Poll”; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on
-UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1110
Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: The FBI concludes that the plane carrying Davidson and
-Brown was
-not sabotaged, nor was it carrying actual flying disc parts. (Memo for
-FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1113
Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: 10:40 a.m. Three men of the 147th Airways and Air
-Communications Service Squadron at Harmon Field, Guam, see two small
-crescent-shaped objects zigzagging at 1,200 feet. They disappear in the
-clouds and another object emerges and proceeds west. (Lt. Col. Donald L.
-Springer, “Flying
-Disc,” August 27, 1947; Sparks,
-p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1112
Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: Shortly after 9:00 a.m. Italian artist and author Luigi
-Rapuzzi (who uses the pseudonym L. R. Johannis) is hiking along the
-left bank of the Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy, when he sees
-a vivid red, metallic, domed disc on the riverbank about 165 feet ahead.
-It is about 33 feet wide and embedded in a cleft in the rock about 20
-feet above thqwe stream. Looking around, he sees two “boys” on the edge
-of a grove of trees. He shouts at them and points to the object, walking
-toward them, but notices they are actually odd-looking dwarfs who are
-approaching him stiffly. They are about 3 feet tall and wearing dark
-blue coveralls with red collars, cuffs, and belts. Their greenish heads
-are covered in tight-fitting, brownish caps. He looks at them in
-astonishment for 2–3 minutes, then waves his geologist’s pick at them
-and asks where they come from. One of the entities raises its right hand
-to its belt, which emits a puff of smoke that knocks Rapuzzi to the
-ground as if from an electric shock. As he is lying there, one of them
-grabs his pick and he notices its green hand has 8 claws. They climb up
-the rock and into the disc, which soon shoots straight out and into the
-air, hovering briefly at an angle, then vanishes. Rapuzzi feels a blast
-of wind that blows him across the ground. His pick is missing. (NICAP,
-“Professor Encounters
-‘Lens’ and Creatures”; “The
-Villa Santina Case,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special
-issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 2; 1Pinotti 19–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1111
Date: 8/15/1947 (approximate)
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Maj. Elmer
-H. Hammer of the 28th Bombardment Wing at Rapid City Army Air Base
-[now Ellsworth AFB] near Box Elder, South Dakota, sees 12 objects flying
-at 6,000–10,000 feet in a tight diamond formation at 300–400 mph. The
-objects level off at approximately 5,000 feet and make a gentle
-large-radius turn of about 110° to the right about 4 miles away. They
-start climbing at an angle of 30–40° and appear to accelerate rapidly in
-the climb. The objects are approximately 100 feet long and have a
-brilliant yellow-white luminous glow. (NICAP, “12
-B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 40;
-Sparks,
-p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1115
Date: 8/15/1947
-Description: In response to the August 13 San Francisco Examiner report,
-FBI Director J.
-Edgar Hoover asks the agency to look into whether Soviet spies are
-looking into whether the flying discs are a secret US technology.
-Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D.
-Milton “Mickey”
-Ladd at FBI headquarters assures FBI Deputy Director Edward
-Allen Tamm that he is unaware of any such effort. (Memo to
-Assistant FBI Director E. A. Tamm from Agent D. M. Ladd, August 15,
-1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1114
Date: 8/17/1947
-Description: A forest ranger at a fire lookout tower on Mt. Josephine,
-Skagit County, Washington, observes an object shaped like a huge clam
-that appears to fall tipped at an angle northeast of the fire tower. It
-slows to a stop, levels off, and floats “leisurely as if suspended by a
-cord” for a few minutes and finally moves off to the southeast with ever
-increasing speed. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1116
Date: 8/19/1947
-Description: 9:30 p.m. H. H. Hedstrom (executive director of the Twin
-Falls Housing Authority) and three policemen (Richard A. Frazier, H. E.
-Roundtree, and Richard Scott) in Twin Falls, Idaho, see a formation of
-12 objects flying in diamond formation at terrific speed. (NICAP, “August
-19, 1947, Twin Falls, Idaho”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 39;
-Sparks,
-p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1118
Date: 8/19/1947
-Description: FBI memo to D.
-M. Ladd from E. G. Fitch on “Flying Discs” mentions SAC Reynolds’s
-conversation with Lt. Col. George
-Garrett, who
-strongly suspects the Army or Navy is testing some new technology,
-condluding that “there were objects seen which somebody in the
-Government knows all about.” However Gen. Stephen Chamberlin and
-the War Department claim to have no involvement. (Memorandum from E. G.
-Fitch, “Flying Discs,”
-August 19, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1117
Date: 8/20/1947
-Description: An Anglo-American intelligence team releases a report on
-secret German weapons. Foo fighters are said to be caused by a
-rocket-propelled plane launched straight up from the ground,
-intercepting Allied bomber formations by firing a spray of rocket shells
-from the nose. The pilot then parachutes back to the ground, a chute
-opens on the rocket, and it is recovered for re-use. (New London (Conn.)
-Day, August 20, 1947; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1119
Date: late 8/1947
-Description: Brig. Gen. George
-F. Schulgen passes the updated Garrett Estimate on to Air Materiel
-Command head Gen. Nathan
-Twining with a request for a statement on the discs so an authorized
-UFO project can be requested. Col. Howard
-McCoy asks for a meeting between Alfred
-Loedding (aeronautics engineer at T-3), Lt. Col. George Garrett (Collections),
-and Charles Carroll (a math and missiles expert who has been correlating
-UFO sightings with approaches of planetary bodies) “in order to set up a
-system for evaluating the information being received.” These four will
-later form the core of the ETH-friendly faction at Project Sign.
-(RosRept, p. 13;
-Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 33–35; Letter to T-2 from Executive Air Intelligence
-Requirement Division, September 3, 1947; Sparks, p. 13;
-Swords 42, 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1125
Date: 8/22/1947
-Description: Col. Robert
-Taylor III, Collection
-Branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, summarizes the findings of Lt.
-Col. Garrett’s
-investigations of UFOs in a letter to Gen. Curtis
-LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development.
-Taylor requests any information on AAF projects that might give rise to
-such UFO reports. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August
-1st–December 31st, Supplemental
-Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 27; Swords 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1120
Date: 8/24/1947
-Description: The name Joint Research and Development Board is changed to
-simply Research and Development Board. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors,
-“The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no.
-2 (Summer 2001): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1121
Date: 8/25/1947
-Description: USMC Maj. Marion
-Eugene Carl attains a world airspeed record of 651 mph in a Douglas
-Skystreak at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California. (Wikipedia, “Marion
-Eugene Carl”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1122
Date: 8/28/1947
-Description: Microwave Early Warning radar on Shika Island off Fukuoka,
-Japan, picks up a target moving 450–478 mph at an altitude of 1,500
-feet. It changes course, climbs, and is tracked to a distance of 62
-miles. (NICAP, “Target
-Tracked in a Climb”; Sparks,
-p. 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1123
Date: 8/29/1947
-Description: Gen. LeMay answers
-Col. Taylor’s
-August 22 request stating that there is no such project as described.
-(Swords 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1124
Date: 9/1947
-Description: Astronomer Lincoln
-LaPaz arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, and rediscovers the area of
-blackened ground earlier found by two of Wilcox’s
-deputies. He speaks to some witnesses and determines there might have
-been more than one object.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1126
Date: 9/3/1947
-Time: 12:15 PM PDT
-Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Raymond Dupui. Watched for unknown
-length of time as 12-15 round, silver objects flew an unstated
-pattern.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oswego, Oregon
-ID: 7
Date: 9/3/1947
-Description: Dale Edwards and three friends are camping out in the
-Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California, when one of
-them spots a huge gray UFO accompanied by a rush of warm air. The next
-day they encounter a circle, 40 feet in diameter, of recently burned
-grass and skunk cabbage. (“True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 3
-(September 1949): 74–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1128
Date: 9/3/1947
-Description: A memo from Col. R. H. Smith at Air Defense Command
-headquarters at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York, states that the
-intent of USAF cooperation with the FBI was to “relieve the numbered Air
-Forces of the task of tracking down all the many instances which turned
-out to be ash-can covers, toilet seats, and whatnot.” (ClearIntent, p. 156;
-Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1127
Date: 9/5/1947
-Description: In response to the Garrett Estimate, Gen. Curtis
-LeMay states in a memo, copied to the FBI, that “a complete survey
-of research activities discloses that the Army Air Force has no project
-with the characteristics similar to those which have been associated
-with the Flying Discs.” (Michael D. Hall and Wendy A. Connors, Alfred
-Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1129
Date: 9/5/1947
-Description: In Washington, D.C., Alfred
-Loedding (as Wright Field T-2’s liaison with the Pentagon) meets
-with Garrett and
-Carroll. Flying disk reports at the Pentagon are transferred to Wright
-Field, Ohio, shortly afterwards. (Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and
-the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1130
Date: 9/6/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation
-Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 1.5km
Date: mid 9/1947
-Description: Twining passes
-the Garrett Estimate on to Col. Howard
-McCoy, Maj.
-Gen. Alden
-Crawford (chief of T-3), Gen. Franklin
-O. Carroll (director of research and development), Col. C. K. Moore
-(aircraft laboratory chief), Col. Russell Minty (power-plant laboratory
-chief), and Brig. Gen. Edgar
-P. Sorenson (Air Institute of Technology commander). They each study
-Garrett’s
-report and hold a conference on the discs. (Michael D. Swords, “Project
-Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1131
Date: 9/16/1947
-Description: An incoming radar target is picked up at Itazuke Air Base
-[now Fukuoka Airport], Fukuoka, Japan, moving 840–900 mph, then fading
-out. (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar
-Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far
-East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington,
-D.C., September 26, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1132
Date: 9/17/1947
-Description: The US Senate confirms James
-Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1133
Date: 9/18/1947
-Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H.
-Hillenkoetter, USN
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Langley, Virginia
Date: 9/18/1947
-Description: The reorganization of military and intelligence agencies
-under the National Security Act takes effect. The US Army Air Forces is
-disbanded and becomes the US Air Force.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1134
Date: 9/19/1947
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A geophysicist employed by the Humble Oil and
-Refining Company is testing a weather radar at Grand Isle, Louisiana,
-when the radar detects an object moving in a southwesterly direction at
-about 1,000 mph. It persists for about one minute, so he records it in
-his notebook and discusses the sighting with other scientists. No visual
-sighting is made. (Houston Press, March 24, 1950; Jan L. Aldrich, “Project
-1947: A Progress Report,”
-March/April 1996)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1137
Date: 9/19/47
-Description: Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is
-a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 11/30/47
Date: 9/19/1947
-Description: FBI Special Agent Harry
-M. Kimball in San Francisco passes Col. R. H. Smith’s memo up the
-chain to Hoover. (ClearIntent,
-p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1135
Date: 9/19/1947
-Description: A dubious document, allegedly written on this date by DCI
-Adm. Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter and titled “Examination of Unidentified Disc-Like
-Aircraft near Military Installations in the State of New Mexico: A
-Preliminary Report,” has been circulated by Timothy
-S. Cooper. It purports to verify the “recovery of unidentified
-planform aircraft” in two locations on July 6. (Good Need, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1136
Date: 9/21/1947
-Description: Arrangements are made to transfer UFO files from Garrett’s
-office in the Pentagon to Alfred
-Loedding at AMC. (Swords 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1138
Date: 9/23/1947
-Description: USAF project “SIGN” started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 9/23/1947
-Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold’s discs by Fred
-Johnson
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 9/23/1947
-Description: Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. Nathan
-Twining responds to Schulgen’s
-request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. McCoy with
-the assistance of Alfred
-Loedding, “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Disks.’” Twining notes the
-discs are “real and not visionary or fictitious.” Reports (based on the
-cases in the Garrett Estimate) include “extreme rates of climb,
-maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be
-considered evasive.” Twining gives three reasons to study the discs:
-They might represent a deep-black domestic project; to pick up physical
-evidence; and to find out if they are nuclear- propulsion devices from
-Russia or elsewhere. The letter lists common descriptions of the objects
-and recommends that USAF “issue a directive assigning a priority,
-security classification, and code name for a detailed study of the
-matter.” This will ultimately result in Project Sign. Henceforth all
-disc reports are to be sent to the Army and Navy Research and
-Development Board, the USAF Scientific Advisory Group, the Atomic Energy
-Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Project
-RAND, and the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at
-Oak Ridge. Twining promises a detailed “Essential Elements of
-Information” (EEI) to be formulated immediately so that all agencies
-will have guidance. (Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, “AMC
-Opinion Concerning
-‘Flying Disks,’” September 23, 1947; RosRept, p. 14;
-Swords 42, 476–478; Good Above, pp. 260–
-262, 476–478)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1139
Date: fall 1947
-Description: Claude
-Degler, under
-the pseudonym John Chrisman, publishes a single issue of the first
-flying saucer fanzine, Weird Unsolved Mysteries. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August
-1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 56–69;
-Curt Collins, “Claude
-Degler, One of
-the Ufologists That Time Forgot,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July
-15, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1148
Date: 9/23/47
-Description: Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen,
-AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer,
-AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the
-phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects
-approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made
-aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate
-ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this
-information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and
-NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552)
-Type: secret briefing
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 7/47
-See also: 9/15/50
-See also: 8/54
Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: Col. Miles
-E. Goll, in
-a memo signed for Col. McCoy,
-asks about a radar case in Japan that Charles Carroll had mentioned to
-Alfred
-Loedding in their meeting of September 5. (Dr. Carroll’s UFO files;
-Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1143
Date: 9/24/47
-Description: A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and
-classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons
-selected to control all branches of government, both military and
-non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses,
-confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and
-rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 2/15/87
-See also: 9/4/87
-See also: 7/47
Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: President
-Truman meets with Vannevar
-Bush, chairman of the Research and Development Board, at the White
-House. Secretary of Defense James
-Forrestal is also present. (Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC,
-Marlowe, 1996, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1141
Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: DCI Hillenkoetter, in
-a letter to AMC, designates T-2 and the Air Intelligence branch of the
-US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics as National Assets. He indicates that he
-does not plan to duplicate air technical intelligence assets within the
-CIA. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1140
Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: A fake memo from President Truman to
-Secretary of Defense James
-Forrestal allegedly establishes a top-secret control group,
-Operation Majestic Twelve (MJ-12), to deal with the UFO problem. (Clark
-III 360; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer
-Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1990): 4–20; Ted R. Spickler, “The
-Truman MJ-12 Letter,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 12–13; Good Above,
-p. 551)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1142
Date: 9/25/1947
-Description: A memorandum from Maj. Robert J. Thomas lists the names of
-nine military personnel in charge of events in the aftermath of the
-Roswell, New Mexico, recovery. However, it is now largely considered a
-forgery by Frank
-Kaufmann. (Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR
-27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann
-Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1144
Date: 9/26/1947
-Description: A memorandum from Col. James F. Olive Jr., Chief of Air
-Intelligence Division, to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, A-2,
-summarizes three radar trackings of high-speed targets in Japan (Chitose
-Air Base, July 1; and MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka, August 28 and
-September 16). It concludes that there is insufficient information to
-state that they involved aircraft or missiles but supports the
-conclusion that they were not natural phenomena. The report is forwarded
-to T-2 on September 29. (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar
-Pick-Ups of High- Speed
-Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air
-Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1145
Date: 9/27/1947
-Description: Hoover notifies
-USAF Maj. Gen. George
-C. McDonald, assistant chief of air staff, that he is advising all
-FBI agents to discontinue all flying disc investigations. (Letter, J.
-Edgar Hoover to Gen. George C. McDonald, September 27, 1947;
-ClearIntent, p. 158;
-Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1146
Date: 9/28/47
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper
-college freshman photo
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 9/30/1947
-Description: Vannevar
-Bush is appointed head of the new Research and Development Board in
-the National Military Establishment. (Research
-and Development Board: History and Functions, US
-National Military Establishment, June 1, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1147
Date: 10/47
-Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright
-receiving Barry Scholarship
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein
Date: 10/1947
-Time: 11 PM CDT
-Description: Witness: one unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while
-an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dodgeville, Wisconsin
-ID: 8
Date: 10/1/1947
-Description: A letter from Truman to
-Vannevar
-Bush appears to bear the original Truman signature used in the MJ-12
-fake memo.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1151
Date: 10/1/47
-Description: First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from
-Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 10/1/1947
-Description: Bureau Bulletin 59 ends all FBI cooperation with the Air
-Force on UFO investigation, although the FBI continues its own
-inquiries. (ClearIntent, p. 159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1150
Date: early 10/1947
-Description: Private pilot Selman E. Graves claims to have witnessed
-part of the recovery of a crashed UFO in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on
-property owned by his friend, Walt Salyer. (Good Above, pp. 394–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1149
Date: 10/7/1947
-Description: Capt. R. V. A. Therien of the Royal Swedish Navy states at
-USAF headquarters that some ghost rockets have been observed making 180°
-turns, and about 33 of the incidents are considered factual. (Loren E.
-Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December
-31st, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2001, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1152
Date: 10/9/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude
-(Internal explosion at 83.5s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 156.1km
Date: 10/14/1947
-Description: Bernt
-Balchen, Norwegian
-Airline director and former USAF Colonel, gives USAF headquarters
-information about two radar locations and a rocket firing incident
-observed in the Petsamo region (Pechengsky District) of Finland,
-recently ceded to Russia. Gen. Alfred
-A. Kessler Jr., former US military attaché in Sweden, disputes
-Therien’s information. He says only two ghost rocket sightings are
-possibly factual, but there is no evidence to authenticate them. (Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August
-1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001,
-p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1153
Date: 10/14/1947
-Time: Noon MDT
-Description: Witnesses: ex-AAF fighter pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot
-Anderson, third man. Watched 45-60 seconds while one 3-foot “flying
-wing”-shaped object, which looked black against the white clouds and red
-against the blue sky, flew straight at an estimated 380 m.p.h., at
-8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona
-ID: 9
Date: 10/14/1947
-Description: Test pilot Chuck
-Yeager unofficially breaks the sound barrier (670 mph) for the first
-time in an experimental rocket-powered Bell X-1 at Muroc [now Edwards]
-AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Chuck
-Yeager”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1154
Date: 10/18/1947
-Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km
-(Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 207km
Date: 10/20/1947
-Description: A farmer named Britton sees two cigar-shaped UFOs traveling
-a straight course at high speed about one mile in height in trail
-formation near Dayton, Ohio. They leave a slight vapor trail then
-disappear suddenly. (NICAP, “Farmers
-Observes Two Cigars”; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 89; Sparks,
-p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1155
Date: 10/20/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated
-181 kilometres from intended flight path)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 231km
Date: 10/21/1947
-Description: The jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 makes its first test
-flight from Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California, reaching Muroc
-AFB in 32 minutes. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-YB-49”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1157
Date: 10/21/1947
-Description: A preliminary EEI document, indicating that the radar
-detection of UFOs near Fukuoka, Japan, on September 16 has played a role
-in concerns about disc maneuverability, is circulated to the European
-Command by Lieut. Col. Malcolm
-D. Seashore, former
-acting chief of the Analysis Section at AMC under McCoy.
-It expresses concern about German/Russian technology and adds disc
-characteristics of hovering, disappearance, quick grouping, and sudden
-appearance. (“‘Flying
-Disc’ Information Request to European Command, October 1947”;
-Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 35; Swords 43, 479–484)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1156
Date: 10/23/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation
-of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated,
-possibly due to the warhead failure.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 29km
Date: 10/28/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km
-(Success)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 29km
Date: 10/28/1947
-Description: Brig. Gen. George
-F. Schulgen, Chief
-of USAF Intelligence Requirements Division, writes a five-page report
-based on the characteristics listed in the September 23 Twining letter
-(though in greater detail) and the preliminary EEI of October 21. Titled
-“Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of
-Collection Memorandum,” it lists things investigators should try to
-determine about UFO propulsion, control, construction, arrangement,
-landing gear, and power plant. It considers the objects “to be a manned
-aircraft, of Russian origin, and based on the perspective thinking and
-actual accomplishments of the Germans” (page 5, paragraph 4). [However,
-a fake version of this document has the phrase “it is the considered
-opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an
-interplanetary craft of some kind…. The presence of an unconventional or
-unusual type of propulsion system cannot be ruled out and should be
-considered of great interest.” Other deletions and additions are present
-in the fake document.] (George F. Schulgen, “Intelligence Requirements
-on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,”
-October 30, 1947 [PDF of
-real memo, pp. 1–6, PDF of
-fake memo, pp. 7–12]; RosRept, p. 35;
-Good Above, p. 262;
-Robert G. Todd, “Fake
-Air Force
-Memo Exposed,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “Fake
-Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 2,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd,
-“Fake
-Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 3,” The Roswell Files; Michael D.
-Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7
-(2000): 35–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1158
Date: 10/31/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started
-rolling after lift-off and crashed)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 2km
Date: 11/1947
-Description: Former Messerschmidt test pilot Fritz
-Wendel tells US Army CIC that the Horten
-brothers were working on an advanced aircraft in Heiligenbeil, East
-Prussia [now Mamonovo, Russia] right after the war. The airplane is 33
-feet long, shaped like a half-moon, and has no tail. It can fly to
-12,000 feet. Wendel’s story is corroborated by a German informant named
-Prof. George, who describes a later Horten craft as able to fly at 1,200
-mph because it is propelled by rockets. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1159
Date: 11/2/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km
-(Success)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 260km
Date: 11/2/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day),
-260km (Lost fins after launch)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 260km
Date: 11/4/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km
-(Success)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 268km
Date: 11/6/1947
-Description: Chuck
-Yeager again makes an unofficial airspeed record of 891 mph in a
-Bell X-1 at Muroc AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Chuck
-Yeager”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1160
Date: 11/10/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control
-failure)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 24km
Date: 11/10/1947
-Description: Lt. Col. Walker sends a memo to his field commands in
-Germany in response to the September 23 Twining letter.
-It calls for a discreet canvass into finding German engineers who might
-know of similar technology. (“The
-Walker Memo,” The Roswell Files)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1161
Date: 11/12/1947
-Description: Early morning. US Navy Second Officer Williamson on the USS
-Ticonderoga 40 miles north or south of Cape Blanco, Oregon, sees two
-fireballs with fiery tails heading northwest at 700–900 mps. Possible
-meteors. (Sparks, p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1162
Date: 11/13/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up
-upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 270km
Date: 11/13/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5
-hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 270km
Date: 11/18/1947
-Description: Boise Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor David
-N. Johnson, having heard of the USS Ticonderoga sighting, writes to
-Gen. George
-E. Stratemeyer at Mitchel Field, New York, for information and
-asking eight questions about the Army’s investigation. Stratemeyer
-passes the query on to Garrett and
-Taylor.
-(Swords 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1163
Date: 11/20/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE
-technology proving flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 26.7km
Date: 11/30/47
-Description: In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team
-classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities).
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 12/1947
-Description: By now, ATIC has received 156 UFO reports. Aerodynamicists
-at ATIC and AMC agree that no German design can match UFO performance.
-The USAF Aeromedical Laboratory says that even if such a craft can be
-built, the human body cannot withstand the maneuvers, and USAF materials
-specialists say that no known material can withstand them either, as
-well as the heat of high speeds. Ruppelt later
-writes, “Why couldn’t these people, whoever they might be, stand these
-horrible maneuver forces? Why judge them by earthly standards? I found a
-memo to this effect was in the old Project Sign files.” (Ruppelt, p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1172
Date: 12/8/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude
-(Stable flight but less than planned altitude)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 104.6km
Date: 12/8/1947
-Description: Pilots observe a reddish light moving at moderate speed
-over Las Vegas, Nevada. It emits a flash of green light and shoots
-upwards at a “tremendous speed.” (UFOEv, p. 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1164
Date: 12/11/1947
-Description: Garrett and
-Taylor write
-a memorandum to the USAF Public Relations Office outlining the proper
-answers to questions such as Johnson has
-asked. (Swords 44) Decembre 14 — 12:20 a.m. Six staff sergeants at Fort
-Bragg, North Carolina, watch a domed disc with a glowing green corona
-surrounding it moving slowly at a slightly tilted angle. It skims the
-treeline (causing the tops of the trees to wave slightly) and takes off
-to the northwest. They estimate it is 50–75 feet in diameter and flying
-at 200 feet altitude. (Project
-1947 case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1165
Date: 12/16/1947
-Description: Army Lt. Col. Harry
-H. Pretty in Berlin writes a memo to the Deputy Director of
-Intelligence in Berlin stating that the Horten
-brothers (Reimer and Walter) have been located in Göttingen,
-Germany. He says they are eccentric and quarrelsome. Though they were
-responsible for the Horten Ho 299 (a prototype fighter/bomber flying
-wing design), his investigation concludes that no saucer design “ever
-existed nor was projected by any of the German air research
-institutions.” (Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty, “Horten
-Brothers (Flying Saucers),” December 16, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1166
Date: 12/17/1947
-Description: US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Carl
-Spaatz tells the Idaho Statesman he does not rule out the
-possibility of the flying disks being “foreign experimentation.” He adds
-that the Air Force is still investigating and he still wants people to
-report their sightings. (“Spaatz
-Leaves Door open on Chance ‘Flying Discs’ Are of Foreign
-Origin,” Boise Idaho Statesman, December 17, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1167
Date: 12/18/1947
-Description: Pentagon Col. James F. Olive Jr. (chief of AFOAI) and
-Lieut. Col. J. E. Thomas of the Offensive Air section (AFOAI-OA) respond
-to a request by deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development
-Gen. Curtis LeMay on
-the status of flying disc analysis. They complete their reanalysis of
-the earlier documents from the Pentagon and Wright-Patterson, rewrite a
-new EEI indicating a potentially serious but puzzling phenomenon, and
-turn this over to Chief of Air Force Intelligence McDonald for
-his signature. (“Analysis
-of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords,
-“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 36;
-Swords 43, 485–491)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1168
Date: 12/19/1947
-Description: The Research and Development Board has its first
-meeting.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1169
Date: 12/22/1947
-Description: The final EEI, called “Analysis of Flying Disc Reports,” is
-issued by Chief of USAF Intelligence George
-C.
-McDonald, who
-concurs with AMC’s recommendation of September 23 and forwards it to
-director of USAF Research and Development Gen. Laurence
-Cardee Craigie for a reply. Gen. Charles
-Cabell, the new chief of AFOIR, signs off on this. (“Analysis
-of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords,
-“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000):
-36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1170
Date: 12/23/1947
-Description: First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell
-Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of
-American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Muray Hill, NJ
Date: 12/26/1947
-Description: At the American Association for the Advancement of Science
-meeting in Chicago, Illinois, University of Iowa astronomer Charles
-C. Wylie proposes a coast-to-coast sky patrol to report on rockets,
-meteors, or flying saucers. He says that “mass hysteria” about saucers
-could have been prevented with a sky patrol in place. (“Sky
-Patrol
-Recommended by Scientist,” Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch, December
-27, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1171
Date: 12/30/1947
-Description: USAF project “Saucer” started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 12/30/1947
-Description: Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer
-performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with “2A”
-Security Classification at Wright-Patterson)
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-link
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A, B1-G p23)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 12/30/1947
-Description: Gen. Laurence
-C. Craigie, director of USAF R&D and successor to Gen. Curtis
-LeMay (who has returned to Europe), advises the AMC commanding
-general that USAF policy is not to ignore UFO reports, but to collect,
-evaluate, and act on the information. He establishes Project Sign
-(Project HT-304 under USAF Technical Instruction no. TI-2185) in a memo
-titled “Flying Discs.” Alfred
-Loedding, who is convinced that the flying discs are
-extraterrestrial, may have come up with the “Sign” designation. It
-carries a 2A restricted classification. (Gen. Laurence C. Craigie,
-“Flying Discs,” Memorandum to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command,
-December 30, 1947; Sparks, p. 11;
-Condon, p. 896;
-“Report
-by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee
-on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Michael David
-Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man
-behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 24). Craigie, after
-his retirement from the Air Force in 1955, indicates that he believes
-UFOs are a waste of time and only approved Project Sign because of
-internal USAF politics. (Joel Carpenter)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1173
Date: 1948
-Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Europe
Date: 1948
-Description: Mr. Galbraith twice saw an object land. The first time, it
-was a disk-shaped craft with a humanoid figure-the second time, cigar
-shape with three figures.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Swastika, Canada
-ID: 64
Date: 1948
-Description: British author and ex-MI5 operative Bernard
-Newman publishes a novel titled The Flying Saucer, the first book to
-use that phrase in its title. The story revolves around a group of
-scientists who create a fake Martian threat in order to bring the world
-together. Plot elements include a trio of staged saucer crashes (in New
-Mexico, Russia, and the UK), propaganda, and even an alien autopsy.
-(Bernard Newman, The Flying Saucer, Gollancz, 1948; Andrew May, “The
-Flying Saucer,” Retro-Forteana, June 30, 2013; Kremlin 43–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1176
Date: 1948
-Description: An airman stationed in Arizona is called out with a
-scientific team to examine a flying saucer that has crashed near Taos,
-New Mexico. When he arrives, the area is roped off and under military
-guard. The object is metallic with a flat circular airfoil. The cabin at
-the top center is too small for a normal-sized human. He is told by
-workers on the scene that bodies of “little men” have been removed from
-the craft. They discover that the ship is constructed of interlocking
-sections pinned together, but they cannot locate a power plant, except
-possibly some electromagnets below the cabin. (L. J[ames] Lorenzen, “Aimé
-Michel’s Orthotenic Lines,” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 6–7; Clark
-III 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1175
Date: 1948
-Description: Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air,
-received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta,
-directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White
-Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft.
-ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4
-ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable
-by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement
-of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft
-landed inside the secure area of White Sands.)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-See also: 3/25/48
-See also: 2/13/1948
Date: 1948
-Description: David T. Keating, an employee of the USAF Nuclear Energy
-for the Propulsion of Aircraft group, is flying with the 166th Fighter
-Squadron of the Ohio National Guard out of Lockbourne AFB [now
-Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio. While
-executing a flip of his P-51 at 18,000 feet, he sees a silvery disc zoom
-above his plane. He goes in pursuit of it at 325 mph and closes to
-within 240 feet of it. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter and 6 feet
-thick, with a vertical stabilizer rudder on the end. He keeps flying
-after it even when he loses sight of it. “About 10 miles south of the
-Ohio River,” he claims, “I spotted litter on a hillside and a path that
-had obviously been ripped up by a crashing plane.” Short on fuel, he
-returns to Lockbourne. He persuades his major to fly over the crash
-scene, and they send a truck to retrieve the remains. (Helen Knox,
-“Ridge Newcomer Tells of Game of Tag with ‘Saucer,’” The Oak Ridger,
-September 18, 1950; Clark III 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1174
Date: 1948
-Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets
-practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary
-spaceships was becoming more popular.”
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1948 (approximate)
-Description: Sylvia Hall, 11, wakes up at her home on the corner of
-Riggs Road and Lateral 1 Road south of Yakima, Washington, when her
-bedroom fills with bluish-white light pouring in through the closed west
-window. Some 100 feet above the ground is a huge bright cloud. Gliding
-down from it in groups of four on something like a ramp are tall people
-with bluish-silvery robes. She watches them for 10 minutes, then she has
-an overpowering desire to go back to bed. She tells no one about the
-experience until she is an adult. (Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,”
-IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1177
Date: 1/1948
-Description: Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury
-Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide
-metal”
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Medium
-Reference: link
Date: 1/6/1948
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Bernice
-Zaikowski, 61, of Chehalis, Washington, hears a “sizzling and
-whizzing” sound and looks up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above
-her barn. She watches “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened
-over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly
-away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating
-controls strapped to his chest.” The wings do not flap; instead they
-retract close to his body during ascent, and are extended to hover or
-proceed in horizontal flight. Zaikowski says five other adult witnesses
-and a number of children also see the birdman. (“‘Flying
-Man’ Is Chehalis Report,” Coos Bay (Oreg.) World, January 21, 1948,
-p. 2; Lyle Zapato, “The
-Birdmen of Cascadia,” ZPi blog, March 24, 2007; Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1178
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
-Type: UFO encounter
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas
-Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to
-30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic
-object….oftremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above….I am trying
-to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded in mid-air and
-disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit
-with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police
-estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Maysville, KN
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Base personnel at Clinton County AFB [now
-Wilmington Air Park] near Wilmington, Ohio, where Skyhooks are launched
-a couple years later, watch a quickly maneuvering object. It dances up
-and down and changes from red to green before speeding to the southwest.
-Sgt. LeRoy Ziegler thinks he can detect a faint exhaust trail. Project
-Sign calls it Venus, because it disappears about the time Venus does.
-(NICAP, “Object Circles
-Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; NICAP, “Part
-2-11: ’…Was Not the Planet Venus,” June 4, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1184
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that
-an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of
-the sighting…At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the
-skiessouth of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By
-the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked
-like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4
-National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell
-in one of the F-51s.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Maysville, KN
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Kentucky State Police telephone Commanding
-Officer Col. Guy F. Hix’s office at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox,
-Kentucky, reporting an unidentified object near Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
-Another call to Hix comes from state police at about 1:10 p.m. of an
-observation by a civilian in Madisonville, Kentucky, through a Finch
-telescope of a cone-shaped object about 100 feet tall by 43 feet wide,
-at an altitude of 4 miles and moving at 10 mph. This is apparently
-General Mills Skyhook balloon Flight B, which passes about 40 miles to
-the southwest of Madisonville. Other reports come in from Lexington and
-Mannsville, Kentucky. (Sparks,
-p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1179
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 1:20–2:10 p.m. Army Flight Service reports to Godman Army
-Airfield control tower that the object is over Irvington then Owensboro,
-Kentucky. Godman Tower Operator Tech/Sgt Quinton
-A. Blackwell, Capt. James F. Duesler Jr., Base Air Inspector Lt.
-Col. E. Garrison Wood, and other USAF personnel see a round or
-ice-cream- cone-shaped white or silver object with a revolving red
-streamer toward the south beginning at 1:50 p.m. Many others see it as
-well after 2:07 p.m., such as Operations Officer Capt. Cary W. Carter
-and Col. Guy F. Hix. (Sparks, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1180
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 2:50 p.m. Capt. Thomas
-F. Mantell Jr., a
-25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, and three others are
-flying F-51D fighters to Louisville, Kentucky. After Mantell reports his
-position to Standiford Field in Louisville, Tech/Sgt. Quinton
-A. Blackwell at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox breaks in over the
-radio to request Mantell to intercept and identify the object. The
-object maintains a constant angular position as seen from Godman as it
-apparently moves away at about 240–300 mph at an altitude of
-50,000–60,000 feet during most of Mantell’s pursuit. Flying at 300 mph
-and gradually climbing to about 22,000–23,000 feet, Mantell gradually
-overtakes the UFO from below, past Bowling Green, Kentucky, at about
-3:10 p.m. In one of his last radio reports, Mantell says the UFO
-“appears to be a metallic object or possibly reflection of sun from a
-metallic object, and it is of tremendous size.” At 3:15 p.m., at 22,500
-feet with oxygen running low, two other F-51Ds quit the chase. Mantell
-continues to 25,000, blacks out, and crashes at 3:18 p.m. about 4 miles
-south-southwest of Franklin, Kentucky. The UFO disappears from view
-behind a cloud at Godman at 3:50 p.m. The Project Sign staff, still not
-yet formally organized, are under pressure to come up with some kind of
-answer, so they quickly float Venus (offhandedly suggested by Ohio State
-University astronomer J.
-Allen Hynek) as an explanation. This implausible explanation is not
-even believed by the Air Force, but it remains unchallenged for several
-years. In 1952, Ruppelt reopens
-the case and identifies the object as a secret Skyhook balloon, although
-he cannot confirm a launch that day. Army veteran Clifford
-Stone finds later that there had been no Skyhook launches since late
-December. However, Barry
-J. Greenwood and Robert
-Todd tentatively identify the balloon as one launched from Camp
-Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on January 6. (Wikipedia, “Mantell
-UFO incident”; NICAP, “The
-Mantell Case”;
-Clark III 706–710; Ruppelt, p. 31;
-Good Above, pp. 262–263;
-Good Need, pp. 104–105;
-Sparks,
-pp. 30– 31; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the
-Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 37; “The
-Mantell UFO:
-A Smoking Gun, Maybe!” Just Cause, no. 39 (March 1994): 9–10; “The
-Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe!
-Part Two” Just Cause, no. 40 (June 1994): 8–12; Christopher D.
-Allan, “The Mantell Case—50 Years Later,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998):
-7–9, 31–32; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the
-Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 137–138; Kevin D.
-Randle, “The
-Mantell Analyses,” A Different Perspective, September 21, 2017;
-Center for UFO Studies, [clippings and
-documents on
-Mantell case]; Swords 51–52; Francis Ridge, The
-Mantell Incident: An Anatomy of a Re-Investigation, The Author,
-2010; Flight Handbook,
-USAF Series F-51D Aircraft, January
-20, 1954)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1181
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Air Traffic Controller and pilot Alex
-A. Boudreaux and VHF Direction-Finding (DF) Operator and amateur
-astronomer Frank
-M. Eisele, 103rd
-AACS Squadron, at Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard
-Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, spot a bright object to the southwest of the
-airfield that appears and disappears intermittently. Fighter pilot USAF
-Capt. Charles
-E. McGee sees the object on runway 23 landing approach when he is at
-about 1,800 feet. The light seems to be at about 3,000 feet to the
-southwest about 4–5 miles away, then later on the ground to the west
-about 6–7 miles away. USAF VHF DF Operator and pilot Albert R.
-Pickering, Detachment 733, 103rd AACS Squadron, is awakened by the
-sudden emergence of a lighted amber- colored round or oval object about
-the size of a C-47 or larger [60+ feet] dropping out of the overcast
-bank 10,000 feet overhead. Lockbourne Control Tower at the same time
-radios a report of the object, which then maneuvers over to Commercial
-Point about 3–5 miles away to the west-southwest, then makes three full
-360° circles over one spot in 30-40 seconds per turn over the runway, at
-a speed of more than 500 mph, leaving a luminous, amber- colored trail
-or exhaust about 5 times its length. Then the UFO goes to another
-location and does more 360° turns. At one point, it disappears into the
-overcast for one minute, then reappears. Just before departing, it
-hovers or “appeared to touch down” on the grass extension past the end
-of the Lockbourne AFB runway for 10 seconds then leaves at 120° (ESE)
-heading into the overcast. It is also sighted by the pilot of a C-45 at
-5,000 feet off the right wing at 7:53 p.m. (NICAP, “Object
-Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; Sparks, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1183
Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 4:45–7:06 p.m. USAF 1Lt. Paul
-I. Orner tracks an unidentified white light with red coloration in a
-weather theodolite at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, for
-more than 2 hours. (Sparks, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1182
Date: 1/9/1948
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot Hugh
-DuBose, flying a DC-3 aircraft at 3,000 feet altitude near
-Cartersville, Georgia, observes a circular object with a flat top cross
-his flight path at the same altitude and then turn earthward. The object
-is light sky-blue in color and is traveling at an estimated speed of 400
-mph. (NICAP, “Object
-Passes DC-3, Turns”; Sparks, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1185
Date: 1/15/1948
-Description: USAF officially a separate service
-Type: history
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/21/1948
-Description: Col. Riley
-F. Ennis,
-chief of the Army Intelligence Division, in a memo reiterates the Schulgen Draft
-of Collection Memorandum and stresses the need to investigate Soviet
-development of a jet-propelled flying wing aircraft. (Department of the
-Army, “Unconventional
-Aircraft,” Intelligence Collection Memorandum number 7, January 21,
-1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1186
Date: 1/22/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude
-(Payload separation failure)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 159.3km
Date: 1/22/1948
-Description: Project Sign officially launches at Wright Field. The
-primary investigators are Capt. Robert
-R. Sneider (project chief), Alfred
-Loedding (T-3 engineer), Lawrence
-Truettner (T-2 engineer), and Col. Albert
-Deyarmond (analyst in Intelligence Analysis Division). Also involved
-are Maj. Raymond
-Llewellyn (chief of special projects branch), Lt. Howard W. Smith,
-George
-W. Towles, and others as assigned. How much interest Col. Howard McCoy takes
-in the project is unknown. Its task is to collect, collate, evaluate,
-and distribute information on sightings in the atmosphere “which can be
-considered of concern to national security.” Ruppelt later
-says that to be considered an “unknown,” it has to come from a competent
-observer and contain a reasonable amount of data. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 36–37;
-Sparks, p. 11;
-Ruppelt, p. 10;
-NICAP, “Project
-Sign Begins, 22 Jan 1948”; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors,
-“Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23,
-no. 4 (Winter 1998): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1187
Date: 1/23/1948
-Description: Col. William
-E. Clingerman, writing
-for Col. Howard
-McCoy at Wright Field, asks Lt. Col. George
-Garrett of Air Force Intelligence for all files on “Swedish
-incidents” in 1946 and 1947. He receives at least 44 documents, none of
-which have been released. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost
-Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 13; Swords 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1188
Date: 1/26/1948
-Description: Project Sign becomes formally operational as Project
-HT-304. Lt. Col. James C. Beam becomes its first project director. (Sparks, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1189
Date: 1/31/1948
-Description: The Research and Development Board dismisses flying saucers
-as “a mirage induced by mass self- hypnosis” in stories that appear in
-newspapers of this day. (“‘Flying Discs’ Book Declared Closed,”
-Pendleton East Oregonian, January 31, 1948; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1948”; Swords 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1190
Date: 2/1948
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Glancing out his window while getting a drink of
-water, farmer C. Bruce Stevenson notices a bight orange-amber glow near
-his farm buildings a few miles from Circleville, Ohio. He expects to
-find the buildings on fire, but instead there is a large, domed flying
-saucer gliding silently over the roof of his pig house about 100 feet
-away. The UFO, about 60 feet in diameter, maintains a slow speed and low
-altitude until it disappears from sight. (“Bruce
-Stevenson Reveals Close-Up
-View of Saucer,” Circleville (Ohio) Herald, August 2, 1952, pp. 1–2;
-“Bruce
-Stevenson Certain Saucer Wasn’t Reflection,” Circleville (Ohio)
-Herald, August 7, 1952, p. 1; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1948”; Pete Hartinger, “America’s First Classic Close
-Encounter,” Pickaway Quarterly, Fall 1996, pp. 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1191
Date: 2/4/1948
-Description: Capt. Richard
-W. Geuss, acting assistant adjutant general, writes a memo on behalf
-of Lieut. Gen. George
-E.
-Stratemeyer, to
-ADC and USAF commanding generals on “Investigation and Reporting of
-‘Flying Disc’ Incidents.” It specifies that Air Force commanders are
-charged with evaluating military UFO incidents, in cooperation with CIC
-personnel and local FBI offices. Even hoaxes are to be passed on to the
-FBI. (Capt. Richard W. Geuss, “Investigation
-and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents,” February 4, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1192
Date: 2/6/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude
-(Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of
-flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 111km
Date: 2/12/1948
-Description: Brig. Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell, chief
-of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division, sends a secret memo to
-Maj. Gen. Samuel
-E. Anderson. director of Plans and Operations, stating that the
-Commanding General of AMC feels that the responsibility for collecting
-information on “flying disks” should be complemented by a requirement
-that all USAF installations “provide a minimum of one each aircraft,
-with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis. These aircraft should
-be equipped with gun camera, and such armament as deemed advisable, in
-order to secure photographs necessary to the obtainment of all possible
-data on any reported and sighted unusual phenomena, of the ‘flying disk’
-type, in the atmosphere.” (Good Above, p. 263)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1193
Date: 2/13/1948
-Description: Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little
-human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research, ALIENS
-Location: Aztec, NM
-See also: 3/25,1948
Date: 2/18/1948
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A smoke trail begins over Nebraska and runs
-south. A bolide explodes over Norcatur, Kansas, and the concussion from
-the blast breaks windows and rocks buildings over a wide area of Kansas,
-Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A huge shower of meteoritic stones fall over a
-large area of Norton County, Kansas, and Furnas County, Nebraska. Two
-Army B-29 bombers circle the area until nightfall. A farmer near
-Stockton, Kansas, sees a hovering object that leaves a bare spot in the
-ground. Kenneth
-Arnold is persuaded that reports of the Norton County meteorite fall
-might actually have been UFO-related. Astronomer Lincoln
-LaPaz directs the recovery of the massive achondritic meteorite in
-1948. More than 100 stones are recovered, including one weighing about
-one ton. (Wikipedia, “Norton
-County (meteorite)”; “Norton
-County,” Meteorite Recon, October 8, 2015; Luna Meteorite Hunters,
-“Norton
-County, KS Fall 18FEB1948 More Than 60 Years Ago,” February 26,
-2009; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1948, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
-Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 37–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1194
Date: 2/20/1948
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Six surveyors, including Idaho Power Company
-surveyor E.
-G. Hall, see a small flat, heart- shaped UFO flying in the sky at
-Emmett, Idaho. Through his theodolite it looks fuzzy across its back
-edge as if “dipped in cream.” He says it was about the size of a Piper
-Cub airplane and flying point first below the cloud level at between
-2,000 and 4,000 feet. (Emmett (Idaho) Messenger, February 26, 1948;
-Kenneth Arnold, “Are Space Visitors Here?” Fate 1, no. 2 (Summer 1948):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1196
Date: 2/20/1948
-Description: 2:00 a.m. In Palm Beach, Florida, lawyer and writer Charles
-Francis Coe and his son Alan see a globe of light shooting across
-the sky to the northeast at terrific speed. Coe calls it a “ray or blob
-of light” and insists it is not a meteor. (“Mystery
-‘Globe’ Seen by Editor,” Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, February 21, 1948,
-p. 1; “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 1, no. 3 (Fall 1948): 105–113;
-Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952,
-p. 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1195
Date: 3/3/1948
-Description: Maj. Gen. Samuel
-E. Anderson, USAF Director of Plans and Operations at the Pentagon,
-rejects a proposal by Col. Howard
-McCoy and Brig. Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell for stationing fighter aircraft at all bases on continuous
-alert for UFOs. It costs too much and proper interceptions are unlikely.
-He orders all bases to send UFO information to Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio. (Maj. Gen. S. E. Anderson, “Flying
-Discs,” March 3, 1948; Good Above, pp. 263–264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1197
Date: 3/12/1948
-Description: Maj. Earl
-S. Browning Jr., in a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC,
-writes that the Horten brothers have
-been located and interrogated by US officials. Walter Horten has
-remained in Germany as an officer in the German Air Force. He thinks
-that sufficient types of flying wing prototypes existed when the
-Russians invaded Germany and may have served as models for flying discs.
-Reimar Horten had emigrated to Argentina when the war ended. (Jacobsen,
-Area 51, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1198
Date: 3/17/1948
-Description: Memo on “Flying Discs” from Maj. Gen. George
-C. McDonald, director
-of USAF intelligence, to the AMC commander, considers Col. McCoy’s
-proposal to maintain fighters on alert for UFOs “unfeasible.” (Maj.
-Gen. George C. McDonald, “Flying
-Discs,” March 17, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1199
Date: 3/17/1948
-End date: 3/18/1948
-Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Room 3E-869 of
-the Pentagon, with physicist Theodore von
-Kármán presiding. Col. McCoy is
-present and speaks briefly about Project Sign, saying it has over 300
-reports, many of them from experienced observers: “I can’t even tell you
-how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we
-could recover whatever they are.” (Howard McCoy, “Scientific
-Advisory Board Conference
-Held 17–18 March 1948, Room 3E-869, the Pentagon, Washington,
-D.C.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1200
Date: 3/19/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low
-altitude flight prevented any data recovery)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 5.5km
Date: spring 1948
-Description: Ray
-Palmer and Flying magazine editor Curtis
-Fuller publish the first issue of Fate magazine at Clark Publishing
-Company in Chicago, Illinois. It features a first-hand story and a
-30-page UFO roundup by Kenneth Arnold, as
-well as a history of unconventional aircraft by Curtis Fuller. Palmer
-and Fuller use the shared pseudonym “Robert N. Webster.” The issue sells
-a healthy 50,000 copies. It is still being published in 2022. (Kenneth
-Arnold, “I
-Did
-See
-the Flying Disks!” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 4–10; Kenneth
-Arnold, “The Mystery
-of the Flying Disks,” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 18–48; Robert N.
-Webster [Curtis Fuller], “What
-Were the
-‘Doughnuts’?” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 12–17; Clark III
-872)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1203
Date: spring 1948
-Description: Kenneth
-Arnold visits the Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata,
-California, and interviews Kenneth
-W. Ehlers, a
-radar technician (and later physicist) working on airport operational
-systems, including radar. He has been accumulating information on
-unidentified radar targets (he calls them “gizmos”) that cannot be seen
-with the naked eye and sending reports on their flight paths to Navy
-meteorologist Florence
-Van Straten and Luis
-Walter Alvarez, the
-inventor of Ground Control Approach System radar. In many cases, the
-target indicates a small solid target flying around 30 mph. The targets
-always fly in the same path from northwest to southeast, along the
-coast. Sometimes they come to a complete halt; at other times they split
-into two objects, merging later. Ehlers notes that the targets have been
-attributed to insects, but he is skeptical. Later, he suspects they
-might be plasmas occurring at the inversion layer, but that does not
-explain their behavior. (Wesley Price, “The
-Sky Is Haunted,” Saturday Evening Post 220, no. 36 (March 6, 1948):
-13; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1
-(January 1951): 63–81; “Landing
-Aids Experiment Station,” Transocean Air Lines; Greg Long, “In
-Search of Gizmos: A 1947 Radar Case,” IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994):
-15–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1204
Date: spring 1948 (approximate)
-Description: President Truman asks
-Col. Robert
-B. Landry, his
-USAF aide, to provide him with quarterly verbal reports on the state of
-UFO information and research. He does so to the end of 1952, with
-possibly 18 briefings in all. (James R. Fuchs, “Oral
-History Interview with Robert B. Landry,” Harry S. Truman Library
-and Museum, February 28, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1205
Date: 3/23/1948
-Description: RAF pilot John
-Cunningham reaches an altitude of 59,430 feet in a de Havilland
-Vampire turbojet. (Wikipedia, “John
-Cunningham (RAF officer)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1201
Date: 3/25/1948
-Description: IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM,
-radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General
-Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation,
-Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and
-Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team
-meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: link
-Location: Aztec, NM
Date: 3/25/1948
-Description: Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart
-Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest,
-including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The
-Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local
-military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the
-saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four
-Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter
-and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground.
-It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the
-control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on
-Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy.
-Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by
-Virgil Armstrong.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
-Reference: book
-link
-Reference: book
-link
-Reference: book
-link
-Reference: Robert
-Spencer Carr
-Reference: Robert
-Spencer Carr
-Location: Aztec, NM
-See also: 2/13/1948
Date: 3/25/1948
-Description: 5:00 a.m. According to writer Frank
-Scully, who hears the tale from a scientist he refers to as
-“Dr. Gee” and a Texas oilman, a UFO crashes on a rocky plateau off Hart
-Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico. When Air Force investigators and
-government scientists arrive on the scene, they crawl through a broken
-porthole and find the bodies of 16 small humanlike beings (3–3.5 feet
-tall) dressed in the “style of 1890.” Their skin is charred a chocolate
-color, apparently as a result of the rush of terrestrial air through the
-shattered window. After a thorough study, the scientists conclude that
-the “vehicle probably flew on magnetic lines of force.” Segments of the
-craft, as well as the bodies, are supposedly transported to Wright Field
-in Ohio. Dr. Gee, who claims to have been on the scene, said the UFO is
-likely from Venus, as Martians “would probably be three or four times as
-large as human beings.” Soon afterward, a crash occurs in Arizona and 16
-bodies are taken from the wreckage. A third spaceship goes down near
-Phoenix with 2 dead occupants. The story turns out to be a hoax dreamed
-up by two con men named Silas
-Newton and Leo
-GeBauer (“Dr. Gee,” although Scully claims this was a composite
-character incorporating 8 informants, one of whom is said to be
-geophysicist Carl
-A. Heiland). The hoax is loosely based on a 1949 science fiction
-film titled The Flying Saucer. GeBauer and especially Newton are in
-later years involved in various swindles and fraudulent mining claims.
-In 1987, William
-S. Steinman and Wendelle
-C. Stevens release UFO Crash at Aztec, which draws on speculation,
-rumor, unnamed informants, and paranoia to defend and embellish the
-original story. The latest to champion the Aztec crash is a North
-Carolina man named Scott Ramsey, who
-with his wife Suzanne has spent thousands of dollars looking for and
-interviewing witnesses and trying to prove it involves a real UFO crash
-and coverup in his 2015 book The Aztec UFO Incident. Ramsey thinks the
-object was tracked on radar by Air Force Station P-8 near El Vado Dam.
-(Wikipedia, “Aztec,
-New Mexico
-UFO hoax”; Frank Scully, Behind
-the Flying Saucers, Holt,
-1950; J. P. Cahn, “Flying
-Saucers and the Mysterious
-Little Men,” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; J. P. Cahn,
-“Flying
-Saucer Swindlers,” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72; William S.
-Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo
-Archives, 1987; Clark III 1044–1047; William E. Jones and Rebecca D.
-Minshall, “Aztec, New Mexico—A Crash Story Reexamined,” IUR 16, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1991): 11–15, 23; Good Above, pp. 388–394;
-Good Need, pp. 117–123;
-Jerome Clark, review
-of The
-Aztec Incident, in
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 26, no. 3 (2012): 709–716; Scott
-Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey, and Frank Thayer, The Aztec UFO Incident, New
-Page, 2015; Curt Collins, “Flying
-Saucer Swindlers: Silas Newton and the UFO Crash,” The Saucers That
-Time Forgot, April 5, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1202
Date: 4/1948
-Description: Morning. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A.
-Minozewski at the Richmond, Virginia, weather station and his staff
-catch sight of a bright metallic, elliptical disc while they are
-tracking a small ceiling balloon at 15,000 feet. He checks his
-observation through a theodolite telescope. The disc flies just below
-the balloon and remains in sight for 15 seconds, appearing much bigger
-than the balloon. It has a flat, level bottom and a dome on top. It
-remains on a westward heading at high speed, then vanishes off into the
-distance. (Ruppelt, p. 41;
-Bloecher, p. I-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1206
Date: 4/1948 (estimated)
-Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography
-expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with
-Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out
-windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on
-the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and
-scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies.
-Type: witness statement
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 4/1/1948
-Description: 9:55 a.m. USAF 1stLt. Robert W. Meyers is leading a flight
-of four P-47s from the 67th Fighter Group about 9 miles southeast of
-Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines. At 1,500 feet, he notices an unusual
-silvery object about 3 miles to the east. Shaped like a flying wing or
-half-moon with a “turtle back,” it resembles no military craft in use at
-the time. The object flies below the squadron at 200 mph and an altitude
-of about 1,000 feet. Meyers estimates it is about 30 feet wide and 20
-feet long. When he attempts to contact the other three P-47s, he
-realizes his radio is dead. As he makes a 270° left turn to get a closer
-look, the object makes a 90° left turn and moves away at tremendous
-speed. It is only visible for about 5 seconds. (NICAP, “P-47
-Flight Encounters Half-Moon Object”; Sparks, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1207
Date: 4/2/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude
-(Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent
-performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 144km
Date: 4/5/1948
-Description: Afternoon. At Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, New Mexico,
-three highly trained balloon observers (Joseph Olson, Johnson, and
-Chance) are working on a secret project for the Air Force’s Watson
-Laboratories. They see two objects. One observer follows one object, and
-the others follow the second as they diverge. All are certain that the
-objects aren’t balloons. They are large, whitish, roundish, very high,
-faster than any aircraft, and perform rapid, erratic motions. One object
-is lost at a low altitude. The other goes up quickly and seems to just
-disappear. The observation lasts about 30 seconds. The case is deemed
-important enough to send Alfred
-Loedding and one of Clingerman’s
-assistants, Lt. Col. James C. Beam (the head of Project Sign), to New
-Mexico to interview Project Mogul scientist James W. Peoples and the
-other witnesses. Unfortunately, they are gone when Sign arrives. (They
-are later interviewed at the USAF Watson Laboratory complex in Red Bank,
-New Jersey.) The witnesses are very sure of themselves and the case is
-classed as “Unidentified.” While at Holloman, Loedding and Beam talk
-with Lt. Herbert G. Markley, who has worked with the Watson team.
-Markley remembers one of them speaking of unusual radar returns from
-their equipment, but later the Watson personnel say that these were
-probably just “angels” (spurious echoes due to atmospheric
-microstructures, insects, equipment malfunction, or other stimuli).
-Markley does report that UFOs are seen around Holloman often. He himself
-has seen a disc in late August 1947 and flat, round aeroforms on at
-least two further occasions. (NICAP, “Team
-Watches 35-Meter Disc”; Ruppelt, p. 71;
-Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 40–41; Sparks, p. 33;
-Project 1947, “Holloman
-AFB UFO Sightings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1208
Date: 4/5/1948
-Time: Afternoon
-Description: Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson,
-Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three
-loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to
-the west during the 3O^second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 10
Date: 4/5/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained
-balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly
-undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB
-Type: top secret report
-Reference: NICAP — Air
-Intelligence Report — ONI
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Holloman AFB
Date: 4/9/1948
-Description: Viola Johnson of Longview, Washington, and another witness
-see three “flying men” circling the town. She says they are “dressed in
-khaki-colored flying suits with helmets over their faces.” (Clark III
-777)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1209
Date: 4/15/1948
-Description: 6:17 a.m. The X-Ray nuclear device is detonated near
-Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. B-17 pilotless drone aircraft
-are flown through the cloud, and a drone light tank is used to recover
-soil samples from the crater. Unfortunately, it becomes bogged and must
-be towed out 10 days later. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Sandstone”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1210
Date: 4/19/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude
-(Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight
-termination)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 56km
Date: 4/23/1948
-Description: A preliminary 25-page report, written by Project Sign’s
-Col. Howard
-McCoy and Lt. Col. James C. Beam, summarizes UFO reports received
-through February 1, with attached memos and documents. It is addressed
-to Chief of Staff Hoyt
-Vandenberg and Director of Intelligence Charles
-P. Cabell. The Rhodes photos and 99 other cases are listed. A
-comment by chemist Irving
-Langmuir is appended, noting his doubts about the reality of flying
-discs. (Col. Howard M. McCoy, “Project
-Sign,” April 23, 1948; Swords 54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1211
Date: 4/27/1948
-End date: 4/28/1948
-Description: Physicist Joseph
-Kaplan, a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, visits the
-Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations, AEC’s Sandia Base, and
-Los Alamos in New Mexico, under orders from Theodore
-Von Kármán, chairman
-of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, to review UFO reports and
-investigations from the area. Kaplan and Lincoln
-LaPaz meet with security personnel at Los Alamos. Kaplan reports
-that “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United
-States” and should be investigated scientifically.” (Good Above, p. 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1212
Date: 4/30/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr.
-Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored
-sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against
-wind
-Type: top secret report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
Date: 5/1948
-Description: An article on secret Skyhook balloons (without mentioning
-the project name) by Devon
-Francis is published in Popular Science. (Devon Francis, “New
-Balloons Explore Roof of the Airways,” Popular Science, May 1948,
-pp. 98–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1213
Date: 5/5/1948
-Description: An Efficiency Rating report is written up for Alfred
-Loedding from Miles
-E. Goll, which mentions his work as a monitor for Project Sign.
-(Miles E. Goll, “Efficiency
-Rating of Mr. Alfred C. Loedding,” May 5, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1214
Date: 5/7/1948
-Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce
-J. Kaiser and their housekeeper Jean Bray, at 251 W. Waldorf Avenue,
-Memphis, Tennessee, see 50–60 unusual objects, apparently moving very
-high and fast, traveling in straight lines with slight zigzagging. They
-are shiny like bright aluminum with silvery trails. Lt. Col. James C.
-Beam of Project Sign goes to investigate. On the way back, he consults
-with astronomer Paul
-Herget of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio, who thinks the objects
-are meteors and recommends Ohio State University astronomer J.
-Allen Hynek in Columbus as a project consultant. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29; Sparks,
-p. 34; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the
-Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 41; Swords 55–56) May 12 — European Command
-HQ sends the director of intelligence at the US Forces in Austria a memo
-alleging that Walter
-Horten has admitted he has been in contact with the Russians.
-(Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1215
Date: 5/13/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude
-(Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 127.3m
Date: 5/14/1948
-Description: Douglas Aircraft Company creates the RAND Corporation, a
-global think tank to offer research and analysis to the US military. It
-is financed by the US government, endowments, corporations,
-universities, and private individuals. (Wikipedia, “RAND
-Corporation”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1216
Date: 5/15/1948
-Description: A piston-driven YB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first
-and only flight at Edwards AFB in California. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1218
Date: 5/15/1948
-Description: During the Zebra nuclear detonation at Enewetak Atoll in
-the Marshall Islands, a manned aircraft accidentally flies through the
-mushroom cloud. Because the pilot and crew “suffered no ill effects,”
-the Air Force decides that piloted aircraft could collect samples. The
-Los Alamos, New Mexico, personnel assigned to remove the filters from
-the B-17 drones have apparently carried out the same procedure on X-Ray
-and Yoke without problems, but this time three of them suffer radiation
-burns on their hands serious enough to be hospitalized and need skin
-grafting. One of the men who carries out the procedure for Yoke is then
-also found to have burns on his hands and is also hospitalized but is
-discharged on May 28. Once again, the drone tank gives trouble and bogs
-in the crater, but the soil samples are retrieved by the backup drone
-tank. Both tanks are subsequently dumped in the ocean. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Sandstone”; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1217
Date: 5/17/1948
-Description: Day. William A. Bonneville sees a bright white ball, three
-times as bright as a locomotive headlight, sail over the hills to the
-northwest between Plevna and Miles City, Montana. It moves south, then
-west, repeating these maneuvers for 20 minutes until it flies into a
-dark cloud. It is silent, and a long, bright light shoots out from
-beneath. (Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the
-Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 41–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1219
Date: late 5/1948
-Description: 11:40 a.m. Sgt. T. G. Jones and three other officers and
-two crew are aboard a York transport aircraft, accompanied by a
-formation of six Meteor jets, cruising at 10,000 feet above the
-Oxford/Bicester area in England, bound for RAF Acklington. Visiting US
-Maj. Robin
-Olds is in one of the jets. They encounter a 100-foot oval object
-with three bumps or protrusions on the bottom, as Jones describes it
-through binoculars. Ground radar tracks the object, which is stationary
-and above 25,000 feet. Two jets go up to try to get a better look and
-get within a few thousand feet. The object departs vertically at a speed
-of 1,500 mph. (Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1220
Date: 5/27/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude
-(Steady flight with low roll rate)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 139.7
Date: 5/27/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude
-(Steady flight with low roll rate)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 139.7
Date: 5/28/1948
-Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Reserve 1st Lt. Alexander Kokolonis is
-flying a C-47 at 6,000 feet six miles east of Monroe, Michigan, when he
-sees out of the navigator’s window three discs 2 miles to the left. He
-estimates they are 300– 400 feet in diameter, silvery-gold, and
-traveling well over 500 mph. They are seen for only 10–15 seconds.
-Shortly afterwards, Kokolonis sees two similar objects and he alerts
-M/Sgt Ernest Davis Jr., who also sees them. (NICAP, “Air
-Force Transport Buzzed by 3 UFOs”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign
-and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1221
Date: 5/31/1948
-Description: 1:20 p.m. A cigar-shaped object moves through the sky from
-the northwest at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H.
-D. Alspach, Mrs. Charles Colvin, and Mrs. Isabell
-Hufham see the object emit smoke. It appears about 3 feet long. It
-slows down over the Cape Fear River, veers off to the east, and then
-speeds away at a high altitude. (NICAP, “Cigar
-Slows Down Then Speeds Up”; Sparks,
-p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1222
Date: 6/1948 (approximate)
-Description: “Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing
-and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly
-censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in
-private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the
-crash retrieval program.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: US
Date: 6/5/1948
-Description: A jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 crashes north of Muroc [now
-Edwards] AFB in California after completing a number of maximum forward
-center-of-gravity tests, killing its pilot, Maj. Daniel
-Forbes (for whom Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, is named), copilot
-Capt. Glen
-Edwards (for whom Edwards AFB is named), and three other crew
-members. The aircraft suffers structural failure, with both outer wing
-sections becoming detached from the center section. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-YB-49”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1225
Date: 6/11/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude
-(Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 62.3
Date: 6/15/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville
-observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles
-City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of
-conventional aircraft
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E, p481)
-Location: Miles City, MT
Date: 6/16/1948
-Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin is flying at an
-altitude of 6.5 miles above a solid layer of clouds south of the
-Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. He sees an unconventional
-aircraft in the shape of a cucumber with cones of light radiating from
-it descending across his path. The base tells him it has tracked the
-object on radar and given it instructions to land, but it does not
-respond. Apraksin is ordered to intercept it and open fire if it refuses
-to land. When he closes to within 6 miles, the light beams open up like
-a fan and shine into his aircraft, blinding him. The plane’s electrical
-systems malfunction. He glides the plane to a safe landing after the UFO
-disappears. Apraksin is interrogated heavily. (Good Above, p. 221;
-Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February
-1975, pp. 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1226
Date: 6/18/1948
-Description: The National Security Council issues Directive 10/2,
-calling for covert action against the USSR, and granting the authority
-to carry out covert operations against “hostile foreign states or
-groups” that could, if needed, be denied by the US government. To this
-end, the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) is created inside the new
-CIA. Frank
-Wisner, the
-head of the OPC, answers not to the CIA director, but to the secretaries
-of defense, state, and the NSC, and the OPC’s actions are a secret even
-from the head of the CIA. Most CIA stations have two station chiefs, one
-working for the OSO, and one working for the OPC. (“Note
-on U.S. Covert Actions,” from Foreign Relations of the United
-States, 1964–1968, Volume XII, Western Europe, Office of the Historian,
-Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1227
Date: 6/19/1948
-Description: A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet
-Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes
-were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying
-cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that
-blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed
-and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they
-could attract attention.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
Date: summer 1948
-Description: USAF Maj. Edwin
-A. Jerome reports that a high-speed radar target appears during an
-inspection visit at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. It is
-calculated at going 9,000 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet. The
-commanders assume that the US equipment is faulty, but the Canadians
-have tracked the same target. The following day, an object hovers over
-the base at 45,000 feet and moving only 10 mph. (NICAP, “Edwin Jerome
-Radar Case”; UFOEv, pp. 83–84;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 151–152; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO
-Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 51–52; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 264) Summer [possibly 1958] — Early
-afternoon. Aircraft instrumentation engineer Victor
-G. Didelot watches an elliptical UFO moving rapidly west to east
-roughly parallel to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It
-suddenly and silently ascends vertically at three times its horizontal
-speed and disappears. (UFOEv, pp. 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1223
Date: summer 1948
-Description: Physicist Carl
-A. Mitchell sees three luminescent greenish discs, one second apart,
-passing across the sky above Easton, Pennsylvania, from north to south.
-(UFOEv, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1224
Date: 6/29/1948
-Description: ATIC’s chief of operations, C. A. Griffith, writes to a
-military representative in Norway to send all UFO reports to
-Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1948, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1228
Date: 6/30/1948
-Description: A couple are driving near Hecla, South Dakota, when they
-see an unusual star. They stop the car and get out, but it is not
-moving. They drive on and stop again. A few pieces break off the
-original star and arrange themselves in a triangle formation. They all
-now look like polished aluminum; they rise to a great height and vanish.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 45–46; Sparks,
-p. 35; Swords 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1229
Date: 7/1948
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Former Air Force pilot Don Newman and three
-friends watch a disc-shaped, domed UFO, about 100 feet in diameter,
-maneuvering over Pasco, Washington. “The exterior finish appears to be
-spun or burnished aluminum.” The object slows, then accelerates rapidly,
-dives, and climbs over the area. (UFOEv, p. 38;
-NICAP, “Summary
-of letter from Witness to Major Keyhoe, dated March 10, 1958”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1230
Date: 7/1948
-Time: Shortly after sunset
-Description: Or August, 1948. Witness: Max Abbott, flying a Bellanca
-Cruisair four-passenger private airplane. A single bright white light
-accelerated and turned up a valley.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: vicinity of Marion, Virginia
-ID: 13
Date: 7/1/1948
-Description: A Maj. Hammer is flying above Rapid City AFB [now Ellsworth
-AFB], South Dakota, when he sees 21 brilliant, yellow-white, oval-shaped
-objects. They are about 100 feet in diameter and flying in a tight
-diamond formation. They make a high-speed dive, level, make a perfect
-turn in formation, angle upwards at 30°–40°, and accelerate out of
-sight. He estimates their cruising speed at 500 mph. (Swords 57–58; Sparks,
-p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1231
Date: 7/1/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer,
-Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks
-were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph.
-Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of
-sight
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base
Date: 7/4/1948
-Description: Day. Edward E. Thompson watches a brilliant spherical UFO
-for five minutes while sitting in Johnson Park in Camden, New Jersey,
-across from the Cooper Free Public Library. (“Report
-from the Readers,” Fate 1, no. 4 (Winter 1949): 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1232
Date: 7/7/1948
-Description: A silver, disc-shaped object allegedly crashes some 30
-miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas. US servicemen are reportedly
-dispatched from a nearby military base to cordon off the UFO crash site
-until a special US retrieval team arrives to examine the wreckage and
-carry it away to a military base in San Antonio, Texas. Supposedly the
-badly burned body of a nonhuman entity is recovered from the crash site.
-Ufologist Leonard
-Stringfield hears rumors of the crash in 1977, but few further
-details emerge. Early in 1978, Stringfield describes the humanoid found
-at the crash site as “about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless,
-with hands that had no thumbs.” That description seems to fit the body
-shown in two photographs that are mailed to Willard F. McIntyre in
-December 1978. The body depicted in the photos sent to McIntyre has come
-to be known as the “Tomato Man” due to its large, roundish head. Many
-UFO researchers, including Ron
-Schaffner and Kevin
-Randle, believe the body is that of a human pilot who is badly
-disfigured by intense heat following a plane crash. They argue that one
-of the photos shows a pair of eyeglasses, such as a human pilot would
-wear, near the body. (William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO
-Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1986, pp. 402–422; Kevin D. Randle,
-A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p. 188;
-Good Above, pp. 397–398;
-“Laredo
-1948,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 8, 2009; Noe
-Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas–
-Mexico Border, Roswell Books, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1233
Date: 7/9/1948
-Description: Caramia and Carpenter, two officers of the USAF 72nd
-Reconnaissance Group, are fishing at Fielding Lake, Alaska, when they
-hear a loud roar and notice about 20 gray discs or spheres moving at 500
-mph in loose formation from west-northwest to east-southeast at about
-5,000 feet. (Barry Greenwood, “The
-Estimate of the Situation:
-Well, Not Exactly!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 (July 2015):
-5–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1234
Date: 7/9/1948
-Description: 9:47 p.m. While on the ground in Osborn, Ohio, the USAF
-Project Sign officer who had flown to investigate the Hecla case, sees a
-self-luminous, yellow-white object flying at 500–600 mph. It seems to
-pulse its lights at 3- second intervals as it moves away. (Swords 58; Sparks, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1235
Date: 7/14/1948
-Description: Day. Charles
-W. Shangle Jr. watches two groups of about 16 UFOs maneuvering at
-300–600 mph over Boise, Idaho. Two of the objects exhibit a “falling
-leaf” motion. (“True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 1 (May 1949):
-75–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1236
Date: 7/17/1948
-Description: 4:50 p.m. Two Kirtland AFB sergeants on a fishing trip with
-their families five miles south of San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico,
-see a group of 7 aluminum-like, spherical objects approach from the
-south at 20,000 feet pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They first appear like
-snub-nosed jet fighters of an unknown type, shifting from V -ormation to
-L-formation to circular formation to no regular formation. A regular
-pulsating flashing light appears in the group at 30° from zenith to the
-north, and at this oblique angle the objects do not appear circular.
-There is no noise or trail. (NICAP, “Two
-Military Families Report Seven Objects”; Swords 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1237
Date: 7/17/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB
-reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia,
-N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O”
-after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Kirtland Air Force Base
Date: 7/20/1948
-Description: The Netherlands government reports that a wingless,
-cigar-shaped object with two decks of windows is seen flying rapidly on
-four separate occasions by two Dutch citizens over The Hague (and/or
-Arnhem). (NICAP, “High V-2-Like
-Craft Observed”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1238
Date: 7/20/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and
-his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO
-sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Netherlands
-See also: 7/25/48
Date: 7/21/1948
-Description: The USAF Research and Development division sends a formal
-letter to the RAND Corporation authorizing them to select scientists to
-evaluate the possibility that the flying discs might be human-built
-spaceships. RAND’s reply is not known. (Swords 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1239
Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: 1:45 a.m. A bright object is seen at Robins AFB in Houston
-County, Georgia, by ground maintenance crewman Walter Massey, who sees a
-“stream of fire” in the north. As it moves overhead, it seems more
-cylindrical. It moves off to the west. (NICAP, “July
-24, 1948, 0250E, Warner Robins AFB, Georgia”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1240
Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July
-24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted,
-claimed to have observed a “glowing object” pass by their plane before
-it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object
-closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said
-they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed
-before it pulled “up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear
-and zoomed up into the clouds.” They observed the object for a total of
-ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object
-“looked like a wingless aircraft…it seemed to have two rows of windows
-through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium
-flare.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: 2:45 a.m. Capt. Clarence
-S. Chiles and copilot John
-B. Whitted are flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 at 5,000 feet, 20
-miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, when they see an object about
-100 feet long moving rapidly toward them on their right. Torpedo-shaped
-and wingless, the object has flames jetting 50 feet from its rear. There
-are two rows of square windows through which a bright light is glowing.
-They only see it for 5–10 seconds. It is half a mile away and moving at
-about 700 mph. After it passes the plane it swoops into a cloud bank at
-6,000 feet. One passenger, Clarence
-L. McKelvie of
-Columbus, Ohio, also sees it. (Wikipedia, “Chiles-Whitted
-UFO Encounter”;
-NICAP, “Chiles-Whitted
-Case”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers,
-Palmer, 1952, pp. 90–91; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 42–43; Clark III 234–236; UFOEv, p. 48;
-Sparks,
-p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the
-Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 46–47; Swords 58–60; Good Above, pp. 264, 479;
-Joel Carpenter, “Watershed:
-The Chiles-Whitted ‘Rocketship’ Sighting,” 2002; Martin Shough, “Analysis
-of the Chiles-Whitted
-Sightings, July 24, 1948,” February 2011; Kevin D. Randle, “Chiles/Whitted
-and Skepticism,” A Different Perspective, January 21, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1241
Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Date: 7/25/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern
-Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass
-their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited
-visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description:
-Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a
-V-2.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: US
-See also: 7/20/48
-See also: 8/3/48
-See also: 1/31/50
Date: 7/25/1948
-Description: Chief of Air Force Intelligence Gen. Charles
-Cabell phones McCoy’s
-office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Sign is ordered to get into the
-field immediately and investigate the Chiles-Whitted case. By that
-afternoon, Loedding, Deyarmond, and
-Llewellyn (now
-apparently director of Project Sign) are flown by Capt. Clarence
-Groseclose to Atlanta, Georgia. (Sparks, p. 13;
-Swords 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1242
Date: 7/26/1948
-Description: Aeronautical engineer Molt
-Taylor speculates to the Associated Press that “If we can build such
-craft, what is to prevent others from doing so, assuming that a similar
-order of intelligence exists on other planets? You and I may see the day
-when we will be united with Russia defending this planet against attack
-from space.” (“It
-May Be Men
-from Mars, Expert Says of ‘Saucers,’” San Francisco Examiner, July
-28, 1948, p. 32; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1948, Supplemental
-Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1244
Date: 7/26/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude
-(Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll
-began at 70s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 86.9
Date: 7/26/1948
-Description: Loedding, Deyarmond, and
-Llewellyn interview
-Chiles and
-Whitted in
-the Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. They are impressed with their
-account. Mulling the case through September, Project Sign is disturbed
-even more than the Mantell incident,
-according to Ruppelt. Capt. Sneider considers
-the shape aerodynamically feasible; consultant J.
-Allen Hynek says it might be a fireball but considers that
-“far-fetched.” (Swords 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1243
Date: 7/27/1948
-Description: Air Intelligence Memorandum on “Pattern of Flying Saucers”
-requires that a study be made by the Air Intelligence Division to
-examine the pattern of tactics of reported UFOs and develop conclusions
-as to their probability. This leads to the EEI “Analysis of Flying
-Object Incidents in the United States” (100-203-79) of December 10. The
-JIC report gives the incorrect date as August 6. (Col. Brooke E. Allen,
-“Analysis
-of Flying Object
-Incidents in the U.S.,” October 11, 1948; “Report
-by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence
-Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Jan
-L. Aldrich, “New
-Top Secret Document
-Revealed,” Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1245
Date: 7/29/1948
-Description: 9:18 a.m. James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of
-an Indianapolis, Indiana, rug cleaning firm, are in a truck headed west
-when they see a shiny, propeller-shaped, aluminum object with 10–12
-small cups protruding from either blade. It is 6–8 feet long and flying
-silently above the trees at 30 feet altitude some 300 feet away heading
-south. It approaches to about 100 feet at its closest. The object glides
-across the road at 25–30 mph in a slight descent then makes a 20° bank
-to the east and goes down in a wooded area. Toney and Huggins stop the
-truck and get out to look, but the object has disappeared behind trees.
-A later search finds no traces. (NICAP, “Close
-Encounter with ‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object”; Sparks,
-p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1246
Date: 7/29/1948
-Time: 9:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: James Toney, Robert Huggins, both employees of a
-rug cleaning firm. One shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an
-airplane’s propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either
-blade. Estimated size 6-8’ long, 1.5-2’ wide. The object glided across
-the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently
-went down in a wooded area. Sighting lasted a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 11
Date: 7/29/1948
-Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 65
Date: 7/31/1948
-Description: 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
-Swigert of south-central Indianapolis, Indiana, see a cymbal-shaped
-or domed- disc object to the west of their home. It is about 20 feet
-across, 6–8 feet thick, white without any shine but shadowing on upper
-right. It flies straight and level from horizon to horizon, west to east
-heading 90°. They estimate its altitude as 2,000 feet covering a
-distance of 5 miles in 10 seconds. It shimmers in the sun as if
-spinning, is silent, and has no trail. (NICAP, “Cymbal-Shaped
-Object Observed by Couple”; Sparks,
-p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1247
Date: 7/31/1948
-Time: 8:25 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he was an
-electrician. Object was shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20’
-across and 6-8’ thick, and was white without any shine. It flew straight
-and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the
-sun as if spinning.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 12
Date: 8/3/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over
-Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two
-Eastern Airlines pilots.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Moscow
-See also: 7/25/48
Date: 8/5/1948
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km
-altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 165.7km
Date: 8/5/1948
-Description: This date given by Edward
-Ruppelt for the lost “Estimate of the Situation,” in which Project
-Sign concludes that UFOs are interplanetary, is probably too early. See
-September 30.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1248
Date: 8/11/1948
-Time: 1200
-Description: Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object
-70 cm in diameter, 30 cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a
-metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid Phone
-lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from
-St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs
-of extreme pressure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hamel, Minnesota
-ID: 66
Date: 8/15/1948
-Description: Morning. Future ufologist Walter
-H. Andrus Jr., his wife Genevieve, and son Donald see four UFOs
-flying in formation east to west over downtown, Phoenix, Arizona. They
-simply vanish in sequence, then the first three reappear one at a time
-in the northwest where they pass out of sight to the west. (Story, pp. 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1249
Date: 8/19/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude
-(Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 13.4km
Date: 8/21/1948
-Description: A possible Russian rocket trail is seen over Katrineholm,
-Sweden, that remains visible for three hours “resembling a brilliant
-star surrounded by streamers of fire like the tentacles of an octopus.”
-However, there is no known record of a launch on this date of a V-2 or
-R-1 missile from the Russian base at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast,
-Russia. It may be the same object viewed by Swedish Armed Forces Supreme
-Commander Helge
-Jung of an “aerial explosion considered to be some form of guided
-missile originating from Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel.” (“‘Sky
-Octopus’ Seen above Swedish Town,” Richmond (Ind.) Palladium-Item,
-August 23, 1948, p. 2; “Sky Octopus over Sweden,” Fate 2, no. 1 (May
-1949): 35; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4
-(Winter 1998): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1250
Date: 8/29/1948
-Time: 0503
-Description: A farmer observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise
-from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery
-substance that disintegrated before touching the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Maplewood, Ohio
-ID: 67
Date: 9/1948
-Description: About this time Capt. Robert
-R. Sneider becomes a co-chief of Project Sign with Lt. Howard W.
-Smith. (Sparks, pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1251
Date: 9/1/1948
-Description: The CIA Office of Policy Coordination is formally
-established with the responsibility to engage in “propaganda, economic
-warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage,
-demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states,
-including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and
-refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist
-elements in threatened countries of the free world.” (Wikipedia, “Office
-of Policy Coordination”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1252
Date: 9/2/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude
-(Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 150.6km
Date: 9/12/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and
-Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a
-blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon
-withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Midway
Date: 9/15/1948
-Description: USAF Maj. Dick
-Johnson reaches an official airspeed record of 671 mph (slightly
-more than Yeager’s
-first record) in a North American F-86A-3 Sabre at Muroc [now Edwards]
-AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “North American
-F-86 Sabre”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1253
Date: 9/16/1948
-Description: Before dawn. Fred Scott, 63, is walking around Grassy
-Mountain, Malheur County, Oregon, when he looks up and sees two “flying
-persons” to the south. They are 150–250 feet up, one following the other
-at a distance of 8–10 feet. Their wings are narrow and rounded at the
-tip and do not flap. Their legs are unusually short. They remain visible
-while Scott walks for at least another mile. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1940–1949, p. 43;
-Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1254
Date: 9/23/1948
-Description: 9:40 a.m. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, a
-group of people are waiting for an airplane at the landing strip when
-one of them notices something glint in the sun. It is a flat, circular
-object, high in the northern sky. The appearance and relative size is
-the same as a dime held edgewise and slightly tipped, about 50 feet
-away. (NICAP, “Flat
-Dime On-Edge Observed by Lab Personnel”; Sparks,
-p. 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1255
Date: 9/23/1948
-Time: 12 noon
-Description: Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Col.
-Horace Eakins. Two objects: one, a buff or grey rectangle with vertical
-lines; the other a translucent “amoeba” with a dark spot near the
-center. The arms of the “amoeba” undulated. Both objects travelled very
-fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Pablo, California
-ID: 14
Date: 9/26/1948
-Description: 2:00 p.m. P. L. Lewis sees a white object moving rapidly
-across the sky at Port Hope, Ontario, then disappear when it is nearly
-overhead. Other white objects follow at about 50 mph in a northeasterly
-direction, accompanied by strands of spider web. Lewis speculates that
-the objects are balls of spiders’ threads, held together by thistledown.
-(P. R. Bishop, “Cobwebs or Flying Saucers?” Weather 4 (1949): 121–122;
-Philip J. Imbrogno, Files from the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s
-Explorations into High Strangeness, Llewellyn, 2010, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1256
Date: 9/30/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude
-(Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 150.3km
Date: 9/30/1948 (approximate)
-Description: Project Sign officer Capt. Robert
-R. Sneider has decided that the time has come to climax Project
-Sign’s task and write the required “Estimate of the Situation.” Every
-intelligence operation’s task is ultimately to present such a best-guess
-summary, strongly backed with as much fact as possible. Using the
-Chiles-Whitted case as the core and collecting around it many cases from
-the summer of 1947 to September 1948, Sneider composes the document. The
-most recent case known to have been listed in the document is the
-September 23 Los Alamos National Laboratory sighting in New Mexico. Two
-prominent USAF intelligence officers (Ruppelt and
-Dewey
-J. Fournet Jr.)
-see the document in 1952. “It was a rather thick document with a black
-cover and it was printed on legal-sized paper. Stamped across the front
-were the words TOP SECRET.” Ruppelt says the Estimate concludes that the
-best evidence indicated an extraterrestrial origin for UFOs. Sneider is
-probably the primary author. Deyarmond,
-Loedding, and
-Truettner almost
-certainly are part of the writing. Llewellyn certainly
-looks in. All these people, as well as higher-ups in Clingerman’s
-and McCoy’s
-offices, must approve it, at least in some sense. And an Estimate of
-UFOs as extraterrestrial is no small thing to assent to. The Estimate is
-probably addressed to Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg, but it really is meant for Director of Intelligence
-Gen. Charles
-Cabell. It
-is probably sent near the end of September, just before the George
-Gorman “UFO dogfight” in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 1. It
-probably lands in Garrett’s
-Collections office and is hand-carried to Cabell. Cabell may or may not
-be shocked. With a pro-ETH Wright-Patterson intelligence group on one
-side, an anti-ETH Pentagon Intelligence Requirements Office on the
-other, and open-minded collections officers and the powerful Research
-and Development chief (Gen. Donald
-L. Putt) in between, Cabell doesn’t want to decide this on his own.
-He hands the Estimate further upstairs to Vandenberg himself, who
-rejects it and bats it back to Cabell with a strong sense of
-disapproval. Ruppelt adds that some months later the Estimate is
-completely declassified and “all but a few copies” are destroyed.
-(Ruppelt, p. 45;
-Clark III 436–437; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of
-the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 48–51; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 13–14;
-Michael D. Swords, “The Lost Words of Edward Ruppelt,” IUR 20, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1995): 14–15; Swords 62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1257
Date: 10/1948
-Description: Vannevar
-Bush resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board,
-passing the job on to Karl Taylor
-Compton. (Michael
-Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered
-Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1258
Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F.
-Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him
-while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which
-took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed
-the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the
-UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
-Location: North Dakota
Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: 8:30 p.m. 2d Lieut. George
-F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard, flying an F-51 near
-Fargo, North Dakota, spots an object traveling east to west. He
-describes it as a light 6–8 inches in diameter displaying incredible
-movements. He repeatedly gives chase beginning at 9:07 p.m., but each
-time is outmaneuvered by the light, which moves up to 600 mph. On his
-first pass he gets as close as 500 feet from the light at about 5,000
-feet altitude. Gorman climbs to 14,000 feet but stalled out, unable to
-intercept the light, which is at about 16,000 feet. The light makes
-evasive and aggressive maneuvers, such as seeming to try to ram the
-F-51. When it drops to 11,000 feet, Gorman attempts to dive at it, but
-the light pulls up, rises vertically, and disappears at high speed. The
-light is also seen by airport control tower operators Lloyd
-D. Jensen and Manuel E. Johnson, as well as others on the ground and
-pilot Arthur
-E. Cannon flying a Piper Cub at 1,600 feet. Jensen watches the
-dogfight through 6x30 binoculars, the UFO appearing perfectly round with
-sharp edges and no fuzzy outline. Project Sign personnel arrive within
-hours and interview the witnesses. Eventually they conclude the object
-was a balloon, with evasive maneuvers the product of Gorman’s
-imagination, since ground observers do not see anything comparable. Some
-ufologists, among them Aimé
-Michel and James
-E. McDonald, have rejected the balloon explanation. (Wikipedia, “Gorman
-dogfight”; NICAP, “Gorman
-(Fargo) Case”; Ruppelt, pp. 41–43;
-Sparks,
-p. 39; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the
-Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 138; Clark III
-536–537)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1260
Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: The first Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication (JANAP)
-146, based on Bernard Baruch Jr.’s CIRES system, is issued. It consists
-of instructions for military and civilian personnel on how to report
-sightings of enemy aircraft, missiles, submarines, and surface vessels.
-This version does not include UFOs. It is tabled shortly afterward by
-Maj. Gen. Cabell. (Antonio
-F. Rullán, “Blue
-Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships: Analysis of the Blue
-Book Ship Database,” December 10, 2002, pp. 8–9; Swords 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1259
Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Date: 10/7/1948
-Description: A set of letters, composed not by Sneider but
-actually by Samuel
-Z. Hunnicutt, a member of T-2 and the Sign team, and approved by MCI
-heavyweights McCoy, Clingerman, and
-Leland
-Money, goes out to the CIA, US Army Intelligence, and the Office of
-Naval Intelligence. The query: What domestic technological developments
-do you know of that might explain UFOs and help us differentiate them
-from inimical (Soviet) foreign developments? (Michael D. Swords,
-“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000):
-50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1262
Date: 10/7/1948
-Description: A document from Project Sign to Garrett and
-Cabell is
-an upbeat Sneider report
-on the initial investigation of the Gorman dogfight,
-making the object sound extremely unusual and intelligent in behavior.
-This is almost like a supplement to the Estimate. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000):
-50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1261
Date: 10/12/1948
-Alternate date: 10/22/1948
-Description: Project Sign’s Col. William
-R. Clingerman writes a letter to USAF Chiefs of Staff requesting a
-study of UFOs by the RAND Corporation, similar to the one made by USAF
-R&D in July, especially the possibility that “some of the
-unidentified aerial objects that have been reported both in the United
-States and in foreign lands may have been experimental
-spaceships. it is believed more likely that they represent the
-effort of a foreign nation, rather than a product from beyond the
-Earth.” (Col. W. R. Clingerman, “Request
-for Study by Rand
-Project,” October 12(?), 1948; Swords 58, 492–493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1263
Date: 10/15/1948
-Description: An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and
-tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from
-200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped
-like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p235)
-Location: Japan
Date: 10/15/1948
-Time: 11:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill of a
-P-61 “Black Widow” night fighter. Up to six objects tracked on radar,
-only one seen visually. Dull or dark object shaped like a dirigible with
-a flat bottom and clipped tail end. Six seen on radar separately Pilot
-attempted to close on visual object, but it dove away fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fusuoka, Japan
-ID: 15
Date: 10/15/1948
-Description: 11:05 p.m. On night patrol, 1st Lt. Oliver
-“Bud” Hemphill Jr. of the 68th Fighter Squadron is flying a Northrup
-F-61 Black Widow some 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, Japan, when the
-crew picks up an object on radar going 200 mph. As he closes to
-intercept, the object speeds up to 1,200 mph then slows down again. The
-plane tries closing in six times, but each time the object speeds away.
-On one pass the crew sees the object’s silhouette, which looks like a
-“rifle bullet” 20–30 feet long. The object “seems cognizant of the
-whereabouts of the F-61 at all times.” Radar operator Barton Halter
-thinks it is a “new type of aircraft.” (NICAP, “F-61
-’Black Widow’
-Radar Case”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 69–70; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 134–137;
-Sparks,
-p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1264
Date: late 1948
-Description: The search for a suitable US location for nuclear testing,
-codenamed “Project Nutmeg,” commences under the direction of expert
-meteorologist and Navy Captain Howard B. Hutchinson. The government is
-looking for a place where nuclear tests would have little impact on the
-American people or the American economy. Five primary sites are
-considered: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided
-Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka;
-the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range (the site finally chosen
-in 1950, now part of Nellis Air Force Base); and the Pamlico Sound area
-off the coast of North Carolina. (“Project
-Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear
-Security Administration, June 2004; Philip Howard, “Project
-Nutmeg,” Village Craftsmen, April 21, 2012; Diane Tennant, “How
-Outer Banks Almost Became a Nuclear Test Site,” Norfolk
-Virginian-Pilot, January 27, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1267
Date: 10/20/1948
-Description: The US Air Force Security Service is activated at Arlington
-Hall in Washington, D.C., with the mission of cryptology and
-communications security. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Air Force Security Service”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1265
Date: 10/29/1948
-Description: Five US Air Force pilots observe a silvery object over
-Neubiberg Air Base [now closed] near Munich, Germany. The object
-disappears at a terrific speed after having remained over the air base
-more than 30 minutes. A similar object is seen days before by another
-group of American pilots. (Jan Aldrich, “Early
-Top Secret UFO Document
-Discovered,” 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1266
Date: 11/1948
-Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico
-Type: anomalous phenomenon
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 11/1/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude
-(Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 4.8km
Date: 11/1/1948
-Description: Radar operator M/Sgt Francis H. Mills at Goose Bay AFB [now
-CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, tracks an object too large for a bird, too
-small for a plane, flying at 60 mph. Not confirmed visually. (NICAP, “600
-MPH Track
-at Goose Bay”; NICAP, “October
-29, October 30, and November 1, 1948, Incident Nos. 188, 195, and
-196: Goose
-Bay, Labrador,” June 28, 2009; Sparks, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1268
Date: 11/3/1948
-Description: Against most predictions, Harry
-S. Truman wins the US presidential election against Republican Thomas
-E.
-Dewey. Secretary
-of Defense James
-Forrestal, like everyone else, expects to have a new boss in
-January. His relationship with Air Force Secretary Stuart
-Symington has deteriorated, and he has not obtained a budget
-consensus from the Joint Chiefs. His mental health, physical condition,
-and authority are deteriorating. He is convinced that “foreign-looking
-men” are following him and that Symington is spying on him. Secret
-Service Chief Urbanus
-E. Baughman begins to think Forrestal is suffering from a “total
-psychotic breakdown.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1269
Date: 11/3/1948
-Description: Gen. Charles
-Cabell writes a firm letter to Wright Field in Ohio, asking Project
-Sign for another Estimate. It is possibly composed by Maj. Aaron
-“Jere” Boggs or Col. Edward
-H. Porter at the USAF Defensive Air Branch. While admitting that the
-objects seem real, it also cautions that they are not identified. (Read:
-You may not identify them as extraterrestrial craft.) (Maj. Gen. C. P.
-Cabell, “Flying
-Object Incidents in the United States,” November 3, 1948; Michael D.
-Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7
-(2000): 50– 51, 62; Swords 62, 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1270
Date: 11/4/1948
-Description: A USAF Europe document transmits some information on the
-Swedish ghost rockets. “They have been reported by so many sources and
-from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be
-disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps
-slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.” One of
-the objects was observed crashing into a lake by Swedish Gen. Helge
-Jung and his party. A salvage operation was unsuccessful. USAF
-officers visit Swedish Air Intelligence officials who have reached the
-conclusion that “these phenomena are obviously the result of a high
-technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture
-on earth.” The document is distributed to the CIA (which in response to
-a FOIA request claims no record), Armament Intelligence Branch, and AMC.
-(“USAFE
-14, TT 1524, Top Secret,” November 4, 1948; Jan Aldrich, “Early
-Top Secret UFO Document Discovered,” 2000; Swords 62–63; Good Need,
-p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1271
Date: 11/6/1948
-Description: Two UFOs, maneuvering like planes in a dogfight, are
-tracked on USAF radar over Wakkanai, Japan. (NICAP, “Target
-Circles Radar Site”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 34;
-Sparks, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1272
Date: 11/8/1948
-Description: A letter is sent with Col. McCoy’s
-signature to Gen. Cabell. Written
-by Sign operative Albert
-Deyarmond, it
-is overtly submissive but covertly rebellious. It contains several
-comments agreeing with Cabell that the UFO phenomenon is not
-identifiable and that no concrete physical proof exists to identify it.
-At the same time it drops all sorts of hints, doubtless the same
-arguments used in the original Estimate, that the objects really are
-extra- terrestrial whether the Pentagon thinks so or not: It mentions
-the ETH; it mentions plotting waves against planetary approaches and
-finding a correlation; it mentions the books of Charles
-Fort as indicating that this has been going on for at least a
-century; it mentions that odd shapes (like the Chiles-Whitted case) can
-fly but require more advanced power plants than we have. (Col. H. M.
-McCoy, “Flying
-Object Incidents in the United States,” November 8, 1948; Michael D.
-Swords, “The McCoy Letter,” IUR 22, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 12–17, 27;
-Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 51, 63–64; Swords 62, 65, 494– 496)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1273
Date: 11/12/1948
-Description: Project Sign personnel travel to the National Bureau of
-Standards in Washington, D.C., to attempt to convince Cabell and
-Vandenberg on
-the ETH. It includes Sneider,
-and perhaps Deyarmond,
-Loedding,
-Truettner,
-and McCoy. On
-the Pentagon side, Boggs and
-Cabell are
-there and perhaps Vandenberg, and they are having none of the ETH. Back
-at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, Deyarmond and Truettner begin writing a
-sanitized Project Sign report. More scientific oversight is requested
-for Sign personnel. The Scientific Advisory Board and George Valley of
-MIT are to be made aware of all cases. So too are Boggs’s office, ONI,
-and maybe even the NBS. Hynek is
-to be formally commissioned for an assessment, as well as Irving
-Langmuir and Project Rand. (Col. H. M. McCoy, “Transmittal
-of Project ‘SIGN’ Incident Summaries,” November 12, 1948; Swords 65;
-Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,”
-JUFOS 7 (2000): 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1274
Date: mid 11/1948
-Description: Late afternoon. Clifford
-DeWitt Fife hears a whirring in the air near Nevada, Missouri. He
-looks up and sees a hovering, disc-like object. Two bright objects drop
-down out of the disc about 200–300 feet, then speed off to the
-southwest. The large object moves off to the northeast. (Nevada (Mo.)
-Daily Mail, November 30, 1948; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A
-Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1275
Date: 11/18/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude
-(First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload
-section. Nominal performance.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 145.3km
Date: 11/18/1948
-Description: Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files:
-at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped
-UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph
-to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes.
-The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform
-tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and
-evasive movements.”
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)
-Location: Andrews AFB
Date: 11/18/1948
-Description: 10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. Henry
-G. Combs is flying a T-6 Texas combat trainer when he sees an object
-flying west to east over Andrews AFB, Maryland. It has one continuously
-glowing white light. He makes a pass to check on it, but it takes
-evasive action and he duels with it for 10 minutes. The object performs
-very tight curves and quick accelerations to 600 mph. (NICAP, “The
-Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter”; Sparks,
-p. 42; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988,
-pp. 236–237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1276
Date: 11/23/1948
-Description: Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is
-an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over
-a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and
-visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000
-ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed
-quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p237)
-Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Date: 11/23/1948
-Description: 10:00 p.m. US Army Col. William P. Hayes sees a bright
-white, round light “larger than a basketball” descend slowly as he is
-driving 10 miles east of Vaughan, New Mexico. It explodes without a
-sound some 400– 500 feet above the ground. (NICAP, “Another
-Object in Vertical Descent Explodes near Colonel”; Sparks,
-p. 43; Clark III 539)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1277
Date: 11/23/1948
-Description: 10:20 p.m. The first [although see October 15] documented
-radar-visual UFO case takes place at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in
-Bavaria, Germany. A UFO is seen circling at 27,000 feet. An F-80 pilot
-sent to intercept it describes it as bright red. It climbs abruptly to
-50,000 feet at 900 mph. A second F-80 pilot verifies the report. (NICAP,
-“Grnd
-Visual / Grnd Radar Track Object at 27,000ʹ”; Ruppelt, p. 46;
-Sparks,
-p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1278
Date: 11/24/1948
-Description: Writer Sidney Shalett has asked for USAF cooperation in
-writing an article on UFOs for the Saturday Evening Post. In a
-“Memorandum for the Record,” the USAF Directorate of Intelligence
-indicates that “publicity of this nature is undesirable but, if such
-articles are written, they will be less harmful to the national interest
-if a degree of guidance in their preparation is exercised.” Signed
-November 24 by Cabell, Director
-of Intelligence. ([Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell], “Memorandum
-for Record,” November 24, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1279
Date: 11/30/1948
-Description: Maj. Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell, in
-an Air Staff Summary Sheet, admits that he has tried to dissuade the
-press from publishing articles like Shalett’s. Cabell has asked
-Secretary Forrestal for
-permission to feed Shalett some statistics, but the memo is apparently
-never sent. (Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Publicity
-on Flying Saucer Incidents,”
-Air Staff Summary Sheet, November 30, 1948; “Memorandum
-for Mr. Forrestal” [unsent])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1280
Date: 11/30/1948
-Description: Letter from Howard
-McCoy at AMC Dayton to Commanding General, Air Defense Command,
-Mitchel AFB [now closed], Long Island, New York. “It is requested that
-all reports of unusual sightings by radar stations of your command be
-made directly to this Headquarters by the most expeditious means.”
-(NICAP, “1948
-UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1281
Date: 11/30/1948
-Description: An interim report by Project Sign, one that apparently
-takes seriously the possibility that UFOs represent interplanetary
-probes, is accidentally destroyed. USAF Intelligence later requests a
-replacement copy from TID at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. A recent FOIA
-to the National Archives answers that such a document would be in
-Project Blue Book files, but it is not. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1282
Date: 12/1948
-Description: A first-strike war plan (Sizzle) is developed to use 133
-nuclear aerial bombs against 70 cities of the USSR. (“Nuclear
-‘Pincher’: The START II Treaty, the American ‘Escalation of Superiority’
-Strategy, and Russia’s Strategic
-Nuclear Forces,” from Sovetskaya Rossiya, April 8, 1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1283
Date: 12/1948
-Description: Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted
-under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and
-MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK.
-(Capt. Ruppelt?)
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 3/52
Date: 12/3/1948
-Time: 8:15 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Sgt., control tower operator. One round,
-white light flew for 25 seconds with varying speed, bouncing motion, and
-finally a rapid erratic climb.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, California
-ID: 16
Date: 12/3/1948
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Sgt. Bruce
-Earlin McFarland, control
-tower operator at Fairfield-Suisun AFB [now Travis AFB] at Fairfield,
-California, watches for 25 seconds a round, white light fly with
-variable speed (200–400 mph) and a bouncing motion, finally disappearing
-after a rapid, erratic climb to 20,000 feet. (NICAP, “Fairfield-Suisun
-AFB, Dec. 3,
-1948, UFO Report”; Sparks,
-p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1284
Date: 12/5/1948
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Pilot Capt. William
-R. Goade is flying a USAF C-47 from Denver to Phoenix. Just west of
-Las Vegas, New Mexico, he and his copilot Maj. Roger Carter spot a
-bright green flash. Some 22 minutes later, an identical flash rises from
-the east slope of Sandia Peak and follows a parabolic curve as the C-47
-passes 20 miles northeast of Albuquerque. Capt. Ernest Van Lloyd and the
-crew of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 also see the second object, described
-as first orange, then green. (NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 8: AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar to Green
-Flare”; Clark III 539; Sparks,
-p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1285
Date: 12/6/1948
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Atomic Energy Security Service Officer Joseph
-Toulouse sees a greenish flare one-third the apparent size of the
-moon at Sandia Base outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is visible for 3
-seconds before it arcs downward and vanishes. (NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 10: AESS Observed Green Flare Directly over Sandia Base”;
-Clark III 539; Sparks, p. 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1288
Date: 12/6/1948
-Description: Project Sign is ordered to send copies of all its future
-cases and analyses to Maj. Boggs of
-the Office of Defensive Air, the ONI, and the USAF Scientific Advisory
-Board. (Swords 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1287
Date: 12/6/1948
-Description: Lt. Col. Doyle
-Rees, commander
-of the Seventeenth District AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, orders an
-investigation into the previous night’s green fireball. (Clark III
-539)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1286
Date: 12/8/1948
-Description: Two AFOSI officers, Capts. Melvin
-E. Neef and John J. Stahl Jr., interview every agency that might
-know something about green-flare operations but come up short. That
-evening, they are flying a T-7 out of Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New
-Mexico, at 5,000 feet when they see a brilliant green light, larger and
-more brilliant than a meteor or flare, traveling a flat trajectory 2,000
-feet above them. They see it for 2 seconds before it burns out. (NICAP,
-“AFOSI
-Case 11: Agents in T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball at 13,000ʹ”;
-Clark III 539; Sparks, p. 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1289
Date: 12/9/1948
-Description: Capt. Neef informs
-Lincoln
-LaPaz, director
-of meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, about the green fireball
-sightings. He says they do not sound like any meteors he is familiar
-with. (Clark III 539)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1290
Date: 12/9/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude
-(Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 108.4km
Date: 12/10/1948
-Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued
-Type: top secret report
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 1/7/1948
-See also: 11/1/1948
Date: 12/10/1948
-Description: The revised Project Sign report is issued, Air Intelligence
-Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Fly- ing Object Incidents in the
-U.S.” (AIR 203) [Some copies are confusingly dated April 28, 1949.] This
-is the cul- mination of Sign’s work since early August, augmented by ONI
-collaboration over the past two months. UFOs are not extraterrestrial
-(the idea is hardly noticed). UFOs are probably real, but if so, there
-is a small chance that they are Soviet and therefore dangerous. All in
-all, the word “Soviet” dominates the commentary. (US Air Force,
-Directorate of Intelligence, Analysis
-of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air
-Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy, dated
-April 28, 1949; Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1991): 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the
-Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52; Swords 65–66; Good
-Above, pp. 265, 480–481)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1291
Date: 12/12/1948
-Description: 9:02 p.m. Lincoln
-LaPaz and two USAF officers (Sandia Base Intelligence Officer Lt.
-Allan B. Clark and Sandia’s AF-Civil Air Patrol Liaison Officer Maj.
-Charles L. Phillips) see a green fireball near Bernal, New Mexico. He
-calculates that it is flying directly over Los Alamos National
-Laboratory, and it maintains its horizontal flight at the low altitude
-(for a meteor) of 8–10 miles. LaPaz arranges with the Atomic Energy
-Security Service to set up a patrol with Speed Graphic cameras to try to
-photograph the fireballs. (NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 13:
-LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball”; Clark
-III 539–540; Good Above, p. 266;
-Joel Carpenter, “Green
-Fireball Chronology,” October 6, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1292
Date: 12/13/1948
-Description: Project Sign files are sent to the Navy by Col. William
-R. Clingerman. (NICAP, “Project
-‘SIGN’ Files Sent
-Directly to the Navy,” December 13, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1293
Date: 12/13/1948
-Description: Aeronautical engineer James
-E. Lipp writes an 8-page memo to Brig. Gen. Donald
-Putt on “Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are
-Believed to Distinguish Spaceships.” Rejecting out of hand any links
-between UFO sightings and space travelers, it later appears as an
-appendix in the Project Grudge report. (James E. Lipp, “Special
-Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish
-Spaceships,” December 13, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1294
Date: 12/16/1948
-Description: Astronomer J.
-Allen Hynek is officially tasked by Project Sign with studying UFO
-cases for astronomical explanations. (AMC contract W33-038-1118).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1295
Date: 12/16/1948
-Description: Brig. Gen. Donald
-Putt, Director
-of USAF Research and Development, orders that the code word Sign be
-changed to Grudge (since the Air Force bears a grudge against UFO
-reports, according to Ruppelt),
-effective in February. Morale plummets. (“Report
-by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence
-Committee on
-Unidentified Aerial Objects,”
-April 28, 1949; Sparks, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1296
Date: 12/20/1948
-Description: 8:54 p.m. Shortly after they have packed up their Speed
-Graphic cameras provided by LaPaz to
-try to photograph the green fireballs, personnel (William D. Wilson, Buford
-G. Truett, Clifford
-E. Strang, and George S. Skipper) at an Atomic Energy Security
-Service post west of Los Alamos, New Mexico, spot a blue-white fireball
-moving in a nearly flat trajectory. Two objects separate from the main
-body and trail behind it. Thanks to an independent observation at
-another site, LaPaz is able to triangulate its flight path as 7–8 miles,
-west to east toward Los Alamos. (NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 14: AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball with Triangulation”; Sparks, p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1299
Date: 12/20/1948
-Description: Sneider sends
-his summary of the Chiles-Whitted case, Air Intelligence Report number
-102-122-79, to Cabell. It
-is later called “The Ghost of the Estimate” by some researchers.
-(Capt. Robert R. Sneider, [untitled memorandum],
-December 20, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of
-the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1297
Date: 12/20/1948
-Description: In a confidential memo to Lt. Col. Doyle
-Rees, LaPaz argues
-that the green fireball he saw on December 12 was no meteor he has ever
-studied. He writes that the object moved far too slowly to have been a
-meteor and left no “trail of sparks or dust cloud” as would be typical
-of meteors flying at low altitudes. Other anomalous characteristics were
-the intense lime-green color, low altitude of only 8–10 miles yet
-exhibiting no sound, flat rather than arced trajectory, and turning on
-and off like a light switch. The interest in green fireballs inspires
-the creation of an informal group, the Los Alamos Astrophysical
-Association, whose members, all scientists and engineers with security
-clearances, are permitted to examine some classified Project Sign
-reports. This is essentially the beginning of Project Twinkle. (Clark
-III 540; World History Project, “Project
-Twinkle Established to
-Monitor Green Fireball Sightings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1298
Date: 12/29/1948
-Description: The Fourth Army sums up the UFO situation in the southwest
-in a statement. In December 5–28, there were 23 reports of “flares or
-moving lights.” All but two are in New Mexico and are an intense white
-or greenish- white light. (Clark III 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1300
Date: 1949
-End date: 1990
-Description: Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear
-testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested
-in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1949
-Description: Day. A student pilot is flying a two-seat Taylorcraft over
-Los Angeles, California. Just as he turns to a westerly flight heading,
-he sees an object speeding across the sky from north to south. Suddenly
-it stops abruptly, and the pilot heads toward the object climbing to
-within a few hundred feet. An intense flash of white comes from its tail
-and in less than a minute it is completely out of sight. (“Recently
-Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1303
Date: 1949
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A group of soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division
-stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, are tasked with standing guard over a
-plateau in a remote, fenced-off part of the base. After a few weeks,
-they see bright lights in the sky. They approach the plateau and descend
-slowly and silently. Suddenly, part of the plateau opens up and they can
-see light coming from inside. The lights descend into the opening, which
-closes over them. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into
-the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): 9; Michael D.
-Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for
-UFO Research, 2005, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1302
Date: 1949
-Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens
-(Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
-Location: Siberia
Date: 1949
-Description: United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86
-Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S.
-air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of
-the first three production models seeing combat.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 1949
-Description: Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in
-Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit
-to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept
-alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Bishop, CA
Date: 1949 (approximate)
-Description: Evening. USAF Brig. Gen. William
-M. Garland is stationed at Mather AFB [now Sacramento Mather
-Airport] in Sacramento, California. He and a few other people, including
-some command pilots, are sitting in their yard when they see a “bright,
-silvery, round object” going too fast for an airplane. (Jan L. Aldrich,
-“Brigadier
-General William
-Madison Garland, USAF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1301
Date: Early 1949
-Description: USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers
-and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Leon
-Davidson
-Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 1/1949
-Description: Early morning. Sarah
-Elizabeth Lampe watches an odd, disc-like electrical discharge,
-about 3 feet in diameter, that persists for “fully two minutes” during
-the Big Snow, 8 miles from Beatty, Nevada. (“True Mystic Experiences,”
-Fate 4, no. 2 (March 1951): 84–89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1305
Date: 1/1949
-Description: Project Sign personnel begin to be reassigned. Loedding disappears
-from project records. Deyarmond’s
-attention goes elsewhere. Truettner makes
-one last serious attempt at interviewing about nuclear propulsion (at
-Oak Ridge, Tennessee) and is given a negative opinion on UFOs by Col. Ralph
-L. Wassell. He, too, disappears from the project. The civilian
-members are relieved of their duties and reassigned to other
-intelligence tasks within T-2. For Loedding in particular, his role and
-prestige are never the same. After a few further years of intelligence
-work, both he and Truettner leave AMC. For the higher military ranks (Llewelyn and
-Sneider),
-all we know is that they are soon no longer involved, perhaps not even
-assigned to the same base. Even Clingerman and
-McCoy become
-less involved, perhaps because they have also heard that their tenures
-will soon be up and they will be sent to school and then transferred.
-The only persons left active on the project are two of the lower ranks:
-Lieut. Howard W. Smith and civilian George
-W. Towles. Their
-job is reduced basically to collection and filing. In this condition, or
-worse, the Air Force commitment to a UFO investigation project will
-remain until the summer of 1951. (Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and
-the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1304
Date: 1/1/1949
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Pilot Thomas
-A. Rush and his wife are in a private plane flying east of Jackson,
-Mississippi. They see a cigar-shaped object, 60 feet long and 10 feet
-wide, cross their path at an altitude of 1,500–1,600 feet. It is only
-about 500 feet distant. The speed is approximately 200 mph, and it
-accelerates to 400–500 mph. The object makes a 50° turn and is visible
-for 10–12 seconds. (NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped
-Object Encountered by Bush Pilot”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 1–2; Sparks,
-p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1307
Date: 1/1/1949
-Description: The CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence is established.
-Willard
-Machle becomes assistant director for scientific intelligence.
-Problems almost immediately involve recruitment and filling positions
-with competent professionals. (Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, “Scientific
-Intelligence,” January 4, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1306
Date: 1/4/1949
-Time: 2 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Paul Stoney, on ground. one flat
-white, elliptical object with a matte top circled while oscillating to
-the right and left, and then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hickam Field, Hawaii
-ID: 17
Date: 1/4/1949
-Description: 2:00 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Paul
-R. Stoney, on
-the ground at Hickam Field [now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam]
-near Honolulu, Hawaii, sees a flat, white, elliptical object about the
-size of a T-6 aircraft, circle at about 3,000 feet while oscillating to
-the right and left. It is apparently several miles off the base and
-slowly circling. It is bright white on the underside and darker on top
-and possesses no other structures. It proceeds for 15 minutes to make
-“rhythmical undulation” maneuvers in a cyclical manner. The “object
-seemed to maneuver under control at all times completing 360° turns and
-90° turns.” The object then “departed climbing (into the northeast) at
-accelerated speed out of sight.” (NICAP, “Disc
-Circles, Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE”; Sparks, p. 47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1308
Date: 1/5/1949
-Description: The USAF Technical Information Division at Wright-Patterson
-AFB near Dayton, Ohio, transmits Project Sign’s list of UFO incidents to
-the Air Weather Service for analysis and recommendations. (Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1309
Date: 1/6/1949
-Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
-See also: 1/31/49
-See also: 7/25/48
Date: 1/6/1949
-Description: 5:30 p.m. PFC Everitt sees a bright-white, diamond-shaped
-light in horizontal flight from southeast to northwest above the
-Ordnance section at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is about
-1,500–2,000 feet altitude and flying faster than a jet. Possible meteor.
-(NICAP, “Diamond-Shaped
-Light”; Sparks,
-p. 47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1310
Date: 1/7/1949
-Description: The Research and Development Board writes a memo to USAF
-Intelligence on the green fireballs. It is signed by David Z. Beckley,
-chief of the R&DB Technical Intelligence Branch. (Michael Hall and
-Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered
-Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1311
Date: 1/10/1949
-Description: FBI special agent Charlton
-C. McSwain sends a memo to J.
-Edgar Hoover enumerating the views of an AMC resident engineer
-(identified only as “Mr. E”) with the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion
-of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee that
-the flying discs are human-made nuclear missiles originating in Russia.
-(Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1312
Date: 1/11/1949
-Description: Angered over his opposition to defense economization
-policies and meeting secretly with Thomas
-Dewey’s Republicans, Truman tells
-Forrestal that
-Louis
-A. Johnson will soon replace him as Secretary of Defense.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1313
Date: 1/13/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II
-test)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
Date: 1/13/1949
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland
-stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control
-No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over
-sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing
-shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be
-self-disintegrating.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p482)
-Location: NM
Date: 1/13/1949
-Description: Col. Eustis
-L. Poland of US Army Intelligence (G-2) sends a memo on behalf of
-the Commander of Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas,
-to the Director of Army Intelligence concerning the green fireballs. It
-recommends a scientific study because “these incidents are of such great
-importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of
-sensitive installations.” (Col. Eustis L. Poland, “Unconventional
-Aircraft,” January 13, 1949; Good Above, pp. 265, 482)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1314
Date: 1/24/1949
-Description: An FBI memo from D.
-M. Ladd to Hoover documents
-speculation on a Soviet nuclear-powered disc by USAF Col. Clyde
-D. Gasser of the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft
-(NEPA) project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Gasser reports rumors coming
-from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio that nuclear-powered disc-shaped
-planes might be making incursions into US airspace and returning to the
-USSR over the North Pole. (D. M. Ladd, “Flying
-Discs,”
-January 24, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1315
Date: 1/27/1949
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Sames, acting chief of the Aircraft
-Branch, Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They watched for 25 minutes while a
-cigar-shaped object as long as two Pullman cars and having seven lighted
-square windows and throwing sparks, descended and then climbed with a
-bouncing motion at an estimated 400 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cortez-Bradenton, Florida
-ID: 18
Date: 1/27/1949
-Description: 10:20–11:20 p.m. Capt. Eckerman
-Sannes, acting chief of the Aircraft Branch at Eglin AFB near
-Valparaiso, Florida, and his wife are driving slowly on Cortez Road
-between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida, when they observe a
-“cucumber-shaped” object. The object, seen through binoculars, seems as
-long as two Pullman cars, with 7 lighted, square windows. It is throwing
-sparks and approximately 8–10 miles away. In the first sighting at 10:20
-p.m., the object approaches from the south going north, moving from an
-altitude of 8,000 feet in a gradual descent until lost behind trees. In
-the second sighting at 11:20 p.m., the object is seen in the north,
-heading south and making a gradual turn to the west. It descends then
-climbs with a bouncing motion (up 4,000 feet, down 2,000 feet) at about
-400–500 mph, resulting in an overall climb and loss to view at an
-altitude of around 40,000 feet. The bouncing appears to start after the
-final 270° course change to the west. (NICAP, “Two Sightings
-of Object with Lighted Windows”; Sparks,
-p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1316
Date: 1/28/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km
-attitude (Defective performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 59.9km
Date: 1/30/1949
-Description: 5:54 p.m. Hundreds of people see a green meteor come out of
-the northwest and vanish southwest of Roswell, New Mexico. It is
-completely silent. (NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 18: Green Fireball Event Witnessed in New Mexico”;
-Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr.
-OSI-1-90,” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Sparks, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1317
Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed
-by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by
-Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was
-thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo
-also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948.
-Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/48 and 01/06/49, sightings of
-UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M.
-(Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma
-City)
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p483, B1-G p30)
-Location: NM
-See also: 7/25/48
-See also: 7/47
-See also: 8/4/50
Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted
-UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings
-reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and
-other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed
-from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any.
-(Possible search teams in UFOs.)
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p53, CRASH)
-Location: NM
Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: Kirtland AFB in New Mexico notifies the Pentagon that it
-will launch an immediate investigation of the green fireballs, noting
-that “local commanders [are] perturbed by implications of phenomena.” LaPaz speaks
-to dozens of witnesses of the January 30 fireball and manages a rough
-triangulation of the fireball’s 143-mile path from Amarillo to Lamesa,
-Texas. He estimates its speed at 25,000–50,000 mph, with a beginning
-altitude of 60,000 feet and a final altitude around 40,000 feet. LaPaz
-accompanies search teams to bring back any fragments. They end up in the
-area of Lamesa but give up after a few days of fruitless search. He
-later tells AFOSI agent Paul Ryan that the fireballs are artificial,
-perhaps radio-controlled missiles directed by enemy agents in the
-Southwest. (Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr.
-OSI-1-90,” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1318
Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: The FBI field office in San Antonio, Texas, issues a memo
-on UFOs, “Protection of Vital Installations.” It is sent to Hoover, G-2,
-ONI, OSI, and mentions a meeting among these groups on UFOs, “considered
-top secret by intelligence officers of both the army and the air
-forces.” (SAC, San Antonio, “Protection
-of Vital Installations, Bureau
-File #65-58300,” January 31, 1949; ClearIntent, p. 149;
-Good Above, pp. 267, 483)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1319
Date: 2/1949
-Time: 1630
-Description: C. A. V. an oil company employee, 30, was driving to Lima
-when he saw a shiny disk at ground level. He walked toward it for 10
-min. Three figures came out as he was 20 m away. They looked like
-mummies, had joined legs and one large foot. They “slid” along the
-ground. They were covered with a strange “towely” skin, asked the
-witness where they were, had a lengthy discussion with him, and took him
-for a trip in their craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 122 (Vallee)
-Location: Pucusana, Peru
-ID: 68
Date: 2/1949
-Alternate date: 3/1949
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A representative of the International Petroleum
-Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is driving noth
-along the Pan-American Highway about 6 miles south of Lima, Peru, when
-he sees a metallic disc hovering low above the desert on his right. He
-walks over to it, and three mummy-like creatures about 5 feet tall
-emerge. They speak to him in both English and Spanish, explaining to him
-that they come from another star system, are concerned about our use of
-atomic energy, use solar power, no longer have sex, and reproduce by
-subdividing. They invite him inside the disc, which from the inside has
-transparent walls. He sees no instruments, only a padded ledge.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 122–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1335
Date: 2/1949
-Description: Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by
-Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial
-civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most
-probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a
-civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and
-are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind,
-they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above
-all to behold such visitations.”
-Type: final report
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 2/1949
-Description: Chemist H.
-Marshall Chadwell, from the New York office of the Atomic Energy
-Commission, is appointed assistant director of scientific intelligence
-at the CIA. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1320
Date: 2/1/1949
-Description: Col. Hanna (?), assistant chief of the Power Plant
-Laboratory (at Wright-Patterson?) and project engineer for Project Sign,
-meets with other Project Sign personnel and concludes that
-nuclear-powered UFOs are improbable. (Project Status Report on Project
-Sign, February 4, 1949; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1322
Date: early 2/1949
-Description: Writer Sidney Shalett is given a guided tour of AMC at
-Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, a glimpse of low-interest UFO cases, and a
-few conservative opinions by Air Force personnel. (Swords 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1321
Date: 2/4/1949
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by
-OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.”
-Type: confidential message
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)
Date: 2/8/1949
-Description: UCLA geophysicist Joseph
-Kaplan meets with LaPaz at
-the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He finds LaPaz’s
-understanding of the green fireball reports unsettling. He discusses the
-matter with Capt. Melvin Neef and
-Maj. William
-Godsoe (Fourth Army Intelligence liaison officer at Sandia Base). He
-promises to alert Scientific Advisory Board chairman Von
-Kármán and urge an investigation. (Clark III 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1323
Date: 2/11/1949
-Description: USAF Project “GRUDGE” started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH
Date: 2/11/1949
-Description: Project Sign releases a final sanitized report,
-“Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project ‘Sign,’” Technical Report
-F-TR-2274-1A, authored by Lawrence
-Truettner and Albert
-B. Deyarmond and approved by Col. Clingerman (chief
-of USAF Technical Intelligence Division) and Col. Howard
-McCoy (chief of the Intelligence Department). 72 pages are visible
-in the NICAP copy and 1,537 pages (some illegible) are available on the
-Blue Book microfilm. Its conclusions are based on 273 reports (243 US
-and 30 foreign) and it summarizes the characteristics of four types of
-UFOs: flying discs, cigar-shaped objects, spherical objects, and balls
-of light. It acknowledges the possibility that “these aerial objects are
-visitors from another planet” and refers to commentary in Appendix D by
-James
-Lipp of the RAND project. “No definite and conclusive evidence is
-yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these
-unidentified objects as real aircraft of unknown and unconventional
-configuration. It is unlikely that positive proof of their existence
-will be obtained without examination of the remains of crashed
-objects. Evaluation of reports of unidentified objects is a
-necessary activity of military intelligence agencies. Such sightings are
-inevitable, and under wartime conditions rapid and convincing solutions
-of such occurrences are necessary to maintain morale of military and
-civilian personnel. In this respect, it is considered that the
-establishment of procedures and training of personnel is in itself worth
-the effort expended on this project.” Truettner and Deyarmond, in a
-between-the-lines rebuke of Cabell’s
-order not to consider the ETH, recommend that if enough cases are
-examined and proven to have no security risks, then the project should
-be terminated. The report is distributed to AMC, USAF Intelligence
-Directorate, ONR, Cambridge Labs, Air Weather Services, Hynek at
-Ohio State University, the RAND Project, and the USAF Scientific
-Advisory Board. (L. H. Truettner and A. B. Deyarmond, Unidentified
-Aerial Objects: Project “Sign,” Air Materiel Command Technical
-Report no. F-TR-2274-IA, February 1949; Sparks,
-p. 12; Swords 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1325
Date: 2/11/1949
-Description: Kaplan meets
-in Washington, D.C., with Von
-Kármán, who
-is impressed enough to write Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell that
-the green fireballs look like a serious issue that needs to be
-addressed, perhaps by LaPaz. (Swords
-79, 497)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1324
Date: 2/12/1949
-Description: Another realistic Spanish-language radio version of The War
-of the Worlds is broadcast in Quito, Ecuador, causing panic, a riot, and
-a major fire. (John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland,
-2009, pp. 102– 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1327
Date: 2/12/1949
-Description: Project Sign officially becomes Project Grudge. (Sparks,
-p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1326
Date: 2/15/1949
-Description: Maj. Gen. Cabell sets
-out a revised list of Air Intelligence reporting requirements for
-“unconventional aircraft.” (Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Unconventional
-Aircraft,” Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum no. 5, February
-15, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1328
Date: 2/16/1949
-Description: A Conference on Aerial Phenomena is held at Los Alamos
-Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico with military representatives Lincoln
-LaPaz, Norris
-E. Bradbury, Marshall
-Holloway, Frederick
-Reines, and Edward Teller in
-attendance. Representatives from Project Grudge are noticeably absent.
-LaPaz tells the attendees that while most meteors are blue-green, the
-green fireballs are described as pale green or yellow-green. Normal
-meteors rarely move in long, horizontal paths with nearly constant
-velocities. He says there are 10 incidents that strongly fit the pattern
-and 20 others that might. The scientists agree to set up a series of
-instrument stations to photograph and analyze the fireballs. Teller
-thinks the fireballs might be electrical-optical phenomena. Navy
-Commander Richard
-S. Mandelkorn, who
-is in attendance, writes in his report that “there is cause for concern
-of the continued occurrences of unexplainable phenomena of this nature
-in the vicinity of sensitive installations.” (Cmdr. Richard S.
-Mandelkorn, Report
-of a Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949, February 18,
-1949; Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, [Minutes
-of February 16 Conference on Aerial Phenomena, Los Alamos], March
-29, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 23–53; Swords 79–80; Good Above, pp. 265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1329
Date: 2/17/1949
-Time: night
-Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm
-with a green lightning flash. It became dark. As he approached the
-craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently
-without heads. Frightened, he fired at them three times. A moment later
-the object took off vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
-Location: France, exact location unknown
-ID: 69
Date: 2/17/1949
-Description: 5:57 p.m. University of New Mexico Professor of Civil
-Engineering Marvin May sees a brilliant white object in the west at 6°
-elevation for less than 6 minutes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object
-is first round then shifts to an ellipse as it approaches, then it
-appears to be elongated like a bent pipe with corners, one full moon in
-length. It makes a slight climbing turn to the north, shifts to peach
-color as it makes a rapid sharp turning climb to the south, disappearing
-in cloudless sky by diminishing in size and brightness. At the same
-time, 100 guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico, including the officer of
-the guard, see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object for seven minutes.
-(NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 24: Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off”; Sparks,
-p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1330
Date: 2/17/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
-100.6km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 100.6km
Date: 2/18/1949
-Description: Cabell writes
-Von
-Kármán and says he has a transcript of the Los Alamos meeting and
-that Hynek is
-studying the green fireballs topic. He adds: “It seems unlikely that
-domestic incidents can be attributed to the activity of a foreign power
-or a science unknown to our specialists.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1331
Date: 2/18/1949
-Description: A Fourth Air Force letter quotes Project Sign’s
-requirements for radar reporting, as stated by the Continental Air
-Command (NORAD’s predecessor) on February 4. The USAF Air Defense
-Command is subordinate to ConAC at this time. The requirements admit
-that a “large number of targets appearing on radar screens remain
-unidentified.” It refers to McCoy’s
-November 30, 1948, letter on Sign’s preference for radar tracks of
-aerial objects that show extremely fast or slow speeds, vertical or near
-vertical ascent or descent, extraordinary maneuverability, and extreme
-altitudes. (Clark III 810)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1332
Date: 2/23/1949
-Description: McCoy sends
-Capt. Roger Groseclose and Lt. Howard Smith to Kirtland AFB’s Office of
-Special Investigations to discuss the green fireballs with LaPaz and
-Neef and
-to mollify them for not showing up at the February 16 conference. (Clark
-III 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1333
Date: 2/24/1949
-Description: Groseclose and Smith have an unpleasant exchange with Neef, LaPaz, Agent
-Jack Boling, and Army Maj. Godsoe, who
-says it’s not worth AFOSI’s time to conduct investigations for AMC. The
-AMC officers retort that the fireballs are not an Army concern.
-Groseclose and Smith say they are concerned with all anomalous aerial
-phenomena. Disgusted, Godsoe leaves the room. Groseclose and Smith then
-turn on LaPaz, criticizing him for only sending AMC raw data and not
-finished analyses. LaPaz says he is on leave as a volunteer and must go
-back to the University of New Mexico, unless he sees a contract.
-However, AMC agrees to set up a network of observation posts with
-cameras, transits, and trained personnel. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 11, 14–15; Clark III 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1334
Date: 2/24/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
-129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2
-km)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 129km
Date: 3/1949
-Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments
-appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 3/1949
-Description: Strategic Air Command head Gen. Curtis
-LeMay delivers the first SAC Emergency War Plan, which calls for
-dropping 133 atomic bombs on 70 cities in the USSR within 30 days. LeMay
-predicts that World War III will last no longer than 30 days.
-(Wikipedia, “Curtis
-LeMay”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1336
Date: 3/2/1949
-Description: Sidney Shalett provides the USAF Directorate of
-Intelligence a draft of his upcoming article for review. The Air Force
-is not pleased, objecting to Shalett stating an “official” USAF
-position, his claim that the Air Force is his sole source of information
-(although it is), a quote by Irving
-Langmuir criticizing Project Sign, and any inference that the Air
-Force and Navy are not cooperating. (Swords 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1337
Date: 3/6/1949
-End date: 3/7/1949
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Army Pvts. Martin Fensterman and Frank Luisi, on
-security patrol near Killeen Base [now West Fort Hood], Texas, a nuclear
-weapons storage site, see a flash of pale blue light in the sky to the
-northeast. At 8:55 p.m., a quarter mile away, Pvt. Harold Moore sees a
-white light with an orange trail flash across the western horizon. At
-9:00 p.m., from inside the base boundary, Sgt. Hubert Vickery and Pfc.
-John Ransom notice a pale blue-white light streaking across the western
-sky low over the horizon. Between 1:15 and 2:00 a.m., four more security
-patrols report burst of lights like a flash bulb. (SAC, San Antonio, “Protection
-of Vital Installations, Bureau
-File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark III 541–542;
-Sparks, pp. 50–51; “Fort
-Hood Sightings, 1949,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library,
-February 5, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1338
Date: 3/8/1949
-Description: 1:03 a.m. Two infantrymen half a mile apart at Killeen
-Base, Texas, see apparently separate streaking bright lights (one white,
-the other yellowish red). The latter one covers 60° of sky, appearing
-and disappearing at about the same angle above the horizon. Cpl. Luke
-Sims is able to run 10 paces to a field telephone before it vanishes.
-All observers insist these are not meteors and are more like flares.
-(NICAP, “Killeen
-Base, Camp Hood, Texas, OSI
-Case 39”; SAC, San Antonio, “Protection
-of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark
-III 542; Sparks, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1339
Date: 3/13/1949
-Description: 9:53 p.m. Two MPs guarding the Technical Area at Sandia
-Base, New Mexico, see a silent, spherical object, bluish- or
-greenish-white, with a flaming blue tail twice as long as the body,
-which is apparently half the size of the full moon. (NICAP, “March
-13, 1949, Sandia Base, NM, OSI Case 40”; Sparks, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1340
Date: 3/15/1949
-Description: A memo on UFOs to Willard
-Machle by a Dr. Stone from the CIA Office of Scientific
-Investigation dismisses the idea of UFOs as foreign aircraft and
-suggests they are misidentifications of other phenomena. (ClearIntent,
-p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1341
Date: 3/17/1949
-Time: 7:52 PM
-Description: Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While
-awaiting the start of a flare firing, they watched, for an hour, while
-eight large, green, red and white flare-like objects flew in generally
-straight lines.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Camp Hood, Texas
-ID: 19
Date: 3/17/1949
-Description: Seven sightings of large, green, red, and white flares take
-place at Killeen Base, Texas, including the previously skeptical
-Capt. Horace
-McCulloch, assistant G-2 of the Second Armored Division at Camp
-Hood, who is driving between Camp Hood and Killeen Base to prepare a
-test firing of some flares to prove that recent sightings are not
-anomalous. McCulloch puts the entire base on alert. (Clark III 542; Sparks,
-p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1342
Date: 3/21/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km
-attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 133.5km
Date: 3/22/1949
-Description: SAC San Antonio, Texas, sends a memo to FBI headquarters
-regarding the January 31 communication on Protection of Vital
-Installations, emphasizing that USAF and the Army consider the matter
-“secret.” Fourth Army Intelligence is now calling UFOs “unconventional
-aircraft” and ATIC’s office is now Project Grudge. It also discusses
-green fireball cases. (SAC, San Antonio, “Protection
-of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1343
Date: 3/25/1949
-Description: J.
-Edgar Hoover sends a memo to a large number of FBI offices
-indicating that “flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles
-rather than natural phenomenon,” probably made in Russia. (John Edgar
-Hoover, “Flying Discs,”
-March 25, 1949; ClearIntent, p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1344
Date: 3/28/1949
-Description: James
-Forrestal leaves office in a formal ceremony. He rides back to the
-Pentagon with his opponent Stuart Symington, who
-talks to him about something troubling. Forrestal appears traumatized.
-Forrestal sits in his office, dazed and incoherent, repeating, “You are
-a loyal fellow.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1345
Date: 3/31/1949
-Description: Forrestal is
-flown to Hobe Beach, Florida, to stay with his friend Under Secretary of
-State Robert
-A. Lovett, where his wife is vacationing. He meets with psychiatrist
-William
-C. Menninger (who diagnoses “severe depression” of the type “seen in
-operational fatigue during the war”) and psychologist Capt. George N.
-Raines from the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland. Forrestal has
-several hysterical episodes when they are there, ranting about
-Communists following him, and perhaps one suicide attempt.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1346
Date: 3/31/1949
-Description: CIA’s H. L. Bowers writes a memo to Dr. Machle, “Notes
-and Comments on Unidentified Aerial Objects– Project Sign,” stating that
-Deyarmond thinks
-UFOs will turn out to be another “sea serpent.” Nonetheless, they must
-be investigated. (Document released to Brad
-Sparks but not in subsequent CIA FOIA releases; Good Above, p. 330)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1347
Date: 3/31/1949
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Lieut. Frederick Davis, on patrol east of
-Killeen Base, Texas, sees a reddish-white ball of fire passing
-horizontally above the base airstrip. After 10–15 seconds it disappears
-without descending. He notes interference on the telephone line when he
-calls the report in. (NICAP, “Field
-Telephone Affected by BOL”; Clark III 542; Sparks, p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1348
Date: 4/1949
-Description: 2 UFO’s tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New
-Mexico.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
Date: 4/2/1949
-Description: Menninger and
-Raines fly Forrestal to
-the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he can be
-treated quietly. On the drive to the hospital from the airport,
-Forrestal attempts to jump out of the car but is restrained. Forrestal
-declares he does not expect to leave the hospital alive. He is admitted
-under the care of Raines, who diagnoses him with involutional
-melancholia and places him in a VIP suite on the 16th floor. Forrestal’s
-personal diaries are removed from his old office and taken to the White
-House, where they remain for a year.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1349
Date: 4/3/1949
-Time: 11:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: construction company owner Gosta Miller and
-three other unnamed persons. One object shaped like two plates attached
-face-to-face; matte bottom, bright aluminum top; 20’ diameter, 4-5’
-thickness. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew,
-rocked; all this was very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dillon, Montana
-ID: 20
Date: 4/3/1949
-Description: Broadcaster Walter
-Winchell announces on his radio program that the “flying saucers,
-never explained by anyone in authority are now definitely known to have
-been guided missiles shot all the way from Russia.” (“Anatomy
-of a Hoax, Part Two,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1350
Date: 4/4/1949
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witness: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and major.
-One generally round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring. The
-object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott’s dog reacted.
-35 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Merced, California
-ID: 21
Date: 4/5/1949
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge green fireball with a red afterglow is
-seen streaking approximately 300 feet above the southern slope of
-Fejarito Mountain, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It disappears behind the
-mountain. Another fireball is seen at 11:00 p.m., and the next two
-nights. (NICAP, “1949
-UFO Chronology”; Sparks, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1351
Date: 4/8/1949
-Description: In response to Winchell’s
-claim, the Air Force admits it is impossible to “deny categorically”
-that the flying saucers originate in Russia. A spokesman says that some
-unknown incidents are placed in a classified category, denied to
-everyone except authorized military personnel. (“Air
-Force Isn’t Committing Self on Flying Disks,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
-Gazette, April 8, 1949, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1352
Date: 4/9/1949
-Description: Forrestal has
-been treated for one week at the National Naval Medical Center in
-Bethesda, Maryland,with narcosis through sodium amytal. For the next 30
-days, he undergoes a regimen of insulin sub-shock combined with
-psycho-therapeutic interviews. Raines says the treatment occasionally
-throws Forrestal into a confused state with a great deal of agitation
-and confusion.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1353
Date: 4/11/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km
-attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 87.2km
Date: 4/14/1949
-Description: Col. Reid
-Lumsden, commander
-of the AFOSI district office at Kelly AFB [now Kelly Field Annex] in San
-Antonio, Texas, hands the Army reports of flares at Killeen Base to Col.
-William Carpenter, deputy director of special investigations at the
-Pentagon. Carpenter promises to investigate. (Clark III 542) April 16
-and 18 — Mysterious flares are again observed at Killeen Base, Texas.
-(Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,”
-IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 10; Clark III 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1354
Date: 4/18/1949
-Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters
-from Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., to Brooks Air Force Base in San
-Antonio, Texas. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
-Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1355
Date: 4/19/1949
-Description: AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, sends to USAF
-headquarters a list of all green fireball reports it has investigated
-(39 in all) from December 5 to April 12. The common characteristics of
-most of the incidents are: “a. Green color, sometimes described as
-greenish-white, bright green, yellow-green, or blue green. b. Horizontal
-path, sometimes with minor variations. c. Speed less than that of a
-meteor, but more than any known type of aircraft. d. No sound associated
-with observation. e. No persistent trail or dust cloud. f. Period of
-visibility from one to five seconds.” (“The
-Scientific Advisory Board to the Chief of Staff, United States Air
-Force, Conference,” November 3, 1949; Clark III 541; Swords
-133–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1356
Date: 4/21/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km
-attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 49.9km
Date: 4/22/1949
-Description: 9:05 a.m. A round, flat, thin, metallic disc is seen
-traveling west to east, dropping slowly, over Cliff, New Mexico. (Sparks, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1357
Date: 4/24/1949
-Description: Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking
-a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly
-noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians
-turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless
-ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds
-the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the
-mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000
-mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Arrey, NM
Date: 4/24/1949
-Time: l0:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert
-C.B. Moore and others on a balloon launch crew. One white, round
-ellipsoid, about 2.5 times as long as wide.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Arrey, New Mexico
-ID: 22
Date: 4/24/1949
-Description: 10:30 a.m. General Mills meteorologist Charles
-B. Moore and four Navy Skyhook balloon launch crewmen (Navy Chief
-Fire Controlman William Akers, Davidson, Fitzsimmons, Moorman) see a
-white, round object, shadowed yellowish on one side, cross the sky from
-the south to the east, three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. Joseph
-Gordon Vaeth is present as the Navy representative in charge of
-ground handling. Moore tracks it for 60 seconds on a theodolite. The
-distance is unknown, but assuming the object is 57 miles away, it would
-have a velocity of 18,000 mph, a width of 40 feet, and a length of 100
-feet; but this is speculative. (NICAP, “White Sands
-Incident / C. B. Moore Case”; R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter
-to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; J. Gordon Vaeth, 200 Miles Up: The
-Conquest of the Upper Air, Ronald Press, 1951; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 63–64; ClearIntent, pp. 114–115;
-UFOEv, pp. 2–3;
-Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 72–73;
-Sparks, pp. 56–57;
-Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR
-10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 8–9; Kevin D. Randle, “Charles Moore, New
-Mexico UFOs, and the Air Force,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 3–4;
-Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter
-2003–2004): 10; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR
-29, no. 1 (Spring 2004):16–17; Swords 84–85; Clark III 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1358
Date: 4/25/1949
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A man named Abreu and a friend are fishing at
-Springer Lake, northwest of Springer, New Mexico, when they hear a
-high-pitched whistle and see a number of silvery-white balls passing
-overhead quickly. They reappear repeatedly over the next hour. (NICAP,
-“Various
-Formations Observed”; Clark III 541; Sparks, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1359
Date: 4/25/1949
-Description: Lt. Col. Doyle
-Rees wires AFOSI headquarters to ask if he can send two of his men
-to AMC to find out if Project Grudge plans to do anything about the
-green fireballs. Before Rees has a response, Joseph
-Kaplan arrives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, having been directed
-there by AF Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Charles
-Cabell and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Theodore
-Von Kármán, who wants Kaplan to set up a field investigation. They
-emphasize that Grudge is not to be informed. (Clark III 542; Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1949, January–June, The
-Author, 1988, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1360
Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: Rees, Kaplan, and
-LaPaz brief
-Armed Forces Special Weapons Project personnel at Sandia Base, New
-Mexico. LaPaz outlines plans for a network of visual, photographic,
-spectrographic, and radar observations covering Los Alamos, Sandia, and
-White Sands. Scientist William
-D. Crozier of the New Mexico School of Mines offers to handle air
-sampling. Rees urges that the Killeen Base in Texas be included. Kaplan,
-who says the project is “of extreme importance” because “these
-occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States,”
-recommends LaPaz to handle the project. (Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, “Unknown
-(Aerial Phenomena),” May 12, 1949; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949
-January–June, Supplemental
-Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 60–62; Clark III 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1361
Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Two Army patrolmen southeast of Killeen Base,
-Texas, see a blinking violet light no more than 1.5 inches in diameter
-and only 10–12 feet from them, 6–7 feet above the ground. During the
-60-second observation, the light passes through the branches of a tree.
-At 9:25 p.m., 2 miles away, four Army soldiers see a 4-inch light with a
-2–4-inch metallic cone attached to the back. It silently approaches them
-in a level flight at 60–70 mph. It disappears to the southwest at a
-distance of 150 feet. At about 9:37 p.m., a 2-inch-wide white light
-appears 100 feet away to the northwest, flying in a zig-zag fashion in a
-level path 6 feet above the ground. It vanishes abruptly. A third light
-shows up at 9:39 p.m. in the west-southwest. (NICAP, “Close
-Encounters with Drones/Probes at Weapons
-Storage Site”; Sparks, pp. 57–58;
-Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR
-10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 10; Clark III 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1364
Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: USAF Directorate of Intelligence briefs the USAF Deputy
-Chief of Staff for Operations on UFOs. “Investigations continue in an
-effort to find definite explanations for the many unidentified aerial
-objects which have been reported during the past two years.” (“Unidentified
-Aerial Objects,” Air Brief, Special Study Part Two, April 27,
-1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1362
Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: A 22-page memorandum for the press (629-49) on “Project
-Saucer” is released by the Pentagon Office of Public Information,
-scheduled deliberately to coincide with part one of Shalett’s article in
-the Saturday Evening Post. The writer is unknown, but it is more pro-ETH
-than the current Project Grudge mentality, listing several solid and
-dramatic cases. It concludes: “The ‘saucers’ are not a joke. Neither are
-they a cause for alarm to the population.” The discrepancy between
-Shalett’s mostly dismissive tone and the positivity of the Project
-Saucer statement causes Maj. Donald
-E. Keyhoe to wonder if there is a major disagreement about UFOs
-within the Air Force. (National Military Establishment, Office of Public
-Information, “Project
-‘Saucer,’” April 27, 1949; Swords 74–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1363
Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Charles
-Cabell sends a report on “Unidentified Aerial Objects” to the Joint
-Intelligence Committee. It summarizes the history of Project Sign up to
-its redesignation as Grudge and adds an appendix on “Unidentified Aerial
-Objects: Fact and Discussion,” which is basically a short version of the
-sanitized February 11 Sign report, with some green fireball information
-added. It recommends sending reports of unidentified “light phenomena”
-to the scientific community and reports of “atomic powered craft of
-unusual design” to the AEC. It concludes that “There are numerous
-reports from reliable and competent observers for which a conclusive
-explanation has not been made” and that some “involve configurations and
-described performance which might conceivably represent an advanced
-aerodynamical development. A few unexplained incidents surpass these
-limits of credulity. It is unlikely that a foreign power would expose a
-superior aerial weapon by a prolonged ineffectual penetration of the
-United States.” This essentially resurrects the ETH as a possibility,
-without clearly stating it. (“Report
-by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee
-on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949; Jan Aldrich, “Top-Secret
-1949 Document,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 3–6, 31; Swords
-76–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1365
Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: Some printed copies of Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79,
-“Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” bear this
-date, although it was originally released December 10, 1948. (US Air
-Force, Directorate of Intelligence, Analysis
-of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air
-Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy,
-dated April 28, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1366
Date: 4/28/1949
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Howard Hann, Mr. Hubert, Tex Keahey. One bright,
-sausage-shaped object was observed for 40 minutes while it rolled and
-flew fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 23
Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: Kaplan, LaPaz, Rees, and
-Neef meet
-with security officers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
-to discuss green fireball observations at that facility. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 62–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1367
Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Businessman and private pilot Leon A. Faber is
-flying at 3,000 feet near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City,
-Indiana, when he sees a metallic disc moving east about 10,000 feet
-away. He is chatting with some ham radio operators on the ground during
-the 5 minutes the object is in sight before it disappears. (NICAP, “Flying
-Saucer Observed from Aircraft”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1368
Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Howard Hann [Hamm?], a Mr. Hubert [Huber?], and
-Tex Keahey see a very large, bright, sausage- shaped object travel from
-northeast to southwest over the rim of the Catalina Mountains near
-Tucson, Arizona, over a period of 12 minutes. The object is shiny
-metallic and reflects the sun, apparently revolving as it moves like the
-“slow roll of an airplane.” There is no noise, nor is there exhaust or a
-vapor trail. There are no wings or engines or “protuberances of any
-sort.” It appears to be traveling at 300–600 mph. (NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped
-Object Observed
-in Daylight”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1369
Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Several security patrols at Killeen Base, Texas,
-report nine separate sightings of lights southeast of the base. Most
-change color from white to red to green. On one occasion, four lights
-appear together; on another, 8–10 show up in each other’s company. No
-debris or evidence of flares are found. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark,
-“The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985):
-10; Clark III 543; Sparks,
-p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1370
Date: 4/29/1949
-Description: The April 30 issue of the Saturday Evening Post with part
-one of Sidney Shalett’s “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers” hits
-the newsstands. The USAF Public Relations Office has cooperated fully
-with Shalett, who sets out a fairly even-handed introduction to the
-phenomenon. (Sidney Shalett, “What
-You Can Believe about
-Flying Saucers, Part One,” Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949,
-pp. 20–21, 136–139; Swords 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1371
Date: 4/30/1949
-Description: Hynek turns
-in his astronomical analysis of Sign’s 237 cases. His contract with Sign
-is over. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 199–200;
-Hynek UFO Report, p. 17;
-O’Connell 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1372
Date: 5/4/1949
-Description: The US Fourth Army creates an operational plan for a green
-fireball observation and tracking network at Killeen Base in Camp Hood,
-Texas. Although it lacks cameras, it has four six-man observation posts
-equipped with instruments to obtain directional bearings. One of the
-posts serves as the plotting center to coordinate and triangulate UFO
-sightings. Each day, a roving patrol gets new orders. (Brad Sparks and
-Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1985): 10–12; Clark III 543; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1373
Date: 5/5/1949
-Time: 11:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Army officers Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen,
-Capt. Vaughn. Two oblong white discs, flying at an estimated 200-250
-m.p.h., made a shallow turn during the 30-50 second observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
-ID: 24
Date: 5/5/1949
-Description: 11:40 a.m. Army officers Maj. Charles D. May Jr., Maj.
-James N. Olhausen, and Capt. Molloy
-C. Vaughn on the Waco no. 4 firing range at Fort Bliss, Texas, watch
-for 30–50 seconds two oblong white discs pass through a field of fire.
-They are flying at about 200–250 mph at an altitude of 1,000 feet. The
-objects make a shallow turn. (NICAP, “May
-5, 1949, 1140 MST, Fort Bliss, Texas”; Sparks,
-p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1375
Date: 5/5/1949
-Description: 10:00 a.m. The Fourth US Army has approached AFOSI in San
-Antonio to offer assistance in investigating green fireballs and the
-Killeen lights. They arrange a meeting with AFOSI, ONI, CIC, the FBI,
-and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Camp Hood, Killeen,
-Texas, the first of several weekly meetings. Army and Navy officials
-agree that the fireballs remain unexplained. AFSWP personnel believe
-they are natural phenomena; AFOSI and FBI give no opinion. The Fourth
-Army urges AFOSI to create an observation system, even though it had
-just secretly created one of its own on May 4. (Brad Sparks and Jerome
-Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1985): 10–11; Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1374
Date: 5/5/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km
-attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of
-payload section)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 8.85km
Date: 5/6/1949
-Description: Part two of Shalett’s article on UFOs appears in the May 7
-issue of the Saturday Evening Post, which takes a more skeptical tone
-than the first part, with the Gorman case receiving a particularly harsh
-thrashing. However, he treats Chiles-Whitted favorably and ends with
-some hints on how to make good observations. Within a few days, the
-frequency of UFO reports hits an all-time high. USAF issues another long
-press release completely debunking UFOs, but it has no effect. (Sidney
-Shalett, “What
-You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part Two,” Saturday Evening
-Post, May 7, 1949, pp. 36, 184–186; Swords 74; Ruppelt, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1378
Date: 5/6/1949
-Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin takes a new
-airplane for a flight at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast,
-Russia. At its maximum ceiling of 9.3 miles, he encounters a
-cucumber-shaped object, similar to the one he encountered on June 16,
-1948, that directs cones of light at his aircraft from a distance of 6–7
-miles. The lights cause his communications equipment to fail and damage
-part of his plexiglass cockpit canopy that results in a loss of air
-pressure. He manages to land on the banks of the Volga River 30 miles
-from Saratov. He wakes up in a hospital in Saratov. He again undergoes
-intense interrogation, psychotherapy, and medical procedures. (Good
-Above, pp. 221–223;
-Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February
-1975, p. 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1376
Date: 5/6/1949
-Description: Col. Lumsden of
-the San Antonio, Texas, AFOSI office informs headquarters that the
-“matter has reached a fairly serious stage and some positive action is
-necessary.” He does not send this message to Project Grudge.
-Headquarters responds quickly and orders him to investigate all
-sightings but reminds him to inform AMC. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark,
-“The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985):
-11; Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1377
Date: 5/6/1949
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: C. G. Green. Two shiny, disc-like objects rotated
-around each other and banked. Then one shot upwards with a grey trail
-and rejoined the other. The sighting lasted 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Livermore, California
-ID: 25
Date: 5/9/1949
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat silvery
-objects, estimated to be 25’ in diameter, flew 750-1,000 m.p.h. in a
-banked but steady manner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 26
Date: 5/9/1949
-Description: Naval Unit Commander Robert
-B. McLaughlin, with several other officers, witnesses a white object
-overhead during the launch of a WAC Corporal B rocket at White Sands
-Proving Ground, New Mexico. It disappears “in a blinding burst of speed
-to the west.” (R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter
-to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; Sparks,
-p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1381
Date: 5/9/1949
-Description: Editor Ken
-Purdy asks Maj. Donald
-E. Keyhoe to investigate the flying saucer mystery for True
-magazine, warning him to watch out for “fake tips” from the Pentagon.
-Keyhoe is initially skeptical, but after talking to his old friends Adm.
-Delmer
-S. Fahrney and Adm. Calvin
-M. Bolster, his
-opinion changes. (Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950,
-pp. 18–22,
-44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1380
Date: 5/9/1949
-Description: An article in Time magazine reports on the Air Force press
-release, remarking that “Spinners of yarns about flying saucers,
-including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their
-stories.” (“Things
-That Go Whiz,” Time, May 9, 1949; “Anatomy
-of a Hoax, Part Six,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1379
Date: 5/11/1949
-Description: Israel admitted to the UN
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City
Date: 5/12/1949
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Astronomer Donald
-H. Menzel leaves Holloman AFB on Highway 70 for Alamogordo, New
-Mexico. Shortly after noticing the star Antares, he sees another fuzzy
-object in the sky nearer to the horizon. A second object appears three
-degrees to the south. Determining that the objects are not Castor and
-Pollux or reflections, Menzel watches them another 4 minutes. Both
-objects vanish abruptly. (Donald H. Menzel, Flying Saucers, Harvard
-University, 1953, pp. 3–4, 99–100;
-Sparks, p. 62;
-J. Allen Hynek, “Vignettes of UFO History: Dr. Menzel Reports a UFO!”
-IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 11; Clark III 741–742)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1383
Date: 5/12/1949
-Description: Commander McLaughlin writes
-to his friend, atmospheric physicist James
-Van Allen, describing the Moore theodolite
-case and his own sighting a few days earlier. He thinks they must
-involve technology because they have been seen accelerating and
-maneuvering. (R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter
-to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1382
Date: 5/13/1949
-Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA’s “second memorandum of
-importance” on flying discs.
-Type: publication
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 5/18/1949
-Description: Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of
-importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from
-Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief
-Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to
-analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at
-the AFU in Sweden.
-Type: memorandum
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH
Date: 5/18/1949
-Description: George N. Raines leaves Washington, D.C., for four days to
-attend a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. He says Forrestal seems
-“somewhat better,” having regained 12 pounds.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1384
Date: 5/18/1949
-Description: Walter
-Winchell, in
-his “On Broadway” syndicated column, writes: “The N.Y. World-Telegram on
-Saturday [May 14] confirmed this reporter’s exclusive report of several
-weeks before—which newspapermen have denied—about the Flying Saucers . .
-. Said the front-page piece in the W-T: ‘Air Force people are convinced
-the flying disc is real. The clincher came when the air force got a
-picture recently of three discs flying formation over Stephenville,
-Newfoundland. [The July 10, 1947, hole-in-the-cloud case?] They
-outdistanced our fastest ships. Some air force men believe the discs are
-a new type flying machine utilizing gyroscopic principles’ . . . At the
-time we added that the reality of the flying discs or saucers could not
-be denied truthfully.” (“Anatomy
-of a Hoax, Part
-Two,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1385
Date: 5/19/1949
-Description: Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence Commander Col.
-Howard
-McCoy forwards a copy of the Project Sign final report to the
-Research and Development Board, along with some appendices that later
-find their way into the Project Grudge final report. (Michael Hall and
-Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered
-Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1386
Date: 5/19/1949
-Description: The Fourth Army’s observation system near Killeen Base,
-Texas (without cameras, but with four 6-man observation posts equipped
-with instruments), is revealed to the intelligence community at one of
-its weekly meetings. Two trucks serve as a roving Artillery Patrol
-observation post linked to the Killeen plotting center by radio. AFOSI
-Lt. Col. Doyle
-Rees has meanwhile set up a 24-hour visual observation post in the
-Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is equipped with a
-wide-angle-lens camera fitted with a spectrographic grating. (Brad
-Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 12; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44; Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1387
Date: 5/21/1949
-Description: 1:30 p.m. An F-82 is dispatched from Moses Lake AFB [now
-Grant County International Airport] in Washington State to intercept a
-UFO that is hovering in restricted air space over the Hanford Atomic
-Works at an altitude of 17,000–20,000 feet. The silvery disc is seen
-from the ground at Hanford and on radar. Before the F-82 can take off,
-the disc speeds away faster than a jet fighter. It disappears from
-ground radar and the F-82 cannot locate it. (NICAP, “Hanford
-AEC Plant / F-82/RV Case”; Sparks, p. 63;
-Hynek UFO Report, p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1388
Date: 5/22/1949
-Description: 1:45 a.m. At the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda,
-Maryland, Forrestal is
-awake and refuses a sedative. Five minutes later, the Navy corpsman
-guarding him finds the room empty. Forrestal’s body is found on a
-third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen, No suicide note is found
-other than part of a translation of Sophocles’s
-tragedy Ajax that he is copying. (Wikipedia, “James
-Forrestal”; J. C. Hawkins, Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined
-Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy, The
-Author, 2017; David Martin, The Assassination of James Forrestal,
-McCabe, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1389
Date: 5/22/1949
-Description: Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16
-floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being
-invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to
-silence him.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
Date: 5/24/1949
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Five witnesses (NACA Ames Research Lab employees
-Don Heaphy, Gilbert Rivera and his wife, Mrs. Roy L. McBeth, and
-Mrs. William McBeth) on a fishing boat on the Rogue River, Oregon, near
-Elephant Rock, see a round, silvery object the size of a transport
-aircraft. It comes from the east, then turns southwest and leaves no
-exhaust trail. The disc appears flattened and has a wrinkled surface
-with a vertical stabilizer fin. The time of observation is less than 3
-minutes. (NICAP, “The
-Rogue River Incident”; Sparks,
-p. 64; Swords 83–84; Bruce Maccabee, “An
-Assessment of the UFO Sighting at Rogue River, Oregon (May 24,
-1949),” December 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1390
Date: 5/27/1949
-Description: 2:25 p.m. Pilot and businessman Joseph
-Shell, ferrying an SNJ trainer for North American Aviation from Red
-Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon, sees 5–8 oval objects, twice as
-long as wide and one-fifth as thick, around Hart Mountain, Oregon. They
-fly in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3–4 times their
-length, except that the second and third are closer together. (NICAP,
-“Pilot
-Encounters 5–8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects”; Sparks,
-p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1391
Date: 5/27/1949
-Time: 2:25 PM
-Description: Witness: Joseph Shell, ferrying SNJ trainer for North
-American Aviation, from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon. Five to
-eight oval objects, twice as long as wide, and 1/5 as thick. They flew
-in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3-4 times their length,
-except that the second and third were closer together.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: South-central Oregon
-ID: 27
Date: 5/31/1949
-Description: The Navy review board, convened by Adm. Morton
-D. Willcutts, completes hearings on James
-Forrestal’s death. The cause of death is remarkably inconclusive,
-and the investigation leaves many questions unanswered.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1393
Date: 5/31/1949
-Description: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends
-Project Grudge a copy of Rees’s
-report on Kaplan’s
-visit on April 28, the trip that USAF Intelligence had arranged to
-explore the possibility of a clandestine investigation separate from
-Grudge. Thus AMC learns of the conspiracy to keep it in the dark, but
-Rees fails to mention the involvement of USAF Intelligence. (Brad Sparks
-and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1985): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1392
Date: 6/6/1949
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Two observation posts at Killeen Base, Fort Hood,
-Texas, spot a hovering orange light. Lts. Virgil Williams and Marvin L.
-Jones are at one site and Lts. Bernard G. Raferty and Alfred
-H. Jones are at the other. When they triangulate its location, they
-find it is 3 miles south of one observation post and 4.5 miles south of
-the plotting center, hovering 5,280 feet in the air. It is 30–70 feet in
-diameter. Suddenly it starts moving in level flight, then bursts into
-small particles. The duration is less than 3 minutes. This observation
-involves the first real- time triangulation of a UFO sighting. (Brad
-Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 12; Clark III 543; Sparks, p. 66;
-Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical
-Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001,
-p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1396
Date: 6/10/1949
-Description: White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k
-ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the
-missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined
-the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the
-missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation
-posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p238)
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 6/14/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km
-attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 133.5km
Date: 6/14/1949
-Description: 3:35 p.m. A crew of Navy engineers under Capt. Robert
-Bright McLaughlin is testing an Air Force V-2 rocket at White Sands
-Missile Range, New Mexico. When the V-2 attains a speed of 2,000 feet
-per second in its upward flight, it is joined by two smaller circular
-objects that pace it, one on each side. One then passes through the
-rocket’s exhaust, joins the other, and together accelerate upwards
-leaving the V-2 behind. Five other missile observation crews also see
-the objects. (NICAP, “Two
-UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket”; Robert McLaughlin, “How Scientists
-Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Sparks, p. 66;
-Swords 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1397
Date: summer 1949
-Description: The gouge is said to be still visible in the debris field
-near Corona, New Mexico. Mack
-Brazel, having found various scraps and bits for the past two years,
-mentions to someone in a bar in Corona that he has some material. The
-next day, a Capt. Armstrong and three others from Roswell Army Air Field
-supposedly confiscate the pieces.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1394
Date: Summer 1949
-Description: USAF Project “Twinkle” started
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: summer 1949
-Description: 4:00 p.m. The French Navy patrol boat La
-Rusé (formerly the USS PC-472) encounters a cigar-shaped bluish
-object about one mile away off Casablanca, Morocco. The crew watches it
-for 1 minute until it shoots toward the horizon and out of sight.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p, 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1395
Date: 6/22/1949
-Description: Three women (one a schoolteacher, another a biologist
-working at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and a third who is the wife of a member
-of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge) observe an odd trio of “flying
-saucers” for about 15 minutes: “It was described as consisting of two
-identical rectangular-shaped objects which appeared to be coordinated in
-movement and which moved in wave-like motion. The third object was
-circular in shape and appeared to be in level flight between and above
-the two rectangular objects. The rectangular objects appeared to be
-bright metal on top but dark underneath, while the color of the circular
-object was the same as that of frosted glass. The ‘flying saucer,’ when
-last sighted, was in level flight and was flying in a northwesterly
-direction. The weather was clear with high cumulus clouds. The ‘flying
-saucer’ flew at speed of from 10 to 15 mph over an area just about the
-center of Oak Ridge.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1398
Date: 6/29/1949
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A former US Air Force tech sergeant observes
-three separate flights of three V-shaped or triangular objects from his
-front porch in Baltimore, Maryland. The objects veer sharply into a
-cloud at 2,500 feet altitude and then fly around it repeatedly. They
-have the ability to reverse their course 180° instantaneously. Through
-binoculars, they look like black, open boomerangs. More objects join
-them until there are 15–20, and he watches them for two hours. The
-formation moves from southeast to northeast and disappears. Fifteen
-other witness also see the display. (Marler 126–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1399
Date: 7/3/1949
-Description: 10:40 a.m. Aeronautical engineer Molt
-Taylor, airport manager at Longview, Washington, is preparing for an
-air show when someone points out an object in the sky to the northwest.
-He announces it over the PA system to the crowd of 150–200 observers,
-including pilots, who watch a metallic disc cross to the southeast with
-a falling-leaf motion. Estimated altitude is 30,000 feet at 300 mph,
-with the approximate size of 100 feet. A second object is seen at 10:49
-a.m. for 2 minutes. A third sighting takes place at 11:25 a.m. An object
-approaches from the west at about the same altitude, oscillating at 48
-per minute, and disappears into the sun. (NICAP, “Metallic
-Discus Object
-Observed by 150–200 Observers”; Sparks, p. 67;
-Swords 82–83; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1400
Date: 7/13/1949
-Description: Kaplan responds
-to a July 1 letter from Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell inquiring about his April visit to Los Alamos, New Mexico.
-He explains that he has deliberately waited two months to report because
-he wanted to have a cooling off period from the deep impression the New
-Mexico witnesses had on him. Moreover, he wants to see if the green
-fireballs are still reported (they are) before he recommends a
-full-scale instrumented program. He says that Norris
-Bradbury, the
-Los Alamos lab director, has urged that a classified scientific
-conference be held to discuss the phenomena. Kaplan suspects that the
-fireballs are an auroral phenomenon, but concedes that their horizontal
-motion and southern appearance are “difficult to explain.” He recommends
-a photographic and spectrographic patrol that would stay on to look out
-for the fireballs. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern
-Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1401
Date: 7/24/1949
-Description: 12:03 p.m. Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, is
-flying a Piper PA-16 Clipper at 19,000 feet 10 miles northwest of
-Mountain Home, Idaho, when he sees a tight formation of 7 delta-shaped
-objects, 35–55 feet in diameter near his plane. They make a perfect and
-unbanked right turn 1,500 feet ahead of his plane, then they turn right
-again, passing the aircraft at about 450–500 mph. Clark’s engine runs
-rough during the sighting, which lasts 10 minutes. After he lands, he
-finds all his spark plugs burned out. When Blue Book investigates the
-case, they confiscate the spark plugs. (NICAP, “Piper
-Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects”; Sparks,
-p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1402
Date: 7/24/1949
-Description: 8:30 p.m. An Air Force major and captain watch seven
-bluish-white lights pass over Fort Worth, Texas, in a V formation,
-moving rapidly from south to north. The distance between the lights does
-not vary during the 4–5 seconds they are visible. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949 July–December, The Author, 1988, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1403
Date: 7/24/1949
-Description: A green fireball is seen falling close to Socorro, New
-Mexico. The next day, scientist William
-D. Crozier collects dust samples from the School of Mines campus at
-Socorro. The samples contain copper particles of unusually large size.
-(Clark III 543–544; Sparks, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1404
Date: 7/24/1949
-Time: 12 noon
-Description: Witness: Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, flying a
-Piper Clipper. Seven delta-shaped objects, 35-55’ in span, 20-30’ long,
-2-5’ thick; light colored except for a 12’ diameter dark circle at the
-rear of each. They flew in a tight formation of twos with one behind,
-and made a perfect, but unbanked, turn. During the 10 minute sighting,
-they displayed decreasing smooth oscillations. Clark’s engine ran rough
-during the sighting, and upon landing was found to have all its spark
-plugs burned out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mountain Home, Idaho
-ID: 28
Date: 7/30/1949
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Northwest Airlines Capt. Thrush, two Portland
-control tower operators, and one flying instructor. One object with one
-white light and two red lights, maneuvered and hovered.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Hood, Oregon
-ID: 29
Date: 8/1949
-Description: Actor, producer, and director Mikel
-Conrad, in promoting his soon-to-be-released film The Flying Saucer,
-claims that the movie contains actual footage of a spaceship recovered
-in Alaska by government agents. He produces a bogus FBI agent to
-“confirm” the story. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations
-interviews Conrad, who admits to perpetrating a publicity hoax. (Jerome
-Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1993): 16; Internet Movie Database, “The
-Flying Saucer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1406
Date: 8/1949
-Description: George
-Adamski publishes Pioneers of Space, detailing his out-of-body
-visits to the Moon, Mars, and Venus. In private correspondence he later
-explains “how one may venture from one place to another, while his
-physical is in one place and he is in another. That is the way I have
-written this book. I actually have gone to the places I speak of.”
-(George Adamski [ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis], Pioneers of Space,
-Leonard-Freefield, 1949; “Palomar
-Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski
-Case, September 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1405
Date: 8/8/1949
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Six airmen and tower operators at Medford
-Municipal Airport [now the Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport]
-in Oregon see 1–7 shiny objects traveling at variable speeds at an
-estimated altitude of 30,000 feet. They fly in formation for a while,
-then break off and return to formation again. Control tower operators
-using binoculars seem to distinguish wings on the objects. They remain
-visible until around 12:30 a.m. (NICAP, “Winged
-Objects Cavort over Airport”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1407
Date: 8/10/1949
-Description: The National Military Establishment is renamed the
-Department of Defense to unify the Army, Navy, and Air Force under the
-Secretary of Defense. It establishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
-(Wikipedia, “United
-States Department
-of Defense”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1409
Date: 8/10/1949
-Description: USAF’s AMC issues a final 600-page report, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects—Project Grudge,” Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100, or
-“The Grudge Report,” authored by Lt. Howard W. Smith and George
-W. Towles. Hynek’s
-April analysis is included as an appendix. Based on 237 cases, Hynek
-finds that 32% can be explained astronomically. Others say 12% are
-balloons, 33% are other misidentifications, hoaxes, or insufficient
-information. That leaves 23% (55) classed as unknowns. Despite this,
-witnesses are mostly deluded, hysterical, lying, or crazy, and “further
-study along present lines would only confirm the findings presented
-herein.” The report concludes there is little evidence to prove UFOs are
-real and do not represent a security threat. It recommends that press
-releases be created to “aid in dispelling public apprehension.” On the
-other hand, it suggests that military and government agencies interested
-in “psychological warfare” be informed of the findings. Appendix D is
-written by USAF Scientific Advisory Board member George
-E. Valley, who writes that extraterrestrial civilizations “might
-observe that on Earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing
-rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed.
-We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such
-visitations.” Project Grudge enters a period of dormancy until July
-1950. The report is classified Secret until August 1, 1952. (Lt. Howard
-W. Smith and George W. Towles, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects—Project
-Grudge,” Air Materiel Command Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100;
-Hynek UFO Report, p. 18;
-Sparks,
-p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1408
Date: 8/16/1949
-Description: A young girl in Wola Drzewiecka, Poland, sees a dark green
-object nearby like two bowls put together and about 5 feet in diameter.
-She walks right up to it and touches its metallic surface with her index
-finger, getting a mild electric vibration and making her fingertip turn
-red. The object begins rotating, then rises up and disappears to the
-south at an altitude of 50 feet. In the distance she sees another object
-that she says remained in the same spot for several days. (Poland
-18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1411
Date: 8/17/1949
-Description: Lincoln
-LaPaz submits the fifth of a series of reports on “anomalous
-luminous phenomena.” He notes that “Many of the green fireballs now
-appearing descend in nearly vertical paths, whereas, in earlier months
-almost all of the green fireballs observed moved almost horizontally.
-There appears to be a concentration of New Mexico incidents near
-weekends, especially on Sunday and near the hour of 8:00.” (Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1949
-July–December, The
-Author, 1988, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1410
Date: 8/18/1949
-Description: LaPaz and
-USAF scientists meet with William
-D. Crozier to find out about his July 25 dust collection in Socorro,
-New Mexico. Crozier says he thinks the copper particles may have come
-from a campus building, although samples from the open country contain
-the same particles. LaPaz notes that copper is extremely rare in
-meteorites, although it might explain the yellow-green color of the
-fireballs. He suggests that further air and ground samples be taken in
-areas where the fireballs are seen. (Clark III 543–544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1412
Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: 8:15–11:00 p.m. Rev. Gregory
-Miller, pastor
-of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, has purchased from
-Army surplus an 8-million-candlepower searchlight for his church
-carnival. Sgt. Donald R. Berger of ROTC of the University of Cincinnati
-is to operate it. During the festivities, Berger’s sweeping searchlight
-suddenly flashes across a stationary circular object in the sky. Miller
-and others join in and observe. When Berger moves the searchlight away,
-the disc continues to glow. Hundreds of calls are received by Cincinnati
-Post and Cincinnati Enquirer offices regarding fireballs and comet-like
-objects all across the Cincinnati area this first night. The searchlight
-picks up the same or similar objects on nine further occasions, the last
-being on March 10, 1950. (“More
-Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954):
-1–2; NICAP, “The
-Ohio Searchlight Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The
-Norwood Searchlight Incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1414
Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: Two prospectors are said to have observed a disk-shaped
-object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when
-pursued. The object disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Death Valley, California
-ID: 70
Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: Two prospectors, Buck Fitzgerald and Mase Garney, report
-that a flying saucer crashed near them in Death Valley, California. Two
-little men jump out and start running. The prospectors chase them over a
-sand dune, but lose them. (“‘Little
-Men’ in Flying Disc,” San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 1949, p. 2;
-Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1413
Date: 8/20/1949
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Astronomer Clyde
-Tombaugh, his wife,
-and mother-in-law see
-a formation of rectangular bluish- green lights at Las Cruces, New
-Mexico, for about 3 seconds. (NICAP, “Tombaugh
-Observes UFO Formation”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
-We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89; “Dr. Clyde Tombaugh
-Provides Details on His Own Famous Sighting,” CSI News Letter, no.
-10 (December 15, 1957): 27; UFOEv, p. 53;
-Sparks, p. 70;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 59–60; Clark III 1129–1130; Swords
-81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1415
Date: 8/29/1949
-Description: First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at
-Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1)
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 22
Date: 8/29/1949
-Description: 7:00 a.m. The Soviet Union secretly conducts its first
-successful nuclear weapon test (First Lightning) at the Semipalatinsk
-Test Site in Kazakhstan. The design is very similar to the first US “Fat
-Man” plutonium bomb. The project is led by physicist Igor
-Kurchatov. (Wikipedia, “RDS-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1416
Date: 9/1949
-Alternate date: 10/1949
-Description: A Swiss Air Force officer sees a silvery disc 20 feet in
-diameter with jagged edges above Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland. He observes
-it flying at about 700 mph for 12 seconds. (Center for UFO Studies, [Payerne
-case file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1422
Date: 9/1/1949
-Description: Col. John W. Schweizer of AFOIN writes to the director of
-USAF Intelligence: “reports that fall in the ‘fireball’ category will no
-longer be included in HQ Air Materiel Command and Directorate of
-Intelligence, HQ USAF, investigative activity on unidentified aerial
-incidents.” AMC hands green fireball reports over to the USAF Cambridge
-Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. AFOIN
-rejects an Army request for further facilities to study the green
-fireballs from field locations. (Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1417
Date: 9/3/1949
-Description: USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter
-paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL
Date: 9/9/1949
-Description: DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded
-report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic
-explosion on the continent of Asia.”
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 9/14/1949
-Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Two residents of Lubbock, Texas, see 9
-clusters of objects “similar to ducks flying in formation,” bright
-silver and roughly round in shape. There are as many as 50 objects in
-all the formations except one. They seem to be traveling at 5,000 feet
-altitude, going north to south. Each light is visible for about 10
-seconds, but it takes 30 minutes for all the objects to pass overhead.
-One witness is convinced the objects are ducks. (Clark III
-692–693)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1419
Date: 9/14/1949
-Description: The Geophysical Sciences Branch of the Air Force Research
-and Development orders the new AMC commander Lt. Gen. Benjamin
-Chidlaw to have the Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts
-evaluate the New Mexico and Texas green fireball cases and consider the
-creation of an instrumented network. AMC is directed to send
-representatives from Boston to a meeting in New Mexico. (Lt. Col. John
-McK. Tucker, “Light Phenomena,”
-September 14, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern
-Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; Clark III
-544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1418
Date: 9/16/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km
-attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early
-termination)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 4.2km
Date: fall 1949
-Description: A radar-tracking UFO case takes place at a key atomic base
-(probably Los Alamos, New Mexico). The base radar scope covers 200 miles
-of sky up to 100,000 feet. A legitimate radar contact tracks five
-apparently metallic objects at a great height moving south and crossing
-the radar scope in less than 4 minutes (an average of about 4,500 mph).
-(H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
-We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1423
Date: fall 1949
-Description: Night. Donald Bushwell and his wife are traveling along a
-straight highway in New Mexico. Suddenly a disc about 50–60 feet across
-comes straight down the road toward them about 4 feet off the ground. It
-raises up a little before reaching the car and passes overhead. As it
-does so, his radio turns to static. (Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, December 10,
-1957; Schopick, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1424
Date: 9/23/1949
-Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet
-Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: fall 1949
-Description: Don Bushnell, plant superintendent with Southwestern
-Porcelain Steel Corp., saw an object fall in front of his car as his
-radio was blocked. He applied the brakes; object vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: KeyhoeS (Vallee)
-Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
-ID: 71
Date: 9/26/1949
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Lester
-Wolfe and five others 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska, are
-threshing wheat when they see three objects coming from the general
-direction of the sun (southwest). As the objects move, they give off a
-dazzling brilliance. They maintain a level flight with two of the
-objects changing positions as they fly. The power of the illumination
-remains constant throughout the incident (no pulses or flashes). Once
-the objects reach a direction northwest of the observers, they make a
-smooth 90° turn straight upwards and climb rapidly out of sight. Dean
-Wolfe is a recent graduate of a two-year course in aeronautical design
-and thinks the objects look like domed discs when viewed face forward,
-but are more like stubby, wingless, tailless fuselages when seen from
-the side. About 5 miles away, Don, Minnie, Elmer and
-Irene
-Ballheim see two fast-moving objects flying in the distance at level
-flight before abruptly turning straight up and flying upward. This group
-of people does not know their distant neighbors. (NICAP, “90-Degree
-Turn Straight Up”; Swords 83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1420
Date: 9/27/1949
-Description: 1:30 and 3:00 a.m. At least five observers at Sandia Base,
-New Mexico, see fireballs of various colors traveling either in an arc
-or in tangent to the Earth. (Francis Ridge, “The
-Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico
-Sightings,” September 3, 2005; Sparks,
-p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1421
Date: 9/29/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
-150.8km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 150.8km
Date: 10/6/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II
-test)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
Date: 10/10/1949
-Description: 1:07 a.m. A bluish-green fireball is seen moving to the
-northeast at 45° above the horizon at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Duration
-is from 4 to 15 seconds. (Francis Ridge, “The
-Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico
-Sightings,” September 3, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1425
Date: 10/11/1949
-Description: The Navy releases only a brief summary of its findings in
-the death of James
-Forrestal. The complete transcript is not released until 2004. (Ayn
-Rand Institute Watch, “The
-Willcutts Report on the Death of James Forrestal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1426
Date: 10/12/1949
-Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In
-New Mexico”
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
-Location: Hollywood, CA
Date: 10/12/1949
-Description: Columnist Frank
-Scully writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government
-has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert. (Frank
-Scully, “Scully’s
-Scrapbook,” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1427
Date: 10/14/1949
-Description: At another conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico, attended
-by 16 representatives of AFOSI, AMC (Joseph
-Kaplan and Maj. Frederic
-C. E. Oder), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists
-(Edward
-Teller, George
-Gamow, and
-Stanislaw
-Ulam), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in
-origin, but more observational data is needed. LaPaz and
-Neef speak
-at length. Oder’s Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in
-Bedford, Massachusetts, is selected for a field project, under LaPaz’s
-supervision. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights,
-Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; Clark III 544; Swords
-81; Good Above, pp. 266–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1428
Date: 10/14/1949
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Harley
-C. Marshall, manager
-of public relations at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County,
-California, is driving away from the observatory when he sees a perfect
-“V of V’s” formation of about 16–18 silver objects without tails or
-wings overhead traveling at high speed to the northwest and emitting a
-sound like jets. He stops and watches them disappear behind the cloud
-cover. Returning to the observatory, he phones electrician Benjamin
-B. Traxler, who
-at 1:20 p.m. sees one dark UFO traveling to the southwest. Marshall
-checks the Navy Electronics Laboratory Geiger counter on site and sees
-that the needle has jumped off the scale for several seconds. For the
-next 10 days, another 21 incidents of off-scale cosmic-ray detector
-incidents occur at scattered times, fitting a periodic 1.5-hour time
-schedule, a phenomenon not seen before or after, and unexplainable by
-equipment failure or radio interference from aircraft. Two
-representatives of the Office of Naval Research and two from the Naval
-Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, California (Joseph
-P. Maxfield and G. L. Bloom), visit the observatory to investigate
-the readings, but not before they stop in at Alice Wells’s Palomar
-Gardens Café on the way in. After George
-Adamski claims he has seen increased UFO activity in the area
-(including a sighting about the same time as another observation by
-Traxler on October 21), they ask him if he would send them any photos he
-might take with one of his telescopes. He gives them a copy of a
-telescopic photo he took in February 1949 with his 15-inch reflector.
-The Naval Electronics Lab later attributes the photo to “electric
-discharge which frequently occurs in cameras during film pulling in dry
-or cold climates.” Several Navy aircraft of differing prop and jet types
-are flown near the observatory using radio, altimeter, and radars on
-October 21 and November 2 in an unsuccessful effort to trigger the
-Geiger counter. (NICAP, “Geiger
-Counters Detect UFO
-Presence”; Clark III 38, 949–950; Sparks, pp. 74–75;
-Swords 86–87; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As
-Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 (September 1950): 56–59; Colin
-Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1429
Date: 10/23/1949
-Description: 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. Gregory
-Miller has set up his searchlight once again at St. Peter and Paul
-Church in Norwood, Ohio. Sgt. Berger turns on the light and picks up a
-large object in the beam. At about 10:00 p.m., the searchlight picks up
-two distinct groups of five triangular objects that seem to emerge from
-the main disc. They descend on the beam then turn out of it. The same
-performance is repeated 30 minutes later. About 50 persons, including
-newspaper reporters observe the objects. Miller takes several
-photographs and asks Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood police department
-to film the display. He uses three rolls, 25 feet each, and a Hugo-Meyer
-F-19- 3” camera with telephoto lens. Davidson also takes 10 still
-photographs of the large disc-shaped object that flies in and out of the
-searchlight beam, using a Speed-Graphic camera with a 14-inch Wallensach
-telephoto lens. Two of these are exceptional shots, showing both the
-parent object and the smaller group. These two pictures are last seen by
-Time-Life correspondent Harry Mayo, who has prepared a feature story for
-Time, which was to include them. But Mayo’s story and Miller’s photos
-were not used in Time or Life and, in spite of requests by Miller, these
-two photos are never returned. (Harry Mayo, “What
-Glows on Here? Norwood Muses,” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1;
-“More
-Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954):
-1–2; NICAP, “The
-Ohio Searchlight
-Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The
-Norwood Searchlight Incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1430
Date: 11/1949
-Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography
-expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with
-Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed
-photographs of a large disc-like object.
-Type: witness statement
-Reference: book
-“The UFO Crash at Aztec” by Steinman and Stevens
-See also: 3/25/48
-See also: 4/48
Date: 11/3/1949
-Description: Karl
-Taylor Compton resigns as chairman of the Research and Development
-Board around the same time that Lawrence
-R. Hafstad succeeds Lloyd
-Berkner as executive secretary. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors,
-“The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no.
-2 (Summer 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1432
Date: 11/3/1949
-Description: Joseph
-Kaplan brings the green fireball plan to the USAF Scientific
-Advisory Board at the Pentagon. By this time, he is convinced the
-fireballs are a rare type of meteor. But others are puzzled by the
-brightness, trajectories, and soundlessness, Kaplan says, “This high
-selectivity of direction seems to indicate that some group was trying to
-pinpoint Los Alamos with a new sort of weapon.” (Clark III 544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1431
Date: 11/3/1949
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Capt. William H. Donnelly is driving south
-about 2 miles north of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with a friend
-when he sees four objects to the east at a high altitude. All are oval
-and a metallic white color. They are constantly changing formation,
-moving up and down, back and forth. The objects continue to fly south
-rapidly and move in a horizontal line and disappear from sight in 20–40
-seconds. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1433
Date: 11/11/1949
-Description: 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander J.
-R. Bodler is in charge of a merchant vessel (possibly the USS Hemminger)
-in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
-He observes a huge, pulsating submarine light wheel, some 1,000–1,500
-feet in diameter, one mile from his ship. It is revolving around an
-ill-defined center with streaks of light like searchlight beams moving
-counterclockwise “like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.” He thinks it is
-caused by natural phosphorescence, stimulated by some marine life. (J.
-R. Bodler, “An
-Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,” US Naval Institute Proceedings
-72 (January 1952): 66–67; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1434
Date: 11/18/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
-123.9km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 123.9km
Date: 11/23/1949
-Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled,
-Secrets May Be Lost”
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
-Location: Hollywood, CA
Date: 11/27/1949
-Description: 5:49 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration Chief Controller
-W. W. Jones watches a blue-white fireball moving 5°–7° per second over
-Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Francis Ridge, “The
-Nuclear Connection
-Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1435
Date: 11/27/1949
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Kirtland AFB Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col.
-Charles E. Lancaster Jr. is driving near McIntosh, New Mexico, when he
-sees a green fireball descend near Albuquerque. (Sparks, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1436
Date: 12/1949
-Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in
-True Magazine
-Type: publication
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: WA
Date: 12/1949
-Description: Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg that UFOs be added to JANAP 146 as required reporting
-subjects and that civilian pilots report UFO sightings according to
-military chains of command. (Swords 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1437
Date: 12/2/1949
-End date: 12/3/1949
-Description: The US government releases radioactive fission products at
-the Hanford Site plutonium production facility in eastern Washington in
-an operation called Green Run. The radioisotopes are supposed to be
-detected by US Air Force reconnaissance. Sources cite 5,500–12,000
-curies of iodine-131 are released and an even greater amount of
-xenon-133. The radiation is distributed over 500,000 acres encompassing
-three small towns and causes the cessation of intentional radioactive
-releases at Hanford until 1962, when more experiments commence. There
-are some indications that many other tests are conducted in the 1940s
-prior to Green Run, although this is a particularly large test. Evidence
-suggests that filters to remove the iodine are disabled during the test.
-(Wikipedia, “Green
-Run”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1438
Date: 12/4/1949
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Mario Restier is returning home from his father’s
-place in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he notices a disc
-land about 32–50 feet from the road. He hears a voice telling him not to
-be afraid and asking if he wants to know what it’s all about. Two beings
-about 5 feet 5 inches emerge from the UFO wearing togas and helmets.
-Restier asks them if they believe in God, and they answer, “God is one.”
-Encouraged, he enters the craft where he is offered a trip, put in a tub
-filled with liquid, and taken on a trip to a city on another world. He
-is shown a screen that depicts human nature, ambitions, and violence.
-After about 6 hours, he is returned to the spot where he was abducted.
-Returning to his father’s house, he finds it is April 14, 1950, and has
-lost nearly four months of earth time. (Brazil 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1439
Date: 12/8/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
-130.3km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 130.3km
Date: 12/20/1949
-Description: Following consideration by the Defense Department’s
-Research and Development Board, Joseph Kaplan’s
-green fireball project is approved by AMC. (Col. B. G. Holzman, “Light
-Phenomena,” December 20, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The
-Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16;
-Clark III 544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1440
Date: 12/24/1949
-Description: The January 1950 issue of True magazine is published, with
-Donald
-Keyhoe’s article, “The Flying Saucers Are Real.” Keyhoe argues that
-the Air Force knows UFOs are real, alien, and covering up information
-from the public in order to avoid panic: “For the past 175 years, the
-planet Earth has been under systematic close- range examination by
-living, intelligent observers from another planet.” The Air Force finds
-itself buried in letters, telegrams, and phone calls demanding
-information about flying saucers. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “The
-Flying Saucers
-Are Real,” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1441
Date: 12/27/1949
-Description: USAF announces that Project Grudge is terminated. Its files
-are put into storage. The Grudge report is released again, reiterating
-that UFOs are the “result of (1) misinterpretations of various
-conventional objects; (2) a mild form of mass hysteria; or (3) hoaxes.”
-(Clark III 932–933)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1442
Date: 12/27/1949
-Description: USAF Project “Saucer” closed
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 12/28/1949
-Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12
-dead midget crewmen
-Type: radio show
-Reference: link
-Location: Richmond, VA
Date: 12/31/1949
-Description: Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”,
-research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very
-high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5
-months, 23 days between 7/8/47 and 12/31/49.
-Type: newspaper articles
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
Date: 1950
-Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying
-Saucer as I Saw It”
-Type: publication
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: WA
Date: 1950’s
-Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout
-maps.
-Type: book reference
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
-Location: Area 51
Date: 1950
-Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens
-(Plutonium production)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1950’s
-Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the
-Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Kapustin Yar
Date: 1950
-Description: N.
-Meade Layne publishes The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, which
-identifies UFOs as emanating from the etheric world, which coexists with
-and interpenetrates ours. The etherians must lower their “vibrational”
-rate in order to enter our realm. UFOs are “thought-constructs” that can
-take many forms and densities. He considers the etherians benign. (Meade
-Layne, The
-Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, Borderland
-Sciences Research Associates, 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1443
Date: 1950
-Description: William Ortiz, a deaf-mute, claims to have the first of
-three close encounters (the others in 1969 and 1975) with large-eyed
-aliens in UFOs in Colombia. After the first two events, he finds his
-hearing temporarily restored. The entities communicate to him using hand
-signals. (“First
-Reported CEIII Alien Communicating with Deaf-Mute,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1444
Date: Early 1950
-Description: Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated
-rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through
-confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to
-earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches
-tall had been found dead in the wreckage.
-Type: rumors
-Reference: Medium
Date: 1/1950
-Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying
-Saucers
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 1/1950
-Description: The Ground Observer Corps, an organization of civilians who
-watch the skies for enemy airplanes, is created by the US Air Defense
-Command. (Wikipedia, “Ground
-Observer Corps”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1445
Date: 1/1950
-Description: Keyhoe meets
-with Gen. Sory
-Smith, director of public relations for the Air Force; Maj. Jesse
-E. Stay and Jack T. Shea, press officers; and Maj. Jere
-Boggs, Pentagon
-liaison to Project Grudge. Most of the interview involves questions for
-Boggs. Keyhoe is given two looseleaf notebooks with summaries of
-“Project Saucer” cases. His request to visit Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio to look at the actual case files is turned down weeks later.
-(Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. 147–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1447
Date: 1/1950
-Description: On the Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska, route, an
-air freighter is paced for five minutes by a UFO. When the pilots try to
-close in, the craft zooms away at terrific speed. Later, the airline
-head reports that intelligence officers quizzed the pilots for hours.
-“From their questions,” he said, “I could tell they had a good idea of
-what the saucers are. One officer admitted they did, but he wouldn’t say
-any more.” (Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal,
-1950, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1446
Date: 1/1/1950
-Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying
-Saucers are Real” in Newspapers
-Type: publication
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/6/1950
-Description: Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T.
-Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation,
-exotic metals, acclimation program, etc.
-Type: rumors
-Reference: Amazon
-Reference: Newspapers.com
Date: 1/7/1950
-Description: 10:15 p.m. The assistant maintenance officer at Holloman
-AFB is driving south of Corona, New Mexico, when he sees a green
-fireball. It descends at a 60° angle, then levels out and travels 10°
-east before dropping out of sight behind a mountain. When first seen, it
-is yellowish-white, changes to orange as it descends, then turns bright
-blue-green as it levels out and disappears. (NICAP, “January
-7, 1950, Corona, NM, OSI Case 161”: Clark III 544; Sparks, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1448
Date: 1/9/1950
-Description: Time magazine reports on rumors of crashed saucers and
-small humanoids in New Mexico. (“Visitors
-from Venus,”
-Time, January 9, 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1449
Date: 1/12/1950
-Description: 11:25 p.m. A B-29 aircraft is flying over the Gulf of
-Mexico (southwest of Florida) on a course of 260° when three objects are
-noted on the radar scope orbiting the B-29 from all quadrants. The
-objects are noticed by the radar operator, aircraft commander,
-navigator, and bombardier. One object is first sighted on a bearing of
-330° traveling south. The objects travel across the scope in
-approximately 15–20 seconds on the 100-mile range setting. In a few
-minutes this object is joined by two others, which disappear in a few
-minutes. At short ranges the object is large and well-defined on the
-radar scope. The object goes off for about 100 miles, turns and comes in
-as if for an attack, passes through the center of the scope, and emerges
-on the other side. The estimated speed of the object is 2,500–3,000 mph.
-The one object remains on the radar scope for approximately 30 minutes,
-following the B-29 all the time. The radar operator switches ranges on
-the scope and picks up the object on the 20- and 50- mile settings.
-Twice the object comes to within 20 miles of the aircraft and then
-apparently has the ability to hover, because the movement on the radar
-scope ceases for 5–15 seconds. After altering course the object no
-longer appears, but the radar is jammed for approximately 10 minutes.
-The crew makes no visual sighting. (NICAP, “B-29
-Radar Tracks Objects”; Clark III 58; Sparks, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1451
Date: 1/12/1950
-Description: The AF Directorate of Intelligence quietly cancels the
-special intelligence collection directives to various government
-agencies for reporting UFO incidents, though routine intelligence
-channels still require UFO reporting, per AFCIR-CC7, “Reporting of
-Information on Unconventional Aircraft.” Cancellation is a follow-up to
-the widely announced closure of “Project Saucer.” AFOIN Director Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell believes that in fact AMC is taking its UFO project
-underground by announcing the closure. Months later Cabell discovers
-that AMC Intelligence under Col. Harold
-E. Watson is not running a secret UFO investigation, and Cabell is
-forced to make up for AMC’s negligence by conducting his own UFO
-investigations via his AF Intelligence staff. (Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell,
-“Reporting
-of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” January 12, 1950; Swords
-498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1450
Date: 1/16/1950
-Description: CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New
-Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the
-other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a
-cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2
-ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has
-defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged
-ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were
-perfectly preserved.
-Type: classified staff message
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
-See also: 1/6/50
-See also: 1/30/50
Date: 1/16/1950
-Description: Tsuneo
-Saheki of the Osaka Planetarium in Japan sees an explosion on Mars,
-60 miles high and 900 miles in diameter. Thomas Dobbins and William
-Sheehan investigate and find that this and other Martian flashes are
-likely caused by solar reflections on patches of ice crystals on the
-surface of Mars. (“‘Terrific
-Explosion’ on Mars Reported
-by Japanese Observers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 1950,
-p. 13; John J. O’Neill, “Mars
-Blast Puzzles
-Science,” Ottawa (Ont.) Citizen, July 16, 1952, p. 30; “Some
-Curious Objects: Meteoritic Perhaps,” The Strolling Astronomer 4,
-no. 5 (May 1, 1950): 8–9; Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan, “Solving
-the Martian Flares
-Mystery,” 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1453
Date: 1/16/1950
-Description: The AFOSI office at Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska, sends a
-message that recounts stories from Denver, Colorado, about crashed
-saucers in the southwest. The metal allegedly “defied analysis.” Bodies
-are said to be 3 feet tall. (Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
-1988, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1452
Date: late 1/1950
-Description: Gen. Charles
-Cabell, possibly inspired by the Kodiak, Alaska, case, sends a
-letter to ATIC asking why Project Grudge has ended, because he never
-disbanded it. ATIC responds that Grudge is no longer a special project
-and that UFO reports will be processed through normal intelligence
-channels. (Ruppelt, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1456
Date: 1/22/1950
-Description: 2:40 a.m. Navy patrol pilot Lieut. Smith makes a routine
-security flight out of Naval Air Station Kodiak [now Coast Guard Base
-Kodiak], Alaska. He obtains a radar reading on an object 20 miles north.
-It quickly vanishes. At 2:48, he tracks a similar object 10 miles
-southeast. Kodiak radar reports no known aircraft in the vicinity, but
-they are seeing the same track. At 3:00 a.m., the tug USS
-Tillamook is south of Kodiak when one of the men on deck sees a
-“very fast-moving red glow light, which appeared to be of exhaust
-nature.” The object comes from the southeast, moves clockwise around
-Kodiak, and returns to the southeast. Another officer sees it for 30
-seconds and describes it as a “large ball of orange fire.” At 4:40 a.m.,
-Lieut. Smith picks up another blip moving so fast that it leaves a trail
-on his screen. His crew sees the UFO close a five-mile gap in 10
-seconds, an apparent speed of 1,800 mph. Witnesses report two orange
-lights that rotate around a common center. The object makes a sharp turn
-and heads directly towards Smith’s plane. Smith considers this a
-threatening situation and turns off his lights; the UFO flies by and
-disappears. At least 35 copies of Smith’s report are sent to FBI, CIA,
-AFOSI, and the State Department. None are ever officially released or
-published. (NICAP, “USN
-P2V3 Patrol Plane
-and USS Tillamook
-Encounter”;
-ClearIntent, pp. 165–166;
-Clark III 58; Sparks,
-p. 80; Swords 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1454
Date: 1/22/1950
-Description: U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine
-security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times.
-Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known
-traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS
-Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a
-very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to
-come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the
-direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally
-south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually
-leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving
-at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a
-common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight
-formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards
-Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off
-all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky
-colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a
-matter of minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Kodiak, Alaska
Date: 1/24/1950
-Description: 4:50 p.m. USAF Capt. G. B. Edwards and copilot Theron C.
-Fehrevach are flying a C-45 transport plane from Pope AFB [now Pope
-Field], Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Bolling AFB [now Joint Base
-Anacostia- Bolling], Washington, D.C. While at 5,000 feet near
-Blacksburg, Virginia, Fehrevach notices a dark, 200–250 foot in
-diameter, hemispherical parachute-shaped object above them about 5–10
-miles away. A large black smoky region is below it, possibly obscuring
-the lower portion of a sphere. The UFO is darker than the 50% cloud
-cover and “easy to distinguish as not being cloud.” The object moves
-smoothly without any noticeable turn radius. Edwards puts the C-45 into
-a climb to 7,000 feet so they are at the same altitude as the UFO and
-turns to head directly toward it. Army Courier Service passenger 1st Lt.
-John
-H. Van Santen is alerted by Fehrevach and also sees the object move
-right then left again, then they all see the object recede at high speed
-and disappear. About 90 seconds later the object reappears about 30°–45°
-to the right of their heading, then oscillates right to left. It moves
-horizontally to dead ahead again and disappears by receding in the
-distance at high speed. (NICAP, “C-25 Transport
-Crew Encounters Object”; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “Blackstone,
-Virginia, USA: January 24,
-1950,” September 30, 2015; Swords 91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1455
Date: 1/26/1950
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Lt. Col. Lester
-F. Mathison, commanding
-officer of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB [now
-Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska, notices three
-reddish objects above the cirrus cloud layer at 25,000–30,000 feet. They
-are moving to the north in a sightly curled trail fashion and disappear
-into some clouds. (“Extract:
-History of the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, January 1–March 31,
-1950 (Elmendorf
-AFB, Alaska),” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 (February 2001):
-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1457
Date: 1/29/1950
-Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green ovoid object
-hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a small ravine.
-Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 m, and
-it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and
-the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: South Table Mountain, Colorado
-ID: 72
Date: 1/30/1950
-Description: The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article
-referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on
-“Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation
-program.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Kodiak, Alaska
-See also: 1/6/50
Date: 1/31/1950
-Description: Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO
-resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of
-clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into
-another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air
-disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO
-sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was
-also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
-See also: 1/6/50
Date: 2/1/1950
-Description: A meteor-like object spewing smoke is seen by many people
-over Tucson, Arizona. The radio operator at Davis-Monthan AFB asks 1st
-Lieut. Roy
-L. Jones Jr. to investigate it in his B-29, but he cannot catch up
-with it. Edwin
-Francis Carpenter, head
-of the University of Arizona astronomy department, says he is certain
-the object is not a meteor. (Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
-Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. 10–12;
-Sparks,
-p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1459
Date: 2/1/1950
-Description: Harry
-S. Truman issues Executive Order 10104 and creates the “Top Secret
-classification” designation. (US Office of the Federal Register, “Executive
-Order 10104”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1458
Date: 2/2/1950
-Description: Lincoln
-LaPaz, citing
-the press of academic duties, withdraws from Project Twinkle. (Clark III
-544) February 5 — 5:10 p.m. Four people at Falmouth Airport [now part of
-Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area north of Hatchville,
-Massachusetts] see two illuminated cylindrical objects in the western
-sky. The witnesses include Marvin
-R. Odom, owner
-of the airport, and Lt. Philip
-Foushee Jr. of Otis AFB [now Otis Air National Guard Base] near
-Mashpee. As the objects are maneuvering, a fireball drops from one. Five
-minutes later they both climb at high speed and disappear from view.
-(NICAP, “Feb. 5,
-1950; Teaticket, Mass.”; Hyannis (Mass.) Cape Cod Standard Times,
-February 6, 1950; Sparks,
-p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1460
Date: 2/5/1950
-Time: 5:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot,
-USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin,
-illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered
-together and then disappeared high and fast after 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Teaticket, Massachusetts
-ID: 30
Date: 2/8/1950
-Description: AFOSI Letter #85 is issued, directing Air Force personnel
-to relay UFO sightings to the Pentagon or AMC only if they are of
-“priority Counterintelligence interest.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 5, January– March
-1950, The Author, 1983, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1461
Date: 2/17/1950
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches
-148.7km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 148.7km
Date: 2/20/1950
-Description: LaPaz writes
-to Peter
-H. Wyckoff of the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories in
-Massachusetts that a “fireball project” ought not be pursued because any
-objects that are not meteors are probably US test missiles. But he
-concedes he might be wrong and says in that case, “intensive, systematic
-investigation of these objects should not be delayed.” (Clark III
-544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1462
Date: 2/21/1950
-Description: Project Twinkle, with the assistance of Land-Air, Inc., has
-set up its first operations post, manned by two observers who scan the
-sky over Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with theodolite, telescope, and
-camera. (Clark III 544; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1463
Date: 2/22/1950
-Description: Navy pilots and others see two glowing UFOs, confirmed by
-radar, above the Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida. A plane is sent
-to investigate but it is “hopelessly outdistanced.” After hovering
-momentarily at a high altitude (50 miles?), they speed away. (Donald E.
-Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p. 12;
-Sparks, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1464
Date: 2/22/1950
-Description: USAF denies existance of flying saucers
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 2/24/1950
-Description: 7:30 p.m. USAF Cpl. Lertis
-E. Stanfield and other Holloman AFB Photographic Branch project
-staff at an observation post at Datil, New Mexico, take five photos
-(using a Cineflex camera with 3-inch focal length lens) of a circular,
-luminous white object that changes to red and green. Its angular
-velocity is greater than 0.5°/min in azimuth calculated by Lincoln
-LaPaz. The
-object moves in a smooth straight-line motion from about 8:00–9:30 p.m.
-to the west, blinking red and green. It disappears at high altitude.
-(NICAP, “AFOSI
-Case 175; Datil Observation
-Post Photographs Object”; Sparks, p. 82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1465
Date: 2/24/1950
-Time: 1:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Municipal Airport Weather Observers Luther
-McDonald, Harrison Manson. One white, slightly elongated oval was
-watched for 1.5 minutes through a theodolite while it flew straight and
-level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 31
Date: 2/25/1950
-Time: 3:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security
-inspectors. One cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing, flew
-slow and hen fast, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course.
-observations by individuals varied from 3 seconds to 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
-ID: 32
Date: 2/26/1950
-Description: 2:45 p.m. Three witnesses observe a bronze-colored object
-that looks like two cigarette ashtrays placed face to face over
-Vancouver, British Columbia. It slows down as it passes overhead and
-wobbles as it moves along. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1466
Date: 3/1950
-Description: Naval Commander Robert
-Bright McLaughlin, in charge of a team of Navy scientists at White
-Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, writes about the Charles
-B. Moore sighting of April 24, 1949, in a True magazine article and
-speculates on saucer propulsion systems. McLaughlin writes that the
-saucers are indeed “spaceships from another planet, operated by animate,
-intelligent beings.” The Navy, having gotten a preview of the article,
-removes him from White Sands and gives him an assignment at sea aboard
-the destroyer USS
-Bristol. (Robert B. McLaughlin, “How
-Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27,
-96–99; Ruppelt, pp. 70– 72;
-Swords 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1468
Date: 3/1950
-Description: James J. Rodgers is named a chief of Project Grudge. (Sparks,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1467
Date: 3/1950
-Description: According to Karl
-T. Pflock, two
-CIA agents clandestinely visit Aztec, New Mexico, UFO crash storyteller
-Silas
-Newton and tell him that, although they know he is lying, they want
-him to continue spreading the tale as disinformation. The two agents
-later wind up involved in the Psychological Strategy Board created in
-1951. (Kremlin 37–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1469
Date: 3/3/1950
-Description: At Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base]
-near Mount Clemens, Michigan, a lone UFO causes multiple radar trackings
-and is logged at speeds up to 1,500 mph. (NICAP, “Object
-Descends Vertically, Levels
-Out”; Patrick Gross, “Selfridge
-AFB, Michigan, March 3, 1950”; Sparks,
-p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1470
Date: 3/3/1950
-Time: 11:05 PM
-Description: Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. One intense, dull yellowish
-light descended vertically, then flew straight and level very fast for 4
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
-ID: 33
Date: 3/8/1950
-Description: Mid-morning. TWA pilot Capt. W. H. Kerr reports to the CAA
-that he and two other TWA pilots (D. W. Miller and Malvern
-H. Rabeneck) are watching a UFO hovering at high altitude near
-Dayton, Ohio. The CAA has already received about 20 other reports about
-it from Vandalia, Ohio. ATIC control tower operators at Wright-
-Patterson AFB pick it up visually and on radar (“a good, solid target”).
-Four F-51 interceptors are sent up. They see it as a huge, round,
-metallic object, but clouds move in. The object climbs vertically out of
-sight at high speed. ATIC calls it the planet Venus, with radar returns
-from ice-laden clouds. (NICAP, “Three
-Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar
-Track at ATIC”; UFOEv, p. 84;
-Ruppelt, pp. 72–75;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 5, January– March
-1950, The Author, 1983, pp. 32–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1471
Date: 3/8/1950
-Description: Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash
-retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in
-Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the
-retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was
-instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute.
-Type: lecture
-Reference: YouTube - Part
-1
-Reference: YouTube - Part
-2
-Location: University of Denver
Date: 3/8/1950
-Description: Mysterious “Silas Newton” speaks at University of
-Denver
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 3/9/1950
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A crew of three radar controllers at Selfridge
-Air Force Base [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount
-Clemens, Michigan, is busy monitoring the night flying units of the 56th
-Fighter-Interceptor Group. 1st Lt. Francis
-E. Parker, 1st
-Lt. Frank
-K. Mattson, Sgt. McCarthy,
-and Cpl. Melton observe an intermittent target on the height range
-indicator (HRI) scope of the CPS-4 radar at 47,000 feet altitude and
-higher. Further indications of what Parker describes as a well-defined,
-clear target like an aircraft are picked up with increasing regularity
-over the next 45–60 minutes. During this time, the target seems to stay
-in the area where the F-80s are flying, but 20,000 feet above them. The
-radar operators are monitoring two different systems—a CPS-5 radar
-operating on long-wave frequencies at 40,000 feet, and a CPS-4 radar
-operating on short-wave frequencies—and the target appears on both
-scopes simultaneously without fade. The speed varies from a hover in
-low-density air to nearly 1,500 mph, well in excess of the fastest
-operational jet at the time, and a climb rate of up to 7,000 feet per
-minute. (NICAP, “The
-Selfridge AFB Incident”; Sparks,
-p. 84; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 123– 125, 295–297;
-Clark III 1047–1049; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 215–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1472
Date: 3/10/1950
-Description: A publisher and others see a bright disc hover over
-Orangeburg, South Carolina, for 15 minutes. It speeds away, leaving a
-trail. (UFOEv, p. 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1473
Date: 3/13/1950
-Description: Early morning. Army Signal Corps (Reserve) Maj. Taylor in
-Clarksburg, California, is sleeping when an odd droning noise wakes him
-up. Going outside, he notices the noise is coming from a brilliant light
-in the sky, one- half the size of the full moon. It sways for about 15
-minutes, then moves away. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume
-5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1474
Date: 3/13/1950
-Description: Day. At the Central Airport in Mexico City, Mexico,
-Santiago Smith (weather observer for Mexicana de Aviación), J. de la
-Vega of the airport commander’s office, and others see a total of four
-UFOs passing overhead. Smith observes one of them through a theodolite,
-describing it as the shape of a “half-moon.” (UFOEv, p. 44;
-“‘Saucers’
-No Illusion: Hundreds See Shy Visitors,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune,
-March 14, 1950, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983,
-pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1475
Date: 3/15/1950
-Description: An Air Force Captain Hall, flying in Guatemala, hears from
-other pilots at La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City that large, fast,
-and highly maneuverable objects have flown directly over the runway. The
-stories also appear in the local press. When Hall returns to Brookley
-Air Force Base [now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley] in Mobile, Alabama, he
-is interrogated by a USAF intelligence officer and told: “Listen, there
-is no such thing as a flying saucer. You won’t discuss them.” (Swords
-96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1476
Date: 3/16/1950
-End date: 3/18/1950
-Description: 11 a.m.–noon. Former Army Engineer Capt. and Farmington
-Times business manager Clayton
-J. Boddy Jr. and
-dozens of others watch 12–15 shiny “saucer-like discs” cavorting around
-the sky over Farmington, New Mexico. They hover, then move in great
-bursts of speed. The objects appear three days in a row. (NICAP, “The Farmington
-Invasion”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983,
-pp. 56–64; Sparks, p. 84;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1479
Date: 3/16/1950
-End date: 3/18/1950
-Description: Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted
-over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen
-by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local
-newspapers reportedly censored.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Farmington, NM
-Location: Aztec, NM
Date: 3/16/1950
-Description: The efforts of Kaplan and
-Maj. Oder to
-start a fireball research project come to fruition when the AF
-Geophysical Research Directorate headed by Oder issues a letter
-directive authorizing Project Twinkle. A $20,000 half-year contract is
-signed with Land-Air, Inc. which operates the phototheodolites at White
-Sands, New Mexico. Land-Air is to set up a 24-hour watch at a location
-in New Mexico to be specified by the Air Force, and the phototheodolite
-operators at White Sands are to film any unusual objects that happen to
-fly past. The official contract gives April 1 as the starting
-date.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1477
Date: 3/16/1950
-Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Chief Petty Officer Charles Lewis
-sees a flying disc streak across the sky at Naval Air Station Dallas
-[later Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex] near Dallas, Texas.
-It buzzes a high- flying B-36. It hovers under the bomber for a moment,
-then flies off and disappears. NAS Commander Capt. Milton
-Adolphus Nation vouches for Lewis and says that the base tower
-operators had seen a UFO 10 days before. (NICAP, “Disc
-Buzzes B-36”; “‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted by Two,” Dallas Morning
-News, March 18, 1950; Ruppelt, p. 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1478
Date: 3/16/1950
-Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO
-stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: “Behind
-the Flying Saucers” by Frank Scully
-Location: Lima, Peru
Date: 3/18/1950
-Description: The USAF publicly denies that UFOs are secret missiles or
-space-exploration devices. (Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
-Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1481
Date: 3/18/1950
-Description: 8:40 a.m. Private pilot Robert Fisher, flying a Beechcraft
-Bonanza over Bradford, Illinois, encounters an oval object with a
-metallic sheen. He can still see the object when it flies behind some
-thin clouds. It moves away at an estimated speed of 600–1,000 mph.
-(UFOEv, p. 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1480
Date: 3/18/1950
-Time: 1830
-Description: A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two objects, one of
-which landed. He walked within 150 m of the aluminum-looking craft which
-gave off a greenish-blue vapor and “an intense smell of burning
-benzine.” A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin
-in which could be seen four tall men, dressed in something like
-cellophane, working at various instruments. They saw him and shone a
-light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft; the
-vapor increased and flames (alternately reddish and greenish) shot out
-of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away
-toward Chile, leaving bluish trails.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 32 (Vallee)
-Location: Lago Argentino, Argentina
-ID: 73
Date: 3/20/1950
-Time: 9:26 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack
-Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. One 100’ circular disc with
-9-12 portholes along the lower side emitting a soft purple light, and a
-light at the top which flashed 3 times in 9 seconds, flew at not less
-than 1,000 m.p.h. It was seen for 25-35 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Stuggart, Arkansas
-ID: 34
Date: 3/20/1950
-Description: 9:26 p.m. Chicago and Southern Airlines Capt. Jack
-Adams and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr., flying a DC-3 at 2,000
-feet and heading west from Memphis, Tennessee, to Little Rock, Arkansas,
-see a circular disc 100 feet in diameter approximately over Hazen,
-Arkansas. In the top center of the object is an extremely bright light
-blinking at an estimated 3 flashes per second. The bottom of the object
-appears to have 9–12 symmetrical oval or circular portholes in a circle
-approximately 75% of the distance from the center to the outer edge. The
-object passes directly in front of the airliner at a distance of not
-more than 2,640 feet and approximately 1,000 feet higher than the
-airliner. They watch the object for 25–35 seconds. Adams estimates its
-speed is greater than 1,000 mph. (NICAP, “DC-3
-Encounters 100ʹ Disc”; Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, July 24, 1955;
-Sparks,
-p. 85; Swords 95–96; Tom Howell YouTube channel, “UFO
-from the 1950s,” October 3, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1482
Date: spring 1950
-Description: Commander Augusto Vars Ortega of the Chilean Navy takes
-about 1,200 feet of color film of UFOs—one above the other, turning at
-tremendous speeds—in Antarctica. When NICAP asks the Chilean Embassy
-about the film in 1956, it tells Keyhoe that
-the film is classified and not available. (Dan Lloyd, “Things
-Are Hotting Up in the
-Antarctic,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1965):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1495
Date: 3/21/1950
-Description: 1:00–1:30 p.m. Sergeant Woods at Sandia Base, New Mexico,
-reports four round, silvery objects to the northeast. The objects appear
-to be more maneuverable than any known aircraft. The maneuvers are
-similar to those in dogfights involving two aircraft, but there seems to
-be no similarity to a conventional plane. They make right-angle turns
-and reverse direction instantaneously. The duration is about 30 minutes.
-Other witnesses at Sandia and Kirtland AFB report similar observations.
-(NICAP, “Base
-Personnel Sight Strange Objects”; Sparks,
-p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1483
Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: FBI agent Guy
-L. Hottel writes to FBI headquarters about a rumor that three UFOs
-have crashed and are recovered in New Mexico. They are 50 feet in
-diameter and “each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but
-only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each
-body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by
-speed flyers and test pilots.” It goes on, “According to Mr. [redacted],
-informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the
-Government had a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is
-believed the radar interferes with the controlling [sic] mechanism of
-the saucers.” The informant is probably Silas
-M. Newton or Leo
-GeBauer. On March 25, 2013, the FBI issues a release saying that the
-Hottel memo was simply a second- or third-hand claim “that we never
-investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was
-circulating at that time, but the Bureau’s files have no information to
-verify that theory.” (Guy Hottel, “Flying
-Saucers, Information Concerning,” March 22, 1950; Richard H. Hall,
-Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 326–327; Good Above, p. 527;
-Federal Bureau of Investigation, “UFOs
-and the Guy Hottel
-Memo,” March 25, 2013; Robert L. Hastings, “The
-March 22, 1950 FBI Memo on Crashed Flying Saucers,”
-UFOs & Nukes, April 18, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1485
Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Eleven sergeants in the 4925th Test Group watch
-a UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The shape is “similar to a
-flying wing air craft and tan in color, turning to brown around the
-edges.” It first travels northwesterly at 25,000–30,000 feet, then turns
-north and disappears with a tremendous burst of speed. (NICAP, “Atomic
-Test Group Witnesses UFO in Broad Daylight”; Sparks,
-p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1484
Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM
-(corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/50). Description: Circular
-with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies,
-only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed
-flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered
-with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash.
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, B1-E p527, RECOVERY)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 3/25/48
Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to
-build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that
-“Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the
-USA
-Type: announcement
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A, B1-E p464)
-Location: Ottawa, CA
Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: Vice-Admiral Louis
-Mountbatten, in
-a letter to his friend Charles
-Eade, editor
-of the London Sunday Dispatch, rejects the idea that flying saucers are
-secret weapons, admitting that “they do not come from our Earth…. Maybe
-it is the Shackletons or Scotts of Venus or Mars who are making their
-first exploration of our Earth.” (UFOFiles2, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1486
Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Former First Lady Eleanor
-Roosevelt interviews airline pilots Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson
-about their March 20 UFO sighting on her NBC television program, Today
-with Mrs. Roosevelt. (“Anatomy
-of a Hoax,
-Part Five,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1488
Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: Day. Bertram
-A. Totten, a
-clerk at the Library of Congress, is flying his plane at 5,000 feet over
-Fairfax County, Virginia, when he spots an aluminum-colored disc about
-40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick flying 1,000 feet below him. He
-dives toward it, but it speeds up into the overcast. It glints when the
-sun hits it, and he notices a vapor trail. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983,
-pp. 79–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1487
Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: 8:50 p.m. CAA Tower operator Marie H. Matthews and United
-Airlines employees Robert Higbee and Fred Hinkle see a brilliant light
-northeast of Hubbard Field [now Reno–Tahoe International Airport]
-outside Reno, Nevada. It hangs motionless for 5–6 minutes, then moves
-slowly across the sky with a green light on either side of it. It
-suddenly zooms upward into a cloud bank. (UFOEv, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1489
Date: 3/27/1950
-Time: 10:30 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF radar operator Cpl. Bolfango. Tracked on
-radar for 2 minutes while it was stationary and then moved at 500
-m.p.h.. Visual observation not detailed, only mentioned in
-summary.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Motobo, Okinawa
-ID: 35
Date: 3/27/1950
-Description: 10:30 a.m. USAF antiaircraft radar operator Cpl. Bolfango
-tracks a stationary target on radar over the Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa,
-Japan, at 18 miles range for 10 minutes at 13,000 feet. The object then
-moves on a 220° heading for 16.9 miles in 2 minutes (about 500 mph) to a
-point over a mountain, where it is lost. (NICAP, “Tracked
-Stationary Target at 18 Miles”; Sparks, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1490
Date: 3/27/1950
-Description: Radio broadcaster Henry
-J. Taylor, on
-his syndicated radio program Your Land and Mine, announces the
-“wonderful news” that saucers are in fact US secret weapons, which will
-reassure the nation when the US Air Force confirms it. Within days, the
-story is twisted to specifically credit the Navy’s alleged “top secret”
-project the Flying Flapjack Vought XF5U. The story is apparently
-disinformation planted by ex-Hollywood writers in the CIA Office of
-Policy Coordination’s Political and Psychological Warfare staff headed
-by Joseph
-Bryan III, a
-future president and board chairman of NICAP. (“Radio
-Man Certain U.S. Is Owner of ‘Flying Saucer’ Missile Secret,”
-Miami (Fla.) News, March 29, 1950, p. 9; NICAP, “1950
-UFO Chronology”; Swords 97; Curt Collins, “1950
-Disclosure: UFOs Are Made in the USA,” November 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1491
Date: 3/28/1950
-Description: Samuel
-Eaton Thompson is on his way home to Centralia, Washington, from
-Markham. He drives through a wooded area between Morton and Mineral and
-decides to stop to take a break. On foot, he comes upon a large,
-globe-shaped craft hovering above a clearing. Naked children with dark
-tans and blond hair are playing on steps that lead from an open door to
-the side of the UFO. Several naked adults—humanoid, attractive, and also
-deeply tanned—then appear at the ship’s door. After realizing that
-Thompson means them no harm, they beckon him closer. The crew consists
-of 20 adults and 25 children, the latter from about 5–15 years of age.
-Thompson claims to have spent the next 40 hours with the humanoids. They
-are from Venus, he learns, and have stopped at Earth despite the fact
-that other Venusian saucers have been shot at by Earth-based military
-forces. The Venusians further claims that they are vegetarian and that
-they never grow ill. Thompson also claims the Venusians are naïve and
-childlike; they do not know who has built their flying saucers and seem
-to possess little to no curiosity. He goes back to get a camera and
-tries to take photos, but the object is too bright to appear on film.
-Thompson returns home on March 30. (“Centralian Tells Strange Tale of
-Visiting Venus Space Ship in Eastern Lewis County,” Centralia (Wash.)
-Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1950; Clark III 1127–1129; Jerome Clark, “The
-Coming of the Venusians,” Fate 34, no. 1 (January 1981): 49–55; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, November
-16, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1493
Date: 3/28/1950
-Description: In response to a request from J.
-Edgar Hoover to his aide D.
-Milton (“Mickey”) Ladd on “just what are the facts re ‘flying
-saucers,’ agent S.
-Wesley Reynolds interviews Maj. Boggs and
-Lieut. Col. John
-V. Hearn Jr. of Air Force Intelligence, who tell him that most UFOs
-are misidentifications and weather balloons. (Swords 95; Loren E. Gross,
-UFOs,
-a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983,
-pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1492
Date: 3/28/1950
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Patterson, of the office of the U.S. Air
-Attache. One white object observed for 5-10 seconds through binoculars
-while it flew high and fast, crossing 30 degree of sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santiago, Chile
-ID: 36
Date: 3/29/1950
-Time: 7 AM
-Description: Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams.
-Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs, estimated 5 feet
-long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing
-through the trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee
-ID: 37
Date: 3/31/1950
-Description: Syndicated columnist Drew
-Pearson publishes “Worried about Flying Saucers?” in which he
-sympathizes with the Air Force, which has to reply to groundless public
-excitement. His USAF contact has told him, “there ain’t no such animal.”
-Pentagon Public Relations Officer Maj. DeWitt
-Searles tells the press that all UFO cases are the result of
-misinterpretations, mass hysteria, and hoaxes: “As far as the Air Force
-goes, there’s no such thing as a flying saucer.” (Drew Pearson, “Worried
-about Flying Saucers?” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 31, 1950, p. 5;
-“Major
-Debunker of Flying Saucers, Keeps Saying, ’No, No, 1,000 Times No,’”
-Rock Island (Ill.) Argus, March 31, 1950, p. 18; Swords 96–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1494
Date: 3/31/1950
-Description: Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time
-salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at
-station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts”
-and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank
-Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17).
-Type: tape recording
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Denver, CO
Date: 3/31/1950
-Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo
-names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio
-transmitter.
-Type: memo
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/1950
-Description: Daytime. While working on her lawn in Canby, Oregon, Ellen
-Jonerson glances over at her neighbor’s yard and sees a 12-inch-tall man
-with his back turned to her. When he turns around, she sees that he has
-a heavily tanned face, is of stocky build, and wears overalls and a
-plaid shirt. There is a skullcap on his head. She dashes inside to call
-a friend, then runs outside again in time to see the figure “waddling”
-away. He walks under a parked car and disappears. Kenneth
-Arnold, who
-interviews her, is convinced of her sincerity. (Center for UFO Studies,
-HUMCAT
-Index, 1950–1951, p. 2; Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1496
Date: 4/1950
-Description: Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks he saw landing and
-taking off 60 km north of Jun.au.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Juneau, Alaska
-ID: 74
Date: 4/1/1950
-Description: Project Twinkle officially begins.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1497
Date: 4/4/1950
-Description: Presidential press secretary Charlie
-Ross states that Truman has
-conferred with his two top military advisers, Rear Adm. Robert
-Dennison and Brig. Gen. Robert
-B. Landry, and that they claim the US has no such technology.
-Furthermore, the Air Force study has concluded there are no such things
-as flying saucers. Caltech aeronautics professor Clark
-Blanchard Millikan agrees, saying: “If anyone should know about such
-a project, I should know—and I know of no development in the aircraft or
-guided missile field.” (Swords 97–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1498
Date: 4/5/1950
-Description: Sen. Richard
-Russell Jr. (D-Ga.) states to the press that he is “completely
-baffled” by flying saucer reports that are made by many pilots who would
-not be fooled by hallucinations or clouds. Sen. Millard
-Tydings (D-Md.), chair of the Armed Services Committee, says he
-thinks saucers might be experimental US aircraft “in embryo stage.”
-Rep. Albert
-J. Engel (R-Mich.) thinks the same. Sen. Kenneth
-S. Wherry (R-Neb.) says the saucers are “like our foreign policy. It
-is in a state of confusion and no one seems to know what it is all
-about.” (“Congress Split about
-Saucers,” Miami (Fla.) News, April 5, 1950, pp. 1, 6; Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July
-1950, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 9–10; Swords 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1499
Date: 4/6/1950
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Lt. John
-J. Sevila, a
-pilot with the 131st Fighter Squadron, hears a sound like a flight of
-jet airplanes and rushes out of his house in Springfield, Massachusetts,
-to see them. Instead, he sees a perfectly circular object moving slowly
-westward at an altitude of 25,000 feet. He watches it for 5 minutes as
-it moves at a speed of 50– 100 mph. When the sun hits it directly, it
-shines like a mirror. (The Thunderbolt 1, no. 12 (April 1950): 5; Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1500
Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: Newsman Edward
-R. Murrow produces the first extended TV commentary on UFOs, “The
-Case of the Flying Saucer” on CBS. He begins with the Kenneth
-Arnold case, mentions Muroc AFB cases and Mantell,
-and quotes both True magazine and Donald
-Menzel. Also
-on the show are Henry
-J. Taylor, engineer
-Charles
-H. Zimmerman, and Charlie
-Ross, as
-well as people on the street. (“Transcript
-of Ed Murrow–Kenneth Arnold Telephone Conversation,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984): 3; Edward R.
-Murrow, “The
-Case of the Flying
-Saucer [audio only],” Bryce Zabel YouTube channel, February 24,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1502
Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: US News and World Report comes out with a story on saucers
-that hints they are top-secret, jet-propelled Navy aircraft “that can
-outfly other planes.” (“Flying
-Saucers—the Real Story: U.S. Built First One in 1942,” US News and
-World Report 28, no. 14 (April 7, 1950): 13–15; Michael D. Swords,
-“Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1503
Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: The National Security Council presents President Truman with
-Report 68 (NSC-68), a 56-page top secret policy paper that provides the
-“blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War.” It advocates a large
-expansion in the military budget, the development of a hydrogen bomb,
-and increased military aid to US allies for the containment of Communist
-expansion. It essentially warns Truman that the US is losing the Cold
-War. Truman does not approve it until 1951. (Wikipedia, “NSC-68”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1504
Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Link
-Location: San Diego, CA
-See also: 5/16/1950
Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: A CAA control tower operator at Logan Airport in Boston,
-Massachusetts, watches a blue light split into two lights that revolve
-around each other for 10 minutes. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 65–68;
-Sparks, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1501
Date: 4/8/1950
-Time: 0200
-Description: A metal worker was awakened by his dog and observed an
-object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk, 5 m in
-diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating,
-spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white
-light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north, very
-fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kokomo, Indiana
-ID: 75
Date: 4/8/1950
-Time: 2 AM
-Description: Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic disc, 50’ in
-diameter, 15’ thick; top-shaped with a “conning tower” at the top and
-three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered for 2
-minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his dog.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kokomo, Indiana
-ID: 38
Date: 4/8/1950
-Description: Paul
-Limerick, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Shelby, North
-Carolina, watches a round, aluminum-colored object with four other
-people for 2 minutes. It follows a horizontal course toward the
-southwest without making a sound, then shoots straight up and
-disappears. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July
-1950, The
-Author, 1990, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1505
Date: 4/8/1950
-Time: afternoon
-Description: David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a disk land behind
-a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high,
-with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between the base and the
-top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became
-red.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 200 (Vallee)
-Location: River Road near Amarillo, Texas
-ID: 76
Date: 4/10/1950
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Several University of California, Berkeley,
-graduate students, including Garniss
-H. Curtis, Robert Scott
-Creely, and Louis
-I. Briggs, watch
-a bright light moving against the wind at about 10–15 mph at 1,500 feet
-altitude about 3–4 miles away from Berkeley, California, for two hours.
-It turns slowly to the south then turns around and heads slowly back.
-Four high school students in Monterey, California, see a gleaming object
-over San Francisco in the early afternoon. (NICAP case file; “Saucer
-Visits San Francisco, Schoolboys Say,” Los Angeles Times, April 12,
-1950, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1506
Date: 4/14/1950
-Description: RAND Corporation writer Jean M. Hungerford writes a 32-page
-research memorandum for the US Air Force titled “The Exploitation of
-Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare.” She uses recent
-examples of religious miracles that were used in Western propaganda, as
-well as horoscopes, chain letters, and folklore. (Jean M. Hungerford,
-“The
-Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological
-Warfare,” USAF Project Rand Research Memorandum, RM-35, April 14,
-1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1507
Date: 4/14/1950
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular, amber
-objects, about 3’ by 4’. changed speed and direction rapidly; the group
-of objects rose and fell during the 3-4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
-ID: 39
Date: 4/17/1950
-Description: More than 15 people report seeing a UFO for 20 minutes at
-2,000 feet on the eastern horizon at Los Alamos, New Mexico. One
-scientist watches the object through a telescope and says it looks flat,
-circular, metallic, and roughly 9 feet in diameter. It moves faster than
-any conventional aircraft. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume
-6, April–July 1950, The
-Author, 1990, p. 26; Sparks,
-p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1509
Date: 4/17/1950
-Description: Newsweek publishes an article, “Flying Saucers Again,” on
-crashed saucers. (“Flying Saucers Again,” Newsweek, April 17, 1950,
-p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1508
Date: 4/17/1950
-Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying
-Sauces” announced coming soon.
-Type: announcement
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Glens Falls, NY
Date: 4/20/1950
-Time: night
-Description: Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km west of town when he
-saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering about 7 m above him
-with a dull red glow. It took off with a “swooshing roar” as sparks flew
-from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness feIt a burning sensation
-on his face.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Lufkin, Texas
-ID: 77
Date: 4/24/1950
-Time: 2200
-Description: Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark,
-hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting clothes and
-wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen
-near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through which light
-had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness had the
-time to note many details of the machine and its occupants.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Abbiate Guazzone, Italy
-ID: 78
Date: 4/24/1950
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Bruno Facchini steps outside his house on the
-outskirts of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy, and notices something
-flashing near a power line. He goes to investigate and encounters a
-landed disc with an open door and steps leading down. Three or four men
-in diving suits and helmets are inside. One seems to be welding a pipe.
-Facchini speaks to them, but they respond with growling sounds. One
-points a small “camera” at him that emits a beam that knocks him over.
-Facchini lies still while the repairs are completed, and the UFO takes
-off. (Pino Carminati Ghidelli, “Un
-Diaco è Atterrato,” Notiziario UFO, no. 37 (Jan./Feb. 1971): 19–22;
-Antonio Giudici, “The
-Case of Bruno Facchini,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April
-1975): 30–32; Ezio Barnardini, “Facchini:
-Un CE3 Rivisitato,” Notiziario UFO, no. 104 (March 1985/Jan. 1986):
-4–7; Clark III 267; Marcus Lowth, “Bruno
-Facchini’s Extraterrestrial Encounter in Varese, Italy,” UFO
-Insight, September 5, 2020; 1Pinotti 30–40; Patrick Gross, “Abbiate
-Guazzone, Italy, April 24, 1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1510
Date: 4/25/1950
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Enrique Hausmann Muller takes a film of a bright,
-circular UFO with rays of flame spinning off its edge in a pinwheel
-fashion in Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Probable hoax.
-(UFOEv, p. 88;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 32;
-Matías Morey Ripoll, “El
-Caso Hausmann:
-Una Aproximación desde Ibiza,” UFO Fotocat Blog, September 20, 2019;
-Centro Ufologico Nazionale, [Hausmann
-photo])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1512
Date: 4/25/1950
-Description: Early morning. Military security patrols at the deactivated
-Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah view a series of unusual lights
-and objects moving above an ammunition storage area. One object is
-“surrounded by an aura of spears of light jutting diagonally from the
-main body.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History, Volume 6: April–July
-1950, The
-Author, 1990, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1511
Date: 4/27/1950
-Description: While preparing for an MX-776A Shrike air-to-ground missile
-test at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Charles Riggs, a member
-of the Project Twinkle cinetheodolite camera crew supplied by Land-Air
-Inc., sees, tracks, and manages to film four high-flying objects
-streaking across the sky. Another station also tracks the objects. The
-photos show only a smudgy dark object, but the triangulation results in
-a calculation by mathematician Wilbur L. Mitchell and Capt. Perry Bryant
-of the objects’ size as 30 feet in diameter and 150,000 feet in
-altitude. (NICAP, “Cinetheodolite
-Film Taken by Tracking Station”; Ruppelt, p. 88;
-Clark III 544–545; Sparks, p. 88;
-Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, p. 44; Good Above, pp. 354–355;
-Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996):
-22–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1513
Date: 4/27/1950
-Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 4/27/1950
-Description: 8:25 p.m. TWA Flight 117 pilot Capt. Robert
-Adickes and Flight Officer Robert F. Manning are flying near Goshen,
-Indiana, when they see a bright-red disc-shaped UFO behind their DC-3.
-It overtakes the plane in about 2 minutes. Stewardess Gloria Henshaw and
-11 passengers (including Boeing engineers C. H. Jenkins and Dean
-C. Bourland and
-executives E. J. Fitzgerald and S. N. Miller) also see the object. It
-veers off at 400 mph, drops down to 1,500 feet, and disappears. (NICAP,
-“Adickes
-TWA DC-3 Case”; Sparks,
-p. 89; Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight 117
-and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79; James
-E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 46–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1514
Date: 5/5/1950
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Capt. Marcellus D. O’Sullivan, 1Lt. William
-J. Reisinger, and three enlisted men of the 625th Aircraft and
-Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson],
-Anchorage, Alaska, see a reddish-orange object hovering in the sky for 5
-minuites. It puts on a burst of speed and disappears over the horizon.
-(“From
-History: 57th Fighter Interceptor Wing (Alaska), January–June 1950,”
-UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 (July 1999): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1515
Date: 5/7/1950
-Time: 1845
-Description: A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic
-when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white object at
-treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated “as if attempting
-to rise” and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Ely, Nevada
-ID: 79
Date: 5/7/1950
-Time: 6:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and their grandson.
-One silvery white object hovered at 100’ altitude, moved back and forth
-for 10 minutes and then flew up and away. Note in case file: “No
-investigation.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nine miles sough of Ely, Nevada
-ID: 40
Date: 5/11/1950
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Evelyn
-Trent, who
-lives on a farm nine miles from McMinnville, Oregon [near Sheridan,
-Oregon], is walking back to her farmhouse after feeding rabbits. Before
-reaching the house, she sees a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object
-heading in her direction from the northeast. She yells for her husband
-Paul,
-who is inside the house; he comes out and also sees the object. After a
-short time, he goes back inside to get a camera and manages to take two
-photos of the object before it speeds away to the west. Paul Trent’s
-father briefly sees the object before it flies away. The Trents assume
-they have seen some exotic military aircraft. They do not develop the
-film in the camera until they use it up and show the photos only to a
-few friends. Eventually it reaches the cover of Life magazine, but the
-Trents show no desire to make any money from the photos. Although the
-Colorado project initially thinks the photos seem genuine, three
-Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs researchers in
-2013–2015 claim to find evidence of a model suspended from a string.
-Researcher Brad
-Sparks finds major mathematical and scientific errors in IPACO’s
-work, which actually supports a UFO conclusion. (Wikipedia, “McMinnville
-UFO Photographs”; “Farmer
-Trent’s Flying Saucer,” Life, June 26, 1950, p. 29; NICAP, “Trent
-/ McMinnville
-Photos”; Story, pp. 223–226;
-Sparks, p. 90;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 244–245;
-Condon, pp. 396– 407;
-Bruce S. Maccabee, “On
-the Possibility that the McMinnville Photos Show a Distant Unidentified
-Object (UO),”
-Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976,
-pp. 152–163; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The
-McMinnville Photos,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988,
-pp. 13–57; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The
-Trent Farm Photos,” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The
-Trent Farm Photos Appendix,” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The
-McMinnville Photos,” May 2000; Michael D. Swords, “Can
-We Learn Anything from
-UFO Photos? Part Five,” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Antoine
-Cousyn, François Louange, and Geoff Quick, “The
-McMinnville Pictures,” Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés
-d’OVNIs, May 2014; Clark III 702–704)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1516
Date: 5/11/1950
-Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO
-photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near
-McMinnville, Oregon.
-Type: ufo photo
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: McMinnville, OR
Date: 5/15/1950
-Description: Afternoon. Architect Enrique Carotenuto Bossa is driving in
-an isolated region in Bahía Blanca Partido (possibly between Macachín
-and Estación Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento), La Pampa, Argentina, when
-he sees a metallic disc resting on the ground to the left of the
-highway. He stops the car to investigate, approaches it, and sees an
-open door in its side. He goes inside and sees a “curved divan with
-three seats, two of which were occupied by small beings covered from
-head to foot (except for an opening for the face (in a kind of
-tight-fitting overall of a brown color.” The bodies are about 4 feet
-tall, and their faces seem charred or burnt. In front of them is a
-screen with “rays playing on it,” and on top of the screen is a rotating
-globe. The engineer runs out and drives back to his hotel. He returns
-the next day with two companions and finds only an ash heap. But they
-look up and see three UFOs—one a cigar-shaped object and two discs,
-hovering above them at 1,800 feet. The discs merge with the cigar and
-speed away. (El Universal (Caracas, Venezuela), May 7, 1955; “Man
-Enters Grounded Disc,” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, pp. 1–3; Clark
-III 327–328; Willy Smith, “The Curious Case of the Argentine Crashed
-Saucer,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 18–19; Roberto E. Banchs and
-Richard W. Heiden, “Crash Landing in the Pampas,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer
-1999): 4–10, 30; Roberto Banchs, “General
-Acha (LP): Un Accidentado
-Aterrizaje (Priemra Parte),” Marcianitos Verdes, July 4, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1517
Date: 5/16/1950
-Description: Reply letter from White House to BSRA
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Link
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 4/7/1950
Date: 5/20/1950
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Meteorologist Seymour
-L. Hess is strolling the grounds of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff,
-Arizona, when he notices a round, gray-colored object approaching from
-the southeast at about 12,000 feet altitude. He follows it with a 4x
-spyglass as it passes in front of a small cumulus cloud. Hess estimates
-it is about 4 feet in diameter and moving about 100 mph. (UFOEv, p. 3;
-Condon, pp. 245–248;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1518
Date: 5/21/1950
-Description: 3:50 p.m. T/Sgt Edward Eles, Earl
-DuQuoin, and
-four other airmen of the 187th Fighter Squadron of the Wyoming National
-Guard are on the airfield at the Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
-when they see a V- shaped formation of four round, pure-white discs
-flying in a northerly direction. In a matter of seconds, the objects
-change formation and make a sharp right-angle turn, flying single file,
-and speed out of sight. (Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, May 22, 1950,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1520
Date: 5/21/1950
-Description: A second Gallup poll on UFOs is released, showing that 5%
-of respondents think “these flying saucers” are “comets, shooting stars,
-something from another planet.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 48-49; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion
-on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1519
Date: 5/24/1950
-Description: During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable vertical bomb test at
-Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members see
-eight unidentified objects. They separately track and film two of the
-objects down the North American Aviation missile firing range. Project
-Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 films one object to the northeast for
-6 frames (1.0 sec) moving uniformly to the south. Cinetheodolite station
-P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the north from P-8 and 7 feet
-higher, films another object, hence no triangulation is possible.
-(NICAP, “Cinetheodolite
-Film Taken by Tracking Station”; Sparks,
-p. 91; Good Above, pp. 354–355;
-Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996):
-22–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1521
Date: 5/25/1950
-Description: Lt. Col. Doyle
-Rees of the USAF Office of Special Investigations writes a
-confidential memo to Brig. Gen. Joseph
-F. Carroll, Director
-of Special Investigations. In part, it states: “In a liaison meeting
-with other military and government intelligence and investigative
-agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of
-unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an
-organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The
-organization and physical location of units of this District were most
-suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this
-District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting
-basic information with respect to aerial phenomena in this general
-area.” (NICAP, “Summary
-of Observations of Aerial Phenomena, New Mexico Area, Dec 1949 to May
-1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1522
Date: 5/29/1950
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Capt. Willis
-T. Sperry, copilot
-Bill Gates, flight engineer Robert
-Arnholt, a stewardess, and several passengers on an American
-Airlines DC-6 airliner headed southwest out of Washington, D.C., en
-route to Nashville, Tennessee, are flying at 7,500 feet at 250 mph.
-About 7 miles west of Mount Vernon, Virginia, Gates alerts Sperry to a
-bright blue or bluish light ahead of them and increasing in size. Sperry
-makes an evasive 45° turn to the right and the object passes from 11
-o’clock to 7 o’clock position to the left at a slightly higher altitude.
-The light very briefly passes between the aircraft and the upper part of
-the moon, revealing an object with a long silhouette (somewhat
-reminiscent of a submarine) without visible wings or empennage. The blue
-light is on the front of the object. Sperry turns left back onto his
-original course to get the object back in view, but it apparently stays
-stationary for about 30 seconds. Gates then notices the object circling
-around to the right side. Sperry banks right again, while the object
-paces the airliner about 20–30 seconds before it climbs to the east at a
-30° angle at “fantastic” speed and disappears. (Wikipedia, “Sperry
-UFO Case”; NICAP, “Capt. Willis
-Sperry Sighting”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 52–53; Project 1947, “UFO Reports
-1950”; Sparks, p. 91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1523
Date: 5/29/1950
-Description: A shiny, bright object streaking across the sky is spotted
-by two cine-theodolite stations at White Sands Missile Range, New
-Mexico, just before firing a test missile. The object is tracked and
-photographed by both stations. After the films are developed, it turns
-out that the stations had photographed different objects. Analysts
-estimate that the objects were higher than 40,000 feet, traveling more
-than 2,000 mph, and over 300 feet in diameter. (Ruppelt, p. 89;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1524
Date: 6/1950
-Description: Many sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 6/1/1950
-Description: A pilot on patrol from RAF Tangmere in West Sussex,
-England, sights a “bright circular metallic object” that speeds past his
-Gloster Meteor jet fighter at 20,000 feet. As he undergoes a debriefing
-by squadron intelligence, he finds out that four RAF controllers at the
-radar station at RAF Wartling near Eastbourne have, at the same time,
-tracked an “unusual response” that vanishes from their screens, moving
-at terrific speed. (David Clarke, “Flying
-Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
-January 3, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1527
Date: 6/8/1950
-Description: Gen. Earle
-E. Partridge of the Fifth Air Force, responsible for the Korean
-Theatre, writes to Commanding Gen. George
-E. Stratemeyer, asking
-for an analysis of certain UFO cases. (Swords 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1528
Date: 6/12/1950
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Working in a quarry somewhere in California,
-geologist John Zimmerman and civil engineer Charles Fisher are watching
-a jet aircraft speeding through the sky and leaving a vapor trail.
-Suddenly Zimmerman notices that the vapor trail has been cut. Looking
-more closely, he notices a metallic disc making vertical loops around
-the jet. Two other discs come into view and perform the same aerobatics.
-(Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier, Fearon, 1956, p. 124; UFOEv,
-p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1530
Date: 6/12/1950
-Description: Eastern Airlines executive Eddie
-Rickenbacker tells the press that if flying saucers “do exist, you
-can rest assured that they are ours.” (Swords 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1529
Date: 6/17/1950
-Description: Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriele are
-walking toward Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany, in the twilight when
-she notices something about 420 feet away. It appears to be two men
-dressed in shiny metallic clothing who are stooped over and looking at
-something on the ground. Linke approaches to 30 feet away, looks over a
-small fence, and sees a large object about 40 feet in diameter that
-looks like a huge frying pan. It has two rows of holes in its periphery
-and a black conical tower about 9 feet high. The two men suddenly jump
-inside. The inside lights up, the object starts humming and rises slowly
-from the ground, rotating like a top. It rises from the ground with the
-aid of a central cylinder and is surrounded by flames, then takes off in
-the direction of Stockheim. Later he finds a circular depression in the
-ground at the spot. Linke resettles in West Berlin in 1951. He tells his
-story to a notary there on July 1, 1952, which is how it turns up in the
-Western press and explains a confusion in the date of the sighting.
-(NICAP, “CE
-III by Two Witnesses / Oskar Linke Case”; Central Intelligence
-Agency, “’Flying
-Saucers’ in East Germany,” July 9, 1952; Andreas Müller, “Das
-Haselbach-UFO von
-1950: Die Augenzeugin spricht,” grenzWissenschaft-aktuell.de,
-January 26, 2016; Sparks, p. 92;
-Good Above, pp. 513–514)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1531
Date: summer 1950
-Description: Physicist Enrico
-Fermi first formulates the “Fermi Paradox” during a casual
-conversation (in Los Alamos, New Mexico?) with fellow physicists Edward
-Teller, Herbert
-York, and
-Emil
-Konopinski. While
-walking to lunch, the men discuss recent UFO reports and the possibility
-of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moves on to other topics,
-until during lunch Fermi allegedly says suddenly, “But where is
-everybody?” (although the exact quote is uncertain). (Wikipedia, “Enrico
-Fermi”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1525
Date: summer 1950
-Description: Evening. An 8- or 10-foot-disc lands in a field behind
-Mrs. Mason Vaughan’s house in Beaverdam, Virginia. From an open cockpit
-a “man with unusual goggles or headpiece” looks out. Surprised, the disc
-takes off abruptly, breaking off a limb from an oak tree on the way up.
-(Clark III 267; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1950–1951, p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1526
Date: 6/21/1950
-Description: 1:35 a.m. Control tower operators Cpl. Roger G. Pryor and
-S/Sgt. Ellis
-R. Lorimer and airways communications staffer S/Sgt. Virgil Cappuro
-watch a flying disc speeding at 1,000–1,500 mph over Hamilton AFB [now
-closed] in Novato, California. The object shoots blue flame and makes a
-roar like thunder as it makes five passes over the base. They observe it
-through binoculars for 25 minutes. (NICAP, “Disc
-Makes Five Passes at
-Control Tower”; Sparks, p. 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1532
Date: 6/24/1950
-Description: A cigar-shaped UFO paces a United Airlines plane (Capt. E.
-L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart, and observer Capt. Samuel
-B. Wiper) for 20 minutes near Daggett, California. The object is
-also seen by the crew of another airliner and a navy transport plane.
-The Navy pilot sees for 3 minutes a dark gray object with heat radiation
-at the tail end. He estimates altitude as 50,000–100,000 feet and a
-speed of 1,000–1,500 mph. The crews discuss the matter with two CAA
-ground stations. (NICAP, “Three
-Aircraft Crews Observe UFO”; UFOEv, p. 31;
-Sparks, p. 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1533
Date: 6/25/1950
-Description: Korean War
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Korea
Date: 6/25/1950
-Description: North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
-(Wikipedia, “Korean
-War”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1534
Date: 6/27/1950
-Time: 7:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Terrell and Yates, employees of Red River
-Arsenal. One object, bright, shaped like two dishpans face-to-face, flew
-straight and level, fast for 4-5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Texarkana, Texas
-ID: 41
Date: 6/27/1950
-Description: President Truman orders
-US air and sea forces to help South Korea. (Wikipedia, “Korean
-War”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1535
Date: 6/27/1950
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Al Hixenbaugh, a photographer for the Louisville
-Times, is at the corner of Longest and Everett avenues in Louisville,
-Kentucky, when he hears the sound of a DC-3 airplane overhead. He looks
-up and sees the plane as well as a large disc with a slight corona
-around it. He shoots 50 feet of film with his 16mm movie camera as the
-object remains motionless for 10 seconds before it starts getting
-smaller and disappears to the west. (Louisville (Ky.) Times, June 28,
-1950, p. 1; “How
-to Film UFO’s,” Saucers 6, no. 3 (August 1958): 3; Sparks, p. 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1536
Date: 6/30/1950
-Description: Midnight. Rev. Ross Vermillion, a former bomber pilot, and
-his wife are driving 9 miles west of Kingman, Kansas, when they see a
-bright red light hovering over US Hwy 54 near Cunningham, Kansas. They
-estimate it to be about 250 feet in diameter with a small canopy on top.
-The family of druggist Dwayne Mulnix of Meade, Kansas, also sees the
-object and they stop and watch it for about 20 minutes along the
-highway. They begin to drive closer, but it speeds away. As seen in the
-bright moonlight, the object looks made of bright metal and has an
-elliptical body “as big as the cross-section of a B-29” with a rotor
-turning counterclockwise around its body. (NICAP, “WWII
-Pilot Tells of Seeing Flying Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 66–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1537
Date: 6/30/1950
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Two navy men (Petty Officer Carter and Able
-Seaman Connelly) at Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater,
-Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, are pulling duty on radar watch from dusk until
-dawn. They report four separate radar contacts bearing 160° at 5 miles
-over 90 minutes. Visual confirmation of two glowing objects is made by a
-chief petty officer in North Dartmouth. (NICAP, “Navy
-Men Report Radar Contact”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1538
Date: 7/1950
-Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR
-FICTION?”
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
Date: 7/1950
-Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Maj. Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell orders secret UFO field investigations to be conducted by
-his staff Technical Capabilities Branch in the Evaluation Division under
-Maj. Milton
-D. Willis. These begin this month and last until October 1951 when
-Cabell is replaced by Gen. John
-A. Samford. (Clark III 936)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1539
Date: 7/1950
-Description: Editor Curtis
-Fuller’s article, “The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” appears in
-Flying magazine. (Curtis Fuller, “The
-Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” Flying 47 (July 1950): 16–17,
-59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1540
Date: 7/1950
-Description: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project concludes a top secret
-study, named Project Nutmeg, to search for an atomic weapons site in the
-continental US. AFSWP concludes that a site on the Air Force’s Las Vegas
-Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada is the right place. President Truman approves
-the location, known as Frenchman Flat. (Wikipedia, “Sandia
-Base”; “Project
-Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear
-Security Administration, June 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1541
Date: 7/1950
-Description: Mid-day. Electronics engineer Cliff Booth is having lunch
-in his office at a private contractor’s building at Holloman AFB, New
-Mexico, when he gets a call that a UFO has been reported by one of the
-range stations. Booth and an Askania cinetheodolite operator are asked
-to drive to another range station with a manually operated Askania and
-look for the object. Through the finders on the theodolite the object
-presents a side view to the observers and appears to be cigar-shaped and
-metallic, with a straw-colored iridescent radiance or luster. It also
-has fins one-third of the way back from the front of the fuselage and a
-row of at least three oblong ports extending to the rear of the object
-and located above the center line of the fuselage. The ports are a dark
-smoky gray but not luminescent. The object hovers in an almost
-horizontal position, elevation 20°–25°, azimuth northeast. Shortly after
-the men focus the instrument on the object to take a film, it begins
-maneuvering. Turning toward the camera, the object moves in, and the men
-can see the front—a round shape with the fins extending out from the
-sides. It then drops abruptly, as though beginning to fall, but stops.
-It moves toward the camera, turns sideways, then drops as before, but
-this time it exposes the side view again. The operator leaves to report
-the coordinates to headquarters, and when he returns the object is gone.
-The men turn over their exposed film to the Data Reduction Division for
-development and analysis. A week or so later they are called in and
-questioned by a young first lieutenant unknown to them who asks them
-over and over again if they have taken pictures and to describe the
-object they had seen. Then they are asked if they can identify the film
-of the object they photographed. One of the men becomes angry about the
-questioning, telling the officer he had seen what he reported, had
-photographed the object, and is convinced it is some sort of a vehicle
-from outer space. He is shown a film of 14 frames on a Recordak
-projector. The black-and-white presentation shows a blurred ellipsoid
-with a dark center, but no details. (Puzzled about the film, he later
-talks to a mathematician-analyst employed by Land-Air, Inc.; she
-conjectured the object had been oscillating in the air, preventing a
-stable image.) The men are then told by their superiors to forget the
-whole thing. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 27–29;
-Project 1947, “APRO
-Files: Coral E. Lorenzen,
-Holloman Air Force Base UFO Sighting, July, 1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1542
Date: 7/1950
-Description: 1:45 p.m. A Civil Aviation Authority flight engineer
-observes a “wingless, fuselage-shaped” object maneuvering over
-Cincinnati, Ohio. The object climbs at a steep angle to 16,000–18,000
-feet, hesitates, dives, and speeds away to the west. (UFOEv, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1543
Date: 7/2/1950
-Description: Dusk. While picnicking on the shore of Sawbill Bay on
-Marmion Lake, western Ontario, an anonymous employee of the Steep Rock
-Iron Mine claims to have seen a UFO resting on the water’s surface. A
-hatch opens and 10 figures, 3–4 feet tall, emerge, wearing shiny,
-metallic clothing. They seem to be drawing in lake water with a hose.
-The object soon rises and hovers, then swiftly takes off. The story
-appears in the mine’s house newsletter, then gets picked up by some
-Canadian newspapers and Fate magazine in its February/March 1952 issue.
-However, Robert Badgley, a Scarborough, Ontario, member of APRO, finds
-in 1974 that Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards had written the
-fictitious tale to entertain readers of the newsletter and to satirize
-saucer stories. (“Steep
-Rock Flying Saucer,” Fate 5, no. 2 (February–March 1952): 68–72; “1950
-Steep Rock Lake,
-Ontario Case Possible Hoax,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 5 (November
-1977): 5; John Robert Columbo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991,
-pp. 32–41; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-January 31, 2007; Hammerson Peters, “The Little Green Men of Steep Rock
-Lake,” Mysteries of Canada, September 7, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1544
Date: 7/2/1950
-Description: In a story strangely similar to that of Mr. Kiehl (Aug.,
-1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes
-and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten
-figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on
-deck like robots “changing direction without turning their bodies.”
-Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker
-arms and legs and “seemed to be their chief.” They immersed a hose in
-the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss forming
-on the lake.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U (Vallee)
-Location: Steep Rock Lake, Canada
-ID: 80
Date: 7/4/1950
-Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back
-in 30 minutes
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Date: 7/4/1950
-Description: Evening. Aerojet engineer Daniel
-Fry is alone during the holiday at White Sands Proving Ground, New
-Mexico, when a flying saucer appears and hovers just above the ground.
-Fry approaches and strokes its surface when a voice booms, “Better not
-touch the hull, pal, it’s still hot.” After some conversation with the
-disembodied extraterrestrial named Alan, he is invited on board the
-craft, which flies him to New York and back in 30 minutes. Fry has
-further encounters and becomes a celebrity on the contactee circuit. He
-finally meets Alan in person in 1961. (Daniel Fry, The White Sands
-Incident, New Age, 1954; Clark III 518–520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1545
Date: 7/6/1950
-Description: A memo by Lt. Col. F. D. McGarrachy, USAF chief of General
-Investigations Division, expresses strong interest to acquire motion
-pictures of UFOs taken by civilians, perhaps in cooperation with the
-FBI, but not in a way to arouse public suspicion of USAF interest.
-(Hynek UFO Report, pp. 54–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1546
Date: 7/7/1950
-Description: Gen. Cabell, through
-his aide Col. Barber, sends a notice to AMC Intelligence Chief Col. Harold
-E. Watson, that despite the official closing of Project Grudge, the
-Air Force still desires to receive UFO reports and take them seriously.
-Project Grudge begins to be reactivated as Project 10073. (Sparks,
-p. 12; Swords 101–102, 498–499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1547
Date: 7/11/1950
-Description: Two Navy aircraft crews from NAS Millington [now Naval
-Support Activity Mid-South] in Tennessee, across the Mississippi River
-from Osceola, Arkansas, see a domed disc pass in front of them. Airborne
-radar confirms it. The object first appears as a round ball; after it
-crosses their flight path, it appears like an upside-down shallow bowl.
-(“Millington
-Men Report Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ and Tracing It,” Memphis (Tenn.)
-Commercial Appeal, July 12, 1950, p. 1; NICAP, “Air,
-Radar/Visual over Arkansas”; Sparks, p. 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1548
Date: 7/13/1950
-Time: 5 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two skilled Arsenal employees including
-Mr. Washburn. one object, shaped like a bowtie, and like polished
-aluminum. Flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated 1/4 turn in
-the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object
-then made a right-angle turn and accelerated away after at least 30
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
-ID: 42
Date: 7/18/1950
-Description: Bruce
-Bliven summarizes flying saucer news in a Look magazine article.
-(Bruce Bliven, “Flying
-Saucers: Myth or
-Menace?” Look, July 18, 1950, pp. 12–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1549
Date: 7/19/1950
-Description: A memo by Col. Bruno
-W. Feiling, chief
-of the USAF Technical Analysis Division, on “Investigation of Flying
-Saucer Reports” says that UFO investigation takes up too much time.
-(Hynek UFO Report, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1550
Date: 7/20/1950
-Description: Mr. Campello and several others in a car saw two large,
-silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hillock, the other on
-flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They came within 600 m of
-the objects, which went away at “an incredible speed,” causing a rush of
-air that rocked the car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: SBEDV 30 (Vallee)
-Location: Porto Novo, Brazil
-ID: 81
Date: 7/24/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km
-attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 16.1km
-Rocket range: 320km
Date: 7/29/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km
-attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 16.1km
-Rocket range: 320km
Date: 8/1950
-Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers”
-published
-Type: publication
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: US
Date: 8/1950
-Description: Keyhoe’s
-article on the Adickes case
-of April 27, “Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,” appears in True
-magazine. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight
-117 and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79)
-August — 2:00 p.m. Hugh O’Neill views a cigar-shaped object hovering
-silently about 2–5 miles off the Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek,
-California, at an elevation of 500–1,000 feet. It moves swiftly away to
-the south, then returns less than 2 minutes later and slowly circles
-above the ocean twice for 90 seconds, disappearing again to the south.
-(Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, New
-Directions, 1957, p. 75;
-Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1950 August–December,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1553
Date: 8/1950
-Description: A CIA memo sent to FBI headquarters, “Summary of Aerial
-Phenomena in New Mexico,” discusses the green fireballs and notes that
-OSI is concerned with the phenomena seen over sensitive installations.
-It reiterates that Lincoln
-LaPaz does not think they are meteors. (ClearIntent, pp. 167–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1552
Date: 8/1950
-Description: Engineer Eric
-A. Walker becomes executive secretary of the Research and
-Development Board. He later refers to a real group called MJ-12 and
-admits attending meetings at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio concerning
-“recovered UFOs.” (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and
-Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001):
-11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1551
Date: 8/1/1950
-Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/4/1950
-Description: The crew (Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn) of
-the M/V Marcala in the North Atlantic between Nova Scotia and the US
-Eastern seaboard watch an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped UFO,
-apparently 10 feet in diameter, 50–100 feet above the surface. It
-initially moves 25 mph, makes no noise, wobbles slightly, disappears
-over the horizon, then reappears. The ship’s captain watches the object
-through binoculars for 90 seconds. One of the other witnesses describes
-the sighting as “one of the most frightening experiences I have ever
-had.” (NICAP, “Object
-100ʹ above Sea Observed by Ship MV Marcala”;
-ClearIntent, pp. 115–116;
-Good Above, pp. 340–341)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1555
Date: 8/4/1950
-Description: A memo from Army Maj. Ulysses
-Grant Carlan states that UFOs since July 30 have been seen at the
-Hanford Site in Washington State. They are above 15,000 feet. Jets
-attempting interception fail. The AEC says that the investigation is
-continuing. (Maj. U. G. Carlan, “Flying
-Discs,” August 4, 1950; Good Above, pp. 267,
-485;
-Nukes 46; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1554
Date: 8/4/1950
-Time: 10 AM EDT
-Description: Witnesses: Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn,
-Third Mate, of M/V Marcala. One 10’ cylindrical object at 50-100’
-altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion, accelerated at end of
-15 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39’ 35’ N, 72’ 24.5’
-W)
-ID: 43
Date: 8/4/1950
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj.
-U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been
-sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept
-them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons
-alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still
-investigating.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p485)
-Location: Hanford, WA
Date: 8/12/1950
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Oliver are at the state forestry
-lookout tower on Round Top Mountain north of Medford, Oregon, when they
-see two UFOs, one disc-shaped, the other oblong. They are about 100 feet
-apart, and the oblong one is tumbling in the air end over end. (“Lookouts
-Report Seeing ‘Saucers’ North of Medford,” Medford (Oreg.)
-Mail-Tribune, August 17, 1950, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1556
Date: 8/14/1950
-Description: 11:27 a.m. Flight Lt. Stan
-J. Hubbard and two other officers at Farnborough Airfield,
-Hampshire, England, hear a humming noise. Hubbard looks up and sees a
-flat gray disc, about 100 feet in diameter, at an altitude of 700–1,000
-feet. He watches it for 30 seconds as it flies at a speed of 800–1,000
-mph and makes a series of S- turns, oscillating as it moves. The other
-two officers see nothing. (David Clarke, “Flying
-Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
-January 3, 2015; Good Need, pp. 149–151;
-David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002,
-pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, pp. 40–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1557
Date: 8/15/1950
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Nicholas
-Mariana and his secretary Virginia Raunig are inspecting the Great
-Falls, Montana, baseball stadium in preparation for a game. He walks up
-to the grandstand and notices two fast-moving bright lights “like two
-new dimes in the sky.” He rushes to his car, parked 60 feet away, and
-gets his 16mm movie camera from the glove compartment. He films the
-objects passing behind a water tower, which provides a frame of
-reference for measuring distance, size, altitude, azimuth, and speed. In
-October he takes it to an Air Force officer for analysis. USAF notes
-that two jet interceptors were in the area and might be the objects on
-the film, but Mariana and Raunig had seen those too. Controversy soon
-arises when Mariana claims that the first 35 frames of his film—which he
-says most clearly show the UFOs as rotating disks—are missing. People in
-the Great Falls area who view Mariana’s film support him. They claim
-that the missing frames clearly show the UFOs as spinning, metallic
-disks with a “notch or band” along their outer edges. USAF personnel
-deny this accusation and insist that they have removed only a single
-frame of film that was damaged in the analysis. In 1952, Blue Book
-reviews the film; so does Robert
-M. L. Baker Jr. in 1954, and the Colorado project in 1967. All
-studies of the film agree that it was not faked and that the objects
-appear to be disc-shaped. (Wikipedia, “Mariana
-UFO incident”; NICAP, “Nick
-Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film”; “Nick
-Mariana UFO Footage 1950 Great Falls Montana,” parkerdonaldmusic
-YouTube channel, September 29, 2012; “Air
-Force Takes over Films of Flying Disks,” Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle,
-October 5, 1950, p. 8; “Colored
-Films on Saucers to Be Shown,” Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News,
-October 19, 1950, p. 17; Clark III 767–769; UFOs Yes, 81–108; Condon, pp. 407–415;
-Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 127–128);
-Barry Greenwood, “On
-the Question of Tampering with
-the 1950 Great Falls UFO Film,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 7
-(September 2000): 1–8; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports
-from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 138–139;
-Michael D. Swords, “Can
-You Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Three,” The Big Study, July
-7, 2012; Patrick Gross, “The
-Great Falls, Montana, UFO Color Film, August 15, 1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1558
Date: 8/15/1950
-Description: A top secret meeting on UFOs takes place at the Metropole
-Building on Northumberland Avenue in London, England. It is chaired by
-Hugh Young, deputy director of intelligence, and attended by
-representatives of the Secret Intelligence Service and Wing Commander Myles
-Formby of the Air Ministry’s technical intelligence branch. Young
-explains that Henry
-Tizard, chief scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, feels
-that reports of flying saucers should not be dismissed without
-investigation and has asked that a working party be set up to look into
-significant reports. RAF Fighter Command is advised that all future
-reports of aerial phenomena should go to the Flying Saucer Working
-Party. (David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus,
-2002, pp. 77– 78; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1,
-1947–December 31, 1959,
-Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2003, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1559
Date: 8/20/1950
-Time: 1:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley,
-Col. W. V. Brown, Lt. col. L.w. Brauer. One small, round, bright object
-flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
-ID: 44
Date: 8/20/1950
-Description: An FBI informant meets with George
-Adamski at Alice Wells’s restaurant, the Palomar Gardens Café, south
-of Mount Palomar, California. In addition to the standard flying saucer
-tales, Adamski mentions that the Federal Communications Commission has
-established contact with people from other planets who apparently have a
-communist economic system. He also predicts that Russia will dominate
-the world for the next 1,000 years. (Kremlin 63–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1560
Date: 8/23/1950
-Description: FBI memo from Alan
-H. Belmont to D.
-Milton Ladd on green fireballs. (A. H. Belmont, “Summary
-of Aerial
-Phenomena in New Mexico, Miscellaneous—Information Concerning,”
-August 23, 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1561
Date: 8/25/1950
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witness: B-29 radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer. Radar
-observation, plus possible blue streak 3 minutes later. B-29 followed
-unidentified target, then passed it at l/4-mile distance, target
-followed for 5 minutes, then passed B-29 and sped away. Total time of
-tracking: 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29’ 40’ N, 67’ 28’ W)
-ID: 45
Date: 8/30/1950
-Description: 10:45 a.m. During a Bell Aircraft MX-776 Shrike missile
-test (for the later Rascal air-to-ground strategic missile) a USAF M/Sgt
-and eight Bell Aircraft employees at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, see two
-glaringly bright circular or elliptical objects maintaining relative
-position to each other following the B-50 Superfortress launch aircraft
-from above on both the dry run and hot run prior to missile release. The
-objects give a “strong glare at all times” (not reflected sunlight),
-maneuver at high estimated speeds up to 10 times the B-50 (roughly 2,500
-mph) for short distances, leave no vapor trails, hover, accelerate
-rapidly, and make abrupt “square” turns with apparent size changing to
-indicate ascent and descent. (NICAP, “Two
-Objects Filmed during Shrike Missile Test”;
-Sparks, p. 98;
-Maj. R. G. Illing, “Aerial
-Phenomena,” September 13, 1950; Swords 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1562
Date: 8/30/1950
-Time: 1:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three local employees, including Kaeel and
-Alexander, of the Air Force Base. A dark, barrel-shaped object with a
-pole down from it into the water, flew at 3-5 m.p.h. and 15-20’ altitude
-for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 46
Date: 8/31/1950
-Description: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. After V-2 missile launch no. 51 at
-Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Project Twinkle cinetheodolite crews track and
-film multiple objects sporadically several times from different
-directions at very high speeds over the course of 3 hours.
-Cinetheodolite station P-5 films an object using a one-frame-per-second
-60 cm focal length camera with 35 mm color film. Frames 593 and 595 (2
-seconds of nearly 10 minutes of film) show its elevation angle changing.
-An attempted interception by four F-86 jets from Kirtland AFB for one
-hour fails to locate the objects, which apparently return after the jets
-leave. Cinetheodolite observers note an object with definite shape and
-3D depth but indistinct edges and no smoke or trail. The object seems to
-“rock or oscillate.” It is lost when the observer looks away to get an
-angle reading. (NICAP, “Objects
-Filmed after V-2 Launch”;
-Sparks, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1563
Date: 8/31/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km
-attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 136.4km
Date: 9/1950
-Description: George
-Adamski first receives national exposure as coauthor of an article
-in Fate on his fake UFO photographs. A follow-up article in July 1951
-features even more dramatic photos. (Clark III 39; Maurice Weekley and
-George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6
-(September 1950): 56– 59; George Adamski, “I Photographed Space Ships,”
-Fate 4, no. 5 (July 1951): 64–74; George Noory, “Fate Flashback:
-‘Flying Saucers’ in the 1950’s,” Coast to Coast AM, August 18,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1566
Date: 9/1950
-Description: The first US Army large-scale aerosol vulnerability test
-occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, using two types of
-bacteria (Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens) and fluorescent
-particles. Six simulated attacks are conducted, with the conclusion that
-it is feasible to attack a seaport city with biological aerosol agents
-from a ship offshore. The first open-air tests with biological simulants
-are conducted in 1950 in various locales, one of which is off the coast
-of Norfolk, Virginia. (Wikipedia, “United
-States biological weapons program”; David R. Franz, Cheryl D.
-Parrott, and Ernest T. Takafuji, “The U.S. Biological Warfare and
-Biological Defense Programs,” in Medical Aspects of Chemical and
-Biological Warfare, Office of the US Surgeon General, 1997,
-chap. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1565
Date: 9/1950
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Three US Navy planes on a combat mission 100
-miles south of the Yalu River in Korea are approached from below by two
-huge discs, at least 600–700 feet in diameter, traveling at 1,000–1,200
-mph. The radar shows them as 1.5 miles away. Suddenly the objects halt,
-back up, and begin a jittering motion, keeping pace with them, circling
-above and below. When one pilot readies his guns, the aircraft radar
-goes haywire, apparently jammed. His radio transmitter is blocked by a
-buzzing noise. The discs are silvery and shaped like a “coolie’s hat,
-with oblong ports from which emanated a copper-green colored light which
-gradually shifted to pale pastel-colored lights.” A shimmering red ring
-circles the top portion of the disc. The objects soon speed away in the
-direction from which they had come. (Haines, Korea, pp. 28–30;
-Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 30–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1564
Date: 9/3/1950
-Time: 2 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and neighbor
-(former saw three objects, others saw one). Metallic bronze discs,
-20-30’ long, 2-6’ thick. Moved independently and erratically for 5
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spokane, Washington
-ID: 47
Date: 9/5/1950
-Description: 4:09 p.m. Flight Lt. Stan
-J. Hubbard is standing on the watchtower at Farnborough Airfield,
-Hampshire, England, with five other officers, one of whom is Wing
-Commander Frank Jolliffe. They all see, at a range of 10– 15 miles, a
-light gray disc following a rectangular flight path, consisting of a
-“falling leaf, horizontal flight, an upward “falling leaf,” then another
-horizontal stretch. The Working Party concludes they have imperfectly
-viewed some conventional aircraft. (David Clarke, “Flying
-Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
-January 3, 2015; Good Need, pp. 150–151;
-David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002,
-pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, p. 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1567
Date: 9/8/1950
-Description: Henry Holt publishes Frank
-Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers, the first book on UFOs. It
-sensationally claims that the US government has retrieved a crashed
-flying saucer and several dead pilots. Rep. Edward
-H. Jenison (R-Ill.)
-condemns the book as contributing to mass hysteria during a time of war
-in Korea. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch estimates that 3–4
-million people have heard about saucers, thanks to the book. (Frank
-Scully, Behind
-the Flying Saucers, Holt,
-1950; John L. Cotton, et al., “Flying
-Saucers and Frank Scully,” in KNW 2333: The Scientific Method,
-Critical and Creative Thinking (Debunking Pseudoscience), Southern
-Methodist University; Swords 103; Curt Collins, “Operation
-Hush-Hush: The UFO Crash and ET Bodies Cover- Up,”
-The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1568
Date: 9/8/1950
-Description: Air Force Intelligence Collection Division’s Collection
-Control Branch (AFOIN-CC-1) at the Pentagon issues a new intelligence
-reporting directive requiring special handling and reporting of UFO
-incidents, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” thus
-reversing the cancellation directive of January 12, 1950. The action
-reflects the increasing interest by AFOIN Director Gen. Cabell and
-his dissatisfaction with AMC inaction on UFO study at Wright-Patterson
-AFB. (NICAP, “1950
-UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1569
Date: 9/13/1950
-Description: The Air Force responds to producer Howard
-Hawks’s request for the use of military locations, personnel, and
-equipment for his upcoming film The Thing from Another World by refusing
-to participate and objecting to any display of USAF personnel or
-equipment on the grounds that “it is our policy not to participate in
-any proposal that will perpetuate this hoax.” (Swords 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1570
Date: 9/15/1950
-Description: In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and
-Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board),
-scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 “Behind the Flying Saucers” book
-is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been
-able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t
-originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the
-H-bomb.
-Type: conference
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p519)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 9/23/47
-See also: 1/26/53
Date: 9/15/1950
-Description: Canadian engineer Wilbert
-B. Smith attends a classified briefing with physicist Robert
-I. Sarbacher of the US Defense Dept.’s Research and Development
-Board. Smith asks if there is any truth to the Scully crash-
-and-retrieval story and Sarbacher replies,
-“The facts reported in the book are substantially correct.” He says that
-UFOs are “classified two points higher even than the H-bomb.” In 1983,
-Sarbacher confirms the comment to Stanton
-T. Friedman, although
-he clarifies that he was speaking about crashed UFOs in general. He
-tells UFO researcher William
-Steinman in November 1983 that he “was invited to participate in
-several discussions associated with the reported recoveries” of UFOs,
-but is unable to attend the meetings. He claims Vannevar
-Bush, Eric
-A. Walker, and
-John
-von Neumann are “definitely involved” in the program and probably J.
-Robert Oppenheimer as
-well. (Clark III 1029–1031; Good Above, pp. 519–521;
-Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “Dr. Robert
-Sarbacher,” March 1, 2010; Wilbert B. Smith, [Sarbacher
-interview notes], September 15, 1950; Dolan II 320; Robert I.
-Sarbacher, [Letter
-to William Steinman], November 29, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1571
Date: 9/20/1950
-Time: 10:49 AM
-Description: Witness identified only as a “reliable source”. Two large,
-round, glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. Two
-hovered for 1 minute, moved, and three smaller ones came from behind or
-within the two larger objects, and all sped upward and away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kit Carson, Colorado
-ID: 48
Date: 9/21/1950
-Description: MIT research associate and Air National Guard Maj. Myron
-Herbert Ligda and Joseph
-V. Connelly are testing radar near Provincetown, Massachusetts,
-under contract to the US Signal Corps, when they track an unknown object
-on a converging course with two F-86s. The clear target passes the
-planes at a speed of at least 1,200 mph, makes a right turn, then passes
-directly over or under the F-86s. (NICAP, “SCR-615B
-Tracks UFO”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 139–141;
-Sparks, p. 100;
-Swords 104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1572
Date: 9/21/1950
-Time: 9:52 AM
-Description: Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard
-Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of
-USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22
-miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1
-minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Provincetown, Massachusetts
-ID: 49
Date: 9/25/1950
-Description: JANAP 146(A) is issued: “Communications Instructions for
-Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft,” the start of
-CIRVIS reporting for commercial and military pilots. This adds UFOs to
-the list of sighting categories. All UFO reports are to be sent to the
-Air Defense Command at the Pentagon and to the Secretary of Defense. AMC
-at Wright-Patterson is not mentioned. (Swords 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1573
Date: 9/25/1950
-Description: The Air Force Intelligence office, apparently at the
-request of Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg, orders all copies of the December 10, 1948, revised
-Project Sign report destroyed. (Good Need, p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1574
Date: 9/26/1950
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Policemen John Collins and Joseph Keenan are
-patrolling on Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South Philadelphia,
-Pennsylvania, when they see something like a parachute drifting down
-ahead of them at treetop level. It is about 6 feet in diameter and
-settles in an open field. After summoning Sgt. Joseph Cook and Patrolman
-James Casper, they go into the field to investigate. When they turn
-their flashlights on it, it gives off a purplish glow, “almost a mist,
-that looked as though it contained crystals.” Collins touches it and it
-dissolves in his hand, leaving an odorless, sticky residue. It
-completely evaporates in 25 minutes. This event inspires producer Jack
-H. Harris to ask his friend Irvine H. Millgate to come up with a
-story for what eventually becomes the 1958 horror film The Blob. (Clark
-III 1102; “Flying ‘Saucer’ Just Dissolves,” Philadelphia Inquirer,
-September 27, 1950, pp. 1–2; Rebekah McKendry, “The Supposedly True
-Story behind the Classic Film The Blob!” 13th Floor, October 21,
-2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1575
Date: 10/1950
-Description: Donald
-Keyhoe’s True article is expanded into a paperback book, The Flying
-Saucers Are Real, which sells 500,000 copies. It brings many interested
-civilians and military people to accept UFO reality, government
-withholding of information, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. (Donald
-E. Keyhoe, The
-Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950; Wikipedia, “The
-Flying Saucers Are Real”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1576
Date: 10/1950
-Description: J[ack?]
-L. Rohn is named a chief of Project Grudge. (Sparks,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1577
Date: 10/1950
-Description: The Flying Saucer Working Party is created in the UK by
-Ministry of Defence Chief Science Adviser Henry Tizard, assisted
-by Louis
-Mountbatten and Air Chief Marshal Hugh
-Dowding, both who have quietly concluded that flying saucers are
-real. It has five members, representing UK intelligence branches. Its
-charge is to study UFO reports. (Wikipedia, “Flying
-Saucer Working Party”; Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,”
-IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1578
Date: 10/3/1950
-Description: Geochemist J. D. Laudermilk watches a disc moving with a
-wobbling motion at 750 mph behind a mountain peak near Pomona,
-California. (UFOEv, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1579
Date: 10/5/1950
-Description: A California Central Airlines plane, piloted by Capt. Cecil
-Hardin and Flight Officer Jack Conroy, is buzzed by a wing-like UFO with
-8 bright lights between San Fernando and Van Nuys, California. Bands of
-blue light are visible across its width. (“Now
-Add This to Saucer Mysteries,” Los Angeles Daily News, October 6,
-1950, p. 2; NICAP, “Mysterious
-Object Buzzes Airliner”; UFOEv, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1580
Date: 10/6/1950
-Description: Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de
-Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said
-that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from
-him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further
-interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of
-the Aztec crash.
-Type: confidental memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)
-Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX
-See also: 3/25/1948
Date: 10/7/1950
-Description: Walter
-Bedell Smith takes over as director of central intelligence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1581
Date: 10/12/1950
-End date: 11/5/1950
-Description: Some 15 radar and visual sightings of UFOs take place over
-restricted airspace at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the observation on
-October 23, an unexplained increase in alpha-beta background radiation
-is detected; after the November 29 sighting, an alpha and gamma ray
-increase is correlated with unidentified radar targets in the area.
-(ClearIntent, pp. 171–173;
-Memo from Strategic Air Command Knoxville to Director of FBI, “‘Flying
-Saucers’ Observed over Oak Ridge Area,” October 25, 1950; J. Edgar
-Hoover, [teletype
-in response], December 5, 1950; Bruce S. Maccabee, “NCP-14:
-Saucers over Oak Ridge,” from UFO–FBI Connection, Llewellyn, 2000,
-pp. 163–181; Francis Ridge, “The
-Oak Ridge Sightings including All the Tennessee Blue Book Unknowns,”
-September 22, 2005; Sparks, pp. 100–102;
-Clark III 950; Swords 106–107; Hynek UFO Report, pp.
-142–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1583
Date: 10/12/1950
-Description: The Oak Ridger columnist Robert
-Sharon Allen reports that the Atomic Energy Commission Security
-Service has issued a questionnaire to be used when UFOs are reported at
-its installations. (Robert S. Allen, “AEC Wants Info on Flying Saucers
-Seen near A-Plants,” The Oak Ridger, October 12, 1950; Project 1947, “Robert
-S. Allen
-Introduction”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1582
Date: 10/13/1950
-Description: J.
-Edgar Hoover sends a teletype message to the Special Agent in Charge
-in Los Angeles, California, asking him to determine whether Frank
-Scully is the same man who has been active in communist activities
-since the 1930s. (Anthony Bragalia, “J.
-Edgar Hoover’s Saucer Crash Secrets,” UFO Explorations, April
-2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1584
Date: 10/15/1950
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: Woodward. Same as previous observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
-ID: 52
Date: 10/15/1950
-Description: 4:20 p.m. After taking off from Raleigh, North Carolina,
-Miami Airlines DC-4 pilot Capt. George A. Woodward and copilot William
-Bardsley see four round, metallic objects descending slowly near Pope
-AFB [now Pope Field] at Fort Bragg. They look like two saucers fitted
-together and are about 100 feet in diameter, flying in a line about 25
-feet apart. The pilots pursue the objects for about 3 minutes, but the
-objects recede then shoot away at tremendous speed. Around the same
-time, a similar object crosses the path of an Air Force jet near Pope
-AFB. (NICAP, “Pilots
-Report 100-Ft Round Objects”; NICAP, “Aluminum-Like
-Object Crosses Path of Jet”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1585
Date: 10/15/1950
-Time: 3:20 PM
-Description: Atomic Energy Commission Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker,
-Capt. Zarzecki. Two shiny silver objects shaped like bullet or bladder.
-They dove with a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at 5-6,
-altitude, 50’ away, left and returned several times somewhat further
-away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 50
Date: 10/15/1950
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: Daniel. Listed as “unidentified” in folder index,
-but no supporting data could be found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
-ID: 51
Date: 10/18/1950
-Description: USAF Brig. Gen. Ernest
-Moore writes a memo to Col. Harold
-E. Watson at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, advising him of the
-standing policy of releasing no details about UFO case investigations. A
-form letter is to be used: “We have investigated and evaluated
- incident and have found nothing of value and nothing which would
-change our previous estimates on this subject.” (Swords 102–103,
-500)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1586
Date: 10/23/1950
-Time: 12:42 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-USAF pilot Frank Risher. One aluminum object
-shaped like a dirigible or Convair C-99 cargo plane, with 3 portholes,
-arrived from southeast, hovered 3-5 seconds and flew away to the
-south-south-east at end of 40 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bonlee, North Carolina
-ID: 53
Date: 10/26/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km
-attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 8km
Date: 11/5/1950
-Description: Four Pan American Airways employees (Fred Wilkinson,
-Patrick Joseph Maloney, Fred Perrior, and E. Newman) see a bright object
-fly east to west over Heathrow Airport, London, at 1,000 mph. (London
-Sunday Dispatch, November 12, 1950; “Saucers over England,” Fate 4, no.
-2 (March 1951): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1587
Date: 11/5/1950
-Time: 11:55 AM
-Description: Witness: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick. One
-translucent object, light grey with dark core, shaped like a pear or
-bean. Flew for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 54
Date: 11/7/1950
-Description: A military pilot flying a Douglas AD-4Q Skyraider near
-Lakehurst, New Jersey, engages in a dogfight with a steady white light
-that he at first mistakes for an aircraft. He gets on its tail, then the
-light reverses suddenly and passes 100–200 feet above his plane at
-incredible speed. He again tails it and the same thing happens. The
-light continues to “turn about me in wide, climbing turns, making about
-two orbits to my one.” He abandons chase at 11,500 feet. (NICAP, “Light
-Makes 5–6 Head On Passes at Navy Plane”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 68–70;
-Sparks, p. 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1588
Date: 11/10/1950
-Description: Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank
-Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of
-1946.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Link
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 11/11/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final
-Hermes II test)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
Date: 11/16/1950
-Description: Col. Harold
-E. Watson at AMC brings in news columnist Bob
-Considine for an in-depth interview on flying saucers. Watson says:
-“I’ve seen lots of flying saucers…and every single saucer turned out to
-be the sun shining off the wing or body of a distant DC-4, or jet, or a
-weather balloon, or it was a reflection off a water-tank or something
-else that is readily explainable.” He characterizes witnesses as
-crackpots, religious fanatics, publicity hounds, or practical jokers.
-Considine asks him about airline pilot witnesses. Watson accuses them of
-being fooled by optical tricks and the power of suggestion. (Swords
-107–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1589
Date: 11/17/1950
-Description: Telenews Productions releases a 9½-minute short film, The
-Flying Saucer Mystery, apparently the first UFO documentary. The film’s
-main focus is on the best new evidence of 1950, the alleged first
-authentic photographs and motion picture film of flying saucers, the two
-snapshots by farmer Paul
-Trent, and
-the film shot by Louisville (Ky.) Times photographer Al Hixenbaugh on
-June 27, 1950. It also features UFO witness Arthur Weisberger of
-Tucson, Arizona, describing his sighting, apparently the only record of
-the event, as well as Donald
-E.
-Keyhoe and Admiral Calvin
-M. Bolster. The
-film is apparently only shown for a few months and rotates among the
-Telenews Theaters across the nation. It is lost for decades until it
-resurfaces in the 1990s. (“Flying Saucer
-Mystery,” historycomestolife YouTube channel, July 3, 2010; Curt
-Collins, “The
-First UFO Documentary: The
-Flying Saucer Mystery,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1590
Date: 11/21/1950
-Description: Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government
-research into UFO’s and propulsion technology.
-Type: top secret memo
-Reference: link
-Location: Canada
Date: 11/21/1950
-Description: Wilbert
-Smith writes a top secret memo to the Canadian Controller of
-Telecommunications claiming that he has talked to Canadian embassy staff
-in Washington, D.C., who tell him that the UFOs are the “most highly
-classified subject in the US government” (what Sarbacher told
-him) and that a “concerted effort is being made by a small group headed
-by Dr. Vannevar
-Bush.” Sarbacher later verifies the information, saying the small
-group existed within the Research and Development Board. (W. B. Smith,
-“Memorandum
-to the Controller of Telecommunications,”
-November 21, 1950; NICAP, “The
-Smith Memo, November 21, 1950”; Good Above, pp. 183, 464–466;
-Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board:
-Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1591
Date: 11/26/1950
-End date: 11/27/1950
-Description: 11:50 p.m. A “mysterious lighted object” flashing red,
-white, and green lights is seen above Huron (South Dakota) Regional
-Airport. Weather Bureau observer Gene Fowler, Winfield
-Henry of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and Gordon Moore and
-Chet Fuqua, ground personnel at Western Airlines, go up to the roof of
-the airport administration building for a better look. Fowler is able to
-watch it through a theodolite used for weather balloons for 8 minutes.
-He says, “The azimuth reading changed from 147 degrees to 161 degrees
-during that period and went up seven degrees vertically.” The Rapid City
-weather bureau and Aberdeen CAA in South Dakota estimate the object is
-40–50 miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota. The object reappears at
-1:30 a.m. and is visible, sometimes hovering, until 3:00 a.m. when it
-disappears to the northwest. In Aberdeen, CAA aircraft communicator
-William B. Hiller sees a star-like object at 2:00 a.m. and watches it
-for 90 minutes. It changes colors, glowing white, green, and red
-alternately. (“Mysterious
-Sight May Be ‘Saucer,’” Rapid City (S.Dak.) Journal, November 27,
-1950, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950, The Author, 1982,
-pp. 59–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1592
Date: 11/27/1950
-Description: Bill
-Blair, a
-commercial pilot and flight instructor, watches six elliptical objects
-in loose echelon formation over Evansville, Wisconsin. They are making
-noises like a helicopter and are flying at 500 mph at 10,000 feet.
-(UFOEv, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1593
Date: 12/1950
-Description: Project “Magnet” authorized in Canada
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Canada
Date: 12/1950
-Description: The US seaplane tender USS
-Gardiners
-Bay is steaming up the channel from Incheon, South Korea, when the
-crew sees two mysterious, smoke-trailing objects that strike the water
-at tremendous speed. Two columns of water rise to 100 feet in height. No
-aircraft are sighted overhead. (Sanderson, InvRes, p. 43;
-“Sighting
-Flying Discs
-Again?” Naval Aviation News 32, no. 2 (February 1951): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1594
Date: 12/1950
-Description: Science writer Gerald
-Heard publishes The Riddle of the Flying Saucers in the UK, in which
-he speculates that with conditions on Mars being severe, the only
-intelligent beings that can exist there would be advanced insects. A US
-edition is published in April 1951 as Is Another World Watching? The
-Riddle of the Flying Saucers. (Gerald Heard, The Riddle of the Flying
-Saucers, Carroll and Nicholson, 1950; Lyle Zapato, “Of
-Bees and Men: The
-Riddle of the Flying Saucers,” ZPi blog, January 27, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1595
Date: 12/2/1950
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. One pearly, iridescent object with a
-flattened top, spun while hovering and made a sound like bees buzzing.
-Only data in files was from East African “Standard” newspaper.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nanyika, Kenya
-ID: 55
Date: 12/2/1950
-Description: Cmdr. Charles
-Peter Edwards, Canadian Deputy Minister of Transport for Air
-Services, approves Wilbert
-B.
-Smith’s proposed plan to use the Department of Transport lab and
-field facilities during off-hours to gather quality UFO data. It is
-called Project Magnet. (“What
-Was the Truth about Project Magnet?” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1964): 29; Clark III 1078; Good Above, pp. 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1596
Date: 12/3/1950
-Description: Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to
-procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named
-Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director
-J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence
-Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying
-saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned,
-immediately, to Air Force Intelligence.
-Type: classified communique
-Reference: link
-Location: Richmond, Virginia
Date: 12/5/1950
-Description: Engineer Lt. Col. John R. Hood disperses radiation counters
-around the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, National Laboratory’s restricted area.
-The intent is to map the presence of any unusual radiation, in the wake
-of numerous UFO reports over the facility. He also sets up a source of
-radioactive material to see if its presence has an effect on the air
-above it. If the air is unusually ionized, it might be the source of the
-anomalous radar targets. He also mentions using a magnetometer array,
-but there is no documentation of the result of this effort. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950, The
-Author, 1982, pp. 64–65; Swords 107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1597
Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area.
-The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia,
-NM.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: link
-Location: Guerrero, Mexico
Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: Dubious MJ-12 documents refer to a UFO crash on the Mexico
-side of the US border in the area between El Indio, Texas, and Guerrero,
-Coahuila, Mexico. (“El
-Indio 1950,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1601
Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters
-USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft
-were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there
-was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40
-aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the
-vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and
-interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his
-memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary,
-“It looks like World War III is here. I hope not–but we must meet
-whatever comes–and we will.”
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Limestone, Maine
Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: While F-94s are being tested at Dyess AFB near Abilene,
-Texas, radar catches a UFO on a high-speed intercept course with the
-planes. Some personnel see the object shortly afterward. Col. Robert
-B. Willingham claims it is not a missile. It makes 90° turns at high
-speed. NORAD tracks it and the object is said to crash near the Mexican
-border near Del Rio, Texas. Willingham and a copilot take a light
-aircraft to the site but are escorted away. They do see part of the
-crash field and pick up a small piece of metal from the ground.
-Willingham takes it to a Marine Corps metallurgy lab in Hagerstown,
-Maryland, for analysis but never sees it again. (Kevin D. Randle, A
-History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 192–193;
-Clark III 338; “Del
-Rio 1955,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 22, 2010;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Del
-Rio UFO Crash and MJ-12,” A Different Perspective, July 21, 2010;
-Kevin D. Randle, “MJ-12’s Fatal Flaw and Robert Willingham,” IUR 33, no.
-4 (May 2011): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1599
Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: 10:30–11:04 a.m. The ConAC Air Defense Controller notifies
-the HQ USAF that a number of unidentified aircraft are approaching the
-northeast area of the United States and that there is no reason to
-believe they are friendly. By radar contact it is determined that
-approximately 40 aircraft are in the flight at 32,000 feet on a course
-of 200° northeast of Limestone, Maine. The White House is notified at
-10:31 a.m., and President Truman discusses
-the reports in a meeting with UK Prime Minister Clement
-Attlee. (NICAP, “Radar-Inspired
-National Alert”;
-Bruce Maccabee, “Immediate
-Saucer Alert! The Mystery of December 6, 1950,” July 1999; Clark III
-824; Sparks, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1598
Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Former aircraft purchasing agent Harry
-Lamp and four boys spot a 75-foot silver object hovering at 3,000
-feet above the northern part of Fort Myers, Florida. Through 10x
-binoculars Lamp sees it is 3–4 feet thick at the edges and 14 feet thick
-in the center, which revolves as it hovers. The object has a red rim
-with two white and two orange jets along it. It flies away at high
-speed. (NICAP, “Large
-Object with Bubble on Top”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1600
Date: 12/6/1950
-Time: 5 PM
-Description: Witnesses: former aircraft purchasing agent Harry Lamp and
-four boys, using lO-power binoculars. One 75’ object, 3-4’ thick, bubble
-on top, silver with a red rim having two white and two orange jets along
-it. The center revolved when the object hovered; then it flew away very
-fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Myers, Florida
-ID: 56
Date: 12/8/1950
-Description: The FBI office in Richmond, Virginia, sends a telegram to
-FBI headquarters saying that local Army Intelligence has been put “on
-immediate high alert for any data whatsoever concerning flying saucers.”
-It adds, “CIC advises data strictly confidential and should not be
-disseminated.” (Auerbach, [teletype
-memo], December 8, 1950; ClearIntent, p. 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1602
Date: 12/10/1950
-Description: 7:30 p.m. RAF Group-Captain B. S. Cartmel and two friends
-are at the Wilderness Golf Course near Sevenoaks, Kent, England, when
-they see a bright light moving east to west in complete silence. It
-maintains a steady height of 3,000 feet moving at 130–150 mph and is
-visible for 5 minutes. (Good Above, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1603
Date: 12/11/1950
-Time: 10:13 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802. Two
-white flashes, followed by a dark cloud which rose and split in
-two.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: l0 mi. NW of Gulcana, Alaska
-ID: 57
Date: 12/12/1950
-Description: The AFSWP’s Project Nutmeg officially selects the
-Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nevada, for domestic
-nuclear testing. (Wikipedia, “Nevada
-Test and Training Range”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1604
Date: 12/13/1950
-Description: 4:55 p.m. J. G. F. Moult and his mother are sitting at
-their home in Kimberley, South Africa, when they observe a bright object
-“like a huge mirror in the sky,” hovering, and moving laterally and up
-and down for about 3 minutes. It goes behind a cloud but can still be
-seen, appearing like a “piece of magnesium wire burning with a bright,
-purplish-white light.” It dives through the clouds, turns sharply, and
-shoots out of sight. (David Marais, “The
-Outspan Magazine, January 1, 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1605
Date: late 12/1950
-Description: USAF Capt. J.
-E. Broyles sees an aluminum-like oval object with a conical tail
-moving slowly in the sky near Cheyenne, Wyoming. (UFOEv, p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1606
Date: 12/26/1950
-Description: Harvard University historian William
-L. Langer, special
-assistant for intelligence analysis to US Secretary of State James
-F. Byrnes, organizes
-the CIA Office of National Estimates, a forerunner of the National
-Intelligence Council. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Staff
-Conference: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s Conference
-Room, Administration Building, Tuesday, 26 December 1950, at 1100
-Hours”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1607
Date: 12/27/1950
-Description: Sunset. A TWA flight, piloted by Capt. Art Shutts, is
-enroute from Chicago to Kansas City. Near Bradford, Illinois, Shutts
-notices a bright white light ahead of the plane, also flashing red and
-green occasionally. It begins to “wobble and swerve unsteadily,” then
-streaks back and forth in a north-south line through an arc of 10–30°,
-changing direction abruptly. He notices that the horizon near the UFO
-appears to vibrate as if light is distorted, especially after the object
-puts on a burst of speed. It dims to a pinpoint and begins to slowly
-move south. Suddenly it lurches, accelerates rapidly, zooms upward at a
-45° angle, makes a nearly square turn, plunges downward, and disappears
-below the horizon to the north. It is visible for 25 minutes. (UFOEv, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1608
Date: 1951
-Description: Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences
-Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and
-educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology,
-UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a
-loose/unofficial association.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
Date: Early 1950’s
-Description: Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New
-Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher
-who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just
-been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport.
-A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of
-friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were
-scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a
-meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the
-conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations
-were also present.
-Type: book reference
-Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69
-Location: Carson’s Field, New Zealand
Date: 1951
-Description: Marc
-Thirouin founds the first UFO group in France, the Commission
-Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. It
-begins publishing Ouranos in June 1952 and issues 32 numbers through
-1966, reviving in 1972 after Thirouin’s death with a new series that
-lasts until 1980. (Ouranos, no.
-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1612
Date: 1951
-Description: The Atomic Energy Commission uses its parallel system of
-secret-keeping to conduct controversial research, development, and
-engineering on aircraft and pilot-related projects, entirely without
-oversight.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1611
Date: 1951
-Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper,
-describes seeing 100’s of UFO’s flying in formation at very high
-altitudes over Europe.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Europe
Date: 1951
-Description: While flying an F-86 Sabrejet over West Germany, USAF pilot
-Gordon
-Cooper sees several metallic discs flying at a high altitude. He
-claims to “have two days of observation of many flights of them, of
-different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to
-west over Europe.” (Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith: An
-Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperCollins, 2000, pp. 80–81;
-“UFO
-Sightings by Astronauts,”
-Syti.net, January 30, 2001; “Astronaut
-Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,” Elhardt YouTube channel, December
-27, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1609
Date: 1951
-Description: The intelligence unit of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing puts
-out periodic intelligence reports through 1953 that cover ground and air
-operations, unusual incidents, and UFO reports in Korea. The UFO reports
-are in a different category from unidentified aircraft. Some of these
-reports do not appear in Project Blue Book. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1610
Date: 1/1951
-Description: Author and journalist Bob
-Considine’s article appears in Cosmopolitan, debunking all UFO
-stories as delusions and hoaxes, and quoting a weary Air Force Col. Harold
-E. Watson, who has replaced McCoy in
-Project Grudge. It offends people so badly that many pilots afterward
-refuse to report UFO sightings to the Air Force. USAF Public Information
-Officer Clare Welch, who has set this interview up, believes the Air
-Force has better things to do and is out of step with Cabell’s renewed
-interest. (Bob Considine, “The
-Disgraceful Flying Saucer Hoax!”
-Cosmopolitan, January 1951, pp. 32–33, 100–102, republished by
-Project 1947; Swords 113–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1613
Date: 1/1/1951
-Description: The Air Defense Command, inactivated since July 1, 1950, is
-reinstated as a major command at Mitchel AFB [now closed] in Long
-Island, New York. The HQ is moved to Ent AFB [now the US Olympic
-Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a week later.
-(Wikipedia, “Aerospace
-Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1615
Date: 1/1/1951
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Katie Sowell watches an object about 30–50 feet
-in diameter, like two “upside down saucers” revolving counterclockwise
-and darting low over her farmhouse near Oak Grove, Louisiana. It has
-rectangular, opaque windows. It is seen for 15–20 minutes at close
-range. It banks and disappears, going straight up. (Huntsville (Ala.)
-Times, February 5, 1974; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1951, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1614
Date: 1/8/1951
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Boggus, plus unidentified
-drivers and passengers in other cars stopped to watch. Two groups of red
-and green lights in triangular formations were stationary and then
-moved.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: South of Ft. Worth, Texas
-ID: 58
Date: 1/12/1951
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A.C. Hale. One light with a
-fan-shaped wake remained motionless like a star about 20 minutes and
-then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Benning, Georgia
-ID: 59
Date: 1/14/1951
-Description: Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright
-picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and
-Universities”
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
Date: 1/16/1951
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: Two members of a balloon project from the
-General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory, the manager of the
-Artesia Airport, and three pilots. The balloon crew was observing their
-110’ balloon at an altitude of 112,000’ when a dull white, round object
-was spotted. It appeared larger than the balloon, but made no movement.
-Later, the balloon crew and the others saw two objects from the airport;
-flying side-by-side, they circled the balloon and flew away to the
-northeast. The second observation lasted about 40 seconds. Note: there
-is confusion over the date of this case, with some USAF records showing
-it as 1952; however, 1951 appears to be correct.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Artesia, New Mexico
-ID: 60
Date: 1/16/1951
-Description: Raymond Dugan and Raymond E. Stiles, members of the General
-Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory balloon project, observe a round
-disc near their Skyhook balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The balloon is
-at a height of 112,000 feet. A short time later, Dugan, Stiles, and four
-civilian pilots at Artesia Airport see two similar objects circling the
-same balloon that then fly off to the northeast. (NICAP, “Two
-Discs Approach Skyhook”; Project Blue Book, [Artesia
-documents]; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed.,
-1974, pp. 69–70;
-Sparks, p. 104; Swords 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1616
Date: 1/18/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on
-pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 1.6km
Date: 1/20/1951
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Sioux City, Iowa, CAA Control Tower operator John
-M. Williams sees an odd light in the west. Capt. Lawrence
-W. Vinther and copilot James
-F. Bachmeier of Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 9 takes off and
-Vinther is asked by the tower to look for the light. While still in a
-climbing turn at about 1,000 feet, the pilots spot the object to the
-north-northwest at about 8,000 feet and 4 miles away. It looks like a
-B-29 fuselage with wings but no engines and blinks some lights like
-running lights. The object comes towards the DC-3, flies across the nose
-within 200 feet, then suddenly reappears on the other side, paralleling
-them for 2–3 seconds. The object then flies under them and disappears to
-the northwest. This is one of the first reports to make it into the
-CIRVIS system specified by JANAP 146. (NICAP, “UFO
-Buzzes DC-3”; Lawrence W. Vinther, “Another
-Saucer Mystery,” Flying 48 (June 1951): 23, 56, reprinted by
-Project 1947; Ruppelt, p. 84;
-Jan Aldrich; Sparks,
-p. 104; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1617
Date: 1/21/1951
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A UFO that appears to be over the restricted area
-at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is sighted on the
-radarscope of an F-82 fighter. The GCI gives the go-ahead to intercept
-the target. The radar set on the F-82 is locked on and the run begins.
-The interception is unsuccessful, and the fighter returns to base. In
-all, three passes are made at targets, all with radar indications, but
-they cannot be completed since the target is over the restricted area
-that includes the X-10 plant. (NICAP, “F-82
-Attempts Intercept of UFO over AEC Plant / Radar”;
-Sparks, p. 104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1618
Date: 1/22/1951
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF pilots Capt. Ernest
-W. Spradley Jr. of Aerial Photo Lab and Capt. James E. Cocker of
-All-Weather Flying Division (both based at Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio), a General Mills Aeronautical lab project engineer named McAleese,
-and another airman are flying in a C-47 heading east about 50 miles
-southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico, at about 10,000–12,000 feet,
-tracking a Project Gopher plastic balloon at about 50,000–70,000 feet,
-when they see a bright star-like object adjacent to the pear-shaped
-balloon. As they approach and fly under the balloon, they notice the
-object descend to the balloon’s level and grow larger in apparent size
-until about one-quarter to one-half the size of the 70-foot balloon. It
-appears to be round and flat like a dime, milky white or silvery in
-color, with a clear outline. Cocker and McAleese leave the cockpit and
-go to the astrodome to observe the object. After 3 minutes they see the
-object separate from the balloon and head west at high speed. After
-about 1 minute it emits a series of 3 bright photoflashes at one-second
-intervals and disappears from sight. (NICAP, “C-47
-Crew Encounter Object near ‘Gopher’”; NICAP, “White
-Object Paces Balloon”; Sparks, p. 105;
-Swords 114–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1619
Date: 1/27/1951
-Description: An Air Force B-50D bomber drops the first atomic bomb, the
-Able blast, for testing in the US onto a dry lake bed known as Frenchman
-Flat, inside the Nevada Test Site. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Ranger”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1620
Date: 1/29/1951
-Description: USAF Lt. Col. Milton
-D. Willis replies to Robert
-B. Sibley, president of the Aero Club of New England, who has
-written Secretary of the Air Force Thomas
-K. Finletter asking that the UFO project be reinstated because
-pilots are indeed seeing something that could be extraterrestrial.
-Willis writes that, although the UFO project is disbanded, the Air Force
-still investigates incidents and sends them to AMC if necessary, and an
-officer (Willis himself, who has replaced Boggs)
-monitors all UFO reports. As an aside to his superiors, Willis in a memo
-notes that “there have been several incidents, during the last six
-months, which cannot be explained and further investigation may be
-necessary.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1951,
-Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 7 –8; Swords 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1621
Date: 2/1/1951
-Time: 5:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-82 night fighter.
-One amber light made three or four 360 degree turns to the right,
-reversed toward the F-82 and then climbed out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Johnson Air Base, Japan
-ID: 61
Date: 2/9/1951
-Description: 9:55 p.m. The crew (including Lt. Fred
-W. Kingdon Jr. and US Naval Reserve Lt. Graham
-E. Bethune) and passengers of a US Navy R5D transport flying west
-from Keflavík, Iceland, at 10,000 feet about 212 miles northeast of
-Gander, Newfoundland, observe a large orange-rimmed UFO with a dark
-center. It is about 400 feet in diameter and first seen moving above the
-surface of the ocean. As the plane approaches, the object changes
-colors, executes a sudden 180° turn and disappears over the horizon.
-Over time, several attempts to disguise the participants have resulted
-in confusion over the date. (NICAP, “The
-Bethune Encounter”; NICAP, “Huge
-Object Rushes
-up from Ocean Surface”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 9–26; “Casebook:
-February 8, 1951,” UFO Investigator, no. 54 (September 1970): 3; “Casebook:
-February 8, 1951,” UFO Investigator, no. 55 (October 1970): 3;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 78–79;
-“Unidentified Flying Object: A Provocative Tale,” Naval Aviation News,
-June 1973, pp. 18–19, reprinted by
-Project 1947; Good Above, pp. 268, 486;
-Good Need, pp.
-137–139;
-Graham E. Bethune, “Lights
-on the Surface,” 1999; Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter
-A. Reali, “Estimating
-Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles,”
-Entropy, September 25, 2019; Patrick Gross, “The
-Bethune Flight 124 Airmiss in 1951”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1622
Date: 2/10/1951
-Description: Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham
-E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular,
-reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300
-ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his
-plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E, p486)
-Location: Keflavik, Iceland
Date: 2/13/1951
-Description: William
-Webster, chair of the Defense Department’s Research and Development
-Board, convenes a press briefing at the Pentagon and announces that
-“Careful studies have been made [referring to the upcoming article in
-Look]. I don’t believe anyone who has the opportunity to be informed and
-to look into this thing believes there is a flying saucer as such. As
-far as I know there is nothing to the flying saucers.” (Loren E. Gross,
-UFOs,
-a History:
-Volume 8, 1951, The
-Author, 1983, pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1623
Date: 2/19/1951
-Description: Aviation Week praises the upcoming article in Look
-identifying UFOs as balloons. (Robert H. Wood, “Saucers, Secrecy, and
-Security,” Aviation Week 54 (February 19, 1951): 50, reprinted by
-Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1625
Date: 2/19/1951
-Description: 7:20 a.m. Capt. Jack Bicknell and Radio Officer D. W.
-Merrifield are flying a Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar aircraft out of
-Nairobi, Kenya, when they see a bright object hanging motionless about
-10,000 above Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika [now Tanzania]. They watch
-it for 3 minutes, then tell the passengers about it. Bicknell observes
-it through binoculars and sees a “metallic, bullet-shaped object which
-must have been over 200 feet long.” It has a vertical fin at one end,
-and at regular intervals along the fuselage are vertical dark bands. It
-remains completely stationary for 17 minutes. Two passengers take photos
-of it. Then it begins rising and moving eastward, disappearing at 40,000
-feet. It leaves no vapor trail. (NICAP, “Lodestar
-Crew Sees Stationary Silver Elongated
-Object”; “The
-Flying Saucer: Captain Bicknell’s Own Story,” Nairobi (Kenya) Sunday
-Post, February 25, 1951, p. 15; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; UFOEv, p. 124;
-Sparks, p. 105;
-Patrick Gross. “February
-19, 1951, Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa”; Barry Greenwood, “Mt.
-Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, February 19, 1951:
-Photo Located,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 (July 2015): 1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1624
Date: 2/20/1951
-Description: The Air Intelligence Training Bulletin publishes a
-facetious news item on how to recognize flying saucers, but implies they
-are all reflections. (“Recognition
-of Flying Saucers,” Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, February 20,
-1951)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1626
Date: 2/21/1951
-Time: 4:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three men in a truck, several other persons,
-none named. A dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center, flew
-straight and level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Durban, South Africa
-ID: 62
Date: 2/25/1951
-Description: BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was
-attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his
-neighbor’s dog were also affected.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2/25/1951
-Description: Project Twinkle head and chemist Anthony O. Mirarchi at the
-USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts tells the Associated
-Press that he thinks UFOs are not “just balloons” (in response to Liddel’s
-upcoming article) and urges a full investigation of what could be
-experiments by a “potential enemy of the United States.” He says that
-UFO reports show “maneuvered motion” that are not characteristic of a
-natural phenomenon. He says the “Navy report is erroneous. It lulls
-people into a false sense of security.” He reminds the nation of the
-critical installations in New Mexico, including Los Alamos, and argues
-that they are a target of reconnaissance: “If they were launched by a
-foreign power, then they could lead to a worse Pearl Harbor than we have
-ever experienced.” He blasts the US government for a policy of “suicide
-by secrecy.” The FBI and Air Force mull prosecuting Mirarchi for
-violating AFR 205-1. (“A.F.
-Scientist Warns Saucers Major Threat,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily News,
-February 26, 1951, p. 1; “Scientist
-Fears Flying Saucers Portend a Worse ‘Pearl Harbor,’” Oklahoma Daily
-Oklahoman, February 26, 1951, p 1; Swords 119–120; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 8, 1951, The
-Author, 1983, pp. 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1627
Date: 2/26/1951
-Time: 7:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF Sgt. J.B. Sells. One dull grey, metallic
-object, estimated to be 120’ long and 10-12’ thick, hovered, puffed
-smoke and sped away after 1-1.5 minutes. Note: may have been
-Feb. 25.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska
-ID: 63
Date: 2/27/1951
-Description: Physicist Urner
-Liddel, Office
-of Naval Research, says in a Look magazine article that there is not a
-single reliable UFO report that is not attributable to the cosmic
-[Skyhook] balloons. The article is based on Liddel’s study in ONR’s
-Research Reviews in March. He claims to have studied “hundreds” of
-sightings in detail (probably from Project Grudge). As for UFOs sighted
-by Skyhook scientists themselves, he discounts them because these
-technicians are not aware of mirages and internal reflections in optical
-devices. (Richard Wilson, “A Nuclear Physicist Exposes Flying Saucers,”
-Look, February 27, 1951, pp. 60–64; Swords 117–118; Urner Liddel, “Bogies
-at Angels 100,” Research Reviews, March 1951, pp. 1–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1628
Date: 3/1951
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Operations Officer Robert Wood is aboard the USS
-Dyess approximately 125 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey,
-when he picks up a radar target coming in from due east at a speed of
-98–104 mph and an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet. It stops and hovers
-about 30 miles away. Wood notifies the bridge, and the captain orders
-the ship to change course toward the object. About 30 minutes later, the
-UFO suddenly takes off toward the north at 3,000 mph, getting to within
-35–40 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, before it zooms
-straight up. Altitude-determining radar tracks the object to 100 miles
-altitude. (“March,
-1951: Approximately 125 Miles
-SE of Cape May, N.J.,” Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1630
Date: 3/1951
-Description: A ghost light is seen in Suffolk County, Virginia, and
-investigated by Nansemond County Deputy Sheriff Hurley
-Jones, who
-sees the light three times. It looks like a car headlight 5 feet off the
-ground, three times. Jeston Reid said his father had seen the light in
-the 1870s. The location is apparently either Turlington Road or Jackson
-Road [they intersect] south of Suffolk, since locals say the old
-railroad along the Jackson and Whaleyville logging road used to run down
-that way, and the light has also been compared to a locomotive
-headlight. Some 200 people have been gathering along the road, hoping to
-catch a glimpse. (“Mystery
-Light Is a Puzzle in Nansemond,” Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch,
-March 6, 1951, p. 2; “Nansemond’s
-Mystery Light Is Nothing New to Old- Timers,”
-Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, March 7, 1951, p. 2; “Mysterious
-Suffolk Light Has Deputy Believing in
-Ghosts,” Statesville (N.C.) Daily Record, March 8, 1951, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1629
Date: 3/8/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 —
-Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 3.1km
Date: 3/10/1951
-Time: 9:51 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber, including scanners and
-tail gunner. A large red-yellow glow burst and became blue-white. No
-further information in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chinnampo, Korea
-ID: 64
Date: 3/13/1951
-Time: 3:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. B.J. Hastie, Mrs. Rafferty. A
-cylinder with twin tails, 200’ long and 90’ wide, turned north and flew
-at incredible speed. Two minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McClellan AFB, California
-ID: 65
Date: 3/14/1951
-Description: A group of nine Bell Aircraft engineers are flying at
-15,000 feet in a B-50 Superfortress near Holloman AFB, New Mexico,
-during a test of a secret Bell aircraft. They spot a group of unknown
-objects flying in a confusing “swirl” that breaks into a V-formation and
-back to a “swirl,” then a V again. The objects are slightly higher than
-the aircraft and seem to be moving at high velocity. The engineers
-insist the objects are not geese, which actually can fly this high.
-(This may be the same incident as the August 30, 1950, case at
-Holloman.) (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 8, 1951, The
-Author, 1983, pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1631
Date: 3/15/1951
-Time: 10:20 AM
-Description: Witnesses: 25 members of a flying club, including the chief
-aerial engineer and his two assistants. One metallic cigar-shaped object
-with white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to an
-estimated 1,000 m.p.h. and made a large loop. Seven minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Delhi, India
-ID: 66
Date: 3/15/1951
-Description: 10:20 a.m. George F. Floate, chief engineer of the Delhi
-Flying Club, and two assistants observe a swirly white cloud moving from
-north to south at about 4,000 feet altitude near the club’s hanger in
-New Delhi, India. The cloud is about 700 feet in length. At the end of
-it a bullet-shaped object appears, approximately 100 feet long and as
-big around as a C-47 fuselage. The witnesses shout out, and 17–20 people
-rush out of the hanger and see the object. It heads south for about 3
-minutes where it makes an apparent loop, coming back over the field. At
-the top of the loop it is out of sight, but it is seen again in its
-dive. After recovering straight and level flight, the UFO proceeds to
-the southwest until it is lost to sight. Its speed is estimated at three
-times greater than the cruising speed of a British Vampire jet. The
-total duration is about 7 minutes. (NICAP, “20+
-Top Shelf Witnesses / Metallic
-Cigar”; Sparks,
-p. 106) Early spring — Dusk. US Army Pfc. Francis
-P. Wall is on maneuvers with the 27th Infantry Regiment near
-Cheorwon, South Korea, when he sees an orange light like a
-jack-o-lantern coming down a mountain. Artillery airbursts do not seem
-to harm it. As it approaches, it turns into a brilliant blue-green disc
-pulsating with light. Wall asks permission to shoot and fires a round
-from his M-1 rifle at it. The object starts moving erratically from side
-to side, flashes on and off, and makes an engine-like noise. It sweeps
-the soldiers with a beam of light, and they feel a burning and tingling
-sensation. They retreat to their bunkers and continue to watch the
-object, which is still lighting up the area, and then it shoots away at
-a 45° angle. (Haines, Korea, pp. 18–27;
-Richard F. Haines, “GI Fires on UFO in Korea,” IUR 15, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1990): 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1632
Date: 4/4/1951
-Description: The Truman administration forms the Psychological Strategy
-Board to coordinate and plan for psychological operations. The board is
-composed of the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of
-Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence, or their designated
-representatives. The board’s first director is Gordon
-Gray, later
-National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower administration. The
-board is created in response to the growth of Office of Policy
-Coordination covert activities during the Korean War. The PSB is tasked
-with creating propaganda that will subconsciously turn people away from
-communism and toward democracy. It is abolished in 1953. (Wikipedia, “Psychological
-Strategy Board”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1633
Date: 4/7/1951
-Description: Howard
-Hawks’s film The Thing from Another World opens, starring Margaret
-Sheridan, Kenneth
-Tobey, and James
-Arness, about
-a crashed flying saucer found in the Arctic. It ends with the haunting
-lines by Douglas Spencer:
-“Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Watch the skies!” (Internet
-Movie Database, “The
-Thing from
-Another World”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1634
Date: 4/11/1951
-Description: Air Defense Command issues a memo on “Unconventional
-Aircraft” to all USAF facilities, encouraging them to report sightings
-in a timely manner. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 8, 1951, The Author, 1983, pp. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1635
Date: 4/17/1951
-Description: Project Grudge’s Col. Harold
-E. Watson notes that JANAP 146 has no provision for UFO reports to
-be sent to Wright-Patterson AFB under the CIRVIS system. (Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1636
Date: 4/21/1951
-Description: Drones are again used in the series of thermonuclear tests
-designated Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall
-Islands. During the Easy detonation, two T-33 drones are lost. One
-receives heavy damage from the shock wave, loses control, and crashes;
-the other refuses to respond to control signals and crashes on
-uninhabited Bogullua Island. The Air Force concludes that unmanned
-samplers are unreliable. (M/Sgt Leland B. Taylor, History
-of Air Force Atomic Cloud Sampling, US
-Special Weapons Center, January 1963, pp. 34–37; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1637
Date: 4/23/1951
-Description: Col. Harold
-E. Watson writes a memo to the USAF Director of Intelligence,
-explaining his view that “little if any results” have been obtained from
-Project Grudge other than the objects are not from a foreign power. But
-since there is still dome doubt, all reports should be forwarded to AMC
-at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio . (Swords 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1638
Date: 4/27/1951
-Description: Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is
-released
-Type: movie
-Reference: link
-Location: US
Date: 5/21/1951
-Description: Wright-Patterson’s Technical Intelligence Department (T-2)
-becomes the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and is assigned to
-the Directorate of Intelligence in the Pentagon. Project Grudge goes
-along with it. (Sparks, p. 12;
-Clark III 936)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1639
Date: 5/22/1951
-Description: 3:20 a.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. W. R. Hunt observes
-a blue-white, star-like object gyrating around the airplane at 21,000
-feet for 20 minutes about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas. It
-moves backward and forward, then up and down, then dives below the plane
-and speeds away. (“Mysterious
-Bright Light ‘Plays Tag’ with
-Airliner over Kansas,” Iola (Kan.) Register, May 22, 1951, p. 1;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 8,
-1951, The
-Author, 1983, p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1640
Date: 6/1951
-Description: The UK Flying Saucer Working Party produces its six-page
-final report for the Ministry of Defence’s Directorate of Scientific
-Intelligence, DSI/JTIC Report number 7, Unidentified Flying Objects,
-classified Secret. The CIA’s chief scientist, H.
-Marshall Chadwell, attends the meeting when the report is delivered.
-The report admits that no systematic investigation has been undertaken,
-but from the evidence examined, including reports by RAF pilots,
-explanations can probably be found for most reports. Copies are also
-submitted to Canada as well as US and UK officials. (Joe McGonagle, “Flying
-Saucer Working Party: Commentary,” part 2, The Real UFO Project;
-Good Need, pp. 149–152;
-David Clarke, “Flying
-Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
-January 3, 2015; UFOFiles2, pp. 38–40;
-Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter
-2001–2002): 21–23; Ian Ridpath, “Report
-of the UK Government’s Flying Saucer Working Party (1951 June),” Ian
-Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1642
Date: 6/1951
-Description: Project Grudge only has one person on staff to investigate
-UFO reports, Lt. Jerry
-W. Cummings, who reorganizes the system and uses a more open-minded
-approach. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 56–57;
-Sparks, p. 14;
-Swords 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1641
Date: 6/1/1951
-Time: 4:20 AM
-Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, 2 enlisted men. One glowing
-yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, flew straight
-up. Seen for 30-40 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Niagara Falls, New York
-ID: 67
Date: 6/1/1951
-Description: 10:00 p.m. An ATIC official at Wright-Patterson AFB is
-driving west near Dayton, Ohio, when he sees a large, bluish-white light
-moving parallel to the car. It looks like a “stubby cigar.” After 15–20
-seconds, it makes a right- angle turn, becomes circular, and rapidly
-disappears. Its speed is “faster than an airplane, slower than a
-meteor.” (UFOEv, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1643
Date: 6/14/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on
-pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 0km
Date: 6/19/1951
-Description: Day. Mechanic Joseph Matiszewski hears a whistling sound as
-he is walking in Sønderborg, Denmark, and sees an object land in a
-nearby meadow. Approaching to within 150 feet of it, he finds himself
-paralyzed and notices that birds have stopped singing and cows seem
-frozen in place. Four men with brown skin and wearing black shiny suits
-and translucent helmets emerge from the object and send Matiszewski some
-telepathic messages. Eight smaller objects are ejected from the large
-one and float above it. Other figures inside the craft and on its deck
-appear to be making repairs. The objects ascend to about 300 feet and
-climb rapidly after that. The paralysis subsides. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-1, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1644
Date: 6/19/1951
-Time: 1200
-Description: Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and
-saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 m, he found
-himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows
-seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four
-handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and
-translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and
-hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to
-be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and
-climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten May., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Sonderborg, Denmark
-ID: 82
Date: summer 1951
-Description: A dubious story surfaces in 1956 that three UFOs had
-appeared above Mexico City International Airport at the same time as a
-visit by US Secretary of Defense George
-C. Marshall. (However,
-there is no record of a visit by Marshall at this time; apparently his
-first visit to Mexico was a vacation in Cuernavaca in February 1952.)
-According to the story, Marshall tells a “highly placed American” and
-“prominent medical scientist” that UFOs are interplanetary and friendly,
-but they have crashed accidentally on three occasions. In 1965, the
-American informant is revealed to be Rolf
-Alexander, who is in fact Allan Alexander Stirling, a New Zealand
-seaman who had jumped ship in 1920 and entered the US illegally. To
-support himself he promoted various dubious health cures while
-concocting a fictitious personal history. His activities were
-interrupted by prison sentences for mail fraud and embezzlement, and in
-1954–1960 he claimed the ability to break up clouds with his
-psychokinetic abilities. (“Let’s
-Talk Space: ‘Flying Saucers’ Are Real,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no.
-1 (Jan./Feb. 1956): 2–4; “Rolf
-Alexander, M.D.,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1965):
-9; RosRept, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1647
Date: Summer 1951
-Description: USAF project “Bluebook” is started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: US
Date: 6/22/1951
-Description: Life magazine reporter Robert
-Emmett Ginna Jr. visits Air Technical Intelligence Center at
-Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for the first time to gather information on
-“Project Saucer” for an article. The visit is coordinated by Jack T.
-Shea, special assistant to the director of public relations. (Jan
-Aldrich; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4
-(Winter 2003–2004): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1645
Date: 6/25/1951
-Description: The UK Flying Saucer Working Party is disbanded. (Good
-Need, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1646
Date: 6/28/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 —
-Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 5.8km
Date: 7/1951
-Description: The radiation-counter network set up at Oak Ridge National
-Laboratory, Tennessee, in December 1950 by Lt. Col. John R. Hood hits
-paydirt when a UFO appears, sighted both visually and on radar over the
-facility. He finds that the radiation counters have detected a
-significant rise in some kind of emission. Hood wants to expand the
-equipment, adding a debris-catching pursuit plane. However, information
-is lacking on this case and any follow- up. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 8, 1951, The
-Author, 1983, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1648
Date: 7/1/1951
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Four night pilots of the 1st Marine Aircraft
-Wing in different areas around Seoul, Korea, simultaneously report a
-large green ball, very bright and trailing streaks of red then blue,
-passing overhead at 10,000–15,000 feet. (Haines, Korea, p. 31;
-Sparks,
-p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1649
Date: 7/4/1951 (approximate)
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Future ufologist Irena
-Scott and her sister Sue are sleeping at their home in Galena, Ohio,
-when they wake to see a small glowing light circling their bedroom in a
-meandering movement, but never bumping into anything. It circles the
-room three times, maintaining the same shape, brightness, and size (less
-than one inch). After a few minutes, it moves in tight circles around
-the chandelier, then spirals downward, makes a noise, and emits tiny
-lights. Terrified, they rush out of the room and tell their father, who
-inspects the room but finds nothing. (Irena Scott, “Bedroom Light,” IUR
-13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1650
Date: 7/9/1951
-Description: Day. USAF Lt. George
-H. Kinmon II, stationed
-at Lawson AFB [now Lawson Army Airfield] with the 117th Tactical
-Reconnaissance Wing, is flying an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia, when he
-sees a white disc “completely round and spinning in a clockwise
-direction.” It makes a headlong pass at his aircraft. It travels at
-“tremendous speed” and leaves no vapor trail. (NICAP, “Aerial
-Encounter with Disc”; “Saucer Attacked Me, Pilot Declares,”
-Cleveland Press, July 30, 1952, p. 1, reprinted in
-Saucer Attack, April 1998; Sparks,
-p. 107; UFOEv, p. 23;
-Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 328–330)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1651
Date: 7/9/1951
-Description: Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Columbus, GA
-See also: 7/10/1951
Date: 7/10/1951
-Description: Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted
-by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top
-and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly
-beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared
-circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured
-surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx.
-distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam.
-UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose
-camera malfunctioned.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Macon, GA
Date: 7/14/1951
-Description: Morning. During a guided missile launch, two radar
-operators at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, catch a fast-moving
-object on their scope. At the same time, a tracker watching a B-29 with
-binoculars sees a large UFO near the bomber. Another observer sights the
-UFO and, with a 35mm camera, shoots 200 feet of film. The UFO shows on
-the film as a round, bright spot. The film has never been released.
-(NICAP, “White Sands
-Radar/Visual”; Sparks, p. 107;
-Project 1947, “Radar
-and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile Range,
-New Mexico—July 14, 1951”; Good Above, pp. 354–355)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1652
Date: 7/22/1951
-Description: The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik
-and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It
-was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years
-the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before
-that.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 7/24/1951
-Time: 7:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Hanscom AFB Operations Officer Capt. Cobb, Cpl.
-Fein. One 100-200’ tubular object, 5 times long as it was wide, with
-fins at one end, and colored greyish with many black spots. Flew
-800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000’ altitude, leaving a faint swath. 20
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-ID: 68
Date: 7/25/1951
-Description: Personnel at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, write a report
-compiling the results of an organized skywatch of UFOs at the base.
-Several photos are taken. The report does not conclude what the objects
-are, but it does establish that some kind of objects have been seen.
-(“Status
-of Project Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952], p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1653
Date: 8/1951
-Description: In an article in Popular Science, the editors ask UFO
-witnesses what they think the objects are. About 70% believe they are
-intelligently controlled devices, either man-made or extraterrestrial.
-(“What
-Were the Flying Saucers?
-Eyewitnesses Believe They Saw Secret Aircraft,” Popular Science 159
-(August 1951): 74–75, 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1654
Date: 8/3/1951
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Walter
-N. Webb, nature counselor at Camp Big Silver on the shore of Silver
-Lake in southern Michigan, 3 miles south of Pinckney, is showing two boy
-campers some celestial objects through a reflecting telescope. He sees a
-glowing, yellowish light moving westward at a low elevation in an
-undulating path over hills to the south. It disappears behind the hills
-before he can train his telescope on it. (UFOEv, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1655
Date: 8/11/1951
-Description: Former USAF pilot Robert
-O. Dodge watches three disc-like UFOs in formation over Portland,
-Oregon. (UFOEv, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1656
Date: 8/15/1951
-Description: US test pilot Bill
-Bridgeman attains an unofficial altitude of 79,494 feet in a Douglas
-D-558-2 Skyrocket, an air-launched rocket plane powered by the XLR-11
-liquid fuel rocket engine. (Wikipedia, “Bill
-Bridgeman”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1657
Date: mid 8/1951
-Description: Midnight. A witness is on his porch in Waco, Texas, looking
-at the sky when he sees a V-shaped formation of 10–20 round, luminous
-objects silently pass over from west to east in a matter of seconds.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1659
Date: mid 8/1951
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Mining engineer Alfred Roos hears a swishing
-sound at his ranch 10 miles east of Silver City, New Mexico. He looks up
-and sees two lens-shaped UFOs swooping at tremendous speed then
-hovering. They go back and forth between his location and Fort Bayard,
-two miles to the northwest, where they finally disappear into a cloud.
-(UFOEv, p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1658
Date: 8/17/1951
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Otto
-Bock, a
-German scientist with a specialty in optics who came to the US as part
-of Operation Paperclip, observes a high-altitude, metallic object
-through his 20x telescope for about 4 hours. He says the sighting is
-confirmed by four other persons. (Project 1947, “Letter
-to Donald Keyhoe: Otto Bock, August 22, 1951”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1660
Date: 8/20/1951
-Description: The CIA, approved by DCI Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter, starts
-Project ARTICHOKE to study hypnosis, morphine addiction, and LSD to
-produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects, as a way of
-exploring interrogation methods. (Wikipedia, “Project
-ARTICHOKE”; [Central Intelligence Agency], “Project
-Artichoke,” declassified(?), January 31, 1975)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1661
Date: 8/22/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army
-training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 213.4km
Date: 8/23/1951
-Description: Frank
-Wisner succeeds Allen
-Dulles as CIA Deputy Director of Plans in the Office of Policy
-Coordination, with Richard
-Helms as chief of operations. In this position, Wisner is
-instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that toppled Mohammed
-Mossadegh in Iran in
-1953 and Jacobo
-Árbenz in Guatemala in
-1954. Sometime this year he visits Richard
-M. Bissell Jr. and asks him to finance OPC operations by diverting
-some Marshall Plan funds, presumably for covert black ops. (Jacobsen,
-Area 51, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1662
Date: 8/25/1951
-Description: Evening. Joseph Bryant and his wife, at 407 West Powell
-Street, Brownfield, Texas, see a loose group of glowing lights heading
-north to south. They are a “little bigger than a star.” A few minutes
-later a second group flies over, and then a third, which circles around
-the house. This time Bryant can hear them, and he identifies them as
-plovers. When he hears about the Lubbock lights, he is sure the
-professors are seeing plovers. (Clark III 691–692)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1663
Date: 8/25/1951
-Description: 9:10 p.m. Three Texas Technical College professors
-(geologist Wilbur
-Irvin Robinson, chemist Aaron Gustav
-“Gus” Oberg, and petroleum engineer William
-Lyon Ducker Jr.) are sitting in a backyard at Lubbock, Texas, when
-they see a fast-moving, semicircular formation of 20–30 lights, as
-intense as bright stars but larger. Blue-green and silent, they move
-across the sky in seconds. A second group appears and repeats the
-performance. Others, including Carl Hemminger at Texas Tech, report
-seeing the same objects the same night. J.
-Russell Heitman,
-head of the Texas Tech journalism department, says he had seen an
-identical group of lights several days earlier. The professors watch
-10–12 such flights through November 1 (including on September 1 and 5),
-sometimes accompanied by colleagues Ellis
-Richard Heineman, E.
-F. George, Grayson
-Mead, and John Brand. Some researchers, including Ruppelt and
-Hynek,
-think the witnesses are seeing migrating plovers attracted to Lubbock’s
-new vapor street lights, although Ruppelt changes his mind later.
-(Wikipedia, “Lubbock
-Lights”; NICAP, “The
-Lubbock Lights / Carl Hart Photos”; Clark III 688–690; Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History: Volume 8,
-1951, The
-Author, 1983, pp. 45–55; Swords 130–132; “Lubbock
-1951,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15,
-1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1664
Date: 8/25/1951
-Description: Around 9:58 p.m. Hugh Young, a security guard at Sandia
-Base, and his wife Emily are in their trailer home in east Albuquerque,
-New Mexico, and watch a large object like a flying wing, but 1.5 times
-as large as a B-36, flying at 80 feet at about 300 mph. It has glowing
-white lights on the trailing edge of the wing and is completely silent.
-(NICAP, “Flying
-Wing over Sandia Base”; Clark III 691; Sparks,
-p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1665
Date: 8/25/1951
-Time: 9:58 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and wife.
-A flying wing-shaped craft passed over their heads at an estimated
-800-1,000’ altitude with no sound. Size estimated at 1.5 times wingspan
-of B-36 bomber,or 350’. Dark, chordwise stripes on underside, and 6-8
-pairs of soft, glowing lights on trailing edge of “wing”. Speed
-estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 69
Date: 8/26/1951
-Description: 8:28 p.m. A radar station at Larson AFB [now Grant County
-International Airport], near Moses Lake, Washington, tracks a UFO at
-13,000 feet going 950 mph on two different sets, AN/CPS-1 and AN/CPS-4,
-for about 6 minutes. An F-86 is scrambled, but radar contact is lost
-before the plane gets off the ground. An electronic signal is received
-from this object that appears to be a mode-one IFF response from an
-AN/APX-6 transponder. This response is received twice at approx.115
-miles and 80 miles from the radar station. (NICAP, “Two
-Radars Track
-900 MPH Target; Clark III 692; Ruppelt, pp. 96–98,
-108–109;
-Sparks,
-p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1666
Date: 8/27/1951
-Description: At a conference at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, on the green
-fireballs, Project Twinkle’s Maj. Edward
-A. Doty expresses
-skepticism about the project. Meteorologist Bernard
-“Duke” Gildenberg tells those assembled that he has never seen
-anything out of the ordinary, nor has astronomer Clyde
-Tombaugh. The commanding officer at Holloman wants to cease
-allocating funds for the project. (Clark III 545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1667
Date: 8/28/1951
-Description: Project Twinkle personnel talk to LaPaz about
-the green fireballs and he insists they are not meteors. (Clark III
-545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1668
Date: 8/30/1951
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A Texas Tech freshman named Carl Hart Jr. sees
-the same formation of 18–20 lights over Lubbock, Texas, and takes five
-photos. He gets the roll of film developed the next day and takes it to
-the Lubbock Morning Avalanche, which puts them out on the Associated
-Press wire. ATIC examines the photos and notes that the “two rows of
-spots behaved differently. One row only shows slight variation from a
-precise V formation throughout, whereas the other now appears to pass
-from above the first row, through it to a position below.” Biologist James
-Cecil Cross looks
-at the Lubbock photos under a microscope and rules out the bird
-explanation. See also Life, Apr. 7, 1952. While investigating the
-Lubbock Lights, Ruppelt also
-learns that several people in and around Lubbock claim to have seen a
-“flying wing” moving over the city. Among the witnesses is the wife of
-Dr. Ducker, who
-reports that in August 1951 she observed a “huge, soundless flying wing”
-pass over her house. Ruppelt knows that USAF does possess a “flying
-wing” jet bomber, and he feels that at least some of the sightings are
-caused by the bomber, although he cannot explain why, according to the
-witnesses, the wing makes no sound as it flies overhead. Ruppelt says
-that in addition to Project Grudge investigators, another group of
-people who, “because of their association with the government, had
-complete access to our files” (scientists convinced of the ETH) were
-also looking into the Lubbock cases. In March 1955, Ducker sends Ruppelt
-a telegram indicating that he has figured out that the lights are a
-“natural phenomenon” and requests no further publicity in his book.
-However, Texas Tech mathematics professor Ralph
-Sylvester Underwood has also observed three flights and estimates
-the objects are at 2,000 feet altitude and flying at 700 mph—much too
-fast for birds. (NICAP, “The Lubbock
-Lights / Carl Hart Photos”; “‘Flying Whatsits’ Stir Dispute in
-Area,” Lubbock (Tex.) Morning Avalanche, September 6, 1951; Clark III
-690–693; Ruppelt, pp. 96–110;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Carl Hart and the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 18, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1993): 17–19; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the
-APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 22; “Lubbock
-1951,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, 1999;
-Donald R. Burleson, “New Findings on the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 26, no. 2
-(Summer 2001): 3–5; “Lubbock
-Lights and Roswell,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December
-7, 2005; Michael D. Swords, “Can
-We Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Five,” The Big Study, July
-15, 2012; Swords 131– 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1669
Date: 8/31/1951
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Tom Tilson, one or two other women, all
-apparently of excellent reputations. One pear-shaped object with a
-length of a B-29 fuselage (100’), aluminum or silver with a port or some
-type of aperture on the side. It moved with smaller end forward,
-drifting slowly at about 150’ altitude, then headed up in a circular
-fashion and out of sight after a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Matador, Texas
-ID: 70
Date: 8/31/1951
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Mrs. Tom Tilson and one or two other women are
-driving north on Hwy 70 near Matador, Texas, when they see to the west a
-pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage (100 feet). It is
-aluminum or silver-yellow with a port or some type of aperture on the
-side, and it moves with its smaller end forward, drifting slowly at
-about 150 feet altitude. It then shoots up in a circular fashion and out
-of sight after a few seconds. (Clark III 692; Sparks, p. 109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1670
Date: 9/1951
-Description: A group of Unmatjera aborigines observed a shiny circular
-object land near a similar craft, about 12 m in diameter. Several min
-later, a dwarf dressed in a shiny suit and having “a round, shiny head”
-came out of one craft and entered the other; both took off with a
-buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Edwards 93 (Vallee)
-Location: Central Australia
-ID: 83
Date: 9/1951
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Louise McDougall is sitting on the lawn outside
-her trailer park in Bloomington, California, when she has the feeling
-someone is watching her. She looks up and sees a flying saucer hovering
-some 20 feet up. It is lenticular, perhaps 100 feet in diameter, and
-dull silver metallic in appearance. There are tall, rectangular windows
-in its lower half, in which can be seen against an amber glow four men,
-in one-piece “jump suits,” with shoulder- length hair. She turns a
-spotlight on the saucer, whereupon it shoots off silently at incredible
-speed. About 15 minutes later it returns, hovering in the same spot, the
-figures still visible at the windows. After 6 or 7 minutes, it takes off
-again to the southeast. McDougall’s husband and three other people also
-see it. (Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-15, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1671
Date: 9/6/1951
-Time: 7:20 PM (not really clear)
-Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt W.T. Smith, M/Sgt L.L. Duel (?). Six
-orange lights in an irregular formation, flew straight and level into a
-coastal fog bank after 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Claremont, California
-ID: 71
Date: 9/6/1951
-Description: The Air Force issues JANAP 146(B), “Communications
-Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft.”
-All UFO reports are to go to the Air Defense Command in the Pentagon
-(which presumably will send them to AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio), the Secretary of Defense, and to the nearest US military command.
-(Swords 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1672
Date: 9/10/1951
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers
-while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size
-of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster
-than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible
-means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft.
-Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph.
-(p127 of Ruppelt’s book)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p487)
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Asbury, NJ
Date: 9/10/1951
-Description: 11:10 a.m. At the Army Signal Corps radar center at Fort
-Monmouth [now closed], New Jersey, a student operator demonstrating
-radar functions to a group of visiting officers picks up a target that
-is moving too fast to be tracked automatically. The object seems to be
-following the coastline. He follows it off and on for 3 minutes, after
-which it disappears to the northeast, flying at 700 mph. About 25
-minutes later, a T-33 jet trainer piloted by Lt. Wilbert
-S. Rogers, with
-Maj. Edward Ballard as passenger, spots a “silver-colored object about
-the size of a fighter plane” flying at 900 mph at 5,000–8,000 feet over
-Sandy Hook. It makes a 90° banking turn and disappears out to sea. At
-3:15 p.m., a second radar tracking occurs, but this slower object turns
-out to be a balloon. (NICAP, “The
-Fort Monmouth Radar Incident”; NICAP, “The
-Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Clark III 513– 515; Sparks, p. 110;
-Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, pp. 45–46; Swords 124–127; Good Above, pp. 269,
-487)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1673
Date: 9/11/1951
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Two radars at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, pick up
-another object moving at 1,000 mph. At 1:30 p.m., another radar target
-appears, apparently hovering. Overcast conditions prevent a visual
-sighting. The radar then shows it ascending at a rapid rate then
-streaking to the south at 700+ mph. (Clark III 514)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1674
Date: 9/12/1951
-Description: Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, officials send ATIC and USAF
-headquarters a three-foot-long teletype describing the sightings. ATIC’s
-new chief, Col. Frank
-Dunn, gets a wire from Gen. Charles
-Cabell, who wants somebody from ATIC to find out what’s going on.
-Dunn sends Lt. Jerry
-Cummings (head of Project Grudge) and Lt. Col. Nathan
-R. Rosengarten (chief of the ATIC Aircraft Performance Section).
-(Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, pp. 93–94;
-Swords 126; Good Need, pp. 164–165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1675
Date: 9/13/1951
-Description: 9:30 p.m. T/Sgt Warner B. Maupin and Cpl. John W. Green
-track two objects on radar at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay],
-Labrador, on a collision course. One of them tries to warn the supposed
-aircraft of an imminent collision and is surprised to watch one avoid
-danger by moving to the right. A third unidentified target joins the
-other two. The incident lasts more than 15 minutes. (Chris Rutkowski and
-Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 53; Sparks, p. 110;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 261)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1676
Date: 9/14/1951
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt W.B. Maupin, Cpl. J.W. Green. Three
-objects tracked on radar. Two were on a collision course, then one
-evaded to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar
-operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third
-unidentified track then joined the first two. More than 15
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 72
Date: 9/18/1951
-Description: The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert
-Wise and starring Michael
-Rennie and Patricia
-Neal, premieres in New York City. The ultimate flying saucer
-science-fiction movie, the plot revolves around an alien who lands in a
-UFO in Washington, D.C., and demands that atomic testing cease. Lock
-Martin, who
-is more than 7 feet tall, plays the robot Gort. (Internet Movie
-Database, “The
-Day the Earth Stood Still”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1677
Date: 9/18/1951
-Description: Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is
-released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 9/18/1951
-Description: 10:20 p.m. USAF B-36 radar operator Maj. Paul E. Gerhart
-and navigator Maj. Charles J. Cheever are flying northwest at 239 mph
-over the Hudson Strait in northern Canada when they pick up radar
-interference coming from an unidentified aircraft moving away from them
-to the east about 32 miles away. The anti-jamming device on their radar
-is turned on at 11:20 p.m. but does not affect the jamming on the radar
-scope. At 11:35 p.m., a UFO is seen visually on the right side of the
-B-36, which is flying at 18,000 feet over southwest Baffin Island,
-Nunavut. The object has all-white “unconventional running lights” and
-two white flashing tail lights, travels about 35 mph faster than the
-B-36, crosses the front from right to left heading toward the
-north-northwest, and is in view about 20 minutes. While the object is
-still visible at 11:50 p.m., the B-36 autopilot and APQ-24 radar set
-malfunction, the latter coming back a few minutes later when the object
-disappears. ECM operators S/Sgt. Donald E. Jenkins and S/Sgt. Doty T.
-Larimore on two B-36 flights over Labrador on September 19 detect
-carrier wave signals at several frequencies and some radar-like pulses
-at other frequencies, all below 1,000 MHz. (NICAP, “B- 36
-Radar Picks up Object Seen Visually”; Sparks, p. 111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1678
Date: 9/23/1951
-Description: At March AFB [now March Air Reserve Base] near Long Beach,
-California, two F-86 jets try to intercept an object in controlled orbit
-at around 55,000 feet, but they run low on fuel and have to land. Two
-more F-86s are scrambled, with the same results. Three of the pilots
-report seeing a “silver airplane with highly swept- back wings,”
-although one of them says the UFO looks round and silver. (NICAP, “Swept
-Wing Aircraft at above 50,000ʹ
-/ Tracked by GCI”; Ruppelt, pp. 94–95,
-111, 113–114;
-Sparks,
-p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1679
Date: fall 1951
-Description: Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. Marvin
-C. Davies is flying a plane off a CVE class aircraft carrier near
-Korea when the crew tracks a radar target 3 miles astern. The object has
-apparently been circling the fleet at an altitude of 5,000 feet and
-speeds of “slow” to 1,000 mph. The UFO has been tracked on 14 ship
-radars for 7 hours. It stops circling and takes up a position behind the
-plane’s wingman, remaining there 5 minutes, then departing at high
-speed. (Project 1937, “UFO
-Reports, Korea”; UFOEv, p. 84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1680
Date: 9/24/1951
-Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 38.3
Date: 10/1951
-Description: Per
-Sundh is appointed head of a unit at the Swedish Defence Staff
-responsible for investigating UFO reports. He remains in charge until
-October 1954. During that time the department handles 6,000 reports, of
-which 400 are investigated and 40 remain unexplained. Their astronomical
-consultant is Bertil
-Lindblad, an
-astronomer at Stockholm University, Sweden. Sundh says that his
-personnel always took even the weirdest observations seriously. (Swords
-364–365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1681
Date: 10/1951
-Description: Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer
-Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field
-mounting concern for the Pentagon.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 12/48
-See also: 3/52
Date: 10/1/1951
-Description: 10:00 a.m. At the Pentagon, Cummings and
-Rosengarten brief
-Cabell,
-his staff, and a representative from Republic Aircraft Corporation who
-“supposedly represented a group of top US industrialists and
-scientists.” The meeting is recorded with a wire recorder. Edward
-Ruppelt, later
-head of Project Blue Book, hears the recording before it is ordered
-destroyed and keeps detailed notes about the meeting. Cabell supposedly
-learns that Grudge is effectively dead and demands to know “who in hell
-has been giving me these reports that every decent flying saucer report
-is being investigated?” Cabell says there is a great deal of doubt in
-his mind as to what the saucers are and that the Grudge report is the
-“most poorly written, inconclusive piece of unscientific tripe” he had
-ever read. He orders Grudge to reactivate itself, and Cummings and
-Rosengarten go back to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to do just that.
-(Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, pp. 93–94;
-Swords 127–128, 501–502; Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business:
-Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1682
Date: 10/2/1951
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: Battelle Memorial Institute graduate physicist
-Howard Cross. One bright oval with a clipped tail flew straight and
-level, fading into the distance after 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Ohio
-ID: 73
Date: 10/3/1951
-Time: 10:27 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators Sgt. M.W. Watson and Pvt.
-Gonzales and one other Sergeant. One large, sausage-shaped blip tracked
-at an estimated 4,800 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kadena, Okinawa
-ID: 74
Date: 10/4/1951
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two French aviation officers are camped out
-several miles northwest of the village of Tessalit, Mali. A luminous
-dark-yellow disc approaches slowly from the east, loses altitude, makes
-a 90° turn, accelerates, and ascends at high speed. (Patrick Gross, “Tessalit,
-Mali, October 4, 1951”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1683
Date: 10/9/1951
-Description: 1:42 p.m. A fast-moving, silvery UFO shaped like a
-“flattened tennis ball” is sighted by a Civil Aviation Administration
-Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport
-[now Terre Haute Regional Airport], five miles east of Terre Haute,
-Indiana. At 1:45 p.m., private pilot Charles Warren, flying at 5,000
-feet east of Paris, Illinois, sees a silvery “flattened orange” object
-that appears stationary to his left rear. It picks up speed and heads to
-the northeast. Project Blue Book plots the sighting and concludes that
-both cases involve the same object. (NICAP, “October
-9, 1951, Hulman CAA / Pilot Case”; NICAP, “Pilot
-Radios Terre Haute:
-Observes ‘Flattened Orange’”; Sparks,
-p. 114; Swords 129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1684
Date: 10/9/1951
-Time: 1:42 PM
-Description: Witness: CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at
-Hulman Municipal Airport. One round silver object flew directly
-overhead, reaching the horizon in 15 seconds. Note: a very similar
-incident happened 3 minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and
-was also listed as “unidentified” for several years, but was eventually
-reclassified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
-ID: 75
Date: 10/10/1951
-Description: 10:10 a.m. Engineer and pilot Joseph
-J. Kaliszewski, flying with copilot Jack Donaghue on a Skyhook
-balloon tracking mission for General Mills 10 miles east of St. Croix
-Falls, Wisconsin, notices a strange object crossing the sky from west to
-east, much higher and behind the balloon, which is at 20,000 feet. The
-UFO has a peculiar glow. It comes into sight at a slight dive, then
-levels off and slows down, makes a sharp left turn, climbs at an angle
-of 50–60° into the southeast with terrific acceleration, and disappears.
-It is seen for about 2 minutes. (NICAP, “The
-Kaliszewski Sightings”; UFOEv, p. 56;
-Sparks, p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1685
Date: 10/11/1951
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Joseph
-J. Kaliszewski and Dick Reilly are flying at 10,000 feet north of
-Minneapolis, Minnesota, observing a balloon when they see a brightly
-glowing object to the southeast of the University of Minnesota airport
-moving at high speed from west to east. It has a halo around it with a
-dark under surface. It crosses rapidly, slows down, and starts to climb
-slowly in lazy circles. Observers Doug Smith and Dick Dorion at the
-General Mills tracking station at the University of Minnesota watch the
-object through a theodolite. They watch another object 2 hours later.
-(NICAP, “The
-Kaliszewski Sightings”; UFOEv, p. 56;
-Sparks, p. 114;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1686
Date: 10/11/1951
-Time: 6:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including
-aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot
-Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew
-saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a
-halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made
-slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to
-the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using
-a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was
-seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 76
Date: 10/16/1951
-Description: 11:01 a.m. Air Force pilots flying three F-94 fighters out
-of McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis- McChord] and naval ground
-personnel see a round, gray object flying soundlessly at high speed and
-high altitude west of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor,
-Washington. Photos taken from the F-94s show the object. After 50
-minutes, the aircraft abandon the chase. The Air Force attributes the
-sighting to Venus. (NICAP, “3
-F-94’s Encounter Round Grey Object / Photos Taken”; Clark III
-391–392; Sparks,
-p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1687
Date: 10/18/1951
-Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air
-dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 41.2
Date: 10/20/1951
-Description: Frank
-B. Jewett Jr., director
-of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory at General Mills Corporation,
-writes to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Eugene
-M. Zuckert about UFOs seen by his personnel. ((Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1951, Supplemental
-Notes, The
-Author, 2000, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1688
Date: 10/21/1951
-Description: Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian
-pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO
-which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of
-speed near Battle Creek, MI.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Battle Creek, MI
Date: 10/22/1951
-Description: Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt officially takes over a revitalized Project Grudge,
-relieving Lt. Jerry
-W. Cummings and
-2d Lt. Henry Metscher. He learns from some scientists and engineers who
-visit ATIC frequently that “UFOs were being freely and seriously
-discussed in scientific circles.” (Ruppelt, p. 114;
-Sparks,
-p. 14; Clark III 933)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1689
Date: 10/22/1951
-Description: The Directorate of Intelligence provides answers to the
-problem that Col. Harold
-Watson identified with the CIRVIS reporting system. (Michael Hall
-and Wendy Connors, “Flying Saucers: Behind the Cold War Veil of Military
-Intelligence (Part II),” European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies
-3, no. 1 (March 2002): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1690
Date: 10/26/1951
-Time: 0400
-Description: The driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west
-line saw an object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon.
-It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in
-the desert, then took off and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 249 (Vallee)
-Location: Australia
-ID: 84
Date: 10/29/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army
-training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 140.9km
Date: 10/30/1951
-Description: 6:40 a.m. A group of servicemen are preparing to observe
-the Buster Charlie atomic test at Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site. Just
-before the blast, they see at an altitude of a few thousand feet a
-formation of 18 silvery, rotating, disc-shaped objects, each with a
-dome, arranged in six groups of three stretched out in a horizontal row.
-They fly low over the test site, hover for 30–60 seconds, and depart at
-an angle, disappearing in seconds. (Nukes 68–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1691
Date: 11/1951
-Description: Maj. Gen. Cabell is
-promoted to staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is replaced
-as director of Air Force Intelligence by Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford. (Clark
-III 936)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1692
Date: 11/1/1951
-Description: The Air Force issues a Ground Observer’s Guide for use by
-members of the Ground Observer Corps, a WWII Civil Defense program
-reinstated during the Korean War to protect against enemy attack. (US
-Department of the Air Force, Ground
-Observer’s Guide, AF Manual 50-12, November 1, 1951)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1693
Date: 11/2/1951
-Time: 2300
-Description: Two forest observers were in a canyon 50 km north of the
-Mojave when they saw a disk-shaped flying object in the southwest; 10 m
-estimated diameter, 3 m thick, blue-green, well-defined, surrounded with
-a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object,
-which approached within a few meters, flew away, seemed to play with
-them. Eventually it vanished “like a magician’s trick.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mojave, California
-ID: 85
Date: 11/2/1951
-Description: 7:15 a.m. The crew of an American Airlines DC-4 is flying
-east of Abilene, Texas, at 4,500 feet. They see a bright-green,
-projectile-shaped object, about the same size as their airliner, streak
-past at about same altitude and same easterly heading. The object leaves
-a trail then explodes, shooting red balls of fire in all directions.
-(Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 92–93;
-Nukes 74–75; Sparks, p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1694
Date: 11/3/1951
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A green fireball is sighted in Arizona, New
-Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Capitol Airways pilot H. R. DeHoney is
-flying at 11,000 feet about 20 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona,
-watches the object speed by as a bright blue-green ball that leaves a
-streak of brilliant red fire. (Nukes 75–76; “Mystery
-Meteor Startles NM,
-Arizona,” Santa Fe New Mexican, November 4, 1951, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1695
Date: 11/6/1951
-Description: Ruppelt flies
-to Reese AFB [now Reese Technology Center] in Lubbock, Texas, to begin
-his investigation of the Lubbock lights, accompanied by OSI agent Howard
-Bossert. (Clark III 691)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1696
Date: 11/7/1951
-Description: Evening. A steamship captain and crew watch an elongated
-orange object with six glowing “portholes” speed toward Ontario over
-Lake Superior. (UFOEv, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1697
Date: 11/8/1951
-Description: Ruppelt and
-an officer from Reese AFB visit Brownfield, Texas, to investigate UFO
-sightings there. (Clark III 691)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1698
Date: 11/9/1951
-Description: Since October 30, seven green fireballs of exceptional size
-have been seen over a seven-state area in the American Southwest. Lincoln
-LaPaz, director
-of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics, says that
-frequency is exceptional: “In fact, there has never been a rate of
-meteorite fall in history that has been one fifth as high as the present
-fall. If that rate should continue, I would suspect the phenomenon is
-not natural.” The fireballs travel in straight lines and are completely
-silent. (“Southwest’s
-7 Fireballs in 11 Days Called ’Without Parallel in History,’”
-New York Times, November 10, 1951, pp. 1, 14; Nukes 76–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1699
Date: 11/11/1951
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Thomas Bartis and his older brother Francis are
-driving through New Haven, Connecticut, when they see a huge yellow
-fireball with a greenish-blue tail streak through the sky. Probable
-bolide. (“Second Fireball Is
-Sighted,” Meriden (Conn.) Record-Journal, November 12, 1951, pp. 1,
-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1700
Date: 11/18/1951
-Time: 3:20 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Crew of Capital Airlines DC-4 Fliqht 610,
-Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby. One object with
-several lights, followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned
-back.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 77
Date: 11/20/1951
-Description: 6:42 p.m. A vivid green fireball is reported from Dodge
-City, Kansas, and Lubbock and Big Springs, Texas. Two Air Force pilots
-landing at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Trans World
-Airlines pilot also see the fireball. (Nukes 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1701
Date: 11/24/1951
-Description: 6:24 p.m. A Capital Airlines Flight 94 pilot and several
-control tower and other ground observers in four different locations in
-Michigan (Grand Rapids, Coopersville, Battle Creek, and Selfridge AFB
-near Mount Clemens) see a large round object flying west at 500–1,000
-feet at about 1,000 mph. (Sparks,
-p. 116; Swords 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1703
Date: 11/24/1951
-Time: 33:53 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF or ANG pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E.
-Stewart in P-51 Mustangs. One milky white object shaped like Northrop
-flying wing (broad, slightly swept-back wing with no fuselage or tail).
-Estimated 8’ span. Flew straight and level for 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mankato, Minnesota
-ID: 78
Date: 11/24/1951
-Description: 3:53 p.m. Air Force Capt. William Fairbrother is flying a
-P-51 over Mankato, Minnesota, at 25,000 feet when he sees a white object
-shaped like a flying wing. It hovers at first, then it passes 100 feet
-above and to the left of his aircraft. He immediately turns to follow
-but loses sight of it. (Sparks,
-p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1702
Date: 11/27/1951
-Description: Geophysicist Louis Elterman releases the final report on
-Project Twinkle. Basically, it admits that the low frequency of
-occurrence of the fireballs does not justify the $50,000 a year required
-for a useful monitoring facility. It speculates that “the earth may be
-passing through a region in space of high meteoric population. Also, the
-sun-spot maxima in 1948 perhaps in some way may be a contributing
-factor.” (Louis Elterman, Project Twinkle
-Final Report, Atmospheric
-Physics Laboratory, November 27, 1951; Clark III 544–545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1704
Date: 11/30/1951
-Description: Project Grudge issues its first Status Report, classified
-“confidential.” (US Air Force, Projects
-Grudge and
-Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 1–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1705
Date: 12/1951
-Time: 0300
-Description: A man from Lincoln was driving to Indiana when he saw a
-blue light in the northwest sky. It vanished to the southeast. The
-witness missed a turn, had to go back toward Auburn, and had reached a
-point northwest of Peru when he saw an orange glow in the sky. Coming
-near, he observed the glow came from a cauldron-shaped object on the
-ground, about 12 m from the road. He stopped to examine the object,
-which measured about 10 m diameter and seemed to be made of cast iron.
-Thirty cm from the top was a row of windows, 25 cm in diameter, from
-which the orange light was coming. On the other side was a blue
-flamelike glow. There was no noise, no sign of life or activity, and no
-antenna or protrusion. The witness drove away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Peru, Nebraska
-ID: 86
Date: 12/1951
-Description: Ed
-J. Sullivan, a
-technical writer for North American Aviation, holds a meeting of
-engineers, scientists, and journalists in Los Angeles, California, who
-have been following the UFO phenomenon. They form Civilian Saucer
-Investigation to collect reports and forward them on to ATIC. Its most
-prominent member is Walther Riedel, German
-rocket scientist retrieved by Project Paperclip. (Michael D. Swords,
-GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO
-Research, 2005, pp. 139–140; Clark III 241–242)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1706
Date: 12/1951
-Description: Sam Coley and his two children saw an object with a
-human-looking occupant.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Red Springs, North Carolina
-ID: 87
Date: 12/5/1951
-Description: Early morning. Swedish Prince
-Carl Bernadotte and a friend, Berl
-Gutenberg, are driving near Stockholm, Sweden, when they see a
-bright flash of light illuminate the sky. Bernadotte stops the car and
-opens the door to listen for sounds. They go immediately to the
-Stockholm Criminal Investigation Department, who reports the incident to
-the Security Police and the military UFO desk. The report is instantly
-classified, even though the object is probably a meteor. (Swords
-366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1707
Date: 12/7/1951
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witness: amateur astronomer Carl Loar. One silvery sphere
-seen through telescope. Two specks sighted at sides, object seemed to
-explode and was replaced by a dark cloud and many specks. 30
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sunbury, Ohio
-ID: 79
Date: 12/7/1951
-Time: 8:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Atomic Energy Commission guard J.H. Collins. One
-20’ square object, white-grey but not shiny flew above ridge to clouds
-and back again twice, taking 30-40 seconds each time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 80
Date: 12/11/1951
-Description: Project Twinkle closes down. (Clark III 545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1708
Date: 12/12/1951
-Description: 3:50 p.m. USAF Capt. Donald
-“Deke” Slayton, flying a P-51 fighter at 10,000 feet, sees a whitish
-or gray object off his left wing about one mile away and 1,000 feet
-below his flight level about five miles southeast of Hastings,
-Minnesota. It looks like a kite at first, then like a weather balloon,
-then two rapidly revolving discs that overlap with centers about 1 foot
-apart. He attempts an intercept, but the UFO increases speed and
-disappears. (NICAP, “‘Deke’
-Slayton / P-51 Encounter”; Sparks, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1709
Date: 12/19/1951
-Description: Ruppelt travels
-to the Pentagon with ATIC Chief Col. Frank
-Dunn. They
-visit with Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford,
-who has replaced Cabell as
-USAF director of intelligence and who seems “familiar with the general
-aspects of the problem.” Samford’s aide, Gen. William
-M. Garland,
-tells them that ATIC has the sole authorization to carry out UFO
-investigations for the entire US military (not exactly true), and they
-discuss security problems posed by UFOs at sensitive installations.
-Ruppelt reveals that his preliminary analysis of UFO sighting patterns
-has uncovered a disturbing correlation of unexplained sightings around
-nuclear weapons facilities and highly classified nuclear stockpile sites
-and some SAC strategic air bases. Gen. Samford orders ATIC to conduct an
-exhaustive statistical study to verify Ruppelt’s findings, using the
-newly established ATIC Project WHITE STORK contract with the research
-think tank Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio (which
-eventually spends $100,000 on the study, Subproject PPS-100, confirming
-Ruppelt’s pattern). (Ruppelt, pp. 115–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1710
Date: 12/26/1951
-End date: 12/27/1951
-Description: Ruppelt and
-Col. Sanford
-H. Kirkland Jr. of ATIC meet with members of the Battelle Memorial
-Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and ask them to help out with the USAF
-evaluation of UFO reports: first, a study of witness perception and
-recall, then a statistical study of UFO reports. (“Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork,” CUFON; Clark III 929)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1711
Date: 12/28/1951
-Description: Project Grudge issues Status Report #2 and a Special Report
-three days later. (US Air Force, Projects Grudge
-and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 21–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1712
Date: 1952
-Description: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is established
-in Livermore, California, as an offshoot of the UC Radiation Laboratory
-at Berkeley. It is intended to spur innovation and provide competition
-to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Edward
-Teller and Ernest
-Lawrence, director
-of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as its cofounders.
-Los Alamos and Livermore soon establish a rivalry, fighting for weapons
-contracts and feasibility-study awards. (Wikipedia, “Lawrence
-Livermore National Laboratory”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1713
Date: 1952 (approximate)
-Description: An anonymous occupation soldier in Austria meets a diving
-suit–clad being who paralyzes him, pulls him inside a UFO, and flies him
-to an otherworldly place he takes to be Mars. He sees other humans who
-do not acknowledge him. Then he is returned to his base. (Prince George
-(B.C.) Citizen, December 11, 1957; Clark 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1717
Date: 1952
-Description: Night. USAF Pvt. Sinclair Taylor is on guard duty at Camp
-Okubo in Uji, on the southern outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, when he hears
-flapping sounds and sees what seems to be an enormous bird. As it gets
-closer to him, Taylor sees that it is a winged man well over 7 feet tall
-with a wingspread of 7 feet. Taylor fires at it repeatedly with his
-rifle and thinks he hit it, but he can’t find the body. (Clark III
-778)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1719
Date: 1952
-Description: Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens
-(Warhead assembly)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1952
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A carpool of people on their way to work at
-United Airlines in San Mateo, California, observe five smaller objects
-merging with a much larger, diamond-shaped object. The big one is about
-150–200 feet long, charcoal or gunmetal in color, and is hovering 50–75
-feet above some salt flats. The UFOs are directly in front of them to
-the east, about 1,500–1,800 feet away. One of the witnesses, airplane
-mechanic Leonard
-L. Musel, said the smaller objects entered the large object through
-a “transparent tail or sleeve.” After they were aboard, the bigger UFO
-turned edgewise and zoomed off at a fantastic speed. (Herbert S. Taylor,
-“Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1718
Date: 1952
-Description: World War II air intelligence records are transferred from
-the Pentagon to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. This shift is
-probably why Blue Book’s Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt later cannot find anything about foo- fighters during his
-trips to USAF intelligence to locate reports not forwarded to ATIC. (Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1715
Date: 1952?
-Description: SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B.
-Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological
-Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological
-warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion
-on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena
-for psychological warfare purposes.
-Type: secret information
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p511)
-Location: Langley, Virginia
-See also: 10/2/52
Date: 1952
-Description: José
-Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, a
-Spanish physiologist at Yale University, coauthors what he claims is the
-first peer-reviewed paper describing deep-brain stimulation of humans.
-Over the next two decades, he implants electrodes in some 25 subjects.
-Most are schizophrenics and epileptics at the now-defunct State Hospital
-for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island, where Delgado’s occasional
-collaborator Hannibal
-Hamlin is a staff psychiatrist. Delgado is reticent discussing his
-experiments on humans. He is more enthusiastic recalling research on
-monkeys, chimpanzees, and gibbons, which he kept both at Yale and in
-open-air compounds in the Bahamas and New Mexico. He explores the
-effects of stimulation not only on individuals but also on groups. In
-one demonstration, he implants a stimoceiver (a tiny electrode able to
-receive and transmit signals over FM radio waves) in a macaque who
-terrorizes his cage-mates. Delgado installs a lever in the cage that,
-when pressed, activates the stimoceiver in the bully and pacify him. A
-female in the cage soon figures out the lever’s significance and yanks
-it often and with gusto. (John Horgan, “Tribute
-to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary
-Pioneer of Mind Control,” Cross-Check, Scientific American blog,
-September 25, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1714
Date: 1952
-Description: The Argentine Navy establishes a temporary inquiry
-commission dedicated to the UFO phenomenon at its Puerto Belgrano Naval
-Base in Punta Alta, Argentina. (Milton Hourcade, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1716
Date: early 1952
-Time: 2242
-Description: A fiery, spherical object made a right-angle turn during an
-observation by a C-54 crew flying from Westover to Goose Bay. It was
-also seen from the ground by the control tower and by two men who
-plunged to the earth when the object made a low pass at them. It went
-away at 2247.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador
-ID: 89
Date: 1/1952
-Description: Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen found the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
-in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Soon, a man claiming to have an intelligence
-background becomes an active supporter and tries to lead the Lorenzens
-into “metaphysical areas of research.” Coral Lorenzen rebuffs these
-attempts. She discovers what seem to be the impressions of an
-intelligence report about her on one of his letters. In the summer, two
-suspicious men posing as building contractors seem to be lurking around
-her home as well as the homes of the APRO treasurer and secretary the
-same day. (Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion,
-1976, pp. 1–2, 248– 251; Clark III 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1720
Date: 1/1952
-Description: Some 74% of the CIA’s money goes toward covert operations.
-It has already infiltrated many US labor, business, church, university,
-student, and cultural groups, usually channeling the money through
-foundations. This year it begins HTLINGUAL, a secret project to
-intercept mail destined for the USSR and China. It also targets domestic
-peace and civil rights activists. It lasts until 1973, photographing 2
-million envelopes and opening 215,000 letters. (Frank J. Donner, The
-Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence
-System, Knopf,
-1980; Jim Keith, Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mond
-Control, Adventures Unlimited, 1997; David Wise, The
-American Police State: The Government Against the People, Random
-House, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1721
Date: 1/1952
-Time: 2230
-Description: A 38-year-old rancher saw a “shooting star” that suddenly
-stopped in mid-air between him and a mountain. It was seen spinning in a
-clockwise direction. It had one red window periodially facing the
-observer. It went down toward the Little Powder River and came up again.
-The witness turned his car to send light signals, to which the object
-seemed to respond by stopping its red window facing the witness’s
-location. Spinning resumed, the object rose and came down. A similar
-craft arrived and both went into the deep valley, out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Weston, Wyoming
-ID: 88
Date: 1/1/1952
-Description: 10:54 p.m. Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo (a master telecomm
-specialist) and Sgt. D.
-V. Crandell watch a silent, reddish-orange object circle and
-maneuver for nearly 9 minutes at RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario. It
-appears to be very large and travels at supersonic speed. (“‘Saucers’
-Seen Here: 2
-Sighted at RCAF Station,” North Bay (Ont.) Nugget, April 15, 1952,
-pp. 1–2; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions,
-Methuen, 1979, p. 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1722
Date: 1/3/1952
-Description: Brig. Gen. William
-M. Garland, Assistant for the Production of Intelligence, writes a
-secret memorandum for General John
-A. Samford that lays down the investigative shortcomings of Project
-Grudge and suggests policies and agendas for the immediate future.
-Garland mentions that the aircraft inventions and models by the Horten
-brothers had fallen into the hands of the Soviets at the end of
-World War II. (Brig. Gen. William M. Garland, “(Secret)
-Contemplated Action to Determine the Nature and Origin of the Phenomena
-Connected with the
-Reports of Unusual Flying Objects,” January 3, 1952; Swords 141–143;
-Kremlin 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1723
Date: 1/6/1952
-Description: Contactee George
-Van Tassel, living at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert near Landers,
-California, receives the first of many psychic messages from
-extraterrestrial starship commanders. This one is from “Lutbunn, senior
-in command of first wave, planet patrol, realms of Schare. We have your
-contact aboard 80,000 feet above this place.” Other messages soon come
-from Elcar, Clota, Totalmon, Latamarx, Noma, Leektow, Luu, Oblow,
-Kerrull, Locktopar, Molca, Clatu, Hulda, Lata, Singba, and others. One
-of his contacts, Ashtar, will become a metaphysical superstar, and in
-the years ahead many contactees will channel communications from him.
-These aliens seek to raise humanity’s “vibrationary attunement” so that
-earthlings will not threaten the wise and peace- loving space people.
-Van Tassel reprints many of these messages in a misleadingly titled
-book, I Rode a Flying Saucer! (George W. Van Tassel, I
-Rode a Flying Saucer! The Mysteries of the Flying Saucers Revealed,
-New Age, 1952; Clark III 1218–1219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1724
Date: 1/8/1952
-Description: Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, agrees to
-help out the Air Force with analyzing UFO reports. (Clark III 929)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1725
Date: 1/20/1952
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Two master sergeants, both intelligence
-specialists, are walking down a street at Fairchild AFB near Spokane,
-Washington, when they notice a large, bluish-white, spherical object
-approaching from the east. It passes north of their position, traveling
-horizontally and silently, and disappears in the west. They notice it
-has a long blue tail. It travels underneath low cloud cover at 4,700
-feet at 1,400 mph. (NICAP, “Large
-Sphere with Blue Tail
-at 500ʹ,”; Ruppelt, p. 12;
-Sparks,
-p. 118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1726
Date: 1/21/1952
-Description: 9:50 a.m. A Navy pilot lieutenant commander in a TBM
-Avenger chases a white, dome-shaped object over Mitchel AFB [now closed]
-on Long Island, New York. It accelerates rapidly, makes a 180° turn, and
-heads out to sea. He estimates it is traveling at least at 300 mph. It
-looks like a parachute canopy and has a dark undersurface. Although
-there is a balloon in the area, but its flight path is completely
-different. NICAP, “TBM
-Chases Climbing and
-Accelerating Object”; Ruppelt, pp. 121–123;
-Sparks, p. 118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1727
Date: 1/22/1952
-Description: 12:20 a.m. At a northern Alaska outpost, Murphy Dome Air
-Force Station, radar captures a UFO traveling 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet.
-When an F-94 is sent to intercept, the target stops, slows down,
-reverses course, and heads directly for the radar station. It comes
-within 30 miles, then disappears from the screen. The F-94 heads back to
-refuel, and a second fighter is scrambled. This pilot gets a strong
-radar return. At first, the object is almost stationary, but then it
-dives suddenly, at which point ground radar picks it up again. A third
-F-94 is sent up, also tracks the object on radar, and closes to within
-900 feet. At this point, the pilot pulls away to avoid a collision, as
-the UFO is nearly immobile. Since none of the pilots obtained a visual
-sighting, the Air Force concludes that the radar returns are
-weather-related, although the pilots strongly dispute this. (NICAP, “Alaskan
-Radar Case”; Ruppelt, pp. 123–127;
-Sparks, pp. 119–120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1728
Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: Evening. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are at an
-open-air movie theater on Guam when they and others at the theater see
-an orange light passing silently overhead. (Violet M. Winstead, Letter,
-IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1731
Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: Brig. Gen. William
-M. Garland, USAF Assistant for Production of Intelligence, and his
-staff are briefed at the Pentagon on the status of Project Grudge by Edward
-Ruppelt, who
-with his colleagues at ATIC has prepared sighting maps that show a
-concentration of cases at White Sands and Los Alamos, New Mexico;
-Killeen Base, Texas; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Dayton, Ohio (where
-Wright-Patterson AFB is situated). At this meeting, Garland introduces a
-new intelligence policy that emphasizes the use of instrumentation for
-intelligence collection, including the detection and tracking of UFOs
-(the basis for terminating Project Blue Book as an intelligence
-function). As an interim last-chance measure to prove whether anecdotal
-sightings have any value, Garland approves Ruppelt’s publicity plan to
-draw in UFO reports from the public so that triangulations might be
-obtained. This leads to Garland secretly backing the Life magazine
-article. Apparently on the same day, Garland gives the welcoming address
-to the secret MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Ruppelt calls it the Beacon Hill
-group) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he tells the assembled
-scientists to study ways USAF intelligence methodology can be
-revolutionized through the use of technology. (Later Garland sends
-Ruppelt, Col. Sanford
-H. Kirkland Jr. of ATIC, and Lt. Col. William A. Adams of AFOIN, to
-brief the Lincoln Lab scientists on UFOs on March 26 and in April 1952,
-respectively) (“Status
-of Project Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952]; NICAP, “The
-1952 Sighting Wave”;
-Swords 144; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, January–May, The Author, 1993, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1730
Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: On his trip to the Pentagon to brief Gen. William
-M. Garland, Ruppelt visits
-the AFOIN offices and discovers they have more complete files than ATIC
-in Dayton, Ohio, does. He arranges to have copies made of the missing
-files for him at Project Grudge (though multiple visits are required to
-obtain the copies and Ruppelt probably does not succeed in getting
-everything). The offices with UFO files include the Technical
-Capabilities Branch (TCB) of the Evaluation Division and the Collection
-Control Branch of the Collection Division. (NICAP, “The
-1952 Sighting Wave”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1729
Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: Night. A bright orange, disc-shaped object, also described
-as a “huge ball of fire,” paces two B-29s on the same night, 80 miles
-from each other over the towns of Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea.
-(NICAP, “Rotating
-Light
-Seen by B-29 Crew”; NICAP, “B-29
-Crew Followed by UFO”; Haines, Korea, pp. 33–37;
-Sparks,
-p. 121; Patrick Gross, “UFO
-US Military Reports, Korea, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1732
Date: 1/31/1952
-Description: Ruppelt releases
-Project Grudge Status Report #3, in which he reviews the geographic
-distribution of UFO reports, states the project’s obstacle, and includes
-a list of 15 cases reported to ATIC in January. (Swords 144; US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 55–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1733
Date: 2/2/1952
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Radar operators aboard the aircraft carrier USS
-Philippine Sea pick up an unidentified target off the east coast of
-Korea. It is first detected at a distance of 25 miles; when it closes to
-20 miles, it makes a wide turn to the east directly away from the
-carrier, accelerating from 600 to 1,800 mph at 52,000 feet altitude. It
-splits into two targets 5–12 miles apart on a slightly zigzag course to
-the north. They disappear about 110 miles away. Observers on the carrier
-see three exhaust flames. (NICAP, “USS
-Philippine
-Sea Tracks
-Approaching Target”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 126–127;
-Sparks, p. 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1734
Date: 2/8/1952
-Description: Dewey
-Fournet, on
-the Pentagon’s UFO desk, writes to Ruppelt at
-ATIC for help in interpreting the Korean sightings. Ruppelt has brought
-in an expert from Wright-Patterson AFB’s Engineering Division, Peter
-A. Stranges of the Propulsion Branch Power Plant Group, to help with
-the analysis, which he passes on to Fournet and Garland. Stranges
-compares the Wonsan sighting to the foo fighters of World War II.
-(Swords 144–145).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1735
Date: 2/11/1952
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. G.P. Arns and Maj. R.J. Gedson flying a
-Beech AT-ll trainer. One yellow-orange comet-shaped object pulsed flame
-for 1-2 seconds of a 1 minute straight and level flight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
-ID: 81
Date: 2/20/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Rev. Albert
-Baller is sitting in a train at the station in Greenfield,
-Massachusetts, when he sees a “sharp flash of light about 35° or more
-above the horizon.” Looking upward, he sees three perfectly circular,
-silver objects approaching in a V-formation. They are moving at about
-the “speed of a second hand on a watch.” They stop and hover for 10
-seconds. The lead object reverses and pulls into a line with the other
-two between them. Then they depart in a direction at right angles to
-their approach. (UFOEv, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1736
Date: 2/20/1952
-Description: Joseph and
-Stewart
-Alsop examine the January 29 Korean incidents in their syndicated
-column, “Problems of Scientific Development.” They suspect a Russian
-origin. (Swords 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1737
Date: 2/21/1952
-Description: Far East Air Forces Commander Lieut. Gen. Otto
-P. Weyland tells reporters that “no conclusive evaluation had been
-made at the present time” on the Wonsan/Sunchon, Korea, sightings of
-January 29–30. (“Nothing Conclusive on Globes: Weyland,” Stars and
-Stripes, Pacific edition, February 22, 1952; Project 1947, “UFO
-Documents, 1952, Korea”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1739
Date: 2/21/1952
-Description: Sen. Richard
-Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services
-Committee, requests further information on the January 29 Korean UFO
-incidents in a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Thomas
-K. Finletter. (Project
-1947, “UFO
-Documents, 1952, Korea”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1738
Date: 2/22/1952
-Description: The now-completed Site Able is renamed Manzano Base, New
-Mexico, and turned over to the operational control of the Air Force.
-What appear to be secure bunkers are visible to people (mostly military
-personnel) who go to a recreational camping area nearby known as Coyote
-Canyon. The military, however, never officially confirms the nature of
-the activities at Manzano Base [now part of Kirtland Air Force Base]. At
-one point, a military spokesman says that Manzano Base has nothing to do
-with Sandia Base. Manzano has since been identified as the first of six
-original National Stockpile Sites for nuclear weapons. The other
-original NSS installations similar to Manzano are: Site Baker at Killeen
-Base, adjacent to Gray AFB [now Robert Gray Army Airfield] at Fort Hood,
-Texas; Site Charlie at Campbell AFB [now Campbell Army Airfield] near
-Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and adjacent to Fort Campbell; Site Dog at
-Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale AFB near Bossier City, Louisiana;
-Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis AFB, Nevada; and Medina Base,
-adjacent to Lackland AFB [now Joint Base San Antonio], Texas.
-(Wikipedia, “Sandia
-Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1740
Date: 2/23/1952
-Time: 11:15 PM
-Description: Witness: Captain/B-29 navigator. One bluish cylinder, three
-times long as wide, with a tail and rapid pulsations, came in high and
-fast, made several turns and levelled out under B-29 which was evading
-mild antiaircraft fire. 45 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: over North Korea
-ID: 82
Date: 2/23/1952
-Alternate date: 2/24/1952
-Description: 11:15 p.m. The navigator on a B-29 bomber sees a pulsating
-bluish cylinder while the aircraft is evading antiaircraft fire near
-Sinuiju, North Korea. It arrives high and fast, makes several turns, and
-levels out underneath the aircraft. (Sparks,
-p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1741
Date: 2/25/1952
-End date: 2/27/1952
-Description: Life magazine reporter Robert
-Emmett Ginna Jr. visits USAF headquarters at the Pentagon to gather
-information for his UFO article. He talks with Brig. Gen. Joseph
-F. Carroll, Director of Special Investigations. Brig. Gen. William
-M. Garland tells him that he has considered firing a guided missile
-at a UFO to bring it down and requests that Ginna delay publishing an
-article until the Air Force has come to a more definite conclusion.
-Ginna also talks to Lt. Col. Doyle
-Rees of OSI. (Jan L. Aldrich, “Have
-We Visitors from Space?” Project 1947) February 29 — Project Grudge
-issues a secret Status Report #4, classified “secret.” (US Air Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue
-Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 65–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1742
Date: 3/1952
-Alternate date: 4/1952
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Two women cryptographers in the US Naval Reserve
-stationed at the US Naval Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland, are
-out taking a walk outside the base on a dirt road. They notice a red
-light off to one side above the trees. It starts moving toward them and
-stops about 100 feet above the road in front of them, about 300 feet
-away. The object is a 250-foot black disc with two large red lights at
-each side, an illuminated dome, and smaller lights along the rim. A hole
-opens in the bottom and phosphorescent white sparks drop toward the
-ground and disintegrate when they hit the road. The two reservists
-sprint the quarter-mile back to the base. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1743
Date: 3/1952
-Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project
-Grudge, “Project Blue Book”.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 12/48
-See also: 10/51
Date: 3/1/1952
-Description: The 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron is activated
-under ADC to collect air combat intelligence. (CUFON, “4602d
-AISS Unit History Sampler”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1744
Date: 3/3/1952
-Description: Robert
-Emmett Ginna Jr. of Life visits ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Dayton, Ohio, to obtain material for his UFO article. Walther
-Riedel, former German rocket scientist at Peenemünde, Germany, tells
-Ginna he has kept notes on UFO sightings from all over the world: “I am
-completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis.” He also
-meets with visits Air Force UFO spokesman Albert
-M. Chop. AMC
-claims it is investigating every serious UFO report, but it can’t find
-the files he requests. Ginna becomes suspicious. (“Status
-of Project Blue
-Book,” T52-6888, [1952]; Jan L. Aldrich, “Have
-We Visitors from Space?” Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “1952:
-Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 9; Swords
-120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1745
Date: 3/5/1952
-Description: The Air Force sends a letter, signed by Lieut. Gen. Nathan
-Twining, to Secretary Finletter in
-response to Sen. Russell’s
-February 21 inquiry. It offers two possible explanations: aircraft
-exhaust from a Soviet Lavochkin La-9 or La-11 fighter aircraft, or
-spotlights carried on enemy aircraft that have intercepted US bombers.
-(Project 1947, “UFO
-Documents, 1952, Korea”; Swords 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1746
Date: 3/7/1952
-Description: Physicist Joseph
-Kaplan visits ATIC to discuss methods of obtaining more information
-on green fireballs using a special diffraction grid to be placed on
-patrol cameras that can be used as a field spectrometer. (“Status
-of Project
-Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1747
Date: 3/10/1952
-Description: 6:45 a.m. Clarence
-K. Greenwood, inspector
-of engineering metals, sees two dark objects come from behind him at an
-altitude of 5,000–7,500 feet while he is waiting for a bus in Oakland,
-California. They pick up speed, one of them moving in a pendulum-like
-motion. He thinks they are about 45 feet long. (UFOEv, pp. 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1748
Date: 3/14/1952
-Description: Evening. US Secretary of the Navy Dan
-A. Kimball is flying to Hawaii when he sees two discs moving at
-1,500 mph. The UFOs circle his plane twice, then move on 50 miles east
-to another Navy plane carrying Adm. Arthur
-W. Radford. The
-UFOs circle Radford’s plane then zoom up out of sight. Kimball sends a
-report to the Air Force, but hears nothing back, despite USAF demanding
-reports from all Navy witnesses. Kimball threatens to initiate Naval
-reports on UFOs through ONR to be kept separate from Blue Book. Keyhoe hears
-about this from both Kimball and Chief of ONR Adm. Calvin
-M. Bolster. The report is never made public. (NICAP, “Admiral Radford
-& Navy Sec. Kimball Planes Buzzed”; NICAP, “Navy
-Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s Sighting, March 14, 1952”;
-Swords 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1749
Date: 3/19/1952
-Description: Ruppelt and
-other representatives of ATIC meet with the commander of the Air Defense
-Command, Gen. Benjamin
-W. Chidlaw, and
-Gen. Grandison
-Gardner and his staff in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on getting
-radar scope camera films as UFOs are being tracked. “They agreed with it
-in principle and suggested that I work out the details with the Director
-of Intelligence for the ADC, Brigadier Gen. Woodbury
-M. Burgess.” Chidlaw promises to issue a directive to all units
-explaining procedures in UFO situations, including the scrambling of
-interceptors. This is issued, apparently in April. Burgess assigns Maj.
-Vernon
-L. Sadowski of his staff to be liaison to Project Grudge., and the
-Ground Observer Corps is brought into the UFO reporting net. (Ruppelt,
-pp. 128–129;
-“Status
-of Project
-Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1750
Date: 3/20/1952
-Time: 10:42 PM
-Description: Witnesses: WWl/WW2 veteran A.D. Hutchinson and son. One
-dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light flew straight and level very fast
-for 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Centreville, Maryland
-ID: 83
Date: late 3/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Ruppelt meets
-with two RCAF officers and briefs them on the new procedures. (Ruppelt,
-p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1755
Date: spring 1952
-Description: Occultist George
-Hunt Williamson and his wife Betty move to Prescott, Arizona, and
-immerse themselves in UFO literature. (Michael D. Swords, “Strange
-Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1763
Date: 3/23/1952
-Time: 6:56 and 7 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-94 jet
-interceptor. On either occasion, a red fireball increased in brightness
-and then faded over 45 second span. Stationary both times. Note: (May
-31, 1952) says target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90
-m.p.h.) at 22,500’ and 25,000’ altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yakima, Washington
-ID: 84
Date: 3/24/1952
-Time: 8:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: B-29 navigator and radar operator. One target
-tracked for 20-30 seconds at estimated 3,000 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 60 miles west of Pt. Concepcion, California
-ID: 85
Date: 3/25/1952
-Description: Project Grudge becomes a separate organization under the
-title Aerial Phenomena Group and is renamed Project Blue Book,
-apparently by Lt. Col. Charles Cooke, which he thinks has “no
-overtones.” Ruppelt says it is based on the books provided for taking
-college tests at Iowa State University. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952,
-January–May, The
-Author, 1993, pp. 20–21; Sparks,
-p. 12; Ruppelt, p. 131;
-Clark III 916)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1751
Date: 3/26/1952
-Description: Five trials are conducted through April 21 by the US Army
-Chemical Corps under Operation Dew. The tests release zinc cadmium
-sulfide along a 100-to-150-nautical-mile line approximately 5–10
-nautical miles off the coast of Georgia, North Carolina, and South
-Carolina. Two of the trials disperse clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide over
-large areas of all three states. The tests affect over 60,000 square
-miles of populated coastal region. The Dew I releases are from a Navy
-minesweeper, the USS
-Tercel. The
-conclusion is that long-range aerosol clouds can obtain hundreds of
-miles of travel and large-area coverage when disseminated from ground
-level under certain meteorological conditions. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Dew”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1754
Date: 3/26/1952
-Description: Day. Henry C. Davis is looking out at the ocean through his
-second-floor window in Long Beach, California, and listening to the
-radio. He spots two yellow discs in the sky about one mile high and 2
-miles away. He thinks they are 1,000 feet apart and moving southeast to
-northwest at 100 mph. As they pass, his radio goes to static twice. (Schopick, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1752
Date: 3/26/1952
-Description: Ruppelt meets
-with the MIT scientists he calls the Beacon Hill Group, which recommends
-that Blue Book use “sound detection apparatus” in areas of UFO activity.
-(Clark III 916)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1753
Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Donald F. Stewart and George Tyler III are
-driving northbound on the Governor Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie,
-Maryland. A 50-foot silvery domed disc with two portholes and an
-apparent hatch appears from the northeast and hovers above their car,
-causing the engine to fail, magnetizing the wiring, and cracking the
-paint. Stewart takes a sub-machine gun from the back of the car and
-debates whether to fire it at the object, which remains in view for 3
-minutes before turning n its edge and speeding away to the southwest.
-Tyler changes his story later, denying he was involved. Possible hoax.
-(NICAP, “E-M
-Effects on Car from Domed Disc”;
-Sparks, p. 124;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 196–198);
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 61–64, 229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1759
Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: 6:40 p.m. Carl
-J. Henry, chairman
-of the Industrial Commission of Missouri, along with several others,
-watches a cylinder-shaped, silver UFO for 2 minutes almost directly
-overhead in Butler, Missouri. It is moving silently in a northwesterly
-direction leaving no trail or exhaust. He estimates its length at 100
-feet. (UFOEv, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1758
Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: Two fiery discs are sighted over the uranium mines in the
-southern part of the Belgian Congo near Elisabethville [modern
-Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo]. With a diameter of
-approximately 36– 45 feet, they travel in a precise and light manner,
-both vertically and horizontally. They emit hissing and buzzing sounds.
-Changes in elevation from 2,400 to 3,000 feet are accomplished in a few
-seconds. The discs often move down to within 60 feet of the treetops. A
-Commander Pierre of the Belgian Air Force sets out in pursuit in a
-fighter plane from the city airport. On his first approach he comes to
-within about 260 feet of one of the discs. Suddenly they hover in one
-spot then takes off in a unique zigzag flight to the northeast at an
-estimated speed of 930 mph. Pierre gives up his pursuit after about 15
-minutes. (NICAP, “Two
-Discs over Uranium Mines / Jet in Pursuit”;
-Sparks, p. 123;
-Good Above, p. 512)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1757
Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: 11:20 a.m. Near Misawa, Japan, USAF Lt. David
-Conant Brigham is flying a T-6 target plane on a practice intercept
-mission for two F-84s. The first F-84 overtakes him at 6,000 feet when
-the T-6 pilot notices a small disc gaining on the interceptor. The UFO
-curves toward the F-84, decelerates rapidly, then flips on edge in a 90°
-bank. It flies between the two aircraft, pulls away, flips again, passes
-the F-84, crosses in front, and accelerates out of sight in a near
-vertical climb. Both pilots notice the object, which comes within 30–50
-feet of the T-6. The pilot estimates it is only 8 inches in diameter.
-There is a ripple around the edge. (NICAP, “Brigham/T6
-Case: UFO Makes
-Pass at F-84”; UFOEv, p. 5;
-Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 192;
-Sparks, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1756
Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: Small, shiny disc made pass at Air Force plane
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Misawa, Japan
-ID: 0
Date: 3/29/1952
-Time: 11:20 AM
-Description: Witness: Brigham, pilot of AT-6 trainer. One small, very
-thin, shiny metallic disc flew alongside the AT-6, then made a pass at
-an F-84 jet fighter, flipped on edge, fluttered 20’ from the F-84’s
-fuselage and flipped in the slipstream…all in 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 20 miles north of Misawa AFB, Japan
-ID: 86
Date: 3/31/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #5. (US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 81–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1762
Date: 3/31/1952
-Description: ATIC Chief Frank
-Dunn writes to Gen. Garland requesting
-that Project Blue Book be entirely declassified in order to make it
-easier to encourage civilian pilots to send in reports. That is a bit
-too much openness for Garland, who compromises by reclassifying certain
-case investigations as “Restricted,” a relatively low level. (Swords
-146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1761
Date: 3/31/1952
-Description: Battelle begins its UFO study (referred to as P-47S and
-nicknamed Little Stork) under the supervision of William T. Reid,
-folding it into Project Stork, an initiative to examine the Soviet
-Union’s technological warfare capabilities. Almost all of the UFO
-analysis involves compiling IBM punch cards based on data forwarded by
-Project Blue Book files. (Clark III 929; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember
-Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark
-Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18,
-no. 3 (May/June 1993): 4–12, 19–21; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second
-Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1760
Date: 4/1952
-Description: Albert
-K. Bender, a
-factory worker in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announces the formation of
-the International Flying Saucer Bureau. (Clark III 189, 623)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1767
Date: 4/1952
-Description: Ruppelt again
-meets with MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists (the Beacon Hill group) in
-Cambridge, Massachusetts, to brief them on Blue Book’s progress.
-Afterward, he asks them about the flashes seen on Mars in 1951, and a
-general discussion of life on other planets ensues. Michael
-D. Swords suspects that some of those present are physicist George
-Valley Jr., engineer
-Julius
-Adams Stratton, physicist
-Albert
-G. Hill, and chemical engineer Walter
-G. Whitman. (Edward
-J. Ruppelt, “Are There Men on Mars? Or Other Worlds?” IUR 23, no. 1
-(Spring 1998): 10–12, 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1766
Date: 4/1952
-Description: Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?”
-Type: article
-Reference: Medium
-See also: 12/48
-See also: 10/51
Date: 4/1952
-Description: Secretary of the Navy Dan
-Kimball, upset
-with the way the Air Force has treated his UFO sighting, sets up an
-independent Navy probe of UFOs under Lt. Commander Fred Lowell Thomas of
-the Office of Naval Research. The project lasts through 1952, but
-probably not much longer. (NICAP, “Navy
-Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s Sighting,
-March 14, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1765
Date: 4/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Amateur astronomer W.
-Gordon Graham sees a UFO “like a smoke ring, elliptical in shape,
-and having two bright pinpoints of light along its main axis” at London,
-Ontario. It sails overhead from west to east. (London (Ont.) Free Press,
-May 1, 1952; UFOEv, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1764
Date: 4/2/1952
-Description: On the eve of the release of the bombshell Life magazine
-article, Ruppelt and
-his boss, ATIC Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. Sanford
-H. Kirkland Jr., give
-an extraordinary briefing, technically unclassified but in fact
-quasi-classified, to a group of aerospace engineers and saucer buffs
-organized as Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles. These include
-aeronautical consultant Felix
-W. A. Knoll, technical writer Ed
-J. Sullivan,
-and North American Aviation project engineer Walther
-A. Riedel. The briefing takes place at the Mayfair Hotel in Los
-Angeles, California, along with national media reporters and the Life
-magazine reporters who give them advance copies of the Darrach/Ginna
-article in exchange. (“Minutes
-of Meeting of Civilian Saucer Investigations
-Held Wednesday, April 2, 1952, 8:00 PM in the Mayfair Hotel, Los
-Angeles, California,” April 2, 1952, transcribed by Sign Historical
-Group; Willard D. Nelson, “When Blue Book Met the Ufologists,” IUR 12,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 21–24; Ruppelt, p. 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1768
Date: 4/2/1952
-Description: 9:00 a.m. While on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada,
-with his wife and M/Sgt Lester Gossett, M/Sgt Sheldon Smith observes a
-large silver UFO at a high altitude. It looks like a B-36 without wings.
-Smith observes it right after a flight of F-86s overfly the area at
-about 15,000 feet. After watching the hovering object for about an hour
-at a much higher altitude than the vapor trails from the F-86s, it
-suddenly disappears. (NICAP, “B-36 without
-Wings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1769
Date: 4/3/1952
-Description: The Air Force publicly announces that it has not stopped
-investigating and evaluating UFO reports.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1770
Date: 4/4/1952
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two radar operators of the 147th AC&W
-Squadron. One object was tracked for one minute by radar at an estimated
-2,160 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Duncanville, Texas
-ID: 87
Date: 4/5/1952
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: L.E. VanDercar and 9 year old son. Four dark
-circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed face of Moon; each was
-half the apparent diameter of Moon. 2:59 PM Witness: H.L. Russell.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami, Florida
-ID: 89
Date: 4/5/1952
-Time: l0:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, D. Schook.
-One large, dull grey circular object, followed by two more, flew
-straight and level at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Phoenix, Arizona
-ID: 88
Date: 4/6/1952
-Time: 2:59 PM
-Description: Witness: H.L. Russell. 50-75 grey-white discs changed
-position within formation continually, tilted in unison every 12-15
-seconds during 3.8 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Temple, Texas
-ID: 90
Date: 4/7/1952
-Description: Henry
-B. Darrach Jr. and Robert
-Ginna’s article, “Have We Visitors from Space?” appears in Life and
-reports on the revitalized USAF project. It comes close to advocating
-the ETH, and its primary sources are high-ranking Air Force officers.
-(H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have
-We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, pp. 80–96; NICAP, “Scholarly
-Commentary on LIFE Article of April 7, 1952”; Michael D. Swords,
-“1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1771
Date: 4/7/1952
-Description: During war games taking place in the vicinity of Lampasas,
-Texas, nicknamed Operation Longhorn, the Air Force announces that a new
-“aerial light” attached to a B-26 aircraft is in use that makes an
-“attacking bomber look like a ball of fire in the sky.” It is
-essentially a bright magnesium searchlight (dubbed a “Hell Roarer”
-flare) that can illuminate a battlefield for nighttime photography. USAF
-Public Information Officer Capt. Irving Rappaport implies it could be
-mistaken for a flying saucer. (“Light
-Makes Bomber Resemble Ball of Fire,” Chambersburg (Pa.) Public
-Opinion, April 7, 1952, p. 3; “It’s
-No Saucer! Strange Objects in the Sky Are Nothing New
-in Dayton,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, November 9, 1952, magazine
-supplement, p. 7; Curt Collins, “UFOs:
-Confusing the Public,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 27,
-2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1772
Date: 4/12/1952
-Description: 8:30 p.m. W/O E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. Reginald McRae
-are driving on RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario, when they see a bright
-amber disc arrive from the southwest, move across the airfield, stop,
-and then take off in the opposite direction at an angle of 30° at
-terrific speed. (NICAP, “Amber
-Disc Stops, Reverses Direction”;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 92–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1773
Date: 4/12/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E.H.
-Rossell, Flight Sgt. R. McRae. One round amber object flew fast,
-stopped, reversed direction, climbed away at 30’ angle during a 2 minute
-observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: North Bay, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 91
Date: 4/14/1952
-Time: 12:35 PM
-Description: Witness: unidentified CAL airline pilot. Several light
-colored objects flew in V-formation. No further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin
-ID: 92
Date: 4/14/1952
-Time: 6:34 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O’Neil.
-One inverted bowl, 3’ long and 1’ high, with vertical slots, flew fast,
-straight and level, 100 yards from observers’ aircraft for 45-60
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Memphis, Tennessee
-ID: 93
Date: 4/15/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Hayes, brother of Master Sergeant. Two faint
-objects observed flying fast along the horizon for 6-8 seconds, using
-20x spotting telescope.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santa Cruz, California
-ID: 94
Date: 4/16/1952
-Description: ADC becomes frantic about a possible Soviet attack. Air
-Force Intelligence warns Brig. Gen. Woodbury Burgess, at
-ADC Headquarters, Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in
-Colorado Springs, Colorado, that a classified source (possibly an
-electronic intercept) has provided an “indication” of ominous Soviet
-military activity. With the simultaneous appearance of two waves of
-unidentified targets, there is no alternative. At 3:10 a.m., ADC
-Commander Gen. Frederic
-H. Smith Jr. orders America’s first nationwide Air Defense Readiness
-alert. (NICAP, “UFOs
-and Alert Scare, April 1952”; “Radar
-Scare,” Miami (Fla.) Herald, April 19, 1952, p. 23; “3 Plane
-Vapors Cause Alert at Alaska Stations,” Long Beach (Calif.)
-Independent, April 18, 1952, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1774
Date: 4/17/1952
-Time: 3:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: group of Army weather observation students,
-including several graduate engineers. One flat-white, circular object
-flew with an irregular trajectory and a brief trail, for about 7
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 96
Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: 12:58 a.m. Four high-altitude contrails heading
-east-southeast toward Alaska are seen by NORAD defense observers at
-Nunivak Island, Alaska. (NICAP, “Another
-Radar-Inspired National Alert”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1775
Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Radar at Caswell Air Force Station [now closed]
-in Limestone, Maine, tracks five unknown targets headed southwest into
-the US. Three are later identified as off-course civilian airliners,
-while two remain unidentified. A nationwide Air Defense Readiness Alert
-is declared at 5:11 a.m. SAC is notified to prepare launch of nuclear
-missiles. The alert is canceled at 7:40 a.m. (NICAP, “Another
-Radar-Inspired National Alert”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1776
Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: 12:05 p.m. Air Force T/S Orville Lawson, Rudy
-Toncer (sheet metal shop foreman), and sheet metal shop workers R.
-K. Van Houtin, Edward Gregory, and Charles
-Ruliffson at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, see 18 circular
-objects flying an easterly course that carry them over or very close to
-the Nevada Test Site. They watch the objects for about 30 seconds. (“Work
-Crew Spots Flying Saucers over A-Test Site,” Salt Lake Tribune,
-April 18, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “April
-17, 1952: Nellis AFB, Nevada Large Group of Circular UFOs”; Nukes
-83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1777
Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: Dewey
-Fournet Jr. responds to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun who has
-asked about details of the Blue Book investigation with a
-two-and-a-half-page memo, vagued up a bit, but essentially saying that
-“nothing detrimental to our national security has materialized from
-these incidents.” (Swords 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1778
Date: 4/17/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer J.A. Eaton. One
-round, deep orange object flew fast and erratic, occasionally emitting a
-shaft of light to the rear during a 40 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Longmeadow, Massachusetts
-ID: 95
Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: l0:l0 PM
-Description: Witness: reporter Chic Shave. One round, yellow-gold object
-flew south and returned during 1.5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 99
Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witness: janitor C. Hamilton. One yellow-gold object made a
-sharp turn and left a short, dark trail during l minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 101
Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: one radar operator. Tracked unidentified target
-for 1 minute at 2,700 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129’ 51’ E, 34’ 19’
-N)
-ID: 100
Date: 4/18/1952
-Description: 12:07 p.m. Detachment 21 of the 618th Aircraft and Warning
-Squadron, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, picks up a radar target over the
-Korea Strait north of Kyushu Island, Japan, moving at 2,700 mph. (NICAP,
-“Object Tracked
-at 2,700 MPH”; Sparks, p. 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1779
Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: l1:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: R. Poerstal and three other men. Seven to nine
-circular, orange-yellow lights in a V-formation flew overhead silently
-for 4-8 seconds, from south to north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bethesda, Maryland
-ID: 98
Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: two Army weather observation students. One
-flat-white circular object flew for 5-10 seconds in a very erratic
-manner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 97
Date: 4/19/1952
-Description: 9:20 p.m. USAF Brig. Gen. Edwin
-M. Day is reclining on a patio in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when he
-sees an object traveling parallel to the ground at a constant altitude
-(between 10,000 and 20,000 feet) and moving in his direction. Its speed
-is greater than a jet’s. It breaks into two parts at one point but
-maintains its constant course. He follows it visually for 5–6 seconds
-until it disappears to the north-northeast. (“When UFOs Were Serious
-Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1780
Date: 4/20/1952
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Naval aviation student Edmund Kogut and his wife
-Shirley are at a drive-in movie theater in Flint, Michigan, when they
-see several groups of UFOs fly over. There are 2–9 objects in a group
-and about 20 groups, all flying in a straight line except for some
-changes in direction accomplished unlike any known aircraft. They are
-shaped like conventional aircraft but have an odd reddish glow
-surrounding them. (NICAP, [Flint,
-Michigan, case documents];
-Sparks,
-p. 128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1781
Date: 4/22/1952
-Description: The Canadian Defence Research Board establishes a UFO study
-group that meets for the first time today. Project Second Storey, formed
-by Omond
-M. Solandt, DRB
-chairman, meets at least five times. It is chaired by astrophysicist Peter
-M. Millman and includes Wilbert
-B. Smith and representatives from Naval Intelligence, Military
-Operations and Planning, and the Defence Research Board. At its April 24
-meeting, it decides to meet with the US government on UFO matters. (“Project
-Second Storey Minutes, 1952.04.24”; Clark III 1078; Good Above, p. 186;
-Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn
-Press, 2006, p. 225– 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1782
Date: 4/22/1952
-Time: 99 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of B-29 bomber, on ground. One elliptical
-object, followed by two and then another two, each with a white light
-that blinked every 1-2 seconds as they performed erratic maneuvers for
-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Naha AFB, Okinawa
-ID: 102
Date: 4/23/1952
-Description: 9:30 a.m. R. C. Munroe, engineering standards section head
-for Raytheon Manufacturing Company, notices an object near an AT-6 Texan
-trainer aircraft above Lexington, Massachusetts. He estimates its
-altitude at 40,000 feet. It decelerates abruptly and goes into a flat
-turn. He writes, “It is inconceivable to me that any human being could
-have withstood the deceleration or acceleration displayed by this
-aircraft.” (UFOEv, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1783
Date: 4/23/1952
-Description: 10:45 a.m. Engineers Carl
-Hawk and Marvin
-Harvey are at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they look
-up to watch a jet fighter as it shoots to the north above the Sandia
-Mountains. They also notice a soundless, flat, rectangular, wing-like
-object streaking through the sky from east to west above Tijeras Canyon.
-The object is completely black except for a distinct, bright yellow “V”
-on its bottom. Two slight points extend from its rear corners. Hawk
-estimates that it is passing overhead at 2,000 feet altitude at 200–400
-mph and is roughly 60 feet wide by 20 feet long. They watch it for 10
-seconds until it disappears in a cloud above downtown Albuquerque. (“What
-Soared Against Duke City Sky That Day in April, 1952?”Albuquerque
-(N.Mex.) Tribune, November 21, 1957, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1784
Date: 4/24/1952
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three Cambridge Research Center electronics
-engineers, one named Buruish. Two flat, red squares flew wobbly in level
-flight, climbed, levelled out during 1.5 minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Milton, Massachusetts
-ID: 104
Date: 4/24/1952
-Time: 5 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-124 transport plane. Three
-circular, bluish objects in loose “fingertip” formation twice flew
-parallel to airplane during 3-4 minute period.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bellevue Hill, Vermont
-ID: 103
Date: 4/24/1952
-Description: An Air Force Intelligence memorandum to Col. Frank
-Dunn, chief of ATIC, transmits nine reports (not released) of
-unidentified submarine objects reported to the Office of Naval
-Intelligence. (Good Need, pp. 141,
-145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1785
Date: 4/24/1952
-Time: 8:10 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF light Surgeon Maj. E.L. Ellis. Many
-orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused, behaved
-erratically. Speed varied from motionless to very fast during 5 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Clovis, New Mexico
-ID: 105
Date: 4/25/1952
-Description: Battelle releases its first status report on Project Stork,
-noting that it has selected a panel of consultants, initiated a news
-clipping service, and devised a coding scheme for UFO reports. (“Seven
-Status Reports for Project
-Stork,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1787
Date: 4/25/1952
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A biochemist and a bacteriologist are driving to
-their office in San Jose, California, when they see a metallic-looking
-disc rotating around a vertical axis and wobbling. It is moving slowly
-over the office and is about 4–5 feet in diameter. It flies in a slow
-arc. Then they see a black object hovering at a high altitude under an
-overcast. This one is about 100 feet in diameter. Two identical objects
-come into view out of the clouds. The three objects “jittered about like
-boats in a stream.” Then the small disc stops spinning, hovers, then
-shoots upwards, followed by one of the black objects. The remaining two
-objects linger another minute or so, then take off separately. The
-episode lasts 15 minutes. The biochemist calls Moffett Field in Santa
-Clara County, but hangs up before reporting the sighting, which they
-describe as a “most disturbing experience.” The object “utilized some
-propulsion method not in the physics books.” (NICAP, “Scientist
-Sighting / Extraordinary Propulsion Implied”; Richard H. Hall,
-Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 241–242)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1786
Date: 4/25/1952
-Description: UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by
-two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y
-(bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at
-about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the
-disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No
-sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher
-flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs
-appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects
-disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report
-the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p241)
-Location: San Jose, CA
Date: 4/27/1952
-Time: 4:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: H.A. Freytag and three male relatives, including
-a minister. One silver oval rolled, descended and stopped. Two silver
-cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the
-west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed.
-Sightings lasted 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Roseville, Michigan
-ID: 106
Date: 4/27/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt. and Mrs. G.S. Porter (he was off-duty
-control tower operator). Bright red or flame-colored discs, appearing as
-large as fighter planes. Seven sightings of one disc, one of two in
-formation during 2 hours. All seen below 11,000’ overcast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 107
Date: 4/29/1952
-Time: 100 PM
-Description: Witness: B-29 bombardier Lt. R.H. Bauer. One white
-fan-shaped light pulsed 3-4 times per second for 2 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goodland, Kansas
-ID: 109
Date: 4/29/1952
-Description: An Air Force memorandum written to justify a trip by Lt.
-Col. E. Sterling and Stefan
-Possony to Europe mentions that their work for USAF Intelligence’s
-“Special Study Group” is to evaluate Soviet advanced aerial delivery
-systems, as well as to shed “some much needed light” on the “vexing
-‘flying saucer’ problem.” It adds that the “Air Force cannot assume that
-flying saucers are of non-terrestrial origin, and hence, they could be
-Soviet.” (Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4
-(Winter 2003–2004): 10; Swords 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1789
Date: 4/29/1952
-Description: Secretary of the Air Force Thomas
-K. Finletter issues Air Force Letter 200-5, which directs
-intelligence officers at every base to report UFOs immediately to ATIC
-and all major USAF commands. It enables Project Blue Book staff to
-communicate directly with any Air Force base without going through the
-normal chain of command, and provides for wire transmission of reports
-to ATIC, followed with details via air mail. AFL 200-5 is modified by
-AFR 200-2 in 1953. (Department of the Air Force, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects Reporting,” Air Force Letter 200-5, April 29, 1952;
-Ruppelt, pp. 132–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1788
Date: 4/29/1952
-Time: 3:30 PM
-Description: Witness: private pilot R.R. Weidman. One round, white
-object which flew straight, with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marshall, Texas
-ID: 108
Date: 4/30/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #6. (US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 95–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1790
Date: 4/30/1952
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Six members of the 3rd Platoon, Heavy Mortar
-Company, 180th Infantry Regiment at the front lines around Panmunjeom,
-Korea, see two silvery wingless objects, one behind the other, flying in
-a valley in a southeasterly direction. Pfc H. B. Webb thinks they are
-flying at 900–1,000 mph. Some slower northbound F-86 Sabre jets pass
-above them. They make a rumbling sound. (Haines, Korea, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1791
Date: 5/1952
-Description: Army radar specialist Jay Nogle is stationed near
-Washington, D.C., when he picks up an unknown target on his M33 scope at
-an altitude of 18,000 feet about 130 miles from the capital (which would
-put it over eastern Pennsylvania). Two other Army units also detect the
-object, which remains stationary for 30 minutes before moving. By the
-time the object reaches the edge of the radar scope, it is traveling at
-1,000 mph. The report goes all the way to the Pentagon, where orders are
-given to fire on it if it returns. Nogle says that radar targets are
-frequently seen in May or June, and units have their antiaircraft guns
-loaded after the first incident. When fighters are scrambled from
-McGuire AFB [now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst] in Burlington
-County, New Jersey, the targets move speedily out of range. (Swords
-153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1792
Date: 5/1/1952
-Time: 5:32 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Two Atomic Energy Commission employees, Eggan
-and Shipley. One silver object without wings flew straight and level for
-1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Moses Lake, Washington
-ID: 110
Date: 5/1/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three men on the arms range, plus one Lt.
-Colonel 4 miles away. Five flat-white discs about the diameter of a
-C-47’s wingspan (95’) flew fast, made a 90^ turn in a formation of three
-in front and two behind, and darted around, for 15-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: George AFB, California
-ID: 111
Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: 9:10 a.m. Air intelligence officer Maj. Rudolph
-Pestalozzi and an airman standing outside the Davis-Monthan AFB base
-hospital, Tucson, Arizona, watch two shiny, round objects overtake a
-B-36 flying above. The objects slow down to match the plane’s speed and
-remain in formation with them for 20 seconds. Then they make a sharp,
-no-radius turn away from the B-36, moving away a bit. Then one of the
-objects stops and hovers. Both are silent, and the crew estimates they
-have a diameter of 20–25 feet and a thickness of 10–12 feet. (NICAP, “The Case
-of the Missing Report”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 109–112, 292–294;
-Sparks, p. 131;
-Good Need, pp. 166– 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1795
Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: 10:50 a.m. At George AFB [now Southern California Logistics
-Airport] near Victorville, California, five independent witnesses in the
-base control tower see a group of five white discs moving in formation
-for about 30 seconds. The objects appear very maneuverable, seem to
-almost collide, then break away in a right-angle turn. They are
-traveling an estimated 900–1,200 mph and are 1,000–1,200 feet in
-diameter. Four miles away at Apple Valley, California, the base’s wing
-director of personnel, playing on a golf course, sees one of the UFOs at
-the same time. (NICAP, “George
-AFB / Apple Valley, CA Radar Case”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 107–109;
-Sparks, p. 131;
-Swords 147–148; Good Need, p. 166;
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010):
-10, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1796
Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque Journal composing room employee
-Eugene Cline sees four silvery objects seemingly playing tag with a
-formation of 12 Air Force bombers—either B-29s or B-50s—flying west over
-Albuquerque, New Mexico. The round objects are keeping up with the
-planes at the same altitude, moving in a “tumbling or pitching manner.”
-One object shoots straight up and takes off in a southerly direction.
-About the same time, workmen (one of them Howard Burgess) erecting an
-antenna at nearby Sandia Base watch three UFOs pass directly overhead.
-One comes from the west and moves south; another comes from the north
-and moves south; and a third, tan-colored rather than silver like the
-others, passes low overhead and looks like a “cylinder tumbling end over
-end.” Burgess and the others are debriefed and sworn to secrecy about
-what they have witnessed. (“Flying
-Saucers Play Tag with Bombers over City,” Albuquerque (N.Mex.)
-Journal, May 2, 1952, p. 2; Nukes 56–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1797
Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: Two disc-shaped UFOs approached close to B-36 bomber, also
-seen from ground
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ
-ID: 1
Date: early 5/1952
-Description: A meeting is held in the Pentagon office of Stefan
-Possony, acting chief of the Directorate of Intelligence Study Group
-under Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford to hear Harvard University astronomer Donald
-Menzel express his views. Present are Possony, Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt, ATIC chief Col. Frank
-Dunn, Brig.
-Gen. William
-M. Garland, Possony’s
-assistant Leslie
-Rosenzweig, and
-one other officer. Menzel announces that he has solved all UFO reports
-and claims to have helped out in the development of the cameras in
-Project Twinkle. His attitude irks everyone in the meeting. When he asks
-the Air Force to support his views in upcoming publications in Time and
-Look, Gen. Garland gets angry. Col. Dunn says that Blue Book would have
-put some money into more formal versions of his experiments, but he can
-only offer a statement that Menzel has told them of his theory. Now
-Menzel gets agitated, saying it is no theory. He refuses to leave them a
-copy of his book to pass on to Joseph Kaplan and
-J.
-Allen Hynek. In
-the evening, Possony speaks with astronomer Francis J. Heyden at
-Georgetown University, who tells him that Menzel’s work is based on no
-more than a “couple of meaningless high school physics experiments.”
-(Clark III 743; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2
-(December 2008): 9; Swords 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1794
Date: early 5/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A senior CIA official is having a lawn party at
-his home near Alexandria, Virginia, for some VIPs. He and two others
-notice a light approaching silently from the west. It stops then climbs
-almost vertically, stops again, then levels out. Then it goes into a
-nearly vertical dive, levels out, and streaks off to the east. (Ruppelt,
-pp. 135–136;
-Swords 148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1793
Date: 5/5/1952
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. M.M. Judson. Six or seven translucent,
-cream-yellow objects. One moved in an ellipse, while the others moved in
-and out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tenafly, New Jersey
-ID: 112
Date: 5/7/1952
-Time: 12:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Master Sergeant, a Staff
-Sergeant, and an Airman First Class. Ten times, an aluminum or silver
-cylindrical object was seen to dart in and out of the clouds during a
-5-10 minute period.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
-ID: 113
Date: 5/7/1952
-Description: 12:22 a.m. Mrs. Hanley Marks sees a light-green,
-ball-shaped object fall from the sky into the Sandia Mountains, New
-Mexico, from her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Albuquerque. (“Fireball
-Falls near Sandias
-Early Today,” Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 1; “Green
-Fireball Falls in Southwest, Three Here Report,”
-Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1798
Date: 5/7/1952
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A Captain Morris and three enlisted men at
-Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi, see one or two aluminum or silver
-cylindrical objects darting in and out of the clouds 10 times. ([Blue
-Book case report]”; Sparks, p. 131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1799
Date: 5/7/1952
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Magazine writer Ed Keffel, in the company of João
-Martins, takes five photographs of a UFO over Barra da Tijuca, Rio de
-Janeiro, Brazil. In the first, the UFO resembles an airplane coming
-directly toward them over a large group of trees. The second shows the
-object as disc-shaped. The third photo is taken as the object tilts
-slightly, showing both the top with a slight dome and the now obvious
-disc shape. More trees, including a very tall palm, can be seen in the
-photograph. The fourth picture, taken as the object tilts the other way,
-shows a raised ring on the bottom. The final picture is taken as the
-object is nearly vertical, seen over part of the ocean and some distant
-hills. The UFO disappears shortly afterward. NICAP does not see any
-negatives and is skeptical. The Colorado project finds a “glaring
-internal inconsistency” in the illumination and dismisses the photos as
-hoaxes. Today, the best evidence seems to suggest the case is a hoax,
-perpetrated by two magazine writers who wanted an interesting story.
-(NICAP, “Barra
-da Tijuca Photos”; Olavo T. Fontes, “The
-Barra da Tijuca Disc,” APRO Special Report no. 1 (October 1961):
-1–6; Condon, pp. 83, 415–418;
-Swords 460–461; Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “Os 90 Anos do O Cruzeiro, a
-Revista que Inaugurou a Era Moderna dos Discos Voadores no Brasil,”
-October 11, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1800
Date: 5/8/1952
-Description: Air Force Secretary Thomas
-Finletter and his staff (including his special assistant, covert CIA
-agent Joseph Bryan
-III) receive a secret one-hour briefing on UFOs from Ruppelt and
-Lt. Col. R. J. Taylor that covers USAF investigations over the previous
-five years. Finletter asks questions about some specific sightings.
-(Ruppelt, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1802
Date: 5/8/1952
-Description: 2:27 a.m. Pan American Airways pilot Clayton C. Gallagher
-and his copilot, flying a Lockheed Constellation aircraft at 8,000 feet
-en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York, see a light, 10 times
-the size of an airplane landing light, approach them over the Atlantic
-Ocean east of South Carolina. It streaks past their left wing about a
-quarter mile away, followed by two smaller orange balls of fire.
-Probable meteor. (NICAP, “Three UAO
-Sighted by Constellation Crew”; Sparks, p. 131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1801
Date: 5/9/1952
-Time: 5:20 PM
-Description: Witness: A/lc G.C. Grindeland. One dull white,
-arrowhead-shaped object flew straight and level for 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: George AFB, California
-ID: 114
Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A British scientist and others at Paphos, Cyprus,
-see a luminous circular object rise from the sea and waver back and
-forth before fading from sight directly overhead. (Sparks,
-p. 132; Good Above, p. 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1804
Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Lt. Col. Maurice G. Bechtel and his wife are
-in the yard of their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they see two
-silvery disc-shaped objects flying straight and level, one after the
-other, moving southwest to northeast at above 20,000 feet. The first
-object seems to waver on its axis, the second object follows a similar
-path but at a higher altitude. The first object is the size of a B-36 at
-high altitude. Bechtel alerts the radar station but it is unable to
-track the objects. (NICAP, “Two
-Discs Observed by Lt. Colonel and Wife”; Sparks,
-p. 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1803
Date: 5/10/1952
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: 4 duPont employees at the Savannah River nuclear
-plant. Up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects were seen on five
-occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ellenton, South Carolina
-ID: 115
Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William
-L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in
-the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted
-British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the
-level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular
-shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth
-before fading out of sight directly overhead.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p540)
-Location: Paphos, Cypress
Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Four employees of DuPont Corporation at the
-AEC’s Savannah River Laboratory near Jackson, South Carolina, see four
-disc-shaped objects approach, then two other discs pass high overhead
-from different directions. They are a luminous yellow-gold color and
-move at a high rate of speed. One of the discs approaches at such a low
-altitude that it must ascend to pass over some tall tanks at the
-facility. One witness says that the objects are weaving from left to
-right while continuing on a steady course. The case is investigated by
-the FBI and passed on to the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission.
-(NICAP, “Objects
-Sighted near Vital Installation”;
-Sparks, p. 132;
-Nukes 84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1805
Date: 5/12/1952
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A UFO is seen by Walker AFB T/Sgt. Raymond Bare
-in a car in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. The object is blue-green in
-color, and its estimated altitude above the terrain is 20,000–30,000
-feet. It appears to be about 40–50 miles distant over some low mountains
-east of Ruidosa. The object travels three times over approximately the
-same south-to-north / east-to-west, swaying, triangular course. Rate of
-speed cannot be precisely estimated but is faster than that of jet
-aircraft. Intensity of color brightness varies with the object’s
-altitude. The Air Force explains it as the planet Venus, but Venus is on
-the other side of the earth at the time. (NICAP, “High-Speed
-Object Maneuvers over Mountains”; Clark III 390–391; Sparks, p. 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1806
Date: 5/12/1952
-Description: “Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page
-of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not
-convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns
-Type: anomalous phenomenon
-Reference: Dr. Leon
-Davidson
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Location: Seattle, WA
Date: 5/13/1952
-Description: 10:33 p.m. James Richardson and three other amateur
-astronomers (among them Cyril
-Thomas Wyche and Harry
-B. Mooney), set up telescopes at Furman University in Greenville,
-South Carolina, when they see a diamond formation of 4 oval,
-reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects nearly overhead. They
-disappear after 3 seconds moving through a 12° arc. The apparent size is
-a half dollar at arms length. They wobble in flight. (NICAP, “Diamond
-Formation of 4 Objects Observed by Astronomers”; Willy Smith, “Blue
-Book Pearls: Greenville, S.C.,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 8–9, 24;
-Sparks, p. 133;
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010):
-10, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1808
Date: 5/13/1952
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Aeronautical engineer Donald R. Carr sees a
-meteor-like object descend over National City, California, flying a
-curving path to the northwest. At 9:25 p.m., Carr watches a similar
-object, seemingly returning from the north. (UFOEv, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1807
Date: 5/14/1952
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Attorney and ex-USAF pilot Mr. Stipes,
-Sr. Garcia-Mendez. Two shining orange spheres: one was stationary, while
-the other darted away and back for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mayaquez, Puerto Rico
-ID: 116
Date: 5/15/1952
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Two F-86E pilots of the 61st Fighter-Interceptor
-Wing are on a mission in North Korea when they see a silvery disc larger
-than a MiG aircraft 20 miles away and below them at 8,000–10,000 feet.
-Seen for only 3– 5 seconds, the object is traveling at 1,200–1,500 mph
-in a rolling maneuver. (Haines, Korea, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1811
Date: 5/15/1952
-Description: 6:35 p.m. The pilot of an F-51 assigned to the 18th Fighter
-Bomber Group flying at 9,000 feet over North Korea encounters a silver
-object estimated to be 50 feet in diameter. It appears ahead of him to
-the right and begins climbing at 1,000 mph to the east, pauses, then
-descends into some haze. (Haines, Korea, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1810
Date: 5/15/1952
-Description: USAF Intelligence Special Study Group Chief Lieut. Col. E.
-Sterling and Stefan
-Possony begin a five-week temporary duty trip to Europe to study
-Soviet missiles and aircraft. As a side project they study “flying
-saucers” that might be of Soviet origin. No documents have yet been
-found on this trip’s results. (Swords 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1809
Date: 5/20/1952
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army
-training test. Also designated TF-2)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 103.5km
Date: late 5/1952
-Description: 1:00–3:00 a.m. Royal Canadian Navy Commander George R.
-McFarlane is officer of the watch on the Canadian warship HMCS
-Iroquois in
-the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam en route to Korea. He sees
-many different lights, some single, others in formations of 3, 5, or 6,
-appearing and disappearing instantly. Suddenly one of the objects
-appears off the port bow at close range and low elevation. McFarlane and
-the signalman on watch see that the light is attached to a disc-shaped
-object with two dozen black windows running along its side. It hovers
-nearby for at least 15 minutes. (Good Need, pp. 142–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1812
Date: 5/20/1952
-Time: l0:l0 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Capt. J. Spurgin and Capt. BB.
-Stephan. One bright or white oval object moved from side-to-side while
-making a gradual turn for 90 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 117
Date: 5/23/1952
-Description: After 11:00 p.m. Lockheed worker Orfeo
-Angelucci is driving home on Victory Boulevard from his job in
-Burbank, California, when he senses a force and sees a red, glowing UFO.
-After a while he begins to follow it, and after he crosses the Los
-Angeles River and turns onto Forest Lawn Drive, he gets to within 30
-feet of it when it hovers. Just before it streaks away, two smaller
-green globes, 3 feet in diameter, shoot out of it and approach him. He
-hears a voice saying, “Don’t be afraid, Orfeo, we are friends.” This
-begins his contact with benevolent beings from other planets. (Orfeo
-Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, pp. 1–15;
-Bryant and Helen Reeve, Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, Amherst Press, 1957,
-pp. 222–232;
-Clark III 127–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1813
Date: 5/25/1952
-Description: 9:27 a.m. An Air Force captain in charge of the navigation
-section of Combat Crew Training School at Randolph AFB near San Antonio,
-Texas, his wife, and another pilot see a group of about 12 orange-white,
-tear- drop shaped lights in 3 groups of 4 moving from west to east at
-2,000 mph and 10,000 feet altitude. They hear deep, soft intermittent
-noise. (Ruppelt, p. 140;
-Sparks,
-p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1814
Date: 5/25/1952
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: seven persons, including John Hoffman, his
-family and friends. One large white circular object having dark sections
-on its rim, flew straight and level for 30 minutes, appearing red when
-behind a cloud.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan
-ID: 118
Date: 5/26/1952
-Description: 3:20 a.m. Ground radar alerts the crew of an F-94 Starfire
-interceptor jet over North Korea that an unidentified target is on its
-tail. The jet turns, locks onto the object with onboard radar at 21,000
-feet and begins to close. Both the pilot and radar operator see a
-brilliant white light straight ahead. The UFO performs a steady climbing
-turn and accelerates away at a tremendous speed. The jet loses the
-object at a distance of 7,800 feet after 15 seconds of contact. (Haines,
-Korea, pp. 40–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1815
Date: 5/28/1952
-Description: 8:30–8:40 p.m. A green fireball about one-third the size of
-the full moon is seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from eight ground
-points and five aircraft. Lincoln
-LaPaz pinpoints the fall near Santa Fe. Around the same time, the
-crew of a Flying Tiger Line C-46 near Otto, New Mexico, sees a green
-fireball rise up and drop steeply down. (“2
-Green Fireballs Seen by Many, LaPaz Reports,” Albuquerque Journal,
-May 29, 1952, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1817
Date: 5/28/1952
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque, New Mexico, fire department
-employees Martin Romero and Don Atteberry see two circular objects, one
-shiny silver and the other orange or light brown, performing fast
-maneuvers on three different occasions over the course of an hour above
-the northeast part of the city. (NICAP, [Blue
-Book case documents];
-Sparks,
-p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1816
Date: 5/28/1952
-Time: 1:45-2:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two city fire department employees. Two circular
-objects–one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown–were seen
-three times performing fast maneuvers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 120
Date: 5/28/1952
-Time: 10:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: many in crowd watching a ceremony. One
-white-silver disc-shaped object flew straight and fast for 2
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Saigon, French Indo China
-ID: 119
Date: 5/28/1952
-End date: 5/29/1952
-Description: During a night refueling mission at 8:10 p.m., the crews of
-five USAF B-29 bombers see green spherical objects. The primary sighting
-takes place near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and involves three B-29s
-flying at 15,000 feet. Another sighting takes place around 11:30 p.m.
-about 10 miles southwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. That crew is flying at
-25,000 feet. Three hours later the final sighting takes place near Enid,
-Oklahoma, also with a B- 29 at 25,000 feet. The aircrews making these
-reports do not think the objects are meteorites. (NICAP, “Five
-B-29 Bomber
-Crews Observe Green Objects”; Sparks,
-p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1818
Date: 5/29/1952
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. D.W. Feuerstein, on ground. One
-bright tubular object tilted from horizontal to vertical for 8 minutes,
-then slowly returned to horizontal, again tilted vertical, accelerated,
-appeared to lengthen and turned red. The entire sighting lasted 14
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 121
Date: 5/30/1952
-Description: USAF Maj. William
-D. Leet, copilot
-on a C-54 transport mission at 8,500 feet near Oshima, Japan, sees a
-dark object hovering in clouds for 7 minutes. It disappears, speeding
-away in seconds. (NICAP, “C-54
-Crew Encounters
-Round Black Object”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 January–May,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 82–83; Sparks, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1819
Date: 5/31/1952
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Mr. R. Baits is on the beach at Derna, Libya,
-with three companions when he notices a soft orange- yellow light
-traveling soundlessly toward them from inland at great speed and in a
-straight line. Suddenly, as it reaches a point overhead, it swerves to
-the east over the town, gaining height. After a few seconds it moves to
-the south and begins zigzagging until it fades away into the background
-of stars. (Newcastle (UK) Evening Standard, June 13, 1952; Jan
-Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1822
Date: 5/31/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #7. (US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 113–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1821
Date: 5/31/1952
-Description: About 4:00 a.m. Over Cheorwon, South Korea, several US
-soldiers see a bright UFO that looks like a falling star, except that it
-stops falling and begins to climb again. It then moves northeast at 150
-mph, reverses course twice, then climbs at a 45° angle and fades from
-sight. One guard hears a pulsating sound. An F-94 attempts to intercept
-the brilliant white object, which takes clearly evasive maneuvers and
-pulls away at 30,000 feet. (NICAP, “Jerky
-Object Observed and Tracked on Radar”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 87–90 ;
-Haines, Korea, pp. 63–64;
-Sparks, p. 136;
-Patrick Gross, “UFO
-US Military Reports, Korea, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1820
Date: 6/1952
-Description: Sunset. In Tombstone, Arizona, Navy Lieut. Cmdr. John C.
-Williams, his wife Josephine, and a guest see a “huge circular object”
-flying toward them from the direction of Tucson. Suddenly it stops in
-mid-flight, hovers, then reverses direction and retraces its course. A
-few seconds later it returns, stops gain, and appears to oscillate and
-tilt from one side to the other. Again it reverses its course, repeating
-everything 2–3 more times. (UFOEv, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1826
Date: 6/1952
-Description: Reports of UFO’s in Korean War
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: US
Date: 6/1952
-Description: Big month for sightings
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: US
Date: 6/1952
-Description: Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many
-times
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 6/1952
-Description: Ruppelt has
-four officers, two airmen, and two civilians on his permanent Blue Book
-staff (including Lt. Anderson
-G. Flues, Robert
-M. Olsson, and Kerry Rothstien), as well as a number of scientific
-consultants, including Hynek.
-In the Pentagon, Maj. Dewey Fournet
-Jr. is a full-time Blue Book liaison. (Ruppelt, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1823
Date: 6/1952
-Description: In the wake of mass public and governmental interest in
-UFOs kindled by the provocative Life magazine article, CIA intelligence
-experts Sidney
-N. Graybeal (Chief, Guided Missiles Branch, Weapons and Equipment
-Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence) and Irl
-D’Arcy Brent (Chief, Ground Branch, W&E Division, OSI) prepare a
-summary of the UFO subject for the CIA/OSI hierarchy based on the past
-several years of OSI intelligence (and OSI predecessor documents going
-back to ghost rockets of 1946) and mentioning sightings going back to
-the Bible. The possibility of swamp gas in Michigan as an explanation
-for UFOs is suggested by Brent (foreshadowing the Hynek swamp-gas
-fiasco in Michigan in 1966). This report has never been acknowledged or
-released by the CIA despite FOIA litigation. Its existence and contents
-are revealed in Brad
-Sparks’s interviews with Brent and Graybeal and other OSI officials
-in 1975–1976. (NICAP, “The
-1952 Sighting Wave”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1824
Date: 6/1952
-Description: Jet pilots allegedly discover the wreck of a flying disc on
-Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. It is taken to Narvik,
-where it is identified as either a Russian or extraterrestrial device.
-Other variants of the legend claim it is a Nazi device or that it is
-actually discovered on Heligoland, Germany, in the North Sea. Nick
-Redfern suspects the story is planted by either Soviet or US
-intelligence. (“Auf Spitzbergen landete Fliegende Untertasse,”
-Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 28, 1952; Hessische Nachrichten, July 26,
-1954; E. W. Grenfell, “First
-Report on the Captured
-Flying Saucer,” Sir! September 1954, pp. 16–17, 56–57; Le Lorrain,
-October 15, 1954; Verdens Gang, December 19, 1954; Condon, pp. 90–91;
-William Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo
-Archives, 1987, pp. 353–366; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Legend of the
-Spitsbergen Saucer,” IUR 17, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 14–20; Kremlin
-45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1825
Date: 6/1/1952
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witnesses: A/lc Beatty and two civilians. At least five
-long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
-ID: 122
Date: 6/1/1952
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W.C. Vollendorf.
-One oval object with a “definite airfoil” performed a fast climb for 7
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walla, Washington
-ID: 123
Date: 6/1/1952
-Time: 3+ PM
-Description: Witness: Ray Lottman. Three glimmering objects flew
-straight and level for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Soap Lake, Washington
-ID: 124
Date: 6/1/1952
-Description: Morning. The chief of a radar test section for Hughes
-Aircraft Company tracks an unidentified target coming across the San
-Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, California. It is moving at 180
-mph toward Santa Monica at an altitude of 11,000 feet. The object
-suddenly triples its speed to 550 mph, turns, and climbs over Los
-Angeles at 35,000 feet per minute. The target then levels out for a few
-seconds, goes into a high-speed dive, and levels out again at 55,000
-feet. They lose the blip somewhere near Riverside. (NICAP, “Radar
-Tracks Object Which Suddenly
-Climbs to 55,000 Feet”; Ruppelt, pp. 141–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1829
Date: 6/1/1952
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A cargo ship anchored at the wharf in
-Port-Gentil, Gabon, observes a mysterious object fly from behind the
-city, make a double loop, pass over the roadstead, and then dive toward
-the sea. (ClearIntent, p. 119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1828
Date: 6/2/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: lst Lt. John Hendry, photo-navigator on an RB-26C
-reconnaissance bomber. One porcelain-white object flew very fast for an
-unknown length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fulda, West Germany
-ID: 126
Date: 6/2/1952
-Time: 5:02 PM
-Description: Witness: Larry McWade. One purple object seen for unknown
-length of time. No further information in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bayview, Washington
-ID: 125
Date: early 6/1952
-Description: 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are
-driving in a narrow valley somewhere between Charleston and White
-Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, when they see a number of lights on a
-bridge crossing the valley. They begin blinking off, one by one. When
-they get to the bridge, they see no street lights. (Violet M. Winstead,
-Letter, IUR 9, no.1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1827
Date: 6/4/1952
-Description: Air Force Secretary Finletter issues
-a press release about his May UFO briefing, saying, “No concrete
-evidence has yet reached us either to prove or disprove the existence of
-the so-called flying saucers. There remain, however, a number of
-sightings that the Air Force investigators have been unable to explain.
-As long as this is true, the Air Force will continue to study flying
-saucer reports.” (Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1830
Date: 6/4/1952
-Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report.
-Type: intelligence report
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 5/10/1952
Date: 6/5/1952
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Dan Benson, Mr. Bacon. A total of eight yellow
-circular objects, like large stars, were seen during 45 minutes. The
-first two were in a trail formation, the others were seen singly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lubbock, Texas
-ID: 127
Date: 6/5/1952
-Time: 6:45 PM
-Description: Witness: S/Sgt T.H. Shorey. One shiny round object flew 5-6
-times as fast as an F-86 jet fighter for 6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 128
Date: 6/5/1952
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: 2nd Lt. W.R. Soper, a Strategic Air Command top
-secret control officer and former OSI agent; and two other persons. One
-bright red object remained stationary for 4.5 minutes before speeding
-away with a short tail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska
-ID: 129
Date: 6/6/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kimpo AFB, Korea
-ID: 130
Date: 6/6/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its second status report on Project Stork
-to ATIC. It describes a “tentative” data sheet for observers to fill
-out, a more detailed coding scheme, an example of an IBM punch card that
-will be used, and plans for statistical studies. (“Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork,” CUFON; “Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork,
-Part 2,” CUFON; Clark III 929)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1832
Date: 6/6/1952
-Description: 8:42 a.m. Flight Sgt. Kenneth
-Dudley Smith from the 77th RAAF Squadron at Kimpo Air Base [now
-Gimpo International Airport] in Seoul, Korea, observes a dull silver
-object in the shape of a coin performing spinning and tumbling maneuvers
-for 4 minutes at 345 mph. Flight Sgt. Kenneth Fawner also sees the UFO
-for 30 seconds. ([Blue
-Book case documents]; Sparks, p. 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1831
Date: 6/7/1952
-Time: 11:18 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of B-25 bomber #8840 at 11,500’. One
-rectangular aluminum object, about 6’x4’, flew 250-300’ below the
-B-25.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 131
Date: 6/8/1952
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Four flat, round, shiny objects in a diamond
-formation are seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the ground by
-Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland. The objects are approximately 15,000 feet
-in altitude and traveling 300 mph. There is no audible sound. They are
-first seen at about 60° above the horizon to the north and are traveling
-to the southwest at approximately 240°. (NICAP, “Diamond
-Formation of Flat Objects Observed”; Sparks, p. 138;
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010):
-10, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1833
Date: 6/8/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Markland. Four shiny objects
-flew straight and level in a diamond formation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 132
Date: 6/8/1952
-Description: During a launch of a pibal balloon at Calgary, Alberta, a
-silvery ellipse with a sharp outline reflecting sunlight and an aspect
-ratio of 8:1 crosses the field of vision of the observer’s theodolite.
-(Jan Aldrich; Project Magnet Case V)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1834
Date: 6/9/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 133
Date: 6/9/1952
-Description: Astronomer Donald
-H. Menzel writes in Time magazine that most UFOs are light
-reflections caused by ice crystals, refractions, or temperature
-inversions. (“An
-Astronomer’s Explanation: Those Flying Saucers,” Time, June 9, 1952;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1835
Date: 6/11/1952
-Description: 6:44 p.m. Two round objects, dark blue with gray centers,
-are seen moving southwest to northwest for 40 seconds at 500 mph and
-6,000 feet altitude several miles east of O’Hare Airport in Chicago,
-Illinois. One passes the other before disappearing. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1836
Date: 6/12/1952
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Major and Lt. Colonel, using
-binoculars. One orange ball with a tail flew with a low angular
-velocity.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Smith, Arkansas
-ID: 134
Date: 6/12/1952
-Time: 11:26 AM
-Description: Witness: T/Sgt. H.D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set.
-One unidentified blip tracked at 650 kts. (750 m.p.h.) at greater than
-60,000’ altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marakesch, Morocco
-ID: 135
Date: 6/13/1952
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Witness: R.S. Thomas, Olmstead AFB employee and former
-control tower operator. One round, orange object travelled south,
-stopped for 1 second, turned east, stopped 1 second, and went
-down.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 136
Date: 6/13/1952
-Description: 1:00 a.m. M. Veillot and M. Damiens, air traffic control
-operators at Paris–Le Bourget Airport, France, watch a prominent
-orange-red light hover in the sky for about one hour. Eventually it
-begins moving and crosses the sky southwest of the airport, accelerating
-rapidly. The light is also seen by M. Navarri, the pilot of an
-approaching Air France plane. (Michel, Truth About FS, 165–166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1837
Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: Men at work in the forest saw large, circular objects
-similar to parachutes coming down. Half a dozen witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: France-Soir Jun. 18, 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Magneville, France
-ID: 92
Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: 8:32 a.m. A meteorological assistant on reserve army
-maneuvers sees a large silver disc in the sky southeast of Halifax, Nova
-Scotia. It moves southwest for 30 seconds at an altitude of 5,000–8,000
-feet and then rises and merges in 2–5 seconds with altocumulus clouds at
-11,000–12,000 feet. Its diameter is about 100 feet and speed at least
-800 mph. (Good Above, p. 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1838
Date: mid 6/1952
-Description: Ruppelt briefs
-Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford and his staff, two Navy captains from ONI, and “some
-people I can’t name.” The meeting is contentious. One USAF colonel
-argues that Blue Book’s investigation is biased against the ETH, which
-launches an emotional debate. Ruppelt is directed to “take further steps
-to obtain positive identification” of UFO reports. (Ruppelt, pp. 147–149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1845
Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Edward Duke, a former Navy radar technician,
-sees an unidentified cigar-shaped object in the vicinity of Standiford
-Field [now Louisville International Airport], Louisville, Kentucky. It
-has a light on either side of the fuselage and a reddish hue on the
-trailing end. The object appears to be moving at about 400–500 mph and
-maneuvers around in several directions for 15 minutes, then descends and
-flies away to the northeast. ([Blue Book
-document]; Sparks, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1840
Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A round shiny object is seen over Gordonsville,
-Virginia. At 4:25 p.m., the crew of a commercial airliner reports a
-silver sphere over Richmond, Virginia. At 4:33 p.m., a Marine fighter
-jet is scrambled from Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William
-County, Virginia, and attempts to intercept a target south of
-Gordonsville but fails and returns to base. At 5:43 p.m., an Air Force
-fighter attempts to intercept the same shiny sphere but after reaching
-35,000 feet turns back. At 7:35 p.m., a UFO emitting a golden glow is
-seen over Blackstone, Virginia. Fighter jets from Langley AFB in
-Hampton, Virginia, are scrambled, but the object is gone by the time
-they get there at 8:05 p.m. (Ruppelt, pp. 194–195)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1839
Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air
-Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of
-Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above
-35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Gordonsville, VA
Date: 6/15/1952
-Time: 11:50 PM
-Description: Witness: Edward Duke, ex-U.S. Navy radar technician. One
-large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front, lit sides and a red
-stern, maneuvered in a leisurely fashion for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Louisville, Kentucky
-ID: 137
Date: 6/16/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF maintenance specialist S/Sgt. Sparks. Five or
-six greyish discs, in a half-moon formation, flew at 500-600 m.p.h. for
-l minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walker AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 138
Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: Astronomer Donald
-Menzel writes in an article in Look magazine about how he creates
-temperature-inversion UFOs in his laboratory. (Donald H. Menzel, “The
-Truth about Flying Saucers,” Look 16, no. 13 (June 17, 1952): 35–39;
-NICAP, “The
-Truth about Flying Saucers, Look
-Magazine”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1842
Date: 6/17/1952
-Time: Between 7:30 and 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many and varied. From one to five large
-silver-yellow objects flew erratically, stopped and started for about 15
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McChord AFB, Washington
-ID: 139
Date: 6/17/1952
-Time: 1:28 AM
-Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A light like a
-bright star crossed the nose of the airplane while being observed for 15
-seconds. No further information in the files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
-ID: 140
Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: 7:30–10:20 p.m. Many witnesses at McChord AFB [now Joint
-Base Lewis-McChord] south of Tacoma, Washington, see 5–6 yellowish
-discs, tracked by radar and theodolite. Several F-94s are scrambled.
-(NICAP, “1– 5
-Silver Yellow Objects Stop and Start”; Sparks,
-p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1843
Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: 8:45 p.m.. Orville Foster, a US Weather Bureau observer at
-the Pueblo (Colorado) Memorial Airport, watches a UFO through the
-bureau’s theodolite. It circles leisurely for 10 minutes, then
-disappears toward the northeast. (“‘Flying Saucer’ Sighted at Pueblo,”
-Leadville (Colo.) Herald-Democrat, June 18, 1952; Project 1947, “UFO Reports,
-1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1844
Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: 1:28 a.m. A USAF F-94 pilot sees a light like a bright star
-cross the nose of his jet at blinding speed over Cape Cod,
-Massachusetts, for 15 seconds. (Sparks, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1841
Date: 6/18/1952
-Description: EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter
-Aquarius document
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 6/18/1952
-Time: 9 AM
-Description: Witness: R.A. Finger. One crescent-shaped object hovered
-for several seconds and then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Wisconsin
-ID: 141
Date: 6/18/1952
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Marron Hoffman and four relatives, using 4x
-binoculars. One orange light was observed zigzagging and then hovering
-for an unspecified length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan
-ID: 142
Date: 6/18/1952
-Description: According to Sgt. Richard
-Doty’s 1980s disinformation, the living alien retrieved in 1949
-(EBE-1) and kept at Los Alamos, New Mexico, dies of unknown causes.
-(Clark III 364)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1847
Date: 6/18/1952
-Description: 5:00 p.m. USAF Capt. Erie P. Ashton and 2nd Lt. Clifton
-Ashley, while flying a B-25 about 100 miles east of March AFB [now March
-Air Reserve Base] in southern California, sight a silver object at
-approximately 11,000 feet in altitude off their left wing. The object is
-longer than it is wide and is in sight for about 39 minutes. (NICAP, “UFO
-Paces B-25”; Sparks,
-p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1846
Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A former Army Air Force ground crew member sees a
-UFO flying in a swirling motion over the backyard of his home in
-Trenton, New Jersey. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1851
Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Army Capt. Harold Hermann and his wife see a
-round, silver UFO speeding across the sky at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.
-(“‘Flying
-Saucers’ Sighted,” New York Times, June 24, 1952, p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1850
Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Four silvery UFOs are seen by many witnesses in
-Tacoma, Washington, flying silently at a high altitude. Unofficial
-sources report that the objects are tracked on radar at McChord AFB [now
-Joint Base Lewis- McChord] in Tacoma and jets are scrambled. (Tacoma
-(Wash.) Reporter, June 20, 1952; Shoot 9; Michael D. Swords,
-“Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 11, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1849
Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 2:37 a.m. At Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador,
-radar men pick up a UFO track. 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and others outside see
-a strange, red-lighted object come in over the field. The radar blip
-suddenly enlarges, as if the device has banked, exposing a larger
-surface to the radar beam. The watching airmen see the red light wobble
-or flutter. After a moment the light turns white and quickly disappears.
-Apparently, the unknown craft has gone into a steep climb. Keyhoe assumes
-the radar and visual sightings are simultaneous, but Blue Book records
-indicate they are separate. (NICAP, “Target
-Suddenly Enlarges”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 52;
-Sparks,
-p. 139; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report,
-Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1848
Date: 6/19/1952
-Time: 2:37 AM
-Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and unidentified radar operator.
-One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary
-target during the 1 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 143
Date: 6/19/1952
-Time: 2 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot John Lane. One round, white object flew
-straight and level for 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 144
Date: 6/20/1952
-Description: 3:03 p.m. A flight of four US Marine Corps captains and
-pilots (Bobbie
-Foster, Richard
-Francisco, Teddy
-L. Pittman, and
-Ronnie
-A. McDonald) of F4U-4B Corsair fighters with the 7302nd Squadron
-over central Korea see a silvery-white object passing below them,
-banking into a left turn. As the object circles around, Foster dives
-toward the object, which appears to be 10–20 feet in diameter. It flies
-away at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappears toward friendly
-lines. (NICAP, “F4U-4B
-Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO”; Sparks,
-p. 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1852
Date: 6/20/1952
-Time: 3:03 PM
-Description: Witnesses: four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B
-Corsair fighter planes. One 10-20’ white or silver oval object made a
-left-hand orbit at terrific speed for 60 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Central Korea
-ID: 145
Date: summer 1952
-Description: Mrs. Rogers saw an object descend slowly and pass across a
-pasture at 7 m altitude. She stopped her car and observed it was
-“wobbling” in mid-air, was shaped like a turtle, and showed three
-oarlike protrusions that moved slowly. Estimated dimensions: 5 by 4 m, 1
-m thick. It was greenish-gray in color, emitted a blue flame, but showed
-no other light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Barker 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Martin County, Texas
-ID: 91
Date: summer 1952
-Description: Denis Plunkett forms a British branch of Albert
-K. Bender’s International Flying Saucer Bureau in Bristol, England.
-When Bender closes down IFSB in late September 1953, the branch becomes
-the British Flying Saucer Bureau, with his son E. L. Plunkett as
-president. It publishes Flying Saucer News from Spring 1953 to Spring
-1956 and Flying Saucer News Bulletin from February 1955 through 1957.
-(Flying
-Saucer News, no. 1 (Spring 1953); Flying
-Saucer News Bulletin, no. 1 (February 1955))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1868
Date: summer 1952
-Description: Night. Radar at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, picks up a
-target at 40,000 feet flying at 460 mph. A nearby B-29 volunteers to
-investigate, searching until midnight. The pilot, a USAF colonel,
-finally reports a visual sighting of the UFO, flying at 40,000 feet and
-250 mph and appearing as a glowing white light shaped like a football.
-The object changes course and disappears at high speed. (UFOEv, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1869
Date: 6/21/1952
-Description: 10:58 p.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter at Oak Ridge,
-Tennessee, sees a small (6–8 inches in diameter), slow-moving UFO near
-the AEC plant. GCI radar obtains the target, but it fades from the
-scope. An F-97 on combat air patrol engages in a “dogfight” with the
-object, which makes “ramming attacks” at the aircraft. It blinks until
-it speeds away. (NICAP, “Radar
-Visual near AEC Plant”; Ruppelt, p. 43;
-Sparks, p. 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1854
Date: Summer 1952
-Description: While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American
-F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO.
-The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets
-at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the
-bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base
-commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt
-himself).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 7/52
Date: summer 1952
-Time: 0300
-Description: A woman was awakened by a thunderclap and a strong bluish
-light. As she got out, she saw a large number of hovering disk-shaped
-machines resembling “inverted soup plates” 200 m away at an altitude of
-about 1 m. She observed them for 30 min, saw two figures standing on one
-of the craft and looking at the sky. They went back inside, and shortly
-thereafter the “fleet” took off, one object at a time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Itenhaem, Brazil
-ID: 90
Date: 6/21/1952
-Time: 12:30 PM
-Description: Witness: T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of B-29
-bomber at 8,000’ altitude. One flat object with a sharply pointed front
-and rounded rear; white with a dark blue center and red rim, trailed
-sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500’, in l
-second.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kelly AFB, Texas
-ID: 146
Date: 6/21/1952
-Description: 12:30 p.m. T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of a B-29
-bomber flying at 8,000 feet altitude near Kelly AFB [now Kelly Field] in
-San Antonio, Texas, sees a small, flat object with a sharply pointed
-front and rounded rear. It is white with a dark blue center and red rim
-and trails sparks as it dives past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet in
-one second. (NICAP, “B-29
-Encounters Flat Object with Pointed Front”; Sparks,
-p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1853
Date: 6/22/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Two US Marine sergeants see a 4-foot diameter
-orange object dive at a runway from the north, dropping from 800 to 100
-feet altitude over the west end of the runway at Pyeongtaek military
-base, South Korea, shooting 2–5-foot red flames. It then heads west at
-about 300–450 mph for 2–3 seconds, hovers briefly over a hill, turns
-180° in 45–60 seconds, flashes, heads east a half mile, flashes again,
-and blinks out. No sound. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 82–83;
-Sparks, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1855
Date: 6/22/1952
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Two Marine Corps Sergeants. One 4 ft. diameter
-object dove at a runway shooting red flames, hovered briefly over a
-hill, turned 180, flashed twice and was gone.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pyungthek, Korea
-ID: 147
Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 6:08 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot of the l8th Fighter-Bomber Group. One
-black coin-shaped object, 15-20’ in diameter, made an irregular
-descent.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Location unknown, but information came via Japan Hq. “CV
-4359”
-ID: 153
Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 4:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson. One round
-disc with a metallic shine flashed, and fluttered like a flipped coin
-for 5-7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spokane, Washington
-ID: 148
Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. K. Thompson. One very large light flew
-straight and level for 10 minutes. No further information.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McChord AFB, Washington
-ID: 149
Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 10:00 AM
-Description: Witness: National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp. Two objects
-looking like “giant soap bubbles”, reflecting yellow and lavender
-colors, flew in trail for 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Owensboro, Kentucky
-ID: 152
Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kirksville, Missouri
-ID: 150
Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 1:30 a.m. USAF ADC radar operators Lt. A. N. Robinson
-Jr. and Airman Ray H. Foote, plus 5 other controllers, officers, and
-maintenance technicians at Kirksville Air Force Station in Missouri,
-track a hard target with a clear sharp return about the size of a B-29.
-It suddenly appears 85 miles north-northwest of the station, moving at a
-constant speed of about 3,600+ mph on a straight path for about 125
-miles for 2 minutes. Then it vanishes. A second target appears at 1:35
-a.m. (NICAP, “Seven
-ADC Men Track 3,600 MPH Target”; Michael D. Swords, “Case Missing,”
-IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 20; Sparks,
-p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1856
Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Secretary Martha Milligan sees a bullet-shaped
-object emitting a burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level over Oak
-Ridge, Tennessee. (NICAP, “June
-23, 1952: Oak Ridge, Tenn.”; Sparks,
-p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1857
Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. Oren
-Laramore Depp [Johnny
-Depp’s grandfather] sees two objects looking like giant soap bubbles
-reflecting yellow and lavender colors flying in line over Owensboro,
-Kentucky. (Sparks, p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1858
Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 4:05 pm. Airport weather observer Rex Thompson sees a round
-disc with a metallic shine flash and flutter like a flipped coin for 5–7
-minutes over Geiger Field [now Spokane International Airport], Spokane,
-Washington. (NICAP, “June
-23, 1952: Spokane, Wash.”; Sparks, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1859
Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. 2d Lt. K. Thompson sees a very large light flying
-straight and level for 10 minutes at McChord AFB [now Joint Base
-Lews-McChord] near Tacoma, Washington. (Sparks,
-p. 140; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March
-2010): 11, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1860
Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 3:30 AM
-Description: Witness: secretary Martha Milligan. One bullet-shaped
-object with burnt-orange exhaust flew straight and level for 30-60
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 151
Date: 6/24/1952
-Description: The first issue of Ouranos is published by the Commission
-Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. (Ouranos, no.
-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1861
Date: 6/25/1952
-Description: Wilbert
-B. Smith writes an “Interim Report on Project Magnet,” in which he
-states: “If, as appears evident, the flying saucers are emissaries from
-some other civilization, and actually do operate no magnetic principles,
-we have before us the fact that we have missed something in magnetic
-theory but have a good indication of the direction in which to look for
-the missing quantities.” (Good Above, p. 185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1862
Date: 6/25/1952
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Daniel Norbury and Lawrence Matheis see a
-bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object, sometimes with a red tail, make
-seven circles over Chicago, Illinois. (NICAP, “June
-25, 1952: Chicago, Illinois”; Sparks, p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1863
Date: 6/25/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Norbury, Mr. Matheis. One bright
-yellow-white, egg-shaped object which sometimes had a red tail, made
-seven circles in 1 1/2 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 154
Date: 6/25/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Japan-Korea area
-ID: 155
Date: 6/26/1952
-Time: 2:45 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF 2nd Lt. C. W. Povelites. Undescribed object
-flew at 600 m.p.h. and then stopped. No further information in
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
-ID: 156
Date: 6/26/1952
-Time: 11:50 PM
-Description: Witness: assistant manager of airport. Three sightings of
-flashing lights: two lights separated by 2 miles, with the leader
-flashing steadily and the other irregularly; two similarly flashing
-lights, but with l mile separation; finally a single light. Speed
-estimated at 150-250 m.p.h.. Total of 1/2 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 157
Date: 6/27/1952
-End date: 6/30/1952
-Description: Ruppelt visits
-McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington, to look into recent sightings there.
-Capt. Harnnagy of the 4704 Air Defense Wing Intelligence tells him that
-the objects are always seen in the northern sky around 8:00 p.m. (Loren
-E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1864
Date: 6/27/1952
-Time: 6:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot 2nd Lt. K. P. Kelly and wife. One
-pulsating red object which changed shape from a circular to a vertical
-oval as it pulsed. Was stationary for about 5 minutes, then went
-out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Topeka, Kansas
-ID: 158
Date: 6/28/1952
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Two observers at the Cargo Air Service hangar at
-Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see two silvery discs high in
-the sky and moving to the south. They noiselessly climb nearly
-vertically at high speed, one going south-southeast, the other heading
-almost due east. The observation lasts 30 seconds. (J. Allen Hynek, THE
-UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 68–69;
-Sparks, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1865
Date: 6/28/1952
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: G. Metcalfe. One silver-white sphere became an
-ellipse as it turned and climbed away very fast. 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Kishkanoug, Wisconsin
-ID: 159
Date: 6/28/1952
-Time: 4:10 PM
-Description: Witness: Capt. T. W. Barger, USAF electronics
-countermeasures officer. One dark blue elliptical-shaped object with a
-pulsing border flew straight and level at 700-800 m.p.h..
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nagoya, Japan
-ID: 160
Date: 6/29/1952
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: witnesses: three USAF air policemen. One bright silver,
-flat oval object surrounded by a blue haze, hovered, then moved very
-fast to the right and to the left, and up and down for 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 161
Date: 6/29/1952
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Three Air Force police officers of the 83rd Air
-Base Squadron at O’Hare Airport in Chicago spot a flat, oval object as
-it hovers between two radio towers about 7 miles away. It is bright
-silver in color, encircled by white haze, and appears about 30 feet in
-diameter. During the next 45 minutes the object moves to the southwest
-and then back north. It accelerates instantaneously to a speed faster
-than a jet fighter. ([Blue
-Book documents]; Sparks, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1866
Date: 6/30/1952
-Description: Ruppelt says
-that by this time there is a split in opinion in the military about what
-to do about UFOs. One group assumes that UFOs are interplanetary, and
-information must be withheld at a top-secret level. “The enthusiasm of
-this group took a firm hold in the Pentagon, at Air Defense Command
-headquarters, on the Research and Development Board, and many other
-agencies.” (Ruppelt, pp. 152–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1867
Date: 7/1952
-Description: Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 7/1952
-Description: Edgar
-Jarrold begins the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau in Sydney, New
-South Wales, Australia’s first civilian UFO organization, following his
-personal observation of two fast-moving yellow lights in the sky over
-Fairfield, New South Wales. (“Saucers
-on His Mind,” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Gazette, February 2, 1954,
-p. 7; Clark III 632)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1870
Date: 7/1952
-Description: Ohio Northern University sets up Project “A” to investigate
-the UFO’s.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Ohio Northern University
Date: 7/1952
-Description: Afternoon. A man driving a car near Schenectady, New York,
-sees an oblong object hovering nearby. A gondola lowers from the object
-and a bunch of “Navy officers in white hats” rush to the windows. All
-are wearing huge dark glasses. The gondola goes back up, and three
-smaller UFOs appear and go inside the bigger one. (Center for UFO
-Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1952–1953, p. 10; Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1871
Date: 7/1952
-Description: The administration and faculty of Ohio Northern University,
-in Ada, Ohio, announce the formation of Project A: Investigation of
-Phenomena, saying that members of the engineering, pharmacy, law, and
-liberal arts colleges will examine the evidence for UFOs under the
-direction of Dean Warren
-L. Hickman. Project A personnel seek reports from the public and
-collect newspaper clippings. The project receives a disappointing 54
-completed questionnaires, far lower than the 200 they would like for a
-scientific sampling. However, they do estimate that about 20% involve
-“unnatural phenomena.” After unsuccessful attempts to obtain reports
-from Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles and other groups, the
-university closes the project down in mid-1954. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 3; Clark III 916; Curt
-Collins, “Project
-A: The Short Life
-of a UFO Study,” September 21, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1872
Date: 7/1/1952
-Description: 8:40–9:15 a.m. Two silvery objects move south along the
-East Coast and hover near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for about 5 minutes
-at 50,000 feet. As radar at Fort Monmouth detects the objects, they put
-on a burst of speed and head southwest toward Washington, D.C.,
-confirmed visually. At about 12:00 noon, a physics professor at George
-Washington University in D.C. sees a grayish UFO hovering and arcing
-back and forth across the sky for about 8 minutes. He guesses about 500
-people are watching the object. (NICAP, “Objects
-Tracked at 50,000ʹ, G/V”;
-Ruppelt, pp. 151–152;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 36– 37; Sparks,
-p. 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1875
Date: 7/1/1952
-Description: 7:25 a.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a UFO headed
-southwest across Boston, Massachusetts. Two F-94s are scrambled. Erwin
-W. Nelson and his wife at Lynn, Massachusetts, notice two vapor trails
-from the climbing jets, look around, and see in the west a bright silver
-“cigar shaped object about six times as long as it was wide” heading
-over Boston at a very high altitude. An identical UFO is following the
-first some distance back. No vapor trails are visible. The witnesses
-watch the F-94s search back and forth far below the UFOs. At 7:30, USAF
-Capt. Robert
-E. Metcalf, petroleum officer for the 6520th Test Support Wing, and
-USAF air policemen M/Sgt James
-Stiner and M/Sgt Joseph R. Bosh, 6520th Air Police Squadron, at
-Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, see the two jets, look for what
-they are intercepting, and see to the east a 100-foot-long silvery
-ellipse “fatter than a cigar” traveling southwest. At two points, the
-object seems to hover, then continues at about 40,000 feet. The object’s
-path intersects contrails of the two jets heading southeast. Metcalf
-loses sight of the object on his way to the tower after a few minutes,
-then sees it again at about 7:40 a.m., noting it has increased distance
-“considerably,” but finally loses sight of it at the tower. ([Blue
-Book document]; UFOEv, p. 160;
-Ruppelt, pp. 150–151;
-Sparks, p. 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1874
Date: 7/1/1952
-Description: J.
-Robert Moskin’s article appears in Look magazine. It features
-Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg’s declaration that “we cannot afford to be complacent”
-about UFOs. Keyhoe says
-that the article has upset the “silence group” in the Pentagon. (J.
-Robert Moskin, “Hunt
-for the Flying Saucer,” Look. July 1, 1952, pp. 37–41; Keyhoe, FS
-from OS, pp. 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1873
Date: 7/2/1952
-Description: 11:10 a.m. As he is driving on a highway seven miles north
-of Tremonton, Utah, US Navy Chief Petty Officer Delbert C. Newhouse and
-his wife see a strange object in the sky. Newhouse pulls the car to the
-side of the road, gets out, and watches 12–14 UFOs at about 10,000 feet.
-Looking like “two pie pans, one inverted on top of the other,” they are
-clustered in a loose formation, “milling around.” He takes about 75
-seconds worth of film through the telephoto lens of his 16mm movie
-camera, though the objects have receded a bit to shiny points of light.
-At one point a single object leaves the pack, heading east, and Newhouse
-holds the camera still so the UFO crosses the field of view. He repeats
-the procedure 3-4 times. Blue Book obtains the film and sends it to the
-USAF Photo- Reconnaissance Laboratory and the Navy’s Photo
-Interpretation Laboratory. Both analyses eliminate the possibility of
-aircraft or birds. (NICAP, “The
-Tremonton, Utah / Newhouse Color Film”; “Delbert
-Newhouse UFO
-Footage, 1952, Tremonton, Utah,” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube channel,
-September 29, 2012; Ruppelt, pp. 220–222;
-UFOEv, pp. 88, 112;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 235–239;
-Condon, pp. 418–426;
-“Turner on Tremonton,” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): 6; Swords 149; Clark III
-1203–1204; Kevin D. Randle, “Newhouse’s
-Tremonton, Utah Movie
-Revisited,” A Different Perspective, December 12, 2013; Patrick
-Gross, “Tremonton,
-Utah, UFO Color Film
-of July 2, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1876
Date: 7/3/1952
-Description: 4:15 a.m. A witness on the Manitou Beach Highway near Rome
-Center, Michigan, watches two circular lights about 20 feet in diameter
-flying horizontally at tremendous speed at only a few hundred feet
-altitude. (NICAP, “July
-3, 1952: Selfridge AFB, Mich.”; Sparks, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1877
Date: 7/3/1952
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle sees two bright pastel-green
-discs fly straight and level very fast for 6 seconds over Chicago,
-Illinois. The next day the Air Force public information office at O’Hare
-Airport says it has received 16 reports of UFOs over Chicago in the past
-week. An Air Force spokesman says that jet patrols are on alert 24 hours
-a day. (Sparks, p. 145;
-“Deny
-Reports of ‘Saucers’ Alerts,” Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 4, 1952,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1878
Date: 7/3/1952
-Time: 4:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses not identified. Two big lights, estimated at 20’
-diameter, flew straight and level at tremendous speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
-ID: 162
Date: 7/3/1952
-Time: 11:50 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle. Two bright pastel green discs
-flew straight and level very fast for 6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 163
Date: 7/5/1952
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Four commercial pilots flying at 9,000 feet above
-the Hanford atomic site in Washington State observe a disc just below a
-deck of wispy clouds directly above their C-46. The witnesses are
-Capt. John Baldwin, Capt. George Robertson, H. D. Shenkel, and Steven
-Summers. Baldwin says that the disc stands still at first and then seems
-to back away and change shape, becoming flat, gaining speed, and then
-disappearing. Robertson says “we couldn’t pick it up on our radar. We
-reversed our course and went back, but we couldn’t spot it again.”
-(NICAP, “C-46
-Crew Observe Disc over AEC Plant”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 53;
-Sparks, p. 145;
-Swords 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1879
Date: 7/5/1952
-Description: 7:58 p.m. Oklahoma State Patrolman Arthur Myers Hamilton is
-flying five miles south-southeast of Norman, Oklahoma, in a State Patrol
-airplane when he sees three dark discs 4–8 miles away at 6,000 feet
-hover for 15 seconds then fly away, silhouetted against a dark cloud.
-(NICAP, “Three
-Dark Discs Sighted from State Patrol Airplane”;
-Sparks, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1880
Date: 7/5/1952
-Time: 7:58 PM
-Description: Witness: Oklahoma State Patrolman Hamilton in State Patrol
-airplane. Three dark discs hovered and then flew away, silhouetted
-against a dark cloud. 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Norman, Oklahoma
-ID: 164
Date: 7/6/1952
-Time: 11:00 PM
-Description: July 6-12, 1952. Witness: Charles Muhr. Four pictures taken
-of some indistinct light which was admittedly not seen visually, but
-which appeared on the negatives.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey
-ID: 165
Date: 7/7/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its third status report on Project Stork to
-ATIC. It mentions that Hynek has been consulted on the observer’s data
-sheet, suggested some changes, and is in the process of interviewing
-astronomers about any potential sightings made by them. The group has
-studied and coded UFO reports from 1948. (“Seven
-Status Reports
-for Project Stork,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1881
Date: 7/8/1952
-Description: A commissionaire on duty at an army depot in Ottawa,
-Ontario, sees a bright orange light about a quarter size of the full
-moon travel from south to north, turn, and travel south again. (Jan
-Aldrich; Project Magnet Case X)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1882
Date: 7/9/1952
-Time: 3:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. D.P. Foster and three other persons.
-Three times, a single white, disc-shaped object sped by, straight and
-level, in 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rapid City AFB, South Dakota
-ID: 168
Date: 7/9/1952
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Farmer John Mittl watches an aluminum,
-oval-shaped object silently change direction and attitude above his farm
-2 miles east of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, finally tipping on end and
-departing. He manages to take three photos. (Claude Falkstrom and Curt
-Collins, “John
-Mittl: From Unsolved UFOs to Astral Encounters,” The Saucers That
-Time Forgot,” July 13, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1884
Date: 7/9/1952
-Description: 12:45 p.m. USAF Maj. Claude
-K. Griffin is driving one mile north of Colorado Springs, Colorado,
-when he sees a luminous white object shaped like an airfoil moving
-slowly and erratically like a corkscrew. He estimates its size at 100
-feet, distance at 15–20 miles, and altitude at 30,000 feet, heading
-northwest. Griffin stops the car to watch for 12 minutes. USAF Maj. E.
-R. Hayden and his wife come out of their house and look at the object in
-a 4x rifle scope. He describes it as rectangular, silver on one side,
-and black on the other. It flutters as it moves slowly north-northwest
-above 20,000 feet 20 miles away. It gains altitude and gradually
-diminishes to a black dot, then accelerates to a high speed and
-disappears. ([Blue
-Book documents]; Sparks, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1883
Date: 7/9/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witness: farmer John Mittl. One aluminum, oval-shaped
-object changed direction and attitude, finally tipping on end and
-departing after 20 seconds. Case file includes three vague
-photographs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 167
Date: 7/9/1952
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. C. K. Griffin. One object shaped
-like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, moved slowly and
-erratically for 12 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
-ID: 166
Date: 7/10/1952
-Description: Night. Forty crew members of the Canadian destroyer HMCS
-Crusader off
-Korea see two shiny discs and track them on radar. The radar fix places
-them at 10,560 feet altitude and 7 miles distant. (NICAP, “Naval Destroyer
-Observes Two Discs / Tracks on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1887
Date: 7/10/1952
-Description: Night. A Marine pilot on night maneuvers near Marine Corps
-Base Quantico, Virginia, spots two green objects shoot straight across
-the sky at terrific speed at a high altitude. (“Radar
-Sees ‘Saucers,’ AF
-Investigating,” July 22, 1952, pp. 1A, 6A)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1886
Date: 7/10/1952
-Description: 8:18 p.m. Capt. James E. Lundy and First Officer Leon
-Blanks are flying a National Airlines C-60 airplane 15 miles south of
-Quantico, Virginia, when they see an object resembling an aircraft
-landing light. The object becomes brighter as it approaches from the
-north. It then performs a climbing turn away from the aircraft and its
-appearance changes, resembling a light emitted by a red flare. Visible
-for 10 minutes, it is flying too fast for any known aircraft. (NICAP,
-“Light
-Maneuvers near C-60 Airliner”; Sparks,
-p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1885
Date: 7/11/1952
-Description: Oscar Linke, former Wehrmacht major, and his daughter
-Gabrielle, 11, had to leave their motorcycle when they had a flat tire.
-Inside the woods the girl noticed two men in silvery suits examining the
-ground in a clearing near a pink disk-shaped object, 8 m in diameter,
-showing a double row of openings around the rim and a black turret on
-top. One of the men had a flashing box. Both men went inside, and the
-disk vibrated, rose along the turretlike cylinder, then spun faster and
-rose out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Guieu 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Hasselbach, Germany
-ID: 93
Date: 7/11/1952
-Description: The Air Technical Liaison Office, Directorate of
-Intelligence for the Far East Air Force, prepares Intelligence Report
-#29-52, detailing Air Force, Navy, and Marine radar UFO reports for
-1950–1952 in Korea and Japan. (Capt. Charles J. Malven, “FLYOBRPT:
-Japan/Korea Area,” IR-29-52, July 11, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1888
Date: 7/12/1952
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many radar controllers who were military
-officers. Several big blips tracked on radar at 1,500 kts. (1,700
-m.p.h.). There was no visual sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kirksville, Missouri
-ID: 170
Date: 7/12/1952
-Time: 3:30 PM
-Description: Witness: insurance company president William Washburn. Four
-large, elliptical-shaped objects were seen to fly very fast, stop, turn
-90 degrees and fly away in 7-8 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Annapolis, Maryland
-ID: 169
Date: 7/12/1952
-Description: 9:04 p.m. Two USAF F-86 Sabre jets with the 62nd Flight
-Squadron are flying at 22,000 feet on a routine training mission (or on
-a scramble mission) over Arlington Heights, Illinois. Capt. Robert W.
-Casey Jr., after coming out of a right turn, sees an oblong yellowish
-lighted object with an exhaust moving in a straight course about 15
-miles away south of Elgin, Illinois, at 22,000 feet traveling at 800
-mph. The F-86 pursues at maximum speed, but the object pulls away. Both
-pilots hear a strange radio transmission on their restricted
-communications channel during the pursuit saying the name of the pursuit
-pilot, Casey, in an ethereal “ghost-like” monotone. Apparently, this is
-a prank by Casey’s fighter pilot buddies at the 62nd who are monitoring
-his channel, though this is later officially denied by the 62nd. (NICAP,
-“F-86
-on Scramble Mission / Strange Radio Transmission”; Sparks, p. 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1890
Date: 7/12/1952
-Description: 8:42 p.m. O’Hare AFB weather observer Capt. W. J. Shea and
-a civilian, Jane Morrison, watch three lights, one main red light with
-smaller white lights on each side, traveling 500 mph at 40,000–50,000
-feet over Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois, from the west-northwest.
-They accelerate to the south and make a 180° turn heading
-north-northwest, then disappear. The UFO is seen by 400+ people, with 14
-others making reports to the 4706th Defense Wing located at O’Hare
-Airport. (Ruppelt, p. 153;
-Sparks,
-pp. 146–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1889
Date: 7/13/1952
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Capt. William Bruen, piloting National Airline
-Flight 611 heading north from Jacksonville, Florida, sees a round ball
-of bluish-white light about 60 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.,
-hovering to the west then ascending to the airliner’s altitude of 11,000
-feet, then parallel course off left wing at about 2 miles distance. It
-takes off upwards at 1,000 mph when Bruen turns on all aircraft lights.
-(NICAP, “Light
-Ascends, Paces Aircraft, Takes
-Off Vertically”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 90–91;
-Sparks, p. 148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1891
Date: 7/14/1952
-Time: 8:12 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Pan American Airways First Officer William Nash,
-Second Officer William Fortenberry. Eight large, round, glowing red
-objects maneuvered below their airliner, in formation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Norfolk, Virginia
-ID: 171
Date: 7/14/1952
-Description: Pan American pilots see formation of UFO’s.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 7/14/1952
-Description: The Ground Observer Corps expands into Operation Skywatch,
-consisting of 750,000 volunteers aged 7 to 86 years old working around
-the clock in shifts at more than 16,000 posts and 73 filter centers to
-detect a sneak attack against the United States. The expansion follows
-an Army announcement from a few weeks earlier that antiaircraft guns and
-personnel are on continuous duty in key areas. (Radomes.org, “Ground
-Observer Corps,” January 31, 2001; Shoot 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1892
Date: 7/14/1952
-Description: 9:12 p.m. Some 8,000 feet above the Chesapeake Bay in
-Maryland/Virginia, Capt. William
-B. Nash and
-copilot First Officer William
-H. Fortenberry, flying
-a Pan American Airways DC-4, see six crimson dots at 30°. The dots are
-streaking in their direction like tracer bullets. As they get closer,
-they resolve into reddish-orange circles, about 100 feet in diameter and
-15 feet thick, with sharply defined edges. Nash says they are holding a
-“narrow echelon formation.” When they are nearly underneath the
-aircraft, “they flipped on edge, the sides to the left of us going up
-and the glowing surfaces facing right. While all were in the edgewise
-position, the last five slid over and past the leader so that the
-echelon was now tail foremost.” Then they all flip over again into a
-flat attitude. Two new, brighter UFOs join the formation, and the lights
-of all eight objects blink out then come on again. They all speed
-westward (Nash estimates 6,000–12,000 mph) and climb in a graceful 45°
-arc. The entire sighting lasts only 15 seconds. Possible corroboration
-comes from a sighting in Camden, New Jersey, although the date is
-uncertain. (Wikipedia, “Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting”; “Miami
-Pilots Spot 8 Saucers Flying
-in Formation,”
-Miami (Fla.) Herald, July 16, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; NICAP, “Nash
-/ Fortenberry Case”; Sparks,
-p. 150; William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, “We
-Flew Above Flying Saucers,” True, October 1952, pp. 65, 110–112;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 47; Clark III 791; Good Above, pp. 269–270;
-“The
-Pilot’s Tale,” Saturday Night Uforia; Swords 149–150; Shoot 22–24;
-Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2
-(Summer 1999): 21–22; Thomas Tulien, “The 1952 Nash/Fortenberry Sighting
-Revisited,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 20–23, 27–28, reprinted in
-Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1
-(March 2010): 11, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1893
Date: 7/15/1952
-Time: 10:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: J. Antoneff and two other persons. One
-discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering, when it appeared
-muddy. Hovered over Palm Beach International Airport, then followed an
-SA-l6 twin-engined amphibian and flew away after 40-60 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
-ID: 172
Date: mid 7/1952
-Description: Ruppelt says
-that rumors persist that the Air Force is braced for an expected
-invasion by UFOs. “Had these rumormongers been at ATIC in mid-July they
-would have thought that the invasion was in full swing.” He talks to a
-scientist “from an agency that I can’t name” about the build-up of UFO
-reports. From his study of reports, the scientist predicts that “within
-the next few days they’re going to blow up and you’re going to have the
-granddaddy of all UFO sightings. The sighting will occur in Washington
-or New York, probably Washington.” Brad
-Sparks identifies the scientist as Stefan
-T. Possony, acting
-chief of the AFOIN Special Study Group and adviser to Gen. John
-A. Samford. (Ruppelt,
-pp. 154–155, 157;
-NICAP, “The
-1952 Sighting Wave”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1895
Date: 7/15/1952
-Description: The Lorenzens publish
-the first issue of the APRO Bulletin. (APRO
-Bulletin 1, no. 1 (July 1952))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1894
Date: 7/16/1952
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert. Four
-roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through
-window of photo lab.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
-ID: 173
Date: 7/16/1952
-Description: 9:35 a.m. US Coast Guard photographer Seaman Shell
-R. Alpert sees several bright lights through a window screen (no
-glass) from his position inside the photo lab at Coast Guard Air Station
-Salem [now Winter Island Marine Park], Massachusetts, while cleaning a
-camera. He watches them for 5–6 seconds, calls out to Hospitalman 1st
-Class Thomas
-E. Flaherty from sick bay to see them. The objects dim then brighten
-suddenly. Alpert grabs a camera and films 4 roughly elliptical irregular
-blobs of light in formation through the screen, on Super XX cut film
-4-by-5-inch format. The lights disappear suddenly in a flash. The photo
-is explained as showing reflections of light sources from inside the
-building, but this ignores the fact that the window is open, and the
-camera is not pointed through glass. (UFOEv, p. 88;
-Sparks,
-p. 151; Joe Nyman and Barry Greenwood, “The July 1952 Coast Guard Photo
-Revisited,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 3–5, 25–30; Michael D.
-Lampen, “Mystery Alpert Objects,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 27; “The
-Photographer’s Tale,” Saturday Night Uforia, December 3, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1896
Date: 7/16/1952
-Description: German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer
-metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter
-saucer
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Germany
Date: 7/16/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Paul
-R. Hill, an aeronautical research engineer, is watching the sky with
-his future wife, Frances Hoback, on Chesapeake Avenue (near LaSalle
-Avenue) in Hampton, Virginia, when he notices two amber- colored lights
-coming in over Hampton Roads from the south at 500 mph. They slow down
-and make a U turn, moving side by side until they revolve around each
-other at a high rate of speed in a tight circle 200–300 feet in
-diameter. A third UFO comes racing up from the direction of Virginia
-Beach and falls in several hundred feet below the other two, making a V
-formation. A fourth UFO comes in from up the James River and joins the
-group, which heads south at 500 mph. “Their ability to make tight
-circling turns was amazing.” Around 9:03 p.m., the four UFOs have moved
-out of sight to the south. (NICAP, “Two
-Pairs of Objects Maneuver Overhead”; [Blue Book
-documents]; UFOEv, p. 57;
-Sparks, p. 150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1897
Date: 7/17/1952
-Time: 11 AM
-Description: Witness: Air National Guard employees. One light like a big
-star was seen for 3 hours, but disappeared when an aircraft approached.
-Also seen the night of July 20, 22 and 23.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lockbourne, Ohio
-ID: 175
Date: 7/17/1952
-Time: 3:10 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. Florence Daley. Two round objects,
-bluish-white with brighter rims, flew in formation, making a sound like
-bombers, only softer. Note: Later, the witness stated she heard many
-feminine voices coming from the objects.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: White Plains, New York
-ID: 174
Date: 7/17/1952
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A woman leaving Yarmouth Harbour, Nova Scotia, on
-the SS Yarmouth watches seven silvery objects in an inverted triangular
-formation for 2 minutes. They hover momentarily, descend slowly, and
-disappear. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, pp. 268–269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1898
Date: 7/17/1952
-Alternate date: 7/18/1952
-Description: 10:10 p.m. T/Sgt. Thurman C. Mahone and A/3c Gene
-A. Jennings at Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard
-Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, see an amber-colored, elliptical-shaped
-object with a small flame at the rear, periodically increasing in
-brightness. It moves swiftly, giving off a resonant beating sound.
-(NICAP, “July
-18, 1952: Lockbourne, Ohio”; Sparks, p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1899
Date: 7/18/1952
-Time: 11 AM
-Description: Witnesses: E. R. Raymer and daughter. One opaque, silvery
-bubble flew very fast at a right-angle to the wind direction for 10
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami, Florida
-ID: 177
Date: 7/18/1952
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers and four enlisted men. Over
-an hour period, a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights
-were observed moving in a variety of directions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Patrick AFB, Florida
-ID: 178
Date: 7/18/1952
-Time: 9:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Mahone, A/3c Jennings. One amber-colored,
-elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically
-increased in brightness. It moved very fast for l 1/2 minutes, giving
-off a resonant beat sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lockbourne, Ohio
-ID: 176
Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Three Air Force officers and four enlisted men at
-Patrick AFB, near Cocoa Beach, Florida, see a series of hovering and
-maneuvering red-orange lights moving in a variety of directions. (NICAP,
-“Hovering
-and Maneuvering
-Lights”; Sparks, p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1903
Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: 6:10 p.m. André Frégnale is hiking near Lac Chauvet,
-Puy-de-Dôme, France, when he sees a disc flying west to east in a
-straight line at constant speed. He immediately takes two photos when
-the object is at its largest apparent size, then two others when it is
-moving away to his left. It is in view for 50 seconds. (“Une
-soucoupe volante,”
-Le Méridional, July 25, 1952, pp. 1, 8; Pierre Guérin, “A
-Scientific Analysis of Four Photographs of a Flying
-Disk near Lac Chauvet (France),” Journal of Scientific Exploration
-8, no. 4 (1994): 447–469; Alain Delmon, “Les
-Cas Solides: Lac Chauvet, France, 1952,” Les OVNIs: Intelligences
-non-humaines ou mythe moderne?, December 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1902
Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: Early morning. American Airlines pilot Capt. Paul L.
-Carpenter, First Officer George Fell, and Flight Engineer Quilici watch
-several dull-red objects with a “yellowish tinge” speeding around in the
-air at an altitude of 25,000– 30,000 feet near Denver, Colorado, during
-a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. A maximum of three
-objects are seen at one time over a 2-minute period. Carpenter says they
-seem to be about 100 miles away. The first object is moving south by
-southeast. One minute after it disappears, two more come into view going
-westward and another one eastward. “The two traveling westward
-disappeared about two seconds then reappeared traveling eastward.”
-(Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The
-Author, 1986, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1900
Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: Capt. Edward
-Ruppelt tells the press in Dayton, Ohio, that ground radar has
-tracked UFOs at speeds of 1,500– 2,000 mph, that jet fighters scrambled
-to intercept them have failed, and that “persons making these reports
-actually see something in the sky,” but the Air Force does not know what
-they are. (“‘Saucer’
-Sightings Spur AF’s
-Drive to
-End Mystery,” Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, July 18, 1952, pp. 1,
-10; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1952, June–July 20th, The
-Author, 1986, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1901
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Engineer John A. Anderson and other technicians
-at the Savannah River Atomic Site near Aiken, South Carolina, watch a
-greenish glowing object dart back and forth silently and erratically at
-high speed above the plant. It is in view for 2 minutes, moving
-constantly and changing direction at sharp angles. The object disappears
-over the horizon at “tremendous velocity.” (NICAP, “Multiple
-Witnesses Observe Strange Maneuvering
-Object”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 51; Nukes 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1906
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: Lincoln
-LaPaz tells newspapermen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that UFOs “can
-reverse directions and cruise back and forth; they travel at high speeds
-in wide sweeping circles…. They travel at high altitudes and can be
-followed as long as 3½ minutes.” (“Luminous
-Objects Flooding Southwest Skies Not Shooting Stars or Meteorites,
-Says LaPaz,” July 20, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1905
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 2:55 a.m. An experienced civilian pilot watches an
-elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe over Williston, North
-Dakota, for 5 minutes. It descends fast and makes a 360° then a 180°
-turn. (Sparks,
-p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1904
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a
-formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from
-Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military
-traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic
-speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were
-monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard
-Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs
-as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space
-restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000
-mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional
-patterns.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 7/26/52
Date: 7/19/1952
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. C.J. Powley and wife. Two
-star-like lights maneuvered, hovered and sped for 5-7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
-ID: 180
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Charles
-John Powley and his wife Janet see
-two star-like lights maneuver, hover, and speed up for 5–7 minutes over
-Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. (NICAP, “Three
-Groups of Witnesses See Strange Lights”;
-Sparks, p. 151;
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010):
-12, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1909
Date: 7/19/1952
-Time: 2:55 AM
-Description: Witness: one experienced civilian pilot. One
-elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, travelled down fast, made
-a 360 degree and then a 180 degree turn in 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Williston, North Dakota
-ID: 179
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A part-time farmer named Constantine and a
-hired hand named Davis are curing tobacco when they see two cigar-shaped
-objects—one hovering, the other moving to the east—for 3–4 minutes near
-Centerville, Virginia. Both objects are translucent, lit from within,
-and emit an exhaust from one end. They both ascend until they disappear.
-(Sparks, p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1911
Date: 7/19/1952
-End date: 7/26/1952
-Description: UFO’s detected by radar over Washington., D.C.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: radar
Date: 7/19/1952
-End date: 7/20/1952
-Description: 11:40 p.m. Air traffic controller Edward Nugent at
-Washington National [now Ronald Reagan National] Airport’s Air Route
-Traffic Control (ARTC) in D.C. picks up a formation of seven objects on
-his long-range radar. They are southeast of Andrews AFB [now Joint Base
-Andrews] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, moving along at 100–130
-mph. Two of the targets suddenly accelerate and vanish off the scope
-within seconds. One apparently reaches a speed of 7,000 mph. A second,
-shorter-range radar in the airport control tower (operated by Howard
-Cocklin and Joseph
-Zacko Jr.) and another at Andrews AFB has also tracked the objects.
-For 6 hours, between 8 and 10 UFOs are tracked on radar. Senior Air
-Traffic Controller Harry G. Barnes says that “They followed no set
-course, were not in any formation, and we only seemed to be able to
-track them for about three miles at a time…. I can safely deduce that
-they performed gyrations which no known aircraft could perform.” Several
-Capitol Airlines pilots (one of them Capt. S. C. “Casey” Pierman) see
-the objects visually as white or orange lights in restricted air space
-over the White House and Capitol. Ground observers at Andrews
-(Capt. Harold C. May, Staff/Sgt Charles Davenport) watch red or orange
-lights. Radar and visual sightings are also taking place at Bolling AFB
-[now Joint Base Anaconda-Bolling] in Washington, D.C. By 3:00 a.m., the
-UFOs are all gone, just as two F-94 interceptors arrive belatedly from
-New Castle AFB [now New Castle Air National Guard Base] in Delaware. The
-jets depart, and the UFOs return, observed by Capt. Howard Dermott, a
-Capitol Airlines pilot, and Sgt. Davenport at Andrews. Radar trackings
-continue, the last at 5:30 a.m. Civilian radio engineer E. W. Chambers
-sees five huge discs circling in a loose formation; they tilt upward and
-leave in a steep ascent. Blips appear on radar for at least another day,
-until the evening of July 20. (Wikipedia, “1952
-Washington, D.C.
-UFO incident”; NICAP, “The
-Washington National Sightings”; NICAP, “Andrews
-Tower Radar Confirms Washington
-Target”; “Washington’s Blips: ‘Somethings’ over the Capital Are
-Traced on Radar,” Life, August 4, 1952, pp. 39–40; Ruppelt, pp. 158–161;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 71–72; Clark III 1250–1252; Swords
-154–155; Sparks,
-p. 151; Condon, pp. 153–157, 862–867;
-Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol,
-HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 32– 58; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case
-Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 139;
-Shoot 28–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1910
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Six luminous round objects are seen by a
-Chicago, Illinois, woman moving horizontally and vertically as they
-cavort around in the sky. The same night, a UFO is seen by three
-witnesses at the Ground Observer Corps post at the city hall in Elgin,
-Illinois. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1908
Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Agricultural engineer Pedro Bardi and others on a
-farm in the Madre de Dios region of Peru see a UFO flying at 325 feet
-shortly after their short-wave radio goes dead. Bardi says it is a bit
-smaller than a DC-3 and is making a buzzing sound. It shows up 4 minutes
-later at Puerto Maldonado, 75 miles away, and Customs Administrator
-Domingo Troncosco photographs it. The photo shows an elongated object
-trailing smoke, passing over the top of a tree and in front of a cumulus
-cloud. (Curt Collins, “The
-Case of the Smoking Saucer,” In Honor of Jim Moseley, November 3,
-2014; Curt Collins, “Jim
-Moseley: The Case of the Smoking Saucer,” The Saucers That Time
-Forgot, August 18, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1907
Date: 7/20/1952
-Time: 0030
-Description: Approximate date. R. Petijean saw a luminous object, 20 m
-diameter, on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off,
-leaving a smell of burning sulphur.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco
-ID: 94
Date: 7/20/1952
-Description: Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/52): 3 UFO
-spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs
-reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude.
-Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the
-radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer
-during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer”
-reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Andrews AFB
Date: 7/20/1952
-Time: 12:20 AM
-Description: Witness: Seton Hall Univ. chemistry professor Dr. A.B.
-Spooner. Two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring flew
-in trail, turned and circled for 5-6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lavalette, New Jersey
-ID: 181
Date: 7/21/1952
-Description: 6:30 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Edward
-E. Dougher and WAF Lt. Josephine
-J. Stong, separated by one mile on the ground in Wiesbaden, Germany,
-see 4 bright yellowish lights. Dougher watches them separate, with two
-climbing and two flying away level in the opposite direction. His wife
-Barbara joins
-him as they fly away. Stong sees two reddish lights fly in opposite
-directions for 10–15 minutes. (NICAP, “Separated
-Witnesses Observe Maneuvering Lights”;
-Sparks, p. 152;
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010):
-12, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1914
Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 8:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one military officer, two enlisted men. One
-aluminum, delta-shaped object with a vertical fin, flew straight and
-level, and then hovered during a 3 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rockville, Indiana
-ID: 185
Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witness: wife of USAF Capt. J. B. Neal. One elongated,
-fuselage-shaped object flew straight and level, made a right-angle turn
-and went out of sight at more than 300 m.p.h., all in 3-5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Converse, Texas
-ID: 184
Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 10:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one Lieutenant, two Staff Sergeants, three
-airmen. One blue circle with a blue trail was seen to hover and then
-accelerate to near-sonic speed (700+ m.p.h.) after 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Marcos AFB, Texas
-ID: 183
Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. E.E. Dougher, WAF Lt. J.J.
-Stong, situated miles apart. Four bright yellowish lights were seen by
-Dougher to separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the
-opposite direction. Stong watched two reddish lights fly in opposite
-directions. Sightings lasted about 10-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Weisbaden, West Germany
-ID: 182
Date: 7/21/1952
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Radar used to measure wind velocity in the upper
-atmosphere at Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia, detects an
-unusual object flying at 50,000 feet. Observing the blip are four radar
-technicians who state that “it could have been an electromagnetic
-phenomenon but they did not believe it was.” A second blip appears on
-the radar moving toward the wind-finding weather balloon and passing
-through it three separate times. USAF officials report “in private
-conversations” that the object moves at 1,200 mph, slows considerably
-for 3–5 minutes, then disappears. The Civilian Defense director in
-Atlanta, George
-M. “Pup” Phillips, receives a report of the object but has “no
-details.” Col. Murray
-C. Woodbury, commander
-of the 35th Air Division at Dobbins, checks with “defense officials in
-Washington” before telling the press that such reports are sent to the
-Air Technical Intelligence Center (Project Blue Book) in Dayton, Ohio,
-for evaluation. Surprisingly, he admits, “We try to intercept such
-objects and identify them, but so far we have been unsuccessful.”
-(NICAP, “Blip
-Makes Passes
-on Wind-Finding Target”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July
-21st–31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 3; Sparks,
-p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1913
Date: 7/21/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Ruppelt first
-hears about the National Airport sightings in D.C. when he buys a
-newspaper in the Washington National Airport terminal. He has been to
-Andrews AFB in Maryland the day before with his boss Col. Donald
-L. Bower, and
-no one had said anything. At 1:00 p.m., Maj. Dewey
-Fournet calls Ruppelt to come to a briefing with Capt. Berkow, a
-USAF intelligence officer from Bolling AFB in D.C. Ruppelt hears that
-President Truman is
-personally interested and wants a full investigation, but Bower orders
-Ruppelt to return to Wright- Patterson AFB in Ohio. (Ruppelt, pp. 158–159;
-Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO
-History Workshop, Sign
-Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 46–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1912
Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 10:50 PM to 12:45 AM, July 23
-Description: Witnesses: crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from
-Dover AFB, Del. Thirteen visual sightings and one radar tracking of
-blue-white lights during two hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Trenton, New Jersey
-ID: 190
Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 10:47 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet
-interceptor. One round blue light passed F-94, spinning.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts
-ID: 189
Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 2:46 PM
-Description: Witness: Don Epperly, Trans Texas Airlines station manager
-and weather observer. One large, round, silver object flew at more than
-1,000 m.p.h. for 45 seconds, while gyrating.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Uvalde, Texas
-ID: 188
Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: control tower operator Don Weins, and two pilots
-for Carco. Eight large, round, bright aluminum objects flew straight and
-level, then darted around erratically during 25 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
-ID: 187
Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: After midnight
-Description: Witness: Mrs. A. Burgess. One round, yellow, flashing light
-went downward. No further information in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts
-ID: 186
Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: At Wright-Patterson AFB, Ruppelt meets
-with ATIC electronics specialist Capt. Roy
-L. James (who harbors a “personal dislike for UFOs”). He tells
-Ruppelt that weather conditions caused the Washington radar
-returns.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1915
Date: 7/22/1952
-End date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from
-Dover AFB, Delaware, make 13 visual sightings and one radar tracking of
-blue-white lights around Trenton, New Jersey, continuing until 12:45
-a.m. White, green, and blue lights are seen by ground observers and F-94
-pilots moving in arcs and blinking out suddenly. One F-94 crew gets a
-radar lock-on from 30,000 feet away of an object the size of an F-94. At
-9,000 feet distance, the object makes a sharp right turn, suddenly drops
-in height, and disappears. (Sparks, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1920
Date: 7/22/1952
-End date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An air traffic control tower operator at MacDill
-AFB in Tampa, Florida, watches for 30 minutes a red-greenish-blue object
-to the west-southwest at about 45° elevation with 2 other objects to the
-north of it, smaller and lower in elevation. He sights another object to
-the south-southeast about 30° elevation at 11:30 p.m. MacDill radar
-tracks an object at 12:03 a.m. 37 miles away at 41,200 feet altitude
-heading almost directly toward the base at 532 mph. It also tracks an
-object to the south-southeast at an altitude of 41,000 feet (reportedly
-Navy and CAA radars also track the object). At 12:08 a.m., the pilot and
-copilot of a B-29 bomber on landing approach are vectored by MacDill
-tower operator to investigate the UFO. They see a high-speed object at
-40,000 feet heading towards MacDill and traveling faster than the B-29.
-The B-29 fire control radar locks onto the object and prepares to fire
-just as the UFO changes course and disappears at 4,600 mph. Four airmen
-at the MacDill radar site see an object as it passes nearly overhead.
-MacDill radar loses the object at about 12:15 a.m. Civilians in Tampa
-also see two yellowish-orange discs maneuvering around the air base. (Sparks, p. 156;
-Tampa (Fla.) Daily Times, July 23, 1952, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1919
Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: 10:20 p.m. A bluish-green UFO is seen over Boston,
-Massachusetts, and a few minutes later it is picked up by GCI radar.
-When Ground Control vectors an F-94 toward the UFO, the pilot sees the
-UFO near Braintree and locks on to it with his own radar. But the object
-easily leaves the jet behind. (NICAP, “F-94B
-Chases Object / With
-Airborne Radar Tracking”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 67;
-Sparks,
-pp. 154–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1918
Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Eubert T. White and his wife see three silvery
-objects whizzing across the sky above Worcester, Massachusetts, “like
-planes in attack formation.” One of the objects has a bluish glow in the
-front and a reddish tint behind it. (“Strange Objects in Worcester Sky,”
-Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle, July 23, 1952; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July 21st–31st,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 14; Shoot 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1917
Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company President Joseph H. Rohrer
-gives a lecture (one of a series) on flying saucers at a chamber of
-commerce meeting in Pueblo, Colorado. He mixes a few genuine cases with
-some crashed saucer fiction, claiming that 7 discs have been retrieved
-by the US government, three of them forced down in Montana. One occupant
-has survived, he says, a little man 3 feet tall who is later kept alive
-in a secret site in California. Rohrer claims he has been inside a
-100-foot-diameter disc in 1942, but he has made up these stories for
-entertainment purposes. (“Flying Saucer Talk Startles Chamber Membership
-Meeting,” Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain, July 23, 1952, p. 3; Keyhoe, FS from
-OS, pp. 111–113;
-James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth!
-Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 90–92;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-6, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1916
Date: 7/23/1952
-Time: 8:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: the two-man crews of three USAF F-94 jet
-interceptors. One large silver object, shaped like a long pear with two
-or three squares beneath it, flew at 150-180 kts. (170-210 m.p.h.),
-while a smaller object, delta-shaped or swept back, flew around it at
-1,000-1,500 kts. (1,150-1,700 m.p.h.). Seen by crews for 1-4
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 191
Date: 7/23/1952
-Time: 12:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two-man crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors
-at 35-46,000’ altitude. Three cylindrical objects in a vertical stack
-formation flew at an altitude of 50-80,000’. Seen for 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania
-ID: 192
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: Night. Contactee Orfeo
-Angelucci feels compelled to walk over the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge
-in Glendale, California. He feels an odd sensation and suddenly sees in
-front of him a soap-bubble-like object that turns into a metallic craft.
-He gets aboard and is taken on his first trip into outer space. (Orfeo
-Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, pp. 18–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1927
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A.
-Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO’s “Those people have seen
-something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to
-know”.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p128)
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 8:40 a.m. The crews of three USAF F-94 jet interceptors see
-a large silver object, shaped like a long pear with 2–3 squares beneath
-it, flying at 170–210 mph over Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A smaller
-object, delta-shaped or swept-back, flies around it at 1,150-1,720 mph.
-([Blue
-Book document]; Sparks, p. 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1923
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Seaman Henry
-J. Arnpriester is on watch at Nahant (Massachusetts) Coast Guard
-Station [now closed] when he sees two bluish lights approximately 5 feet
-in diameter. They appear as flat, disc-shaped objects having no
-aerodynamic features and move without sound or exhaust trail at a speed
-faster than a four-engine airliner at an altitude of 1,100 to 2,000
-feet. When they are approximately 1.5 miles from the point of
-observation, they execute an extremely sharp turn similar to the path of
-a ball bouncing off a wall. (Lt. Col. Robert S. Jones, “Spot
-Intelligence Report,” July 29, 1952; Sparks, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1921
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 7:36 a.m. US Navy radar at Jamestown, Rhode Island, tracks
-a high-speed target heading north at 42,000 feet. It is confirmed by ADC
-radar at Camp Hero [now closed] at Montauk Point, New York. F-94s and
-F-86s are scrambled unsuccessfully from Westover AFB [now Westover Air
-National Guard Base] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. (NICAP, “Jets
-Scrambled / High Speed Object at 45,000ʹ Feet”; Sparks, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1922
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 12:50 p.m. Crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors flying
-at 35,000–46,000 feet altitude near Altoona, Pennsylvania, see three
-cylindrical objects in a vertical-stack formation fly at an altitude of
-50,000–80,000 feet for 20 minutes. (NICAP, “July
-23, 1952: Altoona, Penna.”; Sparks,
-p. 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1924
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. Owner Edwin C. Johnston and more than 20
-employees of Aircraft Hydroforming at Culver City, California, see a
-bright silvery elliptical object that moves northwest over the Northrup
-aircraft plant in nearby Hawthorne, then stops and hovers. Two small
-discs emerge and circle around the area before rejoining the mother
-ship. The object then climbs straight up out of sight at tremendous
-speed. (“Aircraft
-Co. Owner Sees ‘Discs’
-Four Nights in Row,” Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts, July 24, 1952,
-p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1925
Date: 7/23/1952
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth. Two bright
-blue-white objects flew together, then the rear one veered off after
-about 9 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: South Bend, Indiana
-ID: 193
Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Many witnesses at Lockbourne AFB [now
-Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, including
-visiting Capt. Eugene E. McManus from Turner AFB [now Naval Air Station
-Albany] in Albany, Georgia, observe four round, fluorescent white
-objects hovering near the base at 75,000 feet. An Air force pilot named
-Capt. Swartz in Flight Service at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio,
-radios in the report that the objects are balloons. Two F-84 jets are
-scrambled at 8:15 p.m. and identify them as a balloon cluster. The
-objects, seen over many other areas of central Ohio (Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt says he was called out to see it over Wright- Patterson),
-are probably USAF reconnaissance balloons sent up from Clinton County
-Airport in Wilmington, Ohio. (NICAP, “July
-23, 1952, Lockbourne, Ohio, UFO Report”; Clark III 395–398)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1926
Date: 7/24/1952
-Time: 3:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two USAF Lt. Colonels McGinn and Barton in a
-B-25 bomber. Three silver, delta-shaped objects, each with a ridge along
-the top, crossed in front of and above the B-25 at high speed, in 3-4
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Carson Sink, Nevada
-ID: 194
Date: 7/24/1952
-Time: night
-Description: A man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk
-hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water.
-The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a
-dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen
-through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at
-the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock
-as a “green ray” hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see
-the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a
-foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Vico, Italy
-ID: 95
Date: 7/24/1952
-Description: 3:40 p.m. Two USAF pilots, Lt. Col. John L. McGinn and Lt.
-Col. John
-R. Barton, are flying a B-25 out of Hamilton AFB [now closed] in
-Novato, California, for Colorado Springs. They are over Carson Sink,
-Nevada, at 11,000 feet when they see three unknown objects make a left
-bank and fly to within 400–600 yards of the plane. They are three bright
-silver, delta-wing craft with no tails and no canopies. The pilots see a
-clean upper triangular wing with a definite ridge that runs from the
-nose to the tail. They estimate the speed as at least three times that
-of any conventional jet. (Wikipedia, “Carson
-Sink UFO incident”; NICAP, “B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs”;
-NICAP, “The
-Carson Sink Case”; Sparks, p. 157; Ruppelt, pp. 10–12;
-Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28,
-no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 5; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,”
-IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 12, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1928
Date: 7/24/1952
-Description: BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath
-the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning
-the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in
-official FBI UFO files.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 7/25/1952
-Alternate date: 4/25/1952
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Carlo Rossi is on his way to a fishing spot on
-the Serchio river near San Pietro a Vico, Lucca, Italy. He notices an
-odd light above the river and finds that it belongs to an enormous
-disc-shaped object with a transparent dome. It is about 82 feet in
-diameter and apparently taking up water through a long tube. The object
-is standing in the river on three legs and has a ladder reaching down
-next to the tube. Rossi thinks it is hovering by means of propellors.
-Suddenly a porthole opens, and a human figure looks out and notices him.
-Rossi begins to leave, but a green ray passes above his head and he
-feels an electric shock. The object takes off and disappears to the
-west. (“Le
-Nostre Analisi: Precisazioni sul Caso di S. Pietro e Vico (1952),”
-Notiziario UFO, no. 67 (July/Sept. 1975): 4–9; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-12, 2006; 1Pinotti 42–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1929
Date: 7/25/1952
-Description: Capt. J. W. Titus of the 140th Wing Medical Group sees two
-oval-shaped objects flying in formation at 400– 600 mph in Portales, New
-Mexico. They are silent and leave no vapor trail. At one point, they
-make an abrupt 80° turn and fly off to the north. (Nukes 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1930
Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: 12:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. H. A. Stone, men in control towers at
-Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport. One greenish light with red-orange
-flashes was seen for 1 hour as it descended in the northwest from 40
-degree elevation to 10 degree elevation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kansas City, Missouri
-ID: 196
Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Event occurred until after midnight. Witnesses: radar
-operators at several airports, airline pilots. Many unidentified blips
-tracked by radar all over Washington area, at varying speeds. Pilots
-spotted unidentified lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 195
Date: 7/26/1952
-Description: Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more
-blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space
-over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over
-to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with
-Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press
-Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear
-ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards
-the UFOs.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/26/1952
-Description: 5:15 p.m. Air Defense Command radar detects a UFO over
-Williams, California. An F-94 jet interceptor is scrambled and locks
-onto the object with its radar. The crew sees a yellow-orange light. As
-confirmed by ground and airborne radar, the UFO plays tag with the F-94,
-alternately accelerating away when it gets close, then slowing down
-until it catches up again. (NICAP, “F-94
-Intercept with ADC Detection”; Sparks,
-p. 158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1932
Date: 7/26/1952
-End date: 7/27/1952
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Flying saucers return to the nation’s capital,
-only one week after a massive number of radar- visual UFO sightings
-above restricted air space in Washington, D.C. At 8:15 p.m., pilot
-Capt. Berkow and a stewardess of a National Airlines flight near
-Washington National Airport [now Ronald Reagan National] see several
-objects resembling the glow of a cigarette high above them. The lights
-move at around 100 mph. Soon, the airport and Andrews AFB in Maryland
-are tracking a dozen UFOs throughout much of the sky, all traveling 90–
-100 mph. By midnight, two F-94s are scrambled from New Castle AFB in
-Delaware to intercept them. National Airport staff hustle newspaper
-reporters away from the air traffic control tower, saying that
-interceptions are classified (but Project Blue Book chief Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt suspects that the Air Force does not want the press
-around when they finally get a good look at a saucer). The UFOs are seen
-on radar for 2 hours, but when the jets approach, the blips disappear.
-When the pilots return to base, they show up again. Reports are reaching
-Langley AFB about rotating objects that give off alternating colors over
-Newport News, Virginia. Another F-94 is scrambled, the pilot gets a
-radar lock, and the target speeds away. At National Airport, the objects
-reappear shortly before dawn, and two more F-94s are scrambled. The
-pilots obtain radar locks; again, the objects speed away. USAF press
-spokesman Albert
-M. Chop is in the airport radar tower and notes that everyone there
-believes the targets are “very probably caused by solid metallic
-objects.” One F-94 pilot, Lieut. William Patterson, says, “I saw several
-bright lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing
-speed.” A USAF air intelligence report later states that the radar crew
-is emphatic that the returns are solid and not temperature inversions.
-In 1969, however, Colorado project physicist Gordon
-David Thayer concludes that the radar events involved temperature
-inversions. He believes the visual sightings were caused by meteors and
-scintillating stars. University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James
-McDonald disagreed, arguing that Thayer’s own data did not support
-his conclusion. Colorado project psychologist Michael
-Wertheimer interviews many of the radar operators; nearly all
-disagree with the inversion explanation and maintain that all
-experienced radar operators have no trouble identifying such phenomena.
-(NICAP, “The
-Washington National Sightings”; Richard Hall, “The Washington
-Invasion, July 26/27, 1952”; Clark III 1252–1255; Ruppelt, pp. 163–167;
-Condon, pp. 157–158, 862– 867;
-Swords 156–159; Good Above, pp. 270–272;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-Washington D.C. UFO Flap of 1952”; Sparks, p. 158;
-Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol,
-HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 68– 76,127–148, 253–260; Shoot 42–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1931
Date: 7/26/1952
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Three women in Oran, Algeria, notice a large,
-orange-red, luminous patch in the sky. It travels from east to west,
-halts, then vanishes. It is one of many UFOs seen in the province of
-Oran over several weeks. (ClearIntent, pp. 120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1933
Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Williams, California
-ID: 199
Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: 12:05 AM
-Description: Witness: Airman lst Class J.M. Donaldson. Eight to ten
-orange balls in a triangular or V-formation flew very fast for 3-4
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 198
Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: This was a continuation of the extensive sightings and
-radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, DC. area, all
-night long.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Andrews AFB, Maryland
-ID: 197
Date: 7/27/1952
-Description: Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other
-visits.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 7/27/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Ellis. Two disc-shaped
-objects, illuminated by a phosphorus light, flew at an estimated l,000
-m.p.h. for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
-ID: 201
Date: 7/27/1952
-Description: 6:35 p.m. A group of eight pilots and engineers see a
-large, silvery object moving rapidly at a high altitude over Manhattan
-Beach, California. After it makes a turn, the UFO separates into 7 discs
-that form into groups, circle, and speed out of sight. Former Navy pilot
-and aircraft engineer J. E. Kempf says the formation looks like a “stack
-of coins.” (NICAP, “Large
-Object Separates into 7 Discs”; Sparks,
-p. 159; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March
-2010): 13, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1935
Date: 7/27/1952
-Description: 10:40 a.m. Bowling Green State University biologist Charles
-H. Otis sees a “flotilla” of UFOs “seemingly floating along, making
-no sound” at 3724 Dexter Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He grabs a pair of
-5x binoculars and studies them until they disappear. He counts 15 of
-them in a loose formation, moving slowly. One object leaves the
-formation and disappears in a burst of speed. The body of each seems to
-be elongated but split at the rear. A bright glow is visible in the
-front, and they have a bifurcated tail streaming out horizontally, never
-changing in length (UFOEv, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1934
Date: 7/27/1952
-Time: 10:05 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crewmen on ground. Many round,
-white objects flew straight and level, very fast. Two at 10:05, one at
-10:10, one at 10:15, one at 10:20. Each was seen for about 30
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
-ID: 200
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to
-Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff
-about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let
-me have a report at your convenience.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p505, Churchhill)
-Location: Britain
-See also: 8/9/52
Date: 7/28/1952
-Time: 2:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Walstead, S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th
-AC&W Squadron. One dull, glowing, blue-green ball,.the size of a
-dime at arms’ length, flew very fast, straight and level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McChord AFB, Washington
-ID: 204
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper
-articles
-Type: letter
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/28/1952
-Time: 6 AM
-Description: Witness: Ground Control Approach radar operator M/Sgt. W.F.
-Dees, and persons in the base control tower. Radar tracked a large
-cluster of very distinct blips. Visual observation was of oblong objects
-having neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn and at one
-time were in echelon formation. Entire episode lasted 55 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McGuire AFB, New Jersey
-ID: 203
Date: End of 7/1952
-Description: SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell,
-Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide
-reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been
-ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is
-to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947
-to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in
-1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such
-importance that the matter should be brought before the National
-Security Council.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p31,506, war escalation)
-Location: Dayton OH
-See also: 9/19/76
-See also: 5/10/80
-See also: 5/19/86
-See also: 9/4/87
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: President Truman, resting
-in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Democratic Convention, calls CIA
-Director Walter
-Bedell Smith and asks him to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling
-of the Washington National sightings. Smith later directs, through
-Deputy Director for Intelligence Loftus
-E. Becker, that a CIA/OSI group be put together to review the USAF
-UFO intelligence program at ATIC. Truman’s involvement is meant to be
-kept Top Secret and is not revealed until 1992. (Clark III 1012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1941
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: In charge of jet interceptions over Washington, D.C.,
-during the big UFO flap, USAF Director of Operations Gen. Roger
-M. Ramey issues an ambiguous public denial that the interceptors
-have been ordered to shoot down any saucers. However, newspaper articles
-and other documents say there was such an order. (David Rudiak, “Background
-on Gen. Roger M. Ramey,” June 4, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1940
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: According to the United Press, the Air Defense Command has
-alerted jet interceptor pilots to take off instantly in pursuit of any
-flying saucers. The International News Service amplifies this by quoting
-the Air Force that orders have been issued to shoot them down if they
-refuse to land. The Air Force refuses to confirm this, but USAF Deputy
-Press Officer Lt. Col. Moncel
-A. Monts states that “jet pilots are, and have been, under orders to
-investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t
-talk them down.” (“Air
-Force Alerted for ‘Discs’:
-Sightings
-over Washington Put Jets at Ready,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 28,
-1952, p. 1; “Jets
-on 24- Hour
-Alert to Shoot Down ‘Saucers,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 29,
-1952, p. 2; Shoot 49–50; David Rudiak, “1952
-Flying Saucer ‘Shoot Down’ Stories,” Roswell Proof)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1939
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Late afternoon. Ruppelt and
-Maj. Ed Gregory arrive in Washington, D.C., dodging newspaper reporters
-at the Roger Smith Hotel. Blue Book receives an astonishing total of 50
-UFO reports in a single day. UFO inquiries are jamming the Pentagon
-telephones. Air Force and CIA officials concede that the Soviet Union
-might take advantage of the confusion. (Ruppelt, pp. 166–167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1938
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: USAF Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford secretly orders a deemphasis on or elimination of human
-anecdotal UFO reports. Instead, they would be “going on instruments,” as
-worded in his briefing, so that he can close down Blue Book.
-Technological hurdles and budget limits greatly delay the plan, but Blue
-Book does transition into a propaganda debunking mission over the next 6
-months. (Clark III 813)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1937
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Early morning. While napping between shifts as a
-heavy-equipment operator in the Nevada desert, Truman Bethurum is
-awakened by 8 small men who “seem to be of Latin extraction.” They take
-him to a nearby flying saucer where he meets the captain, a “gorgeous
-woman, shorter than any of the men, neatly attired, and also having a
-Latin appearance: coal black hair and olive complexion. She appeared to
-be about 42 years old,” although Bethurum learns that she is hundreds of
-years old. Her name is Aura Rhanes. Her ship is called a “scow,” and her
-crew is from the planet Clarion, a world that is always on the other
-side of the moon. He later tells this story and his later adventures in
-his 1954 book Aboard a Flying Saucer, ghostwritten by Mary Kay Tennison.
-(Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer, DeVorss, 1954; Clark III
-192–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1936
Date: 7/28/1952
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Sgt. B.C. Grassmoen, WAC Pfc. A.P. Turner. One
-saucer-shaped object having an appearance of light metal and giving off
-shafts of white light, flew slow, made a 90^ turn and climbed away fast
-after 4-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Heidelberg, West Germany
-ID: 202
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Canadian researcher Wilbert
-B. Smith allegedly shows Rear Admiral Herbert
-B. Knowles a metallic piece from a saucer that was shot down near
-Washington, D.C. It is twice the size of a man’s thumb and has been
-loaned to him by the Air Force, but he must return it to the CIA (or
-another secret agency). (David Rudiak, “Wilbert
-B. Smith,”
-Roswell Proof; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 48–49;
-Good Above, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1942
Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: UK Prime Minister Winston
-Churchill writes to William
-Sidney, Secretary of State for Air, and scientific adviser and
-friend Lord
-Cherwell, saying, “What does all this stuff about flying saucers
-amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at
-your convenience.” The response, dated August 9, begins: “The various
-reports about unidentified flying objects, described by the Press as
-‘flying saucers,’ were the subject of a full Intelligence study in 1951”
-[presumably the report by the Flying Saucer Working Party]. (“Records
-Show Winston
-Churchill’s Interest in UFOs,” The Cosmic Report, December 12, 2020;
-Good Above, pp. 30,
-448–449;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1943
Date: 7/29/1952
-Alternate date: 7/28/1952
-Description: 9:40 p.m. An Aircraft and Warning Station in Port Huron,
-Michigan, tracks an unidentified return on radar for 20 minutes. GCI
-asks Capt. Edward J. Slowinski flying an F-94B on a practice run to
-investigate. The pilot sees a bright, flashing, colored light in the
-location of the blip 29 miles west of Port Huron and follows it for 20
-minutes. Slowinski is unable to close on the object. (NICAP, “Key
-Radar Case (CCL #17)”; Sparks, p. 160; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 72–73; Center for UFO Studies, [documents
-and case files])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1956
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from
-Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence
-stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted
-visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing
-review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group
-has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will
-participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15,
-1952.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p505)
-Location: Britain
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Sidney Eubank went to the Enid police station and told
-Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disk had buzzed his car as he
-drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the
-car leave the road while the object flew west very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 134 (Vallee)
-Location: Enid, Oklahoma
-ID: 96
Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 1:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators on ground, pilot of F-5l Mustang
-in flight. Several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one
-large target. Small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 kts.
-(60-70 m.p.h.), following each other. The large one moved at 600 kts.
-(700 m.p.h.). One hour total time. Pilot confirmed one target.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
-ID: 205
Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt D.G. Moore, of military air traffic
-control system. One undescribed object flew at an estimated 2,600
-m.p.h., below 5,000’ altitude, toward the air base for about 2
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
-ID: 206
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 3:44 or 4:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Herbert Mitchell and one employee. One dark,
-discus-shaped object, trailed by a silvery light 2 lengths behind,
-tipped on its side, dove, hesitated and then circled very fast during
-the 2 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Merced, California
-ID: 208
Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 12:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess at
-Municipal Airport. One bright white circular object with a flat bottom
-flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft
-Co. plant, during the 5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita, Kansas
-ID: 209
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Michigan
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: An orange, oblong stationary object is observed at the
-airport in Macdonald, Manitoba, in the south- southwestern sky for 2
-minutes. It seems to change into a group of small round lights. They all
-disappear together. (Jan Aldrich; Project Second Storey)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1952
Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 2:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. Moore, Gilfillan electronics representative
-W. Yhope. One radar target tracked moving away, stopped for 2 minutes,
-again moved very, very fast. Four minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
-ID: 207
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Robert
-G. LeCompte sees a flight of at least 10 luminous objects pass over
-Albuquerque, New Mexico. At first they appear overhead in no pattern,
-heading north, then shift to a V formation. They then shift into two
-rows. (NICAP, “AF
-Reserve Colonel Observes Rapid Ellipse”; Sparks,
-p. 163; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March
-2010): 13, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1954
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Marine Pfc Ralph C. Mayher, using 16 mm film
-exposed at 24 frames per second, obtains footage of a high-speed UFO
-over Miami Beach, Florida. Retaining a few frames for personal study,
-Mayher submits the main portion of the film to the Air Force for
-analysis. The film is never returned, and no analysis report is ever
-released. Enlargements of a few frames show a fiery looking, roughly
-circular object, symmetrical, with two small peaks or projection on
-opposite sides of the disc. The CIA examines the film in 1957 and
-returns it with no comment or analysis. The Mayher case features
-prominently in the subsequent lawsuit by Ground Saucer Watch against the
-CIA and is important because it is a confirmed case of direct
-interaction of the CIA with a witness, clearly indicating that there was
-CIA interest in the subject. (NICAP, “Ralph
-Mayer / Miami Film”; Ralph Mayer, “I
-Proved Flying Saucers Are Real,” Pic, June 1954; Good Above, pp. 355–356)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1955
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 1:30 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar outside of Osceola,
-Wisconsin, picks up some unidentified targets. Four F-51s from St. Paul,
-Minnesota, are scrambled, but the targets are moving around so quickly
-that it is impossible to vector in on a single target. The F-51 pilots
-see many lights; one pilot at 25,000 feet sees an object blaze across
-the nose of his airplane. Two other pilots vainly try to climb up to a
-hovering light that is in the same position as the radar targets. ATIC’s
-Robert M. Olsson and Wendell Swanson explain the radar incident as a
-temperature inversion and the visual sighting as a meteor. (NICAP,
-“Clusters of Small Targets and One Large Target”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July
-21st–31st, Supplemental
-Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 80–85; Sparks, p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1944
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Early morning. CAA radar tracks 8–12 UFOs at a time
-traveling 100–120 mph in a 10-mile arc around Washington, D.C. When an
-Eastern Airlines pilot tries to check on the radar targets at the
-request of the CAA at 3:00 a.m., he sees nothing. The targets disappear
-from CAA radar when the airliner approaches then come back in behind him
-after he passes through the area. (“Air
-Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ As Just ‘Natural Phenomena,’” New York
-Times, July 30, 1952, pp. 1, 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1945
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. President Truman tells
-his air force liaison, Robert
-B. Landry, to
-find out what is going on with UFOs. Landry calls ATIC and eventually
-reaches Ruppelt,
-who tells him that weather may have caused the radar targets, but there
-is no proof. He later learns that Truman is listening in. There is some
-evidence that Truman or Landry soon contact the National Security
-Council directly to find out how to proceed with the UFO problem.
-(Ruppelt, p. 167;
-Swords 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1946
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Several employees of Los Alamos Scientific Labs,
-New Mexico (including Robert B. Leachman, W. Schafer, E. T. Jurney), see
-a white object moving east to west with a gyrating motion. Two jet
-interceptors from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque arrive 5 minutes later.
-The object disappears but reappears in front of the jets, makes a 360°
-turn, comes around in back, follows for 2 minutes, then disappears.
-(NICAP, “Jets
-Scrambled from Kirtland”;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 61–64;
-Sparks, p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1947
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Four weather observers at Walker AFB [now closed] in
-Roswell, New Mexico, watch several high-speed discs through a
-theodolite. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 114–115;
-Sparks,
-p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1948
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: An FBI memo from Victor P. Keay on “Flying Saucers”
-discusses a classified briefing about UFOs by Cmdr. Randall
-Boyd Jr. of the Air Intelligence Estimates Division to Norman
-W. Philcox, an
-FBI liaison to the Air Force. The Air Force has “failed to arrive at any
-satisfactory conclusion” on UFOs. Reports are being received from all
-parts of the US and distant parts of the world. Boyd explains that USAF
-has made no progress in ascertaining the nature of UFOs, but it is
-filing them into three classifications: reports by civilians on the
-ground, reports by commercial or military pilots, and reports by pilots
-that are confirmed by radar or ground observations. He concludes by
-writing that it is “not entirely impossible that the objects sighted may
-possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars,” but he adds that
-“air intelligence is fairly certain that these objects are not ships or
-missiles from another nation in this world.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001,
-pp. 55–56; ClearIntent, pp. 175–177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1949
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Ralph
-L. Clark, acting
-assistant director of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence, sends a
-memo to OSI Deputy Director Robert
-Amory Jr., indicating
-that the agency will be looking into UFO matters a bit more thoroughly,
-even though it has been collecting cases for the past three years (since
-1949): “a special study group has been formed to review the subject to
-date. D/CI [Walter
-Bedell Smith] will participate in this study with D/SI [H.
-Marshall Chadwell], and a report should be ready about 15 August.”
-It alludes to his meeting with CIA rocket consultant Frederick
-C. Durant and others the previous day. (Ralph L. Clark, “Recent
-Sightings of Unexplained Objects,”
-July 29, 1952, reprinted in
-“The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler”; Good Above, pp. 330, 505)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1950
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the American Rocket
-Society, urges President Truman and
-defense officials to restrain the US armed forces from shooting at UFOs.
-He says that hostile action might alienate us from “beings of far
-superior powers.” (Robert L. Farnsworth, [Telegram
-to President Truman], July 28, 1952; “A
-Pro-Saucer Voice
-Heard,” New York Daily News, July 29, 1952, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1951
Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 12:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF persons, alerted that UFOs were coming from
-the direction of Seattle, Wash. Two to five flat disc-shaped objects:
-one hovered 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. Sighting length of
-30 minutes not explained further.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ennis, Montana
-ID: 210
Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 4:00 p.m. The Air Force holds its largest and longest press
-conference since the end of World War II. Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford, director
-of USAF intelligence, leads it. He is accompanied by Eighth Air Force
-Maj. Gen. Roger
-M. Ramey, director
-of operations and commander of the Eighth Air Force; USAF Col. Donald
-L. Bower, Technical Analysis Division, Air Technical Intelligence
-Center (ATIC), Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio; Project Blue Book
-head Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt; USAF Capt. Roy
-L. James, ATIC radar specialist; and Burgoyne
-L. Griffing, electronics branch, ATIC. Samford says that the Air
-Force has been monitoring US air space since 1947. Approximately 20% of
-UFO reports come from “credible observers of relatively incredible
-things,” which keeps the Air Force concerned. He explains that the
-Washington, D.C., sightings earlier in July were caused by “weather
-phenomena” that caused radar beams to bend and pick up objects on the
-ground. James offers more technical explanations about temperature
-inversions that cause radar echoes. Pro-UFO Maj. Dewey
-J. Fournet
-Jr., USAF
-public relations officer Al
-Chop, and
-Navy radar specialist Lieut. John Holcomb are conspicuous by their
-absence. (NICAP, “General
-Samford’s Press Conference,” July 29, 1952; Ruppelt, pp. 168– 169;
-“General
-Samford’s UFO Press Conference, Pentagon, July 29, 1952,”
-knightskross YouTube channel, August 3, 2010; “The
-Air Force Makes a Pass at the Saucer Stories,” Life 33, no. 6
-(August 11, 1952): 35; Swords 159–163; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 60–63;
-Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol,
-HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 77–126; Shoot 53–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1953
Date: 7/30/1952
-Description: Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg tells the press that, although he does not believe there
-are flying saucers, he dislikes the “mass hysteria” about them. He says
-the Air Force has had experts investigating them since the end of World
-War II and never found anything substantial. (“‘Double
-Vision,’ Vandenberg,” Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press-Democrat, July 31,
-1952, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1958
Date: 7/30/1952
-Description: Flight Sgt. Roland Hughes of No. 20 Squadron RAF is on a
-training flight in a de Havilland Vampire FB-9 jet fighter and returning
-to base at RAF Oldenburg, Germany, when he sees a “gleaming silver,
-metallic disc” drop down from above and fly alongside his aircraft for
-several seconds before speeding off. The object is about 100 feet long.
-Its surface is shiny “like tinfoil,” highly reflective, and “without a
-single crease or crinkle in it.” On August 5, Hughes is ordered to fly
-to RAF Faßberg for further questioning. He arrives and finds a number of
-officers, including his commander and the UK Minister of Supply, Duncan
-Sandys (Winston
-Churchill’s son-in- law), who asks Hughes how many beers he had
-before his saucer sighting. The Air Commanding Officer then reveals that
-the object had also been tracked on radar going faster than any known
-aircraft. This convinces Sandys that the case is a serious one, a view
-that he communicates to Lord
-Cherwell, the government’s chief scientific adviser, in a letter,
-saying there is “ample evidence of some unfamiliar and unexplained
-phenomenon.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 44–46;
-“The
-UFO Sighting That Convinced a Government Minister,” The Telegraph,
-May 27, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1957
Date: 7/30/1952
-Time: 11:02 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. George Funk. One orange light
-remained stationary for 10 minutes. No further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 211
Date: 7/30/1952
-Time: 10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: E.E. Nye and one other person. One round, white
-object flew slow and then sped away after 20-30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 212
Date: 7/30/1952
-Description: 1:10 p.m. Willie
-Vaught of Alexandria, Indiana, sees a strange looking cloud and
-calls her two teenage daughters (Laura and
-Patsy)
-and Laura
-Oliver to see it. While looking at it, they see six flat,
-aluminum-like objects streak across the cloud, merge, and disappear
-within a minute. (“Alexandria
-Family Reports Seeing ‘Flying
-Saucers,’” Alexandria (Ind.) Times-Tribune, July 31, 1952, p. 1;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no.
-4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1959
Date: 7/31/1952
-Description: Brig. Gen. Alfred
-R. Maxwell of the Research and Development Board prepares a
-memorandum that generally supports the official position that UFO
-reports contain no information of value, he writes: “The Air Force has
-made very little progress in learning what the phenomena or objects
-are.” (Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona, Marlowe,
-1994, pp. 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1960
Date: 8/1952
-Description: Hollywood producer Clarence
-Greene and a friend see a “sphere of light” in the sky over Los
-Angeles, California. Visible for 5 minutes, the object alternately
-hovers and turns before speeding off over the horizon. The next morning,
-Greene tells his business partner Russell
-Rouse about the sighting. As he reflects on the experience, he grows
-ever more irritated by the stigma attached to UFO sightings. (Clark III
-1188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1961
Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Scripps-Howard reporter Howard
-Doyle Kline sees a cluster of glowing white objects overhead in
-Albuquerque, New Mexico. The objects shift around into various patterns,
-including a perfect V at one point. Their shifts in position are
-incredibly swift and fantastically violent, he says. “They made” a
-flying saucer believer out of me.” He reports the incident to Lincoln
-LaPaz, University of New Mexico meteoriticist, and Col. William
-A. Matheny, commander
-of the 34th Air Defense Division. The report, which is one probably used
-in Maj. Dewey
-Fournet’s Motion Study, is missing from the Project Blue Book files.
-(New York World-Telegram, August 2, 1952; UFOEv, pp. 69–70;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952
-July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1965
Date: 8/1/1952
-Time: 1:14 AM
-Description: Witnesses: sheriff’s deputies and other persons, one named
-Mallette. Two brilliant red lights hovered and maneuvered for 5
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lancaster, California
-ID: 213
Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: 10:51 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar site on Campbell
-Hill at Bellefontaine, Ohio, tracks a target 20 miles NNW of
-Wright-Patterson AFB, traveling 500 mph against the wind. It vectors two
-F-86s piloted by Maj. James B. Smith and Lt. Donald
-J. Hemmer. They make visual contact but climb to 48,000 feet twice
-without reaching it. Smith gets a weak return on his radar gun sight and
-shoots a gun camera film of a white or silvery sphere estimated at
-60,000 feet. They break off the intercept at 11:13 a.m. about 100 miles
-west-southwest of Dayton. The film reportedly shows a UFO in the upper
-right of the frames with noticeable motion to the lower left. Although
-Blue Book Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt’s assistants Lt. Anderson
-G. Flues and Lt. Robert Olsson initially declare the case an
-“unknown,” Ruppelt changes that evaluation a few weeks later after ATIC
-Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. Donald
-L. Bower transfers out, explaining it as two separate but
-coincidental IFOs—a weather balloon and a jet. Ruppelt goes to great
-lengths to debunk the case in his ADC briefings to the Robertson Panel.
-(NICAP, “Gun
-Camera R/V Case”; Condon, pp. 161–163;
-Clark III 392–395; Hynek UFO Report, p. 21;
-Sparks,
-p. 165; Patrick Gross, “The
-Bellefontaine, Ohio, Radar/Visual/Photographic Case, 1952”; Shoot
-71–73; Center for UFO Studies, [Blue
-Book documents and files])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1962
Date: End of 8/1/1952
-Description: CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment
-Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA
-interest or concern reach the press or public.”
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Langley, Virginia
Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: Edward
-Tauss, acting
-chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division of the CIA’s Office of
-Scientific Intelligence, writes a letter to OSI Deputy Assistant
-Director Ralph
-L. Clark, saying
-that less than 100 credible reports remain unexplainable.
-“interplanetary aspects and alien origin not being thoroughly excluded
-from consideration.” He recommends the CIA continue to cooperate with
-ATIC, but “no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or
-public.” (ClearIntent, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1963
Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: 8:30–9:00 p.m. We, the People, a 30-minute TV news show
-produced by Life magazine, devotes its airtime to the recent UFO
-sightings over Washington, D.C. WNBW-TV, which originates the program,
-rents a DC-3 airliner, fills it with 20 newsmen, and has the plane
-circle over Washington, just in case the saucers return. On the ground
-in the radar room of Washington National Airport there are more newsmen
-and TV cameras. The show features editors and journalists Frank
-Blair, David
-Brinkley, Clay
-Blair, and
-various UFO witnesses. (Curt Collins, “UFOs
-on TV: The 1952 Washington, DC Saucer Flap,” The Saucers That Time
-Forgot, July 5, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1964
Date: 8/2/1952
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. W.A. Theil, one enlisted man. One
-red ball with a blue flame tail flew straight and level for 3-4
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
-ID: 214
Date: 8/2/1952
-Description: 3:00 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. W. A. Theil and enlisted man Edwards
-see a red ball with a trail of blue flame fly straight and level over
-Lake Charles, Louisiana. (Sparks, p. 165)
-August 2 [or July 30] — George
-Hunt Williamson and his wife Betty are visited in Prescott, Arizona,
-by two other metaphysics enthusiasts, Alfred C. Bailey and his wife
-Betty of Winslow, Arizona. This evening, in the course of an
-automatic-writing experiment using a sort of Ouija board, they receive a
-message from an extraterrestrial in a spacecraft. In the days and weeks
-that follow, “Nah-9 of Solar X Group” and many other planetary and star
-people communicate with them. The space people call earth “Saras.” Nah-9
-says that the good men of Saras must unite with good space people to
-avert a calamity. More Ouija sessions take place through August 17. A
-message comes through that they will be contacted via radio with an
-International Morse Code message on August 22. Bailey approaches a
-coworker on the Santa Fe Railroad, a ham radio operator named Lyman
-Streeter, and
-asks for his help in picking up the space signals. (Clark III 1283;
-George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age,
-1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006):
-21–22; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt
-Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 178–181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1966
Date: 8/3/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. An Air Force master sergeant on the ship Santa
-Luisa observes three round, flat, metallic objects hovering at
-30,000–40,000 feet some 10 miles away from his position at the mouth of
-the Rio Guayas near Isla Puná, Ecuador. After 5 seconds, one object
-dives to the west then turns back northwest. They all disappear after
-another 5 seconds. (Project 1947, [case
-documents]; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1967
Date: 8/3/1952
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Two huge silvery discs are observed visually and
-tracked on radar for 1 hour and 15 minutes over Hamilton AFB [now
-closed] near Novato, California. The ground observers are pilots
-Capt. Leslie
-R. Hadley, Capt. Wayne
-T. Perske, and
-2d Lt. Duane
-A. Swimley. They
-dive at each other and maneuver as if in a dogfight. After F-86s are
-dispatched to intercept, 6 more objects appear, take up a diamond
-formation, and accelerate out of sight. (NICAP, “Eight
-Huge Objects Observed by 8 Witnesses and Radar”; Sparks,
-p. 165; Project 1947, “Hamilton
-Air Force Base, Hamilton, California, August 3, 1952”; Project 1947,
-[Blue
-Book documents and files];
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010):
-14, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1968
Date: 8/3/1952
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Civilian engineer Paul L. Anderson sees 3
-light-green cylindrical objects at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
-They are hovering at 45° elevation in an inverted-V formation, switching
-to echelon when one object moves with a rolling motion along its long
-axis. It disappears by rapidly rising vertically. The observation lasts
-9 minutes. (NICAP, “Three
-Cylindrical Objects Observed by Engineers”; Sparks,
-p. 165; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March
-2010): 14, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1969
Date: 8/4/1952
-Time: 11:37 AM
-Description: Witnesses: one woman, two children. One object, shaped like
-a lifesaver or donut, emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15’
-arc in 1.5 minutes. Observed for 2 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Vernon, New York
-ID: 216
Date: 8/4/1952
-Time: 2:20 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF A/3c W.F. Vain. One yellow ball which
-lengthened and narrowed to plate shape, flew straight and level for 5
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Phoenix, Arizona
-ID: 215
Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: Day. During a daylight observation of Venus, astronomer James
-C. Bartlett Jr. watches two discs fly overhead in a southerly
-direction at Baltimore, Maryland. They move away to the east, then two
-more objects with dome-like protrusions in the center fly past. (“Two
-Huge UFOs Sighted by Baltimore Astronomer,” UFO Investigator 1, no.
-5 (Aug./Sept. 1958): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1971
Date: 8/5/1952
-Time: 11:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF F-94 jet interceptor pilots lst Lt. W.R.
-Holder and lst Lt. A.M. Jones, and Haneda control tower operators.
-Airborne radar tracked a target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators
-watched 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as
-330 kts. (380 m.p.h.), hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of
-maneuvers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Haneda AFB, Japan
-ID: 217
Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 12:25 a.m. A trio of brilliant white dots of indefinite
-shape, at an altitude of an estimated 5,000 feet, passes over Westover
-AFB [now Westover Reserve Air Base] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The
-second object is half the size of the first, and the third is half the
-size of the second one. The first one resembles an automobile headlight.
-The appearance of other two is not given. The three are in a triangular
-formation. No jet activity is recorded over the airbase at the time and
-witnesses say the objects are moving “faster than jets.” (Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1952, August, The
-Author, 1986, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1970
Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 9:46–12:00 midnight. A visual sighting is made at 9:46 p.m.
-by an observer on the ground at Manassas, Virginia, who spots a
-brilliant oval flying south. About 10:50 p.m., Andrews AFB in Maryland
-picks up two unidentified blips moving slowly and steadily away from
-Washington, D.C., on a course toward Mount Vernon, Virginia. Minutes
-later the fluorescent screens at Andrews show two more UFOs to the east
-of the field moving for a short distance, stopping, and then moving
-again. The speed of the targets is a slow 60 mph. The height of the
-targets is unknown. Planes from both Andrews AFB and Bolling AFB are
-sent up to investigate but rainy weather forces them to turn back after
-they reach 15,000 feet altitude. Around 12:00 midnight yet another
-target appears on radar, and jets from New Castle AFB in Delaware are
-scrambled. The jets see no UFOs when they arrived over Washington;
-however, a spokesman for Andrews radar tells the press that “no radar
-sightings were made while the planes were overhead.” (“Flock
-of ‘Saucer’ Objects Again Puzzles Wash. DC,” Visalia (Calif.)
-Times-Delta, August 6, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The
-Author, 1986, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1972
Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Eight residents of Camden, New Jersey, report a
-bright, round, orange object hovering or moving slowly in the western
-sky. (“8
-City Residents Report ‘Saucers’ on Nocturnal Sweep through Sky,”
-Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post, August 6, 1952, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1973
Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A complex radar-visual sighting takes place at
-Haneda AFB [later Tokyo International Airport], Japan. Control tower
-operators watch a disc as it passes over Tokyo Bay at about 1,500 feet.
-It is a dark round shape surrounded by a bright light with a curved
-outer edge and smaller lights around it. While being tracked on radar, a
-scramble alert is issued at 11:55 p.m., and an F-94 Starfire jet from
-nearby Johnson Air Base [now Iruma Air Base] in Sayama, Saitama
-Prefecture, goes after the object. The interceptor, piloted by 1Lt. Wesley
-R. Holder and Radar Observer 1Lt. Aaron M. Jones Jr., chases the
-object, which speeds away while being tracked by onboard radar. During
-the next 30 minutes, the UFO disappears and reappears throughout the
-sky, vanishes when the jet closes in, performs intricate maneuvers, and
-at one point splits into three radar targets. The jet searches over
-Tokyo Bay until 12:33 a.m. when it is recalled. (NICAP, “F-94
-Pilots Tracked Object for 90 Seconds”; Ruppelt, pp. 187–189;
-Condon, pp. 123–126;
-Sparks,
-p. 166; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 217–219; Patrick Gross, “The
-Haneda AFB Case, Japan, August 5, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1974
Date: 8/6/1952
-Description: Hynek sends
-Project Blue Book a report on his interviews with 45 astronomers about
-their opinions on UFOs at a June meeting of the American Astronomical
-Society and finds that five (11%) have seen a UFO, seven are indifferent
-to the subject, more express at least some interest, and a few are very
-interested but wary of publicity. (J. Allen Hynek, “Special
-Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial
-Objects,” August 6, 1952; “Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 2,” CUFON; “Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,” CUFON; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, pp. 83–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1975
Date: 8/6/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: This is a continuation of the Haneda AFB sightings.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tokyo, Japan
-ID: 218
Date: 8/6/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Port Austin, Michigan
-ID: 219
Date: 8/6/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. James J. Allen sees a UFO 6 feet high, 8 feet
-long, and lighted inside strike the chimney of his home in West
-Lumberton, North Carolina. It crashes into his backyard. When he
-approaches it, the lights go off and he sees a man about 30 inches tall
-standing next to it. He asks if he is hurt, then the figure reenters the
-vehicle and it zooms away. (“West
-Lumberton Event Added to
-Growing ‘Saucer’ Reports,” Lumberton (N.C.) Robesonian, August 7,
-1952, pp. 1, 4; Clark III 326; Curt Collins, “James
-J. Allen’s Alien Encounter Embarrassment:
-Aug. 6, 1952,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 19. 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1976
Date: 8/7/1952
-Description: 9:08 a.m. Mrs. Susan Pzuhl (or Pfuhl) observes over San
-Antonio, Texas, four round UFOs that give off a color similar to
-white-hot metal. The objects appear to be approximately 18 inches in
-diameter and are observed one at a time at intervals of approximately 20
-minutes. With the exception of one object that moves slowly, the speed
-must have been 3 times as fast as a propeller-driven aircraft. No sound
-can be heard. Their maneuvers consist of radical directional change by
-the first object, straight and level flight by the second object, a
-slight directional change by the third object, and a large circular
-maneuver by the fourth object. An aircraft passes under the fourth
-object with no apparent reaction by the plane or the object. It vanishes
-suddenly like an extinguished light. Duration is 70 minutes. (NICAP,
-“Four 18ʺ UFOs Observed”; Sparks, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1978
Date: 8/7/1952
-Description: 12:02 a.m. At Kerkrade, Netherlands, marine engineer Will
-Jansen watches a domed object swoop down to a low altitude, hover,
-zigzag, then speed away. He sees a similar object hovering further away.
-It finally tilts up vertically and shoots out of sight. (UFOEv, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1977
Date: 8/7/1952
-Time: 9:08 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. Susan Pfuhl. Four glowing white discs: one
-made a 180 degree turn, one flew straight and level, one veered off, and
-one circled during the 70 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 220
Date: 8/7/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Two Ground Observer Corps skywatchers in
-Silverton, Oregon, Ida
-Pfeifer and Dorothy Sthamann, see an aluminum-colored object 3 miles
-away that appears at first triangular, then more saucer shaped. Army and
-air observers in Portland confirm that jet interceptors are at that
-moment in pursuit of the object. Replacement skywatchers Sadie
-Barkhurst and Mrs. Olaf Teglund also see the object at 5:00 p.m. All
-agree that the UFO is headed east at a moderate speed, but darts
-“fiercely” toward the interceptor when it approaches. (“Flying
-Saucer at
-Silverton,” Salem (Oreg.) Capital Journal, August 9, 1952,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1979
Date: 8/8/1952
-Description: A special CIA/Office of Scientific Intelligence team
-consisting of Philip
-Grandin Strong, Ransom
-L. Eng, and Frederick
-C. Durant visits Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for a comprehensive
-briefing about UFOs from Blue Book staff. This classified visit is in
-response to secret orders from President Truman to
-the CIA to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling of UFOs during the
-Washington National Airport cases. (CUFON, “The CUFON
-1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17,
-1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1980
Date: 8/9/1952
-Description: Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill
-stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken
-sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The
-Americans have reached a similar conclusion.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p449)
-Location: Britain
-See also: 7/28/52
Date: 8/9/1952
-Description: 1:45 a.m. A/3C Joseph
-F. Raley is walking to work at Lake Charles Air Force Station [now
-closed] in Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he observes a disc-like object
-from a distance away of 3,000–5,000 feet. The object is at an estimated
-altitude of 5,000 feet. It moves several hundred mph faster than any
-known jet aircraft. No sound is heard. The object is first seen moving
-north to south until it crosses the air station, where it stops and
-hovers for approximately 2 seconds, then takes off to the west. (NICAP,
-“Faster-Than-Jet
-Disc Stops, Hovers Two Seconds, Accelerates”;
-Sparks, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1981
Date: 8/9/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF A/3c J.P. Raley. One disc-shaped object flew
-very fast and then hovered for 2 seconds during a 5-6 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
-ID: 221
Date: 8/10/1952
-Description: 5:38 p.m. Roy E. Munson is resting in his hammock at 1231
-Widergren Drive, Rockford, Illinois, when he sees a disc-shaped object
-moving west to east and streaking across the sky in 6 seconds. Within
-minutes, another appears on the same flight path. Some family members
-and neighbors join him to watch the objects, which keep appearing for
-the next 90 minutes by which time a total of 54 have gone by. Munson
-alerts the CAA operator at the Rockford airport, who calls O’Hare
-Airport in Chicago, which sends two USAF jet interceptors to the area.
-They appear just as the last of the discs, which seem surrounded by a
-haze, disappears. Of the 54 objects, 36 appear larger that the others
-and move faster. Fifty follow the straight west-to-east path out of
-sight. Three deviate from the path to the north, and one deviates to the
-south. (NICAP, “Rockford,
-Illinois, Monday, August 11, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1982
Date: 8/11/1952
-Description: A CIA memo refers to a meeting of the newly created study
-group on UFOs attended by eight operatives. (Central Intelligence
-Agency, “Minutes
-of Branch Chief’s Meeting of 11 August 1952”; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952
-CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996;
-Swords 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1983
Date: 8/12/1952
-Description: 1:43 a.m. An Air Force F-94B jet fighter from Dover AFB in
-Delaware is flying at 20,000 feet when both the pilot and his radar
-crewman sight a glowing object 45° to their left and at a lower
-altitude, with the waters of the Delaware Bay as a dark backdrop.
-Curious, the jet pilot adjusts his course and heads directly at the
-object, which is stationary. In an apparent reaction, the object loses
-some of its brilliance and diminishes in size, apparently moving away.
-The pilot determines that the object had halted above Cape May, New
-Jersey, where it again hovers. Without success, the pilot tries to raise
-the local CCI station on the radio on F channel to request a radar scan
-of the Cape May area. Low on fuel, the pilot cannot pursue the UFO any
-further, so he breaks off the chase and heads for home. The UFO follows
-the jet, increasing in apparent size as it draws near and overtakes it.
-Eventually, the UFO loses interest and flies away to the south. (Loren
-E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1984
Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: 11:10 p.m. USAF Reserve Capt. Stanley W. Thompson sees a
-formation of lighted objects flying rapidly over Tucson, Arizona. (Loren
-E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1989
Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: 9:10 p.m. A witness in Oakland, California, calls Hamilton
-AFB [now closed] in Novato to notify them he is watching “two balls of
-fire” making a 10-mile circle and leaving in the direction of Hamilton.
-When the report is made to Capt. Kenneth
-Broden, Hamilton
-AFB Airdrome Officer, he orders an F-94 jet scrambled to search the bay
-between Oakland and the air base. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1987
Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: Night. Pioneer Airlines pilot Capt. Max M. Jacoby sees a
-mystery light while on a routine test flight out of Dallas Love Field,
-Texas. He tries to intercept it, but the light evades him and
-disappears. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a
-History: 1952, August, The
-Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1986
Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Two civilians in the Tampa, Florida, area
-watch three UFOs. One object changes its course abruptly to the west,
-moving in excess of 600 mph. The same object hovers for about 5 minutes
-then moves at an excessive rate back to the east and resumes its course
-to the north and disappears. The two other objects do not alter course
-but disappear to the north. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The
-Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1985
Date: 8/13/1952
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Marine Corps pilot Maj. D. McGough. One
-orange light flew a left orbit at 8,000’ and 230 m.p.h., spiralled down
-to no more than 1,500’, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes and went
-out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tokyo, Japan
-ID: 222
Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: 9:45 p.m. In Tokyo, Japan, US Marine Corps pilot Maj. James
-D. McGough sees an orange light fly a left orbit at 8,000 feet and
-230 mph, then spiral down to no more than 1,500 feet, remain stationary
-for 2–3 minutes, and go out. An attempted interception is unsuccessful.
-(NICAP, “Orange
-Light Maneuvers Then Stops in Mid- Air”;
-Sparks, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1988
Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A yellow ball of light undulates up and down and
-from side to side over the Mathieson chemical plant in Lake Charles,
-Louisiana. It is also seen to shoot ahead abruptly and come to a halt in
-the same manner. Witnesses estimate that the ball passes over at 5,000
-feet, growing fainter and fainter as it moves away. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1993
Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: The CIA’s special UFO study group meets for the first time
-and is given a summary (probably written by A. Ray
-Gordon, project
-officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch) of UFO history, an
-analysis of Project Blue Book, and a discussion of explained sightings
-and theories about unexplained sightings. (Central Intelligence Agency,
-“Flying
-Saucers,” August 14, 1952; Good Above, pp. 331–333)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1991
Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: Australian Minister for Air William
-McMahon states facetiously in Parliament that flying saucer reports
-are “probably based on flights of imagination,” but indicates he will
-“cause a thorough investigation to be made.” (Swords 376)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1990
Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: 7:20 p.m. People on the docks of Phillippeville [modern
-Skikda], Algeria, see an enormous red disc leaving behind a greenish
-trail. At 9:15 p.m., two people in Constantine, Algeria, watch a
-luminous object flying at high speed. It emits a bright light.
-(ClearIntent, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1992
Date: mid 8/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. John
-D. Moorman, deputy sheriff of Starke County, is fishing in a boat
-with Surphin
-Casper on the Tippecanoe River about 3 miles northwest of Monterey,
-Indiana. Moorman looks up and sees 7–8 objects hovering. They watch for
-a few seconds until the objects move away to the west. About half of
-them return east momentarily, and all of them disappear by blinking out.
-(NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1994
Date: 8/15/1952
-Description: 4:20 a.m. Ground Observer Corps observers in Davis,
-California, see a rainbow-colored, round object hovering in the air.
-Soon they notice eight more objects of a strange appearance. At 5:30
-a.m., two more UFOs are seen, one moving west while the other moves
-east. The Air Force scrambles a F-94 jet interceptor to search the area
-at altitudes of 10,000–20,000 feet. The military claims the pilot can
-see nothing unusual, although the GOC spotters say that the UFOs and the
-jet are both visible in the sky at the same time and possibly at the
-same altitude. At 5:00 a.m., in Napa, California, GOC post observer
-Diane Robinson sights a “cigar-shaped silver thing” traveling at
-tremendous speed at 10,000 feet toward the southwest. (Loren E. Gross,
-UFOs,
-a History: 1952,
-August, The
-Author, 1986, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1995
Date: 8/15/1952
-Description: CIA operative Frederick
-C. Durant [and/or Ransom L. En] writes a top-secret draft memo for
-DCI Walter Bedell
-Smith on the OSI teams visit to Wright-Patterson AFB and a summary
-of its findings. It offers an analytical description of UFOs going back
-to the 1946 Scandinavian ghost rockets. It rules out the possibility of
-Russian secret weapons and mentions the sightings at Los Alamos and Oak
-Ridge at a time when the “background radiation count had risen
-inexplicably. Here we run out of even ‘blue yonder’ explanations that
-might be tenable, and, we still are left with numbers of incredible
-reports from credible observers.” Yet “even though we might admit that
-intelligent life may exist elsewhere and that space travel is possible,
-there is no shred of evidence to support this theory at present.”
-(Central Intelligence Agency, “Flying
-Saucers,” August 15, 1952; CUFON, “The CUFON
-1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17,
-1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1996
Date: 8/15/1952
-Description: RAAF Flight Lt. William H. Scott, chief test pilot of the
-Government Aircraft Factories, is flying a de Havilland Vampire jet
-between 35,000 and 36,000 feet near Rockhampton, Queensland. Looking
-east toward the coast, he sees a large, circular light at a lower
-elevation. It is the color of an ordinary incandescent light bulb. After
-about 60 seconds, 6–10 smaller lights break off from the main light,
-surrounding it for 2 minutes before disappearing. After another 2
-minutes, the big light also disappears. (Swords 376)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1997
Date: 8/16/1952
-Description: CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO
-report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville
-Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam.
-of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes
-and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire.
-Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which
-could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over
-1500 kilometers/hour.
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p512)
-Location: Langley, Virginia
Date: 8/18/1952
-Time: 12:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three policemen. One object changed color like a
-diamond, and changed directions during the 30 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fairfield, California
-ID: 223
Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: About 10:00 p.m. Scoutmaster D[unham] S[anborn] “Sonny”
-DesVergers is driving with three scouts on the edge of the Everglades
-south of West Palm Beach, Florida, when he sees a light in a wild
-palmetto grove. The boys do not see it, so he drives on. Another boy
-admits he has seen a light in that direction too, so DesVergers returns
-to the spot and goes into the grove, telling the boys to stay in the car
-unless he is delayed. Soon all three boys see red lights flashing in the
-grove. This alarms them, and they go to a nearby house for help. They
-return to see DesVergers staggering out of the grove, incoherently
-saying he has been zapped into semiconsciousness by some kind of red
-flare coming from a hatch in a red ball of light (and burns his cap as
-well). An area of flattened and burned grass is found after the event.
-DesVergers has a reputation as a prankster and hopes to monetize his
-story somehow, but the scouts do corroborate his story and there are
-physical traces. Grass samples from the site sent to the Air Force show
-root damage extending 4 inches or more into the soil, suggesting
-overheating, possibly by microwave radiation. Karl
-Pflock thinks it is a hoax, but Jerry
-Clark isn’t 100% sure. (NICAP, “Florida Scoutmaster
-Case”; “Attack
-by Flying Saucer Described
-by Scoutmaster,” Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 24, 1952, pp. 1A,
-4A; “‘Line
-Forms at Left’ for
-That Saucer Yarn,” Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 25, 1952, p. 1A;
-“Boy
-Scout Wants New Saucer Hunt,” Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 26,
-1952, p. 2A; “‘Saucer’ Witnesses Talking,”
-Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 27, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; Clark III 496–498;
-Ruppelt, p. 176;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 August,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 115–119; Story, pp. 128–131;
-Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, p. 143; Karl T. Pflock, “The
-Best Hoax
-in UFO History?” 1997; “The
-Scoutmaster’s Tale,” Saturday Night Uforia, March 27, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2001
Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: 2:38 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop
-sees two objects shaped like fat bullets flying straight, level, and
-fast over Red Bluff, California. (Sparks, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1999
Date: 8/19/1952
-Time: 2:38 PM
-Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop. Two
-objects, shaped like fat bullets, flew straight and level, very fast for
-25 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Red Bluff, California
-ID: 224
Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: 8:00 p.m. An oval disc is seen above Boron Air Force
-Station [now closed] in Boron, California. Two jet fighters are guided
-into the area by Capt. Ralph
-J. Borgerson at the base, but the object speeds away to the east as
-they close in. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 49; Sparks,
-p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2000
Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is
-burned.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Attributes: injury
Date: 8/19/1952
-Time: evening
-Description: Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him
-in a clearing. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted
-by the object and burned him. He also observed a “hideous” creature
-aboard the craft. Grass roots were scorched at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ruppelt 222; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
-ID: 97
Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: The CIA/OSI study group prepares an internal 6-page
-document of its findings. It has made a study of the Soviet press that
-shows “not one report or comment” about UFOs, which indicates official
-censorship. It perceives a danger that the Russians might try to
-infiltrate civilian UFO groups (such as Civilian Saucer Investigation of
-Los Angeles) or add UFO disinformation during a nuclear attack: “We give
-Russia the capability of delivering an air attack against us, yet at any
-given moment now, there may be a dozen official unidentified sightings
-plus many unofficial.” It briefs CIA Director Walter
-Bedell Smith on August 20. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Flying
-Saucers,” August 19, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part
-1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013; Swords 174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1998
Date: 8/20/1952
-Description: The CIA/OSI UFO study group briefs CIA Director Walter
-Bedell Smith, who
-then orders the preparation of a National Security Council Intelligence
-Directive for submission to the NSC stating the need for a UFO
-investigation. (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” December 2, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2002
Date: 8/20/1952
-Description: Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by
-OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for
-submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and
-directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was
-decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate
-undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H.
-Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.)
-Type: memorandom
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Langley, Virginia
-See also: 11/25/52
Date: 8/20/1952
-Description: Air Defense Command radar at Congaree AFB [now McEntire
-Joint National Guard Base], southeast of Columbia, South Carolina,
-tracks a target traveling more than 4,000 mph some 60 miles from the
-base. (NICAP, “ADC
-Tracks Object at 4,000 MPH”; UFOEv, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2003
Date: 8/20/1952
-Time: 3:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Bill Ford and two others. An undescribed object
-flew at 500’ altitude for several minutes. No further data in
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Neffesville, Pennsylvania
-ID: 225
Date: late 8/1952
-Description: Albert and Betty Bailey go to the Palomar Gardens Café in
-California to visit George
-Adamski and tell him about their contacts and their friendship with
-George
-Hunt Williamson. (Michael
-D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22) Late summer —
-As a Signal Corps employee working the night shift, Vivian Walton
-handles decoded teletype messages inside a high-security building at the
-Defense Supply Center near Columbus, Ohio. She walks into the photo lab,
-where colleague Joe Sheehy is developing photos, one of which he says is
-a UFO that had landed in the “hill country” somewhere near Columbus. He
-says the object is 30 feet in diameter and unoccupied, with minimal
-damage. A few days later, an alert is sounded, allegedly because of
-danger of attack by UFOs. Walton claims the downed UFO has gone through
-the depot on the way to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton. (James W.
-Moseley, “The
-Wright Field Story, or Who’s Lying?” Nexus 3, no. 1 (September
-1954): 11–15; James W. Moseley, The Wright Field Story, Saucerian, 1971;
-Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1993): 18; Irena Scott and William E. Jones, “Crash Claims,”
-IUR 18, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): 21; Good Need, p. 159;
-Clark III 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2019
Date: 8/21/1952
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Ground Observer Corps Supervisor D. C. Scott
-spots a yellowish-white light flying in the sky at 2,000 feet northeast
-of Elgin, Illinois. Several times it rises to 5,000 feet in three
-minutes, hovers, then descends again. Scott alerts Capt. Everett A.
-Turner at the Chicago Filter Center, who tells him to call again when
-the light settles down. After one hour and 23 minutes the light begins
-to hover, Scott calls Turner again, and Turner has at least one F-86
-Sabre jet scrambled from O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The pilot makes four
-passes between 10,000 and 2,000 feet. On the fourth pass, it heads
-directly toward the light, which blinks out. (“Jets
-Pursue Mystery Light,”
-Carbondale Southern Illinoisan, August 23, 1952, p. 1; UFOEv, p. 66;
-Shoot 102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2004
Date: 8/21/1952
-Time: 11:54 PM
-Description: Witness: Jack Rossen, ex-artillery observer. Three
-blue-white lights hovered then descended; 1.5 minutes later, one of them
-descended more.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 226
Date: 8/22/1952
-End date: 8/23/1952
-Description: Evening. Lyman
-Streeter sees unusual lights near Winslow, Arizona, and hears
-strange signals on his ham radio. Not long afterward, Lyman, his wife,
-and Alfred C. Bailey hear a mysterious code coming through the air
-itself. Eventually, at 2:00 a.m., a Morse Code-like message comes
-through the radio from Regga of Mars and Zo and Nah-9 from Neptune. Zo
-refers to Affa from Uranus, who thinks earth is too evil. He also warns
-them that the evil Orion Solar System is coming to earth in a “square
-star body.” Williamson arrives
-from Prescott on August 23. (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C.
-Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange
-Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22; Clark III 1283–1284)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2007
Date: 8/22/1952
-Description: George G. Carey, CIA assistant director for operations,
-writes a memo to Chadwell on
-“USSR and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers” that reviews mentions of
-UFOs in the Soviet press during the past two years. (“USSR
-and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers,” August 22, 1952; CUFON,
-“The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related
-Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2005
Date: 8/22/1952
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training
-test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 78km
Date: 8/22/1952
-Description: A.
-Ray Gordon, project
-officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch, provides a briefing
-document explaining the “Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’” to CIA
-Director Walter
-Bedell Smith, who then briefs President Truman on
-the CIA UFO study group’s reports at his regular Friday intelligence
-briefing. (“The Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’,” August 22, 1952;
-CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler,
-Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2006
Date: 8/23/1952
-Description: CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO
-landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen,
-Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed
-Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was
-approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its
-periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the
-two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about
-3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing
-outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated
-into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the
-conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and
-rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that
-was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see
-02/23/55, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”)
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p513)
-Location: Langley, Virginia
-See also: 2/23/1955
Date: 8/23/1952
-Description: Telenews Productions re-releases its 1950 UFO documentary
-short, The Flying Saucer Mystery, edited and expanded to 12½ minutes
-with new material. It features footage from the July 29, 1952, press
-conference given by Air Force Maj. Gen. John
-A. Samford, the UFO photo taken by Shell
-Alpert, a photo taken by August
-C. Roberts, German UFO occupant witnesses Oskar and Gabriele Linke,
-Frank
-Scully, and U.S. Army Engineers physicist Noel W. Scott. (“The
-Flying Saucer Mystery (Full) (1952),” TheUFOVideoChannel YouTube
-channel, September 1, 2010; Internet Movie Database, “The
-Flying Saucer Mystery”; Curt Collins, “The
-Flying Saucer Mystery
-and
-the 1952 UFO Flap,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2008
Date: 8/23/1952
-Time: 4:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF 2nd Lt. H.K. Funseth, a ground radar
-observer, and two U.S. Navy men. One pulsing amber light was seen to fly
-straight and level for 7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Akron, Ohio
-ID: 227
Date: 8/24/1952
-Description: 10:15 a.m. USAF Col. Gerald
-W. Johnson is flying an F-84G when he sees two silver balls in the
-vicinity of Hermanas (a ghost town), New Mexico. They seem to be 6 feet
-in diameter and 2 miles away. One seems to change into a long, gray
-object as it is turning to the right. After 3 minutes they disappear,
-then reappear 7 minutes later, by which time the F-84 is over El Paso,
-Texas. One after the other, the objects climb straight up 2,000–3,000
-feet. (NICAP, “F-84
-Encounters Two Silver Balls”; Sparks,
-p. 168; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March
-2010): 14, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2009
Date: 8/24/1952
-Description: Williamson, Streeter,
-and Bailey receive coded radio messages indicating the saucer
-intelligences intend to land, inviting them to help. (George Hunt
-Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954
-Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2010
Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot
-Col. G.W. Johnson. Two 6’ silver balls in abreast formation, one turned
-grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a
-turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hermanas, Mexico
-ID: 228
Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 5:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round,
-metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast
-With a dancing, wavering motion, for about 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 229
Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped
-like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with
-a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or
-another like it, returned an hour later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Levelland, Texas
-ID: 230
Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 0600
-Description: A man driving through a wood encountred a strange object
-and stopped to observe it. It looked like two turtle shells glued
-together, about 25 m long, with a humanoid creature in what appeared to
-be a control cabin in front. Windows lighted by an intense blue light
-and a throbbing sound were also reported. The object was oscillating and
-suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle
-section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered 3 m
-above ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Frontenac, Kansas
-ID: 98
Date: 8/25/1952
-Description: 5:50 a.m. William
-Squyres, a
-radio station musician at KOAM [now KKOW-AM] is driving from his home
-northeast of Frontenac, Kansas, to the station at Pittsburg. He is in
-his 1952 Jeep station wagon on a rough gravel road about a quarter of a
-mile from US Highway 160 when he sees a large, disc-shaped object
-hovering 10 feet in the air on the right side of the road 750 feet away.
-The UFO looks like two bowls placed together end to end, 75 feet long,
-40 feet wide, and 15 feet high in the midsection. Through a window he
-can see the head and shoulders of a motionless human figure. Along its
-outer edge are a series of propellers 6–8 inches in diameter, spaced
-closely together and mounted on a bracket so they revolve “in a
-horizontal plane” along the edge of the object. He stops and gets out to
-watch it. As he is walking toward the object, it rises into the air and
-flies away at great speed. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 200–203;
-Patrick Gross, “Project
-Blue Book Unexplained Cases”; Sparks, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2012
Date: 8/25/1952
-Description: 3:40 p.m. At Holloman AFB, New Mexico, plant supervisor
-Fred Lee and foreman Lawrence
-A. Aguilar watch a round silver object for 5 minutes. It flies
-south, turns and flies north, makes a 360° turn, then flies away
-vertically. (NICAP, “Silver
-Sphere Maneuvers over Base”; Sparks, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2011
Date: 8/25/1952
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Affa of Uranus contacts the Baileys, the
-Streeters, and the Williamsons (as well as two students named Ronald
-Tucker and Betty Bowen) by radio, using 405 or 450 kilocycles. Zo and Um
-of Neptune, Regga of Mars, and other aliens continue sending messages by
-both radio and telepathy. Streeter sees
-a dark spot in the sky that he claims is Affa. Williamson sees
-a blue light that he thinks is Zo. Everyone signs an affidavit that the
-events have truly taken place. (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C.
-Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange
-Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 22, 24; Clark III 1284)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2013
Date: 8/25/1952
-Time: 3:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: civilian supervisor Fred Lee, foreman L.A.
-Aquilar. One round silver object flew south, turned and flew north, made
-a 360 turn and flew away vertically after 3-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 232
Date: 8/25/1952
-Time: 5:35 AM
-Description: Witness: radio station musician William Squyres. One dull
-aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face, estimated
-at 75’ long, 45’ wide, and 15’ thick. Through a window in the front
-section shone a blue light; the head and shoulders of a man could be
-seen. The mid section had numerous windows through which could be seen
-some kind of regular movement. A series of small propellers were spaced
-close together along the outer edge of the object, revolving at high
-speed. The object was hovering about 10’ above the ground, 100 yards off
-the road, with a slight rocking motion. It then ascended vertically with
-a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time.
-Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsburg, Kansas
-ID: 231
Date: 8/26/1952
-Time: 12:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. D.A. Woods. One large, round, very
-bright object with a V-shaped contrail having a dark cone in the center,
-flew very fast, hovered, made an instantaneous 90 turn, followed by a
-gentle climb and finally sudden acceleration.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lathrop Wells, Nevada
-ID: 233
Date: 8/27/1952
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Two meteorological officers at Macdonald Airport
-in Manitoba see a disc-shaped object with shadows on it. It makes two
-turns around the airfield. When the rotating airport beacon light
-strikes it, the object glints like shiny aluminum, speeds away to the
-northeast, and vanishes. (Good Above, pp. 184–185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2014
Date: 8/27/1952
-Description: A saucer-shaped craft, 3 by 2 m, landed on the witness’s
-property after hitting a chimney. A little man, about 70 cm tall,
-emerged and was asked whether he was hurt, but he did not answer. The
-craft took off with a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 268 (Vallee)
-Location: Lamberton, North Carolina
-ID: 99
Date: 8/28/1952
-Description: A family on the ground in Le Roy, New York, sees a disc
-making tight vertical circles around an airliner. (UFOEv, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2015
Date: 8/28/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF control tower operators, officer from USAF
-Office of Special Investigations, and others. Six objects, varying from
-fiery red to sparkling diamond appearance, hovered, flew erratically up
-and down for 1 hour and l5minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama
-ID: 234
Date: 8/28/1952
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Three civilians in Chickasaw, Alabama, report to
-Brookley AFB [now Mobile Downtown Airport] in Mobile, Alabama, their
-observation of multiple red stationary and maneuvering objects to the
-south, and another one moving from south to west, all in the direction
-of Brookley. AFOSI agent Charles A. Robinson arrives in Chickasaw at
-9:50 p.m. to investigate and sees the same four objects to the south and
-southwest at an estimated 8–12 miles distance. One fiery red object is
-stationary for 15 minutes then drifts 15°–20° to the right after which
-it is stationary again. Radar operator A/2C Irl
-A. Whitaker visually spots a red-green object over Chickasaw to the
-north. USAF duty officer Capt. William A. Edwards and control tower
-operators see one object to the southwest to the right and lower than
-the moon, and another object to the west at 10°–20° elevation. The
-latter is confirmed by radar as a stationary target at four miles range
-and 4,000 feet altitude. Robinson and others see one object explode, and
-another does a figure 8 maneuver. There are 4–6 objects larger than a
-star or planet varying from fiery red, red-blue, red-green, and
-sparkling diamond appearance. A civilian Air Force employee sees a flat
-oval shape. (NICAP, “GCA
-Paints Stationary Target”; Sparks,
-p. 169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2016
Date: 8/29/1952
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Pilot LtJG William A. O’Flaherty and navigator
-LtJG R. S. Moore are flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane west of Thule Air Base,
-near Qaanaaq, Greenland. They are following an 85-foot-diameter Skyhook
-balloon launched from an icebreaker, US Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind, when,
-upon release of the parachute instrument package from the balloon, they
-see 3 white discs or globes, about ½ to almost the full apparent size of
-the balloon, in triangle formation clustered to the right of the Skyhook
-instrument package at 74,000 feet for some 2–3 minutes. (NICAP, “Three
-Objects Shake Up Air Crew”; Sparks,
-p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2017
Date: 8/29/1952
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Civil Air Patrol pilot Carlton
-A. Magruder sees three aluminum-colored objects with a red-yellow
-exhaust over Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are 50 feet in diameter
-and 10 feet high, flying in line at about 1,500 mph. (NICAP, “Pilot
-Reports Three Objects 50ʹ in Diameter”; Sparks, p. 169; Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1952, August, The
-Author, 1986, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2018
Date: 8/29/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol
-plane. Three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovered, then flew
-very fast in a triangular formation, in 2-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: west of Thule, Greenland (77’ N, 75’ 15’ W)
-ID: 236
Date: 8/29/1952
-Time: 8:35 PM
-Description: Witness: pilot C.A. Magruder. Three objects, 50’ in
-diameter, 10’ high, aluminum with red-yellow exhaust, flew in trail at
-estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
-ID: 235
Date: 8/31/1952
-Description: Herbert Long saw an object land 15 m away from the road. He
-made a drawing of it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 257 (Vallee)
-Location: Pennsylvania, exact location unknown
-ID: 100
Date: 9/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A radar scope near Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque,
-New Mexico, picks up an unknown target approaching at 700 mph then slows
-down to 100 mph northeast of the airfield. Two F-86 Sabre jets are
-scrambled but at first cannot locate the target. The second pilot
-suddenly spots what seems to be a balloon but as he gets closer it looks
-more like a “doughnut without a hole.” He gets as close as 1,500 feet
-before the object accelerates. When it is again at a range of 3,000
-feet, the pilot begins firing at the object, but it pulls up in a climb
-and disappears in seconds. Capt. Ruppelt is
-given this report by an intelligence officer (probably Lt. Glen Parrish)
-at the base, who is about to forward the incident report to ATIC but the
-commanding officer (Brig. Gen. William
-A. Matheny)
-orders it destroyed. Parrish shows the last copy of the report to Ruppelt during
-a visit to Kirtland. (Ruppelt, pp. 1–5;
-NICAP, “F-86
-Shooting Incident / 700 MPH Target”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2020
Date: 9/1952
-Description: UFO witness turned researcher Kenneth
-Arnold releases The Coming of the Saucers, coauthored by his friend
-and publisher, Raymond
-A. Palmer. As
-publicity, the story “Flying Saucer-y” is prepared by King Features
-Syndicate and carried in many newspapers as a full-page story. (Kenneth
-Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952; Curt
-Collins, “Kenneth
-Arnold’s 1952 UFO Book Promotion,” The Saucers That Time Forgot,
-September 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2021
Date: 9/1952
-Description: Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles publishes the
-first of only four issues of its CSI Quarterly Bulletin. The final issue
-appears in early 1954. (CSI
-Quarterly, no.
-1 (Fall 1952))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2022
Date: 9/1952
-Description: John
-P. Cahn publishes an exposé of Frank
-Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers in True magazine. Scully’s
-sources are an oil prospector named Silas
-M. Newton and a mysterious “Dr. Gee,” later identified as Leo GeBauer, a
-con man with a long arrest record. The tale is a ploy to gain the
-attention of potential investors in a bogus oil detection scheme
-allegedly linked to alien technology. Jerome
-Clark writes that Scully was himself a victim, not a perpetrator.
-(J. P. Cahn, “Flying
-Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men,” True, September 1952,
-pp. 17–19, 102–112; Clark III 1044–1045)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2023
Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 9:43 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Davis and nine other persons. One
-light, similar to the evening star, moved up and down for a long period
-of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Atlanta, Georgia
-ID: 239
Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. Bowman (ex-artillery officer) and 24 others.
-A red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks for
-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marietta, Georgia
-ID: 240
Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 4:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Visual sighting by two USAF enlisted men, radar
-tracking seen by three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Two small,
-varicolored lights became black silhouettes at dawn; flew erratically.
-One hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yaak, Montana
-ID: 241
Date: 9/1/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An ex-artillery officer named Bowman and 24
-others at Marietta, Georgia, see a red, white, and blue-green object
-that spins and shoots off sparks. An unidentified witness using
-binoculars sees two large objects shaped like spinning tops with red,
-blue, and green colors, flying side by side and leaving a sparkling
-trail for 30 minutes. At 10:50 p.m., a former Army Air Force B-25 gunner
-sees two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails fly in
-trail formation, merge, and fly away quickly. (NICAP, “Two
-Discs in Trail Formation”;
-Sparks, p. 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2025
Date: 9/1/1952
-Description: 8:23 p.m. Air Defense Command radar at Yaak Air Force
-Station in Montana picks up UFOs exhibiting changes of direction as many
-as five times a minute. Some course changes are 90° and speeds are
-measured at 1,400–1,600 mph. Six blips at one time appear on the FPS-3
-radar scopes and the strange targets come within 10 miles of the GCI
-site. So close is the indicated range the radar personnel leave their
-windowless operations room to check the sky. Six objects can be seen an
-estimated 10 miles away. When first spotted, the UFOs are in an in-
-trail formation, and shortly thereafter that changes to an in-line
-abreast grouping. Finally, the UFOs switch to a vertical stack.
-S/Sgt. William Kelly remembers tracking the UFOs on the radar executing
-vertical climbs that exceed the limit of the site’s height-finding
-equipment. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-at Air Force Radar Site”; Sparks, p. 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2024
Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 10:50 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-25 gunner. Two large white disc-shaped
-objects with green vapor trails flew in trail formation, merged, flew
-away very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marietta, Georgia
-ID: 237
Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witness: one unidentified person using binoculars. Two
-large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and
-green colors, flew side by side, leaving a sparkling trail for 30
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marietta, Georgia
-ID: 238
Date: 9/2/1952
-Description: 12:01 a.m. CAA radar controllers Robert
-L. Terneuzen (GCA), Ralph L. Frick, Dale E. Warner, Warren J. Weber,
-and Radar Maintenance Technician Gordon R. Copeland track as many as 30
-targets simultaneously at Midway Airport in Chicago, flying in various
-directions with an average speed of 175 mph at about 2,000 feet. The
-755th Aircraft Control and Weapons radar station in Elkhorn, Wisconsin,
-claims that the Midway Airport Tower supervisor has called them at 2:50
-a.m., saying there are 40 targets plotted by airport radar flying from
-3,000 to 6,000 feet at a speed of 120–150 mph. The targets are the size
-of blips from light planes or larger (the best target quality is in the
-6–10-mile range) and move in no particular pattern—sometimes erratically
-and sometimes in straight lines up to 15 miles long. In at least one
-instance, the targets fly in formation with an aircraft. At 5:14 a.m.,
-the Air Defense Command is alerted and authorizes the scramble of two
-jets from the 4706th Interceptor Wing at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. At
-5:55 a.m., a pair of F-86 Sabre jets piloted by Capt. William
-W. Maitland and Lt. Beverly L. Dunhill, lift off and are vectored
-right through the targets as shown on radar, making passes at 800 and at
-4,000 feet without making contact. The F-86s are evidently without
-airborne radar because they only mention visual descriptions. Maitland
-and Dunhill later tell the media: “We didn’t hit anything. We didn’t see
-anything. We went through the target showing on the scope and there was
-nothing there, not even a cloud.” The jets break off their aerial search
-at 6:19 a.m. and return to base. By 7:00 a.m. all of the mysterious
-targets disappear off the scopes toward the south. The Midway radar
-crews are convinced the targets are returns from tangible bodies, but
-CAA chief Bob Zeigler overrules them and blames “peculiar atmospheric
-conditions.” (“Sabre
-Jets Fly through ‘Object,’” Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review,
-September 3, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “40
-Targets at Midway Airport”; Sparks,
-p. 171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2026
Date: 9/2/1952
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witness: radar tracker Turason (ground controlled approach)
-at Midway Airport. 40 targets flew in miscellaneous directions, up to
-175 m.p.h. Two seemed to fly in formation with DC-6 airliner. Total of 8
-hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 242
Date: 9/3/1952
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Truman meets
-in the Cabinet Room with Gen. William
-M. Garland, Col.
-John
-Gordon Fowler, and three other USAF officers; Lawrence
-J. Henderson Jr. and Walter
-W. Niles from the RAND Corporation; and Robert
-B. Landry and four others from the National Security Resources
-Board. The topic is the Washington UFO incident. (Frank Stalter, “The
-Real Majestic 12: Harry Truman’s 1952 DC UFO Meeting,” The UFO
-Partisan, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2028
Date: 9/3/1952
-Time: 99 AM
-Description: Witnesses: civilian pilots McCraven and Thomas. One shiny,
-dark ellipse made three broad, curving sweeps in 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 243
Date: 9/3/1952
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Instructor pilot Donald
-L. McCraven and N. D. Thomas observe a dark elliptical object
-reflecting sunlight 6 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. The object makes
-three well-coordinated turns with no perceptible sound. It moves at
-tremendous speed during a slight climb and is observed for approximately
-90 seconds. (NICAP, “Dark
-Ellipse Makes Three Coordinated Turns”; Sparks,
-p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2027
Date: 9/6/1952
-Description: 10:10 a.m. Walter Borys and George McCracken, two guards at
-the Osborn Prison Farm [now Osborn Correctional Institute] in Somers,
-Connecticut, are with 13 inmates in the yard when they hear an odd motor
-noise and see a silvery object in the northern sky. It appears to be
-descending in a zigzag motion but stops and shoots upward at a right
-angle at terrific speed after releasing a puff of smoke. Other witnesses
-in the area think it is a jet aircraft. (Hartford (Conn.) Courant,
-September 7, 1952, p. 1; Audrey H. Hennis, “The
-‘Flying Saucer’ Was from a
-Jet After-Burner,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, September 19, 1952,
-p. 18; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952,
-September–October, The
-Author, 1986, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2029
Date: 9/6/1952
-Time: 4:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill
-McClain. One orange teardrop-shaped object whirled on its vertical axis,
-descended very fast, stopped, retraced its path upwards, while whirling
-in the opposite direction. 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 245
Date: 9/6/1952
-Time: l:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. J.E. Wilson and two enlisted men. One
-bright star-like light moved about the sky for 2 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana
-ID: 244
Date: 9/7/1952
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: chemist J.W. Gibson and others. One orange
-object or light (the color of 2,000’ F.) exploded into view. Seen for
-from 3-20 seconds by various observers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 246
Date: 9/8/1952
-Description: Wilbert
-B. Smith and Department of Transport associates launch a large
-weather balloon with a magnesium flare over Ottawa, Ontario, but it does
-not inspire any UFO reports. (Clark III 1078; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986,
-pp. 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2030
Date: 9/9/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. US Air Force civilian illustrator E. J. Colisimo
-sees a disc with lights along part of its circumference over Rabat,
-Morocco. It is flying twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer in a slightly
-curved path. (NICAP, “Disc
-Twice As Fast As T-33”; Sparks, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2031
Date: 9/9/1952
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: E.J. colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF
-Intelligence. One disc with lights along part of its circumference, flew
-twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for 5
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rabat, French Morocco
-ID: 247
Date: 9/10/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its fifth status report on Project Stork to
-ATIC. It says that 800 copies of its revised report questionnaire have
-been sent to the Air Force, many of which were passed on to military
-witnesses as a trial test. The group has now examined UFO reports from
-1947–1949 and 1951. It decided to discontinue the news clipping service.
-(“Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2032
Date: 9/10/1952
-Description: 2:30 p.m. The wife of a civilian employee at Andrews AFB
-[now Joint Base Andrews] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, sees a
-shiny, metallic, elliptical, silent object moving back and forth near
-the base. It is visible for 2–3 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, September–October, The
-Author, 1986, p. 25) September 11 [or 7 or 17] — CIA Office of
-Scientific Intelligence Director H.
-Marshall Chadwell writes a memorandum to Director of Central
-Intelligence Walter
-Bedell Smith that sets out two national security implications of
-UFOs for the government of the United States: the potential for
-psychological panic by citizens, and demonstrating the nation’s
-vulnerability by air. It recommends that “A national policy should be
-established as to what should be told the public regarding the
-phenomena, in order to minimize risk of panic.” (H. Marshall Chadwell,
-“Flying Saucers,”
-September 11, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,”
-May 17, 1996; Swords 175–181, 503–507; Good Above, p. 224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2033
Date: 9/11/1952
-Description: Williamson, Streeter, and
-Bailey receive a radio message saying, “I hope we might have a landing
-soon,” and later, “We must make landing contact soon… If you believe us,
-you will act accordingly.” (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey,
-The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR
-30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2034
Date: 9/12/1952
-Time: sunset
-Description: A group of young people saw a “meteor” land on top of a
-hill and went to the site with Kathleen Hill and three men. They
-observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound
-and a huge figure with glowing orange eyes nearby. About 4 m tall, the
-figure had a red face and “floated” toward the witnesses, who fled in
-terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Flatwoods, West Virginia
-ID: 101
Date: 9/12/1952
-Description: Space “monster” appears from saucer near Sutton, West
-VA
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Sutton, West Virgina
Date: 9/12/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer
-Corps, using binoculars. One white light with a red trim and streamers
-flew northeast for 35 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Allen, Maryland
-ID: 248
Date: 9/12/1952
-Description: Around 7:15 p.m., in Flatwoods, West Virginia, two
-brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer (ages 13, 12,
-and 10 respectively) witness a bright object cross the sky, coming to
-rest on land belonging to local farmer G.
-Bailey Fisher. The
-boys go to the home of the May brothers’ mother, Kathleen
-May, where
-they tell the story of having seen a UFO crash land. From there,
-Mrs. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley, 14,
-and Ronnie Shaver, 10, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene
-Lemon, 17, walk to the Fisher farm. At the top of a hill, they
-reportedly see a large pulsating “ball of fire” about 50 feet to their
-right. They also detect a pungent mist that makes their eyes and noses
-burn. Lemon then notices two small lights over to the left of the
-object, underneath a nearby oak tree and directs his flashlight towards
-them, revealing a creature, which May reports as bounding towards them.
-Other sources describe it as emitting a shrill hissing noise before
-gliding towards them, changing direction and then heading off towards
-the red light. The group flees in panic. Sheriff Robert
-L. Carr and his deputy Burnell
-J. Long search the area separately, but find no trace of the
-encounter other than the smell. Early the next morning, A.
-Lee Stewart, co-owner
-of the Braxton Democrat, visits the site of the encounter for a second
-time and discovers two elongated tracks in the mud, as well as traces of
-a thick black liquid. It is later revealed that the tracks are likely
-those of a 1942 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by local Max
-Lockard, who
-had gone to the site to look for the creature some hours prior to
-Stewert’s discovery. Ivan
-T.
-Sanderson interviews the witnesses several days later and concludes
-that a flight of “intelligently controlled objects flew over West
-Virginia.” The Air Force concludes that people have seen a meteor and
-that the monster was only the glowing eyes of a barn owl. Joe
-Nickell also concludes in 2000 that the bright light in the sky
-reported by the witnesses on September 12 was most likely a meteor, that
-the pulsating red light is likely an aircraft navigation/hazard beacon,
-and that the creature described by witnesses closely resembles a barn
-owl. Nickell claims that the experience was distorted by the heightened
-state of anxiety felt by the witnesses after having observed the
-original meteor. However, Frank
-C. Feschino has done extensive research to support his hypothesis
-that the Flatwoods incident was only one small part of a major UFO
-display involving multiple objects (many of them reported as “meteors”
-or “balls of fire” or “flaming planes”) passing in westerly and other
-directions across the eastern and southern United States between 6:50
-and 7:25 p.m. The trajectory of one of these objects (moving first
-northwest then northeast then south) alone takes it over Baltimore,
-Catonsville, Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland, and Garrett County,
-Maryland; Preston County, Morgantown, Fairmont, Wheeling, Charleston,
-Parkersburg, Nitro, Ward, and Chelyan, West Virginia; Selma, Columbus,
-Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Ohio; it is last seen moving south around
-Bluefield, West Virginia. Another object is seen over Washington, D.C.,
-heading due west towards West Virginia, apparently landing in Flatwoods.
-A third object travels southwest over Roanoke and Pulaski, Virginia,
-possibly landing near Arcadia, Tennessee. Feschino thinks that these
-three objects had been damaged by fire directed at them by Air Force
-interceptors. Five other objects are observed in North Carolina in that
-time period, and these Feschino suspects may have been attempting to
-look for and assist the damaged objects. He also speculates that the
-disappearance of an F-94 jet fighter out of Tyndall AFB in Panama City,
-Florida, piloted by 2Lt John
-A. Jones and radar operator 2Lt John
-S. DelCurto, might
-have involved a tragic UFO interception that began three hours earlier;
-the last known contact with the fighter is at 5:43 p.m. over the Gulf of
-Mexico 70 miles northwest of Tampa, the accident takes place under
-unusual circumstances, and the wreckage has never been found. Feschino
-thinks that a UFO damaged in dogfights with many interceptors over the
-Gulf might have triggered the second battle over the Atlantic seaboard
-around 7:00 p.m. Then a second wave of multiple objects is observed
-8:00–8:10 p.m. in the Washington, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and West
-Virginia region that, according to Feschino, involves a search for a
-second downed UFO. Although Feschino jumps to many conclusions and his
-documentation for specific incidents and conditions is somewhat
-confusing, he may well have grasped more truth than the meteor-and-owl
-explanation of the skeptics. (Wikipedia, “Flatwoods Monster”;
-Gray Barker, “The Monster and the Saucer,” Fate 6, no. 1 (January 1953):
-12–17; Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University
-Books, 1956, pp. 11–35;
-Keyhoe, FS from OS, pp. 116–120;
-Clark III 494–495; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, Cowles, 1967,
-pp. 39–51; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “The
-Braxton Democrat”; Shoot 112–313, 320–327; Joe Nickell, “The
-Flatwoods UFO Monster,”
-Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2000): 15–19; Michael D. Swords,
-“Peeking
-at Ivan’s SITU Files:
-The Flatwoods Monster,” The Big Study, April 11, 2011; Frank C.
-Feschino, The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods
-Monster Revealed, Quarrier Press, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2036
Date: 9/12/1952
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Two oil well drillers, William Darling and Donald
-Davis, see a lighted object with windows on one side circling 150 feet
-above the ground silently for nearly 30 minutes at Bladensburg, Ohio.
-Suddenly it makes a noise like steam blowing and shoots out of sight.
-(“Report from the Readers,” Fate 6, no. 2 (February 1953): 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2035
Date: 9/13/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: private pilot W.A. Hobler, flying a Beech Bonanza.
-One object, shaped like a fat football, flaming orange-red color,
-descended and then pulled up in front of the witness’ airplane. Seen for
-2 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 249
Date: 9/13/1952
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl
-suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mixed
-with sulphurous smoke) filled the air. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical
-plant might be burning in the area and walked toward a strong light
-visible in the woods, in spite of the nauseous smell. Coming near it, he
-felt pricklings throughout his body, had to stop, lost his balance
-several times as he returned to the carwhere he found his wife
-terrified, pointing to a giant creature (3 m tall), human-shaped, 10 m
-away. They locked the car as “it” inspected the vehicle, glided away and
-went into the woods. Soon afterward, the sphere of light was observed to
-rise gradually, to swing like a pendulum, and to leave a luminous
-trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Paul Lieb (Vallee)
-Location: Frametown, West Virginia
-ID: 102
Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: Exercise Mainbrace begins in the North Sea. It is the first
-large-scale naval exercise undertaken by NATO and jointly commanded by
-Admiral Lynde
-D. McCormick and Gen. Matthew
-B. Ridgway. It involves the US Navy and the navies of Great Britain,
-France, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Netherlands, and Belgium. Its
-objective is to convince Denmark and Norway that they can be defended
-against an attack from the USSR, and involves 80,000 men, 200 ships, and
-1,000 aircraft. The operation lasts through September 25. (Wikipedia,
-“Exercise
-Mainbrace”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2038
Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: 10:13 p.m. The Danish destroyer Willemoes,
-during the Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, is north of Bornholm island,
-Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Lt.Cmdr. G. Schmidt-Jensen and several
-members of the crew see an unidentified object, triangular in shape,
-that moves at high speed toward the southeast. It emits a greenish glow
-and jets three rays of fire from its rear. Jensen estimates the speed at
-930 mph. (NICAP, “Operation
-Mainbrace Sightings”;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, p. 28; Marler
-128– 129, 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2039
Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland.
-Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the
-NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green
-triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular
-formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: North Atlantic
Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: Time not known
-Description: Witness: pilot of Flying Tiger Airlines airplane N67977.
-One blue light flew very fast on a collision course with the airliner.
-Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different
-information.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania
-ID: 254
Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: 11:30 PM
-Description: Event occurred to 1:20 AM, Sept. 15. Witnesses: consulting
-engineer R. J. Portis and three others. Six groups of 12-15 luminous
-spheres or discs, which flew in formations varying from arcs to
-inverted-Y’s, very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico
-ID: 253
Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer L.W. Barnes, using
-binoculars. One red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it,
-flew west, then south, and then was gone. Seen 30-40 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: White Lake, South Dakota
-ID: 252
Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard
-ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings:
-one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 m.p.h; three objects
-in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500
-m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland
-ID: 251
Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: 8:40 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF C-54 transport pilot Tarbutton. One
-blue-white light travelled straight and level, then went up. Seen for 30
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santa Barbara, California
-ID: 250
Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Fred J. Brown is preparing to milk the cows at
-the Everglades Experiment Station [now the Everglades Research and
-Education Center] in Belle Glade, Florida, when he spots a circular
-object about 35 feet in diameter hovering about 100 feet above the
-ground. It has a row of red and amber lights spaced around the outside
-rim and the underside. As it descends to about 40 feet, the 13 cows bolt
-as the object disappears to the west. As Brown is rounding up the cows,
-the object appears again, moving from south to north at a speed of 30
-mph, making a high-voltage buzzing noise, and emitting an odor “like
-acid or ammonia” that makes Brown’s eyes smart. The cows stampede once
-again. The object’s glow illuminates the ground as it passes, and it
-gains altitude and disappears again. (“Cattle
-Stampeded Twice by Mysterious ‘Object,’” Palm Beach (Fla.) Times,
-September 16, 1952, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2037
Date: 9/16/1952
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers, two civilians. Two white
-lights flew abreast, at 100 m.p.h., for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia
-ID: 256
Date: 9/16/1952
-Time: 6:22 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane,
-visually and via radar. A group of five lights was seen at the same time
-a long, thin blip was being tracked on radar. Note: consideration was
-given to this being USAF KC-97 airplanes involved in a refueling
-operation. The sighting involved 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Portland, Maine
-ID: 255
Date: 9/17/1952
-Time: 11:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth. Two groups of
-three large, flat, shiny objects flew in tight formations: the first
-group slow, the second faster. Seen for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 257
Date: 9/19/1952
-Description: 10:53 a.m. During Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, a silvery,
-spherical UFO appears near RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire, England,
-following an RAF Meteor jet (possibly piloted by Flight Lt. John W.
-Kilburn and Flight Lt. Marian Cybulski) about to land. It has been
-following about 5 miles behind the jet at15,000 feet, swinging like a
-“falling sycamore leaf” and descending. As the jet turns toward
-Dishforth, the object follows but begins rotating on its axis then
-suddenly accelerates and disappears. Several ground crew members of RAF
-269 Squadron (Master Signaller Albert Thomson, Sgt. Flight Engineer
-Thomas Deweys, Flight Lt. R. Paris, and Leading Aircraftman George
-Grime) and civilians also see it. Prince
-Philip suggests to RAF Air Marshal Peter Horsley, who
-is serving as equerry to the duke, that he investigate credible reports
-of UFOs, especially those by fighter pilots who have seen them. He
-arranges for RAF Fighter Command to send copies of any reports for
-examination at Buckingham Palace and begins an informal study that lasts
-until 1955. (NICAP, “Swaying
-Silver Object
-Follows Jet”; Richard Hall, “Operation Mainbrace Sightings”; Good
-Above, pp. 31–32,
-450;
-Nick Redfern, “UFOs
-and NATO: The Mainbrace Affair,” Mysterious Universe, April 22,
-2014; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406
-(June 2021): 18–19; Sparks,
-p. 173; Ruppelt, pp. 195–196;
-UFOFiles2, p. 47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2040
Date: 9/19/1952
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training
-test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 27km
Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/52) is
-sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and
-Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet
-exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been
-a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Between England and Scandinavia
-See also: 9/19/52
Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of
-the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging
-in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and
-object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at
-an incredible speed. (9/19/52, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any
-known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting
-star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation
-Mainbrace)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p31,450, B1-G p43)
-Location: North Yorkshire, England
-See also: 9/20/1952
Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: Naval personnel on the US aircraft carrier USS
-Franklin
-D. Roosevelt in the North Sea observe a silvery sphere moving across
-the sky behind the fleet. Photographer Wallace Litwin takes three color
-photos that are developed and examined by naval intelligence officers.
-Ruppelt says
-they “turned out to be excellent … judging by the size of the object in
-each successive photo, one could see that it was moving rapidly.” No
-balloon has been launched. (NICAP, “Object
-Photographed during Operation Mainbrace”; Ruppelt, pp. 195–196;
-UFOEv, p. 162;
-“In
-the News 1952,” Saturday Night Uforia, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2042
Date: 9/20/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Sometime during Exercise Mainbrace, at the underground RAF
-Ash, near Woodnesborough, Kent, England, Senior Aircraftman William
-Maguire tracks on radar a huge UFO high above the English Channel for 18
-minutes. Eventually it splits into three and speeds away, one object to
-the north, another toward France, and the third toward Eastern Europe.
-(Good Need, p. 152;
-Nick Redfern, “UFOs,
-NATO, and Military Encounters,” Interesting and Curiosities, October
-28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2041
Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: 7:30 p.m. At Air Base Karup in Jutland, Denmark, three
-Danish Air Force officers see a shiny, metallic UFO pass overhead and
-disappear in clouds to the east. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS,
-133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2043
Date: late 9/1952
-Description: Ruppelt visits
-the headquarters of the Air Defense Command at Ent AFB [now the US
-Olympic Training Center] in Colorado to brief Gen. Benjamin
-W. Chidlaw and his staff on the past few months of UFO activity at a
-lunch at the officer’s club. One of the attendees is Maj. Vernon
-L. Sadowski, the ADC Intelligence liaison to Blue Book, who says
-that “no one can understand why Intelligence is so hesitant to accept
-the fact that something we just don’t know about is flying around in our
-skies, unless you are trying to cover up something big.” (Ruppelt, pp. 194–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2047
Date: 9/21/1952
-Description: Six RAF Meteor jets flying above the North Sea observe a
-shiny sphere approaching from the direction of the Mainbrace fleet. It
-eludes their pursuit and disappears. As they are returning, it reappears
-following one of the jets, but when he turns to chase it, it speeds
-away. Ruppelt says
-the Mainbrace sightings forced the RAF to “officially recognize the
-UFO.” (NICAP, “Six
-RAF Jets Approached by Shiny Sphere”; Ruppelt, p. 196;
-Sparks,
-p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2044
Date: 9/21/1952
-Description: Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere”
-heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It
-was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One
-Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the
-UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents
-of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO
-situation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: North Sea
-See also: 7/52
-See also: 6/24/53
Date: 9/22/1952
-Description: Night. A UFO hovers over the Army’s Camp Drum [now Fort
-Drum] near Watertown, New York, for 30 minutes. Eight soldiers say the
-object is 200 feet across, trailing red-orange sparks. (“Mysterious,
-Gyratuing Object
-Looks Down on Camp Drum,” Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle,
-September 27, 1952, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2045
Date: fall 1952
-Description: Evening. Paul
-Solem has his first contact with a flying saucer around the Lost
-River Sinks a few miles from his ranch in Howe, Idaho. After watching a
-metallic object land, Solem sees a man with long blond hair and dressed
-in a white uniform standing next to it. He tells Solem to call him “Paul
-2.” He says he is from Venus and tells Solem to work with Indians in
-North America in preparing for a postapocalyptic social order. This will
-be the first of many contacts for Solem. Over the next 17 years he
-wanders through the western states, speaking with Indians and
-contactees, gathers a small group of followers, and generally avoids the
-limelight. (Clark III 1094)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2055
Date: 9/23/1952
-Time: No time shown
-Description: Witnesses: Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other
-campers. One bright white light, which reflected on the lake, flew
-straight and level at 100 m.p.h. for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 258
Date: 9/24/1952
-Time: 3:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber. A lot of bright,
-metallic particles or flashes, up to 3’ in length, streamed past the
-B-29 for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Charleston, West Virginia
-ID: 259
Date: 9/24/1952
-Description: CIA Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence H.
-Marshall Chadwell writes a 4-page memo to CIA Director Walter
-Bedell Smith, summarizing his earlier memo and stating that since
-1947 unexplained sightings were running at 20% and in 1952 they rose to
-28%. “I consider this problem to be of such importance that it should be
-brought to the attention of the National Security Council in order that
-a community-wide coordinated effort toward its solution may be
-initiated.” His CIA scientific consultants (Julius
-Stratton, and
-perhaps Lloyd Berkner and
-Howard
-P. Robertson) think the answer will be found “on the margins of just
-beyond the frontiers of our present knowledge in the fields of
-atmospheric, ionospheric, and extraterrestrial phenomena, with the added
-possibility that the present dispersal of nuclear waste products might
-also be a factor.” (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Flying
-Saucers,” September 24, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1
-of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Good Above, pp. 328–329, 506–507)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2046
Date: 9/26/1952
-Description: 11:16 p.m. The pilot and crew of a USAF C-124 see two
-distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the plane, about
-400 miles north-northwest of the Azores Islands. At one point, they
-appear to turn toward the plane. They remain visible until the plane
-sights the islands. (NICAP, “Air
-Crews Observe Green Lights”; Sparks, p. 174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2049
Date: 9/26/1952
-Description: Syndicated aviation columnist Robert
-S. Allen writes in his column that the “Air Force has a breathtaking
-report” ready on UFOs. The study expresses the belief that some reports
-are genuine and originate from “sources outside of this planet.” The
-supposed document also says that some sightings involve secret US
-military devices. The study is allegedly based on more than 1,800
-sightings in the past 5 years. (Robert S. Allen, “Report
-on Flying Saucers,” Los Angeles Mirror News, September 26, 1952,
-p. 43; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR
-27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2048
Date: 9/26/1952
-Time: 11:16 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander
-of USAF C-124 transport plane. Two distinct green lights were seen to
-the right and slightly above the C-124, and at one time seemed to turn
-toward it. The lights alternated leading each other during more than 1
-hour of observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 400 miles NNW of Azores Islands
-ID: 260
Date: 9/27/1952
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two couples, using a 5x telescope. One large,
-round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds, was
-seen to fly straight and level for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Inyokern, California
-ID: 261
Date: 9/27/1952
-End date: 9/28/1952
-Description: Throughout West Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden,
-there are widespread UFO reports. A luminous object with a comet-like
-tail is seen moving irregularly near Hamburg and Kiel, Germany. Once,
-three satellite objects are reported moving around a larger object. A
-cigar-shaped UFO moving silently eastward is also seen. (UFOEv, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2050
Date: 9/28/1952
-Description: 8:35 p.m.–10:09 p.m. USAF radar operator A/3c Carlton L.
-Hall, stationed on the southwest coast of Tsushima Island, Japan,
-notices unusual targets on six separate occasions, each time for a
-duration of 2–4 sweeps. On two separate outbound tracks from Itazuke Air
-Base [now Fukuoka Airport], a series of targets appear directly behind
-aircraft when entering an azimuth of 50°–70° from nearby Tsutsusaki
-Lighthouse. The objects appear as normal aircraft but are rounder in
-shape, trailing about 2–3 miles to the rear of the aircraft. A/2c Warren
-D. Grovenstein also observes four of these anomalies with Hall. ([Blue
-Book report])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2052
Date: 9/28/1952
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Williamson,
-Streeter,
-and Bailey attempt to meet the saucer intelligences for a landing
-somewhere in the Arizona desert, but apparently get lost. They return to
-Streeter’s home, where the radio sends sinister-sounding messages about
-the radio being dangerous, a man coming, and Streeter having a deep
-secret (perhaps that Streeter has attempted psychic contact once before
-in 1950). (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers
-Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4
-(Aug. 2006): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2051
Date: 9/29/1952
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. B.R. Hughes. Five or six circular
-objects, bright white but not shiny, circled in trail formation for 5-6
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Aurora, Colorado
-ID: 264
Date: 9/29/1952
-Time: 3:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses unknown, but report came via the Rochester Police
-Dept. Two flat objects hovered for 3 minutes, and then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rochester, England
-ID: 262
Date: 9/29/1952
-Time: 8:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Res. lst Lt. C.H. Stevens and two
-others. One green ellipse with a long tail orbited for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina
-ID: 263
Date: 9/29/1952
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Dursemaine, commanding officer of the
-Gendarmerie Maritime en Allemagne, watches a luminous, egg-shaped object
-with a black spot in its center flying at an altitude of 3.7 miles above
-his home 1.2 miles south of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It
-emits a low-pitched hum and white exhaust. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2053
Date: 9/30/1952
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A North American Aviation Company film crew,
-headed by Dick Beemer, is at Edwards AFB in southern California to film
-some tests. They are at Rogers Dry Lake when a B-29 passes overhead.
-Cameraman Carlos Garcia sees an unusual object moving near the plane. A
-second object appears. Soon the whole crew is looking up. Beemer says
-the objects are silent, leave no vapor trail, take turns maneuvering
-around each other, and look like “flattened spheres.” They have a color
-motion picture camera with them, but the UFOs are too near the sun.
-(UFOEv, pp. 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2054
Date: 10/1952
-Description: Andrija
-Puharich, a
-medical doctor interested in parapsychology, discovers that a person’s
-ESP abilities are enhanced when they are placed inside a Faraday cage.
-His experimental subject is none other than gifted psychic Eileen
-J. Garrett, whom
-he has tasked with clairvoyantly perceiving cosmic ray bursts of
-sufficient magnitude to trigger a signal in a detector. (Michael D.
-Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 (December 2008): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2058
Date: 10/1952
-Description: Evening. Aeronautical engineer and former Project Sign
-liaison Alfred
-Loedding and his wife Marion see an odd object while driving near
-Plainsboro, New Jersey. At first, they think it is an aircraft crashing,
-but the object levels off and flashes away at high speed, emitting a
-bluish-green light. He estimates it is 100 feet in diameter and 500–600
-feet high, and it gives off a “weird light like looking at a firefly”
-while changing shape. Loedding says Rep. L.
-Gary Clemente (D-N.Y.) is also a witness. (“Flying
-Saucer Design Practical, WADC Aid Says; U.S. Interested,”
-Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, August 9, 1957, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2060
Date: 10/1952
-Description: The first number of Albert
-K. Bender’s Space Review is published. (Space
-Review 1, no. 1 (October 1952); Clark III 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2056
Date: 10/1952
-Description: Opal Church is driving with her nephew in a car between
-Salem and Corvallis, Oregon, when they see an 8- foot, heavily built
-figure walking with “fluid movements” along the road. It is wearing an
-Arab-style headdress and a uniform, with gloves and boots, of fine
-metallic mesh. A ribbed belt surrounds the waist. Its face is pale and
-the huge round eyes, nearly 3 inches in diameter, glow. Inside them are
-reticulations “resembling the filament in old electric light bulbs.”
-Church turns around immediately, but the figure is gone, even though the
-terrain is flat. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1952–1953, p. 28; Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2057
Date: 10/1952
-Description: Stanley Glickman, an American artist living in Paris,
-France, joins a group of fellow Americans at a café, one of whom is CIA
-mind-control and poison specialist Sidney
-Gottlieb. A
-heated political debate ensues, and when Glickman decides to leave, he
-is offered a drink to soothe ill feelings. Gottlieb surreptitiously
-slips LSD into Glickman’s drink and it derails his life. Glickman
-suffers a complete mental breakdown from which he never recovers. In
-1977, he learns about Gottlieb and CIA’s LSD experiments on unwitting
-involuntary subjects from the Kennedy congressional
-hearings. Glickman sues in 1981, but the trial is delayed 17 years on
-technical grounds, by which time Glickman has died in 1992. His sister,
-Gloria Kronisch, pursues the case in the US Court of Appeals, Second
-Circuit, as his executrix in 1998, but it is thrown out on July 9
-because the statute of limitations has passed. (H. P. Albarelli Jr., A
-Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War
-Experiments, Trine
-Day, 2009; Kronisch
-v. United States, US Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit, July 9,
-1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2059
Date: 10/1/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other person.
-One round, milky-white object, shaped like a powder puff, hovered for
-5-10 minutes then flew away very fast in an arc. A loud blast was heard
-at the start of the 22 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pascagoula, Mississippi
-ID: 266
Date: 10/1/1952
-Time: 6:57 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. T.J. Pointek, pilot of RF-8O
-reconnaissance jet. One bright white light flew straight, then vertical,
-then hovered, and then made an abrupt turn during a 23 minute attempted
-intercept.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Shaw AFB, South Carolina
-ID: 265
Date: 10/2/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Shortly before 7:00 a.m. One Thursday this month, Johannes
-Nordlien is waiting for coworkers when he hears a howling sound. A
-white, saucer-shaped object, 13 feet in diameter, comes in from the west
-at high speed and passes him only 325 feet away. It falls with a violent
-splash into the river Lågen [Gudbrandsdalslågen?] in Norway. When his
-colleagues show up, the water is still roiling. (Ole Jonny Brænne,
-“Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no.
-1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2061
Date: 10/2/1952
-Description: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director H.
-Marshall Chadwell writes a memorandum to Director of Central
-Intelligence Walter
-Bedell Smith recommending he advise the National Security Council
-that more research is needed on UFOs to investigate their national
-security threat. (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Flying
-Saucers,” October 2, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May
-17, 1996; Good Above, pp. 509–510)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2062
Date: 10/2/1952
-Description: SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell,
-Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group
-devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose
-two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass
-psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of
-the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with
-the Psychological Strategy Board.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p509)
-Location: Langley, VA
-See also: 11/25/1952
Date: 10/7/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Lt. Bagnell. One pale blue oval, with its
-long axis vertical, flew straight and level for 4-5 seconds, covering 30
-in that time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Alamagordo, New Mexico
-ID: 267
Date: 10/9/1952
-End date: 10/11/1952
-Description: At the Optical Society of America meeting in Boston,
-Massachusetts, J.
-Allen Hynek presents a paper on “Unusual Aerial Phenomena,” in which
-he expresses skepticism for most reports, except for nocturnal lights
-that do “not appear to be readily explainable on an astronomical basis,
-or by mirages, balloons, or by conventional aircraft.” Astronomer Donald
-Menzel presents a dismissive paper on radar angels and mirages,
-while Urner Liddel presents
-“Phantasmagoria or Unusual Observations in the Atmosphere,” dismissing
-UFO reports as mass hysteria, fear psychosis, and sensation-seeking. (J.
-A. Hynek, “Unusual
-Aerial Phenomena,” Journal of the Optical Society of America 43
-(1953): 311–314; Urner Liddel, “Phantasmagoria
-or Unusual Observations in the Atmosphere,”
-Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 (1953): 314–317)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2063
Date: 10/10/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its sixth status report on Project Stork.
-UFO reports through 1951 have been coded and put on IBM punch cards.
-About 60% of the reports have been evaluated. The panel has looked at
-two films and soil and vegetation samples from cases in Florida and
-Pittsburg, Kansas. The witness questionnaire is further refined and will
-become the basis for Project Blue Book’s form. (“Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,” CUFON; “Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2064
Date: 10/10/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt., two other enlisted men. One
-blinking white light moved like a pendulum for 20 minutes, and then shot
-straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Otis AFB, Massachusetts
-ID: 268
Date: 10/11/1952
-Description: A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a disc hovering in one
-spot for 20 minutes over Newport News, Virginia. When two interceptors
-arrive from Langley Air Force Base, the object tilts up, accelerates,
-and shoots away. (UFOEv, p. 150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2065
Date: 10/12/1952
-Description: Harold H. Fulton founds Civilian Saucer Investigation (New
-Zealand) in Auckland. It begins publishing a quarterly newsletter,
-Flying Saucers, in May 1953, which continues until September 1959 with a
-name change in 1958 to Space Probe. (Flying
-Saucers 1, no. 1 (May 1953); Space
-Probe, Christmas
-1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2066
Date: 10/13/1952
-Description: James
-Q. Reber, assistant
-director of CIA intelligence coordination, writes a memo to the CIA
-deputy director of intelligence, arguing that fundamental research into
-the question of positive identification is the responsibility of the
-Defense Department and that while investigating Soviet knowledge of UFO
-phenomena is a “primary concern” for the CIA, it “is far too early in
-view of the present state of our knowledge regarding Flying Saucers for
-psychological warfare planners to start planning how the United States
-might use U.S. Flying Saucers against the enemy.” Reber goes on to
-recommend that when “intelligence has submitted the National Estimate on
-Flying Saucers there will be the time and basis for a public policy to
-reduce or restrain mass hysteria.” (James Q. Reber, “Flying
-Saucers,” October 13, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part
-1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2067
Date: 10/13/1952
-Description: 7:08 p.m. USAF pilot Maj. William
-D. Leet and his engineer, flying a C-54 troop carrier, watch an
-elliptical UFO hovering in clouds near Oshima, Japan. It speeds away
-after 7 minutes. (UFOEv, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2068
Date: 10/14/1952
-Description: OSI Deputy Assistant Director Ralph
-L. Clark writes a memorandum for the record suggesting a meeting on
-October 20 or 21 to work out a research and intelligence program on
-UFOs. (Ralph J. Clark, “Flying
-Saucers Problem,”
-October 14, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2069
Date: 10/15/1952
-Time: 1910
-Description: Approximate date. Figures with helmets and masks were seen
-through lighted windows inside a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object on
-the ground. Length 30 m, diameter 6 m. Forward section was rounded, and
-a sort of fog was noted at both ends of object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; Anatomy 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Vigan, France
-ID: 103
Date: 10/16/1952
-Description: George
-Hunt Williamson is in a state of panic from the messages he and the
-Baileys have received from space people. He writes an associate doing
-missionary work in Guatemala that disaster will strike the earth before
-December 1. He says radio contacts have stopped and that he has been
-told there will be a direct contact with a spaceman: “Professor George
-Adamski is in on this too.” The Baileys have already met with
-Adamski (in August) and now the messages are urging another meeting with
-him. (Y. N. ibn Aharon [Yonah Fortner], “Diagnosis: A Case of Chronic
-Fright,” Saucer News 4, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 3–6; Clark III
-1284)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2070
Date: 10/17/1952
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Four USAF officers One round, bright blue light
-moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degree for 2-3
-seconds and then burned out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Taos, New Mexico
-ID: 269
Date: 10/17/1952
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witness: one military person (no detail). One white
-streamer moved at an estimated 3,000 m.p.h. in an arc for 20 seconds. No
-further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico
-ID: 271
Date: 10/17/1952
-Time: 10:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Ministers Greenwalt and Kluck. Ten lights, or a
-rectangle of lights, moved more or less straight and level for 5
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Killeen, Texas
-ID: 270
Date: 10/17/1952
-Description: Early afternoon. Residents of Oloron-Sainte-Marie,
-Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see a large cigar-shaped structure in the
-blue sky, inclined at a 45° angle. The witnesses include the family of
-Yves Prigent, general superintendent of the local high school. A plume
-of white smoke is escaping from its upper end. At some distance in front
-of the cylinder, about 30 round, puffy objects with a central red spot
-are following the same trajectory. The smaller objects move in pairs
-following a broken, zig-zag path. They leave an abundant trail of a
-white substance (angel’s hair) behind them, which slowly falls to the
-ground as it disperses. For several hours, clumps of it hang on the
-trees, on the telephone wires, and on the roofs of houses. (“Les
-Soucoupes Volantes vues à Oloron
-le 17 Octobre,” France-Dimanche, October 26, 1952, in The Spectrum
-of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 114; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come
-from Another World, Hutchinson, 1956, pp. 87–92; Jacques Vallee and
-Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, pp. 120–121;
-Clark III 123; Patrick Gross, “Documents:
-Found in the Attic”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, pp. 73–74;
-Lotharson, “Unidentified
-Flying Spiders in Southern France?” Shards of Magonia, March 12,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2071
Date: 10/18/1952
-Description: 9:44 p.m. Journalist Keith Hooper is returning home from an
-assignment for the Adelaide Advrtiser when he sees a greenish-white,
-cigar-shaped object about the size of a Boeing 707 some 10 miles away
-over the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, moving southeast to northwest.
-The object makes a sharp, right-angle turn upward, recedes, then
-vanishes at tremendous speed. The duration is 5–7 seconds. (Keith
-Hooper, “My
-Flying Saucer,”
-Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, March 13, 1965, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2072
Date: 10/19/1952
-Time: 6:58 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-50 transport plane. One round
-yellow light, with a red glowing edge, estimated at 100’ in diameter,
-flew at 300-400 kts. (350-450 m.p.h.) for 20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 500 miles south of Hawaii
-ID: 273
Date: 10/19/1952
-Time: 1:30 PM
-Description: Witness: one ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey. Three circular
-aluminum objects, one of which was olive-drab colored on the side, flew
-in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly, another object
-stopped, during the 3-4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 272
Date: late 10/1952
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Seaman Abelardo Marquez, posted on the USS
-Fletcher near
-Eniwetak Atoll for the upcoming Ivy Mike thermonuclear test, is going on
-duty to the bridge when he notices that the ship is uncharacteristically
-moving at full speed. Other crew members tell him it is because of a
-round white light that has been moving above the ship. Marquez sees it
-descending, then it stops and hovers about 40°–45° above the horizon and
-perhaps one-half mile from the ship. Capt. Grover
-L. Rawlings is talking with other officers on the bridge, saying
-they do not know what the light is, and that is not tracked on radar.
-After about 4–5 minutes, the light takes off straight up at the same
-speed it had descended. (Nukes 101–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2077
Date: late 10/1952
-Description: Night. Radioman Tom Kramer is serving aboard the USS
-Curtiss,
-the AEC flagship for Ivy Mike, the first detonation of a hydrogen bomb
-at Elugelab Atoll in the Marshall Islands. After an onboard movie,
-Kramer and other crewmen see a round, silent, bright white light that is
-motionless at first, then starts zigzagging for less than 10 seconds and
-takes off at high speed. (Nukes 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2076
Date: 10/21/1952
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white
-lights flew in a loose formation for 1-2 minutes, and made a shallow
-dive at a weather balloon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
-ID: 274
Date: 10/21/1952
-Description: Afternoon. Flight Lt. Michael Swiney and a student pilot,
-Royal Navy Lt. David Crofts, are flying a Meteor T.7 trainer out of RAF
-Little Rissington, Gloucester, England, for a high-altitude navigation
-exercise at 35,000 feet. Not long after breaking out of a cloud during a
-climb at 13,000–14,000 feet, they see three circular, white objects in
-front of them. As the aircraft get closer and turns to avoid them, the
-objects become visible as discs. They disappear quickly when the pilot
-looks away briefly. Two Meteor F.8 fighters are scrambled from RAF
-Tangmere [now closed] in West Sussex to chase three unknown radar
-targets moving at 3,000 mph but fail to intercept them. (Wikipedia, “Little
-Rissington UFO incident”; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the
-Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 98–102; UFOFiles2, pp. 47–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2073
Date: 10/23/1952
-Description: Ruppelt holds
-a briefing on UFOs at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico.
-Afterward Assistant Director for Scientific Personnel William H. Crew
-arranges a special meeting for Ruppelt and Col. Bower with
-seven people from the laboratory. Several of them have evidence that
-there is a possible correlation between sightings of UFOs and unusual
-radiation detection. (Edward J. Ruppelt, [Message
-referring to a December 1 telephone
-call], December 2, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2074
Date: 10/24/1952
-Time: 8:26 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Rau, Capt. Marcinko, flying a Beech
-T-ll trainer. One object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front
-and vague trail, flew with its concave surface forward for 5
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elberton, Alabama
-ID: 275
Date: 10/24/1952
-Description: President Truman signs
-National Security Council Directive 6, a 7-page document that eliminates
-the Armed Forces Security Agency formed in 1949 to unite all military
-signal intelligence operations and creates the National Security Agency.
-Since the memo is a classified document, the existence of the NSA is not
-known to the public. Due to its ultra-secrecy the US intelligence
-community refers to the NSA as “No Such Agency.” The NSA is responsible
-for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and
-data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. NSA
-inherits Project Shamrock from the AFSA. It also inherits collection of
-UFO data, at least by 1958, but probably in 1953. (ClearIntent, p. 189;
-Thomas L. Burns, The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940–1952,
-National Security Agency, 1990, pp. 97–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2075
Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are
-seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary
-ships.”
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Residents of Gaillac, Tarn, France, see a
-formation of 16 disc-shaped UFOs ranged in twos. An elongated cylinder
-is in the center of the objects, all of which are discharging angel’s
-hair like glass wool. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 148; Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, pp. 84–85;
-Lotharson, “Unidentified
-Flying Spiders in Southern France?” Shards of Magonia, March 12,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2080
Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: 2:03 a.m. Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observes a
-cigar-shaped object land briefly on a runway of the airport at
-Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, 100 meters away, producing a dull
-sound. The object is dark with four lighted windows. It takes off with a
-“swish” and a shower of sparks when he runs toward it. (Clark III
-243–244; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World,
-Hutchinson, 1956, p. 53; Michel, The Truth about FS, pp. 152–156;
-Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma,
-Regnery, 1966, pp. 6–11;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, September–October, The
-Author, 1986, pp. 82–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2078
Date: 10/27/1952
-Time: 0203
-Description: Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped
-object land briefly on the airfield 100 m away, producing a dull sound.
-The object was dark with four lighted windows. It took off with a
-“swish” and a shower of sparks when the witness ran toward it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Marignane Airport, France
-ID: 104
Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: An FBI memorandum to Alan
-H. Belmont from Victor P. Keay reports that “Air Intelligence still
-feels that the so-called flying saucers are either optical illusions or
-atmospheric phenomena. He pointed out, however, that some Military
-officials are seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary
-ships.” (V. P. Keay, “Flying Saucers,”
-October 27, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2079
Date: 10/29/1952
-Time: 7:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt. Anderson, A/2c Max Handy. One round
-object, silhouetted against a cloud, flew straight and level and smooth
-at 400 m.p.h. for 20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Erding Air Depot, West Germany
-ID: 276
Date: 10/29/1952
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Two USAF F-94 crews see a white luminous object
-maneuvering at high speed for 20 minutes above Hempstead, Long Island,
-New York. Lt. William F. Hamilton and Lt. Norman W. Booth write: “Based
-on my experience in fighter tactics, it is my opinion that the object
-was controlled by something having visual contact with us. The power and
-acceleration were beyond the capability of any known aircraft.” (NICAP,
-“Two
-F- 94’s
-Encounter Controlled Object”; Sparks, p. 177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2081
Date: 10/31/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Lt. James Allen. One orange, blimp-shaped
-object, 80’ long and 20’ high, flew at treetop level, crossed over
-Allen’s car (at which time his radio stopped playing), then climbed out
-at 45’ and tremendous speed at the end of a 1 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fayetteville, Georgia
-ID: 277
Date: 11/1952
-Description: A child was burned when a strange disk, 25 cm in diameter,
-landed near Dublin.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Dublin, Ireland
-ID: 105
Date: 11/1952
-Description: Aladino
-Félix and a friend are climbing a hill near Angatuba, São Paulo,
-Brazil. When they get to the top, Félix claims they see numerous UFOs
-flying around. Félix comes back another day by himself; eventually a
-saucer lands and he is invited inside to meet its crew and examine the
-technology. Several months later, he is visited at his home in São Paulo
-by the saucer captain, who claims to come from one or two of the
-satellites of Jupiter. Félix, under the pseudonym of Dino Kraspedon,
-writes about his various conversations with the spaceman in Meu Contato
-com os discos voadores in 1957. He writes other mystical and religious
-tracts under the names Dunatos Menorá and Sábado Dinotos. In 1967–1968,
-Félix is operating a right-wing terrorism group that sets off bombs,
-steals arms and explosives, and robs a bank. He serves three years in
-prison. (Clark III 661–662; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life
-of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 164–165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2082
Date: 11/1/1952
-Description: Nuclear test Ivy Mike is the first successful full-scale
-test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon (“hydrogen bomb”) using the
-Teller-Ulam design the size of an airplane hangar. Unlike later
-thermonuclear weapons, Mike uses deuterium as its fusion fuel,
-maintained as a liquid by an expensive and cumbersome cryogenic system.
-It is detonated on Elugelab in the Marshall Islands yielding 10.4
-megatons, almost 500 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
-The fireball is 3 miles wide and completely destroys the atoll. USAF
-Capt. Jimmy
-Priestly Robinson of the 561st Fighter-Day Squadron, is lost near
-the end of his mission to successfully pilot his F-84G through the
-mushroom cloud’s stem to collect radiochemical air samples. After re-
-emerging from the cloud, both he and his wingman, pilot Captain Bob
-Hagan, encounter
-difficulties picking up navigational beacons due to “electromagnetic
-after effects” of the detonation. By the time they are successful in
-finding the signal four hours later, they are dangerously low on fuel,
-and before reaching the runway, both have depleted their reserves. While
-Hagan is able to glide to the runway and achieve a hard landing,
-Robinson is too far out to follow the same path and therefore attempts
-to land on water. Neither his plane nor his body has ever been found;
-his family only learned the truth in 2008 after repeated FOIA requests.
-(Wikipedia, “Ivy
-Mike”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2083
Date: 11/3/1952
-Time: 66:29 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, including Lemaster.
-One long, elliptical, white-grey light flew very fast, paused, and then
-increased speed during a 3-4 second observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Laredo AFB, Texas
-ID: 278
Date: 11/4/1952
-End date: 11/6/1952
-Description: The Baileys and Williamsons come up together for a visit to
-the Palomar Gardens Café. Adamski tells
-them he has been making special trips into the desert in hopes of
-meeting a saucer. Soon Adamski begins channeling space messages in the
-presence of the Williamsons and the Baileys. At one of these sessions, a
-space being declares that a face-to-face meeting will take place soon.
-Williamson and
-Bailey ask Adamski to call them before he attempts his next contact.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 23;
-Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, p. 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2086
Date: 11/4/1952
-Time: 5:40 PM
-Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Sprague. Two groups of 2-3 whirling
-discs of light flew toward the southeast over a period of 30
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Vineland, New Jersey
-ID: 279
Date: 11/4/1952
-Description: NSA is established
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Fort Meade, Maryland
Date: 11/4/1952
-Description: Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt and Lt. Robert M. Olsson visit Col. John
-R. Hood Jr., AMC chief of the Nuclear Powered Aircraft Branch of
-Wright Air Development Center. Hood had contacted ATIC in December 1950
-in regard to certain sightings of UFOs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
-Tennessee, in which he and a naval officer attempted to obtain
-correlation between sightings and peaks in radiation backgrounds. Now
-there are indications that there may be some correlation present between
-unknown radar pickups and rises in radiation, and he suggests that ATIC
-begin an instrumented radiation program. (“Visit
-to WADC,” November 4, 1952; Patrick W. Hayes, “Unconventional
-Aircraft,” Spot Intelligence Report, Dec. 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2084
Date: 11/4/1952
-Description: The National Security Agency is established in Fort Meade,
-Maryland, in a memo by Secretary of Defense Robert
-A. Lovett, making
-the new agency responsible for all communications intelligence. The
-existence of the NSA is not known to the public at this time.
-(Wikipedia, “National
-Security Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2085
Date: 11/5/1952
-Description: Dwight
-D. Eisenhower is elected president.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2087
Date: 11/10/1952
-Description: Battelle’s Project Stork notes in its seventh status report
-that current UFO reports “are now in more detail and often consist of
-sightings of one object by more than one individual.” 500 copies of a
-final version of the sighting questionnaire were delivered to ATIC at
-Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. It expects to have all UFO reports dated
-before June 15, 1952, processed and evaluated by December 10, ready for
-IBM analysis later. (Clark III 929; “Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2088
Date: 11/12/1952
-Time: 10:23 PM
-Description: Witness: security inspector. Four red-white-green lights
-flew slowly over a prohibited area for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
-ID: 280
Date: 11/13/1952
-Time: 2:43 AM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Earl Oksendahl. Five
-oval-shaped objects, with lights all around them, flew in a V-formation
-for about 20 seconds. Each object seemed to be changing position
-vertically by climbing or diving as if to hold formation. Formation came
-from the northwest, made a 90 degree overhead, and flew away to the
-southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Glasgow, Montana
-ID: 282
Date: 11/13/1952
-Time: 2:20 AM
-Description: Witness: radar tracking by USAF 779th AC&W station. An
-unexplained track was followed for 1 hour, 28 minutes, at 158,000’
-altitude (30 miles) and a speed of 240 m.p.h. Radar was FPS/3
-(PPI).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Opheim, Montana
-ID: 281
Date: 11/15/1952
-Time: 7:02 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. R.L. Wallander, Capt. Belleman, A/3c
-Phipps. One orange object (a blue streak?) varied in shape, as it made
-jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 second pauses during a 3-5 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita, Kansas
-ID: 283
Date: 11/16/1952
-Description: Around 5:00 p.m. An air traffic controller at Florence
-Airport, South Carolina, watches a huge, gleaming disc through
-binoculars and sees it tilt up sharply before climbing out of sight.
-About 6 minutes later, people see a group of round, glowing objects
-north of Landrum, South Carolina. David
-S. Bunch takes 40 minutes of film with an 8mm camera and telephoto
-lens before the UFOs disappear to the west. Keyhoe reviews
-the film along with some Air Force officers. It shows five glowing,
-oval-shaped objects. (Keyhoe, FS from OS, pp. 4–5;
-UFOEv, p.
-89;
-Sparks,
-p. 180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2089
Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer, found himself flooded with a
-reddish light and saw a large plate 10 m above him, between gold and
-copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface, 20 m in diameter,
-was a cylinder of 5 m diameter made of rapidly rotating parts, producing
-a noise similar to that of an electric motor. On the upper surface was a
-turret inside which three occupants were visible, looking directly at
-the witness. They looked perfectly human, wore rubber coveralls and
-transparent face masks. They spoke a few words, which were not
-understood; a loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the
-object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained
-intensity, and the craft flew vertically at very high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 102 (Vallee)
-Location: Castelfranco, Italy
-ID: 106
Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: Date of the fake four-page “Briefing Document: Operation
-Majestic 12. Prepared for President-Elect Dwight
-D. Eisenhower: Eyes Only.” It states that UFOs are the product of an
-extraterrestrial civilization, that several had crashed and came into
-the possession of the US government, and that the US had custody of an
-alien for some time before it died. It says that Truman established
-the MJ-12 group in 1947. Called Majestic-12, the group supposedly
-consists of CIA Director Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter, Vannevar
-Bush, Secretary
-of Defense James Forrestal (replaced
-by Gen. Walter
-Bedell Smith in 1950), Gen. Nathan
-Twining, Gen. Hoyt
-Vandenberg, Detlev
-Bronk, Jerome
-Clarke Hunsaker, Sidney
-Souers, Gordon
-Gray, Donald
-Menzel, Gen. Robert
-Miller Montague, and Lloyd
-Berkner. (“Briefing
-Document: Operation Majestic-12, Prepared for President-Elect Dwight
-D. Eisenhower
-(Eyes Only),” November 18, 1952; Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The
-Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 13–17; Joe Nickell
-and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1990): 4–20; Good Above, pp. 257–260, 544–550)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2090
Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: President-Elect Eisenhower receives
-a 43-minute national security briefing on matters that are still
-classified. Gen. Nathan
-Twining, Gen. Omar
-Bradley, Adm.
-William
-Fechteler, Gen. J.
-Lawton Collins, Gen. Lemuel
-C. Shepherd Jr., and
-Secretary of Defense Robert
-A. Lovett are present. (Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So
-Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2091
Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: George
-Adamski telephones George
-Hunt Williamson and tells him that the space people have informed
-him a physical encounter will take place on November 20. (Clark III
-1284; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 23;
-Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2092
Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President
-(elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 11/19/1952
-Description: Pilot J. Slade Nash reaches 698.5 mph in a North American
-F-86D Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. (Bryan R. Swopes, “19
-November 1952,” This Day in Aviation, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2093
Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: George Adamski contacts man from Venus.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: CA
Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The Williamsons and the Baileys, with Adamski’s
-permission, drive to Phoenix, Arizona, and tell the story of their
-contact to reporters at the Phoenix Gazette. (Zirger and Martinelli, The
-Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016,
-pp. 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2098
Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 2:15 p.m. As he is packing up his telescope, Adamski sees
-a man waving to him from about a quarter- mile away. He walks over to
-him and meets an entity named Orthon as his 6 companions watch from a
-distance. Five-and-a-half feet tall, Orthon [could Adamski have thought
-of this name from Kodak Ortho film?] is a beautiful being with long
-blond hair and an extremely high forehead. Through gestures, sign
-language, a few words, and telepathy, Adamski learns that he is from
-Venus and the Venusians are visiting earth out of concern for nuclear
-weapons. The conversation lasts about 45 minutes. Orthon declines to be
-photographed but asks Adamski to borrow one of his unexposed photos.
-After Orthon leaves in his Scout ship around 3:04 p.m., Adamski finds
-tracks in the desert floor. His companions rejoin him at the site.
-Around 3:45 p.m., Williamson takes
-casts with plaster of paris, which he just happens to carry with him in
-case he runs into a stray bone. Each track contains within it a distinct
-set of symbols. After several hours of assessing the situation and
-waiting for the plaster to dry, the group returns to Desert Center,
-California. (Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have
-Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, pp. 185–215;
-Adamski Foundation, “The
-Landing”; James W. Moseley, “Special
-Adamski Exposé Issue,” Saucer News, no. 27 (October 1957); Curt
-Collins, “Saucer
-News Presents:
-The George Adamski Exposé,” In Honor of James Moseley, May 30, 2014;
-Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 41–89, 360–362; Clark III 39–40, 1284; Michael D.
-Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 23; Michael D.
-Swords, “Adamski in the Desert,” IUR 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 22; Rene
-Erik Olsen, [George
-Adamski photo analysis], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, A
-Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space
-Brothers, The
-Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2097
Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 1:57 p.m. Adamski stays
-behind to set up his equipment as McGinnis and Bailey return to the rest
-of the group. At 2:04 p.m., another UFO, this time a “Scout ship,”
-appears near Adamski, who takes seven photos through his telescope. The
-cigar-shaped UFO is still visible through binoculars. At 2:12 pm.,
-Adamski takes three more photos of the Scout ship with a Kodak Brownie
-before it disappears behind a hill. Air Force jets circle the area at
-least twice. (Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt
-Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 359–360)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2096
Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Adamski’s
-group picnics along the roadside. At 1:30 p.m., they see a cigar-shaped
-UFO that appears shortly after a US Air Force B-29 passes overhead going
-in the direction of Parker, Arizona. Adamski asks Lucy McGinnis,
-accompanied by Alfred Bailey, to drive him a bit more than half a mile
-away to a flatter area near the foot of Coxcomb Mountain where he can
-set up his telescope. The cigar-shaped UFO is allegedly following them.
-(Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 54–56, 358–359)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2095
Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: Morning. George
-Adamski and two associates, Lucy McGinnis and Alice Wells, drive out
-from the Palomar Gardens Café. They meet the Williamsons and the Baileys
-at Blythe, California, at 8:00 a.m., and they drive to Desert Center,
-California, taking Desert Center Rice Road 117 toward Coxcomb Mountain.
-(Clark III 1284; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George
-Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2094
Date: 11/21/1952
-Description: At a place alled “La Butte” a luminous sphere, which seemed
-to spin, its color changing from orange to white, was seen at low
-altitude. It oscillated left and right, then took off toward the
-southwest, according to the witness, Mr. Gauci.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Belle-Ile, France
-ID: 107
Date: 11/21/1952
-End date: 11/23/1952
-Description: An Air Force review panel meets at ATIC for three days and
-recommends that a “higher court” be formed to review UFOs. It schedules
-this tentatively for late December or early January. (Ruppelt, pp. 200–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2099
Date: 11/22/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Fr. Carlos Maria, a Capuchin missionary, and
-five others are driving along the road to Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari [now
-Central African Republic] when they notice a large disc speeding
-overhead. Later, they see four others, motionless. They watch the UFOs
-for 20 minutes, changing shape and color. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about
-FS; Jimmy Guieu [pseudonym of Henri René Guieu], Les soucoupes volantes
-viennent d’un autre monde, Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2100
Date: 11/24/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witness: L.L’ Brettner. One round, glowing object flew very
-fast, made right angle turns and reversed course during a 1 hour
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Annandale, Virginia
-ID: 284
Date: 11/24/1952
-Description: The first printed account of the encounter with Orthon
-appears in the Phoenix Gazette. The newspaper publishes one of Adamski’s
-photos as well as a photo of the Williamsons and the Baileys. Adamski
-becomes instantly famous, and Williamson moves
-to Palomar Gardens for several days. When he tells Adamski he is
-planning to write a book about his channelings and contacts, Adamski
-warns him not to mention the contacts have been largely psychic. Adamski
-discourages him and they have a falling out. Alfred C. Bailey later says
-he has seen neither spaceship nor spaceman and doubts that anyone else
-has either. (Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt
-Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 45–52, 99, 358–363; “Palomar
-Mountain, 1940–1960: From
-Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2102
Date: 11/24/1952
-Description: Andrija
-Puharich, invited
-by an Army colonel friend who is chief of the Research Section of the
-Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, delivers a lecture on ESP
-to high-ranking Pentagon officers in the Army’s Psychological Warfare
-Research Section and the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations.
-Col. Howard McCoy is
-probably present. (Nick Redfern, The Pyramids and the Pentagon, New
-Page, 2012; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2
-(December 2008): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2101
Date: 11/25/1952
-Description: ATIC Col. Donald
-L. Bower and Maj. Dewey
-Fournet brief CIA consultants Frederick
-C. Durant and Edward
-Tauss on Blue Book’s top three cases: the Tremonton UFO film of July
-2; a dubious sighting of an object seen at Presque Isle and Limestone
-AFB [now Loring International Airport], Maine, on the night of October
-10– 11 (which Hynek has
-already explained as a theodolite miscalibration causing Jupiter and its
-4 prominent moons to be visible); and the problematic Florida
-scoutmaster case of August 19. USAF wants the CIA to think these are
-good cases until they unravel at the proposed Robertson Panel meeting.
-(CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related
-Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Clark III
-1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2103
Date: 11/25/1952
-End date: 11/26/1952
-Description: Two UFOs are tracked by defense radar in the Panama Canal
-Zone. (NICAP, “Two
-Objects Tracked by
-A/A Gun Radar”; Condon, pp. 168–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2104
Date: 11/25/1952
-Description: (cont’d briefing from 8/20/52): Memorandum for Director
-CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date.
-UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great
-altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense
-installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN
-types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate
-PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS.
-Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell.
-Type: memorandum
-Reference: link
-Location: Langley, VA
-See also: 8/10/52
-See also: 10/2/52
-See also: 11/25/52
Date: 11/26/1952
-Description: 5:56 p.m. An F-94B from the USAF 59th Fighter-Interceptor
-Squadron at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, for 15 minutes
-chases a maneuverable object that changes color from white to red,
-heading south or southwest. The fighter gets a brief radar lock-on.
-(Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1952, November– December,
-The Author, 1986, p. 44; Sparks,
-p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2105
Date: 11/27/1952
-Time: 12:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and crew chief of UAAF B-26 bomber. A
-series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire,
-was seen over a 20 minute period.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 285
Date: 11/30/1952
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Numerous slow-moving 90–100 mph radar targets
-appear on the MEW VG-2 radar at Washington National Airport in
-Washington, D.C. Suggestive of anomalous propagation, but they are
-unlike the July 1952 cases since there is no visual confirmation, no
-other radars confirming, and no fighters scrambled. A pilot at 6,000
-feet sees nothing. CAA Senior Airways Specialist Austin M. Stapf claims
-the same thing was observed at same time on November 29, and that the
-Andrews AFB watch supervisor could not visually confirm targets over
-Andrews displayed on the ARTCC radar scope. (Sparks,
-p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2106
Date: 11/30/1952
-Time: 12:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators at Washington National Airport.
-Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 286
Date: 12/1952
-Description: Maj. Dewey
-Fournet completes a study of UFOs to assess whether their motions
-are random or ordered. He concludes that their reported movements show
-that UFOs are under intelligent control. (Ruppelt, pp. 189–190;
-Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent
-Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 8–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2107
Date: 12/2/1952
-Description: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director H.
-Marshall Chadwell writes another secret memo to Director Walter
-Bedell Smith on UFOs: “At this time, the reports of incidents
-convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate
-attention. The details of some of these incidents have been discussed by
-AD/SI with DDCI. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and
-traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense
-installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to
-natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.” Physicist Julius
-Adams Stratton and economist Max
-Millikan tell Chadwell that scientists at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory
-would like to be a part of any scientific study of the UFO phenomenon,
-perhaps through Millikan’s MIT Center for International Studies.
-Stratton indicates that Lab Director Albert
-G. Hill should
-organize the study. Attached is a draft of an intelligence directive by
-Chadwell on behalf of Smith to the National Security Council
-recommending that the CIA “formulate and carry out a program of
-intelligence and research activities required to solve the problem of
-instant positive identification of unidentified flying objects.” But
-Smith refuses to approve or sign the directive because he is briefing
-the president directly. (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” December 2, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document
-Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Swords 175; Clark III
-1013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2108
Date: 12/2/1952
-Description: Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of
-Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince
-us that there is something going on that must have immediate
-attention.”
-Type: statement
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Langley, VA
-See also: 10/2/52
-See also: 11/25/52
Date: 12/3/1952
-Description: In another “Flying Saucer” memo, Chadwell admits
-the Air Force would be suspicious of any MIT Lincoln Lab involvement,
-and that Princeton or Cal Tech would do, and that “it will be necessary
-to secure the full backing of the DCI in order that a scientific review
-of the problem may be laid on.” However, he recommends that this
-“External Research Project Concerned with Unidentified Flying Objects”
-be administered by Max Millikan at the MIT Center for International
-Studies. (P. G. Strong, “Flying
-Saucers,” December 3, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May
-17, 1996; Swords 185–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2109
Date: 12/4/1952
-Description: The CIA Intelligence Advisory Committee recommends that
-“the Director of Central Intelligence will ‘enlist the services of
-selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in the
-light of pertinent scientific theories.’” The meeting, chaired by Chadwell, is
-attended by Robert
-Amory Jr., Gen. John
-Samford, Rear Admiral Carl
-F. Espe, Gen. John
-M. Willems, William
-Park Armstrong, Walter
-F. Colby, Col.
-Edward
-R. Porter, and
-Col. Jere
-Boggs. This
-is to be done “immediately” through a National Security Council
-Intelligence Directive and is essentially the go-ahead for what will be
-the Robertson Panel. (Robert Amory Jr., “Intelligence Advisory
-Committee: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s Conference Room,
-Administration Building, Central Intelligence
-Agency, on 4 December 1952,” December 4, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document
-Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Swords 184, 186–187;
-Hynek UFO Report, p. 20;
-Clark III 1013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2110
Date: 12/4/1952
-Description: 8:46 p.m. USAF pilot Lt. Robert O. Arnold, 3640th Pilot
-Training Wing, Laredo AFB [now Laredo International Airport], Texas, is
-flying a T-28 trainer at 6,000 feet when he sees a bright bluish-white
-glowing object below him at about 1,500–2,000 feet and rapidly climbing
-to his level. It shows no navigation lights. He tightens his left turn
-to keep the object in view, but it suddenly climbs to 9,000 feet in
-several seconds and drops down to his altitude again, then stops and
-hovers. Arnold pursues but after 2 seconds the object suddenly heads
-towards him on a collision course at high speed at 8:53 p.m., wavering
-slightly at about 300 feet. He sees the object as a blurred
-reddish-bluish haze smaller than his T-28. It rapidly ascends to 15,000
-feet then circles left as if positioning for another pass. In fear
-Arnold turns off his running lights, spirals down to 1,500 feet while
-keeping the object in sight as it continues to head towards him in a
-dive, then pulls up and climbs out of sight. A lighted weather balloon
-is launched at 8:53 p.m. from Laredo AFB but it is not observed near any
-aircraft. (NICAP, “The
-Laredo / ‘Earl Fogle’ Case”; Sparks,
-p. 182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2111
Date: 12/6/1952
-Description: 5:24 a.m. The 3-man crew of a USAF B-29 (1st Lt. Norman
-Karas and 1st Lt. William W. Naumann) over the Gulf of Mexico 100
-miles south of Louisiana track five unidentified blips on the bomber’s
-radar. They maneuver around the plane at a speed of 5,240 mph. The crew
-sees some flashes of light, but the targets are 20 miles or more away.
-The five UFOs merge with a huge blip that accelerates and vanishes at a
-speed of 9,000 mph. Additional crewmen involved are 1st Lt. William W.
-Naumann, Jr., Staff Sgt B. R. Purcell, Staff Sgt. William J. De Rause,
-2nd Lt. Robert J. Eckert, and Staff Sgt. Harry D. Shogren. (NICAP, “B-29
-Encounters High Speed Objects
-over Gulf”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, pp. 161–166;
-Sparks,
-p. 183; Condon, pp. 148–150;
-Patrick Gross, “B- 29
-Radar and Visual Multiple Witnesses Observations, Dec. 6,
-1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2112
Date: 12/6/1952
-Description: Air Force bomber tracked “mother ship,” smaller high-speed
-objects, on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gulf of Mexico
-ID: 2
Date: 12/8/1952
-Time: 8:16 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot lst Lt. D. Dickman and radar operator lst
-Lt. T. Davies in USAF F-94 jet interceptor (s/n 49-2522). One white,
-oval light which changed to red at higher altitude, flew straight and
-level for 2 minutes, then climbed at phenomenal speed on an erratic
-flight path. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska
-ID: 287
Date: 12/9/1952
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Bridges and lst Lt. Johneon in USAF T-33
-jet trainer. Four bright lights, in diamond formation, flew at 400
-m.p.h. and were passed by the T-33 at 450 m.p.h. during the 10 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Madison, Wisconsin
-ID: 288
Date: 12/9/1952
-Description: Col. Donald
-L. Bower forbids Ruppelt from
-visiting the CIA to give its Office of Scientific Intelligence certain
-UFO cases in preparation for the Robertson Panel in January. CIA
-consultant Frederick C. Durant learns about this the same day in a phone
-call to Ruppelt. (Frederick C. Durant, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” December 9, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May
-17, 1996; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2113
Date: 12/10/1952
-Description: H.
-Marshall Chadwell writes to Walter
-Bedell Smith that OSI has been working with mathematician Howard
-P. Robertson of Cal Tech to establish a panel of scientists
-(including astronomer Thornton
-Leigh Page) and engineers to review the status of UFOs in January.
-Somewhere along the line, MIT’s Lincoln Labs and CIS have been
-eliminated. (Thornton Page, [Letter],
-December 12, 1952; CUFON, “The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related
-Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Swords
-187–188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2114
Date: 12/10/1952
-Description: 7:15 p.m. The pilot and radar observer of an F-94
-patrolling from Moses Lake AFB [now the Grant County International
-Airport] spots a light over the Hanford nuclear plant near Richland,
-Washington, while flying at 26,000 feet. They contact the ground control
-station, which reports that they know of no planes in the area and that
-their ground radar shows nothing. They close in on the object, which is
-large, white, and round and features a dim reddish light coming from two
-windows. They lose visual contact then get a lock-on from their ARC-33
-airborne radar. As they attempt to close in, the object reverses
-direction and dives away. They attempt several more times to approach
-the light and have to alter course to avoid a collision that seems
-imminent. (NICAP, “F-94
-R/V with Round Object”; Ruppelt, pp. 61–62;
-Sparks, p. 185;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-file]; Patrick Gross, “Radar
-Visual Aircraft UFO Encounter near Hanford Nuclear Plant, December 10,
-1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2115
Date: 12/12/1952
-Description: The CIA, having learned that ATIC is withholding
-significant case reports for the upcoming Robertson Panel, sends a
-three-man team to Wright-Patterson AFB in order to obtain relevant
-documents. The team includes Robertson himself,
-CIA Assistant Director H.
-Marshall Chadwell, and
-CIA rocket consultant Frederick
-C. Durant, a
-personal friend of Ruppelt who
-urges him to comply. At ATIC they meet with personnel from Battelle
-Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, which has been studying the UFO
-data in great secrecy. Battelle requests the CIA to postpone the panel
-until March so they can finish the study. Robertson agrees to postpone
-the panel, but is later overruled by CIA Director Gen. Walter
-Bedell Smith. (CUFON,
-“The
-CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related
-Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; NICAP, “The
-1952 Sighting Wave”; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2116
Date: 12/13/1952
-Description: Morning. George
-Adamski’s scout ship makes a second appearance, this time at the
-Palomar Gardens Café in California, ostensibly so that Orthon can return
-the photo he borrowed. The film holder is pushed out of a porthole to
-the ground. One of the three Venusian photos taken by Adamski, though
-credited to Jerrold
-E. Baker, is
-taken secretly the day before by Adamski, probably of a model. Bill
-Moore claims in 1985 that the photos resemble the prototype space
-vehicle described in Mason
-Rose’s A Simplified Explanation of the Application of the
-Biefeld-Brown Effect to the Solution of the Problems of Space
-Navigation, published in February 1952 (Clark III 40; Desmond Leslie and
-George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953,
-pp. 217– 221;
-Paul E. Potter, “The Flying Saucer”; “Some
-New Facts about Flying
-Saucers Have Landed,” Nexus 2, no. 1 (January 1955): 13–17; James W.
-Moseley, “Special
-Adamski Exposé Issue,” Saucer News, no. 27 (October 1957); Curt
-Collins, “Saucer
-News Presents: The George Adamski Exposé,” In Honor of James
-Moseley, May 30, 2014; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,”
-IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 21; Rene Erik Olsen, “The
-13th December 1952 Photos of George Adamski Analysis,” April 23,
-2019; Rene Erik Olsen, [George Adamski
-photo analysis], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, A
-Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who
-Spoke to the Space Brothers, The
-Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2117
Date: 12/15/1952
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Two Air Force pilots get a momentary lock on a
-strange object above Goose Bay, Labrador. A T-33 and an F-94B (piloted
-by Capt. E. T. Johnson and Radar Observer Lt. H. S. Norris) see a bright
-red and white light. (NICAP, “Momentary
-Lock On”; Condon, pp. 126–127;
-Sparks,
-p. 186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2118
Date: 12/16/1952
-Description: Chadwell tells
-CIA Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence Robert
-Amory Jr. that he is unimpressed with the three Blue Book cases,
-especially since Presque Isle was identified as the planet Jupiter.
-(Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2119
Date: 12/21/1952
-Description: Lyman
-Streeter and five other witnesses observe a large, cigar-shaped
-object over Winslow, Arizona. (Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR
-30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2120
Date: 12/21/1952
-Description: Evening. J. E. Hawkey, civil commissioner of Fort Victoria
-[now Masvingo], Zimbabwe, is driving near Mvuma when he sees a bright
-red light crossing the road about 30 feet in the air, then hovering.
-Suddenly it shoots straight up and disappears. After a short while it
-descends some distance away and travels straight down the road. Hawkey
-follows it at about 80 mph, after which it speeds up and disappears at
-three or more times the speed. He has the object in sight for about 20
-minutes. (Southern Rhodesia Newsletter; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2121
Date: 12/22/1952
-Description: 7:30 p.m. An instrument technician driving toward Larson
-AFB [now Grant County International Airport] near Moses Lake,
-Washington, stops his car to watch a hat-shaped glowing object rising
-vertically in odd spurts right and left, then level off at high speed.
-The object glows white with a red side when it is rotated. Halfway
-through a roll the light disappears, then it holds stationary in the sky
-with jumpy movements. Duration is about 15 minutes. (NICAP, “Hat-Shaped
-Object Observed by Technician”; Sparks,
-p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2123
Date: 12/22/1952
-Description: Ruppelt finds
-out that the CIA Robertson Panel is back on again after being postponed
-on December 12. Apparently under pressure from the Air Force, which is
-setting a trap to embarrass the CIA with sensational IFO cases dressed
-up as “best” unknown UFO cases, CIA Director Gen. Walter
-Bedell Smith reverses the decision to postpone the panel meeting
-till March 1953 or later. Smith orders the Robertson Panel to be carried
-out immediately. A rush-to-judgment panel will have no time to reflect
-on the USAF trickery involved in the IFOs-as- UFOs deception and will
-just react in dismissive skepticism that there is no scientific evidence
-for UFO reality, and hence no reason for the CIA to intrude into USAF
-jurisdiction over air intelligence matters such as unidentified aerial
-threats (UFOs). Ruppelt calls ADC to say that he will not be able to
-conduct the ADC UFO briefing tour as previously scheduled due to the CIA
-meeting now tentatively set in early January 1953 (he confirms the call
-by teletype December 23). (Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History
-Workshop, Sign
-Historical Group, November 2001, p. 48; Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2122
Date: 12/28/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marysville, California
-ID: 289
Date: 12/29/1952
-Description: 7:48 p.m. Col. Donald
-J. M. Blakeslee, 27th Fighter Escort Wing, while flying near Misawa,
-northern Honshu, Japan, in an F-84G at 27,000 feet in altitude, observes
-an object like a rotating cluster of lights colored white, green, and
-red. Blakeslee climbs to 35,000 feet, at which point he is level with
-the unknown object. He attempts a pursuit, but the UFO disappears in 30
-seconds. (NICAP, “Col.
-Blakeslee / F-84 Incident”; Sparks,
-p. 187; Swords 212–213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2124
Date: 12/29/1952
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Capt. William
-T. Bowley and Capt. Herbert
-T. Lange, both of Perrin AFB [now North Texas Regional Airport] near
-Denison, Texas, are piloting a B-26 on a training flight headed west at
-6,000 feet altitude and 300 mph when they see a large, intense,
-bluish-white light near Vega, Texas. It is about 350 feet long at their
-11 o’clock position, paralleling their course at the same altitude and
-closing slightly. After 5 minutes, the object suddenly climbs vertically
-7,000 feet in 5 seconds (about 2,000 mph) to disappear in thin clouds at
-13,000 feet and causing the clouds to glow as if lit by a searchlight.
-Bowley radios the CAA controller in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Shortly
-after, the object reappears under the clouds and the CAA controller is
-told to look for it but he can’t see it (possibly because he is told to
-look in the wring direction). After 2 minutes, it climbs to the west and
-disappears. (NICAP, “Object
-Closing on B-36 Suddenly Climbs”; Sparks,
-p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2125
Date: 12/31/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #8, classified
-“confidential.” (US Air Force, Projects
-Grudge and
-Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 131–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2126
Date: 1953
-Description: Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two
-RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission
-brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their
-friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.”
-Type: classified mission
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 9/21/52
Date: 1953?
-Description: Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert
-area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also
-saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at
-night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting
-un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless,
-narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint.
-Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight
-fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien
-had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with
-oxygen failed.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES)
-Location: Arizona
-Location: Wright-Patterson AFB
Date: 1953
-Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President
-Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (AQUARIUS, B1-A)
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 1953
-Description: During off-shore combat maneuvers, a squadron of
-carrier-based Navy AD-3 attack planes is approached by a rocket-shaped
-UFO that swoops down on the flight from above. The object levels off
-about 1,000 feet overhead, slows, and paces the aircraft. When the
-Squadron Commander leads his flight in pursuit of the UFO, it turns
-sharply so that its tail is pointed away and shoots upward out of sight
-in seconds. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 266–267).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2127
Date: 1953
-Description: Evening. An Air Force pilot and a student are flying an
-F-84 Thunderjet on the home leg of a training flight over North Texas
-when the student notes an out-of-place light. At first the pilot thinks
-it’s Venus, but they realize it is moving. The student steers the plane
-toward the light, but it zooms past them at high speed. The pilot takes
-the stick and turns the aircraft to follow it. The light, which now
-looks like a metallic domed disc with windows, passes them again. The
-pilot accelerates to more than 500 mph and pursues it; the disc roars
-past them again. The chase goes on for 10–15 minutes until a final pass
-when the object shines a bright light into the cockpit. The pilot takes
-an evasive measure and flies back to base. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2129
Date: 1953
-Description: Midday. A member of the crew of a Shell tanker in Hong Kong
-harbor, China, watches, along with many others on shore and aboard the
-ship, a silver-white disc hovering at 6,000–7,000 feet. Within a second
-or so, it moves a full 45° arc to an area where there are some white
-clouds at about 5,000 fee. It shines through the cloud cover like the
-moon through a mist. (J. Allen Hynek, “A Daylight Disc in Hong Kong
-Harbor,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2128
Date: 1953
-Description: Fred P. Stone founds the Australian Flying Saucer Club in
-Adelaide, South Australia. It later becomes the Australian Flying Saucer
-Research Society and publishes the Australian Saucer Record from 1955 to
-1963. From 1962 to 1971, it publishes Panorama. (Australian
-Saucer Record 1, no. 2 (2nd Quarter, 1955); Panorama 1,
-no. 1 (1962))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2130
Date: 1/1953
-Description: Beams of microwaves, varying between 2.5 and 4 gigahertz,
-from Soviet sources aimed at the US embassy in Moscow are first
-detected, increasing in intensity by 1975. Detected by routine
-background radiation testing, the beams come from a source in a Soviet
-apartment building about 325 feet west of the embassy, affecting the
-west façade of the central building, with highest intensities between
-the third and eighth floors. The microwave transmissions are only five
-microwatts per
-square centimeter, well below the power level of microwave ovens and
-well below what would be needed to heat anything.
-Shielding is put in place by 1964, but the discovery is kept secret.
-(Wikipedia, “Moscow
-Signal”; J. Mark Elwood, “Microwaves
-in the Cold War: The Moscow Embassy Study
-and Its Interpretation,” Environmental Health 11 (2012))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2131
Date: 1/1/1953
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Warner Anderson and two women. A silver,
-saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom, flew low over a river
-and then climbed fast in a horizontal attitude. Ten second
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Craig, Montana
-ID: 290
Date: 1/1/1953
-Description: 8:45 p.m. While driving on Hwy 91 between Craig and Wolf
-Creek, Montana, Warner
-E. Anderson, manager
-of a photo shop with wartime air spotter experience; Mrs. Greta C.
-Wills, manager of women’s apparel store; and teenager Marlene Wills see
-a saucer-shaped object above horizon about 5 miles away to the
-southwest. The object is an estimated 25–40 feet long and 6–8 or 18–25
-feet thick and looks like two soup bowls joined at the rims. It has a
-red glowing bottom and portholes. The object dives low over the Missouri
-River to within 150–300 feet away then climbs fast horizontally at an
-estimated 3,600 mph to the northeast. (NICAP, “The
-1953 UFO Chronology”; Sparks, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2132
Date: 1/3/1953
-Description: The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) is
-created at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado
-Springs, Colorado, by Air Defense Command Regulation AFR 24-4. One of
-its missions is to collect physical UFO evidence. (Brian Skow and Terry
-Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20,
-no. 5 (Winter 1995): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2133
Date: 1/6/1953
-Description: 1:05 a.m. The 147th AC&W Squadron at Duncanville,
-Texas, is notified by the CAA at Meacham Field [now Fort Worth Meacham
-International Airport] about a UFO northeast of Dallas. Tinker AFB in
-Oklahoma City reports a radar target 20 miles southwest of Paris, Texas.
-An arrowhead-shaped UFO with green and white lights is seen by some
-witnesses in the Dallas area. (NICAP, “Arrow-Shaped
-Object Tracked at 600 Knots”; “‘Flying
-Arrowhead’ Seen over Dallas: ‘Not a Star or Plane,’” St. Louis
-Post-Dispatch, January 6, 1953, p. 1; Sparks, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2134
Date: 1/8/1953
-Description: 7:15–7:30 a.m. USAF ADC 82nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron
-personnel at Larson AFB [now Grant County International Airport], Moses
-Lake, Washington, all on the ground, see a green, disc-shaped object
-about the size of large weather balloon flying to the southwest. It has
-a vertical bobbing motion and makes sideways movements at about 8,000
-feet below scattered clouds. It moves away against the wind until it
-disappears in the distance. The object is also observed by base
-personnel at Ephrata, Washington. An F-94 is scrambled at 7:43 a.m. and
-searches for 30 minutes, but the UFO is gone. (NICAP, “The
-1953 UFO Chronology”; Sparks, p. 188;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2135
Date: 1/8/1953
-Description: 10:20 p.m. A triangular object with a brilliant reddish
-glow is seen for 10 minutes at Mosgiel, New Zealand. It fades, then
-reappears with a rising and falling motion, accompanied by a small white
-light. (“The
-New Zealand Sightings,”
-Flying Saucer News, no. 1 (Spring 1953): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2136
Date: 1/8/1953
-Time: 7:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: men from the 82nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron,
-including the squadron commander; all were on the ground. One green,
-disc-shaped or round object flew southwest for 15 minutes, with a
-vertically bobbing motion and sideways movements, below clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Larson AFB, Washington
-ID: 291
Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: Howard C. Cross, a senior staff member at Battelle, writes
-a letter to Col. Miles
-E. Goll of ATIC, arguing that “agreement between Project Stork
-[Battelle’s study] and ATIC should be reached as to what can and what
-cannot be discussed at the meeting in Washington on January 14–16.” He
-suggests a “controlled experiment” be undertaken by USAF to obtain
-physical data. This would consist of “observation posts with complete
-visual skywatch, with radar and photographic coverage, plus all other
-instruments necessary or helpful in obtaining positive and reliable data
-on everything in the air over the area.” The suggestion is that “Many
-different types of aerial activity should be secretly and purposefully
-scheduled within the area,” meaning that the Air Force would release
-balloons to generate spurious UFO phenomena. The memo is a desperate
-effort to buy time for Battelle to finish its statistical analysis. Jacques
-Vallée speculates that this letter by Cross (to whom Vallée assigns
-the pseudonym “Pentacle”) could have led to the military setting up
-artificial UFO waves and simulated cases in selected areas; however,
-this is clearly not the case, as Jennie
-Zeidman and Mark
-Rodeghier elaborately demonstrate in IUR. (H.
-C. Cross letter to Miles E. Goll, January
-9, 1952; NICAP, “The
-‘Pentacle Memorandum,’ Including
-Text of Correspondence with Dr. Jacques Vallee,” August 17, 1993;
-Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 191;
-The Hynek UFO Report, p. 21;
-Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, Signet ed., 1976, p.
-79;
-Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, p. 428;
-Clark III 1214–1215; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
-of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
-Group, November 2001, p. 48; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR
-16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–12, 23; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier,
-“The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3
-(May/June 1993): 4–12, 19–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2137
Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: The CIA/OSI attempts to get Walter
-Bedell Smith’s approval for “two series” of scientific panels in
-January and February, which would buy some time, but the suggestion is
-rejected. (Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2138
Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: Radio station KVET in Kerrville, Texas, blames a 75-second
-interruption in its operation on a red-orange oval object seen by four
-junior high school students over the city at the same time. Ivan Young,
-13, and Edgar Rasmussen, 14, see the object fly in from the west,
-circle, and disappear to the north. They see two fins on its end
-shooting out red and green flames. It is making a buzzing noise. KVET
-engineer Britt Lamb says the radio interference is the weirdest he has
-ever seen—heavy static “with a roar that traveled up and down the
-scale.” (“Fiery
-Object Jams Radio at Kerrville,” Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram,
-January 10, 1953, p. 2; Schopick,
-pp. 78–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2139
Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: 6:50 p.m. An F-94 makes radar contact with a UFO at a range
-of about 13.5 miles over Misawa Air Base, Honshu, Japan. The radar locks
-on at 15,000 feet and contact is broken at a range of 600 feet. The
-radar observer reports unusual interference on the set throughout the
-mission, but the set appears to be operative both before and after. The
-radar contact lasts approximately 2 minutes. (NICAP, “F-94
-Radar/Visual of Rotating UFO”; Sparks, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2140
Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: 7:27 p.m. B-29 copilot 1st Lt. Charles C. Loveless sees a
-V-formation of bluish-white lights approaching his aircraft over Santa
-Ana, California. Pilot 1st Lt. Lowell D. Brandt turns to avoid them.
-(NICAP, “B-29 Bomber Crew Watch V-Formation”; UFOEv, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2141
Date: 1/10/1953
-Time: 3:45 PM or 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: retired Col. Robert McNab, and Mr. Hunter of the
-Federal Security Agency. One flat object, like a pinhead, made three 360
-degree right turns in 9 seconds, made abrupt 90 degree turns to the
-right and left, stopped, accelerated to original speed and finally flew
-out of sight vertically after 60-75 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sonoma, California
-ID: 292
Date: 1/10/1953
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Retired Air Force Col. Robert McNab and a
-Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency see a flat object to the
-northwest of their location 8 miles west of Sonoma, California. It is
-traveling about 2,400 mph and makes three 360° right turns in 2–3
-seconds each in about 1/8 the radius required for jets (about 1/4 mile)
-and two abrupt 90° turns to the right and left, each turn 5 seconds
-apart. It almost stops, accelerates to its original high speed, almost
-stops again, speeds up again, and finally flies out of sight vertically.
-(NICAP, “Flat
-Object at 2,400 MPH”;
-Sparks, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2142
Date: 1/12/1953
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Maurício Ramos is driving on grassy terrain near
-Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he sees a luminous,
-metallic disc smaller than a Volkswagen hovering 6 feet from the ground.
-He approaches to within 6 feet of it, and a door opens. Two entitles
-shorter than 5 feet tall, wearing lead-colored clothing with shiny balls
-fitted to the shoes, jump out. Ramos thinks they invite him aboard, but
-he does not answer because he is getting an increasingly severe headache
-as he watches. When the headache goes away, the disc and creatures have
-disappeared. (“Pesquisas
-sobre Tripulantes de DV,” Boletim SBEDV, no. 55/59 (1967): 1– 2,
-8–9; Brazil 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2143
Date: 1/14/1953
-Description: 9:30 a.m. The opening meeting of the Robertson Panel
-convenes in the OSI conference room at CIA Building “M” in Washington,
-D.C. Present are scientists Howard
-P. Robertson, Samuel
-A. Goudsmit, Luis
-Walter Alvarez, and
-Thornton
-Leigh Page. CIA
-members Philip
-Grandin Strong, Lt.
-Col. Frederick
-C. E. Oder, David B. Stevenson, and Frederick
-C. Durant are also present. All are skeptical, if not openly hostile
-to UFO reports. Page later says that “H. P. Robertson told us in the
-first private (no outsiders) session that our job was to reduce public
-concern and show that UFO reports could be explained by conventional
-reasoning.” The panel first reviews the CIA OSI study from August, the
-ATIC November 21 meeting, the December 4 IAC decision, the visit to ATIC
-by Chadwell and
-Robertson, and CIA concern over potential national security dangers.
-They watch the Montana and Utah films. Lt. Robert
-S. Neasham and Harry Woo of the Navy Photo Interpretation Laboratory
-report on their analyses of both films, which conclude that the objects
-are unidentified. Ruppelt speaks
-for 40 minutes on the Blue Book method of UFO investigation. It is
-possibly here that he first suggests using 4602nd AISS field units to
-conduct Blue Book field investigations. The meeting adjourns at 5:15
-p.m. (Frederick C. Durant, “Report
-of Meetings
-of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January
-14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific
-Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1015; Michael D. Swords,
-“Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1995): 16–20; Good Above, pp. 335–339;
-Swords 188–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2144
Date: 1/15/1953
-Description: The second day of the Robertson Panel. Ruppelt completes
-his presentation, then Hynek discusses
-Battelle’s Project Stork. The CIA shows a film of seagulls in flight.
-Lt. Col. Oder gives
-a 40-minute presentation on Project Twinkle. In the afternoon, Gen. William
-M. Garland states his desire to increase the use of thoroughly
-briefed USAF intelligence officers to investigate UFO reports,
-declassify as many reports as possible, and enlarge Blue Book. Other
-USAF representatives discuss the difficulties of setting up instrument
-watches to monitor sightings. (Frederick C. Durant, “Report
-of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, January
-14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific
-Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III 1015;
-Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your
-Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 16–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2145
Date: 1/16/1953
-Description: The third day of the Robertson Panel. Hynek speaks
-again, followed by Maj. Dewey
-Fournet, who
-talks about his motion studies of UFOs that indicate controlled flight.
-Physicist Lloyd
-Berkner joins the panel in the afternoon. In the afternoon, panel
-members talk about conclusions they have reached, and Robertson agrees
-to draft a report for review (although it has already been written by Durant prior
-to the meetings, which Fournet has suspected). (Frederick C. Durant, “Report
-of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-January 14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for
-Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III
-1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your
-Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 16–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2146
Date: 1/17/1953
-Description: The final day of the Robertson Panel. The panel reviews Robertson’s
-draft report (Berkner has
-already seen it) and puts it into final form. (By 11:00 a.m., both CIA
-Director Walter
-Bedell Smith and Gen. John
-A. Samford have seen and approved the draft.) The scientists agree
-that since most sightings can be explained, the rest can be accounted
-for with further investigation, which is a “great waste of effort.” They
-reject Fournet’s
-UFO reports as “raw” and “unevaluated.” The Montana film is said to
-depict aircraft. They reject the Navy analysis of the Utah film, calling
-the objects “high reflectivity of seagulls in bright sunlight.” Because
-the “mass receipt of low-grade reports [tends] to overload channels of
-communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile objects that
-might some day appear” (a phony issue invented by Thornton
-Page), the Air Force should embark on a debunking campaign that
-would “result in reduction of public interest in flying saucers” with
-the help of scientific pronouncements (suggested by Hynek)
-and media, including Walt
-Disney Inc. animated cartoons. Blue Book should be expanded to 18
-staff members (it has 5) so that it can educate and debunk effectively,
-but this never happens. Civilian UFO groups such as CSI and APRO should
-be watched “because of their potentially great influence on mass
-thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent
-irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive
-purposes should be kept in mind.” The panel and report are kept
-classified until a brief summary is declassified in 1958, and the CIA’s
-involvement is kept secret until 1966. (Frederick C. Durant, “Report
-of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-January 14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for
-Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1016 ;
-Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your
-Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 16–20; Swords
-192–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2147
Date: 1/17/1953
-Description: 3:55 p.m. Geologist/salesman John Townsend Sackett is
-riding in a bus with about a dozen passengers near Guatemala City,
-Guatemala, when he observes a brilliant greenish-gold object, shaped
-like the Goodyear blimp. It is later described as being about twice the
-size of a DC-3. The object is traveling at about 400 mph straight and
-level in a northwesterly direction at about 6,500 feet. It almost stops
-in mid-flight then rises vertically about 1,500 feet, hovers for about 2
-seconds, then immediately resumes flight at a new altitude. The object
-is lost to view because of intervening terrain. (NICAP, “Blimp-Like
-Object Sighted by Geologist”; Sparks,
-p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2148
Date: 1/17/1953
-Time: 3:55 PM
-Description: Witness: geologist/salesman J.J. Sackett. One brilliant
-green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp with its length twice
-its height, flew 400 m.p.h. straight and level, stopped, then went
-straight up with one stop. Sighting lasted 22 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Guatemala City, Guatemala
-ID: 293
Date: 1/18/1953
-Description: Upon Hynek’s
-return to Ohio State University from the Robertson Panel, he and his new
-research assistant Jennie
-Zeidman come up with the name “Project Henry” to describe his
-consultancy with the Air Force. It is based on the Flit bug-spray
-advertisement that has a woman saying, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” About
-once a week, a courier from Battelle arrives at Hynek’s office with a
-manila envelope stuffed with teletype UFO reports for him to examine.
-Hynek travels to the Blue Book facility in Building 263 at
-Wright-Patterson about 2–3 times a month, with Zeidman sometimes
-accompanying him, (Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–12, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2149
Date: 1/20/1953
-End date: 1/20/1961
-Description: President Eisenhower in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/20/1953
-Description: Robertson writes
-a letter to Chadwell, saying
-“perhaps that’ll take care of the Forteans for a while” and mentions an
-upcoming meeting with the “NSA group” on February 5. (Swords 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2150
Date: 1/20/1953
-Description: Dwight
-D. Eisenhower is sworn in as president.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2151
Date: 1/24/1953
-Description: Ruppelt travels
-to Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs,
-Colorado, to brief the 4602nd AISS on how they might help Blue Book
-investigate UFOs. He also puts in for a transfer to Air Defense Command
-here.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2152
Date: 1/26/1953
-Description: The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter
-to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying
-saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of
-the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet.
-Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A10, B1-E p542)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 9/15/50
Date: 1/26/1953
-Description: The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P.
-Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear
-physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were
-Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam
-Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton
-Page.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
Date: 1/26/1953
-Description: Air Force Press Officer Albert
-M. Chop writes a letter to Keyhoe’s
-publisher Henry Holt & Co., declaring that all the sighting reports
-he is using for his upcoming Flying Saucers from Outer Space were
-cleared and made available to him from Air Technical Intelligence
-records. (Albert E. Chop, Letter
-to Henry Holt & Company, January 26, 1953; Good Above, p. 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2153
Date: 1/28/1953
-Time: 6:05 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five 25’ green spheres
-flew in V-formation, then changed to trail formation at which time the
-end objects turned red. Sighting lasted 12 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corona, California
-ID: 295
Date: 1/28/1953
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: R.W. Love, owner of Love Diving Co., engaged in
-retrieving radio-controlled drones. An 18-20’ white, flat disc flew
-straight and level, overhead, for 6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pt. Mugu, California
-ID: 294
Date: 1/28/1953
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witnesses: radar maintenance personnel. Radar tracked one
-stationary target for 20 minutes. A visual sighting about the same time
-was explained. No further information in the files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albany, Georgia
-ID: 296
Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 1:06 p.m. R. W. Love and a Mr. Ferrenti, while engaged in
-retrieving radio-controlled drones on a boat 1,100 yards offshore and
-south of Naval Air Station Point Mugu [now Naval Base Ventura County]
-near Oxnard, California, see a white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering
-edges rapidly approach from the northwest flying straight and level,
-overtake a jet aircraft, pass overhead, and disappear in the haze to the
-east. (NICAP, “Flat
-Disc Observed Overtaking Jet”;
-Sparks, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2154
Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Northrop Aircraft test pilot Rex Hardy Jr. is
-flying over Malibu, California, when he and two other crew members see a
-formation of four UFOs the size of a B-36. They are circular in shape,
-aluminum- colored, and flying at 1,200 mph. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
-Story, Signet, 1969, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2155
Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: A Maj. Geyer at Mitchel AFB [now closed] near Uniondale,
-New York, investigates reports of a UFO seen by both civilian and
-military witnesses. The UFO is an oval object glowing with different
-colors and having a tail or projection. He quickly concludes that it is
-a meteor and submits a report to Blue Book. However, one of the
-witnesses, author Marie Armstrong Essipoff (Ben
-Hecht’s first wife), later writes to Keyhoe saying
-that she had told Geyer that the object wobbled and it had a turret on
-top. She draws a picture and Geyer says it looks like one of their
-flight simulators. But it’s “still a meteor,” he says. (Swords
-199–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2156
Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The control tower at Marine Corps Air Station El
-Toro [now closed], California, spots a large, luminous, red object and
-asks Maj. Harvey N. Patton to give chase. He pursues it from Newport
-Beach to Long Beach and has it in sight for 3–4 minutes but is unable to
-gain on it. (NICAP, “Marine
-Fighter Asked to Check on Amber
-Object”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2157
Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Maj. Hal W. Lamb, USAF senior pilot at Moody AFB
-in Valdosta, Georgia, apparently sees the setting planet Venus (although
-this is disputed) changing color and shape while flying a T-33 (or an
-F-86). It is also seen by Turner AFB [now Naval Air Station Albany]
-tower operators in Albany [not Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta],
-Georgia (with time errors of about 10 minutes). About the same time, two
-GCA radar maintenance men at Turner AFB radar track three moving targets
-and a stationary target. At 10:10 p.m., the GCA reports two stationary
-targets at 17 and 27 miles, both 300° azimuth. No visual confirmation,
-though binoculars are used. (NICAP, “Several
-Radar Contacts”; Sparks,
-p. 191; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, January– March, The
-Author, 1988, p. 66; Marler 129–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2158
Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: Ruppelt still
-thinks that the Robertson Panel has accepted Garland’s
-recommendation to expand Blue Book (it hasn’t) and that its education
-and debunking recommendation means that UFO information should be
-released to the public (it didn’t). Fournet, Chop,
-and Col. Teabert (Kenneth
-E. Thiebaud?) of AFOIN-2 think the same. In Washington, Ruppelt
-hears that the press has heard rumors about the Utah film, and he
-decides to release it, focusing on the seagull explanation. (The Hynek
-UFO Report, p. 236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2159
Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: A briefing of the Office of Naval Estimates Board by the
-CIA on UFOs includes the showing of the Utah and Montana films.
-(Frederick C. Durant, “Briefing
-of ONE Board on Unidentified Flying Objects,” January 30,
-1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2160
Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: 9:55 a.m. A small gray oval-shaped object is seen between
-Houlton and Chatham, Maine, by 2nd Lt. Fred T. Goetting Jr., pilot of an
-F-94B. Goetting points out the object to his radar observer, Lt. Howard
-C. Kelley. The object appears to be 10° above the F-94B, which is at
-23,000 feet. Goetting attempts to intercept the object at a speed of 0.8
-Mach. This chase continues for 8 minutes without the F-94 gaining, and
-the chase is broken off because of low fuel. The object is seen by at
-least two fighter aircraft from other squadrons. (NICAP, “Gray
-Oval Sighted
-by 3 Fighter Aircraft”; Sparks,
-p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2161
Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A farmer named Lloyd
-C. Booth just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of
-animals, grabs his .22 revolver, and sees an oblong-shaped, lighted
-object 10 feet above the trees moving slowly or hovering, with a low
-humming sound. He shoots at the object twice. The first bullet bounces
-off with a metallic sound; at the second shot the object tilts slightly
-and ascends at a 65° angle to the west at 600–700 mph and disappears.
-One of his cows had died the previous evening. (NICAP, “Man
-Fires 0.22 at Hovering Object”; Sparks, p. 191;
-“Conway
-S.C. Man Shoots Saucer,” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 (March 15, 1953): 1,
-4–5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 64–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2162
Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Northrup test pilot Rex
-Hardy Jr., test pilot Chester Mathews, and Northrup photographer Jim
-Wilkinson see four metallic, disc-shaped object the size of a B-36
-flying in squadron formation over Malibu Beach, California. They
-estimate their height as 20,000 feet and speed as 1,200 mph. They watch
-for about 5 minutes. (NICAP, “Four
-B-36-Sized Discs Observed by 3-Man Crew”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2163
Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer observed an
-object about 7 m long and 4 m wide at treetop level. It was light gray
-in color and lit up inside. It resembled a half egg. The witness fired
-his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died “mysteriously” in the
-area after the sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Conway, South Carolina
-ID: 108
Date: 1/31/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #9. (US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1– 12, NICAP,
-1968, pp. 155–174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2164
Date: 2/1953
-Description: Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco
-- mysterious, then disappear.
-Type: anomalous event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: 2/1953
-Description: Albert
-K. Bender appoints Gray
-Barker as IFSB’s chief investigator. (“IFSB
-Forms Dept. of Investigation,” Space Review 2, no. 2 (April 1953):
-1; Clark III 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2165
Date: 2/1/1953
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A T-33 flying 10 miles west of Terre Haute,
-Indiana, sights a close group of moving lights changing color from red
-to blue, to green to yellow. The pilot estimates their altitude to range
-between 15,000 feet to 30,000 feet flying in a manner similar to
-conventional aircraft. Searchlights from the St. Louis, Missouri, area
-seem to be following the unidentified lights. (NICAP, “T-33
-Pilot Observes Unidentified Lights”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2166
Date: 2/3/1953
-Description: 8:00 p.m. George
-Hunt Williamson and his wife Betty Jane watch two UFOs near the
-ground from their home on Brookside Boulevard in Prescott, Arizona.
-Another UFO passes over the house at 10:00 p.m. (Zirger and Martinelli,
-The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016,
-pp. 363–364)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2167
Date: 2/3/1953
-Time: 5:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators. Four unidentified targets were
-tracked for 24 minutes. No further data.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keflavik, Iceland
-ID: 297
Date: 2/4/1953
-Description: 1:50 p.m. US Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in
-Yuma, Arizona, tracks with a theodolite a white, oblong object. It is
-surrounded by a thin white mist and flies straight up and levels off.
-After 20 seconds, the object is joined by a second one that flies away
-twice and returns. Both are lost to sight behind clouds to the
-south-southwest. The sighting lasts 5 minutes. (NICAP, “Theodolite
-Tracking of Two Elliptical Objects”; Sparks, p. 191;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 62–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2168
Date: 2/4/1953
-Time: 1:50 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley Brown, using
-a theodolite. One white, oblong object was tracked flying straight up,
-leveling off and being joined by a second, similar, object. The second
-twice flew away and returned to the first. After 5 minutes, both were
-lost to sight behind clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 298
Date: 2/6/1953
-Description: 1:34 a.m. A B-36 aircraft piloted by Maj. Leo
-J. Moffatt is over Rosalia, Washington, when he sees one round white
-omnidirectional light at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a
-southeast course, circling and rising as it proceeds. It is visually
-observed for a period of 3–5 minutes. The B-36 makes a 180° descending
-turn toward the light, which is estimated to be moving at a speed of
-170–230 mph. Blue Book explains it as a weather balloon launched from
-Geiger Field [now Spokane International Airport]. (NICAP, “B-36
-Encounters Light at 7,000ʹ”;
-Sparks, p. 192;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2169
Date: 2/7/1953
-Description: 9:22 p.m. A USAF F-94 crew and other witnesses near Nemuro,
-Hokkaido, Japan, see a bright orange object change color to red and
-green at intervals and disappear behind a cloud. It is also tracked by
-ground radar. (NICAP, “F-94
-Crew in Air and Ground Radar Tracking”; Condon, p. 122;
-Sparks, p. 192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2170
Date: 2/9/1953
-Description: CIA agent Hayden Channing writes a memo to the Domestic
-Contact Division describing a recent [late January?] public meeting of
-the Civilian Saucer Investigation group in Los Angeles, California.
-North American Aviation project engineer Walther
-A. Riedel is a member of the organization, and he describes the
-analyses of the UFO reports it receives. Only about 25 sightings are
-unidentified, and these they forward to Project Blue Book. Channing
-writes: “Apparently, an eye and interest are also directed to the USSR
-for reactions to sightings as reported in the PRAVDA.” (Hayden Channing,
-“California
-Committee for Saucer Investigation,” February 9, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2172
Date: 2/9/1953
-Description: Al
-Chop has written a press release on the Utah film with the approval
-of Capt. Harry B. Smith of AFOIN. They decide to also release the USAF
-(possible aircraft) and Navy (self-luminous or light sources) analyses,
-otherwise the press might suspect a cover-up. The release would state
-that, although no positive identification has been made, further
-analysis will result in an identification. Gen. Garland approves
-the release, which then goes on to the Pentagon, which “screamed ‘No!’”
-Ruppelt is
-ordered into silence. Chop says the CIA “killed the whole program. We’ve
-been ordered to work up a national debunking campaign, planting articles
-in magazines and arranging broadcasts to make UFO reports seem like
-poppycock.” Ruppelt tells Keyhoe that
-Blue Book must even discredit USAF pilots who report UFOs. “It’s a raw
-deal, but we can’t buck the CIA.” (Ruppelt, p. 228;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 70–71;
-The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 236–237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2171
Date: 2/11/1953
-Alternate date: 2/19/1953
-Description: 10:00 p.m. At the Naval Auxiliary Air Station [now
-Northeastern Regional Airport] in Edenton, North Carolina, Marine 1st
-Lt. Edward Balocco is on intercept stand-by duty when the alert whistle
-goes off. Minutes later he is in his F9F Panther jet heading north to
-Virginia Beach, Virginia, while being vectored to an unknown target by
-the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in
-Havelock, North Carolina. By the time he gets close to the target, it
-has disappeared from radar at Norfolk, Virginia. After searching the
-area for 15 minutes, he heads back for fuel. Flying south at 20,000
-feet, he notices a light below him on the port side on or near the
-ocean. After turning his navigation lights back on, he notices that the
-light has risen to his altitude and is only 2,000 feet away. Closing in
-on it, he sees it is a disc with blinking red lights. At 350 feet away,
-his cockpit is bathed in blue-white light and everything seems
-motionless and silent. He looks at his gloved hand and he can see the
-bones in his hand like an X-ray. Suddenly there is a flash, and the UFO
-breaks away as sound and motion return. Balocco tries to pursue it again
-unsuccessfully. Captain Thomas Riggs, whose F9F Panther has also been
-scrambled, reports the UFO is moving south along the North Carolina
-coast. He is debriefed and told not to mention the incident. (“Cherry
-Point, N.C.,” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 (March 15, 1953): 9–10; Good
-Need, pp. 183–184;
-Shoot 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2173
Date: mid 2/1953
-Description: Weapons engineer Chester
-W. Lytle Sr., deputy
-director of operations for SAC’s Eighth Air Force Headquarters, is
-visiting Eielson AFB near Moose Creek, Alaska, with Gen. William
-H. Blanchard when he finds out his wife is about to give birth in
-Chicago, Illinois. Blanchard offers to personally fly him in a bomber to
-an air force base in Illinois so he can get home quickly. During the
-long flight, their conversation turns to UFOs. Blanchard unexpectedly
-mentions the 1947 Roswell incident and that a crashed alien spacecraft
-had indeed been recovered. He tells Lytle that four dead humanoid beings
-had been aboard. (Nukes 478–481)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2174
Date: 2/17/1953
-Time: 10:04 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two officers and three airmen of USAF AC&W
-squadron, visually and by radar. Visual object appeared to larger and
-brighter than a star and changed color; it was seen to move slowly for 5
-minutes until 10:09 PM Radar picked up a target at 10:08 PM moving in a
-similar direction for 17 minutes, at similar speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Port Austin. Michigan
-ID: 299
Date: 2/20/1953
-Time: #1 time unknown; #2, 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF B-25 bomber pilots. #1 was a bright yellow
-light seen for 8 minutes. #2 was a bright light which flew on a
-collision course, dimmed and climbed away fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsburg-Stockton, California
-ID: 300
Date: late 2/1953
-Description: ADC commander Benjamin
-Chidlaw at Ent AFB [now US Olympic Training Center] near Colorado
-Springs, Colorado, tells future UFO researcher Robert C. Gardner that he
-has “stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when
-you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.”
-(Stringfield, 3-0
-Blue, p. 91; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-pp. 137–138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2178
Date: 2/23/1953
-Description: Project Stork’s William T. Reid writes to Miles
-E. Goll at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying that UFO reports
-have been processed through October 15, 1952, and evaluations completed
-for reports through July 31, 1952. (“Seven
-Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4 of 4 Parts,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2175
Date: 2/24/1953
-Time: 7:43 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden. Two bright red,
-round objects with big halos flew in small circles, climbed and faded
-during a 3-7 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sherman, Texas
-ID: 301
Date: 2/25/1953
-Description: Project Second Storey meets for the last known time,
-chaired by astrophysicist Peter
-M. Millman of the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa, Ontario, and
-consisting of military and intelligence officers, as well as Wilbert Smith. It
-concludes that, because details of most sightings cannot be adequately
-confirmed, UFO reports do not lend themselves to a “scientific method of
-investigation.” It determines that UFOs do not require a Canadian armed
-forces investigation, but reports should still be sent to the
-Directorate of Scientific Intelligence. (“Wilbert
-B.
-Smith,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Chris Rutkowski and
-Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 229;
-Good Above, p. 182;
-Story, p. 276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2177
Date: 2/25/1953
-Description: Pentagon press officer Albert
-M. Chop writes to Maj. Donald
-E. Keyhoe and verifies that the files on 41 cases investigated by
-the Air Force for his upcoming book Flying Saucers from Outer Space were
-indeed cleared for release by ATIC. (Albert M. Chop, Letter
-to Donald E. Keyhoe, February 25, 1953; NICAP, “The
-Chop Clearance
-List”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2176
Date: 2/27/1953
-Time: 11:58 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF airman/private pilot. Five yellow discs made
-circular turns, fluttered, three of them vanished, the other two flew
-erratic square turns for a total of 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
-ID: 302
Date: 2/27/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #10, classified
-“secret.” (US Air Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue
-Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 175–198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2179
Date: 2/28/1953
-Description: Capt. Edward
-J. Ruppelt transfers out of Blue Book for a seven-month assignment
-in Denver, Colorado. He is replaced by Lt. Robert M. Olsson, who has one
-staff member. (Ruppelt, p. 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2180
Date: 3/1953
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Pilot Howard
-C. Strand is flying a routine patrol mission in a F-94B out of
-Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount
-Clemens, Michigan, when he is asked to check out a radar target over
-downtown Detroit. He and his radar operator see tiny specks that seem to
-be a ragged formation of aircraft. As he approaches, he cannot see any
-wings or tails. Ground radar has the UFOs as “good, strong targets.”
-Strand looks at his instruments briefly and when he looks up the objects
-are gone, though ground radar tracks them another 4 minutes. Gordon
-Thayer calls it an inferior mirage. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1953 March–July, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2002, pp. 24–26; Condon, pp. 151–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2181
Date: 3/1953
-Description: Harvard University astronomer Donald
-H. Menzel publishes Flying Saucers, in which he explains all UFO
-sightings as known phenomena such as mirages and temperature inversions.
-It is the first book-length argument against UFOs, one of the few
-published by an academic institution, and the first UFO book by a
-scientist. ATIC personnel are displeased that Menzel has used a few
-classified reports supplied to him for an examination of patterns, which
-he has never produced. However, he has an imaginative vision of what
-Venus looks like, with “warm seas” in which life teems. (Donald H.
-Menzel, Flying
-Saucers, Harvard
-University, 1953; Getty Images, “Dr. Donald
-H. Menzel, Harvard Professor and Native Denverite, Refers to His
-Book,” March 13, 1953; Clark III 742)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2182
Date: 3/1953
-Description: Gen. John
-A. Samford is interviewed in See magazine and provides
-straightforward, factual answers about Project Blue Book, UFOs, and the
-inadequacy of Menzel’s
-theories. He claims the view of the Air Force is that “many credible
-people have seen incredible things.” (Swords 210–211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2183
Date: 3/3/1953
-Description: 1:25 p.m. USAF Capt. Roderick
-D. Thompson, 3600th
-Fighter Training Group out of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, is an
-instructor pilot flying an F-84 at 25,000 feet over Blythe, California.
-He spots am object 300–500 feet wide leaving a contrail crossing his
-path from left to right at about 35,000–45,000 feet at about 400 mph. It
-is visible only by condensation vapor emitted from its manta-ray shaped
-flat surface. Student pilots flying two F-84s, Lt. Jack E. Brasher and
-Lt. Thomas W. Hale, also see the object but do not follow in pursuit.
-When Thompson turns to pursue it, the object makes a slight dipping turn
-to the northwest and begins climbing at about 20°. It appears to be very
-thin and immediately begins to form a heavy condensation trail behind it
-for roughly 1,000 feet and splits in two. Thompson reaches 30,000 feet
-and closes to within roughly 5–10 miles to a point over the Colorado
-River north of Parker Dam on the Arizona border. He takes 151 frames of
-gun camera film of object with a 16 mm N-9 camera, apparently at 16 fps
-1/40 second exposure setting. (NICAP, “Three
-F-94 Pilots Encounter Manta-Ray, Gun Camera Shots”;
-Sparks, p. 194;
-Swords 213–214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2184
Date: 3/5/1953
-Description: Brig. Gen. Woodbury
-M. Burgess, commander
-at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs,
-Colorado, sends a memo to Air Defense Command and the director of
-intelligence at Ent suggesting that field teams of 4602nd personnel
-interview UFO witnesses. (Maj. Robert C. Brown, “Utilisation
-of 4602nd
-AISS Personnel in Project Blue Book Field Investigations,” March 5,
-1953; Kevin D. Randle, “UFO Coverup:
-The Early Days,” A Different Perspective, June 20, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2185
Date: 3/8/1953
-Description: Journalist Peter
-H. Wyden’s interview with Ruppelt appears
-in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ruppelt tells him that Project Blue Book
-“has no evidence of any of these objects being anything other than
-misinterpretation of known objects…. We can’t say positively because our
-data isn’t good enough. But we’re not worried.” The lengthy article
-provides a good overview of Blue Book’s investigations and staff of
-seven, including Ruppelt’s assistants Lt. Anderson
-G. Flues and Max Futch. (Peter Wyden, “They’re Still Chasing Flying
-Saucers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 8, 1953, p. 1G)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2186
Date: 3/8/1953
-Description: 9:02 p.m. Physics teacher Leigh
-Van Etten, two other teachers, and 10 students at Kents Hill School,
-Maine, watch a big red ball of fire moving west-northwest for 12 minutes
-before it disappears beyond the horizon. He estimates it is about 40–60
-miles away. (Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1991): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2187
Date: 3/11/1953
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. Nina Cook, an experienced private pilot and
-wife of a Pan Am flight engineer. A large light, blinking at 10-15 times
-per minute, moved up and down along a mountain range.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey
-ID: 303
Date: 3/14/1953
-Time: 11:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 10 crew members
-of U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol plane. Groups of 5-10 colored lights,
-totalling 90-100, slowly moved aft off the left side of the airplane, as
-detected visually and by airborne radar for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: north of Hiroshima, Japan
-ID: 304
Date: 3/14/1953
-Description: 11:43 p.m. Lt. Robert J. Wooten is flying a Navy P2V-5
-antisubmarine plane over the Sea of Japan northwest of Nishinoshima,
-Japan, when he encounters an “electrifying display” of groups of 5–10
-colored lights, totaling 90–100, slowly moving to the left side of the
-aircraft at a range of 3–7 miles and maintaining an extremely precise
-formation. Some of the objects are also tracked on radar. A 1955 RAND
-report falsely attributes this to an armada of 100 MiG-15 fighter
-aircraft (actually only 11) that menaced four US Navy Panther jets from
-the carrier USS
-Oriskany, but
-this earlier incident took place on November 18, 1952, resulting in
-damage to one of the MiGs. (NICAP, “Groups
-of Lights / IFF Signals”; Clark III 53–59; Sparks,
-p. 195; Swords 214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2188
Date: 3/15/1953
-Description: The International Flying Saucer Bureau declares today World
-Contact Day and calls upon the UFO occupants to make a public appearance
-on earth. (Albert K. Bender, FS and the Three Men, Saucerian,
-1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2189
Date: 3/17/1953
-Description: An FBI agent and two AFOSI officers interview George
-Adamski and ask him to draft a statement saying that neither the FBI
-nor Air Force has approved material used in his speeches. (Loren E.
-Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953,
-March–July, The
-Author, 1989, pp. 4–5; Clark III 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2190
Date: 3/18/1953
-Description: Ohio Northern University’s Project A reports that UFOs are
-usually disc-shaped, silent, and fast-moving. “Our major conclusion to
-date is that no one explanation fits all sightings, and about 20% of all
-the sightings definitely fit the category of unnatural phenomena.”
-(Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, March–July, The
-Author, 1989, pp. 15, 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2191
Date: 3/19/1953
-Description: Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine
-Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a
-consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions
-Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that
-occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it
-says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the
-government.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Glendale, CA
Date: spring 1953
-Description: After 12:00 noon. RAF Flight Lt. Cyril George
-Townsend-Withers is asked to test some new ECM radar equipment using an
-experimental English Electric Canberra aircraft. The jet has been
-stripped of all removable parts to make it as light as possible. With
-this modification, he is able to leave RAF Boscombe Down [now MoD
-Boscombe Down] in Wiltshire, England, and soar to 55,000 feet, then a
-record for the aircraft. Cruising over Salisbury Plain, Townsend-Withers
-picks up a blip on his screen. It shows an object traveling 5 miles
-behind him and maintaining a steady course. His immediate reaction is to
-curse the “anomalous propagation” effects that they have gone to so much
-trouble to avoid. However, he soon becomes aware that this was an image
-of something flying right behind them. The science officer goes up to
-the turret to take a look and sees, glinting in the sun or pouring out a
-fantastic amount of its own light, a round shape trailing in their wake.
-Townsend-Withers calls his pilot on the microphone and tells him that he
-can see an unknown and suggests trying to outpace it. They reach 260 mph
-but the thing cannot be shaken off, so the pilot executes a sweeping
-radius turn. As the Canberra comes around from its turn, the object
-comes into view dead ahead. For half a minute they are on a collision
-course, swiftly trying to calculate what to do next. The object is round
-like a thin disc, but with two small tailfins at the rear. It seems to
-be metallic and enormous, and it is simply sitting there waiting for
-them to fly right into it. Suddenly, it flips vertically into the air
-and climbs upwards at an astonishing rate. Leaving no vapor trail, wake,
-or detectable sound, the object vanishes within just a couple of
-seconds. (NICAP, “Canberra
-Crew Encounters UFO / Radar/Visual”;
-Jenny Randles, “Collision Course,” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003):
-16–18; Jenny Randles, “Scramble, UFO! Part Three, The Team,” Fortean
-Times 388 (January 2020): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2195
Date: 3/21/1953
-Time: 3:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observation post. Six discs
-in a group flew high and fast for a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elmira, New York
-ID: 305
Date: 3/22/1953
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley, who share an isolated
-one-bedroom cabin in the forest around Tujunga Canyon north of Burbank,
-California, wake up when an odd light shines through the window. An
-eerie silence falls over the cabin and neighboring forest. They get out
-of bed but feel paralyzed. Then suddenly and inexplicably, it is 4:20
-a.m. Shaw, who was originally kneeling on the bed, is now sitting on it
-with her feet on the floor. The two women flee the cabin. As they run,
-they pass an apparition or “vaporous something” with the “head and
-shoulders of a long-haired” person. When they return to the cabin two
-days later, they feel a sense of dread. Shaw can remember nothing more
-and the two women move apart. In 1975 Shaw watches a UFO documentary
-that evokes some memories, and she contacts ufologist Ann
-Druffel. During three hypnotic regression sessions—December 5, 1975;
-February 26, 1976; and October 22, 1978—Shaw recalls her abduction by
-black-garbed aliens. She undergoes a physical examination and the aliens
-show her a cure for cancer. (Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga
-Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980, updated in New American Library,
-1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2192
Date: 3/23/1953
-Description: Gen. Burgess’s
-4602nd AISS plan is approved. It is seen as aiding ATIC and giving AISS
-personnel valuable experience in field interrogations and cooperating
-with other agencies (Kevin D. Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible
-Ink, 2014, p. 249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2193
Date: 3/24/1953
-Description: The Upshot-Knothole Nancy nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
-Area 4 sends radioactive fallout on livestock across the region,
-including those grazing at Papoose Lake, Nevada. Sixteen horses and
-numerous cows belonging to local farmers, the Stewart brothers, die from
-acute radiation poisoning. The Army compensates them for the horses, but
-claim the cows died from Vitamin A deficiency. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Upshot–Knothole”; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2194
Date: 3/25/1953
-Time: 3:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. and Mrs. D.E. Cox. Several lights,
-some of which moved straight, others which made 360 degree turns for 1.5
-hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 306
Date: 3/27/1953
-Time: 7:25 PM
-Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-86 jet fighter at 600 kts. (700
-m.p.h.). One bright orange circle flew at 800 kts. (900 m.p.h.), and
-executed three fast rolls. Pilot chased object for 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Taylor, New Mexico
-ID: 307
Date: 3/29/1953
-Time: 3:45 PM
-Description: Witness: L.C. Gillette. One aluminum, circular object flew
-high and fast, twice reversing its course. Note: Mr. Gillette saw a
-similar object in 1938. Fifteen second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spooner, Wisconsin
-ID: 308
Date: 4/1953
-End date: 6/1953
-Description: The US Army Chemical Corps’ Dew II project involves the
-secret release of fluorescent particles (zinc cadmium sulfide) and plant
-spores (Lycopodium) from an aircraft over St. Louis, Missouri.
-(Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a previous target.) It only targets black
-ghetto sections of St. Louis and arranges for local police surveillance
-“to minimize the possibility of loss of equipment.” The Army reports
-“much less curiosity and interference” than Minneapolis. Dew II is
-described in a 1953 Army report that remains classified at the time of a
-1997 report by the US National Research Council concerning the zinc
-cadmium sulfide dispersion program. (Leonard A. Cole, Clouds of Secrecy:
-The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas, Rowman &
-Littlefield, 1988, pp. 63–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2197
Date: 4/1953
-Description: Wilbert
-B. Smith is drafting a report on Project Magnet for the Canadian
-Department of Transport. He writes Keyhoe that
-their conclusion will probably be that UFOs are alien vehicles. (Clark
-III 1078)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2196
Date: 4/8/1953
-Time: 7:55 PM
-Description: Witness: lst Lt. D.J. Pichon, pilot of USAF F-94B jet
-interceptor. One bright blue light descended, accelerated, flew parallel
-to the F-94, increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fukuoka, Japan
-ID: 309
Date: 4/12/1953
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Ten round, flat, metallic objects changing
-formation are observed traveling at a high rate of speed at an estimated
-altitude of 7,500 feet over Sweetwater, Nevada. No trail, sound, or
-exhaust are noted. The objects pass under the right nacelle of the
-observers’ C-47 aircraft, which is en route to Stead AFB [now Reno Stead
-Airport]. The copilot takes control of the aircraft and turns to the
-right in a tight 300° turn for a better view. The objects are then
-picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects are
-seen in a right turn of a greater radius than that of the C-47 and at a
-lower altitude. They are observed for approximately 120° of their turn
-and disappear on a heading of 300°. Observers are unable to estimate the
-speed of the objects because of the distance and the large turn radius.
-(NICAP, “Ten
-Round Flat Objects Changing Formation”; Sparks,
-p. 197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2198
Date: 4/13/1953
-Description: The MKUltra project is launched on the order of CIA
-Director Allen
-Dulles and under the direction of Sidney Gottlieb. Its
-aim is to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet
-bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean
-use of mind-control techniques on US prisoners of war in Korea. The
-project attempts to produce a perfect truth drug for use in
-interrogating suspected Soviet spies, and generally to explore any other
-possibilities of mind control. Another MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, is
-the Navy’s top secret “Perfect Concussion” program, which uses subaural
-frequency blasts to erase memory. However, the program is never carried
-out. Because most MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed in 1973 by
-order of then–CIA director Richard
-Helms, it
-is difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete
-understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research
-subprojects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs. A cache of
-some 20,000 documents survive Helms’s purge, as they are incorrectly
-stored in a financial-records building and discovered following a FOIA
-request in 1977. These documents are fully investigated during the
-Senate Hearings of 1977. (Wikipedia, “Project
-MKUltnra”; US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
-Project MKUltra, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral
-Modification, 95th Congress, 1st Session, August 3, 1977; John D. Marks,
-The
-Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control,
-Times Books, 1978; Jon Ronson, The
-Men Who Stare at Goats, Simon
-& Schuster, 2004; “Project
-MK-Ultra: The CIA’s Experiments
-with Mind Control,” ZazenLife.com, December 2011; Stephen Kinzer,
-Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control,
-Henry Holt, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2199
Date: 4/14/1953
-Description: 9:23–11:50 p.m. A Navy P2V Neptune spy plane on an
-electronic intelligence (ELINT/ferret) mission over the Sea of Japan
-(about 200 miles southeast of Vladivostok, Russia) is paced and attacked
-by 10 agile and highly maneuverable UFOs. The encounter takes place with
-only 400 feet of distance between the aircraft and the sea. The objects
-make more than “70 aggressive non-firing passes” in “high-speed runs,”
-many just a few hundred feet directly underneath the Navy aircraft for
-just over an hour. The UFOs transmit Morse Code light signals (the
-letter “D”), an unprecedented occurrence in UFO history. The objects are
-tracked on radar and by the Navy’s ELINT systems (which pick up and
-analyze radar beams emitted from the objects) for almost two and a half
-hours. (NICAP, “Two
-Lights Flashing Morse Code Letter ‘D’”; Sparks,
-p. 198; Clark III 53–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2200
Date: 4/15/1953
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witness: S/Sgt. V.A. Locey. Three orange lights were seen
-for: 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 310
Date: 4/16/1953
-Description: 3:45 p.m. The crew of a commercial Maritime Central
-airliner flying at 9,000 feet above Chatham, New Brunswick, watches a
-metallic disc approach their plane and pass underneath. (Chris
-Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 64–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2201
Date: 4/19/1953
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Four US Army reconnaissance observers (including
-pilot Lt. Julius T. Morgan, Lt. James
-O. Rymus, and
-Lt. Jack E. Myers) in two aircraft see a white, rounded, delta-shaped
-object 5–7 feet in diameter flying at 60–80 mph with a “vibrating”
-motion over Communist territory in Korea. An official G-2 Intelligence
-Report says the object is in the Old Baldy (Hill 266) and Pork Chop Hill
-areas. Radar supposedly tracks them also moving faster than sound
-(>767 mph). (NICAP, [news
-clippings]; Sparks,
-p. 199; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1991): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2202
Date: 4/23/1953
-Description: Gen. Charles
-P. Cabell becomes deputy director of the CIA.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2203
Date: 4/23/1953
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Iberville [now
-Saint-Jean-de-Richelieu], Quebec, see a disc the size of a car approach
-their house while they are eating dinner. It stops 250 feet above the
-Richelieu River a bit more than a half-mile away. The man runs outside
-for a better look and sees that it as a dome and is spinning as it
-hovers. After 15 seconds it flies to the southwest and disappears.
-(Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 65, 68–69, 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2204
Date: 5/1953
-Description: A flawed CAA report states the July 1952 Washington
-National Airport radar returns were weather targets. (Civil Aviation
-Authority, A
-Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic
-Control, Technical Development Report 180, May 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2205
Date: 5/1953
-Description: The Air Force publishes, under the signatures of Chief of
-Staff Gen. Hoyt
-S. Vandenberg and Air Adjutant General Col. Kenneth
-E. Thiebaud, Air Force Manual 200-3, titled Handbook for Air
-Intelligence Officers. It is classified Restricted. Intended as a
-general guide for air intelligence officers conducting any type of
-investigation, the 6-page manual’s only illustration is of an Air Force
-plane accompanied by three flying saucers; the caption is “The Air
-Technical Intelligence center is responsible for the prevention of
-technological surprises.” It is discovered by Keyhoe in
-1961 because someone forgot to reclassify the manual as Confidential in
-November 1953 when the Restricted classification is retired. (Department
-of the Air Force, Handbook for Air Intelligence Officers, Air Force
-Manual 200-3, May 1953, chapter 9, pp. 9-1–9-6;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2207
Date: 5/1953
-Description: CIA Assistant Director H.
-Marshall Chadwell transfers chief responsibility for keeping abreast
-of UFOs to OSI’s Physics and Electronic Division. Todos
-M. Odarenko, chief
-of the division, does not want to take on the problem, saying it
-requires too much analytic and clerical time. Given the Robertson Panel
-findings, he proposes to call the project “inactive” and devote only one
-part-time analyst and a file clerk to maintain a reference file of
-activities of USAF and other agencies on UFOs. (Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s
-Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence, 1997,
-p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2206
Date: 5/1/1953
-Description: 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. R. L. Emberry and radar
-operator 1Lt J. R. Morin are flying an F-94 interceptor at 24,000 feet
-about 10 miles south of Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador.
-Both men and a control tower operator see a white light with a visible
-afterburner at 10,000 feet. The F-94 pursues it, both climbing to 40,000
-feet, but the object climbs out of sight after 30 minutes. (NICAP, “Unidentified
-Evades Interception by F- 94”;
-Sparks, p. 199;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2208
Date: 5/1/1953
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet
-interceptor, and control tower operator. One white light evaded
-interception attempt by F-94 during 30 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 311
Date: 5/2/1953
-Description: BOAC Flight 783, a de Havilland Comet 1, crashes in a
-severe thundersquall six minutes after taking off from Calcutta-Dum Dum
-[now Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport], India, killing
-all 43 on board. Witnesses observe the wingless Comet on fire plunging
-into the village of Jagalgori. A British aviation investigator, J. H.
-Lett, announces that the plane “collided with a fairly heavy body” and
-UFO rumors persist for about a year. However, leading investigators
-suspect structural failure. (Wikipedia, “de
-Havilland Comet”; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-p, 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2209
Date: 5/4/1953
-Description: 1:50 a.m. A witness sees a football-shaped, metallic object
-caught in the glare of a rotating beacon near Goose Bay AFB [now CFB
-Goose Bay], Labrador. It is traveling south at high speed and a low
-altitude, and disappears into low-hanging stratus clouds. She hears a
-sound “like tins striking together.” (Sparks, p. 199;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2210
Date: 5/5/1953
-Description: 9:45 a.m. Chemist Wells Alan Webb is standing in a field
-near the Vacuum Cooling Company plant, not far from Spain Flying Field
-and about a mile north of Yuma AFB [now Marine Corps Air Station Yuma]
-near Yuma, Arizona, when he sees a fuzzy-white oblong object at an angle
-of 45° in the north. He observes it both with the naked eye and with
-Polaroid glasses with a greenish tint that he uses for cloud
-observations. It is about one-half the diameter of the full moon. After
-5 minutes, the object moves to a position 30° eastward and suddenly
-becomes circular in appearance, becoming gradually smaller. Three
-concentric dark rings appear around the object, the largest about six
-times its diameter when viewed with Polaroid glasses. Webb thinks that
-the rings are the result of the rotation of polarized light scattered
-from the atmosphere (Faraday effect). (NICAP, “Polaroid
-Glasses Expose Concentric
-Circles around Disc”; Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier:
-Lowell’s Hypothesis, Fearon, 1956, pp, 126–127; UFOEv, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2211
Date: 5/10/1953
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Capt. Bob Jackson is piloting an Australian
-National Airways DC-3 near Woronora Dam, New South Wales, when he sees
-an object with an orange-colored light at the tail flash past toward the
-east near Wollongong. The radar tower at Mascot shows no traffic in the
-area. About 2 minutes later, the object reappears, makes a complete
-circle around the airliner, and speeds away toward the coast. (Swords
-378)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2213
Date: 5/10/1953
-Description: 6:08 p.m. Capt. B. L. Jones is flying an Australian
-National Airways DC-3 just south of Mackay, Queensland. He radios the
-local control tower that a “strange object like a lighted glass dome” is
-maneuvering around his plane. He and his copilot watch the object for
-about 5 minutes during which time it climbs and dives at a speed of
-200–700 mph. Finally, it crosses the path of the aircraft and disappears
-swiftly to the west. A Mr. W. Overell, the officer in charge at Mackay
-tower, sees the light climbing from about 4,000–5,000 feet in the west
-at great speed, although the radar shows no other aircraft in the
-vicinity. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 52; Swords
-377–378)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2212
Date: 5/11/1953
-Description: A declassified MKUltra document indicates hypnosis is a
-major focus. Experimental goals include: the creation of “hypnotically
-induced anxieties,” “hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall
-complex written matter,” studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations,
-“hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex
-arrangements of physical objects,” and studying “relationship of
-personality to susceptibility to hypnosis.” Experiments are conducted
-with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia
-while under the influence of such drugs. (Wikipedia, “Project
-MKUltra”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2214
Date: 5/12/1953
-Description: 3:20 a.m. USAF F-94 pilot Lt. D. C. Rogers and radar
-operator Lt. J. A. Lane track a radar target about 39 miles northwest of
-Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. Rogers attempts to
-intercept but cannot make visual contact. (Sparks, p. 199;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2215
Date: 5/16/1953
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Photographer Herman Charmanne is near Bouffioulx,
-Belgium, when he hears a strange metallic vibration. Looking up, he sees
-a long white trail in the wake of an object that shoots off at a great
-speed. The object, a luminous sphere, stops and hovers, allowing him to
-take two photos that depict a fried-egg-looking shape with a long tail.
-Recent analyses indicate that the photos are likely the result of a
-chemical reaction during the developing process, perhaps a flammable
-fluid deliberately poured on the image carrier that is then ignited.
-(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium
-in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT
-Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 12–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2216
Date: 5/18/1953
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witness: C.S. Chapman, 15. One white, fuzzy, flashing light
-hovered and darted around for 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand
-ID: 484
Date: 5/18/1953
-Description: 6:55 p.m. A bright, luminous object is seen over Abadan,
-Iran. It travels very fast and is visible for 20 minutes. It is also
-seen over oil fields in Khuzestan Province. (ClearIntent, pp. 129–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2217
Date: 5/20/1953
-Description: At the junction of Jordan and Marble Creeks in Plumas
-National Forest, northern California, titanium prospector John Q. Black
-sees a silvery object, 8 feet in diameter, land on a nearby sand bar. On
-June 20 the saucer returns, along with a barrel-chested “midget pilot”
-wearing a “forest-green outfit” and a “peak-billed cap with a cord”
-around it. The UFO is about 40 feet away, resting on a rock, and has
-tripod-like landing gear. The pilot fills a rubber-like pail with creek
-water and goes back inside the craft (which has one small window) after
-hearing Black step on a stick. The craft takes off at a 45° angle with a
-hissing sound. Black had seen the same object on March 20, for a total
-of seven times. Black is alone for each sighting, so his partner John
-Van Allen cannot corroborate the story. The UFO’s expected return on
-July 20 does not occur, perhaps because scores of sightseers descend on
-the Brush Creek area (snack bars are set up so that no one goes hungry
-during the vigil). (Wallace Kunkel, “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There,”
-Fate 7, no. 5 (May 1954): 48–52; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-15, 2006; Curt Collins, “Flying
-Saucer Ambush: Brush Creek, CA, 1953,” The Saucers That Time Forgot,
-November 17, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2218
Date: 5/20/1953
-Description: Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty
-the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Kingman, AZ
-See also: 5/21/53
Date: 5/20/1953
-Time: 1830
-Description: Two miners, John Q. Black, 48, and John Van Allen, reported
-that an object, silvery, 2.5 m in diameter, 2 m thick, with a tripod
-landing gear, landed on a sand bar 50 m away from them. An occupant
-described as a broadshouldered dwarf wearing clothing that covered the
-head and the trunk was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with
-tweedlike cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. He filled a shiny pail
-with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared
-to notice Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound
-and departed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Brush Creek, California
-ID: 109
Date: 5/21/1953
-Description: Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB,
-assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an
-unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20
-inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval
-and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft.
-wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of
-instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse
-of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two
-eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It
-wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same
-material.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Kingman, AZ
-See also: 5/20/53
Date: 5/21/1953
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Eight disc-like objects are observed maneuvering
-in the sky for an hour or so above Prescott, Arizona, by sportsmen’s
-club president Bill Beers, post office employee Ray Temple, and O. Ed
-Olson. Two of the discs are stationary, while the other six discs
-participate in maneuvers similar to a dogfight. The six swoop around in
-formation, peel off, and shoot directly up and down in a maneuver that
-cannot be duplicated by a plane. When they move, they vary from very
-slow to speeds faster than a jet plane. (Prescott (Ariz.) Evening
-Courier, May 22, 1953; Nukes 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2219
Date: 5/21/1953
-Description: Date of alleged UFO crash and retrieval near Kingman,
-Arizona. “Fritz Werner” [pseudonym of Arthur
-G. Stansel
-Jr.] claims to have worked on the retrieval. An informant in 1977
-tells Leonard
-Stringield that he had seen three alien bodies in a crate at
-Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio after a UFO crash in Arizona. (Leonard H.
-Stringfield, “Retrievals
-of the Third Kind: Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1979): 6–7; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-pp. 171–185; Clark III 335–338; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO
-Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 57–68;
-Good Above, pp. 398–400)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2220
Date: 5/23/1953
-Description: Radar tracks a target over Cape Province, South Africa,
-that makes six passes at more than 1,250 mph at 5,000–15,000 feet
-altitude. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 123; James E. McDonald,
-“Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2221
Date: 5/26/1953
-Description: 5:10 a.m. D. Beyers, driving 80 miles south of Brandvlei in
-Northern Cape Province, South Africa, sees a bright yellowish-green
-light in the clouds, then emerges. The light has the appearance of
-“burning hydrogen” and emits three streaks that maintain a fixed
-position with regard to the main light. He watches it for 50 minutes.
-(ClearIntent, p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2222
Date: 5/27/1953
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many unidentified civilians, including Jacobson.
-Nine separate meandering lights were seen during 15 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 312
Date: 5/30/1953
-Description: After a small, bright-blue object with a strange irregular
-motion passes overhead at Palmerston North, New Zealand, numerous
-filaments of a “substance resembling spider webs, white in color and
-ashy in texture” float to earth. (“Palmerston
-North, New Zealand,” APRO Bulletin 2, no. 2 (September 15, 1953): 8;
-Clark III 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2223
Date: 5/31/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #11. (US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 199–214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2224
Date: 6/1953
-Description: Max
-B. Miller publishes the first issue of Saucers, a digest-sized
-quarterly of Flying Saucers International in Los Angeles, California. It
-continues until the Fall 1959 issue. (Saucers 1,
-no. 1 (1953); Clark III 1033)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2230
Date: 6/1953
-Description: Night. An F-94C Starfire with classified electronic gear
-takes off from Otis AFB [now Otis Air National Guard Base] in western
-Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Piloted by Capt. Suggs and radar operator Lt.
-Robert Markhoff, the jet takes off in a westerly direction. Shortly
-after attaining 1,500 feet over the Base Rifle Range, the engine quits
-functioning and the electrical system fails. The jet’s nose drops and
-Suggs signals Barkhoff to bail out. Suggs bails out and he and his
-parachute wind up in a homeowner’s backyard. The jet should have crashed
-nearby, but neither Markhoff or the airplane can be located, despite
-months of searching. Although this account comes from M/Sgt Clarence
-O. Dargie, and
-investigator Raymond
-Fowler obtains the accident report from Norton AFB [now San
-Bernardino International Airport], California, there appears to be no
-open record of this incident. The F-94C models, especially at first,
-have fire-control problems and electrical short circuiting. (Raymond
-Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 287–291;
-Good Need, pp. 189–191;
-Bob Pratt, “Conversations with
-Major Donald Keyhoe,” Mutual UFO Network; Barry Greenwood, “Questions
-on a 1953 Cape Cod Mystery,”
-UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 (February 2001): 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2227
Date: 6/1953
-Description: Secretary of Defense Charles
-Erwin Wilson abolishes the Research and Development Board for the
-politically motivated reason that suspected communist sympathizer Robert
-Oppenheimer is a sitting member. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors,
-“The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no.
-2 (Summer 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2228
Date: 6/1953
-Description: Lt. Robert M. Olsson and J.
-Allen Hynek visit Coral
-Lorenzen in Wisconsin and try to convince her that it is in the
-national interest for her to reduce excitement about UFOs by publishing
-cases. (Swords 197; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2229
Date: 6/9/1953
-Description: Sidney
-Gottlieb approves Project MKUltra’s “Subproject 8” on LSD.
-Experiments include administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners,
-drug addicts, and prostitutes—“people who could not fight back,” as one
-agency officer puts it.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2231
Date: 6/17/1953
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Several witnesses in Galveston, Texas, see a
-large, cigar-shaped object silently flying in from the Gulf of Mexico.
-One estimates it to be about 300 feet long and no greater than 150 feet
-in the air. The object makes a cloud and disappears. (Herbert S. Taylor,
-“Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005):
-19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2232
Date: 6/18/1953
-Time: 0230
-Description: Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers saw in a
-garden at 118 East Third Street a strange “shadow” on the lawn which
-resembled a “flying man,” and they watched it take off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 261 (Vallee)
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 110
Date: 6/20/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA
-spot UFO’s
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: California Coast
Date: 6/20/1953
-Time: 1830
-Description: John Q. Black, witness of the May. 20 incident, observed an
-exact repetition of the scene, including the “little man.” Van Allen saw
-only the landing marks, about 30 cm wide and re sembling elephant
-tracks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Brush Creek, California
-ID: 111
Date: summer 1953
-Description: Two F-94 jets are scrambled at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base
-[now Stephenville International Airport], near Stephenville,
-Newfoundland, after base radar picks up an unknown target. One of the
-pilots gets radar and visual confirmation, then radios that he is going
-into a steep climb to give chase. The jet crashes into a mountain. The
-base is supposedly placed on red alert. (Stringfield, Situation Red,
-Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2225
Date: summer 1953
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A family is returning home on Scenic Avenue in
-Central Point, Oregon, when they see three entities along the side of
-the road only 6 feet away. They stop the car, and the beings glide
-across the road and disappear into the woods. They are 4 feet high,
-white, with satiny fur, and resemble very large geese, but with no beaks
-or wings. (“No
-UFO Seen: Just Creatures,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2
-(April/May 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2226
Date: 6/21/1953
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Nine Japanese and Okinawan weather observers.
-One unidentified light moved slowly for 20 minutes. No further data in
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Naha, Okinawa
-ID: 313
Date: Summer 1953
-Description: Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt.
-H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay
-by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three
-Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher.
-All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington
-D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs
-stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS)
-Location: Camp Polk, Louisiana
Date: 6/22/1953
-Time: 2:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet
-interceptor. One red light, flying at an estimated 1,000 kts. (1,100
-m.p.h.) eluded the chasing F-94 after 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 314
Date: 6/24/1953
-Description: USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset
-Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern
-Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of
-Quonset Point.
-Type: ufo collision
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p488)
-Location: Quonset Point, Rhode Island
-See also: 6/26/1953
Date: 6/24/1953
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A weather observer stationed at remote Simiutaq
-island, western Greenland, is tracking a weather balloon with a
-theodolite. He notices a rotating red object flying from southeast to
-northwest and approaching the balloon, which is at 18,000 feet. The
-object collides with the balloon, disintegrating it. Afterward, it
-hovers in a circular motion for 15 seconds and departs into the wind. He
-watches it another 5 minutes until it is lost to view. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2233
Date: 6/24/1953
-Time: 11:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF KB-29 aerial tanker plane. Radar
-tracked an unidentified target which twice approached to within .5 miles
-of the airplane, and once to within 6 miles, during a 2 minute
-observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands
-ID: 315
Date: 6/24/1953
-Description: Night. A flight of US Navy F2H Banshee jets out of NAS
-Quonset Point [now Quonset Point Air National Guard Station] are on a
-night training mission over southern Rhode Island when two aircraft in
-the formation collide in mid-air. The crash occurs at 19,000 feet near
-or over the Exeter/West Greenwich town lines, and debris is scattered
-for several miles in all directions. The pilot of one Banshee, Lt. Jg.
-Jack
-Oliver Snipes, is killed. An emergency cable sent to the Director of
-Air Force Intelligence in the Pentagon indicates that “flying objects”
-are seen by the pilots prior to the accident. Its distribution list
-includes the fledgling National Security Agency. (“Exeter/West
-Greenwich, Rhode Island: June 24, 1953,” New England Aviation
-History, October 2017; Good Above, pp. 272–273, 488)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2234
Date: 6/24/1953
-Time: 11:30 AM
-Description: Witness: weather observer A/2c R.A. Hill. One red triangle
-hovered and rotated for 15 seconds, then climbed for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Simiutak, Greenland
-ID: 316
Date: 6/24/1953
-Time: 0018
-Description: A civilian woman saw something like “a large aircraft”
-flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle
-and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She
-still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near
-her, 25 m above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and
-hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section
-supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through
-which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose
-above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward
-the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 sec at an
-80 degree angle of climb after the 3-min sighting. Diameter: 30 m. Two
-days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hampton Bay, Long Island
-ID: 112
Date: 6/26/1953
-Description: USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ
-JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA,
-Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/53 for details
-of report)
-Type: ufo collision
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p488)
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 6/24/53
Date: 6/30/1953
-Description: 11:45 p.m. An orange-colored, oval object is seen for a
-period of 20 minutes in the northern sky moving to the southeast by at
-least 10 personnel of the US 912th Air Control and Warning Squadron
-stationed at Ramore Air Station radar site [now CFS Ramore], 3 miles
-west of Ramore, Ontario. The first person to see it is A/2c Dean
-McDonald who comes out of the maintenance room to inspect a power unit
-that has caused a minor breakdown of the search radar set. He calls two
-other airmen to witness it. One of the two thinks the object is the
-moon. The first airman gets hysterical and calls the Charge of Quarters
-at the Domestic Area three miles to the southwest. At least seven
-witnesses in that area see the object, and two of them report that the
-moon is visible and the UFO is distinct and separate. The object soon
-fades away slowly to the north. ([Project
-Blue Book file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2235
Date: 7/1953
-Description: The 4602nd AISS has taken over nearly all of Blue Book’s
-field investigations. (Ruppelt, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2236
Date: 7/1953
-Description: Lt. Robert M. Olsson of Project Blue Book sends five
-supposedly unsolved UFO cases of 1953 to Cal Tech physicist Howard
-P. Robertson in an effort to see if any change in the Robertson
-Panel’s conclusions is warranted. One of them is the Sea of Japan ELINT
-case of April 14. Apparently, Robertson’s mind is not changed. He is now
-heading up the Robertson Committee of the newly formed National Security
-Agency, tasked with developing better use of intercepted communications
-and radars in order to provide strategic warning of a military attack by
-the Soviet Union. (Clark III 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2237
Date: 7/1/1953
-Description: 1:00 p.m. A cowherd, Maximo Munoz Olivares [or Hernáiz],
-14, sees a “big balloon” on the ground behind him in Villares del Saz,
-Cuenca, Spain, after a faint whistling attracts his attention. Shaped
-like a water jug, the object is metallic. Through an opening come three
-dwarfs 2 feet tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental
-features. They speak in a language he cannot understand. They are
-dressed in blue and have a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a
-metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacks the boy’s face, then they
-reenter the machine, which glows very brightly, makes a soft whistling
-sound, and goes off “like a rocket.” Footprints and four holes 2 inches
-deep, forming a perfect square 13 inches in size, are found by police.
-Possible hoax. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1953, March–July, The
-Author, 1989, pp. 92–93; Antonio Ribera, “The
-Landing at Villares del Saz,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids,
-special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, pp. 28–30; Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2238
Date: 7/2/1953
-Time: 1300
-Description: Approximate date. An illiterate boy cowherd, Maximo Munos
-Olivares, 14, saw a “big balloon” on the ground behind him when a faint
-whistling attracted his attention. Shaped like a water jug, it was
-metallic. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow
-faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he
-could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat
-with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them
-smacked the boy’s face, then they reentered the machine, which glowed
-very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off “like a rocket.”
-Footprints and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square 36 cm in
-side were found by police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 29 (Vallee)
-Location: Villares des Saz, Spain
-ID: 113
Date: 7/7/1953
-Description: Evening. An Atlanta, Georgia, barber named Edward Watters
-buys a monkey from a pet shop, shaves and kills it, cuts off its tail,
-then takes it with two friends, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne, to US
-Highway 78 near Leland, Georgia, and waits for the first car to stop.
-They tell the driver, who turns out to be Cobb County policeman Sherley
-Brown, that
-they had seen a flying saucer and accidentally killed one of its
-occupants. They bring the dead animal to the Atlanta Constitution
-office, where reporter Thomas McRae notifies the FBI, which alerts the
-Air Force at Dobbins AFB [now Dobbins Air Reserve Base] in Marietta. The
-animal is taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where Anatomy
-Professor Marion Hines identifies it properly as a shaved Capuchin
-monkey. Watters admits the hoax and is fined $40 by a judge. (Wikipedia,
-“Martian
-Monkey”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1953, March–July, The
-Author, 1989, pp. 96–102; Clark III 593)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2239
Date: 7/16/1953
-Description: Lt. Col. William F. Barns attains an official world
-airspeed record of 716 mph in a North American F-86D Sabre over the
-Salton Sea, California. (Wikipedia, “North
-American F-86D Sabre”; “16
-July 1953,” This Day in Aviation History, July 16, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2240
Date: 7/19/1953
-Description: Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25
-D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge
-residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86
-through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a
-high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been
-circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5
-minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to
-be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed
-from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was
-joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Oak Ridge, TN
-See also: 7/27/53
Date: 7/19/1953
-Description: 3:00 p.m. After an F-86 has been circling over a particular
-spot in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a black object emerges from a high white
-cloud and takes up its position after the plane has left toward
-Knoxville. “This object was extremely black in color, having an
-appearance of a deep black metal exterior with a fine gloss. It did not
-leave a vapor trail or were there any lights of shine noticed. No sound
-was heard. The object flew east at a tremendous speed for what appeared
-to be approximately three miles where it stopped. The object was then
-joined by two more of these same objects. A formation similar to a
-spread V was formed and the objects, at a tremendous speed flew in an
-eastward direction.” The report is made by the Atomic Energy Commission
-and addressed to Army Adjutant General William
-Edward Bergin in Washington, D.C. (NICAP, “Black
-Objects Maneuver
-over Area nr F-86”; “Air
-Space Violation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee,” July 27, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2241
Date: 7/20/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA
-spot UFO’s
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: California Coast
Date: 7/20/1953
-Description: Ed
-Ruppelt returns to Project Blue Book as either acting chief or
-consultant until August 31. (Sparks, p. 14;
-Clark III 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2242
Date: 7/25/1953
-Description: ATIC guide, How to Make FLYOBRPTS, a 68-page manual for
-officials required to make UFO reports, is published. (Air Technical
-Intelligence Center, How
-to Make FLYOBRPTS, July 26, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2243
Date: 7/26/1953
-Description: Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N
-9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near
-Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman,
-TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to
-higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light
-on it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p359)
-Location: Perrin Tower, TX
Date: 7/26/1953
-Description: 9:39 p.m. At Perrin AFB [now North Texas Regional Airport]
-in Sherman, Texas, ground observers see 7 UFOs, each carrying a bright
-red light, hovering at 5,000–8,000 feet. They are in a formation of two
-groups of three, and one trailing, then come together to form the letter
-“Z.” Then they circle, gain altitude, and fade from sight. Citizens in
-Sherman and Denison also see the objects. Total duration is 16 minutes.
-This is classified as a “Vital Intelligence Sighting” and sent to the
-Air Defense Command, the Secretary of Defense, and the CIA. (CIRVIS
-Report, July
-26, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2244
Date: 7/27/1953
-Description: Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant
-General, Wash. 25 D.C.
-Type: Confidential Message
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 7/19/53
Date: 7/30/1953
-Description: Science journalist John
-Joseph O’Neill observes through a telescope a feature on the western
-edge of the lunar Mare Crisium that he interprets as a giant natural
-bridge. The observation is prematurely confirmed by amateur Welsh
-astronomer Hugh
-Percy Wilkins. Although
-it turns out to be an illusion, the location is still known as O’Neill’s
-bridge. When viewing conditions are poor or the telescope’s aperture is
-small, the feature resembles a bridge joining the tips of the capes
-Promontorium Lavinium and Promontorium Olivium. If viewing conditions
-are good and the instrument is large enough, the feature is seen as two
-small, eroded crater pits. (The Moon Wiki, “O’Neill’s
-Bridge”; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358
-(October 2017): 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2245
Date: 7/30/1953
-End date: 8/1/1953
-Description: A large UFO is seen for three nights over Sequoia and Kings
-Canyon National Parks in California. Park Superintendent Elvind
-T. Scoyen and his staff observe it once at close range. On August 1,
-a squadron of Air Force fighters sees the object streaking downward just
-before midnight. It stops abruptly then shoots upward. (Keyhoe, Aliens
-from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2246
Date: 7/31/1953
-Time: 1900
-Description: A metallic object 30 m in diameter was observed by five
-Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a
-railway. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing
-numerous openings at the periphery.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Intelligence Digest Nov., 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Wolin, Poland
-ID: 114
Date: 7/31/1953
-Description: Lt. Robert Olsson leaves Project Blue Book. He later tells
-Ruppelt his
-5-month tenure “was like being president of Antarctica on a
-nonexpedition year.” He is replaced by Airman 1C Max G. Futch. (Ruppelt,
-p. 228;
-Clark III 55; Sparks,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2247
Date: 7/31/1953
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Five Poles and two Germans see a disc-shaped
-object about 16 feet in diameter land in a field near a railroad track
-on Wolin Island, Poland. After several minutes it rises up and flies
-away at great speed. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in
-Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 15; Vallée, Magonia, p. 203)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2248
Date: 8/1953
-Description: Wilbert
-B. Smith completes his classified report on Project Magnet for the
-Canadian Department of Transport, writing that it can be deduced that
-UFOs are 100 or more feet in diameter, they can travel at speeds of
-several thousand miles per hour, and can reach high altitudes. “It is
-difficult to reconcile this performance with the capabilities of our
-technology [and] we are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are
-probably extraterrestrial, in spite of our prejudices to the contrary.”
-The DOT agrees to his proposal to set up an electronic station for a
-“24-hour watch for flying saucers” in a hut at Shirley’s Bay, off Lake
-Manitou, Ontario. Equipment includes am ionospheric reactor, electronic
-sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, magnetometer,
-and radio set. (Clark III 1078–1079)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2249
Date: 8/1/1953
-Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters
-from Brooks Air Force Base [now closed] to Kelly Air Force Base [now
-Kelly Field Annex], both in San Antonio, Texas. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Intelligence, Surveillance,
-and Reconnaissance Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2250
Date: 8/3/1953
-Time: 12:04 PM
-Description: Witness: Airport control tower chief C.S. Brown. One round
-and reflective or translucent object flew straight, stopped for 7
-seconds, sped along, stopped again, was joined by a similar object and
-they flew off in different directions, after a total of 56
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Amarillo, Texas
-ID: 317
Date: 8/5/1953
-End date: 8/6/1953
-Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Phyllis
-Killian spots a UFO in Black Hawk, South Dakota. Soon after, radar at
-Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City tracks a “well-defined, solid, and bright”
-object. The base scrambles an F-84 and the pilot sees the UFO. Many
-witnesses see the object accelerate and climb. The F-84 pursues but can
-reach no closer than 3 miles. Now low on fuel, the F-84 returns,
-followed by the UFO. Immediately, another F-84 is sent up. Before long,
-the pilot receives strong radar returns of a target right in front of
-him. Fear prevails and he breaks off the chase. The UFO goes off the
-scope, traveling northeast. Reports soon come from Brunswick of a
-fast-moving, bright blue object, similar to the Rapid City object. It
-hovers near an air filter center, performing more maneuvers and
-disappearing after midnight. Before it leaves, three more UFOs are seen
-at 10,000 feet for three hours. Ruppelt personally
-investigates and calls it “the best” in the USAF files, Hynek writes
-that the “entire incident…has too much of an Alice-in-Wonderland flavor
-for comfort.” Menzel blames
-the star Capella. The official file is several hundred pages long.
-(NICAP, “The
-Rapid City / Ellsworth AFB
-Incident (RV)”; Condon, pp. 132–136;
-Ruppelt, pp. 232–235;
-Sparks, p. 203;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1953, August–December, The Author, 1990, pp. 2–3; Swords 215; Jan
-Aldrich; Patrick Gross, “The Ellsworth
-AFB Radar Multiple Visual Case, 1953”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2251
Date: 8/6/1953
-Description: 5:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. An estimated 75 objects with
-lights are seen by many witnesses on the ground around Naval Air Station
-Barbers Point [now Kalaeloa Airport], Hawaii, from the airport control
-tower and from the air. Many are also detected by radar. At 9:00 p.m.,
-the crew of a Navy patrol aircraft reports three head-on passes. These
-close calls alarm the pilot so much he lands immediately. Jet fighters
-are scrambled and the same night an interceptor pilot sees a “glowing
-blob” rising rapidly toward him. It comes to a sudden stop just behind
-his aircraft then accelerates briefly until it is beside him for four
-more seconds before accelerating away out of sight at several times his
-own top speed. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 63; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, August–December, The
-Author, 1990, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2252
Date: 8/9/1953
-Description: 9:34 p.m. Supervisor Larry E. Towner and other Ground
-Observer Corps personnel report a glowing disc about 200 feet in
-diameter over Moscow, Idaho. At 10:10 p.m., the first of two F-86s is
-scrambled. The object lingers, with other lights seen, until around 5:00
-a.m. (NICAP, “Three
-F-86’s Chase Disc Spotted by GOC”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, August–December, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2253
Date: 8/10/1953
-Description: Wilbert
-B. Smith issues another report on Project Magnet, in which he
-concludes there is a “substantial probability of the real existence of
-extraterrestrial vehicles” that use a “technology considerably in
-advance of what we have.” The report is eventually sent to Prime
-Minister Louis
-St. Laurent. (Good Above, pp. 185, 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2254
Date: 8/12/1953
-Description: The USSR tests its first thermonuclear device, RDS-6s or
-Joe 4, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. A tenfold increase
-in explosive power is achieved by a combination of fusion energy and
-neutron- initiated fission. Scholars dispute the authenticity of RDS-6
-as a true thermonuclear device, as it does not manage to produce a yield
-consistent with a true hydrogen bomb. (Wikipedia, “Joe
-4”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2255
Date: 8/12/1953
-Description: First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt,
-Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 400
Date: 8/13/1953
-Description: Paramount Pictures’ The War of the Worlds premieres in New
-York City. It is a modern retelling of H.
-G. Wells’s
-story of an invasion from Mars and features a Northrop YB-49 flying wing
-dropping an atomic bomb on the invading Martians. The color footage
-comes from a test flight. The film is produced by George
-Pal, directed by Byron
-Haskin, and
-stars Gene
-Barry and Ann
-Robinson. (Wikipedia,
-“The
-War of the Worlds (1953
-film)”; Internet Movie Database, “The
-War of the Worlds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2256
Date: 8/13/1953
-Description: Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds”
-released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 8/16/1953
-Description: Flying Saucers International holds the first UFO conference
-at the Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California, featuring contactee
-speakers. However, George
-Van Tassel’s first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention
-launches the same day near Landers, California, for three days with
-speakers Frank
-Scully, George Van Tassel, Orfeo
-Angelucci, George
-Adamski, and the Amazing
-Criswell. (Story, p. 91 ;
-Orfeo Angelucci, “A
-Release: On Flying Saucers First Convention,” Interplanetary News
-Digest 1, no. 2 (October 1953): 1; “Blast
-from the Past: UFO Conventions from Giant Rock in Landers,” Palm
-Springs (Calif.) Desert Sun, July 25, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2257
Date: 8/16/1953
-Time: 2030
-Description: Claude Pasquier saw two disks flying very low, quite
-slowly, along a straight course, with a “hard” sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 65, 141 (Vallee)
-Location: Tours, France
-ID: 115
Date: 8/17/1953 (approximate)
-Description: Lina Ivanova Kravets is in her garden in Shtanivka,
-Ukraine, when she sees a trio of intruders cutting branches off her
-apple, plum, and cherry trees. Approaching closer, she sees they are
-11-foot-tall entities wearing dark overalls, helmets, and gloves. They
-claim to be extraterrestrials, converse with her about God and their
-peaceful home world that is prone to natural disasters and somehow
-affected by the earth’s wars, and insist they are on a mission to rescue
-a missing scout team. They then point out a silvery sphere hovering just
-above the ground with similar tall being standing next to it. Before the
-lengthy encounter ends, the beings offer Kravets a piece of bread the
-size of a small coin. Breaking it open, she sees something dark and
-odorless inside, so she refuses it. The beings then walk to the sphere
-in a peculiar waddling manner, wave as they enter, and take off in the
-craft at terrific speed. (Peter Rogerson, “INTCAT
-1953”; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332
-(November 2015): 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2258
Date: 8/17/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the
-Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 8/18/1953
-Time: evening
-Description: Approximate date. Cab driver Salvador Villanueva, 40,
-observed two creatures 1.2 m tall wearing coveralls with wide, shiny,
-perforated belts, metal collars, and small, black, shiny boxes on their
-backs. They had helmets under their arms. The witness thought they were
-pilots of Indian race. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, “stringing
-the words together” in a strange accent. Trivial matters were discussed
-until dawn, when they returned to their craft, 13 m in diameter, through
-a staircase under the lower disk. The witness ran away when invited to
-follow them. The object rose with a pendulum motion and shot up
-vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 32; FSR 56, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Ciudad Valleys, Mexico
-ID: 116
Date: 8/19/1953
-Description: A small, fast-moving, ricocheting fireball rips a foot-wide
-hole through a metal billboard at Middlestone Avenue and Front Street in
-East New Haven, Connecticut. IFSB investigator August
-C. Roberts and Joseph Barbieri steal a piece of the sign during an
-investigation by Naval Ordnance personnel. IFSB sends the sample to Col.
-Robert
-B. Emerson, an
-Army physicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who
-contacts friends at Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee to have it
-analyzed, but nothing else is heard of this sample. APRO arranges for a
-separate analysis of the deposits on the sign performed by Anderson
-Laboratories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Chicago Spectrographic
-Service Laboratory. They determine that the fragments consist of copper
-and copper oxide and are not meteoritic. Michael
-D. Swords suggests that Roberts’s retrieval of the metal fragments
-would have attracted the attention of federal officials. (NICAP, “New
-Haven Signboard Case”; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker
-Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 5–7; Clark III 728–729)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2259
Date: 8/20/1953
-Time: 9:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of TB-29 bomber/trainer plane. One greyish
-oval object made four passes at the airplane (three times at 10-20 miles
-distance), then dived vertically as if two objects.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Castle AFB, California
-ID: 318
Date: 8/20/1953
-Description: 9:05 p.m. The crew of a TB-29 sees a grayish oval object
-near Castle AFB [now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center],
-northeast of Atwater, California. The UFO makes four passes at the
-plane, then dives vertically as if it consists of two objects. (NICAP,
-“TB-29
-Crew Files CIRVIS Report”; Sparks, p. 203)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2260
Date: 8/21/1953
-Description: Test pilot Lt. Col. Marion
-Eugene Carl reaches an unofficial altitude of 83,235 feet in a
-Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. (Wikipedia, “Marion
-Eugene Carl”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2261
Date: 8/23/1953
-Description: 12:00 noon. Tom P. Drury, deputy director of the Civilian
-Aviation Department at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, takes 24 frames
-of 8mm color film of a silvery object that emerges from a cloud and
-climbs quickly, leaving a vapor trail. The Royal Australian Air Force
-and USAF intelligence are said to have studied the film, which has since
-disappeared, with only a few third-generation stills of poor quality
-remaining. Later researchers suspect a daytime meteor. (NICAP, “Drury
-Film / Saucer-Like Object Climbing”; Norman Cruttwell, “The
-New Guinea
-Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 6; Clark III 416–417; Sparks,
-p. 204; Good Above, pp. 162–163;
-Bill Chalker, “The
-Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part
-1,” 2001; Bill Chalker, “The
-Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part
-2,” 2001; Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO
-Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 17–18; Keith Basterfield and
-Paul Dean, “Cold
-Case Review of the 23 August 1953, Port Moresby Visual Sighting and
-Colour Movie Film,” April 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2262
Date: 8/23/1953
-Description: Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 28
Date: 8/24/1953
-Description: Contactee George
-Van Tassel gets to step, for the first time, inside a flying saucer,
-when an extraterrestrial named Solganda wakes him up and leads him to a
-waiting ship, giving him a tour of the interior and a technique for
-rejuvenating the human body before dropping him off and shooting back
-into space. (Jody Rosen, “Welcome to
-the Integratron,” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla
-Miller Schnur, “G.
-W. Van Tassel’s Integraton,”
-The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2263
Date: 8/26/1953
-Description: USAF issues Air Force Regulation 200-2, which tightens UFO
-reporting and investigating procedures, further restricting the release
-of UFO information and superseding Air Force Letter 200-5. It directs
-that all confirmed UFO reports be sent electronically to air force
-intelligence. Tangible evidence must go to ATIC in Dayton. It also
-confines UFO investigations to three groups: USAF intelligence at the
-Pentagon, the 4602nd AISS, and ATIC (although ATIC only gets reports
-after they go to the 4602nd). Sightings are only to be discussed with
-“authorized personnel.” Reports by USAF personnel no longer go to
-Project Blue Book, which is now only a PR front. Some good cases still
-go there, but far fewer unidentifieds. Only solved cases are to be
-discussed publicly; those still unidentified are to remain classified at
-the Restricted level. (“Unidentified
-Flying Objects Reporting,”
-Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 26, 1953; Clark III 918; Swords
-198–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2264
Date: 8/26/1953
-Description: Regulation AFR 200–2 issued to Air Force personnel for
-reporting UFOs.
-Type: regulation
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 8/12/54
Date: 8/27/1953
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A USAF pilot, M/Sgt, and others, all on the
-ground, see a meandering light for 50 minutes at Greenville AFB [now
-Mid-Delta Regional Airport], Mississippi. (Sparks,
-p. 204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2265
Date: 8/27/1953
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground.
-One meandering light was observed for 50 minutes. No further details in
-file.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Greenville, Mississippi
-ID: 319
Date: 8/28/1953
-Description: A Ground Observer Corps volunteer watches 14 cigar-shaped
-UFOs silently moving over San Rafael, California. One appears to be
-leading the formation at about 200 mph. They are first seen heading west
-through breaks in the clouds, then turn north and disappear behind
-clouds. (Good Above, p. 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2266
Date: 8/31/1953
-Description: Edward
-J. Ruppelt leaves Project Blue Book permanently, leaving Max Futch
-in charge as acting chief through December. (Sparks, p. 14;
-Clark III 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2267
Date: 9/1953
-Description: Genevieve A. Johnston begins publishing the contactee
-newsletter Interplanetary News Digest in Joshua Tree, California. It
-continues through spring 1955. (Interplanetary
-News Digest 1, no. 1 (September 1953))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2270
Date: 9/1953
-Description: Airline stewardess Gloria
-Lee of Westchester, California, begins to hear a voice in her head
-that identifies itself as “J.W.,” a resident of Jupiter. Lee insists on
-a physical visit. Not long afterward, as she is hanging wash in her
-backyard, she hears the voice say, “Well, you’ve been wanting to see
-me.” She looks up and sees “a saucer, big as life, flying toward Santa
-Monica.” She has other experiences and founds the Cosmon Research
-Organization to publish and study J.W.’s teachings, much of which
-resemble philosophy in the 1882 book Oahspe, produced by automatic
-writing by John
-Ballou Newbrough. She
-goes on the contactee lecture circuit. (Clark III 682–683)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2269
Date: 9/1953
-Description: George
-Adamski’s account (ghostwritten by Clara
-John) of his meeting in the desert with the Venusian named Orthon is
-appended to an already completed manuscript on modern and historical UFO
-reports by Irish occultist Desmond
-Leslie and published as Flying Saucers Have Landed. Leslie asserts
-that the first spaceman (a Venusian) arrived on earth in 18,617,841 B.C.
-[in the early Miocene Epoch] and claims that early UFOs were called
-vimanas in Sanskrit epics like the Ramayana. He also argues that the
-Great Pyramid and megalithic structures were built with levitation
-techniques derived from space people. (Desmond Leslie and George
-Adamski, Flying
-Saucers Have Landed, British
-Book Centre, 1953; Clark III 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2268
Date: 9/1953
-Description: The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and
-George Adamski published.
-Type: book
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: California
Date: 9/1953
-Description: Gray
-Barker starts publishing The Saucerian Bulletin in Clarksburg, West
-Virginia, which covers UFO reports, monster yarns, contactee tales, and
-the latest rumors about Albert
-K. Bender. It continues through October 1962. (Saucerian
-Bulletin 1, no. 1 (September 1953); Clark III 178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2271
Date: 9/2/1953
-Time: 9:14 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. William Moore and lst Lt. J.H. McInnis,
-flying a USAF C-47 transport plane. One very bright light was on a
-collision course with the C-47, levelled out, made 180 degree turn
-during 3 minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sidi Slimane AFB, French Morocco
-ID: 320
Date: 9/3/1953
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Two bright silver ovals moved very fast. Case missing from
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Portland, Oregon
-ID: 321
Date: 9/4/1953
-Time: 2130
-Description: A woman saw two objects on the ground and three 1.5-m-tall
-men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets
-and boots. One entered the elongated object, 5 m long, 1.5 m wide, which
-spread “wings” that made it look like a butterfly. It then took a
-vertical position, resting on a tripod, and took off with the spherical
-object into which the other two creatures had gone. Traces were found at
-the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA 68, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Tonnerre, France
-ID: 117
Date: 9/7/1953
-Description: British pilot Neville
-Duke reaches 728 mph in a Hawker Hunter Mk.3 at Littlehampton,
-England. (Wikipedia, “Neville
-Duke”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2272
Date: 9/7/1953
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Don P. Hollister, a technical writer for Goodyear
-Aircraft, notices a grayish-blue object heading north directly over his
-backyard in Cleveland, Ohio, at less than 3,000 feet altitude. It is
-shaped like an equilateral triangle, but rounded somewhat on the sides
-and angles. It is rotating on a central axis. The object disappears
-after 5 seconds. (UFOEv, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2273
Date: 9/12/1953
-Description: Brovst was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by
-two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold
-like a fish.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
-Location: Brovst, Denmark
-ID: 118
Date: 9/15/1953
-End date: 9/19/1953
-Description: Operation Top Hat, a “local field exercise,” takes place at
-the Army Chemical School [now the US Army CBRN School] at Fort McClellan
-[now closed], Alabama. The experiments use Chemical Corps personnel to
-test decontamination methods for biological and chemical weapons,
-including sulfur mustard and nerve agents. The personnel are
-deliberately exposed to these contaminants, are not volunteers, and are
-not informed of the tests. In a 1975 Pentagon Inspector General’s
-report, the military maintain that Operation Top Hat is not subject to
-the guidelines requiring approval because it is a line-of-duty exercise
-in the Chemical Corps. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Top Hat”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2274
Date: 9/16/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the
-USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North
-Miami area
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: late 9/1953
-Description: Night. Baltimore, Maryland, astronomer James
-C. Bartlett Jr. is observing a transit of the star Fomalhaut when he
-notices four large lights moving slowly in the sky. He looks at them
-through binoculars and sees that they are on the noses of two enormous
-cigar-shaped objects at about 3,000 feet altitude. He can also see an
-apparent cabin and portholes and he hears a sound like a piston engine.
-(“Two
-Huge UFOs Sighted by Baltimore
-Astronomer,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1958): 1,
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2278
Date: 9/22/1953
-Time: 11:45 AM
-Description: Witness: civilian, Mr. Bray, using a small telescope. One
-thin, yellow triangle moved slowly, made a rapid acceleration and a
-vertical climb during the 5-8 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hayward, California
-ID: 322
Date: 9/26/1953
-Description: British pilot Mike
-Lithgow attains an official world airspeed record of 736 mph in a
-Supermarine Swift F 4 at Castel Idris, Tripoli, Libya. (Wikipedia, “Mike
-Lithgow”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2275
Date: 9/28/1953
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor.
-Visual observation one orange ball travelling 500-600 kts. (600-700
-m.p.h.) for 6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Newhall, California
-ID: 324
Date: 9/28/1953
-Description: Albert
-K. Bender confides to Gray
-Barker and a few others that three menacing men dressed in black
-suits have called on him, told him the answer to the UFO mystery, and
-insisted that he will go to jail if he repeats it. The experience
-allegedly terrifies him, and he decides to close the International
-Flying Saucer Bureau. Barker immortalizes the episode in a 1956 book,
-They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, and Bender breaks his long
-silence in 1962 with Flying Saucers and the Three Men, in which he
-claims that the visitors are not government agents but monsters from the
-distant planet Kazik. Even Barker concedes privately that he cannot
-swallow Bender’s fantastic tale of abduction to the South Pole by
-monstrous space beings. Bender does little to promote the book and soon
-moves to Los Angeles and secures an unlisted telephone number. However,
-the book does reveal Bender’s long-time obsession with science fiction,
-horror movies, and the occult. (Gray Barker, They
-Knew Too
-Much about Flying Saucers, University
-Books, 1956; Albert K. Bender, Flying Saucers and the Three Men,
-Saucerian, 1962; Clark III 189–192, 623; Story, pp. 50–51;
-Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1992): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2276
Date: 9/28/1953
-Description: 7:10 p.m. In Palmdale, California, a UFO appears on an
-F-94C radarscope for a period of 15 seconds. The object is traveling on
-a 60° course at an estimated speed of 2,300 mph. It is 4 miles away when
-first seen and compares with a C-47 in size on the radarscope. The F-94
-was moving at 345 mph at 21,000 feet. The same or another object is
-observed visually from another F-94C for six seconds at 7:00 p.m. The
-object is described as round, orange in color, and traveling on the same
-course as the first object. (NICAP, “F-94C
-Tracks UFO at 200 Knots”; Sparks, p. 204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2277
Date: 9/28/1953
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. One
-object tracked at 2,000 kts. (2,300 m.p.h.) for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Palmdale, California
-ID: 323
Date: 9/30/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #12. (US Air
-Force, Projects
-Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP,
-1968, pp. 215–235) Autumn — Dusk. Cecil Tenney is driving near Dutton,
-Montana, when he sees a cigar-shaped object about 200 feet away.
-Apparently in trouble, it belches fire and smoke, and after a few
-minutes he hears an explosion. Balls of fire rain down from the sky. He
-tells the story to a highway patrol officer at a nearby bar before
-driving on to Conrad, Montana. That evening a colonel from Great Falls
-AFB [now Malmstrom AFB] calls and tells him to show up at the base in
-the morning. He is interrogated there for 30 minutes, and on the way out
-sees soldiers carrying bags that he thinks might contain body parts.
-(Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of
-Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody,” MUFON 1978 UFO
-Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1978, pp. 77–105; Clark III
-342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2279
Date: 10/1953
-Description: The final issue of Space Review edited by Albert
-K. Bender states that UFOs are “no longer a mystery. The source is
-already known, but any information about this is being withheld by
-orders from a higher source.” (“Statement
-of Importance,” Space Review 2, no. 4 (October 1953): 1; Clark III
-189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2280
Date: 10/1/1953
-Description: Donald
-E. Keyhoe’s Flying Saucers from Outer Space is published by Henry
-Holt. Excerpts appear in the October 20 issue of Look. His message is
-that aliens are here, the military knows it, and they are covering it up
-from the public to avoid panic. He has gotten clearance from Ruppelt and
-Chop to
-include 51 classified UFO reports from the Air Technical Intelligence
-Center, which runs Project Blue Book. The Air Force states that Keyhoe
-is misrepresenting their analyses, so he sends a telegram to USAF
-Secretary Harold
-E. Talbott and Gen. Sory
-Smith, saying
-that if he really misrepresented anything, as a Marine Corps officer he
-should be disciplined. The Air Force offers no comment. In the book, he
-takes note of a curious document (never published and now lost) prepared
-by USAF Col. William
-C. Odell titled “Planet Earth: Host to Extraterrestrial Life,” in
-which he speculates on aliens crossing space in search of new planets to
-live on once their own fails. (Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying
-Saucers from Outer Space, Holt,
-1953; Wikipedia, “Flying
-Saucers from Outer Space”; Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, p. 55;
-Michael D. Swords, “Colonel Odell and the Invasion of Earth,” IUR 30,
-no. 3 (May 2006): 3– 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2281
Date: 10/2/1953
-Description: Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation
-titled “Flying Saucers Have Landed” to the Federation of Women’s Clubs
-at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was
-convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government
-would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften
-the blow.
-Type: lecture
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Lancaster, Ohio
Date: 10/3/1953
-Description: USN pilot James
-B. Verdin reaches 753 mph in a Douglas F4D Skyray over the Salton
-Sea, California. (Wikipedia, “Douglas
-F4D Skyray”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2282
Date: 10/9/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
-at the Aerodex Management club
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 10/9/1953
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Three unidentified objects are tracked on radar
-at RAF Bawdsey [now Bawdsey Manor], Suffolk, England, at an altitude of
-36,000 feet above the Netherlands. Soon they are tracked flying east to
-west over the Harwich area. Some jets at RAF Waterbeach [now Waterbeach
-Barracks], Cambridgeshire, are scrambled but can locate nothing. Airmen
-at Bawdsey can see nothing but four contrails heading north. The objects
-then reverse and move back across the English Channel at 32,000–34,000
-feet. The apparent speed on the approach is 430 mph, increasing to 483
-mph on the short leg over the UK and 564 mph on the return. (NICAP, “Three
-UFOs Flew over Area,
-Tracked on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2284
Date: 10/9/1953
-Description: 3:50 p.m. A UFO is seen at Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria,
-discharging a white trail described as “strange shiney filaments” that
-cover wires and trees. A sample turns out to be a “nylon-like amorphous
-mass with traces of magnesuim, calcium, boron, and silicon.” It shrinks
-from 3 inches to one-half inch in an air-tight container. (“Wispy
-Threads from Sky,” Australian Flying Saucer Review (UFOIC), no. 9
-(November 1966): 12; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A
-Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 101; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An
-Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2283
Date: 10/15/1953
-Description: 10:10 a.m. During the tracking of a Project Grab Bag
-balloon launch, a 40-foot object leaving a brief vapor trail is seen by
-three General Mills Aeronautical Lab research engineers (James
-A. Winker, Fletcher
-L. Bartholomew, and
-Richard
-J. Reilly) near Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is traveling south in
-horizontal flight at 1,100 mph, moving 10° in nine seconds at about
-40,000 ft altitude and 25° elevation. The object goes into a vertical
-dive for about 10-15 seconds, then glows or flashes in the sun two or
-three times for 1 second each. It is seen in the theodolite as a gray
-mass. It levels off and the vapor trail stops. (NICAP, “Project
-GRAB BAG Sighting”; Sparks, p. 205;
-Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine eds., 1974, pp. 71–72;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp.
-113–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2285
Date: 10/15/1953
-Time: 10:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three General Mills research engineers including
-Bartholomew. One glowing grey mass with a vapor trail dived for 10-15
-seconds, levelled out and the trail stopped, leaving the grey mass
-visible. Total of 40 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 325
Date: 10/16/1953
-Description: Harvard astronomer Donald
-Menzel writes to USAF Director of Intelligence Gen. John
-A. Samford that he would like to meet with ATIC officers in
-Washington, D.C. (Good Above, p. 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2286
Date: 10/16/1953
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. H.W. Watson, Maj. G. Watson. Two white
-or blue lights in trail formation, travelled very fast straight and
-level, then made a turn. Ten second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
-ID: 326
Date: 10/16/1953
-Description: 4:00–4:30 p.m. Emerson “Slim” F. Morris watches a large,
-cigar-shaped object as it approaches Brigantine, New Jersey, from over
-the Atlantic. It releases several smaller objects from both ends. The
-smaller discs are white, rotating counterclockwise, and rapidly speed
-away. Before the large object disappears, it emits a blinding ray of
-light toward the ground that hurts Morris’s eyes. (Herbert S. Taylor,
-“Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2287
Date: 10/19/1953
-Time: 9:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Rommanis, T/Sgt. Osiecki, two others. One
-white white sphere with a white or red tail, ascended at 20 degree
-angle, performed a loop and returned. Fifty second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 327
Date: 10/19/1953
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Capt. J. L. Kidd is flying an American Airlines
-DC-6 between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., when over the Conowingo
-Dam, Maryland, his copilot sees something gleaming in the moonlight dead
-ahead and closing rapidly. Kidd blinks on his landing lights and the UFO
-beams back a blinding light back at the DC-6. Kidd puts the plane into a
-steep dive. Caught unaware, the passengers are tossed about the cabin,
-many suffering injuries. Kidd radios Washington National Airport [now
-Ronald Reagan International Airport] to report a near collision and
-complain about air traffic. Air traffic control reports no known
-aircraft in his vicinity. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 60–61;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, August–December, The Author, 1990, pp. 34, 38; Good
-Above, p. 282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2288
Date: 10/20/1953
-Description: The NSA Robertson Committee report is completed and
-classified top secret. It recommends better and faster use of electronic
-intelligence in radar activity that might indicate an imminent attack,
-noting that the Air Force is not cooperating with the Army or Navy on
-these matters. (Clark III 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2289
Date: 10/22/1953
-Description: Menzel meets
-with USAF headquarters personnel (including Col. George
-E. Perry) and ATIC at the Pentagon. (Good Above, p. 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2290
Date: 10/25/1953
-Time: 2130
-Description: Jim Milligan, 16, was driving through a park when he saw
-something fall in front of his car and stopped as the object landed in
-some bushes. He walked toward it, found a craft that looked like two
-ship hulls, about 3 m long, 2 m wide glued together. When he tried to
-touch it, the object flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 223 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
-ID: 119
Date: 10/25/1953
-Description: 8:15–8:30 p.m. Air Force weather observers at Lubbock,
-Texas, notice a V formation of 5–7 dull white lights sweep north to
-south. In three seconds, the formation goes from a point overhead to 3°
-above the horizon where they disappear. Other groups of two or more
-lights follow at about 5-minute intervals. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, August–December, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 35–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2291
Date: 10/29/1953
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two high school students, including Morrison.
-One blue object with a flaming trail, and two dark green glowing objects
-with white and blue-green fringe, flew from south to north with some
-erratic motions for l hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mapleton, Maine
-ID: 328
Date: 10/29/1953
-Description: USAF pilot Frank
-Kendall Everest Jr. reaches 755 mph in a North American F-100 Super
-Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. (Wikipedia, “Frank
-Kendall Everest Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2292
Date: 11/1953
-Description: Mr. Trygve, Mrs. Bufflot and a neighbor saw an object rise
-from behind a hill, oscillate over a lake, follow their car, and stop
-ahead of them just above the ground. They stopped, felt “pricklings”
-until the craft took off vertically. A watch stopped working, and
-numerous people vouch for the fact that the paint on the car changed
-from dark beige to bright green.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 62; FSR 56, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Gjasjoen Bridge, Norway
-ID: 120
Date: 11/1953
-Description: Capt. Charles
-A. Hardin takes charge of Project Blue Book. (Sparks, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2293
Date: 11/1953
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Trygve Jansen and two other witnesses are driving
-north on the Gamle Mossevei road at the Gjersjøen bridge, Norway, when
-they see an object rise from behind a hill, swing out over the lake, and
-move back to the road, circling and following their car. Suddenly it
-stops and hovers above the road 30 feet in front of them, emitting a
-green light. Jansen stops, and all three witnesses experience mild
-electrical shocks until the object rises and disappears. When he returns
-home, Jansen’s wife points out that the car’s beige paint has turned a
-bright green. (Carl Olsen, “Chased
-by a Flying Saucer!” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1956): 16; K. Gösta Rehn, “Saucer
-Blocked Road in Norway,” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2294
Date: 11/2/1953
-Description: Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR
-200–2A.
-Type: regulation
-Reference: Pea
-Research
Date: 11/3/1953
-Description: 10:00 a.m. An RAF NF.10 Vampire pilot (Flight Lt. Terry S.
-Johnson) and navigator (Flying Officer Geoffrey Smythe) flying at 30,000
-feet near RAF West Malling [now closed], Kent, England, see a star-like
-light far above them. Suddenly it moves toward them at tremendous speed.
-They see it as circular and emitting a bright light around its
-periphery. The duration is 30 seconds. Air Minister George
-Ward calls it a “balloon”; when author Desmond
-Leslie calls him up to suggest this is incorrect, Ward tells him: “I
-know it wasn’t a balloon. You know it wasn’t a balloon. But until I’ve
-got a saucer on the ground in Hyde Park and can charge the public
-sixpence a go to enter, it must be balloons, otherwise the government
-would fall and I’d lose my job.” It is possible that this object was a
-Skyhook balloon launched from Holloman AFB in New Mexico on October 27
-that failed to drop into the Atlantic after a 12-hour flight. (Desmond
-Leslie, “Politicians
-and the UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 3 (May/June 1963): 8–9;
-Good Above, pp. 35,
-53;
-Good Need, p. 154;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 57, 62–63;
-David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 (June
-2021): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2295
Date: 11/3/1953
-Description: 2:45 p.m. In Lee, southeast London, a solid target is
-tracked on radar by the 256th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment moving slowly
-at a distance of 17 miles. Through a telescope it appears to be a
-circular white object. The target is tracked for 25 minutes by four
-aircraft technicians, including Sgt. H. Waller, who says it is about
-350–450 feet in diameter and definitely not a balloon. The War Office
-claims the object is a radiosonde balloon. (NICAP, “Heavy
-Anti-Aircraft Regiment Tracks UFO”; Good Above, pp. 35–36;
-Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2296
Date: 11/5/1953
-Description: President Eisenhower issues
-Executive Order 10501, abolishing the classification of “Restricted.”
-UFO sightings are unaffected, as meaningful sightings are classified at
-higher levels. There are now explicit guidelines for the remaining three
-classification levels to prevent a systematic flood of classified
-documents coming from the Pentagon and other agencies. The Pentagon
-responds by creating its own “special access” labels to further insulate
-classified information from outside influence. (“Executive
-Order 10501”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2297
Date: 11/10/1953
-Description: A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 11/13/1953
-Description: Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on
-flying saucers
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: mid 11/1953
-Description: Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards
-AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer
-George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes
-now at the AHC.
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: CA
Date: 11/16/1953
-Description: A fluffy material streams out of a UFO over the San
-Fernando Valley, California, and falls to the ground. A reporter who
-examines it describes it as “dead-white, almost ephemeral in its
-delicacy and apparently electrically charged.” A similar fall occurs in
-the same area on February 1, 1954. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 227–228; Clark III 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2298
Date: 11/18/1953
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witness: R.J. Bassett, a pilot for 31 years. One silver
-sphere or disc hovered several times during 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Manitowoc, Wisconsin
-ID: 329
Date: 11/19/1953
-Description: Bacteriologist Frank
-Olson is a leading scientist at the army’s Chemical Corps, Special
-Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland. SOD supplies the CIA with
-an array of deadly microbes and chemicals that cannot be detected in an
-autopsy. It also supplies delivery methods for anthrax. The CIA pays SOD
-$200,000 a year for these services until 1969. Olson is duped into a
-meeting with MKUltra Director Sidney
-Gottlieb at a secluded cabin. Olson has a very bad trip and still
-hasn’t recovered after several days. (H. P. Albarelli Jr., A Terrible
-Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War
-Experiments, Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “The
-Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control
-Experiments,” Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2299
Date: 11/20/1953
-Description: Australian Minister for Air William
-McMahon tells Parliament that all UFO reports “are still being
-investigated closely and recorded as an aid to further research,” but
-the RAAF’s approach is a bit more ad hoc. (Swords 377)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2300
Date: 11/22/1953
-Description: Navy Capt. Walter
-Karig, author
-of the 1947 novel Zotz!, writes “Operation UFO: The Official Truth about
-Flying Saucers” for The American Weekly newspaper insert. He covers
-Secretary of the Navy Kimball’s
-1952 UFO sighting and the ONR saucer probe. He emphasizes the Air
-Force’s 20% unexplained rate and does not rule out the extraterrestrial
-hypothesis. (Walter Karig, “Operation
-UFO: The
-Official Truth about Flying Saucers,” American Weekly insert, San
-Francisco Examiner, November 22, 1953, pp. 4–5; Swords 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2301
Date: 11/22/1953
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A man who works in the supply transport office
-of the RAAF Woomera Rocket Range near Woomera, South Australia, sees a
-green object like a saucer fly to the north between Woocalla and
-Birthday Siding. It is emitting blue exhaust. Another man driving the
-same route around 2:00 a.m. about 50 miles from Woomera sees a
-bluish-green circular object moving north. It is seen again by another
-man in the same area around 2:30 a.m. A fourth party sees two orange
-flares dropping from the sky near Pimba at 3:15 a.m. All of the objects
-are at an altitude of more than 5,000 feet. (Keith Basterfield, “Listing
-of Reports from Woomera, South Australia,”
-2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2302
Date: 11/23/1953
-Description: Evening. ADC radar detects an unknown object moving at 500
-mph over Lake Superior. An F-89C Scorpion interceptor, piloted by Lt. Felix
-Moncla Jr., with radar observer Lt. Robert
-L. Wilson in the rear cockpit, is dispatched from Kinross AFB [now
-Chippewa County International Airport], south of Sault Ste. Marie,
-Michigan. The jet heads toward the target under radar guidance. At 8,000
-feet, 160 miles northwest of the Soo Locks, the blips of the F-89 and
-the UFO merge then fade from the screen. Nothing more is heard from the
-plane and no trace of it is found. A Pentagon spokesman claims the UFO
-was an RCAF C-47 that was never closer than 3-4 miles to the F-89, which
-has crashed for unknown reasons. In 2006, a group of divers claimed to
-have discovered the F-89 and taken photos on side-scan sonar, but the
-claim is a hoax. (NICAP, “UFO
-Intercept / Missing
-F-89 Case”; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 13–23;
-UFOEv, pp. 114–115;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 106–109; Good Above, p. 273;
-Andrew Griffin, “Missing!
-Avoyelles Parish Man’s Disappearance Still
-a Mystery after 50 Years,” Alexandria (La.) Town Talk, July 20,
-2003, pp. E1, E3; Clark III 654–656)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2303
Date: 11/24/1953
-Description: The British Parliament discusses the November 3 Lee case
-and others. Nigel
-Birch, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, explains
-the sightings as experimental weather balloons. MP George
-Isaacs asks, “Will the Minister agree that this story of flying
-saucers is all ballooney?” (Good Above, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2304
Date: 11/28/1953
-Description: Frank
-Olson is depressed, incoherent, and uncommunicative after his LSD
-dose nine days earlier. His CIA contacts take him to a “doctor” in New
-York City, who prescribes him alcohol. He then plunges to his death from
-the 10th floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York City. The US
-government calls it a suicide, the Olson family alleges murder because,
-especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he has become a
-security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly
-classified CIA programs of which he has direct personal knowledge. A few
-days before his death, Olson quits his position as acting chief of the
-Special Operations Division at Camp Detrick [later Fort Detrick] in
-Frederick, Maryland, because of a severe moral crisis concerning the
-nature of his biological weapons research. Among Olson’s concerns are
-the development of assassination materials used by the CIA. The CIA’s
-use of biological warfare materials in covert operations,
-experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas,
-collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD
-mind-control research, and the use of psychoactive drugs during
-“terminal” interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE.
-Later forensic evidence conflicts with the official version of events;
-when Olson’s body is exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicate that
-Olson was knocked unconscious before he exited the window. The medical
-examiner terms Olson’s death a “homicide.” (Michael Ignatieff, “What
-Did the C.I.A. Do to His Father?” New York Times Magazine, April 1,
-2001, pp. 56– 61; H. P. Albarelli Jr., A
-Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War
-Experiments, Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “The
-Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments,”
-Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2305
Date: 12/1953
-Description: Noall
-Bryce Cornwell (who uses the pseudonyms Mel Noel and Guy Kirkwood)
-claims to have been stationed at Lowry AFB [now Wings Over the Rockies
-Air and Space Museum] in Denver, Colorado, and engaged in several
-dogfight-type maneuvers with UFOs involving gun-camera film. His stories
-are bogus, and later he runs phony investment scams and becomes a
-contactee who describes meeting pink-haired, platinum- skinned,
-fish-eating Martians said to be running a Mars-Earth transportation
-system. (Mel Noel, The Mel Noel Story, Saucerian, 1960; Good Above, pp. 273–277;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Mel
-Noel / Guy Kirkwood in the 1960s,” A Different Perspective, December
-20, 2010; Adam Gorightly, “Mel
-Noel’s Phony Flying Saucer Trip to the Stars,”
-Chasing UFOs, April 17, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2307
Date: 12/1953
-Description: Wilbert
-B. Smith sets up his Department of Transport observatory at
-Shirley’s Bay, Ontario. His equipment includes an ionospheric reactor,
-electronic sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter,
-magnetometer, and radio set. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Magnet (UFO)”; Good Above, pp. 185–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2306
Date: 12/1953
-Description: Mrs. Orfei heard a knock at the door in the middle of the
-night and obtained no answer when she asked who it was. When more
-furious knocks were heard, her Alsatian dog jumped toward the door, but
-suddenly retreated, trembling as if terrified and retired to a corner.
-Mrs. Orfei went to an upper door and saw two “indescribable” shadows go
-away from the house. A while later a big, round object took off 100 m
-away with a blue-green lightning. The police found broken bushes as
-evidence of an enormous weight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
-Location: Sherbrook, Canada
-ID: 121
Date: 12/1953
-Description: Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters
-that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a
-saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it
-was held somewhere else.
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: CA
Date: 12/1953
-Description: Australian UFO researcher Edgar
-Jarrold is visited four times by a mysterious man who swears him to
-secrecy. What the visitor tells him amazes him “beyond belief,” but he
-never publicly reveals who the man is. However, it turns out that the
-man is Gordon Deller, a minor figure in Australian ufology who has some
-quaint and original theories about the saucers. He believes that UFOs
-are piloted by etherians from another dimension. He tells Jarrold this,
-along with some insights into a geological cataclysm and telepathic
-communication. Harold Fulton, a
-ufologist from New Zealand, suspects Deller is a nut. However, Jarrold’s
-obsession with UFOs leads to the breakup of his family and the
-disintegration of his personal life by 1955. (Clark III 632–633)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2308
Date: 12/7/1953
-Description: Radio Moscow proclaims that saucers are “figments of the
-imagination of western warmongers.” (Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business,
-Bantam ed., 1966, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2310
Date: 12/7/1953
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Pfc Alfred V. De Bonise and Sgt1C James Conley of
-the 89th Anti-Aircraft Battalion at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, spot
-a white object, “shining like a star.” It makes a noise like an
-artillery shell in flight. It moves erratically and eventually falls out
-of sight. (Good Above, p. 280;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History:
-1953, August–December, The Author, 1990, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2309
Date: 12/8/1953
-Description: CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note
-that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it
-believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings
-still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA
-concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been
-interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”.
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Langley, VA
Date: 12/8/1953
-Description: The CIA reports that UFO sightings have fallen dramatically
-in 1953, though there are some of “possible scientific intelligence
-value.” (Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2311
Date: 12/9/1953
-Description: 3:45 p.m. Charles Huaut sees a luminous, golden, round
-object poised motionless at a high altitude over Saint-Émilion, Gironde,
-France. After 10 minutes it noiselessly changes position and assumes the
-form of several horseshoes enveloped in smoke trails. Then it
-disappears. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Sightings
-of Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” April 20, 1954, p. 2; ClearIntent, p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2312
Date: 12/15/1953
-Description: 2:37 p.m. While flying a Transair Sweden DC-3 in the
-vicinity of Hässleholm, Skåne, Sweden, pilot Ulf Christiernsson and
-flight mechanic Olle Johansson encounter an “unorthodox, metallic,
-symmetric, round object” closing in on their aircraft for about 10
-seconds. It passes about 1,970 feet under the DC-3 at an altitude of
-7,055 feet. Air Force Gen. Bengt
-Nordenskiöld calls in reports from all relevant Swedish radar
-stations to identify the object, and the Defence Research Institute
-spends many hours reconstructing the event. However, the owner of a
-local perfume company confessed in late December to releasing 300
-hydrogen-filled balloons south of Hässleholm as an advertising promotion
-around 12:30 p.m. that day. (Swords 365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2313
Date: 12/16/1953
-Description: 4:58 p.m. Lockheed Skunk Works chief Clarence
-L. “Kelly” Johnson and his wife Althea (near Agoura, California) and
-a Lockheed crew (Rudy Thoren, Roy
-Wimmer, and 3 others) flying the WV-2 Warning Star aircraft near
-Long Beach, California, independently of each other observe a black
-flying-wing (or ellipse or crescent-shaped) object about 170–230 feet
-wide flying at about 15,000 ±2,000 feet altitude to the west, hovering
-about 30–60 miles away. At 5:04 p.m., after four minutes (to the
-Johnsons) and six minutes (to WV-2 crew) the UFO suddenly takes off in a
-shallow climb accelerating to approximately earth escape velocity
-(25,000 mph) to the west over the Pacific. It disappears in 10–13
-seconds (to WV-2 crew) or in 90 seconds (to Johnson using 8x binoculars)
-after reaching 90+ miles altitude. (NICAP, “The
-Lockheed UFO Case”; Joel Carpenter, “The Lockheed UFO Case, 1953,”
-IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 6–9, 33; Joel Carpenter, “The
-Lockheed UFO Case,” 2001; Sparks,
-p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2315
Date: 12/16/1953
-Description: The British Air Ministry sends orders to all RAF stations
-saying that UFO reports are to be classified “Restricted” and personnel
-must not communicate any sighting information to unauthorized persons.
-Reports must be sent to the air intelligence branch DDI (Tech) that is
-now responsible for UFO investigations. (UFOFiles2, pp. 57–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2314
Date: 12/17/1953
-Description: A memo from Todos
-M. Odarenko, chief
-of the CIA/OSI physics and electronics division, condescendingly reviews
-the status of various government UFO efforts. (Todos M. Odarenko, “Current
-Status of Unidentified
-Flying Objects (UFOB) Project,” December 17, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2317
Date: 12/17/1953
-Description: After the crew of a Swedish airliner reports a wingless
-circular UFO over Hässleholm, Sweden, the Swedish Armed Forces orders a
-full-scale investigation. Capt. Ulf
-Christiernsson says the object is an “entirely unorthodox, metallic,
-symmetrical, and circular object.” Later reports claim it is a
-radiosonde balloon. (UFOEv, p. 121;
-Sparks, p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2316
Date: 12/17/1953
-Time: 2:37 PM
-Description: Witness: Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, chief pilot for
-Transair, flying a DC-3. One shiny metal spherical ellipse, 2,000’ below
-DC-3, flew at approximately 700 m.p.h. for 6-7 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hasslehom, Sweden
-ID: 330
Date: Winter 1953
-Description: Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers
-was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he
-picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The
-science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a
-circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by
-accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane.
-Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact
-with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the
-UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to
-70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round,
-thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and
-enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished
-within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Salisbury Plain, England
Date: 12/23/1953
-Description: USAF Intelligence Col. George
-E. Perry writes to Gen. Woodbury
-M. Burgess, ADC
-Deputy for Intelligence at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center]
-in Colorado Springs, Colorado, recommending that when the 4602nd
-investigates a UFO sighting and it is not a conventional object,
-personnel should state “The information on this sighting will be
-analyzed by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton, Ohio,” and
-leave it at that. (Col. George E. Perry, Letter
-to Brig. Gen. W. M. Burgess, December
-23, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2318
Date: 12/24/1953
-Time: 8:04 AM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy Lts. J.B. Howard and L.D. Linhard,
-flying F9F-2 jet fighters. Ten silver, oval objects flew at more than
-400 kts. (450 m.p.h.), straight and level, for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: El Cajon, California
-ID: 331
Date: 12/24/1953
-Description: 8:04 a.m. US Navy Lts. J. B. Howard and L. D. Linhard,
-flying F9F-2 jet fighters, see 10 silver oval objects flying in
-formation at 450+ mph, straight and level, over El Cajon, California.
-(NICAP, “Navy
-Lts. Encounter
-10 Oval Objects”; Sparks, p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2319
Date: 12/26/1953
-Description: The first of a series of articles in the Washington (D.C.)
-Times-Herald by Richard Reilly questions the Air Force’s openness about
-UFOs. (Dolan, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2320
Date: 12/28/1953
-Time: 11:55 AM
-Description: Witness: Yuba County Airport Manager Dick Brandt. One
-saucer, with a brilliant blue light, reflecting on a nearby building,
-hovered briefly during the 1.5 minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marysville, California
-ID: 332
Date: 12/29/1953
-Description: Keyhoe has
-a confrontation with Delos
-Smith, the science editor of the United Press wire service, and a UP
-executive editor. Smith is preparing a three-part series debunking
-Keyhoe’s claims because a “certain Air Force general swears your book is
-a complete fraud.” Forewarned by Frank
-Edwards, Keyhoe counters his arguments with documentation. (Keyhoe,
-FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 85–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2321
Date: 12/30/1953
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Pfc Norman Viet, on guard duty at the tank park
-in Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, watches a blinking red light
-about 18 inches in diameter moving slowly over a tree line about 200
-feet away. It soon drops down out of sight. Fifteen minutes later it is
-seen again, rising up and floating toward the tank shed. Viet says it is
-completely soundless. At 10:15 p.m. it returns, also witnessed by
-Sgt. Francis R. Salinder, who alerts the base and a combat team searches
-the area. At midnight, a red light appears above the search area,
-spooking a guard. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, p. 202;
-Washington (D.C.) Daily News, January 5, 1954; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1953, August–December, The
-Author, 1990, p. 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2322
Date: 12/31/1953
-Description: Marines observed the landing of an unknown round object
-which throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 210 (Vallee)
-Location: Quantico Marine Base, Virginia
-ID: 122
Date: 1954
-Description: The powerful Type 80 centimetric radars introduced in the
-UK this year are plagued by radar “angels” that become a hazard for air
-traffic controllers. A Fighter Command investigation concludes that most
-of them are caused by migrating seabirds, and others are the result of
-“anomalous propagation.” Later computers filter out smaller echoes and
-increase the strength of those created by aircraft. (David Clarke,
-“Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times 291 (August 2012):
-26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2327
Date: 1954
-Description: Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen move from Wisconsin to Alamogordo, New Mexico, to
-work as civilian employees at Holloman AFB. (Clark III 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2323
Date: 1954
-Description: Contactee George
-Van Tassel begins building the Integratron at Giant Rock,
-California, based on the rejuvenation techniques imparted to him by
-space aliens from Venus. (Wikipedia, “Integratron”;
-Jody Rosen, “Welcome
-to the Integratron,” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla
-Miller Schnur, “G.
-W. Van Tassel’s
-Integratron,” The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2324
Date: 1954
-Description: An official in the UK Deputy Directorate of Intelligence
-(Technical) mentions to investigator Ronald N. Russell that the DDI has
-15,000 reports on file since 1947 stored in nine drawers in three wooden
-filing cabinets with Yale locks, doubly secured by a hinged plate locked
-with a large padlock. (John Pitt, “’Tell
-Us Please, Mr. Birch,’”
-Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1956): 10–13; Good Above, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2325
Date: 1954
-Description: A promotional photo of a Martin B-57 Canberra bomber taken
-near Edwards Air Force Base in California shows a saucer-like object in
-the upper right portion of the frame. No one actually reports seeing the
-object, which seems to be trailing the B-57 in flight. NICAP
-photoanalyst Ralph Rankow points out that the object has dimension, does
-not appear to be a scratch or rub on the film, and has a pattern of
-light and shadow consistent with the rest of the photo. (Story, pp. 36–37;
-Robert A. Schmidt, “The
-Strange Case of the B-57 Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 6 (August 1971): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2326
Date: 1954
-Description: After RCAF pilots fail to intercept several UFOs in
-Canadian air space, the Defence Research Board sets up a restricted
-landing field near the Suffield Experimental Station [now CFB Suffield],
-Alberta. All RCAF planes and commercial aircraft are restricted from the
-area. However, the effort is abandoned after the government determines
-that UFOs are not a national security risk. The project is kept secret
-until July 1967 when it is revealed by Defence Minister Paul
-Hellyer. (“UFO
-Landing Site was 13-Year Secret,” Ottawa (Ont.) Journal, July 20,
-1967, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2328
Date: 1954
-Description: Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name
-CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with
-aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS
-Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF
-intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a
-desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
-Location: US
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 1954
-Description: US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program
-began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called
-Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the
-International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone
-missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor
-of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more
-civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik
-1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as
-the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.”
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 1/1954
-Description: Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US
-government has an “object” under examination in California.
-Type: radio
-Reference: Medium
-Location: California
Date: 1/1954
-Description: Ed
-J. Sullivan’s Civilian Saucer Investigation Los Angeles disbands.
-(“CSI
-Conclusions,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1,
-no. 4 (Winter 1954): 7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2329
Date: 1/1954
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A strange object streaks across the sky over
-Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia, seen and heard by four
-Native Australians. On the same day, an anonymous photographer is taking
-photos of Mount Gillen, Northern Territory, when suddenly an enormous
-(150 feet) round object appears from behind it. It moves high, then
-drops low. He takes a photo, then it shoots off at high speed to the
-west. The photo, reproduced in the newspaper, shows a dubious-looking
-round object on edge with six spokes. (Alice Springs Centralian
-Advocate, January 15, 1954; Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, February
-5, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “Cold
-Case: The Mount
-Gillen Photograph, Alice Springs, 1954,” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena–Scientific Research, January 12, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2330
Date: 1/1954
-Description: Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 1/1/1954
-Description: 10:15 a.m. Capt. Douglas Barker, a pilot with Australian
-National Airways, is at his home in Doncaster East, Melbourne, Victoria.
-He sees a “metallic, mushroom-shaped object” flying over the Yarra River
-valley toward the Templestowe brickworks in the northwest. He estimates
-it is traveling at 700 mph at a height of 2,000 feet. Its apparent size
-is four times that of a DC-4 aircraft. It is oscillating rapidly in and
-out of thick cloud. It is elliptical with a “long shaft about the same
-length as its body hanging below it.” Total duration of the sighting is
-12 seconds. (NICAP, “Mushroom
-Flying over Yarra Valley”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2331
Date: 1/1/1954
-End date: 1/2/1954
-Description: 10:35 p.m.–12:05 a.m. Navy pilot Lt. JG George G. Morgan of
-Naval Air Station Lakehurst [now Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst], Toms
-River, New Jersey, police chief Richard
-Clement, police officer Oliver
-G. Osborne,
-and other witnesses see 3–12 round white objects with fuzzy edges
-slightly smaller than the full moon hovering in the south for 90 minutes
-as 2 objects circled around another one. They then switch places. Some
-witnesses attempt to drive toward the objects to investigate. The
-objects suddenly depart to the southwest at extremely high speed,
-growing smaller until they disappear in 1–2 seconds. Multiple
-independent witnesses across a baseline of at least 12 miles allow for
-triangulation that locates the objects near Beach Haven, New Jersey,
-from distances of 15–40 miles. At least five witnesses use binoculars.
-Hynek calculates
-a departure speed of 90,000 mph, a hovering altitude of 4 miles, and a
-diameter of 1,500 feet. (NICAP, “Multiple-Witness
-Sightings Triangulate
-Location”; Sparks,
-p. 207; Swords 223–224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2332
Date: 1/4/1954
-Description: Shortly after 9:00 p.m. A round luminous machine, coming
-from the south, lands at the Marignane Airfield [now Marseille Provence
-Airport], Bouches-du-Rhône, France. There is only one witness present, a
-fireman at the airport named Chesneau. The machine disappears while he
-is telephoning the control tower. Careful scrutiny of the runway the
-next morning turns up a few pieces of metallic debris. The story is
-confirmed by a Marseille resident who is driving from Arles to Marseille
-and sees a large, round, reddish fireball, but places the time at 10:45
-p.m. (Jimmy Guieu, Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde,
-Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, p. 132;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 15, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2333
Date: 1/4/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Chesneau, fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly
-coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out
-again, the object had disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
-Location: Marignane Airport, France
-ID: 123
Date: 1/6/1954
-Description: The Cleveland Press runs the headline “Brass Curtain Hides
-Flying Saucers” and reveals that ATIC will no longer allow reporters
-seeking UFO information into Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Its reporter
-is given the runaround on the Utah film. (“Air
-Force Closes Brass Curtain,” Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel,
-January 14, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2334
Date: 1/7/1954
-Description: 4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, is
-seen in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. The disc remains motionless in the
-sky for an instant, after which it flies away and disappears over the
-horizon. (ClearIntent, p. 133;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 4, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2335
Date: 1/9/1954
-Description: Three residents of Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France,
-see a round object flying from north to south. The object flies more
-slowly than a jet plane and leaves a luminous yellow trail. It flies
-noiselessly, although it appears to be at a low altitude. Several
-students of the College de Lunéville also see the object. (ClearIntent,
-p. 132;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 28, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2336
Date: 1/10/1954
-Description: 5:25–5:40 p.m. James
-E. McDonald, two other University of Chicago meteorologists, and
-another passenger are driving on Hwy 83 north of Sonoita, Arizona, when
-McDonald spots a brilliant white stationary object in the southwest
-above the Santa Rita Mountains about 10 miles away. They lose sight of
-it as the car moves on. McDonald searches carefully for alternate
-explanations, but can find none, so he reports the sighting to the Air
-Force in a 4-page letter. (Clark III 695; Sparks, p. 207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2337
Date: 1/13/1954
-End date: 1/16/1954
-Description: Gen. Woodbury
-M. Burgess chairs a conference at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic
-Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with 4602nd officers
-Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski and Capt. Bellovin and emphasizes that it is
-now the agency responsible to ATIC for investigating UFOs. Cybulski says
-that “We here in Headquarters will keep a complete file on all the
-sightings. That’s why we want the information copied. We will file them
-under separate headings, such as the type of personnel involved,
-military or civilian, or air-lines. We will record it under the type of
-object it was eventually determined to be.” Capt. Cybulski leaves for
-Dayton, Ohio, the next day to coordinate activities more closely. He
-reports that Hynek is
-“ready to quit” because he is “ridiculed by members of my profession for
-chasing these imaginary objects.” But Burgess persuades him to stay.
-(CUFON, “4602d
-AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 3 of 7 Parts”; Brian Skow and Terry
-Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20,
-no. 5 (Winter 1995): 9–10; Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski, “How the Air Force
-Investigated UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 11, 30–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2339
Date: 1/13/1954
-Description: Mutual Radio broadcaster Frank
-Edwards alleges on his show that the wreckage of a flying saucer is
-being held in a “West Coast military field.” (Clark III 330–331)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2338
Date: 1/18/1954
-Description: Cosette Weiss of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is visiting the
-Kilbourne Hole, a maar volcanic crater in the Potrillo Volcanic Field of
-southern New Mexico, to collect gemstones with a companion,
-Mrs. Sanders. They discover 25–30 disc-shaped tracks in the sand. The
-largest are about 2 feet in diameter, perfectly round, and consist of
-four concentric rings. They find more fresh tracks on January 22.
-Sanders reports this to White Sands Proving Grounds. Two Army security
-agents, Capt. Ross
-Orcutt and CID agent Henry Herman, spend the night of February 6 at
-the location and report that the tracks are “nothing more than a
-combination of wind, sand, and roots.” The mystery lights seen in the
-area by Weiss are labeled “vehicular traffic.” (“Report from the
-Readers,” Fate 7, no. 6 (June 1954): 109–129; Michael D. Swords, “Fun
-and Games in the Desert near Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006):
-21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2340
Date: 1/18/1954
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Many people in Saint-Arnaud [now El Eulma],
-Algeria, observe an object that leaves a double trail of white smoke,
-making an immense circle over the town. Several officers at Bordj de la
-Remonte fort (southwest of Magra) hear the object make a strange sound.
-It seems to arrive from the north. A meteorological station near Oued
-Hmimim (southeast of Constantine) observes a double trail of smoke at
-2:00 p.m., but it concludes that the smoke comes from a plane flying at
-great altitude. At 2:30 p.m., inhabitants of Sétif see an object arrive
-from the east, emitting bluish smoke trails and moving relatively
-slowly. After circling above the town for several seconds, it suddenly
-heads back in the direction of Saint-Arnaud at great speed. Witnesses
-describe it as it being cigar-shaped and flying at high altitude.
-Finally, at 4:45 p.m., a large, luminous, rectangular- shaped object is
-seen over Ouled Djellal (125 miles southwest of Sétif) for over 30
-minutes following a rectilinear course. The object comes from the east
-and disappears toward the west. (ClearIntent, p. 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2341
Date: 1/24/1954
-Description: Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/53
-rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also
-records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the
-country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of
-several beings off a saucer.
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 11/53
-See also: 12/53
Date: 1/25/1954
-Description: The British Air Ministry and the British War Office order
-airmen and soldiers to tell the public nothing about UFOs. (Harold T.
-Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, p. 318)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2342
Date: 1/25/1954
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A civilian employee and astronomer, Robert
-D. Schaldach in the Technical Service Unit at White Sands Proving
-Grounds, New Mexico, is setting up his ballistic camera to monitor a
-missile test. As he looks at the stars to calibrate his instrument, he
-notices a yellow-white light moving from northeast to southeast in a
-shallow arc. It pulses in brightness at regular intervals. At the same
-time, another observer 17 miles to the southeast also sees the object.
-They perform some triangulation measurements and determine that the
-object is about 12 miles distant and moving at 12,000 mph. Schaldach
-says it is not a meteor. Blue Book, no doubt Hynek, labels
-it as a meteor. (Michael D. Swords, “Fun and Games in the Desert near
-Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2343
Date: 1/27/1954
-Description: The US successfully launches a Redstone surface-to-surface
-missile that flies 55 miles from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Wikipedia,
-“PGM-11
-Redstone”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2344
Date: 1/28/1954
-Description: Australian Minister for External Affairs Richard
-Casey suggests there is a correlation between UFO sightings and
-“periods of intense meteorite activity.” (Swords 374)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2345
Date: 1/28/1954
-Time: 110-10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Wilhelm Reich. Two bright lights moved into
-valley, and were seen against the mountain background, for 15
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rangeley, Maine
-ID: 333
Date: 1/29/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Whitaker are driving 6 miles
-south of Santa Ana, California, when they see a round object emitting a
-blurry light-blue light moving off a hilly field. It passes over their
-car at an altitude of 25 feet. The radio goes blank and the motor coughs
-and continues to act roughly after the UFO had gone. Whitaker estimates
-it is 60 feet in diameter and traveling at 600 mph. It makes a vertical
-ascent and disappears. (Schopick, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2346
Date: 2/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster stated they saw a craft on the ground,
-with a woman close by. She was wearing luminous clothing, a sort of
-hood, and thick glasses and held a tube in one hand and a box in the
-other. Mrs. Forster had to be taken to the hospital in a state of
-shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Barker (Vallee)
-Location: Peakskill, New York
-ID: 125
Date: 2/1954
-Description: A native was riding a horse over a low ridge when a
-spherial object about 13 m in diameter “nearly skittled me off my
-horse.” It went up suddenly with a heavy wind, rumbling and emitting
-four columns of smoke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 211 (Vallee)
-Location: Todd River Downs, Australia
-ID: 124
Date: 2/1954
-Description: Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York is founded by Ted
-Bloecher, Isabel
-Davis, and Alexander
-Mebane. The group holds regular meetings, sponsors lecturers, and
-begins publishing a CSI Newsletter in February 1955. It disbands in
-1959. (Wikipedia, “Civilian
-Saucer Intelligence”; CSI
-Publication, no.
-0 (April 23, 1954); Clark III 241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2347
Date: 2/1954
-Description: Clara
-John begins publishing The Little Listening Post newsletter in
-Washington, D.C. It continues through August 1965. (Little
-Listening Post, February
-9, 1954)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2348
Date: 2/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster of Peekskill, New York, see a UFO on
-the ground with a woman close by. She holds a tube in one hand and a box
-in the other, wears luminous clothing and a hood over part of her head.
-Mrs. Forster has to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock.
-(Dominick C. Lucchesi, “They
-Saw a Saucer Woman,” The Saucerian 2, no. 2 (September 1954): 12–17;
-Vallée, Magonia, p. 205;
-Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2349
Date: 2/1954
-Description: Newlyweds Ernest
-L. Norman and Ruth
-E. Norman found a contactee group, the Unarius Academy of Science,
-in Los Angeles, California. Ernest, a spiritualist medium, wants the
-group to promote the interdimensional science of life expounded in the
-books he has written, all of them channeled psychically from
-extraterrestrial intelligences. Both claim impressive credentials from
-past lives. Ruth styles herself the Archangel Uriel and after the death
-of Ernest in 1971, she becomes the public face of Unarius. Before her
-death in 1993, she predicts a mass landing of flying saucers in 2001 on
-a piece of scrubland near the Unarius headquarters in El Cajon,
-California. (Wikipedia, “Unarius
-Academy of Science”; Clark III 1186–1187; Douglas Curran, In Advance
-of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, pp. 27–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2350
Date: 2/1/1954
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Mrs. W. J. Daily of La Puente, California, sees
-a silvery, bright, round object through binoculars. It tilts, revealing
-a fiery-red bottom. The UFO spins and drifts away with an odd-looking
-vapor trail. A large amount of cobwebby substance falls on her property.
-She takes three samples to the Mount Wilson Observatory. (San Fernando
-(Calif.) Valley Times, February 15, 1954; James C. McNamara, “Angel’s
-Hair,” Pageant 10 (November 1954): 52–56; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, January–May, The Author, 1990, pp. 24–25; Story, p. 19;
-Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1
-(August 2008): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2351
Date: 2/4/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A target is detected by the Carswell AFB [now
-Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth] Ground Control Approach
-radar, near Fort Worth, Texas, at a distance of 13–15 miles to the
-southwest. A “mystery aircraft” passes over Carswell tower at just over
-3,000 feet. Seen through binoculars, the UFO has a long fuselage,
-elliptical wings, some kind of stabilizer, a bright light on its nose
-and tail, two yellowish lights on the bottom, and possible lights on
-each wing tip. It is silent. The report is sent directly to the Joint
-Chiefs of Staff, CIA, and NSA. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-with Two Radars”; Good Above, pp. 281–282, 495–496;
-Sparks,
-p. 208)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2352
Date: 2/6/1954
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From
-Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had
-long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of
-propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of
-exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of
-3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when
-viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report
-sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT
-WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p495)
-Location: Carswell AFB, TX
Date: 2/13/1954
-Description: Jim
-G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard papers reports that representatives of
-major US airlines will meet in Los Angeles with Military Air Transport
-Service intelligence officers to discuss speeding up UFO reporting
-procedures. “Airline pilots are asked not to discuss their sightings
-publicly or give them to newspapers.” (“Airline Pilots
-Sighting 5–10
-‘Saucers’ Nightly,” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Press, February 13, 1954,
-pp. 1, 3; UFOEv, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2353
Date: 2/13/1954
-Description: Astronomer Clyde
-Tombaugh gives a talk to the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces, New
-Mexico. He predicts an increase in UFO sightings and tells the audience
-to keep its eyes open and be ready to report sightings. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2354
Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: American syndicated columnist Dorothy
-Kilgallen writes: “Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital
-importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting
-of world military heads next summer.” (Dorothy Kilgallen, “Voice
-of Broadway” column, Dover (Ohio) Daily Reporter, February 15, 1954,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2355
Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston,
-England.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Coniston, England
-Attributes: ufo photo
Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: Morning. Stephen
-Darbishire, 13, and his cousin Adrian Meyer, 8, set off for an
-expedition to the Old Man of Coniston, a fell in the Lake District,
-England, armed with a Kodak box camera. Meyer notices an object above
-Dow Crag with a silvery, glassy appearance, shining like aluminum. It
-glides toward them and approaches within 400 yards, travelling at
-tremendous speed, and then stops suddenly and hovers noiselessly, in the
-sky. Darbishire takes two photos, which resemble those of scoutships
-taken by George
-Adamski in the US. A probable hoax, although Darbishire still
-refuses to say anything explicit about the photos, which no longer
-exist. (Clark III 42; Leonard G. Cramp, Space, Gravity, and the Flying
-Saucer, British Book Centre, 1955; Good Above, p. 377;
-David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “UFO
-Hoaxing and the Story of Stephen Darbishire,” Magonia, no. 75 (July
-2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2357
Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: Aviation Week publishes an article describing new Soviet
-jet bombers capable of carrying a nuclear bomb to the US. The aircraft
-is the Myasishchev M-4 Bison. The rumors are soon debated publicly in
-the press and Congress. The Air Force begins promoting its unfounded
-myth of a bomber gap, in which the Soviet Union has 500 bombers capable
-of delivering nuclear weapons. (Wikipedia, “Myasishchev
-M-4”; David A. Anderton, “Pictures
-Reveal Reds’ New ‘Sunday Punch,’” Aviation Week, February 15, 1954,
-pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2356
Date: 2/17/1954
-Description: Commercial airline representatives meet with Military Air
-Transport Service officers at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles,
-California, and are told that pilots are subject to JANAP 146 (CIRVIS)
-and must radio reports to the nearest airport and make no public
-statements or face a prison term of 10 years and/or a fine of $10,000.
-(Good Above, pp. 146, 283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2358
Date: 2/18/1954
-Description: Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from
-Mars and saucer.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 2/19/1954
-Description: CIA agent Morris
-“Morse” Allen simulates the ultimate experiment in hypnosis: the
-creation of a “Manchurian Candidate,” or programmed assassin. Allen’s
-victim is a secretary whom he puts into a deep trance and tells to keep
-sleeping until he orders otherwise. He then hypnotizes a second
-secretary and tells her that if she cannot wake up her friend, “her rage
-would be so great that she would not hesitate to ‘kill.’” Allen leaves a
-pistol nearby, which the secretary has no way of knowing is unloaded.
-Even though she has earlier expressed a fear of firearms of any kind,
-she picks up the gun and pulls the trigger on her sleeping friend. After
-Allen brings the “killer” out of her trance, she has apparent amnesia
-for the event, denying she could ever shoot anyone. (John D. Marks, The
-Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, Times
-Books, 1978, pp. 182– 186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2359
Date: 2/20/1954
-Description: Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters
-at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers
-and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately
-retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover
-story.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: book
-link
-Location: Edwards AFB, CA
-See also: 4/2/54
Date: 2/20/1954
-End date: 2/21/1954
-Description: President Eisenhower is
-on a golf vacation at Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs, California, when
-he breaks the porcelain cap of his “upper left central incisor” and has
-it repaired by Dr. Francis
-A. Purcell. However, the incident is not reported in the press, and
-rumors start buzzing that he made a secret trip to Edwards Air Force
-Base to view the remains of aliens who had crashed at Roswell, New
-Mexico, in 1947. Later stories claim he actually visited with live
-aliens and conducted a treaty with them. The lack of any dental record
-from Purcell’s office has fueled the rumors, but Ike’s dental history is
-thoroughly covered in the November 1995 issue of the Bulletin of the
-History of Dentistry. (“‘Object’
-Studied at Edwards Air Base as ‘Brass Curtain’ Falls around Saucer
-Data,” Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin 1, no. 9 (August
-20, 1955): 3; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 45–48;
-Riley Crabb, Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes, The Author,
-1959; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1992): 4–10; Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,”
-IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 18, 24; James M. Mixson, “A
-History of Dwight
-D. Eisenhower’s Oral Health,” Journal of the History of Dentistry
-43, no. 3 (November 1995): 93–103; Good Need, pp. 208–209;
-Juan A. Lorenzo Rivas, “President
-Eisenhower’s ‘E.T.’ Encounter: What Really Happened
-at Muroc Base?” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn 1999): 2–6;
-Gordon Creighton, “More
-on the
-‘Muroc’ Story,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn 1999): 6–10;
-Michael E. Salla, “Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting with Extraterrestrials: The
-Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?” Research Study No. 8,
-Exopolitics, February 12, 2004; Peter Carlson, “Ike
-and the Alien Ambassadors,” Washington Post, February 19, 2004; John
-Joyce, “Ike’s
-Space Alien Encounter,” The Ike Blog, November 10, 2011; Clark III
-330–331)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2360
Date: 2/23/1954
-Description: Scripps-Howard papers report that the “nation’s 8,500
-commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of unusual objects
-while flying at night, here and overseas.” They confirm that plans for a
-detailed reporting system were agreed upon at the February 17 meeting in
-Los Angeles, California, so that the Air Force can investigate quickly.
-Each airline is to have an “internal security specialist” as a liaison
-with the military. (“Flying
-Saucers Reports
-System to Be Organized,” Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Tribune, February 23,
-1954, p. 10; UFOEv, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2361
Date: 2/24/1954
-Description: Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers
-are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH,
-military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans,
-after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off
-there, claimed Air Force permission to talk.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2/26/1954
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: architect R.M. Pierce, marine engineer George
-Avery and one other person. One silver disc, with a white trail, made a
-loud roar for 30-60 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts
-ID: 334
Date: 3/1954
-Description: Sec. of Air Force Talbott’s aircraft paced by UFO over
-Fresno, CA
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Fresno, CA
Date: 3/1954 (approximate)
-Description: Two Native Australians, employees of Arthur Pope, see a UFO
-at close range 100 miles south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. One
-named Sonny is riding up over a ridge when a spherical object flies
-directly toward him then veers away. Sonny feels a heavy wind when the
-UFO passes. Others see the object, which has a glassy appearance, with
-four trails of smoke coming from each side. (Alice Springs Centralian
-Advocate, April 2, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “Alice
-Springs: 1954 Encounter,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific
-Research, February 7, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2362
Date: 3/1954
-Description: Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas B. Eickhoff informs Keyhoe that
-Flying Saucers from Outer Space was “not submitted to the air force for
-authentication prior to publication,” although it contains official UFO
-reports. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2363
Date: 3/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: Rubem Hellwig was driving when he saw a football-shaped
-machine, the size of a Volkswagen, on the ground. He walked toward it
-and met two men of slim build, normal height, their faces brownish,
-wearing no helmets. One was inside the object while the other collected
-grass samples. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, and yet he
-said he understood they were asking for ammonia. He directed them to a
-nearby town. The craft vanished silently and instantly with blue and
-yellow flames.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
-ID: 126
Date: 3/1954
-Time: early
-Description: Rubem Hellwig again saw a strange machine the next day. He
-observed a tall, faircomplexioned man and two women, who had light brown
-skin, long black hair, dark, slanted eyes. All three wore one-piece
-garments of a fabric resembling suede, with zippers. They told Hellwig
-that they were scientists, spoke of the natural riches of Brazil, and
-expressed surprise that he did not run away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
-ID: 127
Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: 6:45 a.m. Castle Bravo is the most powerful nuclear device
-detonated by the US and its first lithium deuteride–fueled thermonuclear
-weapon. The test’s yield is 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted
-6.0 megatons (due to unforeseen additional reactions involving
-lithium-7), which leads to the unexpected radioactive contamination of
-areas to the east of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. At the time,
-it is the most powerful artificial explosion in history. Fallout, the
-heaviest of which in the form of pulverized surface coral from the
-detonation, falls on residents of Rongelap and Utirik atolls, while the
-more particulate and gaseous fallout spreads around the world. The
-inhabitants of the islands are not evacuated until three days later and
-suffer radiation sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese
-fishing vessel Daigo
-Fukuryū Maru are also contaminated by the heavy fallout,
-experiencing acute radiation syndrome. The blast incites international
-reaction over atmospheric thermonuclear testing. (Wikipedia, “Castle
-Bravo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2364
Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: Morning. Airborne Radar Operator W/O Olin
-H. Hasty is aboard an RB-36 controller aircraft monitoring the
-Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll. Shortly after the detonation, the
-RB-36 is flying at 40,000 feet and Hasty picks up two or three
-unidentified targets operating above 60,000 feet. From the cockpit the
-pilot and copilot can see the objects, which are flying in holding
-patterns above the area of the blast. Task force headquarters advises
-them that the objects are Canberra aircraft flown by the Royal
-Australian Air Force on air-sampling missions. However, there is only
-one British Canberra in the area at the time. (Nukes 110–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2365
Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll,
-Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the
-United States at 15mt.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic MT: 15
Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo, Uruguay,
-observe a metallic disc emitting yellowish reflections. It remains
-stationary for 2 minutes at an altitude of several thousand feet.
-(ClearIntent, p. 133;
-Lorenzen, The Whole Story, Signet, 1969; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, January–May, The Author, 1990, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2367
Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Employees at Carrasco International Airport in
-Montevideo, Uruguay, watch a strange oval object above the northeast
-horizon. It changes shape and ejects a smaller body that moves below and
-behind. An operator named de Rizzardo in the control tower sees an oval
-object with protuberances, accompanied by a pair of smaller bodies.
-Chief Controller Pedro V. Ocamp is still fumbling with binoculars as the
-objects speed away. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, January–May, The
-Author, 1990, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2368
Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: An article in American Aviation planted by the Air Force
-attributes the latest wave of sightings to Keyhoe’s
-1953 book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. (“The Saucers Again,”
-American Aviation 17 (March 1, 1954): 3; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 104;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, January–May, The
-Author, 1990, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2366
Date: 3/2/1954
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: research engineer R.C. Swengel. Three objects,
-each with two lights, flew straight and level at medium speed for an
-unknown length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
-ID: 335
Date: 3/5/1954
-Description: A photo supposedly taken near Rouen, France, by a fighter
-pilot is actually a retouched photo showing the 1950 McMinnville,
-Oregon, UFO photo taken by Paul
-Trent. (NICAP, “RAF
-Flying Review Photo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2370
Date: 3/5/1954
-Description: Evening. At Nouasseur Air Base [now closed] near
-Casablanca, Morocco, crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes and a C-54
-transport see one or two white or amber objects or lights make passes at
-the aircraft on collision courses as they practice ground-controlled
-approach landings. At 7:15 p.m., KC-97 pilots Capt. G. E. Brown, 1st Lt.
-L. B. Gordon, and 1st Lt. J. P. Glover, 301st Air Refueling Squadron,
-301st Bomb Wing, while flying a KC-97 to a practice landing at 1,500
-feet about 5-8 miles southwest of the base, see two white lights to the
-right on an apparent collision course. The KC-97 takes evasive action.
-Later [at 8:20 p.m.? 9:20 p.m.?], after landing and takeoff, they see
-the same or similar two white lights on the same course from the south
-on a collision course and they made an evasive 360° turn. At 7:38 p.m.,
-pilots Capt. Robert R. Zadnick, Lt. Paul R. Fisher, and Lt. George A.
-Kerr flying another KC-97 at 1,500 feet about 5 miles southwest of
-Nouasseur base see a light at about the same altitude and to the left,
-apparently headed west on a collision course. As it crosses, they see 2
-lights like jets but with no aircraft running lights. One light passes
-over and one under the KC-97. At 9:55 p.m., senior pilot Capt. William
-M. Pond, copilot
-Lt. I. W. Gilchrist, and navigator Capt. James F. Pullen, while flying a
-C-54 at 2,000 feet at Nouasseur base see a white or amber light like an
-aircraft landing light at about the same altitude approaching on a
-collision course heading west 2–3 miles away. It then turns onto a
-direct head-on course, passing within 2 miles, then suddenly disappears
-like turning off a light. It then reappears 10–15 seconds later, hovers,
-descends to the ground, then rises and disappears behind the C-54 after
-completing its turn onto final landing approach. No radar or other
-visual contact is made. (NICAP, “Aircraft
-(2) Encounter Lights on Collision Course”;
-Sparks, p. 210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2369
Date: 3/5/1954
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes. One
-object or light made passes at KC-97s, the other flew straight and
-level. Sighting duration unknown.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
-ID: 336
Date: 3/8/1954
-Description: 11:07 p.m. A red disc-shaped UFO flies over Laredo AFB [now
-Laredo International Airport], Texas. It tilts to a vertical orientation
-and then shoots straight up into the sky. It is reported by a pilot. Ten
-to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation—possibly a single
-crescent-shaped object—fly over San Antonio, Texas. They make no sound.
-(Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2371
Date: 3/10/1954
-Description: JANAP 146 (C), “Communications Instructions for Reporting
-Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft and Waterborne Sources.” This
-directive allows waterborne sources for CIRVIS and adds MERINT reports.
-Civilian pilots must also report UFOs to the Air Force and refrain from
-talking about it. (Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint
-Communications–Electronics Committee, “JANAP
-146(C) Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence
-Sightings from Airborne and Waterborne Sources,” March 10, 1954;
-Good Above, p. 283;
-Antonio F. Rullán, “Blue
-Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,” December 10, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2372
Date: 3/10/1954
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield founds Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying
-Objects (CRIFO) in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2373
Date: 3/11/1954
-Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on
-flying saucers.
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 3/12/1954
-Description: 9:35 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 over
-Nouasseur Air Base [now closed] near Casablanca, Morocco, chases an
-object at more than 530 mph for 30 seconds, but is unable to catch it.
-The object appears to be the size of a fighter plane but has neither
-tanks nor vapor trails. (NICAP, “F-86
-Chases Object at 500
-MPH”; Sparks, p. 210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2374
Date: 3/12/1954
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 jet
-fighter. He chased an object at more than 530 m.p.h. for 30 seconds, but
-was unable to catch it. It appeared to be the size of a fighter plane
-but had neither tanks nor trails.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
-ID: 337
Date: mid 3/1954
-Description: Prince
-Philip, Duke
-of Edinburgh, invites probable UFO photo hoaxer Stephen
-Darbishire to Buckingham Palace in London, England, to relate his
-story to an aide. A full report of the interview is sent to the duke,
-who is in Australia. (Good Above, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2376
Date: 3/15/1954
-Description: A memo about a recent Project Second Storey meeting show
-that experiments at Wilbert
-B. Smith’s Shirley’s Bay detecting station is running experiments
-correlating UFO reports with magnetic disturbances and gamma radiation.
-It recommends looking into as yet undiscovered gravity waves. (Good
-Above, pp. 187–188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2375
Date: 3/18/1954
-Description: 4:25 p.m. Two conservation officers stationed on Hecla
-Island in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, are driving their snowmobile across
-the frozen lake when they see a slim silver object 100 feet long and
-only 8 feet thick. They watch the object as it changes orientation from
-vertical to horizontal and back again. They estimate it is 15,000 feet
-high and 10 miles away. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2377
Date: 3/23/1954
-Description: Capt. William
-B. Nash gives
-a talk at a Greater Miami (Florida) Aviation Association luncheon at the
-Seven Seas Restaurant and offers his assessment of the Air Force’s
-handling of UFO investigations. He suspects that the Air Force has
-concluded that UFOs are a real phenomenon, but they fear creating a
-state of panic by admitting as much. (Michael Hall, “Was There a Second
-Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2378
Date: 3/24/1954
-Description: Night. Civil Defense Deputy Coordinator Adolph Wagner sees
-13 sharply defined triangular objects moving west to east over
-Baltimore, Maryland, in a V formation. They are glowing a fluorescent
-blue. From the north, a larger object approaches and stations itself in
-front of the V. When a commercial airliner appears, the objects split
-formation. Six execute a sharp turn, the color shifts to purplish, and
-they head toward the airplane in single file. The other 8 objects
-continue flying east. (“Multiple
-Object Sightings by Creditable Observers Continue,” CRIFO Orbit,
-July 2, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2379
Date: 3/25/1954
-Description: 3:20 p.m. USMC Capt. Dan
-C. Holland is flying one of three jets with the 3rd Marine Air Wing
-on an easterly heading at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at about 26,000 feet
-and 400+ mph. He sees a gleaming white, ball- shaped object with a gold
-ring around the lower third, about 2 times size of his jet, descending
-vertically on a collision course. He takes evasive action and radios the
-other jet pilots to look. The object suddenly stops 3,000– 4,000 feet
-above his jet. He banks toward it and activates the gun camera, but the
-UFO accelerates and disappears to the east at tremendous speed in about
-15 seconds. The other two pilots flying ahead of him do not see the
-object. (NICAP, “Ball
-with Golden Rings Stops near F-9F”; Sparks, p. 211; Loren E. Gross,
-UFOs,
-a History: 1954,
-January–May, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2380
Date: 3/28/1954
-Description: 1:25 a.m. Capt. Willis
-T. Sperry and his copilot on United Air Lines Flight 600, flying
-east at 19,000 feet 12 miles east of Cherokee (near Creston), Wyoming,
-spot a bright green glowing object at 12°–15° above the horizon coming
-downward at an angle of 30° to the left of vertical and disappearing
-behind a cloud bank. It is also seen by the pilot of a DC-3 west of
-Sinclair, Wyoming, at 13,000 feet. (Good Above, pp. 283–284;
-Sparks,
-p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2381
Date: 3/28/1954
-Description: Following the success of Flying Saucers Have Landed, George
-Adamski gives a talk to the Detroit Flying Saucer Club at the
-Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, which draws 4,700 people. (“Palomar
-Mountain, 1940– 1960:
-From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019)
-Late spring — Noon. A family living in a cottage on the outskirts of
-Norco, California, is sitting down for lunch when they hear a metallic
-droning sound. The mother and daughter go outside and see an object like
-a rowboat with a transparent dome, 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, pass
-slowly overhead, then stop and hover over a nearby tree. Inside the dome
-are five helmeted men staring at the witnesses. Their “rather long
-faces” are olive-colored, and their eyes and hair are dark. After a
-minute the droning sound resumes, and the object takes off slowly.
-(Donald B. Hanlon, “Occupants
-Observed at Norco,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 (May/June 1968):
-15–16; Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2382
Date: 4/1954
-Description: The Royal Australian Air Force issues its first statement
-of policy on UFOs, admitting that it does attempt to evaluate reports:
-“There is no doubt that reliable observers have reported sightings which
-today are inexplicable within the resources available to the RAAF.”
-(Project 1947, “The
-Former Air Board / Department of Air / Current RAAF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2384
Date: 4/1954
-Description: Oak Park, Illinois, contactee Dorothy
-Martin has been channeling entities through automatic writing. One
-introduces himself as Sananda, who lives on the utopian planet Clarion.
-She begins typing up the messages in newsletters and distributing them
-to readers, including Charles and Lilian Loughead from Detroit,
-Michigan, whom she met in March. (Clark III 717)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2385
Date: 4/1954
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Two male witnesses watch through binoculars a
-vividly white object hovering high in the sky for 10 minutes above
-Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. A cone-shaped mist appears on
-its leeward side, then the object shoots straight up and disappears.
-(Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, 1956; Nukes 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2383
Date: 4/1954
-Description: SOM1–01 “MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual”
-document
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
-See also: 12/1994
Date: 4/4/1954
-Description: Keyhoe meets
-with Ruppelt at
-the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Anegels, California, and shares
-recent UFO reports. Ruppelt agrees to write a letter supporting the
-claim that Keyhoe has used genuine ATIC reports for his book. (Keyhoe,
-FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 116–120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2386
Date: 4/4/1954
-End date: 4/5/1954
-Description: Contactee George
-Van Tassel holds the first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft
-Convention at Giant Rock, a huge boulder in the Mojave Desert near
-Landers, California. Speakers include Orfeo
-Angelucci, Truman Bethurum,
-Daniel
-Fry, and
-George
-Hunt Williamson. It draws a crowd variously estimated at
-2,500–6,000. (“Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention Draws 6,000,” San
-Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun, April 5, 1954, p. 9; Clark III 531,
-717)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2387
Date: 4/5/1954
-Description: Keyhoe appears
-on The
-Betty White Show and asserts that, contrary to what the Air Force
-claims, some UFO reports are kept secret. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2388
Date: 4/7/1954
-Description: 11:05 p.m. US Navy sailors and Marines, as well as nuclear
-scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico, are
-aboard the AEC flagship USS
-Curtiss cruising
-between Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the Marshall Islands just hours
-after the Castle Koon thermonuclear test on Bikini. An unidentified
-oval- shaped luminous object, yellowish-orange in color, passes silently
-over the ship from bow to stern, traveling at a high rate of speed and
-low altitude. Once it is clear of the ship, the object performs some
-zigzag maneuvers before racing away at high speed. (Nukes 107–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2390
Date: 4/7/1954
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield publishes the first issue of CRIFO Newsletter. (CRIFO
-Newsletter 1, no. 1 (April 7, 1954; Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2389
Date: 4/8/1954
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Lelah Stoker. One white round-topped disc, with a
-humanoid suspended beneath it, skimmed over the water, landed, and an
-occupant in a green suit walked around. It then took off very, very
-fast. Sighting lasted 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 338
Date: 4/8/1954
-Description: 4:30–5:00 p.m. Lelah H. Stoker of 3121 N. Sheridan Road,
-Chicago, Illinois, sees a brilliant white round- topped disc,
-parachute-shaped, with a humanoid suspended beneath it, skim back and
-forth over the water of Lake Michigan. Stoker calls the Coast Guard. A
-cutter appears after 10 minutes, then the UFO approaches the shore.
-Stoker sees a short human-like occupant in a green, tight, one-piece
-suit suspended below the object. It gets out in undergrowth along the
-shore then walks around. When the cutter gives up searching, the
-occupant returns to the object which moves back over the lake then takes
-off at high speed to the east. (NICAP, “Lady
-Observes Saucer / Small
-Entity Gets Out”; Clark III 270; Sparks,
-p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2391
Date: 4/11/1954
-Description: Ruppelt’s
-letter to Keyhoe states
-that the request to clear classified UFO reports came from both AF
-Intelligence and the Office of Public Information, after which his
-superiors cleared them; Keyhoe has correctly quoted the ATIC material;
-the Utah film analysis is classified; a 1953 letter from Al
-Chop to Henry Holt & Co. attacking the “silence group” is quoted
-accurately; and except in a very few cases, ATIC rejects Donald
-Menzel’s explanations of halos, sundogs, and mirages for UFOs.
-(Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 119–120,
-307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2392
Date: 4/12/1954
-Description: Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert,
-NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to
-investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter.
-There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien
-description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between
-4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark
-blue suite. Faces, under ’copter spotlight, were light green with a
-luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security.
-Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with
-heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer
-equip.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM)
-Location: NM
-See also: 2/10/54
-See also: 4/24/54
-See also: 3/7/55
Date: 4/13/1954
-Description: Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at
-Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald
-Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account
-along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA.
-Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present
-according to witnesses.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 4/15/1954
Date: 4/14/1954
-Description: Night. Capt. John M. Schidel of United Air Lines Flight 193
-is forced to make a sharp climbing turn in order to avoid colliding with
-an unknown object over Long Beach, California. One passenger (Coles
-Barber) is thrown to the floor and suffers a knee fracture, and
-stewardess Naomi
-J. Penaat breaks an ankle. The object is only in sight for 2
-seconds. (“Two
-Injured As Airliner Banks in Sudden Turn,” Los Angeles Times, April
-16, 1954, p. II- 3; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 130–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2393
Date: 4/15/1954
-Description: Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with
-others at Edwards AFB.
-Type: public bulletin
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 4/13/1954
Date: 4/18/1954
-Description: Colin McCarthy and two other men are driving an Austin
-sedan in the Australian outback near the border of Western Australia and
-South Australia when a UFO begins pacing them. They snap some 200 photos
-and take some ciné film of the object. Shortly after they report the
-incident, a helicopter suddenly appears and lands in front of their car.
-An RAAF officer gets out, walks over to their car, and confiscates the
-photos and film. They are never returned. (Stan Seers and William
-Lasich, “North
-Queensland UFO Saga, 1966,” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 (October
-1983): 20–21; Good Above, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2394
Date: 4/18/1954
-Description: Airline pilot William
-B. Nash writes
-to his friend Capt. William
-Joseph Hull about the emphatic denials of UFO reality issued by the
-Air Force shortly after his March 23 speech. He reveals that in August
-1952 he was participating in a TV panel in New York City when someone in
-the WJZ-TV studio said he had just gotten back from Washington, D.C.,
-where he has been given the “whole story” about the National Airport
-sightings. He claims the Air Force had operated a radio found in a
-retrieved saucer and that had caused the flurry of sightings. Nash also
-admits hearing rumors, especially one from syndicated aviation columnist
-Robert
-S. Allen, about a pro- UFO report that USAF was going to release in
-the fall of 1952 but never did. (Michael Hall, “Was There a Second
-Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2395
Date: late 4/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant are logging
-in a clearing in a forest area near Bois-de- Champ, Vosges, France, when
-they hear a noise above them “like the sound of a train passing over a
-metal bridge.” They then see three metallic, cigar-shaped objects
-silently approaching them from over a nearby hill. Two pass over them,
-but the third slowly descends above their clearing and stops only a few
-feet from the ground. It is over 600 feet long. Doridant flees, but
-Mougeolle walks toward it and touches it. The object is smooth, cold,
-and hard like steel. He touches it with his woodsman’s axe, and he is
-instantly thrown about 18 feet away toward the base of a large rock. He
-feels paralyzed for a few minutes, but the object ascends and
-disappears, and he can move again. (Joël Mesnard, “The
-‘Steel Airship’ at Bois-de-Champ (April 1954),” Flying Saucer Review
-32, no. 5 (August 1987): 16–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2398
Date: 4/22/1954
-Description: 2:00 p.m. USN Seaman Apprentice James B. Stephens Jr. and
-Seaman Bernard G. Klein Jr., are driving a vehicle on the Naval Outlying
-Field San Nicolas Island, California, when they see a 4–6-foot long,
-gray, cigar- shaped object with a pointed nose traveling just above the
-ground on a near-parallel course. The object suddenly hits the ground,
-sends up a cloud of dirt, and disappears from sight. They stop and
-search for 20+ minutes but find nothing. (NICAP, “April 22, 1954: San
-Nicholas Island, Calif.”; Sparks, p. 212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2396
Date: 4/22/1954
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Six workers from the Reynolds Metals plant in
-Jones Mills, Arkansas, are waiting on a carpool near Pearcy, Arkansas,
-to go to work when they see a gleaming white ball about 10 feet in
-diameter float 50 feet above a house. It appears alternately as a sphere
-and an oblong, and sometimes circles and sometimes hovers above the
-house for a total of 20 minutes. One man claims it approaches him to
-within a few feet, causing him to duck behind a car. One of the vehicles
-has a spotlight that they try to point at the object, but it always
-avoids the beam. (Hot Springs (Ark.) Sentinel-Rhview, April 23, 1954,
-pp. 1, 3; “Fire
-Ball Sighted in Arkansas Skies,” Montgomery Alabama Journal, April
-23, 1954, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2397
Date: 4/22/1954
-Time: 1400
-Description: American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a
-gray color coming to the ground. Smoke was seen to rise where it landed,
-but a search yielded no results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: San Nicholas Island, California
-ID: 128
Date: 4/23/1954
-Time: 9:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Robinson. One silver
-dollar-shaped object with a dome and a flashing light made a sound like
-a swarm of bees. It hovered and tilted, flew horizontally, then rose
-vertically without tilting. Stones underneath it moved. Four minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsfield, Maine
-ID: 339
Date: 4/24/1954
-Description: A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A.
-(initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (RECOVERY)
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 4/12/54
Date: 4/24/1954
-Description: Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in
-saucer.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Mt. View, MO
Date: 4/24/1954
-Time: 6:10 PM
-Description: Witness: D. Robinson. One large, silver, oblong object with
-a dome and a flashing light flew straight and level and then straight
-up. Total of 15 minutes under observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hartland, Maine
-ID: 340
Date: 4/26/1954
-Time: 7:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C. Cartey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and their
-daughter. Fifteen to twenty yellow objects in a V-formation, flew from
-south to north for 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Athens, Georgia
-ID: 341
Date: 4/29/1954
-Description: 10:11 p.m. An unidentified illuminated object is seen above
-the Second Army Radio Station, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, by the
-supervisor radio operator and two coworkers, Cpl. Flath and Pfc. Hough.
-Described as round, the color of the sun, and 3–4 times the size of a
-star, the UFO appears in the southwest, blinking on and off. As it
-reaches the station, it stops blinking and disappears by going straight
-up. The sighting lasts 7 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, January–May, The
-Author, 1990, p. 86; Good Above, p. 281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2399
Date: 5/1954
-Description: Ruppelt’s
-article appears in True magazine. (Edward J. Ruppelt, “What
-Our Air Force Found Out about Flying Saucers,”
-True, May 1954, pp. 18–30, 124–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2400
Date: 5/1/1954
-Description: 11:55 p.m. A large explosion is heard, felt, and seen over
-an 8-mile area near Logan, Utah. The blast nearly upsets cars, throws
-open heavy doors, and sends an earthquake-like shock through the area.
-Some people report seeing a glowing ball before the explosion; other
-witnesses report a flash of light at ground level. Lincoln
-LaPaz investigates, along with J.
-Stewart Williams and Clyde T. Hardy at Utah State Agricultural
-College [now Utah State University]. LaPaz says it is either a falling
-object of an explosive nature or buried high explosives set off by
-pranksters. A crater 16 feet in diameter and at least 6 feet deep is
-found, but no debris, even though LaPaz digs down 25 feet for five days.
-Nearly 50 years later, Theron Blazzard admits to the Logan
-Herald-Journal that as a geology student at Utah State he had detonated
-some dynamite at the spot because he had to dispose of it in order to
-move out of state. (“Meteor
-Sought in Crater after
-Logan Explosion,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 3, 1954, p. 21; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 138–139;
-Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 223–224;
-“Friday
-Finishers: When
-Meteor Mania Struck Cache Valley,” Logan (Utah) Herald-Journal,
-November 30, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2401
Date: 5/5/1954
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Sydney Baker is at a radar post in the RAAF
-Woomera Range Complex in South Australia when he notices a gray,
-circular object at 60,000 feet maneuvering around an English Electric
-Canberra aircraft he is monitoring from about 35 miles away. It appears
-to be traveling three times as fast as the Canberra. He watches it for
-about 5 minutes before it shoots out of sight to the south at about
-3,600 mph. The same object is apparently tracked on Woomera radar at
-approximately the same time. (NICAP, [case
-documents]; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story,
-Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996, p. 85; Swords 381–383)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2402
Date: 5/7/1954
-Description: Naval radar around Washington, D.C., tracks a huge object
-maneuvering at 90,000 feet and moving down to 15 miles altitude.
-(Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 144–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2403
Date: 5/8/1954
-Description: George
-King is washing dishes in his flat in Maida Vale, London, England,
-when he receives a psychic message telling him that he has been chosen
-to be the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament. Several days later,
-while he is in a meditative trance, an Indian yoga master enters his
-flat and tells him he has been selected to act as the Primary
-Terrestrial Channel for messages from cosmic intelligences who are
-visiting Earth. (Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk
-Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2404
Date: 5/10/1954
-Time: 12:40 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Marine Corps Squadron Leader D.R. Higgin,
-flying an F3D-2 jet fighter. One dark gunmetal delta-shaped object, 22’
-long and 10’ wide, with a fin on the top, descended at a 25-30’ angle
-under the lead airplane of a formation, and over the airplane of Higgin.
-Sighting lasted a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elsinore, California
-ID: 342
Date: 5/11/1954
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three USAF. air policemen at Washington National
-Airport. Two bright lights were seen on three occasions to fly straight
-and level, make 90 degree turns and fade. Each sighting lasted about 45
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 343
Date: 5/12/1954
-Description: Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over
-Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954
-Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 5/12/1954
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Three USAF Air Policemen (A/1C Mason
-W. Augst, A/1C
-George F. Wright, and A/1C Elmer A. Cruver) are standing guard next to a
-hangar at National Airport in Washington, D.C. They see a formation of
-two UFOs fly over the Capitol building, and again at 5:15 a.m. and 6:10
-a.m. The objects are glowing white. They appear just above the horizon
-to the northeast in a straight line, make a 90° turn, then move away to
-the south. Each pass takes 45 seconds. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, January–May, The
-Author, 1990, p. 94; Sparks, p. 212;
-Edwards, FS—Here and Now!, Lyle Stuart, 1967, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2405
Date: 5/12/1954
-Description: 4:00 p.m. White, silky filaments fall in strands averaging
-30 feet in length over Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. A witness
-gathers some and, although they become wrinkled, they do not
-disintegrate. An analysis indicates in is a “pure white, silky,
-odorless, warm on touch like cotton, and different from cobwebs.” The
-threads are not sticky and stretch easily. It resembles raw silk or
-nylon, is not water soluble, and burns rapidly. (Keith Basterfield,
-“Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002):
-6–7; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9
-(2006): 101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2406
Date: 5/14/1954
-Description: Around 12 noon. A flight of Marine Reserve jets led by Maj.
-Charles Scarborough is headed north near Dallas, Texas. At a point 6
-miles west of the city, Scarborough sights 16 unidentified objects in
-groups of four, dead ahead but at higher altitude, 15° above. He radios
-Capt. Roy L. Jorgensen, whose jet he has in sight by its contrail.
-Jorgensen, at a higher altitude, sees the UFOs below his left wing. Just
-as the two pilots try to box in the UFOs, Scarborough sees them fade
-from glowing white to orange and disappear, apparently speeding away due
-north. Triangulation shows that the UFOs were at about 32,000 feet. (“4
-Jet Fighters Report Race with ‘Saucers’ over Dallas,”
-Dallas (Tex.) Times Herald, May 18, 1954; NICAP, “Four
-Navy Fighters Encounter 16 UFOs”; UFOEv, p. 32;
-Sparks, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2407
Date: 5/15/1954
-Description: Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo
-that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the
-flying saucers: “If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed
-about!”
-Type: statement
-Reference: “My
-First 10,000,000 Sponsors” by Frank Edwards, page 123
-Location: Amarillo, TX
Date: 5/15/1954
-Description: Gen. Nathan
-F. Twining, USAF
-Chief of Staff, speaking at an Armed Forces Day dinner at Amarillo AFB
-[now Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport], Texas, says that the
-Air Force has the best brains in the country working on the “flying
-saucer problem.” He adds that about 90% of the reports are pure
-imagination, with the rest unexplained. (“Air
-Force Looks into ‘Saucers,’” Miami (Fla.) Herald, May 17, 1954,
-p. 38; Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, pp. 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2408
Date: 5/18/1954
-Time: 1900
-Description: Two persons witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object
-the size of a house. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks,
-kicking up a small sand storm in the desert. One witness first decided
-to approach it, then ran away in fear.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico
-ID: 129
Date: 5/18/1954
-Description: Frank
-Edwards mentions CRIFO on his radio program, and within a week Stringfield gets
-6,000 letters. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2409
Date: 5/20/1954
-Description: Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks
-ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to
-drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long
-time before).
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: California
Date: 5/20/1954
-Description: FBI officials recommend that Attorney General Herbert
-Brownell Jr. authorize FBI break-ins to install bugs during national
-security investigations. The FBI would seek the Attorney General’s prior
-approval, as with wiretaps. Brownell concurs, but concludes that he
-“would be in a much better position to defend the Bureau in the event
-there should be a technical trespass if he had not heretofore approved
-it.” His directive empowers the FBI to break into homes and offices and
-install surveillance microphones without having to notify him or obtain
-advance approval in each case. The FBI has carte blanche on this until
-1965. (Bernie Horowitz, “Wiretapping
-and J. Edgar Hoover,”
-Unredacted, December 20, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2410
Date: 5/20/1954
-Time: 0200
-Description: Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton.
-At Redlynch crossroads, he saw an orange glow in a field and observed it
-from a hedge. It came from a huge object 35 m away, less than 7 m above
-the ground, which made a throbbing sound. After 1 min, it moved toward
-the northwest, accelerating and climbing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 2; Humanoids 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Bruton, Great Britain
-ID: 130
Date: 5/22/1954
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: highway engineer R.W. Dring, engineer Geert
-Tibma. One bright light made a shallow climb for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: LaPorte, Indiana
-ID: 344
Date: 5/24/1954
-Description: 12:25 p.m. While flying on a photographic mapping mission
-10 miles west-northwest of Richmond, Indiana, in a B-17, USAF Maj. Leo
-N. Brubaker observes and photographs a bright object below the plane
-for 45 seconds. The aircraft is flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet at
-253 mph. The speed of the object is estimated at 506 mph. The object
-travels six miles at that speed. The photos are taken with a USAF T-11
-mapping camera. Brubaker denies the object is a sundog. (NICAP, “B-17
-Photographic Mission Case”; Sparks, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2411
Date: 5/28/1954
-Description: Test pilot Arthur
-W. Murray reaches an unofficial record altitude of 90,440 feet in a
-Bell X-1A. (Wikipedia, “Arthur
-W. Murray”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2412
Date: 5/29/1954
-End date: 5/31/1954
-Description: The first conference of European and North American
-political, business, finance, academic, and media leaders later to
-become known as the Bilderberg group, meets at the Hotel de Bilderberg
-in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. Its agenda, originally to prevent another
-world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market
-Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. The first meeting
-is initiated by several people, including Polish politician-in-exile Józef
-Retinger who, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in
-Western Europe, proposes an international conference at which leaders
-from European countries and the United States would be brought together
-with the aim of promoting Atlanticism. Retinger approaches Prince
-Bernhard of the Netherlands who agrees to promote the idea, together
-with former Belgian prime minister Paul
-van Zeeland and the then-head of Unilever, Paul
-Rykens. (Wikipedia,
-“Bilderberg
-meeting”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2413
Date: 5/30/1954
-Description: 12:25 a.m. David Reese, Christopher
-Muir, and four others are at the doorstep of a house in East
-Malvern, Victoria, Australia, when they see an orange, oval-shaped UFO
-appear in the sky at close range. The UFO maneuvers in a downward curve
-and then pulls up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame is seen at the
-rear. Three of the witnesses see shapes that look like human-shaped
-shadows inside the craft. (Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian
-UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; UFO Evidence, “Human Figures Seen
-in Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 January–May,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2002, pp. 46–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2414
Date: 5/31/1954
-Time: 10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. L.K. Stevens. One very white, elongated
-object flew very, very fast, and then blinked out after 8-10
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Concord, New Hampshire
-ID: 345
Date: 6/1/1954
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-47 jet bomber at 34,000’
-altitude. One object with running lights flew at 24-44,000’ altitude for
-1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: from 400 miles south to Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 346
Date: 6/1/1954
-Description: 9:30–9:40 a.m. TWA pilot Capt. Charles
-J. Kratovil, copilot
-W. R. Davis, and flight engineer Harold Raney, on a Paris to New York
-TWA Constellation heading southwest, spot near Boston, Massachusetts, “a
-large, white- colored disc-like object” overhead, occasionally losing it
-behind overlying clouds. Flying into west-southwest headwinds at 300
-mph, they conclude it cannot be a balloon, and radio Boston airport
-control tower, which tells them jets are scrambled. They then see the
-object at about 10,000 feet higher than their 10,000 feet altitude but
-cannot close with the object. (NICAP, “TWA
-Crew Spot White Disc / Kratovil Case”; Sparks,
-p. 214; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2417
Date: 6/1/1954
-Description: The Air Force announces that it only received 87 UFO
-sightings in January–April. (“Most
-‘Saucers’ Explainable,”
-Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle, June 1, 1954, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2418
Date: 6/4/1954
-Description: From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of
-Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US
-government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these
-objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the
-country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure
-would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.”
-Type: letter
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
Date: 6/5/1954
-Description: 6:23 p.m. Janette Brown, 16, is standing on Princes Highway
-(M1) at Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, when she hears a loud drumming
-noise. A large, dark cylinder, about 30 feet long and 15 feet high with
-a canopy and window on top and a window at each end, appears above a
-nearby factory. She shines a flashlight on it, and it whirrs toward her.
-It hovers about 60 feet away. Her friend, Jeanette Johnston, 13, arrives
-and watches it before it disappears behind trees. Janette’s wristwatch
-stops, although it starts running again when it is demagnetized. The
-case is investigated for the RAAF by University of Melbourne physicist
-O. H. “Harry” Turner. (UFO Evidence, “Teenage
-Girls See Saucer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2419
Date: 6/7/1954
-End date: 6/8/1954
-Description: PIO Capt. Robert White at the Pentagon repeats the 87
-reports statistic from June 1 and counters that reports are at a
-three-year-low because of less publicity. Stringfield’s
-colleague, Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Tom Eickhoff, storms into the
-office of ATIC Deputy Commander of Intelligence Col. John
-O’Mara and demands that ATIC press legal action against contactees
-Truman
-Bethurum, George
-Adamski, and
-George
-Hunt Williamson. O’Mara
-replies that these people are obvious hoaxers and need no special
-action. But he lets slip that USAF fighters regularly carry movie
-cameras to take photos of UFOs. Eickhoff says that is a big waste of
-money if there is nothing to UFOs. O’Mara then states to Stringfield the
-next day that the Air Force actually receives 700 UFO reports a week,
-the 87 figure only applies to cases under “special analysis,” over 1,000
-leading scientists are working on government UFO projects, the material
-used by Keyhoe in
-his book was not cleared through official channels, and the Utah film
-exists but only shows conventional objects. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 157–160; “700
-‘Saucer’ Sightings Weekly Reported to Air Force,” CRIFO Newsletter
-1, no. 4 (July 2, 1954): 1; “Proof
-of Air
-Force Cover-Up,” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 4 (July 2, 1954): 1–2;
-Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 85, 167–168; Frank
-Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 137–138;
-Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2420
Date: 6/8/1954
-Description: Contactee Frances Swan of Eliot, Maine, has been in
-telepathic contact with Affa, a spaceman from Uranus, since 1954. She
-manages to impress her next-door neighbor, retired Adm. Herbert
-B. Knowles,
-sufficiently for him to write Rear Adm. Carl
-F. Espe, head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He encloses some
-of Affa’s transcribed messages and suggests that ONI try to communicate
-with Affa through Band CMM-306, repeating the signal M4M4 AFFA. Two ONI
-officers, Captains John Bromley and Harry
-Baltazzi, visit Swan and through her interview Affa, who agrees to
-communicate with them by radio on June 10. When that does not happen,
-Espe writes to Knowles saying that ONI will pursue the matter no
-further. He turns the letters over to the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics.
-(Clark III 1118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2421
Date: 6/8/1954
-Time: 1 AM or 2:30 AM
-Description: (file not clear). Witness: L.T. Prewitt, employee of Red
-River Arsenal. One golden yellow light flew over his house, making a
-“shhh” or buzzing sound for 2 minutes. 9:09 PM Witness: USAF pilot ht.
-One white light descended at
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Texarkana, Texas
-ID: 347
Date: 6/9/1954
-Description: Col. Frank
-Milani, director
-of Civil Defense in Baltimore, Maryland, demands that the Air Force ease
-its restrictions on UFO information and blasts its policy on Lou
-Corbin’s radio show. (“A Lot of People Are Upset,” Washington (D.C.)
-Daily News, June 10, 1954; Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2422
Date: 6/9/1954
-Time: 1820
-Description: Janet Brown, 16, and a 13-year-old friend heard a loud
-noise and saw a large, dark object that “burst into light” hovering 20 m
-away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 m long, 5 m
-high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind
-some trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 216 (Vallee)
-Location: East Dandenong, Australia
-ID: 131
Date: 6/10/1954
-Time: 9:09 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Bill McDonald, in flight. One
-white light descended at 45 degrees from great altitude, passed under
-his aircraft, made two 360’ turns and went out after 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Estacado, Texas
-ID: 348
Date: 6/12/1954 (approximate)
-Description: Keyhoe and
-Edwards find
-out about the O’Mara interview,
-and Edwards puts it on his radio broadcast, generating more press calls
-to ATIC. Capt. Charles
-A. Hardin, head
-of Blue Book, states that “Colonel O’Mara’s words were misinterpreted.
-What he meant to say was that if all the sightings were reported to the
-Air Force, they would total about 700 a week.” (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 157–160;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, June–August, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 11–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2423
Date: 6/12/1954
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Walter
-L. Tatspaugh of Hyattsville, Maryland, observes a large bluish-green
-oval or round object circling and hovering in the sky for at least 45
-minutes. The Baltimore GOC Filter Center allegedly tracks an object on
-radar over Wilmington, Delaware, for an hour. Two F-86D fighters are
-scrambled but cannot reach it. (NICAP, “Object
-Tracked / Jets Scrambled”; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2424
Date: 6/14/1954
-Description: A UFO is again tracked over Wilmington, Delaware, flying in
-a rectangular course at 75,000 feet for more than 2 hours. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 161–162; UFOEv, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2425
Date: 6/18/1954
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Monsignor Émile
-Élie Verhille, Apostolic Vicar of Fort-Rousset [modern Owando,
-Republic of the Congo], reports in the Brazzaville newspaper La Semaine
-de L’akf that he and others had seen a UFO over Laketi Mission in the
-Mossaka District. A luminous globe arrives from the north and heads
-towards Laketi. It suddenly stops, rises and falls, stops again,
-gyrates, and seems to shake. A noise like that of an airplane engine is
-heard until the moment when it also stops. Seen through binoculars, the
-object has a dark mass in the center with light rays of unequal length
-coming out of it alternately. It goes through its maneuvers for 15
-minutes then shoots back over the northern horizon. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2426
Date: late 6/1954
-Description: Some 300 people in West Berlin, Germany, see three silvery
-UFOs on several occasions. Moving in a zigzag motion and accelerating at
-high speed. Rudolf Hermes, a director at Tempelhof Airport [now closed],
-says the witnesses describe the objects as “shiny.” (“Triangle
-Saucers Reported Seen near Berlin,” Lancaster (Pa.) Sunday News,
-July 4, 1954, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2430
Date: summer 1954
-Description: George
-Hunt Williamson spends a few months in Noblesville, Indiana, working
-at Soulcraft Publications, run by mystic and fascist William
-Dudley Pelley. Mostly
-he contributes UFO news for the magazine, but some of Pelley’s
-anti-Semitic attitudes creep into Williamson’s later writings. (Clark
-III 1285; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt
-Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 100–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2415
Date: summer 1954
-Description: Late night. A young girl in Arbutus, Maryland, wakes up
-when a bright light shines into her bedroom window. Looking outside, she
-sees a triangle of brilliant white lights parallel to the ground,
-illuminating everything, hanging in the air, and pointing directly at
-her. All of a sudden they are gone. Fort the next two days, she has a
-fever that forces her to stay home from school. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2416
Date: 6/21/1954
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Near Ridgeway, Ontario, Guy and
-Valeria
-Baker see a hovering, domed disc about 40 feet in diameter with
-several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drive to get a
-closer look. The object crosses the road in front of them and lands in a
-field. The car stalls, and they watch as the lights move around the
-area. They find a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the
-disc has been resting. (Schopick,
-pp. 6–7; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 2; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 June–August, Supplemental
-Notes, The Author, 2002, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2427
Date: 6/21/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a disk, about 14 m in diameter,
-with a dome and several rotating lights. They had to push their car,
-which could not be started until the object left the ground. They found
-a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been
-resting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 104 (Vallee)
-Location: Ridgeway, Canada
-ID: 132
Date: summer 1954
-Alternate date: summer 1955
-Description: Evening. Dianne Vezza and two other teen girls are sitting
-in a backyard in Marietta, Ohio, when they see a star-like light moving
-at great speed. Suddenly it comes to a dead stop and two other stars
-speed in and come to an abrupt stop. The three objects form a perfect
-triangle. An oval object then becomes visible as the starlike objects
-disappear. Two other oval objects take up the same triangular position
-with the first. They then begin a light display with wildly colored
-lights that continues for a few seconds. The lights go out, and each of
-the objects beams a bright white light to the center of the triangle.
-The beams meet in the center for a few seconds and then go out. The oval
-objects disappear and the starlike lights return, but they soon speed
-off in different directions faster than a jet. The display is completely
-soundless. (Michael D. Swords, “Another Type of UFO Display,” IUR 30,
-no. 2 (January 2006): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2437
Date: 6/21/1954
-Description: 8:14 p.m. An unidentified radar blip located over central
-Vancouver Island, British Columbia, responds to coded IFF Mode 1 signals
-from the Naselle Air Force Station radar site [now Fort Stevens Historic
-Site] in southwestern Washington State, and instantly transmits back the
-correct coded responses. The blip is tracked on 3 ground radars at both
-Naselle and McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] in Tacoma. The
-UFO splits into two (or consists of two objects in close formation),
-separates, and outmaneuvers one of two F-86D jet interceptors, both of
-which also radar-tracked the UFOs. Possible visual sightings of the
-radar target are called in to sheriff’s offices and news media. The case
-is forwarded to Project Blue Book, but it does not appear in its files.
-(NICAP, “Coded
-IFF Signal from UFO”; Sparks, p. 215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2428
Date: 6/22/1954
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. E. Buchser and Maj. J.V.
-Wilkins. One meteor-like object descended, stopped, and became extremely
-bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami Beach, Florida
-ID: 349
Date: 6/23/1954
-Description: 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. Pilot Capt. Harry
-Roe Jr., flying
-an Ohio Air National Guard F-51 Mustang fighter at 240 mph from Dayton
-to Columbus, Ohio, sees a round white object with no exhaust trailing
-him in the same position a little above and behind at close range,
-possibly detected on airborne radar. Roe maneuvers to try to lose it or
-collide with it, but the UFO remains in relatively the same position
-until it departs to the southeast. S/Sgt Maynard Harris at
-Wright-Patterson AFB picks up the plane and the UFO on radar. He
-scrambles two F-86s in the Columbus area to check it out, but they see
-nothing. At 10:00 p.m., Maj. Frank J. Gshwandtner and 2nd Lt. Robert P.
-Lommori, flying in the Columbus area in an RB-47E aircraft, observe a
-white object the size of a baseball at 25,000 feet. The object is
-extremely fast and makes a gradual turn to begin a slight climb. It then
-flies out of sight. The duration is 30 seconds. (NICAP, “F-51
-Trailed by Object / Lt. Roe Sighting”; NICAP, “Something
-Follows C-47 and Observed by RB-47 Crew”; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 167–168; Sparks,
-p. 216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2429
Date: 6/24/1954
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witness: R.B. Tomer, director of commercial engineering for
-CBS-Hytron. One white, elliptical-shaped object covered 45^ of sky in 30
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Danvers, Massachusetts
-ID: 350
Date: 6/25/1954
-Time: 5:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, flying
-Navion lightplane; radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, tracked very fast
-target at same location. One silver or aluminum round object with a flat
-bottom, raised front edge, inverted cone on top, and a diameter of about
-60’. Flew horizontally, hovered, made a high-G pull up and then a steep
-climb into an overcast. Sighting lasted 3-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indian Lake, Ohio
-ID: 351
Date: 6/26/1954
-Description: 12:40 a.m. The Atomic Energy Commission’s National Reactor
-Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is suddenly lit up by a
-blinding glow that explodes in the night sky. Kelly Brooks and A. L.
-Taylor say the source of the light remains motionless for a few seconds,
-then shoots upwards at a tremendous speed. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2431
Date: 6/26/1954
-Description: Around 7:30 a.m. A metallic blob is seen high in the sky
-near Columbus, Ohio. According to a newspaper article, a crew of an
-airliner is asked to investigate; the crew circles under the object
-while the 60 passengers take a look. Zanesville Radio says at 5:55 a.m.
-a round, silvery object is detected on an azimuth of 80°. At 5:35 a.m.,
-an Air Force charter flight, No. 46 AF 23-24 to Wilmington, Delaware,
-flying at 3,000 feet observes an object in the Zanesville, Ohio, area at
-approximately 18,000 to 20,000 feet. (NICAP, “Airliner
-Investigates Strange Object”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2432
Date: 6/27/1954
-Description: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, at the Institute of
-Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia, becomes
-the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world. The plan
-achieves criticality on May 6 and now is set up to provide electrical
-power to Moscow. (Wikipedia, “Obninsk
-Nuclear Power Plant”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2433
Date: 6/29/1954
-Description: A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic
-flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at
-19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller
-UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were
-First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15
-minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada,
-for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar
-shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were
-debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were
-confiscated by USAF personnel.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 6/29/1954
-Description: 5:03 p.m. A BOAC Stratocruiser leaves New York City bound
-for London, England. 30 minutes later, Capt. James R. Howard receives
-directions from Boston Air Traffic Center to hold his position over the
-Rhode Island coast. Howard circles for 10–12 minutes, after which Boston
-tells him to detour over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Around 11:30 p.m.
-while crossing at 19,000 feet near Sept-Îles, Quebec, Howard, his
-copilot Lee Boyd, and navigator H. McDonnell see a large cigar-shaped
-object and six smaller black ovals moving the same speed as his
-airliner, 265 mph, on a parallel course. The small objects are strung
-out in a line, changing relative positions but always at the same level.
-The large object slowly and continually changes shape, “in a way that a
-swarm of bees might alter its appearance.” They appear opaque,
-hard-edged, gray in color, with no lights or flames visible. Goose Bay
-AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, orders an F-94 to vector toward the
-location. Just as Howard is giving the pilot his position, the small
-objects disappear. McDonnell says they enter the large object. As the F-
-94 approaches, the large object dwindles in size and disappears. Howard
-lands at Goose Bay and is questioned by RCAF and USAF officials
-(McConnell says they take the flight logs); when he lands in London, the
-Air Ministry does the same, telling the pilots they viewed a solar
-eclipse (which took place at 7:00 a.m. on June 30). Howard later hears
-that there are UFO sightings in Massachusetts while he is in a holding
-pattern, and he contests in the December 11 issue of Everybody’s
-Magazine that what he saw was solid, not a mirage. Gordon
-Thayer of the Colorado project identifies the objects as superior
-mirages, reflections of the “dark terrain below seen against the bright,
-‘silvery’ sky to the left of the setting sun,” a “phenomenon so rare
-that it apparently has never been reported before or since.” James
-McDonald disagrees. In 2010, ufologist Martin
-Shough reexamines the case and concludes that the object might well
-have been an unusual mirage. (NICAP, “BOAC
-Stratocruiser Case”; Sparks,
-p. 216; Clark III 195; Condon, pp. 139–140;
-James Howard, “We Were Shadowed from Outer Space,” Everybody’s Weekly,
-December 11, 1954; John Carnell, “BOAC’s
-Flying Jellyfish,” Fate 7, no. 11 (November 1954): 16–23; Leonard
-Cramp, “Mystery
-over Labrador,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 1955): 6–8;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 46; “Captain
-James Howard Reflects on His Sighting of 1954 (BOAC),” nutsandbolts
-ufo YouTube channel, March 7, 2009; Good Above, pp. 189–191;
-Phillip Robertson, “Some
-Considerations on the Seven Isles, Quebec, Canada,
-Case of June 29, 1954,” May 31, 1991; Martin Shough, “Study
-of an Unusual Phenomenon Observed by BOAC
-Aircrew over Labrador, Newfoundland, June 29, 1954,” September 2009;
-Martin Shough, “The
-BOAC Labrador
-Sighting of June 29, 1954,” Caelestia, October 31, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2434
Date: 6/30/1954
-Description: 2:17 p.m. Johnny Björnulf and Raun Conradi are aboard one
-of three Scandinavian Airlines planes flying above the Lifjell plateau,
-Telemark, Norway, to observe a total solar eclipse. Conradi takes some
-footage through a window on the north (port) side of one airplane. When
-developed it shows two small light sources that are fairly obvious
-window reflections, but media coverage causes much confusion about the
-circumstances under which the film is shot. (E. Graham, “Scandinavian
-Eclipse Expedition Films U.F.O.s,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1956): 6–7; UFOEv, p. 5;
-Clas Svahn, “The
-Björnulf Solar Eclipse Film,” Clas Svahns Blogg, October 6,
-2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2435
Date: 6/30/1954
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Four civilians and several military personnel at
-Brookley AFB [now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley] in Mobile, Alabama, see a
-brilliant silver or white object with short stubby wings approach from
-the south, circle over Mobile, then depart to the northeast. A radar
-contact at 6:30 p.m. with a stationary object is evidently unrelated
-anomalous propagation. (NICAP, “Object
-with Short Stubby Wings Tracked on Radar”; Sparks,
-p. 216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2436
Date: 7/1954
-Description: A saucer-buff zine titled Nexus is first published by James
-W. Moseley in New Jersey. (Nexus 1,
-no. 1 (July 1954); Clark III 1032)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2438
Date: 7/2/1954
-Description: 11:05 a.m. An F-94C Starfire takes off from Griffiss AFB
-[now Griffiss Business and Technology Park] in Rome, New York, on an
-operational training mission. It is only a few miles out when the
-Griffiss control tower orders the plane diverted to intercept an
-unidentified aircraft. When Pilot Lt. William E. Atkins cannot find the
-aircraft, the controller tells him about a second unidentified aircraft,
-which Atkins identifies as an Air Force C-47. The control tower vectors
-him back to the first target. Atkins cannot see any aircraft above the
-cloud cover, so he descends below the clouds. During the descent, a
-furnace-like heat fills the cockpit and the engine plenum chamber fire
-warning light goes on. Atkins shuts the engine off, but the light
-remains on. Atkins and his radar man, Henry F. Coudon [or Condon],
-eject, landing without injury. At 11:27 a.m., the plane crashes into the
-town of Walesville, west of Utica, striking a building and an auto,
-killing 4 people, and injuring 5 others. Atkins tells reporters about
-the heat but clams up under Air Force pressure. The official
-investigation confirms the fire was caused by a malfunction of the fire
-detector circuit. There is no evidence of an in-flight fire. Kevin
-Randle suspects a balloon is responsible for one of the radar
-targets, because an apparent balloon is sighted later, from 6:00 to
-10:00 p.m., in a 25-square-mile area from Rome to Frankfort, New York.
-(“Abandoned
-Jet Kills 3 in Car, 1
-in House,” New York Times, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 6; “Jet
-Plane Crashes in Flames, Kills
-3 in Auto, One in House,”
-Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 3; NICAP, “The
-Walesville Incident / F-94 Crash”; Kevin D. Randle, “Walesville
-Revisited,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 3–5; Frank J. Reid, “Keyhoe’s
-Context,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 6–7, 28–29; Kevin D. Randle, “Walesville
-UFO Jet Chase,” A Different Perspective, March 28, 2009; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 174–177;
-Condon, p. 161;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 22–23;
-“‘Balloon’
-Excites Utica,” New York Times, July 3, 1954, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2439
Date: 7/3/1954
-Description: Nine green spheres hover, speed away at 2,600 mph, and are
-tracked on radar at 24,000 feet 20 miles north of Albuquerque, New
-Mexico. (UFOEv, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2440
Date: 7/3/1954
-Description: 8:15 a.m. The captain, officers, and 463 passengers of a
-Dutch ocean liner watch a “greenish-colored, saucer- shaped object about
-half the size of a full moon” speed across the sky and disappear in
-clouds. (Ruppelt, p. 237)
-[same as July 29 entry?]
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2441
Date: 7/7/1954
-Description: A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange,
-burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, object and
-entity had vanished. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keyhoe C 184 (Vallee)
-Location: Garson, Canada
-ID: 133
Date: 7/8/1954
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Amateur astronomer Harold
-Hill is at his observatory in Orrell, Greater Manchester, England,
-when he sees a bright star in the southern sky that he at first thinks
-is a supernova. Soon it resolves itself into a bright, metallic globe
-with a cluster of 15–20 smaller, dimmer objects moving around. Clouds
-intervene and when they clear, he sees two bright objects, gyrating and
-flashing and moving slowly around each other. The objects are at a great
-altitude, because even through binoculars they have “shown no sensible
-size.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, 1947–December 31,
-1959, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 80– 81; “An Unusual Sky Phenomenon,” Strolling
-Astronomer 9 (1955): 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2442
Date: 7/9/1954
-Description: Die Weltwoche in Zürich, Switzerland, publishes two letters
-by psychologist Carl
-Jung, who says he has been interested in UFOs since 1946, but he has
-difficulty comprehending what they might be, since they seem to have
-both subjective and objective properties. (Clark III 636–637)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2443
Date: 7/11/1954
-Description: UK Air Chief Marshal Hugh
-Dowding states in an article in the London Sunday Telegraph that “I
-am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not
-manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative
-to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial
-source.” (UFOEv, p. 122;
-Good Above, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2444
Date: 7/14/1954
-Description: MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16,
-1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence
-at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by
-Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm.
-Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon
-of the original form.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: link
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p84, majic)
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 7/14/1954
-Description: A fake memo, supposedly written by or for Robert
-Cutler, special
-assistant to President Eisenhower, to
-Gen. Nathan
-Twining, indicates
-that an MJ-12 briefing should take place at the White House July 16.
-Cutler is in Europe at the time of the memo, although the memo could
-have been prepared by NSC Executive Secretary James
-S.
-Lay Jr. or his associate, J. Patrick Coyne. (Robert Cutler, “Memorandum
-for General Twining: NSC/MJ-12 Special
-Studies Project,” July 14, 1954; Northern Ontario UFO Research and
-Study, “Majestic-12”;
-Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ-12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1987): 14–18; Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC,
-Marlowe, 1996, pp. 86–102;
-“Majestic-12
-or ‘MJ-12’ Reference Report,” US National Archives, September 29,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2445
Date: 7/16/1954
-Description: Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and
-President Eisenhower.
-Type: secret meeting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (MJ-4)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 7/18/1954
-Time: 8:40 PM
-Description: Witness: A.T. Chamblin. One greenish-white disc was seen
-for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Normandy, Missouri
-ID: 352
Date: 7/20/1954
-Description: Two men are chased in their car by a UFO near Oslo, Norway,
-and stop to observe it. Afterward, one of the witnesses’ watches stops
-working and the car’s paint changes color. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2446
Date: 7/20/1954
-End date: 7/21/1954
-Description: Ruppelt visits
-the Project Blue Book office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to gather
-information for his upcoming book. He is told that all UFO publicity is
-handled by a lieutenant colonel in Air Force intelligence. He writes in
-an August 3 letter to Keyhoe:
-“They claim to have gotten the unknowns down to about 10% but from what
-I saw this was just due to a more skeptical attitude. The reports are
-just as good as the ones we got and their analysis procedures are a hell
-of a lot worse.” (Donald E. Keyhoe, “The
-Captain Ruppelt Letters,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 (October 1961):
-6; Clark III 1023)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2447
Date: 7/20/1954
-Description: Near this city, two men were chased by an object and
-stopped their car to observe it. After the sighting, a watch stopped
-working and the paint on the car allegedly changed color.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 129; 3; cf. Case 120 (Vallee)
-Location: Oslo, Norway
-ID: 134
Date: 7/23/1954
-Description: The US Navy issues a new directive that orders the
-immediate reporting of UFO sightings (FLYOBRPTs) to the director of
-AFOSI, ATIC, commanding officer of Eastern ADC, director of Naval
-Intelligence, commanding officer of the Eastern Sea Frontier, and the
-commandant of the Potomac River Naval Command. The directive cites JANAP
-146, AFR 200-2, OPNAV 3820, and Directive 3820.2 and is intended to plug
-leaks coming from navy and marine personnel. It is unpublicized but
-unclassified, so it threatens disclosure of AFR 200-2, which is still
-classified. USAF begins work on a new version of AFR 200-2 without the
-“restricted” label. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, pp. 188–189,
-309–311)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2448
Date: 7/24/1954
-End date: 7/25/1954
-Description: A security officer at the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics
-develops a personal interest in the Frances Swan contact case and
-accepts Adm. Knowles’s
-invitation to Eliot, Maine, to visit with Swan. On his return, he gives
-the FBI a report on his visit. On July 29 an FBI agent interviews him,
-and on August 9 J.
-Edgar Hoover sends an account of the interview to Rear Adm. Carl
-F. Espe and to the Army’s Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. Hoover
-writes, “No further action is being taken in this matter by this
-Bureau.” (Clark III 1118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2449
Date: 7/25/1954
-Time: 7:12 PM
-Description: Witness: attorney L.B. Tussing. One black cylinder, 12
-times long as wide, moved fast along the surface of the lake.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake
-Erie
-ID: 353
Date: 7/25/1954
-Description: Policeman J. H. Flanagan and friends see 6 UFOs over
-Enkeldoorn [now Chivhu], Zimbabwe. Nearly stationary, they are visible
-for about 20 minutes and disappear when night falls. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2450
Date: 7/28/1954
-Description: Wilbert
-Smith, at
-the invitation of retired Navy Adm. Herbert
-B. Knowles, visits
-contactee Frances Swan in Eliot, Maine, his neighbor. Her two space
-friends, Affa and Alomar, direct Swan’s hand to draw a series of circles
-demonstrating the use of magnetic fields in spacecraft propulsion. Smith
-asks the aliens to communicate by radio at an appointed time a few days
-later, but the message does not come through. Nevertheless, Smith
-attempts to decipher the alien charts in hopes of learning how to build
-a saucer for Canada. (Clark III 1079–1080, 1118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2451
Date: 7/29/1954
-Description: Capt. Jan P. Bos and five officers of the Dutch ocean liner
-Groote
-Beer see a moon-like object rising out of the Atlantic Ocean 90
-miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They watch it through a sextant,
-allowing them to estimate its rate of ascent at a half degree in 2
-minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, June–August, The Author, 1990, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2452
Date: 7/30/1954
-Time: 10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson,
-flying a B-25 bomber. One metallic, pencil-shaped object flew slowly or
-hovered for an unstated length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Angeles, California
-ID: 354
Date: 8/1954
-Description: Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the
-RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are
-inter planetary!”
-Type: public statement
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 9/23/47
-See also: 10/9/55
Date: 8/1954
-Description: Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 8/1954
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An astronomer sees a bright white disc, 20 times
-the apparent size of the moon, moving from west to northeast at a high
-rate of speed over Park Hills, Kentucky. The seemingly solid object is
-about 100 feet in diameter and flying at an altitude of 500 feet. It
-disappears abruptly after 3–4 seconds. (“Astronomers and UFO’s: A
-Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2453
Date: 8/1/1954
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Desmond O’Reilly and others at Templeogue Tennis
-Club in Dublin, Ireland, watch an object fly over the Dublin Mountains
-in the direction of Howth. Initially he thinks he is looking at a meteor
-because he can only see it when it passes by gaps in the clouds. He
-watches it split into two pieces. (Irish Times, August 5, 1954; Shane
-Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September
-2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2454
Date: 8/1/1954
-Description: 11:30 p.m. P. D. McCormack sees a bluish-white object
-flying at 1,000 mph at an altitude of 5,000 feet above the Dublin
-Mountains, Ireland, to the south. The trails seem to “fall away from the
-object at each side.” Two men fishing in the River Dargle near
-Powerscourt, County Wicklow, see a rocket-shaped object dropping balls
-of fire. At 11:35 p.m., on the North Beach in Rush, County Dublin,
-Mrs. W. Gray and others watch an object “like a bright electric bulb”
-fly overhead from the mountains and out to sea. Possible meteor. (Irish
-Times, August 3, 5, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying
-Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2455
Date: 8/2/1954
-Time: 5:17 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-17 gunner (19 missions) N.E. Schroeder.
-One thin, bright ellipse, like polished metal, hovered for 5-8 seconds,
-dropped down 3,000’ in 3 seconds, hovered again and faded out after a
-total of 20 seconds in view.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Westlake, Ohio
-ID: 355
Date: 8/2/1954
-Description: The US Joint Chiefs of Staff direct the establishment of a
-Continental Air Defense Command. Secretary of Defense Charles
-Erwin Wilson announces the command’s formation publicly later in the
-month to integrate “the air defense capabilities of the three military
-departments into an air defense system responsible to the control of one
-military commander.” (Wikipedia, “Continental
-Air Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2456
Date: 8/4/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. Ten firemen and their chief
-observe two flying saucers over The Hague, Netherlands. The objects are
-seen in the clear night air at a high altitude. They move at incredible
-speed, at times remaining motionless for as long as 30 seconds. They are
-described as flat ovals with whitish-gray light. All agree that the
-objects are neither aircraft or balloons. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2457
Date: 8/6/1954
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: mechanical engineer L.H. Hormer. One intensely
-white elliptical light changed to yellow, then orange, then pink, four
-or five times while flying straight and level for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 356
Date: 8/6/1954
-Description: A bright white ball shoots across the sky over Santa Fe,
-New Mexico, leaving a luminous trail that persists for 15 minutes.
-Meteorite expert Lincoln
-LaPaz says it is not a meteor. It apparently disrupts TV signals and
-aircraft transmissions, but not ham radio. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored,
-Citadel, 1955, p. 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2458
Date: 8/7/1954
-End date: 8/8/1954
-Description: One of the first UFO meetings in California is held on the
-slopes of Palomar Mountain, with lectures by George
-Adamski, Daniel
-Fry, Truman
-Bethurum, and
-Desmond
-Leslie. (“Palomar
-Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity
-to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2459
Date: 8/8/1954
-Description: 3:01 p.m. Project Magnet’s only UFO incident of note occurs
-when the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, gravimeter indicates a greater
-deflection in the gravitational field than a conventional object would
-cause. Heavy clouds obstruct Wilbert
-Smith’s view of the sky. (Clark III 1079; “Wilbert
-B. Smith,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Good Above, p. 186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2460
Date: 8/10/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: The Coupal childrm said that a brightly lighted object
-followed them to the farm. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the
-field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise
-and speed off to the west. Grass was flattened over 15 m, with two
-tracks about 5 m long.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
-Location: Hemmingford, Canada
-ID: 135
Date: 8/10/1954
-Description: The Canadian Department of Transport officially folds
-Project Magnet but permits Wilbert
-Smith to continue using its facility on his own time at no expense
-to the government. Smith continues his work privately until his death in
-December 1962. (Story, p. 276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2461
Date: 8/11/1954
-Time: 8:55 PM
-Description: Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant
-manager of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., of Okinawa. A line of blue lights,
-underneath. a blue circle with a black center. Flew over ship and
-climbed, illuminating and agitating the clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yoron Jima, near Okinawa
-ID: 357
Date: 8/11/1954
-Description: 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, electrical engineer and
-assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Company, of Okinawa, sees a
-line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center fly
-over the SS Docteur Angier off Yoron-Jima, Japan, and climb,
-illuminating and agitating the clouds. (Patrick Gross, “Disk
-Seen from SS Docteur
-Angier, August 11, 1954”; Sparks, p. 219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2464
Date: 8/11/1954
-Description: 8:54 p.m. A1C Chase E. Lewis, tower operator at Lawson AFB
-[now Lawson Army Airfield] in Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, sees a
-strange stationary object in the west. It varies in brightness, changing
-color from white to red to orange to white again, with seemingly
-high-speed motions. An Army helicopter piloted by WO R. T. Wade is sent
-to investigate; he locates the object 20 miles west of Lawson at 2,000
-feet. Wade abandons the chase due to low fuel after 2 minutes. At 9:05
-p.m., two additional tower operators (including A1C William N. Watson)
-view the object. A second Army helicopter, piloted by U. S. Tarma, is
-diverted to the object at 9:27 p.m. He sees it, but it disappears at
-9:29 p.m. (NICAP, “Two
-Helicopters Encounter Venus (CIRVIS)”; Good Above, pp. 284–285;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, June–August, The Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; Sparks, p. 219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2463
Date: 8/11/1954
-Description: Frank
-Edwards is fired by his sponsor at the Mutual Broadcasting Network,
-the American Federation of Labor. He had offered to resign on August 7,
-citing a conflict over the type of material he has been required to
-report on, including AFL interests and George
-Meany’s personal outlook. His UFO reportage may or may not be an
-issue. (Clark III 435; Frank Edwards, “The
-Plot to Silence Me,” Fate 10, no. 6 (June 1957): 17–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2462
Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: 2:29 a.m. Four military men on US Army helicopters at
-Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, see a glowing red disc soar around
-the base tower. There are both ground and air witnesses, as well as
-radar-visual confirmation. (Good Above, pp. 284–285, 493–494)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2465
Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft.
-above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to
-investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to
-base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then
-completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad
-to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters
-were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th,
-Ft. Genning, GA.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p493)
-Location: Maxwell AFB
Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see
-Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff,
-USAF.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p489)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 8/26/1953
Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: An updated version of AFR 200-2 is issued by the Department
-of the Air Force and declassified by Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan
-Twining. The
-public can now know that the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron
-was brought in to assist ATIC (Blue Book) with preliminary and field UFO
-investigations, and that USAF considers UFOs to be “any airborne object
-which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features,
-does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or
-which cannot be positively identified as a familiar object.” It lists
-the objectives of UFO reporting as: “First as a possible threat to the
-security of the United States and its forces, and secondly, to determine
-technical aspects involved.” (Department of the Air Force, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects Reporting,” Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 12,
-1954; Good Above, pp. 489–492)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2466
Date: 8/15/1954
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. W.J. Davis, Capt. R.D. Sauers, flying
-a C-47 transport plane. One dark blue oblong object paced the C-47,
-veered away, then crossed in front of it. Five minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Marcos, Texas
-ID: 358
Date: 8/16/1954
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A green ball is seen in the sky over Tananarive
-[now Antananarivo], Madagascar, and disappears behind a hill. It
-reappears a minute later and flies over the higher part of Tananarive.
-When the object flies in front of them, some witnesses see a
-lentil-shaped device with a silvery metallic aspect enveloped in
-electric luminous gas. According to Jean-Luc Bruneau, inspector general
-at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Gen. Charles de
-Gaulle is concerned about this sighting and quietly approves having
-a French study group involved with investigating UFO cases. (“1954,
-Tananarive, Madagascar: Multiple Witnesses to UFOs,” UFO Casebook,
-July 30, 2008; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO
-Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 11; Patrick Gross,
-“Tananarive,
-Madagascar, August 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2467
Date: 8/20/1954
-Description: Morning. Edith Jacobsen, 2, and Åsta Solvang, 32, are on a
-blueberry-picking trip to Øyfjellet, near Mosjøen, Norway, with their
-uncle, Halvdan Jacobsen. The two sisters wander off to a fen when
-suddenly they see a man in the distance. They approach him and he smiles
-and stretches out his hand, but he only brushes Edith’s palm with it. He
-has long hair with a natural wave, a dark complexion, and a
-tight-fitting suit with a wide belt. He begins to talk but they can’t
-understand him. It does not sound like Norwegian, English, German,
-Spanish, French, or Russian. He takes out a “little mirror” from a
-pocket and with something like a pencil draws circles, apparently
-representing planets. He finally indicates he wants the women to
-accompany him and he takes them to a landed disc in a clearing. It is
-gray-blue and looks like two giant pot lids put together. He makes a
-sign to not come too close, then he opens a hatch on the top, crawls in,
-and shuts the door. The sisters hear a faint humming and the UFO rises
-while rotating on its own axis. (Gordon Creighton, “Mosjøen:
-An Early Norwegian CE-III
-Case,” Flying Saucer Review 34, no. 2 (June 1989): 1–7; Clark III
-267–268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2469
Date: 8/20/1954
-Description: Contactee Dorothy
-Martin of Oak Park, Illinois, and Charles and Lilian Laughead of
-Detroit, Michigan, send out a 7-page press release announcing that a
-geological disaster will cause great environmental changes in North
-America and Europe. It warns that December 20 will be the last available
-date for evacuation, as a great flood will strike on December 21. Martin
-and her followers hope to board a landed flying saucer before doom
-falls. (Clark III 718)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2468
Date: 8/21/1954
-Description: Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Date: 8/23/1954
-Description: Approximate date. A strange object hovered low over the
-house of Mr. Lucas and left straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Varennes, near Diges, France
-ID: 136
Date: 8/23/1954
-Description: Elise Blanc approached an object looking like an aluminum
-trailer with two small beings in silvery dress, grunting like pigs,
-standing close by. The craft took on a fiery color and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 129 (Vallee)
-Location: Lugrin, near Thonon, France
-ID: 137
Date: 8/23/1954
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Businessman Bernard
-Miserey has just parked his car in a garage at Vernon, Eure, France,
-when he notices a sudden illumination. He sees an object like an
-enormous (300 feet long) cigar standing on end, hovering above the north
-bank of the Seine River about 1,000 feet away. Suddenly from the bottom
-of the object comes a horizontal disc that drops, slows, and suddenly
-dives horizontally across the river at him. It vanishes at a high rate
-of speed toward the southwest. Three other discs follow in sequence. A
-fifth disc drops much lower than the earlier ones and remains still for
-an instant, swaying slightly. During this time the cigar has faded and
-sinks into darkness. The spectacle has lasted 45 minutes. Two police
-officers and an Army engineer also see the display. (Clark III 293;
-Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954, June–August, The
-Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; Sparks, pp. 85–86;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” February 2, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite
-Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2470
Date: 8/24/1954
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: one unnamed farmer. A cylinder, 2-2.5’ long, 4-5’
-in diameter, made a loud whizzing sound, flew straight and level fast,
-then slow, then fell into sandbar.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Egilstadir, Iceland
-ID: 359
Date: 8/25/1954
-Description: Two girls in Norway meet spaceman.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Norway
Date: 8/26/1954
-Time: 6:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Rev. W.L. Shelton. Two domed ellipses, 20’ long,
-8’ thick, 10’ at ends; glowing silver or orange. Hovered, then climbed
-side-by-side while getting brighter. Observed for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Danville, Virginia
-ID: 360
Date: 8/26/1954
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Crowds of people in Bray, County Wicklow,
-Ireland. see an object traveling at great speed over Bray Head. It is a
-brilliant blue light, traveling at “2,000 miles an hour” toward the sea
-before changing direction and moving toward Wicklow. (Irish Times,
-August 27, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,”
-Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2471
Date: 8/27/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: A wingless flying object was seen by Bill Supa, an employee
-of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about 2 km way from the
-witness, who approached within 300 m before it took off and flew away.
-Grass was flattened where it had landed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
-Location: Boston Creek, Canada
-ID: 138
Date: 8/27/1954
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: E.A. Srazdes. Seven large, white, teardrop-shaped
-objects turned blue. Flew in line formation and increased speed during
-the 2 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
-ID: 361
Date: 8/28/1954
-Description: Two boys saw a craft land and two or three men come out. No
-details given.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 277 (Vallee)
-Location: Quebec, Canada
-ID: 139
Date: 8/28/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Several USAF fighter pilots pursue a triangular
-formation of 15 objects near Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, tracked by
-ground radar. As the jets approach, the formation breaks, changes to a
-semicircle, and the objects speed up and vanish to the west. (NICAP,
-“USAF Fighters Report Formation Tracked by Radar”; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 25–26;
-Sparks,
-p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2472
Date: 8/28/1954
-Description: Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three
-men get out.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Quebec, Canada
Date: 8/29/1954
-Description: A witness in Mérida, Venezuela, sees a large, intensely
-yellow, glowing object moving at great speed from west to east. When it
-reaches the Sierra Nevada de Mérida, it suddenly stops and two
-disc-shaped blue objects emerge from it. All three continue to the east
-and disappear behind buildings. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2473
Date: 8/29/1954
-Time: 11:05 AM
-Description: Witnesses: lst Officer H.G. Gardner, engineer J.V.D.
-Whitisy, flying Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ). Three or four dark,
-lens-shaped objects veered north and changed position in formation
-during the 10 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Prince Christian, Greenland
-ID: 362
Date: 8/29/1954
-Description: 11:05 p.m. First Officer H. G. Gardner and Engineer J. V.
-D. Whitisy, flying on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC- 4, see 3–4 dark,
-lens-shaped objects over Prins Christianssund radio and weather station,
-Greenland. They veer north and change position in formation. (NICAP, “Lens-Shaped
-Objects Veer North”; Sparks,
-p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2474
Date: 8/30/1954
-Time: 0525
-Description: Sgt. Durdle saw a brilliant, circular object flying across
-Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong
-canister was hanging down from a central section, which supported a long
-cone with a spinning globe on top. When it tilted, the witness was able
-to observe regulatorlike devices inside the machine through a vertical
-lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages, which looked like necklaces,
-were hanging from the craft. Durdle woke up four Air Force men, who
-observed the object spiraling away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
-Location: North Bay, Canada
-ID: 140
Date: 8/31/1954
-Description: 7:10 p.m. RAN Lieutenant J. A. “Shamus” O’Farrell is
-returning to HMAS Albatross Naval Air Station near Nowra, New South
-Wales, after a night cross-country in a Hawker Sea Fury aircraft. After
-contacting Nowra, O’Farrell sees a very bright light closing fast at one
-o’clock. It crosses in front of his aircraft, taking up position on his
-port beam, where it appears to orbit. A second and similar light is
-observed at nine o’clock. It passes about a mile in front of the Sea
-Fury and then turns in the position where the first light was observed.
-According to O’Farrell, the apparent crossing speeds of the lights are
-the fastest he has ever encountered. He has been flying at 250 mph.
-O’Farrell contacts Albatross, which in turn confirms that it has two
-radar “paints” in company with him. Radar operator Petty Officer Keith
-Jessop confirms the presence of 2 objects near the Sea Fury on the GCI
-remote display. The two lights reform at nine o’clock and then disappear
-on a northeasterly heading. O’Farrell can only make out “a vague shape
-with the white light situated centrally on top.” The Directorate of
-Naval Intelligence at the time writes that O’Farrell is “an entirely
-credible witness” and that he “was visibly shaken by his experience but
-remains adamant that he saw these objects.” News of the incident leaks
-out in December, but the official RAN file remains classified until
-1982. (NICAP, “‘Sea
-Fury’ Encounter”; Swords 379–380; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 70; Good Above, p. 162;
-An Adelaide UFO Researcher, “The
-‘Sea Fury’ Radar Incident Revisited,” 2017; “The
-Sea Fury Incident,” Australian Disclosure Project, April 30, 2006;
-Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall
-1997): 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2475
Date: 8/31/1954
-Description: Deputy Department of Transport Minister John
-Baldwin closes the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, UFO station to save
-money, although he says Smith can
-work on his own time. (“Saucer
-Station Closes,” The Saucerian, no. 6 (Spring 1955): 12; Clark III
-1079)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2476
Date: 9/1/1954
-Description: The Continental Air Defense Command is established,
-primarily to defend the continental United States against air attack. It
-is also tasked to support US commanders in the Pacific, Atlantic,
-Caribbean, Alaska, Northeast, and of Strategic Air Command in their
-missions to the maximum extent consistent with its primary mission.
-ADC’s commander, Gen. Benjamin
-W. Chidlaw, becomes
-the first CINCONAD, and USAF is designated as the executive agency.
-(Wikipedia, “Continental
-Air Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2477
Date: 9/2/1954
-Description: Dusk. John Jacob Swaim, 12, is working on a tractor at his
-family’s farm in Coldwater, Kansas, when he sees a small man about 3
-feet tall with long, pointed ears and a pointed nose standing in a
-crouched position about 20 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny garment
-and has two cylinders strapped on its back. The being floats to a nearby
-UFO hovering 5 feet from the ground. The next day his father and Sheriff
-Floyd Hadley find pear-shaped footprints, wide at the toes and tapering
-to a narrow heel. (“Little
-Man in Kansas Wheat Field,” The Saucerian, no. 6 (Spring 1955):
-12–13; Clark III 270–271; Curt Collins, “A
-Flying Cucumber Comes to Kansas, Sept. 1954,” The Saucers That Time
-Forgot, February 23, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2478
Date: 9/3/1954
-Description: Many workers in the fields 12 km south of the town saw an
-object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop
-on edge, and swing like a pendulum a few meters above the ground. It
-made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and
-flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia
-ID: 141
Date: 9/3/1954
-Description: 4:30 p.m. USAF Maj. Robert
-J. Waste and the 9-man crew of his B-47 bomber are flying at 25,000
-feet in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, on their way to Barksdale AFB in
-Bossier City, Louisiana. Carswell AFB [now Naval Air Station Joint
-Reserve Base Fort Worth] in Texas directs them to be on the lookout for
-unusual objects. The crew discovers they are being paced by a
-missile-shaped object only 100 feet overhead that is slightly larger and
-longer than their own fuselage. It has two rows of oval-shaped portholes
-along the sides and an orange exhaust. The bottom of the object seems to
-be glowing. After pacing the B-47 a short time, it shoots ahead and
-zooms upward at incredible speed. Carswell tells them to pursue, but
-they can’t keep up. The UFO then descends to within 300 feet of the
-bomber and begins circling it. The UFO stays with the plane, pacing it
-above and below, and performing figure-eights and other maneuvers for
-over an hour. Two other B-47s in the squadron are behind the lead bomber
-and also view the object. The UFO finally shoots upward and disappears
-again. Waste takes 32 frames of 35mm color film of the UFO with his
-personal camera, but his film and that of his copilot is confiscated
-during a 3-day debriefing at Barksdale. (Paul Cerny, “Close Encounter at
-25,000 Feet: Government Coverup,”: IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983):
-6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2479
Date: 9/4/1954
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist.
-Twenty-thirty lights, as if on a string, flew straight and level for 1.5
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Butler, Missouri
-ID: 363
Date: 9/5/1954
-Time: 12:23 AM
-Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. One
-silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge and a
-following exhaust, flew straight and level, then veered southwest to
-south after 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Butler, Missouri
-ID: 364
Date: 9/7/1954
-Description: 7:15 a.m. Two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves
-DeGillerboz, 23, see a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a
-field as they are bicycling between Harponville and Contay, Somme,
-France. It looks like an unfinished haystack “with a plate turned upside
-down on top of it.” When they try to approach, it takes off. It has a
-diameter of 33 feet, and they notice it has a kind of door. The
-observation lasts more than 3 minutes, at which point the object
-releases some smoke as it departs straight up. (Aimé Michel, Straight
-Line, p. 35; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2481
Date: 9/7/1954
-Time: 0715
-Description: Between Harponville and Contay, two bricklayers, Emile
-Renard, 27, and Yves Degillerboz, 23 saw an object floating in mid-air
-over a field: “It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate
-turned upside down on top of it.” When they approached, it took off.
-Diameter 10 m, height 3 m. A kind of door was noticed. The observation
-lasted over 3 min. The object released smoke when it departed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 6; M 35 (Vallee)
-Location: Harponville, France
-ID: 142
Date: 9/7/1954
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Robert Chovel and two others are driving home
-from the theater in Hirson, Aisne, France, when they see a luminous
-red-orange disc flying above the railroad tracks. It stops suddenly
-across the road, 900– 1,200 feet from the ground. When the car reaches
-the bridge at Buire, the object shoots away at great speed.
-(ClearIntent, p. 134;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” May 12, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2480
Date: 9/8/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Thomas Farquhar sees a “large oval-shaped disc,”
-crackling and hissing, fly over Derryhubbert, County Tyrone, Northern
-Ireland. He thinks it is about 3 feet wide and flying at a height of
-2,000 feet. Daniel McWilliam and James Bingham, in Carrickfergus, County
-Antrim, see a rocket soar into the sky and explode silently. Mr. L.
-Hauser is on a boat leaving Belfast when he sees a rocket come up out of
-the sea and explode when it reaches about 15,000 feet. (Belfast
-Telegraph, September 9–11, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying
-Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2482
Date: 9/9/1954
-Description: 2:20 a.m. Mr. K. M. Gibbons of Nelson, New Zealand, gets
-out of bed and sees through the window three discs hovering above a
-mudflat 3 miles away in a V-formation. They radiate a blue-white light
-from their edges. He grabs a camera with a telephoto lens and takes a
-photo. After 5 minutes, the discs begin to wobble, tip on edge, then
-shoot vertically out of sight. Other reports come from the area that
-morning. The photo shows a blurry oval with a small dark area on top.
-(UFOEv, pp. 89, 92;
-Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, opp.
-p. 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2483
Date: 9/10/1954
-Description: Around 10:30 p.m. 34-year-old metal worker Marius Dewilde
-comes out of his house at Quarouble, Nord, France, to see why his dog is
-barking. He hears hurried footsteps on his right and with his flashlight
-sees two creatures just beyond his fence walking in single file toward a
-dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. The creatures are about 3.5
-feet tall with wide shoulders, short legs, and helmets covering large
-heads. No faces or arms are visible. When he tries to cut them off and
-gets within 6 feet, he finds himself paralyzed as a powerful orange beam
-of light is projected at him from a square opening in the dark object.
-The creatures continue toward the railroad tracks, a door closes, the
-dark object rises to 100 feet, hovers, and speeds away. Five imprints on
-three wooden railroad ties are found, made by an object that an engineer
-estimates must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air
-Force investigate the case. (Wikipedia, “Marius
-Dewilde”; Aimé Michel, Straight Line, 44–46; Marc Thirouin, “Marius
-Dewilde n’a pas menti,” Ouranos, no. 25 (1960): 20–25; Vallée,
-Magonia, pp.
-17–18, 209;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” July 22, 2004; Jean F. Gilles, “The
-Bankruptcy of the French UFO
-Research Body, GEPAN,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 5 (June 1983):
-15–16; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO
-Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2485
Date: 9/10/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house
-as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then
-observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he
-found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at
-him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving
-suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of
-estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on
-the ballast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 8; M 44; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Quarouble, France
-ID: 144
Date: 9/10/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Mazaud was walking home when he was suddenly
-confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly
-gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object
-about 4 m long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later
-witnesses in Limoges reported a disk-shaped, red object leaving a bluish
-trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 7; M 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Mourieras, France
-ID: 143
Date: 9/10/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Antoine Mazaud is walking home from his fields at
-Mourieras, north of Bugeat, Corrèze, France, when he is confronted by a
-helmeted being of average height who makes friendly gestures. It shakes
-hands with him and embraces him while uttering unintelligible words.
-Then it goes back into the brush, enters a cigar-shaped object about 13
-feet long, which takes off to the northwest. A few minutes later,
-witnesses in Limoges report a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish
-trail. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” June 21, 2005; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral
-Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999):
-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2484
Date: 9/12/1954
-Alternate date: 9/13/1954
-Description: Late afternoon. A witness is driving a van in the vicinity
-of Quarouble, Nord, France, when he sees a domed disc descending
-vertically into a small thicket about 160 feet off the road and land. He
-can see a kind of gallery around the dome where human-like beings are
-standing. He stops the car, gets out, and walks toward the object, but
-when he gets closer the object shines a green ray at him. The disc
-immediately ascends vertically, then moves gently away. His paralysis
-ceases. A rush of air shakes him at the time it takes off. (Marc
-Thirouin, “Marius
-Dewilde n’a pas menti,” Ouranos, no. 25 (1960): 25; Patrick Gross,
-“The
-1954 French Flap,” March 23, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2486
Date: 9/14/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: John J. Swain, 12, was driving a tractor back from the
-fields when he saw a small man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few
-meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to
-“fly” when he moved toward a saucershaped craft hovering less than 2 m
-above ground. It “opened up” and the creature “popped inside.” The craft
-became luminous and went out of sight. Strange traces were found by
-police. The creature was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed
-to have “fins.” He carried two cylinders on his back and had long,
-pointed ears.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 9; Humanoids 53; Wilkins U 239 (Vallee)
-Location: Coldwater, Kansas
-ID: 145
Date: 9/14/1954
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Farm worker Georges Fortin, 34, and more than 200
-other witnesses in Saint-Prouant, Vendée, France, watch a cigar or
-carrot-shaped UFO as it emerges from a cloud, tilts toward the ground,
-hovers, and then elevates its front end quickly into a vertical
-position. It emits vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc-
-shaped object flies out, spins around the cigar, and then reenters the
-vertical object. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French
-Flap,” July 2, 2004; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud
-Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 5; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud
-Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 10–12; Clark III 293;
-Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “‘Cloud
-Cigar’ over Saint-Prouant, France,” June 13, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2487
Date: 9/14/1954
-Description: Night. Several people see a circular UFO over Helsinki,
-Finland. Flying at 2,600 feet, it gives off an intense light and leaves
-a trail of reddish smoke about 3 times its diameter. It is visible 7
-seconds. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2488
Date: 9/15/1954
-Description: Ijapada Chatterjee, the manager of the Kadori mica mine,
-and hundreds of others watch a disc descend to an altitude of 500 feet
-over three adjoining villages (Kadori, Barshi, and Mangalda) in the
-Manbhum district, West Bengal, India. It hovers, then soars upwards at
-terrific speed, creating a tremendous gust of wind. The UFO is over a
-mine that supplies beryllium for the US Atomic Energy Commission. (“800
-Biharis See Flying Saucer,” Times of India (Bombay), October 3, 1954;
-UFOEv, p. 124;
-Project 1947, “UFO
-Reports, 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2489
Date: 9/15/1954
-Time: 2320
-Description: A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland
-M., 19, who observed that it came from a large, dark object 10 m above
-ground. It flew away with the noise of a wet firework, throwing
-magnesiumlike sparks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 10; M 49 (Vallee)
-Location: Feyzin, France
-ID: 146
Date: 9/16/1954
-Description: 6:00 a.m. The radio transmitter for WMEV in Marion,
-Virginia, fails as a round, shiny object, 10–15 feet in diameter, flies
-over the tower toward the east. (“Flying
-Saucers Are Sighted in Virginia,” Lancaster (Pa.)
-Intelligencer-Journal, September 17, 1954, p. 44; Schopick,
-p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2490
Date: 9/17/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Between Cenon and Vouneuil, Yves David, 28, met a being in
-a diving suit who made friendly gestures. He was very small and had a
-voice “inhuman and incomprehensible.” The witness could not move
-throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter an object on the
-road, about 3 m by 1 m in size; it took off “like lightning,” throwing a
-greenish light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 11; M 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Cenon, France
-ID: 147
Date: 9/17/1954
-Description: Around 4:45 p.m. Hundreds of people see a UFO over Rome,
-Italy, making staccato thunder sounds as it hovers. It makes a brief
-dive, returns to position, then zooms straight up, leaving a stream of
-white smoke behind. Around 5:45 p.m., Lt. Bruno Giustiniani and other
-personnel at a military unit at Ciampino Airport in Rome see it as a
-“half cigar” moving at 179 mph at 3,500 feet. Blue Book receives a
-teletype about the object, saying it is in the shape of a jellyfish when
-stationary but in the shape of a cigar when in motion. At 6:49 p.m.,
-radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base south of Rome picks up a target for
-20–45 minutes, plotting a slow course along the coast. (Loren E. Gross,
-UFOs,
-a History: 1954 September, The Author, 1994, pp. 24–27; 1Pinotti
-54–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2491
Date: 9/17/1954
-Description: 7:15 p.m. A widow named Mellé sees a luminous,
-orange-yellow, cigar-shaped object near her villa in Gelles,
-Puy-de-Dôme, France. Her neighbors also see it and watch for 5 minutes.
-Possible contrail. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 11, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2492
Date: 9/18/1954
-Time: 2015
-Description: A small gray disk flew over a car at very high speed,
-followed by cold air currents. This was reported by Mr. Guitta of
-Casablana.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos (Vallee)
-Location: Casablanca, Morocco
-ID: 148
Date: 9/18/1954
-Time: 5:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, a weather
-forecaster and a weather observer. One round object, like polished
-aluminum, flew straight and level for 11-13 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kimpo Air Base, Japan
-ID: 365
Date: 9/18/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A round glowing UFO is seen approaching then
-hovering above Danané, Ivory Coast, by many people: a Catholic priest
-named Fr. Myard, the local chief of police, a Dr. Mariani, a businessman
-named Sory Diallo, and a group of women. The object moves again at 9:05
-p.m., changes from a circle to an ellipse, then flies away. (Aimé
-Michel, Straight Line, 61; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
-a History: 1954 September, The Author, 1994, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2493
Date: 9/18/1954
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A huge green fireball streaks across Colorado and
-New Mexico. It zooms above Santa Fe, New Mexico, giving off a blinding
-glare and takes 30 seconds to cross the sky, disturbing TV and radio
-signals. Lincoln
-LaPaz remarks that it does not seem to be an ordinary meteor.
-(Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 198–199; Ruppelt, p. 47;
-Sparks, p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2494
Date: 9/19/1954
-Time: 2115
-Description: A bright light was seen in the east, came to the ground,
-lost its brightness, remained on the spot about 40 sec. It was the size
-of a small bus, and there was a figure in front of it. It rose and took
-on the appearance of a red ball.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 12; M 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Oberdorff, France
-ID: 149
Date: 9/19/1954
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Yves David, 28, is riding his moped on the D-1
-road south of Cenon-sur-Vienne, France, when his headlight begins
-malfunctioning and he feels a prickling sensation like electricity. He
-sees a 9-foot-long UFO in the road ahead and a small man in a diving
-suit coming toward him. It touches David on the shoulder, mutters
-something incomprehensible, and returns to the object. The object emits
-a green light that temporarily stuns David before it takes off. (Clark
-III 269; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2495
Date: 9/20/1954
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Elie Cisterne, a farm worker in the hamlet of La
-Chassagne, Ussac, Corrèze, France, is returning home on his tractor when
-he sees a luminous object coming toward him. He jumps off the tractor
-and lies down, fearful, as the object stops a short distance above the
-road and hovers silently for several minutes. Cisterne runs away when
-the UFO starts moving again, flying over his tractor and into the
-distance. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 29, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2496
Date: 9/20/1954
-Time: 2300
-Description: A guard saw a craft, 3.5 m in diameter and 1.5 m thick,
-land on the airfield. The witness, Vitorino Lourenco Monteiro, said a
-figure emerged from the craft and said something he could not
-understand, before taking off again. There were antennalike protrusions
-on top of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria Airport, Azores
-ID: 150
Date: 9/21/1954
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield has a private talk for 26 minutes with Lt. Col. John
-O’Mara, USAF Deputy Commander for Intelligence, who tells him that
-flying saucers do exist—three types, actually: a craft from outer space,
-a secret US aircraft, and unexplained natural phenomena. (Leonard
-Stringfield, “Private
-Talk with Lt. Colonel
-John O’Mara, Deputy Commander, Intelligence, Confirms the Existence of
-‘Flying Saucers,’” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 7 (October 1, 1954):
-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2498
Date: 9/21/1954
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witness: airport guard. One 10’x5’ light metallic blue,
-pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose having a door,
-and with poles or aerials on the nose. Humming or whining, it hovered,
-landed vertically, 50’ away. A blond man, 5’ 10” tall appeared, spoke in
-a strange language, patted the guard on the shoulder, got in the object,
-hooked up his harness, pushed a button, took off with the object’s nose
-pointed up, then levelled off and climbed vertically. Sighting lasted
-2-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santa Maria, Azores Islands
-ID: 367
Date: 9/21/1954
-Time: 1 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps
-police, one highway patrolman. One red-orange ball giving off sparks,
-and a smaller light, made a zigzag descent and then hovered. Total of 20
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Barstow, California
-ID: 366
Date: 9/21/1954
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A guard at the Santa Maria Airport in Vila so
-Porto, Azores, sees a 10 x 5-foot, light metallic blue, pecan-shaped
-object with a clear glass or plastic nose and door, poles or aerials on
-its nose. It hums or whines as it hovers, then lands vertically 50 feet
-away. A blond man, 5 feet 10 inches tall, appears, speaks in a strange
-language, pats the guard on the shoulder, gets in the object, hooks up
-his harness, pushes a button, takes off with the object’s nose pointed
-up, then levels off and climbs vertically. (NICAP, “Blond
-Humanoid Reported by
-Airport Guard”; Sparks, p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2497
Date: 9/22/1954
-Time: 9 AM
-Description: Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, E.J. Ash. A thin,
-translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object revolved, then
-tumbled down behind some trees. Marks were found in the dirt. Sighting
-lasted 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marshfield, Missouri
-ID: 368
Date: 9/22/1954
-Description: Shortly after 8:00 p.m. Mme. Gamundi is driving on the N7
-north of Fontainebleau, France, when she notices a light in the sky. She
-stops and gets out and sees a huge luminous ball hanging motionless. It
-is reddish and surrounded by a luminous, moving smoke. Suddenly, another
-bright ball emerges from the bottom, falls, slows, turns, and disappears
-at high speed. At least 4 other objects emerge. When an aircraft from
-Orly Airport approaches, the ball rises at high speed and disappears.
-(Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 9, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2499
Date: 9/22/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Jean Besse, a draftsman for a power company in
-Tulle, Corrèze, France, watches a UFO through binoculars. It changes
-color three times in a few seconds. Probably astronomical. (Patrick
-Gross, “The 1954
-French Flap,” March 23, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2500
Date: 9/23/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: The Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object
-giving off a magnesiumlike light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of
-light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until
-they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several independent
-witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for
-60 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 13; M 69 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Jou, France
-ID: 151
Date: 9/23/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mrs. Vignolles saw a luminous object come down rapidly,
-without noise, and land in a field near the church. It took off very
-fast a few seconds later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 15; M 77 (Vallee)
-Location: Lencouacq, France
-ID: 152
Date: 9/23/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Several residents of Bayonne,
-Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see three mysterious objects high in the
-sky. One witness, policeman M. Corrions, says they are arranged in the
-shape of a triangle. Possible helicopters. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 20, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2501
Date: 9/23/1954
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Irene Vrignolles sees a “flying cigar” that lands
-slowly in a meadow behind a rectory in Lencouacq, Landes, France.
-(Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 16, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2502
Date: 9/23/1954
-Time: 9:45 AM
-Description: Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped
-objects flew from north to south in trail for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
-ID: 369
Date: 9/24/1954
-Time: 1000
-Description: Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 m
-tall, dressed in shiny clothes, emerge from a landed craft and gather
-flowers, shrubs, and twigs in a shiny box, then take off. They seemed to
-be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not
-understood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 55, 245; 24 (Vallee)
-Location: Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal
-ID: 154
Date: 9/24/1954
-Time: 0900
-Description: Two women (Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisele Fin) made
-independent reports of a dark gray disk, 6 m in diameter, 1 m high, seen
-in a clearing. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore
-dark clothes and a kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 m of the craft
-and stated the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the
-grass.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 14; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
-Location: Becar, near Diges and “Les Michauts” or “Les Jolivets”,
-France
-ID: 153
Date: 9/24/1954
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. Cisterne, who was coming back with his tractor, saw a
-luminous object fly very low over him. Two other witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 16;M 76 (Vallee)
-Location: Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France
-ID: 155
Date: 9/24/1954
-Description: Hoaxed story of an alleged sighting by Cesar Cardoso at
-Castelo Branco, Portugal, who sees two entities in shining metal suits
-emerge from a landed UFO and pick up flowers, shrubs, and twigs.
-(Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-8, 2006; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO
-Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2503
Date: 9/26/1954
-Description: 2:30 p.m. At Chabeuil, Drôme, France, Lucette Leboeuf is
-walking her dog when she sees a short being wearing a translucent helmet
-and diving suit. She can see large eyes looking at her through the
-helmet. The creature approaches her, hopping. The dog barks at it and
-she runs away and hides in a bush. About 15 feet away, she sees an
-object about 16 feet in diameter resembling a top with a flat top. It
-rises above the cornfield and takes off at tremendous speed. Other
-people notice a circular area about 10 feet in diameter where the ground
-and grass are tightly packed. Tree branches are broken from above.
-Shocked, she stays in bed for two days. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2504
Date: 9/26/1954
-Time: 1430
-Description: Mrs. Leboeuf was suddenly confronted with a creature
-resembling “a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes.”
-This creature entered a flat, circular machine, which took off toward
-the northeast with a soft whistling. Traces. Witnesses in state of
-shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 17; Carrouges 116; Anatomy 70; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Chabeuil, France
-ID: 156
Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: Four children came out of their home as dog barked
-furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being
-they thought was a “ghost” in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones
-at the intruder.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 20; Challenge 170 (Vallee)
-Location: Premanon, France
-ID: 160
Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: At “Revety,” people in a bus saw a reddish light coming
-down. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roche noticed an object on the ground, softly
-glowing, a short distance from their home, but were afraid to approach
-it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as “a sort of
-glowing tomato, with antennae on top.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 18; M 84; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Foussignargues, France
-ID: 157
Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: 0840
-Description: Children saw “a box” and “an unknown man” standing nearby.
-The object took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Figeac, France
-ID: 158
Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two
-beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. Witness in a
-state of shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 19;M 88 (Vallee)
-Location: Perpignan, France
-ID: 159
Date: 9/27/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Raymond Romand and two other children
-on an isolated farm near Prémanon, Jura, France, see a brilliant
-rectangular object. He sees two occupants and throws stones at them, but
-he is thrown to the ground by an “ice-cold invisible force.” Raymond
-confesses 6 weeks later that he made up the whole story, including
-making some physical trace marks. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 7, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2505
Date: 9/28/1954
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Two witnesses at Rixheim, Haut-Rhin,
-France, watch an elongated luminous object through binoculars. Ten or
-more smaller luminous points are circling it in all directions. (Patrick
-Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 1, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2506
Date: 9/28/1954
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Vintner M. Mercier of Saint-Armand-Montrond,
-Cher, France, notices that someone has stolen grapes from his vineyard
-and decides to stay up late and catch the thief. He sees a luminous
-object descend and three figures emerge. He is then paralyzed and loses
-consciousness. There is no sign of anything when he wakes up. Probable
-hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 5, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2507
Date: 9/28/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot and Georgette Mongot observed
-a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was
-lost to sight behind some trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 21; M 94 (Vallee)
-Location: Froncles, France
-ID: 161
Date: 9/28/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: At “Le Grand Tertre” Mr. Mercier observed that someone had
-stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the
-“robbers.” He was amazed when he saw a luminous mass fall from the sky
-about 50 m away, and found himself “paralyzed” as three figures emerged
-from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to
-his senses, everything had vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 22; M 97 (Vallee)
-Location: Bouzais, France
-ID: 162
Date: 9/28/1954
-Time: 2310
-Description: At “La Butte Rouge” two railroad engineers, Bernard and
-Potraux, who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark
-object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 15 sec before
-veering off. Potraux had to see a doctor.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 23; M 95; Anatomy 70 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint Nicolas de Redon, France
-ID: 163
Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: As he was returning home near La Flotte-en-Re, Celeste
-Simonutti saw a bright light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene.
-There he observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter hovering at 1 m
-altitude, turning red, blue, and taking off. Two other witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 28 (Vallee)
-Location: Isle of Re, France
-ID: 168
Date: 9/30/1954
-Description: Gen. Jimmy
-Doolittle submits a 69-page classified report on clandestine
-operations directly to President Eisenhower. It
-negates the Second Hoover Commission’s recommendation on intelligence
-oversight. It says: “We must develop effective espionage and
-counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and
-destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more
-effective methods than those used against us.” (Richard A. Best Jr. and
-Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “Proposals
-for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949–1996,” Report to the US House
-Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional Research Service,
-February 28, 1996, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2508
Date: 9/30/1954
-Description: Aviation pioneer Eugène
-Farnier watches an unknown object for 20 minutes above his property
-at Jouy- sue-Morin, Seine-et-Marne, France. It is swinging back and
-forth over an area of about 984 feet. Farnier thinks it looks similar to
-the cigar-shaped object seen at Marignane in October 1952. (Patrick
-Gross, “UFOs
-in the Daily Press”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2509
Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 0445
-Description: While driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, 41, a laundry
-employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right.
-They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with
-pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height,
-and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 m away
-was a craft 4 m high with colored lights flickering on and off. The
-witness did not wait.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 230 (Vallee)
-Location: Dearborn, Michigan
-ID: 164
Date: 9/30/1954
-Description: Around 4:30 p.m. Georges Gatay and his team of construction
-workers at Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Indre-et- Loire, France, see a
-disc-shaped object on the ground with a small, helmeted being standing
-nearby. In his hand he holds an elongated object: “It could have been a
-pistol, or it could have been a metal rod.” On his chest is a light
-projector. Gatay tries to run, but he finds himself helplessly nailed to
-the spot. He is thus “paralyzed” during the whole observation until the
-object leaves. So are his seven coworkers, in a unique case of
-collective physiological reaction. Almost certainly a hoax. (Patrick
-Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” November 8, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2510
Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 1630
-Description: Georges Gatay and seven construction workers saw a disk at
-ground level, with a humanoid standing close by. Both vanished in a very
-strange manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 25; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France
-ID: 165
Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: dusk
-Description: At sea between Brest and Roven, the crew of the tanker
-“Port Lyautey” observed an object touch the surface of the sea, then
-take off vertically and give off a red flame before being lost to
-view.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 26 (Vallee)
-Location: Brest, France
-ID: 166
Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: Jean Andrieux, ferry operator, saw a large white sphere,
-with a smaller green sphere below, hang motionless above the Seine for
-20 min. Two witnesses. It eventually flew away to the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 27 (Vallee)
-Location: Grand-Couronne, France
-ID: 167
Date: 10/1954
-Description: Project “Magnet” discontinued
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Canada
Date: 10/1954
-Description: London publishing house Frederick Muller publishes a
-contactee book, Flying Saucer from Mars, allegedly written by one Cedric
-Allingham, who claims that while vacationing in Scotland in February
-1954 he saw a saucer land and talked to its occupant, a human-looking
-Martian. In 1969, science writer Robert Chapman concludes that no such
-person as Allingham existed. Christopher Allan and Steuart
-Campbell allege in 1986 that the book was written by arch-skeptical
-astronomer Patrick
-Moore using a pseudonym. His motive was to spoof Adamski and
-embarrass ufologists, but Moore never admits to the hoax. The photo of
-“Cedric Allingham” is really Peter Davies, who posed for the photograph
-with Moore’s reflecting telescope. Davies also edited the book to
-conceal Moore’s distinctive style of writing. (Cedric Allingham, Flying
-Saucer from Mars, Frederick Muller, 1954; Clark III 98; Robert Chapman,
-Unidentified Flying Objects, Barker, 1969; Christopher Allen and Steuart
-Campbell, “Flying
-Saucer from Moore’s?” Magonia 23 (July 1986): 15–18; Curt Collins,
-“Contact!
-A Close Encounter
-of the Third Kind from 1954,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, October
-13, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2511
Date: 10/1954
-Description: Day. RAF pilot Michael Forrest, stationed at RAF Sek Kong
-[now Shek Kong Airfield] near Hong Kong is scrambled in a de Haviland
-Vampire ground attack fighter to intercept a target detected by ground
-radar approaching from China. The target appears to be the size of an
-aircraft and traveling at high speed with a continuous track. Ground
-control tells him that at times it is stationary, but it has the ability
-to change direction and height at fantastic speeds. Forrest and another
-pilot are vectored into the blip at 30,000 feet, but they can see
-nothing. Ground radar insists the blip is right there with them. After
-15 minutes the aircraft break off and head home. On the base, he is told
-that the blip was caused by “anomalous propagation.” (“‘Scrambled for
-Bogies’: An Incident at RAF Sek Kong,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021):
-45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2512
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1815
-Description: Approximate date. A farmer saw a white craft in a field.
-Flattened grass was later found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Ressons-sur-Matz, France
-ID: 172
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 9:20 a.m. An RCAF test pilot is flying at 30,000 feet over
-Montreal, Quebec, in an F-86 Sabre Mk 5 jet fighter when he notices a
-contrail high over the north end of Lake Champlain. He climbs to 51,000
-feet at 540 mph but is unable to close on the object, which appears to
-him as a black dot. He turns to a different heading and sees that the
-contrail makes a similar turn abiut 10,000 feet above him. As he returns
-to Montreal, the contrail climbs at a 45° angle and disppears to the
-east. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2002,
-pp. 91–92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2515
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: Around 10:00 p.m. Jean Defiz, a factory worker in Bergerac,
-Dordogne, France, is returning home on his bicycle when he sees a large
-shooting star. Later, he sees an intense light in his yard and rushes
-out to see a disc rise with a whistling sound. It becomes luminous and
-flies off. A neighbor also sees it and estimates it is 10 feet wide.
-(Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2519
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Mechanic Ernest Delattre, 19, is riding to his
-home in Croix d’Épine, Oise, France, on his motor scooter when a bright
-egg-shaped object lands on the left side of the road 45 feet away. He
-sees short, dark shapes “like potato bags” moving around the object. He
-speeds up and the UFO changes its color and takes off. (Patrick Gross,
-“The
-1954 French Flap,” March 27, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2518
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: Coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent saw a lighted object
-on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of “mushroom”
-on top. As he approached it, the object became dark and took off
-vertically with a soft whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Branges, near Louhans, France
-ID: 175
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1600
-Description: A man and his dog were “paralyzed” as a luminous white
-object dived toward them and climbed again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bry, France
-ID: 171
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1300
-Description: Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a
-cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground
-with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow,
-the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the
-ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 30 (Vallee)
-Location: Blanzy, France
-ID: 170
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: A woman reported to police she had seen a luminous disk
-leaving a long trail. It landed in a field, then took off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 29; Challenge 132 (Vallee)
-Location: Dhubri, India
-ID: 169
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: The Swedish Defense Ministry allegedly requests a secret
-investigation into UFOs. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, p. 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2514
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 4:00 p.m. An anonymous man and his dog are paralyzed as a
-luminous white object dives toward them and climbs away again at
-Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 25, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2516
Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Bernard Devoisin and René Condette are bicycling
-west of Ligescourt in the direction of Vron, Somme, France. They see a
-glowing orange object shaped like a beehive in the middle of the road. A
-small entity, about 3 feet tall and dressed in a “diving suit,” is
-standing close to it. When they get to within 200 feet of it, the object
-takes off at great speed. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” May 8, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2517
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: Returning home, fireman Jean Dufix, 26, saw an oval light
-in the sky and thought it was a shooting star. Later he was alarmed when
-his yard seemed to be ablaze. Rushing out again, he saw a disk rise from
-the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again,
-and took off at fantastic speed. A neighbor, Jean Labonne, 61, saw the
-disk, 3 m in diameter, resting on three legs in the yard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 31 (Vallee)
-Location: Bergerac, France
-ID: 176
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: Near Saint Jan d’Angely, two businessmen, Messrs. Estier
-and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man cross
-ing the road in front of their car. Having stopped, they saw the figure
-disappear into the woods.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 28 (Vallee)
-Location: La Roulerie, France
-ID: 174
Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1900
-Description: Two young men saw a luminous white disk moving in the sky.
-It dived to the ground and two men, described as being very tall and
-dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran
-away in fear.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Jussey, France
-ID: 173
Date: 10/2/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: In the immediate vicinity of case 175, Mr. Nicolas saw a
-craft with a dome on top, on the ground between the road and the
-railroad tracks. Through some openings a strong yellow light
-shone.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 33;M 109 (Vallee)
-Location: Louhans, France
-ID: 179
Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: Two creatures were seen on the ground, and two hours later
-a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at very low
-altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Jonches, France
-ID: 178
Date: early 10/1954
-Description: Maxime Pignatelli, 65, is hunting with his dog on the banks
-of the Durance River near Corbières, Alpes- de-Hautes-Provence, France.
-He sees a gray object about 12 feet long and 3 feet high on the ground
-about 130 feet away. Two helmeted figures emerge from a dome. The man
-flees. His dog also retreats a bit later, walking awkwardly as if partly
-paralyzed. (Jacques Vallée, “Un
-siècle d’atterrissages,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 103 (December
-1969): 7; Francis Schaefer and Pierre Delval, “Un
-recit d’atterrissage inedit à Corbières,” Phénomènes Inconnus 1, no.
-14 (1971): 10–13; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” May 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2513
Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: At the Bourg du Cerisier, two women (Janiki and Lacotte)
-independently reported to police that a luminous disk about 3 m in
-diameter had flown very low over the village.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 32 (Vallee)
-Location: Levroux, France
-ID: 177
Date: 10/2/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: A mechanic, Ernest Delattre, 19, was riding home on his
-motor scooter when an egg-shaped object, brilliantly illuminated, landed
-on the left side of the road 15 m away. He saw short, dark shapes “like
-potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the
-size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to
-blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his
-story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported
-observing the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Croix d’Epine, France
-ID: 180
Date: 10/2/1954
-Time: 2345
-Description: A disk emitting a weak green glow landed in a field.
-Witnesses: Messrs. Domant and Gilcher.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 105 (Vallee)
-Location: Guebling, France
-ID: 181
Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: 3:45 p.m. A teacher, Mlle. Jaillet, along with 23
-schoolchildren, see an elongated object in the sky to the southeast at
-Les Rousses, Jura, France. It approaches rapidly and they see it is a
-“cloud cigar.” It switches from horizontal to vertical and hovers. At
-one point, a gleaming yellow disc emerges from it and moves away. The
-long object switches to horizontal again and moves away to the
-northwest. The incident lasts 4–5 minutes. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 25, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2521
Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: The French Air Ministry allegedly launches a UFO
-investigation after 267 citizens come forward to report UFOs. (Wilkins,
-FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2520
Date: 10/3/1954
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Young farmer Jean Allary sees a circular object
-near Ronsenac, Charente, France, that seems to be gliding on or near the
-ground, has luminous spots, and lights up as it takes off. He finds
-flattened and scorched grass over an area 25 feet across. (Patrick
-Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” January 31, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2524
Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work
-when he saw a circular craft 3 m diameter and a small figure wearing a
-diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 32; M 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Bressuire, France
-ID: 182
Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1845
-Description: Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B.
-Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an
-orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A
-strange “man” wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they
-got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 3Z; M 118 (Vallee)
-Location: Vron, France
-ID: 183
Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1920
-Description: The crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast
-in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level.
-As witnesses rushed to the spot, it took off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 113 (Vallee)
-Location: Chereng, France
-ID: 184
Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 2110
-Description: Less than 3 hrs after case 183, an orange object chased a
-car for 8 km, then flew away toward the sea. Witness: Georges Galant, a
-butcher.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 35; M 116 (Vallee)
-Location: Quend, France
-ID: 185
Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1245
-Description: A circular craft was seen by Jean Allary between Montmoreau
-and Villebois-Lavalette. It seemed to be gliding on the ground. It
-showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took
-off. It was about 1.20 m high. Grass was found flattened and scorched
-over an area 7 m across.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 36; M 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Ronsenac, France
-ID: 186
Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1300
-Description: Near La Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object,
-2.5 m high, 5 m diameter, hover for several minutes 1 m above ground,
-then rise vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 34; M 131 (Vallee)
-Location: Benet, France
-ID: 187
Date: 10/3/1954
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Villagers of Chereng, Nord, France, are having
-their Ducasse festival meal when they see a fast, luminous object in the
-sky suddenly stop, give off sparks, and descend to ground level. As
-people run to the spot, it takes off again. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” January 9, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2523
Date: 10/3/1954
-Description: Dawn. Stockyard employee Angelo Girardo is going to his job
-in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he sees a small being wearing a
-diving suit standing near a circular craft about 10 feet in diameter. It
-swiftly takes off. Hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” August 3, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2522
Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Garreau, saw an object the size of a carriage
-land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding
-door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook
-hands with the witness and said something like: “Paris? Nord?”
-(According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a
-pat on the back to Mr. Garreau’s dog and took off at an amazing
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 37; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Chaleix, France
-ID: 190
Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck betwem
-Lagrasse and Villemagne when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to
-the ground. It measured about 10 m diameter and took off with a burst of
-light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 35 (Vallee)
-Location: Lezignan, France
-ID: 189
Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: An object was said to have landed in the yard of
-Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 35 (Vallee)
-Location: Limoges, France
-ID: 188
Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: 8:00 p.m. In Poncey-sur-l’Ignon, Côte-d’Or, France, Mme.
-Yvette (or Thérèse) Fourneret sees a luminous orange object about 10
-feet wide land in a meadow on her farm. She runs to tell some men, who
-arrive at the spot with rifles but find nothing. Instead, they discover
-a strange quadrilateral hole from which soil appears to be sucked up.
-The roots of plants are not damaged. The French Air Force and local
-police investigate and learn there are other witnesses. (Patrick Gross,
-“The
-1954 French Flap,” March 10, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2525
Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange,
-circular object 3 m in diameter swung in mid-air and landed near her
-farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found
-that the earth had been “sucked up” over a quadrilateral area. Francois
-Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive
-investigation by French Air Force and police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 37; M 134; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Poncey-sur-Lignon, France
-ID: 194
Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: 1840
-Description: Ten-year-old Bertiaux saw an object “like a tent” and an
-unknown man near it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Villers-le-Tilleul, France
-ID: 193
Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: At Les Chavannes, about 20 people, among them Remy
-Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise from the
-vicinity of the railroad tracks. It took off vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
-Location: Montceau-les-Mines, France
-ID: 192
Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop.
-They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same
-object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm.
-It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 38;M 139 (Vallee)
-Location: Tregon, France
-ID: 191
Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: A fisherman met with a red-clad being who spoke an unknown
-language. No details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Roverbello, Italy
-ID: 195
Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 0400
-Description: A baker, P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he
-noticed an object some distance away. It was circular, about 3 m
-diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval face covered with hair
-and eyes “as large as raven eggs” who touched him on the shoulder and
-spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf went away, and the object
-took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 34 (Vallee)
-Location: Loctudy, France
-ID: 196
Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 0630
-Description: East of Le Mans on Route N23, Renault employees were going
-to work when they saw near the road a luminous object on the ground and
-felt “pricklings and a sort of paralysis.” The object emitted a burst of
-green light and flew away very low over the fields.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 42; Vuillequez; M 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Mans, France
-ID: 197
Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 0715
-Description: A roadmender, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road
-between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to police, he stated he
-saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight-fitting jacket climb aboard
-the craft, which consisted of a cigarshaped section under a flat disk.
-Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity
-entered the object. Traces were found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 38, 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Mertrud, France
-ID: 198
Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 1545
-Description: Ten km from here, several persons saw an object coming
-toward them and getting brighter. When it was about 150 m away, they
-felt “a strange sensation” and found themselves unable to move. The
-object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzine.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 34; Challenge 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Beaumont, France
-ID: 199
Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: A spindle-shaped UFO is seen for 20 minutes by hundreds of
-people over El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt. At Bahnay, aerial cylinders emit
-dark smoke. One explodes, knocking a farmer to the ground, and kills two
-cows, whose hides show burn marks. Lt. Tewrik takes a photo of a
-rotating UFO that emits smoke above El-Qantara el- Sharqîya on the
-western side of the Suez Canal. He sends it to the Egyptian Army and to
-Khedivial Astronomical Observatory in Helwan. Adm. Youssef Hammad,
-director of the Egyptian Ports and Lights Administration, alerts pilots
-and astronomers to keep watch for UFOs over Cairo. (Wilkins, FS
-Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 231–232;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2526
Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: 4:00 a.m. M. P. Lucas, a baker in Loctudy, Finistère,
-France, is getting water from his well when he sees a UFO hovering
-nearby. A small being comes out of the object; it has an oval head
-covered with hair and large eyes. The creature touches Lucas’s shoulder
-and speaks to him in an unknown language. He calls for his boss, and the
-creature runs into the object and takes off. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” October 3, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2527
Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: 7:15 a.m. A road worker named Narcy sees an object near a
-road in Mertrud, Haute Marne, France. He also sees a hairy dwarf wearing
-an orange, tight-fitting jacket climb through a porthole on the UFO,
-which consists of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disc. Tracks are
-found. Probable hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 25, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2528
Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: 3:45 p.m. In Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France, witnesses Brun,
-Marfaron, Douti, and Marplat see a luminous ball moving west to east
-1,500 feet away from them. It approaches to within 450 feet, and they
-feel paralyzed with faintness as a nitrobenzene odor spreads around
-them. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 24, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2529
Date: 10/6/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Laroche, from Paris, saw a fiery sphere
-landing near Chantonnay.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Monchamps, France
-ID: 200
Date: 10/6/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Two women (Mrs. Salabrino and her daughter) saw a whitish
-light in the western sky. It seemed slowly to come toward the ground,
-and was later seen between the railroad station and the bridge 100 m
-away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible
-under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for
-a moment and flew away rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
-Location: Villers-le-Lac, France
-ID: 202
Date: 10/6/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Near the military barracks, soldiers saw a strange object
-on the ground 300 m away. As one of them approached the torpedo-shaped
-object, which was about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: La Fere, France
-ID: 201
Date: 10/6/1954
-Description: Around 6:00 a.m. Mechanic Joseph Roy is riding to work on
-his bicycle at Isles-sur-Suippe, Marne, France, and sees a dazzling
-light at low altitude. It blinks out. When he gets to the spot where it
-disappeared, he sees a large object like an artillery shell 9 feet long.
-A small, dark form is standing in front of it. Roy becomes frightened
-and races to the nearest gendarmerie. Probable confusion, helicopter,
-and military personnel. (Patrick Gross, “The 1954
-French Flap,” January 16, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2530
Date: 10/6/1954
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two soldiers at the military barracks in La Fère,
-Aisne, France, watch a luminous craft in the shape of an artillery shell
-landed on the ground less than a quarter-mile away. As one soldier
-approaches it, he becomes paralyzed. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 9, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2531
Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: Etienne-sous-Barbuise (France). Marcel Guyot was coming
-from work near this village, and his son Jacques followed the same road
-10 min later. Both saw, at a railroad crossing, three objects on the
-ground that gave a bright white light. One was circular, the others
-cigar-shaped.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 42; M 146 (Vallee)
-Location: St
-ID: 209
Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 1430
-Description: R. Margaillan saw an object that had landed in a field. It
-was hemispherical, about 2.5 m in diameter. The witness gasped for air
-and felt “paralyzed.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 145; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Monteux, France
-ID: 208
Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object
-3 m in diameter, in a field 3 m away from Route N16 and 1 m above
-ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took
-off and flew about 5 m above the witness, following him to the next
-village.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41; M 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Jettingen, France
-ID: 206
Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 0400
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Thebault, saw a luminous object, 2 or 3 m in
-diameter, emitting a beam of light which swept the countryside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41; M 142 (Vallee)
-Location: Beruges, France
-ID: 205
Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: early
-Description: The crew of several fishing boats saw a luminous,
-orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense
-smoke. Villagers saw the same object and stated independently that it
-came within 10 m of the ground, then flew away to the southeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41; M 140 (Vallee)
-Location: Plozevet, France
-ID: 204
Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: On Route N138, a truckdriver, Mr. Tremblay, saw an intense,
-blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was cigarshaped,
-red and blue. Engine and headlights died.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41;M 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Jean-d’Asse, France
-ID: 207
Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: The two Lanssellin children witnessed the landing of a
-luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who
-looked like normal men.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 145 (Vallee)
-Location: Hennezis, France
-ID: 203
Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 2400
-Description: Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called
-his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 43; M 146 (Vallee)
-Location: Bompas, France
-ID: 210
Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: 6:20 a.m. A group of workers at the Renault manufacturing
-plant at Le Mans, Sarthe, France, are bicycling to work when they feel
-an unpleasant tickling at the same moment an intense greenish light is
-emitted from a luminous object hovering above the Route N23 road. They
-are almost paralyzed, then the UFO leaves, flying low over the fields.
-(Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 143; Schopick, pp. 8–9;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” October 22, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2532
Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: The Italian Air Ministry allegedly sets up UFO detection
-posts for 24/7 vigilance. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2533
Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Farmer René Margaillon goes to work and notices a
-mysterious object about 300 feet away in a field between Monteux and
-Althen-des-Paluds, Vauclude, France. He approaches the object, which is
-about 8 feet tall and phosphorescent. Suddenly it disappears and he
-feels suffocated. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 5, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2534
Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: Night. Witnesses at Corbigny, Nièvre, France, see a
-luminous cylinder that appears orange when vertical and motionless, and
-white when moving forward horizontally. At one point, two small discs
-emerge from its lower part. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” September 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2535
Date: 10/8/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, was on the second floor of
-his house when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air 2O
-m away. lights were shining from the rear and the sides of the craft,
-inside which could be seen a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask
-with a trunk like an elephant. “I was standing with both hands on the
-bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object,
-when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object
-by a magnet.” Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors.
-The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight
-almost immediately.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 52, 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Teheran, Iran
-ID: 211
Date: 10/8/1954
-Time: 2115
-Description: On the road to Boulogne a bluish object, clearly seen with
-a dome on top, dived toward the ground, became white and went
-away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 44, 45;M 154 (Vallee)
-Location: Calais,, France
-ID: 212
Date: 10/8/1954
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Four children—Gilbert Calda, 12, Daniel Hirsch,
-9, J. P. Hirsch, 5, and Robert Maguin, 16—are roller skating at
-Pournoy-la-Chétive, Moselle, France, when they see a luminous object
-near the cemetery. It is round, about 8 feet in diameter, and standing
-on three legs. A dwarf, about 4 feet tall, dressed in black, with a face
-covered in hair and large eyes, emerges and shines a blinding light at
-them. It says something in an unknown language. The children run away
-but look back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky.
-(Clark III 269; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, 154; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 7, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2536
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Willi Hoge, a projectionist, saw four occupants of an
-object that had come to ground level 70 m from the road. He was
-returning home when he observed a blue light and thought an airplane had
-made an emergency landing. The object was cigar-shaped, and four men
-wearing rubber coveralls were working under it. They were about 1.2 m
-tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were
-short and thin.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 47 (Vallee)
-Location: Rinkerode, Germany
-ID: 217
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 2215
-Description: The local representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw
-an object give off a white light and land. It took off vertically, with
-a spinning motion, and was lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 51 (Vallee)
-Location: Beirut, Lebanon
-ID: 223
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Evening. As he is driving home from his job as a movie
-projectionist in Rinkerode [now part of Drensteinfurt], North
-Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, Willi Hoge sees a blue light to one side
-of the road. He looks closer and sees four small figures with big heads
-and chests and small, thin legs, apparently doing repair work on a
-spindle-shaped machine. All are dressed in one-piece elastic body suits.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The Author, 1991,
-p. 24; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2543
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: On Route N631 at “La Caiffe,” a technician, J. P. Mitto,
-was coming back from Toulouse with two other persons when they saw two
-small figures, the height of 11-year-old children, cross the road about
-5 m in front of the car and jump into a pasture. Stopping immediately,
-the witnesess saw a large convex disk take off vertically. It was about
-6 m in diameter, orange in color and was literally “sucked up” into the
-sky. Brown oily spots were found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 43, 50 (Vallee)
-Location: Briatexte, France
-ID: 222
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 1900
-Description: Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a
-figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The
-individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes, walked on the
-road for one minute and went into the forest. The witness was
-“paralyzed” throughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and
-two lights, one above the other, in front of him.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 45, 48; M 153; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Lavoux, France
-ID: 221
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: Four children-Gilbert Calda, 12; Daniel Hirsch, 9; J. P.
-Hirsch, 5; and Robed Maguin 16-were roller-skating when they saw a
-luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 m in
-diameter, standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 m tall, dressed in
-black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and
-shone a blinding light at them, and said something in an unknown
-language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the
-object flying away high in the sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 49; M 154; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Pournoy-la-Chetive, France
-ID: 220
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 1600
-Description: As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a
-bright, metallic sphere on the road ahead. The top half seemed to be
-made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were standing
-inside. It took off rapidly, flying east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 48; M 145 (Vallee)
-Location: Carcassonne, France
-ID: 219
Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Near the Landeforet pool, Christain Carette saw for 10 sec
-a fiery sphere flying at treetop level. Diameter: 4 m. Protuberance on
-top.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 48;M 152 (Vallee)
-Location: Beauvain, France
-ID: 218
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land
-in a pasture.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 46; M 154 (Vallee)
-Location: Soubran, France
-ID: 216
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: People out hunting saw a luminous sphere take off and fly
-toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 153 (Vallee)
-Location: Dreux, France
-ID: 215
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Between Montaren and Serviers, 1 km from “Le Mas Blanc,”
-Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object
-oscillating in mid-air. It was very bright and “fiery,” and it came very
-low.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Montaren, France
-ID: 214
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: A mailman saw a cigar-shaped object land. Twn silhouettes
-“approximately human” were seen aboard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 45; M 154 (Vallee)
-Location: Huy, Belgium
-ID: 213
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Jean Bertrand is driving near Carcassonne, Aude,
-France, when he comes upon a metallic sphere in the road ahead. The top
-half seems to be transparent, and he sees two human-shaped figures
-inside. As he approaches, the object takes off at high speed. Probable
-helicopter. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2538
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: The US Air Force releases a press statement saying that
-after studying 3,500 reports, it has found “no authentic physical
-evidence” that UFOs are spaceships or weapons. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2537
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Roger Barrault, a worker in Lavoux,
-Vienne, France, is riding a bicycle when he is stopped on the road by a
-double beam of light coming from a 4-foot-tall figure that looks like a
-diver. It wears boots without heels and has brilliant eyes and a large
-moustache. Hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2539
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Jean-Pierre Mitto and his two cousins are driving
-on Road 631 from Toulouse to Briatexte, Tarn, France, at a crossroads
-known as “La Caiffe” when they see two small figures about the size of
-11-year-old children cross the road. They enter a pasture where a convex
-disc rises vertically and shoots upwards rapidly. It is about 20 feet in
-diameter and orange. Brown, oily residue is found at the site. (Patrick
-Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,”
-March 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2540
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Mechanics André Bartoli and Jean-Jacques Lalevée
-see the sky light up with a yellow-orange glow in Cuisy, Seine-et-Marne,
-France. Bartoli’s car motor and headlights fail, and they both see a
-yellow-orange cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. (Aimé Michel,
-Straight-Line, pp. 150–152; Schopick,
-pp. 9–11; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” August 26, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2541
Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Max Favell, a representative of a German firm in
-Beirut, Lebanon, sees a white flying object land. It takes off
-vertically, spinning, and is lost to sight. (Vallée, Magonia, pp. 222–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2542
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: Approximate date. Many farmers observed the landing of a
-“marvelous luminous object,” hemispherical in shape, emitting
-multicolored beams. The central part appeared to be metallic. The object
-shot straight up suddenly and vanished while the crowd watched.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Creighton; 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Mahallat, Persia
-ID: 224
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: Second landing here, seen by Marius Dewilde (cf. Case 144)
-and his 4-year-old son. A disk, 6 m diameter, about 1 m high, landed
-again on the tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown
-language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger
-than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to
-report the case.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Quarouble, France
-ID: 226
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Marius Dewilde, along with his 14-year-old son,
-allegedly has a second encounter with a UFO occupant at Quarouble, Nord,
-France. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 3, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2546
Date: 10/10/1954
-Time: 0630
-Description: Roger Thiriet, jailer in Ecouvres detention center, was
-riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminum colored object
-shaped like a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It was about 2 m in
-diameter and 1 m high. It took off immediately.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 54 (Vallee)
-Location: Charmes-la-Cote, France
-ID: 227
Date: 10/10/1954
-Time: 1400
-Description: A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disk about 7
-m in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 m to the side of the
-road. Spinning, it dived to the ground from an altitude of about 800 m,
-then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 55, 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France
-ID: 228
Date: 10/10/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Roger Gayout and family saw a very bright object come very
-close to the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Saillat-sur-Vienne, France
-ID: 229
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: In a newspaper interview, Alfred
-Loedding alludes to the 1948 Estimate of the Situation without
-calling it that. Loedding shows a study of some 100+ UFO reports to one
-of the “country’s leading scientists,” who glances at it briefly, then
-declares that “flying saucers are a figment of the imagination.” Shortly
-afterwards, the skeptics in Project Sign win out, and Loedding’s efforts
-are ignored. (Trenton (N.J.) Sunday Times-Advertiser, October 10, 1954;
-Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27,
-no. 1 (Spring 2002): 13, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2547
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: Between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois
-Bolatre, topographers saw a luminous sphere 3.5 m diameter on the ground
-near Route N454.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Epoisses, France
-ID: 225
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: The Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle announces it will
-act as a clearinghouse for UFO reports. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored,
-Citadel, 1955, p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2544
Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: A cylindrical UFO with red and green lights is seen over
-Alexandria, Egypt. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2545
Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Two merchants, Henri Gallois and Louis Vigneron,
-are traveling to a fair in a van near Clamercy, Nièvre, France, when
-they both feel electrical shocks. The van motor dies, and the headlights
-go out. They become paralyzed and see on the ground, 150 feet away, a
-round object with three small figures around it. The figures go inside
-the object, which then leaves rapidly. The headlights come back on, the
-paralysis ends, and the engine can be restarted. Hoax. (Aimé Michel,
-Straight-Line, p. 158; Schopick, pp. 12–13;
-Patrick Gross, “The 1954
-French Flap,” April 7, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2549
Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Baptiste Jourdy is delivering milk near Fonfrède,
-Loire, France, when the truck engine dies and the headlights fail. He
-gets out to investigate and sees a glowing, multicolored object, moving
-at great speed, cross the road and disappear in the distance. The
-headlights return and he starts the truck again. (Aimé Michel,
-Straight-Line, p. 157; Schopick,
-pp. 11–12; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 6, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2548
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: A round craft, 4 m diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave
-off a powerful red light, took off with a formidable acceleration when
-witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; Mr. Gardelle, farmer;
-Mr. Ginestre, shoemaker; and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle
-felt “an electric shock.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 60, 61; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Montbazens, France
-ID: 240
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 2150
-Description: Four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and
-Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac, saw two luminous spheres flying in the
-same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one
-took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red
-aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 160 (Vallee)
-Location: Birac, France
-ID: 239
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: Three men driving near Taupignac got out of their car to
-observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round
-machine with a dome, 6 m diameter, giving off a yellowred light, 200 m
-away at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved
-horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two
-witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, 1 m tall, who seemed busy
-with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived
-within 15 m. The witnesses wae blinded by a sudden burst of light, blue,
-then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Taupignac, France
-ID: 238
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0500
-Description: A large disk flying very low over a road scared two truck
-drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline
-truck and ran away into the fields while the object flew on toward Medea
-in silence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Lavarande, Algeria
-ID: 237
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: A large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop
-level while cattle panicked. Three witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Bauquay, France
-ID: 236
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other persons saw
-a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew
-away when they came near.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Heimersdorf, France
-ID: 235
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0430
-Description: Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron who were driving from Clamecy
-to Corbigny felt an “electric shock” as the car headlights died. They
-then saw a craft in a pasture 50 m away. It was cylindrical, fairly
-thick, and three dwarfs were standing close by. No light was seen,
-except a small, reddish point. Both witnesses were “paralyzed” until the
-craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly
-over the woods at La Carie.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 57; M 158 (Vallee)
-Location: Sassier, near La Carie, France
-ID: 234
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0420
-Description: Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104
-when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a
-reddish glow, about 2 m in size. It stayed within 25 m of the car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 58; M 158 (Vallee)
-Location: Lacanche, France
-ID: 233
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0415
-Description: Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of
-milk, was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck
-died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road,
-the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, France
-ID: 232
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0300
-Description: Two men riding motorcycles saw a bell-shaped craft about
-2.5 m high, hovered 1 m above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The
-lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish
-sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 m high,
-then it remained motionless for about 1 hr, during which time a third
-witness joined the first two. It ultimately turned brighter and flew
-away toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 55; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Acquigny, France
-ID: 231
Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0130
-Description: Farmers awakened by a whistling sound saw a flat object
-land near the woods. It soon rose very fast, vertically, and flew away.
-The ground was found calcined. Samples were taken by police officials
-for analysis.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Doncourt-Village, France
-ID: 230
Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Baptiste Potin of Méral, Mayenne, France, is
-riding a bicycle to his workplace when he spots a huge orange ball in
-the sky that seems to be above Saint-Poix. It apparently descends to the
-ground as he approaches, barring the road. After watching it 8–10
-minutes, it rises slowly and disappears in the northwest. He finds when
-he arrives at a farm that he is covered in white fluff embedded in his
-clothes. Probably an observation of the moon, accompanied by plant
-seeds. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 14, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2550
Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Julia Juste, Maria Barbereau, and Marion Tanneur
-are driving along D14 about 1 mile from Chateauneuf-sur-Charente,
-Charente, France. Two luminous globes, one smaller than the other,
-appear in the sky ahead of them at low altitude, and their car stalls
-and the headlights go out. The larger one becomes brilliant white with a
-reddish halo. After 5 minutes, they move out of sight in the Charente
-valley. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 160; Schopick, p. 13;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 6, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2552
Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: The Romanian magazine Contemporanul claims that UFOs are US
-propaganda designed to “stir up against Moscow a flying-saucer
-psychosis.” (“Saucers
-Are Not!” Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 12, 1954, p. 4; Ruppelt, p.
-238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2551
Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: Afternoon. A French engineer driving to Kenitra, Morocco,
-sees a small figure in a metallic suit climbing abroad a UFO that
-quickly lifts off and flies away. The location is said to be Mamora
-Forest, which could be modern Mehdya, on the coast. (Lorenzen,
-Occupants, Signet, 1967, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2554
Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2330
-Description: Roger Ramond, a nightwatchman saw a great light and noticed
-an oval object which landed 300 m away. It looked like a fieryorange
-ball, illuminated the vinyard for nearly 3 hrs, then assumed a vertical
-position, rose slowly, hovered 30 m above ground for a few seconds, and
-took off at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 64; M 168 (Vallee)
-Location: Vielmur, France
-ID: 247
Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey saw a dwarf about
-1.2 m in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was
-wearing silver coveralls.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Mamora Forest, Morocco
-ID: 241
Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: Around 2:00 p.m. A math professor at Lisieux named Bon is
-in Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France, when he sees a silvery disc
-with a diameter of 21–24 feet hovering over a wooden area off the road.
-It dives toward the ground, then rises suddenly and silently into the
-sky at tremendous speed. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French
-Flap,” October 24, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2555
Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. It
-glided over the road for 30 m, then rose rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 167; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
-Location: Orchamps, France
-ID: 242
Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped,
-metallic craft on the ground near a gas-oil tank. An individual covered
-with hair was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood.
-The witness went to get his friends, but the thing disappeared in the
-meantime.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 63; M 167 (Vallee)
-Location: Montlucon, France
-ID: 243
Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Jan Marty, 42, mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a
-luminous disk about 6.5 m diameter and 2.5 m thick, land. He tried to
-approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Leguevin, France
-ID: 244
Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Gilbert Lelay, 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar in a pasture
-and a man near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a
-flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back
-inside the craft, which flew in loops and vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Carrouges 103; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Sainte-Marie d’Herblay, France
-ID: 245
Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: A businessman, Mr. Vielle, was on Route N471 between
-Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft, which gave
-off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very
-close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and rose again in
-the sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 167 (Vallee)
-Location: Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France
-ID: 246
Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: Morning. A UFO supposedly lands in a populous district on
-the south side of Tehran, Iran. It is said to have tried to kidnap a
-terrified man, Ghasim Faili, who says that on waking up he sees the UFO
-within 60 feet of him. It emits a magnetic force to capture him, but he
-shouts and neighbors gather, forcing the apparatus to take off. Later
-sources add some dubious details. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-20, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2553
Date: 10/13/1954
-Time: 1935
-Description: Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish
-disk about 4 m diameter with a small being close by, about 1.2 rn tall,
-wearing a diving suit: “His head was large with respect to the rest of
-the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny
-like glass.” The craft was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of
-the men came within 2O m of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft
-took off, throwing him to the ground, and rose very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Bourrasole, France
-ID: 249
Date: 10/13/1954
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Three witnesses (Olivier, Perano, and a third
-man) see a reddish disc about 12 feet in diameter near Bourrasol, a
-suburb of Toulouse, France. A small being about 4 feet tall is standing
-nearby wearing a diver’s suit. Its head is large, and it has enormous
-eyes. One witness approaches to within 60–70 feet and is paralyzed. The
-UFO soon takes off. Definite hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 24, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2556
Date: 10/13/1954
-Time: 10:05 AM
-Description: Witness: weather observer, following a balloon with his
-theodolite. One round, flat, silver object flew straight and level for
-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
-ID: 370
Date: 10/13/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: At Donjon de Montlaur, five persons, among them J. Dubois,
-saw a round craft maneuver, give off a blinding light. It had some
-openings or portholes, and seemed to land far from them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Crocq, France
-ID: 248
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Several witnesses saw seven small beings flee into a
-phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off
-immediately. It is claimed that “unknown seeds” were found at the
-site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Ambroix, France
-ID: 250
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 0630
-Description: A man coming out of his house saw a luminous object
-resembling a bright star. Coming near, he observed it was an object 5 m
-long, near which a “short young man” was standing on a circular piece of
-metal, laughing at the witness’s terrified expression. The witness was
-20 m away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Shamsabad, Iran
-ID: 251
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: A farmer observed an orange sphere land and went near it.
-He found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 m in diameter, and
-gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about
-200 m. It was transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After
-remaining at ground level for 10 min it flew north, while a bright cloud
-slowly fell to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he
-found his clothes covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not
-unlike paraffin wax.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62; M 174 (Vallee)
-Location: Meral, France
-ID: 255
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 1815
-Description: A municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he
-suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum
-object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the
-object took off at very high speed. Several persons confirmed the
-sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft
-whistle. It took off when Casella was only 6 m away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Biot, France
-ID: 253
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 2010
-Description: On the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais,
-Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It
-went on toward the north, seemingly following a train.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Thieulloy-la-Ville, France
-ID: 260
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous orange object on the
-ground near a corn field.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 175 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Germain-du-Bois, France
-ID: 256
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Twilight. A witness is riding a moped on the road between
-Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and Les Brosses Tillots, Saône-et-Loire,
-France. Suddenly his motor fails and, as he gets off the cycle, a bright
-circular object bursts ahead of him. He walks back with his moped and is
-able to start it again. (Aimé Michel, Straight- Line, p. 175; Schopick, p. 14;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” September 25, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2564
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A resident of Shamsabad [which one?], Iran, sees
-a star-like object about 300 feet away from his house. Approaching to 60
-feet, he sees a “short young man” who is standing on a circular piece of
-metal in the middle of the object and glancing around him. The man seems
-to be “laughing” at the witness. The UFO shoots up into the air and
-vanishes. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2557
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Keyhoe hears
-from an informant that the 4602nd AISS has a “crashed object” program.
-His contact Lou Corbin thinks
-the Air Force already has some recovered material. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 214–215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2558
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: A farmer and his wife see a light green object traveling at
-tremendous speed, possibly 3,000 mph, in Kenya. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored,
-Citadel, 1955, p. 234)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2559
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down
-plate. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. In the
-same area an engineer saw a luminous object coming down rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Romain, France
-ID: 259
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Andre Cognard, coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light
-as a diskshaped object flew low over his car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Chazey Wood, France
-ID: 258
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: South of Gueugnon, Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a
-reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights
-died.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 175) Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Chazey Wood, France
-ID: 257
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at
-4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England,
-two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery
-and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a
-collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in
-the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It
-flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: North Weald Airfield, Essex, England
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 1530
-Description: In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange
-being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body
-was covered with fur.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 143; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Lewarde, France
-ID: 252
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 12:00 noon. Farmer Antonio Crepaldi is leading his cows to
-a pond near Ca’ Pisani, Rovigo, Italy, when an egg-shaped object
-emitting intense heat swoop over his house at an altitude of 50 feet.
-The cows panic and run away, apparently suffering burns. Some haystacks
-catch fire. The sighting lats 2 minutes. (1Pinotti 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2560
Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: A farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the
-ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense
-“screen of light” and vanished without a noise. Several persons in
-Angles observed the scene.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Angles, France
-ID: 254
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Casimir Starovski, a miner, meets a strange
-figure in Erchin Forest, near Lewarde, Nord, France. It has large,
-slanted, protruding eyes and a squat, furry body. Its nose is flat, it
-has thick lips, and it wears a skullcap on its oversized head. (Clark
-III 269; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 21, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2561
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Flight Lt. James R. Salandin of the 604th Fighter
-Squadron is flying a Gloster Meteor Mk.8 out of North Weald Airfield,
-Essex, England, at 16,000 feet. He sees three objects heading towards
-him. Two of them (one gold, one silver) veer off to his port side, while
-the third closes to within a few hundred yards before veering to his
-port side. It is saucer-shaped with “buns” on top and underneath,
-silvery and metallic, with no portholes or flames. The report is sent to
-the Air Ministry where it disappears. (NICAP, “Gloster
-‘Meteor’ Encounters Disc / Salandin
-Case”; “Week-end
-Pilot in Near Collision with Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucer Review 1,
-no. 1 (Spring 1955): 2; “The
-Famous Salandin Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 (December
-1984): 13–15; Good Above, pp. 36–38;
-Good Need, pp. 154–155;
-Patrick Gross, “October
-14, 1954, North Weald, Essex, UFO Encounters
-RAF Meteor Jet”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2562
Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 6:20 p.m. André Cognard is driving on the D60 road to the
-east of Gueugnon, Saône-et-Loire, France, when a brilliant reddish
-fireball passes near his car to the west at low altitude. It is so
-bright that he stops his car. Probable meteor. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2563
Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: In Boaria Pisani, Padua, Italy, a farmer is leading his
-cows to a pond when he sees an object fly over his house. The cows panic
-and run away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emits a
-burst of light. The farmer runs to the house and then faints. Three
-other persons see the craft depart. It is dark in color but surrounded
-by short blue and yellow flames. The object is egg-shaped, flies at 50
-feet above the ground, and emits intense heat. The little pond is found
-desiccated, and haystacks catch fire as it flies over while the cattle
-suffers burns. (Vallée, Magonia, pp. 229–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2566
Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Farmers near the Po della Donzella river
-channel, Veneto, Italy, see a disc-shaped object land then take off
-vertically. At the site is a deep crater about 18 feet in diameter.
-Poplar trees are partially burned. (Aimé Michel, Straight Line,
-p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2567
Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Evening. Veterinarian Henri Robert of Londinières in
-Normandy, France, is driving on route RN 314, near Baillolet,
-Seine-Maritime, France. He sees four orange objects flying one above the
-other at 1,000 feet. One floats down like a leaf, landing about 350 feet
-in front of his car. Robert feels an electric shock and his engine dies
-for 20 seconds and the object disappears. Robert continues driving. As
-he is going through the village of Bailleul- Neuville, he sees in his
-headlights a four-foot-tall bluish-gray figure with arms and legs
-spread. His headlights go off then on again. He then sees on his left a
-27-foot-long cigar-shaped object at the edge of a slope. It takes off
-vertically and quickly moves toward the north. Possible hoax. (Aimé
-Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 184–185; Schopick, pp. 15–16;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 7, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2568
Date: 10/15/1954
-End date: 10/25/1954
-Description: Thousands of witnesses in the former Yugoslavia report
-low-flying UFOs and high-flying cigar-shaped objects, especially around
-Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Belgrade, Serbia. Yugoslavia
-announces on October 27 that it intends to launch an official
-investigation. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 61;
-Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2569
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, shaped like an
-inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disk followed
-shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 69; M 182 (Vallee)
-Location: Fouesnant, France
-ID: 269
Date: mid 10/1954
-Description: A merchant and his deliveryman are driving a van northeast
-of the village of Erquières, Pas-de-Calais, France, when they see a
-blinding light in front of them. As it passes over the van, the engine
-stalls and the headlights fail. Both men feel an electric shock. (Aimé
-Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 204–205; Schopick,
-p. 19; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2582
Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Near the swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Damien Figueres,
-56, was walking with his dogs when a reddish, luminous sphere landed 30
-m away and an individual in a diving suit walked around it. The dogs
-barked at him. He boarded the machine, and it flew away in
-silence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 65; Carrouges 120 (Vallee)
-Location: Perpignan, France
-ID: 261
Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: A farmer leading cows to a pond suddenly saw an object fly
-over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, throwing a girl to the
-ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The witness ran to
-the house and fainted; three other persons saw the craft depart. Dark,
-surrounded by short blue and yellow flames, the object was egg-shaped,
-flew 15 m above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond
-was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over, while
-the cattle suffered burns.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 67; Plantier 104 (Vallee)
-Location: Boaria, Italy
-ID: 262
Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Early in the morning. A large, luminous, red object streaks
-across the sky above Hungary. A teacher from Györ-Moson-Sopron county
-takes two photos of what is an apparent meteor. (Hobana and Weverbergh
-199–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2565
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: night
-Description: A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the
-countryside; it then emitted lights of various colors.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 54, 68; M 181 (Vallee)
-Location: Isbergues, France
-ID: 268
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the
-road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked
-back.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 182; Humanoids 4; FSR 62, 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Southend, Great Britain
-ID: 267
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 1950
-Description: A yellow, cigarshaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m
-long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets
-covering the head could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at
-both ends of the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Nimes-Courbessac Airfield, France
-ID: 266
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: Farmers saw a disk-shaped object land, then take off
-vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter.
-Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 65; M 181 (Vallee)
-Location: Po-di-Gnocca, Italy
-ID: 265
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 1300
-Description: An ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two
-caught fire.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 83 (Vallee)
-Location: Luino, Italy
-ID: 264
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 0340
-Description: A baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and
-land on the railroad tracks. It was shaped like a mushroom, about 4 m
-diameter, 2 m high.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62; M 180 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Pierre-Halte, France
-ID: 263
Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Oct. 15, 16 and 17, 1954. Fifty objects with illuminated
-bottoms were seen flying in a V-formation, very fast, on successive
-nights. Only data is on summary card.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kingfisher, Oklahoma
-ID: 371
Date: 10/16/1954
-Description: Two objects were seen, one of which made a pass at treetop
-level. It top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen
-under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Quasso, Italy
-ID: 270
Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: 2400
-Description: Several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared
-phosphorescent and of large size. It took off very suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 83 (Vallee)
-Location: Siena, Italy
-ID: 276
Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: 2145
-Description: Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 m
-diameter, 2 m high, come within 4 m of the ground for 3 or 4 min. It
-gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended for 4 m around.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Dompierre, France
-ID: 275
Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Dr. Robert, while driving through this village, saw four
-objects, at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in echelon formation.
-Suddenly one of them dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion, 100
-m away. The witness felt an electric shock as engine and headlights
-died, and the car stopped when the object touched the ground. Incapable
-of moving, Dr. Robert saw a figure about 1.2 m tall moving in the light
-of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights
-resumed operation by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off
-toward the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 71; M 185 (Vallee)
-Location: Baillolet, France
-ID: 274
Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: 1730
-Description: Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52-E
-between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down
-and he felt “paralyzed.” He then saw in a field near the road a brown
-object about 10 m long, 2.5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and
-showed no opening.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 70;M 198 (Vallee)
-Location: Mazaye, France
-ID: 273
Date: 10/16/1954
-Description: Guy Puyfourcat, 22, who was coming back from the fields,
-leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised when the animal became
-restless. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 m in
-diameter flew over them. The mare rose about 3 m in the air, and the
-witness had to release the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and
-for 10 min was unable to move. At last, it rose and attempted to walk,
-but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long
-since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely
-nothing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Cier-de-Riviere, France
-ID: 272
Date: 10/16/1954
-Description: Approximate date. An object landed about 30 m away from a
-woman, who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following
-the incident.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Thin le Moutiers, France
-ID: 271
Date: 10/17/1954
-Time: night
-Description: On Capri, an artist Raffael Castelle, saw a disk 5 m in
-diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte. Upon approaching it,
-he discovered it was not a helicopter and saw four dwarfs wearing
-coveralIs emerge from it. After 30 min the craft made a soft whirring
-sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 72 (Vallee)
-Location: Cape Massulo, Italy
-ID: 281
Date: 10/17/1954
-Description: Around 9:30 a.m. Guy Puyfourcat is returning from the
-fields near Cier-de-Rivière, Haute-Garonne, France, with his mare on a
-halter. The horse suddenly becomes restless and jumpy. A gray object
-about 4 feet in diameter rises from one side of the road and passes over
-them. The mare rises about 9 feet into the air and Puyfourcat releases
-her, and the animal falls to the ground and is unable to move for 10
-minutes. The UFO moves away at high speed. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” October 16, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2570
Date: 10/17/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: Several witnesses, among them Mr. Beuclair a policeman, saw
-a bright red domeshaped object descend to ground level 20 m away. The
-underside showed red and white lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 188 (Vallee)
-Location: Varigney, France
-ID: 280
Date: 10/17/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog, near the
-junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River, when he saw a
-gray object, about 4 m long and 1 m high on the ground and 40 m away. It
-showed a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled,
-but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking
-awkwardly as if partialIy paralyzed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Cabasson, France
-ID: 279
Date: 10/17/1954
-Description: A hunter, Manuel Madeira, saw an object, which flew away as
-he approached it, rose in the sky, and was lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: O Alvito, Portugal
-ID: 278
Date: 10/17/1954
-Description: Leon B., a city council member, saw a circular, orange
-craft take off from the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France
-ID: 277
Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a
-strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had
-never been so afraid, even during the war.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 73; M 196 (Vallee)
-Location: Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, France
-ID: 283
Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two farmers near Saint-Cirgues, Haute-Loire,
-France, watch two bright balls connected by a rod for 15 minutes. They
-disappear at a fast pace. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 21, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2572
Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome,
-emitting a bright white light, resting in a field. When they approached
-it, the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew to the
-northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 70; M 198 (Vallee)
-Location: Cisternes-la-Foret, France
-ID: 282
Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A M. Bachelard is driving a light truck southeast
-of Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France. As he goes around a bend, he feels
-paralyzed and his truck slows down to less than 20 mph. In a nearby
-field he sees an elongated object about 5 feet high. A few minutes later
-he reaches the village of Coheix, which is off his normal route, and
-starts telling people about the event. Later ufologists suspect there
-may be some missing time involved. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 198;
-Schopick, pp. 16–17;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” March 20, 2003; “The
-Landing at Gelles,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 (June
-1971): iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2571
Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: 9:00 p.m. M. and Mme. Labussière are driving on the N150
-southwest of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France, when they see a
-balance-shaped object in the sky. One side is red and the other orange,
-while the rod connecting them is a luminous green. The object pauses
-above a field near their car, which they pull over to watch more
-closely. The green rod soon dissipates, and the two balls settle in the
-field. In the dim light emitted by the objects, the Labussières see a
-small creature emerge from each, walk toward each other, pass without
-stopping, and enter the other object. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 29, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2573
Date: 10/18/1954
-Time: 2245
-Description: Miss Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near the
-old factory. Near it were three beings: two, dwarfs, crossed the road
-ahead of her; the third was a man of medium size. The craft took off,
-flying over the lake at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 197; LDLN 97; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Point Lake, France
-ID: 286
Date: 10/18/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two disks
-in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous
-“bridge” between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft
-and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots
-both objects flew away with a tremendous flash.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 74 (Vallee)
-Location: Royan, France
-ID: 285
Date: 10/18/1954
-Time: 2040
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a cigar-shaped red object dive
-toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching
-the top of the hill, they were confronted with a bulky human figure,
-about 1 m tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing
-with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw
-the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was
-illuminated over 2 or 3 km.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Fontenay-Torcy, France
-ID: 284
Date: 10/19/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Two men saw a disk-shaped object, 6 m diameter, hovering
-and emitting small violet flashes. On top of it was a very high antenna.
-Two small robotlike beings, 1.2 m tall, descended from it on a long
-ladder. Their eyes were “sharp” and dark red. They said something that
-sounded like “Dbano da skigyay o dbano,” went back aboard their craft,
-and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 87 (Vallee)
-Location: Fabriano, Italy
-ID: 289
Date: 10/19/1954
-Time: 1920
-Description: Filippo Corridoni saw a half-empty balloon at ground level
-near the Isonzo River. Near it, a disk 10 m in diameter was resting on a
-strange frame. The upper part was white with a black domelike turret,
-around which was a series of portholes, some illuminated with a very
-bright, bluish-white light, which suddenly went out as the object took
-off spinning and rising vertically, pulling the balloon with it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 86 (Vallee)
-Location: Gorizia, Italy
-ID: 288
Date: 10/19/1954
-Description: Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in
-a field. Out of them came small, red, monstrous beings who chased him.
-In a state of great excitement Senesi was brought to a hospital, where
-he tried to hide under a bed, screaming and trembling in terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 85 (Vallee)
-Location: Livorno, Italy
-ID: 287
Date: 10/19/1954
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A M. Fillonneau is driving in
-Criteuil-la-Madeleine, Charente, France, when he sees a bright fireball.
-His headlights go out and the engine stops, and he finds that his
-battery is completely dead and the headlight bulbs burned out. (Patrick
-Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” February 5, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2574
Date: 10/19/1954
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Renzo Pugina has just put his car in
-his garage at Parravicino, Como, Italy, when he sees a humanoid about 4
-feet 3 inches tall in a scaly, luminous suit standing near a tree. The
-lower part of its body is like a cone. It aims a light beam at Pugina
-that paralyzes him briefly. He only manages to move some fingers, but
-with some concentration makes a clenching motion with his fist on the
-garage keys that he holds in his hand. Freed from the temporary
-paralysis, he runs to attack the intruder, who flees with a soft
-whirring sound. A police investigation finds a spot of oil at the
-location. (Vallée, Magonia, pp. 235–236;
-Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2575
Date: 10/20/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: Forty-year-old Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a
-man wearing a jacket, boots, and cloth headgear (like a pilot’s) who
-pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When
-Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language,
-asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany.
-When he asked the time, Ujvari said: “2:30.” The man took his watch and
-said “You lie; it’s 4:00.” Then he wanted to know how far and in what
-direction Marseilles was. He made Ujvari walk on the road with him, and
-they came close to a gray craft with an antenna on top. When he was
-about 200 m away, he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly
-straight up, then take an oblique trajectory.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Carrouges 99; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Raon-l’Etage, France
-ID: 291
Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: Roger Reveille saw an oval object, 6 m long, at treetop
-level, and felt intense heat from it. It took off vertically at great
-speed. Inside the woods, the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of
-dense smoke was forming under the rain. After 15 min the witness was
-able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground
-perfectly dry.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 204 (Vallee)
-Location: Lusigny Forest, France
-ID: 292
Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: Several unknown objects maneuvered for 2 hrs near this
-village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two
-others were seen near the cliff in Mers, and seemed to be in
-communication by means of light signals with objects in another
-group.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 75 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Valery, France
-ID: 293
Date: 10/20/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Renzo Pugina, 37, bad just put his car in the garage when
-he saw a strange being covered with a “scaly” luminous suit, about 1.3 m
-tall, standing near a tree. The creature aimed the beam from a sort of
-flashlight at him, and he felt paralyzed, until a motion he made when
-clenching his fist on the garage keys seemed to free him. He attacked
-the intruder, who rose and fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot
-was found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 77;Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Panavicino d’Erba, Italy
-ID: 295
Date: late 10/1954
-End date: early 11/1954
-Description: The UK War Office receives six reports of 40–50
-unidentified radar targets that appear from nowhere, usually at midday,
-flying at a height of 12,000 feet. The targets first appear in a
-U-formation, then converge into two parallel lines and take up a
-Z-formation before disappearing. The location of the radar trackings is
-not revealed. (Good Above, pp. 38–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2598
Date: 10/20/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: Mr. Schoubrenner, 25, a truck driver, saw a bright light in
-the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The
-engine died, and he felt paralyzed: “My hands were as though glued to
-the wheel.” The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part
-phosphorescent, the middle dull, the top luminous with a yellow or
-orange point.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 76; M 204 (Vallee)
-Location: Turquenstein, France
-ID: 294
Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Jean Schonbrenner is driving a truck southbound
-near Turquestein-Blancrupt, Moselle, France, when he sees a bright glow
-ahead on route N393. He continues to drive but feels paralyzed, his
-hands glued to the wheel. At about 30 feet away, his engine stops and
-the yellow-orange glow rises slowly and heads northwest. He feels a
-sensation of warmth and sees that the glow contains a cone-shaped
-object. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 203; Schopick, pp. 17–18;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 21, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2576
Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was
-luminous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; 75 (Vallee)
-Location: Issenheim, France
-ID: 290
Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Jean Lalle (or Jean Lasse) is riding a motorcycle
-between Biozat, Alliers, and Effiat, Puy-de- Dome, France, when his
-engine dies suddenly. He sees an egg-shaped object with a bright trail
-climbing in the sky. The motorcycle restarts once the object has left.
-(Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” December 21, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2577
Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: Evening. A motorist is driving on the D220 road with his
-4-year-old son between Paillé and Pouzou, Charente-Maritime, France. He
-feels a tingling like electric shocks all over his body. The child
-cries, the engine stops, and the headlights go out as a luminous red
-body with a tail flashes briefly in front of them. (Aimé Michel,
-Straight-Line, p. 204; Schopick,
-pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 21, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2580
Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Jessie Roestenburg and her two children observe a
-disc-shaped, aluminum object hovering above their house in Ranton,
-Stafford, England. Through two transparent panels they see two men with
-white skin, having shoulder-length hair and high foreheads. They wear
-transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing resembling ski suits.
-The object hovers at a tilted angle while the two occupants look at the
-scene “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly,
-compassionately.” (Clark III 268; Charles Bowen, “Few
-and Far Between,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special
-issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 4; Gordon Creighton, “The Roestenburg
-Story (1954),” Flying Saucer Review 38, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 6–9;
-Curt Collins, “Jessie Roestenburg’s
-1954 UFO Encounter and Beyond,” Blue Blurry Lines, October 19,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2579
Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: A young man hears a rustling sound and sees a landed UFO
-outside Melito di Napoli, Italy. It gives off a powerful bronze-green
-light. He then sees an occupant dressed in a diving suit emerge. A dog
-begins barking and the entity retreats inside and takes off. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954
-October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2578
Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: A young man walking in a field heard a rustling noise and
-saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a
-pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted
-bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness
-was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of
-the pilot into the craft, which took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 88 (Vallee)
-Location: Melito, Italy
-ID: 297
Date: 10/21/1954
-Time: 1645
-Description: Near Shrewsbury, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children
-observed a diskshaped, aluminum object hovering above the house. Through
-two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to
-their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets
-and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at
-a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene “sternly, not
-in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Ranton, Great Britain
-ID: 298
Date: 10/21/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stoped as a
-large ball of fire flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt.
-“The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out.” Thorough
-police investigation failed to identify the cause of the
-phenomenon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 79 (Vallee)
-Location: Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France
-ID: 299
Date: 10/21/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres
-suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his
-4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car
-went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were
-blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an
-object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when
-it went away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 80; M 341 (Vallee)
-Location: Pouzou, France
-ID: 300
Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 m diameter, hovered and
-landed near the road. Two dwarfs, about 1.25 m tall, emerged from it,
-and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically
-leaving a red trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Pons, France
-ID: 296
Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Three observers at the Woomera Test Range in
-South Australia see an erratic, dancing light adjacent to rocket
-Launcher Apron 1, Range B, approximately 500 feet away. The light
-alternates from deep orange to yellow and is egg-shaped. Its apparent
-size is three times the magnitude of Venus. (NICAP, “Dancing Light
-Adjacent to Rocket Launcher”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2581
Date: 10/22/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Roger Reveillé is walking in the Fôret de
-Lusigny, Aube, France, when he hears a rustling noise. He looks up and
-sees an oval-shaped object about 20 feet long at treetop level. At the
-same time he feels an intense heat that also seems to be creating a
-thick fog. After a few minutes the object disappears upward, but the
-heat continues. Although it is raining, the ground underneath where the
-object had been is dry. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 204; Schopick,
-p. 18; Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” September 28, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2583
Date: 10/22/1954
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Principal Rodney
-Warrick and teacher Mrs. George Dittmar of Jerome, Ohio, Special
-School watch a large, silvery, cigar-shaped object hanging motionless in
-the sky. Soon it takes off, and in its wake it leaves a trail of
-whitish, web-like substance that floats down and begins to hang from
-wires along the road. It descends in both strands and balls for 45
-minutes. Both adults get greenish stains on their hands from it. All of
-it dissipates, but the substance placed in closed jars dissipates more
-slowly. (“Strange
-‘Flying Cigar’ Puzzles
-Union Countians,”
-Marion (Ohio) Star, November 2, 1954, pp. 1, 10; “Web-Spinning
-Saucer Visits Marysville, Ohio,” CRIFO Newsletter, December 3, 1954,
-p. 5; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32,
-no. 1 (August 2008): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2584
Date: 10/23/1954
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, has fallen asleep
-listening to the radio. Suddenly it makes a harsh shrieking noise and
-the volume increases. Dogs begin barking in the neighborhood, so she
-looks outside and sees a large reddish-orange disc with a halo around it
-moving in a circle overhead. After a minute it moves off to the south.
-(“The
-Fort Wayne and Cincinnati Tie-In,” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9
-(December 3, 1954): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2585
Date: 10/23/1954
-Description: Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a
-luminous disk in the sky and alled her family. When everyone saw the
-object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night.
-They did not observe the object’s departure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 81 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France
-ID: 301
Date: 10/23/1954
-Time: 0100
-Description: Two persons in a car saw an object resting by fhe side of
-the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, 2 m diameter, which
-suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 89 (Vallee)
-Location: San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy
-ID: 302
Date: 10/23/1954
-Time: 0300
-Description: A farmer saw a flying craft descend to ground level about
-50 m away, with a sound like that of a compressor. It was an egg-shaped
-machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was
-transparent, flooded with bright white light. Aboard were six men in
-yellowish coveralls, having human faces and masks. When he touched part
-of the craft, the witness felt a strong electric shock. One of the
-occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next 2O min, the
-witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with
-instruments. Reliable investigations were made.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Tripoli, Libya
-ID: 303
Date: 10/23/1954
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A farmer named Carmelo Papotto near Tripoli,
-Verona, Italy, watches a UFO land 150 feet away with a sound like a
-compressor. It seems to be an oval machine with six wheels and complex
-machinery. The top half is transparent and flooded with bright light.
-Aboard are six men in yellowish overalls with human faces. When he
-touches part of the object, he gets an electric shock. One occupant
-warns him to stay away. For the next 20 minutes he watches them fiddle
-with instruments. The object then rises to 150 feet and takes off at a
-dizzying speed. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 237;
-1Pinotti 61–62; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO
-Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2586
Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: 1:00–6:00 p.m. Officers and men at the Canoas Air Force
-Base near Porto Alegre, Brazil, watch a number of “circular
-silver-colored” objects moving at high speed. They are also seen by
-personnel of Varig airlines and some civilians. There are more than 100
-witnesses. The chief military witness, jet pilot Lt. H. Ferraz de
-Almeida, sees a dull silver object moving apparently slowly above the
-base in a zigzag fashion. He estimates its altitude as 40,000–45,000
-feet and suggests that its real speed must be tremendous. Maj. J.
-Magalhaes Mota is watching the same object as another one rapidly
-approaches the first and stops next to it. The second object then moves
-rapidly, abruptly changes course, and flies off in an arc. When the
-object is in motion, it is surrounded by a misty halo, and when it stops
-the halo disappears. Their movements appear mechanical and intermittent.
-The report is forwarded to the Air Ministry in Rio de Janeiro with a
-request to investigate. Brazilian Air Force Chief of Intelligence Col.
-João Adil de Oliviera heads the investigation, which concludes on
-December 2 that the “saucers appear to be some kind of revolutionary
-aircraft” that are not “conventional phenomena or illusions.” (UFOEv, p. 119;
-Swords 461–462)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2589
Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes is seen near Aïn El
-Turk, Algeria, along the coast. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2588
Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: Rocket expert Hermann
-Oberth writes in the American Weekly: “It is my thesis that flying
-saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar
-system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers
-who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for
-centuries.” He thinks UFOs might fly by “distorting the gravitational
-field.” (Hermann Oberth, “Flying
-Saucers Come from
-a Distant World,” American Weekly, October 24, 1954, in Cincinnati
-Enquirer; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 83; Hermann Oberth, “Lecture
-Notes for Lecture
-about Flying Saucers, 1954,” Australian UFO Bulletin, September
-1991, pp. 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2587
Date: 10/24/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Between Biozat and Effiat, on the road from Clermont to
-Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died as an egg-shaped object took
-off from the side of the road and rose without noise, leaving a bright
-trail behind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Biozat, France
-ID: 306
Date: 10/24/1954
-Time: 1730
-Description: Near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a
-strange craft. He was “dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron. He
-walked with his legs stiff, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes
-were large, like those of the cows.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Les Egots, France
-ID: 305
Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the
-Mediterranean shore.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Ain-el-Turck, Algeria
-ID: 304
Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: Approximate date. A. Treussard and a friend were almost
-blinded by a luminous disk, which landed in a pasture.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Plemet, France
-ID: 307
Date: 10/25/1954
-Time: 0600
-Description: Ulderico Cardinali saw a disk-shaped craft among the reeds
-of a swamp. It was 2 m in diameter, and near it was a small being, 1.40
-m tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the
-machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the
-reeds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Northern Italy, exact place unknown
-ID: 308
Date: 10/25/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: G. Mahou, municipal muncilor, 30, saw a phosphorescent
-craft shaped like a brooder, about 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, rise
-vertically from the road, leaving a luminous trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 91 (Vallee)
-Location: Arraye-et-Han, France
-ID: 309
Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Farmer Gilbert Hée is gathering pears on his farm
-at Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet [now Mesnil-en- Ouche], Eure, France, when he
-sees an elongated object about 7 feet long with a green and a red light
-at both ends resting in the pasture. Some cows have gathered around it.
-The object is moving slowly and stops at a barbed wire fence. Hée goes
-inside. At 11:00 p.m., his son-in-law René Marais and a friend, Jean
-Chéradame, arrive on a motorcycle. Chéradame agrees to ride into the
-field and take a look, but he only goes 300 feet along the road before
-the engine fails. He falls from the bike and sees two short creatures
-walking stiffly and wearing bright clothes. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 11, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2592
Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Several UFOs, some described as spear-shaped and
-others as egg-shaped, speed over Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia],
-trailing bluish tails for about an hour. Witnesses include aeronautical
-engineer Vladimir Ajvas, AF Capt. Stjepan Djitkol, and staff at the
-nearby Zemun Polje Airport. The event is a culmination of UFO sightings
-over Yugoslavia since October 15, few of which make the newspapers.
-(UFOEv, p. 123;
-Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2590
Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: Lucien Jeune, mayor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse,
-France, following numerous UFO sightings, issues a police order
-prohibiting “The overflight, landing, and take-off of aircraft,
-so-called flying saucers or flying cigars, on the communal territory.”
-The announcement, which also threatens the confiscation of any craft and
-the arrest of occupants, is done as a publicity stunt. Claude Avril, the
-city mayor in 2016, refuses to rescind it. (Louis de Gouyon Matignon,
-“The
-French Anti-UFO Municipal Law of 1954,” Space Legal Issues, May 29,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2591
Date: 10/26/1954
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Aimé Bousard is returning on his bicycle from
-the town hall at Alleyrat, Creuse, France, to his residence at La
-Vaureille when he sees a figure crouching on the roadway. When he stops,
-the figure stands up and points two powerful light-blue lights at him.
-The entity is 5 feet 3 inches tall and dressed in a diver’s suit. It has
-two green lights on either side of its head. Bousard is paralyzed for 10
-minutes while the lights are aimed at him. Then the entity crosses the
-road and disappears and Bousard can move again. Gendarmes investigate
-and note that his right hand is swollen and he has difficulty writing.
-They find a 27-inch circle of disturbed earth at the site. (Patrick
-Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” September 6, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2593
Date: 10/26/1954
-Description: Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped
-craft, the size of a truck (about 7 m) at 50 m distance, near the road,
-18 km from this town, going toward Paris. It took off without noise,
-leaving a white trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 9Z (Vallee)
-Location: Angouleme, France
-ID: 310
Date: 10/26/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Mrs. Spinner and another witness saw a flying object come
-from the west and land 1 km away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Heiteren, France
-ID: 313
Date: 10/26/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: Approximate date. At this place situated near Saint Quirin,
-Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed an orange craft, 6 m
-diameter and 3 m high, fly over them as their tractor engine died. The
-lights also went out, and the battery was found dead after the
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Les Metairies, France
-ID: 312
Date: 10/26/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Aime Boussard, 47, a farmer, was suddenly confronted with
-an individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit
-with a pale-green light on either side of the helmet. The individual
-aimed at the witness the beam of two blue lights, and he was thrown
-backward. No craft was observed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 92 (Vallee)
-Location: La Madiere, France
-ID: 311
Date: 10/27/1954
-Description: A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a
-very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the
-lights on their car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 92; M 204 (Vallee)
-Location: Linzeux, France
-ID: 314
Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his
-school director. Triangular traces were reported.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Moussey, France
-ID: 318
Date: 10/27/1954
-Description: 1:30 p.m. More than 10,000 soccer fans witness two luminous
-discs during a game at Florence, Italy. A large amount of “white
-filaments” falls that clings to everything. Engineering student Alfredo
-Jacopozzi collects samples in a jar and takes it to Prof. Cozzi at the
-Institute of Chemistry at the University of Florence. The lab finds the
-samples have a “fibrous structure, with mechanical resistance to
-contraction and torsion, burns rapidly, leaving a transparent residue.”
-It contains calcium, silicon, aluminum, magnesium, iron, and boron. (“Italy,
-Too!” Flying Saucer News, no. 7 (Winter 1954–1955): 6; Brian
-Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 101;
-Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1
-(August 2008): 5–6; 1Pinotti 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2594
Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 2330
-Description: Near Grosseto, Ermellina Lanzillo, who was looking for her
-cat, saw from her window a strange entity standing in the garden. The
-being appeared fat and had narrow shoulders, apelike eyes, and a head
-like a diving helmet. Paralyzed with terror, she regained self-control
-when called by her niece and withdrew from the window.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 94 (Vallee)
-Location: Grosseto, Italy
-ID: 320
Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 2315
-Description: On Route N40, the Mayor’s secretary saw for 15 min a
-bright, cigar-shaped object, flying very low and following the turns of
-the road at 20 m altitude. Suddenly it tumed at a right angle from the
-road and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Oye-Plage, France
-ID: 319
Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: A farmer, Gilbert Hee, was gathering pears when he suddenly
-saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the
-pasture. He dared not investigate, but he saw cows gathering around the
-object. A minute later, the lights went out, and the witness lost
-interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named
-Cheradame fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same
-spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only
-slightly and two occupants were seen. They were about 1 m tall, walked
-in stiff fashion, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished
-suddenly, and the craft took off without noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France
-ID: 317
Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 1400
-Description: A young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing
-sound and saw an object in a field. It was stationary, 1 m above the
-ground, seemed transparent and emitted a blinding glare. The witness
-fell on the ground “because of his strong emotions” at the sight. The
-object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white,
-glistening threads were found on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 93 (Vallee)
-Location: Ciolica Alta, Italy
-ID: 316
Date: 10/27/1954
-Description: Policemen saw a craft, which took off from the ground. No
-details were given.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Mezieres, France
-ID: 315
Date: 10/28/1954
-Time: 5:32 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Lt. Col. O.C. Cook and Lt. J.W.
-Brown, on ground using 7x50 binoculars. One brilliant white, round-oval
-object climbed in front of clouds, brightened, turned 90 to the north.
-Seen for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miho Air Base, Japan
-ID: 372
Date: 10/28/1954
-Description: Three luminous UFOs soar over Rome, Italy, seen by
-Associated Press reporter Maurizio Andreolo and US Ambassador Clare
-Booth Luce. Some witnesses report “fine cotton or wool particles”
-falling from them. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 212–213;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 91; 1Pinotti 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2596
Date: 10/28/1954
-Description: Hoaxed report of a landed UFO and occupants at Tradate,
-Italy, near Milan. (Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed.,
-1966, pp. 108–109;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1954 October, The
-Author, 1991, p. 89; 1Pinotti 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2595
Date: 10/29/1954
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: four Portuguese nationals. One object, shaped
-like a stovepipe with a center bulge and short wings (10’ long, 3’ in
-diameter, 3’ wings) having concave wingtips, and grey colored. Made a
-gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared in the glare of airplane
-landing lights. Sighting lasted 4-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Terciera Islands, Azores
-ID: 373
Date: 10/29/1954
-Time: 0745
-Description: A 14-year-old child sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by
-Mrs. Gentil, crying that he had been chased by a saucer. A disk three
-times as large as the sun, red and purple, spinning rapidly, was seen
-descending swiftly toward the ground and then it vanished. Investigation
-by local police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Mesples, France
-ID: 321
Date: 10/30/1954
-Time: 0930
-Description: Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50
-m away. It was rhomboidic, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A
-peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the
-cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude
-and flew away, leaving a bluish trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 82 (Vallee)
-Location: Muro Lucano, Italy
-ID: 322
Date: 10/30/1954
-Description: 1:00 p.m. UFO researcher Alberto
-Perego is driving past the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome,
-Italy, when he notices a crowd of about 100 people gazing up at the sky.
-He sees two “white dots” moving toward the south then vanish in opposite
-directions. Later, two other objects appear and move to the north at an
-altitude of about 6,500 feet. (Alberto Perego, “The
-Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 15 (June 1973): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2597
Date: 10/31/1954
-Description: Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a
-shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took
-off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted
-a bright light similar to a welder’s torch. It came back, turned, and
-flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Corrompu, France
-ID: 323
Date: 11/1954
-Description: The Hungarian government gets an “expert” to state that
-UFOs do not exist because all reports “originate in bourgeois countries,
-where they are invented by the capitalist warmongers.” (Ruppelt, p. 238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2600
Date: 11/1954
-Description: Gen. John
-A. Samford summons Col. John
-O’Mara from Dayton and directs him to clear up any confusion about
-Keyhoe’s
-use of USAF data. O’Mara writes Eickhoff and says he had misunderstood
-and that Keyhoe’s book does contain officially released Air Force UFO
-reports. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2599
Date: 11/1/1954
-Time: 0730
-Description: A 40-year-old lady going to a cemetery suddenly observed an
-object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy
-space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind
-the object appared two dwarfs, 1 m tall, wearing gray coveralls and
-reddish helmets. Speaking words she could not understand, and with
-smiles that showed fine white teeth, they took a pot of flowers from the
-witness and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Poggio d’Ambra, Italy
-ID: 324
Date: 11/1/1954
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli sets out for the church at
-the castle of Cennina, Arezzo, Italy. As she passes through a wooded
-area, she sees a spindle-shaped object standing upright next to a
-cypress tree. It has two portholes and a little door, through which she
-can see two chairs. Two little men come out from behind the object; they
-are dressed in gray suits, cloaks that come down to their waists, and
-red helmets. They speak in an unintelligible language and snatch flowers
-from her hands and throw them inside the UFO. Dainelli flees, glancing
-back only once. (Clark III 228–229; 1Pinotti 65–74; Northern Ontario UFO
-Research and Study, “The 1954
-Cennina Landing and Encounter with Humanoids”; Società Cooperativa
-Dramatica Filarmonica di Ambra, “Incontro
-con umanoidi di Rosa Dainelli nei Lotti”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2602
Date: 11/1/1954
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Jack Holloway sees a large, round object that
-leaves a vapor trail that sprays sparks and moves at high speed for a
-few seconds to the south of Salem, Oregon. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2601
Date: 11/1/1954
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos is driving at a spot
-called Curva del Obispo 42 kilometers from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain,
-when his engine stalls and the lights go out. He sees a large glowing
-red object near the road. After a while it moves upwards with a “soft
-explosion.” At the same time, the radio-telegraph station in A Coruña is
-affected by severe interference and static. Probable meteor. (Antonio
-Ribera, “A
-UFO Survey of Spain: More
-Evidence,” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1963): 16;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part
-Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 18; Juan Carlos Victorio, “El
-‘platillo volante’ de Órdenes
-(A Coruña),” Misterios del Aire, April 17, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2603
Date: 11/2/1954
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Taxi driver Maurilio Braga Godoi leaves the
-streetcar trailer at Santo Amaro, a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil, and
-starts to walk home. When he arrives at the corner of Rua Andaguara, he
-is startled to find a glowing, circular object landed in an empty lot.
-It is about 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded in a violet glow. He
-approaches it hesitantly from 60 feet away, feeling like running but he
-is rooted to the spot and is unable to call for help. The anxiety
-dissipates, and he walks toward it again, noticing a sliding door on the
-object. He goes inside, entering a circular room illuminated by a soft
-light. On a table he sees some maps, including one of South America with
-mushroom-shaped marks on it. He looks up and sees three humanoids less
-than 5 feet tall with dark brown skin and dressed in a light gray
-coverall and a belt that holds what might be a weapon. They appear to be
-conversing in an unknown language. He tries talking to them, but they
-don’t understand. He backs out of the object, dragging his feet. He
-jumps out of the door and runs away. Looking back at the object from 30
-feet away, he sees it is hovering 30 feet above the ground then takes
-off swiftly and silently. Godoi is examined by psychiatrists, who find
-him neither neurotic nor psychotic. (Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967,
-pp. 198–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2604
Date: 11/2/1954
-Time: 1800
-Description: Two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, who were
-hunting, saw a dwarf 1 m tall with a “rubber” head and a flexible tube
-connecting his face to a cylindrial container on his back. When they
-came close to it, the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. The
-witnesses ran away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Cremona, Italy
-ID: 325
Date: 11/3/1954
-Time: 0700
-Description: Maroc-Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E.,
-driver of a delivery truck, “a man of sane judgment and excellent
-eyesight,” observed an object flying over the Beth River. “I am positive
-it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft
-which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, then
-it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disk
-and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge,
-very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed,
-resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Oued Beth, Morocco
-ID: 326
Date: 11/4/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Jose Alves was fishing in the Pardo River when he suddenly
-saw a craft approach with a wobbling motion and landing near him. Shaped
-like two washbowls placed together, it was about 4.5 m in diameter. Too
-terrified to move, the witness saw three little men, dressed in white,
-wearing tight-fitting skull caps, with dark skin, come out of the craft,
-gather vegetables and water and fly away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 33; Lor. I 44 (Vallee)
-Location: Pontal, Brazil
-ID: 327
Date: 11/4/1954
-Alternate date: 11/7/1954
-Description: 3:15 p.m. A motorcyclist, Gianni Cambosu, sees a silvery,
-disc-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter land near the road at Monte
-Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy. He swerves sharply to avoid it and falls off
-his cycle. A taxi driver, Francesco Tanca, stops to observe the object,
-which is making a soft whirring sound before it takes off. (Wilkins, FS
-Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 237–238;
-1Pinotti 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2606
Date: 11/4/1954
-Description: A laborer named Jose Alves of Pontal, São Paulo, Brazil, is
-night fishing in the Rio Pardo in a deserted spot. He sees a silvery,
-glowing UFO like two washbowls placed on top of each other, closing in
-from a westerly direction and wobbling. It lands near him and three
-little men emerge from a window, 3 feet tall with dark brown skin. They
-are dressed in white clothes with tightly fitting skullcaps, and collect
-samples of grass, herbs, and leaves, as well as water, which they put
-into a metal tube. They jump back into the object, which takes off
-vertically. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2605
Date: 11/5/1954
-Description: Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a
-large, shining disk rise 150 m away with a slight noise like an
-explosion and fly away at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 96 (Vallee)
-Location: La Coruna, Spain
-ID: 328
Date: 11/5/1954
-Description: 10:09 a.m. A witness in La Roche-en-Brénil, Côte d’Or,
-France, sees an orange object making a noise like a generator land in a
-nearby pasture. He notices three men standing near it. One is holding a
-box that emits a beam of light and the other two hold objects that look
-like weapons. Physical traces are found at the landing site: a white
-substance and a circle 10 feet in diameter. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 16, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2607
Date: 11/5/1954
-Time: 1010
-Description: Raymond R. saw a craft, which made a noise like a large
-transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men
-in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box,
-“which emitted a beam of light three meters long.” The other two were
-holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt
-pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were
-taken. Traces: a whitish substance and a circle 3 m in diameter where
-the ground had an ashlike appearance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: La Roche-en-Brenil, France
-ID: 329
Date: 11/6/1954
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Alberto
-Perego is in the Tuscolana district in Rome, Italy, when he sees
-dozens of small, white objects in the sky at a height of 4–5 miles. They
-are moving at variable speeds, as high as 750–850 mph. At first he
-calculates that there are about 50 of them, but later realizes there are
-100. Sometimes they are single, other times in pairs, threes, fours,
-sevens, or twelves. Frequently they are in diamond formations of four or
-V- formations of seven. At 12:00 noon, a formation of 20 objects appears
-from the east, followed by another 20 moving from the west. The two
-V-formations converge until their vertices form a St. Andrews cross,
-with 10 objects to each bar. The convergence takes place over the
-Trastevere–Monte Mario district above Vatican City. The cross then
-performs a three-quarter turn on its axis, turning into an X-formation,
-then breaks off into two separate curves that take off in opposite
-directions. Another concentration of about 100 objects appears 10
-minutes later and Perego notices shining filaments falling from the sky.
-He grabs a handful of the glassy substance, which evaporates in a few
-hours. (Alberto Perego, “The
-Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 15 (June 1973): 4–5; 1Pinotti 76–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2608
Date: 11/6/1954
-Description: Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Padre Island, TX
Date: 11/7/1954
-Time: 1515
-Description: A motorcyclist saw a disk-shaped machine land near the
-road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell 50 m away. A taxi driver
-stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and
-soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly
-away. The disk, about 15 m in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough
-metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 97; Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
-Location: Monte Ortobene, Sardinia
-ID: 330
Date: 11/7/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Alberto
-Perego is returning from the Tuscolana district of Rome, Italy, when
-he sees more formations of about 50 white objects that remain for about
-two-and-a-half hours. They arrive from different directions and always
-in formation. More filamentous material falls from the sky. (Alberto
-Perego, “The
-Great ‘Cross’
-above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15
-(June 1973): 5; 1Pinotti 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2609
Date: 11/8/1954
-Time: 1030
-Description: A crowd of about 150 people, destroying barriers to come
-closer, gathered to observe a luminous craft landed in a stadium. The
-object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white
-light and supporting an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and
-gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural
-sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man
-sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit
-him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 238 (Vallee)
-Location: Monza, Italy
-ID: 331
Date: 11/8/1954
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Blacksmith André Chaillou is riding a moped one
-mile north of Loublande, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he notices a small
-blue light in front of him. His engine fails and he nearly falls off the
-bike. The blue dot is projecting a strong light and hovering about 6
-feet in the air. He finds himself temporarily paralyzed with a tingling
-in his hands. The blue light goes out and he is able to move again and
-restart his moped, but the light reappears about 450 feet away,
-seemingly 18 feet long and cone-shaped. It takes off vertically with a
-whistling sound. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” October 22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2611
Date: 11/8/1954
-Time: dusk
-Description: Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, “in spite of
-his gloves,” when a blue disk came close to his motorcycle and his
-electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for
-several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started
-again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 m away. He saw the
-object, a cone 5.5 m in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling,
-then fly horizonally to the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 98 (Vallee)
-Location: La Tessoualle, France
-ID: 333
Date: 11/8/1954
-Time: 1800
-Description: In the Vacheresse Forest, reliable persons reported seeing
-a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and become dark. The
-next morning, investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 m in diameter
-had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The
-earth seemed to have been dug up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Voussac, France
-ID: 332
Date: 11/8/1954
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses near Voussac, Allier, France, in the
-Vacheresse Forest watch a luminous sphere land and then dim, fading to
-black. Investigators find an area 12–15 feet in diameter where there are
-no leaves and the ground seems excavated. (Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” April 18, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2610
Date: 11/9/1954
-Description: Two villagers reported the landing of a 2-m-high “flying
-egg” in a pasture. Screams seemed to emanate from it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 251 (Vallee)
-Location: Bois de Villers, Belgium
-ID: 334
Date: 11/10/1954
-Description: An agronomist and his family encounter a landed UFO along a
-road in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Two men with long hair
-and one-piece suits emerge and approach them with raised arms. The
-witnesses speed away. (Clark III 268; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2612
Date: 11/10/1954
-Description: An agronomist and his family in their car saw a landed disk
-from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like
-clothes, emerged and came toward the car with arms raised. As the
-frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disk, which
-rose and flew off at very great speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 42 (Vallee)
-Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
-ID: 335
Date: 11/12/1954
-Description: 3:00–6:00 p.m. A white, motionless object appears over
-Louisville, Kentucky. A radar unit 30 miles southwest of Louisville
-tracks the object but loses sight about 12 miles northwest of Godman
-Army Airfield at Fort Knox. It is later sighted at Bedford, Indiana.
-Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. Lee
-J. Merkel notifies Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, which
-sends an F-86 to investigate. The pilot sees nothing and returns to the
-base. Merkel and another National Guard pilot give chase in F-51
-Mustangs, but they are also unsuccessful. Merkel says the object is
-moving into the wind, which is not likely for a balloon. Henry
-P. Julliard, deputy director of Standiford Field [now Louisville
-International Airport] follows the object for 45 minutes on the weather
-bureau’s theodolite; he says the object has no more motion than a star
-and that after sundown the object turns amber. (“That
-‘Thing’ in the Sky Still
-‘Unidentified Object,’” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, November
-13, 1954, pp. 1, 12; “Louisville
-Stops Work to Watch Saucer,” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 (December 3,
-1954): 3–4; NICAP, “Sphere
-Startles Thousands”; UFOEv, p. 134;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2614
Date: 11/12/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Alberto
-Perego watches even more formations of white objects over Rome. He
-has contacted the Italian air defense office, which tells him that the
-objects would be out of radar range. This time the objects are also
-observed by Fr. Zilwes, a Brazilian priest at the Vatican Observatory in
-Castel Gandolfo, Italy. (Alberto Perego, “The
-Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 15 (June 1973): 5–6; 1Pinotti 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2613
Date: 11/13/1954
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A witness is driving in Buchy, Seine-Maritime,
-France, and sees a luminous object take off as he feels a mild electric
-shock and is paralyzed. His car engine slows but does not stall. The
-object leaves, the paralysis goes away, and the car returns to normal.
-(Patrick Gross, “The
-1954 French Flap,” October 22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2615
Date: 11/13/1954
-Time: 0330
-Description: A lens-shaped object was seen on the railroad tracks. Near
-it, three dwarfs wearing tight-fitting suits were looking at the tracks
-with a light. When the witness approached, the machine took off very
-fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 99; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
-Location: Curitiba, Brazil
-ID: 338
Date: 11/13/1954
-Description: At intersection of Routes N28 and N319, Mr. R. L., of
-Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was
-paralyzed. The engine of the car slowed down but did not stall.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Buchy, France
-ID: 337
Date: 11/13/1954
-Time: 0330
-Description: Near the local airport, Mr. Davril saw a craft like a round
-hut 300 m away. It took off without noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Berck, France
-ID: 336
Date: 11/14/1954
-Alternate date: 11/11/1954
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Near Isola, Spezia, Italy, Amerigo (or Americo)
-Lorenzini sees a cigar-shaped UFO land and a trio of small creatures
-wearing diving suits emerge. They walk over to Lorenzini’s rabbit cages
-and stare at the animals, talking in a strange language. He runs inside
-to grab his gun and tries to pull the trigger as they are taking some
-rabbits to the UFO, but he becomes paralyzed. The UFO takes off, leaving
-a bright trail. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954
-November–December, The Author, 1991, pp. 20–21; 1Pinotti 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2618
Date: 11/14/1954
-Description: Two or three tractor drivers in Forli, Italy, watch a
-bright-red, luminous UFO approach them in a farm field. As it
-approaches, the engine that works by internal combustion fail, but the
-diesel engine still runs. The men run away; when they return, the UFO
-has departed. The engine that failed still causes some trouble after the
-sighting. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 62–63,
-145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2617
Date: 11/14/1954
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Railroad worker Jose Rodrigues comes across three
-figures in tight-fitting suits inspecting the ground with the help of
-luminous objects near railroad tracks near Urai, Paraná, Brazil. They
-see him and run back into the UFO. (NICAP, “Railroad
-Men See ‘Men’ Inspecting Tracks”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2616
Date: 11/14/1954
-Time: night
-Description: A shange beam of red light, apparently from some flying
-source, was reported sweeping the countryside. As it illuminated two
-tractors, one of them stalled, but the other, a diesel, continued. The
-beam was seen for about one hour by a large number of persons.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 211 (Vallee)
-Location: Forli, Italy
-ID: 341
Date: 11/14/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Approximate date. Marcel Pipers a gardener saw a craft
-resting near the road give off a very bright light. His clothing was
-partially burned when he went close to it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Wasmes, Belgium
-ID: 340
Date: 11/14/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: Amerigo Lorenzini, a farmer, saw a bright, cigar-shaped
-craft land near him and took cover. Out of it came three dwarfs dressed
-in metallic diving suits. They centered their attention on rabbits in a
-cage while speaking among themselves in an unknown language. Thinking
-they were going to steal the animals, the farmer aimed a rifle at the
-intruders, but it failed to fire and the witness suddenly felt so weak
-that he had to drop the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and their
-craft departed, leaving a bright trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 100 (Vallee)
-Location: Isola, Italy
-ID: 339
Date: 11/15/1954
-Time: 44 PM
-Description: Witness: N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV. Ten
-gold, circular objects flew in vertical V-formation, straight and level
-for 3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Augusta, Maine
-ID: 374
Date: 11/17/1954
-End date: 11/18/1954
-Description: Blue Book head Capt. Charles
-Hardin and Allen
-Hynek meet with Col. John M. White Jr., commander of the 4602nd AISS
-at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in order to help out
-with a guide for investigating and processing UFO reports. (Col. John M.
-White Jr., “Report
-of Visit of ATIC Representatives,”
-November 23, 1954, in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service
-Squadron, vol. 1, January 1– June 30, 1955, pp. 55–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2620
Date: 11/17/1954
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Iden
-K. Zimmerman is standing just under the roof of a shed by the
-railing of gate number six of the Willamette Falls Locks in Oregon City,
-Oregon. His gloved hands are resting on the railing. He feels something
-like “icy rain” on his hands. The rain seems to penetrate his clothing
-and gloves as if his arms are bare. He feels the same thing on his legs,
-from the knees down. Looking up, he sees a bright orange object as large
-as the full moon flying in a straight line from west to east. It
-disappears over the Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill roof across the river.
-He can find no trace of rain on the wooden deck or cement walks, and the
-moisture disappears from his clothing. A few minutes later he begins to
-feel dizzy and has trouble maintaining his balance. The effect wears off
-in about one hour. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2619
Date: 11/19/1954
-Time: 4:15 PM
-Description: Witness: P.J. Gunn, assistant professor of art at Oregon
-State University and ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet. One bright white light
-hovered 8.5-9 minutes, then crossed 20 of sky in 3-3.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corvallis, Oregon
-ID: 375
Date: 11/21/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Copilot Cmdr. Armando Braulino, pilot Cmdr.
-Pedro Luiz Teixeira, steward, radio operator, and passengers of National
-Airlines Douglas PP-ANM airliner at 9,000 feet over Paraíbo do Sul, Rio
-de Janeiro, Brazil, see a UFO formation, described as disc-shaped with
-cupola or dome on top, like aluminum with a polished surface. The
-formation is coming from the northeast at 7,200 feet and passes below
-the airliner at high speed. The duration is 40–50 seconds. (NICAP, “Shiny
-Objects Encountered by Airliner”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2621
Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: 9:45 p.m. At Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul,
-Brazil, radio operator Arquimedes Fernandez sees a strange cloud above
-the trees, like an upside-down washbowl. It is a solid body 160 feet
-across, oscillating with a small light on top. Fernandez radios a report
-to weather headquarters at Porto Alegre. The object remains in view
-until his duty shift ends at 1:15 a.m. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 51–52;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The
-Author, 1991, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2624
Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: Charles Laughead is forced to resign his position at
-Michigan State College [now Michigan State University] in East Lansing,
-Michigan, because of his flying saucer activities. (Clark III 718)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2622
Date: 11/22/1954
-Time: 2145
-Description: A radio operator at the local air base saw a huge, dark
-object about 30 m in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four
-other persons he saw it for several hours, sometimes softly glowing,
-sometimes coming down almost to the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 4511 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
-ID: 342
Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in
-Northwest Miami
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Northwest Miami, FL
Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: Anor Ferreira da Silva, a bored telegraph operator in
-Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil, transmits a Morse code message to his
-friend Geraldo Bastos in Belo Horizonte, claiming that a flying saucer
-has crashed in a nearby quarry. His messages continue for an hour,
-repeatedly asking the authorities to defend the city from Martian
-invaders. Bastos takes the messages seriously, and a friend looking over
-his shoulder runs out to the nearest newspaper office to relay the news.
-The telephone system of Caratinga shuts down from all the press
-inquiries, and soon the Brazilian military investigates, finding nothing
-amiss in the city. (John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds,
-McFarland, 2009, pp. 114–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2623
Date: 11/23/1954
-Description: Afternoon. A UFO follows three 10-year-old girls (Anne
-Storedal, Tora Storedal, and Tora Moy Haugo) returning home from school
-in Torpo, Viken County, Norway. It descends and hovers only 3 or 4 feet
-away from them. It is round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom
-is black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a
-number of small “red jags.” The upper part is a transparent dome; a man
-who is operating controls is visible inside. He wears black trousers, a
-black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stares at one of
-the girls. When the craft ascends it collides with a high-tension power
-line making a shower of sparks, and the girls run away. They notice a
-smell “like fried sausages.” A “streak” is found in the snow, apparently
-left by the craft having brushed the surface of the ground. (Clark III
-268; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1954, p. 160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2625
Date: 11/25/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, suddenly
-saw three figures who, as soon as they were discovered, entered a small
-spherical craft concealed 10 m away behind some bushes. The beings were
-small, about 35 cm tall, had very large heads and lead-gray skin. The
-craft had two sharppointed propellers in front, which started spinning.
-The craft took off suddenly with a hissing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Calcerosa, Italy
-ID: 343
Date: 11/28/1954
-Time: 0200
-Description: G. Gonzales and Jose Ponce, truck drivers, found their road
-blocked by a luminous sphere over 3 m diameter, hovering 2 m above
-ground. A small creature with claws and glowing eyes came toward them.
-Gonzales grabbed it, found it strangely light (less than 2O kg), and
-observed its body was very hard and covered with fur. But the creature
-pushed him back, while two other dwarfs emerged from the bushes and
-leaped into the sphere, carrying stones and other samples. Gonzales was
-blinded by a light from the craft and the strange beings flew
-away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor I 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 344
Date: 11/28/1954
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Meat merchants José Ponce and Gustavo Gonzáles
-are driving a panel truck along Calle Bella Vista in Petare, Caracas,
-Venezuela. They find their way blocked by a 10-foot-wide, glowing ball
-hovering 6 feet above the street. When they get out to investigate, they
-are confronted by a dwarfish creature covered with stiff, bristly hair.
-Gonzáles grabs it, but it tosses him to one side. Two more dwarfs,
-gathering dirt and rocks nearby, approach. Ponce sees them and runs to
-find a police station. Gonzáles recovers in time to see two of the
-entities climb through an opening in the UFO. The third comes toward
-him, claws extended, and Gonzáles tries to stab it in the shoulder with
-his knife, but the blade glances off. One of the dwarfs inside the UFO
-points a tube at Gonzáles that emits a brilliant beam of energy. He is
-paralyzed and temporarily blinded but manages to stagger to the police
-station. A doctor at the emergency room at Esquina de Sálas hospital
-treats an abrasion on Gonzáles’s left side. Other witnesses to a UFO in
-the area come forward. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 57–58;
-Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976,
-pp. 144–145; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the
-Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The Author,
-1991, pp. 32–33; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,”
-IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 31; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-4, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2626
Date: 11/28/1954
-Description: A group of peasants at Palmarito, Mérida, Venezuela, see a
-strange craft land. Three small-statured beings emerge from it. (Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, November
-5, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2627
Date: 11/28/1954
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witness: one anonymous medical doctor. One flat-bottomed,
-domed object (65-70’ across, 18-20’ high), bright orange with yellow
-discs attached and an exhaust trail. Flew north, stopped, reversed its
-course during 4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Manilla, Phillipine Islands
-ID: 376
Date: 11/30/1954
-Description: Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in
-Alabama.
-Type: anomalous event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Alabama
Date: 12/1954
-Description: Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian meet George
-Hunt Williamson at a lecture he is giving in Detroit, Michigan.
-(Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2631
Date: 12/1954
-Description: Contactee Orfeo
-Angelucci, now working in Twentynine Palms, California, is at Tiny’s
-Café when he meets someone named Adam, who claims to have read his book
-and gives him some kind of mind-altering pill. After taking the pill,
-Angelucci finds himself in an “exalted state” and talks freely with Adam
-about outer space and politics. Prior to this time, Angelucci has caught
-the attention of the FBI because he has been approached several times by
-a group of seeming left-wing agents. (Orfeo Angelucci, The
-Son of the Sun, DeVorss,
-1959; Kremlin 100–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2630
Date: 12/1954
-Description: Early in December, the director of Barquisimeto College was
-chased by a luminous disk as he was driving near Guanare. He fired at
-the object with his revolver, without effect. He stopped another car in
-which a lawyer and two policemen were traveling. All four saw the
-machine fly away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
-Location: Guanare, Venezuela
-ID: 345
Date: 12/1954
-Description: The US Air Force acknowledges that it is contemplating a
-“New type of jet aircraft, powered by a turbine larger than any now in
-use, [that] is expected to take off, land vertically, and be able to
-hover. It may cruise at 1,500 knots and have a range of 15,000 nautical
-miles.” It speculates: “If the Soviets now have such an aircraft in
-operational use, would the United States air defense system be able to
-detect, identify, intercept and destroy a bomber or reconnaissance
-aircraft moving at a 1,500 knot clip at an altitude of 65,000 feet?”
-(“The
-Flying Disc,” Air Intelligence Digest 7, no 12 (December 1954):
-6+)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2629
Date: 12/1954
-Description: Aviation inventor Bill
-Lear sees a flying disc giving off greenish light near Palm Springs,
-California. It hovers for 2 seconds then swiftly moves out of sight.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1955 January–June, The Author, 1992, p, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2628
Date: 12/1/1954
-Time: 0430
-Description: A 39-year-old civilian saw an oval light, very bright,
-illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in
-mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than 3 km away, then
-flew off to the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bassoues, France
-ID: 346
Date: 12/1/1954
-Description: President Eisenhower approves
-the development of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane as a CIA
-project under the direction of Allen
-Dulles. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2632
Date: 12/3/1954
-Description: Morning. Victoriano Maeso, Luis Brugeda, and Francisco
-Huertos are at Las Gastanas farm about 3 miles from Granja de
-Torrehermosa, Badajoz, Spain, when they hear an unusual noise and notice
-an object in the branches of an oak tree about 165 feet away. It is
-pyramid-shaped and about 8 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with four
-fins and a box suspended from it by apparent ropes. They approach it,
-but the object rises and disappears toward the west. This observation is
-the first of about a dozen others reported over the next two weeks in
-Badajoz, Zaragoza, Teruel, Guipúzcoa, and Huelva provinces that seem to
-involve wayward balloons released in Germany by Radio Free Europe that
-carry leaflets intended to be dropped in the Soviet bloc. (Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Los
-ovnis de diciembre de 1954,” Academia.edu)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2633
Date: 12/3/1954
-Time: 12:12 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Mellen. One translucent grey,
-round, flat object rotated on its vertical axis at high r.PM for 30
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gulfport, Mississippi
-ID: 377
Date: 12/4/1954
-Time: night
-Description: For several minutes a waiter saw a circular object
-stationary in a pasture 50 m away. It was blue with symmetrical
-openings, from which a bright red light was emitted. The witness got a
-rifle and fired twice at the very tall figure who came out of the turret
-on the craft. Immediately a very strong wind was felt, and the craft
-took off amidst a reddish glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 101 (Vallee)
-Location: Caselle di Nogara, Italy
-ID: 348
Date: 12/4/1954
-Description: Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine,
-with a side of 10 m, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the
-south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Zuaga, Spain
-ID: 347
Date: 12/5/1954
-Description: 8:15 a.m. Miguel Sevil is hunting in the Montes de Zuera
-north of Zaragoza, Spain, when he hears a prolonged whistle and sees a
-luminous, transparent object landed about 165 feet away. It has several
-rods protruding from it, each apparently with a propeller. Two men about
-6 feet tall with blond hair and speaking an unintelligible language
-enter the UFO through a door on the side. It rises vertically at
-tremendous speed and disappears. Probable hoax. (Vicente-Juan Ballester
-Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Los
-ovnis de diciembre
-de 1954,” Academia.edu)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2634
Date: 12/7/1954
-Time: 1:15 PM
-Description: Witness: weather officer, using a theodolite. One white,
-semi-circular, flat object with a dome flew from west to east, then
-turned north. Sighting lasted 7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cape Province, South Africa
-ID: 378
Date: 12/7/1954
-Description: A Project Blue Book memo acknowledges the many “Foreign
-Sightings” in Europe, but attributes the cause to an increase in
-“meteorite activity” and overseas translations of Keyhoe’s
-book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November– December,
-The Author, 1991, pp. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2635
Date: 12/7/1954
-Description: 1:15 p.m. R. H. Kleyweg, officer-in-charge of the
-meteorological station at Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa, is
-looking for a red balloon he has just released. He sees an object just
-east of the sun, moving slowly west, but when he begins tracking it with
-a theodolite, he realizes it is white, not red. It looks like a half
-circle with sunlight gleaming from its sloped top. He follows it for 3
-minutes, but then it accelerates and he cannot keep it in sight. (James
-E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2636
Date: 12/9/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: A farmer, O. da Costa e Rosa, observed a stranger standing
-near a machine shaped like “a tropical helmet,” cream-colored,
-surrounded with haze, making the same noise as a sewing machine. Another
-man was looking at a fence, and the head and arms of a third one were
-visible inside the craft. As the witness dropped his hoe, the man
-smiled, picked it up, and gave it back to him, after which they motioned
-him to stay away and took off. They were of average height, had broad
-shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown
-coveralls ending with shoes without heels.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
-ID: 349
Date: 12/9/1954
-Description: Night. Lorenzo Flores and Jésus Gómez are hunting rabbits
-near an unfindable town called Carera along the Transandean Highway in
-Venezuela. They run across a huge red UFO like two washbowls put
-together hovering above the road with flames spurting out. Four small
-hairy figures, 3 feet tall, scramble out and grab Gómez and try to drag
-him toward the craft. Flores strikes one with his gun butt, but it has
-no effect and feels like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracks
-from the impact. Gómez faints from fright, and both men are scratched
-and bruised. A passing motorist takes them to a police station, their
-clothes torn and skin abraded. When they tell their story to the police,
-it is obvious that their shirts have been shredded into ribbons. (“Hunters
-Clawed and Beaten,”
-APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 15, 1955): 2; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 56–57;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The
-Author, 1991, pp. 51–52; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System
-for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2639
Date: 12/9/1954
-Description: Evening. Farmer Olmiro de Costa e Rosa is feeding his
-animals at Linha Bela Vista, said to be 2.5 miles from Venâncio Aires,
-Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he hears a sound like a sewing machine
-that causes some of his cows to run. An object shaped like an “enormous
-polished brass kettle” with a rectangular structure on top is hovering
-in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids “enveloped in
-a kind of yellow sack from head to toe” are standing in a nearby field.
-As he approaches, one runs toward him and the other raises its arm. The
-first one kneels down and plucks a tobacco plant from the field, then
-both jump into the craft, which vanishes within a few seconds. (Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, December
-27, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2638
Date: 12/9/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object
-descending toward them at great speed. It hovered 5 m above ground when
-they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigarshaped, 5 m long, 2 m wide.
-They saw it turn off its lights and fly toward the forest. Other people
-in a bus saw the same thing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Dorf-Gull, Germany
-ID: 350
Date: 12/9/1954
-Description: Giovanni Aquilante, a farmer of Gricignano d’Aversa,
-Caserta, Italy, disappears after leaving home to work in the fields. His
-family and police fail to find him. On December 10, near 12:00 midnight,
-two of Aquilante’s sons and a friend see two mysterious entities with
-luminous eyes in a field. They quickly vanish. Aquilante returns home on
-the morning of December 11, silent and shocked, and explains that he met
-two “dwarfs” in the field wearing multicolored suits. They float him in
-the air and take him to “unknown places.” They release him, but promise
-to come back for him later. Aquilante is terrified of being abducted
-again. (1Pinotti 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2637
Date: 12/10/1954
-Description: An American petroleum engineer takes a photo of a formation
-of UFOs over El Tigre, Venezuela. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954
-November–December, The
-Author, 1991, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2640
Date: 12/10/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Having seen a bright object land near the Trans-Andean
-Highway, two young men approached it, found it was shaped like two bowls
-g]ued together, about 3 m diameter. The underside was a source of fiery
-light. Four small beings emerged and attacked them, in an apparent
-kidnapping attempt. The dwarfs were extremely strong, their bodies
-covered with hair. They fled into the machine, and it took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 51 (Vallee)
-Location: Chico, Venezuela
-ID: 352
Date: 12/10/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: A doctor from Caracas who was driving with his father near
-this town stopped his car as two little men were running into the
-bushes. Soon thereafter, a luminous disk rose from the side of the road
-with a sizzling sound and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
-Location: Floresta, Venezuela
-ID: 351
Date: 12/10/1954
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A doctor is driving near Generalissimo Francisco
-de Miranda Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, when he and his father see
-two little men running near the road and ducking into shrubbery. Moments
-later a UFO rises up from the same spot and zooms away. (Loren E. Gross,
-The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1954 November–December, The
-Author, 1991, p. 52; “Doctor
-Sees Little Men, Disc,” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 15, 1955):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2641
Date: 12/11/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: Near the site of Case 349, Pedro Morais saw two human
-beings dressed in “yellow bags” take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then
-go away. Their craft “had a bottom like an enormous polished brass
-kettle,” hovered with an oscillating motion, and made a noise like a
-sewing machine. Its upper part resembled a jeep hood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 34 (Vallee)
-Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
-ID: 353
Date: 12/14/1954
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Three bright lights appear in the sky above
-Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Around 12:00 noon, they descend to a lower
-altitude, and witnesses see they are metallic discs. The Brazilian Air
-Force scrambles some jets, but they fail to intercept any of the
-objects. By 1:00 p.m., several groups of witnesses around the city are
-watching when two of the objects take off to the south, while the third
-comes closer and approaches some buildings in the city center. Chief of
-Police Col. Carlos Assunção sees a “reddish and slightly bluish object”
-moving at incredible speed. Maxim Cicaida, a professional photographer
-for Foto Heisler, snaps a photo of the disc above a building. He sends
-the negatives to the Brazilian Naval School in Rio de Janeiro, but they
-are never returned, and no analysis is released. (Brazil 29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2642
Date: 12/15/1954
-Description: A man is fishing in a river near Campo Grande, Mato Grosso
-do Sul, Brazil, when he sees an unusual object landing a few hundred
-feet away. His dog gets nervous and begins to howl. He uses his
-telescopic gunsight to get a closer look. He sees two spheres of
-different sizes, the smaller one revolving around the larger one, which
-is about 6 feet above the ground and has three balls attached to its
-underside. Soon he sees small beings come down from the large object,
-moving rapidly. One is holding a phosphorescent bucket, and another has
-a metallic tube that is cone-shaped at one end. They use these tools to
-collect calcareous soil from the riverbank. They take two buckets’ worth
-inside the craft, which then takes off. The witness later finds
-square-shaped holes in the riverbank. Col. Adil de Oliveira of the
-Brazilian Air Force has the soil analyzed and it yields a composition of
-61% silica, 19% aluminum oxide, 11% magnesium and iron, with other trace
-elements. (Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2643
Date: 12/15/1954
-Description: Asked about UFOs at a press conference, Eisenhower says
-that it is “completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any
-outside planet or other place.” Immediately after the press conference,
-Eisenhower asks for a full briefing on UFOs. (“President
-Discounts ‘Saucer’ from Space,” New York Times, December 16, 1954,
-pp. 1, 26; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954
-November–December, The Author, 1991, p. 62; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2644
Date: 12/16/1954
-Description: Three young men saw a dwarf, who attacked one of them,
-Jesus Paz, before fleeing into a disk-shaped machine, which flew off
-immediately. It was flat and shiny and had been hovering 1 m above
-ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 50; Humanoids 35 (Vallee)
-Location: San Carlos, Venezuela
-ID: 354
Date: 12/16/1954
-Description: Jésus Paz, Luis Mejia, and another young man are driving
-home after dinner at a restaurant in San Carlos, Venezuela, when Paz
-stops to relieve himself in a park. He claims he is jumped by a hairy
-dwarf from a flying disc (both of which his friends see when he
-screams). His friends rush the unconscious Paz to a hospital. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954
-November–December, The Author, 1991, p. 60; Mark Cashman,
-“Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1
-(Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2645
Date: 12/17/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: A woodsman from Poligny saw a very bright light on the
-road, first thought it was an American car with its headlights on, but
-soon observed it came from a dark craft about 80 m away. The light
-turned brighter; the witness felt an intense heat wave and thought he
-was going to die. Finally, the light went away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bersaillin, France
-ID: 355
Date: 12/19/1954
-Time: 2300
-Description: Jose Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, saw six small creatures
-loading stones into a disk-shaped machine hovering about 3 m above
-ground. He tried to run away but was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at
-him by one of the creatures. All the creatures entered the craft, and it
-took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Valencia, Venezuela
-ID: 356
Date: 12/19/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. José Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, watches a
-disc-shaped UFO land in Valencia, Venezuela. Six 3-foot-tall humanoids
-disembark and set about collecting vegetation samples and loading stones
-into the disc. When he tries to approach them, he is paralyzed by a
-violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the short beings
-enter the craft and it takes off. The UFO leaves behind ground traces.
-(Clark III 270; “‘Little
-Men’ Fail
-in Kidnap Attempt!!” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 15, 1955): 3;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-November 24, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2646
Date: 12/20/1954
-Time: 0000
-Description: An employee of the Barbula sanatorium saw an object on the
-ground but did not report it. Three hours later, another employee saw
-the craft. It was luminous and took off soon afterward.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Valencia, Venezuela
-ID: 357
Date: 12/20/1954
-End date: 12/21/1954
-Description: A group of Dorothy
-Martin’s followers has gathered at her Oak Park, Illinois, home to
-await the midnight arrival of a flying saucer that is to rescue them
-from planetary disaster. They have left jobs, college, and spouses, and
-given away money and possessions to prepare for their departure. When no
-spaceman arrives, the group sits in stunned silence. Martin begins to
-cry, and at 4:45 a.m. she receives a message by automatic writing saying
-that the God of Earth has decided to spare the planet from destruction.
-The cataclysm has been called off: “The little group, sitting all night
-long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from
-destruction.” The group begins an urgent campaign to spread its message
-to a broader audience. (Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley
-Schachter, When Prophecy Fails, Harper Torchbooks, 1956; Wikipedia, “When
-Prophecy Fails”;
-Clark III 718–719)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2647
Date: 12/22/1954
-Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy
-Martin.
-Type: channelling
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 12/22/1954
-Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy
-Martin.
-Type: channelling
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 12/26/1954
-Description: Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been tasked
-with reviewing UFO reports in the RAAF files and writing an assessment
-for the Australian Directorate of Air Force Intelligence. Now in
-England, he sends the report to the Secretary, Department of Air, in
-Melbourne, Victoria. He writes: “If one assumes these Intelligence
-reports are authentic, then the evidence presented is such that it is
-difficult to assume any interpretation other than that unidentified
-flying objects are being observed…. Indeed, the superiority is such that
-it is highly improbable that such objects have a terrestrial origin… the
-evidence presented by the reports held by the RAAF tend to support the
-above conclusion—namely that certain strange aircraft have been observed
-to behave in a manner suggestive of an extra-terrestrial origin.” Turner
-goes on to recommend appointing at least one full-time investigator;
-publicity to encourage more people to report sightings; a liaison with
-the USAF to exchange information and verify Keyhoe’s
-claims; liaison with the RAF and the possibility of forming a panel to
-assist in analyzing reports. The Director of RAAF Intelligence checks
-with USAF on the reliability of Keyhoe’s work, and they ultimately
-reject it as impractical and unjustified. (Project 1947, “The
-Former Air Board / Department
-of Air / Current RAAF”; Bill Chalker, “UFOs
-Sub Rosa, Down Under: The Australian Military and Government
-Role in the UFO Controversy,” 1996; “The
-Project Interviews Harry Turner,” Disclosure Australia Newsletter,
-no. 16, September 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2648
Date: 12/26/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Willis St.-Jean, a hoistman at the Agaunico Mine
-on the shore of Lake Timiskaming northeast of Cobalt, Ontario, sees a
-bright white light maneuvering in the sky. He calls John Hunt, a
-reporter at the North Bay Nugget office in Cobalt, to drive 3 miles to
-the mine to view it. The light is emanating from a large, rotating,
-slightly wedge-shaped disc. They watch the object for an hour after he
-arrives there. It circles, moves away, dances in the sky, disappears
-(apparently when it banks), and returns repeatedly, and at one point it
-flies over the lake, illuminating the surface. It disappears for good
-shortly after 10:15 p.m. (John Hunt, “Reporter
-Sees ‘Saucer’ over
-Cobalt Mine,” North Bay (Ont.) Nugget, December 27, 1954,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2649
Date: 12/27/1954
-Description: Elizabeth
-Klarer, having
-been alerted by her sister May that the local Zulu people are reporting
-appearances of a mythical lightning bird in the sky, travels from
-Johannesburg, South Africa, with her children to a hill southwest of
-Rosetta, KwaZulu Natal, that she later calls Flying Saucer Hill. There
-she claims to see a star ship descend and hover 8 feet above the ground,
-emitting a soft hum. Its hull is spinning, though its central dome
-remains stationary. The friendly extraterrestrial Akon, with whom she
-has been in telepathic contact, is clearly visible through one of three
-portholes, but a blast of heat emanating from the ship prevents her from
-approaching. The UFO leaves by shooting high into the sky. (Clark III
-657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond
-the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2650
Date: 12/28/1954
-Description: The NSC 5412/2 Special Group, often referred simply as the
-Special Group, is an initially secret, but later public, subcommittee of
-the US National Security Council responsible for coordinating government
-covert operations. Presidential Directive NSC 5412/2 assigns
-responsibility for coordination of covert actions to representatives of
-the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President
-respectively. All proposals pass through the Special Group on the way to
-Richard
-Helms at the CIA, who is responsible for covert operations. It
-changes names several times to avoid public exposure. In 1964, it is
-known as the 303 Committee, and in 1970 it is renamed the 40 Committee.
-Within this organization—which includes such familiar names as Nelson Rockefeller, Robert
-McNamara, McGeorge
-Bundy, Gordon
-Gray, and
-Allen
-Dulles—is a subcommittee dealing with science and technology. It is
-here that the connection between the corporate and financial world and
-government-held technological secrets can be found. (Wikipedia, “Oversight
-of United States covert operations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2651
Date: 12/29/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Near Gardonne, Mr. Gamba saw an oval red object 50 m away.
-When he tried to approach it, he found he was unable to move. As soon as
-this “paralysis” subsided, he ran to get his brothers and came back to
-the craft, which turned white, then red. It rose and flew away toward
-the east. It had been on the ground for at least 15 min. Strange traces
-were found, as if the ground had been dug up. Small trees near the river
-were found damaged, as if they had been cut with a knife.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 103 (Vallee)
-Location: Bru, France
-ID: 358
Date: 12/30/1954
-Description: Fifty residents of Lima, Peru, watch a flight of 5
-iridescent silver UFOs for at least 5 minutes. (La Nación, December 31,
-1954)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2652
Date: 1955
-Description: After selling his share of Fate magazine to Curtis and
-Mary
-Margaret Stiehm Fuller, Ray
-Palmer founds a would- be competitor, Mystic (later Search) and
-several short-lived SF titles. Other Worlds evolves in 1957 into Flying
-Saucers, a more or less nonfiction magazine that features articles of
-widely varying credibility and a column of saucer fan-club news. (Clark
-III 873)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2657
Date: 1955
-Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of
-Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian
-intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to
-discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the
-issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses,
-the media and UFO research grounds.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: “The
-Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1955
-Description: Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens
-(Warhead assembly)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1955
-Description: Project Rover, a US project to develop a nuclear-thermal
-rocket, is initiated at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New
-Mexico, and runs until January 1973. It begins as an Air Force project
-to develop a nuclear- powered upper stage for an intercontinental
-ballistic missile. The project is transferred to NASA in 1958 after the
-Sputnik crisis. It is managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, a
-joint agency of the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA. Project Rover
-becomes part of NASA’s Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application
-(NERVA) project and henceforth deals with the research into nuclear
-rocket reactor design, while NERVA involves the overall development and
-deployment of nuclear rocket engines and the planning for space
-missions. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Rover”; Wikipedia, “NERVA”;
-Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 303–312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2654
Date: 1955
-Description: Otis
-T. Carr founds OTC Enterprises in Baltimore, Maryland, to advance
-and supply technology originating from ideas of Nikola
-Tesla. Carr
-claims he met Tesla while working as a night clerk in New York City’s
-Hotel Pennsylvania, where Tesla was living in the late 1920s. Tesla
-befriended Carr and revealed to him secrets he was not ready to make
-public yet. Carr attracts the funding of local businessman Wilfred
-C. Gosnell. Soon he hires a promotions man named Norman Evans Colton
-and sends out regular information bulletins to investors. (Clark III
-860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2656
Date: 1955
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile totals 2,422 bombs. (Ryan Crierie,
-“U.S.
-Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2655
Date: 1955
-Description: George
-Adamski’s Inside the Space Ships, ghostwritten by Adamski follower
-Charlotte Blodget, is published by Abelard Schuman in the United States
-and Foster and Scott in Canada. Adamski claims that Orthon arranged for
-him to be taken on a trip to see the Solar System, including the planet
-Venus, the
-location where Orthon said the late Mary Adamski had been reincarnated.
-He claims that in another voyage he met the 1,000-year-old “elder
-philosopher of the space people,” who is called “the Master.” Adamski
-says he and the Master discussed philosophy, religion, and the “Earth’s
-place in the universe.” Adamski learns that he has been selected by
-Nordic aliens to bring their message of peace to Earth people and that
-other humans throughout history have also served as their messengers,
-including Jesus Christ. Adamski further claims that aliens are
-peacefully living on Earth, and that he has met with them in bars and
-restaurants in Southern California. (George Adamski, Inside
-the Space Ships,
-Abelard-Schuman, 1955; Clark III 40; Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good,
-George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983; David Stupple, “The Man
-Who Talked with Venusians,” Fate 32, no. 1 (January 1979): 30–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2658
Date: early 1955
-Description: A secure test site is needed for the CIA Project Aquatone
-(the Lockheed U-2 spy plane). Lockheed test pilot Kelly
-Johnson sends project pilot Tony
-LeVier and Skunk Works chief foreman Dorsey Kammerer on a two- week
-survey mission to scout locations for a new base in an unmarked
-Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza. CIA official Richard
-M. Bissell Jr reviews 50 potential sites with USAF liaison Col. Osmond
-J. Ritland. None seem to meet the stringent requirements of the
-program. They reject Johnson’s proposed Site I (Mud Lake?) because it is
-too close to populated areas. Ritland recalls a “little X-shaped field”
-just off the eastern side of Groom Lake, Nevada, just outside the AEC
-nuclear proving ground at Yucca Flat. (Peter W. Merlin, “Groom
-Lake Timeline: The First Fifty
-Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2653
Date: 1/1955
-Description: George
-King gives the first public demonstration of his contacts with the
-Cosmic Masters in Caxton Hall, London, England. After mounting the
-platform, he enters a trance, and Aetherius (the Cosmic Master from
-Venus) reveals a plan for human peace and enlightenment. (Douglas
-Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space,
-Abbeville, 1985, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2659
Date: 1/1/1955
-Time: 6:44 AM
-Description: Witnesses: instructor and student pilot in USAF B-25
-bomber/trainer. A metallic disc, shaped like two pie pans face-to-face,
-and 120-130’ in diameter, paced the B-25, showing both its edge and its
-face, for 5-7 minutes. Only item in case file was summary form.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cochise, New Mexico
-ID: 379
Date: early 1/1955
-Description: Dorothy
-Martin leaves the Chicago area for Prescott, Arizona, home of the
-like-minded George
-Hunt Williamson, after
-being threatened with arrest and involuntary commitment. She later
-founds the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara. Under the name
-Sister Thedra, she continues to practice channeling and participate in
-contactee groups until her death in 1992. (Clark III 719)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2660
Date: 1/3/1955
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Félix Galarraga and Gerardo Izuesta see a red
-balloon-like object about 7–10 feet in diameter land near Oiartzun,
-Spain. Galarraga rushes towards it, but the UFO rises and speeds away.
-From a separate location, brothers Miguel and Martín Arraspio also see
-the object descend. Possibly another Radio Free Europe balloon with
-leaflets. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955
-January–June, The
-Author, 1992, p. 4; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos
-Vistorio Uranga, “Los
-ovnis de diciembre de 1954,”
-Academia.edu)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2661
Date: 1/3/1955
-Time: 0725
-Description: Two persons in a car saw a flying object come within 70 m
-of them after their vehicle was stopped.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Melbourne, Australia
-ID: 359
Date: 1/5/1955
-Description: A red circular object 3 m in diameter was observed to land
-and take off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: San Sebastian, Spain
-ID: 360
Date: 1/7/1955
-Description: The Air Force Information Services Letter warns that
-service members are talking too much about UFOs. (Ruppelt, p. 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2662
Date: 1/14/1955
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A luminous UFO drops from the sky near Idyllwild,
-California. Immediately afterwards, a B-47 pilot reports to March AFB
-[now March Air Reserve Base] near Riverside, California, that an
-“unknown object just hit our wing.” The pilot guides the plane to a
-landing. No trace of a crashed object can be found. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, pp. 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2663
Date: 1/26/1955
-Time: 6:15 PM
-Description: Witness: J.M. Holland. A black smoke trail made a circle.
-There was an explosion and some objects fell. No further information in
-file.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lakeland, Florida
-ID: 380
Date: 1/31/1955
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Peruvian Air Force Commander Guillermo Serpa and
-Col. Juan Rodriguez Cavero are returning to El Pata Air Force Base near
-Talara, Peru, by car through the Sechura Desert on the Pan-American
-Highway 1N when they see a bright light in the sky ahead. The object, a
-deep red domed disc, draws nearer and Serpa stops the car to observe it.
-It tilts slightly toward them, making occasional clicking sounds.
-Several minutes later it accelerates quickly in their direction,
-changing to a bright orange color then to a bright white as it shoots
-past them at terrific speed. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1955, January– June,
-Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2002, pp. 14–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2664
Date: 2/1/1955
-Description: 7:55 p.m. Instructor Capt. Delwyn
-F. Ritzdorf and aviation cadet Frederick W. Miller are flying a
-TB-25 bomber-trainer about 20 miles east of Cochise, Arizona, at 13,000
-feet and 238 mph when they see a bright round object with red and white
-hues. It approaches them then hovers off the left wing for 5 minutes
-about 5° above the horizontal. Radio interference prevents Ritzdorf from
-reporting the sighting. The object climbs rapidly on a parallel flight
-track for 3 minutes before pulling away at 500–600 mph and disappearing.
-(NICAP, “Huge Metallic
-Disc Paces B-25”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2665
Date: 2/1/1955
-Time: 7:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Instructor Capt. D.F. Ritzdorf, aviation cadet
-F.W. Miller in TB-25 bomber/trainer. One red and white ball hovered off
-the left wing of the TB-25 for 5 minutes, then made a very fast climb.
-Total time of sighting was 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 20 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico
-ID: 381
Date: 2/2/1955
-Description: 11:15 a.m. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner piloted by
-Captain Dario Celis is flying between Barquisimeto and Valera,
-Venezuela, at 7,500 feet. Celis and his copilot B. J. Cortes spot a
-strange, round “apparatus” flying swiftly toward the plane. Rotating
-counterclockwise, the object shines with a greenish light. Around its
-center is a red ring or band that emits flashes of brilliant light.
-Above and below this band are lighted portholes. Hurriedly the pilot
-cuts in his mike to call the Barquisimeto radio station. After reporting
-the UFO, he waits for an answer, but the receiver is dead. Later the
-radio operators state that just as the pilot began his report,
-communication is cut off. The copilot banks toward the rotating UFO.
-Instantly the object whirls downward, then levels off, and races away at
-tremendous speed. (NICAP, “Plane
-Encounters Saucer and Radio Goes Dead”; Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 249–250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2667
Date: 2/2/1955
-Time: 11:50 AM
-Description: Witness: USN Cmdr. J.L. Ingersoll. One highly polished
-sphere, with reddish-brown coloring, fell, then instantly accelerated to
-1,000-1,500 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miramar Naval Air Station, California
-ID: 382
Date: 2/2/1955
-Description: Aviation inventor Bill
-Lear, during a press conference in Bogotá, Colombia, states his
-belief that “flying saucers came from outer space and are piloted by
-beings of superior intelligence.” He suspects that they might use
-gravitational fields as propulsion. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955
-January–June, The
-Author, 1992, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2666
Date: 2/6/1955
-Description: Several witnesses in Greymouth, New Zealand, see a
-dazzling, silvery, cigar-shaped object moving inland at a high speed.
-Two observers see it consisting of two parts, with the leading part
-larger than the other. A loud explosion like a thunderclap is heard,
-causing the earth to tremble slightly. (“World
-Roundup,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 (May/June 1955): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2668
Date: 2/10/1955
-Time: 10:03 PM
-Description: Witness: E.J. Stein, model maker at U.S. Navy ship design
-facility. One object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of the
-Moon, with a radiant yellow color, hovered for 30 seconds. Its bottom
-changed to a funnel shape. Total sighting lasted 1.5-2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bethesda, Maryland
-ID: 383
Date: 2/10/1955
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Many residents of Caracas, Venezuela, see a
-strange object crossing the sky silently from northeast to southwest.
-José Agustín Díaz in Altamira clocks its time as 6–8 minutes. It looks
-like a disc with two bright, pulsating, bluish lights on the underside.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2669
Date: 2/13/1955
-Description: Midnight. A green fireball shoots across east Texas like a
-“huge electric arc,” passing from Tyler towards Lufkin. (Loren E. Gross,
-The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955
-January–June, The Author, 1992, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2670
Date: 2/15/1955
-Description: ATIC sends a memo to Maj. Joseph A. Cybulski, commander of
-the 4602nd AISS at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in
-Colorado Springs, Colorado, complaining about the high number of
-unknowns. It suggests that AISS and ATIC “strive to reach as many case
-solutions as possible, thereby reducing the percentage of the unknowns
-to a bare minimum.” As long as there is sufficient information, most
-cases “will fit to some extent one of the hypotheses.” The probable and
-possible cases are merged into the “identified” category. (Maj. T. G.
-Connair Jr., “Evaluation of Unidentified Flying Objects,” February 15,
-1955, in CUFON, “4602d AISS
-Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2671
Date: 2/18/1955
-Description: The nuclear Teapot Wasp test takes place at the Nevada Test
-Site. Ground forces take part in Exercise Desert Rock VI, which includes
-an armored task force Razor moving to within 3,000 feet of ground zero,
-under the still-forming mushroom cloud. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Teapot”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2672
Date: 2/21/1955
-Description: Early morning. “Cobwebby gray fibers” fall in Horseheads,
-New York, covering one-half square mile. Some “ragged sheets” are many
-feet in length. Chemist Charles
-B. Rutenber of Elmira College in Elmira, New York, describes it as
-“badly damaged, slightly radioactive cotton fiber” that might have come
-from a Nevada atomic test. He concludes it is a “short-staple cotton,
-possibly lint from waste cotton used in industrial plants.” John
-B. Diffenderfer, a
-chemist at a local Westinghouse laboratory, finds it is 30% carbon, with
-calcium, silica, aluminum, iron, and 10 other trace elements. He thinks
-it comes from powdered milk residue, perhaps from the Dairylea milk
-processing plant in Elmira. But milk plant chemists Louis R. Hermani and
-Robert L. Mix say the material is composed of “cotton and wool fibers
-with pieces of fine copper wire mixed in” and looks like it comes from a
-carpet sweeper bag. (“Further
-Tests Made of Fibers Collected in Horseheads Area,” Elmira (N.Y.)
-Star- Gazette, February 23, 1955, p. 13; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair
-Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2673
Date: 2/23/1955
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Frederick S. Briggs, a bricklayer and former army
-sergeant employed at Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England, the manor
-then owned by Lord
-Mountbatten, Prince
-Philip’s uncle, sees a large disc-shaped UFO over a nearby meadow as
-he is bicycling to work. The object is shaped like a spinning top,
-metallic, and about 20–30 feet in diameter with portholes around the
-center. Watching from less than 100 yards away, Briggs estimates that
-the object is 80 feet above the ground. He sees a humanoid figure
-dressed in what look like overalls and a helmet descend from the craft
-on some sort of column with a platform at the bottom. He is then dazzled
-by a bright blue light from the craft and falls over, unable to move, as
-if held by a strange force. The UFO then flies off at high speed.
-Mountbatten takes a personal interest in this incident, interviews
-Briggs, and searches the area of the meadow over which the UFO is seen.
-He subsequently has a statement prepared, detailing Briggs’s claims.
-This story is written up by Desmond
-Leslie in Flying Saucer Review in 1981. Mountbatten’s signed
-statement on the incident is held with many of his other private papers
-at the Broadlands Archive. (Desmond Leslie, “Did Flying
-Saucers Land at Broadlands?” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January
-1981): 2–4; Good Above, pp. 40– 42, 451–454)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2674
Date: 2/23/1955
-Description: Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord
-Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord
-Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between
-10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical
-column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes
-all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on
-the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of
-overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer
-powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a
-mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer
-proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth
-vs. the F.S.”)
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p451-453, ALIEN)
-Location: Britain
-See also: 8/23/52
Date: 3/1955
-Description: The CIA obtains quantities of Hemophilus pertussis,
-whooping cough bacteria, from Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The
-agency field tests it covertly along Florida’s Gulf Coast. The incidence
-of whooping cough triples this year, but the CIA’s role remains unknown
-until 1979. (Bill Richards, “Report
-Suggests CIA Involvement in Fla.
-Illnesses,” Washington Post, December 17, 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2677
Date: 3/1955
-Description: James
-S. Rigberg, owner
-of the Flying Saucer Bookstore in New York City, begins publishing
-Flying Saucer News as the official publication of the Flying Saucer News
-Club of America, founded in 1953. It is published twice a year until at
-least May 1982. (Flying
-Saucer News 1, no. 1 (March 1955))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2676
Date: 3/1955
-Description: Technician and businessman Morris
-K. Jessup publishes
-The Case for the UFO, the first book to use the relatively new US Air
-Force term “UFO” instead of flying saucer. He engages in speculation
-about Fortean phenomena, ancient astronauts, levitating forces to
-explain megalithic structures, and experiments in ancient times with
-flight and even space flight. He identifies 1877–1887 as an “Incredible
-Decade,” in which astronomers observe strange space objects, and
-meteorologists note strange falls from the sky. He speculates that
-mysterious disappearances of ship crews might constitute a curiosity
-among “our space friends” on “what has happened to us since they put us
-down here.” (Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, Citadel, 1955;
-Clark III 634; Story, p.
-51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2675
Date: 3/1955
-Time: 0400
-Description: Robert Hunnicutt, a businessman, saw three men kneeling on
-the side of the road. They were about 1 m tall, had gray skin, and wore
-tight-fitting gray clothes. They had froglike face, long slender arms,
-normal eyes, but no eyebrows. One of them held a dark object (emitting
-blue flashes) between his raised arms. Hunnicutt tried to go near but
-“must have lost consciousness,” because he found himself driving to the
-police station without remembering what took place in the
-meantime.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stringfield; FS May., 61; Sanderson 147 (Vallee)
-Location: Branch Hill, Ohio
-ID: 361
Date: 3/1/1955
-Description: The Douglas Aircraft Company is conducting a study of
-“Unconventional Propulsion Schemes/Systems” for the USAF Air Technical
-Information Center from 1954 to 1955, headed by Wolfgang
-Klemperer, who
-writes a memo to E. P. Wheaton that says: “Our studies of the possible
-merit or significance of occasionally appearing publications concerning
-Unconventional Propulsion Systems have been carefully continuing since
-the first memo (MTM-622) about the progress to mid-December 1954.”
-Apparently the project examined some UFO reports (including Willis
-Sperry’s) and UFO books. (Douglas Aircraft Company, “Unconventional
-Propulsion Schemes,” MTM-622, March 1, 1955; Keith Basterfield, “Documents
-Located from that 1955 ‘Secret’ UAP Study by Douglas
-Aircraft Company,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific
-Research, January 11, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2678
Date: 3/2/1955
-Time: 1700
-Description: A car was followed for 10 min by three elongated
-“balloons,” each showing eight red lights and about 7 m long.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Huntley, Illinois
-ID: 362
Date: 3/7/1955
-Description: K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given
-a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the
-Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954.
-Type: personnel discharged
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C)
-Location: Roswell, NM
-See also: 4/12/54
Date: 3/11/1955
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Lawrence Grab and his son see a brilliant flash
-of light from their home at 714 West Lakeside Street in Madison,
-Wisconsin, then watch a phosphorescent object speed over the city from
-southwest to northeast. (“Season’s
-First Saucer Flies in at High Speed,” Madison Wisconsin State
-Journal, March 12, 1955, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2679
Date: 3/12/1955
-End date: 3/13/1955
-Description: George
-Van Tassel’s second Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention
-in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, attracts a smaller crowd
-than the first. This time George
-Adamski is in attendance, along with Charles Laughead, Dorothy
-Martin, George
-Hunt Williamson, Dana
-Howard, Daniel
-Fry, Truman
-Bethurum, and Dick Miller. Retired USAF Project Blue Book head Edward
-J. Ruppelt is in the audience and writes up a report. (Edward J.
-Ruppelt, “Among the Contactees,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 3–6,
-23–24; Clark III 531; “Six Claim
-Rides on Interplanetary Ships,”
-Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1955, pp. 3, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2680
Date: 3/15/1955
-Description: The 4602nd AISS guide to investigating UFOs is complete and
-gets distributed to appropriate personnel. (4602d AISS, “UFOB
-Guide,” in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron,
-vol. 1, January 1–June 30, 1955, reprinted in CUFON, “4602d
-AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 6 of 7 Parts”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2681
Date: spring 1955
-Description: Flying Saucer Review is launched in London, England, as a
-small-circulation quarterly, with aviation journalist and former RAF
-pilot Derek
-Dempster as its first editor. (Denis Montgomery, “How
-It All Began: Founding the Flying
-Saucer Review,” May 5, 2004; Flying
-Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 1955); Clark III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2684
Date: 3/24/1955
-Description: 2:30 p.m. The pilot of a private Beechcraft plane is flying
-at 1,500 feet with a student in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. They see a
-domed disc with three windows about 900 feet on their left that appears
-to change color from white to orange and back again. Over the next few
-minutes, the object flies over, in front of, and under the airplane.
-When the pilot puts the plane into a dive, the craft stays with it. The
-plane’s instruments stop working. The pilot makes a steep right turn but
-the object still paces the plane. When the Beechcraft’s engine begins to
-stall, the pilot calls Naha Airport on Okinawa, which alerts the US
-Kadena Air Base. Two jets are scrambled, but by the time they arrive the
-object is long gone. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 65–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2682
Date: 3/29/1955 (approximate)
-Description: Early morning. A bus driving past Wright-Patterson AFB near
-Dayton, Ohio, sees a silver, triangular object hovering above the base
-for 15 minutes. (“Sightings,”
-APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2683
Date: 4/1955
-Description: U-2 project director Richard
-M. Bissell Jr. secures a presidential action adding the Groom Lake
-area in Nevada to the AEC proving grounds for CIA use. Kelly
-Johnson meets with CIA officials in Washington, D.C., and discusses
-progress on Project Aquatone, proposing to use the name “Paradise Ranch”
-for the new base. (Peter W. Merlin, “Groom
-Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2686
Date: early 4/1955
-Description: Pentagon press officer Capt. Robert White writes to Claude
-H. Marck Jr., an
-interested citizen in Colorado, that Dewey Fournet’s motion studies
-project was a personal endeavor, that the probability of UFOs being
-spacecraft is “extremely remote,” and that the Air Force does not try to
-influence public opinion on the matter. (Swords 209–210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2685
Date: 4/5/1955
-Description: Producer Ivan
-Tors debuts Science Fiction Theatre, a science fiction anthology TV
-series that presents scientifically plausible stories in an
-unsensational manner. Many episodes deal with UFO or alien themes,
-including the season opener, “Beyond,” in which a test pilot bails out
-and loses his plane because he thinks he’s going to crash into a UFO.
-The program runs 78 episodes through 1957 and is hosted by veteran
-announcer Truman
-Bradley. Each
-episode opens with Bradley on a laboratory set, sometimes quoting from a
-recent Scientific American article, and he discusses and demonstrates a
-scientific principle that plays a role in the story he is introducing.
-(Internet Movie Database, “Science
-Fiction Theatre”; Curt Collins, “The
-UFO Message of Science Fiction
-Theatre,”
-The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 18, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2688
Date: 4/5/1955
-Description: 9:55–10:15 a.m. Three or four fireballs fall in various
-places in southern New Mexico. Air Force Sgt. Camilla Saenz is stationed
-on Sacramento Peak near Cloudcroft when she sees a yellow fireball with
-a red tail traveling fast from east to west on the south side of the
-peak. An airplane from Biggs Air Force Base [now Biggs Army Airfield] in
-El Paso, Texas, sees an apparent meteor strike near Weed, New Mexico,
-but USAF planes comb the area for 2 hours afterward without finding
-anything. Bill Watson sees a dark object smash into the earth near Oil
-Center, New Mexico, but he can find no fragments. Lincoln
-LaPaz reports that heavy shortwave and TV interference accompany the
-appearance of the fireballs. (“Fireballs
-Shower on State,” Alamogordo (N.Mex.) Daily News, April 6, 1955,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2687
Date: 4/6/1955
-Description: Night. Three unusual green fireballs pass over New Mexico.
-Radio and TV interference are reported over a wide area. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, pp. 264–265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2689
Date: 4/8/1955
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Three residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, watch
-a blue-green fireball streak west over the city. It appears to have a
-rose-orange tail. (“Fire
-Balls Again Seen over City,” Albuquerque Journal, April 9, 1955,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2690
Date: 4/18/1955
-Description: Albert Einstein dies
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Princeton, NJ
Date: 4/21/1955
-Description: Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child
-witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who
-repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Hopkinsville, KY
Date: 4/25/1955
-Description: 1:00–1:30 a.m. Residents and motorists see a brilliant
-fireball streak across the sky above Council Bluffs, Iowa. State Highway
-Patrolman John Ebert says the light was as bright as an arc welder. One
-resident sees the light burst into flame and drop to earth. Witnesses in
-Nebraska think the fireball descends abut 3 miles southeast of Waverly,
-Nebraska. (Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, April 25, 1955; Nukes
-93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2691
Date: 4/30/1955
-Description: A member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences tells a radio
-audience that UFOs do not exist. (Ruppelt, pp.
-238–239)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2692
Date: 4/30/1955
-Time: 7:30 AM
-Description: Witness USAF Wing Intelligence Officer Maj. L..J.
-Pagozalski. Four black objects in a cluster made a whooshing sound like
-a zephyr. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Travis County, Texas
-ID: 384
Date: 5/1955
-Description: The UK Air Ministry announces that the report in March on a
-five-year investigation into UFOs by the RAF has been submitted to
-high-ranking officers, but the results cannot be released publicly for
-security reasons. MP Maj. Patrick
-Wall asks the Under-Secretary of State for Air George
-Ward to confirm whether or not he would publish a report. Ward
-replies that only 10% of UFO reports are unidentified and that is
-because of lack of data. (Derek Dempster, [Editorial],
-Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 (May/June 1955): 1; Good Above, p. 43;
-UFOFiles2, p. 60–
-61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2693
Date: 5/1955
-Description: 15-year-old Jacques Vallée and his mother see a “gray,
-metallic disc with a clear bubble on top” hovering above a church in
-Pontoise, France. (Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic,
-1992, pp. 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2694
Date: 5/4/1955
-Time: 12:38 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. E.J. Stealy, lst Lt. J.W. Burt. About
-10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail, flew in
-an irregular formation, some of them making erratic movements during the
-5-8 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keflavik, Iceland
-ID: 385
Date: 5/4/1955
-Description: A survey team arrives at Groom Lake, Nevada, and lays out a
-5,000-foot north to south runway on the southwest corner of the lakebed
-and designates a site for a base support facility. The “Ranch” initially
-consists of little more than a few shelters, workshops, and trailer
-homes in which to house its small team. In a little over three months,
-the base consists of a single paved runway, three hangars, a control
-tower, and rudimentary accommodations for test personnel. The few
-amenities include a movie theater and volleyball court. There is also a
-mess hall, several wells, and fuel storage tanks. (Wikipedia, “Area
-51”; Peter W. Merlin, “Groom
-Lake Timeline:
-The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2695
Date: 5/4/1955
-Description: Afternoon. Lt. Col. Edward
-J. Stealy, commander
-of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Keflavík Airfield, Iceland,
-and 1stLt. Joseph Burt see 10–15 flying objects, 60–70 feet in diameter,
-at about 25,000 feet. They fly in loose formation for about 4–5 seconds
-and are traveling at a tremendous rate of speed (perhaps 1,150 mph).
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955
-January–June, The Author, 1992, pp. 5–58; Sparks, p. 226;
-Clark III 376)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2696
Date: 5/5/1955
-Description: ATIC declassifies Battelle Memorial Institute’s 1951–1954
-study of UFOs, completed in March 1954, as Project Blue Book Special
-Report No. 14 but does not release it until October 25. (Special
-Report No. 14: Analysis of Reports
-of Unidentified Aerial Objects, US Air Force, 1955; Clark III
-929–932)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2697
Date: 5/18/1955
-Description: News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had
-begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing
-and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities
-and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as
-Area 51).
-Type: news release
-Reference: “Dreamland”
-by Bob Lazar
-Location: Groom Lake
Date: 5/22/1955
-Description: Journalist Dorothy
-Kilgallen writes in the Los Angeles Examiner that “British
-scientists and airmen” have examined the wreckage of a crashed flying
-saucer. Her informant is a “British official of Cabinet rank,” who tells
-her that the “saucers were staffed by small men—probably under four feet
-tall.” Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon
-Creighton later researches this story in detail and thinks
-Kilgallen’s source is First Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some
-suggest that Kilgallen picked the story up at a cocktail party hosted by
-Mountbatten. Her story is widely dismissed as a hoax, but other events
-put her claims in a new light. (“U.F.O.
-Crash in Britain?” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1955):
-6; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1955 January–June, The Author, 1992, p. 69; Good Above,
-pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2698
Date: 5/23/1955
-Time: Midnight
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Airman/Basic I.J. Shapiro and E.C. Ingber.
-During a 5 minute period, two slender, vertical rectangles were seen low
-on the horizon, and two ovals with tops (dark, with dark blue
-illumination) flew higher.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
-ID: 386
Date: 5/23/1955
-End date: 5/26/1955
-Description: At the Fifth AISS Commander’s Conference at Ent AFB [now
-the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado, an analysis
-of UFOs and science fiction is presented that notes: “General public not
-qualified to evaluate material propounded in science fiction. Absurd and
-fantastic theories given credence solely on the basis of ignorance.”
-Also, “Abnormal predisposition to attach belief to the more fanciful
-aspects of UFOBs, e.g. ‘Flying Saucers’ would tend to negate the
-source’s reliability as a factual observer.” (“Report of Fifth
-Commander’s Conference, 23 May to 26 May 1955,” in History of 4602d Air
-Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 2, January 1–June 30, 1955,
-reprinted in CUFON, “4602d
-AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2699
Date: 5/24/1955
-Description: 7:48 p.m. GOC spotter Charlotte
-Whitecotton and another woman at Loveland, Ohio, watch four UFOs in
-formation pass low over their enclosure, then zoom to the north. They
-report the incident to the Columbus Filter Center. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955
-January–June, The Author, 1992, p. 71; Isabel Davis and Ted
-Bloecher, Close
-Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978,
-pp. 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2700
Date: 5/25/1955
-Description: Around 3:30 a.m. Robert Hunnicut is driving along the
-Loveland-Madeira Road in the Branch Hill area of Loveland, Ohio. At the
-Hopewell Road intersection, his headlights illuminate three short
-figures kneeling next to the road. They are grayish humanoids with a
-wide slit for a mouth, an indistinct nose, and normal eyes without
-eyebrows. The heads are hairless with prominent wrinkles on the
-forehead. They are wearing one-piece grayish garments. One arm seems
-longer than the other and the upper torso is lopsided. One of the
-figures is holding a rod emitting blue-white sparks. Hunnicut gets out
-of the car and walks towards them. They look towards him and there is a
-3-minute standoff. Hunnicut goes to the police station and returns with
-Police Chief John K. Fritz. No trace of anything is found. (Stringfield,
-3-0
-Blue, CRIFO,
-1957, pp. 66–68; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-pp. 115–116; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close
-Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978, pp. 138–148;
-Clark III 270; Rob Ryder, “On the Trail of the Loveland Frogman,”
-Fortean Times 361 (Christmas 2017): 38–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2701
Date: 5/29/1955
-Time: 1920
-Description: Approximate date. Three farmers, among them Thomas
-Robinson, saw a light growing in size for 2 min and flying between them
-and Mt. Williams. Looking like a “light airplane on fire,” it changed
-course, losing altitude and trailing flames. It touched the ground,
-lighting up the whole area, rose again, and began to “feel its way along
-the crooked edge of the cane field and the swamp toward our house.” It
-returned to earth four times. The dogs ran out barking as it landed
-within 100 m of the witnesses before taking off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Smithfield, near Cairns, Australia
-ID: 363
Date: 5/31/1955
-Time: 1110
-Description: A farmer, 74-year-old J. B. Collange, was watching his cows
-on a clear, calm morning when he suddenly observed, in an easterly
-direction, a vertical circular object about 3 m away, the bottom edge
-about 30 cm from the ground. It measured about 1.10 m in diameter, was
-very luminous, white, but not blinding. Many filaments of various colors
-were radiating from the disk. Their length varied between 0.5 and 2 m.
-The object rose over a hedge and was lost to sight behind some
-woods.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 14, 15, 22 (Vallee)
-Location: Puy-Saint-Gulmier, France
-ID: 364
Date: 6/1955
-Description: James
-W. Moseley renames Nexus as Saucer News and it becomes a popular
-bimonthly UFO magazine. (Clark III 1032)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2703
Date: 6/1955
-Description: Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas Eickhoff buys a copy
-of George
-Adamski’s Inside the Space Ships. Upset with Adamski’s statement
-that his space contacts can be corroborated, he takes steps to take him
-to federal court to make him prove his story or face fraud for using the
-US mail system to sell his book. Eickhoff’s lawyer brings in a
-government adviser who advises them to drop the lawsuit. Eickhoff’s
-efforts eventually bring a reply from a lawyer for CIA Director Allen
-Dulles, who
-says the problem is that Adamski could “prevent anyone from testifying
-in court concerning this book because maximum security exists concerning
-the subject of UFOs.” The lawyer says he would be subject to a
-countersuit. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977,
-pp. 169–170; Good Above, pp. 341–342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2704
Date: 6/4/1955
-Description: A Boeing RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force
-Special Security Service (air arm of NSA?) tracks an unknown object
-visually and by radar for 9 minutes near Melville Sound, Nunavut,
-Canada. The crew chief describes it as “glistening silver metallic.” The
-crew obtains gun camera film, but of poor quality. The object speeds off
-to the north. (Good Above, p. 285;
-Sparks, p. 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2705
Date: 6/5/1955
-Description: 7:30 p.m. François-Gilbert Muyldermans is cycling on a
-deserted road near Saint-Marc, near Namur, Belgium, when he sees a
-bright disc moving at a high speed at an altitude of around 4,900 feet.
-He takes out his camera and snaps a photo. The object descends, then
-rises again emitting a cloud of white smoke. He takes two more photos.
-Anomalies in the blurred grain, inconsistencies in orientation, and the
-circumstances by which the story entered UFO lore suggest a deliberate
-hoax, perhaps with the help of a journalist. (“A
-‘Classic’ from Belgium,” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 (March/April
-1976): 12–13; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium
-in UFO
-Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT
-Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 38–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2706
Date: 6/7/1955
-Description: An RB-47 en route to Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska,
-registers an electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest
-Territories, Canada, at 10,500 feet range. The radar return is small and
-rectangular. (Good Above, p.
-286;
-Sparks, p. 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2707
Date: 6/10/1955
-Description: Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A
-group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically
-more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret
-research group.
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 6/13/1955
-Description: Frank
-Edwards travels with a TV film producer to the Navy Department at
-the Pentagon and asks for some unclassified photos of rockets. When the
-Navy learns that Edwards wants to show them on TV during a panel
-discussion on UFOs, the office refuses to cooperate. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2708
Date: late 6/1955
-Alternate date: early 7/1955
-Description: Early evening. A 19-year-old Civil Defense worker named
-Carlos Flannigan is driving a truck across a bridge over the Little
-Miami River near Loveland, Ohio, when he notices 4 small figures about 3
-feet high on the riverbank. A terrible smell hangs over the area. He
-only watches them for about 10 seconds then immediately drives to police
-headquarters to report the incident. (Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close
-Encounter at
-Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS,
-1978, pp. 129–132; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-14, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2715
Date: summer 1955
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Dumitru Coca watches a strange object emitting a
-ring of white sparks at an altitude of 3,000 feet above Hârşeni,
-Romania. It is blue with white stripes and flying noiselessly at high
-speed. He watches it for 3 minutes. (Hobana and Weverberh 229–230;
-Romania 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2702
Date: 6/23/1955
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A Mohawk Airlines DC-3 is cruising at 3,000 feet
-in good daylight visibility about 15 miles east of Utica, New York, on a
-heading to Albany. Both pilot and copilot see an object come over the
-top of the aircraft from behind, an estimated 500 feet above their
-altitude. They estimate the length of the object at about 150 feet. It
-is described as “light gray, almost round, with a center
-line Beneath the line there were several (at least four) windows
-which emitted a bright blue-green light. It was not rotating but went
-straight. [The lights] seemed to change color slightly from greenish to
-bluish or vice versa [as the object receded]. A few minutes after it
-went out of sight, two other aircraft (one, a Colonial DC-3, the other I
-did not catch the number) reported that they saw it and wondered if
-anyone else had seen it. The Albany control tower also reported that
-they had seen an object go by on Victor-2 [airway]. As we approached
-Albany, we overheard that Boston radar had also tracked an object along
-Victor-2, passing Boston.” (NICAP, “150ʹ
-Object Passes over DC-3 Crew from Behind”; Condon, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2709
Date: 6/25/1955
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Two civilian and two military witnesses see a
-yellow, shining sphere with a trail 4–5 times its length over Hillcrest
-Heights, Maryland. It appears to oscillate in the air, stops, oscillates
-again, then finally moves away at high speed. It travels nearly overhead
-and then is lost in the sky at a 45° elevation. It is visible for 7
-minutes. (Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the
-Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 8– 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2710
Date: 6/26/1955
-Description: 10:45 p.m. A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times
-its own length approaches National Airport in Washington, D.C., stops,
-oscillates, and moves off at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport
-go out when the object approaches and return to operation when the UFO
-leaves. Searchlights are trained on the object, but when they catch it
-in their beams, the searchlights go out. A check with the Silver Hill
-Observatory in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, determined that a small
-weather balloon carrying a magnesium flare was released aboiut the same
-time as the visual sighting. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 236; Schopick,
-p. 21; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of
-the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955, January–June, The
-Author, 1992, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2712
Date: 6/26/1955
-Description: Several civilian and military witnesses in Holt, Florida,
-see a disc with blinking lights. (Sparks,
-p. 227; Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the
-Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 10; Hynek UFO Report, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2711
Date: 6/29/1955
-Description: The Second Hoover Commission presents its final report to
-Congress on streamlining procedures in the executive branch. Gen. Mark
-W. Clark, heading the commission’s task force on intelligence, notes
-the CIA’s lack of accountability and recommends establishing an
-intelligence oversight committee. (Wikipedia, “Hoover Commission”;
-Richard A. Best Jr. and Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “Proposals
-for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949–1996,”
-Report to the US House Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional
-Research Service, February 28, 1996, pp. 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2713
Date: 6/30/1955
-Description: The 4602nd AISS reports that of its 194 preliminary UFO
-reports for 1955, it has made 23 field investigations and has 25
-unsolved reports, or an unknown rate of 13%. Going back to August 12,
-1954, and removing cases of insufficient evidence, the percentage of
-unknowns is lower: 23 unknowns from 306 reports, or about 7.5%. In
-reality, however, none of these numbers mean much; they reflect the
-creativity and audacity of the explainers at ADC and ATIC.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2714
Date: 7/1955
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Col. William
-T. Coleman is flying a B-25 out of Miami, Florida, with a copilot,
-flight engineer, a Lockheed test engineer, and a General Motors jet
-engine technician. As he is moving northward into southern Alabama, he
-spots at 2 o’clock high what he calls a “craze” in the windshield. He
-calls the others’ attention to it. He gives chase to it at low altitude
-over farmland and sees its shadow on the ground, as well as two vortices
-coming out of the shiny metallic disc that kicks up dust on the ground.
-When he tries to cut it off at a maximum speed of 345 mph, the object is
-gone, leaving behind the vortices on the ground. Duration of the
-sighting is 10–11 minutes. (NICAP, “Col.
-Coleman Case / Chases UFO at Low Altitude”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2717
Date: 7/1955
-Description: Construction of the Groom Lake base in Nevada is completed
-and the CIA begins utilizing it, along with the US Air Force, for
-Project Aquatone, the development of the Lockheed U-2 strategic
-reconnaissance aircraft, the nation’s first aerial espionage program. It
-consists of one paved runway, three hangars, a control tower, a
-makeshift mess hall, and rudimentary accommodations. A movie theater and
-volleyball court are added. CIA officer Richard Newton is assigned as
-base commander. Other key organizations are briefed on Area 51’s
-existence—the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the US Navy,
-the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. A
-small group of four Lockheed test pilots, two dozen Lockheed mechanics
-and engineers, a handful of CIA officers who double as security guards,
-and some of Col. Ritland’s
-staff take up residence. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 5, 51–53;
-Peter W. Merlin, “Groom
-Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10,
-2021; “Pilots
-of the U-2,” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2716
Date: 7/1/1955
-Description: CRIFO Newsletter becomes CRIFO Orbit. This issue reviews
-several airplane crashes and disappearances that Stringfield thinks
-might be related to UFO activity. (“World’s
-Air Forces, in Joint Operations, Challenge Incursion
-of UFO’s,” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 4 (July 1, 1955): 1– 2; Clark III 460,
-1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2718
Date: 7/3/1955
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Margaret
-Symmonds is driving on US 129 seven miles south of Stockton,
-Georgia, when four small humanoid figures with caps and huge eyes are
-caught in the headlights. They seem to be digging a hole in the road
-with some sticks. She yells and swerves the car, driving past them. The
-figures seem oblivious. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September
-15th, The Author, 1992, pp. 2–3; Stringfield, 3-0
-Blue, CRIFO,
-1957, pp. 63–64; Clark III 270; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter
-at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS,
-1978, pp. 149–160; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-16, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2719
Date: 7/3/1955
-Description: Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near this town when she
-saw four “bug-eyed” creatures near the road. They were small beings with
-thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the
-witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand;
-and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had
-bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a
-chin which came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stringfield; Humanoids 54 (Vallee)
-Location: Stockton, Georgia
-ID: 365
Date: 7/5/1955
-Description: 3:00 a.m. USAF pilot Lt. Homer
-H. Speer Jr and copilot Lt. Paul
-Daily, call sign Archie 29, and pilot Lt. Robert W. Schneck and
-copilot Lt. David Cueldner, call sign Archie 91, are flying Boeing KC-97
-Stratofreighters at 20,000 feet on a refueling mission off the coast of
-Newfoundland. They see two bright objects at 20,000 feet, apparently
-stationary. Ground radar picks up several objects, some in a distant
-cluster flying erratically. Speer is able to maintain visual contact,
-calling direction change of the object to the radar site by radio. The
-objects are tracked on radar for 49 minutes. (NICAP, “Archie
-29 KC-97 Radar Case”; Sparks, p. 228;
-Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn
-Press, 2006, pp. 296–297; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, pp. 263–264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2720
Date: 7/12/1955
-Description: Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO
-sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in
-that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to
-ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar
-scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M.
-Odarenko.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland
Date: 7/18/1955
-Time: 0300
-Description: Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the airfield were
-blinded by a light from a disk-shaped object 150 m away. It left orange
-glows in its trail. Silent, flying slowly, it hovered near the Metro
-station, close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward
-the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul-Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object
-half-an-hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France
-ID: 366
Date: late 7/1955
-Description: A man, a female companion, and two children are picnicking
-on a Lake Ontario beach in St. Catharines, Ontario, when a silvery disc
-approaches them rapidly across the water, then hovers above them before
-heading to another family nearby. It swings back to the original group,
-“moving like a clock pendulum.” The man flees to his car but finds it
-will not start. Through the windows of the UFO, just a few feet above
-the ground, the witnesses see the faces of four pale-faced men with
-black hoods covering their ears and heads, sitting straight and rigid.
-The object shoots over the lake, ascends rapidly, and disappears. (Clark
-III 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2721
Date: 7/24/1955
-Description: The Groom Lake “Ranch” in Nebada receives it first delivery
-of U-2s from Burbank, California, in a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane,
-accompanied by Lockheed technicians on a Douglas DC-3. Regular Military
-Air Transport Service flights are set up between Area 51 and Lockheed’s
-offices in Burbank. To preserve secrecy, personnel fly to Nevada on
-Monday mornings and return to California on Friday evenings. (Wikipedia,
-“Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2722
Date: 7/26/1955
-Description: A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times its own
-length approaches National Airport [now Ronald Reagan Washington
-National Airport] in Washington, D.C., stops, oscillates, and moves off
-at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport go out when the object
-approaches and returns to operation when the UFO departs. (UFOEv, p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2723
Date: 7/29/1955
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Morrice Raymond. Four orange flashing lights and
-one whIte flashing light moved up and down like yo-yos for 5-6
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Nebraska
-ID: 387
Date: 7/29/1955
-Description: President Eisenhower announces
-a program to launch a scientific satellite during the International
-Geophysical Year. The program will be run by the National Science
-Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, with advice coming from
-the Department of Defense. (Amy Shira Teitel, “How
-the Stage Was Set for the Satellite Race,”
-Popular Science, January 3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking
-the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight
-before NASA, Bloomsbury
-Sigma, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2724
Date: 7/29/1955
-Description: 8:30–9:30 p.m. An aircraft engineer and four others notice
-a “2nd magnitude star” in the vicinity of Saturn at Lake Ronkonkoma on
-Long Island, New York. The star moves in a perfect circle around Saturn,
-heads east until it gets to the Moon, where it executes a half-circle
-pass and disappears. The object then appears 120° away and moves
-horizontally until it takes an abrupt turn vertically. It disappears
-again at about 70° above the horizon. Then it reappears in a straight
-dive-like descent until it reacquires its original 30° elevation. It
-proceeds horizontally again, makes an abrupt angular shift again
-downwards, and is lost in the trees. Through binoculars the object looks
-spherical and yellowish. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,”
-IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 8–9; Swords 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2725
Date: 8/1955
-Description: Hundreds of people gather each night at the Black Arch, on
-the Antrim Coast Road near Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to
-watch a mysterious display of lights at sea. The light flashes three or
-four times in quick succession, then flashes again about 6 minutes
-later. The Larne police suspect that the lights are flares dropped from
-aircraft. (Larne Times, August 18, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland
-vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September 2014):
-54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2726
Date: 8/1955
-Description: Police from Luzern, Switzerland, investigate a sighting of
-a shiny metallic disc seen at Waldibrücke and Eschenbach. (“Forscher
-findet verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,”
-Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July 8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean
-Times 312 (April 2014): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2727
Date: 8/1/1955
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Sheneman, who was coming from Willoughby, came out of
-his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it that came down
-fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward
-his house, and the object appeared to chase him at less than 70 m
-altitude. It measured about 30 m in diameter and supported a dome.
-Mr. Sheneman, his wife, and their two children saw it fly away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 114 (Vallee)
-Location: Chardon Road, Ohio
-ID: 368
Date: 8/1/1955
-Time: night
-Description: Two persons in a car saw a lighted object dive toward them
-and hover about 30 m above the road. A disk, 12 m in diameter, it flew
-around the car and went away without noise. The witnesses were tourists,
-who went straight to the Arles police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 105 (Vallee)
-Location: Salon, near Arles, France
-ID: 367
Date: 8/1/1955
-Description: The first test flight of the Lockheed U-2 takes place at
-Groom Lake, Nevada. During a high-speed-taxi test in the first U-2,
-Lockheed’s chief test pilot, Tony
-LeVier, inadvertently
-becomes airborne after accelerating the U-2 to 70 knots. He is unable to
-land the U-2 on his first attempt, and it bounces back into the air, but
-he manages to successfully bring it down on a second try. Damage to the
-prototype U-2 is very minor. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-U-2”;
-“Area
-51 and the Accidental Test Flight,” Central Intelligence Agency,
-August 6, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2728
Date: 8/1/1955
-Description: 8:45 p.m. William M. Sheneman, the owner of a radio/TV
-store in Willoughby, Ohio, pulls into his driveway and walks across the
-street to check his mailbox. He sees a red light about 1,000 feet away
-coming at him at a right angle. He thinks it is a plane about to crash.
-Then the ground is illuminated with two brilliant lights aimed directly
-from the object. He runs back into the house as the UFO moves over his
-garage about 50–100 feet in the air. He sees a big red light at the
-front and a green light at the rear. Then all the lights turn off and
-the object moves away over the woods. He and his wife can now see the
-outline of a dome lit up with tiny lights inside. It hovers there for 5
-minutes then moves away. (UFOEv, p. 114;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th, The
-Author, 1992, pp. 31–32; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close
-Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS,
-1978, p. 180; Clark III 244–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2729
Date: 8/2/1955
-Description: Frederick
-C. Durant informs the Sixth Congress of the International
-Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Denmark, that President Eisenhower has
-decided to back the launch of a US scientific satellite during the
-upcoming International Geophysical Year. Not to be outdone, Soviet
-delegate Leonid
-I. Sedov calls a press conference and announces that Russia can
-launch an artificial satellite within the next 2 years that will be more
-sophisticated than the Americans’ efforts. (Amy Shira Teitel, “How
-the Stage Was Set for the Satellite Race,” Popular Science, January
-3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking
-the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before
-NASA, Bloomsbury
-Sigma, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2730
Date: 8/5/1955
-Time: 1430
-Description: Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disk-shaped
-machines coming down and up again at great speed. One of them flew under
-the others, then two disks appeared to land 300 m away near the German
-cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Buzancy, Ardennes, France
-ID: 369
Date: 8/8/1955
-Description: The CIA’s Todos
-Odarenko writes an office memorandum recommending that the CIA
-should maintain a file of UFO sightings but deny that all investigations
-are inactive, and separate explainable UFOs from unidentifiable reports.
-(Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2731
Date: 8/11/1955
-Time: 11:45 AM
-Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. E.J. Marlow. Twelve grey objects, from
-cigar to egg-shaped, varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line
-to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speed varied from
-hover to 1,000 m.p.h. Sighting lasted 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Iceland
-ID: 388
Date: 8/11/1955
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness in Cairo, Illinois, sees a
-triangular-shaped UFO low on the horizon above the trees, heading
-silently north and slightly west. Its front end is dark, its middle
-section bluish green, and its end very bright. (“Sightings,”
-APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2732
Date: 8/16/1955
-Time: 0400
-Description: Mr. Ernest Suddard, 35, and his 13-year-old son were in a
-lorry on Roundhill Street when they saw what seemed to be a human being
-about 1.20 m tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms
-close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of
-jumps. On its chest was a silver disk perforated with holes. It turned
-off suddenly into a passageway and was lost to sight. The witnesses were
-too amazed to follow it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
-Location: Bradford, England
-ID: 370
Date: 8/16/1955
-Description: Early morning. Truck driver Ernest Suddard and his
-13-year-old son are returning home to Bradford, West Yorks, England,
-when their headlights light up a small figure in the street. It is 4
-feet tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes, and is hopping forward
-in a series of jerky movements. A circular, silvery object, perforated
-with holes, appears on the figure’s chest just below its throat. It
-approaches the truck then turns away abruptly into a passage. Suddard
-alerts the police, but they find nothing. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1955 July–September 15th, The
-Author, 1992, p. 50; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-19, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2733
Date: 8/16/1955
-Description: 3:55 p.m. Mechanic Hugh Saunders sees a silver object above
-a white cloudbank above Cave Hill in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is
-flat and moves swiftly. (Belfast Telegraph, August 17, 1955; Shane
-Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September
-2014): 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2734
Date: 8/19/1955
-Time: 2330
-Description: About 700 m away from Roundhill street, Mr. Wood, a
-warehouseman, saw a bright, bullet-shaped, silvery object behind a
-hillock. It measured about 4 m in height, 1.5 m in diameter, had a
-surface similar to chromium and made a highpitched buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
-Location: Bradford, England
-ID: 371
Date: 8/19/1955
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A “shining, glittering ball” zigzags across the
-sky over Lisburn, Northern Ireland. It is seen by many people for about
-10 minutes. Jeffrey Moore, 17, says it looks like a steel ball at first,
-then as it gets closer it appears “cross-shaped.” It moves in a variety
-of directions before disappearing into the clouds. (Belfast Telegraph,
-August 20, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,”
-Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2735
Date: 8/20/1955
-Description: 10:45 p.m. The president of a small Canadian air service
-and his nightwatchman are checking their seaplanes in their dock at
-Kenora, Ontario, when they see an object “shaped like two saucers with
-their open tops touching, one above the other” streaking toward them
-from the west. It is silvery-white in color and sending out rays from
-its surface or sparkling “as if some electric force or very hot air was
-flowing from all the surfaces.” It tilts on its side about 600 feet from
-them, then straightens out with the flat side parallel with the ground
-and hovers about 225 feet from them and 40 feet above the surface of the
-lake. It is completely silent and looks to be only 4–5 feet across. (J.
-Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 111–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2737
Date: 8/20/1955
-Description: Pilot Horace
-A. Hanes attains an airspeed record of 822 mph in a North American
-F-100C Super Sabre at Palmdale, California. (Wikipedia, “North
-American F-100 Super Sabre”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2736
Date: 8/21/1955
-End date: 8/22/1955
-Description: About 7:00 p.m. Billy Ray Taylor goes into the backyard of
-the Elmer “Lucky” Sutton farmhouse 7 miles north of Hopkinsville,
-Kentucky, and sees a bright object come from the south-southwest, pass
-over, and descend into a gully about 500 feet north and about 35-40 feet
-lower elevation. Glennie
-Lankford and 6 other adults (Elmer Sutton, Vera Sutton, John Charley
-Sutton, Alene Sutton, June Taylor, O. P. Baker) plus 3 children
-(Charlton, Lonnie, and Mary Lankford), see several gremlin-like
-creatures float down from trees and approach the house from the dark.
-They are about 3 feet high with roundish heads, elephantine ears,
-slit-like mouths extending ear to ear, huge and wide-set eyes, no
-visible necks, and long arms ending in clawed hands. They wear glowing
-silver clothing. When they run, they drop on all fours. When one of them
-approaches the house, Sutton and Taylor fire shotguns through the window
-screen, scoring a direct hit. The creature is knocked over, but gets up
-and scuttles off. Taylor walks out the door and one of the creatures
-grabs at his head. This activity continues the greater part of the night
-and includes heavy gunfire at times. Sutton fires point blank at it,
-knocking it from the roof, but it just “floats down.” At about 11:00
-p.m. they run out of ammunition, and the entire group flees in terror in
-two cars and drives at high speed into Hopkinsville to report the
-incident to the police. A state patrolman leaves the Shady Oaks
-restaurant 3 miles north of Hopkinsville in a car to respond to the call
-and sees several meteor- like objects streaking over him sounding like
-artillery fire. He sees two in a series looking like meteors coming from
-the southwest, headed towards Kelly from the direction of Fort Campbell,
-a US Army installation. City, county, state, and military police and
-reporters drive out to the Sutton farm to investigate from 11:30 p.m. to
-2:00 a.m. The UFO entities return at about 2:30 a.m. Glennie Lankford is
-trying to get to sleep when she sees one outside her window stretching
-its claw-like hands up to the screen. Elmer Sutton again shoots at them
-without effect. The last one is seen at about 5:15 a.m. Clark writes
-that investigations by “police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort
-Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax”; however,
-Brian
-Dunning reports that “the claim that Air Force investigators showed
-up the next day at Mrs. Lankford’s house has been published a number of
-times by later authors, but I could find no corroborating evidence of
-this.” Dunning also observes that “the four military police who
-accompanied the police officers on the night of the event were from an
-Army base, not an Air Force base.” Skeptic Joe
-Nickell notes that the family could have misidentified great horned
-owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and
-aggressively defend their nests. He thinks Taylor and Sutton were
-drinking heavily. Meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could
-explain Billy Ray Taylor’s claim that he saw “a bright light streak
-across the sky and disappear beyond a tree line some distance from the
-house.” (Wikipedia, “Kelly–Hopkinsville
-encounter”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1955 July–September 15th, The
-Author, 1992, pp. 54–75; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of
-the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th, Supplemental
-Notes, The
-Author, 2002, pp. 18– 36; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine
-ed., 1974, pp. 172–178;
-Story, pp. 190–192;
-Clark III 642– 643; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at
-Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978; Sparks, p. 230;
-“The Close Encounter of the Third Kind at Kelly Re-examined,” IUR 3, no.
-5 (May 1978): 4–6; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 53–56; Joe Nickell, “Siege
-of ‘Little Green Men’: The
-1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident,” Skeptical Inquirer 30, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 2006); Brian Dunning, “The
-Kelly- Hopkinsville
-Encounter,” Skeptoid podcast no. 331, October 9, 2012; Patrick
-Gross, “The
-Kelly-Hopkinsville Case,
-1955”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2738
Date: 8/21/1955
-Time: 2030
-Description: The Sutton family saw a light landing near their farmhouse,
-then several nightmarish entities about 1 m tall, with glowing silver
-clothing, an oversized round head, huge eyes and ears, and a slit-like
-mouth harassed them for several hours, in spite of heavy gunfire. At one
-point, one of the entities was knocked down from the roof by a bullet:
-it “floated down.” Running out of ammunition, the Suttons got the
-police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying very
-fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic, Anatomy 173; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
-ID: 372
Date: 8/22/1955
-Time: 1400
-Description: A group of children was playing in the garden of Mr. and
-Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object which disappared and
-reappeared as a spinning disk with curved lines radiating from it. Other
-objects, silvery and semi-transparent, soon appeared and were seen by
-all children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared.
-One of them landed, and a creature the size of a 4-year-old child,
-transparent, wearing a belt with a bright disk, was seen nearby. Another
-creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children
-experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as “arms”
-which appeared to beckon to them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: TSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California
-ID: 373
Date: 8/23/1955
-Time: 10:45 AM
-Description: Witness: G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope. Several orange
-lights moved singly or in groups, circling and stopping during 30 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Arlington, Virginia
-ID: 389
Date: 8/23/1955
-End date: 8/24/1955
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Personnel at the Ground Observer Corps tower in
-Hamilton County, Ohio, notice three white spheres between Columbus and
-Cincinnati. Tracking the UFOs on radar, they notify SAC at Lockbourne
-AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base], which scrambles jets to
-investigate. The UFO approaches the tower and hovers in pendulum-like
-motions directly above it. The interceptors give chase, but the UFO
-disappears at an incredible speed. The Greater Cincinnati Airport also
-tracks unidentified blips on radar. To his surprise, Stringfield obtains
-clearance to write about these sightings in CRIFO Orbit. But when he
-tries to interest the Cincinnati newspapers, they are not interested. A
-Wright-Patterson AFB spokesperson denies the incident to the press and
-claims to know nothing about Stringfield’s relationship with ADC.
-(Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 12–14; Sparks, p. 230;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955
-July–September 15th, The Author, 1992, p. 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2739
Date: 8/25/1955
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Lloyd Wright and Mrs. Lester Parsons of
-Bedford, Indiana, see a huge white object with a black streak down the
-center. The object seems to expand and contract regularly as it hovers
-over Mrs. Parsons’s home. The houselights appear to dim and pulsate in
-rhythm with the object. (Schopick,
-p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2740
Date: 8/25/1955
-Description: Four adolescents in a car saw a creature with a luminous
-body, standing near a fireplug.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stringfield 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Greenhills, Ohio
-ID: 374
Date: 8/29/1955
-Description: RAF pilot Walter
-Gibb reaches an official record altitude of 65,876 feet in an
-English Electric Canberra B.2 turbojet. (Wikipedia, “Walter
-Gibb”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2741
Date: 8/30/1955
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Pedro Navarro, 25, takes a photograph of some
-swirling storm clouds over Dudignac, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
-When he develops them, he notes that the disturbance looks more like a
-giant disc. The newspapers reproduce enhanced versions of the photo, but
-it is never critically analyzed until several decades later. The best
-guess is that the photo shows a round cloud. (Vicente-Juan
-Ballester-Olmos, “Exigesis
-of the Dudignac
-Saucer of 1955,” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, December 26, 2021; Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos, “Exegesis of
-the Dudignac Saucer of 1955,” January 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2742
Date: 9/1955
-Description: Austrian Countess Zoe
-Wassilko von Serecki writes an article for American Astrology in
-which she conceives of UFOs as living animals that inhabit the
-ionosphere and are attracted to electrical sources. (Zoë
-Wassilko-Serecki, “Startling Theory on Flying Saucers,” American
-Astrology 23 (September 1955): 2–5; Clark III 1099–1100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2743
Date: 9/1955
-Description: Day. Several witnesses see four silver discs flying in
-formation over Lima, Ohio. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,”
-IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2744
Date: 9/2/1955
-End date: 9/4/1955
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Eddy
-Geddes notices a fireball as he is driving to Kalispell, Montana,
-from Whitefish. He stops at a Ground Observer post and notifies the
-women stationed there. Jets are scrambled from Malmstrom AFB in Great
-Falls and arrive shortly after midnight, long after the object is gone,
-but another fireball is apparently seen later. The same scenario occurs
-on September 4 when five F-94C Starfire jets (as well as other aircraft
-from Great Falls and Spokane, Washington, are sent to the Kalispell
-area. (“Air
-Force Jets Called in Search for ‘Fireball’
-over Kalispell,” The Missoulian, September 5, 1955, p. 7; “Recent
-Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, September 15, 1956, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2745
Date: 9/3/1955
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witness: Observer Saunders for Ground Observer Corps. One
-white pinhead moved slowly across 30 degrees of sky in 15 minutes. No
-further information.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bellingham, Washington
-ID: 390
Date: 9/7/1955
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witnesses: Two photographers, one plate maker for the Army
-Map Service (one named Smith). One glowing round object flew an arc for
-1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 391
Date: 9/8/1955
-Description: Test pilot Ray
-J. Goudey reaches an altitude of 65,000 feet in a Lockheed U-2 at
-Groom Lake, Nevada, a feat not revealed until declassification in 1998.
-“From where I was up above Nevada I could see the Pacific Ocean, which
-was 300 miles away.” (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2746
Date: 9/9/1955
-Description: Capt. Hugh McKenzie of the Air Defense Command in Columbus,
-Ohio, contacts UFO researcher Leonard
-Stringfield in Cincinnati and asks for CRIFO’s cooperation in
-providing them with new UFO reports. He also says that Ground Observer
-Corps in southwestern Ohio is to report UFO activity to CRIFO for
-screening. Screened reports are then to be forwarded to the ADC filter
-center using the code “Fox Trot Kilo 3-0 Blue.” All expenses will be
-reimbursed by the Air Force. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest,
-1977, p. 11; Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2747
Date: 9/9/1955
-Time: 12 noon
-Description: Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost
-square object flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Alcoa, Tennessee
-ID: 392
Date: 9/16/1955
-Time: 1800
-Description: A young shepherd heard a whistling sound as a dark mass
-appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet.
-The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became
-visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish
-face, a bald head and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 m
-diameter, 2 m high, lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered
-some plants and flew away to the northwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Boisseuges, France
-ID: 375
Date: 9/17/1955
-Time: night
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bordes, of New York City, were fishing when
-they heard a loud splash and a “gurgling sound,” saw a pink, iridescent,
-mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into
-the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again, about 5 m long and
-surrounded with turbulence. It reversed direction several times without
-turning around and finally flew away very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 226; FSR 55,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Bush Pine, New York
-ID: 376
Date: 9/20/1955
-Description: In response to a September 13 letter from Rep. Gordon
-H. Scherer (R-Ohio) about the contactee claims of George
-Adamski, CIA
-Director Allen
-Dulles replies that the “CIA shall have no police, subpoena, law-
-enforcement powers, or internal-security functions” over mail fraud
-related to UFOs. (Allen W. Dulles, Letter
-to Gordon
-H. Scherer, September 20, 1955)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2748
Date: 9/21/1955
-Description: Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 3.5
Date: 10/1955
-Description: President Eisenhower gives
-the CIA control over the U-2 spy plane program and Area 51. (Jacobsen,
-Area 51, p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2749
Date: 10/1955
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A student at St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary in
-Peterborough, New Hampshire, sees four glowing, bluish-white objects to
-the southwest. One appears to be on the ground with 3–4 figures beside
-it. He goes into the recreation room to find more witnesses. When they
-go outside, the objects are slowly moving above the school building
-toward the northeast. (“New
-Hampshire,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May 1985):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2750
Date: 10/3/1955
-Description: A B-47 from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona, crashes
-northwest of Lovington, New Mexico. The lone survivor, 2nd Lt. William
-Daniel Borggen, says the plane is flying at 15,000 feet when three
-instruments go out after it breaks away from a refueling plane in a
-pre-dawn flight. The crew drops 5,000 feet, then the bomber hits
-something and crashes. (“B-47
-Crash Is Probed,” Clovis (N.Mex.) News-Journal, October 3, 1955,
-pp. 1-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2751
Date: 10/4/1955
-Description: 7:10 p.m. Senator Richard
-B. Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on
-a trip to the USSR, is on a Soviet train near Baku, Azerbaijan, when he
-spots a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. Russell sees the
-“first flying disc ascend and pass over the train” and goes “rushing in
-to get Mr. Efron [Reuben Efron, his interpreter] and Col. Hathaway [Col.
-E. U. Hathaway, his aide] to see it,” the report says. “Col. Hathaway
-stated that he got to the window with the Senator in time to see the
-first [UFO], while Mr. Efron said that he got only a short glimpse of
-the first. However, all three saw the second disc and all agreed that
-they saw the same round, disc-shaped craft…as the first.” A fourth
-witness is unidentified. “One disc ascended almost vertically, at a
-relatively slow speed, with its outer surface revolving slowly to the
-right, to an altitude of about 6,000 feet, where its speed then
-increased sharply as it headed north,” the report states. “The second
-flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later.
-The take-off area was about 1–2 miles south of the rail line.” The Air
-Force report is written by Lieut. Col. Thomas Ryan, who interviews
-Russell’s companions in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic], on
-October 13, after they arrive there from Russia shortly after the
-sighting. The report remains Top Secret until April 30, 1959, and Secret
-until March 1985 when Stanton Friedman manages
-to get it declassified following a FOIA request. (NICAP, “Senator
-Russell Observes UFO from
-Train”; Clark III 1049–1050; Sparks, p. 231;
-Joel Carpenter, “The
-Senator, the Saucer, and Special
-Report 14,”
-IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 3–7; Swords 227–228; Good Above, pp. 224–226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2752
Date: 10/5/1955
-Description: Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl
-Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an
-award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his
-duties.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Pearl Harbor
Date: 10/7/1955
-Description: Retired Gen. Douglas
-MacArthur tells Achille
-Lauro, the mayor of Naples, that he does not think there will be a
-war with the Soviet bloc, but that “because of the developments of
-science all countries on earth will have to survive and to make a common
-front against attack by people from other planets.” The meeting takes
-place in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. (“M’Arthur
-Greets Mayor of Naples,” New York Times, October 8, 1955, p. 7; “Space
-War Possible Is MacArthur Hint,” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 8 (November 4,
-1955): 1; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September
-15th–December 31st, The
-Author, 1993, pp. 15–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2753
Date: 10/8/1955
-Time: 4:38 PM
-Description: Witnesses: R.D. Prather, H. Ahern. One round, silver or
-white object flew straight and level at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for an
-unstated length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Loogootee, Indiana
-ID: 393
Date: 10/10/1955
-Description: The Air Force releases a statement from Fort Worth, Texas,
-saying that anyone reporting flashing lights for the next two months
-across the US is seeing wind-driven experimental plastic balloons that
-might travel as fast as 110 mph. (Keyhoe, FS
-Conspiracy, p. 206;
-Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2754
Date: 10/11/1955
-Time: 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: B. Hale, A. Ostrom. One round object which
-looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end
-of the 2.5 hour sighting, made a deep roar, unlike an aircraft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pt. Lookout, Maryland
-ID: 394
Date: 10/18/1955
-Description: CIA Director Allen
-Dulles informs the joint Intelligence Advisory Committee about
-Senator Russell’s
-sighting. (Joel Carpenter, “The
-Senator, the Saucer, and Special
-Report 14,”
-IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2755
Date: 10/19/1955
-Description: Wilton
-E. Lexow, head
-of the CIA Applied Science Division, notes the similarity of the objects
-seen by Sen. Russell to
-the Avro Canada Project Y-2 (Silver Bug), a proposed vertical take-off
-gyroplane now under development by the US Air Force. (Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada”; Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”; Joel Carpenter, “The
-Senator, the Saucer, and Special
-Report 14,”
-IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2756
Date: 10/25/1955
-Description: Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 is released, months
-after it is completed by analysts at Battelle Memorial Institute in
-Columbus, Ohio, using cases supplied by the Air Force and tabulated on
-IBM punch cards. The original report by Battelle is about 300 pages, but
-the Air Force distills this down to 100. It is accompanied by a press
-release in which Secretary of the Air Force Donald
-A. Quarles states: “On the basis of this study we believe that no
-objects such as those popularly described as flying saucers have
-overflown the United States.” (At the same time, Quarles states that the
-Air Force is working on radical new aircraft that “are sure to be
-mistaken for flying saucers.”) Only 100 copies are printed initially,
-but scientist Leon
-Davidson prints and sells copies of it beginning in 1956, along with
-his analysis and commentary. The report includes 3,201 reported UFO
-sightings. Battelle employs four scientific analysts, who divide cases
-into knowns, unknowns, and a third category of insufficient information.
-They also break down knowns and unknowns into four categories of
-quality, from excellent to poor. For a case to be called identified, two
-analysts must independently agree on a solution; for a case to be called
-unidentified, all four analysts must agree. A report classified as
-unidentified is defined as: “Those reports of sightings wherein the
-description of the object and its maneuvers could not be fitted to the
-pattern of any known object or phenomenon.” Out of 3,201 cases, 69% are
-judged to be identified, 22% are unidentified, and 9% have insufficient
-information to make a determination. The report further breaks these
-results down based on whether the identification is considered certain
-or merely doubtful. For example, in both the astronomical and aircraft
-IFO categories, 12% are considered certain and 9% are doubtful. Overall,
-of the 69% listed as IFOs, 42% are thought to be solved with certainty,
-while 27% are still considered doubtful. In addition, if a case is
-lacking in adequate data, it is placed in the insufficient information
-category, separate from both IFOs and UFOs. A key feature is to
-statistically compare IFOs and UFOs by six characteristics: color,
-number of objects, shape, duration, speed, and brightness. If there are
-no significant differences, the two classes are probably the same, the
-UFOs then representing merely a failure to properly identify prosaic
-phenomena that can already account for IFOs. On the other hand, if the
-differences are statistically significant, this suggests IFOs and UFOs
-are indeed distinctly different phenomena. In the initial results, all
-characteristics except brightness test significant at less or much less
-than 1% (brightness is greater than 5%). By removing astronomical
-sightings from the knowns and redoing the test, just two categories,
-number and speed, are significant at less than 1%, the remainder having
-results between 3% and 5%. This indicates that there is a statistically
-significant difference between the characteristics ascribed to UFOs and
-IFOs, but perhaps not as significant as the initial results suggested.
-For two characteristics, brightness and speed, the significance actually
-increases with the revised test. Hynek later
-calls the Battelle report a “shamefully biased interpretation of
-statistics to support a preconceived notion.” Keyhoe asks
-Ruppelt what
-he thinks. Ruppelt says the report “was a shock to me. I was the one
-that had the IBM system tried out. It didn’t prove a thing, and I had
-written it off as worthless before I left the project… also this report
-was drawn up in 1953, yet the Air Force released it as the latest hot
-dope in October, 1955.” The Air Force releases a second edition, with a
-new preface and an addendum that brings the subject up to date, in July
-1957. In the 1990s, after interviewing three men (Art Westerman, Perry
-Rieppel, and
-William T. Reid) who had participated in the Battelle project, Mark
-Rodeghier and Jennie
-Zeidman of the Center for UFO Studies conclude that the engineering
-mindset at Battelle had caused a disconnect between its data and its
-conclusions. Because the project cannot reverse engineer a UFO from the
-reports (because of faulty witness testimony, multicausal UFOs, etc.),
-the engineers conclude that a structured craft does not exist.
-(Wikipedia, “Identification
-studies of UFOs”; Wikipedia, “Project
-Blue Book”; US Air Force Air Technical Intelligence Center, Special
-Report No. 14; Analysis of Reports of
-Unidentified Flying Objects, May 5, 1955; Leon Davidson, Flying
-Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book Special
-Report No. 14, [1956], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; “Plan
-Radical New Aircraft,” Franklin (Pa.) News-Herald, October 26, 1955,
-p. 1; Clark III 929–932; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed.,
-1976, pp. 123–126;
-Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 770; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16,
-no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The
-Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June
-1993): 4–12, 19–21; Joel Carpenter, “The
-Senator, the Saucer, and Special
-Report 14,”
-IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 3, 9; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December
-31st, The
-Author, 1993, pp. 30–63; Swords 220–224, 239–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2757
Date: 10/25/1955
-Description: A mysterious object passes over Serbia and is seen
-throughout the country. Milorad
-B. Protić and other astronomers at Belgrade Observatory track the
-object and determine that it is not a meteor. After the launch of
-Sputnik in November 1957, Protić decides that the object must have been
-an experimental Soviet satellite. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2758
Date: 10/27/1955
-Description: Afternoon. Hosea
-D. Lambeth, principal of Whitsett Elementary School, North Carolina,
-and about 100 students watch 10 objects like “steel balls” dart through
-the sky for 25 minutes. Light-colored wispy material in 2–3-inch strips
-falls from the sky at the same time. Nearby Burlington Industries tests
-a sample and declares it not a synthetic material. No spiders are found
-in the strands. (Clark III 124; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the
-Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December 31st, The
-Author, 1993,pp. 72–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2759
Date: 10/28/1955
-Description: A disk with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly
-maneuvered above a car on a deserted road.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 135, 146 (Vallee)
-Location: Galloway, England
-ID: 377
Date: 11/1955
-End date: 4/1956
-Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition
-(Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United
-States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep
-Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year
-(1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was
-only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole
-on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic
-bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole
-(Amundsen-Scott Base).
-Type: lecture
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: McMurdo Station
Date: 11/1955
-Description: J. Heinrich Ragaz begins publishing Weltraumbote in Zürich,
-Switzerland. It continues through June 1961. (Weltraumbote, no.
-1 (November 1955))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2760
Date: 11/1/1955
-Description: 8:06 p.m. A flying light paces New Zealand National Airways
-DC-3 Flight 108 west of Waitara, New Zealand, at 8,000 feet for about 5
-minutes. Capt. William
-T. Rainbow and Copilot Stanley
-G. Trounce spot the object behind them flying along the coast on a
-parallel course. Changing color from white to yellow to gold to red, it
-overtakes the aircraft and flies alongside it for 15 miles, then picks
-up speed and disappears into the distance ahead. Rainbow estimates it is
-traveling at 850 mph. (UFOEv, p. 125;
-“1955:
-‘Flying Light’ Seen by NAC
-Captain and Crew,” Ufocus.nz, June 15, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2761
Date: 11/2/1955
-Description: Deputy-sheriff A. H. Perkins, C. F. Bell, and a dozen other
-witnesses saw six bellshaped objects moving by successive leaps. One
-came close to a patrol car; the men inside felt that their arms and legs
-“went dead” and that their clothes were burning them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Williston, Florida
-ID: 378
Date: 11/17/1955
-Time: 6:10 AM
-Description: Witness: J.A. Mapes. Twelve round, flat objects, silver on
-top and dark on the bottom, flew in 4-deep formation, tipping in pitch
-and roll, for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: St. Louis, Missouri
-ID: 395
Date: 11/20/1955
-Description: 5:20 p.m. Operations Officer Capt. Edward
-G. Denkler Jr. and 5 men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Squadron see two
-oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects fly erratically at
-terrific speed toward and away from each other, over Lake City [now
-Rocky Top], Tennessee. (NICAP, “Seven
-Witnesses Observe Maneuvering Objects
-near Oak Ridge Plant”; Sparks, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2762
Date: 11/20/1955
-Time: 5:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five
-men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange,
-semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward
-and away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake City, Tennessee
-ID: 396
Date: 11/22/1955
-Description: The first Soviet test of a true thermonuclear bomb takes
-place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. (Wikipedia, “RDS-37”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2763
Date: 11/22/1955
-Description: First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the
-Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic MT: 1.6
Date: 11/25/1955
-Time: 10:30 AM
-Description: Witness: State Senator S.T. Taylor. One dirigible-shaped
-object (fat front, tapered toward the tail) object, which was luminous
-green-blue and jellylike, appeared overhead diving at a 45’ angle, then
-reduced angle to 30’. Object seen for 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: La Veta, Colorado
-ID: 397
Date: 11/30/1955
-End date: 12/2/1955
-Description: The New York Herald Tribune and Miami Herald publish two
-articles by aviation journalist Ansel
-Talbert in which he lists the names of aerospace firms conducting
-gravity-control propulsion research, including Glenn L. Martin Company,
-Convair, Bell Aircraft, Lear Inc., Clarke Electronics, and Sperry
-Gyroscope Division. The Gravity Research Group indicates these companies
-have constructed “rigs” to improve the performance of Thomas
-Townsend Brown’s gravitators through attempts to develop materials
-with high dielectric constants. Articles about the gravity propulsion
-research by the aerospace firms cease after 1974. Follow-up studies on
-Brown’s work and other claims are conducted by R.
-L. Talley in 1990 and 2013 US Air Force studies, NASA scientist Jonathan
-W. Campbell in a 2003 experiment, and Martin
-Tajmar in a 2004 paper. They find that no thrust can be observed in
-a vacuum and that Brown’s and other ion-lifter devices
-produce thrust along their axis regardless of the direction of
-gravity—consistent with electrohydrodynamic effects. (Wikipedia, “United States
-gravity control propulsion research”; Wikipedia, “Anti-gravity”;
-Ansel E. Talbert, “Scientists
-Taking First Steps in
-Assault on Gravity Barrier,” Miami Herald, November 30, 1955,
-pp. 1–2; Ansel E. Talbert, “Future Planes
-May Defy Gravity and Air Lift in Space Travels,” Miami Herald,
-December 2, 1955, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2764
Date: 12/11/1955
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Near Jacksonville, Florida, two airline pilots
-and ground observers see a fast-maneuvering, orange-red, round object,
-with ground radar tracking. Two USN jets on a practice night-flying
-mission are vectored to the object by a Naval Air Station Jacksonville
-controller. On approach the object suddenly rises up to 30,000 feet then
-dives back down in a circle, buzzing the jets. (Sparks,
-p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2765
Date: 12/21/1955
-Time: 111 PM
-Description: Witness: Roberta V. Jacobs. One round, very bright gold,
-domed disc made a short climb, rotated, hovered and then accelerated
-during the 6-8 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Caribou, Maine
-ID: 398
Date: 1956
-Description: Morris
-K. Jessup publishes The UFO Annual, an anthology of newspaper and
-magazine articles about UFOs, and UFO and the Bible, the first
-book-length attempt to connect biblical miracles with space visitors.
-Jessup is the first writer to use the term “ufology” in his introduction
-(dated December 31, 1955). (Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel,
-1956; Clark III 106, 634–635)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2768
Date: 1956
-Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens
-(Uranium enrichment)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1956
-Description: Gray
-Barker publishes They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, a
-bestselling book about the supposed Albert
-K.
-Bender mystery and his encounter with three men in black. (Gray
-Barker, They
-Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University
-Books, 1956; Clark III 178, 190; David Halperin, “‘They
-Knew Too Much’: The Book That (Almost)
-Scared Me under My Bed,” Ms.Horror.com, March 16, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2767
Date: 1956
-Description: French ufologist Aimé
-Michel publishes The Truth about Flying Saucers, one of the best
-early books on UFOs, originally published in French in 1954. (Aimé
-Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, Criterion, 1956; “First Read:
-Aimé Michel’s ‘The Truth about Flying Saucers,’” Magonia, February
-25, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2766
Date: 1956
-Description: Much UFO activity in South America
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: South America
Date: 1956
-Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel
-chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to
-discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue
-top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the
-media and UFO research groups.
-Type: secret meeting
-Reference: “The
-Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
-See also: 1955
Date: 1956
-Description: Soviet polar aviator Valentin
-Akkuratov is flying a Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft near Cape Morris Jesup,
-Greenland, performing strategic ice reconnaissance. Dropping down below
-the clouds, he sees an unknown object moving on the port side parallel
-to his course. It looks like a “large pearl-colored lens with wavy,
-pulsating edges.” Thinking it is a US aircraft, Akkuratov heads back
-into the clouds. After flying for 40 minutes to the southeast, the cloud
-cover ends and Akkuratov encounters it again. He decides to approach the
-object, which changes course and paces the airplane at the same speed.
-After 15–18 minutes, the UFO sharply alters course, speeds ahead, and
-rises quickly until it disappears. (Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27– 29; Good
-Above, pp. 226–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2769
Date: 1956
-Description: E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs
-steer from farm
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Twin Falls, Idaho
-Attributes: cattle mutilation
Date: 1956
-Description: Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Mexico
Date: 1956
-Description: Fishermen at lake Ozero Blagodati, Primorsky Krai, Russia,
-allegedly see an enormous silvery object with an apparent diameter of
-4,900 feet rapidly flying above them at 1,960 feet. It resembles a hat
-with red portholes around its rim and is accompanied by loud grinding
-sounds and black smoke. The object emits numerous thin metal threads
-resembling horse hairs that the fishermen pick up the next day. The
-object crashes into the Sea of Japan. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s
-USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 113–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2770
Date: 1956
-Alternate date: 1957
-Description: 7:45 p.m. W. J. Kyncy is aboard the destroyer USS
-Maddox in
-the North Pacific between Midway Island and Japan. He and some 30 other
-sailors on the stern see a steady orange light coming toward them at
-about 50 mph. It stops for 2 minutes about 1,300 feet away at about 400
-feet altitude. It begins moving again at 35 mph then blinks out after
-5–10 seconds. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2771
Date: 1/1956
-Description: The US Army Chemical Corps begins classified human
-experiments at its Edgewood Arsenal facility at the Aberdeen Proving
-Ground, Maryland. The Medical Research Volunteer Program (1956–1975) is
-driven by intelligence requirements and the need for new and more
-effective interrogation techniques. Overall, about 7,000 soldiers take
-part in these experiments that involve exposure to more than 250
-different chemicals. Some of the volunteers exhibit symptoms at the time
-of exposure to these agents but long-term follow-up is not planned as
-part of the Department of Defense studies. The experiments are abruptly
-terminated by the Army in late 1975 amid an atmosphere of scandal and
-recrimination as lawmakers accuse researchers of questionable ethics.
-Many official government reports and civilian lawsuits follow in the
-wake of the controversy. The chemical agents include VX, sarin, mustard
-gas, atropine, scopolamine, 2-PAM chloride, LSD, PCP, cannabinoids, riot
-control agents, alcohol, and caffeine. (Wikipedia, “Edgewood
-Arsenal human experiments”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2772
Date: 1/1956
-Description: Edward
-J. Ruppelt’s Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published. His
-candid opinions about UFOs contradict many of the positions taken on
-UFOs by the Air Force. He has personally seen the Estimate of the
-Situation, he confirms the existence of Fournet’s
-motion study, and he first describes the basic contours of the Robertson
-Panel. (Edward J. Ruppelt, The
-Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday,
-1956; Michael D. Swords, [Review], JUFOS 3 (1991): 179–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2773
Date: 1/9/1956
-Description: The CIA’s Applied Science Division takes on the job of
-holding UFO reports. (ClearIntent, p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2774
Date: 1/13/1956
-Description: UFO researcher Morris
-K. Jessup receives a letter from someone in New Kensington,
-Pennsylvania, who calls himself Carlos
-Miguel Allende [a pseudonym of Carl Allen], who alludes to a US Navy
-experiment to make a destroyer invisible in October 1943 [the bogus
-Philadelphia Experiment]. He writes another letter postmarked May 25
-that suggests hypnosis or truth serum might bring out more details.
-(Wikipedia, “Philadelphia Experiment”;
-Clark III 95; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “The
-Carl Allen Letters,” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, January
-31, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2775
Date: 1/15/1956
-Description: An object the apparent size of a washtub is seen falling
-into the sea 150 feet offshore Busan, South Korea, by large numbers of
-townspeople. The glow continues for an hour and a half before the object
-sinks. Korean and American military authorities are alerted. Military
-Police Cpl. Ben Elliot observes the glow, which resembles burning
-alcohol or benzene. (Samuel Norman, “Recent UFOs over Japan,” Fate 9,
-no. 6 (June 1956): 22–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2776
Date: 1/22/1956
-Description: Jonathan
-N. Leonard reviews Harold
-T. Wilkins’s Flying Saucers Uncensored, Keyhoe’s
-Flying Saucer Conspiracy, and Ruppelt’s
-Report on UFOs in the New York Times. He calls Wilkins a mystic, Keyhoe
-“repetitious and unconvincing,” and Ruppelt (most unfairly) “the longest
-and dullest of the current crop of saucer books.” (Jonathan N. Leonard,
-“Visitors
-from Space,” New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1956,
-p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2777
Date: 1/31/1956
-Description: 3:24 p.m. Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. Lee
-J. Merkel is flying an F-51 Mustang out of Standiford Field [now
-Louisville International Airport] in Louisville, Kentucky, on a
-maintenance test flight. His aircraft crashes 10 miles north of Bedford,
-Indiana, following some confusing information from various sources about
-an unknown radar target or visual observation in the vicinity.
-(ClearIntent, pp. 62–63;
-Good Need, pp. 215– 216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2778
Date: 2/5/1956
-Description: Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the
-warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the
-world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time
-on February 5, 1956.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: .3
Date: 2/7/1956
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion
-group in Coral Gables, FL
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Coral Gables, FL
Date: 2/8/1956
-Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on
-flying saucers
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2/9/1956
-Description: In a memo, “Responsibility for Unidentified Flying
-Objects,” the CIA’s Applied Science Division retains files for incoming
-raw reports that might provide information on foreign weapons R&D.
-Other (more significant?) reports are forwarded to the Fundamental
-Sciences Area for review of information on foreign science developments.
-Still others are to be destroyed. (ClearIntent, pp. 135–136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2780
Date: 2/9/1956
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Patrolmen Marvin Poer and John Freeland see a
-ball of fire plunge behind the breakwater at Redondo Beach, California.
-It bobs on the water’s surface before sinking into 15 feet of water some
-300 feet off the shore. Five county lifeguards row out to look for it
-and retrieve a US Army Signal Corps battery light that was dropped from
-an airplane. (“Sea
-Cools Mystery of Hot Disk,” Los Angeles (Calif.) Mirror-News,
-February 9, 1956, p. 8; “Sea-Saucer
-or Searchlight?” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 12 (March 2, 1956): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2779
Date: 2/12/1956
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Two F-89D fighters flying at 20,000 feet, one
-crewed by pilot Bowen and radar observer Crawford, suddenly see a green
-and red object 40 miles southeast of Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay],
-Labrador. It rapidly circles thir jet, and the other fighter tracks it
-on radar but cannot see it visually. About 15 minutes later, operators
-at Goose Bay paint a stationary target about 40 miles southwest of the
-base. The two pilots vectot toward the object and obtain radar contact,
-but it vanishes when they get within 8 miles. (Sparks,
-p. 233; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2781
Date: 2/12/1956
-Time: 11:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: F-89 pilot Bowen, radar observer Crawford. One
-green and red object rapidly circled the aircraft while being tracked on
-radar during 1 minute sighting. No further details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 399
Date: 2/17/1956
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Orly Airport, Paris,
-France, see a target appear on their radar screens that is twice the
-size of a conventional aircraft. It cruises around, hovers, and
-accelerates at fantastic speeds, and is tracked for a total of 4 hours.
-When it first appears on radar it is directly above Gometz-le-Châtel,
-Seine et Oise, and 30 seconds later it is 19 miles away, having moved at
-nearly 2,500 mph. A second, smaller target appears, identified as an Air
-France DC-3 airliner flying over the Les Mureaux military base,
-Yvelines, at 4,500 feet (800 feet lower than the UFO). Orly radios the
-pilot to alert him to the unidentified target. Radio Officer Beaupertuis
-sees the object through a window on the starboard side of the
-plane—enormous in size, indistinct in outline, and lit in some areas
-with a red glow. Capt. Michel Desavoye confirms the sighting, saying he
-and the crew watch the object for 30 seconds and are certain it is no
-civil airliner. The sighting duration is nearly 3 hours. (NICAP, “Large
-UFO Tracked on Ground Radar”; “A
-Saucer Shows Up over Paris and Creates a Stir in a Radar Room and a
-Cockpit,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 2 (March/April 1956): 3;
-Patrick Gross, “Orly
-Airport, France, February 1956”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2782
Date: 2/18/1956
-Description: Stringfield receives
-a letter from Lord
-Hugh Dowding that says he doesn’t think there is an official
-“British attitude to UFOs.” (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest,
-1977, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2783
Date: 2/19/1956
-Time: 6:07 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of Eastern Airlines Super Constellation.
-One intense white light, moving 4-5 times the speed of the airplane, was
-evaded by the pilot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 400
Date: 3/1956
-Description: Mechanix Illustrated publishes a story on the Avro Canada
-MX-1794 (Y-2, or Silver Bug) vertical take-off gyroplane under
-development by the US Air Force. The cover proclaims, “U.S. Air Force
-Reveals Our Flying Saucer.” Through 1958, Avro spends $2.5 million and
-the USAF $5.4 million funding the project. Numerous models are built,
-and wind-tunnel testing is undertaken at MIT and Wright-Patterson AFB.
-The design includes eight Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines, a
-very large center rotor/impeller with Lundstrom compressor turbines,
-with the cockpit mounted in the top center. Control is achieved through
-eight small exhausts at the outer edge, directed either through the top
-or bottom, in addition to the main turbine exhaust through the bottom
-center of the craft. A multiengine test rig is built and tested in 1956,
-resulting in powerful thrust, a great deal of noise, and vibrations. In
-1957, the USAF provides additional funding to extend the project, by
-then highly classified and designated as Weapon System 606A. The concept
-developed is for a circular-winged, supersonic aircraft. Over 1,000
-hours of wind-tunnel testing are performed. Drawings developed by Avro
-show an aircraft that appears to be a merging of a flying saucer with
-more conventional fuselage shapes—a tailless aircraft with circular
-wings. (Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada”; Willy Ley, “How
-the Flying Saucer Works,” Mechanix Illustrated 52 (March 1956):
-78–81; Good Need, p. 215;
-Charles Mandel, “A
-Saucer from Mars? Nope, Canada,” Wired, July 5, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2784
Date: 3/3/1956
-Description: Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 3/10/1956
-Description: British pilot Peter
-Twiss reaches an official airspeed of 1,132 mph in a Fairey Delta 2
-over Chichester, England. (Wikipedia, “Peter
-Twiss”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2785
Date: 3/16/1956
-Description: Stringfield receives
-a letter from Gen. John
-A. Samford that ends his affiliation with ADC. (Stringfield,
-Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2786
Date: spring 1956
-Description: The Flying Saucer Discussion Group begins meeting on a
-more-or-less monthly basis at the YWCA in Washington, D.C. It is begun
-by Mrs. Walton
-C. “Clara” John, the
-publisher of a mimeographed zine called The Little Listening Post, which
-often covers UFOs. (“‘Toward
-a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP
-Began,” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2787
Date: 4/1956
-Description: An annotated copy of the paperback edition of Morris
-K. Jessup’s The Case for the UFO (1955) is sent in a manila envelope
-from Seminole, Texas, to Adm. Frederick
-R. Furth, chief of the Office of Naval Research. The annotations are
-written in three different colors of ink, apparently by three persons,
-A, B, and Jemi, who claim to know a great deal about the UFO
-intelligences. They mention space people, underwater cities, force
-fields, and much more. The book falls into the possession of Maj. Darrell
-L. Ritter, USMC
-aeronautical project officer at ONR, who brings it to the attention of
-ONR Capt. Sidney Sherby and ONR Projects Officer Cmdr. George
-W. Hoover, who
-become interested and get permission (as long as it does not involve
-official naval personnel) to send the copy to the Varo Manufacturing
-Company, in Garland, Texas, which has contracts with the military. Varo
-publishes 25 spiral-bound copies of the book in black and red ink, which
-shows the annotations. Meanwhile, Jessup has been receiving at least two
-strange letters (January 13 and May 25, 1956) from someone calling
-himself Carlos
-Miguel Allende, which
-claim that as a result of a strange experiment at sea utilizing
-principles of Einstein’s Field Theory, a destroyer (identified by some
-as the USS
-Eldridge and others by the USS
-Engstrom, which were not in the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the time)
-and all its crew became invisible in October 1943, but the sailors
-showed side effects. Allende says he has witnessed all of this. Sherby
-talks to Jessup about the Varo edition; Jessup isn’t much interested but
-tells him about the Allende letters, which talk about the same things as
-the annotations and are obviously written by the same person. Gray
-Barker’s Saucerian Press publishes the Varo edition in July 1972.
-Sometime in the 1970s, Carlos Allende appears at APRO headquarters and
-confesses that the whole annotations thing was a hoax, but he surfaces a
-few years later saying that the CIA coerced him into saying it was a
-hoax. In the late 1970s, Robert
-A. Goerman identifies Allende as Carl Allen, who lives near him in
-Pennsylvania. In the October 1980 issue of Fate, Goerman explains the
-entire mess, saying that Allen had written all three of the annotation
-types. Bill
-Moore and Charles
-Berlitz take the whole thing seriously enough to write The
-Philadelphia Experiment in 1979, which links the force fields back to T.
-Townsend Brown, later the founder of NICAP. (Morris K. Jessup, The
-Case for the UFO, annotated
-Varo ed., Saucerian, 1972; Wikipedia, “Philadelphia
-Experiment”; Ivan T. Sanderson, “Jessup
-and the Allende Case,” Pursuit 1, no. 4 (September 30, 1968): 8–10;
-William L. Moore, with Charles Berlitz, The
-Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility, Grosset and Dunlap,
-1979; Robert A. Goerman, “Alias Carlos Allende,” Fate 33, no. 10
-(October 1980): 69–75; Clark III 95–97; Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Allende Letters,” A Different Perspective, July 5, 2009; Kevin D.
-Randle, “Chasing
-Sources: The Philadelphia Experiment,” A Different Perspective,
-August 9, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “Carlos
-Miguel Allende or Carl Meredith Allen or…,” The Philadelphia
-Experiment from A–Z, August 13, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “The
-Varo Edition,” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2789
Date: 4/1956
-Description: USAF Capt. George
-T. Gregory succeeds Capt. Charles
-Hardin as director of Project Blue Book. (Sparks,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2788
Date: 4/3/1956
-Description: Keyhoe writes
-a lengthy letter to Sen. Harry
-F. Byrd (D-Va.), criticizing Air Force secrecy, deconstructing Blue
-Book Special Report no. 14, and requesting a congressional hearing.
-Keyhoe asks Byrd to forward his letter to the Air Force for a response,
-but he forwards it himself anyway, as does Byrd. The Air Force’s Gen. Joe
-W. Kelly responds,
-dismissing both Keyhoe and UFOs. (Swords 222–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2791
Date: 4/3/1956
-Description: CIA agent Joseph
-Bryan III writes to Ruppelt,
-saying that while he served as special assistant to Air Force Secretary
-Thomas
-Finletter, he
-tried to “have him prepare a statement for release when communication
-was established with a saucer.” Finletter declines to do so. (Michael
-David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of
-the Saucers, Rose Press International, 2000, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2790
Date: 4/4/1956
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Roy Hall, U.S. Army, ret.; Charles
-Anderson and others; some observed through a 6” telescope, others
-through a 55-200x telescope. One fat, oblong object with two lines
-around its middle, remained stationary for 6 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McKinney, Texas
-ID: 401
Date: 4/5/1956
-End date: 5/10/1956
-Description: Some 156 overflight missions into Soviet territory by RB-47
-reconnaissance aircraft from Thule Air Base in Greenland begin in
-Operation Home Run. They fly over the North Pole and into Siberia,
-probing for electronic intelligence. (Wikipedia, “Project
-HOMERUN”; R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie, eds., Early Cold
-War Overflights, 1950–1956: Symposium Proceedings Held at the Tighe
-Auditorium, Defense Intelligence Agency, 22–23 February 2001, Volume 1,
-US National Reconnaissance Office, 2003, pp. 259–313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2792
Date: 4/6/1956
-Description: Two men saw a silvery, balloonshaped craft about 2 m in
-diameter land in a field 100 m away from them, about 8 km east of
-McKinney. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off
-at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: McKinney, Texas
-ID: 379
Date: 4/7/1956
-Description: Elizabeth
-Klarer returns to Flying Saucer Hill southwest of Rosetta,
-KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, drawn by a strange compulsion. The
-spaceship is waiting for her, and Akon takes her in his hands and says,
-“Not afraid this time?” He leads her on board the craft, which she
-learns also carries a second alien, who looks much like Akon except he
-is darker and more muscular. As the ship first rises into space, Akon
-says he has been watching her for some time. He lets her look at the
-earth below through a viewing lens that also has x-ray capability. The
-saucer goes to a “mother ship” filled with friendly space people. At one
-point a huge video image projected on the wall allows her to view scenes
-from their home planet, Meton, in the Alpha Centauri system. They serve
-her a vegetarian meal. Klarer and Akon begin a lifelong romantic
-attachment that includes sexual activity. (“Landing
-in South
-Africa,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1956): 2–5;
-Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond
-the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980; Clark III 657; Paul
-Seaburn, “Woman
-from Earth Claimed to Have Already Been to Proxima
-b,” Mysterious Universe, August 31, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2793
Date: 4/7/1956
-Description: Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks
-to Venusians.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: South Africa
Date: 4/8/1956
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Capt. Raymond
-E. Ryan, First
-Officer William Neff, flight attendant Phyllis Reynolds, and many
-passengers take off on American Airlines Flight 715 from Albany, New
-York, heading north then nearly due west at 260 mph and 6,000 feet north
-of Schenectady, when a brilliant white light about 2–3 miles away is
-spotted about 90° to the left appearing like an airliner heading in to
-land at Albany. The white light moves about 90° to dead ahead position
-about 8–10 miles away at high speed, estimated at about 800–1,000 mph,
-where it changes color to orange and seems to block the airliner’s path
-or risk collision. It disappears briefly and reappears as an orange
-light again but standing still ahead of the airliner to the west. The
-Convair airliner contacts Griffiss AFB [now Griffiss International
-Airport], Rome, New York, where controllers ask Ryan to turn his lights
-off and on to help identify aircraft. He is told the airliner is seen
-and the orange UFO are to the south. The airliner is ordered to maintain
-course to follow the UFO to the west, skipping its scheduled landing at
-Syracuse after nearly 30 minutes of following the object. The promised
-fighter jet interception is never seen. The object disappears at high
-speed to the northwest towards Oswego, New York. (NICAP, “Air
-Force Requests Plane Loaded with Passengers to Chase UFO”; Sparks,
-p. 236; “Cover-Up
-Suspected in Reported Air–UFO Chase,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3
-(January 1958): 10–12; UFOEv, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2794
Date: 4/8/1956
-Time: 2345
-Description: Near Exauroux, two brothers, 18 and 20, saw a red ball to
-their left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at
-fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently.
-The object was a disk about 7.5 m in diameter, with a red dome, and
-rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Elboeuf, France
-ID: 380
Date: 4/16/1956
-Description: An interview with Ryan and
-Neff is taped on the TV show Meet the Millers. They claim that Griffiss
-AFB “asked us our next point of landing and to identify the aircraft. I
-told them Syracuse and identified the flight number. Then they told us:
-‘Abandon that next landiat-postcardat-postcardng temporarily. Maintain
-your course and altitude. We’re sending two jets to intercept the
-object.’” About the UFO, Ryan says, “This was absolutely real. I’m
-convinced there was something fantastic up there.” Keyhoe obtains
-a copy of the tape. (NICAP, [transcript
-of Meet
-the Millers program, April
-16, 1956])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2795
Date: 4/16/1956
-Time: 0500
-Description: On Route 1, just before dawn, two government employees saw
-for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It
-was as large as the road and made no sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Henderson, North Carolina
-ID: 381
Date: 4/28/1956
-Description: At the third Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft
-Convention near Landers, California, contactee Dick Miller plays tape
-recordings allegedly made by Mon-Ka, a Martian, in which he asks Los
-Angeles radio stations to shut down for two minutes at 10:30 p.m. on
-November 7, 1956, so that Mon-Ka can speak from his spacecraft. As a
-publicity gimmick, two radio stations (KATY [now KYNS] of San Luis
-Obispo and KBIA of Los Angeles) go off the air at that time, and KTTV in
-Los Angeles sends up an airplane to watch for the approaching
-spacecraft. Nothing happens. (Clark III 531, 766–767)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2796
Date: 5/1/1956
-Description: USAF Gen. Joe
-W. Kelly writes to Sen. Harry
-F. Byrd (D-Va.) that there is a “total lack of evidence that [UFOs]
-are interplanetary vehicles.” (“How
-about Those Three Secret Reports, General Kelly?” CSI News Letter,
-no. 5 (September 21, 1956): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2797
Date: 5/1/1956
-Description: Air Force Manual section 190-4 goes into effect. It affects
-all USAF official press releases, statements to Congress and the public,
-and publications about UFOs. It requires the Secretary of the Air Force
-Office of Information to “delete all evidence of UFO reality and
-intelligent control, which would, of course, contradict the Air Force
-stand that UFOs do not exist.” NICAP is made aware of the regulation in
-1962 when former USAF information spokesman Maj. William
-T. Coleman admits to a NICAP member that Maj. Lawrence
-J. Tacker’s book Flying Saucers and the US Air Force was reviewed
-under AFM 190-4. (“Air
-Force Reveals Censorship Controls,”
-UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 (July 1962): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2798
Date: 5/1/1956
-Description: 7:55 p.m. Koto Ward, a factory worker, along with many
-others, see a large bright object flying low over the rooftops in Tokyo,
-Japan. Turuko Kurihara, in a different location, sees a greenish object
-at 7:59 p.m. The object makes no noise but causes severe distortion on
-the TV sets in the area. (Schopick,
-p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2799
Date: 5/3/1956
-Description: Hollywood producer Clarence
-Greene releases a semi-documentary about the UFO phenomenon in the
-US, U.F.O. Edward
-J. Ruppelt, Dewey
-Fournet, and Albert
-M. Chop assist in the production. The principal character is Chop,
-played by Los Angeles Examiner journalist Tom
-Towers, and examines his career going from skeptical USAF public
-information officer to Pentagon UFO press spokesman. The film uses only
-one professional actor, Harry
-Morgan, in
-a voiceover part. UFO witnesses Delbert Newhouse, Nicholas
-Mariana, and
-Willis
-Sperry play themselves, and Los Angeles policemen stand in for
-Ruppelt, Fournet, and Gen William
-Garland. The Air Force carefully monitors its reception and readies
-itself to counter the film’s impact. The documentary analyzes two famous
-pieces of UFO footage: the Montana film of 1950 and the 1952 UFO Utah
-film (both shown for the first time in public). It concludes with the
-famous 1952 Washington, D.C., UFO incident, in which Chop played a
-central role, and recreates his experiences. At the end of the
-documentary, Chop states his belief that UFOs are a real, physical
-phenomenon of unknown origin. (Wikipedia, “UFO
-(1956
-film)”; Internet Movie Database, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers”; Robert Barrow,
-“Unidentified Flying Objects, Accidental Epic,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January
-2006): 3–6; Robert Barrow, “Tom Towers: The Other Al Chop,” IUR 30, no.
-4 (August 2006): 17–19; Clark III 1188–1189; Swords 222; Curt Collins,
-“Project
-Blue Book: UFO,
-the Motion
-Picture,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 24, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2800
Date: 5/4/1956
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Rev. Charles Burmeister, an amateur astronomer,
-sees five “orange blobs” flying in a U-shape formation east to west at
-high speed over Marinette, Wisconsin. His son joins him to watch. One
-more object passes in the same flight path, then a group of six, then
-one more, followed by another. Blue Book classes the sighting as meteors
-without even consulting Hynek, who
-later says that meteors do not fly in formation. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 May–July,
-The Author, 1993, pp. 2–7; Swords 229–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2801
Date: 5/9/1956
-Time: 2300
-Description: Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a
-bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. 15
-min later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging,
-and diving to 50 m altitude. As the bus arrived, it seemed that the
-objects had separated and were about to abduct the witnesses, and they
-ran to the vehicle in terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Jacksonville, Florida
-ID: 382
Date: 5/22/1956
-Description: 11:05 p.m. USAF 1st Lt. Earl D. Holwadel and 1st Lt. Curtis
-Carley are piloting a T-33 jet at 18,000 feet 58 miles northwest of
-Monroe, Louisiana, when they see a bright light due east. They see it
-again in the east at 11:15 p.m. Holwadel banks right to the southeast
-somewhat behind the object, which is now a great distance away. The
-object suddenly comes straight at them at high speed, passing in front
-of the T-33 at about 225 feet away. It flashes an intensely bright white
-light from a “greenhouse-shaped dome” or cockpit window at its front end
-that lights up the canopy of the T-33. The object is about 30-40 feet
-long, elliptical in shape, shorter than a C-47 but wider, a small steady
-red running light in the center, with no wings, only stubby protrusions
-extending 3-4 feet and 25 feet long on each side. The bottom surface is
-like steel with ribs extending down 2–4 feet with a wave-like
-appearance. It moves away then returns at high speed on a westerly
-course with “fantastic” maneuverability. It never changes flight
-attitude at any time. (NICAP, “Elliptical
-Object Comes Straight at T-33”; Walter N. Webb, “Inside Building
-263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1992):
-cover, 5; Sparks, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2802
Date: 6/1956
-Alternate date: 6/1957
-Description: RNZAF Airman Derek Mansell is a passenger in a Bristol 170
-Freighter Mk 31M near Wellington, New Zealand, when the aircraft
-encounters severe turbulence and its compass and other instruments spin
-wildly. All communications fail and the engine spurts intermittently for
-25 minutes before everything returns to normal. When the Freighter lands
-at RNZAF Base Ohakea near Bulls, the pilot of a Douglas C-47 Dakota
-lands and asks them whether they had seen a huge metallic disc about 250
-feet in diameter with a blue light on top and a red light on the bottom,
-which he had observed just above the Freighter pacing it. The Dakota
-crew apparently took photos, but these have not turned up. After a
-two-hour debriefing, both crews are told never to discuss the matter.
-(Good Above, pp. 432–433)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2805
Date: 6/1956
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two women are driving north toward New
-Hampshire, Ohio, when a bright light approaches them from a small wooded
-area. They stop their car to look at it. The light is attached to a
-large rectangular object resembling a railroad box car that settles near
-the ground at the edge of the highway opposite to them about 30 feet
-away. Suddenly the side of the object facing them lights up from inside
-with a pale green light and they can see three small entities. One is
-standing next to a console “operating some kind of controls,” and the
-two others are also active. For 5 minutes, they appear to be observing
-the women. The entities have dark hair on their heads and arms and are
-wearing short-sleeved smocks. The object moves up and away toward the
-southwest and disappears. (“Unreported
-1956 CEIII Discovered in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3
-(June/July 1982): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2806
Date: 6/6/1956
-Time: 0430
-Description: An object hovered about 30 m above and 100 m away from the
-witness’s car. Showing something like a dome on top, it crossed the road
-slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind the car, then vanished
-suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Banning, California
-ID: 383
Date: 6/6/1956
-Time: 5:30 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Bierman. One thin disc with a small dome,
-shimmering silver, hovered about 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds, then
-zoomed up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Banning, California
-ID: 402
Date: 6/13/1956
-Description: Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is
-released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 6/13/1956
-Description: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, an American black-and-white
-science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles
-H. Schneer, directed
-by Fred
-F. Sears, starring Hugh
-Marlowe and Joan
-Taylor, and with special effects by Ray
-Harryhausen, is
-released in Los Angeles. The film’s storyline is suggested by Donald
-E. Keyhoe’s
-nonfiction Flying Saucers from Outer Space (1953), but bears little
-resemblance to the content. Keyhoe has sold the rights to Clover
-Productions in Hollywood. (Wikipedia, “Earth
-vs. the Flying Saucers”; Internet Movie Database, “Earth
-vs. the Flying Saucers”; Clark III 434)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2807
Date: 6/14/1956
-Description: Walter
-N. Webb visits and interviews Project Blue Book head Capt. George
-T. Gregory at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohiob . (Walter N. Webb,
-“Inside Building 263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1992): 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2808
Date: summer 1956
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A cigar-shaped UFO with lighted portholes is
-seen by two witnesses in the southwest part of Springfield, Illinois.
-The car driven by one of the witnesses quits, and the UFO seems to
-affect the traffic lights as well. The object looks slightly smaller
-than a blimp. After about 30 seconds it moves straight up and
-disappears. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4
-(Winter 2001–2002): 14, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2804
Date: summer 1956 (approximate)
-Description: Morris
-K. Jessup is invited to the Office of Naval Research to examine the
-mysteriously annotated version of his The Case for the UFO. He becomes
-convinced that his correspondent Carl
-Allen has written all or most of it. Capt. Sidney Sherby and Cmdr.
-Hoover ask
-for the Allen letters and these are included in a special printing of
-the annotated book by the Varo Publishing Company of Garland, Texas. In
-1969, Allen confesses to APRO that he had written the annotations, but
-he retracts the confession later. (Clark III 95–97; Andrew H.
-Hochheimer, “The Varo
-Edition,” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13,
-2016).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2803
Date: 6/25/1956
-Description: ATIC’s Col. John
-Eriksen, writing for Secretary of the Air Force Donald
-A. Quarles, replies to a query from Rep. John
-E. Moss (D-Calif.), explaining why USAF is not handing out multiple
-copies of Blue Book Special Report no. 14 and that it does not intend to
-withhold UFO information from the public. (Swords 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2809
Date: 7/1956
-Description: US parapsychologist Andrija
-Puharich and Dutch psychic Peter
-Hurkos accidentally meet Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian in
-Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, both groups in town to view the famous
-figurines of Waldemar
-Julsrud, during
-the time that Hurkos is being studied by Puharich at his medical
-facility in Glen Cove, Maine. The Laugheads are convinced that Puharich
-and Hurkos are space people come to assist them, based on the
-channelings of their associate George
-Hunt Williamson (although they do not name him). (Andrija Puharich,
-Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller, Bantam, 1975, pp. xviii–xxiv;
-Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, p. 104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2811
Date: 7/1956
-Description: Brinsley
-Le Poer Trench, 8th
-Earl of Clancarty, takes over as editor of Flying Saucer Review from Derek Dempster. (Flying
-Saucer Review 2, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1956); Clark III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2810
Date: 7/4/1956
-Description: Pilot Hervey
-Stockman makes the first of eight U-2 flights over Soviet Russia,
-Mission 2013. He flies from Wiesbaden over East Germany and Poland
-before crossing the Soviet border near Grodno, Belarus, then over bomber
-bases at Minsk, Belarus; Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia; and the
-Baltic states. The mission is tracked by Soviet radar; a number of MiG
-fighters unsuccessfully try to intercept the U-2. (Spyflight,
-“Lockheed U-2”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 86–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2812
Date: 7/9/1956
-Description: One early U-2 mission, Mission 2020, flown by Martin
-Knutson, flies over Engels-2 airfield, near Saratov, Russia, and
-photographs 20 M-4 Bison bombers on the ramp. Multiplying by the number
-of Soviet bomber bases, the intelligence suggests the Soviets are
-already well on their way to deploying hundreds of aircraft. Ironically,
-the U-2 has actually photographed the entire Bison fleet; there is no
-bomber at any of the other bases. Similar missions over the next year
-finally prove that. At least in official circles, the bomber gap is
-disproven. (Spyflight, “Lockheed U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2813
Date: 7/10/1956
-Description: The Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, coastline and suburbs
-are draped with “angel hair” that hangs from utility lines and trees. It
-vanishes within hours, but a sample is recovered for analysis by the
-Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation. It cannot be
-identified, although six scientists rule out wool, cotton, feathers,
-cellulose, and synthetic fibers. (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical
-Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 102; Keith Basterfield, “Angel
-Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2814
Date: 7/16/1956
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Lawyer (or law professor) João de Freitas
-Guimarães is taking a walk on the beach at Caraguatatuba, São Paulo,
-Brazil, when he observes a hat-shaped, luminous object leave the sea
-between São Sebastião and Ilhabela and land only a few yards away from
-him. A door opens, a metallic stairway emerges, and two tall,
-human-looking men with long, fair hair emerge wearing green jumpsuits.
-Through gestures, they encourage him to enter the craft. Inside, the
-saucer takes off and the crew communicate with him telepathically,
-telling him about a radiation protection system that exists around the
-ship and that they have left the atmosphere. They are supposedly from
-Venus. His alleged trip lasts an hour. When he returns, his watch no
-longer works. (Luiz do Rosário Real, “Caso
-Dr. Freitas Guimarães,” April 1976; Clark III 548–549; Vallée,
-Magonia, pp. 257–258;
-Equipe UFO, “João
-de Freitas Guimarães, o advogado que passeou em um UFO,” Portal UFO,
-October 1, 2013; Brazil 32–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2815
Date: 7/17/1956
-Description: Elizabeth
-Klarer takes several photos of a silvery disc as it is hovering
-around Flying Saucer Hill, southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South
-Africa. (Clark III 657–658)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2816
Date: 7/19/1956
-Description: Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: California
-Attributes: ufo photo
Date: 7/19/1956
-Description: President Eisenhower temporarily
-halts U-2 overflights above eastern Europe. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2817
Date: 7/19/1956
-Description: Naval Air Station Hutchinson [now Hutchinson Air Force
-Station], Kansas, reports tracking “a moving unidentified object” on
-radar, observed visually by state police as a “teardrop shaped” light
-source. Witnesses report “noticeable maneuvers of UFO vertically and
-horizontally over a wide area of the sky.” (NICAP, “NAS
-Tracks UFO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2818
Date: 7/20/1956
-Description: Three witnesses independently claimed that they observed a
-huge, ballshaped object from which emerged three beings. They were
-nearly 2 m tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green
-suits.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hanlon; Humanoids 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Panorama City, California
-ID: 384
Date: 7/20/1956
-Description: In a lecture delivered at a meeting of Clara
-John’s Flying Saucer Discussion Group, author Morris
-K. Jessup declares that it is time for a new UFO organization. A
-consensus is reached that a Washington, D.C.–based agency should
-investigate UFOs, and T.
-Townsend Brown offers to draft a preliminary proposal. (Clark III
-792; “‘Toward
-a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,” UFO
-Investigator, October 1971, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2819
Date: 7/20/1956
-Description: Three witnesses in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los
-Angeles, California, independently observe a huge, ball-shaped object
-from which emerge three beings. They are nearly 6 feet tall and have
-long, blond hair, and wear tight, green suits. (Donald B. Hanlon, “Questions
-on the Occupants,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special
-issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2820
Date: late 7/1956
-Description: A group of US Navy pilots based at Naval Air Station Los
-Alamitos [now Joint Forces Training Base–Los Alamitos], California, tell
-news reporters from Orange County News Service that they have orders to
-shoot down any UFOs that seem hostile. The pilots say this is a standard
-command issued to pilots on the US to Hawaii run. (“Unanswered
-Questions: No. 4, Have UFOs Been Fired Upon?” Flying Saucer Review
-3, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1957): 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2823
Date: 7/22/1956
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Mrs. Ray Brown sees an egg-shaped object giving
-off a green-colored light from its rear end over Highway City,
-California. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2821
Date: 7/22/1956
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Maj. Merwin
-Stenvers is flying at 16,000 feet over Pixley, California, in a
-Convair C-131D and is suddenly staggered and knocked to the right by a
-terrific blow. He makes an emergency landing at Kern County Airport [now
-closed] in Lost Hills. An examination shows that more than half of the
-left elevator control surface is gone or smashed, leading to speculation
-that the airplane had been hit by something. However, an accident
-investigation team finds that a series of rivets had popped, jamming a
-rod that controls the elevator servotab and causing the elevator to get
-stuck. (“Plane’s
-Dive Is Laid to Control Device Failure,” Fresno (Calif.) Bee, July
-25, 1956, p. 4-B; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 71–73; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2822
Date: 7/26/1956
-Description: Two disc-shaped objects are suspended in mid-air, one above
-the other, over the aircraft carrier USS
-Franklin
-D.
-Roosevelt as it is berthed in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-They are 75–100 feet in diameter and have two rows of counter-rotating
-lights. The upper one releases a ball of fire that drops into the top of
-the lower one. Within seconds they vanish with tremendous speed. One of
-the witnesses is Petty Officer 3rd Class (OI) Leon Treadwell, who
-signs papers agreeing he will tell no one for 20 years. Chief Warrant
-Officer John C. Hau reports that the ship’s radar tracked a cigar-shaped
-object the day before or after. (Good Need, p. 231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2824
Date: 7/26/1956
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Physician J. L. Bennet and his wife watch two
-spinning, powder-blue lights for 10 minutes outside his home in Kilburn
-Estate, in District 21 near King Albert Park, Singapore. They dart about
-the sky “like fish in a tank,” come together, hover, and separate at
-great speed, disappearing from sight. He manages to take several photos,
-one of which shows two objects, one a nearly perfect oval, the other
-blurred. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2825
Date: 7/28/1956
-Description: 9:55 p.m. Seven witnesses in Brentwood, California, see a
-sparkling green light flash through the sky and seemingly land in an
-orchard. Television reception is briefly interrupted. Sheriff’s deputies
-and reserve officers search a square-mile area for 3 hours but find
-nothing. (“Mystery
-Light Falls in Contra Costa Co.,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, July 29,
-1956, p. 1; “Saucer
-Sightings Mount As Mars Swings Close,” CRIFO Orbit 3, no. 6
-(September 7, 1956): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2826
Date: 8/1956
-Description: George
-King forms the Aetherius Society in London, England, as the result
-of what King claims are contacts with extraterrestrial intelligences,
-whom he refers to as “Cosmic Masters.” The main goal of the believer is
-to cooperate with these Cosmic Masters to help humanity solve its
-current earthly problems and advance into the New Age. Life on other
-planets is described as free from war, hatred, disease, want, and
-ignorance. According to King, the civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria
-both vanished during an atomic war. (Wikipedia, “Aetherius Society”;
-Clark III 52–53; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk
-Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, pp. 62–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2829
Date: 8/1956
-Description: John
-P. Cahn publishes a second article in True on the Scully hoax.
-(J. P. Cahn, “Flying
-Saucer Swindlers,” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2828
Date: 8/1956
-Description: FBI Director J.
-Edgar Hoover launches COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence programs).
-These are employed against American dissidents and their organizations;
-the first one targets the American Communist Party. Typical methods are
-anonymous or fictitious letters, false defamatory or threatening
-information, forged signatures, and other disinformation. The FBI
-blackmails insiders to spread false rumors or promote factionalism. It
-creates bogus organizations to attack or disrupt a bona fide group, and
-instigates hostile actions through third parties, such as employers,
-elected officials, and the media. It enables the FBI to investigate any
-political organization on the pretext of checking for Communists,
-including the NAACP, women’s rights groups, and gay rights groups. These
-programs prompt nearly 330,000 FBI investigations and create a Security
-Index of over 200,000 dangerous Americans to be detained in the event of
-war. Documents relating to these programs are marked “Do not file,”
-offering no clues that they exist. (Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2827
Date: 8/1956
-Description: Late night. Two young men are camping near Newark, Ohio,
-when they see five bright lights in a rigid V- formation. They fly in
-erratic, sharp-turning patterns for about 5 minutes, including sharp 30°
-turns. One man takes a photo. They report the sighting to the newspapers
-and the Air Force, but a USAF officer confiscate both the print and the
-negatives; the newspaper’s copies are also taken. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2830
Date: 8/3/1956
-Description: A press leak from the Air Force Association reveals that
-proposals for two types of UFO-detecting satellites are under
-development. A television subsystem is cancelled as impractical, but an
-infrared subsystem requires much lower data transmission rates. Lockheed
-has signed an Air Force contract. The CIA’s Richard
-M. Bissell later reveals that the CIA Office of Scientific
-Intelligence Deputy Director Gen. Philip
-G. Strong has been pushing the Air Force to develop an infrared
-tracking satellite. The infrared system actually begins as planned in
-1968, with initial operational status in 1970. (Clark III 813,
-1032)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2831
Date: 8/8/1956
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: attorneys W.B. Buttermore and J.W. Smith. One
-blue-white pulsating light flew fast, straight and level, for 5-7
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 20 miles south of Quartsite, Arizona
-ID: 403
Date: 8/13/1956
-End date: 8/14/1956
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A radar-visual UFO sighting begins at RAF
-Bentwaters [now Bentwaters Parks], Suffolk, England. A blip traveling
-approximately 4,000–8,000 mph on an east-west course is picked up on
-radar. It moves in a straight line to a position about 15 miles
-northwest of Bentwaters. Within a few minutes, about a dozen normal
-targets are spotted 8 miles southwest, moving northeast at about 100
-mph. In front of the targets are three objects in a triangular
-formation, about 1,000 feet apart. All the targets then appear to
-converge into one extremely large target (several times the size of a
-B-36), which continues moving to the northeast, then stops for a few
-minutes, then resumes, and is lost to radar. The entire sighting up to
-this point takes 25 minutes. Five minutes later, another solid target
-appears, flying east to west at 4,000 mph or more, then vanishes when it
-moves out of range. A T-33 trainer from the 512th Fighter Interceptor
-Squadron crewed by 1st Lts. Charles Metz and Andrew Rowe is sent to
-investigate the radar contacts, but sees nothing. No visual sightings of
-the objects are made from Bentwaters in this period, with the exception
-of a single amber star-like object which was subsequently identified as
-probably being Mars. At 10:55 p.m., another target is picked up 30 miles
-to the east, traveling west at 2,000–4,000 mph. It passes directly
-overhead and is seen as a white light by both air (a C-47 at 4,000 feet
-reports it passed underneath him) and ground observers. Bentwaters
-notifies RAF Lakenheath, also in Suffolk, about what is going on, and
-Lakenheath personnel see a luminous object stop, then zoom off to the
-east. Also, two white lights are seen joining from different directions,
-which are tracked on two screens at Lakenheath. According to
-T/Sgt. Forrest Perkins, watch supervisor at the Lakenheath radar center,
-at midnight Lakenheath notifies RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, that a strange
-object is buzzing the base. A de Havilland Venom night fighter is
-scrambled, directed by Neatishead radar controller Flight Lt. Freddie H.
-C. Wimbledon. Perkins and Wimbledon claim the jets are sent up around
-midnight, but the crews think it is at 2:00 a.m. The Venom, crewed by
-Flight Officers David Chambers and John Brady from 23 Squadron at RAF
-Waterbeach [now closed] in Cambridgeshire, finds the object on radar
-north of Cambridge and sees it as a bright white light, which then
-disappears. The navigator says it is the “clearest target I have ever
-seen on radar.” The object, however, is behind the plane and stays there
-for some time, despite climbs, dives, and circling. Ground radar
-operators say that the object is glued right behind the fighter. After
-10 minutes, the fighter heads back. The UFO follows briefly, then stops
-and hovers. Another Venom, crewed by Flight Officers Ian Fraser-Ker and
-Ivan Logan, is scrambled at 2:40 a.m. but experiences engine problems
-and aborts. Ministry of Defence officer Ralph Noyes says that one of the
-Venom pilots has taken a gun-camera film, which was later shown at a
-briefing in Whitehall. The object is tracked on two radars, leaving the
-area at 600 mph. The encounter is classified until 1969, when it is
-analyzed by the Colorado project. Gordon
-Thayer suggests that the “apparently rational, intelligent behavior
-of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most
-probable explanation of this sighting.” A later investigation is
-conducted by David
-Clarke, Andy
-Roberts, and
-Jenny
-Randles. In
-contrast to the reports given in the original classified teleprinter
-message (from 3910th Air Base Group to ADC at Ent AFB, now the US
-Olympic Training Center) three days after the event and in the accounts
-of both Wimbledon and Perkins, the air crews now state that the radar
-contacts were unimpressive and that no “tail-chase” or action on the
-part of the target occurred. They also assert no visual contacts were
-made. Chambers and Brady comment that “my feeling is that there was
-nothing there, it was some sort of mistake,” while Ivan Logan, the
-second Venom’s navigator, states that “all we saw was a blip which
-rather indicated a stationary target.” At the time 23 Squadron decides
-that the radar contact had, if anything, been with a weather balloon. Martin
-Shough concludes that there are actually several incidents at
-different times and places and that the relationship between each is
-unclear. (Wikipedia, “Lakenheath-Bentwaters
-incident”; NICAP, “Several
-Incidents of R/V at Bentwaters”; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents 1, case
-documents 2, case
-documents 3]; Condon, pp. 163–164, 248–256;
-James E. McDonald, “UFOs
-over Lakenheath in 1956,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1970): 9–17, 29; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 91;
-RAF Fighter Controller (Rtd.), “UFOs
-over Lakenheath,”
-Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 (June 1978): 31; Ian Ridpath, “New Light
-on Lakenheath,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 6–7; Martin L. Shough, “Background
-& History”; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 219–226; Clark III 665–670; Good
-Above, pp. 44–46;
-Sparks, p. 238;
-Ivan Logan, [Letter
-to Dave Clarke], October 23, 2000; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 64–66;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 66–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2832
Date: 8/15/1956
-Description: The RAND Corporation releases a top-secret 1955 summary
-detailing more than 143 aircraft incidents in the Far East. (Alexander
-L. George, “Case
-Studies of Actual and Alleged Overflights, 1930–1953,” Rand
-Corporation, RM-1349, August 15, 1956; Clark III 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2833
Date: mid 8/1956
-Description: 10:15 p.m. North American Aviation research technician Edison
-F. Carpenter observes a formation of five flat, circular, pinkish
-UFOs over Boulder City, Nevada. (Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; UFOEv, p.
-58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2834
Date: 8/16/1956
-Description: The CIA’s Richard
-M. Bissell assembles a group of advisers to begin work on solving
-the problem of Soviets tracking the U-2 flights. Among the group are Edwin
-H. Land, Edward
-Mills Purcell, and
-Kelly
-Johnson. They
-look into radar-absorbing paint. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2835
Date: 8/22/1956
-Description: 8:50–11:59 p.m. Radars on the island of Bornholm, Denmark,
-first report 2–3 objects on an easterly heading at 800 mph.
-Approximately 2 hours later, four objects appear and orbit over the
-location. About 90 minutes later, the tracks fade. (NICAP, “Objects
-Orbiting Location and Tracked on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2837
Date: 8/22/1956
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A man named Sheetz and another civilian in a car
-chases a 50-foot, black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white
-lights at the top several miles east of Naval Air Station Cecil Field,
-near Jacksonville, Florida. Their engine stalls when the object hovers
-10 feet away. The underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes
-off from the airfield, the object shoots out of sight almost instantly.
-The car battery is completely dead. Noise from the object compares to a
-helicopter, but there is no helicopter in the area. (NICAP, “Car
-Chases Bell- Shaped
-Object, Engine Stalls”; Sparks,
-p. 246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2836
Date: 8/27/1956
-Time: 9:55 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. R.S. Pope. One bright disc with a clear dome
-flew vertically, then north. A very cold breeze seemed to have been
-originated by the object during the 3 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Juniata, Pennsylvania
-ID: 404
Date: 8/27/1956
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Robert
-James “Chick” Childerhose is flying nearly due west over the
-Canadian Rockies near Fort Macleod, Alberta. He is flying at 36,000 feet
-in the second position (far left side) of a formation of four F-86 Sabre
-jet aircraft. While approaching a large thunderhead (cumulonimbus) at a
-ground speed of about 460 mph, he sees at a much lower altitude a
-“bright light which was sharply defined and disc- shaped” or “like a
-shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” He takes a color photo. An
-analysis suggests that it would have been radiating in excess of a
-gigawatt of power within the spectral range of the film. (NICAP, “RCAF
-Pilot Photographs
-Object Radiating Power”; Jacques Vallée, “Estimates
-of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained
-Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 346–348; Richard F. Haines,
-“Analysis of Photograph of a High-Speed Ball of Light,” JUFOS 8 (2003):
-27–48; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report,
-Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2838
Date: 8/28/1956
-Description: 11:30 p.m. León Febres, Miguel Talavera, Jesús Prada, and
-Tomás Hernández are returning home in Calabozo, Venezuela, when the
-ground around them is lit up by a bright white light. Looking up, they
-see a large disc hovering silently. Several smaller objects emerge from
-the large disc, leaving behind a wake of phosphorescent smoke that
-dissipates quickly. The whole group flies off to the west in a V
-formation with the large object in the lead. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
-Story, Signet, 1969, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2839
Date: 8/29/1956
-Description: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
-organized in Washington DC
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/29/1956
-Description: T.
-Townsend Brown files incorporation papers for a new UFO group, the
-National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in Washington,
-D.C. (“‘Toward
-a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP
-Began,” UFO Investigator, October 1971, pp. 2–3; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1956 August, The
-Author, 1994, pp. 46–56, 82, 85; Clark III 792)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2840
Date: 8/30/1956
-Description: Day. Two RAF Gloster Javelin interceptors, one piloted by
-E. H. “Wilbur” Wright, are flying west over the English Channel south of
-the Isle of Wight, England, when one of the navigators obtains a radar
-return at 19 miles distance (later calculations indicate it has a
-diameter of 600 feet). The pilots get permission to abandon their test
-exercise and investigate the object. Wright turns north toward the
-object on his right wing, but it has apparently slowed down and is
-maintaining its position. The second Javelin pilot has caught up from
-behind and confirms radar and visual sightings. The two aircraft bank
-steeply so the object is at 15 miles dead ahead on the radar screen They
-close the distance to 10 miles and see that the object has a metallic
-gray appearance. At 8 miles distance, the object suddenly climbs
-vertically too fast for radar to track (estimated at 18,000 mph) and
-vanishes. After landing at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, the crews are told
-that ground radar at RAF Sopley [now closed] has tracked the object.
-They are ordered not to speak about the event. (Jenny Randles,
-“Scramble, UFO!” Fortean Times 386 (December 2019): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2841
Date: 9/1956
-Time: 2030
-Description: O. Guarichi was walking on the beach with his dogs when he
-saw an object come from the sea and land. Two men, 1.80 m tall, wearing
-metallic-looking uniforms, emerged. One of them picked up objects from
-the beach. There was an exchange of gestures with the witness. One of
-the dogs turned away when the witness approached the craft, which was 20
-m wide 3 m high and showed flashing lights as it left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Mar., 61 (Vallee)
-Location: Cabo Frio, Brazil
-ID: 385
Date: 9/1956
-Description: Just before 8:00 a.m. A domed, disc-shaped craft allegedly
-lands within White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, just 150 feet away
-from US Highway 70. Radios and ignition systems of passing cars go dead,
-as witnesses—including two USAF colonels, two sergeants, and dozens of
-base personnel—observe the object as it takes off with a whirring sound.
-All personnel at Holloman AFB are assembled in a hangar, debriefed, and
-sworn to secrecy. (Ralph and Judy Blum, Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with
-UFOs, Bantam, 1974; Good Need, pp.
-219–220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2843
Date: 9/1956
-Description: The General Physics Laboratory of the Aeronautical Research
-Laboratories (ARL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio,
-launches an intense program to coordinate research into gravitational
-and unified field theories with the hiring of Joshua
-N. Goldberg. The precise rationale for creating the program and
-justifying its budgets and personnel may never be determined. Neither
-Goldberg nor USAF Deputy for Scientific and Technical Information Walter
-Blados can locate the founding documents. Roy
-Kerr, a
-former ARL scientist, says the antigravity propulsion purpose of ARL was
-“rubbish” and that “The only real use that the USAF made of us was when
-some crackpot sent them a proposal for antigravity or for converting
-rotary motion inside a spaceship to a translational driving system.”
-(Wikipedia, “United
-States gravity control propulsion research”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2842
Date: 9/4/1956
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps T/Sgt. R.D. Rogers and family.
-One large star, changing to red color, remained stationary for 20
-minutes, then went west at 200 kts. (230 m.p.h.). Sighting lasted 23
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 405
Date: 9/4/1956
-Description: Several fireball-like objects fly over Copenhagen, Denmark,
-tracked by radar at about 1,800 mph. (UFOEv, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2844
Date: 9/7/1956
-Description: Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc
-escapes.
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Moneymore, Ireland
Date: 9/7/1956
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Thomas J. and Maud Hutchinson watch an object
-drop out of low clouds and land in the middle of a bog at The Loup (near
-Moneymore), County Derry, Northern Ireland. They wade 600 feet into the
-bog until they come upon the small (3 feet high, 18 inches in diameter),
-red, rubbery, motionless object. There are 3 white stripes around the
-middle and it is pointed at both ends. Hutchinson kicks the object,
-which rolls over then resumes its upright position. He picks it up and
-is surprised at its lightness (estimated 2 pounds); the top is spinning
-while the bottom (a small, saucer-shaped base) remains stationary. It
-appears to be made of canvas-like material. They try to take it back
-with them, but Thomas has to put it down to negotiate a hedge, and the
-object takes off and disappears. (“Irishman
-Caught a ‘Saucer,’” The Guardian (UK), September 8, 1956, p. 10;
-Desmond Leslie, “The
-Strangest UFO Case of All,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1956): 2–4; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 74–76; Clark III 328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2845
Date: 9/7/1956
-Description: Test pilot Iven
-Carl Kincheloe Jr. reaches an altitude of 126,283 feet in the Bell
-X-2. (Wikipedia, “Iven Carl
-Kincheloe Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2846
Date: 9/8/1956
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Frank C. Clark is observing Mars with a 12.5-inch
-reflector in Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he sees a faint starlike
-object passing in a direction opposite to the apparent drift of Mars. It
-is visible for 10 seconds before passing out of the field. Clark moves
-the telescope and is able to see it again for another 10 seconds. It is
-a yellowish color. (Frank C. Clark, “An
-Observation of an Unidentified Celestial Object,” The Strolling
-Astronomer 10 (May/June 1956): 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2847
Date: 9/11/1956
-Description: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory officially
-launches Operation Moonwatch, an effort to enlist amateur astronomers in
-tracking an artificial satellite that the US intends to launch during
-the International Geophysical Year. The announcement is made at a news
-conference by Armand
-Spitz, coordinator of visual satellite observations. The program is
-largely the brainchild of Harvard University’s Fred
-Whipple, who recruits J. Allen
-Hynek as assistant director to help with the central operation.
-Until professionally manned optical tracking stations (using Baker-Nunn
-camera-telescopes) come online in 1958, this network of amateur
-scientists and other interested citizens plays a critical role in
-providing crucial information on the world’s first satellites. The team
-records some 36 UFO reports from 1957 to 1966. The program is
-discontinued in 1975. (Wikipedia, “Operation Moonwatch”;
-Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1993): 4–5; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32,
-no. 4 (October 2009): 9–16, 24; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch Mystery
-Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2848
Date: 9/14/1956
-Time: 1 AM
-Description: Witness: Scaly, N. Car. policeman O.S. Gryman. Fourteen
-yellow-to-red round objects with tremendous exhaust, flew in a Vague
-formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while
-swoooping up and down. Sighting lasted 1.5 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Highland, North Carolina
-ID: 406
Date: 9/15/1956
-Description: About 6:30 a.m. A married couple is driving in Salem,
-Indiana, when they notice a saucer hovering about 100 feet away in a
-field by the road. They stop the car and get out for a better look. The
-object is gunmetal gray in color and looks like two shallow bowls with a
-dark gap between them. Wisps of smoke are coming from the gap. The
-object looks as large as the town’s courthouse. It begins undulating as
-it hovers. After 5 minutes, it tips over on its edge and vanishes.
-(NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2849
Date: 9/22/1956
-Description: 7:50 p.m. An amateur astronomer in Williston, North Dakota,
-sees a dull-metallic, elliptical object the size of a small plane,
-oscillating side to side as it moves at 150 mph above the Missouri
-River. (Williston (N.Dak.) Plains Register, September 22, 1956; Richard
-F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A
-1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close
-Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2850
Date: fall 1956
-Alternate date: winter 1956
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. An Air Force Convair RB-36H of
-the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing based at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid
-City, South Dakota, captained by Lt. C. Lenny Marquis, is flying in
-northern South Dakota at 423 mph when one of the crew sees a metallic
-disc 100 feet in diameter fly toward the airplane from the left and take
-up a fixed position on the left wing less than 300 feet away. Other crew
-members rush to the portholes to take photos. The object has a low dome
-at the top with three round openings or light sources. The bottom is
-nearly flat. Its narrow vertical sides are populated by many separate
-light sources, each a different color. The rest of the disc is a “light
-golden” hue. After 5–8 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates in
-parallel with the B-36 and then rises about 30° above the horizontal.
-The peripheral lights become brighter and turn greenish as it speeds out
-of sight in several seconds. Both inflight and ground radars detect the
-object. Substitute navigator Lt. Jimmie Lloyd says the crew turned in
-all photos, logs, and equipment to an intelligence unit after landing.
-(Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A
-1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring
-2000): 22–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2854
Date: fall 1956
-Description: More than 30 pilots, navigators, and flight engineers are
-on their way home from special duty in Europe on a US Navy Super
-Constellation transport. When they are about 50 miles northeast of
-Gander, Newfoundland, the pilot notices a cluster of lights beneath the
-aircraft. Suddenly, the lights dim and spread out, the largest light
-ascending on an apparent collision course with the transport. As it
-reaches the plane’s altitude, it tilts, shoots to one side, and paces
-them at a distance of 300 feet. It is a huge metallic disc, 30 feet
-thick at the center and 350–400 feet wide, with a blurry glow around the
-rim. Gradually it pulls ahead, tilts upward, accelerates, and zooms away
-in 5–8 seconds. Gander Airport confirms that it had a radar target near
-them. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 16–19; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed.,
-1974, pp. 78–84; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and
-Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2852
Date: fall 1956
-Description: A man in Falls City, Nebraska, sees a winged human with a
-demonic face that approaches him from three blocks away. It is about 8–9
-feet tall and approaches him closely, hovering in the air about 25 feet
-away. As it passes over him, the man feels numb and paralyzed. The
-episode haunts him for the next 23 years when he talks to an
-investigator. (Clark III 778)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2853
Date: 9/25/1956
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield’s wife Adelia observes
-several white tufts of angel’s hair floating down in the front yard of
-their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She places it in an airtight jar. After
-the Stringfields contact the Air Force, M/Sgt Oliver D. Hill retrieves
-the sample on October 12. Analysis was done by C. G. Cocks and L.
-Leatherland, who find that the fibers are “multifilament bundles” that
-are characteristic of “regenerated cellulose fibers, either viscose or
-cuprammonium rayon,” perhaps from a defective filter. (Brian Boldman,
-“Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2851
Date: 10/1956
-Description: Karl L. Veit founds the Deutsche
-UFO/IFO-Studiengemeinschaft in Wiesbaden, Germany, which publishes the
-newspaper-format UFO-Nachrichten. (“60
-Jahre UFO-Nachrichten,”
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2855
Date: 10/2/1956
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Harry J. Sturdevant is on duty as a night
-watchman at Herbert Elkin and Company, a construction firm in Trenton,
-New Jersey. He sees a cigar-shaped object some 60–100 feet long and 15
-feet in diameter swiftly descending toward him. Emitting a red glow, the
-object is making a hissing noise like steam and generating a foul odor.
-It swoops past him and vanishes. He loses his sense of taste and smell,
-possibly permanently. His face is burned to the point where he cannot
-shave for two weeks. He begins to lose hearing in his right ear. When he
-returns to work the next day, he finds leaves on the ground that have
-burned up like tissue paper. Sturdevant applies for workmen’s
-compensation from the state for his medical expenses. An adjudicator
-awards him the money based on the fact that he may have only thought he
-saw something, but was injured when he went to investigate it, which his
-job required. (Emil Sloboda, “He Collected on a Flying Saucer,” Fate 10,
-no. 6 (June 1957): 66–69; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2856
Date: 10/2/1956
-Description: Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said,
-“a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or
-propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was
-about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the
-greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and
-brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow
-properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an
-hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six
-weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that
-Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury
-done by the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting with injury
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Trenton, NJ
Date: 10/7/1956
-Description: 10:45 p.m. UFO reports by police and civilians around
-Merced, California, reach Castle AFB [now Castle Airport Aviation and
-Development Center] and a lighted elliptical object about 100–120 feet
-in diameter is seen by the tower. Two interceptors are scrambled. The
-object ducks under and above a narrow cloud bank. The pilots can see it
-from various angles and as close as a few hundred yards. It appears to
-be a flattened circular shape. The pilots decide to fly one above and
-one below the overcast. Ground radar picks up the planes but not the
-UFO. One pilot breaks off to return but sees that the UFO is now chasing
-his buddy’s plane. Several officers arrive from another base to debrief
-the pilots and they appear very knowledgeable about UFOs. They seek
-“confirmation, not information” and tell the pilots not to discuss the
-sighting at all. Citizen witnesses are told the pilots were chasing
-ducks or geese. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 November– December,
-The Author, 1994, pp. 52, 59; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
-1988, pp. 242–244; Sparks,
-p. 239)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2857
Date: Late 1956
-Description: Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were
-flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO
-reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their
-was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed
-rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud
-cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots
-played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and
-returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told
-by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese.
-Type: movie
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Castle AFB, CA
Date: 10/19/1956
-Description: NICAP’s initial board of governors includes T.
-Townsend Brown (founder), Frank
-Edwards, Leon C. LeVan, Albert
-H. Baller, Charles
-A. Maney, Talbot
-T. Speer, Abraham
-M. Sonnabend, Col.
-Robert
-B. Emerson, Rear
-Adm. Delmer
-S. Fahrney, Gen. William
-E. Kepner, and
-Brig. Gen. Thomas
-B. Catron. Gladys Rose Hackett and Margaret Naylor are hired to do
-secretarial work, and Martin
-H. Heflin is hired as public relations specialist. The headquarters
-are at 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Incorporation is
-granted on October 24. (“‘Toward
-a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,” UFO
-Investigator, October 1971, p. 3; Clark III 792; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956
-September– October, The
-Author, 1994, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2858
Date: 10/24/1956
-Description: NICAP established. One of its board of directors was
-Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12
-member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP
-from the inside in any direction they wanted.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/29/1956
-Description: Howard
-Menger, a sign painter from High Bridge, New Jersey, goes public on
-the Long
-John Nebel show on WOR-AM in New York City with a story of his
-contacts with “Aryan-type” Venusians in spaceships. Menger reports that
-his contacts started in childhood, when he experienced flashbacks of
-life on another world and sightings of flying discs. In 1932 he met a
-beautiful blonde woman who could read his mind, and in 1946 he again
-sees her stepping out of a flying saucer. She is supposedly 500 years
-old, although she looks 25. Many contacts follow. (Clark III 738)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2859
Date: 11/1/1956
-Time: 5:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. W..M. Lyons, Intelligence Division
-Chief (Aerial Weather Reconnaissance Officer), flying a T-33 jet
-trainer. One orange light with a blue tinge, flew across the sky for 2
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, in Illinois
-ID: 407
Date: 11/4/1956
-Description: NICAP issues its first news release. T.
-Townsend Brown emphasizes the group’s “growing membership of
-responsible citizens from every walk of life and profession” and
-stresses that “there does exist more than enough evidence of certain and
-obvious aerial phenomena to justify independent evaluation.” (NICAP, “Project Skylight,”
-November 4, 1956)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2860
Date: 11/11/1956
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg are building a
-house on the island of Väddö, about 56 miles northwest of Stockholm,
-Sweden. Ekberg is driving his Ford V8 pickup when they see a bright
-flying object with the shape of a flattened sphere 24 feet wide and 9
-feet high approaching from the east. It moves about a half mile in front
-of them at an altitude of 300 feet. As it makes a sharp turn toward
-them, the truck engine sputters and dies and the headlights go out. The
-object starts “slowly gliding down,” rocks back and forth, and comes to
-a stop in the middle of the road, about 300 feet in front of them, 3
-feet above the ground. The object illuminates the surrounding landscape
-with such a tremendous amount of light that a nearby barn is clearly
-visible. The air smells of ozone and smoldering insulation. After about
-10 minutes the object gets brighter, lifts off the ground, moves to the
-left and up, makes a sudden turn, and speeds away in the direction it
-had come. Ekberg restarts the truck and the headlights come back on.
-Seeing that the grass at the landing site is flattened, they investigate
-further and find a shiny rock that is hot to the touch. It is a heavy,
-three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox. After several
-unsuccessful attempts to have the sample studied, it is taken to the
-Saab aircraft company where Sven Schalin conducts a thorough analysis.
-Other tests are later run in laboratories in Sweden, Denmark, and
-Germany. The general conclusion is that the rock is composed of tungsten
-carbide and cobalt, consistent with manufactured products. (Jacques
-Vallée, “Physical
-Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples,”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 365–366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2861
Date: 11/14/1956
-Description: Luminous object descended, hovered in front of airliner,
-then sped away at upward angle
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mobile, AL
-ID: 3
Date: 11/14/1956
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Captain William
-Joseph Hull and his copilot Peter H. Macintosh are flying Capital
-Airlines Flight 77 from New York City to Mobile, Alabama. While
-approximately above Jackson, Alabama, they see something like a
-brilliant meteor flash by the aircraft. The object stops, hovers, and
-engages in a range of acrobatics (crazy gyrations, lazy 8’s, square
-chandeliers) for several minutes before shooting out over the Gulf of
-Mexico at “fantastic speed.” (Sign Historical Group, “Captain
-Joe Hull’s UFO Sighting”; Condon, pp. 127–129;
-Sparks, p. 240;
-Swords 230–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2862
Date: 11/16/1956
-Description: Morning. Telephones and an automatic railroad block
-mechanism in Lemmon, South Dakota, fail to operate as a glowing red
-object about 3 feet in diameter flies over the railroad yards. (Mobridge
-(S.Dak.) Tribune, November 22, 1956; Schopick, pp. 21–22;
-Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A
-1956 Military Aircraft– UFO
-Close Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2863
Date: 11/21/1956
-Description: 8:23 p.m. A customs officer named Ueda and a maritime
-safety officer named Kume are walking along Number 1 Pier, Kobe, Japan,
-when they hear an explosion. They see something resembling fireworks on
-the bay and watch as two whirling balls of fire submerge. (Sanderson, InvRes,
-p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2864
Date: 11/25/1956
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Police radio at Hot Springs, South Dakota, picks
-up transmissions made by a jet interceptor from the 54th Fighter
-Interceptor Squadron at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City that makes three
-passes at a brilliantly lit UFO bobbing up and down in the sky. On the
-third pass, the pilot reports that the object registers on his radar. It
-is rumored that a blip is picked up on ground radar by the 740th
-Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. A sheriff and deputy at Rapid
-City watch a green stationary UFO with a flashing red light for 30
-minutes; an upward-shining white light appears at intervals. (NICAP, “Gnd/Air/Visual,
-Jets Scrambled”; “‘Saucers’
-Stir Speculation,”
-Rapid City (S.Dak.) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, p. 1; “Hills
-Residents Tell
-of Shining Objects,”
-Rapid City (S.Dak.) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, pp. 1, 7; Pierre
-(S.Dak.) Capitol Journal, November 26, 1956; UFOEv, pp. 22, 79;
-Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A
-1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close
-Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2865
Date: 11/30/1956
-Time: 12:48 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF aerial navigator Maj. D.D. Grimes. One
-unspecified object flew at an estimated 100’ altitude over water for 10
-minutes. No further details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Charleston AFB, South Carolina
-ID: 408
Date: 12/1956
-Description: Chemical engineer Leon
-Davidson begins to distribute privately printed copies of Project
-Blue Book Special Report No. 14, together with his analysis and
-commentary. He has become convinced that UFOs are secret devices
-developed by the US government and that Special Report No. 14 is a
-clever attempt to hide the fact. Mostly, however, he focuses on
-discrepancies in the Air Force’s public announcements and the actual
-data in the report. Davidson publishes further editions in October 1957,
-July 1966, January 1971, and 1976. (Leon Davidson, Flying
-Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14,
-[1956], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; Clark III 930)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2866
Date: 12/1/1956
-Description: 12:20 a.m. A round object, red to orange in color, is
-observed moving at approximately 1,000 foot above Valley City, North
-Dakota. It moves rapidly up, down, sideways, and hovers. A police car
-approaches it, but the car loses radio contact with the station. Valley
-City also loses contact with Jamestown, South Dakota. All radio contact
-returns after the object leaves the area. (NICAP, [Blue
-Book file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2867
Date: 12/2/1956
-Description: Dorothy
-Martin sets off from Prescott, Arizona, with the Laugheads,
-ufologist brothers Ray and
-Rex
-G. Stanford,
-and George
-Hunt Williamson, his wife Betty, and toddler son Mark. They are
-acting in response to a series of Williamson channelings that had begun
-April 18 when Lord Aramu-Muru announced that “those we have
-commissioned” are to establish a priory of the Brotherhood of the Seven
-Rays “in a remote area of another country to the south.” After spending
-some time in Mexico, they head for Moyobamba, Peru, under the direction
-of their spirit masters. The Laugheads (who apparently were in Mexico in
-July) and Stanfords leave around this time. After a while, those
-remaining move to the Valley of Pariahuanca east of Lima, Peru, and set
-up the Outer Retreat of the Monastery of the Seven Rays, which has some
-cult-like attributes. There they attract new members, including
-Williamson’s later coauthor John McCoy. Williamson devotes himself for
-several years to paranormally guided archaeological expeditions. (Clark
-III 719–720, 1286; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George
-Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 105–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2868
Date: 12/10/1956
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A US Air Force pilot sees a silver object with a
-“straight wing, having engine rods or large wing pods [or] intakes”
-flying at 56,000–62,000 feet for 15 minutes at Victoria, Texas. The
-pilot’s description is a dead ringer for a secret U-2 aircraft, which is
-what Blue Book suspects. (Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue
-Book: Another Look,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2869
Date: 12/13/1956
-Description: Capt. Karl Hars Dersson and the crew of the Danish ship Dorthe
-Maersk view an intensely bright fireball giving off weird flashes of
-light for 2–3 minutes north of Isla La Orchila, Venezuela. It explodes
-on hitting the water. Afterwards, the surface of the sea shimmers with
-various colors and is disturbed for 5 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956
-November–December, Supplemental Notes, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2870
Date: 12/15/1956
-Description: 11:00 a.m. While out gathering Christmas greens near Derry,
-New Hampshire, A. G. Horne looks up and sees a 2-foot tall green dwarf
-with a high-domed head, floppy ears, a face like a bloodhound, and
-lidless eyes like a snake. His skin hangs in folds like an elephant’s.
-After a few minutes, the being “started for me with a kind of screeching
-sound,” and Horne flees. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1956, p. 23;
-Clark III 271)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2871
Date: 12/17/1956
-Description: Night. Marie Carow goes outside her home in Conashaugh,
-Pennsylvania, with a flashlight and discovers two little men, 3.5 and 3
-feet tall, standing motionless in her back lawn. Both wear helmets and
-snug-fitting suits of silvery material. Carow shines the light on them
-for 3 minutes, then runs back to tell her husband. 15 minutes later,
-they are gone. (Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO
-Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct, 1969): 16–18; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October
-18, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2873
Date: 12/17/1956
-Description: 4:20 p.m. Near Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport] in
-Fukuoka, Japan, a USAF pilot flying an F- 86D interceptor picks up a
-large blip on airborne radar. The pilot sees a tan object, round on top,
-at 9.2 miles and closes to within 5.7 miles. The object starts to pull
-away from the fighter and at 13.8 miles all radar disappears. The pilot
-estimates its speed as 1,700–2,000 mph. Both the pilot and his wingman
-report interference resembling ECM (radar jamming). (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-from F-86”; Sparks,
-p. 240; “Jet Planes Chased Big Flying Object,” Auckland (N.Z.) Star,
-October 4, 1957; “Jet
-Chase of Large Circular Object Investigated by Far East Air Force,”
-UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 1–2; Richard Hall,
-“Radar/Visual UFOs and Air Force Debunking,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June
-1993): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2872
Date: 12/31/1956
-Time: 2:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Ted Brunson, flying an F-86D jet
-interceptor. One round, white object flew under the F-86D, which was
-unable to turn as sharply as the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Guam
-ID: 409
Date: 1957
-Description: Metaphysical author George
-Hunt Williamson writes Other Tongues—Other Flesh (although it bears
-a copyright date of 1953), the first of three books that set forth an
-alternative occult history shaped by Atlantis, Lemuria, reincarnation,
-and space people—both benign and malevolent. He writes that space people
-first arrived 1 billion years ago [prior to the earliest known
-multicellular life on land], were 12 feet tall, and built an underground
-city beneath Lake Titicaca, Peru. Migrants from the “Sirius system”
-arrive during the Miocene Epoch [23–5 million years ago] looking for
-terrestrial bodies to inhabit—they select the evolving apes. The next
-visitation took place in Arizona in 10,000 B.C. [the beginning of the
-Neolithic Revolution] when Venusians land and interact with the
-Lemurians. Records documenting earth’s unknown history are hidden in
-various inaccessible places (“secret places of the lion”) around the
-globe. Williamson’s book Secret Places of the Lion follows in 1958 and
-Road in the Sky in 1959. These are among the first ancient astronaut
-books. In the latter book, Williamson claims that the Hopi’s ancestors
-are Martians, while their neighbors the Navajo are from Maldek, the
-planet whose destruction formed the asteroid belt. (George Hunt
-Williamson, Other
-Tongues—Other Flesh, Amherst, [1957]; George Hunt Williamson, Secret
-Places of the Lion, Destiny
-Books ed., 1996; Clark III 104–106, 1286; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have
-Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997):
-23–26; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt
-Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 113–120, 235–243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2875
Date: 1957
-Description: Morris
-K. Jessup publishes The Expanding Case for the UFO, which argues
-that human “little people” (like the pygmy peoples of the Congo basin)
-were “planted” from UFOs thousands of years ago. Citing reports of
-anomalous lights on the moon, Jessup speculates that the pygmy races
-either colonized the moon or came to the Earth from there. They are the
-remnants of an advanced civilization that developed levitation,
-teleportation, and space flight, but had to leave Earth when Atlantis
-and Mu were sinking into the oceans. (Morris K. Jessup, The Expanding
-Case for the UFO, Citadel,
-1957; Clark III 106–107, 635; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed:
-Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2874
Date: 1957
-Description: New Jersey contactee Howard
-Menger releases an album of “Authentic Music from Another Planet,”
-featuring a narrative by Menger and bland piano music written by his
-wife Connie (under
-her nom de plume Marla Baxter, sister of the blonde spacewoman he had
-met in 1946). (Discogs, “Authentic
-Music from Another Planet”; “Authentic
-Music from Another Planet by Howard Menger,” Libertad450 YouTube
-channel, February 22, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2876
Date: 1957
-Description: Otis
-T. Carr announces his invention of a fourth-dimensional space
-vehicle, a Circular-Foil Spacecraft powered by an Utron Electric
-Accumulator that makes use of the “free energy of the universe.” (Clark
-III 860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2877
Date: 1957
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch is established in Phoenix, Arizona, by
-Ted Starrett. William H. Spaulding is the Western Division Director,
-with James A. Spaulding as the Eastern Division Director in Cleveland,
-Ohio. It publishes Ground Saucer Watch Bulletin from 1976 to 1982. By
-1979, GSW has analyzed nearly 700 UFO photographs and films, of which
-they verify 38 as bona fide. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia,
-Putnam, 1980, p,
-132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2878
Date: 1957
-Description: George
-Fawcett founds the New England UFO Study Group in Marlborough,
-Massachusetts. It publishes the New England UFO Newsletter from 1976 to
-1982.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2879
Date: 1957
-Description: Hayden
-C. Hewes founds the International UFO Bureau in Edmond, Oklahoma. It
-publishes the Interplanetary Intelligence Report from 1965 to
-1966.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2880
Date: 1957
-Description: Engineer Pantelimon Mizof and others see an object in the
-Bucegi Mountains, Romania, pass over them silently and land. Some of
-them approach to get a better look, but when they are 150 feet away, it
-takes off suddenly. (Hobana and Weverbergh 158–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2881
Date: 1957
-Description: A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed
-and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was
-immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people.
-The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be
-one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree
-within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead.
-Type: radiological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
Date: 1957
-Description: Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by
-spacemen
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Birmingham, England
Date: 1957
-Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens
-(Weapons design and research)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
Date: 1957
-Description: The Victorian branch of the Australian Flying Saucer
-Research Society becomes a separate organization, the Victorian UFO
-Research Society. It publishes the Australian UFO Bulletin from 1957 to
-September 2007, edited by Les Bristol. (Keith Basterfield, Vladimir
-Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990):
-24; Australian
-UFO Bulletin 1, no. 3 (December 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2882
Date: 1957
-Description: The Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios is founded in
-Barcelona, Spain. From 1970 to 1981 it publishes a quarterly magazine
-titled Stendek, and since then it has published occasional groups of
-papers on UFOs. (Stendek 1,
-no. 1 (June 1970); Papers
-d’OVNIs, no.
-1 (1994); Nous
-Papers d’OVNIs, no. 1 (December 2014))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2883
Date: 1/1957
-Description: Norbert
-F. Gariety begins publishing S.P.A.C.E. (Saucer Phenomena and
-Celestial Enigma), a monthly newsletter, in Coral Gables, Florida. It
-continues until January 1963. (S.P.A.C.E.,
-no. 1 (January 1957)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2885
Date: 1/1957
-Description: Contactee Gabriel
-Green establishes the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups, which
-in 1959 evolves into Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America in Los
-Angeles, California. It assumes that UFOs are piloted by friendly
-extraterrestrials. Around the same time, Green announces his meeting
-with flying saucer crewmen from the hitherto unknown planet Korendor,
-orbiting the triple star Alpha Centauri. At its peak, AFSCA has more
-than 5,000 members. (Wikipedia, “Gabriel
-Green”; Clark III 99; Thy
-Kingdom Come, no. 4 (April/May 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2884
Date: 1/1/1957
-Description: Shortly before 12:00 midnight. Herbert Naderson and his
-wife and sons are driving northeast to their home in Ashby, Minnesota,
-when they see a triangular object traveling slowly at a high altitude.
-They watch it for 45 minutes. (Fergus Falls (Minn.) Daily Journal,
-January 3, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd, The
-Author, 1995, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2886
Date: 1/14/1957
-End date: 1/16/1957
-Description: T.
-Townsend Brown has proven so financially inept that the NICAP board
-asks him to step down. Delmer
-S. Fahrney replaces him as board chairman, Keyhoe steps
-in as director, and Fahrney convenes a press conference in which he
-announces that UFOs are under intelligent control, but that they are not
-American or Soviet aircraft. Stringfield is
-made public relations adviser. (T. Townsend Brown, Letter
-to NICAP Board of Governors, January
-16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March
-22nd, The
-Author, 1995, pp. 14–20; “High
-Speed Objects Reported in the Sky,” New York Times, January 17,
-1957, p. 31; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 15;
-Clark III 792)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2887
Date: 1/15/1957
-Time: early
-Description: William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a
-shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval,
-fluorescent craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the
-grass. They rushed to catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a
-bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to
-reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It cleared a high fence and
-slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no
-explanation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 107 (Vallee)
-Location: Balfour, New Zealand
-ID: 386
Date: 1/16/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. The crews of two Air Force B-25s are flying about
-90 miles north of Sweetwater, Texas, when they see a round white object
-make rapid maneuvers. Pilot Lt. Col. Howard
-T. Wright notes that his radio compass starts pointing directly
-toward the object, following its movements. The entire object begins
-blinking on and off. When the aircraft gets within range of Lubbock,
-Texas, the object flies off on a straight-line course in about 12
-seconds. One of the B-25s refuels and is sent on a 4-hour search of the
-vicinity with no results. (NICAP, “Object
-Maneuvers near B-25’s / EME”; Sparks,
-p. 241; Swords 244–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2888
Date: 1/21/1957
-Description: 10:45 a.m. Near Kagnew Station [now closed], Asmara,
-Eritrea, five enlisted men of the US Army’s 4th Detachment of the Second
-Signal Service Battalion (M/Sgt Billy J. Woodruff, Sgt. Frank Haverly,
-SP2 Robert O. Clewell, SP2 George R. Dean, and SP3 Gerald L. Fennell)
-watch a large, shiny, metal sphere hovering at about 2,000 feet. It
-suddenly disappears but reappears later for a few minutes, then
-disappears again. Later in the day, Woodruff and Capt. Jesse M. Strong
-see two brownish, disc-shaped objects maneuvering in formation at a high
-altitude. One breaks away from the other, moving at high speed. (UFOEv,
-p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2889
Date: 1/27/1957
-Description: Former CIA director Rear Adm. Roscoe
-H. Hillenkoetter joins NICAP’s board of directors. (Loren E. Gross,
-The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March
-22nd, The Author, 1995, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2890
Date: 1/31/1957
-Description: US Army Order number 30-13, “Sightings of Unconventional
-Aircraft,” stipulates that personnel involved in sightings must “not
-discuss or disseminate such information to persons or agencies other
-than their superior officer(s) and other personnel authorized by the
-Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, this headquarters,” by order of Col. Charles
-L. Olin. (“Air
-Force Sees Plenty: Tells Nothing,” CSI News Letter, no. 8 (July 25,
-1957): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2891
Date: 2/1957
-Description: Project MKUltra chief Sidney
-Gottlieb organizes field trials of psilocybin for injection into 9
-black inmates at the Addiction Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Allen
-Dulles approves psychiatrist Donald
-Ewen Cameron’s application for mind-control experiments to be
-administered at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University in
-Montreal, funded through the Society for the Investigation of Human
-Ecology, a CIA cutout organization. Cameron does not know that the money
-originates from the CIA. In addition to LSD, Cameron experiments with
-various paralytic drugs, electroconvulsive therapy at 30–40 times the
-normal power, and sensory deprivation in a “sleep room.” This is a dimly
-lit dormitory of about 20 beds, which the nurses call “The Zombie Room.”
-His “psychic driving” experiments consist of putting subjects into
-drug-induced comas for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case)
-while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His
-experiments are typically carried out on patients who have entered the
-institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum
-depression, many of whom suffer permanently from his actions. His
-treatments result in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to
-talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators are
-their parents. The Canadian government is apparently unaware of these
-activities. Naomi
-Klein argues that Cameron’s research and his contribution to the
-MKUltra project is actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but
-about designing “a scientifically based system for extracting
-information from ‘resistant sources.’ In other words, torture.” (Gordon
-Thomas, Journey
-into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and
-Medical Abuse, Bantam,
-1989; Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing
-Experiments in Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988; John D. Marks,
-The
-Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and
-Mind Control, Times
-Books, 1978; Naomi Klein, The
-Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador,
-2008; Jim Keith, Mind
-Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2892
Date: 2/9/1957
-Time: 2200
-Description: Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on Route 53 in a
-desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped objert about 5 m long,
-showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the
-left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were
-illuminated with a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving
-behind. As she passed the object, it took off straight up, hovered for a
-few seconds, then rose out of sight
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Georgetown, Connecticut
-ID: 387
Date: 2/13/1957
-Description: 2:30 a.m. The USAF operations director and three tower
-controllers at two radar sites within Lincoln AFB [now Lincoln Airport,
-Nebraska], the GCA and NCOIC, track several targets flying behind an
-airliner at a distance of 5–6 miles and traveling twice as fast. There
-is no IFF response. The objects hover and move at high speed. One splits
-into two objects, another executes an 180° turn. The radar blips are the
-size of a B-47. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-at Lincoln AFB”; Sparks,
-p. 241; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2893
Date: 2/13/1957
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Amateur astronomer Steve Papina is walking south
-in Placerville, California, when he notices off to his left the ionized
-track of what he takes to be a meteor. It is about 20° above the eastern
-horizon, rising at a 70° angle. The trail begins widening at about 35°
-above the horizon and veers in a westerly direction. Suddenly a black
-disc appears directly in front of the trail, whose diameter is
-approximately the width of the trail and the size of a nickel held at a
-distance of 5 feet. Its surface is not smooth but crisscrossed with
-grooves. It continues to move from east to west and acquires a white,
-dusty appearance before speeding directly away from Papina at high
-speed. (“ALPO
-Refers Sighting to APRO,” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2894
Date: 2/15/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A large, circular object is seen by independent
-witnesses in Wardle, Lancashire, England. Shortly afterward, a
-commercial aircraft is seen following the same course as the UFO and
-displaying unusually powerful lights. Later, at a point along the flight
-path, a small radio transmitter like those attached to balloons is
-found, then another piece of meteorological equipment in another spot.
-In the House of Commons, MP Tony Leavey asks
-the Secretary of State for Air for an explanation. On March 20,
-Under-Secretary of State for Air Ian Orr-Ewing responds,
-saying that the objects were toy balloons illuminated by a flashlight
-bulb released by Neil Robinson, a laundry mechanic from Rochdale. But on
-April 17, the Air Ministry sends an investigator to interview the
-witnesses and tells them not to talk about the sighting. Robinson says
-he has no idea how to launch a balloon, but there is some evidence that
-he has considerable technical know-how and a penchant for pranks.
-(Clifford Thornton, “The
-Wardle Mystery,” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 3 (May/June 1957): 4;
-Geoffrey Norris, “Something
-in the Sky,” Royal Air Force Flying Review, July 1957, pp. 14–16,
-46; Good Above, pp. 46–47;
-David Clarke, “The Wardle ‘Thing,’” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005):
-40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2895
Date: 2/19/1957
-Description: In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee,
-National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics officials Hugh
-Latimer Dryden and Jimmy
-Doolittle are asked about UFOs. They “flatly denied the existence of
-such space vehicles.” When asked why they don’t speak out more often,
-they remark that they “cannot compete with the science-fiction people.”
-(US House Appropriations Committee, Hearings, Independent Offices
-Appropriations for 1958, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics,
-February 19, 1957, pp. 1417–1419)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2896
Date: 2/26/1957
-Description: UK Air Chief Marshal Hugh
-Dowding writes to retired Italian diplomat Alberto
-Perego that he is most interested in “accounts of intelligible
-contacts between human beings and the occupants of interplanetary
-ships.” (Good Above, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2897
Date: 3/1/1957
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield publishes the final issue of CRIFO Orbit. (CRIFO
-Orbit 3, no. 12 (March 1, 1957); Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2898
Date: 3/6/1957
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Hearing the family dogs barking in the backyard,
-a Mrs. Martin who lives on Hope Road near Great Meadows, New Jersey,
-looks outside and sees the dogs looking at a white hovering object that
-looks like a “huge derby hat” about 50 feet in diameter. It is rocking
-slightly in the air and makes a low, rumbling sound. Beneath it are
-“streamers or lines” that “twinkle like the fragile strands” of
-Christmas tinsel. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 150– 154;
-Sparks, p. 241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2899
Date: 3/8/1957
-Time: night
-Description: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It
-was luminous, about 5.5 m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared
-to suck up the snow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
-Location: Baudette, Minnesota
-ID: 388
Date: 3/8/1957
-Description: A pilot watches a UFO from the ground at Baudette,
-Minnesota. It is circular, 15–18 feet in diameter, and its odd glow
-shines on the snow-covered ground. It is flying so low that it seems to
-suck the loose snow up under it as it passes. (Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 56;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957
-January–March 22nd, The
-Author, 1995, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2900
Date: 3/8/1957
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Victor Hancock and Guy Miller are flying a DC-3
-owned by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company above Pasadena, Texas,
-when they see a UFO bearing three brilliant white lights. After the UFO
-speeds by the aircraft, it slows down. When the DC-3 catches up, it
-speeds ahead. This cat-and-mouse chase continues for some 10 minutes.
-(NICAP, “UFO
-Maneuvers near DC-3”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd, The
-Author, 1995, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2901
Date: 3/9/1957
-Description: 4:33 a.m. Capt. Matthew
-A. Van Winkle, piloting
-a Pan American World Airways DC-6A airliner at a point over the Atlantic
-Ocean approximately 350 miles northeast of Jacksonville, Florida,
-observes a “burning greenish white round object” to the right of the
-aircraft that appears to be on a collision course. Van Winkle pulls the
-plane upward in a climb to avoid the object. This sudden maneuver causes
-four of the passengers to be thrown out of their seats, resulting in
-injuries. Copilot Dion W. Taylor and Flight Engineer John Washuta also
-observe the object. Washuta says the UFO is a high-intensity light that
-appears to stand still for approximately four seconds until it is lost
-to sight during the evasive action. Ed
-Perry, piloting
-Pan Am Flight 269 about 175 miles behind him, also sees it. Miami Air
-Traffic Control sends a flash message to the Civil Aeronautics Board
-describing the incident: “Pilot took evasive action, object appeared to
-have a brilliant greenish-white center with an outer ring which
-reflected the glow from the center. … Above description fits with what
-seven other flights saw…. Miami reports no missile activity…. Original
-reports of jet activity discounted.” The Air Force quickly explains the
-sighting as a meteor, but the CAB declares it unexplained after a
-thorough investigation. (NICAP, “DC6-A
-Crew Take
-Evasive Action”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 54–56; Swords 245–246; Frank
-Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 38–39;
-Good Above, pp. 282–283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2902
Date: 3/10/1957
-Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to
-San Juan, P.R. run)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: New York
-Attributes: aerospace
Date: 3/10/1957
-Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to
-San Juan, P.R. run)
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: New York
-Attributes: aerospace
Date: 3/22/1957
-End date: 3/23/1957
-Description: Mrs. Robert Beaudoin, the wife of an Air
-Force officer, along with her 17-year-old daughter Carol Litten,
-sees a series of unusual lights at 11:15 p.m. northeast of Camarillo,
-California. First they see a large, soundless, and pulsing light, with
-something like a pole on top, making fast and erratic motions. She calls
-a military friend and then 1st Lt. Leonard
-E. Ott at nearby Oxnard AFB [now Camarillo Airport]. At 12:30 a.m.,
-they see a green object accompanied by two smaller red lights below the
-horizon of the Los Palos Hills. The green object seems to be hovering
-over the North American Rocketdyne plant in the Simi Hills. At this time
-both the green object and the red objects seem to jump around, and the
-two red objects are zooming past the green object at tremendous
-velocities. Ott inquires about radar and a Lt. Martin tells him that
-radar is detecting a stationary object in the same area. The sheriff’s
-office is contacted, and they send a patrol car. Deputy Sheriffs Segura
-and Rausch confirm Beaudoin’s report, with the exception that by that
-time there are five red objects flying well below the green one. All are
-in motion and constantly changing altitude. Radar calls Ott back and
-says they have a scramble underway and they will have the aircraft check
-the area upon their return. Upon the arrival of the interceptors from
-Oxnard the red objects join the green object and speed away up and to
-the east. The aircraft are unsuccessful and return to base. At this time
-two Navy aircraft are sent to the area. Somehow, between the time of
-this report to Oxnard and the later Air Force investigation by the
-4602nd, these red objects are changed, on the report, to stars and the
-moon above. This happens despite the witness stating that the red lights
-were below the hills on the horizon. To deal with that, the Air Force
-adds the theory that a temperature inversion caused light to bend the
-images of the stars, or, alternatively, the witness saw lights on a
-barn. Beaudoin herself is judged hysterical due to her pregnancy. The
-Air Force’s explanation is completed without anyone bothering to
-interview the teenage daughter or taking anything associated with the
-airbase into account (for example, the radar returns). (NICAP, “Objects
-Seen, Radar Tracked, Jets Scrambled”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 58–61; Hynek
-UFO Report, pp. 53–54;
-Sparks, p. 242;
-Swords 246–247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2903
Date: 3/23/1957
-Description: Agriculturist Luis Petriera, along with several others,
-watches a glowing object plunge into Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. No
-planes are missing. Officials drag the lake but find nothing. (“Report
-from Venezuela,” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2904
Date: 3/28/1957
-Description: AEC physician and Navy Capt. Charles
-Wesley Shilling releases a press statement saying that “excessively
-hot baths can be as damaging to the human sex glands as radioactive
-fallout in the amount received in the last five years from the testing
-of atomic weapons.” It is intended to counter the antinuclear activism
-of biochemist Linus Pauling. (“Says
-Hot Baths As Bad for Sex Glands As Fallout,” Newport (R.I.) Daily
-News, March 29, 1957, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2905
Date: 4/1957
-Description: 7:30 a.m. An anonymous resident of Córdoba, Argentina, is
-motorcycling to Rio Ceballos when his engine stops. He sees a large UFO
-hovering nearby, from which a human-like occupant emerges. He entices
-the man to enter the UFO with him. Inside, he sees 5–6 screens and
-intricate equipment, at each of which a similar occupant is seated.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May
-25th, The
-Author, 1995, pp. 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2907
Date: early 4/1957
-Description: USAF Brig. Gen. Arno H. Leuhman, director of Air Force
-information, tells the press that “There’s no valid evidence that there
-are flying saucers.” (“AF
-Intelligence Chief Visits Here,” Miami (Fla.) News, April 14, 1957,
-p. 12A)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2906
Date: 4/4/1957
-Description: Five unusual radar contacts are detected simultaneously on
-three tracking radars of the Bombing Trials Unit based at RAF West
-Freugh [now MOD West Freugh], southeast of Stranraer, Scotland, and
-followed for 36 minutes. The three radars are located at two different
-sites near Luce Bay, Wigtownshire, Scotland. The object flashes across
-the sky at 60,000 feet, dives to 14,000 feet, circles, and speeds away.
-Wing Commander Walter Whitworth, in command at West Freugh, is ordered
-to say nothing about the object. (NICAP, “Three
-Radars Track
-Maneuvering UFO”; Good Above, pp. 48–49;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 51–53;
-Martin Shough, “Study
-of Unusual Radar
-Observations near RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire, SW Scotland, April 4,
-1957,” March 2010; Patrick Gross, “The
-West Freugh Incident, 1957”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2909
Date: 4/4/1957
-Description: Pilot Robert
-L. Sieker takes a U-2 covered in radar-deflecting paint for a test
-run out of Area 51 and flies almost 90 miles without incident when
-suddenly the paint causes the aircraft to overheat, spin out of control,
-and crash near Pioche, Nevada. Sieker ejects but is killed when a piece
-of metal hits him in the head. (Aviation Safety Network, “Wikibase
-Occurrence #155905”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2908
Date: 4/8/1957
-Description: USAF Maj. Gen. Joe
-W. Kelly answers a question from Rep. Lee
-Metcalf (D-Mont.) and denies that the Air Force has muzzled pilots.
-“Answers are provided on any unidentified flying objects which have
-attracted national attention.” He admits that interceptors are still
-sent up “as a matter of security.” (Keyhoe, FSTS)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2910
Date: 4/10/1957
-Description: Delmer
-S. Fahrney leaves NICAP’s board of directors for urgent and personal
-reasons, partially because his wife is
-seriously ill, but also because of the ridicule generated by his peers
-in the military. (Clark III 792–793)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2911
Date: 4/14/1957
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Marie Garcin and Julia Rami are walking along
-road D24 a half-mile east of Vins-sur-Caramy, Var, France, when they
-hear a deafening noise and see a 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide, metallic,
-top-shaped object covered with vibrating sharp spines that is landing
-near a road sign. The sign starts to vibrate loudly, then the object
-hops over the road at a height of about 15–30 feet. Another witness,
-Jules Boglio, is about 1,000 feet away and sees the object land a second
-time in the adjoining road, then jump over another road sign which then
-vibrates loudly. Two other witnesses see the object at a much greater
-distance. (NICAP, “Top-Shaped
-Object Hovers at 300”; Jimmy Guieu, “Vins-sur-Caramy
-(Var), 14 avril 1957,” Ouranos, no. 21 (1957): 50–52; Lorenzen,
-UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 145–146; J. Allen Hynek, The
-UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 154–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2912
Date: 4/14/1957
-Time: 1500
-Description: At an intersection, two women, Mrs. Garcin and Mrs. Rami,
-suddenly heard a noise and saw behind them a top-shaped object, 1 m high
-and 1 m wide, nearly touching the ground. It made a sudden jump and
-landed again: There were a number of antennalike projections on top of
-it. The noise did not come from the object, but from a metallic road
-sign vibrating in its vicinity.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 207; Challenge 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Vins-sur-Caramy, France
-ID: 389
Date: 4/19/1957
-Description: 11:52 a.m. Two metallic discs are seen entering the Pacific
-Ocean about 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan, by Japanese fisherman
-aboard the Kitsukawa Maru. A violent turbulence disturbs the ocean after
-they submerge. The objects are 30 feet long and wingless. (NICAP, “Two
-Discs Enter Pacific”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2913
Date: 4/19/1957
-Time: 1152
-Description: Japanese fishermen aboard the “Kitsukawara Maru” saw two
-metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent
-turbulence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 147 (Vallee)
-Location: Pacific Ocean, near Japan
-ID: 390
Date: 4/22/1957
-Time: 1300
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Firmin Bason heard an unusual noise and saw a
-whirlwind of flames 10 or 15 m above ground, coming down toward the
-vineyard. It was red and blue, spinning wildly, flying slowly. It
-hovered for 5 min over plants which moved violently, then it flew south
-with a deafening roar, hovered again and departed to the southwest.
-Diameter at the top: about 5 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 21 (Vallee)
-Location: Palalda, France
-ID: 391
Date: 4/24/1957
-Description: 6:27 a.m. Project 57 is an open-air nuclear “dirty-bomb”
-test conducted in Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada. The
-high explosives of a nuclear weapon are detonated asymmetrically to
-simulate an accidental detonation of an XW-25 warhead in an airplane
-crash. The purpose of the test is to verify that no yield would result,
-as well as study the extent of plutonium contamination. Some 4,000
-galvanized steel pans sprayed with tacky resin are set up around a
-10-by-16-square-mile block of land to capture plutonium samples. Some 68
-air- sampler stations equipped with micropore paper are spread over 70
-square miles. Mock-ups of sidewalks, curbs, and asphalt are set up in
-the desert; cars and trucks are added; giant air-sampling balloons are
-tethered in place; 9 burros, 109 beagles, 10 sheep, and 31 white rats
-are put in cages. Afterward, the contaminated area is fenced off and the
-contaminated equipment buried in place. Data from the test confirms that
-plutonium has a 24,000-year half-life; many of the test animals are
-killed, but security guard Richard
-Mingus manages not to inhale any particles. A radiological survey
-team detects alpha radiation, but no serious beta or gamma radiation. In
-1981, the US Department of Energy decontaminates and decommissions the
-site. Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and debris are
-removed from Area 13 and disposed of in a waste facility at the Nevada
-Test Site. (Wikipedia, “Project
-57”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 100–116)
-Late spring — Between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. Airman 2nd Class Wallace Fowler
-is sitting on the front steps of his barracks at Ellsworth AFB near
-Rapid City, South Dakota, when a silver domed disc with portholes
-appears directly above him. Shadows are moving behind the portholes. The
-UFO is motionless and the size of a house. After about 2–3 minutes it
-takes off straight up at high speed. Many others on the base have seen
-the object as well, and jets are scrambled. The UFO maneuvers around the
-jets as if toying with them. One of the pursuing jets allegedly goes
-missing and the wreckage is never found. (Good Need, pp. 218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2914
Date: 4/25/1957
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Military witness Robertson. Case missing from official
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ringgold, Louisiana
-ID: 410
Date: 5/1957 (approximate)
-Description: 3:45 p.m. Two men in Orlando, Florida, see an oval object
-emerge from a larger cigar-shaped UFO about 75– 100 feet long. (Herbert
-S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
-2004): 7, 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2918
Date: 5/1957
-Description: Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air
-Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft
-carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared,
-ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if
-he talked.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Reuters
-Link
-Location: Manston, Kent
Date: 5/1957
-Description: Frances Stichler, who lived on a farm, was working in her
-barn when she heard a whirring sound and saw a bowl-shaped object, 7 m
-in diameter, with a rim over 1 m wide about 5 m above ground. It stopped
-with one side tilted toward her. A man dressed in a loose, shiny, gray
-suit, wearing a tight-fitting helmet, was facing her from inside the
-object. He seemed of average height had deep-set eyes, tanned skin, and
-a long face with a “quizzical” expression. Almost immediately the object
-left toward the southeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 108; Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Milford, Pennsylvania
-ID: 392
Date: 5/1957
-Description: NICAP is fed a phony UFO crash story in the Everglades,
-Florida, by an Associated Press employee who is a “former Signal Corps
-engineer” with possible ties to the NSA. He admits faking the story but
-refuses to give any motive. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 64–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2915
Date: 5/1957
-Description: 4:50 a.m. A truck driver pulls over at the edge of the
-disused RAF Winkleigh Airfield [now the site of the West of England
-Transport Collection], Devon, England, to drink some coffee. He notices
-an object like a metallic, fluorescent-blue submarine with tail fins
-sitting at the end of the runway. It is about the size of an airliner.
-He watches it a while, then gets out of the truck and approaches it. He
-has the object in sight a total of 10–15 minutes and realizes it is
-hovering just above the ground. When he is 600 feet away, he encounters
-a type of force field that prevents him from approaching. The object
-then rises straight up into the sky to about 1,200 feet and shoots off
-to the north. The force field disappears. (Ron Toth, “UFO
-Landing at War-time Aerodrome,” Pegasus 2, no. 3 (May-June 1970):
-2–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2916
Date: 5/1957
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Frances Stichler is working in her barn in
-Milford, Pennsylvania, when she hears a whirring sound and sees a
-bowl-shaped object approaching at a height of 15 feet. It is 15 feet in
-diameter with a rim about 3 feet wide. It hovers with one side tilted
-toward her 50 feet away. Its lone occupant, a helmeted figure with a
-long, olive- colored face and a shiny, light gray suit, gazes at her
-with a quizzical expression on his tanned face. It is sitting on the far
-rim with feet and legs hidden by the lower part of the object. Inside
-the open vehicle, she can see levers. After a minute, the object takes
-off to the southwest making a spinning sound. Her chickens do not seem
-disturbed by any of this. (Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO
-Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1969): 14–15; Clark III 268; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1957 May 24th–July 31st, The Author, 1996, p. 10; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-17, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2917
Date: 5/1/1957
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A man driving a motorcycle about 9 miles from
-Pajas Blancas International Airport in Córdoba, Argentina, sees a UFO
-shortly after his engine fails. It is 65 feet in diameter and 16 feet
-thick, hovering about 50 feet above the ground. He hides in a ditch and
-sees the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a
-valve. A lift descends from its base almost to the ground. In it is a
-man of average height who makes friendly gestures. He is dressed in a
-plastic diving suit. The witness enters the machine and sees several
-people inside seated in front of instrument panels, lit by an
-extraordinary light. He is then escorted out, and the disc rises to the
-northwest. During the next hour, there are 6 other sightings made by
-independent witnesses. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May
-25th, The
-Author, 1995, pp. 61–64; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System
-for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2919
Date: 5/1/1957
-Time: 0700
-Description: When his motorcycle suddenly failed, the driver observed a
-disk, 2O m in diameter and 5 m thick, hovering about 15 m above ground.
-He hid in a ditch and saw the craft come down, making a sound similar to
-air escaping from a valve. A sort of lift descended from its base almost
-to the ground. In it was a man of average height, who made friendly
-gestures to the witness. He was dressed in a plastic diving suit. The
-witness entered the machine and saw inside several people seated before
-instrument panels, lighted by an extraordinary light. He was then
-escorted out, and the disk rose to the northwest. During the next hour,
-six sightings were made along the same course by independent
-witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 35; FSR 65, 1; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Pajasblancas Airport, Argentina
-ID: 393
Date: 5/2/1957
-Description: 6:55–7:20 a.m. Frank E. Baker, supervisor of civilian
-camera operators at Edwards AFB, California, sends the standard two-man
-crews out to their Askania tracking telescopes for their daily shifts.
-Veterans James D. Bittick and John
-R. Gettys Jr. are in their pickup expecting a normal day. As they
-approach their station in the Mojave Desert, they see a bright object in
-the sky. It is initially at about a 45° elevation and seems to be
-hovering. They need to get permission from Baker to photograph anything,
-so they call it in, begin readying the scope, load the film, and wait
-for the okay. Gettys says the base of the object has a circular
-appearance when high in the sky. Baker gives them his approval and they
-begin filming, each viewing the object through spotting scopes while the
-film rolls. They shoot about 100 feet then stop. During filming, the
-object moves from 1 mile away to 5 miles. What they see is a disc-shaped
-object with a low dome on top. They contact the base, which scrambles
-two jets, but they are too late. After they turn the film in, three
-officers show up and interrogate them. Future astronaut Gordon
-Cooper claims he was there that day, involved with the tracking.
-(NICAP, “Edwards
-AFB Case”;
-“Unidentified
-Flying Object Filmed, Studied,” Miami (Fla.) News, May 12, 1957,
-p. 2; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 75–76; Michael D. Swords, “As Great
-an Enigma As the UFOs Themselves,” IUR 30, no. 1 (October 2005): 10–12;
-Sparks,
-p. 243; “Astronaut
-Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,” Elhardt YouTube channel, December
-27, 2007; Swords 247–248; Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of
-Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperTorch, 2000,
-pp. 83–86; Good Need, pp. 220–222)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2920
Date: 5/3/1957
-Description: Astronaut Gordon Cooper
-spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB.
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Edwards AFB
Date: 5/10/1957
-Time: 2250
-Description: A Hungarian refugee, Michel Fekete, was riding his bicycle
-when he saw an object hovering 30 cm above ground and four little men
-nearby. The police found lavalike fragments at the site. Six other
-witnesses vouch for the sighting including Messrs. Iklef and Lepot and
-their wives. The craft was luminous, pulsating between red and white
-(remaining red longer). When white, it was more blinding than a powerful
-searchlight. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. Occupants
-were about 1.30 m tall with a beige-gray body, an abnormally large black
-head, and a waddling gait. The object flew away when a car came into
-view.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 109; M 211 (Vallee)
-Location: Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France
-ID: 394
Date: 5/10/1957
-Description: After 10:45 p.m. At Beaucourt-sur-l’Ancre, Somme, France, a
-29-year-old Hungarian refugee named Fekete is cycling when he is
-“dazzled by a strange projectile.” He sees four men 4–5 feet tall
-approaching him in a threatening manner. One of them carries a bright
-light which prevents him from seeing much detail. He flees on his cycle
-to a nearby home, where others look out and see the occupants 300 feet
-away. The UFO is emitting red and white (or yellow) rays of light
-alternatively. They watch for about 20 minutes until 11:15 p.m. when the
-UFO takes off at a 45° angle. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May
-25th, The
-Author, 1995, pp. 69–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2921
Date: 5/11/1957
-Description: While attending the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft
-Convention in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, Wayne
-Sulo Aho goes for a walk and sees a “majestic egg-shaped light.” He
-directs a telepathic message to it, and the UFO lands 2 miles away. He
-begins receiving subtle psychic messages on his earthly mission. That
-night, Aho undergoes a “cosmic initiation.” (Clark III 59; Wayne S. Aho,
-Mojave Desert Experience, May 11, 1957, New Age, 1972)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2922
Date: 5/20/1957
-Description: OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The
-F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO
-left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Manston, Kent
Date: 5/20/1957 (approximate)
-Alternate date: 1956 (approximate)
-Description: Near 12:00 midnight. USAF Lt. Milton Torres is flying F-86D
-Sabre fighters with the 406th Bomber Wing based at RAF Manston [now
-closed], Kent, England. He receives an order from an RAF controller, who
-is tracking an unidentified target from Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear
-Bunker [now closed] in Essex, to go up with a wingman to 32,000 feet
-over East Anglia in pursuit. Over the radio he receives an order to fire
-a salvo of rockets at the target; the order is so unusual that Torres
-seeks authentication before firing. Torres locates the large target on
-his aircraft radar, but when he closes in on it, it shoots away at
-tremendous speed, disappearing from the radar screens. The target might
-be explained by a secret CIA-MoD experiment, codenamed Palladium, to
-simulate an aircraft blip on Soviet radar screens. On his return to
-base, Torres is debriefed by a secret service agent and told his mission
-is top secret. (NICAP, “Milton
-Torres / Intercept Mission”; UFOFiles2, pp. 69–72;
-David Clarke, “Intercept and Destroy,” Fortean Times 242 (December
-2008): 34–35; Paul Crickmore, “Project Palladium:
-Testing Soviet Radars,” Tails Through Time, January 3, 2011; Curt
-Collins, “Area
-51, the CIA, and Cold
-War UFOS: T. D. Barnes,” Blue Blurry Lines, January 9, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2923
Date: 5/26/1957
-Description: An article in the UK Empire News on “Flying Saucer Clubs
-Probe: Peace Messages ‘from Outer Space’” reveals that George
-King’s Aetherius Society has been publishing channeled messages in
-its Cosmic Voice newsletter that are antiwar and anti-nuclear. It
-attracts the attention of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, thanks to an
-informant on the newspaper. King writes to explain that his group is
-religious and not political. A Special Branch officer visits King in his
-home in London, England, on May 31, and the group’s writings and
-activities are watched for at least the next two years. (Kremlin
-121–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2924
Date: 5/28/1957
-Description: Boltzmann, the first of 29 nuclear tests in Operation
-Plumbbob, takes place at the Nevada Test Site. At 12 kilotons, it is
-about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and causes Area 51 personnel
-11 miles away to be temporarily evacuated. Another test blast buckles
-aircraft hangar doors in Area 51, shatters windows in the mess hall, and
-breaks a dormitory ventilator panel. The Plumbbob tests continue until
-October 7, 1957. While most tests contribute to the development of
-warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also
-test air defense and anti-submarine warheads with small yields.
-(Wikipedia, “Operation
-Plumbbob”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2925
Date: 5/31/1957
-Description: 7:17 a.m. A British airliner is flying over Kent, two miles
-south of Rochester, England, when both the captain and first officer see
-a brilliant light approaching them. All radio communications cut out.
-The UFO blinks out and the radio equipment goes back into operation. (Schopick, pp. 122–123;
-Good Above, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2926
Date: 6/2/1957
-Description: Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was
-postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied
-areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied
-areas anyway.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Nevada
Date: 6/3/1957
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport (Louisiana)
-Airport, Capt. Lynn Kern and Flight Officer Abbey Zimmerman, flying
-Trans-Texas Airlines Flight 103, are told by the control tower that a
-small light is visible nearby. They see the star-like, blue-green object
-at about 400 feet altitude. It then climbs rapidly to 1,000 feet and
-parallels the airliner at a higher altitude and about a half-mile away.
-Kern flashes his landing lights, and the object responds with a beam of
-light. A second blue-green, pulsating object joins the first on the
-opposite side of the airliner (then at 9,000 feet). A crew from the air
-tower confirms that it has both objects on radar and visually through
-binoculars. The objects head south, climbing to about 10,000 feet, and
-follow the airliner to Converse, Louisiana, where the pilot queries ADC
-radar site, England AFB [now Alexandria International Airport], which
-confirms the two targets in the airliner’s vicinity. The objects
-disappear from sight in a cloud deck to the southwest. (NICAP, “Flight
-103 & 2 UFOs Tracked on Radar”; Sparks, p. 244;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2927
Date: 6/5/1957
-Description: Undocumented report of a landing and of “bellicose
-dwarfs.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Uriman, Venezuela
-ID: 395
Date: 6/5/1957
-Description: AEC Commissioner Willard
-Libby tells Congress that nuclear weapons testing is a “small risk”
-that must be measured against the “risk of annihilation.” (“Bomb
-Testing Is Viewed As Risk to Be Compared with Annihilation,”
-Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, June 5, 1957, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2928
Date: 6/11/1957
-Description: CIA operative Wallace
-R. Lampshire sends a memo to CIA operative Richard
-M. Bissell Jr., explaining that the agency’s involvement with UFOs
-is passive, handing off reports to its geophysics or former weapons
-units. Lampshire has talked with Gen. Philip
-J. Strong, who
-knows of no Soviet technology that might be responsible for UFOs.
-(Swords 264–265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2929
Date: 6/12/1957
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witness: G.U. Donadio, translator for export-import firm.
-One object “big as a hen’s egg” flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and
-revolved, then shot up after 17 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 411
Date: 6/15/1957
-Description: 5:06 p.m. George Marsden watches a Saturn-shaped UFO with
-portholes through a telescope at Mawdesley, Lancashire, England. (UFOEv,
-p. 146;
-Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2931
Date: 6/15/1957
-Description: A report in the UK weekly newspaper Reynold’s News claims
-that the Air Ministry conducts top secret UFO research in Room 801 of
-one of its offices on Northumberland Avenue, London, England. A ministry
-spokesman is quoted as saying the room has “something like 10,000
-sightings” on file and a large map of the British Isles with thousands
-of colored pins representing sightings. Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon
-Creighton says the office belongs to the Deputy Directorate of
-Intelligence (Technical), which employs UFO researchers full-time. (Good
-Above, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2930
Date: 6/18/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Captain C. G. Wertz and the crew of the Matson
-freighter Hawaiian Fisherman see two brightly lit objects off the port
-beam as they are steaming 150 miles off San Francisco, California. A
-third object joins them at 8:15. They appear as small moons, giving off
-a cold, white, unchanging light. The three move off in a V formation and
-pace the ship for a short time. The lights continue their controlled
-flight as dusk turns to night. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
-1969, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2932
Date: 6/20/1957
-Description: Mysterious radar echoes begin turning up on Bluff Hill,
-near Invercargill, New Zealand, for several months. The targets are
-visible from several minutes up to an hour and are located somewhere in
-the ionosphere. Michael Gadsden of
-the Imperial College in London is in New Zealand for the International
-Geophysical Year and he says the targets’ movements are unusual and
-suspects that ionized particles are the cause. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The
-Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2933
Date: summer 1957
-Description: Allan Haney and some friends “on a number of occasions”
-climb onto someone’s roof in Levelland, Texas, to watch 3–4 objects
-hovering over Reese AFB [now Reese Technology Center] in Lubbock, 26
-miles to the east. (Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case
-Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2936
Date: summer 1957
-Description: Early morning. Contactee Trevor
-Constable and an associate named James Woods take many infrared
-photos of the desert sky over southern California. When developed, the
-film reveals a variety of shapes from vague blobs and amoeba-like forms
-to clearly defined discs. Constable calls them “critters” and thinks
-they are some kind of life form invisible to the naked eye. (Clark III
-1102; Trevor James [Constable], They Live in the Sky, New Age,
-1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2935
Date: summer 1957
-Description: P.
-Craig Phillips, curator
-of the Miami Seaquarium, and two other scientists witness a fall of
-angel hair for two hours as they are sailing northward toward the
-Florida Keys. Assuming them to be cobwebs from migrating airborne
-spiders, Phillips takes some samples and puts them in a mason jar. But
-when he uncaps the jar later in his office, no trace of the material is
-found, which is uncharacteristic of spider web. (UFOEv, pp. 99–100;
-Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3
-(Fall 2001): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2934
Date: 7/1957
-Description: NICAP publishes the first issue of The UFO Investigator.
-(UFO
-Investigator 1, no. 1 (July 1957); Clark III 793)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2938
Date: 7/1957
-Description: NICAP learns that the US Senate Subcommittee on
-Investigations is considering hearings on UFOs and wants its assistance.
-Hillenkoetter suggests
-withholding the best cases, at least initially. Keyhoe asks
-Ruppelt,
-who is now an engineer with Northrup Aircraft, to join the NICAP board
-at a rehearsal for the I’ve Got a Secret Show on which he is appearing.
-Ruppelt considers it an honor. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 70–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2939
Date: 7/1957
-Description: The Air Defense Command disbands the 4602nd AISS and
-reassigns UFO investigative duties to the 1127th Field Activities Group
-of the 1006th AISS at Norton AFB [San Bernardino International Airport],
-California. Soon afterwards, the Air Force reduces funds for the unit,
-impairing its investigative ability. (Clark III 919)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2937
Date: 7/1/1957
-Description: International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of
-a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between
-East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries
-participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences:
-aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric
-physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping),
-meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of
-the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena,
-since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and
-the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet
-Union’s Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first
-successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of
-the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by
-Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important
-confirmation of plate-tectonic theory.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 7/5/1957
-Description: During the 74-kiloton Plumbbob Hood nuclear test at the
-Nevada Test Site, the Marine Corps conducts a tactical maneuver
-involving the use of a helicopter airlift, tactical air support, and an
-amphibian tractor called the LVTP5. Despite the AEC’s assurance that no
-thermonuclear devices are being tested, Hood is thermonuclear and is the
-largest atmospheric test in the continental US. All Area 51 personnel
-are evacuated prior to the blast, but the military neglects to secure
-the sensitive information in the buildings with security guards. Seventy
-anesthetized Chester White pigs in military uniforms (as test fabrics)
-are placed in cages a short distance from ground zero. Several types of
-wood houses are constructed to see how each handles the blast. The
-Mosler Safe Company sponsors the construction of a steel vault to
-withstand the blast. Some 100 soldiers, lying in trenches, are stationed
-to gauge the psychological impact of the bomb. The flash is visible from
-Canada to Mexico and 800 miles out in the Pacific. The blast wave
-reaches Los Angeles 25 minutes later. Afterwards, security guard Richard
-Mingus has to drive through a highly radioactive ground zero to
-reach the buildings at Area 51 ten miles away. Area 51 remains an
-evacuated ghost town until the summer of 1959. (Wikipedia, “Desert
-Rock exercises”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 119–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2940
Date: 7/10/1957
-Description: George
-Hunt Williamson, exploring in Peru from his base at the Monastery of
-the Seven Rays and spurred by his own channelings, rediscovers a wall of
-petroglyphs [now known as the Petroglyphs of Pusharo, in the Manú
-National Park] in an area northeast of Cuzco called Cadena del
-Pantiacolla. (George Hunt Williamson, “Project Scroll,”
-Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1957): 18–19; George Hunt
-Williamson, Road in the Sky, Neville Spearman, 1959; Brother Philip
-[Williamson], Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman, 1961; Zirger and
-Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari,
-2016, pp. 97–98, 109–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2941
Date: mid 7/1957
-Description: Keyhoe meets
-with US Rep. James
-C. Healey (D-N.Y.) regarding USAF secrecy about UFOs. He shows
-Healey the 1949 Grudge report and apparently convinces him that the Air
-Force’s explanations for the 24 cases are “sheer speculation” or
-“deliberately fitted.” He also presents him Gen. Joe
-W. Kelly’s April 8 letter to Lee Metcalf, indicating
-serious interest in UFOs. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 81–82, 91, 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2942
Date: 7/16/1957
-Description: 1:56 p.m. 1st Lt. Clifford E. Pocock, scope operator A2C
-Walter Lyons, and control technician A1C Armand Therrien at Las Vegas
-Air Force Station [now closed] at Angel Peak, Nevada, are using the
-FPS-3A L-band search radar and track an inbound target at about 6,200
-mph when it “stopped abruptly” and “remained stationary” for 12 seconds
-to the east-northeast 85 miles away to the north of Grand Canyon in
-Arizona. Then it heads outbound at about 7,000 mph before disappearing
-at the radar’s maximum range at 224 miles (near Marble Canyon, Arizona).
-The target responds to encrypted military IFF transponder signals and
-transmits encrypted responses. (NICAP, “6200
-MPH Target Hovers near Grand Canyon”; Sparks, p. 244)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2943
Date: 7/17/1957
-Description: Flight 655 en route from Dallas to Los Angeles, piloted by
-Capt. Ed Bachner, has a near collision with an object “at least the size
-of a B-47” over the salt flats some 100 miles east of El Paso, Texas.
-Bachner puts the plane into a dive and the object passes only 50 feet
-above them. Two passengers suffer slight injuries and are taken to the
-hospital on landing. No known aircraft are in the vicinity. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 79; Good Above, p. 283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2945
Date: 7/17/1957
-Description: Before dawn. The crew of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance
-aircraft is flying out of Forbes Field [now Topeka Regional Airport],
-Kansas, on an electronic warfare training flight over Mississippi,
-Louisiana, and Texas. The RB-47 is carrying a 6-man crew, of whom three
-are electronic warfare officers manning ECM gear in the aft portion of
-the aircraft. Their names are Lewis Dormon Chase, pilot; James
-H. McCoid, copilot; Thomas H. Hanley, navigator; John J. Provenzano,
-No. 1 monitor; Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor; and Walter
-A. Tuchscherer, No. 3
-monitor. The crew detects on its Electronic Intelligence (ELINT)
-equipment an airborne radar source that mimics some but not all of the
-signal characteristics of a common air defense ground radar. Aircraft
-normally do not carry such high-powered radars. As the key ELINT officer
-on the RB-47 puts it, “an antenna bigger than the airplane” would be
-required to emit as strong a signal as he detected from the UFO. Because
-the UFO signal appears to have comparable or greater received signal
-strength than the one-megawatt ground radar beam and the UFOs distance
-is about 5 times closer than the ground radar, a crude estimate of the
-UFO radar power output using the inverse-square law would be about 40
-kilowatts. The maneuvering radar signal coincides in location with a
-bright UFO. At times the signal moves ahead of the RB-47, then circles
-around as if airborne, highly maneuverable, and flying faster than the
-RB-47. The 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Intelligence report states
-that the Wing’s director of intelligence “has no doubt the electronic
-D/F’s coincided exactly with visual observations by a/c numerous times
-thus indicating positively the object being the signal source.” An air
-defense radar station near Dallas, Texas, reportedly confirms tracking a
-UFO at the same location reported by the RB-47 crew but later tries to
-deny it in an unclassified message to ATIC. The UFO is reportedly
-tracked by the RB-47’s airborne navigation radar as well, though the
-crew has differing recollections on this point. Twice the UFO blinks out
-visually when pursued by the RB-47. At the same time the strange signal
-disappears, either that, or the ground radar site and the RB-47 onboard
-radar loses the object from their scopes. At least once, the UFO
-suddenly reappears visually at about the same time the ground radar
-regains tracking of the object. The main part of the incident occupies
-30 minutes over the Fort Worth, Texas, area from 5:30–6:00 a.m. Some
-earlier ELINT and visual incidents are noted as early as about 4:30
-a.m., but they catch the crew off guard, and consequently reports at the
-time and later recollections have had to be carefully reconstructed. The
-UFO may have trailed the RB-47 up to 6:40 a.m. following the main
-events, for a total duration of possibly more than 126 minutes. The RB
--47 incident is the first conclusive instrumented proof for the
-existence of UFOs. Calibrations of the RB-47’s electronic measurements
-provide an irrefutable case. When the Colorado Project scientists asked
-the Air Force for the Blue Book file on the RB-47 case, the file could
-not be found. Ultimately, the case was put together by better file
-searching at Blue Book, James
-E. McDonald’s success at locating several crew members and
-interviewing them, and FOIA searches that located more of the lost
-documents. Particularly in the George
-T. Gregory years at ATIC, this sort of rejection of the need to
-clarify almost any significant aspect of a UFO case was constant. If we
-did not know, from our earlier information, what Captain Gregory
-understood to be his duty as chief of Blue Book, we would label this as
-reckless and incompetent. Colorado project investigator Gordon
-Thayer declares the case unexplained, and later describes the
-official USAF explanation (airliner) as “literally ridiculous.” Brad Sparks sums
-it up in 1998 (and in 2018): “This case certainly now ranks as among the
-best documented unexplained UFO incidents in history, and it has the
-potential for further revealing disclosures if records of an extremely
-highly classified investigation can be found and released. All of the
-UFO observations by multiple visual observers, multiple ELINT receivers,
-and multiple radar sets, as well as the serendipitous calibrations of
-the UFO signals against the separately identifiable Duncanville radar
-signals, provide a unique, tight, interlocking web of intricately fitted
-evidence.” (NICAP, “RB-47
-Incident”; Sparks, p. 244;
-Condon, pp. 56, 136–139, 260– 266;
-James E. McDonald, “The
-1957 Gulf Coast RB-47 Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3
-(May/June 1970): 2–6; Gert Herb, “A Rebuttal to Philip J. Klass’s
-Analysis of the RB-47 Incident of July 17, 1957,” CUFOS Bulletin, Summer
-1977, pp. 3–10; Philip J. Klass, [response to Gert Herb], CUFOS
-Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 7–10; Gert Herb, “Gert Herb Replies,” CUFOS
-Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 9–10; Swords 248–249; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 May 24th–July
-31st, The
-Author, 1996, pp. 64–71; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-interviews]; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; Center for UFO Studies, [more case documents]; UFOs Yes,
-126–127; Clark III 953–999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2944
Date: 7/18/1957
-Description: 10:46 p.m. Capt. Claiborne F. Bickham and a radar crew at
-Mount Lemmon Air Force Station [now closed] northeast of Tucson,
-Arizona, using both MPS-7 L-band search and MPS-14 S-band height-finder
-radars, track a stationary target at 42,000 feet to the northwest about
-82 miles away south of Chandler. The target responds to encrypted
-military IFF Mode 3 transponder signals and transmits encrypted
-responses that result in “normal Mode 3 paint” on radar scopes. A very
-slight strobe comes from the object that appears like ECM jamming.
-(NICAP, “Ground
-Radar Track Responds to IFF Mode 3”; Sparks, p. 245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2946
Date: 7/19/1957
-Description: The Plumbbob John nuclear test at Yucca Flats, Nevada, is
-the only test of the Air Force’s AIR-2 Genie missile with a nuclear
-warhead. On the ground, the Air Force carries out a public relations
-event by having five Air Force officers and a videographer stand under
-ground zero of the blast, which takes place at between 18,500 and 20,000
-feet altitude, with the idea of demonstrating the possibility of the use
-of the weapon over civilian populations without ill effects. (Wikipedia,
-“Operation
-Plumbbob”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2947
Date: 7/22/1957
-Description: Night. Capt. G. M. Schemel, the pilot of a TWA
-Constellation aircraft, is flying at 18,000 feet near Amarillo, Texas,
-when a big red and green light bears down on his plane in a collision
-course. He puts the aircraft into a dive and the object passes above
-him. Schemel has to make an unscheduled landing at Amarillo to
-hospitalize one passenger who is injured during the maneuver. (“Kenosha
-Pilot Tells of Mysterious Object,” Kenosha (Wis.) News, July 24,
-1957, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2948
Date: 7/24/1957
-Description: Russian antiaircraft batteries on the Kuril Islands,
-Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, in the Pacific Ocean open fire on luminous,
-fast-moving UFOs. No hits are made. The US claims it has no aircraft in
-the area. However, at 10:00 a.m., two USAF pilots flying F-86s are
-scrambled to intercept a disc-shaped object over the Nemuro Strait,
-north of Hokkaido, Japan, that is tracked by ground radar and seen by
-ground witnesses. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 42;
-Sparks,
-p. 245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2949
Date: 7/24/1957
-Description: White Sands Missile Flight Safety Director Nathan
-Wagner is driving with his wife Alma south
-of Las Cruces, New Mexico, when they see a large, fast object at high
-altitude moving east toward the Organ Mountains. They watch it for 30
-seconds until it disappears. (“Space
-Vehicles Sighted?” El Paso (Tex.) Times, July 30, 1957, p. 1; NICAP,
-“Missile
-Safety Chief Says Object Unknown”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2950
Date: 7/25/1957
-Time: 1910
-Description: Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who is a professor at the Catholic
-Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a
-hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From
-it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging
-to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits,
-came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him
-“telepathically” to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated
-compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose
-for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no
-longer worked. (Humanoids 36; FSR 57, 6
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: (Vallee)
-Location: Sao Sebastiao, Brazil
-ID: 396
Date: 7/25/1957
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Several workers are taking a break at the Daye
-Steel Plant in Huangshi, Hubei, China, when they hear a humming sound.
-They notice a bright spot in the clear sky that is increasing in
-apparent size. As it comes closer, it is seen as a circular plate giving
-off a dazzling white light and leaving a white trail. It flies above the
-observers at an altitude of 3,300 feet and produces a whistling sound
-that is louder than a jet. As the object approaches the witnesses, the
-low pitch changes to a high pitch. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs
-over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2951
Date: 7/27/1957
-Time: Early morning
-Description: Or July 29, 1957. Witness: J.L. Siverly. One thick disc,
-ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (interconnected hexagons), hovered
-and rocked below the hill tops for 10 minutes. Middle band was
-scalloped, bottom had four kidney-shaped forms.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Longmont, Colorado
-ID: 412
Date: 7/28/1957
-Description: A Douglas Aircraft Company employee named Edward K. Current
-Jr. makes an emergency landing on the former U-2 airstrip at Groom Lake,
-Nevada. He claims he has been on a cross-country training flight when he
-became lost and ran low on fuel. The area is still evacuated for nuclear
-testing. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 125–126;
-T. D. Barnes, “False
-Emergency Landings at Groom Lake,” Roadrunners Internationale,
-November 22, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2952
Date: 7/29/1957
-Time: 10:31 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capital Airlines Capt. R.L. Stimley, First
-Officer F.J. Downing. One large, round, yellow-white object dimmed once,
-crossed the bow of the airliner, which then gave chase but was unable to
-catch it. Sighting last 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cleveland, Ohio
-ID: 413
Date: 7/29/1957
-Time: 11:45 AM
-Description: Witness: E.E. Henkins. One pale yellow fireball glided into
-the water and exploded. Viewed for 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oldsmar, Florida
-ID: 414
Date: 7/30/1957
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Jack Stephenson is walking his dog four miles
-south of Galt, Ontario, when he sees an aluminum- colored object with a
-dome. It circles, stops, and hovers, then lands in a gulley surrounded
-by woods. He watches it for 45 minutes as it hovers about 2 feet off the
-ground. It finally takes off at a 45° angle to avoid a power line, then
-shoots away. Local residents examine the area and find burned patches on
-the ground and small tree limbs that are broken. There are four burned
-or charred areas, each about 1 foot 3 inches in diameter, forming a
-four- sided figure with these measurements: 20 feet x 20 feet x 6.5 feet
-x 11.5 feet. Two large three-toed prints are also found, but the
-relationship of the prints to the object is unknown. (“Boy
-Reports ‘Saucer,’” Brantford (Ont.) Expositor, August 3, 1957, p. 1;
-“Says
-He Saw Flying Saucer for 45 Minutes,” Milk River (Alberta) Review,
-August 25, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 51–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2953
Date: 7/30/1957
-Description: Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for
-45 minutes
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Galt, Ontario
Date: 7/30/1957
-Description: Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when he
-saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came
-down and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min
-later,leaving the ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a
-stationary dome, but the periphery was spinning.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 188 (Vallee)
-Location: Galt, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 397
Date: 8/1957
-Description: Radar technician Edward
-Lovick Jr. begins work at Lockheed’s secret Advanced Development
-Projects facility (the Skunk Works) in Burbank, California. His first
-assignment is to investigate radar-deflecting technology for the U-2
-aircraft. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 126–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2954
Date: 8/1957
-Description: Night. A young woman is driving home after work in Peru,
-Indiana, and notices people standing along the road looking at the sky.
-She stops, and they point to a large black object hovering above some
-nearby trees at about 100 feet. It is about 1,000 feet long and has a
-“soft delta” shape with rounded corners and window-like lighted areas
-underneath. There seems to be movement within the lighted areas. In the
-middle of the bottom is a round area that looks like it might be the
-outline of an entryway. It moves slowly away, making a noise like a
-quiet vacuum cleaner. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR
-29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2955
Date: 8/1/1957
-Description: The North American Air Defense Command is announced by the
-US Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Wikipedia, “North
-American Aerospace Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2956
Date: 8/3/1957
-Description: 7:45 p.m. 1st Lt. Robert J. Springer Jr., T/Sgt. Herman
-L. Giles, and 16 other air crewmen, while on routine Airborne
-Operations Center radar early warning patrol over the Pacific Ocean
-about 175 miles southwest of San Francisco, California, aboard an
-RC-121D aircraft, detect a radar target on IFF Mode 2 transponder only.
-At 7:56 p.m., the IFF target becomes a direct radar “skinpaint.” At 8:02
-p.m., the IFF equipment APX-6/APX-7 is turned off, but the target is
-still tracked on airborne radar. At 8:15 p.m., the target is at a 2
-o’clock position 10 miles away when the aircraft starts a right turn to
-reverse course, putting the target dead ahead. It suddenly takes off to
-the northwest at very high speed, disappearing 58 miles away. Radar
-contact is regained at 8:18 p.m. as the target is tracked moving right
-to left, crossing in front of the aircraft again, and closing distance
-to 8 miles at 11 o’clock. At 8:20 p.m., the target turns to head on a
-parallel path. The crew loses contact at 8:24 p.m., 15 miles behind the
-plane. No visual confirmation. (NICAP, “RC-121D
-Has IFF Radar Targets”; Sparks, p. 246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2957
Date: 8/4/1957
-Description: An Italian Air Force noncommissioned officer on duty in the
-control tower at Naples International Airport, Italy, and about 30 other
-witnesses see a number of luminous, disc-shaped objects passing above
-them. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2958
Date: 8/5/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Policeman Ernst W. Akerberg and his wife Karin
-are at their summer cottage on the island of Gotland, Sweden, in the
-Baltic Sea when they see a disc-shaped object heading toward them from
-the sea. When it reaches the shore about 600 feet away, the object
-changes course and executes a sharp turn at less than 90° of arc and
-turns on its edge, swaying briefly. The disc moves toward the southeast
-and makes another sharp turn just over a half-mile away, again turning
-on its edge and fluttering before passing out of view. A second, smaller
-object approaches and goes through the same maneuvers. Air currents from
-both objects make the water surface ripple and the treetops swing.
-Estimated to be about 80 feet in diameter, the objects seem to be made
-of shining metal, and the upper part rotates slowly over the lower part.
-Both objects have a kind of tube with two red lights. They are silent
-except for a hollow clicking sound. (Story, pp. 152–153;
-Clas Svahn, “1957
-Diskusarna svängde framför
-polismannen,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2959
Date: 8/14/1957
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Varig Airlines pilot Capt. Jorgé Campos Araujo
-and First Officer Edgar Onofre Soares observe a domed disc pacing their
-C-47 cargo plane at 6,300 feet over Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
-The UFO speeds up and crosses just in front of them, hovers briefly,
-then dives into the undercast at 5,700 feet. When the object hovers, it
-affects the engines, which cough and wheeze, and dims the cabin lights.
-(UFOEv, p. 120;
-Olavo T. Fontes, “Top
-Secret Report Unveiled,” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 1, 5; Schopick,
-pp. 123–127; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957
-August–September, Supplemental Notes,
-The Author, 2003, pp. 11–13; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 153–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2960
Date: 8/20/1957
-Alternate date: 8/22/1957
-Description: A member of the Argentine Air Force guarding a downed
-aircraft is in a tent near Quilinos, Córdoba, Argentina, when he hears a
-high-pitched hum. Dashing out, he sees a disc slowly descending, making
-the grass and plants flutter wildly. Reaching for his revolver, he feels
-that something is preventing him from drawing his weapon, which seems
-glued in his holster. A voice from the disc tells him in Spanish that
-spacecraft have a base in the Salta region and that they are here to
-warn about nuclear energy. The craft rises vertically and speeds off to
-the north. Probable hoax. (“UFO
-Bases in South America?” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1965): 30– 31; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-8, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2962
Date: 8/20/1957
-Description: 11:28 a.m. Shinichi Takeda takes a photo of a silvery disc
-near Enoshima Beach, Kanagawa, Japan. The object is also seen by his
-sister, who calls his attention to it. It gives off a brilliant glow at
-an estimated altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet, traveling north to south. The
-object makes a 90° left turn, speeds up, and disappears in the clouds.
-The photo shows capsule-shaped image near bank of cumulus clouds. A few
-minutes later, 15 people on the beach report a similar object that
-passes over at high speed. (NICAP, “Capsule-Shaped
-Object in Clouds / Takeda
-Photo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2961
Date: 8/20/1957
-Description: An Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound
-and saw a disk that came down as grass and plants fluttered wildly under
-it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which “seemed to be glued
-in its holster.” A voice came from the craft, telling him in Spanish
-that UFO’s had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves
-to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
-Location: Quilino, Argentina
-ID: 398
Date: 8/22/1957
-Time: 1540
-Description: A black, bellshaped object bearing two bright, white lights
-at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a civilian in a
-car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m away. The
-underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet aircraft
-took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost
-instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no
-helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise
-made by the object to that of a helicopter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida
-ID: 399
Date: 8/22/1957
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A couple named Sheetz in a car at Naval Air
-Station Cecil [now Cecil Airport] in Jacksonville, Florida, chase a
-50-foot, black, rotating, bell-shaped object bearing two bright white
-lights at the top. Their engine stalls when object hovers 10 feet away.
-Its underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes off from the
-airfield, the object goes out of sight almost instantly. The car battery
-is completely dead. Noise from the object is compared to a helicopter,
-although there are no helicopters in the area. (NICAP, “Car
-Chases Bell-Shaped Object, Engine
-Stalls”; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2963
Date: 8/27/1957
-Description: Russia makes the first successful long flight of an ICBM,
-the R-7 Semyorka, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The dummy
-warhead lands in the Pacific Ocean. (Wikipedia, “R-7
-Semyorka”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2964
Date: 8/30/1957
-Description: Night. A Capital Airlines pilot is flying a Viscount at
-12,000 feet approaching Norfolk, Virginia, with a Northeast Airlines
-DC-6 directly above on the same heading at 20,000 feet. The Viscount
-pilot sees a brilliant object that “flew fast and then abruptly halted
-20 miles in front of us at 60,000 feet altitude.” The Northeast pilot
-tries to acquire the object on radar. With the antenna at 0° elevation,
-nothing is detected, but with the antenna elevated to 15° he acquires
-“an excellent blip right where I told him to look for the object.”
-According to the Viscount pilot, the object “dissolved right in front of
-my eyes, and the crew above lost it from the scope at the same time.
-They said it just faded away.” The entire incident lasts several
-minutes. (NICAP, “Two
-Aircraft Observe
-Object / Excellent Blip on Radar”; Condon, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2965
Date: 8/31/1957
-Description: Sen. Barry
-Goldwater (R-Ariz.) sends a letter to a constituent about UFOs,
-saying, “I, frankly, feel that there is a great deal to this.” (UFOEv,
-p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2967
Date: 8/31/1957
-Description: After nuclear test Plumbbob Smokey, Army troops conduct an
-airlift assault. (Wikipedia, “Desert
-Rock exercises”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2966
Date: 8/31/1957
-Description: In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry
-Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.”
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
Date: 9/1957
-Description: A man suddenly fell, as if paralyzed, and his two
-companions then observed an object shaped like a disk with a dome on top
-and another dome under it, 50 m away. A door opened and three men, 1.70
-m tall, wearing close-fitting, iridescent clothing, and who walked as if
-on skis, appeared to make a check of the craft and the surroundings.
-They gathered samples in a large box. The witnesses saw small portholes
-and a tripod landing gear. The craft took off after 20 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Jul., 60 (Vallee)
-Location: Campinas, Brazil
-ID: 400
Date: 9/1957
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Hélio Penteado and his foreman Zaca Sabiá are
-repairing a fence on Penteado’s farm in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil,
-when Sabiá’s dog begins growling at something in the mint field. They
-hear a loud, irritating sound and see a disc about 50 feet wide landing
-in the field and supported by three legs with spheres on the end that
-pierce the ground. Penteado goes closer to investigate and sees two
-beings about 4 feet tall leave the UFO wearing green coveralls. They
-seem to float along the ground and take a vessel from under the craft.
-One of them is carrying something like a gun or flamethrower. They pass
-through a fence on the way to a river. After 10 minutes the beings
-return with the vessel apparently full of river water. The entity with
-the flamethrower shoots it at a jacaranda tree and a eucalyptus tree,
-damaging their trunks. They reenter the object via the dome, which takes
-off toward the city. Back at his barn, Penteado notices that all his
-metallic tools are stacked in a cone, the birds are dead, his monkey is
-agitated, and his watch has stopped working. The same day, people
-observe a UFO over a hospital on the Avenida Julio Mesqita, where the
-object dumps two drops of liquid metal that falls in the street. The UFO
-goes so low that it hits the corner of a parked truck. An analysis of
-the metal by an unnamed organization (possibly the Brazilian Air Force)
-shows that the metal is high in magnesium. Penteado later goes to the
-landing site and takes plaster casts of the footprints, which he sends
-to the Agronomy Institute of Campinas. (“Caso
-do disco proximo de Campinas,” Boletim SBEDV, no. 14 (March 1,
-1960): 1–3; Brazil 35–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2970
Date: 9/1957
-Description: Soviet defector Nikolai
-Khokhlov suffers a sudden and severe illness while attending an
-anti-Communist meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. He is treated for thallium
-poisoning and survives. This case is often claimed to be the first
-radiological attack by the KGB, especially when compared to the
-poisoning of Alexander
-Litvinenko in 2006, although it remains unclear what isotope was
-used, if any. Former KGB officer Stanislav Lekarev claims, however, that
-Khokhlov is poisoned by radioactive polonium (not thallium), exactly as
-Litvinenko is later. Litvinenko’s poisoning is also initially mistaken
-for thallium. A unique mechanism for administering poison is described
-by a knowledgeable source at the time as a pneumatically operated poison
-ice “atomizer” that leaves no wound or other evidence of the cause of
-death. (Wikipedia, “Nikolai
-Khokhlov”; Andy Wright, “The
-Russian Spy Who
-Convinced America to Take ESP Seriously,” Atlas Obscura, January 13,
-2017; Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The
-Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of
-the KGB, Basic
-Books, 1999; David Kurlander, “Ending
-in a Fall: America’s Response to the Poisoning of Soviet Defector Nikolai
-Khokhlov,” Café, September 3, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2968
Date: 9/2/1957
-Description: After the Plumbbob Galileo nuclear shot at the Nevada Test
-Site, Army troops are tested to determine their psychological reactions
-to witnessing the nuclear detonation. (Wikipedia, “Desert
-Rock exercises”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2971
Date: early 9/1957
-Description: Several people fishing near Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil,
-watch a disc dive down from the sky and explode, showering the area with
-flaming fragments. One of the witnesses writes an anonymous letter and
-sends three pieces to O Globo, but no witnesses to the event have ever
-come forward. APRO representative Olavo
-T. Fontes examines
-the fragments, which are dull gray, irregular, and strongly oxidized.
-One sample is shot through with microscopic cracks and shows a fissure
-running through two-thirds of its length. All three have whitish smears
-of a powdery substance like cinders. Fontes takes one sample to the
-Mineral Production Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture for
-analysis, which shows it to be “magnesium of a high degree of purity.”
-Chemist Luisa Maria A. Barbosa, who conducts a spectrographic analysis,
-says that not even trace elements are apparent. Fontes also has it
-analyzed by chemist Elson Teixeira and the Brazilian Army. The
-Laboratory of Crystallography conducts some X-ray diffraction work. All
-conclude that the material is pure magnesium, while one gives it a
-density of 1.866 (normal magnesium is 1.741). APRO sends a second
-fragment to the US Air Force, which accidentally destroys it. The third
-sample is sent to the Colorado Project in February 1968. Roy
-Craig runs tests on it at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of
-the IRS in Washington and Dow Chemical’s Metallurgical Laboratory. Both
-determine that the level of purity is not as high as was determined in
-1957 (although this is now seen as a major misrepresentation of the
-actual results). APRO does two further tests with University of Arizona
-metallurgical engineer Walter A. Walker and Robert W. Johnson of the
-Materials Research Corporation at Orangeburg, New Jersey. Walker and
-Johnson both find that the sample “had undergone a directional crystal
-growth type of manufacture.” Walker concludes that the material was
-likely exposed to the earth’s atmosphere at elevated temperatures.
-Researchers Brad
-Sparks and Michael
-Swords examine Roy Craig’s archived
-original notes from
-the Colorado Project and find that the team had covered up the fact that
-an abnormal concentration of magnesium isotope Mg-26 had indeed been
-found and knowingly misrepresented the sample to APRO as “essentially
-the same as terrestrial magnesium,” blaming them for cherry-picking the
-Brazilian lab results. Peter
-A.
-Sturrock acquires the remnant of the samples from APRO and performs
-further analysis on two of them in 1997. In 2018, Michael Swords and Robert
-Powell borrow one Ubatuba sample from Sturrock and arrange for
-further tests at an accredited lab, finding variations well outside the
-normal range for magnesium, strontium, copper, and barium. (NICAP, “The
-Ubatuba Incident”; “Physical
-Evidence,” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, pp. 1, 3; Olavo T. Fontes, “A
-Report on the Investigation of Magnesium Samples from a UFO Explosion
-over the Sea in the
-Ubatuba Region of Brazil,” 1962; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 104–145;
-Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 212–216; Condon, pp. 94–97,
-257–260;
-Michael D. Swords, “Analysis of Alleged Fragments from an Exploding UFO
-near Ubatuba, Brazil: An Introduction,” JUFOS 4 (1992): 1–5; Walter W.
-Walker and Robert W. Johnson, “Further Studies on the Ubatuba UFO
-Magnesium Samples,” JUFOS 4 (1992): 6–25; Walter W. Walker, “Scientific
-Studies of the Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments: A 1992 Perspective,” JUFOS 4
-(1992): 26–37; Peter A. Sturrock, “Letter: Ubatuba,” IUR 18, no. 2
-(March/April 1993): 19; Paul R. Hill, Unconventional Flying Objects: A
-Scientific Analysis, Hampton Roads, 1995, pp. 226–234; Peter A.
-Sturrock, “Composition
-Analysis
-of the Brazil Magnesium,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 15, no.
-1 (2001): 69–95; Pierre Kaufmann and Peter A. Sturrock, “On
-Events Possibly Related to the ‘Brazil Magnesium,’” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 (2004): 283–291; Clark III 1143–1155;
-Brazil 510–517; Robert M. Powell, Michael D. Swords, Mark Rodeghier, and
-Phyllis Budinger, “Isotope
-Ratios and Chemical Analysis of the 1957 Brazilian Ubatuba Fragment,”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 36, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 39–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2969
Date: 9/4/1957
-Description: Four Portuguese jet fighter-bombers under the command of
-Capt. José
-Lemos Ferreira are flying at night at 24,600 feet between Ota,
-Portugal, and Granada, Spain. Near Granada they turn to head to
-Portalegre, Portugal. At this point, Ferreira notices a UFO like a
-bright star with a scintillating, colored nucleus that changes from deep
-green to blue. The object suddenly grows to 5 or 6 times its original
-size, then shrinks to a barely visible yellow point. These changes
-repeat several times, possibly due to changes in position. The UFO
-maintains its position 90° to the left of the squadron. Suddenly a small
-circle of yellow light emerges from the object and three smaller yellow
-objects appear, maneuver, then disappear. (NICAP, “Portuguese
-Air Force Jets Have 40-Min. Encounter / E-M”;
-Marciano Alves, “Air
-Force Pilots Spend 40 Minutes with Saucers,” Flying Saucer Review 4,
-no. 3 (May/June 1958): 2–3; Good Above, pp. 147–148;
-Kean, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2972
Date: 9/10/1957
-Description: Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down
-and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples
-were gathered, sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of
-Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were found to consist of surprisingly pure
-magnesium.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor.l 90; 110 (Vallee)
-Location: Ubatuba, Brazil
-ID: 401
Date: 9/12/1957
-Description: NORAD’s command headquarters is established at Ent Air
-Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Canada and the United States
-agree that the NORAD commander will always be a US officer, with a
-Canadian vice commander, and Canada “agreed the command’s primary
-purpose would be…early warning and defense for SAC’s retaliatory
-forces.” Every continental US military radar UFO case in the Blue Book
-files from now on is a NORAD case because the subordinate USAF Air
-Defense Command belongs to NORAD. (Clark III 801; Wikipedia, “North
-American Aerospace Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2973
Date: 9/16/1957
-Time: 930
-Description: Les McDonald, 17, and Gladys Smith, 14, saw a red light
-changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an
-area about 100 m diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and “felt a warm
-glow.” They had no fear, but were “merely cognizant of things as they
-were without being able to react.” This sensation lasted two min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: UFO Bulletin Dec., 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Smithfield, Australia
-ID: 402
Date: 9/16/1957
-Description: ATIC briefs Howard
-P. Robertson, now
-chairman of the Defense Science Board, on Project Blue Book, presumably
-because he wants to find out how the Air Force is implementing the
-recommendations of the 1953 Robertson Panel. The briefing book
-(including Special Report no. 14 as well as reports on Keyhoe and
-the UFO movie) is delivered by the Pentagon’s Maj. James F. Byrne.
-(Swords 265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2974
Date: 9/19/1957
-Time: 1840
-Description: A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported
-to have landed. Grass flattened.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Point Pleasant, New Jersey
-ID: 403
Date: 9/19/1957
-Description: The Plumbbob Rainier nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site
-is the first fully contained underground nuclear test, meaning that no
-fission products are vented into the atmosphere. This test of 1.7
-kilotons can be detected around the world by seismologists using
-ordinary seismic instruments. (Wikipedia, “Operation Plumbbob”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2975
Date: 9/20/1957
-Description: 3:05 p.m. A national defense alert is called when the first
-of two or three supersonic objects, varying in speed for the next 30
-minutes from 800 to 12,000 mph and varying in altitude from 50,000 to
-135,000 feet, is picked up over the Atlantic by NORAD radar at Montauk,
-New York. A second (or same) UFO heads straight toward SAC headquarters
-in Omaha, Nebraska, in what is perceived as a threat trajectory
-potentially aiming for a nuclear knockout kill of the entire US nuclear
-force. At 3:10 p.m., interception is attempted by two F-102 jets from
-Kinross AFB [now Chippewa County International Airport] south of Sault
-Ste. Marie, Michigan, and later from Truax AFB [now Truax Field Air
-National Guard Base] northeast of Madison, Wisconsin. At 3:24 p.m.,
-another UFO joins the first on a similar trajectory 150 miles behind. It
-passes over Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. The UFO sends radio
-replies to IFF interrogation signals, on different frequencies,
-confirming its location on the radar plots and making it impossible to
-explain as a malfunction or interference. Interception is impossible at
-these speeds and altitudes. SAC goes on high alert and apparently
-launches nuclear bombers toward Russia, but the alert is called off when
-the UFOs disappear. NORAD triggers a White House alert. High-level
-meetings of CIA and USAF intelligence, and the Intelligence Advisory
-Committee meet in executive session. The CIA Director of the Office of
-Scientific Intelligence, Herbert
-Scoville Jr., suggests
-that the object might be a maneuverable Soviet cruise missile, but that
-is not yet in the Soviet inventory. President Eisenhower is
-briefed multiple times. One year later, NORAD still cannot identify any
-malfunction that could possibly make the radar targets agree with the
-IFF signals. (NICAP, “Multiple
-Radars Track 4,500 MPH Target”; Clark III 802–804, 814– 824; Sparks, pp. 249–250;
-Swords 266–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2976
Date: 9/20/1957
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. H.T. O’Connor, S/Sgt. H.D. Bridgeman. One
-object, shaped like a coke bottle without the neck, translucent and
-fluorescent. Made four 5-10 second passes from north to south, with 4-5
-minutes between passes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa
-ID: 415
Date: 9/26/1957
-Time: sunset
-Description: Three hundred people were said to have seen three elongated
-objects with a series of portholes, maneuvering at ground level in an
-area with many empty oil wells. One of these objects, said to be 150 m
-long and 20 m high, pearl-colored, glistening under the setting sun and
-showing a series of circles painted on its surface, landed for 20 min.
-An occupant emerged, observed the abandoned derricks and took off again.
-Observed through binoculars, he appeared as a “monster,” 1 m tall,
-moving with strange jumps. He picked up something from the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Perego (Vallee)
-Location: Yellow Falls, Texas
-ID: 404
Date: 9/29/1957
-Time: 0500
-Description: Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile
-men.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
-Location: Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland
-ID: 405
Date: 9/29/1957
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A nuclear waste storage tank explodes
-spontaneously at the Mayak plutonium production site (Chelyabinsk-40)
-for nuclear weapons and fuel reprocessing at Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk
-Oblast, Russia. It launches a kilometer-tall pillar of dust and smoke
-into the sky. Gray radioactive ash and debris settles over the
-industrial zone. There are no immediate fatalities, though up to 200+
-additional cancer deaths perhaps ensue from the radioactive
-contamination of some 20,000 square miles; 270,000 people are exposed to
-dangerous radiation levels. Over 30 small communities are removed from
-Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. (Wikipedia, “Kyshtym
-disaster”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2977
Date: 10/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Masterson and her sister Bernice
-Childers while driving see a reddish-orange disc, 30 feet in diameter,
-just above the treetops in Allen Park, Michigan. They chase it for a
-block or two before it streaks off. One of the women sees two figures
-wearing white Navy uniforms in a window on the lower section. (Center
-for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1957, p. 17;
-Clark III 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2979
Date: 10/1957
-Description: At the Gabiroba farm, owners A. Santinoni and S. de
-Oliveira were blinded by beam from a round object at ground level. The
-light was green and yellow. When they came near, all went dark and the
-object vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 205 (Vallee)
-Location: Niquelandia, Brazil
-ID: 406
Date: 10/1957
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield privately publishes Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue that
-summarizes his early years as a UFO investigator and as director of
-Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects. (Leonard H.
-Stringfield, Inside
-Saucer Post…3-0 Blue, The
-Author, 1957)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2978
Date: 10/4/1957
-Description: Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on
-1/4/58
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-See also: 11/12/57
Date: 10/4/1957
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A tadpole-like UFO is seen at Ichinoseki, Iwate
-Prefecture, Japan. Afterwards, material like spider web falls in great
-profusion around Saguramachi Middle School for about 2 hours. Chemical
-analysis reveals that it is organic, dissolvable in hydrochloric acid,
-and burns. The crystal structure is different from spider web. (“Angel
-Hair,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1958): 21; Robert N.
-Webster, “Things That Fall from UFO’s,” Fate 11, no. 10 (October 1958):
-26; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2
-(Summer 2004): 21; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A
-Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 103; Clark III 124–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2981
Date: 10/4/1957
-Description: The USSR launches the first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik
-1, which transmits radio pulses for 21 days. Some 4% of Americans
-claim to have seen Sputnik in orbit. However, what most are actually
-seeing is the 100- foot-long R-7 rocket core stage, outfitted with
-reflective panels that make it a first magnitude object, trailing 600
-miles behind the 22-inch satellite until October 26 when the batteries
-run out. The satellite is barely visible at sixth magnitude. (Wikipedia,
-“Sputnik
-1”; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1993): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2980
Date: 10/5/1957
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Antonio
-Villas-Boas gets up from bed on his family’s farm near São Francisco
-de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to open a window and notices a silvery
-reflection over the corral. After a short time, it moves towards the
-window. He and his brother watch as an object approaches and lights up
-the room. It disappears. (Clark III 1226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2982
Date: 10/5/1957
-Time: 2300
-Description: Antonio Villas-Boas who could not sleep because of the
-heat, opened the shutters of his house and saw a silvery glow in the
-yard, but no flying object. The light moved and was seen going over the
-house.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
-ID: 407
Date: 10/6/1957
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Amateur astronomer Earl
-Sydow spots a bright object with the magnitude of the planet Venus
-through his telescope over Tucson, Arizona. Six other observers also
-watch the object, which measures approximately 3 minutes in diameter
-along its major axis and 1 minute along its minor axis. Smaller
-flat-white or silver-white objects, as many as 6–10, seem to emerge from
-the primary object as observations continue. The smaller objects are
-apparently short traces of light at some times and semi-wedge-shaped at
-other times. The smaller objects disappear from the field of the
-telescope until only the original object is visible, and it disappears
-as if moving directly away. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
-1969, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2983
Date: 10/8/1957
-Time: 9:17 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Army sergeants. Two flat, round, white
-objects flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently
-banking during 25-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Seattle, Washington
-ID: 416
Date: 10/8/1957
-Description: Day. Four Fijians in a punt with an outboard motor off
-Nabouwalu, Viti Levu, Fiji, see a white, circular object, which is
-hovering about 20 feet above the ocean. They approach it. It appears to
-be revolving, and they can see the figure of a man standing on the
-outside. The figure shines a blinding light at their boat, which makes
-them feel dazed and weak. As they draw closer, the figure disappears and
-the object rises rapidly upward, disappearing straight up. R. O.
-Aveling, an official of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, sees a similar
-object at the same time but at a different location. It is hovering at
-about 5,000 feet and swinging in a balloon-like fashion. Its color
-varies from bright white to deep, flashing red. (“Fiji
-Reports Sighting Object Like Texas Saucer,” Honolulu (Hawaii)
-Advertiser, November 5, 1957, p. 1; “Strange
-Object Seen in South Pacific Skies,” Long Beach (Calif.) Press-
-Telegram, November 5, 1957, p. 3; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, p. 81; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History, 1957, October 1st–November
-2nd, The Author, 1997, p. 19; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-16, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2984
Date: 10/8/1957
-Time: 1500
-Description: Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor boat
-saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in
-trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the
-water, and a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright
-they “felt weak.” The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took
-off vertically at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 202; Challenge 18 (Vallee)
-Location: Nabouwalu, Fiji Islands
-ID: 408
Date: 10/9/1957
-Description: 7:24 p.m. The tower operator at Naval Air Station South
-Weymouth [now the Shea Field Naval Aviation Historical Museum],
-Massachusetts, sights a constant, conical, greenish-blue object with a
-phosphorescent glow through binoculars. In sight approximately 90
-seconds, the observer sees no navigation lights. It is traveling faster
-than a jet plane on a track from northeast to south-southwest. The
-object comes out of the horizon and toward the end of its path makes
-three “crazy” gyrations then vanishes, possibly behind cloud cover. The
-object has no trail like a meteor. (Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I
-Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2987
Date: 10/9/1957
-Description: Night. Radio station CKOV in Kelowna, British Columbia,
-after reports on Sputnik, rebroadcasts Orson Welles’s
-1938 War of the Worlds radio drama. Some 60 phone calls come in from
-listeners who think that Russians have landed in North America. (“Welles,
-‘Moon,’ Terrify Town,” Windsor (Ont.) Star, October 10, 1957,
-p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2986
Date: 10/9/1957
-Description: Evening. Fire ignites Windscale Pile Number One, an
-air-cooled, graphite-moderated, uranium-fueled reactor used for
-plutonium and isotope production at the Windscale facility [now
-Sellafield] in Cumbria, England. It burns for three days, and there is a
-release of radioactive iodine that spreads across the UK, contaminating
-surrounding dairy farms, as well as the rest of Europe. (Wikipedia, “Windscale
-fire”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2985
Date: 10/10/1957
-Description: Mrs. Edward Yeager who lived in a trailer on the
-Duanesburg-Church Road near Mariaville, saw a circular object go down
-behind the hill. Two min later it flew up again, very bright. The next
-day she was feeding animals that ran away as the same or a similar
-object came within 2 m of the ground. Two dark, little men came out of
-the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there two min,
-then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was
-said to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same
-hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Schenectady, New York
-ID: 409
Date: 10/10/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Naval officer Miguel Espanhol and another man, traveling to
-Ceres, saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and came
-down to ground level as the truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped,
-over 150 m in diameter and 40 m deep, with a dome supporting a long
-“aerial” with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the
-witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits,
-who looked down at them for about 3 min. The craft flew south and
-released a smaller disk, which flew north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
-Location: Quebracoco, Brazil
-ID: 410
Date: 10/10/1957
-Description: The coffee truck driven by Miguel Espanhol Navarrete and
-his driver stalls northwest of Ceres near Quebra Coco, Goiás, Brazil, as
-a UFO lands nearby. They see an intense light as they begin a steep
-ascent, and then realize that the flying object appears to be more than
-600 feet long. It lights up the entire area, even though it is gliding
-at a great height. The driver panics and tries to speed away, but the
-truck’s engine stalls as the object approaches and flies over the
-vehicle about 130 feet away. The object is about 3 feet in diameter by
-40 inches high and is unevenly oval, with the upper section greater than
-the lower section. It looks like two superimposed plates separated by a
-strip 65 feet thick. When it is at an altitude of 20 feet, the UFO stops
-in the air and its light goes out. It lands, a door opens, and seven
-apparently human people come out dressed in luminous suits. Then the
-crew reenters the UFO and takes off, stopping at about 1,650 feet
-altitude. At that moment a smaller object detaches itself from the
-larger one and flies north. The larger object follows in a southeasterly
-direction. Navarrete is interviewed by Judge Gabriel Barbosa de Andrade,
-then-Secretary of the Interior and justice of the State of Goiás;
-Joaquim Neves Pereira; and Antenor Gomes, then-Secretary of Public
-Security for Goiás. (Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 192–193;
-Clark III 230; “Caso
-Ceres,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October
-17, 2006; Brazil 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2989
Date: 10/10/1957
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A huge fireball plunges from the sky near Myton,
-Utah, just missing a US Navy DC-6 transport plane out of NAS Alameda
-[now closed], California, with 36 persons aboard. Pilot Lt. Cmdr. W. F.
-Norris reports the incident to Salt Lake City Airport. (“Big
-Fireball Perils Plane,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, October 10, 1957,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2988
Date: 10/11/1957
-Time: 2000
-Description: Two witnesses in a car saw something they described as “a
-dark, transparent ball” about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of
-the road. It had appendages trailing behind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 111 (Vallee)
-Location: Roulon, France
-ID: 411
Date: 10/12/1957
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Many witnesses see a luminous oval object pass
-over Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, at great speed. The same or a similar
-object is seen at Coro at 9:25 p.m. and at Trujillo at 12:00 midnight.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2990
Date: 10/14/1957
-Time: 2145
-Description: Second observation by A. Villas-Boas. He was plowing a
-field with his brother when they saw a red light at the edge of the
-field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he went
-close. It vanished on the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
-ID: 412
Date: 10/14/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. The Naval Air Station North Island tower in San
-Diego, California, directs a Navy S2F-1Tracker anti-submarine aircraft
-toward a bright light over Point Loma. The aircraft, piloted by Lt. Allen
-L. Ries, tracks the UFO on airborne radar at some points suddenly
-moving at 1,700 mph average speed (3,500 mph at peak) and 1,100 mph
-average relative to the aircraft’s (peak 2,200 mph). Radar indicates the
-object is about 12 miles ahead. After 3 minutes the aircraft loses the
-object visually and on radar. Blue Book explains this as the star
-Arcturus, which is in the wrong direction in the sky, then changes the
-explanation to a balloon. (NICAP, [Blue
-Book documents];
-Clark III 389–390)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2991
Date: 10/14/1957
-Description: Around 9:30 p.m. Antonio
-Villas-Boas and another brother are plowing and see a bright object
-hovering 300 feet in the air. He approaches it, but it evades him and
-disappears. (Clark III 1226–1227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2992
Date: 10/15/1957
-Time: daylight
-Description: Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which hovered
-above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Covington, Indiana
-ID: 413
Date: 10/15/1957
-Description: Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an
-human-looking female.
-Type: abduction
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Brazil
Date: 10/15/1957
-Description: Afternoon. Robert Moudy sees a glowing object hovering
-above his combine in Franklin County, Indiana, at about 1,500 feet. It
-appears to be silver and platter-shaped, perhaps 12 feet in diameter,
-with a pink flame coming from its base. It makes a loud whirring noise
-as it hovers. When it starts ascending at a 22° angle, its color changes
-from pink to light blue and the combine stops working. He notices two
-stalled cars on a nearby road. (“Indiana
-Farmer Says ‘Whatsit’ Was Overhead,” Indianapolis News, November 5,
-1957, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2993
Date: 10/15/1957
-Description: Villas Boas abduction, sexual encounter case
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minas Gerais State, Brazil
-ID: 4
Date: 10/16/1957
-Time: 0100
-Description: Third observation by A. Villas-Boas. Alone in the fields on
-a clear night, he saw a big, red star which took the appearance of a
-luminous, egg-shaped object and stopped 50 m above his tractor. Its
-light was brighter than that of the headlights as it landed 15 m away.
-The top part was spinning. It became green as it slowed down, was then
-seen as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it
-settled down. The tractor engine stalled, and the witness was seized by
-unknown individuals and carried aboard the craft, where he was medically
-examined, then left with a woman of short stature with whom he had
-sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that crew members wore tight,
-white clothes with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big
-gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their
-language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with
-them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 et seq. (Vallee)
-Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
-ID: 414
Date: 10/16/1957
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Antonio
-Villas-Boas is plowing alone near São Francisco de Sales, Minas
-Gerais, Brazil, when a red, egg-shaped object appears above him. His
-tractor motor and lights fail. It lands nearby and something grabs him
-as he tries to run away. Three small figures bring him into the object,
-where he is subjected to tests and made to have sex twice with an
-odd-looking woman. Afterwards, she points to her belly then points to
-the sky. Then he is given a tour of the craft and taken outside again
-around 5:30 a.m. (“The
-A.V.B. Contact Case,” Boletim SBEDV, no. 26/27 (Apr./July 1962):
-7–9; Gordon Creighton, “The
-Most Amazing Case of All, Part 1: A Brazilian Farmer’s
-Story,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1965): 13–17;
-Gordon Creighton, “The
-Most Amazing
-Case of All, Part 2: Analysis of the Brazilian Farmer’s Story,”
-Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1965): 5–8; Gordon Creighton,
-“Postscript
-to the Most Amazing Case of All,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1965): 24–26; Gordon Creighton, “Even
-More Amazing…: Further Light on the A.V.B. Case,”
-Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1966): 23–27; Gordon
-Creighton, “Even
-More Amazing…Part 2:
-The A.V.B. Case Continued,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1966): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “Even
-More Amazing…Part III,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1966): 14–16; Gordon Creighton, “Even
-More Amazing…Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1967): 25–27; Olavo T. Fontes, “Even
-More Amazing…Part V,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 3 (May/June
-1967): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “Even
-More Amazing…Part VI: The Medical Report,” Flying Saucer Review 14,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1968): 18–20; Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 42–72;
-“Brazil: New Light on a Sexual Abduction,” IUR/Probe, Sept. 1980, p. 79;
-Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-pp. 56–59; Brazil 41–47; Clark III 1227–1229; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral
-Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999):
-19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2994
Date: 10/16/1957
-Description: Day. Nurse Ella Louise Fortune is driving north of
-Tularosa, New Mexico, when she sees a brilliant-white, elliptical object
-hovering in a deep-blue sky. It seems to have a faint exhaust trail at
-one edge. She stops her car and snaps a 35mm Kodachrome photo. Analysts
-generally agree this is a bright lenticular cloud with a trail of ice
-crystals. (Walter N. Webb, “The Fortune Photo Revisited,” IUR 18, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1993): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2995
Date: 10/16/1957
-Description: Evening. Former Australian Air Marshal George
-Jones and his wife see a round object like a “flying balloon” moving
-silently at the speed of a jet over their home in Mentone, Victoria,
-Australia. It moves from south to north at an altitude of 1,000–1,500
-feet. (George Jones, “Former
-Air Chief Sees Saucers,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 (May/June
-1958): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2996
Date: late 10/1957
-Description: Late one afternoon, a British RAF team is planning to
-return home from the Maralinga, South Australia, nuclear test site where
-the Operation Antler series of blasts have occurred (September 14, 25,
-October 9). They go outside and see a silvery-blue, metallic UFO with a
-flat base and a dome on top. Several squarish portholes are visible
-around the center. The object tilts at 45° and hovers. After 15 minutes,
-the UFO shoots up out of sight without a sound. One of the witnesses is
-Derek Murray, later a Home Office photographer. (Bill Chalker, “The UFO
-Connection: Startling Implications for Australia’s North West Cape, and
-for Australia’s Security,” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 (July
-1986): 18–19; Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 94–95;
-Good Above, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3004
Date: 10/21/1957
-Description: 9:18 p.m. Flying Officer D. W. Sweeney is flying a Meteor
-jet at 28,000 feet on a training exercise from RAF North Luffenham [now
-St. George’s Barracks] when he nearly collides with an unidentified
-object over RAF Gaydon [now closed], North Warwickshire, England. After
-taking evasive action, Sweeney tries to approach the object, whereupon
-its six lights go out and it disappears. The UFO is tracked on radar at
-RAF Langtoft [now closed] in South Kesteven. (“UFO
-over British A-Bomber Base: Air Ministry Baffled,” Flying Saucer
-Review 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1958): 6; Good Above, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2997
Date: 10/22/1957
-Description: The US Continental Army Command sends a memo to the Army
-Chief of Research and Development indicating its interest in the flying
-saucer concept and requesting initiation of a feasibility study of a
-“manned flying saucer.” (Richard P. Weinert, History of Army Aviation,
-1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November 1976, pp. 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2998
Date: 10/25/1957
-Description: A girl suffering from cancer appeared about to die when the
-house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight
-had been aimed at the room. It came from an object whose top part was
-reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They
-were about 1.20 m tall, had long yellow-red hair, small green, slanted
-eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white clothes. Before the
-astounded witnesses (the author of the report and the family of the
-girl), they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another
-instument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient.
-After 30 min they went away, leaving her completely cured. The report
-was anonymous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Petropolis, Brazil
-ID: 415
Date: 10/25/1957
-Description: On a farm near Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a
-housekeeper (pseudonym = Anazia Maria) is taking care of a family member
-who is dying of stomach cancer. She claims that two diminutive,
-long-haired beings emerge from a landed UFO, come inside the house,
-examine the girl for an hour with a device that looks like a flashlight,
-communicate telepathically to the family, cure the girl, and leave
-behind some medication to give her. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Dying
-Girl Saved by Humanoid Surgeons,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1967): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2999
Date: 10/30/1957
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Hugh Pulju and Shirley Moyer are driving 10 miles
-north of Casper, Wyoming, when a round, shiny object appears in the road
-about 250 feet ahead. Pulju tries to turn around, but the engine keeps
-stalling. It works well once he reaches a main highway. (“‘Mystery
-Object’ Is Reported Here,” Casper (Wyo.) Tribune- Herald, November
-5, 1957, p. 1; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 237–238; Schopick,
-p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3000
Date: 10/31/1957
-Time: 0000
-Description: A businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with
-openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great
-increase in brightness at very high speed, but without noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Longchaumois, France
-ID: 416
Date: 10/31/1957
-Description: A businessman and his wife at Longchaumois, Jura, France,
-see a large lighted object with openings. It hovers close to the ground
-and takes off with a great increase in brightness, silently, at high
-speed. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October
-1st–November 2nd, The Author, 1997, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3002
Date: 10/31/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Barbara Jean Stokes, her husband Paul, and
-another couple are driving in Lumberton, North Carolina, when they spot
-an object about 200 feet long in the sky. Suddenly the object rises
-straight up and flames. As this happens, the car stalls until the object
-disappears a few seconds later. (“Woman
-Says She Saw Ball
-of Fire on Road,” Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, November 5, 1957,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3003
Date: 10/31/1957
-Description: Keyhoe meets
-with Rep. James
-C. Healey again, who tells him the Air Force has “made a strong
-attempt to disprove your claims.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3001
Date: 11/1957
-Time: 2300
-Description: Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when
-he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a
-truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car,
-apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away.
-The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in
-color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some
-numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in
-panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a
-diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported
-the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Provencal, Louisiana
-ID: 417
Date: 11/1957
-Description: Lt. Gen. John
-A. Samford succeeds Maj. Gen. Ralph
-Canine as director of the National Security Agency.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3005
Date: 11/1957
-Description: Gene
-Duplantier launches the quarterly magazine Saucers, Space, and
-Science in Willowdale, Ontario. It continues through 1972. (Saucers,
-Space & Science, no. 1 (November 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3006
Date: 11/1/1957
-Description: 9:15 a.m. More than 50 workers at the Luipaardsvlei mine
-near Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa, watch two UFOs hanging
-motionless in the air at a great height until the afternoon. A Sabre jet
-from the South African Air Force is sent up to investigate. It climbs to
-45,000 feet, but the objects are still above it. One of the witnesses is
-Maj. G. Ogilvie-Watson, from an ACF squadron at Pretoria. They move off
-at great speed. (“Jet Unable
-to Reach UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1958): 2;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of
-the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October 1st–November 2nd, The
-Author, 1997, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3007
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic)
-effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a
-result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road
-and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of
-his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s
-electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off.
-Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M.,
-reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a
-bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings
-continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave
-a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped
-like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could
-believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up
-the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the
-publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to
-them rose to about a hundred people.”
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Loveland, TX
-See also: 11/5/57
Date: 11/2/1957
-Time: 0330
-Description: 5 km west of this town, military and civilian witnesses
-reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as
-long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen
-near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car
-stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with
-the sudden failure of the headlights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Canadian, Texas
-ID: 418
Date: 11/2/1957
-Time: 2250
-Description: A large number of reports from the Levelland area described
-a low-flying object, over 60 m long, equipped with a bright light, and
-which interfered with car ignition.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 136; map (Vallee)
-Location: Levelland, Texas
-ID: 419
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: About midnight. Jim Wheeler sees a 200-foot-long,
-egg-shaped, brightly lit object on Route 114 four miles east of
-Levelland, Texas. As he gets close to it, his engine and lights cease
-functioning. He gets out of his car as the light ascends; its lights
-blink out, and his engine and lights resume functioning. (UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick, p. 27;
-Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no.
-1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3013
Date: 11/2/1957
-End date: 11/3/1957
-Description: Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars
-stalled
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Levelland, TX
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: About midnight. José Alvarez is driving along Route 51 in
-Whitharral, Texas, when he comes across a 200-foot-long object sitting
-in the road. His car engine stops as he approaches, and the headlights
-go out. At that point, the object rises quickly into the air. (UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick,
-pp. 27–28; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,”
-IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3012
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 11:55 p.m. Two married couples driving near Shallowater,
-Texas, see a flash of orange light in the southwestern sky. The
-headlights and radio of their car fail for three seconds as they see the
-light. The car motor is not affected. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 9; Randle,
-Levelland, 2021, pp. 16, 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3011
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A witness is driving between Seminole and
-Seagraves, Texas, on US Highway 62 when he sees lights on the road
-ahead. As he approaches them, his headlights go out and his engine dies.
-A few seconds later, the lights rise into the air and disappear. (Hobbs
-(N.Mex.) News-Sun, November 5, 1957; Schopick, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3009
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Three miles west of Canadian, Texas, S/Sgt. Alfred
-A. Calvin and a civilian witness see a submarine-shaped object, red
-and white, about 40–60 feet long and about 10 feet high, at ground
-level. A figure is near the object holding a white flag. When he stops
-the car, a flash of light from the object coincides with the sudden
-failure of the headlights. (NICAP, “Submarine-Shaped
-UFO, Entity, E-M Case”; Sparks,
-p. 253; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3008
Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Farmhand and veteran Pedro
-Saucedo and Joe Salaz are driving four miles west of Levelland,
-Texas, on Route 116 [now 114] south of Pettit (near its intersection
-with Five Mile Road). They see a flash of light to the right of the
-road. Then a 200-foot-long, 6-foot-wide blue rocket-shaped object, with
-yellow flame and white smoke coming from the rear, rises up out of the
-field, heads straight toward their truck, passes directly overhead at
-about 200 feet with a loud thundering roar, a rush of wind, and great
-heat. Their truck engine dies and the headlights to go out. The UFO
-disappears in the east towards Levelland. The lights come back on
-spontaneously and the engine restarts. A frightened Saucedo calls the
-occurrence in to Patrolman A. J. Fowler of the Levelland sheriff’s
-office. At Pettit, Texas, the same night, two grain combines, each with
-two engines, fail as a UFO passes overhead. The Air Force calls the
-Levelland sightings ball lightning or St. Elmo’s fire, even though there
-are no electrical storms in the area. Donald
-Menzel calls it a mirage. (Wikipedia, “Levelland
-UFO case”; NICAP, “The
-Levelland Sightings / Saucedo”; “Whatnik
-Sidelines Sputnik, Woofnik,”
-Fort Worth (Tex.) Star- Telegram, November 4, 1957, pp. 1–2; “The
-Levelland Case,” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 1; “Did
-the Air Force
-Deceive the Public about the November Sightings?” UFO Investigator
-1, no. 3 (January 1958): 1, 3; Schopick, pp. 26–27,
-32; Clark III 683–684; UFOEv, p. 168;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 141–142, 146–147;
-Sparks, p. 253;
-Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1993): 8; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio
-Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000,
-pp. 67–70;
-“Levelland
-1957,” Texas UFO Museum & Research Library, March 15, 2002;
-Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no.
-1 (Spring 2003): 4; Antonio F. Rullán, “The Southwestern UFO Wave of
-1957,” IUR 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 8–15, 22; Randle, Levelland, 2021,
-pp. 12–16, 43–55, 128–136, 150–152, 215–217, 234)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3010
Date: 11/3/1957
-Time: 0300
-Description: At Stallion Site, an army patrol in a jeep saw an orange,
-“apparently controlled,” luminous object on the ground near the site of
-the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m
-above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing
-several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two
-witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 238 (Vallee)
-Location: White Sands, New Mexico
-ID: 420
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Frank Williams, a farmer, is near Whitharral,
-Texas, when he encounters an object described as an egg sitting on the
-crossroads. The UFO pulsates steadily; each time it glows bright, the
-car’s power goes on and off. The object leaves with a thunderous sound.
-(UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick,
-pp. 29–30; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 143–144;
-Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no.
-1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3015
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Levelland (Texas) Fire Marshall Ray Jones,
-while out driving around and looking for some explanation of the many
-UFO reports, sees a “streak of light” north of the Oklahoma Flat. His
-headlights dim and engine sputters as he sees the light. (UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick,
-p. 32; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 145–146);
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3017
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 1:15 a.m. James Long is 5 miles northwest of Levelland,
-Texas, on a farm-to-market road. He reports a bright object that is egg
-or oval-shaped, about 200 feet long, 200 feet away, sitting in the road.
-He hears a “thunderclap.” The car’s lights and motor quit. The object
-rises quickly and speeds away. (UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick, p. 31;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 144–145;
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3018
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 12:05 a.m. Texas Tech college student Newell H. Wright is
-driving west one mile west of Smyer, Texas, when the ammeter gauge on
-his car dashboard starts fluctuating widely. The car motor gradually
-goes out then the headlights and radio die. He gets out to check and
-sees a white or aluminum-colored, oval-shaped object flat on the bottom
-like a loaf of bread, with a bluish-green tint, about 75–125 feet long.
-After a few minutes, the object suddenly rises up from the road ahead
-and ascends almost vertically at great speed slightly to the north,
-disappearing in seconds. Afterward the car can start again. (NICAP, “Oval-Shaped
-Object & EME on Ammeter”; UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick, pp. 28–29;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 143;
-Sparks,
-p. 254; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR
-28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 4; Swords 253–256; Randle, Levelland, 2021,
-pp. 16–17, 212–214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3014
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Army Specialist 3rd Class Henry
-R. Barlow and Specialist 3rd Class Forest R. Oakes, Army Garrison
-Detachment 5, are in a jeep patrol driving west near the site of the
-first A-bomb explosion, Trinity Site, in White Sands Proving Ground, New
-Mexico. They see a pulsating red light thar turns to white, possibly
-200– 300 feet in size and 4–5 miles away. It brightens and dims then
-sometimes goes out, rising in the sky from the ground or from about 50
-feet over the bunker up to about 45° elevation until it looks like a
-star or point source. They watch it for 25 minutes before it disappears.
-Possibly Venus in the southwest, which sets at about 8:30 p.m. (Sparks, p. 254;
-Schopick,
-p. 38; Randle, Levelland, 2021,pp. 27–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3022
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Ronald Martin is on Highway 116 near Smyer,
-Texas, when he sees a glowing red UFO land ahead of his truck, then turn
-to bluish-green. The truck’s electrical system fails. When the UFO takes
-off, it turns reddish again. (UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick, pp. 30–31;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 144;
-Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no.
-1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3016
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Near the same spot as James Long, Hockley County
-(Texas) Sheriff Weir
-Clem and Pat McCullough see a flash of light “like a brilliant red
-sunset” 300–400 yards to the south of them, lighting up the pavement.
-(UFOEv, p. 168;
-Schopick, pp. 31–32;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 145–146;
-Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no.
-1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 19–21, 170–181,
-218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3019
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: About 3:00 a.m. Two MPs at White Sands Missile Test Range,
-New Mexico, Cpl. Glenn H. Toy and Pfc. James E. Wilbanks are making
-rounds in their jeep when they notice a bright object high in the sky.
-It drops down to about 150 feet and the light goes out. A few minutes
-later the light goes on again and it drops to the ground in a bunker
-area 3 miles away and goes out. The UFO is egg-shaped and about 225–300
-feet in diameter. (NICAP, “Three
-MPs Report Object over White Sands Base”; Schopick,
-pp. 37–38; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the
-Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The Author,
-1997, p. 6; UFOEv, p. 169;
-Sparks,
-p. 254; Swords 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 23–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3020
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Edna Ireland is driving with two friends near
-Sibbald, Alberta, when a blinking light appears in the sky and passes
-nearly above the car toward the northwest. Their engine coughs and the
-headlights flicker. (Winnipeg (Man.) Tribune, November 7, 1957; Aimé
-Michel, Straight-Line, p. 239; Schopick,
-pp. 42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3021
Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: The USSR launches Sputnik
-2 carrying Laika the dog. (Wikipedia, “Sputnik
-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3023
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Chief Pilot Captain Jean Vincent de Beyssac and
-his copilot are flying a Varig Airlines C-46 cargo plane from Porto
-Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. They are near Araranguá, Santa Catarina,
-when de Beyssac notices a red light on his left. It seems to be getting
-bigger, so he banks towards it out of curiosity. The light gets much
-bigger then begins to glow more brilliantly. The pilot and copilot smell
-smoke and, as they are looking for the source, the light disappears. De
-Beyssac returns to Porto Alegre. It turns out that the right engine’s
-magneto (or generator), automatic direction finder, and the radio (both
-receiver and transmitter) have burnt out, allegedly simultaneously.
-(NICAP, “Aircraft
-Encounters UFO / ADF, etc. Affected”; Olavo T. Fontes, “Top
-Secret Report Unveiled,”
-APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 5–6; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, p. 155;
-Schopick,
-pp. 126–127; Patrick Gross, “UFO
-/ Aircraft Close Encounter in Brazil, 1957”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3026
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A young couple are returning to
-Amarillo, Texas, from Palo Duro Canyon when they see a glowing object in
-the middle of the road, surrounded by fog. As they drive closer and
-enter the fog, the car engine and battery die. Another car has to push
-them into town to get the battery recharged. (Amarillo (Tex.) Daily
-News, November 4, 1957; Schopick, pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3025
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: Portuguese Air Force Capt. Lenos Ferreira is conducting a
-training mission at the head of three jet fighters over Grenada, Spain,
-when he observes a luminous object changing color from an intense green
-to bright red. The object maintains a constant altitude while
-oscillating. Ferreira orders a change of course toward Córdoba, but the
-object follows his group for 40 minutes, dropping four smaller objects
-that also accompany the jets. Suddenly the objects go into a dive and
-disappear. (Patrick Gross, “UFO
-Chasing Jet Fighter Squadron, Lisbon, 1957”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3024
Date: 11/4/1957
-Time: 0315
-Description: Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a
-third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a
-headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from
-them, coming down. The car hadlights functioned properly again and they
-drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned
-off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played “hide and
-seek” with them as they tried to reach its location.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 240; 113 (Vallee)
-Location: Elmwood Park, Illinois
-ID: 421
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 10:45 p.m. CAA air traffic controllers R. M. Kaser and E.
-G. Brink see a highly maneuverable 15–20-foot egg-shaped object with a
-white light at its base circle over one end of Kirtland AFB in
-Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 150–200 mph. It comes down in a steep 30°
-dive as if landing on Runway 26 to the north of the tower at about 1,500
-feet. Radar tracks part of this maneuver. The object then crosses the
-flight line, runways, and taxiways heading towards the tower at about 50
-mph and 20–30 feet above ground, observed through 7x binoculars until it
-reaches about 3,000 feet near the northeast corner of the flood-lit
-restricted Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Area and a B-58 bomber
-service site. It hovers for 20–60 seconds, then heads east again at
-about 200–300 feet altitude. Suddenly it shoots up in a steep climb.
-Controllers contact Radar Approach Control, which tracks the object on
-CPN-18 radar traveling east, then turning south, circling the
-Albuquerque Low Frequency Range Station. It then heads north,
-disappearing at 10 miles and reappearing 20 minutes later to follow 1/2
-mile behind a USAF C-46 that has just taken off to the south. It
-continues for 14 miles until both go off the scope. A hovering radar
-target then appears to the north over an outer marker for 90 seconds
-before fading. (Wikipedia, “Kirtland
-AFB UFO sighting”; NICAP, “Kirtland
-UFO Incident / Radar Case”; Sparks,
-p. 256; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 87–90;
-Condon, pp. 141–143;
-James E. McDonald, “The
-Kirtland Airfield UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1970): 6–8; Swords 259–260)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3032
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Jan Boucher, a policeman in Kodiak, Alaska, sees
-a red ball of fire with a greenish-yellow trail as he is patrolling on
-Mission Road. It apparently moves 50 feet above a nearby school. He
-tries to radio in a report but his radio gets interference for 2 minutes
-after the sighting. (Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, November 7, 1957; Schopick,
-pp. 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3031
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A Texas state border inspector is driving 3 miles
-southeast of El Paso Airport in Texas when his car engine stalls and the
-headlights go dim then out. He gets out and notices an object
-approaching that is making a whirring sound like an artillery shell. It
-passes above his car at about 150 feet, heading west and changing
-altitude occasionally. When it gets to the Franklin Mountains, it lifts
-into the air vertically. (NICAP, “Egg-Shaped Object
-Stalls Car”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3030
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 1:10 p.m. James W. Stokes, electronics technician at
-Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is driving on US 54 about 8 miles south of
-Orogrande, New Mexico. The car radio fades, and the car slows as if the
-battery is failing. Stokes notices 6–12 cars ahead of him have also
-stopped and drivers are out looking at the sky (looking behind him to
-the northeast), including a Mr. Duncan and Allan D. Baker. Stokes stops
-and gets out, sees a pearl-white oval or egg-shaped object about 500
-feet wide with a slight purplish tinge heading south at an estimated
-speed of 1,500–2,000 mph. It is below the elevation angle of the
-Sacramento Mountains ridgeline, descending from about 5,000 feet above
-ground level in a shallow dive to about 1,500–2,500 feet altitude as it
-swerves to pass to the south of Stokes and the other stopped cars. At
-its closest it is about 2–5 miles away. It then circles around headed
-west and disappears. The same or another object appears in the northeast
-(as if the object has completely circled) and performs the same rounded
-course but passing farther to the south of the parked cars and
-disappears in the west. Duncan takes a 35mm film of the object. Stokes
-notices a wave of heat from the object at closest approach. Later that
-evening he is sunburned, but it clears up the next day. The Air Force
-calls it a hoax based on the Levelland sightings. (NICAP, “Stokes
-Incident”; “The
-New Mexico Story,” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, pp. 1–2; L. J.
-Lorenzen, “The
-Stokes Case,” APRO Bulletin, January 1958, pp. 2, 6; UFOEv, p. 169;
-Schopick,
-pp. 39–42; Sparks, p. 255;
-Swords 256–259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 32–42, 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3029
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 3:12 a.m. At Elmwood Park, Illinois, three policemen
-(Clifford Shaw, Joseph
-Lukasek, and Dan Diglovanni) see a bright cigar-shaped object in the
-sky. The headlights and spotlight on the squad car dim. The car chases
-the UFO for a mile and a half, which dips and rises before speeding off.
-Fireman Bob Volz also sees a reddish-orange UFO about the same time.
-(NICAP, “Bright
-Cylinder Chased by Police, E-M Effects”; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line,
-p. 239; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 117; Schopick,
-pp. 90–91; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of
-the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The
-Author, 1997, pp. 22–27; Sparks,
-p. 255)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3028
Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two sentries at the Fortaleza de Itaipu in Praia
-Grande, São Paulo, Brazil, watch an orange object approaching the fort.
-It holds its course until it is directly above them. Its diameter is at
-least as large as the wingspan of a DC-3 and scarcely 300 feet away.
-Suddenly there is a strange buzzing noise and the men feel a wave of
-glowing heat. One of them collapses on the spot, but the other succeeds
-in reaching safety in the shadow of the gun emplacements. His shouts of
-alarm rouse his comrades inside the fort, where the lights suddenly go
-out. In the meantime, the emergency power is switched on but immediately
-gives out. Only a few minutes after the alarm, two other men are out of
-the fort and at their sides. They too see the UFO, which is now heading
-out to sea. It leaves a luminous trail as it shoots away across the
-Atlantic. The two sentries are taken to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
-They suffer second and third-degree burns on large areas of their body,
-chiefly in areas covered by clothing. Afterwards, Brazilian Army and
-USAF personnel, along with investigators of the Brazilian Air Force, fly
-to the fort to interview them. There is some reason to think that Olavo
-T. Fontes made this case up, as no first- hand witnesses to the
-event have come forward. (NICAP, “Fort
-Itaipu Incident”; Wikipedia, “Caso
-do Forte de Itaipu”;
-Olavo T. Fontes, “Top
-Secret Report Unveiled,” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 6–7;
-Jules Lemaître, “A
-Strange Story from Brazil,” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1960): 9–11; Schopick,
-pp. 135–140; Kevin D. Randle, “Fort
-Itaipu and Footnotes,” A Different Perspective, October 12, 2014;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Fort
-Itaipu and Olavo Fontes Revisited,” A Different Perspective, June
-15, 2016; Clark 537)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3027
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: An object looking like “a big meat platter” was seen at
-close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside
-their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no
-ignition interference noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 245 (Vallee)
-Location: New Castle, Indiana
-ID: 422
Date: 11/5/1957
-Time: 0430
-Description: In Van Cortland Park, Frank C. was talking with a bus
-driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object
-shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed
-dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow
-light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off
-“like a shooting star.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 241 (Vallee)
-Location: New York City, New York
-ID: 423
Date: 11/5/1957
-Time: 1730
-Description: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and
-perceived a “burning” odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that
-came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and
-disappeared. The witness was “paralyzed” during the observation. The
-object appeared to have generated thick smoke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Scotia, Nebraska
-ID: 424
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 5:10 a.m. The US Coast Guard Cutter Sebago (WHEC-42),
-Commander Clarence
-H. Waring Jr., cruising in the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles south
-of Mobile, Alabama, tracks a radar target at a range of 22 miles moving
-at 650 mph. It disappears at 55 miles range. Three other unusual radar
-contacts are made in the next 10 minutes. A visual object like a
-brilliant planet is seen at 5:21 a.m. speeding north to south for five
-seconds by Ensign Wayne Schotley, Lt. Donald E. Shaffer, 1stClass
-Quartermaster Kenneth Smith, and radio operator Thomas Kirk. The Air
-Force ascribes it to confused radar operators who mistake ordinary plane
-blips for a UFO. (NICAP, “The
-Coast Guard Cutter Sebago
-Case”;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a
-History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The
-Author, 1997, pp. 50–51; Condon, pp. 165–167;
-Sparks, p. 256;
-Swords 260–262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3033
Date: 11/5/57
-Description: A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters
-arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled
-cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4
-was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the
-same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level
-of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some
-witnesses.”
-Type: investigation
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Loveland, TX
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks
-to spacepeople
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Kearney, NE
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: Late afternoon. Grain buyer Reinhold
-O. Schmidt is driving through the countryside near Kearney,
-Nebraska, when he notices a large, cigar-shaped object resting in a
-field. He is soon escorted inside the spaceship, which turns out to be
-crewed by completely human-looking space aliens, four males and two
-females, who apparently speak perfect German and claim to be from the
-planet Saturn. They also claim to be interested in the recently launched
-Russian sputniks and the satellite-launching plans of the US. Later
-Schmidt brings local police to view the landing site, where they find
-deep imprints and some “mysterious green residue.” Schmidt also claims
-subsequent visits to the spaceship and many friendly conversations with
-its learned crew. Schmidt notices they drink MJB brand coffee, and also
-carry in their cigar-shaped craft an ordinary terrestrial MG sports car,
-which they use for running errands and buying groceries. (A schematic
-drawing of the ship’s interior in Schmidt’s later booklet depicts a
-Volkswagen Beetle.) Unlike most spaceships, the Saturnian ship has large
-propellers at both ends. Eventually Schmidt gets a ride up to earth
-orbit and a tour of the mother ship. On October 26, 1961, Schmidt is
-convicted in Oakland, California, for grand theft after bilking a widow
-out of $5,000 for a worthless mining venture in Tulare County, where he
-claims to have seen huge quartz crystals from a spaceship. Judge Donald
-K. Quayle sentences him to 1–10 years in prison. (Clark III
-1038–1039; Swords 262; Curt Collins, “The Trial
-of a UFO Gold Digger,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 27,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3034
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: The Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs issues a
-new UFO fact sheet, emphasizing the high percentage of explained cases
-and the lack of a threat to national security. (UFOEv, p. 107;
-Swords 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3035
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Larry and Marilynn Beaman are driving near
-Antioch, Illinois, when they notice a ball of fire fluctuating from
-white to yellow pacing their car on the right side, about 1,000 feet up.
-It goes out for a time then switches back on. At its largest, it seems
-30 feet in diameter. It follows them all the way to Ringwood and then
-lands in some trees behind a school building two blocks from where they
-live. It glitters like a welder’s arc and makes a sound like water
-swishing. Beaman rounds up some other witnesses and goes back to the
-landing site, but the object takes off, changes to purple, and moves
-away to the southwest. TV sets in town dim, finally losing both picture
-and sound during the same time period. (Schopick, pp. 104–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3036
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 8:43 p.m. A witness in Woodstock, Illinois, sees a large,
-red, triangular object with a green light in the front and a yellow
-light in the rear. It makes a low droning sound and moves west to east.
-Woodstock police officers and another individual in Genoa City see the
-same object. At 10:15 p.m., an amber or orange UFO 200 feet long is seen
-for 5 minutes at Delavan, Wisconsin. Project Blue Book claims it is an
-aurora or jet aircraft. (Marler 131–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3037
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Civil service employee Lon Yarborough is driving
-along US Highway 81 about 1.5 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas,
-when he sees an extremely bright object settle down in a ravine about
-600 feet from him. The egg-shaped object is approximately 60 foot long
-and causes the lights and engine of his car to fail. The object rests a
-few minutes and finally takes off to the northeast. (San Antonio (Tex.)
-Light, November 6, 1957; NICAP, “60ʹ
-Egg-Shaped Object Disables Auto”; Schopick, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3038
Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two young men see a red light north of US
-Highway 62 at a point 38 miles west of Hobbs, New Mexico. They watch for
-9–10 minutes, thinking it is an oil flare, but the light suddenly rises
-straight up. After pacing their car for a few minutes, the light turns
-toward the car, passes over it, and hovers over the Permian Basin
-Pipeline plant. As it passes overhead, the car engine sputters, then
-dies, and the lights go out. After the men coast the car down the road,
-the motor restarts and they drive away. The battery is found to be dead
-the following morning and the dashboard clock is stopped. (Schopick, pp. 45–47;
-Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle
-Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3039
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0010
-Description: J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming
-toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and
-producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch
-stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 246 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
-ID: 425
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: morning
-Description: North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and
-luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It
-rose and vanished “like a light switched off.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Seoul, Korea
-ID: 426
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0540
-Description: Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine
-stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an
-egg-shaped object wrapped in “a blue haze” on the beach. Two men, below
-average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their
-identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather
-pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have
-yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left
-rapidly, and the cars could then be started.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Playa del Rey, California
-ID: 427
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0630
-Description: A civilian source reported an object so bright that his
-eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off
-again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an “odd color,”
-left no trail and made no noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake County, Ohio
-ID: 428
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0630
-Description: 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the
-ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he
-thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner
-the witness could not understand, for he saw no door.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 271;114; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
-ID: 429
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: evening
-Description: John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in
-front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a
-putty-colored face and frog-like eyes. He thought the dwarf said in
-broken English: “We are peaceful people; we only want your dog.” The
-little man, who was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons, a green
-tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of
-each finger, fled when the witness denied his request.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 56; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Everittstown, New Jersey
-ID: 430
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 1800
-Description: A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long,
-bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The
-witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he
-returned. Unidentified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Boerne, Texas
-ID: 431
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 2100
-Description: 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his
-friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop
-about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated
-the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout
-the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength,
-modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the
-south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 249 (Vallee)
-Location: Baskatong Lake, Canada
-ID: 432
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 2330
-Description: Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he
-suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two
-pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its
-color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a
-field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away.
-After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he
-found to be shaped like “a covered dish” 15 m in diameter, 5 m high,
-with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating
-slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by
-Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 252 (Vallee)
-Location: Montville, Ohio
-ID: 433
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 9:43 p.m. Kenneth
-J. Delano, who is participating in aurora and meteor watches for the
-International Geophysical Year, is observing the sky at St. Mary’s
-Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a brilliant white light in
-the northwest. He watches it approach until it is nearly overhead. Then
-a faint, silvery-gray, elliptical disc is visible for a few seconds
-above the light. It is silent, except for a faint whirring sound. He
-watches it for a total of 4 minutes until it passes behind some
-buildings. (Kenneth J. Delano, “UFO over Baltimore,” IUR 32, no. 4
-(October 2009): 17–18, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3050
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. A taxicab company owner, Joe
-Martinez, and one of his drivers, Alberto Gallegos, sees a UFO approach
-them in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They hear a humming sound as it comes
-close. The object is egg-shaped and multicolored. As it passes over
-their car, the engine stalls and the dashboard clock stops. The UFO then
-pulls up and moves rapidly into the southeast. One witness later
-discovers that his wristwatch has also stopped at the time of sighting.
-(Aimé Michel, Straight Line, pp. 246–247; Schopick,
-pp. 47– 48; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3040
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Olden J. Moore is driving home in Montville,
-Ohio, when he sees an object like a bright meteor split into two pieces,
-one of which heads straight up. The other becomes larger while its color
-changes from bright white to blue green. It hovers about 200 feet above
-a field and lands with a soft whirring sound, perhaps 500 feet away.
-Moore watches cautiously for 15 minutes, then approaches it. The UFO is
-shaped like a “covered dish,” and is about 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet
-high, with a cone on top about 10 feet high. It is pulsating slowly, and
-a haze surrounds it. Moore goes home to get another witness (his wife)
-but when they return the UFO is gone. Mrs. Moore reports the sighting to
-County Sheriff Louis
-Robusky the next morning, and a civil defense director, Kenneth
-Locke, visits the site. Locke finds high levels of radioactivity (a
-maximum of 150 microroentgens/hour, suggestive of an approximately
-one-hour radionuclide half-life or less) two perfectly formed holes six
-inches in diameter, and unusual footprints that come from nowhere and go
-nowhere. (NICAP, “Olden Moore
-Case / Close Encounter”; UFOEv, pp. 169–170;
-Center for UFO Studies, [case
-files]; Clark III 772–773, 950; Sparks, p. 257)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3051
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Jacques Jacobsen and three others are in a
-hunting lodge on the Baskatong Reservoir, Quebec, listening to a
-battery-powered radio. Outside, they see a glowing, yellow-white sphere
-2–3 miles away to the southwest. It remains in place for 15 minutes.
-During this time the radio goes off, and one of the men’s shortwave
-radios is working on only one frequency that emits a strong, rapidly
-modulated tone that sounds like, but is not, Morse code. The UFO rises
-into the clouds and the radios function normally again. (Aimé Michel,
-Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; Schopick, pp. 79–80;
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3049
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Night. Two state policemen in Danville, Illinois, observe a
-brilliant white light that changes color successively to amber and
-orange. They chase it for 15 miles because the light appears to be low
-in the sky. During the chase, their communications radio does not
-function. The light eventually flies out of sight. (“2
-State Troopers
-See ‘Object,’” Hammond (Ind.) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 12; Schopick, pp. 91–92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3048
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 8:02 p.m. Six people in Toronto, Ontario, watch a
-yellow-white light travel silently from south to north across the
-eastern sky. One experiences static on his TV set as the object passes,
-slower than a meteor. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; Schopick, pp. 80–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3047
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Early evening. Varine
-“Rene” Gilham sees a brilliant object radiating a strong red light
-as he is using an outhouse on his farm near Merom, Indiana. The whole
-farm and surrounding area are bathed in the light for 10 minutes. A
-small object joins the larger one and the light grows more intense. The
-two objects fly away. The next day, Gilham has “sunburn” in many places.
-Two days later he is admitted to a hospital for treatment. (NICAP, “Merom/Gilham
-Incident”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November
-6th, The
-Author, 1997, pp. 67, 72–73. Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a
-History: 1957 November 6th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2003,
-pp. 6–7; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no.
-4 (March 2008): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3046
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Two Malay fisherman are in a waterway near
-Bagansiapiapi, Sumatra, Indonesia, when they see a black and red object
-swiftly approaching their boat and trailing black and greenish smoke.
-The top and bottom of the object are curved like discs. When it is 60
-feet away it stops in mid-air about 35 feet above the water, and the
-bottom part continues to rotate as the water foams below it. The object
-is a triangular shape and white smoke is coming out from each point. The
-object speeds up and disappears, leaving behind black and greenish smoke
-lines. (Marler 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3045
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Everett
-Orain Clark, 12 , of Dante, Knoxville, Tennessee, lets his dog
-Frisky outside and sees an object like an elongated egg in a field 300
-feet away from his house. 20 minutes later, he calls to bring the dog
-back and sees Frisky with other dogs on the other side of the road close
-to the object. Clark walks toward the UFO and sees two men and women,
-apparently dressed in a normal manner. One of the men tries to catch
-Frisky who grunts and moves away. They are speaking in a foreign
-language that sounds like German to him. The four people go into the
-craft by seemingly walking right through the wall. Journalist Carson
-Brewer goes back to the site with Clark and finds an “oblong ring of
-pressed grass” 24 feet by 4.5 feet. In the afternoon, two men from the
-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (engineer Wallace
-Russell Gambill and physicist N. D. Greene) collect soil samples and
-check for radiation (they find none). (“Scientists
-Check ‘Space
-Ship’ Field,” Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, November 7, 1957,
-pp. 1, 12; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November
-6th, The
-Author, 1997, pp. 17–19; Clark III 672–673; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-17, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3043
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars,
-talk to spacepeople
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe is driving along Vista Del Mar in
-Playa Del Rey, California, when his engine fails. Two other cars on the
-highway are also affected, and the drivers (Ronald Burke and Joe Thomas)
-all get out. They see an egg-shaped object that seems to be wrapped in a
-blue haze. It is tan or cream-colored and has two metallic rings around
-it. Two smallish men, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and wearing black
-leather pants, a white belt, and a light-colored jersey, exit the
-object. They ask Kehoe and the others where they are and what time it is
-in something approaching English. They walk back to the object, which
-takes off. After it leaves, Kehoe’s car starts with no problem.
-(Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 126–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3042
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 4:30 a.m. William Rush II is driving on Long Point Road in
-Houston, Texas. A brilliant red, egg-shaped UFO kills his car engine and
-causes static on his radio. (Houston (Tex.) Chronicle, November 6, 1957;
-Schopick,
-p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3041
Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 10:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County
-Deputy Sheriff. One round object–changing from red to green to blue to
-white–rose vertically from a mountain top. Sighting lasted 10
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Radium Springs, New Mexico
-ID: 417
Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: US scientists are “pretty shook up” about the recent UFO
-sightings, according to astronomer Charles
-F. “Chick”
-Capen in the November 7 El Paso Times. However, Capen talks more
-about missile launches and lunar photography than UFO sightings. (“Sighting
-‘Shakes’ Scientists,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 21;
-“El
-Pasoans Take Look at
-Sputnik,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, November 7, 1957, pp. 1, 3; Swords
-264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3044
Date: 11/7/1957
-Time: 0725
-Description: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis
-when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared
-to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out
-of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray
-clothes, with “pasty white faces” that seemed friendly and willing to
-talk, but he was unable to understand their “chattering.” “I stood there
-for what seemed like an eternity.” They got back into the machine and it
-took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old
-girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky
-toward the south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 273; 115 (Vallee)
-Location: Meridian, Mississippi
-ID: 434
Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: Night. Paul Rutledge, a packinghouse worker at Waterloo,
-Iowa, sees an object hovering above his garage. He can see two figures
-walking around inside. The object is about 30 feet long and has a shiny
-bottom and a glass top. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-p. 84; Patrick Gross, URECAT, January
-24, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3057
Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 7:46 p.m. Bright, flashing objects hover for 30 minutes
-over the Atomic Energy Commission’s Pantex Plant 15 miles east of
-Amarillo, Texas. The UFOs are reported to the State Highway Patrol
-office by plant guards, and a patrolman dispatched to the plant arrives
-at 8:15 p.m. and sees a strange light. Guards at the plant are “all
-shook up” from watching three objects floating 50 feet above the ground.
-One of the objects apparently lands on Farin Road 2373, three miles
-north of Highway 60. Guards tell the patrolman they tried to approach
-the objects by turning off their lights, “but the things would just slip
-away from them when they got near.” They are unable to estimate the size
-of the objects but seem positive “they saw more than just lights.”
-(NICAP, “Lights
-Shake Up Guards
-at Nuclear Plant”; Sparks, p. 258)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3056
Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 9:38 a.m. Mysterious radio signals on the 108 megacycle
-radio band are recorded by RCA Communications at Riverhead, Long Island,
-New York. The signal is a continuous, tone-modulated hum at a low pitch
-of 200 cycles per second. The FCC admits it is baffled, but suspects
-that it comes from a radio amateur or equipment testing in the New York
-City area. Another report claims that Vanguard and Federal
-Communications Commission watchers at 18 monitoring stations throughout
-the Western Hemisphere are picking up signals at 14.286 megacycles,
-possibly connected with Sputnik 2. The signal is a long note of low
-pitch followed after a few seconds by two short notes. (“Mystery
-Signals Are Unconnected
-with Satellites,” Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press, November 8, 1957,
-pp. 1–2; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3055
Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 7:25 a.m. Truck driver Melvin Stevens stops one mile east
-of House, Mississippi, because a silvery “blimp” about 5 feet high and 2
-feet long is blocking the road. He walks toward it, a sliding door
-opens, and three small, pasty-faced men about 4.5 feet tall emerge.
-Stevens feels paralyzed. After a short time, the beings make a military
-about-face and reenter the UFO, which takes off vertically. (Center for
-UFO Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1957, p. 32;
-Clark III 269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3053
Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 1:45–1:55 a.m. Seven airmen at Holloman Air Force Base near
-Alamogordo, New Mexico—Bradford Rickets, James Cole, Dennis Murphy,
-Wayne Hurlburt, and Harry Uhlrich—see a UFO while on duty at a salvage
-yard on the north side of the base. The object makes a whistling noise
-and turns from white to orange to red. (Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3052
Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 9:20 a.m. Trent Lindsey and his wife and son Byron are
-driving on US Highway 54 near Orogrande, New Mexico, when Byron notices
-that the speedometer is jumping wildly back and forth from the top to
-the bottom of its range. It then stops just as suddenly. The three
-witnesses later see a metallic-appearing UFO high in the sky to the
-southwest. It continues moving away for three minutes until it was lost
-from view over the Organ Mountains. The speedometer functions normally
-after the UFO is gone. (“Family
-Reports Seeing Large Object over NM,” Albuquerque Tribune, November
-8, 1957, p. 1; Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3054
Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to
-police that a diskshaped object followed their truck, dived toward it,
-came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double
-vapor trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 217; 116 (Vallee)
-Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
-ID: 435
Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: 0200
-Description: A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m
-above ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 264; 117 (Vallee)
-Location: Sloanville, New York
-ID: 436
Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: 1430
-Description: Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated
-object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke
-appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the
-ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were
-driven away by a hard rain.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 265 (Vallee)
-Location: Holly, West Virginia
-ID: 437
Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his
-garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible
-inside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 266 (Vallee)
-Location: Waterloo, Iowa
-ID: 438
Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: 6:22 a.m. Connie Foster watches a lighted triangular object
-flying from southeast to northwest over Camarillo, California. It is
-moving with the base facing forward and has bright lights on the tips of
-the triangle. She watches it for nearly 30 minutes before it disappears.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th, The
-Author, 1998, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3059
Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: Night. 12 female and 4 male farmworkers are in a truck on
-the Newhailes Road returning to Edinburgh from picking Brussels sprouts
-in a nursey at Musselburgh, Scotland. One of them spots a gray, round
-object seemingly following the truck at a distance of 60 feet. Mary
-Horne says it is domed on the top and bottom. It follows them for 5–10
-minutes then moves off towards Portobello leaving a double vapor trail.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November
-7th–12th, The
-Author, 1998, pp. 54– 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3062
Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Pan Am Flight 7, a Boeing Stratocruiser flying
-across the Pacific mysteriously crashes midway between San Francisco and
-Honolulu. One of the crew is UFO witness Capt. William
-H. Fortenberry. The cause of the crash is never determined.
-Fortenberry’s journalist son, Ken
-H. Fortenberry, suspects that the bereaved and mentally unstable
-purser Oliver Eugene Crosthwaite, has deliberately caused the crash,
-killing himself and murdering 43 innocent people in the process.
-(Wikipedia, “Pan
-Am Flight 7”; Ken H. Fortenberry, Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search
-for My Father’s Killer, Fayetteville Mafia, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3061
Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: Spencer Whedon, chief of Air Intelligence at
-Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, tells the press that of 5,700
-UFO reports received by his office since 1940, 97% have been identified
-satisfactorily and the other 8% remain unidentified due to insufficient
-information. (“Seeing
-Things? No, Sky Really Red,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Post, November 7,
-1957, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3060
Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: l0:10 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Dinner. One bar-shaped object, 3.5’ long,
-giving off blue flashes, made a swishing sound. No further data.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Merrick, Long Island, New York
-ID: 418
Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: 3:03 a.m. Polish-Australian astronomer Antoni
-Przybylski and Dutch-American astronomer Bart
-Bok see a vivid pink object moving slowly across the sky at Mount
-Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, Australia. It is visible to the naked
-eye for two minutes. Przybylski has just finished observing Sputnik 1
-and 2, so it wasn’t a satellite or a meteor. Assistant Director Arthur
-Robert Hogg thinks it might be circling the earth like a satellite.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November
-7th–12th, The Author, 1998, p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the
-Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 10–11; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch
-Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3058
Date: 11/9/1957
-Time: 0100
-Description: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a
-hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object’s
-position, and it started again only after the object’s departure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake City, Missouri
-ID: 439
Date: 11/9/1957
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Several witnesses are driving 12 miles northeast
-of Carrizozo, New Mexico, on US Highway 54 in the vicinity of White Oaks
-when a large, rapidly moving light approaches their car from the south
-and apparently causes the vehicle’s lighting system to fail. The light
-changes course and speeds off to the southwest. Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen are driving east on US Highway 380 about 10 miles
-east of Carrizozo when they spot an anomalous light that might be the
-same object. (Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp,
-101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3065
Date: 11/9/1957
-Description: 9:15 a.m. Eastern Airline pilot Capt. Truman
-Gile Jr. is preparing to take off from Lafayette (Louisiana) Airport
-when he sees a big silvery object about 20,000 feet in the air. Gile
-watches it for 3 minutes and it doesn’t move. He alerts copilot James E.
-Hall, the stewardess, and the ground agents, and they all watch it
-another 5 minutes before it fades away. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November
-7th–12th, The Author, 1998, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3064
Date: 11/9/1957
-Description: 12:15 a.m. A man is driving in Sacramento, California, when
-his car engine and headlights fail. He looks up and sees an elongated
-egg-shaped object with delta-shaped wings, 150–200 feet long and 40–50
-feet wide. The wings come back to about 30 feet from the rear of the
-fuselage. It has a bright bluish hue and leaves a bluish fluorescent
-trail. The sighting lasts 2–3 minutes. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on
-Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011):
-19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3063
Date: 11/10/1957
-Time: 0125
-Description: Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 m
-above ground. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was
-over 10 m wide, 3 to 4 m thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to
-consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin
-irritation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 267; 118 (Vallee)
-Location: Madison, Ohio
-ID: 440
Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: 1:25 a.m. Leita
-Mae Kuhn is checking the stove in her Doberman dog kennel at
-Madison, Ohio, when she notices a glowing, domed disc hovering 60 feet
-above the rear of the kennel. It is about 40 feet in diameter and
-emitting puffy clouds of smoke. Her eyes begin to burn after watching it
-for 20–30 minutes, and she runs back into the house and locks the door.
-She has rashes and her eyes hurt so badly she visits a doctor. (Donald
-E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 11–12; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November
-7th–12th, The Author, 1998, pp. 69–71; Michael D. Swords, “Messing
-Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 30–31; Michael D.
-Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4
-(May 2011): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3066
Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: Residents of Skaryszew, Poland, watch a huge, radiant,
-cigar-shaped object slowly moving west. (Poland 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3067
Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: Night. French astronomer Jacques Chapuis at Toulouse
-Observatory in France observes a maneuvering, yellow, star-like object
-for 5 minutes. It ascends straight up out of sight. (UFOEv, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3071
Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Many people see a UFO at Hammond, Indiana. Two
-policemen (Sgt. Charles
-J. Mauder, Office Steve Betuslak) see a red and white light hovering
-500–1,000 feet overhead. They hear a beeping sound and there is
-interference on the police radio while the object is in view. Another
-witness sees a green light on a basket-shaped object; his car radio
-fails. The lights fly away when anyone tries to approach. (Aimé Michel,
-Straight-Line, p. 268; Schopick,
-pp. 92–95; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1957, November 7th–12th, The
-Author, 1998, pp. 73, 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3070
Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: 5:55 p.m. Wilfred
-S. Hardy, an assistant safety engineer at the Tokyo, Japan, Engineer
-Supply Center, sees (along with his wife and a Japanese boat boy) a huge
-cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes above Lake Imba-numa 10 miles
-away. He estimates it is about 200–500 feet long. The object lights up
-the entire lake, then disappears to the south 10 seconds later.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3069
Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: Evening. UFO witness Olden Moore of Montville, Ohio, is
-visited by Sheriff Robusky,
-a deputy, and a USAF officer who asks him to go with them to Youngstown
-to be interviewed by military officers. They drive him to the field
-where the encounter took place and put him aboard a military helicopter.
-He is interviewed in Youngstown, then he is returned to the field at
-11:00 p.m. (Clark III 773)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3068
Date: 11/11/1957
-Description: A silvery elliptical UFO is seen flying below Western
-Airlines Flight 61 over the desert east of Los Angeles, California.
-Robert D. Hahn, a jewelry designer, is a passenger and describes it as a
-large, elliptical, metallic object with dark patches zigzagging about
-200 feet above the ground. (UFOEv, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3072
Date: 11/12/57
-Description: FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release
-‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying
-saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.”
-[Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other
-Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.]
-Type: status report
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington, DC
Date: 11/13/1957
-Description: An object explodes over the State Hospital at Crownsville,
-Maryland, and two or three burned pieces of metal fall on the hospital
-grounds. It is recovered by employees William A. Zick and J. Caswell.
-The pieces are checked for radiation and confiscated by army
-intelligence officers at Fort George G. Meade. They are apparently sent
-to the Air Research and Development Center in Baltimore. An ARD colonel
-tells NICAP member and WFBR news director Lou
-Corbin that he has no idea what the metal is. Some of the material
-is perhaps sent to ATIC. (“Metal
-Object from Skies Rushed to ATIC for Analysis,” UFO Investigator 1,
-no. 3 (January 1958): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3073
Date: 11/14/1957
-Description: Afternoon. Evalyn
-Riead hears a sputtering noise like someone is pulling into her
-driveway in Tamaroa, Illinois. She looks outside and sees a bright,
-moon-shaped object with a tail moving above the trees bordering US
-Highway 51. It disappears after 5–6 booms and 3 flashes of light. As
-soon as this happens, the lights in her home go out. Electrical power in
-a 4-mile area between Tamaroa and Du Bois is interrupted for 10 minutes.
-Power is restored when the company closes an open circuit breaker, but
-they could find no cause. (“Current
-Cut Off As Flying
-‘Thing’ Appears in Illinois,” Lima (Ohio) Citizen, November 15,
-1957, p. 10; Schopick, pp. 140–141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3074
Date: mid 11/1957
-Description: The US Senate Committee on Government Operations, chaired
-by Sen. John
-L. McClellan (D-Ark.), begins an inquiry into UFOs. Ruppelt is
-called to give testimony. (Ruppelt, 1960 ed., p. 253)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3075
Date: 11/16/1957
-Time: 2230
-Description: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near
-the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Bage City, Brazil
-ID: 441
Date: 11/16/1957
-Description: Afternoon. Cynthia
-Appleton blacks out unexpectedly at her home in 87 Fentham Road in
-Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, England. On November 19, she feels faint
-again as the light outside dims, and a man with blond hair and wearing
-coveralls materializes in the center of the room. She hears him speaking
-to her telepathically. He tells her not to be afraid and that he is from
-a world he calls Gharnasvarn (which we know as Venus) and he shows her
-what seems to be a holographic image of two spaceships. She has other
-visitations by entities on January 7 and February 7, 1958. In September
-1958, the spaceman informs her that she is pregnant, which is apparently
-true, as she gives birth on June 2, 1958, to a boy with blond hair that
-she and her husband Ron name Matthew. Appleton says the Venusians
-visited her a few more times, but the trail grows cold in July 1960.
-(“Birmingham
-Woman Meets Spacemen,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 (March/April
-1958): 5–6; Jenny Randles, “A Visitor from Gharnasvarn,” IUR 13, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1988): 4–8; Birmingham Sunday Mercury, January 26, 2003; Andy
-Roberts, “The Space Baby,” Fortean Times 191 (December 2004): 32–38;
-Bill Chalker, “Flying
-Saucery, Cosmic Bethlehem, and Midwich Cuckoos: The Cynthia Appleton
-Contacts (1957–1959),” Australian UFO Researcher Bill Chalker,
-2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3076
Date: 11/17/1957
-Description: An Air Force car with two officers comes to UFO witness
-Olden Moore’s house in Montville, Ohio. He is told they are taking him
-to Washington, D.C., for extended questioning. They drive him to a
-waiting airplane, which stops briefly at Wright-Patterson AFB to pick up
-one officer and drop another off. In Washington, Moore is housed in a
-building said to be a federal courthouse [US Court of Appeals for the
-Armed Forces?]. He is kept there and interrogated for several days.
-Officers watch him constantly, even when he is sleeping. Toward the end
-of his stay, Moore is shown slides of UFO photos and a UFO film taken
-from inside a military plane. Moore is asked to sign a document that
-swears him to secrecy. (UFOEv, p. 114;
-Clark III 773)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3077
Date: 11/18/1957
-Time: 1500
-Description: Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of
-a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He
-was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to
-communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for
-titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he
-disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar
-entities.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Aston, Great Britain
-ID: 443
Date: 11/18/1957
-Time: 1030
-Description: Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming
-sound, then saw two aluminum-colored disks 200 m away. Near them were
-six mm of average height, slim build, dressed in “dark gray suits glued
-to their bodies.” The disks were about 3.5 m wide, hovering 1 m above
-ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees
-below them bent double. Three more disks rose from behind the trees, and
-all five flew toward the Atlantic.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
-Location: Maracaja, Brazil
-ID: 442
Date: 11/21/1957
-Description: Merchant Hans
-Haugaard Hansen is driving out of Gesten, Denmark, on the road to
-Egholt when he sees a triangular UFO moving low over a field some
-300–600 feet away. It is emitting a red or orange light and makes no
-sound. The bottom of the object is solid, but the upper part is
-transparent, and he can see two figures inside. He stops the car to
-watch as it moves about 40 mph. Similar objects are seen at Jordrup and
-Vorbasse. (“Flying Saucer
-Reports Pour in from Denmark,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1958): 2; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November
-13th–30th, The
-Author, 1998, p. 56; Willy Wegner, “UFO
-bogen, Kapitel 19: Rumfolkene viser sig,” Skeptica, September 1,
-2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3079
Date: 11/21/1957
-Description: The Army Chief of Research and Development responds to
-CONARC’s October 22 request on the feasibility of building a manned
-“flying saucer,” stating that he had reviewed the Avrocar disc concept
-and that it looked promising. (Richard P. Weinert, History of Army
-Aviation, 1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November
-1976, pp. 220–221;
-Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3078
Date: 11/21/1957
-Description: Night. Frank Dickenson and two friends are driving up
-Reasty Hill near the village of Silpho, North Yorkshire, England, when
-their car stalls and they see a glowing object in the sky that appears
-to fall to the ground on a ridge above Broxa Forest. Dickenson leaves
-the car with a flashlight, climbs up a bank, and finds in a patch of
-bracken a metallic saucer shaped like a “large flattish spinning top,”
-18 inches in diameter and weighing 33 pounds. As he returns to tell his
-friends, he passes a young couple walking toward the scene. When the
-tree men return to search for it, the disc is gone. Dickenson places an
-advertisement in a Scarborough newspaper about the disc, and he is able
-to recover it for £10 from a man who claims he was the mystery man on
-the moor. Photos taken by UFO researcher John Dale show that the copper
-base of the object is inscribed with a mystery script. The top of the
-disc is made from layers of laminated metal that has been painted with a
-white substance. The two halves are stuck together with a grayish
-substance resembling cellulose, and a pencil-thick iron rod runs through
-a “white metal bearing” in the top. When the bearing is drilled out,
-they find a heap of ash inside the cavity, as well as pieces of fused
-glass and a tightly rolled cylinder of copper. Also inside is a tiny
-booklet of 17 sheets of thin copper foil fastened at one edge. The
-booklet is engraved with script similar to that found on the outside.
-The coded script is translated by a café proprietor from Scarborough
-named Philip Longbottom, who claims the 2,000- word inscription is from
-an alien named Ulo, with later text added by an apparently female
-companion named Tarngee. A metallurgist at the University of Manchester
-analyzes the disc and finds the outer casing is made primarily from
-lead, and the copper foil is triple laminated an unusually free from
-impurities. In 2017, David Clarke discovers
-that five specimens from the Silpho disc have been preserved in a tin
-cigarette box housed in London’s Science Museum. The specimens were sent
-to aviation historian Charles
-Harvard Gibbs-Smith in 1963 by Essex ufologist C. C. Stevens for
-analysis. Gibbs-Smith judged the items to be of terrestrial origin, and
-they were donated to the Science Museum with his papers after his death
-in 1981. Veteran Scarborough Evening News editor Mick Jefferson said in
-2003 the newspaper had long ago exposed the object as a hoax made from a
-“domestic hot-water cylinder.” However, the hoaxers have never surfaced.
-(“The
-Silpho Moor Mystery,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 (March/April
-1958): 4; “Silpho
-Moor Controversy,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958):
-19; Philip Longbottom, “The
-Silpho Moor Mystery,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1958): 15–17; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals, Blandford, 1995,
-pp. 77–82;
-David Clarke, “The Return of the Silpho Moor Saucer,” Fortean Times 364
-(March 2018): 42–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3080
Date: 11/22/1957
-Description: A shop owner saw a pyramidshaped, luminous, transparent
-object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly
-saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the
-other aboard the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Gesten, Denmark
-ID: 444
Date: 11/23/1957
-Time: 0630
-Description: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20
-min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they
-took off with an unbearable humming sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Tonopah, Nevada
-ID: 445
Date: 11/23/1957
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Six truck drivers watch a strange object with
-three lights in a triangular pattern hovering above a field off State
-Highway 8 just north of the Butler Valley Turnpike exit in Richland
-Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It has a green light at the
-bottom, a red light at the right corner, and a yellow light at the left
-corner. They get out of their car and approach the object, but when they
-are 75 feet away, it moves to the east, then south. They go back to the
-car and shine their lights on the object, which is about 20 feet above
-some trees. The lights go out and the object disappears. (“3-Lighted
-‘Whatsit’ Floats over Field,” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Sun- Telegraph,
-November 27, 1957, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3082
Date: 11/23/1957
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Fighter pilot 1st Lt. Joseph F. Long’s car engine
-stalls 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada. He hears a high-pitched whining
-noise and sees four 50-foot, domed, saucer-shaped UFOs landed on the
-right side of the road about 900–1,200 feet away. They are glowing
-brightly and equipped with three landing gears. Long estimates they are
-about 10–15 feet tall. When he approaches to within 50 feet of the
-closest object, the hum increases in intensity and Long’s ears begin to
-hurt. The objects take off abruptly, retracting the landing gears. The
-rise about 50 feet into the air and proceed across the highway to the
-north at about 10 mph. The total time of the sighting is 20 minutes.
-Shallow, bowl-shaped ground impressions in the shape of a triangle are
-found at the landing site. (NICAP, “Four
-Huge Saucers Land near Car, Engine Stalls”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 182–186;
-Good Need, pp. 222–223, 228;
-Sparks,
-p. 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 101–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3081
Date: 11/23/1957
-Description: Air Force officer’s car failed, he saw disc-shaped objects
-on ground
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tonopah, NV
-ID: 5
Date: 11/25/1957
-Time: 1430
-Description: Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad
-crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground
-level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as
-the object simply vanished, leaving no trace.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Ugines, France
-ID: 446
Date: 11/25/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. All the lights in the town of Mogi Mirim, São
-Paulo, Brazil, suddenly dim and fail. Numerous people see a circular
-light traveling directly overhead. Two similar lights follow a short
-time later. The blackout only lasts 5 minutes, but the power station has
-no explanation. (Schopick, pp. 141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3083
Date: 11/26/1957
-Time: 10:07 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three control tower operators, one weather
-observer and four others. One silver, cigar-shaped object suddenly
-vanished after 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Robins AFB, Georgia
-ID: 419
Date: 11/27/1957
-Description: The director of an engineering firm and four of his staff
-members see five black, disc-shaped objects hovering in the French Alps
-for 8 minutes. The group performs a series of maneuvers, after which a
-parachute- shaped object emerges from one of them. Suddenly they all
-shoot away at supersonic speed toward the Swiss border. (Lorenzen, UFOs:
-The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3084
Date: 11/28/1957
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Regino Lacuesta is driving on the Hawaii Belt
-Road near Ninole, Hawaii, when his car engine begins missing. Suddenly
-he sees a bright flash of light 20 feet above the highway in front of
-him. The engine dies, the headlights go out, and the car rolls to a stop
-at the point where the light had been. Lacuesta feels numb and cannot
-move. Soon the headlights come on and the car starts up again, although
-it is in high gear and he has not touched the starter. He drives
-straight home. (Schopick,
-pp. 49–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3085
Date: 11/29/1957
-Description: Two German expatriates, G. R. Miczaika and Eberhart W.
-Wahl, form Project Space Track in Building 1535 of the Geophysics
-Research Directorate at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center at
-Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. Its mission is to track and
-compute orbits for all artificial earth satellites and space probes,
-including US and Soviet payloads, booster rockets, and debris.
-(Wikipedia, “Project
-Space Track”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3087
Date: 11/29/1957
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Capt. Fred Sutton, skipper of the fishing trawler
-Ella Hewett, is 4 miles off Port Jack, Douglas, Isle of Man, when an
-orange ball of fire crosses the sky. As it passes over the hull of the
-small boat, the vessel grows luminous, with firefly-like sparks of
-luminescence everywhere. The fireball bursts like fireworks, seen by
-others on the island as well as Scotland. The crew notices that the
-white paint on the metal railings at the edge of the boat has
-disappeared, leaving only the red undercoating. At daybreak, however,
-the paintwork is perfectly normal again. (Jenny Randles, “Mysterious
-Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004):
-13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3086
Date: 11/30/1957
-Time: 2:11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three U.S. Coast Guardsmen. One round object
-turned white, then gold, then separated into three parts and turned red.
-Sighting lasted 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
-ID: 420
Date: 12/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and saw a
-strange object land near his house. “Its windows were lighted, and I saw
-strange-looking heads there.” An opening became visible and four
-creatures emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and
-bulging eyeballs. They delivered a message to the witness in English,
-stating that they had philanthropic and scientific purposes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: El Cajon, California
-ID: 447
Date: 12/1957
-Description: Keyhoe is
-invited to appear on the CBS Armstrong Circle Theater anthology drama TV
-program hosted by Douglas
-Edwards to talk about UFOs with Kenneth
-Arnold and Clarence
-S. Chiles. Others
-invited are Edward
-J. Ruppelt, Donald
-Menzel, and
-an Air Force representative. But Keyhoe finds out that it will not be a
-panel discussion but a scripted conversation, and he will only have 7
-minutes. He is promised he will have final say over his part of the
-script, and he agrees. However, writer Irve
-Tunick cuts out critical portions of Keyhoe’s material (including
-references to the Estimate of the Situation and the Robertson Panel),
-saying it is too long. Ruppelt, Chiles, and Arnold soon withdraw from
-the program, expanding Keyhoe’s segment to 11 minutes. (Clark III
-167–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3093
Date: 12/1957
-Description: Night. Edmund Rucker is awakened by a roaring noise in El
-Cajon, California, and watches a strange object land near his house. Its
-windows are lighted and he can see some strange-looking heads inside. An
-opening becomes visible, and four creatures emerge. They have large
-heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They deliver a message
-to Rucker in English, saying they have philanthropic and scientific
-purposes. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-28, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO
-Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3092
Date: 12/1957
-Description: Walter K. Buhler launches the Sociedade Brasiliera de
-Estudos sobre Discos Voadores in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It publishes
-the Boletim SBEDV through 1988. (Boletim
-SBEDV, no. 1 (December 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3091
Date: 12/1957
-Description: Several UFO sightings take place along the Finland-Russia
-border. A cigar-shaped object is seen by two Finnish farmers moving
-horizontally at a high altitude from west to east. (Good Above, pp. 307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3090
Date: 12/1957
-Description: A classified Canadian Department of National Defence
-memorandum states that the “RCAF has no official policy concerning the
-subject” of UFOs and “there has never been a serious investigation of
-any report on file” at RCAF headquarters. (Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs
-and the Canadian Government, Part One,” no. 22 (1975): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3089
Date: 12/1957
-Description: National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) 11-10-57 predicts that
-the Soviets will “probably have a first operational capability with up
-to 10 prototype ICBMs” at “sometime during the period from mid-1958 to
-mid- 1959.” The numbers of the missile gap start to inflate. (Wikipedia,
-“Missile
-gap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3088
Date: 12/1/1957
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Swissair pilot Walter
-Borner is flying a DC-6B at 18,000 feet over Ras El-Kanayis, Egypt,
-when he sees a “giant, red, burning cylinder falling down vertically,
-leaving a yellowish trail.” It is possible that this is the reentry of
-the final stage of the rocket that launched Sputnik I. (Luis Schoenherr,
-“Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3094
Date: 12/3/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of
-Ellensburg, Washington, watch a “strange ball of fire” for 20 minutes. A
-truck driver sees the light hovering above his truck, causing the motor
-to cough and sputter. His engine does not stop completely, however, so
-he drives away. The night is misty, but the object is so bright that it
-lights up the sky as if it were daytime. (Schopick, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3096
Date: 12/3/1957
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Z.
-Thad Fogl, radio officer of the SS Ramsey, claims to have taken a
-photo of a saucer off the coast of San Pedro, California. The photo
-appears in Flying Saucer Review in 1959 and Life in 1966. However, in
-1967 Fogl admits that he had faked the photo using parts of plastic
-airplane models. (NICAP, “Disc
-with Landing Gear
-Photo / Fogl Case”; “Radio
-Officer’s Amazing Story: UFO Snapped from Ship,” Flying Saucer
-Review 5, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1959): 6–7; “A
-Hoax Exposed,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3095
Date: 12/4/1957
-Description: Blue Book Capt. George
-T. Gregory complains that as a result of pressure from the press and
-public, “Assistant Secretary of Defense requested that ATIC immediately
-submit a preliminary analysis to the press” of the Levelland, Texas,
-cases, even though he has “limited data.” (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO
-Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3097
Date: 12/5/57
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and
-Saucers”
-Type: status report
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Washington, DC
Date: 12/5/1957
-Description: Morning. An unidentified beeping sound is picked up for
-three minutes on KBR Rural Public Power Radio in Ainsworth, Nebraska,
-operating at 72.3 AM. (“Unidentified
-Beeping Heard on KBR Power Radio on Thursday,”
-Ainsworth (Neb.) Star-Journal, December 12, 1957, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3103
Date: 12/6/1957
-Description: A letter written to contactee George
-Adamski on State Department stationery from R. E. Straith, Cultural
-Exchange Committee, is a hoax concocted by ufologists Gray
-Barker and James
-W. Moseley. The letter informs Adamski that the State Department
-knows his claims are true and they encourage his activities. (James D.
-Villard, “The
-‘R. E. Straith’ Case,” Saucers 6, no. 4 (Winter 1958/1959): 2–6;
-Clark III 44–45; Saucer Smear, January 10, 1985; Lou Zinsstag and
-Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983, pp. 148–153;
-James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth!
-Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 124–127,
-381–402; Marc Hallet, A
-Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke
-to the Space Brothers, The
-Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3098
Date: 12/7/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. In western Victoria and eastern South Australia,
-witnesses see a moon-like object explode with a vivid flash. Unexpected
-blackouts are reported in the area. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, p. 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3099
Date: 12/8/1957
-Time: 1750
-Description: Between Woodward and Seiling, 12 km from the latter, an
-unknown flying object allegedly took complete control of a car with
-three passengers. The driver, an employee of an aircraft company, had
-turned the heater, windshield wiper, and radio on. He was nearing a hill
-in this wooded area when a bright light appeared ahead. It reminded the
-witness of the light from a mercury lamp. As a crash seemed imminent,
-the car slowed down by itself and stopped, as if the entire electrical
-circuit had failed. Over the vehicle was a disk 16 m in diameter with
-portholes around the periphery, emitting a current of hot air and a
-high-pitched sound. It had a dome on top and bottom. It rose as the car
-started by itself. The car was a 1954 Dodge Coronet without automatic
-transmission. The witness spent four hours with two Kirtland AFB
-officers who told him of similar observations. The case was never
-reported to Blue Book.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Woodward, Oklahoma
-ID: 448
Date: 12/8/1957
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A disc-shaped UFO with a dome and three pads on
-the underside suddenly comes toward a car with three passengers at
-Woodward, Oklahoma. The car heater, wipers, and radio fail and finally
-the car stalls out as the UFO hovers overhead at 200 feet. It emits a
-high-pitched whining sound. It is over 50 feet in diameter and has
-portholes. The whine increases in pitch after about two minutes, and the
-UFO rises vertically out of sight. The headlights come on and the engine
-of the car starts by itself. The driver spends 4 hours with two officers
-from Kirtland AFB in New Mexico who tell him of similar observations.
-(Vallée, Magonia, pp. 267–268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3100
Date: 12/8/1957
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Eight people traveling together in two cars on
-Highway 17 between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington, see a huge,
-fiery object pass overhead from north to south. Both cars stall out and
-their headlights also fail as the UFO passes overhead. In addition, the
-inside dome lights come on, even though they aren’t turned on. The cars
-remain stalled until the object passes out of sight. Police say the
-object stalled as many as six cars along that sparsely traveled road.
-(Schopick,
-pp. 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3101
Date: 12/11/1957
-Description: Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on State
-Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in
-the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out
-with a child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went
-away: The disabled car did not catch on fire.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Chestnut, Louisiana
-ID: 449
Date: 12/11/1957
-Time: 1600
-Description: Many cars stopped to observe a silent, reddish, glowing
-disk, about 15 m in diameter, which flew 6 m above the ground at about
-80 km/h. A small, windowless cabin was visible on the underside of the
-object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Ellsworth, Wisconsin
-ID: 450
Date: 12/11/1957
-Description: Night. Mexican pilot Gilberto Castillo del Valle is flying
-at 10,000 feet near Mexico City when a brilliant light illuminates his
-cockpit. He turns off the aircraft lights and sees a large luminous
-object darting from left to right and back again ahead of him.
-Passengers and crew also see the light, as do personnel at the Mexico
-City control tower. (Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-p. 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3102
Date: 12/12/1957
-Description: 5:45 p.m. At least 13 witnesses see a bright light over the
-Sea of Japan. The object is tracked on radar and seen through
-binoculars. At 7:22 p.m., a scramble is ordered and two F-86D’s take off
-from Misawa Air Base, Japan. Multiple radar and visual sightings take
-place over the next three days. (NICAP, “Jets
-Scrambled after
-Radar/Visual UFO”; Sparks, p. 261)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3105
Date: 12/12/1957
-Description: A USAF pilot attains 1,208 mph in a McDonnell F-101A Voodoo
-at Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “McDonnell
-F-101 Voodoo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3104
Date: 12/13/1957
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: R.C. Cano. Fourteen-fifteen circular, tapered
-discs, very bright, flew in a formation like a stack of coins, then
-changed to an inverted-V formation. Sighting lasted 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Col Anahuac, Mexico
-ID: 421
Date: 12/14/1957
-Description: Night. Ed Waslashi sees a lighted green object fall into a
-haystack on his farm at Langdon, North Dakota. He picks out a strange
-metallic substance from the ashes of the burned hay. The material finds
-its way to geologist Nicholas
-N. Kohanowski at the University of North Dakota, who finds that it
-is light, porous, and mostly magnesium dioxide. (“What
-Is It?” Winona (Minn.) Daily News, December 17, 1957, p 1; Lorenzen,
-UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3106
Date: 12/15/1957
-Description: 1:00–2:00 a.m. Three young men see a huge light in the sky
-at Almind, Denmark. It is oval-shaped, emits red or orange rays, and
-appears to be descending. They watch it for 18–19 minutes as it hovers
-at a 10° angle and quivers. Suddenly it becomes still and from its
-center emerge two small objects that drift away in a northerly direction
-and soon disappear. The large object lies on its side and quivers some
-more. Later it ascends and a fan-shaped tail of light spreads after it.
-The UFO is seen later along the coast and photographed. (“Flying Saucer
-Reports Pour in from Denmark,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1958): 2; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further
-Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3107
Date: 12/16/1957
-Description: Between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. Mary M. Starr, a resident of Old
-Saybrook, Connecticut, and a former teacher with a master’s degree from
-Yale, is awakened by a bright light in her room. A cigar-shaped object,
-brightly lit and with square portholes, hovers just above her
-clothesline. She can see men inside. The object is approximately 20–30
-feet long and dark gray or black in color, hovering motionless about 5
-feet above the ground. Through its lighted windows Starr sees two
-figures that pass each other, walking in opposite directions. (Donald E.
-Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore, eds, UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, 1969, pp. 27–28;
-Clark III 269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3108
Date: 12/17/1957
-Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information is founded in Denmark by Hans-Christian
-Petersen under the name Sydjysk UFO Information. It publishes the
-journal UFO-Nyt from 1958 to 2010. (Wikipedia, “Skandinavisk
-UFO Information”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3109
Date: 12/17/1957
-Description: The US conducts its first successful launch of an SM-65A
-Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Wikipedia, “SM-65A
-Atlas”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3110
Date: 12/17/1957
-Time: 7:20 PM
-Description: Witness: F.G. Hickman, 17. One round object changed from
-yellow to white to green to red; red tail was twice as long as the body.
-It stopped, started, backed up for 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Grand Junction, Colorado
-ID: 422
Date: 12/18/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Mary Stan was awakened by a brilliant light and saw through
-her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair. Aboard
-were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish
-jackets. A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off
-inside the craft while it glowed like brass. A spinning antennalike
-device was noted. A few minutes later it flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60,3 (Vallee)
-Location: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
-ID: 451
Date: 12/18/1957
-Description: Luis E. Corrales of Caracas, Venezuela, finds an odd
-luminous streak on a photographic plate recording the passage of Sputnik
-2. It
-is a luminous trail running parallel to the satellite’s trail, then
-veering away. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 December, The
-Author, 1998, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3111
Date: 12/21/1957
-Time: 1830
-Description: Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons saw a light in the
-south, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to
-the witnesses on an oscillating course. One of them hovered close to the
-car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded
-by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road.
-Estimated diameter: 5 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Ponte Poran, Brazil
-ID: 452
Date: 12/21/1957
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Yvonne Torres de Mendonça, her three small
-children, and a servant are traveling in a jeep driven by her mechanic,
-Marcio Gonçalves, towards Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along
-the Paraguayan border. They see a large ball of light about the size of
-the full moon that starts moving toward them, and they realize that it
-is two lights flying silently side by side. The lights straddle the
-road, oscillating from one side to the other in a strange wobbling
-motion and spinning on their axes. One of them stops in mid-air and
-dives toward the ground in a falling-leaf motion 60 feet ahead of them,
-while the other maneuvers in circles around the jeep. The lights are
-spherical and encircled by a Saturn-like ring at the center. The upper
-hemisphere and rim are fiery red, while the lower hemisphere is silvery
-white. The two objects follow the jeep for 2 hours, all the way to town,
-maneuvering intelligently around them, especially when the jeep stops
-twice to evaluate the objects. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Shadow
-of the Unknown, Part II: UAOs Chase Cars,” APRO Bulletin, March
-1959, pp. 3–6; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 148–150; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1957 December, The Author, 1998, pp. 60–63; Clark
-III 245–246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3112
Date: 12/28/57
-Description: Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is
-released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Japan
Date: 12/30/1957
-Time: night
-Description: George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by the
-barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an
-electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife
-as it came within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the
-bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one picked up
-something before returning to the craft, which then took off. Total
-duration: 2 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Drakestown, New Jersey
-ID: 453
Date: 12/30/1957
-Description: Night. George Chowanski is cutting wood at his home in
-Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey, when his two dogs begin to bark and
-howl. He hears a whirring noise like an electric shaver that persists
-for one minute. Then he sees a saucer-shaped object, 5 feet high and 15
-feet wide, hovering about 2 feet above the ground in a grove of trees
-100 feet from the back porch. Three individuals come out of the craft
-and walk about in the clearing. One of them bends over to pick something
-up and carries something heavy back to the object. After 2–3 minutes, it
-slowly rises, spiraling through the tall trees, and flies off.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 88–89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3113
Date: 1958
-Description: Night. A sergeant in charge of a fire truck crash crew at
-an air base in South Korea is positioned near the runway awaiting an
-emergency landing by an American jet fighter low on fuel. The men see a
-bright light approaching from across the Yellow Sea. It grows bigger
-and, within several hundred yards of the shore, stops and hovers. The
-control tower operators, watching the object through binoculars, do not
-know what it is. Suddenly the object shines a beam of light straight
-down on the water. It soon goes out, but the water remains luminescent
-for a while before fading out. The object again shines a light on the
-water and turns it off a minute or so later. By this time, the jet that
-is low on fuel is landing. A second jet is asked to check out the
-object, which instantly shoots back toward China and disappears in
-seconds. (Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where
-Next?, Horus House, 1996, online ed., p. 164;
-Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3
-(December 2010): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3118
Date: Late 1950’s
-Description: The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished
-and all records were transferred to the Air Force.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p55)
-See also: 5/16/84
Date: 1958
-Description: The Atomic Energy Commission puts a barbed wire fence
-around Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, where the Project
-57 “dirty bomb” had been detonated in April 1957, with signs indicating
-“do not enter / nuclear material.” (Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3114
Date: 1958
-Description: Project Orion, an effort to build a nuclear-powered
-spacecraft, begins at a maximum-security facility in Area 25 of the
-Nevada Test Site. Led by Ted
-Taylor of General Atomics and physicist Freeman
-Dyson, its initial focus is to send astronauts to Mars and back. The
-spaceship would be 16 stories tall and piloted by 150 men. Soon ARPA and
-the Air Force take over the project and redesign it for a space-based
-battleship that could launch nuclear missiles from space. But no one
-builds Orion and it is effectively disbanded by the 1963 nuclear test
-ban. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Orion (nuclear propulsion)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 304–305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3115
Date: 1958
-Description: French ufologist Aimé
-Michel publishes Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, an
-examination of the UFO wave of September–October 1954 in France. The
-book’s preface is written by Gen. Lionel-Max
-Chassin, in
-which he expresses his opinion that UFOs are genuinely mysterious (“That
-strange things have been seen is now beyond question, and the
-‘psychological’ explanations seem to have misfired”). Michel contends
-that each day’s sightings, when plotted on a map, occur along
-straight-line paths, even though different objects seem to figure in
-each sighting. The alignments, which he calls “orthotenic lines,” do not
-necessarily correspond to a trajectory. However, Jacques
-Vallée later concludes that the alignments can be explained by
-chance alone. (Aimé Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line
-Mystery, Criterion, 1958; “An
-Evaluation of Aimé Michel’s Study of the Straight
-Line Mystery,” in C. A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of
-Unidentified Flying Objects, NICAP, 1961, pp. 90–98; Jacques Vallee and
-Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, pp. 57–82;
-Don Johnson, “New Lines in UFO Research: Orthoteny Revisited,” IUR 25,
-no. 1 (Spring 2000): 18–19, 32; Claude Maugé, “Orthoteny: Lost Cause, or
-a Redeemed One?” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 24–28; Clark III 747,
-858–860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3116
Date: 1958
-Description: DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon
-program
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso’s Manuscript
-Location: Washington, DC
Date: 1958
-Description: Trevor
-James Constable writes They Live in the Sky, which explains UFOs as
-etheric (good) and astral (bad) entities that are engaged in a battle
-for control of earthly minds. He bases this on his analysis of occult
-texts and channeled communications from cosmic informant Ashtar. The
-astral entities are based inside the earth, but they can leave it
-through an opening in the South Pole and fly 125,000 miles into space.
-Only the atomic bomb can penetrate the astral realm, which is why
-astrals disguised as benevolent Space Brothers argue fervently for
-nuclear disarmament. The men in black are reincarnated versions of Richard
-Shaver’s deros. (Trevor James [Constable]. They Live in the Sky, New
-Age, 1958; Trevor James [Constable], “Scientists,
-Contactees, and Equilibrium,” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1960): 19–21; Clark III 1102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3117
Date: 1/1958
-Time: 0130
-Description: A lady who was driving on the New York State Thruway during
-a snow storm saw a large shape with a tall, luminous pole on the side of
-the road. Her car stalled, and the lights went off. Two figures, looking
-like animals or huge insects were observed near the pole. They soon
-disappared, and the object took off spinning. The witness was then able
-to start her car. She noted that the snow at the site had been melted
-and the grass was warm.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Depew, New York
-ID: 454
Date: 1/1958
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman is driving along the New York State
-Thruway near Niagara Falls, New York, when she sees an illuminated
-50-foot pole in the center parkway ahead. It seems to be retracting and
-getting shorter. As she closes in on it, her engine stops and the
-headlights go out. The pole is attached to a saucer-shaped object, and
-she sees shadowy figures floating around it. The UFO rises and moves
-away, and she starts the car again. An area of snow a foot in diameter
-has melted dry where the pole has been. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing
-Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (Mar. 2008): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3121
Date: 1/1958
-Description: Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, asks for Keyhoe’s
-permission to use The Flying Saucer Conspiracy to develop a script for
-closed-circuit broadcast at the base. Keyhoe agrees. (Keyhoe, FSTS,
-p. 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3120
Date: 1/1958
-Description: The US Senate Committee on Government Operations asks to
-meet with representatives from the Secretary of the Air Force Office of
-Legislative Action to discuss the possibility of holding open hearings
-on the Air Force UFO program. USAF fears “uncontrolled publicity,” but
-agrees to go along with it. Soon, however, Richard
-E. Horner,
-USAF assistant secretary for research and development, persuades the
-committee’s chief counsel, Donald O’Donnell, that hearings are “not in
-the best interest of the air force,” nor necessary for national
-security. Horner says Project Blue Book has things well in hand, and he
-tells Sen. Barry
-Goldwater (R-Ariz.) that allegations about the Air Force withholding
-information are “entirely in error.” People who report UFOs simply want
-confidentiality, and the Air Force respects that. (Jacobs, UFO
-Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 140– 141, 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3119
Date: 1/3/1958
-Description: Cliff DeLacey, a 23-year-old college student from Vallejo,
-California, shoots 90 seconds of film of UFOs at Diamond Head, Hawaii.
-DeLacey sees nine UFOs flashing across the sky and immediately grabs his
-camera. He is careful enough to shoot the tops of nearby trees, allowing
-a reference to the height and relative speed of the unknown objects. The
-objects appear to be about 3–4 miles away from the camera, flying at an
-altitude of 7,000– 8,000 feet, and moving at a speed slightly greater
-than that of a jet. The silvery globules appear to be no more than 20
-feet in diameter. They are spherical, and no tail fins or protrusions of
-any kind are visible. The film, in color, is said to be clear and to
-show at least two of the nine UFOs in considerable detail. (NICAP, “’Genuine
-Flying Saucer…Caught
-on Movie Film’”; Max B. Miller and Norman S. Kossuth, “How
-to Film Unidentified Flying Objects,”
-Saucers 6, no. 3 (Autumn 1958): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3122
Date: 1/4/1958
-Description: A woodcutter reported that he saw an object land, and a
-very tall man with a tanned face, wearing a helmet, stepped from the
-machine. He went back in after a few minutes; the craft took off “with a
-noise like a flock of birds.” Air Force officers and policemen searched
-the snowcovered hill for traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Stavanger, Norway
-ID: 455
Date: 1/4/1958
-Description: Sputnik deorbits
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington, DC
Date: 1/7/1958
-Description: Two figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton and spoke to
-her in English (see Case 443).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Aston, Great Britain
-ID: 456
Date: 1/10/1958
-Description: Day. Capt. Chrysólogo Rocha is sitting with his wife on the
-porch of a house in Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, overlooking the South
-Atlantic. He is trying to focus with his binoculars on what appears to
-be a small island. When he does get focused, he realizes the island is
-getting bigger and is in two parts, both a clear, gray color. One part
-is in the sea, while the other seems suspended above it. Without
-warning, both parts suddenly sink out of sight. Shortly afterwards, a
-steamer comes into view, on a course that will take it very close to the
-object. About 15 minutes later, when the ship is out of sight, the
-object again rises slowly out of the sea. He now sees clearly that the
-two parts are joined by several narrow upright shafts or tubes that are
-bright and visible to the naked eye. These shafts, “like beads on a
-necklace” pass in a “disorderly and simultaneous movement.” Shortly
-afterwards the two parts of the object close up again, and it disappears
-below the waves. Probably an inferior mirage of an island in combination
-with a towering effect. (Charles Bowen, “A
-South American Trio,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1965): 20–21; Wim van Utrecht, “A
-UFO Dives in and Out of the Ocean,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3123
Date: 1/13/1958
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Brian Crittenden sees a dome-shaped light with a
-long narrow light underneath coming directly towards him as he is
-leaving a friend’s house southwest of Casino, New South Wales,
-Australia. He jumps into his car and heads home. The UFO chases his car
-along Benns Road, practically touching the telephone poles. His car
-radio develops interference when the UFO approaches him. It follows him
-all the way to town, 7 miles away. (Schopick,
-p. 81; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January– February, The
-Author, 1998, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3124
Date: 1/13/1958
-Time: 2345
-Description: Brian Crittendon, 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object
-that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened
-that he drove home on a half-flat tire, followed for 5 km by the object,
-which was about 50 m away and 10 m above ground. It overtook his car at
-a speed exceeding 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted, but no
-noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Farm Hill, Australia
-ID: 457
Date: 1/16/1958
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. As the International Geophysical Year
-research ship Almirante
-Saldanha is anchored on the south side of Ilha da Trindade, Brazil,
-730 miles off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean, the commander and many
-crew members, including photographer Almiro Baraúna, see a Saturn-shaped
-object maneuvering over the island. It reportedly comes toward the
-island from the east, flies towards the Pico Desejado, makes a steep
-turn, and goes away very quickly to the northwest. Baraúna takes four
-photos with a Rolleiflex 2.8 model E. Commander Paulo
-Moreira da Silva of the Brazilian Navy Hydrography and Navigation
-Department (who technically outranks the ship’s captain, José
-Santos de Saldanha da Gama), is apparently an eyewitness and states,
-“the object was encircled by a greenish glow, our [meteorological]
-balloon was of a red color.” Baraúna is officially there to take photos
-of the island, underwater photos, photos of the IGY activities, and the
-ship’s operations. The radar detection of an unexplained supersonic
-target reportedly occurs the day before, at about 12:05 p.m. There is a
-power failure on the ship when the object is seen; the power returns
-upon the object’s departure. Instruments like radio transmitters and
-apparatus with magnetic needles cease operating while the flying object
-remains in the island’s proximity. Willy
-Smith’s April 20, 1983, interview of Baraúna takes on more
-significance: “I asked if the object had been detected by ship’s radar.
-He [Baraúna] replied that it hadn’t because all the electrical power
-aboard ship was out at the time. He was sure of the reality of the power
-outage because just before the object appeared a launch was being hauled
-up from the water by electric pulley, and it stopped midway just as the
-UFO appeared!” The ship’s log is provably incomplete since it does not
-even mention the UFO photo incident. A 1999 analysis by Martin
-J. Powell seems to indicate that the object photographed is an
-airplane, distorted by Baraúna through a double-exposure process. In
-August 2010, a major TV show in Brazil airs information stating that the
-original photographer had made hoax photographs in the past. (Wikipedia,
-“Trindade
-Island UFO hoax”; Wikipedia, “Caso
-da Ilha da Trindade”; NICAP, “Trindade
-Island Photo (E-M, Radar,
-AR) Case”; Olavo T. Fontes, “The
-UAO Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part 1,” APRO Bulletin,
-January 1960, pp. 5–9; Olavo T. Fontes, “UAO
-Sightings over Trindade, Part II,” APRO Bulletin, March 1960,
-pp. 5–8; Olavo T. Fontes, “UAO
-Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part III,” APRO Bulletin, May
-1960, pp. 4– 9; John T. Hopf, “Exclusive
-IGY Photo Analysis,” APRO Bulletin, May 1960, pp. 1, 4; “New
-Evidence on IGY Photos,”
-APRO Bulletin, January 1965, pp. 1, 3–8; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
-Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 205– 210; Willy Smith, “Trindade
-Revisited,” IUR 8, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1983): 3–5, 14; Willy Smith,
-“UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-pp. 109–111; Martin J. Powell, “The
-Trindade Island UFO: A
-Detailed Study of Photos 1 and 2,” Aenigmatis, Summer 1999; Don
-Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 71–77;
-Martin Shough, “The
-Trindade Island Photographs, 16 Jan 1958,” Aerial Phenomena Studies
-Index, 2004; Equipe UFO, “Documento
-raro sobre o caso Trindade ressurge no exterior,” Portal UFO, August
-31, 2010; Sparks,
-p. 262; Story, pp. 366–369;
-Swords 463–465; Brazil 49–57; Clark III 1132–1136; Patrick Gross, “The
-Trindade Island Photographic
-Case of 1958”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3125
Date: 1/22/1958
-Description: Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO
-discussion
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 1/22/1958
-Description: The “UFO: The Enigma of the Skies” segment of Armstrong
-Circle Theater airs on CBS. USAF Reserve Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from
-ATIC says all UFOs are explainable. Keyhoe comes
-on and starts reading his script for a few minutes, then shocks everyone
-by deviating from it, saying “And now, Mr. Edwards,
-I would like to make a disclosure, something which has never been
-revealed to the public. For the last six months our committee has been
-working with a Senate committee which is investigating official secrecy
-on UFOs. If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel it would prove
-beyond doubt that flying saucers are real—”. Then his microphone is cut
-off, although the filming continues. Menzel then
-appears, then USAF spokesman Richard
-E. Horner comes
-on afterward and says that the Air Force is not hiding anything about
-UFOs. Keyhoe later claims this is not censorship by the show, although
-he thinks it is the Air Force silence group at work. In April, CBS
-director of editing Herbert A. Carlborg tells NICAP that Keyhoe’s
-deviation “might lead to statements that neither this network nor the
-individuals on the program were authorized to release. As a consequence,
-public interest was served.” (Clark III 167–168; Keyhoe, FSTS,
-pp. 22–23, 155–165; “UFO
-Archives: Project Blue Book—Col. Spenser
-Whedon, Dr. Donald Menzel, Major Donald Keyhoe” [audio only], UFO
-Archives YouTube channel, May 22, 2014; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January– February, The
-Author, 1998, pp. 23, 28–30, 35–39; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1958 March–April, The
-Author, 1998, pp. 10–17; Swords 272; Good Above, pp. 286–287)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3126
Date: 1/23/1958
-Description: Capt. G. H. Oldenburgh, public information officer at
-Langley AFB, Virginia, writes to a NICAP member who has been denied a
-request to place an ad in the base newspaper asking for UFO reports: “I
-felt it would encourage Air Force personnel to violate present Air Force
-policy and specifically AF Regulation 200-2.” (Frank Edwards, FS Serious
-Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3127
Date: 1/26/1958
-Time: 1600
-Description: A very bright object landed before numerous chemical
-workers; they reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes.
-They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Shimada City, Japan
-ID: 458
Date: 1/26/1958
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Some chemical workers at Shimada, Japan, see a
-bright object land and claim that beings fell from the sky without
-parachutes. They wear strange suits and speak an unknown language. (“They
-Are Landing in Japan,
-Too,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 (May/June 1958): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3128
Date: 1/28/1958
-Description: Hillenkoetter announces
-that “two committees on Capitol Hill” are investigating the UFO
-controversy. Rep. William
-Hanes Ayres (R-Ohio) writes a letter to constituent Melvin V. Knapp,
-saying that “Congressional investigations have been held and are still
-being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects (UFO’s). Since
-most of the material presented to the committees is classified, the
-hearings are never printed. When conclusions are reached, they will be
-released if possible.” (“Flying
-Saucer Proof Clouded by Air Force, Private Probers Say,” Rochester
-(N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1958, p. 8; UFOEv, p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3129
Date: 1/30/1958
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Attorney José Valencia Dongo, his wife, and
-their nephew feel an electric shock as they are driving between Arequipa
-and Lima, Peru, at a point (roughly around the Yauca District) along the
-Pan American Highway 220 miles northwest of Arequipa. Several seconds
-later the headlights and engine of their car fails. They then see an
-inverted mushroom-shaped object, about 15 feet in diameter, descending
-from the sky. It hovers for about 8 minutes at a 150-foot altitude,
-glowing red. A truck and bus are also affected. (Civilian Saucer
-Intelligence, “Shapes
-in the Sky,” Fantastic Universe, 10, no. 4 (October 1958): 111;
-Charles A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying
-Objects, NICAP, 1961, p. 82;
-Schopick,
-pp. 58–59; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3130
Date: 1/31/1958
-Description: 10:48 p.m. The US launches its first satellite, Explorer 1,
-from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida. It is the first spacecraft
-to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. (Wikipedia, “Explorer
-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3132
Date: 1/31/1958
-Description: A meeting is held in the office of Assistant Secretary of
-the Air Force Richard
-E. Horner under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Investigations
-of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, even though Sen. John
-L. McClellan (D-Ark.) and other senators are absent. The Air Force
-is represented by Maj. James F. Byrne, Maj. Joseph
-E. Boland, and Maj. Lawrence
-J. Tacker who meet with the subcommittee’s FBI liaisons. Tacker
-declares that USAF does not want a congressional investigation, and the
-McClellan effort dies immediately. (Swords 275)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3131
Date: 2/1958
-Description: Keyhoe meets
-again with Rep. James
-C. Healey and tells him that the Armstrong Circle Theater incident
-was Air Force censorship. A few days later, Healey tells Keyhoe that the
-Air Force is claiming that the program proves “there are no such things
-as flying saucers.” Keyhoe gives Healey the facts about the 1956 Ryan case
-pointing to USAF ordering a commercial flight to pursue UFOs, citing the
-Meet the Millers tape from April 16, 1956, which he has obtained. He
-offers to get the committee a transcript. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 166–167,
-182–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3133
Date: 2/1958
-Description: Ufologist Raymond Veillith launches the UFO journal
-Lumières dans la Nuit in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute-Loire, France. It
-continues on under various editors until at least 2018. (Lumières
-dans la Nuit, no.
-1 (February 1958); Wikipedia, “Lumières
-dans la Nuit”; Story, p. 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3134
Date: 2/1958
-Description: Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
Date: 2/1/1958
-Description: First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric
-medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
Date: 2/2/1958
-Description: An elliptical UFO with two porthole-like markings is seen
-somewhere in New South Wales, Australia. (UFOEv, p. 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3135
Date: 2/2/1958
-Time: 1530
-Description: Farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro
-Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Hokkaido, Japan
-ID: 459
Date: 2/3/1958
-Description: OTC Enterprises runs a two-page ad in a Baltimore,
-Maryland, newspaper and distributes a well-printed brochure announcing
-that Otis
-T. Carr has approached the US government and offered to build it a
-working spacecraft called the OTC-X1—circular, 45 feet in diameter and
-15 feet high—for $20 million. He sets a date of December 7, 1959, to
-take a three-man crew on the spacecraft on a round trip to the Moon.
-Some press accounts treat Carr as if he is a real scientist. (Clark III
-860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3136
Date: 2/5/1958
-Description: The Air Force revises AFR 200-2 and recreates the system of
-air base commanders conducting initial investigations of sightings in
-their areas. It also continues ATIC’s responsibility to “reduce the
-percentage of unidentifieds to the minimum.” (Department of the Air
-Force, “Intelligence:
-Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” Air Force Regulation 200-2,
-February 5, 1958; Department of the Air Force, “Intelligence:
-Unidentified Flying Objects
-(UFO),” Air Force Regulation 200-2A, July 3, 1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3137
Date: 2/5/1958
-Description: Reinhold Schmidt’s 2nd contact with saucers &
-spacepeople, takes ride.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Kearney, NE
Date: 2/7/1958
-Description: In response to the launching of Sputnik, President Eisenhower creates
-the Advanced Research Projects Agency and houses it in the Pentagon.
-(Wikipedia, “DARPA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3138
Date: 2/17/1958
-Description: Evening. Flora
-Evans and Bernice McIntosh twice encounter an intensely brilliant
-orange light about 15 feet in diameter that sends out peculiar grid-like
-or diamond-shaped patterns and lights up a canyon northeast of Alcalde,
-New Mexico, along State Highway 68. The two women are temporarily
-blinded. Their trip home to Albuquerque inexplicably takes 4 hours
-instead of the normal 2 hours. Both witnesses are exhausted and have
-burned or reddened areas on their skin, some on their kneecaps and the
-back of their lower legs, even though they have not left the car. Evans
-has a reddened area shaped like a triangle on her back. An acquaintance,
-Paul Boyett, has a Geiger counter, with which he gets a high radiation
-count from both women on February 19. The next day Evans, who is working
-in some capacity in civil defense, goes to her doctor at the Lovelace
-Clinic in Albuquerque, to see about possible radiation burns and
-exposure. She overhears a comment about “178 roentgens” exposure, but
-the doctor says there is nothing to worry about. McIntosh’s symptoms
-(nausea, vomiting, rash) are initially more irritating but subside
-substantially, although both women have swellings in their lower legs,
-and both gain serious weight (some 50 pounds) over the next few months.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–February, The
-Author, 1998, pp. 60–64 ; Michael D, Swords, “Can UFOs Cause
-Physiological Effects? Part 2” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 4–5; Swords
-280–281; Clark III 1–2, 950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3139
Date: 2/19/1958
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Cicero Claudino da Silva, Mustafa Esgaib,
-Alegario Campos, and João Manuel Vasquez are investigating the Ponta
-Porã case from December. They are at Porteiro Ortiz, Mato Grosso do Sul,
-Brazil, along Highway 463 and shining their lights in the direction of
-the Paraguayan frontier when a reddish light appears and becomes larger,
-as if approaching them. The ground around their car is illuminated for a
-few seconds, and they realize that another red light is nearing them on
-the other side of the car. They head for Ponta Porã at breakneck speed.
-(Olavo T. Fontes, “The
-Shadow of the Unknown,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3140
Date: 2/24/1958
-Description: 3:05 a.m. Attorney Carlos José de Costa Pereira, Manoel
-Mendes, and Antônio de Araujo are driving near Santo Antônio de Jesus,
-Bahia, Brazil. The car engine sputters and fails. All attempts to detect
-the trouble fail. The next inhabited place is far away, so the travelers
-decide that the best thing to do is to sleep at that spot, beside the
-road. Next morning they will try to do something about their situation,
-getting help from some nearby village or farm. It was then that they
-notice a large luminous Saturn-shaped object silently approaching to
-about 240 feet from them and only 90 feet from the ground. It then
-descends in a falling-leaf pattern to about 12 feet. They can see it is
-about 60–75 feet in diameter with a rotating center section. Suddenly it
-climbs vertically to 600 feet, makes a tight circle, then tilts to 45°
-and makes a number of high-speed maneuvers, then descends again in a
-falling-leaf motion before shooting up vertically at tremendous speed.
-After this, the car starts easily and they proceed to Salvador. (Olavo
-T. Fontes, “The
-Shadow of the Unknown,” APRO Bulletin, May 1959, p. 7; Schopick, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3141
Date: 2/24/1958
-Time: 0305
-Description: Three witnesses, among them Dr. C. da Costa, decided to
-sleep in their car when the engine stalled and could not be started
-again. Then a very large, blue silvery object appeared and came to
-ground level with a swinging motion. was shaped like a sphere surrounded
-by a flat ring. When they tried to approach it, the object maneuvered in
-a strange “aerial dance.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Conceicao Almeida, Brazil
-ID: 460
Date: 2/28/1958
-Description: Police detective Faustin
-Gallegos and his wife Dorothy see something like a “large medicine
-ball” descend and land in their back yard in Miami, Florida. Outside, he
-sees a football-shaped object 20 inches long and 8 inches high, lined
-with “thousands of minute cells resembling those of a honeycomb. It is
-clear and pulsating. He touches it and his fingers leave marks. They put
-it in a jar, but it evaporates on the way to the police station.
-(Faustin Gallegos, “The Pulsing Honeycomb from Space,” Fate 11, no. 9
-(September 1958): 40–43; Clark III 1102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3144
Date: 2/28/1958
-Description: Brig. Gen. João
-Adil Oliveira, chief
-of the Brazilian Air Force’s General Staff information service, tells O
-Globo that the UFO phenomenon is a “fact confirmed by material evidence.
-There are thousands of documents, photos, and sighting evidence
-demonstrating its existence.” (Good Need, p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3143
Date: 2/28/1958
-Description: USAF Director of Information Gen. Arno
-H. Luehman naively inquires of the McClellan Senate subcommittee
-whether, based on its “preliminary informal investigation,” it would
-state that the Air Force is investigating UFOs and not withholding
-information. (Swords 275)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3142
Date: 3/1958
-Description: A French Foreign Legionnaire on sentry duty at Bouamama,
-near Sidi Chami, Algeria, hears a whistling noise and sees an enormous,
-elliptical-shaped object descend and hover 115–131 feet above the ground
-165 feet away. The object is surrounded by pale green light, and a
-relaxing emerald-green beam of light is coming from its base to the
-ground. Seemingly paralyzed, he stares at the object for 45–50 minutes.
-The noise returns, the object rises gently, and flies off at tremendous
-speed. (Joël Mesnard, “Tranquillizing
-Visitation at Bouahmama: An Algerian Report
-of 1958,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 (May/June 1973):
-17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3146
Date: 3/1958
-Description: Big “flap” in Arizona. Much activity.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: Arizona
Date: 3/1958
-Description: The Air Force releases parts of the 1953 Robertson Panel
-report, a mere three paragraphs recommending that “the national security
-agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects
-of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they
-have unfortunately acquired.” (“CIA
-Evades, Then Denies Charge
-of Attempted UFO Censorship,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 4 (June 1958):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3145
Date: 3/2/1958
-Time: 1945
-Description: A civilian source was said to have observed a
-balloon-shaped object land on the airfield then take off slowly and
-hover at 250 m altitude before disappearing. It showed a bright light
-source.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Tampa, Florida
-ID: 461
Date: 3/2/1958
-Description: The Brazilian Navy, after an analysis of the January 16
-Ilha da Trindade sighting and photos, offers an ambiguous conclusion:
-“the existence of personal testimonies and of a photographer, of some
-value given the circumstances involved permit the admission that there
-are indications of the existence of the UFO.” (Brazil Department of the
-Navy, “Clarification
-of the Observation of Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted on the Island
-of Trinidad,
-in the Period of 12/5/57 to 1/16/58,” March 2, 1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3147
Date: 3/3/1958
-Description: Gen. Joe
-W. Kelly responds to Luehman,
-falsely stating that the Air Force has done “considerable work” with the
-McClellan subcommittee. (Swords 275–276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3148
Date: 3/8/1958
-Description: Keyhoe appears
-on ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview and mentions the Estimate of the
-Situation, Fournet’s
-motion study, and the CIA Robertson Panel. Wallace surprises
-him by saying Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Richard
-E. Horner told his producers that the Senate Committee “show no
-interest in any hearings.” This is news to Keyhoe. Wallace also quotes
-from the Robertson Panel summary that was just released. A few days
-later, Keyhoe receives two letters from the Senate Committee confirming
-that it “does not intend to investigate the United States Air Force.”
-(“Major
-Donald Keyhoe Interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958),” pfreal1 YouTube
-channel, August 25, 2012; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, The
-Author, 1998, p. 9; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 189–190; Swords 272–273; “Mike
-Wallace Interview of
-Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe: A Sequel to the Arnstrong Circle Theater,”
-Journal of UFO History 2, no. 1 (March/April 2005): 8–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3150
Date: 3/8/1958
-Description: A USAF radar site in Korea tracks a UFO slowly descending
-from 77,000 to 25,000 feet. (UFOEv, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3149
Date: 3/14/1958
-Time: 0845
-Description: Two persons, in their backyard, saw a round object 1 m in
-diameter come from the west and land 15 m away. It took off toward the
-east, turned south, and was lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Healdsburg, California
-ID: 462
Date: 3/14/1958
-Time: 8:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Cummings and one other. A 3’
-round, black object touched the ground and then took off. Watched for 2
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Healdsburg, California
-ID: 423
Date: 3/19/1958
-Description: Near Moscow, a large, disk-shaped object was seen on the
-ground. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost to
-sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Moscow, USSR
-ID: 463
Date: late 3/1958
-Description: NICAP begins a new campaign to open another government UFO
-investigation. This time it approaches the Department of Justice, the
-National Security Council, the CIA, and the US Army. It receives rebuffs
-and denials. (Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3151
Date: 4/1958
-Time: 0600
-Description: Near Paripueira, jeweler Wilson Lustosa and numerous
-fishermen saw an object hovering 15 m above the sea, 40 m away. It was
-lens-shaped, about 12 m thick, and showed portholes with a glowing red
-light. Below the object the water seemed to be “boiling” or attracted
-upward, while a soft, whirring sound was heard. For one hour the object
-kept going up and down.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: SBEDV (Vallee)
-Location: Maceio, Brazil
-ID: 464
Date: 4/1958
-Description: 6:00 a.m. At some place along the Brazilian coast between
-Maceió and Paripueira, Alagoas, Brazil, Wilson Lustosa stops to ask some
-fishermen what they are looking at. He hears a humming sound and sees a
-disc-shaped object hovering about 50 feet above the ocean and 120 feet
-away. It has a small lighted dome on top and a band of square portholes
-around its midsection through which a red light is shining. Under the
-UFO the water seems disturbed. The object is visible for an hour.
-(Gordon W. Creighton, “A
-Brazilian Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1964): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3153
Date: 4/1958
-Description: Edgar Sievers begins publishing a pro-Adamski newsletter
-titled Approach in Pretoria, South Africa. It folds in March 1960. (Approach 1,
-no. 1 (April 1958))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3152
Date: 4/1958
-Description: All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in
-respective countries
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah
-Poster
-Location: New York City, New York
Date: early 4/1958
-Description: Night. A 2-foot red blinking light frightens children over
-the Walnut housing area in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Police officers
-Joseph Scala and Emanuel Mavero investigate and watch the bright disc
-for 10 minutes. Their police radio malfunctions. They try to get closer,
-but it disappears when they get to the top of a hill. (C. W. Fitch, “Monitoring
-and Scanning Discs,” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3154
Date: 4/9/1958
-Description: A family in Cleveland, Ohio, sees a flight of nine UFOs
-that suddenly separates into two groups of four and five objects.
-(UFOEv, p. 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3155
Date: 4/9/1958
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. B. Mills are driving on St. Vincent
-Street in Nelson, New Zealand, when they see a bright-red triangular
-object with white lights around its perimeter. It is descending from the
-northeast at a 45° angle and moving across Tasman Bay. They see the
-object again, somewhat dimmer, around 8:00 p.m. from a friend’s house on
-Matipo Terrace. (“Triangular
-Object over New Zealand,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1958): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3156
Date: 4/10/1958
-Description: A Danish fighter pilot reports seeing a formation of UFOs.
-They are also tracked on radar at Skrydstrup Airport in Vojens, Denmark.
-The pilot attempts to overtake them, but they accelerate and disappear.
-The commander of Fighter Wing Skrydstrup appeals to the public to report
-any UFOs. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, The Author,
-1998, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3157
Date: 4/13/1958
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Lester Billheimer and Carl Kern watch an object
-shaped like a “solid right angle” glowing like a white neon light over
-Allentown, Pennsylvania. It travels northwest at first, then turns west
-and disappears after three seconds. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3158
Date: 4/14/1958
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Maj. D.G. Tilley, flying C-47 transport. One
-grey-black rectangular object rotated very slowly on its horizontal axis
-for 4 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lynchburg, Virginia
-ID: 424
Date: 4/15/1958
-Description: Approximate date. In the mountains, about 14 km from Abra
-Pampa, a luminous object 30 m in diameter came to ground level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Tabladitas, Argentina
-ID: 465
Date: 4/15/1958
-Description: Day. A witness in Broager, Denmark, sees a large, black,
-low-flying, triangular object. As it flies over town, a number of
-horseshoe-shaped objects emerge, emitting a strong light. Twenty other
-witnesses see a triangular “spaceship” at the same time. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, The
-Author, 1998, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3159
Date: 4/17/1958
-Time: 1925
-Description: All night long, three hovering disks were seen by several
-witnesses in this area. A railroad employee, Mr. Cavalheiro, and the
-station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police, and all saw the
-objects coming to ground level about 1 km away. At times they appeared
-to exchange signals. One of the disks flew over the station itself,
-leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
-Location: Abaatu, Brazil
-ID: 466
Date: 4/25/1958
-Description: The officer for UFO investigation in Denmark, Lt. Col. Hans-Christian
-Petersen, tells the magazine B-T that multiple-witness sightings are
-commonplace and that the current Danish wave is comparable to that of
-the US 1952 wave. “Nothing is gained by rejecting all the accounts as
-fantasy,” he tells reporters. Petersen has founded the Skandinavisk UFO
-Information group in December with five other Danish military jet
-pilots. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April,
-The Author, 1998, pp. 97–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3160
Date: 5/1958
-Description: Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO
-approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At
-about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking
-object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA
-radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert
-hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly
-down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni
-Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp
-for the F-89’s and then flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Maelstrom AFB, Montana
Date: 5/2/1958
-Description: Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with
-scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers
-nearly touched the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Dischi Volanti, by L. Bulgarini (Vallee)
-Location: Bogota, Colombia
-ID: 467
Date: 5/4/1958
-Description: Dewey
-Fournet confirms, in a statement to NICAP, the existence of the
-Estimate of the Situation and his own motion study from 1952. (UFOEv, p. 110;
-Swords 509)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3161
Date: 5/5/1958
-Description: 3:40 p.m. Experienced pilot Carlos
-Alejo Rodriguez is flying his Piper Cub in the vicinity of Capitán
-de Corbeta Naval Air Base [now part of Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A.
-Curbelo International Airport] near San Carlos, Uruguay, when a
-brilliant top-like object (symmetrical above and below) suddenly
-approaches his plane head-on. The UFO is about 45–60 feet in diameter,
-stops about 6,500 feet away and “rocked twice, in a balancing motion.”
-Rodriguez feels strong heat, so he removes his jacket and opens the
-aircraft windows. The UFO takes off abruptly toward the sea “at a
-fantastic speed,” leaving a thin vapor trail. (NICAP, “Top-Like
-Object Heats Up Piper Cub”; UFOEv, p. 120;
-Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3162
Date: 5/6/1958
-Description: In a letter to NICAP member George Stocking of
-St. Petersburg, Florida, Ruppelt says
-he is “now convinced that the reports of UFO’s are nothing more than
-reports of balloons, aircraft, astronomical phenomena, etc. I don’t
-believe they are anything from outer space.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1958 May–July, The
-Author, 1999, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3163
Date: 5/7/1958
-Description: Keyhoe’s
-friend Lou
-Corbin has received from a military friend of Gen. Nathan
-Twining news that Twining is still concerned about UFOs. Keyhoe
-writes to him and receives a note from Twining’s executive officer, Col.
-James
-C. Sherrill: “No effective means have been developed for the
-establishment of communication by radio or otherwise with unknown aerial
-objects. The technical obstacles involved in such an endeavor, I am
-sure, are quite obvious to you.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 198–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3164
Date: 5/8/1958
-Description: US Rep. John
-E. Henderson (R-Ohio) writes to Secretary of Defense Neil
-H. McElroy asking about the status of UFO reports and the USAF
-investigation. ATIC decides to give Henderson a formal briefing. (Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 May–July, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 5–8, 42; Swords 276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3165
Date: 5/9/1958
-Time: 11:05 AM
-Description: Witness: Phillipine Airlines pilot. One object with a
-shiny, metallic surface was falling and spinning for 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bohol Island, Phillipine Islands
-ID: 425
Date: 5/13/1958
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota DC-3 is flying
-to RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta, from Victoria, British Columbia.
-When it changes its heading about 25 miles southwest of Calgary,
-Alberta, a large, thick, black cloud suddenly appears directly across
-their flight path at the same altitude. Their VHF communications with
-Cold Lake and Calgary suddenly cease working. The cloud has indistinct,
-hazy edges, and it increases in size as they approach at about 155 mph.
-The pilot unsuccessfully tries to radio Calgary to request a flight path
-change to avoid the cloud, which is now about 10 miles away. Suddenly he
-sees a brilliant white pinpoint of light materialize in the dark mass.
-It grows in size, forming a brilliant ball that quickly approaches the
-aircraft on a collision course. He braces himself, but the light
-disappears, and the black cloud vanishes. (Don Ledger, “Two Spherical
-UAP Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July
-2010): 7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3166
Date: 5/15/1958
-Description: Lackland AFB’s chief of education planning for the officer
-candidate school, Maj. Warren Akin, suggests, at a meeting of the Junior
-Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio, Texas, that UFOs are spacecraft.
-(“Visitors
-from Outer
-Space Already May Have Visited Us, Major Says,” San Antonio (Tex.)
-Express, May 16, 1958, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3168
Date: 5/15/1958
-Description: The Soviets launch Sputnik 3 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in
-Kazakhstan. (Wikipedia, “Sputnik
-3”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3167
Date: 5/16/1958
-Description: USAF Capt. Walter
-W. Irwin reaches 1,404 mph in a Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter at
-Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-F-104 Starfighter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3169
Date: 5/23/1958
-Description: Explorer 1 loses contact
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: medium earth orbit
Date: 5/27/1958
-Time: late
-Description: Remo dell’Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe
-when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it
-with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the
-blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms,
-a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing
-was left to be seen when he regained consciousness.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Perego; Bulgarini (Vallee)
-Location: Boa del Tigre, Argentina
-ID: 468
Date: 5/31/1958
-End date: 6/1/1958
-Description: The fifth Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention takes place
-at Giant Rock, near Landers, California. Dana
-Howard, Truman
-Bethurum, John
-McCoy, Wayne
-Aho, Daniel
-Fry, and Reinhold
-O. Schmidt join host George
-Van Tassel for two days of contactee conviviality. (Dana Howard, “Dana
-Howard Reporting the Giant Rock
-Convention, 1958,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958):
-20–21, 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3170
Date: 6/1958
-Description: 9:00 p.m. B. Muratov and his father are returning home to
-Chimbay, Uzbekistan, after a fishing expedition to the Aral Sea. They
-notice a disc-shaped object approaching them directly at low altitude
-from the northeast. It flies over them and see that its diameter is
-about 82 feet and it is traveling at 150–180 mph. Its hull is shiny and
-one side shines with a red color. A pipe is attached to one side, and it
-gives off a steady “zing zing zing” sound. (Stonehill and Mantle,
-Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3177
Date: 6/1958
-Description: A USAF officer secretly meets with Keyhoe and
-gives him three UFO reports and warns him that the Air Force will ask
-him for “certain UFO information. Think it over carefully before you
-decide.” NICAP could be in trouble, he says. Two days later, NICAP
-receives a request from the Air Force requesting any cases that indicate
-intelligent maneuvers by UFOs. Keyhoe refuses the request, sensing a
-setup. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 199, 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3173
Date: 6/1958
-Description: Richard
-H. Hall joins NICAP as executive secretary and associate editor.
-(Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 30, 208)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3174
Date: 6/1958
-Description: Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, has prepared a 17-page
-TV script based on a straightforward interpretation of Keyhoe’s
-The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, even including the 1953 Moncla case.
-The script states that “the most logical explanation is that the saucers
-are interplanetary.” It also says that USAF has “concealed information
-which was thought to be of danger because of the impending possibility
-of hysteria and panic.” Keyhoe approves the script, but Lackland
-withdraws it from consideration by December. (Keyhoe, FSTS,
-pp. 219–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3175
Date: 6/1958
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A woman doctor at a resort at Sinaia, Romania,
-sees a silvery domed disc traveling slowly and silently toward the
-southeast at 1,500 feet. On its underside it has a bluish triangular
-section with rounded points. It passes within 900 feet of her hotel.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 159–160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3176
Date: 6/1/1958
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Bjørn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and
-Rasmus Hykkerud watch a silent “unknown aircraft” like a twin-engine,
-delta-wing jet with no identifying marks plunge into the Altafjord,
-Troms og Finnmark, Norway. A column of water rises up, and dead fish
-float to the surface. The frigate KNM
-Arendal and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, search
-fruitlessly for more than a week, although the Arendal does get a sonar
-reading of a mobile object. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of
-Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1995): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3178
Date: 6/3/1958
-Description: Physicist Freeman
-Dyson in Princeton, New Jersey, writes a speculative paper on “The
-Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation” in which he
-discusses how an advanced civilization might be visible from Earth. He
-suggests that the logical endpoint of the drive to capture as much
-energy from a sun would be for engineers to completely enclose it in a
-hollow sphere. Once the builders have completed it, the only light
-visible from their star would be the muted infrared glow of radiation
-heat. Such a structure, which becomes known as a “Dyson sphere,” would
-be a sure sign of an advanced race. (Freeman J. Dyson, “Search
-for Artificial Stellar Sources
-of Infrared Radiation,” Science 131 (1960): 1667–1668; Wikipedia,
-“Dyson
-sphere”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3179
Date: 6/6/1958
-Description: Keyhoe writes
-to NICAP member George Stocking saying that Ruppelt has
-a job at an aircraft company that contracts with the Air Force and thus
-might be playing it safe about UFOs. (Clark III 1023)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3180
Date: 6/10/1958
-Description: MP George
-Chetwynd in the UK House of Commons asks the Air Ministry how many
-instances of UFOs were reported in the past 12 months and what steps
-were taken to look into them. Under-Secretary of State for Air Ian Orr-Ewing replies
-that 54 reports were received and that most were meteors, balloons,
-aircraft, and satellites. (“Unsatisfactory
-Answer to M.P.’s Question on UFOs by Undersecretary for Air,” Flying
-Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958): 5; Good Above, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3181
Date: 6/14/1958
-Time: 10:46 AM
-Description: Witness: airport weather observer O.R. Foster, using a
-theodolite. An object shaped like Saturn, less the bottom part; silver
-with no metallic luster, flew overhead for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pueblo, Colorado
-ID: 426
Date: 6/20/1958
-Description: USAF Maj. Joseph
-E. Boland and Maj. Lawrence
-J. Tacker brief Rep. John
-E. Henderson (R-Ohio) for one hour on the status of Air Force UFO
-investigations in the Capitol building in Columbus, Ohio. Also in
-attendance are Rep. William
-C. Cramer (R-Fla.), and Rep. Donald
-H. Magnuson (D-Wash.). Afterward, the legislators express confidence
-in the investigation and agree that publicity is unwise, “particularly
-in an open or closed formal congressional hearing.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 May–July, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 48–50; Swords 276–277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3182
Date: 6/20/1958
-Time: 11:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley. One
-silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze,
-hovered, then oscillated slightly, then moved at great speed. Watched
-for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Bragg, North Carolina
-ID: 427
Date: summer 1958
-Description: At an unidentified Air Force base in the Southwest US, two
-jets are vectored in on two UFOs flying together as seen on radar. As
-the jets close in, one UFO disappears from the radarscope and quickly
-reappears behind the first jet. The first pilot reverses his course and
-again tries to close in. The UFO climbs out of range. The second pilot
-has the same difficulty with the other UFO. (“UFO
-Chase by AF Jets Revealed to NICAP,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 (June
-1959): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3171
Date: summer 1958
-Description: Evening. A mechanic at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, allegedly
-sees a disc-like craft hovering silently above the tarmac. As the object
-retracts its landing gear, he manages to alert another mechanic in time
-for them both to see it take off at high speed. The Air Force officers
-who interrogate them tell them the object was also seen by control tower
-operators. (Good Need, p. 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3172
Date: 6/25/1958
-Description: 8:05 p.m. Rádio Renascença in Lisbon, Portugal, broadcasts
-a Portuguese-language version of The War of the Worlds with only the
-names of characters and places changed. The Martians are supposedly
-landing in Caracavelos, Portugal. A certain amount of confusion results.
-(John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009,
-pp. 120–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3183
Date: 6/26/1958
-Description: The New York sector becomes the first operational component
-of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, a system of large computers
-that coordinates data from many radar sites and processes it to produce
-a single unified image of airspace over a wide area. SAGE directs and
-controls the NORAD response to a Soviet air attack, operating in this
-role from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Its enormous computers and huge
-displays remain a part of Cold War lore. (Wikipedia, “Semi-Automatic
-Ground Environment”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3184
Date: 6/28/1958
-Description: Otis
-T. Carr and Norman Evans Colton appear on the Long
-John Nebel show on WOR-AM in New York City. After Carr praises his
-mentor, Nikola
-Tesla, another guest asks Carr to enumerate one or two of his
-discoveries. Carr feigns a memory lapse, then later is unable to recite
-even one of Newton’s
-three laws of motion. (Clark III 860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3185
Date: 6/28/1958
-End date: 6/29/1958
-Description: Lee
-Childers Jr., a baker from Detroit, Michigan, speaks at a flying
-saucer convention near Mountain View, Missouri, in the Ozarks hosted by
-contactee Buck
-Nelson. He
-claims that since April 1955 he has made 21 trips to other planets (and
-even to “Wolf Star 359 in the Titanian system” that has 2 planets
-revolving around it) on a saucer piloted by a spaceman named Commander
-Marcosan. He also went to a space station 2,000 miles in diameter called
-Trijanon. Other people tell their personal fantastic stories, among them
-Wayne
-Aho and Buck Nelson himself. (“Out-of-This-World
-Ozark Convention,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 6, 1958, p. 71;
-Clark III 915)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3186
Date: 6/29/1958
-Description: Day. Former RAF Flight Engineer Peter Spencer is flying in
-an Auster aircraft piloted by Dennis Jackson at 800 feet near the docks
-at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. A large black dumbbell appears below
-them, flying against the wind. Suddenly it rises up to their height and
-flies along with them for a while at their speed. Then it accelerates in
-a terrific burst of speed to a position above them. They try to follow
-it, but it speeds out over the docks at 1,000 feet and 800 mph. Spencer
-manages to take three photos of it, but the images show a speed blur.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958, May–July,
-The Author, 1999, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3187
Date: 7/1958
-Description: Night. A 509th Refueling Mission is returning to an Air
-Force Base in New Hampshire [Pease AFB in Portsmouth?] from Goose Bay
-[now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. The crew is flying a KC-97 at about
-17,000– 18,000 feet. A light like a “moving star” appears. It approaches
-below the cloud cover and seems to be spherical and as bright as Venus.
-It soon becomes the apparent size of the Moon, lighting up the clouds
-above it. The light is a brilliant blue-white with two dark spots,
-possibly indicating a structure. The object angles upwards and speeds
-out of sight in 5 seconds. (Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case
-Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005,
-pp. 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3190
Date: 7/1958
-Description: President Dwight
-Eisenhower requests permission from Pakistan to establish a secret
-US intelligence facility at Badaber (Peshawar Air Station) to fly U-2
-reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. (Wikipedia, “1960
-U-2 incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3188
Date: 7/1958
-Description: Dusk. Michael
-D. Swords and his brother Tom are at home in St. Albans, West
-Virginia, and listening to WCHS- AM radio where someone is calling in a
-UFO report. They rush to a window and see a domed disc with a revolving
-top cruise quietly across the landscape. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know
-Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 12; Michael D.
-Swords)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3189
Date: 7/1958
-End date: 9/1958
-Description: A civilian in Washington, D.C., manages to repeatedly
-photograph “geometrically shaped flying objects as they passed between
-his telescope and the moon.” The photos are “remarkably clear and
-certainly indicated a phenomenon for which he had no ready explanation.”
-The writer of an October 1 memo, a CIA employee, requests advice on “how
-we might get our hands on these materials to examine them firsthand and
-to make a more complete analysis of them.” (ClearIntent, pp. 136–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3191
Date: 7/17/1958
-Description: Keyhoe writes
-to Ruppelt to
-say he is puzzled about his current stance on UFOs, but understands that
-he might be under pressure from the Air Force. (Michael Hall and Wendy
-Connors, “The
-Forgotten Correspondence of Edward
-J. Ruppelt: The Story behind Report
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” pp. 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3192
Date: 7/18/1958
-Description: 8:30 p.m. High-school student Chris Kauffman is gazing at
-the night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees an object shaped
-like an equilateral triangle pass directly overhead in a north to south
-direction at 70–100 mph and 1,000 feet altitude for 10 seconds. It is
-flying with one point of the triangle as a forward edge and has 12 small
-orange lights along its edges. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958,
-May–July, The Author, 1999, pp. 76–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3193
Date: 7/29/1958
-Description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration succeeds
-the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The new agency is to
-have a distinctly civilian orientation, encouraging peaceful
-applications in space science. (Wikipedia, “NASA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3194
Date: 7/29/1958
-Description: An Associated Press writer in Alamogordo, New Mexico, sees
-an abridged version of Carl
-Jung’s 1954 letters on UFOs in the APRO Bulletin and jumps to the
-conclusion that the psychologist believes them to be extraterrestrial in
-origin. (Carl Jung, “On
-Unconventional Aerial Objects,” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 1, 5;
-“Dr. Jung
-Says ‘Saucers’ Exist: Bars Psychological Explanations,” New York
-Times, July 30, 1958, p. 13; Clark III 637)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3195
Date: 7/30/1958
-Description: Ruppelt writes
-Keyhoe back,
-saying he has “always been convinced that UFO’s were nothing more than
-reports of airplanes, balloons, astronomical phenomena, etc.” He says he
-is not being intimidated, he is just not interested in UFOs anymore and
-too busy. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The
-Forgotten Correspondence of Edward
-J. Ruppelt: The Story behind Report
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3196
Date: 7/30/1958
-Description: MP George
-Chetwynd presses further questions in the UK House of Commons by
-asking the Secretary of State for Air George
-Ward what action is taken to identify unexplained UFOs. Ward replies
-that the unidentified reports are “not sufficiently precise.” (“More
-Questions in House of Commons,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1958): iv; Good Above, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3197
Date: 8/1958
-Description: Polish Air Force pilot Apoloniusz Czernów of the 3rd
-Fighter Regiment in Warsaw, is returning from an attempted balloon
-interception in the area around Świdnica, Poland. Flying at 26,000 feet,
-he sees another possible balloon 9 miles away at a height of 3,200 feet
-and turns his MiG-17 toward it. But when he approaches it, he sees it is
-a cigar-shaped object tilted at a 45° angle, silvery-orange in color,
-and pulsating with a weird light. He gets closer and the object ascends
-at high speed, heads north, changes to orange-red, and disappears. Base
-radar has detected nothing. (Poland 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3198
Date: 8/1/1958
-Description: The Teak thermonuclear test, part of Operation Hardtack I,
-is launched from Johnston Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean and carries a
-payload of 3.8 megatons. The warhead is carried on a Redstone missile,
-which has a “program failure,” causing it to go straight up and detonate
-directly above the island. In a sanitized film record of the event, men
-in flip-flops and shorts can be seen ducking for cover as a phenomenal
-fireball consumes the sky overhead. During the Teak test, all crew on
-and around Johnston Atoll are given protective eyewear to prevent flash
-blindness from the explosion. Besides the hazard of blindness, thermal
-radiation is another concern—even at an altitude of 50 miles. A crew
-member on Johnston at the time is said to have received a slight sunburn
-from the amount of thermal radiation that had reached the island. While
-only slight to the crew member, it creates issues for the local fauna.
-Many birds are seen in distress. Unsure if this is caused by blindness
-or thermal radiation, the project members decide to take precautions to
-protect local wildlife during the next test. The explosion can be seen
-from Hawaii 806 miles away and is said to be visible for almost half an
-hour. After the explosion, high- frequency, long-distance communication
-is interrupted across the Pacific. Due to this failure, Johnston Atoll
-personnel are unable to contact their superiors to advise of the test
-results until about 8 hours after the detonation. The detonation
-disturbs Wernher
-Von Braun so greatly that he leaves the island shortly after comms
-are restored. The explosion causes the blue sky to turn red, white, and
-gray, and it creates an aurora 2,100 miles long along the geomagnetic
-meridian. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Hardtack I”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 170–171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3199
Date: 8/3/1958
-Description: 2:25 a.m. A sudden violet-orange brightness illuminates the
-sky over Rome, Italy, for about 3 seconds. Lights in the city dim,
-failing completely in some areas. Physician Angelo Corsi witnesses it 37
-miles southeast of Rome in Sgurgola. After his car radio fails, and the
-house and streetlights go out, he sees a long whitish trail like a fan
-in the sky. At 2:22 a.m., in Rieti a sergeant and some guards see a
-yellow-green cigar-shaped object moving rapidly toward the southeast. It
-leaves a luminous trail that lights up roads, mountains, and houses for
-several seconds. A similar sight is seen in Naples. (Schopick,
-pp. 142–143; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1958 August–September, The Author, 1999, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3200
Date: 8/8/1958
-Description: An informal two-hour hearing on UFOs is held by the House
-Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena, chaired by Rep. William
-Natcher (D-Ky.), which is part of the Select Committee on
-Astronautics and Space Exploration, chaired by Rep. John
-W. McCormack (D-Mass.). Although McCormack wants an extended hearing
-in closed secret session, unrecorded, ATIC Capt. George
-T. Gregory persuades him to allow the Air Force to give a briefing,
-while allowing people like Menzel,
-Ruppelt,
-and Keyhoe to
-offer their opinions later. NICAP as a whole should be excluded, he
-emphasizes. The main witnesses turn out to be Gregory and Maj. Tacker.
-The subcommittee, which also includes Kenneth
-Keating (R-N.Y.) and Lee
-Metcalf (D-Mont.), commends Gregory for his presentation on Project
-Blue Book’s “improved” methods. The hearings were to have been extended
-to the following week, but they decide to call no more witnesses at the
-suggestion of scientific consultant Dr. Charles
-S. Sheldon
-II, who
-thus maneuvers Keyhoe out of appearing. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 5–27; Swords 277–279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3201
Date: 8/9/1958
-Description: Carl
-Jung issues a denial to the Associated Press about his
-“extraterrestrial” statement, saying that witnesses are “in need of
-fantasy.” He thinks “something is being seen,” but his interest is more
-in what they think they are seeing. (“Dr. Jung
-Says Flying Saucers Are a New ‘Savior Myth,’” St. Louis
-Post-Dispatch, August 9, 1958, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3202
Date: 8/11/1958
-Description: The Orange thermonuclear test is launched by Redstone
-missile from Johnston Atoll with a yield of 3.8 megatons. Although
-Orange is visible from Hawaii, it is not the great spectacle Teak had
-been. The light from the 28-mile-high blast is visible for about 5
-minutes, but does not cause a large communication interruption; however,
-some commercial flights to Hawaii are said to have lost contact with air
-traffic controllers for a short period of time. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Hardtack I”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3203
Date: 8/11/1958
-Description: Betty Jane Williamson dies in Lima, Peru, when her husband
-George
-Hunt Williamson is on a lecture tour in Europe. Her death is caused
-by malnutrition generated by an alternative diet regimen. James
-W. Moseley later circulates an outrageously false accusation that
-Williamson killed Betty by pushing her off a cliff, but the charge is a
-complete fabrication. (Clark III 1286; James W. Moseley and Karl T.
-Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing
-Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 137–138; Jerome Clark, “The
-Trivialist,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 15–19, 29–30; Zirger and
-Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari,
-2016, pp. 117, 123–124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3204
Date: 8/16/1958
-Time: 1700
-Description: A dozen people out on the lake in perfect weather saw a
-bright light coming down. They stopped their boat as it came to hover
-about 15 m above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 m in diameter, with a
-cabin showing several windows on top. The outer disk below the cabin was
-spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was
-created. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in
-mid-air, the craft flew off at “unbelievable” speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Leman Lake, Switzerland
-ID: 469
Date: 8/16/1958
-Description: Around 5:00 p.m. Several persons on Lake Geneva,
-Switzerland, watch a bright light descending. It comes to hover about 45
-feet above their boat. It is saucer-shaped, about 39 feet in diameter,
-and has a cabin on top with several windows. It causes a noticeable
-current in the water. After several leaps in the air, it flies off at
-high speed. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 272)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3205
Date: 8/17/1958
-Time: 7:05 PM
-Description: Witness: A.D. Chisholm. One extremely bright object shaped
-first like a bell, then like a saucer, hovered for 5 minutes, flipped
-over and sped away to the west-south-west. Sighting lasted 6-10
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Warren, Michigan
-ID: 428
Date: 8/18/1958
-Description: 7:05 or 7:10 p.m. Typewriter repairman Alex Donald Chisholm
-is at home at 21950 Cunningham Avenue in Warren, Michigan, with Walter
-Moilanion and his wife and possibly a young daughter, when he sees a
-light much brighter than Venus in the vicinity of a flight of four
-military aircraft. He watches the object through 8x30 mm Japanese
-artillery-observer field glasses. It looks to be a Saturn-shaped grayish
-object like a “fried egg in pan.” Later it flips over, and another more
-elongated ring can be seen surrounding it. The object is about 60 feet
-long and is stationary for 5-8 minutes. However, the object is probably
-a Skyhook balloon launched from the University of Minnesota on August
-17. (Clark III 392; NICAP, [case
-file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3206
Date: 8/27/1958
-End date: 9/6/1958
-Description: In Operation Argus, three nuclear warheads are launched
-from X-17 rockets from the deck of the USS
-Norton Sound in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South
-Africa. They explode approximately 300 miles into space. The tests are
-proposed by Nicholas
-Christofilos in an unpublished paper of the Livermore branch [now
-the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory] of the Lawrence Radiation
-Laboratory in Berkeley, California, as a means to verify the
-Christofilos effect, which argues that high-altitude nuclear detonations
-will create a radiation belt in the extreme upper regions of the Earth’s
-atmosphere (they do create artificial electron belts that persist
-several weeks), or an electronic pulse that could hypothetically damage
-the arming devices on Soviet ICBM warheads (they do not). (Wikipedia,
-“Operation
-Argus”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3207
Date: 9/1958
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. The USS
-Franklin
-D. Roosevelt is on a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea out of
-Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, when at least 25 of the 3,000 crew
-members notice a light following the aircraft carrier. Fireman’s
-apprentice Chester
-C. Grusinski watches it as it comes close and sees a cigar-shaped
-object with portholes and figures inside looking out. Grusinki can feel
-heat coming from the object, and some of the ship’s power apparently
-goes out. After a few minutes, the object turns red-orange and takes
-off. (Chester C. Grusinski, “UFOs
-Seen by Crew of an American Aircraft Carrier (1952–1958),” Flying
-Saucer Review 40, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 1–4; Gordon Creighton, “Confirmation
-of an Important U.S. Naval Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2
-(Summer 2001): 17–20; Good Need, pp. 234–236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3209
Date: 9/1958
-Description: NICAP fires its office manager, treasurer, and typist Rose
-Hackett Campbell after she gives membership cards to George
-Adamski and other contactees. Richard
-H. Hall begins work at NICAP as associate editor. (“Resignations,”
-UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1958): 2; “Richard
-Hall Becomes Assoc. Editor,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5
-(Aug./Sept. 1958): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3208
Date: 9/1/1958
-Time: 2130
-Description: About 11 km before Laval, a businessman coming from Paris
-suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 m above ground, to the left of the
-road, 150 m away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and
-showed two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed
-about 20 m wide, metallic, with a light similar to that of a red traffic
-light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and
-maneuvered to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the
-observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard.
-The object rose very slowly, flew off faster climbing out of
-sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 119 (Vallee)
-Location: Laval, France
-ID: 470
Date: 9/1/1958
-Time: 12:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Philco technical representative A.M. Slaton. One
-round, blue-white object flew at varying speeds. First sighting lasted 2
-minutes, second lasted 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wheelus AFB, Libya
-ID: 429
Date: 9/8/1958
-Description: 6:40 p.m. At Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska, SAC Operations
-Officer Maj. Paul
-A. Duich, plus
-several officers from USAF Ballistic Missiles Division, Los Angeles AFB
-in El Segundo, California; many other air base officers and airmen; and
-Offutt air traffic control tower personnel see a brilliant-white,
-elongated, cylindrical object hovering in the west just after sunset.
-The object is oriented vertically with the blunter end highest. After
-several minutes, the object turns dull orange-red and becomes sharper in
-outline. A swarm of about 10 “black specks” appears to “cavort” around
-the lower end of the object for about one minute before disappearing.
-Then the cylindrical object begins to rotate counterclockwise and starts
-drifting slowly to the south from due west and drops in elevation angle
-over about 5 minutes. During the final 5-minute observation, the object
-continues angular descent and gradually decreases in angular size, but
-it begins rotating clockwise until it disappears by fading into the
-slight atmospheric haze. A USAF colonel takes several color photos with
-a 35mm camera on a tripod but later claims nothing came out. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 59–63; UFOEv, pp. 25,
-27;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1
-(Spring 2004): 5–6; Sparks,
-p. 265; Swords 280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3210
Date: 9/12/1958
-Description: The Operation Hardtack II series of 37 nuclear tests takes
-place at the Nevada Test Site through October 30, all within 18 miles of
-Area 51. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Hardtack II”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3211
Date: 9/21/1958
-Time: 0300
-Description: A circular, flat object, 7 m in diameter, 2 m thick,
-hovering 1.5 m above ground, and making a jetlike sound was seen from a
-house by a civilian woman. Its color was that of aluminum; it had a
-wobbling motion and emitted gray smoke before rising again and taking
-off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sheffield Lake, Ohio
-ID: 471
Date: 9/21/1958
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Mrs. William H. Fitzgerald of Sheffield Lake,
-Ohio, sees through her east-facing bedroom window a metallic domed disc,
-12–22 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick. It sweeps in over the front
-lawn heading north and descending in a falling-leaf oscillating motion
-to about 6 feet altitude, then crosses over her driveway, and stops for
-several seconds about 40 feet away. It then reverses course heading
-south and hovers 5 feet above the lawn about 25 feet away, making a
-jetlike sound. The object wobbles and emits gray smoke, makes two tight
-clockwise turns, then rises and takes off straight up over the house
-towards the east. Her 10-year-old son also observes the event from
-another room. (NICAP, “12ʹ
-Diameter 6ʹ Thick Disc within 40ʹ”; UFO Ev, p. 113;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958
-August–September, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 68–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3212
Date: 9/25/1958
-Description: The Project Moonwatch team in Portland, Oregon, is looking
-at the Moon when they see objects crossing the lunar disc. Occasionally
-they recognize the transit as a bird, but there are “tiny dark objects”
-that behave differently. All the object pass in the same direction and
-in the same location for about one second. Supervisor Alex Geddes, who
-was not present, sends a supportive letter to the observers, thanking
-them for the data. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32,
-no. 4 (October 2009): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3213
Date: 9/29/1958
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Pvt. Jerome A. Scanlon, stationed at Nike missile
-base W-93 in Derwood, Maryland, is walking from his sentry post to the
-barracks to sound reveille when he hears a humming sound above him. He
-looks up and sees a teardrop-shaped object 300 feet up and coming in for
-a landing at 30 mph. It moves over trees, breaking branches, and lands
-about 1.5 miles away. Exhaust flames issue from its rear, and its
-luminous green skin illuminates the terrain. It rises again and
-disappears. Scanlon runs to inform Riney Farris, the sergeant of the
-guard, who has also seen the object. They go to the landing site and
-find broken branches and a scorched strip of earth and vegetation about
-half a mile long. After the story appears in newspapers, the Air Force
-explains it as repair trucks doing welding jobs. (“Brass to Hear GI’s
-Account of Fiery ‘Saucer,’” New York Journal- American, October 7, 1958;
-“‘Saucer’ Landed, Say Two Soldiers,” Goldsboro (N.C.) Record, October 9,
-1958; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 90–91; Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September, The
-Author, 1999, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3214
Date: 10/1958
-Description: Maj. Robert
-J. Friend takes over as head of Project Blue Book, relieving
-Capt. George
-T. Gregory. About
-this time, a new USAF fact sheet states that investigative improvements
-have reduced unsolved sightings to 1.8%. The “refinement” comes from
-lumping “probable” and “possible” identifications into “identified.” At
-the same time, a secret staff study by USAF intelligence officers
-addresses the public relations problems caused by Keyhoe,
-who is characterized as a “political adventurer” allied with Ruppelt, both
-of whom are in the UFO “business” strictly for the money. Yet together
-“they represent a formidable team from which plenty of trouble can be
-expected.” The study recommends that 18–20 personnel be assigned to
-temporary UFO investigation duty. They would solve reports that have not
-been sent directly to Blue Book. Though ATIC urges implementation of the
-plan, Air Force Headquarters kills it. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in
-America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 146–151;
-Clark III 920; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 25–27;
-Sparks,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3215
Date: 10/1/1958
-Description: NASA begins operations. It includes three major labs:
-Langley Aeronautical Laboratory [now Langley Research Center] in
-Hampton, Virginia; Ames Aeronautical Laboratory [now Ames Research
-Center] in Mountain View, California; and Lewis Flight Propulsion
-Laboratory [now Glenn Research Center] in Brook Park, Ohio. It
-incorporates elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the US
-Naval Research Laboratory. (Wikipedia, “NASA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3216
Date: 10/2/1958
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: naturalist Ivan Sanderson. One dull-grey object,
-shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, flew erratically and made loops
-for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
-ID: 430
Date: 10/2/1958
-Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Naturalist Ivan
-T. Sanderson sees a dull-gray object, shaped like a pickle with a
-flat bottom, fly erratically in loops over the Delaware Water Gap near
-Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. (NICAP, “Nickel- Shaped
-Object Flies Loops (Sanderson Case)”; UFOEv, p. 52;
-Sparks, p. 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3217
Date: 10/3/1958
-Description: 3:10 a.m. A Monon Railroad freight train is traveling
-between Owasco and Kirklin, Indiana, when a formation of four odd white
-lights crosses ahead of the train. The entire crew watch the UFOs turn
-and traverse the full length of the train, front to back (about a half
-mile). After passing the rear of the train, the objects swing east, turn
-back, and follow the train. The bright glow conceals their exact shape,
-but they appear flattened and sometimes fly on edge. The objects follow
-the train until the conductor shines a bright light on them. Immediately
-the objects speed away, but return quickly and continue to pace the
-train. Total time of observation is about 1 hour 10 minutes. Finally the
-UFOs move away to the northeast and disappear. (NICAP, “The
-Monon RR UFO Incident”;
-“They’re
-Back Again—in Indiana,” APRO Bulletin, November 1958, 1, 3; Frank
-Edwards, “UFO Buzzes Train,” Fate 12, no. 2 (February 1959):
-25–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3218
Date: 10/7/1958
-Description: 2:55 p.m. Joseph Gwooz, master of the SS
-Nantucket, sees a gray, oval object in the sky at an altitude of
-8,000–10,000 feet at the entrance to the Nantucket Channel,
-Massachusetts. It remains stationary for more than one minute, then
-shoots up and away to the northeast. (UFOEv, p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3219
Date: 10/7/1958
-Description: 6:02 p.m. Chemist John R. Townsend, special assistant for
-research and engineering to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, sees a
-large, stationary, sharply outlined Saturn-shaped silvery object (with a
-“gossamer” surface appearance and a rim or girdle around its equator) in
-a clear sky in Alexandria, Virginia. It rapidly rises at an estimated
-speed of 1,000 mph and disappears to the south after 40 seconds. At one
-point a passing Capitol Airlines Flight 407 flies directly between his
-line of sight and the UFO at 2 miles distance, allowing him to estimate
-the UFO’s size as about 500 feet. Townsend reenacts the timing by
-walking the half block down Lee Street to get a better feeling for its
-distance and size. (NICAP, “Saturn-Shaped
-Object Observed, Object Confirmed
-by Pilot”; Swords 282; Sparks,
-p. 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3220
Date: 10/26/1958
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small are rounding a
-curve on Maryland Route 146 some 600–900 feet south of the bridge at
-Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland. They see a large (100 feet long)
-egg-shaped object hanging 100–150 feet above the bridge. When they drive
-to within 75 feet of it their car stalls and the dash lights turn off.
-They get out of the car and watch the UFO from behind it for 30–45
-seconds. The UFO flashes a beam of white light and they feel heat on
-their faces. They also hear a dull explosion. The UFO rises vertically
-and disappears in 5–10 seconds. They are able to start the car and drive
-into Towson, Maryland, to make a phone call to the Ground Observer Corps
-and the police. Police Cpl. Kenneth Hartmann and Patrolman Richard Fink
-drive up and they tell them the story, then they go to St. Joseph’s
-Hospital in Baltimore and are given a cursory examination for burns.
-Other people in the neighborhood either see an object at the time or
-hear the boom. (“Baltimore’s
-Flying Saucer,” Baltimore (Md.) Evening Sun, December 15, 1958,
-p. 21; NICAP, “Egg-Shaped Object
-& E-M Effects over Bridge”; Schopick,
-pp. 62–63; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1958 October, The
-Author, 1999, pp, 73–86; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine
-ed., 1974, pp. 132, 139–140;
-Sparks,
-p. 268; Clark III 686)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3221
Date: 10/27/1958
-Description: An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly
-tail flew at treetop height, making a strong “swishing” sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Union Dale, Pennsylvania
-ID: 472
Date: 10/27/1958
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Phillip Small, Alvin Cohen. One large, flat
-egg-shaped object affected a car’s electrical system and caused a
-burning sensation on one of its occupants. Sighting lasted 1
-minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lock Raven Dam, Maryland
-ID: 431
Date: 10/31/1958
-Time: 1550
-Description: A civilian reported an eliptical, aluminum-colored object
-at 2 km altitude, coming down to 4 m, flying up and down by sudden
-jumps, stopping at ground level less than 200 m away for five min. A red
-light appeared at one end of the object, which gradually took a fiery
-color, then exploded. The witness ran away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Caledon East, Canada
-ID: 473
Date: 11/1958
-Time: 0500
-Description: Two soldiers of the Territorial Army on an exercise near
-Ballater heard a “gurgling noise” and saw two figures, over 2 m tall,
-dressed in peculiar suits. As they fled, they heard a “swishing” noise
-and saw a large disk flying at ground level, which then swooped over
-their heads and away, pulsating and leaving a sparkling trail. Witnesses
-were in a state of shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Braemar, Scotland
-ID: 474
Date: 11/1958
-Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information in Denmark begins publishing
-UFO-Nyt. (UFO-Nyt, November
-1958) November 3 — 2:01 p.m. At Minot, North Dakota, M/Sgt. William R.
-Butler, a medic, sees one bright-green object, shaped like a 10-cent
-piece, and one smaller, silver round object. The first object explodes,
-then the second object moves toward the location of the first at high
-speed. Sighting lasts 1 minute. (Sparks,
-p. 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3222
Date: 11/3/1958
-Time: 2:01 PM
-Description: Witness: M/Sgt. William R. Butler, medic. One bright green
-object, shaped like a 10 cent piece, and one smaller, silver round
-object. First object exploded, then second object moved toward the
-location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasted 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minot, North Dakota
-ID: 432
Date: 11/4/1958
-Description: 9:03 p.m. The pilot of a KB-50 USAF tanker is in the
-downwind leg of the traffic pattern during a ground- controlled approach
-to Pope AFB [now Pope Field] in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he
-notices an object on a collision course. He and his flight crew also
-notice that “strange lights were observed in his cockpit while he was on
-the final approach…” He executes a go-around maneuver and climbs in
-altitude to await the disappearance of the object. Air Force tower
-personnel also see the UFO hovering above the airport, watching it
-through their binoculars for 20 minutes. They are convinced it is not an
-atmospheric phenomenon. They say that “the UFO presented a hazard to
-aircraft operating in the area.” (NICAP, “Object
-on Collision Course with KB-50 Tanker, Circles”;
-Richard F. Haines, “Aviation
-Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor,” NARCAP, October
-15, 2000, pp. 53–54; Sparks, p. 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3223
Date: 11/5/1958
-Description: MP Roy
-Mason asks the Air Minister in the UK House of Commons to what
-extent official records are kept of UFO sightings and what departments
-are involved. Air Minister George
-Ward replies in writing that reports involving national security are
-investigated but “nothing suggests that they are other than mundane.”
-(“Come
-Off It, Mr. Ward! ‘Nothing Suggests That They Are Other Than
-Mundane,’” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1959): 2; Good
-Above, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3224
Date: 11/9/1958
-Description: Residents of Trinidad, Rio Dell, and other towns in
-northern California report showers of cobweblike material, some in
-strands 5–6 feet long. Two fishermen at sea, George
-Korkan and Jack Curry, say the substance settles on their boat in
-such quantity that it makes the boat appear “a million years old.” A
-sample obtained at McKinleyville is examined by biologist Erwin Bielfuss
-at Humboldt State College. He rules out mold or an animal product and
-suggests it is plant material or plastic. (“Cobweb
-Like Substance in Area Mystifies Zoologist,”
-Eureka (Calif.) Humboldt Standard, November 10, 1958, p. 5; UFOEv, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3225
Date: 11/9/1958
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two carpenters, Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg,
-are returning from Stockholm, Sweden, to their cabin on Väddö island,
-about 20 miles to the northeast. About 6 miles north of Älmstä their car
-engine begins to sputter and fail, and the headlights go out. They see a
-huge, shining object descending toward them and making a turn above
-Väddö Bay to the left of the road. It lands in the middle of the road
-about 300 feet in front of their car, its neon glow illuminating the
-landscape. They estimate it is 53 feet long and 20 feet high, with a
-bright glow underneath the object and a dazzling mist surrounding it.
-They watch the object for about 10 minutes, then it rises from the road
-and shoots into the sky to their right. Afterward, the air is stifling
-and hot, but the engine starts up right away. A few minutes later they
-return to the landing site and find flattened grass and a still-hot,
-smooth, triangular piece of metal the size of a matchbox, which they
-retrieve. They submit the metal to several labs over the next few years,
-apparently without ambiguous results, but in the process it is split
-into three pieces. Finally, an engineer in Linköping named Schalin finds
-the metal has the hardness of sapphire and a specific weight of 15.2. It
-can take several thousand degrees C. heat without getting red hot. One
-of the pieces is submitted to the US Air Force and not returned. In the
-early 1970s, another piece is examined by James
-Harder at the University of California, Berkeley, who establishes it
-is composed of tungsten carbide, cobalt, and traces of titanium, and
-that it has been manufactured. (Christer Nordin, “The
-Väddö Case,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, no. 1 (1981): 2–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3226
Date: 11/11/1958
-Description: 1:35 a.m. A Mrs. Kinney, who is a Lt. Col. in the Civil Air
-Patrol in Topeka, Kansas, wakes up when her bedroom floods with an
-amber-colored light and her three dogs begin barking. The source is a
-25-foot diameter sphere that is sitting on the walkway in the yard about
-30 feet away. Kinney opens a door to go out on a porch, but the light
-zooms straight up and out of sight. She goes back to bed and the phone
-rings; it is a neighbor who has seen the light going toward her house.
-At 7:30 a.m., the phone rings again; this time it is the controllers at
-the Philip Billard Municipal Airport, who know her well and tell her
-about the light they saw. In the evening, she finds there is an
-electrical failure on the east side of the house. Lights, radios, and
-refrigerators are not working. Kinney replaces some fuses, but not
-everything turns on again. An electrician comes and replaces some wiring
-on November 12, but Kinney’s eyes develop subconjunctival hemorrhages
-and sensitivity to bright light. She begins to wear sunglasses
-regularly. Both of her male dogs develop cataracts. (Swords
-287–288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3227
Date: 11/17/1958
-Description: 10:03 p.m. Somewhere in Russia a luminous object hovers and
-lands. It is seen for 2 minutes. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 273)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3228
Date: 11/17/1958
-Time: 2203
-Description: A luminous object, with an apparent diameter greater than
-that of the full moon, was seen coming down from a high altitude,
-hovering at tree height, then landing. It was observed for two
-min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Soviet Union, exact location not revealed
-ID: 475
Date: 11/23/1958
-Time: 2335
-Description: An engineer, Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a
-can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 m away. It was
-shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a
-bluish, pulsating light, 12 m diameter, 7 m high, resting on three
-half-spheres. An occupant 2.5 m tall was photographed by the witness as
-he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue
-coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The
-observation lasted 10 min, after which the object took off with a
-whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had
-revaled anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange
-“newsmen” who appeared to know all the details of it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Settimana Incom. Sep. 16, 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Cojutepeque, San Salvador
-ID: 476
Date: 11/30/1958
-Description: Tom Gerber of the Boston Herald features interviews with
-unnamed Air Force officers who proclaim an “undeclared war on phony
-organizations that capitalize on the ‘mystery’ of flying saucers.”
-Supposedly, the Air Force has evidence that “perhaps as many as 100,000
-persons belong to these UFO organizations” and are “making a wad of
-money.” As many as 16% of the UFO sightings investigated by USAF are
-“hoaxes originated by members or officials of these organizations”—an
-obvious swipe at NICAP. (Swords 282–283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3229
Date: 12/1958
-Description: Some 450 airline pilots have signed a petition protesting
-the official policy of debunking UFO sightings. One pilot describes the
-policy as a “lesson in lying, intrigue, and the ‘Big Brother’ attitude
-carried to the ultimate extreme.” Of the signatories, more than 50
-personally have reported UFO sightings but are told by the Air Force
-that they are mistaken. USAF warns them that they face up to 10 years in
-prison under JANAP 146 if they reveal details of their sighting to the
-media. Because of situations like this, Maj. Friend unsuccessfully
-requests that Blue Book be transferred from ATIC to Air Research and
-Development Command on the grounds that UFOs are a scientific, not a
-military problem. His staff complains that the work is time-consuming
-and unproductive, and ARDC could speak to the public with authority and
-persuasiveness. ARDC briefly considers, then declines, the offer. (Good
-Above, p. 284;
-Clark III 922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3231
Date: 12/1958
-Description: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is
-transferred to NASA from the Army, becoming the agency’s primary
-planetary spacecraft center. (Wikipedia, “Jet
-Propulsion Laboratory”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3230
Date: early 12/1958
-Description: Contactee Lee
-Childers visits a New York City group called the Bureau of UFO
-Research and Analysis to present a lecture. By now he is calling himself
-Prince Neosom of Tythan, which is 8.5 light years from Earth. He also
-answers to the name Dana. (Clark III 915)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3232
Date: 12/6/1958
-Description: Between 6:38 and 6:40 p.m. Along the border of Russia and
-India, an observer sees a bright UFO cross his field of vision through
-his telescope from north to south as he is observing Mars. He thinks it
-might be Sputnik 3, but the location and direction of the object do not
-bear that out. (ClearIntent, pp. 137–138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3233
Date: 12/6/1958
-Description: 5:44 a.m. The first launch of a Juno II, carrying Pioneer
-3, at LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, suffers a premature first-stage
-cutoff, preventing the upper stages from achieving sufficient velocity.
-Pioneer 3 cannot escape Earth orbit but transmits data for some 40 hours
-before reentering the atmosphere. A malfunction in a propellant
-depletion circuit is found to be the cause of the failure, although the
-exact nature of it cannot be determined. The circuit is redesigned
-afterwards. (Wikipedia, “Juno
-II”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3234
Date: 12/19/1958
-Description: John Lester, a writer for the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger,
-has polled 1,000 US government radar operators over the past month and
-found that 80% have observed UFOs traveling at fantastic speeds,
-executing perfect 90° turns, steep vertical climbs, and hovering stops.
-They fly in formation and manage to stay just ahead of USAF jets
-scrambled to intercept them. Tacker responds
-immediately that the UFOs are natural phenomena (“lightning, meteors,
-and meteorites”). (Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, December 19, 21,
-1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3235
Date: 12/20/1958
-Time: 1600
-Description: Approximate date. A disk of 20 m diameter was observed and
-caused damage on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
-ID: 478
Date: 12/20/1958
-Description: Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol
-suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at
-a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size,
-then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid
-bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few
-seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars.
-Visibility: unlimited.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dunellen, NJ
Date: 12/20/1958
-Time: 0255
-Description: Near Domsten, Hans Gustavsson, 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30,
-saw something in the woods and stopped their car to observe it. They
-found a disk about 5 m wide set on a tripod. All of a sudden they were
-attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as “fluid,” but one
-witness reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings fled and
-the craft took off, emitting “paralyzing vibrations.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. II 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Hoganas, Sweden
-ID: 477
Date: 12/20/1958
-Description: 2:55 a.m. Hans Gustafsson, a 24-year-old truck driver, and
-Stig Rydberg, a 30-year-old student, claim that while driving home to
-Helsingborg, Sweden, from a dance they see a strange light in a glade on
-their right near Domsten. They leave the car and walk up to the object,
-which turns out to be a disc-shaped vehicle 16 feet in diameter resting
-on 3 legs. The two are suddenly attacked by four gray creatures about 4
-feet tall who try to drag them to the UFO. In January 1959, a medical
-doctor, Lars-Erik Essén, hypnotizes the men in what is perhaps the first
-use of hypnosis of a UFO witness, but the two manage to fool Essén. In
-the late 1980s, Gustafsson’s brother Artur reveals to ufologist Clas
-Svahn that before he died his brother had told him the story was a
-hoax. (Clark III 413–414; Rob Morphy, “Terrible
-Flying Jelly Bags aka Domsten Blobs (Sweden),” Cryptopia, May 6,
-2018; Swords 366–367; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, Domstensfallet:
-En svensk närkontakt 1958, AFU, 1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3236
Date: 12/21/1958
-Description: A group of more than 50 commercial airline pilots, all of
-whom have had at least one UFO sighting, tell reporter John Lester with
-the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger that the Air Force policy of censorship
-and denial regarding reports is the “Big Brother attitude carried to the
-ultimate extreme.” Most express disgust with the USAF methods of
-interrogating civilian pilots and complain about the gag order about
-publicly talking about their sightings under penalty of 10 years in
-prison or $10,000 in fines (JANAP 146). “Nuts to that. Who needs it?”
-(Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, December 22, 1958; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a
-History: 1958 November–December, The
-Author, 1999, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3237
Date: 12/22/1958
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Stanislaw Kowalczewski, a physician, takes a
-photograph of a dark, disc-shaped object over Muszyna, Poland. (Hobana
-and Weverbergh 67–68; Wiki Meteoritica, “Muszyna
-1958”; Poland 21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3238
Date: 12/28/1958
-Time: afternoon
-Description: A black flying object, 2 m wide, cut a tree in two, 3 m
-above ground, and did not stop. The tree in question is 70 cm wide and
-13 m tall. This event was observed by a farmer named Bennett.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Portglenone, Ireland
-ID: 479
Date: 12/30/1958
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Joseph Bennett, a farmer in Portglenone, County
-Antrim, Northern Ireland, is out walking and hears a noise like a rush
-of wind. A black object 7 feet across comes hurtling through the air
-about 20 feet above the ground. Moving from south to northwest, it
-crashes into an oak tree, splitting it in two at a height of 10 feet,
-then ascends and disappears in seconds. The tree has no burn or scorch
-marks. (“UAOs
-Collide with Tree, Roof,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2; “We’re
-Not Roswell, We’re Portglenone,” Fortean Ireland, March 17,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3239
Date: 1959
-Description: George
-Van Tassel claims the space people have taught him a method of
-rejuvenating the human body. Using his new-found knowledge and funds
-provided by Howard
-Hughes, he
-completes the outer structure of the Integraton at Giant Rock,
-California, a four-story domed structure, 55 feet in diameter, built
-mostly of wood without nails, screws, iron, or steel. Van Tassel claims
-it will harness the EMF energy required for recharging the cells in our
-bodies. In the course of its construction, Van Tassel discovers that the
-Integraton functions as a time machine. (Wikipedia, “Integraton”;
-Clark III 1219; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts
-of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, pp. 79–81;
-David Clarke and Tom Clark, “Going ‘Out There’ in SoCal,” Fortean Times
-388 (January 2020): 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3247
Date: 1959 (approximate)
-Description: According to weapons specialist David Middleton, sometime
-in the late 1950s a few hours prior to a nuclear weapons test at the
-Nevada Test Site, he and several other technicians watch two silver
-discs race across then swoop down and maneuver near the detonation tower
-where the atomic weapon is mounted. The two objects fly a tight circle
-around the tower before zooming off at high velocity. The test is
-immediately postponed by senior AEC personnel. Middleton is debriefed
-and sworn to secrecy. (Nukes 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3240
Date: 1959
-Description: The original US Navy Space Surveillance System goes into
-operation. From 1960 until the early 1990s the system is used in
-conjunction with a network of Baker-Nunn cameras that can see an object
-the size of a basketball at 25,000 miles. The system is operated by the
-US Navy for NORAD from 1961 to October 2004. Initially independent, it
-is run by Naval Space Command from 1993 to 2002, and then by Naval
-Network and Space Operations Command from 2002 to 2004, when it is taken
-over by the Air Force. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Space
-Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3241
Date: 1959
-Description: The US Army and CIA at Edgewood Arsenal at Aberdeen Proving
-Ground, Maryland, show significant interest in deploying a new drug,
-3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ), as a chemical warfare agent. The drug’s
-effects last for three days, perhaps as long as six. Between 1959 and
-1975, some 2,800 soldiers are given BZ at Edgewood. (Reid Kirby, “Paradise
-Lost: The Psycho Agents,” The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no. 71 (May
-2006): 1–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3242
Date: 1959
-Description: Psychologist Carl
-Jung publishes Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the
-Skies in the UK, a translation of Ein moderner Mythus von Dingen, die am
-Himmel gesehen werden, published in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1958, in
-which he compares the discs to archetypes, dreams, visions, paintings,
-and the metaphysical symbol of a mandala: “the rounded wholeness of the
-mandala becomes a space ship controlled by an intelligent being.”
-However, he remains puzzled by the physical evidence. (Carl Jung, Flying
-Saucers: A Modern Myth
-of Things Seen in the Skies, Routledge
-& Kegan Paul, 1959; Clark III 637–638)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3243
Date: 1959
-Description: Author Hugo
-Correa founds UFO Chile in Santiago, Chile. Its newsletter appears
-from August 1967 to May 1969. (Hugo Correa, “¿Que
-es ‘UFO Chile’?” UFO Chile, no. 1 (August 1967): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3244
Date: 1959
-Description: The Soviet KGB has created its own disinformation
-Department D (Dezinformatsiya) in the First Chief Directorate, which
-under Yuri
-Andropov is later renamed Department A (for “active measures”). It
-specializes in the fabrication and dissemination of forged documents,
-tapes, letters, manuscripts, photos, rumors, and false intelligence.
-(Wikipedia, “Active
-measures”; John Barron, KGB:
-The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, Bantam, 1974; Richard H.
-Shultz and Roy Godson, Dezinformatsia:
-Active Measures in Soviet Strategy, Pergamon-Brassey’s,
-1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3245
Date: 1959
-Description: Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact
-with Aliens.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 4/15/64
Date: 1959
-Description: Contactee Howard
-Menger publishes From Outer Space to You, an account of his meetings
-with space people. (Howard Menger, From
-Outer Space to You, Saucerian,
-1959; Clark III 739)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3246
Date: 1/1959
-Description: Leonard Hewins sees a fiery, round object come down near
-Stratford-on-Avon, England, from the east and land 300 feet away. A blue
-haze forms and three figures emerge and sit down with clumsy movements.
-Hewins is unable to move until the UFO takes off. (John D. Llewellyn,
-“Stratford-on-Avon
-Landing with Occupants: January
-1959,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1967): 15; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT,
-March 9, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3248
Date: 1/1959
-Time: 1715
-Description: Leonard Hewins, of Tredington, saw a fiery, round object
-come down from the east and land 100 m away. While a blue haze formed,
-three figures emerged from the object and seemed to sit down with clumsy
-movements. The witness was unable to move until the craft and its
-occupants took off swiftly, leaving a trail of stars.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Stratford-on-Avon, Great Britain
-ID: 480
Date: 1/1/1959
-Description: Rocket scientist Wernher
-von Braun, on
-holiday in Germany, makes a cryptic statement about the failed launch of
-Pioneer
-3 by a Juno II rocket on December 6, 1958: “We find ourselves faced
-by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose
-base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are
-now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers, and in
-six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision
-on the matter.” (Good Above, p. 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3249
Date: 1/1/1959
-Description: 4:55 p.m. Deputy Fred Gunzelman of the Harbor Department in
-Corona del Mar, California, spots a bright object outside department
-headquarters. He summons Deputy Elmer Sandling and Sgt. Bruce Young and
-the three watch the object through binoculars, where it appears to be a
-disc-shaped object with a rotating tail. They notify the lifeguard
-headquarters at Newport Beach, where Lt. Mike Henry, Guard Jack Bell,
-and Lt. Jim Richards also see the UFO. The planet Venus is clearly
-visible in the same section of sky. During the 15 minutes it is visible,
-it starts moving to the southeast and then splits into four parts. Two
-rise vertically at high speed, another heads southeast, and the last
-remains stationary. (UFOEv, p. 137;
-Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3250
Date: 1/11/1959
-Description: Wilbert
-Smith speaks on UFOs at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s
-Canadian Regional Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. He claims that “Various
-items of ‘hardware’ are known to exist, but are usually clapped into
-security and are not available to the general public.” (Frank Edwards,
-FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3251
Date: 1/13/1959
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins is driving a pickup truck south on
-Hartstown Road across Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania, when he sees a
-bright light approaching from the east and illuminating the ground. It
-stops above his truck, hovering 200 feet above it for several minutes.
-The truck’s electrical system fails, the engine dies, and the headlights
-and radio go out. The object’s light illuminates an area about 300 feet
-in front of him. It takes off and disappears in seconds, and the truck
-begins working again. (“Area
-Man’s Encounter with Unidentified Flying Object Called
-Weirdest Experience,” Greenville (Pa.) Record-Argus, January 31,
-1959, pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3252
Date: 1/17/1959
-Description: George
-Adamski arrives in Auckland, New Zealand, on the first stop on his
-world lecture tour where he is received by North Island Adamski
-Correspondence Group leaders Henk and
-Brenda Hinfelaar for a 6-week engagement starting with a talk in Kaikohe
-on January 20. (“World
-Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; Marc Hallet, A
-Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space
-Brothers, The Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3253
Date: 1/18/1959 (approximate)
-Description: Eight people see a UFO over Stigsjö, Sweden. The round
-object, 18–24 feet in diameter, approaches slowly from the south over
-Lake Länsjön at a height of 900 feet. It is surrounded by a luminous
-ring 6 feet wide. It is visible for 3 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March,
-The Author, 1999, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3254
Date: 1/21/1959
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A flying object is seen crashing into the waters
-of the harbor at Gdynia, Poland. Rumors later claim that a rust-free
-fragment is retrieved by divers and, after being examined by the Polish
-navy, sent to Gdynia Polytechnic University [possibly the Polish Naval
-Academy]. A few days later, an injured occupant of the craft is
-allegedly found wandering in the area. He speaks no known language,
-wears an odd uniform, and apparently has burns on the face. He is taken
-to a hospital, but he dies when doctors attempt to remove an armband.
-His remains are said to have been shipped to the Soviet Union. (Hobana
-and Weverbergh 1–2; Poland 25–28, 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3255
Date: 1/21/1959
-Description: MP Roy
-Mason asks the Air Minister another question in the UK House of
-Commons: What instructions have been sent to RAF stations about
-collecting military UFO reports, and what collaboration is there with
-Canada and the US? Air Minister George
-Ward replies that RAF units have standing instructions for handling
-reports, and there is no special collaboration with those countries.
-(“Roy
-Mason Asks Another,” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 2 (March/April
-1959): 2; Good Above, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3256
Date: 1/26/1959
-Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral
-Gables, FL.
-Type: whistleblower
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Coral Gables, FL
Date: 1/28/1959
-Description: At a Symposium on Aerospace Technology by the Institute of
-the Aeronautical Sciences at the Astor Hotel in New York City, USAF Maj.
-Gen. Donald
-J. Keirn, assistant deputy chief of staff on development for nuclear
-systems, talks about nuclear aircraft propulsion. He mentions that if
-intelligent extraterrestrials do exist, “it is entirely possible that
-some of them may have passed through our stage of evolution, and may
-have already achieved a higher level of social and technological culture
-than our own.” He suggests using electromagnetic emissions to detect
-them, as they may be doing with us. (US Congress, Joint Committee on
-Atomic Energy, Hearings, Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, July 23,
-1959, p. 153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3257
Date: 1/31/1959
-Description: The US Ground Observer Corps is deactivated with the advent
-of automated Army (Missile Master) and Air Force (SAGE) radar systems.
-(Wikipedia, “Ground
-Observer Corps”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3258
Date: 2/1959
-Description: 350 km east of Umiat, trappers saw a red, disk-shaped
-object less than 4 km away, going up and down, sometimes nearly touching
-the ground. It circled and went away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Umiat, Alaska
-ID: 481
Date: 2/1959
-Description: 9:30 p.m. The people of Digeliotika, Greece, hear a humming
-noise coming from the direction of the sea. Running out of their homes,
-many people see a luminous disc circling the village for about 10
-minutes. Radios fail to operate and the electrical current in one house
-fails completely. When the disc flies low over the house of the priest,
-Papa Costas, there is a loud noise and the whole house shakes. The
-object moves off to the west. Inspection of the house the next day
-reveals that many of the roof tiles have been displaced, and others are
-on the ground. (“UAOs
-Collide with Tree, Roof,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3259
Date: 2/1/1959
-Description: JANAP 146(D) integrates Canada into the CIRVIS reporting
-instructions. The Canadian Department of National Defence launches a
-series of Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence
-Sightings in line with the JANAP procedures. (Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs
-and the Canadian Government,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 (Spring
-1976): 17–18; Antonio F. Rullán, “Blue
-Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,” December 10, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3260
Date: 2/17/1959
-Description: Hynek wants
-to start bringing together ATIC and Blue Book personnel for monthly
-meetings where scientific and PR problems are reviewed. To get it going,
-he meets with Air Force Intelligence, Secretary of the Air Force
-officials, and Blue Book staffers in the Pentagon. This meeting
-includes, besides Hynek, Maj. Robert
-J. Friend, Col.
-Leonard T. Glaser, Alex
-Francis Arcier, Maj.
-James F. Byrne, Maj. Joseph
-E. Boland, Maj. Lawrence
-J.
-Tacker, and
-Burgoyne
-Lee Griffing. The
-group agrees that eventually the term “UFOs” should be jettisoned and
-older unsolved cases reexamined in the light of “greater scientific
-knowledge” that will move them from unknowns to knowns. (Jacobs, UFO
-Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 148–149;
-Clark III 919; Swords 286; “Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3261
Date: 2/20/1959
-Description: Pfc. Bernard G. “Gerry” Irwin, on leave from Fort Bliss in
-El Paso, Texas, is driving near Cedar City, Utah, when he stops to
-investigate what seems to be a crashing plane. He is later found
-unconscious in the snow and treated at the Cedar City hospital. He
-suffers from amnesia, continues to have fainting spells, and returns
-more than once to the site in some kind of fugue. He soon deserts and
-perhaps disappears, but not forever, as he is living in Idaho in 2013,
-where David
-Booher interviews him about his PTSD-like symptoms. (Coral Lorenzen,
-“Soldier
-Sees Flash; Unconscious 24 Hours,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, pp. 1,
-10; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 97–99; Lorenzen,
-Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 347+; Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1961
-July–December, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 56–60; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1962 July– December,
-The Author, 2005, pp. 68–70; Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Dossier, Visible
-Ink, 2015, pp. 134–141;
-David Booher, No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert
-Operation?, Anomalist, 2017; Clark III 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3262
Date: 2/20/1959
-Description: Just as the first working models of the Army’s VZ-9 Avrocar
-are being manufactured, the Canadian government cancels the Avro CF-105
-Arrow program. Almost all Avro Canada employees are laid off, including
-those with the Special Projects Group. However, three days later, many
-of the Special Projects employees are rehired, but it isn’t quite
-business as usual. The USAF Project Office devoted to the Avro projects
-recommends that the WS-606A and all related work (including the Avrocar)
-be cancelled. However, in May the USAF authorizes Avro to continue its
-“flying saucer” programs. (Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3263
Date: late 2/1959
-End date: 4/15/1959
-Description: George
-Adamski continues his world lecture tour in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide,
-Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia. (“World
-Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3266
Date: 2/24/1959
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Capt. Peter
-W. Killian is flying an American Airlines flight from Newark to
-Detroit when he encounters three bright lights flying in a precise line.
-The initial detection takes place when the aircraft is flying at 8,500
-feet and 50 mph about 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At
-first Killian thinks he is seeing Orion’s sword, but he can see those
-stars elsewhere. One of the objects abruptly leaves formation and
-approaches the plane, slows down before Killian takes evasive action,
-then rejoins the other two. Killian alerts copilot James John Dee and
-then announces on the intercom for the passengers to take a look. He
-also puts out a call to nearby aircraft, and five other commercial
-airline pilots indicate that they can see the objects. The lights remain
-at about the 9 o’clock position for 40 minutes, providing an opportunity
-for many of the 35 passengers to observe them. They are also seen by the
-crews of two other planes flying much farther to the south, as well as
-by the tower operators in Pittsburgh. The Air Force quickly identifies
-the objects as the three Orion stars, changes that to an aerial
-refueling operation, then accuses Killian of being drunk. But an
-independent sighting of the UFOs by an Air Force transport plane 150
-miles further south confirms Killian’s observation, and no refueling
-routes exist in central Pennsylvania. Brad
-Sparks uncovers new evidence in 2016 that supports the witnesses’
-story. (NICAP, “The
-Killian Case”; UFOEv, pp. 116–117;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1959 January–March, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 58–60; Clark III 385–387; Sparks,
-p. 270; Willy Smith, “Over Pennsylvania,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998):
-13–14, 29–30; Swords 285; Patrick Gross, “The
-Killian– Orion
-Belt Sightings, 1958”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3264
Date: 2/24/1959
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 17-year-old male is home babysitting the
-family pets and his younger brother in Victorville, California, when he
-sees a bright light shining in his bedroom window. The dogs begin to
-howl and run around. He goes outside and sees a luminous object like an
-“elongated egg,” dull red with purple waves inside it, flying in a
-descending path toward his house. It passes over the front yard at a
-height of only 8–10 feet. As the object returns, he goes inside to get a
-gun, but as he goes outside the object is making a third pass and he
-goes back inside. When the parents return home, they find the dogs in a
-terrified state. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 167–170;
-Swords 286–287)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3265
Date: 2/25/1959
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Jim Dobbs Jr. is driving south on State Highway
-18 south of Hobbs, New Mexico, when he sees an egg-shaped object glowing
-like radium on a watch dial. He estimates it is 10° above the southern
-horizon and traveling fast. His radio fades out and produces only a
-steady succession of two dots and a dash. The object disappears in the
-east after 30 seconds. (“Hobbs
-Man Sees Glowing UFO, Hears Signals,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3267
Date: 2/25/1959
-Description: Lt. Col. Lee
-B. James, chief of the Liaison Branch of the Army Ballistic Agency
-in Huntsville, Alabama, gives a talk at the Detroit Chapter of the
-Michigan Society of Professional Engineers on space flight. Because of
-the recent Killian incident, he is asked about UFOs. Referring to the
-witness on that aircraft, he says: “If they (35 passengers and several
-crew members) saw what they really saw, it would have to come from outer
-space—a civilization decades before ours.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959
-January–March, The
-Author, 1999, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3268
Date: 2/25/1959
-Description: 7:25 p.m. A pale-yellow light is seen by officials above
-one of the runways at London Airport [now Heathrow], England. Airport
-and air defense radars do not pick up any target. RAF Fighter Command
-Headquarters says the light fluctuates in intensity and is about 200
-feet from the ground. It stays in one position for 20 minutes then
-climbs away at high speed. (Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, “Venus
-and the Nose-Cone Light: A Study
-in the Lunacy of Explainistics,” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 3
-(May/June 1959): 10–11, 31; Good Above, p. 52;
-UFOEv, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3269
Date: 2/28/1959
-Description: Private Gerry Irwin stopped his car to investigate what he
-thought was a crashing plane. He was later found unconscious. Sequels of
-the incident (fainting, amnesia and his return to the site in a
-trancelike state) are sometimes quoted as evidence of psychologial
-experience correlated with the observation of the luminous object. Irwin
-deserted, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 121; Lorenzen; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Cedar City, Iowa
-ID: 482
Date: 2/28/1959
-Description: The US Air Force launches Discoverer 1, the first of a
-series of satellites that are part of the Corona spy program. The
-mission is a failure due to problems with the Agena upper stage.
-(Wikipedia, “Discoverer
-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3270
Date: 3/1959
-Description: On the Baltic Sea coast near Kołobrzeg, Poland, soldiers
-watch the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 12 feet in
-diameter, emerges, circles the barracks, and flies away at high speed.
-(Vallée, Magonia, p. 275)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3271
Date: 3/1959
-Description: On the Polish coast, not far from Kolobreg, soldiers saw
-the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 4 m in size, emerged,
-circled the barracks, and flew away at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 122 (Vallee)
-Location: Kolobreg, Poland
-ID: 483
Date: 3/11/1959
-Description: Rear Admiral George
-J. Dufek, on
-his way back from commanding Operation Deepfreeze in Antarctica, tells
-reporters in Wellington, New Zealand, that he does not think the
-existence of UFOs can be discounted: “I think it is very stupid for
-human beings to think no one else in the universe is as intelligent as
-we are.” Asked years later why he said this, he explains that it was
-because of sightings related to him by people who worked with him at the
-South Pole. (Swords 290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3272
Date: 3/12/1959
-Description: Several witnesses at Bergen, Norway, see a bright object
-passing north to south, taking two minutes to move from horizon to
-horizon. Several minutes later another appears, following the same
-course. This is soon followed by three more in succession. (ClearIntent,
-p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3273
Date: 3/13/1959
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Percy Briggs is driving from Purnong to Mannum,
-South Australia, with a load of vegetables and Claypans Postmaster C.
-Towill as passenger. They have just climbed Cournamont Hill near the
-Purnong Ferry over the Murray River. They see to the left of the road a
-huge dome-shaped object with 8–9 red and blue lights about 20 feet
-apart. The UFO soon rises from the ground at a 15° angle and moves away
-to the southwest. The separate lights merge into one big light. They
-watch it recede for about 10 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March, The Author,
-1999, pp. 79–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3274
Date: 3/13/1959
-Time: 1410
-Description: Near Claypans, 150 km northeast of Adelaide, Carl Towill,
-postmaster, and Percy Briggs, mail carrier, saw a dome-shaped object
-take off from a field 400 m away. It resembled a huge, brilliant circus
-tent, studded with lights that kept changing from red to blue. They
-approached within 200 m, then saw it rise, hover, and shoot off at
-immense speed toward the south. They had observed it for 10 min.
-Mr. Briggs was questioned by investigators from Woomera Rocket
-range.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Pumong, Australia
-ID: 484
Date: 3/18/1959
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Jesse Wilson of Denville, New Jersey, is taking
-photos of the Moon through a telescope and captures an image of two
-groups of multiple objects. (Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3275
Date: 3/19/1959
-Description: USAF spokesman Maj. Lawrence
-J. Tacker retracts the dubious Orion explanation for the Killian case
-and says instead that the pilots saw B-47 bombers refueling in flight
-from a KC-97 tanker. Killian tells the papers, “I don’t care what the
-air force says,” he knows what refueling looks like and the UFOs were
-“at least three times the size of any tanker or bomber we have. They
-could travel at 2,000 mph. And they were not conventional aircraft.”
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959
-January–March, The Author, 1999, pp. 82–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3276
Date: spring 1959
-Description: Keyhoe meets
-with Hillenkoetter at
-the New York Yacht Club to discuss NICAP strategy. USAF Public
-Information Officer Lawrence
-J. Tacker has sent the organization a letter asking it to stop
-writing to Air Force personnel about UFOs. Keyhoe tells Hillenkoetter
-that three scientists have contacted a certain congressman to report UFO
-sightings. Hillenkoetter advises, “we’ll have to do something to speed
-things up.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 15, 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3281
Date: spring 1959
-Description: Soviet radar and Air Defense personnel observe UFOs
-circling and hovering for more than 24 hours above the headquarters of
-the Tactical Missile Command at Sverdlovsk, Russia. Fighter aircraft
-sent to intercept them report that the UFOs easily outmaneuver them and
-zigzag to avoid machine gun fire. (Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966,
-pp. 6–10; Good Above, p. 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3282
Date: spring 1959
-Description: Early evening. A weather officer with the US Fifth Air
-Force in Tokyo, Japan, is in the operations center when the staff tracks
-a UFO near Misawa Air Base on the north end of Honshu. One of the
-officers says this happens frequently, that the objects travel at 2,000
-mph, and they often stop in one position and hover for 30 minutes to
-several hours before taking off westward along the Tsugaru Strait and
-disappearing in a burst of speed. The center commander orders the pilots
-of two specially equipped F-106s based at Misawa to intercept the
-target. One of the planes is having instrumentation problems, but the
-other goes up. After 10 minutes he is being guided toward the target
-through Misawa. The pilot says the object is circular and metallic with
-a cockpit on top. The commander calls the Pentagon for authorization for
-the pilot to fire on the UFO, and he gets permission for the pilot to
-make a firing pass. The pilot fires two missiles, but they detonate just
-at the edge of the object, as if it is protected. The UFO then turns
-toward the terrified pilot, and the command center watches as the two
-blips merge into one. The blip disappears. Crews search for wreckage for
-4 days but find none. (Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1991): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3283
Date: 3/20/1959
-Alternate date: 6/8/1959
-Description: A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA)
-produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon,
-A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by
-1965.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Redstone Arsenal
Date: 3/20/1959
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Witold Sambrowski, an electronics engineer, sees
-two noiseless cigar-shaped, reddish-pink objects flying over Ostroleka,
-Poland. They are traveling horizontally at a speed greater than a jet.
-When the two vanish, a third appears and follows the path the others
-have taken. (Hobana and Weverbergh 211–212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3277
Date: 3/22/1959
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bond are driving near Ann
-Arbor, Michigan, when they see an intensely lighted object hovering
-about 2 miles to the southeast. It is about 200 feet in the air and just
-south of a main road. Intense shafts of light are shining from two oval
-ports at the bottom. As they drive closer, they can hear no sound and
-find it is about 50–75 feet from the road. The UFO parallels their car
-at first, then the light shafts go out, and a circle of 8–10 red lights
-appear on the bottom. Then it rises rapidly and disappears in seconds. A
-local radio astronomer, Allen Barrot, claims the couple saw the lights
-of his telescope. But the Air Force finds that the couple were never
-looking in the direction of Barrot’s observatory. (Swords 288–289; Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March, The
-Author, 1999, pp. 87–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3278
Date: 3/26/1959
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Or March 27, 1959. Witness: T.E. Clark. One dark red,
-barrel-shaped object, 20’ long, 6-7’ high, descended below some trees
-during the 3 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corsica, Pennsylvania
-ID: 433
Date: 3/27/1959
-Description: Lou
-Corbin has told Keyhoe that
-Rep. Samuel
-Friedel (D-Md.) is “all set to hop on this Killian business”
-and begins to plan for Killian to meet with him. But Killian’s wife now
-tells Keyhoe that he is under strict orders from the Air Force not to
-talk to anyone about the sighting or risk losing his job. Soon
-afterwards, the Air Force releases a statement from Killian that says,
-“Having never seen night refueling of jets by a tanker, I suppose that
-could be what we saw.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 27–36; UFOEv, pp. 116–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3279
Date: 3/31/1959
-Time: 1330
-Description: Barry Neale was driving home to Goolwa when he saw on the
-ground a glowing, reddish-orange object with a row of portholes. It
-illuminated the trees, was about 5 m wide. He got within 300 m of it,
-and drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. No
-radioactivity was found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Port Elliot, Australia
-ID: 485
Date: 3/31/1959
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Barry Neale, operator of the Port Elliot movie
-theater, is driving home to Goolwa, South Australia, and sees a
-dome-shaped, reddish-orange object with a row of evenly spaced portholes
-around it. He estimates it to be about 15 feet wide, and it is on the
-ground about 900 feet from the road. He sees it disappear to the east.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959
-January–March, The Author, 1999, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3280
Date: 4/1/1959
-Description: An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers
-suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told
-reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG
-(Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from
-7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial
-explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had
-reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene
-to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the
-Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at Mc Chord
-AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the
-C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped
-objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and
-Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the
-C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R.
-Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to
-APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air
-Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been
-silenced,” Gribble reported.
-Type: ufo midair collision
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Orting, WA
-See also: 9/29/59
-See also: 5/61
Date: 4/1/1959
-Description: An Air Force C-118 plane with four on board crashes between
-Sumner and Orting, Washington, about an hour after taking off from
-McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] in Tacoma. Their last radio
-message indicates that they hit something or that something hit them. Bob
-Gribble and other UFO investigators find witnesses who claim to have
-seen two orange or yellow objects closing in on the plane. Best guess is
-that the plane hit a tree and the UFO observations are unrelated. (Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1959 April–June, The Author, 1999, pp. 2–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3284
Date: 4/7/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Control tower operators at CFB St. Hubert [now
-Montreal/Saint-Hubert Airport], Quebec, spot a red, glowing light
-hanging in the sky for a few minutes at 3,000–7,000 feet altitude. It
-suddenly darts to the north at supersonic speed. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The
-Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3285
Date: 4/11/1959
-Description: Two businessmen at Woodlands, New Zealand, watch a glowing
-40-foot-long object with a balloon-like attachment on the underside
-hovering just above the trees. As they approach it in their car, it
-speeds off to the north. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3286
Date: 4/12/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Control tower personnel and airport officials at
-St. Hubert Air Defence Command Base [now CFB St. Hubert], Quebec, as
-well as local residents watch a red ball of light hovering above the
-airfield at 3,000–7,000 feet. Descriptions vary from a black ball with a
-red light to a long red cigar. Radar does not pick it up. Suddenly it
-takes off toward Montreal to the north. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO
-Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3287
Date: 4/15/1959
-Time: evening
-Description: Between Svendborg and Nyborg, Ove Christensen, coming home
-after work on his bicycle, was stopped on the road by a disk-shaped
-object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing
-him, flying 6 m above him for 5 m. The object was luminous and seemed
-made of glass.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Svendborg, Denmark
-ID: 486
Date: 4/17/1959
-Description: George
-Adamski meets with Sisir
-Kumar Maitra, head
-of the Department of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Arts of
-Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi during a stopover in Kolkata,
-India. (“World
-Lecture Tour,”
-The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3288
Date: 4/18/1959
-End date: 5/14/1959
-Description: Adamski arrives
-in London, England, and appears on the TV show In Town Tonight on April
-18 and on the BBC program Panorama on April 20 where he debates with
-astronomer Patrick
-Moore, a show that is seen by 9 million viewers. Both Gen. Frederick
-Browning and RAF Commander Peter
-Horsley meet with Adamski and Desmond
-Leslie during their visit to a private address in London. Adamski
-gives further lectures in Tunbridge Wells, Weston-super-Mare,
-Bournemouth, at Caxton Hall in London (on April 28), Birmingham
-University (April 29), Manchester (May 1), and several more around the
-British Isles. (“World
-Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The
-Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3289
Date: 4/19/1959
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Otis
-T. Carr and Norman Colton, who have been in Oklahoma since February,
-pretend to attempt the launch of their OTC-X1 spacecraft in a gravel pit
-6 miles east of the Frontier City amusement park northeast of Oklahoma
-City. Frontier City obligingly erects a model of the spacecraft as a
-ride. However, Carr comes down with a mysterious throat ailment and goes
-to Mercy Hospital on April 17. He invites Long
-John Nebel to have a brief glimpse of the model, but Nebel thinks it
-looks like a jumble of unconnected parts. As it turns out, the OTC- X1
-develops a “mercury leak” and the launch is delayed then canceled. Those
-who have come for the April 19 launch hear contactee Dana
-Howard talk about her trip to Venus, and Margaret
-Storm (Carr’s “publications editor” in Baltimore) declares that Carr
-is inspired by the “Divine Master St. Germain.” (“Difficulties
-Put Off Flying
-Saucer Test,”
-Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, April 20, 1959, pp. 1–2, 13; Clark III
-860–861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3290
Date: 4/20/1959
-Description: Ufologist Morris
-K. Jessup commits suicide in a Dade County park, Florida, from
-carbon monoxide poisoning. Some theorists connect his involvement with
-the Allende letters and the Philadelphia
-experiment to his death, but friends say Jessup has been discussing
-suicide with them for several months. (Clark III 635; “Jessup and
-the Allende Case,” Pursuit 1, no. 4 (September 30, 1968):
-8–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3291
Date: 4/29/1959
-Time: 2230
-Description: Alex Gillis and Jerry Monkman saw from a hilltop an
-egg-shaped object in the middle of the road. It was about 5 m long, the
-top part emitting a bright light. The object went away silently. Fearing
-ridicule, the witnesses reported the incident one month later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Grassy Plains, Canada
-ID: 487
Date: 5/1959
-Description: The first Avrocar, #58-7055, rolls out of the Avro Malton
-factory in Mississauga, Ontario. From June 9 to October 7 it is tested
-in a static hover rig. A second Avrocar is completed in August.
-(Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9
-Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3292
Date: 5/4/1959
-Description: Otis
-T. Carr and his attorney are summoned to the county courthouse in
-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to answer questions about stock sales by OTC
-Enterprises, including a block of 21,000 shares to Frontier City
-promoter Jimmy
-Burge, oilman
-Frank
-Buttram, and
-publisher Edward
-K. Gaylord. Carr
-pleads the Fifth Amendment. (Clark III 861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3293
Date: 5/5/1959
-Description: Hynek’s
-newly formed UFO Advisory Panel holds its first meeting at
-Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The panel consists of Hynek, Lt.
-Col. Richard
-M. Graham (chaplain), Lt. Col. Theodore J. Hieatt (PR), Maj. Leroy
-D. Pigg (psychologist), V. J. Handmacher (physicist), and L. V. Robinson
-(astronomer). (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,”
-Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in
-America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 148– 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3294
Date: 5/18/1959
-Description: George
-Adamski has an audience with Queen Juliana and
-Prince Bernhard of
-the Netherlands at Soestdijk Palace in Baarn on his world lecture tour,
-amid fiercely critical media coverage. The royal audience, scheduled to
-last 45 minutes, goes on for two hours, making Adamski 20 minutes late
-for his lecture in The Hague. The royal couple claim that the British
-royal family, especially Prince
-Philip, are also keen to meet Adamski. After the audience, Dutch
-Aeronautical Association president Cornelis
-Kolff says “The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole
-subject.” Royal Netherlands Air Force Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Haye
-Schaper says, “The man’s a pathological case.” (“World
-Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The
-Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3295
Date: 5/20/1959
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Antonio Sanchez and Ernesto Fogliani are hunting
-rabbits about 7 miles from Pehuelches station, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-They see a saucer-shaped, silvery machine resting on the ground about
-980 feet away. They approach to about 490 feet when the object rises
-into the sky and disappears. At the spot where it was, they find the
-grass flattened in the shape of a large oval. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: 1959 April–June, The Author, 1999, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3296
Date: late 5/1959
-Description: Ruppelt tells
-Keyhoe he
-is revising his book to bring it more up to date and requests NICAP’s
-most recent information. He says the Air Force is giving its full
-cooperation and he is “middle of the road” on the UFO question. (Keyhoe,
-FSTS, pp. 258–260) May 26, 29 — Adamski gives
-two lectures in Zürich, Switzerland. At the second talk, he meets with
-organized resistance by a group of 300 students (in an audience of 700)
-who have been led to believe he will discredit Swiss astronomer Fritz
-Zwicky. When
-a reporter afterwards asks if he will accept an apology, Adamski replies
-that it should not be given to him, but to the Swiss public. Due to
-recurring heart problems, Adamski cancels his remaining lectures in
-Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Denmark. (“World
-Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3298
Date: 5/20/1959
-Time: 1730
-Description: Two hunters saw a diskshaped object resting on the ground
-150 m away. It looked like an aluminum craft about 2.5 m high, with a
-dome on top. Grass flattened.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Tres Lomas, Argentina
-ID: 488
Date: 5/22/1959
-Description: The UFO Advisory Panel meets to “determine the type of
-information which should be used for correlation in bringing Special
-Report #14 up to date.” (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3297
Date: 5/28/1959
-Description: Otis
-T. Carr and two OTC Enterprises employees (Lari Kendrick and Charles
-O. Rhoades) are barred by a federal court order from selling any further
-stock in the company. The SEC contends that they have been selling
-unregistered securities fraudulently since November 18, 1955, using the
-US mail to do so. Contactee associate Wayne
-Aho escapes arraignment, while Norman Colton has fled the state and
-cannot be located. (Clark III 861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3299
Date: 5/28/1959
-Description: Night. Two observers on a Project Moonwatch team in San
-Antonio, Texas, see two silvery objects through their telescopes that
-shoot across the sky in less than one second, one curving away in a
-parabolic path, the other executing a more gradual hyperbolic curve.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009):
-13–14; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch
-Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3300
Date: 6/1959
-Description: The Argentine Navy bottles up a fast, submarine-like object
-in the Buenos Aires harbor, Argentina. It is shaped like a huge fish, is
-silver in color, and sports a tail like the stabilizer on a B-17.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3301
Date: 6/1959
-Description: The radiation effects reactor at Lockheed’s Georgia Nuclear
-Aircraft Laboratory [now closed] in the Dawson Forest outside
-Dawsonville, Georgia, is brought up to full power and unsheathed for the
-first time. It is a water- cooled 10-megawatt nuclear reactor in a
-shielded underground shaft with the purpose of irradiating military
-aircraft as well as the forest itself to determine the effects of
-nuclear war on wildlife. The experiment exposes everything within a
-1,000-foot radius to a lethal dose of radiation. Bugs fall from the air,
-and small animals and the bacteria living in and on them are
-exterminated, in a phenomenon the technicians call “instant taxidermy.”
-Oak trees turn brown, yet crabgrass is seemingly unaffected. Pine trees
-are the hardest hit of all. Clear Coca-Cola bottles turn brown,
-hydraulic fluid coagulates into chewing gum, transistorized equipment
-stops working, and rubber tires become rock hard. Documents about the
-reactor remain highly classified, and the entrance to the underground
-portion of the facility has been buried. The area is closed in 1971, and
-only objects left above ground were the concrete foundations on which
-the buildings and reactors were placed. (Wikipedia, “Georgia
-Nuclear Aircraft
-Laboratory”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon &
-Schuster, 2019, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3302
Date: 6/12/1959
-Description: Keyhoe writes
-an open letter to Ruppelt that
-lists his past statements on UFOs and urges him not to let the Air Force
-intimidate him into retracting. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Capt. Ruppelt
-Revising His UFO Book: Air Force Rumored
-to Be Pressuring Former Project Chief,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8
-(June 1959): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3303
Date: 6/13/1959
-Description: Charles
-S. Sheldon II, technical
-director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, writes to Richard
-H.
-Hall at NICAP to say that while he thinks UFOs are “extremely
-interesting,” they do not pose a national security threat.” (Swords
-290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3304
Date: 6/13/1959
-Description: Adamski, along
-with follower Lou Zinsstag, meets with diplomat Alberto
-Perego and Mario Maioli at Ristorante La Cisterna in the Trastevere
-area of Rome, Italy, then go on an all-night taxi ride around the city.
-He returns to the United States via Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 17.
-(“World
-Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; 1Pinotti
-106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3305
Date: 6/18/1959
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: A. Cavelli and R. Blessin, using 7x binoculars.
-One brown, cigar-shaped object came from below the horizon (close to the
-witnesses) ascending to 40-50^ above the horizon in 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
-ID: 434
Date: 6/21/1959
-Time: 2000
-Description: A civilian woman observed a saucer-shaped object hovering 5
-m above ground. It was bathed in an orange glow, similar to that of a
-dying fire. It flew away horizontally and was lost to sight behind a
-hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: The Willows, South Africa
-ID: 489
Date: 6/22/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A large, luminous UFO passes over Salta,
-Argentina, and blacks out all electrical power for several minutes.
-(Bernardo Passíon, “Report
-from Argentina,” APRO Bulletin, November 1959, p. 9; Loren E. Gross,
-The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June, The
-Author, 1999, p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3306
Date: 6/26/1959
-Time: 1845
-Description: Many witnesses, among them Fr. W. B. Gill, head of a local
-mission, saw an orange object that hovered in mid-air. Four engines were
-visible on its “deck” and a beam of blue light was emitted upward from
-it. The object did not come to ground level, but its position above the
-ocean was almost on a level with the observers standing on the
-hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 123; Anatomy 145 (Vallee)
-Location: Boianai, New Guinea
-ID: 490
Date: 6/26/1959
-End date: 6/28/1959
-Description: 6:45 p.m. At Boianai Mission, Papua New Guinea, Rev. William
-Booth Gill and 38 others watch a platform-shaped object with legs
-that appears in the sky above Venus. It has an electric blue spotlight
-and is hovering about 500 feet away at a height of 300–400 feet. On top
-of the object, four humanlike figures, their bodies surrounded by
-illumination, are busy with some unknown task. The men and spotlight
-disappear at 7:20 p.m. and the object vanishes into the clouds. It
-reappears at 8:28 without the men or spotlight but now joined by second,
-third and fourth objects at 8:29, 8:35, and 8:35–8:50 p.m., coming and
-going through the clouds. The main UFO, “large, clear, stationary,”
-gives off a red light and disappears overhead into clouds at 9:10 p.m.,
-reappears at 9:20, moves across the sea to Giwa appearing
-white-red-blue, then disappears at 9:30. An overhead object reappears at
-9:46, hovering, disappears behind a cloud at 10:10, reappears in a gap
-between clouds at 10:30, then is gone at 10:50. The next day, the object
-returns at 6:00–6:30 p.m. with two others, one to the west and one
-overhead. “Two of the figures seemed to be doing something near the
-center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over and raising
-their arms as though adjusting or setting up something (not visible).
-One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us.” Father Gill and
-another teacher wave their arms, and two of the figures on the main
-object wave back. Gill waves a flashlight and the object moves back and
-forth laterally. Gill goes in for dinner and a church service; when he
-returns at 7:45 p.m., the UFO is gone. The next evening at 6:45 p.m.,
-some eight objects align themselves across a section of the sky. No
-occupants are visible. Martin
-Kottmeyer suggests that Gill was watching a lighted squid-fishing
-boat close to shore, but Gill has confirmed the object was over his
-head. (“Saucer
-Men Seen in Flight: Amazing Sighting from Papua,” Flying Saucer
-Review 5, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1959): 7–8; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “Flying
-Saucers over Papua: A Report on Papuan Unidentified Flying Objects,”
-March 1960; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “What
-Happened in Papua in 1959?” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1960): 3–7; “Father
-Gill and the Rev. Lionel Browning,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1961): 23–25; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “Flying
-Saucers over Papua,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds,
-special issue of FSR, August 1971, pp. 3–38; Gordon Creighton, “The
-New Guinea Sightings; A Note on Some Anthropological
-Aspects,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, special issue
-of FSR, August 1971, p. 39; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 167–
-172, 271–273;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 216–223;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June,
-The Author, 1999, pp. 59–68, 69–71; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited,” IUR
-2, no. 11 (November 1977): 4–7; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited, Part Two,”
-IUR 2, no. 12 (December 1977): 4–8; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 59–62; Martin Kottmeyer, “Gill
-Again: The Father Gill Case Reconsidered,” Magonia, no. 54 (November
-1995): 11–14; Bill Chalker, “The
-Boianai Visitants of 1959,” The Black Vault, May 16, 2016; Thomas E.
-Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (Mar. 2012): 31–32; Swords
-383–385; Clark III 533–536)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3307
Date: 6/30/1959
-Time: 8:23 PM
-Description: Witness: USN Cdr. D. Connolly. One gold, oblate-shaped
-object, nine times as wide as it was thick, metallic and with sharp
-edges, flew straight and level for 20-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Patuxent River NAS, Maryland
-ID: 435
Date: 7/1959
-Description: The Air Force reassigns UFO investigative duties to the
-1127th Field Activities Group stationed at Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County,
-Virginia, replacing the 1006th AISS. The unit will also be responsible
-for Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy
-in America, Signet ed., 1976, p. 134;
-Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A
-Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3308
Date: 7/1959
-Description: Contactee Gabriel
-Green rebrands his group as the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of
-America and publishes the AFSCA World Report from 1959 to 1961, UFO
-International from 1962 to 1965, and Flying Saucers International from
-1966 to 1969. (AFSCA
-Information Sheet, no.
-1 (1959); AFSCA
-UFO International, no. 17 (Sept./Oct. 1962); Flying
-Saucers International, no.
-24 (July 1966); Clark III 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3309
Date: 7/5/1959
-End date: 7/6/1959
-Description: US Navy Cmdr. Julius Larsen, an ONI liaison officer to the
-CIA’s Photographic Intelligence Center in Washington, D.C., rediscovers
-the Swan-Knowles-Affa correspondence from 1954 in a file and decides to
-follow up on it. He goes to Eliot, Maine, to visit Adm. Knowles and
-interview Frances Swan. Larsen tries his hand at automatic writing and
-channels a message from Affa. Back in Washington on July 6, Larsen goes
-to director of the Photographic Intelligence Office, Arthur
-C. Lundahl, and tells the story to him and his assistant Lt. Robert
-S. Neasham. They
-urge Larsen to try to contact the extraterrestrials. Larsen goes into a
-trance, asks Affa questions, and writes the answers down. When Neasham
-challenges Affa to appear in person or let them see his spaceship,
-Larsen stops writing and tells Neasham to go to the window. Lundahl sees
-nothing unusual, but Neasham insists a spaceship is hiding behind some
-fluffy clouds. He also insists that he later contacted Washington
-National Airport and heard from the radar tower that the sector where
-the UFO appeared had been “blocked out.” Neasham urges Project Blue
-Book’s Maj. Robert
-Friend to come over for a briefing. He shows up on July 9 and hears
-Neasham’s version of the story, and Larsen even channels some messages.
-Friend goes back to Dayton, Ohio, and prepares a memo for his boss.
-(Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 153–154;
-Clark III 1118–1119; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present, and Future,
-Ballantine, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3310
Date: 7/8/1959
-Description: Night. Mrs. Napau Abednego and other indigenous people on
-Prince of Wales Island in the Torres Strait off Queensland, Australia,
-see a huge, glowing red object land on top of a hill at Port Lihou. The
-same night, residents of nearby Thursday Island see a green UFO flying
-low, and a strange object is also reported at Mapoon Mission on the west
-coast of Cape York. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-1959 July–September, The
-Author, 2000, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3311
Date: 7/11/1959
-Description: 6:02 a.m. A Pan American Boeing Stratocruiser piloted by
-Capt. George Wilson flying over the Pacific Ocean about 1,035 miles
-northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii, encounters a large bright light with 3–4
-satellite lights in a line below, behind, and to the left of the main
-object. It makes a sharp right turn and disappears to the south. Copilot
-Richard Lorenzen and Flight Engineer Bob Scott also see the UFOs.
-Another Pan Am flight sees essentially the same phenomenon, as well as
-an Air Force bomber crew, a Slick Airways plane, and a Canadian Pacific
-airliner. (UFOEv, p. 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3312
Date: 7/13/1959
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Eileen Moreland, a farmwoman in Blenheim, New
-Zealand, goes to the barn to milk her cows and sees a huge object, about
-20–30 feet in diameter, with two intense green lights on its underside
-descend towards her and hover at rooftop height. It bathes her in green
-light. Two rows of jets around the middle shoot out orange flames. She
-can see two men inside, dressed in close-fitting suits of shiny material
-and opaque helmets. The jets turn on again, the object tilts, and it
-shoots up vertically at great speed, making a high-pitched sound. (Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959
-July–September, The Author, 2000, pp. 25–28; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad
-‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 23; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-2, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3313
Date: 7/13/1959
-Description: Disc with dome illuminated area in green light, two beings
-visible in dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Blenheim, New Zealand
-ID: 6
Date: 7/13/1959
-Time: 0530
-Description: Mrs. Moreland saw a diskshaped object as she was milking
-cows. It was about 10 m diameter, had two intense, green lights and two
-rows of jets around the rim, emitting orange flames. Inside a glass dome
-on top were two men dressed in aluminumlike suits. The craft did not
-land, but took off at great speed with a high-pitched sound. Heat
-sensation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 124; Challenge 24 (Vallee)
-Location: Blenheim, New Zealand
-ID: 491
Date: 7/14/1959
-Description: 8:22 p.m. TV sets in Salisbury, North Carolina,
-mysteriously go dead as residents see a flash of light and hear a loud
-vibrato noise. (Schopick, pp. 111–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3314
Date: 7/14/1959
-Description: Hunters reported the landing of a red object on the island.
-Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 123 (Vallee)
-Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
-ID: 492
Date: 7/20/1959
-Description: A shuttlecock-shaped UFO is seen over the RAAF Woomera
-Range Complex in South Australia. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3315
Date: 7/25/1959
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin,
-crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew
-at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Irondequoit, New York
-ID: 436
Date: 7/27/1959
-Description: The UFO Advisory Panel meets at Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio to discuss trends and statistics and recent sightings. (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3316
Date: 7/28/1959
-Description: 2:10 p.m. Ray
-Stanford and a friend simultaneously take 8mm and 16mm film footage
-of three cigar-shaped objects maneuvering in the sky above his parents’
-home at 2629 Lynch Street, Corpus Christi, Texas. A fourth UFO appears
-about 5 minutes later. At one point a jet aircraft appears to alter its
-course to fly closer to one of the objects. (Ray Stanford, “The
-July 28 Movies,” Saucers 7, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 1959/1960): 20–23;
-“Out
-of the Past,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1984): 5–7; “Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984):
-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3317
Date: 8/1959
-Description: Kathleen O’Rourke is asleep with her two children in her
-bedroom in New Matamoras, Ohio, when her son yells her awake. There are
-a dozen globes of yellow light circling about a foot above his bed. They
-are about 3 inches in diameter. Then a second group enters the room,
-passing through the screen. They split, half joining the first and half
-sailing over Kathleen. They all then move to her bed and circle above
-her. Not one of the lights goes to her daughter’s bed. She presses the
-light switch, and the lights turn into straight-edged streaks of light
-and disappear. There are no holes in the screens. (Michael D. Swords, “A
-Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3320
Date: 8/1959
-Description: Stan Seers, president of the Queensland Flying Saucer
-Research Bureau [now UFO Research Queensland], is contacted by a man who
-requests a meeting with him in a Brisbane car park and offers him
-important information on UFOs. At the meeting he finds out that the man
-is an agent of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, who
-indicates he knows quite a bit about the group and its officers. By
-suggesting that ASIO could offer them significant information, the agent
-subsequently infiltrates the group and causes dissension and confusion.
-Some QFSRB members are pacifists, apparently, and are seeking to contact
-Russian scientists about the UFO phenomenon through the Soviet cultural
-organization VOKS. (Good Above, pp. 164–166;
-Kremlin 137– 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3318
Date: 8/1959
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A son and his father are driving near Skiatook,
-Oklahoma. Upon nearing a bridge, the car engine dies. Another car is
-stopped on the other side of the bridge with its hood up. They see a
-metallic, domed disc with a flexible hose hovering less than a foot
-above the water of a creek. They watch it for 5 minutes, then the hose
-draws in and the disk rises to 10 feet, disturbing the water’s surface
-into a foot-deep trench. It flies upward and the cars start again.
-(Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959
-July–September, The Author, 2000, pp. 59–61; Michael D. Swords,
-“Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008):
-16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3319
Date: 8/9/1959
-Time: 1954
-Description: Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses
-had to stop when they ran out of fuel; they observed a light swinging
-like a pendulum, coming close to the ground. It appared as a large,
-vertical, egg-shaped object which made a “whooshing” sound. Closest
-approach was 120 m. Estimated height: 2 m; width, 1.5 m. When Uribe
-aimed a rifle at the object, it went out of sight within seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. IlI 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego
-ID: 493
Date: 8/9/1959
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Petroleum engineer Armando Uribe is returning
-home from Cerro Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, with his wife and an
-11-year-old housemaid when their pickup runs out of fuel. As they are
-waiting for another vehicle, the girl spots a bright blue light around
-7:54 p.m. that is swinging in the air with a pendulum-like motion. As it
-approaches, they see it is an object like a metallic egg standing on end
-with two shafts of white light projecting from the bottom. A
-rose-colored, rotating device is on top. The object makes a quick
-movement when Uribe gets out of the truck, but then moves closer. Uribe
-points a rifle at it, and it quickly recedes and disappears. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 14–16; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 53–54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3321
Date: 8/10/1959
-Time: 1:28 AM
-Description: Witness: Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Flt. Lt. M.S.
-Mowat, on ground. One large star-like light crossed 53 degree of sky in
-25 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 437
Date: 8/12/1959
-Description: A 60-year-old farmer saw an eggshaped object come down at
-high speed and land in a pasture near a river. Then it took off
-vertically and flew away toward Santiago. Traces. Engine noise, not
-similar to helicopter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Brion, Spain
-ID: 494
Date: 8/13/1959
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Pilot Jack H. Goldsberry, flying a Cessna 170
-from Hobbs to Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 8,000 feet, notices halfway
-between Roswell and Corona, that his Magnesyn electric compass has
-suddenly moved around a slow 360° rotation in about 4–5 seconds. His
-other standard magnetic compass is spinning wildly. About this time, he
-sees three small, gray, and slightly fuzzy elliptical objects in close
-echelon formation passing in front from left to right and around his
-plane at a distance about 450–600 feet at a speed of about 200 mph. The
-Magnesyn compass follows the objects’ position as they circle the plane,
-and after one full circle they disappear to the rear. Then both
-compasses settle back to normal. The controller at Albuquerque cancels
-his flight plan and orders him to land at Kirtland AFB, where he is
-interrogated by a USAF major, who tells him that he might become ill
-from the experience. (NICAP, “Former
-Navy PBY Pilot Encounter / EME”; Clark III 950; Sparks, p. 278;
-Swords 287; “AF
-Secretly Warns Pilot of Danger,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1
-(March/April 1965): 5; Schopick, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3322
Date: 8/13/1959
-Description: Around 9:45 p.m. Orville Shanks is driving with three
-passengers on Highway 332 north of Freeport, Texas, when they see a
-bright object with two satellite lights approach at low altitude. The
-car motor stalls and the headlights go out. The two lights appear to
-land, the main object follows them, continually changing colors and
-varying the intensity of its light. The motor and lights come back on
-when the UFOs cross the road, and Shanks drives on. About midnight they
-return, and the object is still there. Shanks gets out and approaches,
-but the UFO starts glowing brightly and making a noise, and they drive
-off again. (“Object
-Lands in Texas, U.S.,” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 3; Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 55–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3323
Date: 8/13/1959
-Time: 2130
-Description: A bright, flying object passed low over a car, whose engine
-stalled, and landed in a wooded area. Six witnesses in two separate
-groups observed the object, and the police were called. The dense
-underbrush prevented investigation of the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Freeport, Texas
-ID: 495
Date: 8/17/1959
-Description: The automatic keys at the power station in Uberlândia,
-Minas Gerais, Brazil, suddenly disconnect power to all four trunk lines.
-A technician at a substation 45 miles away reports that all the keys
-disconnected as a UFO passes overhead, traveling toward the main station
-along the power lines. The chief engineer resets all the keys but they
-turn off again. Outside he sees a bright object approaching at high
-speed. As soon as it passes, the entire system returns to normal.
-(Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 179–180;
-Schopick, pp. 143–145;
-Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 152–153; McCampbell,
-Ufology, 1976, pp. 66–67; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of
-the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The Author,
-2000, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3324
Date: 8/25/1959
-Time: 1100
-Description: Near Hagen, Lutz Holtmann went toward a bright object in a
-forest, and fainted when he got close to it. When he regained
-consciousness, he saw it take off silently and vertically. It was round,
-had a tripod landing gear, two rows of bright openings, and was about 30
-m in diameter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Werdehl-Eveking, Germany
-ID: 496
Date: 8/25/1959
-Description: 11:00 a.m. At Eveking, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany,
-Lutz Holtman walks towards a bright object in a forest and faints after
-he gets close to it. When he regains consciousness, he sees the UFO take
-off silently and vertically. The object is circular, has a tripod
-landing gear and two rows of bright openings, and is about 90 feet in
-diameter. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3325
Date: 9/1959
-Description: Harvard University psychologist Henry
-Murray begins what are widely considered unethical experiments, in
-which he uses 22 Harvard undergraduates as research subjects in
-Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among other purposes, experiments focus on
-measuring people’s reactions under extreme stress. The unwitting
-undergraduates are submitted to what Murray calls “vehement, sweeping,
-and personally abusive” attacks. Specific, tailored assaults on their
-egos, cherished ideas, and beliefs are used to cause high levels of
-stress and distress. The subjects then repeatedly view recorded footage
-of their reactions to this verbal abuse. Among them is 17-year-old Ted Kaczynski, a
-mathematician who goes on to become the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist
-targeting academics and technologists for 18 years. Alston
-Chase’s book Harvard and the Unabomber connects Kaczynski’s abusive
-experiences under Murray to his later criminal career. His participation
-in these experiments and his service in the OSS have led many to believe
-that Murray was a part of the MK Ultra program. His experiments are not
-so much for observing stress reactions, but for a study of brainwashing
-and enhanced interrogation techniques. (Wikipedia, “Henry
-Murray”; Alston Chase, Harvard
-and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist, Norton,
-2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3328
Date: 9/1959
-Description: Employees of Lockheed’s Skunk Works are the first to return
-to Area 51 in Nevada to develop an aircraft that will replace the U-2.
-The Archangel-12 (A-12) spy plane will be designed to reduce its radar
-cross section by 50%. Following tests with wooden models at Burbank,
-California, proof-of-concept tests are to be carried out at Area 51 with
-full-scale mockups elevated onto 50-foot pylons. The CIA program to
-develop the follow-on aircraft to the U-2 is code-named Project Oxcart.
-EG&G agrees to move its radar test facility here. (Jacobsen, Area
-51, p. 131;
-Peter W. Merlin, “Groom
-Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3326
Date: 9/1959
-Description: Waveney
-Girvan takes over the editorship of Flying Saucer Review from Brinsley
-Le Poer Trench. (“Trench
-Resigns,” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1959): 2; Clark
-III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3327
Date: 9/7/1959
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Rural mail carrier Walter
-E. Ogden sees a glowing, pumpkin-shaped object about 40 feet above
-the trees in his pasture at Wallingford, Kentucky. After a minute, a
-bluish blaze of fire comes from the bottom and it rises about 500 feet,
-leaving a circular smoke ring. It then zooms away horizontally. Six days
-later, a 12-foot depressed ring of scorched earth is discovered on the
-spot, along with a kerosene smell. Air Force investigators show up and
-declare it a hoax. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 74–75, 77–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3329
Date: 9/7/1959
-Description: A bluish, disk-shaped object was observed at ground level
-by a mail carrier. It suddenly went away horizonally, leaving a stained
-ring on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Nov., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Wallingford, Kentucky
-ID: 497
Date: 9/9/1959
-Description: The first Atlas-D ICBM is successfully launched at
-Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base] near Lompoc,
-California, and Gen. Thomas
-S. Power, CINCSAC,
-declares the first ICBM to be operational. Shortly afterward, the first
-operational Atlas-D ICBM squadron goes on alert at Francis E. Warren
-AFB, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is equipped with six SM-65D Atlas
-missiles based in above-ground launchers. (Wikipedia, “Vandenberg
-Space Force Base”; Wikipedia, “SM-65
-Atlas”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3330
Date: 9/13/1959
-Description: 9:58 p.m. A radar target is tracked at Kirtland AFB in
-Albuquerque, New Mexico, moving at 2,300 mph at an altitude of 60,000
-feet and heading northwest. A total of four radar stations track the
-object. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3331
Date: 9/13/1959
-Time: 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: at least two control tower operators and the
-pilot of a Mooney private airplane. One pear-shaped object, colored
-white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. Object showed little
-movement during 3 hours. Attempted intercept by USAF T-33 jet trainer
-failed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana
-ID: 439
Date: 9/13/1959
-Time: 1:05 AM
-Description: Witness: R.H. Daubner. One round yellow light, with eight
-blue lights within it, and then five larger red lights, flew very fast
-vertically while making a pulsating jet noise. Sighting lasted 10
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gills Rock, Wisconsin
-ID: 438
Date: 9/14/1959
-Description: The CIA emphasizes antiradar study, aerodynamic structural
-tests, and engineering designs, selecting the Lockheed A-12 over rival
-Convair’s Kingfish. Edward
-Lovick’s suggestion for adding cesium to the A-12’s fuel in order to
-ionize the exhaust and mask it from radar is also persuasive. Lockheed
-has also added twin canted fins instead of a single right-angle one.
-Project Oxcart is officially established. The A-12 design, a combination
-of their A-7 and A-11 submissions, emphasizes low radar cross section,
-extremely high altitude, and high-speed performance. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3333
Date: 9/14/1959
-Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 is revised, with additional
-emphasis on reducing the number of unknowns. This version devotes five
-full paragraphs to public release of information, which is now
-restricted to the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Information
-Services at the Pentagon. Local base commanders can release information
-only if an object is positively identified. Air Force personnel are not
-to contact private individuals on UFO cases or discuss their operations
-unless ordered to. (“USAF
-UFO Program,” September 28, 1959; Clark III 920–921)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3332
Date: 9/17/1959
-Description: The first powered X-15 flight is piloted by Albert
-Scott Crossfield out of the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards
-AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “North
-American X-15”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3334
Date: 9/21/1959
-Description: The Air Technical Intelligence Center is renamed the
-Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center. (NASIC, “National
-Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3335
Date: 9/24/1959
-Description: About 4:55 a.m. In Redmond, Oregon, police officer Robert
-Dickerson sees a bright white light rapidly descending north of the
-airport. It stops abruptly and hovers about 200 feet above ground for
-several minutes, lighting up the juniper trees below. Dickerson drives
-toward it on the Prineville Highway, then turns toward the airport. The
-object turns reddish-orange and moves rapidly to about 10 miles
-northeast of the airport to hover again. Dickerson arrives at the
-airport to report his sighting in person to the FAA Air Traffic
-Communication Station. Flight Service Specialist Laverne
-Wertz, Dickerson,
-and others view the object through binoculars as flat and round with
-occasional flames extending from its edge. The FAA reports the UFO to
-Seattle Air Route Control Center in Washington at 5:10 a.m., which in
-turn reports it to Hamilton AFB [now closed], Novato, California, which
-scrambles six F-102 jets from Portland to intercept the object. FAA
-station observers see the object hover and emit long tongues of red,
-yellow, and green light that extend and retract at irregular intervals.
-As the jets approach the object from the southeast, it turns into a
-mushroom shape, emits red and yellow flames from the lower side, and
-ascends rapidly, disappearing above scattered clouds at about 14,000
-feet. The object’s departure forces one F-102 to swerve to avoid
-collision. Another nearly loses control from the UFO’s turbulent wake.
-The UFO is tracked on one F-102 gunsight radar, but the jets cannot
-intercept. The UFO reappears about 20 miles south of Redmond at about
-25,000 feet. The Seattle Center reports at 6:20 a.m. radar contact with
-the object about 25 miles south. The USAF Air Defense Center radar site
-at Klamath Falls, Oregon, tracks a large target abruptly changing course
-and vectors B-47 and F-89 aircraft to identify it. Redmond FAA
-controllers lose sight of the object. Seattle FAA reports at 7:11 a.m.
-that Klamath Falls radar still is tracking it at 25 miles south of
-Redmond but varies in altitude from 6,000 to 52,000 feet. The Air Force
-claims the UFOs are caused by false radar returns, with excitable
-witnesses imagining the glow. But locals notice the FAA is checking for
-abnormal radioactivity, so the Air Force changes its explanation to
-weather balloon. And NICAP obtains FAA logs showing all the details. The
-Air Force again changes its explanation to Venus. (NICAP, “Huge
-Disc Sparks Scramble”; UFOEv, pp. 44, 48,
-113–114, 138;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 33–36;
-WFAA, Dallas, Texas, “Archive
-1959: Fighter Jets Sent to Intercept Redmond UFO,” May 12, 2016;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-Redmond UFO Incident,
-USA, September 24, 1959”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3336
Date: 9/28/1959
-Description: ATIC issues a staff study by Col. Richard
-R. Shoop reassessing its UFO investigating role. It recommends that
-the UFO program be transferred to the Air Research and Development
-Command, which has better scientific capabilities, and then implement an
-effective public relations campaign with the goal of “the eventual
-elimination of the program as a special project.” (“USAF
-UFO Program,” September 28, 1959; “Saucer Reading
-Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO
-Controversy in America, Signet ed., p.
-151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3337
Date: 9/29/1959
-Description: Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt.,
-spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an
-atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared
-massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about
-1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also
-observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it.
-Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright
-light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of
-Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire
-shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something
-was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542,
-carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a
-thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or
-explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks
-found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed
-signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force
-causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar
-Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an
-UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in
-the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was
-stationary both times it was tracked.
-Type: ufo midair collision
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Buffalo, Texas
-See also: 4/1/59
-See also: 5/61
Date: 9/29/1959
-Description: The first attempt to hover a tethered Avrocar is made.
-After the vehicle becomes airborne, an uncontrollable roll and
-pitch-coupled oscillation starts that forces each of the three wheels
-into the ground in turn. The pilot, W. D. “Spud” Potocki, immediately
-shuts down all engines. Changes are made to the stability system to
-provide more control authority, while new tethers are investigated to
-improve the ability to control the problem. (Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3339
Date: 9/29/1959
-Description: Maj. R. O. Braswell, flying an Air Force C-47 at 6,500 feet
-over Texas, sees a “large red fire” that looks like a mushroom cloud. It
-is 5° above his plane, with its base at 12,000–15,000 feet and its top
-at 16,000 feet. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 160–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3338
Date: 9/30/1959
-Description: Night. During a training flight with a student over Poznań,
-Poland, a pilot named Leszczyński sees two large circles of light with
-another pair some 12 miles away. He makes a close approach, but one of
-the objects shoots off while the other grows dimmer. After a short
-while, the dark object moves away. (Poland 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3340
Date: 10/1959
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Fr. Raimundo Nascimento Teixeira, a professor at
-Don Bosco College, is walking in the Núcleo Bandeirante region in
-Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, when he sees a crowd watching a
-strange object moving and stopping in the blue sky. He sees a student of
-his with a box camera, and he takes six photos of what he calls a flying
-saucer. A few days later, Teixeira meets with another witness, Israel
-Pinheiro, president of the New Building Company, who takes the negatives
-of his three best photos to forward to the Brazilian Navy for analysis.
-A few months later, the Navy returns different photos and offers no
-technical report. (Clark III 197; Roberto Affonso Beck, “Um
-Fenômeno Desafiador,” September 2005, pp. 35–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3342
Date: 10/1959
-Description: NICAP continues collecting statements in preparation for
-potential congressional hearings. It gets statements from USAF pilot and
-UFO witness Lt. Col. Richard
-T. Headrick, Sgt. James
-H. Sawyer, and Sgt. Oliver Dean. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 252–254; UFOEv, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3341
Date: 10/1/1959
-Description: 9:20 a.m. A radar target moving at 719 mph on a northwest
-course is tracked at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 10:29
-a.m., another radar target is detected moving at 1,000 mph to the
-northwest. Its altitude is 41,000 feet. Two F-89J Scorpion fighters are
-scrambled to intercept it but they can see nothing. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The
-Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3343
Date: 10/2/1959
-Description: Approximate date. Miss G. Wilson, 14, was out riding a
-horse when a luminous object dived toward her, and she rushed home in
-fear. Her father came out and saw the object, which he described as
-orange and making a “painful” sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 125 (Vallee)
-Location: Glenora, Canada
-ID: 498
Date: 10/2/1959
-Description: 12:20 a.m. For three hours, a Hercules radar site (#13) at
-McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] near Tacoma, Washington,
-tracks a total of five objects that usually appear in pairs. The radar
-returns are said to be “weak.” Visually, at least one soundless, round.
-“quarter sized,” blue-white light is seen in the sky. ARTC reports no
-air traffic in the area of the radar site during the time of contact.
-The first object on radar is seen at 10° elevation. The last object seen
-on radar was at 20° elevation. The visual object is at 10° degrees
-elevation. When last observed, the visual object is 20° elevation.
-Flight patterns are erratic. Range changes from 12,000 feet to 24,000
-feet, and azimuth from 190° to 170°. Objects seem to fade from the scope
-and visual contact when finally lost. Visual contact is disrupted by
-intermittent fog. (NICAP, “Hercules
-Site Tracks Objects for Three Hours”; Condon, pp. 145–148;
-Swords 287)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3344
Date: 10/4/1959
-Time: 9:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USN Lt. C.H. Pogson, CPO K.J. Moore. One large
-round or oval object, changing from red to red-orange, flew straight and
-level for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Quezon, Phillipine Islands
-ID: 441
Date: 10/6/1959
-Time: 8:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. L. Liggett (Selective Service) and
-wife. One round, white-yellow light made several abrupt turns and flew
-very fast for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
-ID: 442
Date: 10/8/1959
-Description: Night. Two amateur astronomers in Mobile, Alabama, observe
-an unknown object traverse the Moon’s disk from west to east directly
-over the crater Copernicus. They watch the fast-moving shape “every
-night the weather permitted for a period of 33 days.” They write to
-Project Moonwatch about the observations, but they reply that no other
-lunar observers have seen the phenomenon, so it must be closer to the
-Mobile observers. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no.
-4 (October 2009): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3345
Date: 10/12/1959
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Multiple witnesses at Washington, Sharon, and
-Crawfordville, Georgia, watch “brown or black footballs” traveling
-southeast to west, followed by angel hair covering a vast area. The
-substance consists of “threads from 10ʹ to 50ʹ long connected at ¾ʺ
-intervals by minute particles resembling snowflakes.” The material falls
-for about 2 hours. Five samples are collected and sent to the Chemicals
-and Materials Laboratory at Robins AFB, Georgia. No unusual elements are
-discovered except for high amounts of silver in one and some silver in
-three others. The conjecture is that “cloud seeding with a silver salt
-could have caused the phenomenon.” (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical
-Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3346
Date: 10/13/1959
-Description: In his syndicated column, Joseph
-Alsop goes so far as to describe “classified intelligence” as
-placing the Soviet missile count as high as 1,500 by 1963, and the US
-will have only 130 at that time. (Joseph Alsop, “True Missile
-Gap Picture Belies Pentagon Response,” Eugene (Oreg.)
-Register-Guard, October 13, 1959, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3347
Date: 10/19/1959
-Time: 9:25 PM
-Description: Witness: Capt. F.A. Henney, engineering instructor at USAF
-Academy, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One bright yellowish light came
-head-on at the T-33, the pilot avoided it and the light dimmed. Sighting
-lasted 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Plainville Kansas
-ID: 443
Date: 10/19/1959
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witness: department store manager C.A. Cissman. One bright
-light approached, hovered about 30 minutes, and then was up and gone in
-2 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 3rd or 4th week. Telephone Ridge, Oregon
-ID: 440
Date: late 10/1959
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Electrician Gideon Johansson is at home in
-Mariannelund, Småland, Sweden, when there is a power failure. He goes
-outside to look at the power lines when he bumps into his son Rolf, who
-points out a brilliant white object hovering above a three-story
-building. The object descends slowly and appears to be heading toward
-Johansson’s garden. The machine oscillates three times and smashes into
-the top of a maple tree, descends through the branches and hovers about
-18 inches above the ground. Only about 10 feet away, Johansson can see
-the object has a large window, through which two entities are visible.
-Their heads have high crown and they have big, friendly eyes. They have
-mall mouths and pointed chins and are wearing white uniforms with broad
-black belts. One seems to be working at an instrument panel. They are
-only the size of a 14-year-old. Soon the object moves up and shoots away
-in a flash. Glassy deposits are found on some power lines in addition to
-the damaged tree, and Johansson gets prickly pains in his lower body.
-(Anders Liljegren, “Mariannelund
-UFO and Occupants,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970):
-14–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3349
Date: 10/22/1959
-Description: Night. Three witnesses are driving through Cumberland,
-Maryland, when they see a metallic disc emitting a bluish-green light
-around its edge. The driver abruptly stops, but leaves the car running.
-Suddenly the object drops down to 50 feet altitude and hovers 100 feet
-away in front of the car, making a humming vibration. As two of the
-witnesses open the door to get out, the car engine, lights, and radio
-fail. Shortly afterward, the disc shoots straight up, then forward,
-makes a 90° angle, then disappears in clouds. The car begins functioning
-normally again. (Newark (Md.) Evening News, November 5, 1959; Schopick,
-pp. 67–68; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3348
Date: 10/25/1959
-Description: On the Trans-Canada Highway west of this town, four hunters
-(Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of
-Port-Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 m
-above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, was white in
-color and remained with them for nearly 50 km.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Fort William, Canada
-ID: 499
Date: 10/31/1959
-Description: Soviet Col. Georgy
-Mosolov reaches an airspeed record of 1,484 mph in a
-Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 over the Soviet Union. (Wikipedia, “Georgy
-Mosolov”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3350
Date: 11/1959
-Description: A full-scale mockup of the A-12 is shipped to Area 51 in
-Nevada for radar signature testing by EG&G. (Peter W. Merlin, “Groom
-Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3351
Date: 11/2/1959
-Description: 12:00 noon. A substance described as angel hair falls from
-two UFOs seen in Evora, Portugal, and is collected and analyzed under a
-microscope by a school director, Dr. Amaral, and later by armed forces
-technicians and scientists at the University of Lisbon. The scientists
-conclude that the substance is produced by a small insect or some
-strange kind of single-celled organism about 4 millimeters in length.
-(Hayley Price, “Evora
-Angel Hair,” UFO Weekly News; Nicole Guardiola, “An
-Extraterrestrial Living Being, Captured and Studied Eighteen
-Years Ago,”
-translated from El País, October 13, 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3352
Date: 11/8/1959
-Description: A large, luminous object is seen moving at great speed over
-Kandahar, Afghanistan, to the northwest. Shortly afterward it explodes
-with a loud roar in nearby mountains, causing some slight earth tremors.
-Possible Russian missile test. (Good Above, p. 308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3353
Date: 11/10/1959
-Description: Requests to transfer responsibility for UFO investigations
-from ATIC to ARDC are sent to Maj. Gen. Charles
-B. Dougher (ATIC commander), Col. Philip G. Evans (ATIC Deputy for
-Sciences and Components), and Maj. Gen. James
-H. Walsh (AF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence). (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3354
Date: 11/12/1959
-Description: The first completely free flight of an Avrocar takes place.
-This test proves the nozzle control system unacceptable. (Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3355
Date: 11/16/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Czech Air Force officer Commander Duchoň is
-driving with another officer named Bezák to a Czechoslovakian airfield
-[now in the Czech Republic] to supervise night-flying exercises. At
-about 6 miles from the airfield, the car engine begins to stall.
-Suddenly they see a light sapphire-colored band moving at high speed at
-an altitude of 1,600–2,600 feet. It is completely silent. Some minutes
-later they are able to start the car again. Personnel at the airfield
-tell them they had seen a flaming ball that rotated, made a 90° turn,
-and passed over the airfield again. The tower tracks the object on radar
-at an altitude of 3,000 feet during its second pass. The object is about
-500 feet in diameter with a glowing ring around it. (“Saucers
-and the Iron Curtain: A Report from Czechoslovakia,”
-Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1960): 31–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3356
Date: 11/18/1959
-Time: 6:25 PM
-Description: Witness: J.M. Porter. A row of red lights flew slow, then
-speeded up immensely. Sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Crystal Springs, Mississippi
-ID: 444
Date: 11/19/1959
-Description: Otis
-T. Carr is convicted in federal court of selling unregistered
-securities to Gurney
-G. Warnberg, a
-pilot and railroad man in Yukon, Oklahoma, and fined $5,000. Unable to
-pay, Carr works off his fine in jail at a dollar a day. (Clark III
-861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3357
Date: 12/1959
-Description: Project Space Track moves to a new building in Cambridge,
-Massachusetts, the National Space Surveillance Control Center (NSSCC),
-which is formally dedicated on February 9, 1960. The NSSCC is part of
-the Air Force Command and Control Development Division, Air Research and
-Development Command. Harold O. Curtis of Lincoln Laboratory is the
-director of the NSSCC. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Space Track”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3360
Date: 12/1959
-Description: The new edition of Ruppelt’s
-The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published with three new
-UFO debunking chapters, the last of which is completely different in
-tone from the rest of the book. He claims there is no Air Force secrecy
-on UFOs and NICAP is just a bunch of grandstanding nuts. (Clark III
-1024; Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Forgotten Letters of Edward
-J. Ruppelt,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 20–26, 30, 32; Swords
-301)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3358
Date: 12/1959
-Description: The London UFO Research Organisation is founded by Paul
-Teugells, Nigel Stephenson, Susanne Stebbing, and Roy Stemman, and
-begins publishing a monthly magazine, LUFORO Bulletin. (LUFORO
-Newsletter, no.
-1 (December 1959))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3359
Date: 12/1959
-Description: 5:45 a.m. Larry Jensen is driving to work on US Highway 99
-near Proberta, California, when his radio begins making “snapping”
-noises, and his lights dim. He pulls over to the side of the road and
-gets out to check his headlights, which he finds are shining feebly. He
-notices a huge, bright, bluish-green, crescent-shaped object hovering
-about 60 feet above the road a quarter of a mile behind him. It appears
-to be 80–90 feet across and 15– 20 feet thick. Suddenly and
-inexplicably, he finds his clothes are soaked and he feels an alarming
-feeling as if he is getting crushed inside. He also feels as if he is
-being sucked up into the object. He grabs for a car door, then collides
-with a side mirror and staggers backward, but manages to get inside.
-Looking out the right-door window, he sees the UFO a few miles away,
-heading northeast and climbing at a shallow angle over the Sierra
-foothills. It vanishes within 10 seconds. Jensen’s car lights come back
-on. He resumes driving, but 600 feet away is forced to stop because he
-smells burning rubber. The battery caps are blown out, and the battery
-is swollen out of shape, the generator is not working, and the armature
-and field wires have melted together. Later, he finds it odd that he has
-not encountered another single car during or after the episode. (Clark
-III 866; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October–December, The
-Author, 2000, pp. 56–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3361
Date: 12/1/1959
-Description: At a NASA news conference in Washington, D.C., Cal Tech
-geochemist Harrison
-Brown suggests that boneless animals similar to jellyfish abound in
-oceans on Venus. The speculation comes in the wake of the discovery that
-the planet’s atmosphere contains water vapor. (“Scientist
-Says Jellyfish May Live on Venus,” Wilmington (Del.) News Journal,
-December 2, 1959, p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3362
Date: 12/2/1959
-Description: A bright, circular object is seen in the sky heading
-southwest over Ghazni, Afghanistan. It disappears after 2 minutes. (Good
-Above, p. 308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3363
Date: 12/5/1959
-Description: After five flights, testing of the Avrocar is temporarily
-halted, by which time it has logged 18.5 hours of test time in total.
-(Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3364
Date: 12/7/1959
-Description: Maj. Gen. James
-H. Walsh writes to Lt. Gen. Bernard
-A. Schriever, commander
-of ARDC, regarding transfer of UFO duties. (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3365
Date: 12/11/1959
-Description: A memo reaches CIA head Allen
-Dulles’s desk recommending the removal of Fidel
-Castro. He sets the wheels in motion.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3366
Date: 12/13/1959
-Description: Karl Lars Dersson is walking on the deck of the Danish
-tanker Dorthe Mærsk just north of La Orchila Island, Venezuela. He sees
-a brilliant cone-shaped object descending from the sky and alerts the
-crew. It gets brighter as it nears the surface of the Caribbean, and the
-crew hear a loud concussion as it enters the water. The surface becomes
-turbulent and brilliant with many colors. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the
-Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3367
Date: 12/13/1959
-Description: Early evening. A rocket project officer at Fort Bliss in El
-Paso, Texas, is out looking at the Moon with binoculars when a lighted
-object approaches the Moon very slowly in the six o’clock position. Once
-nearly in line with the lunar edge, it begins a precision journey,
-skirting the edge until it reaches three o’clock. It then leaves on a
-straight track directly away. During the observation, the man calls his
-wife and two neighbors to watch the performance. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3368
Date: 12/15/1959
-Description: USAF Maj. Joseph
-Rogers attains an airspeed of 1,526 mph in a Convair F-106 Delta
-Dart at Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Convair
-F-106 Delta Dart”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3369
Date: late 12/1959
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Lorentz Johnsen sees a dark, silent object with
-a row of windows fly slowly by at an altitude of 500 feet, headed in the
-direction of Namsenfjorden, Trøndelag, Norway. It descends to about 160
-feet, grows fiery red, then explodes with a crash and falls into the
-water. He says that it looks like a cover is torn off in one piece like
-a “curved sheet of metal.” (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of
-Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3370
Date: 12/22/1959
-Time: 2350
-Description: Kenneth Lindsley and several other witnesses saw a bright,
-orange object at ground level. It was bowl-shaped, as wide as the road,
-and shadows that appeared to be moving could be seen.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Oakdale, California
-ID: 500
Date: 12/24/1959
-Description: Maj. Gen. Richard
-E. O’Keefe, acting
-inspector general of the Air Force, issues instructions pertaining to
-“UFO business” to every air base commander in the US. The document is
-not intended for public distribution, but NICAP obtains a copy. Across
-the top are the words “UFOs Serious Business.” It says that UFOs “must
-be rapidly and accurately identified as serious USAF business in the ZI
-[Zone of Interior]” and specifies that UFO investigators “should be
-equipped with binoculars, camera, Geiger counter, magnifying glass and
-have a source for containers in which to store samples.” O’Keefe asks
-that UFO explanations be “reasonable and knowledgeable.” (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October– December,
-The Author, 2000, pp. 61, 65–66; Swords 286; Good Need, pp. 226,
-229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3371
Date: 1960
-Description: The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip
-was demonstrated
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1960’s
-End date: mid 1980’s
-Description: ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April 2, 1912 — January
-20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of the first major
-things he does is discredit “Gerald Light”
-Type: research group
-Reference: link
Date: 1960’s
-Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout
-maps
-Type: secret location
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Date: 1960
-Description: Contactee George
-Hunt Williamson legally changes his name to Michel d’Obrenovic, said
-to reflect an ancestral connection to the throne of Serbia. However,
-John Griffin says the real reason is that Williamson’s sensational
-claims have rendered his anthropological work (such as it is) completely
-unacceptable. (Clark III 1287; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible
-Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 119–124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3375
Date: 1960
-Description: Night. During a pause in army maneuvers near Brno [now in
-the Czech Republic], soldiers see a peculiarly colored light above the
-city. After hovering a while, it vanishes but reappears in another part
-of the sky. Their commanding officer tells them to look at it with
-binoculars and check the radar. Headquarters sends up interceptors to
-chase the object, but every time one of them gets near, the light
-disappears from the radar screen, only to turn up elsewhere. The
-incident goes on for an hour before the light disappears for good.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3376
Date: 1960
-Description: The invention of transponders that transmit an electronic
-identification signal from aircraft to ground control helps to further
-reduce clutter on air traffic control radars. This means that “aerial
-phenomena” appear on radar only if they intrude on flight paths and
-create a near miss of the type investigated by the Civil Aviation
-Authority. (David Clarke, “Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times
-291 (August 2012): 26–27; National Air Traffic Controllers Association,
-A
-History of Air Traffic Control, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3377
Date: 1960
-Description: Jim
-Lorenzen is hired as senior technical associate with the Kitt Peak
-National Observatory, so he and Coral move
-to Tucson, Arizona, from Alamogordo, New Mexico. On their third day in
-Tucson, an “exterminator” visits them, offering to inspect their rented
-premises for free. He fails to mention the name of his company, nor does
-he seem interested in his occupation. He talks with Coral about their
-reason for moving, where Jim is employed, and UFOs. (Clark III 50;
-Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 3,
-251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3373
Date: 1960
-Description: Brinsley
-Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, publishes The Sky People, in
-which he claims that Adam
-and Eve, Noah, and
-many other characters in the Bible originally lived on Mars. Trench
-believes that Adam and Eve were experimental creations of
-extraterrestrials. The biblical description of the Garden of Eden is
-inconsistent with what Earth is like, and because Mars contains canals,
-the Garden of Eden must have been located on Mars. He further claims
-that the north polar ice cap melted on Mars, causing the descendants of
-Adam and Eve to move to Earth. The Book of Genesis is a symbolic version
-of what actually happened to groups of people on Mars, he writes, with
-the Great Deluge referring to the flooding of Atlantis and Lemuria,
-which were populated with Adamic migrants. (Brinsley Le Poer Trench, The
-Sky People, Spearman,
-1960; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in
-Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3374
Date: early 1960
-Description: Night. Vice Chief of Air Staff Gen. Curtis
-LeMay is conducting an exercise to test his bombers’ capability to
-penetrate US air space. An F-89J Scorpion jet instructor pilot and his
-radar observer, 1Lt. Joe Meyer, have just successfully intercepted a
-B-47 and are descending to land at James Connally AFB [now TSTC Waco
-Airport] near Waco, Texas. They notice a pinpoint of light at their
-level 12 miles away over Waco and decide to approach and attack it as if
-they are armed. As they approach on a collision course, they see the
-object has four bright blue- white lights on it and it is stationary.
-They estimate it is 25–30 feet in diameter. But the object shoots
-straight up at incredible speed before they reach it. They look up and
-see the object is bright blue white on its underside. It disappears at
-about 90,000 feet altitude. (“Pilot
-Finally Reveals UFO Encounter,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 375 (July
-1999): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3372
Date: 1/1960
-Description: The first issue of the Australian Flying Saucer Review is
-published jointly by the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society and
-UFOIC, edited by Peter E. Norris and Andrew
-P. Tomas. It
-will continue until December 1972, various issues confusingly sponsored
-by each group, plus the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau and the
-renamed Victorian UFO Research Society. (Australian
-Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (January 1960))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3378
Date: 1/1960
-Description: Tests continue with a slightly modified Avrocar.
-(Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3379
Date: 1/18/1960
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Leo Haley and Bert C. Baker are driving on US
-Highway 2, some 9 miles west of Lakota, North Dakota, when the
-headlights dim just as a brilliant green flash lights up the sky. In a
-field to the north about 1 mile away they can see a 5–6 foot
-crescent-shaped object with a 9-foot exhaust tail. (Schopick,
-p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3380
Date: 1/26/1960
-Description: Richard
-Bissell notifies Kelly
-Johnson that the CIA is authorizing the delivery of 12 A-12 aircraft
-that will be five times faster than the U-2 and fly three miles higher.
-Skunk Works will move into production at Area 51 in Nevada to work on
-Project Oxcart. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 134–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3381
Date: 1/31/1960
-Description: Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
-to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret aircraft” rumors of a
-Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB.
-Type: telegram
-Reference: link
Date: 2/1960
-Description: The US Navy reportedly detects a “dark satellite” thought
-to be a Soviet spy satellite in orbit. However, a follow-up article
-alleges that the object was “the remains of an Air Force Discoverer VIII
-satellite that had gone astray.” (“Trackers
-Spot Mystery Object Orbiting Earth,” Washington (D.C.) Evening Star,
-February 11, 1960; Wikipedia, “Corona
-(satellite)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3382
Date: 2/5/1960
-Description: The office of the AF Chief of Intelligence is informed of
-ARDC’s rejection (by Maj. Gen. James
-Ferguson) of the ATIC proposal. (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3383
Date: 2/5/1960
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Many people see a distinctly round UFO hover and
-maneuver slowly over or near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and La
-Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California. Cars are stopped bumper-to-
-bumper, according to employees of several businesses around the
-intersection, with people gaping at the object overhead. Persons on
-hotel and apartment rooftops go out to see a bright “cherry-red,
-circular light.” Two service- station attendants at the intersection,
-Jerry Darr and Charles Walker, say that “hundreds of people saw it—
-everybody was looking” as the light hovers for at least 5 minutes over a
-busy drive-in. Pen Meyer, another service station attendant a third of a
-mile to the north, watches it hovering for about 10 minutes. Harold
-Sherman, his wife, and two others watch it as it resumes motion very
-slowly eastward. After proceeding east for a distance of a block or two,
-it veers southeastward and passes out of sight. No sound is heard over
-street-noise background. (Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee case files;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3384
Date: 2/6/1960
-Description: 11:15 p.m. The red object reappears over Hollywood,
-California, this time about one block further east, above Sunset
-Boulevard and Sycamore Avenue. A number of witnesses observe it hovering
-for about 10 minutes at an altitude of 500–600 feet. Then with a loud
-explosion it emits a brilliant bluish-white flash that extends downward
-and to the west, lighting up the ground all around La Brea Avenue. A
-mushroom-shaped cloud appears and dissipates. As the red light is
-extinguished, an object described by most witnesses as long, tubular,
-and about 70 feet long shoots upwards. A few seconds later, the red
-light appears about 1,000 feet above Sunset and La Brea for about 8
-minutes. It then begins drifting slowly eastward, turns sharply toward
-the north-northeast, accelerates and climbs steeply, not stopping again
-until it is at a very high altitude well to the north. (Los Angeles
-NICAP Subcommittee case file; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3385
Date: 2/17/1960
-Description: Hynek writes
-to Brig. Gen. Benjamin
-G. Holzman at ARDC in the hopes of interesting him in assessing UFO
-reports. (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3386
Date: 2/27/1960
-Time: 6:27 PM
-Description: Witnesses: control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four
-other tower operators. One light trailing a white fan shape, made a mild
-descent for 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rome AFB, New York
-ID: 445
Date: 2/27/1960
-Description: NICAP sends photocopies of O’Keefe’s
-1959 “UFOs Serious Business” memo to the media and to committees in the
-House and Senate, calling for congressional hearings. NICAP Board member
-Rear Adm. Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter adds a statement: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking AF
-officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official
-secrecy [AFR 200-2] and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the
-unknown flying objects are nonsense.” NICAP board member Albert
-Baller writes: “If the UFOs are believed a threat, it would seem
-incumbent on the armed forces to waste no time in alerting the people.
-Any sudden, hostile act against a nation left in relative ignorance
-could have serious consequences.” (“UFO
-Warning Issued: Flying Objects
-‘Now Serious Business,’” Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star, February 27,
-1960, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The Author,
-2003, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3387
Date: 3/1960
-Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project
-scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
-Type: article
-Reference: link
Date: 3/1960
-Description: The Ottawa Flying Saucer Club begins publishing Topside,
-edited by Wilbert
-B. Smith until 1962. It continues until winter 1971. (Topside, no.
-1 (March 1960))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3388
Date: 3/4/1960
-Time: 5:55 PM
-Description: Witness: Charles Morris. Three elliptical-shaped objects
-made a slight climb for 4 minutes. Film exposed during sighting showed
-no images of the objects.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dubuque, Iowa
-ID: 446
Date: 3/6/1960
-Description: 5:15–5:27 a.m. Photographer Esse Jansson of Norrtälje,
-Sweden, goes out early in the morning to try to take a photo of an
-unidentified satellite, termed 1960 Alpha [however, the designation of
-1960 Alpha 1 is reserved for the Pioneer 5 space probe, which isn’t
-launched until March 11], “which was expected to pass the Stockholm
-latitude in a southerly direction about 0525 hours.” He sees two objects
-that come from the north and move in a southeasterly direction. They are
-similar to phenomena he has seen before, but these objects reverse
-direction completely. One of his plates shows a third object. The CIA
-takes note of this and another mystery satellite viewed by a Swedish
-airplane and reported in Dagens Nyheter, March 8. (Central Intelligence
-Agency, “UFO’s Sighted,
-Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen,” FDD Note 1107,
-March 17, 1960)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3389
Date: 3/8/1960
-Description: Holzman forwards
-Hynek’s
-letter up the chain of command. (“Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3390
Date: 3/17/1960
-Description: President Eisenhower signs
-off on a CIA paper titled “A Program of Covert Action against the Castro
-Regime.” The order gives the agency authorization to create an
-organization of exiled Cubans to manage opposition programs, begin a
-propaganda offensive to draw support for the movement, create an
-intelligence gathering network inside Cuba, and develop a paramilitary
-force to be introduced into Cuba to organize, train, and lead resistance
-groups against the Castro regime. Its budget is $4.4 million. Under the
-Cuban Project and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans Richard
-M. Bissell, MKUltra’s Sidney
-Gottlieb proposes spraying Fidel Castro’s
-television studio with LSD and saturating his shoes with thallium to
-make his beard fall out. Gottlieb also hatches schemes to assassinate
-Castro, including the use of a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit, an
-exploding conch shell, and a poisonous fountain pen. (Wikipedia, “Sidney
-Gottlieb”; Kris Hollington, Wolves,
-Jackals, and Foxes:
-The Assassins Who Changed History, St. Martin’s,
-2008; Wikipedia, “Operation
-Mongoose”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3391
Date: spring 1960
-Time: night
-Description: An electronics engineer was fishing when he heard a shrill,
-whirring sound and saw a round object, with a rotating light on top,
-land on the shore. The sound gradually stopped, an opening became
-visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out with a hose and
-pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to play like children.
-Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Syracuse, New York
-ID: 501
Date: 3/23/1960
-Time: 3:35 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. E.I. Larsen. A series of balls,
-arranged like an “X” with one diagonal line, seen for 3/4 of a minute.
-Note: little data on the case in the files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 447
Date: 3/24/1960
-Description: Two policemen are in the vicinity of Lambert–St. Louis
-International Airport in Missouri, one on the north side, the other on
-the south side. A bright light illuminates the entire area. Three
-objects in a V-formation whisk overhead. They are round, white, and 9
-feet in diameter. (Swords 293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3392
Date: 4/5/1960
-Description: An orange disk landed with a hissing sound, then exploded,
-while four dwarfish figures ran away into the brush.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 5; 126 (Vallee)
-Location: Beira, Mozambique
-ID: 502
Date: 4/8/1960
-Description: Project Ozma, set up only a few days earlier by Frank
-Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank,
-West Virginia, seems to hit paydirt. As he slews his antenna off Tau
-Ceti and onto Epsilon Eridani, Drake is greeted with a strong, periodic,
-pulsed signal on 1420 MHz, the hyperfine transition emission line of
-interstellar hydrogen atoms proposed for SETI by Giuseppe
-Cocconi and Philip
-Morrison, and still favored as a promising hailing frequency for
-interstellar communications. Drake is ready with a second, low-gain
-antenna. The pulses are there as well, sadly disproving their
-extraterrestrial origin. But they are not exactly terrestrial
-interference, either. The rate at which the phantom signal traverses the
-sky suggests that it is emanating from an aircraft cruising at
-unprecedented altitude—perhaps 80,000 feet. At the time, no known
-aircraft can reach the stratosphere. Such an aircraft, as it happens,
-doesn’t “come into existence” until the following month, when Francis
-Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union. (Drake wisely
-decides to withhold publication of this positive result, so he never
-does receive proper credit for “discovering” the U-2.) The project only
-lasts through July. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Ozma”; H. Paul Shuch, “Project
-Ozma: The Birth of Observational SETI,” in Searching for
-Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Springer, 2011, pp. 13–18; Seth Shostak,
-“Project
-Ozma,” SETI Institute, July 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3393
Date: 4/9/1960
-Description: The U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis
-Gary Powers crosses into the Soviet Union from Pakistan and flies
-over the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan; the Dolon Air Base in
-Semey, Kazakhstan; a SAM test site near Saryshagan, Kazakhstan; and the
-Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The plane is detected by
-Soviet Air Defense Forces but avoids intercepts by a MiG-19 and a Su-9.
-Powers lands at an Iranian airstrip at Zahedan. A 1994 CIA monograph by
-Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” claims
-that “According to later estimates from CIA officials who worked on the
-U-2 project and the Oxcart (SR-71, or Blackbird) project, over half of
-all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for
-by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2) over the United
-States.” (Wikipedia, “1960
-U-2 incident”; Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s
-Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no.
-5 (1997): 67–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3394
Date: 4/12/1960
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: Monroe Arnold. One fiery-red disc exploded four or
-five times. Analysis of paint samples from explosion proved
-inconclusive. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: LaCamp, Louisiana
-ID: 448
Date: 4/13/1960
-Description: State Police encounter with highly maneuverable elliptical
-object, red light beams swept ground
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Red Bluff, CA
-ID: 7
Date: 4/17/1960
-Time: 8:29 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. J.G. Ford and Link representative A.
-Chapdelaine, using a 48x telescope. One reddish glow made an odd orbit
-for 2.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Richards-Gebauer AFB, Missouri
-ID: 449
Date: 4/18/1960
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Arnold saw a round object, fiery red in color, arriving
-at high speed from the south. It touched the ground about 300 m away
-with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in
-an easterly direction for about 300 m, then rose again, turned west and
-disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance
-resembling metallic paint was found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Science & Mechanics Dec., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Lacamp, Louisiana
-ID: 503
Date: 4/25/1960
-Time: 7-10 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. M. Clark. Five circular objects flew in trail
-formation, hovered and accelerated and made sharp turns. Case file
-includes other reports from Mrs. Clark for previous 3 years.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Shelby, Montana
-ID: 450
Date: 4/30/1960
-Description: George
-Adamski appears on Long
-John Nebel’s late-night TV show on WOR. (“Long
-John Nebel, The Flying Saucer
-Story (George Adamski interview),” ThriftStoreVinyl YouTube channel,
-September 4, 2018; “Final Years,”
-The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3395
Date: 5/1960
-Description: The CIA begins to recruit anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the
-Miami, Florida, area. Infantry training is carried out at a CIA-run base
-that is code-named JM Trax near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre mountains
-of Guatemala. (Wikipedia, “Brigade
-2506”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3396
Date: 5/1/1960
-Description: 6:26 a.m. A US U-2 spy plane, flown by CIA pilot Francis
-Gary Powers, takes
-off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and performs photographic aerial
-reconnaissance over Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and Chelyabinsk, Russia.
-Powers has orders to continue across Siberia to get a look at the new
-Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but at 8:53 a.m. local time he is hit by an S-75
-Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile fired by a defense
-battalion near Kyshtym, Russia. The U-2 crashes near Sverdlovsk [now
-Yekaterinburg]. The Soviet Air Defense Forces have anticipated the
-flight and give orders to “attack the violator.” Powers parachutes
-safely and is captured. This is the first time in five years of
-overflights that the US is caught. (Wikipedia, “1960
-U-2 incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3397
Date: 5/4/1960
-Time: 0915
-Description: A yellow, elliptical object with four evenly spaced
-windowlike openings was observed at ground level by an architect.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 60 (Vallee)
-Location: Sarasota, Florida
-ID: 504
Date: 5/5/1960
-Description: NASA issues a press release saying a weather research
-aircraft has “gone missing” north of Turkey and speculates that the
-pilot has fallen unconscious and the plane has crashed. Under the
-impression that the pilot has died and that the plane has been
-destroyed, a U-2 plane is quickly painted in NASA colors and a photo is
-shown to the media at NASA Flight Research Center [now the Armstrong
-Flight Research Center] at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Premier
-Nikita
-Khrushchev announces the shoot-down to the Soviet parliament but
-does not reveal yet that the pilot has survived. (NASA, “U-2,”
-September 4, 1997)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3398
Date: 5/7/1960
-Description: Khrushchev now
-reveals to the Soviet parliament that Powers is
-alive and much of the U-2 technologies have survived the crash.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3399
Date: 5/9/1960
-Description: Director of Central Intelligence Allen
-Dulles tells Congress that all U-2 flights are used for aerial
-espionage and are flown pursuant to “presidential directives.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3400
Date: 5/10/1960
-Description: House Appropriations Chair Clarence
-Cannon (D-Mo.) reveals to the press that the U-2 is a CIA plane
-engaged in aerial espionage over the Soviet Union “under the aegis” of
-the president. The press begins to suggest that Eisenhower has
-lost control of the intelligence agencies. (Wikipedia, “1960
-U-2 incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3401
Date: 5/13/1960
-Description: 7:00 p.m. More than 100 people at Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil,
-watch a disc-shaped UFO. Flying about 600 feet in the air at low speed,
-the silent object maneuvers over the downtown area or a long time. About
-60 feet in diameter, it hovers at an angle by a church. A strong bluish
-light is on top of it. The same day, 20 cities and towns in Céara state,
-four in Rio Grande do Norte, three in Pernambuco, two in Paraíba, two in
-Bahia, and one each in the states of Piauí and Maranhão report UFO
-sightings. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 220–221;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June
-1960, The Author, 2003, pp. 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3402
Date: 5/14/1960
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Fisherman Raimundo Ursulino dos Santos sees two
-metallic discs landed on a sandy hill by the beach at Paracuru, Ceará,
-Brazil. As he approaches, he sees two humanlike beings outside, talking
-to each other. They are small and pallid. One is dressed in a blue suit
-with a helmet. Dos Santos turns and runs away. Marks in the sand are
-found later. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The
-Author, 2003, p. 93; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-29, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3403
Date: 5/14/1960
-Time: 0400
-Description: Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm
-called Capin Acu. He went near them and saw several small beings,
-palelooking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore
-blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 1900, over 100
-witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 m in diameter
-with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 37; LDLN 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Paracuru, Brazil
-ID: 505
Date: 5/19/1960
-Description: A silver-colored round object, 20–25 feet wide with hanging
-appendages, hovers 50–100 feet away from Indigenous observers in the
-village of Ekuk, Alaska, south of Dillingham. It barely clears electric
-wires 12 feet above the ground. It sucks up two empty five-gallon
-trashcans and drags them swirling along the ground. It flies between two
-houses and crosses to the other side of a ridge for 100 yards, drops the
-trashcans and sucks up some swirling grass, makes a loud sucking sound,
-then ascends rapidly. Thomas
-M. Conrow, chief
-of intelligence at a nearby Air Force Base, interviews the witnesses and
-concludes that “there still appears to be no logical explanation of the
-sighting.” At Wright Patterson AFB, Blue Book analysts classify it as a
-“weather balloon with a radar reflector,” even though it is traveling
-against the wind. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 146–149;
-Sparks,
-p. 284; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June
-1960, The Author, 2003, pp. 99–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3404
Date: 5/19/1960
-Time: night
-Description: Salvatore Cianci, jeweler, and his wife, were driving near
-this Sicilian town when a creature about 1 m tall appeared in the
-headlights. It wore a shining coverall and a diving helmet and had two
-short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Siracusa, Italy
-ID: 506
Date: 5/22/1960
-Description: 9:33 a.m. An observatory on Majorca, Balearic Islands,
-Spain, sees a white, triangular object one-quarter the size of the moon
-spinning on its own axis and maintaining a steady course. It cables a
-report to NASA in Washington, D.C. (UFOEv, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3405
Date: 5/25/1960
-Description: Vera Bowden, 35, saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at
-tree height over Broadwater Lake for 18 min. Then it left toward the
-west.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Chinthurst Hill, Great Britain
-ID: 507
Date: 5/28/1960
-Description: Engineer Ronald
-N. Bracewell, suggests
-that extraterrestrials may already be in our neighborhood through an
-autonomous interstellar space probe (now called a “Bracewell probe”)
-sent for the express purpose of communicating with alien civilizations.
-(Ronald N. Bracewell, “Communications
-from Superior Galactic Communities,”
-Nature 186 (1960): 670–671)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3406
Date: 6/1/1960
-Description: Bulkley
-Griffin, chief
-of the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Gazette’s Washington, D.C., Bureau,
-writes a well- reasoned story about the Air Force’s unilateral control
-of UFO information and its national security implications. He quotes
-Adm. Hillenkoetter’s
-opinion that UFOs are intelligently controlled and are neither US nor
-USSR devices, which is why he is pushing for a Congressional
-investigation. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the
-Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The Author, 2003,
-pp. 111–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3408
Date: 6/12/1960
-Description: 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. Following a sonic boom above Quebec, a
-fiery object falls from the sky from an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet and
-splits into two pieces that fall into the St. Lawrence River near Les
-Écureuils, about 20 miles upriver from Quebec City, Quebec. A
-beachcomber runs across the pieces, one closer to the shore and visible
-at low tide, the other one further out and mostly submerged. He
-retrieves a smaller piece (800 pounds) and sells it to a scrap-metal
-dealer, who fails to recognize it as ferrous and possibly ships it to
-Japan. The other piece is picked up by the Canadian Armament Research
-and Development Establishment [now DRDC Valcartier] near Quebec City. Wilbert
-Smith’s Ottawa Flying Saucer Club [later the Ottawa New Sciences
-Club] tells its members that the material is high-strength metal that is
-6 feet in diameter and 2 feet thick at the center with an embedded tube,
-an “electronic potting can,” and a transistor. CARDE’s analysis is said
-to have revealed an alloy with a high manganese content, although it was
-identified as the “normal product of a foundry, consisting of slag with
-semi- molten scrap embedded in it,” likely coming from Sorel Iron
-Foundries in Sorel, Quebec. Smith rejects those findings and and
-conducts his own tests (although he is an electrical engineer and not a
-metallurgist) on a chunk the club retrieves from the river around July
-1, supposedly engaging in a “tremendous amount of detective work on this
-metal.” In November 1961, Smith tells Ohio UFO researchers C. W. Fitch
-and George Popovitch: “We are speculating that what we have is a portion
-of a very large device which came into this solar system…we don’t know
-when…but it had been in space a long time before it came to Earth; we
-can tell by the micrometeorites embedded in the surface. But we don’t
-know whether it was a few years ago—or a few hundred years ago.” In June
-1968, the Colorado project’s Roy
-Craig is in Ottawa and offers to examine the club’s chunk of metal
-because they had offered it to Condon a year earlier. Craig obligingly
-takes a piece with him but does not analyze it since there is no
-connection to a UFO and it looks like foundry slag anyway. Later, the
-Montreal UFO Society’s Ronald Anstee has a piece of it analyzed by an
-independent metallurgist, who finds that the composition “does not
-correspond to any known commercial manganese steel.” In September 1967,
-Eric Smith of the Canada Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources
-visits the Ottawa club and examines their large artifact, but fails to
-report back. In 1969, the National Research Council’s Peter
-Millman takes a look and is convinced that it is ordinary manganese
-steel from the Sorel plant. (“The
-Mysterious Chunk of Hardware at Ottawa,” Topside, no. 20 (Spring
-1966): 4–6; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 48–49;
-“The
-Mystery of UFO Hardware,”
-Topside, no. 24/25 (Spring/Summer 1967): 10–11; “Unidentified
-Hardware Mystery Deepens,” Topside, no. 27 (Winter 1968): 4–9; “Latest
-Report on the Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 11– 12;
-Condon, pp. 133–135;
-“Canada’s
-Mysterious Chunk of Metal,” Spacelink 6, no. 2 (January 1970): 6–9;
-“More Mystery
-Added to Ottawa’s Mysterious Chunk of Hardware,” Topside, no. 33
-(Winter/Spring 1970): 13–17; “Latest
-Report on Ottawa’s Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 34 (Summer/Fall
-1970): 22–23; “New
-Deveopments on Ottawa’s
-Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 35 (Winter 1971): 29–33; Story, pp. 208–209;
-John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp. 53–56; Roy
-Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence,
-University of North Texas, 1995, pp. 121–132; Good Above, pp. 188–189;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 166, 229–249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3409
Date: 6/21/1960
-Description: NICAP sends a confidential report to the US Congress on
-“Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and Digest of
-Documented Evidence” urging legislators to go on the record about the
-reality of UFOs. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Confidential
-NICAP Report to Congress: Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs (Unidentified
-Flying Objects)
-and Digest of Documented Evidence,” June 21, 1960)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3410
Date: summer 1960
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two brothers are alerted by their journalist
-brother about an elusive UFO that local police in Walkerton, Ontario,
-have been pursuing for about an hour. They drive out along country roads
-until they get within 300 feet of the object, which is hovering around a
-large tree. The object is circular and apparently about 3 feet in
-diameter. It is very bright and changes color repeated. It then circles
-the tree purposefully for several minutes. The brothers climb a fence
-and approach it, but the UFO suddenly accelerates and disappears to the
-south. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 54–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3407
Date: 6/22/1960
-Description: 6:20 p.m. John Person is setting up camp at Clan Lake,
-Northwest Territories, on a prospecting expedition and is waiting for
-his partner. He hears a noise like an aircraft approaching and something
-bounces and hits the surface of the lake about 1,700 feet behind him.
-Person sees an object 4–6 feet wide with arms or spokes is rotating
-rapidly in the water, but gradually slows down and stops spinning. When
-his partner arrives, they get into a canoe and travel to the impact
-area. They find an area of burned grass and another area where grass it
-cut up in small pieces. They use a pole to probe the lake bottom and
-find a channel that is one foot deeper at one end and three feet deeper
-at the other, RCMP Cpl. Matheson flies to the lake in a seaplane on July
-19 and August 15 and finds the impact area as Person has described but
-no submerged object. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Report
-of Strange
-Object Striking Clan Lake, Clan Lake Dist., N.W.T.,” July 19, July
-25, and August 25, 1960; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, pp. 98–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3411
Date: 7/1960
-Description: Members of the US Senate Preparedness Committee and the
-House Science and Astronautics Committee, as well as the CIA, ask for
-hearings on USAF’s handling of UFOs. (Clark III 922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3412
Date: 7/1/1960
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Four witnesses at the Leefe Mine in Lincoln
-County, Wyoming, see a shiny disc move in from the south and hover above
-a slag heap. It has a diameter of at least 185 feet and is 14 feet
-thick. Five transparent bubbles are visible on the bottom as it rocks
-gently before moving off to the south at high speed. (Lorenzen, UFOs:
-The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3413
Date: 7/2/1960
-Description: Early morning. A couple driving in the vicinity of
-Kankakee, Illinois, see the landscape light up with a bright blue light
-as a ball of fire approaches out of the south. It passes above their car
-dragging a trail of bluish light behind it. The inside of the car heats
-up uncomfortably, waking up their daughter and her husband who are
-asleep in the back. The light gradually fades and disappears in the
-north. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 221–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3414
Date: 7/3/1960
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Argentine Air Force Capt. Hugo F. Niotti is
-driving north near Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba, Argentina, when he
-notices a dark object hovering to the right of the road. He stops his
-car, grabs his camera, and takes a photo of the object, which is moving
-slowly over a field. As he is winding the film to take another shot, the
-object accelerates and disappears into the clouds. The photo shows a
-conical object low above the ground, as well as a horse whose attention
-is attracted to the object. Analysis shows that the object is about 23
-feet high, 20 feet in diameter, and 56 feet above the ground. (Guillermo
-C. Roncoroni and Gustavo J. Alvarez, “Foto
-de OVNI Avalada
-por la Fuerza Aerea Argentina,” UFO Press 1, no. 3 (April 1977):
-32–38; “Cone-Shaped
-UFO Photographed
-in Argentina,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980):
-1; Johannes Koch, “Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February 1981): 2; Willy Smith, “The
-Yacanto, Cordoba,
-Argentina, Photograph, 07-03-1960,” UFO Casebook; Willy Smith, “UFOs
-in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-pp. 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3415
Date: 7/6/1960
-Description: Responding to NICAP’s “Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs” report,
-Sen. Lyndon
-B. Johnson (D-Tex.) states that he has ordered the staff of the
-Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee to keep a close watch on
-UFO developments. (“NICAP
-UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa in the
-House of Representatives,
-Wednesday, August 31, 1960,” Congressional Record, Proceedings and
-Debates of the 86th Congress, Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14,
-pp. 18955–18956)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3416
Date: 7/13/1960
-Description: The Air Force gives a preliminary briefing to associate
-counsel Stuart French, staff member of the Senate Preparedness
-Committee, who wants to know about USAF explanations for the Washington
-National Airport and Levelland cases. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in
-America, Signet ed., 1976, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3417
Date: 7/15/1960
-Description: The Air Force gives a major briefing on UFOs for
-congressional staffers: Chief Counsel Robert Smart (House Committee on
-Armed Services); Spencer
-Beresford, Richard Hines, and Frank Hammill (House Science and
-Astronautics Committee). Charles
-S. Sheldon II, technical
-director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, is also
-present. The USAF reps are Robert
-Friend, Lawrence
-J. Tacker, Hynek, and
-Maj. Gen. Arno
-H.
-Luehman. CIA
-officers Richard Payne and John S. Warner are possibly there as well.
-The staffers are skeptical; Smart accuses the Air Force of withholding
-information and wants to be kept informed of sightings and
-investigations. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976,
-pp. 156–159;
-Marcia S. Smith, The
-UFO Enigma, Congressional
-Research Service Report No. 83-205, June 20, 1983, pp. 65–66; Swords
-291–292; “Saucer
-Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3418
Date: 7/19/1960
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: T.L. Ochs. One round, bright red light flew
-overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. Sighting lasted 20
-minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following
-nights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: St. Louis, Missouri
-ID: 451
Date: 7/26/1960
-Description: Lt. Col. Lawrence
-J. Tacker writes to Stringfield that
-“There is absolutely no truth in the charge that the Air Force or any
-other governmental agency is withholding information on the subject of
-UFOs from the general public.” (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett
-Crest, 1977, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3419
Date: 8/1960
-Description: The US severs diplomatic relations with the Dominican
-Republic. The CIA’s Special Group decides to arm Dominicans in hopes of
-an assassination of generalissimo Rafael
-Trujillo. The CIA disperses three rifles and three .38 revolvers,
-but things pause in 1961 as John
-F. Kennedy assumes office.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3420
Date: 8/1960
-Time: 0920
-Description: Mrs. K. St. Bereits was in her garden when she saw an
-object coming down at great speed. Arriving at ground level, it came
-toward her, appearing as a disk standing on edge, 7 m in diameter with a
-pulsating halo of yellow light. Three beams of light came from a central
-opening. A sort of haze and “gas stream” was also described.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Jan., 61; FSR 61, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Hamburg, Germany
-ID: 508
Date: 8/9/1960
-Description: Contactee Gabriel
-Green announces his candidacy for the presidency of the United
-States at a press conference at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. He
-publishes his Space Age Platform at the second meeting of his
-Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America convention in the Shrine
-Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on August 13–14, but soon drops
-out and lends his support to John
-F. Kennedy. (Wikipedia, “Gabriel
-Green”; “Space
-Age Platform of Gabriel Green: Candidate for the Office of President of
-the United States,” AFSCA World Report, no. 16 (July/Aug. 1960):
-4–7; Clark III 99; S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, Least
-Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and Crazes of
-All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,”
-Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 52–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3421
Date: 8/10/1960
-Description: The Discoverer 13 Corona KH-1 photoreconnaissance satellite
-is launched from Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base],
-California. The primary goal of this series of satellites is to replace
-the U-2 spy plane in surveilling the Sino-Soviet Bloc, determining the
-disposition and speed of production of Soviet missiles and long-range
-bombers assess. The Corona program is also used to produce maps and
-charts for the Department of Defense and other US government mapping
-programs. On August 11, after 17 orbits, the satellite splashes down in
-the North Pacific and its payload is recovered. It represents the
-first-ever successful recovery of an object from orbit. (Wikipedia, “Discoverer
-13”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3422
Date: 8/11/1960
-Description: 3:10 p.m. Ray Hawks is operating a farm tractor at Left
-Hand Canyon near Altona, Colorado, when he hears a muffled explosion.
-Looking up, he watches a disc dropping vertically out of the cloud
-cover. It stops in midair about 650 feet away from him and 200 feet
-above the ground, wobbling a bit. When it stabilizes, he sees it looks
-like two concave discs joined together at the rim and dull aluminum in
-color. Bluish smoke is issuing from an apparent gap in its surface. An
-electric hum seems to come from inside the object. The section where the
-smoke is issuing is withdrawn inside, and a new section appears to
-replace it, settling in with a click. The hum increases in intensity,
-and the object appears to be surrounded by a heat haze. It then shoots
-up into the clouds and vanishes. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, pp. 223–225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3423
Date: 8/12/1960
-Description: NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite is launched by a Thor-Delta
-rocket and becomes the first passive communications satellite. Microwave
-signals are bounced off the satellite from one point on earth to
-another. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Echo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3424
Date: 8/13/1960
-End date: 8/14/1960
-Description: 11:50 p.m.–2:05 a.m. Highway Patrol officers Charles A.
-Carson and Stanley
-E. Scott, plus three others at Red Bluff, California, are on patrol
-when see what they think at first is an airliner about to crash. It
-turns out to be a maneuvering, silent red light with five white lights,
-descending to 100–200 feet altitude. It suddenly reverses course, climbs
-to 500 feet, hovers, sweeps the ground with a red beam, performs aerial
-gymnastics, then heads east, chased by the police car. It is joined by a
-similar object from the south, then it disappears in the east. A local
-radar operator confirms the UFO at the time but denies it the next day.
-Tehama County sheriff’s officers also see the UFO and another similar
-one the same night. (NICAP, “Red
-Bluff Incident”; “False
-AF Answer in Red Bluff Case,”
-NICAP Special Bulletin, October 1960, pp. 1, 4; Schopick, pp. 96–100;
-Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 180–182;
-Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 153–156, 225; Hynek
-UFO Report, pp. 92–94;
-Clark III 1002–1006; Sparks, p. 284;
-UFOEv, pp. 61–62,
-112;
-Swords 295–297; “Red
-Bluff: 1960,” Saturday Night Uforia, February 16, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3425
Date: 8/13/1960
-Description: Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley
-Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner
-about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet
-altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft.
-Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow (color not mentioned)
-and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the
-UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats. The local RADAR
-operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it the next day.
-Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO and another
-similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Red Bluff, CA
Date: 8/15/1960
-Description: Air Force Information Policy Letter for Commanders,
-vol. 14, no. 12, is issued by Office of the Secretary of Air Force. In
-“AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace,” it states, “There is a
-relationship between the Air Force’s interest in space surveillance and
-its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near Earth for
-unidentified flying objects—’UFOs.’” (UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3426
Date: 8/16/1960
-Description: Night. A woman in Charleston, South Carolina, takes a photo
-of a mystery satellite that is in the same part of the sky as Echo I,
-which is also in the photo. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,”
-IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3427
Date: 8/17/1960
-Description: The trial for downed U-2 pilot Francis
-Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3428
Date: 8/18/1960
-Description: The Discoverer 14 Corona KH-1 spy satellite is launched. It
-is the first completely successful mission and returns images of the Mys
-Schmidta airfield in Siberia. (Wikipedia, “Discoverer
-14”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3429
Date: late 8/1960
-Description: Two men in a car near Butte Falls, Oregon, see a pale-white
-light hovering 300 feet ahead of them. They watch it for 15 minutes,
-then decide to drive closer. The light then rises to 100 feet and
-recedes, then changes to orange. No sound is heard. The light performs
-geometrical maneuvers, creating rectangle paths and other zig- zags. It
-then accelerates, changes back to white, and zooms off. (Swords
-294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3434
Date: late 8/1960
-Alternate date: early 9/1960
-Description: Evening. Rhodes
-McCarroll and his grandfather, sitting on the upstairs back porch of
-their home in Memphis, Tennessee, notice a glowing basketball-sized
-globe in the soil by the hedge. They watch it for 5 minutes, then see a
-figure standing behind the ball. It is a glowing nude, generally
-humanlike figure, about 6 feet tall, holding a light at chest level. The
-figure is square-shouldered and has disproportionately long legs that
-are narrow and pointed between the knees and ankles. The witnesses watch
-another 5 minutes, at which point the globe and the entity begin to fade
-and are gone from sight in another 5 minutes. (Clark III 279–280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3435
Date: 8/23/1960
-Time: 3::24 AM
-Description: Witness: Boeing aeronautical engineer C.A. Komiske. One
-round object with yellow lights coming from what looked like three
-triangular windows at bottom. Object was dull orange. Flew in an arc for
-2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita, Kansas
-ID: 452
Date: 8/25/1960
-Description: The National Security Council recommends to President Eisenhower the
-establishment of a top secret National Reconnaissance Office to
-coordinate USAF and CIA reconnaissance satellite activities because of
-management problems with the USAF satellite program. (Wikipedia, “National
-Reconnaissance Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3431
Date: 8/25/1960
-Description: The “dark satellite” is seen and photographed five times by
-Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at Bethpage, Long Island, New
-York. It is supposed to be three times faster than the Echo 1 satellite
-and travels east to west in a retrograde orbit, rather than west to
-east. Its inclination to the equator is about 135°. The color of the
-object varies from “carrot to straw.” The Grumman observers estimate
-that the object is in an eccentric orbit with an apogee of as much as
-4,200 miles and a perigee of about 300 miles. They immediately produce a
-proposal to the US Air Force to share data in the hopes of plotting a
-firm orbit for the mystery satellite. (NICAP, “Grumman Mystery
-Satellite”; Gordon W. Creighton, “Unidentified
-Satellites,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1961): 3–6;
-“The
-Unidentified Satellite: Grumman Aircraft Writes to One of Our
-Readers,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 2 (March/April 1961): 29; Blue
-Book files, “Grumman
-Proposal for Optical Surveillance of the Retrograde Satellite,”
-1961; UFOEv, p. 138;
-Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009):
-13; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch
-Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3430
Date: 8/26/1960
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Director Robert I. Johnson and other staff at the
-Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois, observe a faint reddish object
-in the sky moving from east to west, apparently the same mystery
-satellite seen and photographed by the Grumman observers. (Michael D.
-Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 13; Swords
-294; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch
-Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3432
Date: 8/29/1960
-Time: 4:05 PM
-Description: Witness: farmer Ed Schneeweis. One shiny, round, silver
-object flew straight up very fast for 18 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Crete, Illinois
-ID: 453
Date: 8/31/1960
-Description: Rep. Leonard
-G. Wolf (D-Iowa) makes a statement in the House on NICAP’s “Dangers
-of Secrecy on UFOs” report, saying that it is “imperative to end the
-risk of accidental war from defense forces’ confusion over UFOs.” He
-mentions NICAP board member Adm. Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter’s request that “Congress inform the public as to the
-facts.” Based on a there-year NICAP study, Wolf states that all defense
-personnel “should be told that the UFOs are real and should be trained
-to distinguish them—by their characteristic speeds and maneuvers— from
-conventional planes and missiles…. The American people must be
-convinced, by documented facts, that the UFOs could not be Soviet
-machines.” (“NICAP
-UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa
-in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, August 31, 1960,”
-Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 86th Congress,
-Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, pp. 18955–18956; Good Need, p. 261)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3433
Date: 9/1960
-Description: CIA officer Richard
-M. Bissell Jr. and DCI Allen
-W. Dulles initiate talks with two leading figures of the Mafia, Johnny
-Roselli and Sam
-Giancana. Later,
-other crime bosses such as Carlos
-Marcello, Santo
-Trafficante Jr., and
-Meyer Lansky become involved in the first plot against Fidel
-Castro. The
-strategy is managed by Sheffield
-Edwards. Robert
-Maheu, a
-veteran of CIA counterespionage activities, is instructed to hire the
-Mafia to kill Castro. The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work
-is that it provides the CIA with a credible cover story. The Mafia are
-known to be angry with Castro for closing their profitable brothels and
-casinos in Cuba. On September 14, Maheu meets with Roselli in a New York
-City hotel and offers him $150,000 for the “removal” of Castro. James
-O’Connell, who
-identifies himself as Maheu’s associate but is really the chief of the
-CIA’s operational support division, is present during the meeting.
-Declassified documents do not reveal if Roselli, Giancana, or
-Trafficante accept a down payment for the job. According to CIA files,
-it is Giancana who suggests poison pills to add to Castro’s food or
-drinks. Such pills, manufactured by the CIA’s Technical Services
-Division, are given to Giancana’s nominee named Juan
-Orta. Giancana recommends him as being an official in the Cuban
-government with access to Castro. Allegedly, after several unsuccessful
-attempts to introduce the poison into Castro’s food, Orta abruptly
-demands to be let out of the mission, handing over the job to another
-unnamed participant. Later, a second attempt is mounted through Giancana
-and Trafficante using Tony
-Varona, the leader of the Cuban Exile Junta, who has, according to
-Trafficante, become “disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress
-of the Junta.” Varona requests $10,000 in expenses and $1,000 worth of
-communications equipment. However, it is unknown how far the second
-attempt goes, as it is canceled due to the launching of the Bay of Pigs
-Invasion. (Wikipedia, “Sam
-Giancana”; Wikipedia, “Assassination
-attempts on Fidel Castro”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3437
Date: 9/1960
-Description: The USAF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence turns
-down ATIC’s request for one additional staffer for Project Blue Book
-(raising it to 3) and additional funding. (Clark III 922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3439
Date: 9/1960
-Description: MKUltra chief Sidney
-Gottlieb brings a vial of poison concealed in toothpaste to the
-Democratic Republic of the Congo with plans to place it on Prime
-Minister Patrice
-Lumumba’s toothbrush. The plot is abandoned, allegedly because CIA
-station chief Larry
-Devlin refuses permission. (Wikipedia, “Patrice
-Lumumba”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3438
Date: 9/1960
-Description: Groom Lake in Nevada receives the name “Area 51” when A-12
-test facility construction begins, including a new 8,500-foot runway
-(Runway 14/32) to replace the existing one built for the U-2.
-(Wikipedia, “Area
-51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3436
Date: 9/2/1960
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Richard Ireton and his wife are driving on US
-Highway 1 in Westbrook, Connecticut, when they notice what seems to be
-an aircraft about to crash. It veers close to the shore and the Iretons
-drive to the beach to look for it. They see a triangular-shaped object
-flying silently at the speed of a Piper Cub airplane, alternately
-hovering and moving horizontally and vertically. When it reaches the
-public beach, it takes off at great speed toward Long Island, New York.
-They see a similar object the next evening around 9:30 p.m. at Chalker
-Beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. (“‘Flying
-Triangle’ Seen
-in State,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, September 17, 1960,
-pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3440
Date: 9/8/1960
-Description: Night. Witnesses in Consett, South Shields, and Newcastle
-upon Tyne, England, see a triangular formation of lights with a red
-light in the center. (London Evening Chronicle, September 9, 1960;
-Marler 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3441
Date: 9/10/1960
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Evans see 2 light-gray glowing
-objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, that swish when accelerating, over
-Ridgecrest, California. (Swords 294; Sparks,
-p. 285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3443
Date: 9/10/1960
-Time: 9:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Evans. Two light gray glowing
-objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which swished when accelerating.
-Seen 1-2 seconds each.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ridgecrest, California
-ID: 454
Date: 9/10/1960
-Description: A married couple in Scituate, Massachusetts, sees a trio of
-brilliant discs parked in a triangle formation in the sky. About 12° to
-the objects’ left is a huge cylinder. One witness watches them through
-binoculars, and the brilliance hurts his eyes for two hours. Two more
-discs seem to be attached to the top of the cylinder. Small domes
-sprinkle their surface. The large object disappears too quickly for the
-eye to follow. (Swords 294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3442
Date: 9/14/1960
-Description: 2:50 a.m. A dispatcher in Lorain, Ohio, is taking a coffee
-break when he sees a light that he thinks is the Echo 1 satellite. As he
-watches it, knowing it is not the right time for Echo 1, he sees four
-objects traveling in a perfectly spaced line of flight. It makes a
-surprising right turn, after which the objects move on their way,
-apparently at a great height. (Michael D. Swords, “I’ve Seen the
-Light…But What Was It?” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 3; Swords
-294–295)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3444
Date: 9/15/1960
-Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a UFO hovering 300–400 feet above
-the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica, California, and calls it
-into the West Los Angeles police station. Desk Officer Don Anderson goes
-outside and sees a dark triangular object moving slowly to the northeast
-at 3,000 feet. It disappears in the vicinity of Santa Monica Boulevard
-and Beverly Glen Street. (“Officer
-Reports Flying Triangle,” San Pedro (Calif.) News-Pilot, September
-15, 1960, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3445
Date: 9/15/1960
-Description: Ruppelt dies
-of a heart attack in Long Beach, California, at age 37. (Clark III
-1024)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3446
Date: 9/23/1960
-Time: 2135
-Description: A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with
-lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the northcoast
-of Labrador.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Labrador
-ID: 509
Date: 9/29/1960
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Five people are out looking for the Echo 1
-satellite in New Westminster, British Columbia. After they spot it, they
-remain for a few minutes talking. One of them sees three objects come up
-from the southeast, pass overhead, and disappear over the rooftops in 10
-seconds. The objects are luminous, round- cornered triangles. (Michael
-D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004):
-16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3447
Date: 9/30/1960
-Description: Tiffany
-Thayer’s widow Tanagra
-Thayer formally disbands the Fortean Society. (Clark III 516)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3448
Date: 10/1960
-Description: New apparitions of a monstrous “cyclops.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 129 (Vallee)
-Location: Yariguarenda Jungle, Argentina
-ID: 510
Date: 10/1960
-Description: Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company begins
-construction of “Project 51” at the Nellis AFB complex in Nevada with
-double-shift personal schedules. They mark an Archimedean spiral on Area
-51’s dry lake approximately two miles across so that an A-12 pilot
-approaching the end of the overrun can abort instead of plunging into
-the sagebrush. Area 51 pilots call it “The Hook.” For crosswind
-landings, they mark two unpaved airstrips (runways 9/27 and 03/21) on
-the dry lakebed. (Wikipedia, “Area
-51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3449
Date: 10/4/1960
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Rev. Lionel Browning and his wife are looking at
-a rainbow outside their rectory in Cressy, Tasmania, when they see a
-gray, cigar-shaped object emerge from a raincloud. It has 4 or 5
-vertical, dark bands around its circumference and an aerial array that
-projects from the top. Browning estimates it to be 100 feet long and
-about 4 miles distant. It moves north at about 60–70 mph at about 400
-feet altitude. After one minute, it stops and is joined by 5–6 smaller
-objects that emerge from a cloud. After another minute, all the UFOs
-abruptly reverse back into the rain squall at the same speed. (“Mysterious
-Ships in the Sky,” Australian Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 4
-(February 1961): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December
-1960, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 104–107; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: January–June 1961, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 35–36; Clark III 350–352; Bill Chalker, “The
-Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 19–20;
-Swords 385–388)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3450
Date: 10/5/1960
-Description: A formation of UFOs is detected by the new Ballistic
-Missile Early Warning System at Thule Site J in Greenland. The objects
-appear to be heading directly toward North America from the direction of
-Russia. Within seconds, Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha,
-Nebraska, scrambles the crews of B-52 bombers armed with nuclear
-warheads to prepare a retaliatory strike. But at the last moment checks
-reveal that the objects are spurious radar echoes. Unusual atmospheric
-conditions create phantoms on the BMEWS that cannot be seen by other
-radars. (Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the
-Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety, Penguin, 2013, pp. 253–254, 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3451
Date: 10/5/1960
-Time: 7:37 PM
-Description: Witness: E.G. Crossland. One bright, star-like light moved
-across 120^ of sky in 20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Kisko, New York
-ID: 455
Date: 10/20/1960
-Description: Australian MP Gil
-Duthie asks Frederick
-Osborne, Australian Minister for Air, whether he has read the
-account of the UFO seen at Cressy, Tasmania. Osborne responds that he
-has, and he admits that the Department of Air receives UFO reports and
-shares them with the RAF and the US Air Force. However, all of them are
-“explainable on a perfectly normal basis.” (Clark III 352; Swords
-387)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3452
Date: 10/31/1960
-Description: Most guerrilla infiltrations and supply drops directed by
-the CIA into Cuba have failed; these are replaced by a plan to mount an
-initial amphibious assault with a minimum of 1,500 men.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3453
Date: 11/3/1960
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Two 8-year-old boys are walking over a small hill
-in rural Price County, Wisconsin, when they hear an odd high-pitched,
-humming noise. The air has become unusually warm. They look back and see
-an aluminum-colored object on the hill behind them. They run back toward
-it, but it lifts off and shoots away. They find the soil of the hill to
-be warm to the touch. (“Small
-Boys See Warm, Landed UAO,” APRO Bulletin, January 1961, pp. 1,
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3454
Date: 11/4/1960
-Description: House Majority Leader John
-W. McCormack (D-Mass.) writes to Keyhoe that
-“it was pretty well established by some, in our minds, that there were
-some objects flying around in space that were unexplainable.” (“Congressmen
-Confirm AF Secrecy: Pressure for Investigation Increasing,” UFO
-Investigator 1, no. 11 (Dec./Jan. 1960/1961): 1; UFOEv, p. 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3455
Date: 11/11/1960
-Time: night
-Description: Four witnesses, among them three military men, saw an
-object that seemed about to land, then took off again toward the north,
-leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 130; FSR 61,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Warminster, Great Britain
-ID: 511
Date: 11/13/1960
-Time: 0245
-Description: Remi Carbonnier, 45, was awakened by a green light
-illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a bright, round
-object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs on the railroad tracks
-300 m away. It was emitting orange flashes. A dome on top of the object
-started spinning, the legs disappeared, and the object rose vertically
-above the trees, without noise. Less than 20 sec later, it had cleared
-the hill and was lost to sight in the southwest. The next day the
-witness went to the site and found no trace, but his dog turned around
-and ran away,
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 131 (Vallee)
-Location: La Londe, France
-ID: 512
Date: 11/15/1960
-Description: 10:40 a.m. A USAF B-57 Canberra reconnaissance aircraft
-operating out of RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, Australia, encounters a
-UFO 15 miles north of Launceston, Tasmania. Capt. Douglas
-G. Ludlam and Capt. Joseph
-W. Ivins say it looks like a balloon about 70 feet in diameter and
-is flying at 35,000 feet, just below the B-57, and traveling at about
-920 mph. It is in sight for 5–7 seconds before it disappears under the
-left wing. (Bill Chalker, “Australian
-A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 11 (December 1982):4;
-Clark III 352; Sparks, p. 285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3456
Date: 11/18/1960
-Description: Director of Central Intelligence Allen
-Dulles and CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard
-Bissell brief President-elect John
-F. Kennedy on the Cuban invasion. Dulles is confident that the CIA
-can overthrow the Cuban government.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3457
Date: 11/27/1960
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Hart. One orange-red point of
-light made huge circles and stopped during the 20-30 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chula Vista, California
-ID: 456
Date: 11/29/1960
-Description: Eisenhower meets
-with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State, and Treasury departments to
-discuss the new concept of a Cuban invasion. No one expresses
-objections, and Eisenhower approves the plans with the intention of
-persuading John
-F. Kennedy of their merit.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3458
Date: 11/29/1960
-Time: 6:38 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Col. R.L. Blwlin (sp?) and Maj. F.B.
-Brown, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One white light 8lowed and paralleled
-the course of the T-33 for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: south of Kyushu, Japan
-ID: 457
Date: 12/5/1960
-Description: Pentagon UFO spokesman Lt. Col. Lawrence
-J. Tacker publishes Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, in which
-he blisteringly attacks critics of Project Blue Book, depicting them all
-as charlatans and opportunists and gullible believers. (Lawrence J.
-Tacker, Flying
-Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, Van Nostrand, 1960; Clark III
-922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3459
Date: 12/5/1960
-Description: Keyhoe debates
-Lt. Col. Lawrence
-J. Tacker on the Today show, hosted by Dave
-Garroway. Tacker says he wrote the book Flying Saucers and the US
-Air Force because “I felt the Air Force was being set upon by Maj.
-Keyhoe, NICAP, and other hobby groups who believe in spaceships as an
-act of pure faith.” Keyhoe repeatedly challenges Tacker, whose
-statements ring hollow, and even Garroway asks Tacker pointed questions
-and coolly notes Tacker’s apparent ignorance of basic physics. The show
-generates numerous phone calls and letters to NBC, most of them critical
-of the Air Force. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December
-1960, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 129–135; “New
-Debunking Campaign Backfires,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 11
-(Dec.–Jan. 1960/1961): 1–2; “Dave
-Garroway Show NBC-TV UFO Discussion: Tacker vs. Keyhoe, December
-5, 1960,” Journal of UFO History 1, no. 4 (Sept./Oct. 2004):
-3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3460
Date: 12/8/1960
-Description: Richard
-Bissell presents an outline for the Cuban invasion to the Special
-Group, while declining to commit details to written records.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3461
Date: 12/9/1960
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Mme. Dhelens in the Château des Mailles (31 miles
-south of Carignan-de-Bordeaux), Gironde, France, sees a luminous oval
-object twice the size of an automobile hovering just above the ground in
-the château’s park. It has two round portholes, behind which she sees
-indistinct shadows moving. It takes off, leaving a 12-foot circle of
-yellowed grass, which later dies. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: July–December 1960, The
-Author, 2003, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3462
Date: 12/9/1960
-Time: 2030
-Description: A dog barking at a glowing object resting in a park. Three
-witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared as an oval,
-luminous craft, 4 m in diameter, inside which vague shadows were seen.
-It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at
-the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 27 (Vallee)
-Location: Carignan, France
-ID: 513
Date: 12/14/1960
-Description: The first Single Integrated Operational Plan, titled
-SIOP-62, is completed. It describes a massive strike with the entire US
-arsenal of 3,200 warheads, totaling 7847 megatons, against Russia,
-China, and Soviet-aligned states with urban and other targets being hit
-simultaneously. Nine weapons are to be “laid down” on four targets in
-Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], 23 weapons on six target complexes in
-Moscow, and 18 on seven target areas in Kaliningrad. Weapons scientist
-George
-W. Rathjens looks through SAC’s atlas of Soviet cities, searching
-for the town that most closely resembles Hiroshima in size and
-industrial concentration. When he finds one that roughly matches, he
-asks how many bombs the SIOP “laid down” on that city. The reply: one
-4.5 megaton bomb and three more 1.1 megaton weapons in case the big bomb
-is a dud. The execution of SIOP-62 is estimated to result in 285 million
-dead and 40 million casualties in the Soviet Union and China. Presented
-with all the facts and figures, USAF Gen. Thomas
-D. White finds the plan “splendid.” Disregarding the human aspect,
-SIOP-62 represents an outstanding technological achievement. (Wikipedia,
-“Single
-Integrated Operational Plan”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine,
-Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 90–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3464
Date: 12/14/1960
-Description: The Brookings Research Institute in Washington, D.C.,
-releases a 186-page report prepared for NASA titled Proposed Studies on
-the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs. It is
-later published as a 272-page Committee Print for the House Committee on
-Science and Astronautics on March 24, 1961. The report includes a
-section on “Implications of a Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life.” It is
-sent to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics for approval by
-Rep. Overton
-Brooks (D-La.) and discusses the effects of meeting extraterrestrial
-life: “It is possible that if the intelligence of these creatures were
-sufficiently superior to ours, they would choose to have little if any
-contact with us.” It also speculates on the possibility of finding alien
-artifacts on earth and the possibility that contact might result in
-social disintegration. (Wikipedia, “Brookings Report”;
-Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for
-Human Affairs, committee print prepared for NASA by the Brookings
-Institution, Report of the US House Committee on Science and
-Astronautics, 87th Congress, First Session, March 24, 1961, pp. 215–216, 225–226 (note
-34))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3463
Date: 12/27/1960
-Description: Blue Book officer Maj. Robert
-Friend and his boss at ATIC, Philip G. Evans, write a memo to Air
-Force Intelligence in the Pentagon. Friend complains about civilian UFO
-organizations supported by people for “financial gain, religious
-reasons, pure emotional outlet, ignorance, or possibly to use the
-organization as a ‘cold war’ tool.” He is upset by their accusations
-that the Air Force is withholding UFO information. (Swords 292)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3465
Date: 1961
-Description: The first American to publish on the microwave auditory
-effect is biophysicist Allan
-H. Frey. In
-his experiments, the subjects are able to hear appropriately pulsed
-microwave radiation from a distance of 328 feet from the transmitter.
-This is accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a
-pins-and-needles sensation. (Allen H. Frey, “Human
-Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,”
-Journal of Applied Physiology 17 (July 1, 1962): 689–692; Wikipedia, “Microwave
-auditory effect”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3466
Date: 1961
-Description: Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an elliptical area where he
-claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to Earth in 1961. A local
-resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s story about the 1961
-crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself. She said a big, fiery,
-red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the valley by the
-river.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Russia
Date: 1961
-End date: 1963
-Description: Near Nellis AFB, NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at
-Nevada’s AEC between 1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal
-that Project REDLIGHT was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”,
-a 50-mile-square quadrant of land east of Nellis AFB. This Project
-“involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been shipped there from
-Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20 to 30 ft. in diam.,
-and had no wings or tail.
-Type: ufo testing
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Area 51
Date: 1961
-Description: ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he was given a file
-cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which contained material
-recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use these items for
-“utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out to various
-companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further develop.
-Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night vision, fiber
-optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and lasers.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: “The Day after Roswell”, by Philip J. Corso
-Reference: Philip J. Corso’s Manuscript
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1961
-Description: A UFO appears above the iron-ore mine of Catalina Huanca,
-owned by the Marcona Mining Company, near Apongo, Peru. It hovers for
-5–15 minutes, only about 300 feet away from a young mining engineer. It
-is round and glowing, with windows on the upper part. The engineer gets
-a look at it through his theodolite, but it still looks fuzzy. The
-object reappears throughout the day, allowing all the mine workers
-(about 70) to view it. The following day it follows a supply truck for
-several hours as it exits the mine heading south over a dirt track. (S.
-Parker Gay Jr., “Peru, 1961,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3470
Date: 1961
-Description: An Antonov AN-2P mail biplane takes off from an airfield at
-or near Sverdlovsk, Russia, bound for Kurgan with seven people on board.
-About 80–100 miles from Sverdlovsk, the aircraft disappears from the
-radar screen. Ground control cannot regain contact, so a search is
-launched with helicopters and troops. The aircraft is found in a small
-clearing in a dense forest, completely intact. The authorities state
-that it looks like it was placed there gently from above. All the mail
-is intact, and there is no sign of anyone on board. No marks or
-footprints are seen. A 100-foot wide, clearly defined circle of scorched
-grass and depressed earth is found at a distance of 328 feet from the
-plane. A report by the Moscow Aviation Institute claims that a UFO was
-tracked on radar at the control tower and that strange radio signals
-were hear at the time of the disappearance. (Good Above, pp. 228–229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3469
Date: 1961
-Description: George
-Adamski publishes Flying Saucers Farewell, signaling his intention
-to refocus his efforts on teaching about life and consciousness. (George
-Adamski, Flying Saucers Farewell, Abelard-Schuman, 1961; “Final Years,”
-The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3468
Date: 1961
-Description: Ray
-Palmer begins publishing The Hidden World, a quarterly magazine in
-trade-paperback format that runs through 1964. It consists of reprints
-of Richard
-Shaver stories and readers’ contributions. (Clark III 873)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3467
Date: 1/1961
-Description: Day. Government topographer Adolfo Paolini Pisani is
-driving a jeep along the highway between La Victoria and El Vigía,
-Mérida, Venezuela, when a truck passes him. A few minutes later, a
-brilliant metallic disc like polished blue steel swoops down and passes
-dangerously close above the hood of the truck. The truck rises a few
-feet into the air and overturns in the direction taken by the object,
-falling in a sandbank with its wheels in the air. The object ascends and
-is lost to view in a few seconds. Pisani stops his jeep to assist, but
-fortunately the lone driver has only a few scratches. (Horacio Gonzales,
-“Disc
-Upsets Truck,” APRO Bulletin, September 1961, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3471
Date: 1/1/1961
-Description: A government topographer, Adolfo P. Pisani, was passed by a
-truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A brilliant disk with the
-appearance of blue steel swooped down very close to the hood of the
-truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up nearly 1 m above the
-road and overturned in a sandbank. The driver escaped with minor
-injuries.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor.I 250 (Vallee)
-Location: La Victoria, Venezuela
-ID: 514
Date: 1/3/1961
-Description: President Eisenhower severs
-diplomatic relations with Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3472
Date: 1/3/1961
-Description: 9:01 p.m. An explosion at the US Army’s SL-1 nuclear power
-reactor in Idaho Falls, Idaho, causes a meltdown, killing three
-operators. The direct cause is the improper withdrawal of the central
-control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The
-event is the only reactor accident in the US that results in immediate
-fatalities. (Wikipedia, “SL-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3473
Date: 1/4/1961
-Description: The CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard
-Bissell plans for a “lodgement” by 750 men at an undisclosed site in
-Cuba, supported by considerable air power.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3474
Date: 1/8/1961
-Description: Pravda asserts that “some regions” (including Uzbekistan
-and Tajikistan) of the USSR are reporting UFOs. It quotes physicist Lev
-Artsimovich saying that “it is about time that these tales be
-stopped no matter how breathtaking they may be.” (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January– June
-1961, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3475
Date: 1/10/1961
-Description: A US Navy A-1 Polaris missile is launched from a ground pad
-at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A disc, whose diameter is close to the
-length of the Polaris, alters its tracking, but does not block the
-missile firing, since the tracking system continues to follow the object
-and later returns to again to track the Polaris downrange. The diameter
-of the disc is approximately 20–25 feet and it is about 6–8 feet thick
-at its center. It is visually lost to ground observers and the primary
-witness (Clark
-C. McClelland, with 10x50 binoculars) as it continues downrange. The
-original investigation is conducted by McClelland and his Florida NICAP
-subcommittee. (NICAP, “UFO
-‘Alters’ Tracking of Navy Polaris Test”; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: January–June 1961, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 6–7; Sparks, p. 286)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3476
Date: 1/12/1961
-Description: In a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Minister of
-Merchant Marine Viktor
-Bakaev charges that US military aircraft and ships are
-systematically conducting “provocative actions” against Soviet vessels
-around Cuba. He is probably referring to close approaches to Cuban
-airspace by Fort Bliss–based reconnaissance aircraft that are testing
-the responses of Soviet electronic countermeasures. (Jacobsen, Area 51,
-pp. 155–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3477
Date: 1/17/1961
-Description: Eisenhower delivers
-a farewell address in a TV broadcast. Perhaps best known for advocating
-that the nation guard against the potential influence of the
-military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the
-speech also expresses concerns about planning for the future and the
-dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect
-of the domination of science through federal funding, and, conversely,
-the domination of science-based public policy by what he calls a
-“scientific-technological elite.” (Wikipedia, “Eisenhower’s
-farewell address”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3479
Date: 1/17/1961
-Description: 6:17 p.m. A former weather officer at Holloman AFB is
-driving with some companions near Cimarron, New Mexico, when they see
-three different groups of amber UFOs flying in V-formation about 15
-miles away at 30,000 feet. There are six lights in the first group and
-eight in the second and third. They fly away to the southwest and then
-return to where they first appeared. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, pp. 226–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3480
Date: 1/17/1961
-Description: DRC Prime Minister Patrice
-Lumumba is executed by firing squad near Élisabethville [now
-Lubumbashi], Democratic Republic of the Congo. CIA Station Chief Larry
-Devlin has helped direct the search to capture Lumumba for his
-transfer to his enemies in Katanga, he is involved in arranging
-Lumumba’s transfer there, and he is in direct touch with the killers the
-night Lumumba is killed. The Congolese leaders who kill Lumumba,
-including Mobutu
-Sese Seko and Joseph
-Kasa-Vubu, receive money and weapons directly from the CIA. John Stockwell writes
-in 1978 that a CIA agent had the body in the trunk of his car in order
-to try to get rid of it. Stockwell, who knows Devlin well, feels Devlin
-knows more than anyone else about the murder. However, documents
-released in 2017 reveal that the US role in Lumumba’s murder was only
-under consideration by the CIA and never carried out. (Wikipedia, “Patrice
-Lumumba”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3478
Date: 1/19/1961
-Description: A USAF press release proclaims that “not even a minute
-fragment of a so-called ‘flying saucer’ has ever been found.” (Frank
-Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3481
Date: 1/20/1961
-End date: 11/22/1963
-Description: President John F. Kennedy in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/22/1961
-Time: 1830
-Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three
-school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object.
-Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was said to have
-felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the
-word “ZEMU” repeated twice.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 26 (Vallee)
-Location: Cestas-Gazinet, France
-ID: 515
Date: 1/22/1961
-Description: 4:45 p.m. An elliptical, metallic-looking UFO approaches
-Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, from over the Gulf, makes a U-turn
-and speeds back over the Gulf. Harry Caslar is filming his son on the
-beach with 8mm movie film and captures the UFO. (UFOEv, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3482
Date: 1/28/1961
-Description: President Kennedy is
-briefed, together with all the major departments, on the latest plan
-(code-named Operation Pluto) that involves 1,000 men landed in a
-ship-borne invasion at Trinidad, Cuba, about 170 miles southeast of
-Havana at the foothills of the Escambray Mountains in Sancti Spiritus
-province. Kennedy authorizes the active departments to report
-progress.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3483
Date: 2/1961
-Description: Forester Vasili Brodski finds a mysterious crater 100 feet
-long, 50 feet wide, and 10 feet deep on the bank of a frozen lake in
-Karelia, Russia. It had not been there two days earlier. The base is
-remarkably smooth, and around the edge are lumps of grass and soil but
-no trace of the excavated dirt. Six investigators from Leningrad [now
-St. Petersburg] arrive and find odd, crumbling black pellets on the edge
-of the lake. Divers discover a 330- foot strip where the soil has been
-displaced along the floor of the lake, as if something slid along the
-ground and submerged, ploughing up the soil. Geologist Vsevolod Charmov
-examines ice, water, and soil samples but cannot explain a green
-discoloration on some of the submerged pieces of broken ice. The pellets
-seem to be an inorganic substance. (Hobana and Weverbergh 61–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3484
Date: 2/5/1961
-End date: 2/7/1961
-Description: Many people report strange lights flashing around in the
-sky over Maine. Some blink and move up and down. A Portland Press Herald
-editorial, February 9, says: “Mysterious objects ‘lit up like a ball of
-fire and going fast’ zoom over Portland. Unidentified shapes with green,
-yellow, and red lights hover over Brunswick, then dart away with
-‘unbelievable quickness.’ Strange things are happening. . . The military
-had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only
-trouble was that many people—good, reliable observers— continued to see
-these things.” (UFOEv, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3485
Date: 2/27/1961
-Time: 10:15 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. LaPalm. One fiery-red, round object, preceded
-by light rays, slowed and descended, while her dog howled. Sighting
-lasted 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bark River, Michigan
-ID: 458
Date: 2/28/1961
-Description: US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese
-troops during operations in Vietnam
-Type: war
-Reference: link
-Location: Vietnam
Date: 2/28/1961
-Description: 3:20 a.m. Clarence Blackwood and his wife hear a roaring
-sound in the sky at their home in Lakewood, Massachusetts. They look out
-the bedroom window and see a fiery cigar-shaped object moving at low
-altitude to the northeast. It is bright yellow in the middle with a
-bright red edge and surrounded by thin clouds of black smoke. The object
-rolls back and forth rapidly and travels slowly to the southwest. It
-passes directly above their house, illuminating the bedroom. The lights
-that they have left on in the kitchen dim three times and go out for 4–
-5 minutes. The object returns at 3:40 and the kitchen lights repeat
-their previous actions. (Schopick, pp. 115–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3486
Date: 3/1961
-Description: House Majority Leader John
-W. McCormack tells Keyhoe privately
-that he has urged the Science and Astronautics Committee, headed by
-Rep. Overton
-Brooks (D-La.), to investigate Air Force UFO secrecy. (Keyhoe,
-Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3488
Date: 3/1961
-Description: In an article in Argosy, Maj. Lawrence
-Tacker says that critics of the Air Force investigation are
-“absolutely erroneous,” “a hoax,” “sensational theories,” and the work
-of “amateur hobby groups.” NICAP’s evidence is “drivel,” its claims
-“ridiculous,” and it is making “senseless accusations.” (Lawrence J.
-Tacker, “‘Flying Saucers Are Fakes!’ ‘—U.S. Air Force,’” Argosy, March
-1961, pp. 58, 125–126; UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3487
Date: 3/10/1961
-Time: 2045
-Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water. They
-observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a
-fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object.
-At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury,
-Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in
-flight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Austr. FSR 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Bowna, Australia
-ID: 516
Date: 3/16/1961
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Brazilian meteorologist Rubens J. Villela, on the
-deck of the USS
-Glacier, watches a tear-shaped fireball over Admiralty Bay, South
-Shetland Islands, Antarctica, in slow, level flight. It leaves a long
-orange trail like a tracer bullet, then abruptly divides in two as if
-exploding. It disappears after 10 seconds. (UFOEv, pp. 53– 54;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 64–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3489
Date: 3/16/1961
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. F. Reynolds and his 15-year-old son Lloyd are
-camped in their trailer 900 feet from the Murray River, at Bowna, New
-South Wales, when they see what appears to be a huge trailer with four
-windows and a red light at the end standing by the water. A fire is
-visible to the right of the object, and they can see four figures moving
-quickly between the object and the fire. Reynolds watches through
-binoculars and sees the entire array moving sideways in a jerking
-manner. After 45 minutes, it is all gone from sight. In the morning they
-can find no traces on the soft mud flat. (“UFO
-Landing?” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 5 (July 1961):
-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3490
Date: spring 1961
-Description: Late evening. A couple parking in Millville, New Jersey,
-watch a bright light silently moving northward. It hovers, reverses
-direction, and maneuvers for 5 minutes. At one point it races directly
-at a star, abruptly stops, draws a neat, right-angled, half-box around
-it, and goes racing on. Finally it speeds out of sight in about 5
-seconds. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 44;
-Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January
-2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3491
Date: Spring 1961
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kemah, Texas
-ID: 459
Date: 4/1961
-Description: Maj. Tacker is
-removed from his job as Pentagon UFO spokesman and reassigned to Europe.
-He is replaced by Maj. William
-T. Coleman. (“Tacker
-Replaced As Spokesman,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12 (April/May 1961):
-1– 2; UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3492
Date: 4/4/1961
-Description: President Kennedy approves
-the Bay of Pigs plan (also known as Operation Zapata) for the invasion
-of Cuba because it has an airfield that does not need extending to
-handle bomber operations, it is farther away from large groups of
-civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it is less noisy militarily, which
-would make any future denial of direct US involvement more plausible.
-(Wikipedia, “Bay
-of Pigs invasion”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3493
Date: 4/12/1961
-Description: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
-Gagarin becomes the first human to go into outer space when his
-Vostok spacecraft completes an orbit of the earth. (Wikipedia, “Yuri
-Gagarin”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3494
Date: 4/17/1961
-Description: The Bay of Pigs invasion takes place in Cuba. A
-counter-revolutionary military (made up of Cuban exiles), trained and
-funded by the CIA, Brigade 2506 fronts the armed wing of the Democratic
-Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intends to overthrow the increasingly
-communist government of Fidel
-Castro. Launched from bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading
-force is defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed
-Forces under the direct command of Castro. (Wikipedia, “Bay
-of Pigs invasion”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3495
Date: 4/18/1961
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Joe
-Simonton hears a whining sound on his farm four miles from Eagle
-River, Wisconsin, and sees a silvery object, 30 feet in diameter and 12
-feet high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land nearby. A door
-opens and a man appears, about 5 feet tall and wearing a black,
-turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and black trousers
-with a vertical white band along the side. Two other figures are visible
-inside. The creature is holding a metallic jug and making gestures
-suggesting he wants a drink. Simonton takes the jug into his basement,
-fills it with water, and returns it to the man. Simonton notices one man
-frying on a flameless grill and motions for some food. Simonton receives
-four ordinary pancakes or cookies, 3 inches in diameter, perforated with
-small holes. The object takes off after 5 minutes. Simonton gives one of
-the pancakes to Judge Frank Wellington
-Carter, who
-then passes it on to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
-Phenomena; another he gives to J.
-Allen Hynek for Project Blue Book; and the third he keeps for
-himself. A thorough analysis is performed on one of the pancakes by the
-US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the food is found
-to be made of terrestrial but tasteless ingredients, including
-hydrogenated oil and buckwheat flour. The Air Force concludes that
-Simonton is honest but has mistakenly conflated the reality of his
-breakfast with a dream. (Sparks,
-p. 287; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 23–25;
-Clark III 421–426; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: January–June 1961, The
-Author, 2003, pp. 32–34; Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-case documents];
-Center for UFO Studies, [case photos];
-Center for UFO Studies, [Lex
-Mebane case files]; Center for UFO Studies, [NICAP
-case documents]; Jerome Clark, “The
-Pancakes of Eagle River,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 3–8, 27;
-Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November
-2015): 42–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3496
Date: 4/18/1961
-Time: 1100
-Description: J. Simonton heard a whining sound and saw an object, 10 m
-in diameter, 4 m high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land
-near his house. A door was opened and a man appeared. About 1.50 m tall,
-he wore a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and
-black trousers with a vertical white band along the side. Two figures
-were visible inside the object. Simonton filled a jug with water,
-returned it to the man, who gave him three ordinary pancakes, and the
-craft took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin
-ID: 517
Date: 4/19/1961
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Commanding Officer C. J. Peterson of the
-minesweeper HMS Maxton sees a swiftly moving object as the ship is 33
-miles off San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy. It is green and leaves an
-orange trail as it moves higher and disappears to the northwest. The
-ship’s crew sees a similar object on April 20 at 4:50 a.m. when it is 25
-miles south of Capo Carbonara, Sardinia, Italy. (1Pinotti 112–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3497
Date: 4/24/1961
-Time: 3:34 AM
-Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. H.J. Savoy and
-navigator lst Lt. M.W. Rand, on USAF RC-l2lD patrol plane. One
-reddish-white, round object or light, similar to satellite. Observed for
-8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 200 miles SW of San Francisco, California (35’ 50’ N, 125’ 40
-W)
-ID: 460
Date: 4/25/1961
-Description: US Air Force Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter no. 4,
-originally classified Confidential, describes and provides guidance for
-Project Moon Dust reporting. Several items of interest appear in the
-document: classification level of Moon Dust Alerts and reports, focus of
-Moon Dust on “foreign earth satellite vehicles,” and destination
-agencies for Moon Dust reports among them. Project Moon Dust is a covert
-project to exploit the discovery of Soviet hardware when it temporarily
-lands in American hands. (Department of the Air Force, “MOON
-DUST Reporting,” Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter, no. 4,
-April 25, 1961; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995,
-pp. 157–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3498
Date: 4/28/1961
-Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia
Date: 4/29/1961
-Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Contractor John P. Gallagher is working at
-a home adjacent to Bailey’s Beach, Newport, Rhode Island. He sees a red
-spherical object bobbing on the ocean waves about 600 feet from the
-shore. Suddenly the object rises into the air to 60 feet and moves out
-to sea at about 100 mph. (“‘Head’
-Floats—Flies,” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3499
Date: 5/1961
-Description: In the May issue of “Fate” magazine, Master Sgt. O.D. Hill
-admits that we are still losing Air Force planes to UFOs. The first case
-was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to investigate an UFO that
-had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air Base (name and dates
-classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO heading straight for the
-craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to climb at once, but it was
-too late. The two blips merged as one and the UFO was tracked moving
-away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single shred of the F-86 was ever
-found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with crew of two merged with an
-UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second Case: A radar operator was
-tracking a transport plane carrying 26 persons aboard when, suddenly,
-another blip appeared on the screen closing at 2500 mph on the
-transport. Before the operator could warn the transport the two blips
-emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight up at tremendous speed.
-A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil slicks on the water,
-although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating around.
-Type: publication
-Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
-Location: US
-See also: 4/1/59
-See also: 9/29/59
Date: 5/1961
-Description: Rep. Overton
-Brooks (D-La.) appoints Rep. Joseph
-Karth (DFL-Minn.) head of a Subcommittee on Space Problems and Life
-Sciences. Karth and two other members plan for hearings in early 1962.
-The plan calls for a statement by Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter. NICAP
-releases a joint statement by 21 American scientists that calls for an
-open investigation by UFOs without secrecy. It says the Air Force should
-have a more straightforward information policy that releases all facts
-on major UFO sightings. (“Scientists
-Urge Check on AF Investigation,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12
-(April/May 1961): 7; “UFO
-Inquiry behind Closed Doors: NICAP Asks Right to Question
-Air Force,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 1 (July/Aug. 1961): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3500
Date: 5/3/1961
-Time: 2200
-Description: Approximate date. A hemispherical craft with portholes,
-resting on a road, took off when a car came near it. Estimated diameter
-was 4 m, height 2.5 m, bearing “fluorescent lights.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 139, 147 (Vallee)
-Location: Union Mills, Indiana
-ID: 518
Date: 5/5/1961
-Description: Astronaut Alan
-Shepard becomes the first American in space (for 15 minutes and 22
-seconds) when his Freedom
-7 capsule is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the first
-manned Project Mercury launch. (Wikipedia, “Mercury-Redstone
-3”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3501
Date: 5/10/1961
-Description: Late evening. Richard Vogt, driving on a rural road south
-of Osakis, Minnesota, sees a “ball of fog approximately 3 feet in
-diameter” swiftly descending toward him at a 45° angle from a clear sky.
-Unable to take evasive action, Vogt can only stare as the object hits
-the upper part of his hood and windshield. The noisy impact generates a
-tremendous amount of heat; the windshield becomes extremely hot to the
-touch. The object leaves pit marks burned in the windshield, circular
-tracks on the glass, and burned specks in the finish of the hood. (C. W.
-Fitch, “Monitoring
-and Scanning UFOs,” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 5; Clark III
-716)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3502
Date: 5/15/1961
-Description: An order approved by President Kennedy results
-in the dispersal of four machine guns to insurgents in the Dominican
-Republic. President Rafael
-Trujillo dies from gunshot wounds on May 30. In the aftermath, Robert Kennedy writes
-that the CIA has succeeded where it has failed many times in the past,
-but in the face of that success, it is caught flatfooted, having failed
-to plan what to do next. (Wikipedia, “Rafael
-Trujillo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3503
Date: 5/22/1961
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. A.J. Jones and Mrs. R.F. Davis. One big
-silver dollar disc hovered and revolved, then suddenly disappeared after
-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tyndall AFB, Florida
-ID: 461
Date: 6/2/1961
-Time: 10:17 PM
-Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. R.N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric
-Co. technical representative D.W. Mattison. One blue-white light flew
-erratic course at varying speed, in an arc-like path for 5
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miyako Jima, Japan
-ID: 462
Date: 6/3/1961
-Description: 6:35 a.m. Giacomo Barra, Giuseppe Pordoi, Filippo Marin,
-and Silvano Guardinfante are in a motorboat off Savona, Italy, when the
-boat begins to roll badly. More than one-half mile away, they notice the
-surface of the sea is “bulging like an enormous ball, with long billows
-going out.” An object emerges from the sea and stops still for a few
-seconds at a height of 30 feet and rocks slightly. A halo forms around
-the base and it shoots away quickly across the sea and vanishes towards
-the northwest. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: January–June 1961, The
-Author, 2003, p. 50; 1Pinotti 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3507
Date: 6/3/1961
-Description: A civilian weather observer sees an object through a
-theodolite at Mercury, Nevada. It remains in sight for 2 hours at an
-altitude of 80,000–120,000 feet. Project Blue Book evaluators correctly
-identify the object as a probable U-2 aircraft flying out of Nellis AFB.
-(Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue Book: Another Look,” IUR
-27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3508
Date: 6/3/1961
-Time: 0635
-Description: Off this town, four people in a boat were suddenly shaken
-by growing waves and saw the sea swelling like an enormous bubble 1 km
-away. An object emerged, hovering at 10 m altitude for a brief time, its
-underside glowing, and it left obliquely at high speed toward the
-northeast. Its shape was similar to a cone resting on a disk.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6,63 (Vallee)
-Location: Savona, Italy
-ID: 519
Date: 6/4/1961
-Description: Mrs. James W. Annis, a librarian, sees a large, narrow,
-elliptical object hovering low in the sky to the north of Blue Ridge
-Summit, Pennsylvania. Farther to the east, a cluster of smaller objects
-is hovering. She then watches the smaller objects streak across the sky
-to the larger one. All then move out of sight behind trees to the north-
-northwest. (UFOEv, p. 71;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2
-(Summer 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3509
Date: 6/5/1961
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Patrolman Jaime de Miranda and Astrogildo de
-Medeiros are called to the scene of a sighting on the Rodovia Anchieta
-highway 30 miles northwest of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. When they
-arrive, they find about 20 cars stopped along the road and people
-watching a luminous disc-shaped object maneuvering in the area. The
-patrolmen try to signal the object by shining a spotlight on it, but
-they get no response. When they focus a red light on it, the object
-moves toward the cars at high speed. They take cover. Another responder,
-Marshal José Otavia Leite, is about to shoot at the object but other
-police prevent him. After 3 hours, the object gets dimmer. At 5:30 a.m.,
-it is still visible through binoculars when it lands on the ground some
-distance from the highway. By daybreak it is no longer visible.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 227–228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3510
Date: 6/9/1961
-Description: A second USAF/NASA flight evaluation of the Avrocar is
-conducted on a modified second prototype at the Avro facility in
-Mississisauga, Ontario. During these tests, the vehicle reaches a
-maximum speed of 20 knots and shows the ability to traverse a ditch 6
-feet across and 18 inches deep. Flight above the critical altitude
-proves dangerous if not nearly impossible due to inherent instability.
-The flight test report further identifies a range of control problems.
-(Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3511
Date: 6/11/1961
-Description: 11:00 p.m. José-Gregorio Darnaude y Rojas Marcos, 28, is
-lying in a hammock in the front of his house on the Fuenteluega Estate
-in Sevilla, Spain, when he feels a peculiar pricking sensation
-throughout his whole body but particularly in his head. His dogs are
-cowering, the sheep go completely crazy, and the crickets and cicadas
-become silent. Suddenly, a luminous disc about 15 feet in diameter
-appears from behind the house, flying from northeast to southwest. It
-makes an abrupt 90° turn and moves directly toward him, hovering about
-400 feet away from him and 80 feet in the air, changing colors from
-white to orange to red to purple several times. Darnaude runs inside,
-but the disc turns bright white and shots away at enormous speed.
-(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Twelfh Night: And a UFO,” Flying Saucer
-Review Case Histories, no. 18 (September 1974): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3512
Date: 6/19/1961
-Description: A flying object hovers for more than an hour above an
-airport at Exeter, Devon, England. Officials say: “We do not know what
-it is. It was seen on the radar screen and we have had it under
-observation for some time. We think it is pretty big. It appears to be
-shining brightly and is about 50,000 feet up.” (UFOEv, pp. 80,
-139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3513
Date: summer 1961
-Description: Capt. Robert
-Filler and Lt. Phil Lee, based with the 82d Fighter Interceptor
-Squadron at Travis AFB in Fairfield, California, are scrambled in their
-F-102 Delta Dagger jets to intercept a radar target that has been
-hovering at 50,000 feet for 30 minutes. They get a radar lock-on 20
-miles out above the Sacramento Valley. The target is still stationary
-until they are 5 miles away, then the target moves quickly several times
-to a higher altitude. Filler estimates it is moving at 36,000 mph. (Good
-Need, pp. 245–246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3505
Date: summer 1961
-Description: Near Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, crews are setting
-up new missile batteries as part of Moscow’s defensive network. A huge
-disc-shaped object allegedly appears at an estimated altitude of 12.5
-miles, surrounded by a number of smaller objects. A nervous battery
-commander panics and gives unauthorized orders to fire a salvo at the
-disc. All the missiles explode at an estimated distance of 1.2 miles
-from the target. A third salvo is not fired, because at that point the
-smaller objects stall the electrical apparatus of the entire missile
-base. After the smaller disc rejoin the big UFO, the electrical systems
-return. (Good Above, pp. 227–228;
-Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, pp. 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3504
Date: summer 1961
-Description: Day. Glenn E. Bradley watches a group of six metallic discs
-pass over his farm near Beloit, Ohio, at a low altitude. They are
-traveling in single file at about 30 mph and are spaced 1–2 miles apart.
-The objects are each about 60 feet in diameter at the bottom with a
-30-foot dome on top. Within a transparent section in the center he can
-see two figures on each side. The objects begin banking to the left
-about 200–300 feet away. (“Soup
-Bowls over
-Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985): 4,
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3506
Date: 6/30/1961
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, see a large,
-luminous, roughly spherical, slowly moving object in the sky. It
-supposedly remains visible for more than 8 hours. (Poland 29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3514
Date: 7/1961
-Alternate date: 8/1961
-Description: Dusk. Florin Gorănescu is staying at a villa in Lacul Roşu,
-Romania. He and two colleagues notice on top of a nearby high cliff an
-intensely red light that remains motionless until it begins moving
-slowly northeast. (Romania 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3515
Date: 7/1/1961
-Description: ATIC is removed from USAF Intelligence and added to the new
-Air Force Systems Command. Its name is changed to the Foreign Technology
-Division. Project Blue Book is included in the reorganization. (Sparks,
-pp. 12–13; Wikipedia, “National
-Air and Space Intelligence Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3516
Date: 7/1/1961
-Description: A new squadron that will become the 1st Aerospace
-Surveillance and Control Squadron becomes operational under the USAF Air
-Defense Command at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center],
-Colorado Springs, Colorado, part of NORAD’s Space Detection and Tracking
-System. The first squadron commander is Col. Robert Miller. The Space
-Track organization at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, assumes a
-backup role for squadron operations. (Wikipedia, “1st
-Space Operations Squadron”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3517
Date: 7/3/1961
-Time: 0015
-Description: An object resembling a hovercraft, having five windows
-through which an orange light was shining, hovered about 20 m above the
-trees. It left suddenly at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Ryde, Great Britain
-ID: 520
Date: 7/7/1961
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witness: waitress Nannette Hilley. One large ball flew
-slow, split into four after 45 minutes. Four flew close formation,
-descended and flew away to the west. Total sighting lasted 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Copemish, Michigan
-ID: 463
Date: 7/11/1961
-Time: 7:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: ex-air navigator G. Scott, Mrs. Scott, and
-neighbors. One round, bright light like shiny aluminum, passed overhead
-in 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Springfield, Ohio
-ID: 464
Date: 7/11/1961
-Description: 10:35 p.m. Jacques Vallée and others at the Paris
-Observatory in Meudon, France, see a mystery satellite as part of
-Project Moonwatch. The following day the director of the project
-confiscates all their data and destroys it, apparently in fear of being
-laughed at by the press, scientific colleagues, and the Americans.
-(Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, pp. 41–42;
-Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3518
Date: 7/17/1961
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two people driving about one mile north of Bonnie
-Springs Ranch [now the Ranch at Red Rock] in the Red Rock Canyon
-National Conservation Area, Nevada, see in the rear-view mirror a
-low-flying object that overtakes their car, followed by a rush of cold
-air. It stops, circles the vehicle, flies off, and is lost to sight
-behind the mountains, where it might have landed, but an investigation
-by the military finds no trace. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 282;
-Sparks, p. 288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3519
Date: 7/17/1961
-Time: 0200
-Description: One mile north of Bonny Spring Ranch, on U.S. Highway 91,
-two civilians in a car observed in the rear-view mirror a low-flying
-object that overtook their car, followed by a rush of cold air. It
-stopped, circled the vehicle, flew off and was lost to sight behind the
-mountains, where it may have landed. In the course of an exceptionally
-complete investigation by military authorities, however, no evidence of
-a landing was discovered.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
-ID: 521
Date: 7/20/1961
-Time: 8 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather, flying
-DC-3, plus vague report from ground radar. Two very bright white light
-or objects flew in trail formation for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 465
Date: 7/21/1961
-Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom
-piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in
-a suborbital mission).
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
-Location: US
-See also: 1/27/67
Date: 8/1961
-Description: Construction of essential facilities is completed at Area
-51 in Nevada; three surplus Navy hangars are erected on the base’s north
-side. The original U-2 hangars are converted to maintenance and machine
-shops. Facilities in the main cantonment area include workshops and
-buildings for storage and administration, a commissary, control tower,
-fire station, and housing. The Navy also contributes more than 130
-surplus Babbitt duplex housing units for long-term occupancy facilities.
-Older buildings are repaired, and additional facilities are constructed
-as necessary. A reservoir pond surrounded by trees serves as a
-recreational area one mile north of the base. Other recreational
-facilities included a gymnasium, a movie theater, and a baseball
-diamond. (Wikipedia, “Area
-51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3520
Date: 8/4/1961
-Description: Rep. Thomas
-N. Downing (D-Va.) advises NICAP that the House Science and
-Astronautics Committee is considering hearings on UFOs by a three-man
-subcommittee headed by Rep. Joseph
-Karth. Meanwhile, Rep. Overton
-Brooks meets privately with Hillenkoetter and
-Keyhoe,
-asking them to prepare the best cases and proof of official censorship
-for a meeting on August 24. (UFOEv, p. 139;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3521
Date: 8/5/1961
-Description: 8:20 a.m. John Lee-Steere sees a “snowy white meshlike
-substance” float to the ground from 12 white metallic discs traveling in
-pairs over the Mount Hale shearing station, 50 miles northwest of
-Meekatharra, Western Australia. Sheep-shearing contractor Edwin C. Payne
-picks up the material and it fades away in his hands. (“Discs
-Trail White Fibrous Stuff,” APRO Bulletin, January 1962, p. 1; Loren
-E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1961, The Author,
-2003, p. 23; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,”
-IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Clark III 324)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3522
Date: 8/12/1961
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: college seniors J.B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps.
-One very large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the
-center; like a sled with lighted car running boards. Hovered at 50’
-altitude for 3-5 minutes, then flew straight up and east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kansas City, Kansas
-ID: 466
Date: 8/12/1961
-Time: 2100
-Description: Two Drake University students saw a large object shaped
-like an oval with “running boards” bearing a series of lights. It
-hovered for about 4 min at tree-height, shot straight up, climbed away
-toward the east, then disappeared from view in five sec or so.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kansas City, Kansas
-ID: 522
Date: 8/12/1961
-Description: 9:00 p.m. College seniors J. B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps
-see a large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the
-center, like a sled with lighted car running boards, near Old Mission
-High School on 50th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It hovers at 50
-feet altitude for 3–5 minutes, then flies straight up, disappearing in
-about 5 seconds. (Patrick Gross, “Kansas
-City 1961, a Blue Book ‘Unknown’”; Sparks,
-p. 289)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3523
Date: mid 8/1961
-Description: House Committee staff consultant Richard P. Hines visits
-ATIC in Dayton, where Col. Robert
-Friend, Hynek, and
-other officials give him a tour, tell him that Project Blue Book has the
-UFO problem at hand, and that Rep. McCormack has
-been pressured by NICAP to hold hearings. Hines leaves ATIC “favorably
-impressed.” (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 160–161;
-Swords 293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3524
Date: 8/16/1961
-Description: George
-Hunt Williamson, now going by the name of Michel d’Obrenovic,
-arrives in Japan at the invitation of the Cosmic Brotherhood Association
-and its contactee leader Yusuke
-Matsumara. (Zirger
-and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson,
-Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 129–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3525
Date: 8/22/1961
-Description: Adm. Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter signs a NICAP letter to Congress urging “immediate
-congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about UFOs,
-including accidental war and the Russians falsely claiming UFOs are
-Soviet weapons. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3526
Date: 8/25/1961
-Description: Approximate date. Five persons observed a luminous, yellow
-sphere, 8 m in diameter, flying about 10 m above the road. Horizontal
-and vertical bands of darker tone gave the impression of “windows.” The
-object flew up very fast when the car reached town.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
-Location: Toulouse, France
-ID: 523
Date: 8/25/1961 (approximate)
-Description: Five people at Toulouse, France, see a luminous, yellow
-object, 24 feet in diameter, flying about 30 feet above a road. The
-object has horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that give the
-appearance of “windows.” The UFO flies upwards very quickly when the car
-reaches town. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3527
Date: 8/28/1961
-Description: Rep. Karth writes
-a harsh letter to Keyhoe and
-attacks him for trying to defame and ridicule the Air Force. He had
-thought Keyhoe would be proving the existence of spaceships, but he
-knows now he cannot do this. Therefore, he is no longer interested in
-holding hearings. He tells a newspaper reporter that he will not be part
-of Keyhoe’s “cheap scheme to discredit the Air Force.” (Jacobs, UFO
-Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3528
Date: 9/1961
-Description: A National Intelligence Estimate concludes that the USSR
-has no more than 25 ICBMs and will not possess more in the near future,
-effectively discrediting the missile gap myth. (Wikipedia, “Missile
-gap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3529
Date: 9/2/1961
-Description: 4:40–4:50 p.m. A man named Ziegler is reclining outside his
-home in the northeast section of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees a
-shiny round white object moving erratically to the west. At two
-different times it emits several small silvery objects about one-sixth
-the size of the main object. It fades out of sight to the south. (NICAP,
-“Silver Object and Smaller Ones Emitted”; Sparks, p. 289;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2
-(Summer 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3530
Date: 9/6/1961
-Description: The National Reconnaissance Office is officially launched
-with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. It designs, builds, launches,
-and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the federal government,
-and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies,
-particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the National Security
-Agency, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the National
-Geospace-Intelligence Agency, and measurement and signature intelligence
-(MASINT) to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Its existence remains top
-secret until September 18, 1992. The move creates a protocol that
-requires the CIA deputy director and the undersecretary of the Air Force
-to co-manage all space reconnaissance and aerial espionage programs. The
-public face of the NRO is the Office of Space Systems. (Wikipedia, “National
-Reconnaissance Office”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 168–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3531
Date: 9/16/1961
-Description: Rep. Overton
-Brooks dies of a heart attack; the August 24 meeting about UFO
-evidence has not taken place. He is replaced on the House Science and
-Astronautics Committee by Rep. George
-Paul Miller (D-Calif.) who indicates he will not order UFO hearings.
-(Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3532
Date: 9/18/1961
-Description: Fourth Officer G. Gendall of the cargo ship Queensland
-Star, in the Indian Ocean, sees a white UFO through a cloud
-formation. It vanishes into the clouds and then reappears, dropping
-toward the sea. The water in the surrounding area grows intensely
-bright. Particles of white matter continue to fall into the sea after
-the object disappears, and the sky and water are illuminated for several
-minutes. (Sanderson, InvRes, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3533
Date: 9/19/1961
-End date: 9/20/1961
-Description: Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in Lincoln, New
-Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire:
-Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or planet, which
-seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty… As the
-object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see occupants
-inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited. They
-climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would
-vanish into oblivion.
-Type: abduction
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire
Date: 9/19/1961
-Description: 5:22 a.m. The North Concord Air Force Station [now closed]
-at East Mountain, Vermont, picks up an unidentified radar target at
-62,000 feet for 18 minutes. It moves at a slow speed on an erratic
-course. (NICAP, “Radar
-Tracks Object before and after Hill Abduction”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3534
Date: 9/19/1961
-Description: Keyhoe has
-smoothed things over with Rep. Karth, who
-writes: “Now that we better understand each other, I would hope we could
-properly proceed with a hearing early next year—providing the new
-chairman [Miller]
-authorizes hearings.” (“Majority
-Leader Support Indicates Early Congressional Action: Chairman
-Karth Backs
-Open Hearings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 (October 1961): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3535
Date: 9/19/1961
-End date: 9/20/1961
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Barney
-and Betty Hill are driving home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a
-vacation in Quebec, going south on US Highway 3. Near Groveton, New
-Hampshire, Betty sees a bright light moving upward and erratically,
-growing larger. Later, Barney stops the car at a scenic picnic area
-south of Twin Mountain. Through binoculars, Betty sees a solid object
-against the moon that “appeared to be flashing thin pencils of different
-colored lights.” Barney thinks it’s a plane, though it might be “playing
-games” with them. Barney drives slowly through Franconia Notch, watching
-the object. At one point it passes near the Old Man of the Mountain.
-About one mile south of Indian Head (north of Lincoln), the object
-rapidly descends toward their vehicle, causing Barney to stop in the
-middle of the highway. The huge, silent craft hovers approximately
-80–100 feet above the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and fills the entire
-field of view in the windshield. It reminds Barney of a huge pancake.
-Carrying his pistol in his pocket, he steps away from the vehicle and
-moves closer to the object. Using the binoculars, Barney claims see
-about 8–11 humanoid figures who are peering out of the craft’s windows,
-seeming to look at him. In unison, all but one figure move to what
-appears to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircles the
-front portion of the craft. The one remaining figure continues to look
-at Barney and communicates a message telling him to “stay where you are
-and keep looking.” Barney has a recollection of observing the humanoid
-forms wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps. Red lights on what
-appears to be bat-wing fins begin to telescope out of the sides of the
-craft, and a long structure descends from the bottom of the craft. The
-UFO approaches to within 50–80 feet overhead and 300 feet away from him.
-Barney tears the binoculars away from his eyes and runs back to his car.
-In a near hysterical state, he tells Betty, “They’re going to capture
-us!” He sees the object again shift its location to directly above the
-vehicle. He drives away at high speed, telling Betty to look for the
-object. She rolls down the window and looks up. Almost immediately, the
-Hills hear a rhythmic series of beeping or buzzing sounds which seem to
-bounce off the trunk of their vehicle. The car vibrates and a tingling
-sensation passes through them. At this point in time they experience the
-onset of an altered state of consciousness that leaves their minds
-dulled. A second series of beeping sounds return them to full
-consciousness. They find that they have traveled nearly 35 miles south,
-but have only vague, spotty memories of this section of road. They
-recall making a sudden, unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and
-observing a fiery orb in the road. At 5:00 a.m., they arrive home, about
-two hours later than expected. Barney feels compelled to examine his
-genitals, and they both take long showers. Betty notices a pinkish
-powder and a tear in her dress. There are shiny, concentric circles on
-their car’s trunk that were not there the previous day. Betty and Barney
-experiment with a compass, noting that when they move it close to the
-spots, the needle whirls rapidly. But when they move it a few inches
-away from the shiny spots, it drops down. (Wikipedia, “Betty
-and Barney Hill”; NICAP, “The
-Betty and Barney Hill Case”; Clark III 577–581; Sparks,
-p. 289; John G. Fuller, The
-Interrupted Journey, Dial,
-1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 178–184;
-Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2
-(March/April 1994): 4–6, 23–24; Robert H. Coddington, “The Hill
-Experience,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 18–19; Michael D. Swords,
-GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO
-Research, 2005, p. 143; Greg Sandow, “The Hill Case and the Limits of
-Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 3–7, 19–28; Stanton Friedman and
-Kathleen Marden, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience,
-Weiser, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO
-Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3536
Date: 9/19/1961
-Description: Barney and Betty Hill vehicle encounter, abduction
-case
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: White Mountains, NH
-ID: 8
Date: 9/19/1961
-Time: 2200
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hill saw a lenticular object with a double row
-of portholes and half-a-dozen dark figures working at control panels
-inside, when they stopped to investigate a light following their car.
-They became afraid and drove away. A “beeping sound” enveloped the car,
-and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness. When
-they came to, they were driving near Ashland. A series of nightmares and
-medically controlled hypnosis brought back what apparently was the
-memory of their abduction by the occupants of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fuller; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Indian Head, New Hampshire
-ID: 524
Date: 9/20/1961
-Description: 2:14 a.m. Pease AFB [now Pease Air National Guard Base] in
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire, picks up an unidentified radar blip 4 miles
-away from the base, with no visual contact. (NICAP, “Radar
-Tracks Object before and
-after Hill Abduction”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3537
Date: 9/21/1961
-End date: 9/22/1961
-Description: Betty
-Hill calls Pease AFB and reports her UFO incident (without
-mentioning the figures). Maj. Paul W. Henderson of the 100th Bomb Wing
-calls back with a few questions.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3538
Date: 9/26/1961
-Description: Betty
-Hill writes to Donald
-E. Keyhoe (mentioning the figures Barney remembers seeing) and asks
-for more information. She mentions that she and Barney are considering
-hypnosis. (Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR
-19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 4–6, 23–24; Michael D. Swords, “Radio
-Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July
-2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3539
Date: 9/27/1961
-Description: Allen
-Dulles resigns as director of central intelligence; John
-A. McCone replaces him.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3540
Date: 9/27/1961
-Description: 7:57 a.m. The radar operator on a USAF Airborne Early
-Warning and Control aircraft off the California coast spots five targets
-on his scope. Four of the objects are on a heading of 90°, and all of
-them are moving at a high rate of speed. They soon disappear into sea
-clutter. Three minutes later, two objects appear heading 70° then also
-disappear into sea clutter. The speed of one of the objects is measured
-at about 2,070 mph over a distance of 230 miles. While the two objects
-are on the scope, a single stationary object also appears. After
-remaining stationary for about two minutes, it moves on a heading of
-265° at 70 mph and is lost in the sea clutter. The objects can only be
-painted with the IFF on. The radar is an APS-95. (NICAP, “Uncorrelated
-Targets on APS- 95”;
-Sparks, p. 290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3541
Date: 9/29/1961
-End date: 10/3/1961
-Description: Betty
-Hill has a series of intensely vivid dreams in which she and Barney
-encounter a strange roadblock and are approached by a group of men. She
-loses consciousness and awakes on board a craft where they are given a
-medical examination by “intelligent, humanoid beings.” (Clark III
-581–583) Autumn — Evening. Emanoil Manoliu, son of the prominent
-novelist Mihail
-Sadoveanu, is at the Neamț Monastery west of Târgu Neamț, Romania,
-when he sees a blinding, multicolored light. After a few seconds it
-rises quickly and he can see it looks like a disc with a concave base
-about 20–23 feet long and 10 feet broad. It vanishes “like a tornado in
-the air” and he feels the rush of wind. The next day he goes to the site
-with a priest and finds an area of singed grass and a light imprint in
-the soil. (Hobana and Weverbergh 167–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3542
Date: 9/30/1961
-Time: 2200
-Description: Eight km south of La Porte, 16year-old Dennis Bealor saw a
-large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on the road. He was so
-frightened that he lost control of his bike and left the road.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hartle 158 (Vallee)
-Location: La Porte, Indiana
-ID: 525
Date: 10/1/1961
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, created at the request of
-Defense Secretary Robert
-S. McNamara to integrate all military intelligence operations,
-begins work with a handful of employees in borrowed office space. Its
-mission is the continuous task of collecting, processing, evaluating,
-analyzing, integrating, producing, and disseminating military
-intelligence for the Department of Defense and related national
-stakeholders. Other objectives include more efficiently allocating
-scarce intelligence resources, more effectively managing all DoD
-intelligence activities, and eliminating redundancies in facilities,
-organizations, and tasks. (Wikipedia, “Defense Intelligence
-Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3543
Date: 10/2/1961
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. Waldo
-J. Harris, private
-pilot and real-estate broker, is getting ready to take off in a Mooney
-M20A from Utah Central Airport [now closed] in Granger, Utah, when he
-sees a bright spot in the sky. After he takes off, he notices that the
-light is still in the same location. He flies toward the object to get a
-better look, and sees that the UFO has no wings or tail and is hovering
-with a slight rocking motion. He later estimates the diameter at 35–50
-feet, with a thickness of about 4 feet, and the appearance of
-sand-blasted aluminum. Harris estimates he has approached within 2 miles
-of the object before it rises abruptly and zooms away for 10 miles
-before it resumes a rocking hover. He approaches again, but it departs
-in about 2–3 seconds. Several other people, including airport controller
-Jay
-Galbraith, also
-see the UFO from the airport. Investigators from Hill AFB near Ogden
-arrive quickly. Airport attendant Russell M. Woods tells them he thinks
-the object was at 2,500 feet altitude. On October 9, Douglas
-M. Crouch forwards the Hill AFB official report, including
-transcripts of interviews, to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying “No
-unusual meteorological or astronomical conditions were present to
-account for the sighting.” Nonetheless, Blue Book wanders from Venus to
-a research balloon to a sundog (an assessment James
-E. McDonald calls “nonsensical”) as explanations. (Clark III
-1025–1028; UFOEv, pp. 1–2 ;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3544
Date: 10/3/1961
-Description: Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test, the most powerful
-thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield, Novaya Zemlya
-archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in WW2 combined,
-heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd degree burns
-at 100km distance.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic MT: 50
Date: 10/4/1961
-End date: 10/5/1961
-Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert
-E. Hohmann, have lunch in Washington, D.C., with Donald
-Keyhoe, who
-shows them the letter from Betty
-Hill. (Michael
-D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR
-29, no. 4 (July 2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3545
Date: 10/8/1961
-Description: Privately circulated letter from Manhattan Project
-scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over his
-concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological warfare.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Location: US
Date: 10/14/1961
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Erwin Riley, a summer resident in Two
-Harbors, Minnesota, sees a large object slide into the water of Lake
-Superior about one mile from shore and bob about on the surface. She
-summons a neighbor, Jack Ray, and they both watch through binoculars,
-but they can’t make out what it is. At dusk, the Lake County Sheriff
-responds to their call, but he can’t see much due to swells on the lake
-surface. He calls the Air Force and Coast Guard to make sure it’s not
-part of a training exercise. Shortly afterward, Riley sees the object
-rise into the air and travel southeast at about the speed of a car. A
-Coast Guard search the next day turns up only a floating log. (“Flying
-Log?” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3546
Date: 10/14/1961
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Mayor Michael Burson and his wife watch two pairs
-of UFOs move to the east above Sunset, Utah. The first pair looks like
-puffy cotton joined together by “stringy stuff,” and the second pair are
-metallic discs. (“More
-Discs in Utah,” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3547
Date: 10/15/1961
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. John P. Vanicky and Norine Gribble are
-driving from Marquette, Michigan, to Hurley, Wisconsin, when they see a
-brown cigar-shaped object spouting fire from its rear and moving
-southeast. They stop the car and watch for 20 minutes until it
-disappears. (Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune, October 19, 1961; “Flying
-Log?” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3548
Date: 10/19/1961
-Description: NICAP secretary Richard
-H. Hall writes to Walter
-N. Webb at Hayden Planetarium in Boston, Massachusetts, and asks him
-to talk to Betty
-and Barney Hill. (Clark III 578–579)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3549
Date: 10/21/1961
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A brilliant fireball flashes in front of Richard
-and Rhonda DuBois’s car on US Highway 60 as they are driving between
-Datil and Pie Town, New Mexico. It then veers into the sky. Later, as
-they approach a canyon they see that the light is traveling along in
-front of them. It breaks into four lights that move along with the car,
-even as DuBois drives at 100 mph, until they stop at a roadside motel.
-The lights then zoom straight up and disappear. (“Woman Says Flying
-Objects Chase Car,” Garden Grove (Calif.) News, October 23, 1961;
-Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 231; Loren E. Gross,
-The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-July–December 1961, The
-Author, 2003, p. 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3550
Date: 10/21/1961
-Description: Webb, initially
-skeptical, winds up interviewing the Hills for
-6 hours. He finds that their amnesia concerning some parts of the
-episode has unsettled them, and Betty tells him she had vivid nightmares
-for six straight nights a couple weeks after the incident. (Clark III
-581)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3551
Date: 10/26/1961
-Description: Walter
-Webb’s report to NICAP concludes that the Hills are
-telling the truth. (Walter N. Webb, “A Dramatic
-UFO Encounter in the White Mountains, N.H., September 19–20, 1961,”
-NICAP Massachusetts Subcommittee, October 26, 1961; Clark III 581; Mark
-Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2
-(March/April 1994): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3552
Date: 10/30/1961
-Description: The Soviet RDS-202 hydrogen bomb, the 50-megaton Tsar
-Bomba, is supposedly the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested. It is
-detonated at the Sukhoy Nos Cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemla,
-Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It flattens entire villages in surrounding
-areas and breaks windows in Finland 1,000 miles away. (Wikipedia, “Tsar
-Bomba”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3553
Date: 11/1/1961
-Description: At a small, informal conference on SETI at the National
-Radio Astronomy Observatory’s facility in Green Bank, West Virginia,
-astronomer Frank
-Drake writes this equation on a chalkboard: N = R fp ne fl fi fc L.
-The equation, the Green Bank Formula, summarizes the main concepts that
-scientists must contemplate when considering the question of
-extraterrestrial life capable of communicating by radio across space. It
-is more properly thought of as an approximation rather than as a serious
-attempt to determine a precise number. (Wikipedia, “Drake
-equation”; Lee Billings, “The
-Alien-Life Summit,” Slate, September 27, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3554
Date: 11/3/1961
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. E. Adkins observes a brilliant object with an
-orange center flying south over Eyres Monsell, Leicester, England, at an
-estimated 600 mph. It is triangular in shape and about 300 feet wide.
-(“Triangular
-Object over
-Eyres Monsell,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 (March/April 1962):
-24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3555
Date: 11/13/1961
-Description: The AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy letter (Betz Memo) is prepared
-by Lt. Col. Norman
-M. Rosner for Col. Ward
-Reid Betz. Among other things, it specifies three peacetime
-functions of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Ent AFB [now
-the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado: UFO
-investigations, Project Moon Dust (an exploitation program to locate,
-recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles), and Operation
-Blue Fly (to facilitate delivery to the Foreign Technological Division
-of Moon Dust and other items of great technical intelligence interest).
-These three functions involve “employment of qualified field
-intelligence personnel on a quick reaction basis to recover or perform
-field exploitation of unidentified flying objects, or known Soviet/Bloc
-aerospace vehicles, weapons systems, and/or residual components of such
-equipment.” (Paul Dean, “The
-Rejuvenated ‘Betz Memo,’” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 8,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3556
Date: late 11/1961
-Description: Evening. A group of four friends are hunting on a Sunday in
-the area of Harvey, North Dakota. As they are returning in the car, the
-two men in the front seat notice a descending glowing object in the sky
-ahead of them. Assuming they are witnessing a plane crash, they rush to
-the scene of its landing, where they find at 150 yards distance, a
-“silo-appearing craft which was sticking in the ground with this glow
-around it.” The men shine a hand spotlight and shine it on the object,
-whereupon they see four human-looking individuals standing around it. At
-this point they seem to hear an explosion and “everything went out.” The
-principal witness wakes up from dozing in the back seat as the car is
-negotiating soggy ground looking for the craft and crew. They return to
-the spot where the landing takes place, and they see the figures again,
-wearing white coveralls and standing 5 feet high. They get out of the
-car and one figure waves them away. Eventually, the men agree to return
-to a small town, possibly Martin, North Dakota, 11 miles away, where
-they find a police officer, who listens to the story and agrees to
-accompany them back to the site. They see red lights moving in the field
-and both cars go in pursuit of them. The lights go out, the police
-officer drives away, and the four men resume driving home. Two miles
-down the highway, the silo-like object reappears, landing gently 150
-yards away with two of the figures watching them. Two of the men get out
-of the car again and shine the spotlight on the craft. One of the men is
-carrying a rifle; he drops on the ground and shoots, apparently hitting
-one of the figures in the right shoulder. The figure spins around, goes
-down on his knees, gets help from the other figure, then yells, “Now
-what the hell did you do that for?” Weirdly, as soon as the men return
-to the car, the two who have remained inside insist the rifle had not
-been removed and no shot was fired. The primary witness (who remains in
-the car) has no recollection of what happened to the craft and figures.
-By the time they get home, dawn is breaking, and their wives are waiting
-for them. They all know it has taken longer than it should have to
-return. A few hours later, around 12:00 noon, the principal witness is
-at work when three well-groomed, official-looking men visit him. He
-presumes they are Air Force intelligence officers who say they have a
-“report” about the previous night’s event. They ask him what clothes he
-was wearing and what the object looked like, but they never ask about
-the shooting. Later, they show up at his house and ask to see his
-hunting gear and boots. They tell him not to say anything more about the
-incident. In January 1968, US Border Patrol agent [later BATF agent]
-Donald E. Flickinger manages to interview the primary witness, who works
-as a supervisor at Minot AFB hospital, and two of the others, one a
-small-town high school superintendent and the other an active-duty Air
-Force sergeant. They all are “extremely reliable and responsible,”
-Flickinger says. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed.,
-1974, pp. 164–165;
-Clark III 825–827)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3557
Date: late 11/1961
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Real estate agent Cavalheiro Mendes is walking
-along the beach in Balneário Pinhal, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he
-sees a huge light 900 feet away. As he walks toward it, he sees it is a
-huge disc resting on the sand. He feels compelled to approach it and
-sees two helmeted figures come from behind the object. They seem to be
-telling him telepathically not to resist. Mendes finds he is completely
-unable to move. He feels one of them scratching his forearm with an
-instrument, then he blacks out. When he wakes up, he is nearly back to
-his beach house and it is 11:30 p.m. After a few weeks he feels anxious
-and sad for no apparent reason. He refuses to be hypnotized. (Lorenzen,
-Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 199–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3558
Date: 11/21/1961
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C. Locklear and Helen Hatch. One round,
-red-orange object flew straight up and faded after 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oldtown, Florida
-ID: 467
Date: 11/22/1961
-Description: US Navy pilot Robert
-G. Robinson reaches an airspeed of 1,606 mph in a McDonnell-Douglas
-F4H-1F Phantom II over Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Robert
-G. Robinson”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3559
Date: 11/23/1961
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: F. Braunger. One bright red star flew straight and
-level for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sioux City, Iowa
-ID: 468
Date: 11/25/1961
-Description: IBM engineers C. D. Jackson and Robert
-E. Hohmann interview the Hills.
-One of them expresses surprise at how long the drive took. They are
-mysteriously interested in whether nitrates or chemicals containing
-nitrates are in their car. For the first time, Barney and Betty realize
-that there are two hours they cannot account for. Also present is a
-friend of the Hills, retired USAF Maj. James McDonald, a former
-intelligence officer. He suggests that Betty and Barney consult a
-hypnotist. (Clark III 583; Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill
-Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 6, 23–24; Michael D.
-Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR
-29, no. 4 (July 2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3560
Date: 11/28/1961
-Description: President Kennedy presides
-over the dedication of the new CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
-(Wikipedia, “George
-Bush Center for Intelligence”; CIA History Staff, 50
-Years in Langley: Recollections of the Construction
-of CIA’s Original Headquarters Building, 1961–2011, January
-2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3561
Date: 11/30/1961
-Description: Covert operations against Fidel
-Castro are officially authorized by President Kennedy after
-being given the name Operation Mongoose at a White House meeting on
-November 3. The operation is led by USAF Gen. Edward
-Lansdale and goes into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.
-A document from the Department of State confirms that the project aims
-to “help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime,” including Castro, and it
-aims “for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962.” One of
-Lansdale’s ideas is to project a huge image of the Second Coming of
-Christ above the island, spread the word that Castro is the anti-Christ,
-shoot starburst shells from a submarine into the air, and hope far an
-uprising. US policymakers want to see “a new government with which the
-United States can live in peace.” (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Mongoose”; Kremlin 131– 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3562
Date: 12/1961
-Description: Funding runs out for the Avrocar and it and related WS-606A
-supersonic VTOL programs are officially cancelled by the US military.
-(Wikipedia, “Avro
-Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3563
Date: 12/13/1961
-Time: 5:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C.F. Muncy, ex-U.S. Navy pilot W.J. Myers, and
-G. Weber. One dark diamond-shaped object with a bright tip flew straight
-and level for 1-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 469
Date: 12/21/1961
-Time: 2145
-Description: Jerry Hislope, 20, was driving to Kentland when he saw a
-glowing white object, 3 m in diameter, 1 m thick, dive at him, flying 3
-m above the ground. He stopped to observe it, but the object flew
-away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Lafayette, Indiana
-ID: 526
Date: 1962
-Description: The Argentine Navy creates a permanent commission for the
-study of UFOs, and the Argentine Air Force establishes a division for
-the same purpose. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3568
Date: 1962
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Actor Jamie
-Farr and his wife Joy Ann are driving through the desert near Yuma,
-Arizona, when they notice a light moving erratically at the top of a
-mountain. It zig-zags across the sky as it approaches them, moving to
-within 150 feet, then 60 feet of their vehicle. They can see two lights,
-red and blue, revolving beneath the silent object. It paces them for a
-short time then moves away at incredible speed. (“Jamie
-and Joy Farr Report UFO
-Sighting,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980): 3,
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3567
Date: 1962
-Description: French composer Paul
-Misraki writes Les Extraterrestres using the pseudonym Paul Thomas.
-He links modern UFO sightings with biblical and mythological tales and
-claims that angels are aliens, that the Bible and other ancient texts
-are filled with many UFO flying saucer sightings, and that throughout
-human history extraterrestrial visitors have intervened in human
-affairs. Misraki is also one of the first authors to suggest that
-apparitions may be UFO-related phenomena. (Paul Thomas [Paul Misraki],
-Les Extraterrestres, Plon, 1962; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed:
-Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997):
-28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3570
Date: 1962
-Description: Day. An Air Force pilot is flying a brand new B-52 with a
-full crew out of Wichita, Kansas, headed for an air base in the
-southwest. He notices a bright flash of sunlight in his left side and
-turns to see a metallic object “like polished chrome.” It is pacing the
-aircraft near its left wingtip. The object is 4–8 feet in diameter and
-has no seams or markings. His First Officer is watching an identical
-object off the right wing, and the crewman in the tail reports that
-there is a round shiny metal ball following close behind the B-52. The
-top and bottom gunners also see spheres above and below the plane. The
-pilot goes into an evasive maneuver, but after 10–15 minutes the objects
-are maintaining their positions. He returns to his previous assigned
-altitude and heading. After a few minutes, the five objects leave, one
-at a time, first the bottom one, then the top, then the tail. The two
-objects on the wings shoot away at the same time and climb out of sight
-parallel to each other. After landing, the crew is told not to talk
-about the sighting at all. (Richard F. Haines, “NARCAP’s Project Sphere:
-Are Spherical UAP a Threat to Aviation Safety?” IUR 33, no. 2 (July
-2010): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3566
Date: 1962
-Description: The Air Force tries once again to get rid of the UFO
-program, but its attempts to get NASA or the National Science Foundation
-to handle the program prove futile. It finally gives up the entire idea.
-The program remains at FTD as a special project and without expanded
-resources. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, p. 164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3565
Date: 1962
-Description: According to a “former Project Blue Book Chief” (probably
-Maj. Friend)
-gun-camera films obtained during jet interceptor UFO chases are
-routinely referred to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation
-Center (established in 1961) for analysis. Richard
-H. Hall writes, “This cannot be documented at present, but I heard
-him say so to a UFO researcher colleague. None of the photoanalysis data
-in these cases has been released, nor has the existence of these films
-ever been acknowledged.” (Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
-1988, p. 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3564
Date: 1962
-Description: René and
-Françine
-Fouéré establish the Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aériens in Paris,
-France, with an initial group of 60 interested members. The following
-year GEPA launches a magazine, Phénomènes Spatiaux, which is published
-through 1978. In 1964, Lionel-Max
-Chassin, now
-retired from the army, takes over as president. (Wikipedia, “Group
-d’Étude des Phénomènes Aériens”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3569
Date: 1/1962
-Description: The IBM 7950 Harvest computer, designed to be used for
-cryptanalysis, is delivered to the National Security Agency. It includes
-Tractor, a large automated tape cartridge library. An NSA-conducted
-evaluation finds that Harvest is more powerful than the best
-commercially available machine by a factor of 50–200, depending on the
-task. It remains in use until 1976. One purpose of the machine is to
-search text for keywords from a watchlist. From a single foreign cipher
-system, Harvest is able to scan more than 7 million decrypts for any
-occurrences of some 7,000 key words in under four hours. The computer is
-also used for codebreaking, and this is enhanced by a system codenamed
-Rye, which allows remote access to Harvest. (Wikipedia, “IBM
-7950 Harvest”; “Timeline
-of the
-IBM Stretch/Harvest Era (1956–1961),” computerhistory.org)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3572
Date: 1/1962
-Description: The Federal Aviation Administration expands the restricted
-airspace in the vicinity of Groom Lake, Nevada, and the lakebed becomes
-the center of a 600-square-mile addition to restricted area R-4808N.
-(Wikipedia, “Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3571
Date: 1/8/1962
-Time: night
-Description: A truck driver and two other men observed two powerful
-lights lost sight of thern, but later saw a craft on the ground 150 m to
-the side of the road. It took off at high speed when illuminated by the
-headlights. Farther away, two objects maneuvered above the road leading
-to La Bajada. As the police were driving to the scene, they saw one of
-the craft on the ground near Loma Brava.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Catamarca, Argentina
-ID: 527
Date: 1/29/1962
-Description: A Royal Dutch Air Force pilot flying an F-86 Sabrejet
-sights a UFO over eastern Netherlands. The jet’s radar also picks up the
-object and control tower radar (somewhere) is also tracking it. He
-attempts to give the object an urgent warning by radio, but it goes
-unheeded. He arms a Sidewinder rocket and tries to close in, but the UFO
-pulls away swiftly before he can fire. (“New
-Sightings by Navy, FAA, and Airline Observers: Dutch Jet Pilot
-Tries to Down UFO,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1962):
-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3573
Date: 2/1962
-Description: Richard
-M. Bissell Jr. leaves the CIA and is replaced as head of the
-Directorate of Plans by Richard
-Helms. February — Maj. William
-T. Coleman is replaced as Pentagon UFO spokesman by Maj. Carl
-R. Hart.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3574
Date: 2/1962
-Description: Vice-Admiral Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter resigns from NICAP, stating that NICAP has gone as far
-as it can and should no longer criticize USAF investigations. (Keyhoe,
-Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3575
Date: 2/1962
-Description: The Hills begin
-making numerous trips over several months to try to find their encounter
-site but are unsuccessful. (Clark III 583)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3576
Date: 2/1962
-Description: Alec Birch, 14, snaps an out-of-focus photo of five domed
-discs that he and two friends see hovering 500 feet above his backyard
-in Mosborough, Sheffield, England. Alec and his father show the photo
-later to the Air Ministry, which pronounces them “temperature
-inversions” in October. However, in an interview on BBC-2 television on
-October 6, 1972, Alec confesses that he had superimposed images painted
-on glass over the backyard scenery, fooling even his father. (“Schoolboy
-Snaps Saucer,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1962): 4;
-Gordon Creighton, “’No
-Kidding This Time. My Flying Saucers Photo Is
-Genuine!’
-(–Alec Birch),” Flying Saucer Review 45, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 9–11;
-Clark III 603)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3577
Date: 2/6/1962
-Description: USAF issues the last of its UFO fact sheets (no. 179-62).
-In the future it will issue press releases. (UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3578
Date: 2/9/1962
-Time: 0330
-Description: Mr. Wildam, of Luton, noticed that his car was gradually
-losing speed as he approached a bright, oval thing hovering 10 m above
-the road. The object was surrounded by a glow, and left at high speed
-very suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Aston Clinton, Great Britain
-ID: 528
Date: 2/10/1962
-Description: CIA pilot Francis
-Gary Powers is exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf
-Abel on the Glienicke Bridge that connects Potsdam to West Berlin,
-Germany.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3579
Date: 2/20/1962
-Description: Astronaut John
-Glenn pilots the Friendship
-7 Project Mercury capsule for three orbits and just short of 5 hours
-flying time, becoming the first American to orbit the earth. (Wikipedia,
-“Mercury-Atlas
-6”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3580
Date: 2/24/1962
-Description: NORAD Requirement 64-73 states that its radar coverage
-“would provide warning from all directions, not just northern
-approaches.” (Clark III 811)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3581
Date: 2/25/1962
-Time: 7:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one U.S. Army private, six anonymous civilians.
-One red light, trailed 30 seconds later by a blue light. Sighting lasted
-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kotzbue, Alaska
-ID: 470
Date: 2/28/1962
-Description: The first A-12 test aircraft covertly arrives at Groom
-Lake, Nevada, from Burbank, California. (Wikipedia, “Area
-51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3582
Date: 3/1962
-Description: Chemical engineer Leon
-Davidson writes a two-part article in Saucer News explaining how he
-has become convinced that the CIA, especially under the influence of Allen
-Dulles, has engineered disinformation about UFOs and even
-manufactured some seemingly legitimate radar sightings as a tool in the
-Cold War. Its aim is to cause the Soviet Union to waste time and effort
-in preparing defenses against fictitious aircraft and weapons that the
-US might be developing. Furthermore, UFOs can be used to capture
-headlines, diverting attention from unwelcome news coverage of espionage
-operations. Davidson writes that Dulles has resorted to using contactees
-and UFO organizations as a propaganda vehicle. Messages supposedly from
-spacemen calling for a halt in nuclear testing could influence public
-opinion in a test ban treaty that, in effect, would benefit the US more
-than the Russians, since the Soviets were seen as overtaking the
-American lead in weapons development. Davidson attributes CIA
-involvement in the claims of George
-Adamski and Daniel
-Fry. He also points out that electronic countermeasures (ECM)
-equipment is capable of creating fake radar returns and goes so far as
-to say that secret working models of saucers, perhaps piloted by
-“midgets,” are responsible for some sightings. (Leon Davidson, “An Open
-Letter to Saucer Researchers,” Saucer News, March 1962, April 1962; Leon
-Davidson, “ECM
-+ CIA = UFO:
-Or, How to Cause Radar Sightings,” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 2
-(March/April 1960): 9–12; Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s
-Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no.
-5 (1997): 67–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3583
Date: 3/1962
-Description: Betty
-and Barney Hill meet with Patrick J. Quirke, a psychiatrist at the
-Baldpate Sanitarium in Georgetown, Massachusetts, but he is
-unsympathetic and discourages them from undergoing hypnosis. (Clark III
-583)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3584
Date: 3/1/1962
-Time: 10:35 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66. One gold-colored box,
-12-14”x3-4”, flew straight and level across the horizon for 3-4
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Salem, New York
-ID: 471
Date: spring 1962
-Alternate date: summer 1962
-Description: All base personnel on flying status attend a briefing in
-the theater at the Clinton-Sherman AFB [now the Clinton-Sherman
-Industrial Airpark] near Burns Flat, Oklahoma. The airmen are shown a
-short 20–30-minute Air Force film showing, spliced together without
-interpretation, five or six gun-camera clips apparently documenting
-attempts by aircraft to intercept UFOs. Afterward, the commander of the
-4213d Strategic Wing reads a statement (probably JANAP 146(D))
-stipulating fines and jail sentences for anyone publicly reporting a UFO
-sighting and hands out UFO sighting forms in the event of an incident.
-One technician recalls there is a section on reporting any electronic
-signature emitted from the UFO picked up by specific ECM devices. (Nukes
-123–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3588
Date: 3/25/1962
-Description: The Hills meet
-with a psychiatrist (Duncan Stephens of the Exeter Clinic, New
-Hampshire) who rules out simultaneous hallucination. Around this time,
-Barney develops a series of warts in an almost geometrically perfect
-circular ring in his groin but does not associate his malaise with the
-UFO incident. (Clark III 583–584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3585
Date: 3/25/1962
-Description: Evening. Mrs. R. H. Chappell and her sister Janie Kidd
-watch two triangular objects, one larger than the other, hovering 40–50
-feet above the water at Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. They have
-flashing ruby-red lights. After two minutes, the lights change to orange
-and they move off silently and gracefully. Mrs. L. Austin Wright sees a
-stationary flashing yellow light around the same time. (Dan Lloyd, “Are
-They Really Seeing Things over Canada?”
-Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1966): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3586
Date: 3/26/1962
-Time: 11:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. D. Wheeler, Claudine Milligan. Six or eight
-red balls, arranged in a rectangular formation, became two objects with
-lights by the end of the 15 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Naperville, Illinois
-ID: 473
Date: 3/26/1962
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many unidentified young people. One large red
-ball flew or fell down, then went back up during 3-10 minute sighting.
-Note: May 26?
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Westfield, Massachusette
-ID: 474
Date: 3/26/1962
-Time: 1:35 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. J.M. Lowery, from an unspecified
-aircraft. One thin, cylindrical object–l/3 snout, 2/3 tail fins–flew at
-an estimated Mach 2.7 (2,000 m.p.h.) for 5-8 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ramstein Air Base, West Germany
-ID: 472
Date: 3/27/1962
-End date: 3/30/1962
-Description: George
-Adamski claims to attend a Twelve Counsellors Meeting on Saturn that
-addresses the threat of nuclear war on Earth. In the report that he
-publishes in June, Adamski writes that the “present explosions of atomic
-energy are going in the wrong direction, and if these experiments do not
-stop, the only results will be a lost civilization… This is even
-affecting their planets.” Ridiculed by many, some of Adamski’s
-descriptions in the report about his trip clearly show this was a deeply
-spiritual experience for him, which may have unbalanced him for some
-time. (George Adamski, George
-Adamski’s Special Report: My Trip to the Twelve Counsellors
-Meeting That
-Took Place on Saturn, Mrach 27–30, 1962, Science of Life, 1962; “Final
-Years,” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3587
Date: 4/1962
-Description: Flight Commander P.J. (initials), attached to TAC Fighter
-Wing was deployed at Wright-Patterson AFB and mistakenly entered into an
-air hanger where he thought the gym was located. Upon entering the
-hanger he was approached by an air police sentry with a sub-machine gun.
-Behind the sentry was a saucer approx. 12–15 ft. diam. suspended off the
-ground by two engine test stands. There were no markings or insignia on
-the saucer. It had no rivet markings. The saucer was roped-off and 8
-guards stood at parade rest around it. P.J. and his friend were
-encouraged to leave the hanger. P.J. returned to Myrtle Beach AFB,
-SC
-Type: witness statement
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
-Location: Wright Patterson AFB
Date: 4/4/1962
-Time: 0150Z
-Description: Witnesses: G.R. Wells and J. Lewis, using 117x telescope.
-One small object changing brightness, gave off smoke but remained
-stationary like a comet for 6 minutes. Case missing from official
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wurtland, Kentucky
-ID: 475
Date: 4/10/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: Mario Zuccula, 27, was walking home when he suddenly felt a
-current of cold air. He was paralyzed with fear when he saw a white
-object, 10 m in diameter, metallic in appearance which hovered close to
-the ground. A metallic cylinder was lowered from the craft, and two
-little men about 1.30 m tall, came out through a door lighted by a
-source inside the cylinder. A low voice similar to the sound of an
-electronic device told him they would return at the end of the fourth
-moon, one hour before dawn, with a message. The beings had their heads
-covered with a hood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: San Casciano, Italy
-ID: 529
Date: 4/11/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: Between Saronno and Legnano, Benazzi and three other
-witnesses saw a peculiar craft fly above them and land on the road. It
-was intensely luminous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Sarouno, Italy
-ID: 530
Date: 4/18/1962
-Description: Evening. A red, glowing object is first seen at a great
-height over Oneida, New York, heading west silently. There are reports
-from Kansas and Colorado. NORAD radar picks up the object; ADC alerts
-several bases, including Nellis AFB near Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighters are
-scrambled from Luke AFB near Phoenix, Arizona, and the jets are possibly
-heard over Nephi, Utah, after the object passes overhead. Capt. Herman
-Gordon Shields, flying a C-119 two miles west of Levan, Utah, sees it as
-a slender object. A man in Silver City, Utah, claims that the object is
-a glowing ball of light about the size of a soccer ball. He says it is
-white with a yellowish tint and a bright yellow jagged flame coming from
-the rear: “As the object passed over Robinson [in Ogden, Utah?], it
-slowed down in [the] air, and after, [a] gasping sound was heard, the
-object spurted ahead again. After this procedure was repeated three or
-four times, the object arched over and began descending to earth after
-which the object turned bluish color and then burned out or went dark.
-After the object began to slow down it began to wobble or fishtail in
-its path.” Several people see the object over Eureka, Utah, apparently
-crashing and interrupting electrical service from a power plant close to
-the landing site. It is described as a “glowing, orange oval which
-emitted a low, whirring sound.” It takes off a few minutes later,
-continuing to the west. The object lights up the streets of Reno,
-Nevada, and then turns to Las Vegas. It blares brightly like a
-“tremendous, flaming sword” over Nellis AFB and then disappears from
-their radar scopes at 10,000 feet. Witnesses say the object is traveling
-almost horizontally northeast of Las Vegas until a final explosion
-occurs from the direction of Mesquite, Nevada. Sheriff’s deputy Walter
-Bun, who leads the search and rescue unit, moves the unit into the
-Spring Mountain area in jeeps to search for wreckage. They search
-through the night, and when the sun comes up they continue using
-aircraft. They do not find anything of importance except some ashes that
-might easily be the remains of a campfire started by a hunter some weeks
-earlier. When no one reports a downed or missing aircraft, Bun and the
-other deputies call off the search. The object seems to have changed
-direction, because at Reno it passes west to east, in Utah it is seem
-going southeast to northwest, and at Nephi it travels west. The duration
-of the sighting, from New York to Nevada, is only 32 minutes, giving a
-speed of 4,500 mph, below the speed of meteors. On May 8, the Air Force
-sends Hynek and
-Lt. Col. Robert
-Friend to Utah with Douglas
-M. Crouch, chief
-of criminal investigation at Hill AFB, south of Ogden, Utah. They
-determine it is a bolide. Blue Book lists it as two sightings: a
-multiple radar sighting at Nellis on April 18 with no visual (despite
-hundreds of observers in Las Vegas), and a bolide over Utah that it
-claims occurs on April 19. In reality, the Utah and Nevada sightings are
-only minutes apart (8:15 p.m. Mountain Time). However, there is quite a
-bit of information from numerous sources concerning this major incident,
-including Project Blue Book documents, and now possible confirmation by
-a radar man at ATIC. The case is also not explained in a Blue Book
-monthly sighting listing for April 1962. It is interesting that every
-one of these states except Utah has or was in the process of obtaining
-ICBM bases: New York (Plattsburg AFB); Kansas, (Forbes AFB and McConnell
-AFB); Utah (Minuteman production at Air Force Plant 77 at Hill AFB);
-Idaho (Mountain Home AFB); Montana (Malmstrom AFB); New Mexico (Walker
-AFB); Wyoming (F. E. Warren AFB); Arizona (Davis Monthan AFB);
-California (Beale AFB). (NICAP, “National Defense
-Alert”; Frank Edwards, Strange World, Ace ed., 1964, pp. 38–41;
-“Meteor
-Lands in Utah, Lights Western
-Skies,” Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1962, p. 15; “Brilliant
-Fireball Flashes
-in Skies,” Salt Lake City Deseret News, April 19, 1962, pp. 1, 5;
-Las Vegas Sun, April 19, 1962; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO
-Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 79–94;
-Clark III 333–335; Sparks, p. 291;
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 87–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3589
Date: 4/18/1962
-Description: Object was first spotted over Oneida, New York and was
-heading in a westerly direction. Object reported over Kansas, Colorado
-and Eureka, Utah. The object was reported by over a thousand people. The
-object appeared to land and then take off again from Eureka, CA. The
-town of Eureka experienced a blackout when it landed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Oneida, NY
-Location: Kansas
-Location: Colorado
-Location: Eureka, Utah
Date: late 4/1962
-Alternate date: early 5/1962
-Description: Three women and a 10-year-old boy are driving home to
-Granby, Connecticut, when two bright yellow lights appear in the sky
-ahead. The lights cross the road and disappear behind some shrubbery.
-Driving nearer and stopping, the witnesses see the lights hovering above
-a field, one above the other. The objects realign horizontally and move
-toward the car. The driver starts the car up and speeds away, but the
-lights are right behind her, only a few feet from the rear window and
-matching the car’s speed. The yellow lights are only a few feet in
-diameter and have a reddish patch that rotates. They follow the car for
-four minutes then turn away. (Swords 299–300)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3595
Date: 4/24/1962
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Alice
-W. Gasslein and her mother are driving near their home in
-Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, when they see a large domed
-object emitting flashes of green light moving over the roofs of nearby
-homes. A rotating band around the main body consists of a series of
-square windows from which come shafts of bright white light. They drive
-back home to alert her husband, Joseph
-A. Gasslein, an aviation worker. By that time, the UFO is about a
-half-mile distant, giving off colored lights. Around 8:10 p.m., the
-object returns flying toward the Gassleins’ home (south of Walsh Park)
-only 20 feet above ground level and passes over their backyard before
-making a sharp left turn and moving away to the east. (“Out of the Past:
-A Very Close CE-1,” IUR 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 9–10, 14; Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January– June
-1962, The
-Author, 2005, pp, 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3590
Date: 4/25/1962
-Description: The A-12 is taken on its first (unofficial and unannounced)
-flight with Lockheed test pilot Louis
-Schalk at the controls. Intended as only a taxi run, the A-12
-unexpectedly takes flight and Schalk lands it 2 miles past the runway.
-(Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 177–178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3591
Date: 4/26/1962
-Description: Schalk makes
-another unofficial low-altitude, 40-minute test flight with the A-12.
-The takeoff is perfect, but after the A-12 gets to about 300 feet it
-starts shedding all the “pie slice” fillets of titanium on the left side
-of the aircraft and one fillet on the right. (On later aircraft, those
-pieces are paired with triangular inserts made of radar- absorbing
-composite material.) Technicians spend four days finding and reattaching
-the pieces. Nonetheless, the flight pleases Kelly
-Johnson. (Wikipedia,
-“Lockheed
-A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 178–179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3592
Date: 4/30/1962
-Time: night
-Description: Eugenio Siragusa, 43, claimed to have met two men of normal
-height, clad in diving suits, with belts emitting intermittent
-yellow-green blue light, who delivered to him a peace message in
-Italian. The voice had a metallic tone. Also observed was a very
-dazzling object, 15 m in diameter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Eba, Italy
-ID: 531
Date: 4/30/1962
-Description: Just before 10:00 a.m. During a free-flight test (Flight
-52) of the X-15 to a height of 246,700 feet (46.7 miles) by NASA pilot
-Joseph
-A. Walker from Edwards AFB, California, to Ely, Nevada, the
-instruments photograph 5–6 cylindrical objects. No visual confirmation.
-On May 11, at NASA’s Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of
-Space in Seattle, Washington, Walker mentions the objects photographed
-(and perhaps shows the slides; it is not mentioned in the proceedings).
-NICAP is unable to obtain the photos. NASA claims the objects are ice
-flaking off the aircraft (“fireflies”). They are described by a NASA
-spokesman as “barbell shaped, bright-orange in color, and passing in
-groups up to six behind the X-15.” Opinion ranges from “definitely
-something up there,” to “film spots,” to “sun rays on the lens.” Jacobsen implies
-it was the A-12 test the same day. (“AF
-Criticizes NASA
-Release of ‘Mystery Object’ Photo,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5
-(Aug./Sept. 1962): 8; UFOEv, p. 139;
-Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 11, 1962; MUFON UFO Journal, November
-1989, pp. 6–7; Good Above, p. 366;
-Proceedings
-of the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space,
-Seattle, Washington, May 8–10, 1962, NASA
-Office of Scientific and Technical Information, November 1962; Curtis
-Peebles, “Fireflies:
-The X- 15
-‘UFO’ Sighting Controversy,” Magonia 78 (June 2002); Jacobsen, Area
-51, p. 205)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3594
Date: 4/30/1962
-Description: Schalk takes
-the A-12 up to 30,000 feet on its first official flight at Area 51 for
-59 minutes. His top speed is 400 mph. (Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3593
Date: 5/1962
-Time: 0400
-Description: Approximate date. Four people whose car had run out of gas,
-were waiting in a drizzling rain when a bright light, first thought to
-be from a car, approached them. It turned out to be a lowflying object
-that landed. It was round with a blinking light, and stayed there about
-one hour before taking off at high speed
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Jujuy, Argentina
-ID: 532
Date: 5/4/1962
-Description: The A-12 achieves supersonic speed of Mach 1.1 at 40,000
-feet during a test at Groom Lake, Nevada. May 11 — 7:40 p.m. Argentine
-Rear Adm. Eladio
-M. Vázquez and Capt. Aldo Molinari watch a UFO from the US Military
-Mission at the Comandante Espora Air Naval Base in Bahía Blanca,
-Argentina. (UFOEv, p. 170;
-“In Argentina,”
-APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3596
Date: 5/12/1962
-Time: 0410
-Description: V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi saw an object on the
-ground 100 m away from the road. It looked like a railroad car and was
-illuminated. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the
-road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections
-that flew away in different directions. It made a humming noise and was
-seen on the ground for one min. Within a circle 60 m in radius, grass
-was burned, insects were carbonized, and the ground was “petrified.”
-Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: SBEDV 30; 132; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Pampa Province, Argentina
-ID: 533
Date: 5/12/1962
-Description: General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict
-between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other
-planetary galaxy”
-Type: speach
-Reference: link
-Location: West Point Academy
Date: 5/12/1962
-Description: 4:10 a.m. Three truckers (Valentino Tomassini, Guro
-Tomassini, and Humberto Zenobi) are driving from Bahia Blanca to Jacinto
-Aráuz, La Pampa, Argentina, when they see a lantern-like light resting
-in a nearby field. It brightens and dims alternately. As they slow down,
-a row of 20–30 lights come on. When they approach to within 210 feet of
-the object, it rises up and crosses the road at a height of 12 feet. Its
-lights go out, a reddish flame comes from the bottom, and it makes a
-soft humming noise. The UFO then divides into two parts that fly off in
-different directions. Navy Capt. Luis Sanchez Moreno, chief of
-intelligence at the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, interviews the
-witnesses. At the landing site, grass is burned over an area 180 feet in
-diameter, and there are damp, gray-colored patches. These are taken for
-analysis to either or both the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and
-Universidad Nacional del Sur, both in or near Bahia Blanca. It consists
-of calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate. (UFOEv, pp. 170–171;
-“In
-Argentina,” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, pp. 2–4; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1962, The Author,
-2005, pp. 60–61; Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary
-Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 12 (December 1972): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3597
Date: 5/13/1962
-Time: 0400
-Description: Dozens of witnesses in Uncativo, Cordoba, Carranza, and Los
-Molinos Dam observed a very luminous, elongated object with a bright
-trail. Soon thereafter, fog filled a wooded section near Uncativo, and a
-landed object resembling a small house was observed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 133; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Uncativo, Argentina
-ID: 534
Date: 5/13/1962
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Near Oncativo, Córdoba, Argentina, two women
-driving from Rosario see a long object flying at moderate altitude and
-emitting a powerful, multicolored light. They enter a fog and see
-through the trees a sort of “little house” on the ground, with green,
-red, and yellow lights set in an arrow-shaped arrangement. (Loren E.
-Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June
-1962, The
-Author, 2005, p. 62; Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary
-Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 12 (December 1972): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3598
Date: 5/21/1962
-Description: Miguel Thomé, a reporter for La Nueva Provincia, takes
-several photos of a luminous object above Bahia Blanca, Argentina, one
-of which is exactly at a point when the object changes course. (UFOEv,
-p. 170;
-ClearIntent, pp. 138–139;
-“Un
-avistaje de OVNI en Bahía Blanca aparece en los archivos de la CIA de
-Estados Unidos,”
-La Nueva (Bahía Blanca), February 3, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3599
Date: 5/21/1962
-Description: Day. Capt. Gordon Pendleton and First Officer J. P. Murphy
-are flying an Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount airliner above southern
-England at 17,000 feet when they see a brown globe-shaped object
-approaching head-on. It speeds 3,000 feet below the aircraft at about
-700 mph. The object has a number of antenna-like projections on its
-surface. (Irish Times, May 22, 1962; UFOEv, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3600
Date: 5/22/1962
-Description: A woman was hospitalized after her observation of a strange
-object that landed, and of the “ugly” giant beings who emerged from it.
-Approximate date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 135 (Vallee)
-Location: Winifreda, Argentina
-ID: 535
Date: 5/22/1962
-Description: 7:10–7:45 p.m. A formation of Navy planes, led by flight
-instructor Lt. Rodolfo César Galdos, near Comandante Espora Air Naval
-Base in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, observes several UFOs over a 35-minute
-period. Witnesses at the control tower also see an object. Student pilot
-Roberto Wilkinson sees a luminous object trailing his plane. It lights
-up his cockpit and his radio transmission is disrupted as it passes
-underneath. (UFOEv, pp. 119,
-171;
-Schopick, p. 129;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1962, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 65–67; Scott Corrales, “Saucers
-in My Backyard: Argentina’s Trancas Case,” Inexplicata, May 8,
-2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3601
Date: 5/22/1962
-Alternate date: 5/24/1962
-Description: A woman is hospitalized after she and her husband see an
-object land near Winifreda, Las Pampas, Argentina. Two large “robot-like
-creatures” emerge. Argentine Air Force investigators find a circle of
-scorched grass. (Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley
-Medallion, 1976, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3602
Date: 5/25/1962
-Description: USAF Pentagon spokesman Maj. Carl
-R. Hart tells NICAP that Air Force investigations involve hundreds
-of intelligence officers, as well as “the best scientific brains
-available in the laboratories of all government agencies,” also
-scientific investigators in commercial laboratories, wherever needed. He
-adds that Hynek has
-consulted with the “world’s leading scientists.” Around the same time,
-Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from ATIC informs NICAP that the Air Force
-spends about $10,000 on each major sighting investigation. (“AF
-Admits UFO Probe Still in Full Operation,”
-UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 (March/July 1962): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3603
Date: 6/5/1962
-Description: Contactee Gabriel
-Green runs for the US Senate in California and claims to have
-received 171,000 votes in the Democratic primary. (Wikipedia, “1962
-United States Senate election in California”; S. D. Tucker, False
-Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial
-Follies, Plans, and Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3,
-excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 (June 2018):
-52–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3606
Date: 6/6/1962
-Description: 11:20 a.m. Six silent objects are seen at intervals over
-Caroda, New South Wales. A trail of shiny, web-like filaments falls and
-gradually disintegrates as they drift through the air. Witnesses say
-they are up to 5 feet long. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An
-Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Keith
-Basterfield, “A
-Catalogue and Analysis of Australasian ‘Angel Hair’ Cases,” March
-2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3607
Date: 6/7/1962
-Description: A brilliant white light, approximately 20 times brighter
-than first magnitude stars, is seen at Hallett Station [now closed],
-Cape Hallett, East Antarctica, at 250° (true) azimuth, and 30°
-elevation. Over 5 minutes it remains stationary and is viewed both with
-binoculars and the naked eye. It appears circular. It is a dazzling gold
-color and observed between two mountain peaks. The sun at the time is
-below the horizon. After 5 minutes it moves in a southerly direction and
-is lost to view behind a peak. Project Blue Book concludes it is
-Jupiter, even though that planet’s position is only at 5° elevation.
-(NICAP, [Blue
-Book documents]; Sparks,
-p. 292; Swords 298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3608
Date: 6/16/1962
-Description: Four persons from Thursday Island, among them E. Thorpe,
-were climbing a hill when they observed a silvery object on a nearby
-hillside, less than 2 km away. It could not be located again when they
-reached the other side of the hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
-ID: 536
Date: summer 1962
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Harvey Packard and five other men are
-fishing near East Peru, Maine, when three orange globes show up across
-the pond and begin dancing about. The globes move toward the witnesses,
-who get scared and jump in their car and speed away. The globes follow
-the car, one in the rear and the others on each side. The objects appear
-to be transparent, 3-foot spheres that easily pace the speeding vehicle.
-Occasionally they leave their positions and form into a triangle with
-squarish bridges between them, then split up and continue the car chase.
-The car radio is filled with static. Finally, they veer off and fly into
-the woods. (NICAP case file; Swords 300) Summer — Donald MacKenzie, a
-shepherd, discovers some strange wreckage in a remote moor near Ardgay,
-Sutherland, Scotland, that he thinks is related to Sputnik. In October,
-a team from RAF Kinloss [now Kinloss Barracks] on the Moray Firth
-arrives to investigate. They find a strange box-shaped object, large
-enough to have carried a person and containing spaces for cameras and a
-brass panel that explains, in pictures, what the finder should do in the
-event of discovery to claim a reward. Buried nearby are a number of
-bottles of colorless fluid. The team is mystified and suspects something
-Russian but can’t confirm it. The debris now seems likely to have come
-from a secret spy balloon, one of many launched in 1955–1956 by the US
-Air Force from RAF Evanton [now closed], to take reconnaissance photos
-of Russian military and nuclear facilities. Once clear of Soviet
-territory, the balloons were designed to drop into the Pacific Ocean
-where its VHF beacon would guide recovery efforts. (David Clarke, “The
-Scottish Roswell?” Dr. David Clarke: Folklore and Journalism, July
-29, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3605
Date: summer 1962
-Description: Col. Joseph
-J. Bryan III, special
-assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force and advisor to NATO, joins
-the board of NICAP. In 1959 he had contacted Keyhoe and
-asked to see some of his “really hot cases.” It is later revealed that
-he was also founder of the CIA’s psychological warfare staff. Bryan
-never discloses his CIA background to NICAP or Keyhoe. Although Bryan,
-the father of later UFO author C.
-D. B. Bryan, makes strong pro-UFO statements, he is later suspected
-of helping to discredit Keyhoe and undermine NICAP; his son and Richard
-H. Hall deny it. (“AF
-Colonel, Noted Astronomer, Join Board,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5
-(Aug./Sept 1962): 2; “Col.
-Joseph Bryan,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 5; “NI-CIA-AP
-or NICAP?” Just Cause 1, no. 7 (January 1979): 5–13; “CE4K
-Author C. D. B. Bryan Dies,” Rigorous Intuition, December 18,
-2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3604
Date: 6/21/1962
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. H. King and tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts,
-aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber. Three bright, star-like lights: one
-seen; 10 seconds later, two more were seen. Total sighting took 3
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 476
Date: 6/25/1962
-End date: 6/26/1962
-Description: 9:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. John, 14, and James Westmoreland, 12,
-are camping out in their backyard at 7466 East 18th Street, Tucson,
-Arizona, with a friend, Ronald Black, 11. About 9:00 p.m. John notices a
-bright star in the west that moves occasionally, dips, and hovers.
-Around 11:45, they notice that the star is brighter and has moved
-closer, taking the shape of a triangle. At 12:15, the object noiselessly
-emits three green flares that take on a speedy horizontal flight path.
-They notice a second, ball-shaped object that races from west to east,
-flips, and stops at a higher elevation than the first. A “flare-like”
-light approaches the second and seems to be absorbed by it. The first
-UFO spits out more green flares, two of which disappear into the second
-object a few minutes later. The second object shoots out a rocket that
-disappears in the sky. A third whitish object, larger and disc-shaped,
-appears above Pontano Wash with a cone-shaped superstructure. Three
-stiltlike protuberances appear briefly then are drawn back in. The third
-object also drops something like a rope that extends to the ground for
-3–5 minutes. The boys soon get sleepy and retire after a while, telling
-the mother, Pansy
-Westmoreland, about it in the morning. (“Saucers,
-Rockets Inhabit Night Sky,” Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen, June 26,
-1962, p. 17; Coral E. Lorenzen, “Saucers
-Shoot Rockets over Tucson, Arizona,” APRO Bulletin, July 1962,
-pp. 1, 3–4; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968,
-pp. 114–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3609
Date: 6/26/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: For about one hour, 20-year-old Roberto Poregozzo, his
-mother, Maria, and his 25year-old sister, Luisa, observed a silvery
-disk, the apparent diameter of the moon, maneuvering in the sky near
-Santa Anastasia church. They finally went home. About 0300, one of them
-was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and perceived a greenish light
-in the room. In the window a sharply defined human shape, delineating a
-semi-transparent body, was visible. The apparition had a huge bald head.
-The witness screamed, awakening the two others, and they saw the
-apparition shrink and vanish “like a TV image when one turns off the
-set.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Verona, Italy
-ID: 537
Date: 6/30/1962
-Time: 9 AM
-Description: Witness: 13 year old Meadors. One red, star-like light seen
-for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Richmond, Virginia
-ID: 477
Date: 7/1962
-Description: APRO refers to NICAP as merely a “lobbying” effort in APRO
-Bulletin, while APRO is “gradually drawing the endorsements of the
-scientific community.” (“Support
-NICAP?” APRO Bulletin, July 1962, pp. 1–2; Clark III 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3610
Date: 7/7/1962
-Description: 11:10 p.m. C. B. Taylor, chief scientist at Hallett Station
-[now closed], Cape Hallett, East Antarctica, sees an intense light
-followed by two smaller lights pass over the facility in a few seconds
-leaving a clearly visible trail. Its passage is registered by an all-sky
-camera used for the study of auroras. Probable bolide. (NICAP, [Blue
-Book documents];
-NICAP, “Object
-Filmed by All Camera (IFO)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3612
Date: 7/7/1962
-Description: Soviet Col. Georgy
-Mosolov reaches 1,665 mph in a Mikoyan Gurevich Ye-166 (a modified
-Ye-152) over Russia. (Wikipedia, “Georgi
-Mosolov”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3611
Date: 7/17/1962
-Description: Maj. Robert
-Michael White is piloting Flight 62 of the X-15 at Edwards AFB,
-California. He flies it to 314,750 feet (59 miles), qualifying him for
-USAF astronaut wings. For this, he is featured on the cover of the
-August 3 issue of Life. At the top of his climb he sees a small grayish
-object “like a piece of paper” about 30–40 feet away. He exclaims,
-“There are things out there. There absolutely is!” (“Space:
-Inside the Sky,” Time, July 27, 1962; MUFON UFO Journal, November
-1989, pp. 6–7; Good Above, p. 366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3613
Date: 7/19/1962
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C.T. Loftus, H. Wilbert. Four or five lights
-darted about the sky for 7-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bayhead, New Jersey
-ID: 478
Date: 7/28/1962
-Description: Before dawn. The skipper of a chartered fishing boat 6
-miles southeast of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, sees
-several stationary lights low in the water dead ahead. Through
-binoculars he sees a squat, lighted structure in which several men are
-working, apparently the stern of a submarine with no markings and dacks
-almost awash. He and another crew member see five men, “two in all-white
-garb, two in dark trousers and white shirts, and one in a sky-blue
-jumpsuit.” The craft swept in their direction toward the open sea, still
-on the surface, and the skipper has to turn hard to keep clear. It makes
-no noise and leaves no wake. (Marvin Miles, “Report Studied
-on Soviet
-Sub off Catalina,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1962, pp. 1,
-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3614
Date: 7/29/1962
-Time: 11:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton. One bright cherry-red,
-diamond-shaped object flew slow, hovered, made fast 1/2 loops for l0
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
-ID: 479
Date: 7/30/1962
-Description: A man driving near Pasnembi stopped when his engine failed
-and observed a cylindrial object, described as “a bottle with two
-necks,” about 40 m long, 15 m high, which had landed on the road. Two
-men (one at either end of the craft), appeared to be changing some
-luminous signals. This lasted 10 min and the craft took off at high
-speed. In Alta, a number of people reported a bright object moving at
-high altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 136; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Pasnembi, Brazil
-ID: 538
Date: 7/30/1962
-Description: Roberto Mievres, 17, was riding his motorcycle when a tall
-being, with a head like a watermelon and three eyes, appeared as the
-engine stalled. The apparition snatched the boy’s scarf, but he ran away
-and came back with a group of people, who found the scarf on the ground,
-discovered some traces and observed an unknown craft flying away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Bajeola Grande, Argentina
-ID: 539
Date: 8/1962
-Description: Night. Marilyn Chenarides, her younger brother Roger, and
-their mother Mildred Anderson are vacationing in a cabin on Movil Lake,
-Minnesota. The two women see a glowing red, domed disc with large
-windows hovering above the boat dock 50 feet away. Silhouetted in the
-windows are three entities who seem to be looking at them. The women
-shut off the cabin lights for a better look, and the UFO switches off
-its own lights. Anderson runs out of the cabin toward the object, which
-lifts and disappears rapidly. (“The
-1962 Occupants Case,” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1972):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3616
Date: 8/1962
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving south toward San José
-de Métan, Salta, Argentina, when they see a light against the mountains
-to the west. It approaches, growing as large as the full moon when it is
-300 feet ahead of them. It has a bulge at the top and reddish-pink,
-green, and white blinking lights. It continues to approach and passes
-above a Fiat truck in the road ahead of them. The truck stops, and the
-witnesses stop their car as well, two of them walking into some nearby
-bushes to observe. The object now seems to be the diameter of a DC-3’s
-wingspan and is 150 feet in the air. The truck’s lights go out, and the
-object rocks back and forth, taking off to the north at a great rate of
-speed. Five minutes later, they drive up to the stopped truck, whose
-driver is scooping up dirt to cool its overheated engine down.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 157–158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3615
Date: 8/2/1962
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Air traffic control operators at
-Cambá Punta Airport [now Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International
-Airport], near Corrientes, Argentina, see an unidentified light
-approaching the airport. They call the airport manager, Luís Harvey, who
-arrives from home in a hurry and sees the light circling at high speed.
-Harvey orders a landing strip freed up but the light, apparently a
-spherical object, comes down, hovering and revolving a few feet above
-the same spot on the runway for 3–4 minutes, emitting strong blue,
-green, and orange flashes. Then it climbs and vanishes at staggering
-speed. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: July–December 1962, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “Camba
-Punta, Argentina, August
-2, 1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3617
Date: 8/2/1962
-Description: Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an
-unannounced aircraft was about to land, as they saw a luminous object
-circling at high speed. It came down to hover about 1 m above the runway
-for some four min. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of
-blue, green and orange. When approached, it took off at very high
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Camba Punat Airport, Argentina
-ID: 540
Date: 8/7/1962
-Description: Midnight. A contract worker at the not-yet-operational
-Titan II launch complex of the 570th Strategic Missile Squadron near
-Oracle, Arizona, sees a brilliant light descending over the site. He is
-joined by a colleague as the light gets larger. Both men go inside and
-contact Davis-Monthan AFB outside Tucson, which sends out two jet
-interceptors. When the aircraft arrive, the light takes off to the north
-and disappears rapidly. After the jets circle and head back, the light
-returns, descends toward the silo, and takes off vertically. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 235–236; Nukes 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3618
Date: 8/17/1962
-End date: 8/19/1962
-Description: Evening. Walking home, diamond prospector Rivalino Mafra da
-Silva sees two small beings, about three feet tall, digging a hole near
-Duas Pontes, 17 miles north of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. On
-August 19, Mafra da Silva and his sons are in bed when they are awakened
-by sounds and see a shadowy figure, apparently floating in the room. In
-the morning, he and his son Raimundo see two humming balls floating
-outside. They merge into one larger ball that moves toward Rivalino,
-enveloping him in yellow smoke. Raimundo says: “Then the yellow smoke
-dissolved. The balls were gone. The ground below was clean as if the
-dust had been removed by a big broom.” He tells his story to Lt. Wilson
-Lisbõa, chief of police at Diamantina, who conducts a search for 10
-days. Only a few drops of blood are found. (“The
-Brazilian Abduction: Boy’s Story Unshaken,” Flying Saucer Review 8,
-no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1962): 10–12; Clark III 418–419; Brazil 123–127;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3619
Date: 8/17/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: Rivalino da Silva, a diamond prospector, told his
-associates that he had seen two strange dwarfs digging a hole near his
-house. They ran away as he came near them, and moments later an object
-took off from behind the bushes. It was shaped like a hat and surrounded
-with a red glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep.,62 (Vallee)
-Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
-ID: 541
Date: 8/18/1962
-Time: 5 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Owner M. Sheppard and chief announcer A. Seymour
-of radio station. Three dull-white, egg-shaped objects wavered as they
-moved for 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bermuda
-ID: 480
Date: 8/19/1962
-Time: night
-Description: Raimundo, the son of Rivalino da Silva (see previous case),
-was awakened by the sound of steps and saw “a weird shadow” in the room.
-It was small and not human in shape. Voices were heard saying, “This one
-looks like Rivalino,” and later that they would kill him. The family
-stayed on the alert all night.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
-ID: 542
Date: 8/20/1962
-Description: Raimundo da Silva (see previous cases) testified before the
-police that while working in a field, he saw two spherical objects
-hovering 2 m above ground, a few meters from the house. One was black
-with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail; the other was black
-and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering fire through an
-opening. The boy’s father warned him to stay away as Rivalino walked
-toward the objects, praying. When he was 2 m away, the two spheres
-merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow
-mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that
-the cloud had “an acrid smell.” As it dissolved, everything had
-vanished. Police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to
-reveal any clue. Many terrified people left the area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
-ID: 543
Date: late 8/1962
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving in a rural area about
-87 miles from Salta, Argentina, when two of them (the third sleeps
-through the event) see a light against the mountains to the west that
-grows larger and moves about 300 feet above the road ahead of them. It
-is a domed disc with flashing reddish-pink, green, and white lights
-around its perimeter. The object illuminates a truck ahead of them. The
-truck stops, and the two witnesses get out of their car and hide in some
-bushes to see what happens next. The object appears to be nearly 100
-feet wide and 150 feet above the truck. The truck’s lights go out and
-the object takes off to the north at a high rate of speed, climbing out
-of sight within seconds. They drive up to the truck, whose drivers are
-throwing dirt into its smoking engine compartment and are more concerned
-about an insurance claim than a UFO encounter. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the
-Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3621
Date: late 8/1962
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Ann
-Druffel and Aileen Cummings are at Long Beach, California, when they
-see a small rectangular cloud over the Santa Catalina Channel. Its vapor
-appears to churn and it doubles in size, then elongates to 20–30 times
-its original size. (Ann Druffel, “Santa
-Catalina Island Recurring ‘Cloud Cigars,’” in Proceedings of the
-1976 CUFOS Conference, Chicago, 1976, pp. 63–64; Ann Druffel, “Santa
-Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007):
-12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3620
Date: 8/26/1962
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Walter T. Jones Jr. watches a triangular
-formation of 6 white lights and one green light pass silently over
-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for 3–5 minutes. (“Another
-‘Mother’ Ship?” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3623
Date: 8/26/1962
-Description: 12:05 a.m. Geraldo Bichara, 18, is standing guard at the
-Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
-when an electrical blackout occurs in the city. Suddenly he is paralyzed
-by a light beam from an unseen object, apparently for a few minutes. In
-1980, Bichara undergoes hypnosis and discovers that the incident was an
-abduction in which he is taken aboard a UFO by beings wearing
-pumpkin-colored jumpsuits and subjected to a medical examination. He
-attempts to flee at one point and grabs his rifle lying nearby, but he
-is still paralyzed. After about 2 hours he is returned to the
-guardhouse. (Brazil 60–66; “Caso
-Giraldo Bichara,” Grupo de Amigos que Estudam Mistérios e Ufologia,
-May 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3622
Date: 8/29/1962
-Description: Afternoon. A U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba spots an SA-2
-surface-to-air missile site under construction at La Coloma, eight
-Komar-class guided missile patrol boats, and a cruise missile site at
-Banes. (Kenneth Michael Absher, Mind-Sets and Missiles, US Army War
-College, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3624
Date: 8/30/1962
-Description: 7:35–7:55 p.m. While having supper at an outdoor restaurant
-near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three men, one of whom works for Techint
-Engineering Company, watch a UFO that approaches and hovers for 20
-minutes. The engineer has a portable theodolite with him, and they set
-it up and track the object. It is a silvery-gray disc, like two rounded
-hubcaps together, and is spinning on its axis. It has an antenna on the
-top and exhaust ports all around its mid-line, and it is surrounded by
-gaseous emissions that run through all the colors of the spectrum. The
-object flips to a vertical alignment, showing its base, and then tips
-over so that its original topside is on the bottom. The object silently
-accelerates and disappears in 5 seconds. Project Blue Book concludes
-that the men were watching the planet Venus. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July– December
-1962, The
-Author, 2005, p. 33; Swords 298–299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3625
Date: 9/1962
-Time: 2145
-Description: A. T. Gray, a dairy rancher, thought some lights in a field
-were those of a car. When coming nearer, he realized the object was
-oblong with blunt edges and hovered about 7 m above the ground, making
-no noise. When Gray was 50 m away, the object came toward him, rose, and
-took off toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Orland, California
-ID: 544
Date: 9/1962
-Description: California contactee Gloria
-Lee takes channeled blueprints for a spaceship to Washington, D.C.,
-to show to government officials. She gets nowhere, but while in town she
-gets messages from her space contact J.W. saying that the space people
-are upset with human wars and nuclear weapons. J.W. orders her to go on
-a fast for peace until he sends a “light elevator” to take her to
-Jupiter. Her fast lasts from September 23 to November 28. No one pays
-attention. After about 66 days without eating, Lee’s husband, aircraft
-engineer William H. Byrd, summons an ambulance to take her to George
-Washington University Hospital. She dies there on December 3. Lee
-continues to channel post-mortem information through a medium named Nada-Yolanda (Pauline
-Sharpe) in the Miami-based Mark-Age MetaCenter. (Clark III 682–683;
-Tristan, “The
-Airline Stewardess Who Starved Herself to
-Death for Aliens,” Bizarre and Grotesque, December 18, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3626
Date: 9/1962
-Description: Thomas M. Comella, writing under the pseudonym “Peter Kor,”
-proposes that UFOs originate, not from space (as he apparently thought
-when he favored the extraterrestrial hypothesis in the December 1955
-issue of Fate), but from a reality “so strange that it cannot be
-confined to our three-dimensional world.” (Clark III 877; Thomas M.
-Comella, “Why
-the Real Saucer Is Interplanetary,” Fate 8, no. 12 (December 1955):
-17–23; Peter Kor [Thomas M. Comella], “The Solution to the Flying Saucer
-Mystery,” Flying Saucers, September 1962, pp. 68–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3627
Date: 9/1/1962
-Description: The USSR publicly announces an agreement to supply arms and
-military technicians to Cuba. Construction begins on SS-5 IRBM sites in
-Guanajay. (Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”) September 5 — U-2 photos reveal for the first time
-the presence of MiG-21 jet fighters in Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3628
Date: 9/5/1962
-Time: night
-Description: Second observation by Mr. Siragusa (Case 531), who saw two
-figures over 2.10 m tall. The light from their belts prevented him from
-seeing them in detail. A large, spinning object, 25 m wide, top-shaped,
-hovered nearby. “From the under part, a metallic cylinder over 3 m long
-reached down almost to touch the road, with a small door, a sort of
-lift.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Manfre, Italy
-ID: 545
Date: 9/13/1962
-Time: 2320
-Description: Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill
-when she saw a luminous, gray object, larger than a car with a dome on
-top. It was flying at the altitude of the Phone poles, slowly spinning.
-Dark spots were visible on the underside. It nearly touched the car,
-then gave a whistling sound and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 137; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Overfield, Great Britain
-ID: 546
Date: 9/15/1962
-Time: 1700
-Description: Two bright disks were first seen at 1700, then were seen
-again at 1800, at the state line. Two witnesses saw one round object
-with a fin on top and another under it at 1950, and reported that it was
-going down toward the Oradell reservoir. Three young men saw and heard
-the object as it touched the water. Another witness called police. The
-luminous object took off a few minutes later. Official investigation
-described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, the apparent size of a
-small plane 1 km away. It left toward the south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Oradell, New Jersey
-ID: 547
Date: 9/15/1962
-Description: Construction begins on Soviet SS-4 MRBM sites at San
-Cristobal, Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3629
Date: 9/15/1962
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Two bright discs are seen over Oradell, New
-Jersey. At 6:00 p.m., former Navy flying officer J. J. McVickers sees
-two discs just across the state line near Oradell. At 7:50 p.m., Victor
-Cipolla sees a glowing object descend toward Oradell. Two other
-witnesses see one round object with a fin on top and another under it at
-darting back and forth near Oradell Reservoir. At 7:55 p.m., three teens
-see and hear a bright, oval object land in the reservoir with a loud
-splash. A moment later, it lifts off and climbs silently at high speed.
-(“Disc
-Landing Reported
-in New Jersey,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 6 (Oct./Nov. 1962): 3–4;
-UFOEv, p. 140;
-Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
-Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1962, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 48, 49; Sparks,
-p. 292)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3630
Date: 9/18/1962
-Description: Three men working in a rubber plantation saw a large,
-disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was of
-silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at
-high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that
-period and blamed on the same cause.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Barcelos, Brazil
-ID: 548
Date: 9/20/1962
-Description: Construction begins on Soviet SAM sites at Los Angeles,
-Chaparra, and Juguani, Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3631
Date: 9/21/1962
-Time: 7:37 PM
-Description: Witness: fishing boat captain S.A. Guthrie. Two objects,
-red and black with orange streaks, one as big as the Moon, and the other
-smaller. Arced across the sky for 13 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: WSW of Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico
-ID: 481
Date: fall 1962
-Description: Patricia Ellingson is seeing “glowing, flame-like lights”
-in her bedroom in Azusa, California, every evening. She thinks they
-appear only when she is mentally calm. The lights are the size of a
-quarter, sometimes switch off abruptly, and other times fade out slowly.
-At times they do not appear for months, and she feels sad when they are
-not there. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2
-(June 2007): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3634
Date: fall 1962
-Description: Arlene Cook is awakened by her young, terrified son, at
-their home in Anaheim, California. He says something is in his bedroom,
-so they go to investigate and see a half-dollar-sized light on his bed.
-The spot stays visible when she puts her hand on the bed or when she
-removes the covers, but she can find no source for the light. It then
-just switches off and does not return. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of
-the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3633
Date: 9/29/1962
-Description: A CIA U-2 mission over the Isle of Pines and Bay of Pigs,
-Cuba, reveals additional Soviet SA-2 and cruise missile sites.
-(Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 183;
-Kenneth Michael Absher, Mind-Sets and Missiles, US Army War College,
-2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3632
Date: 10/1962
-Description: The CIA and USAF instruct Lockheed to study a high-speed,
-high-altitude drone concept. Kelly
-Johnson specifies speeds of Mach 3.3–3.5, an operational altitude of
-87,000–95,000 feet, and a range of 3,500 miles. It would make a one-way
-trip, eject its camera payload at the end of the mission for recovery,
-then self-destruct. It has a double-delta wing similar to the A-12’s
-wing design. The Q-12 is to be air-launched from the back of an A- 12
-and uses key technology from the A-12 project, including titanium
-construction and radar cross-section reduction design features. Johnson
-wants to power the Q-12 with a ramjet engine modified to operate at high
-temperatures for at least 90 minutes at high altitude. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-D-21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3635
Date: 10/2/1962
-Description: Night. A Boeing security guard at an unidentified Minuteman
-missile site near Moore, Montana [likely the M-01 launch site that is
-part of Malmstrom AFB complex], sees a tear-shaped object with a blue
-top and a red bottom. (“Flying
-Objects Reported in Separated Areas,” Helena (Mont.)
-Independent-Record, October 3, 1962, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3636
Date: 10/2/1962
-Description: Night. Airmen on security patrol at Larson AFB [now Grant
-County International Airport] near Moses Lake, Washington, see a white
-light hovering a few hundred feet in the air near where the ICBM storage
-bunkers are located. It silently shoots into the air as the guards
-approach it. (“Flying
-Objects Reported in Separated Areas,” Helena (Mont.)
-Independent-Record, October 3, 1962, p. 7; Nukes 145–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3637
Date: 10/7/1962
-Description: New U-2 flights show there are now 19 Soviet SA-2 missile
-sites in Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3638
Date: 10/12/1962
-Description: Dawn. An object like an orange or yellow meteor is observed
-over Forbes AFB [now Topeka Regional Airport], Topeka, Kansas. Its
-flight path is curved upward, with an occasional jerky motion; it moves
-quickly at first but slows down as it reaches the zenith. It is visible
-for 5 minutes before fading out. [Blue
-Book documents]; Nukes 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3639
Date: 10/14/1962
-Description: A U-2 (loaned to the Air Force by the CIA because the CIA
-U-2s have better surveillance capabilities) piloted by USAF Major Richard
-S. Heyser out of Laughlin AFB, Del Rio, Texas, takes 928 pictures on
-a path selected by DIA analysts, capturing images of what turn out to be
-an SS-4 MRBM construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province
-[now in Artemisa Province], in western Cuba. (Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”;
-“U-2
-Pilot’s Cuba Photos Made History,” Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News,
-October 9, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3640
Date: 10/15/1962
-Description: The CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center
-reviews the U-2 photographs and identifies objects that they interpret
-as medium-range ballistic missiles. The CIA notifies the Department of
-State. National Security Advisor McGeorge
-Bundy chooses to wait until the next morning to tell the President.
-Secretary of Defense Robert
-McNamara is briefed at midnight. (Wikipedia, “Cuban Missile
-Crisis”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3641
Date: 10/16/1962
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Kennedy gathers
-a select group of advisors known as the ExComm (Executive Committee of
-the National Security Council) to discuss a strategic response. McNamara presents
-him with three basic options: a political option of approaching Castro and
-Khrushchev;
-a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships carrying weapons to Cuba; and
-“military action directed against Cuba, starting with an air attack
-against the missiles.” The ExComm’s initial discussions focus on a
-massive US military assault on the nuclear installations and other bases
-in Cuba, and whether the Soviets would counterattack in Berlin or
-elsewhere. Kennedy rejects an attack, favoring a quarantine to buy time
-to negotiate a missile withdrawal. (Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3642
Date: 10/17/1962
-Description: A U-2 takes the first photo of an IRBM site under
-construction in Cuba. (“The
-Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The
-Photographs,” National Security Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3643
Date: late 10/1962
-Description: Day. Two Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers are
-returning to Loring AFB [now the Loring Commerce Centre] near Limestone,
-Maine, following an Operation Chrome Dome mission. They are on final
-approach to landing when a huge, metallic-gray, cigar-shaped UFO
-descends over the flight line and hovers for a few minutes. It stretches
-halfway across the aircraft ramp area, which would make it half a mile
-wide. Jet engine mechanic Sgt. Christopher Smith is watching the
-scenario from the ground and notes that the UFO is silent and has no
-lights or visible openings. After the second B-52 lands, the UFO
-silently zooms away toward the east and disappears. All the ground
-witnesses and the flight crews do not talk about the incident afterward
-and act as if nothing happened. (Nukes 132–136, 138–139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3651
Date: 10/22/1962
-Description: 7:00 p.m. President Kennedy addresses
-the American public for 18 minutes and announces his plan to implement a
-naval blockade of Cuba. US military alert is set at DEFCON 3, and Castro mobilizes
-all of Cuba’s military forces. US ambassador to the Soviet Union Foy
-D. Kohler delivers to a letter from JFK to Khrushchev,
-saying, “the one thing that has most concerned me has been the
-possibility that your government would not correctly understand the will
-and determination of the United States in any given situation, since I
-have not assumed that you or any other sane man would, in this nuclear
-age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no
-country could win and which could only result in catastrophic
-consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor.” (Wikipedia,
-“Cuban
-Missile Crisis”; John F. Kennedy, Letter
-to Chairman Nikita Khrushchev, October
-22, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3644
Date: 10/23/1962
-Time: 3 PM
-Description: Witness: R.O. Christensen. One grey and silver ball,
-trailing what looked like twine with two knots in it, swerved, and
-climbed away at a 45’ angle, making a sound like a flock of ducks
-(rushing air). Twenty seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Farmington, Utah
-ID: 482
Date: 10/23/1962
-Description: Khrushchev writes
-to Kennedy, rebuffing
-his demand that the Soviets remove the missiles, which the Soviet leader
-insists “are intended solely for defensive purposes.” Kennedy writes
-back, bluntly reminding Khrushchev that he started the crisis by
-secretly sending missiles to Cuba. As US ambassador Adlai
-Stevenson explains the matter to the United Nations Security
-Council, US ships already are moving into position in the waters around
-Cuba. Soviet submarines menacingly move into the Caribbean as well,
-positioned as if they might try to break a blockade. But Soviet
-freighters bearing military supplies headed for Cuba stop in their
-tracks. (Nikita Khrushchev, Letter
-to President John F. Kennedy, October
-23, 1962; John F. Kennedy, Draft
-letter to Chairman
-Nikita Khrushchev, October
-23, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3645
Date: 10/24/1962
-Description: Khrushchev sends
-an indignant letter to Kennedy,
-accusing him of threatening the Soviet Union: “You are no longer
-appealing to reason, but wish to intimidate us.” (Nikita Khrushchev, Letter
-to President John F. Kennedy, October
-24, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3646
Date: 10/24/1962
-Description: Undocumented claim that a landing took place. No
-traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
-ID: 549
Date: 10/25/1962
-Description: The US raises the readiness level of SAC forces to DEFCON
-2. For the only confirmed time in US history, B-52 bombers go on
-continuous airborne alert, and B-47 medium bombers are dispersed to
-various military and civilian airfields and made ready to take off,
-fully equipped, on 15 minutes notice. The Soviet arms freighters turn
-back toward Europe, but the oil tanker Bucharest approaches the US
-quarantine zone, directly headed for Cuba. Two American warships, the USS
-Essex and
-the USS
-Gearing,
-prepare to intercept it, which could have led to war. Instead, Kennedy decides
-to let the Bucharest through the quarantine because it isn’t carrying
-any contraband. (Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”; McGeorge Bundy, “Record
-of Action of the Fourth Meeting
-of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council,”
-October 25, 1962; Wikipedia, “Cuban Missile
-Crisis”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3647
Date: 10/26/1962
-Description: Castro sends
-a letter to Khrushchev, urging
-him to launch a nuclear first strike against the US, which the Soviet
-leader disregards. Instead, Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy,
-in which he offers to work with him to deescalate the conflict and
-ensure that they do not “doom the world to the catastrophe of
-thermonuclear war.” The CIA reports that the construction of Cuban
-missile sites is continuing and accelerating. Robert
-Kennedy meets secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
-Dobrynin and agrees after a phone call to the president that the
-removal of US missiles from Turkey is negotiable as part of a
-comprehensive settlement. (Fidel Castro, Letter
-to Chairman Nikita
-Khrushchev, October
-26, 1962; Nikita Khrushchev, Department
-of State Telegram Transmitting Letter to President
-John F. Kennedy, October
-26, 1962; Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions
-of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, chapter 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3648
Date: 10/26/1962
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Mrs. Alvie Frank sees several flat, glowing
-objects moving slowly about 11 miles south of Monte Vista, Colorado.
-(“Variety
-of Objects in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3649
Date: 10/26/1962
-Description: 7:16 a.m. Bessie Rogers of Fort Collins, Colorado, spots a
-large, black parachute-shaped object weaving back and forth over the
-mountains somewhere between the south end of Horsetooth Reservoir and
-Masonville. It flies around for about 10 minutes, disappears, and then
-returns. (“Variety
-of Objects in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3650
Date: 10/27/1962
-Description: A U-2 piloted by Maj. Rudolf
-Anderson is shot down over Cuba. However, Kennedy correctly
-concludes that Khrushchev has
-not himself given the order to shoot down Anderson’s plane. The incident
-prompts both leaders to realize the situation is spiraling dangerously
-out of control. Khrushchev sends another letter to Kennedy, in which he
-demands that the United States withdraw missiles from Turkey as part of
-the deal. JFK responds by offering to promise not to attack Cuba after
-the Russians withdraw. In the evening, Robert Kennedy tells
-Soviet ambassador Dobrynin,
-“You have drawn first blood. The president had decided against
-advice not to respond militarily to that attack, but he
-[Dobrynin] should know that if another plane was shot at … we would take
-out all the SAMs and antiaircraft And that would almost surely be
-followed by an invasion.” However, he also says that the US already
-plans to remove its missiles from Turkey but cannot say so publicly.
-This is the moment when both nations step back from the brink of war.
-(Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”; Nikita Khrushchev, Letter
-to President John F. Kennedy, October
-27, 1962; Anatoly Dobrynin, Cable
-to the Soviet
-Foreign Ministry, meeting with Robert Kennedy, October
-27, 1962; John F. Kennedy, Letter
-to Chairman Nikita
-Khrushchev, October 27, 1962; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine:
-Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, chapter 12–13;
-Christopher Klein, “How
-the Death of a US Air Force Pilot Prevented
-a Nuclear War,” History Stores, October 28, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3652
Date: 10/28/1962
-Time: 1930
-Description: Mrs. E. D. Silvester was driving with her three children
-when an illuminated oval object landed near the road. She watched it for
-40 min, and reported seeing a man wearing a helmet and gas mask in the
-vicinity of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Norwood, Australia
-ID: 550
Date: 10/28/1962
-Description: In a speech aired on Radio Moscow, Nikita
-Khrushchev announces the dismantling of Soviet missiles in Cuba and
-does not insist on his demands concerning the removal of US missiles
-from Turkey. (Wikipedia, “Cuban
-Missile Crisis”; Nikita Khrushchev, Letter
-to President John F. Kennedy, October 28, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3653
Date: 10/28/1962
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Ellen D. Sylvester is driving with her three
-children in Norwood, South Australia, east of Adelaide, when they see an
-orange glow on the ground about 2–3 miles away. It has three legs, round
-windows, and the boy remarks that he can see people in it. One of the
-“men” gets out and descends to the ground. He appears to be doing
-something to one of the landing legs. He seems to have some trouble in
-making it retract, which finally he overcomes. He is about 6 feet tall,
-as his head reaches the outer fringe of the craft. He wears a helmet
-like a gas mask. He returns to the UFO, which begins to move slowly
-away, then very fast, and disappears in a northerly direction. Total
-time of observation is 40 minutes. (Keith Basterfield, “’This
-Is One of the Most Remarkable
-Cases of a Flying Saucer…,’ Adelaide, 1962,” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena—Scientific Research, September 22, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3654
Date: 10/29/1962
-Description: Defense Department Assistant Secretary Arthur
-Sylvester admits that withholding evidence on UFOs from the public
-is necessary if the means justifies it. He cites USAF “administrative
-practices” Air Force Regulation 11-30, where withholding information “in
-the public interest” is allowed, and AFR 11-7, which states that
-sometimes information requested by Congress may not be furnished “even
-in confidence.” (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 86;
-UFOEv, p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3655
Date: 10/29/1962
-Description: Vera Rogers sees a round, shiny object flying low over Fort
-Collins, Colorado. The object, heading south, makes a soft, whirring
-sound followed by a popping noise. (“Variety
-of Objects in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3656
Date: 11/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: A garage owner was driving through a rainstorm when he
-suddenly saw a group of figures 80 m away. He slowed down as they went
-away jerkily, and observed that they were bizarre, birdlike creatures.
-As they rushed toward the car, he drove past them in terror and saw them
-going back toward a luminous, blue object hovering in a field. They
-entered it as if “sucked into it,” and a dull sound was heard before the
-object flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Var, France
-ID: 551
Date: 11/1962
-Description: Evening. A French businessman is driving along a minor road
-in Var department, southeastern France. It is raining heavily. Rounding
-a bend, he sees a group of figures in the road 260 feet ahead. He slows
-down to drive around them and sees that they are actually bizarre
-animals with the heads of birds and covered in plumage. Terrified, he
-speeds ahead and stops about 500 feet further ahead. Turing around, he
-sees the entities heading toward a luminous, dark-blue object hanging in
-the air over a field on the other side of the road. It resembles two
-plates upside down. The entities are sucked into the bottom of the
-object. He hears a “clack,” and the UFO takes off at “prodigious speed.”
-(Lyonel Trigano, “Strange
-Encounter in Var,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1968):
-18; Clark III 280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3657
Date: 11/13/1962
-Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert
-E. Hohmann, present
-a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting in Los Angeles,
-California, noting the alleged extraterrestrial signals detected by Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo
-Marconi, and
-David
-Todd between 1899 and 1924. They speculate that the signal source
-was 11 light years away, perhaps the Epsilon Eridani system. (C. D.
-Jackson and Robert E. Hohmann, “An Historic Report on Life in Space:
-Tesla, Marconi, Todd,” paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the
-American Rocket Society, Los Angeles, November 13–18, 1962; Michael D.
-Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR
-29, no. 4 (July 2005): 10–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3658
Date: 11/15/1962
-Description: Stanford astronomer Carl
-Sagan presents a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting
-in Los Angeles, California, that explores models for the distribution of
-technical civilizations in the galaxy. Using Frank
-D.
-Drake’s equation to suggest that 0.001% of stars in the sky have a
-planet on them on which an advanced civilization resides, Sagan suggests
-the nearest such advanced civilization is several hundred light years
-away from earth. From there, he explores the feasibility of interstellar
-spaceflight as a means for traversing such distances. The paper ends in
-consideration of the possibility of extraterrestrial contact with Earth
-in the past, including the ancient Mesopotamian myth of Oannes (Apkallu),
-a mythical being who taught mankind wisdom. Berossus describes
-Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man.
-(Carl Sagan, “Direct Contact
-among Galactic Civilizations by Relativistic Interstellar
-Spaceflight,” Planetary and Space Science 11 (May 1963): 485–498;
-Wikipedia, “Adapa”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3659
Date: 11/17/1962
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: F.L. Swindale, college graduate and ex-USMC
-Capt. Three bright star-like lights approached, hovered and bounced,
-then faded after 11-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tampa, Florida
-ID: 483
Date: 11/17/1962
-Description: 9:00 p.m. F. L. Swindale, ex-Marine captain, sees three
-bright, star-like lights approach, hover, and bounce at Tampa, Florida,
-for about 15 minutes, then fade. (UFOEv, p. 140;
-Sparks, p. 293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3660
Date: 11/23/1962
-Description: The Hills attend
-a meeting at the parsonage of their Unitarian church in Portsmouth, New
-Hampshire, where the invited guest speaker is USAF Capt. Ben
-H. Swett, who has recently published a book of his poetry. After he
-reads selections of his poetry, the pastor asks him to discuss his
-personal interest in hypnosis. After the meeting breaks up, the Hills
-approach Swett privately and tell him what they can remember of their
-strange encounter. He is particularly interested in the missing time of
-the Hills’ account. The Hills ask Swett if he will hypnotize them to
-recover their memories, but Swett says he is not qualified and cautions
-them against going to an amateur hypnotist, such as himself. (Clark III
-584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3661
Date: 11/30/1962
-Description: Two teenage boys in Lethbridge, Alberta, see an elliptical
-object hovering near a school building and decide to throw rocks at it.
-The object is about 8 feet in diameter and glowing blue. Their stones
-seem to ricochet off the UFO and forcefully returned, landing on
-structures behind the teens. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3662
Date: 12/1962
-Description: Kennedy closes
-the Cuban Project, the CIA’s Operation Mongoose. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Mongoose”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3663
Date: 12/1/1962
-Description: Evening. A husband and wife in East Point, Georgia, are
-watching the first-quarter Moon through a 6-inch reflector. In the dark
-area, well away from the terminator, the man sees a bright-red spot
-light up. It gets so bright that he points it out to his wife. She
-notices it starting to move across the illuminated portion of the Moon,
-then continues passing in a straight line across the blue Georgia sky,
-faster and faster until it is gone. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the
-Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3664
Date: 12/7/1962
-Description: A full-scale mockup of the Q-12 drone is ready at Groom
-Lake, Nevada, and has already undergone preliminary tests to measure its
-stealth quality. However, the CIA is not enthusiastic about the Q-12,
-mostly because the agency is overextended at the time with U-2 missions,
-getting the A-12 up to speed, and covert operations in Southeast Asia.
-The USAF, however, is interested in the Q-12 as both a reconnaissance
-platform and a cruise missile and the CIA finally decides to work with
-the USAF to develop it. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-D- 21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3665
Date: 12/9/1962
-Time: 2200
-Description: Antonio Candau saw a circular object land in Cadivilla, 9 m
-away from him. It was about 5.5 m m diameter, and two men emerged from
-it, approaching within 2 m, and spoke incomprehensible words. They wore
-yellow coveralls and a wide belt. Noting that the witness was afraid,
-one of them made a reassuring gesture with his hand, and the craft
-departed with a strange sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Settimana Incom. Dec. 30, 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Bologna, Italy
-ID: 552
Date: 12/11/1962
-Time: dawn
-Description: G. L. Colodrero and the director of the Cordoba Historial
-Museum were driving from Catamarca to Cordoba when, 7 km away from
-Chumbicha, they saw seven objects on the ground of a mountain slope.
-They were bright and spherical, rose straight up and flew away with a
-very bright trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Chumbicha, Argentina
-ID: 553
Date: 12/12/1962
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Five schoolgirls in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture,
-Japan, see a brightly glowing UFO. All five students independently
-sketch a Saturn-shaped object. (UFOEv, p. 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3666
Date: 12/17/1962
-Time: dawn
-Description: Francesco Rizzi, night watchman, was crossing the factory
-yard when he heard a whistling sound and observed an object hovering 1 m
-above ground. It was a silvery disk, about 5 m in diameter, with lighted
-windows. The noise stopped, a door became visible, and a small being
-appeared and made a gesture. A second figure was also seen. The craft
-took off with a puff of white smoke and a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 138 (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 554
Date: 12/18/1962
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Night watchman Francesco Rizzi is reporting for
-work at a mill on Via Santa Valeria in Milan, Italy. In the center of
-the mill’s courtyard he hears a swishing sound and turns to see a domed
-metallic disc 12–15 feet in diameter with portholes hovering 3 feet
-above the ground. A door opens at the bottom and a small man just over 3
-feet tall and wearing a luminous overall emerges. The man motions Rizzi
-to come nearer, but he is frozen with fear. Another small man comes out
-of the disc, but they both return, the door closes behind them, and the
-object takes off in a cloud of white smoke. Rizzi reports the sighting
-to a colleague, the police, and the press, and soon loses his job.
-(1Pinotti 130–131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3667
Date: 12/19/1962
-Description: Three sailors on a ship observed two gray, helmet-shaped
-objects hovering 1 km away at 20 m altitude above Lake Major. Diameter:
-about 15 m. After 5 min one object started moving rapidly, gaining
-height with an undulating movement. It was soon joined by the second
-object, and both disappered together at the horizon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 139 (Vallee)
-Location: Verbania, Italy
-ID: 555
Date: 12/21/1962
-Description: Ali R. Diaz is aboard a DC-3 tourist plane on a vacation
-trip to Angel Falls, Venezuela. He obtains color film of a UFO rising
-from the base of a mountain. The film shows a yellowish teardrop-shaped
-object rising across the face of Auyán-tepui plateau. The UFO seems to
-oscillate from side to side until it is lost in clouds. The falls and
-mountain provide location points throughout. (“Angel
-Falls UFO Film 1962,” UFO History Group You Tube channel, August 30,
-2014; UFOEv, p. 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3668
Date: 12/21/1962
-Time: 0215
-Description: A large, fiery disk was observed on the runway by Horado
-Alora and Mario Pezzuto, the two control tower operators, and by the
-crews of two aircraft. It rose to 10 m altitude, hovered, and flew away
-to the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina
-ID: 556
Date: 12/22/1962
-Description: About 3:00 a.m. At Ezeiza International Airport [now
-Ministro Pistarini International Airport] at Ezeiza Partido in Greater
-Buenos Aires, Argentina, tower operators Horacio Alora and Mario
-Pezzutto are watching an Aereolíneas Argentinas plane that is about to
-take off. It is also seen by an approaching DC-8 jet operated by
-Panagra, whose captain asks what the object is at the end of the runway.
-Alora sees a large, round, glowing object that has evidently descended
-when he is watching the airliner. The UFO immediately rises about 30
-feet, hovers, then accelerates on a northeast course. (UFOEv, p. 119;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: July–December 1962, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3669
Date: 1963
-Description: Astronomer Donald
-H. Menzel and science writer Lyle G. Boyd publish The World of
-Flying Saucers, a skeptical overview of UFO sightings and a contemptuous
-treatment of UFO groups. (Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd, The World
-of Flying Saucers, Doubleday, 1963)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3671
Date: 1963
-Description: Russian astrophysicist Nikolai
-Kardashev examines the radio source CTA-102, the first Soviet effort
-in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). He comes up with
-the idea that some galactic civilizations could be perhaps millions or
-billions of years ahead of us, and creates the Kardashev scale to rank
-such civilizations. Kardashev defines three levels of civilizations,
-based on energy consumption: Type I (planetary civilization) with
-“technological level close to the level presently attained on earth”;
-Type II (stellar civilization), “a civilization capable of harnessing
-the energy radiated by its own star”; and Type III (galactic
-civilization), “a civilization in possession of energy on the scale of
-its own galaxy.” Various extensions of the Kardashev scale have since
-been proposed, including the use of metrics rather than pure power. The
-idea that the CTA-102 emission is caused by a civilization is later
-rejected when it is identified as one of the many varieties of quasar
-(quasi-stellar radio source), a term coined by Hong-Yee
-Chiu in May 1964 to describe these objects. (Wikipedia, “Kardashev
-scale”; Wikipedia, “CTA-102”;
-Nikolai Kardashev, “Transmission
-of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations,” Soviet Astronomy
-8 (1964): 217; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3670
Date: 1/1963
-Description: The A-12 fleet at Groom Lake, Nevada, is now operating with
-J58 engines built by Pratt and Whitney, allowing for speeds up to Mach
-3.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3672
Date: 1/1963
-Description: Night. Brothers Rosauro Antonio, Ricardo, and Victor
-Domingo López discover a burned area of grass in a field just over a
-mile from their house in Cañada de Alzogaray, near Burruyacú, Tucumán,
-Argentina. The burn is in the shape of two rings (each a foot wide and
-10.8 feet in diameter) where the grass is burned down to its roots to a
-depth of 3–4 inches. They find a carbonized residue and whitish powder.
-Some days previously, a neighbor named Juan Gerónimo Pera, his wife, and
-children, had seen a luminous oval-shaped object that landed in the
-field. (Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary
-Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 12 (December 1972): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3673
Date: 1/4/1963
-Time: 1900
-Description: A well-known psychiatrist saw an object on the ground in a
-deserted city park. Shape: a dome upon a cylinder, bearing a series of
-round apertures and surrounded by a thick, roundish ring, set on a
-tripod landing gear supporting the base of the cylinder 1 m above the
-ground. Diameter: 5 m. Suddenly the ring started spinning rapidly, and a
-gust of air was felt as the craft rose a few m above ground, then
-disappeared in a split second.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 142 (Vallee)
-Location: Rome, Italy
-ID: 557
Date: 1/11/1963
-Description: At 11:00 p.m., at San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, farmer
-Antonio de Luca is awakened by restless animals and goes out to calm
-them. Fifteen minutes later he sees a domed disc some 132 feet long land
-in the village square. Dark figures are moving inside the transparent
-dome. He tries to approach but is paralyzed at 30 feet away. It ascends
-in the direction of Brindisi to the north, emitting a vertical beam of
-green light. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 290;
-Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June
-1963, The Author, 2005, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3674
Date: 1/11/1963
-Time: 2300
-Description: A 43-year-old farmer was awakened by restless animals and
-went out to calm them. Fifteen min later he saw an object land in a
-small square in the village, went toward it, was “paralyzed” when 10 m
-away. Two min later the craft, 4.5 m long, 1.5 m high, with a
-translucent upper dome showing two dark, moving figures, ascended in the
-direction of Brindisi, emitted a vertical beam of green light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 143 (Vallee)
-Location: San Pietro, Italy
-ID: 558
Date: 1/17/1963
-Description: A formation of objects passes over Entre Ríos province,
-Argentina, and discharges angel hair. Vitreous particles are recovered,
-which consist of an “amalgam of silicon, boron, calcium, and magnesium.”
-(Gordon Creighton, “Argentina,
-1963–64,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 15; Brian
-Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006):
-104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3675
Date: 1/28/1963
-Time: 1720
-Description: Mary Sharp and Mrs. E. L. Sharp saw an object on the
-ground. It had four windows, emitted a yellow-orange light, and
-eventually left toward Rugby.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Shilton, Great Britain
-ID: 559
Date: 1/28/1963
-Time: night
-Description: A former Chilean Air Force officer, who was driving a
-truck, observed two disk-shaped objects that followed him for over ten
-min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mamina, Chile
-ID: 560
Date: 1/31/1963
-Description: An object was reported to have landed. The Lopez brothers
-found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. Police
-investigation. A whitish powder was also found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina
-ID: 561
Date: 2/5/1963
-Description: Approximate date. A student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an
-object land on the school grounds. In a different observation, several
-residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an
-object flying at very high speed over Ascension.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Ascension, Paraguay
-ID: 562
Date: 2/11/1963
-Description: The CIA establishes a Domestic Operations Division for its
-clandestine services, conducted within the US against “foreign
-targets.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3676
Date: 2/15/1963
-Time: 0710
-Description: A civilian observed an object arriving from the east. It
-stopped at 15 m altitude over his farmhouse. The object made a swishing
-sound, and measured about 8 m in diameter, 3 m in height. The underside
-was spinning in a counterclockwise direction, had a blue color and no
-light. It took off faster than a jet, after hovering about five sec. The
-witness suffered from a strong headache all day.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Willow Grove, Australia
-ID: 563
Date: 2/15/1963
-Description: 7:10 a.m. Farmer Charles Brew and his son Trevor are in a
-shed, milking a herd of cows near Moe, Victoria, Australia. Charles sees
-an object descend very steeply out of the east from a low cloud, at
-about a 45° angle. The UFO is about 25 feet in diameter, and about 9–10
-feet high. The lower portion, about 3 feet high, is rotating in an
-anticlockwise direction and is bluish. The upper portion appears to be
-stationary, battleship-gray in color, with a transparent dome on top.
-Protruding out of the dome is something resembling a broom handle. A
-sound, described as swishing or burbling, is heard by both Charles and
-Trevor. (NICAP, “Rotating
-Object and Animal
-Reaction”; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,” IUR
-23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 15–16; Sparks, p. 293;
-Swords 388–390)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3677
Date: 2/20/1963
-Time: 1730
-Description: A young man saw from a window ,a slowly spinning object,
-almost stationary, 500 m away. It appeared as a disk having a central
-upper dome, with a total diameter of 3 m. The object had a brilliant
-yellow red halo, but its dome was much more brilliant. The witness
-observed it through binoculars, reported seeing a “particle” leave the
-object, after which it stopped spinning, gained altitude with a vertical
-shifting, and left toward the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 144 (Vallee)
-Location: Lecce, Italy
-ID: 564
Date: 2/21/1963
-Time: 0230
-Description: A strange globe of fire hit a car driven by a civilian man.
-Several people called authorities to report that they had been awakened
-by a peculiar object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Belgrade, Montana
-ID: 565
Date: 2/23/1963
-Description: 9:45 p.m. An oval object is seen in the sky above
-Highcliffe, Dorset, England. Emerald-green in color and surrounded by a
-glow, it hangs in the sky for 10 minutes before witnesses see two
-smaller objects emerge from it. These fly away and disappear over the
-English Channel. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud
-Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3678
Date: 3/1963
-Description: Austrian ufologist Luis
-Schoenherr offers a paranormal explanation for UFOs, saying that
-they either emanate from an unobservable fourth dimension or are time
-machines. (Luis Schoenherr, “UFOs
-and the Fourth Dimension,”
-Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 2 (March/April 1963): 10–12; Luis
-Schoenherr, “UFOs
-and the Fourth Dimension,
-Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1964): 16–20,
-23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3679
Date: 3/3/1963
-Description: The Hills are
-invited by their Unitarian church to discuss their UFO experience. They
-speak about it for the first time publicly. (Clark III 584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3680
Date: 3/9/1963
-Description: Amos Biggs observed a silver, saucer-shaped craft, with an
-oval dome, which landed on the frozen lake for 10 min. A “door” was
-opened and then shut, and the craft took off with a buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Crystal Lake, Montana
-ID: 566
Date: 3/12/1963
-Time: 0532
-Description: After an intense rainfall Pablo Michalowski and Roberto
-Jorge Martinez observed and photographed a luminous object that rose
-from a forest preserve about 2 km from Colonia Yerua.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1963 (Vallee)
-Location: Colonia Yerua, Argentina
-ID: 567
Date: 3/13/1963
-Time: 2230
-Description: Fred White was fishing when he heard a high-pitched whine
-coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15
-m away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 m in diameter, and was
-shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he
-could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic
-helmet, looked at the witness. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall
-with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh.
-Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six min later, and radio
-interference was noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Richards Bay, South Africa
-ID: 568
Date: 4/1963
-Description: An article by J.
-Allen Hynek appears in the Yale Scientific Magazine. (J. Allen
-Hynek, “Flying Saucers I Have Known,” Yale Scientific Magazine 37 (April
-1963): 6–9; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: January–June 1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 42–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3681
Date: 4/30/1963
-Description: Adamski arrives
-in Copenhagen for another scheduled lecture tour of Europe at the
-invitation of Hans C. Petersen, He attends the Skandinavisk UFO
-Information Congress in Frederica, Denmark. (“Final
-Years,” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3682
Date: 5/7/1963
-Time: evening
-Description: Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the
-police that, after the house lights blacked out while watching
-television, they saw an object about 6 m in diameter, with two aerials
-and a red light flashing, emitting a low buzz, near the house. After one
-minute, it flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Kirkby, Great Britain
-ID: 569
Date: 5/15/1963
-Description: Sandia National Laboratories conducts the first of four
-top-secret, dry-surface plutonium-dispersal tests at the Tonopah Test
-Range in Nevada, as part of Operation Roller Coaster. The other tests
-are on May 25, May 31, and June 9. The intent is to investigate exposure
-of animals (dogs, sheep, and burros) to plutonium dispersal in a non-
-nuclear scenario. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Roller Coaster”; Lt. Col. J. L. Dick, et al., “Operation
-Roller Coaster: Interim
-Summary Report (II),” Department of Defense, September 1963)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3683
Date: 5/15/1963
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. D., of Carignan, saw an object on the ground
-to the left of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and
-Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille. They
-stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of
-their trip.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Yvrac-Maille, France
-ID: 570
Date: 5/20/1963
-Time: evening
-Description: A 17-year-old witness, who wishes anonymity for fear of
-ridicule, saw what he first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the
-road. He came within 20 m of it, then was blinded by a strong light as
-his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The
-light was as intense as that of a welder’s torch. The witness’s father
-testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Glencoe, Australia
-ID: 571
Date: 5/22/1963
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Myra Jackson. Four pink wheels spun or rolled very
-fast from east to west in succession, each taking about 1 second.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pequannock, New Jersey
-ID: 485
Date: 5/24/1963
-Description: An A-12 piloted by Kenneth
-S. Collins crashes near Wendover, Utah. The CIA thinks it might have
-been due to pilot error and contracts with a well-known Boston,
-Massachusetts, psychiatrist with a specialty in hypnosis (unnamed, but
-possibly Benjamin Simon, of Betty
-and Barney Hill fame later). After a lengthy investigation it is
-determined that a tiny, pencil-sized part called a pilot tube, a device
-that controls the airspeed indicator, froze when the A-12 entered a
-cloud, causing the aircraft to stall. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 190–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3684
Date: 5/31/1963
-Description: Adamski allegedly
-has a private audience with Pope John
-XXIII in Rome, Italy. The pontiff is seriously ill and dies three
-days later. Adamski claims that he has received a “Golden Medal of
-Honor” from the pope, but skeptics note that the medal is actually a
-common tourist souvenir made by a company in Milan, and that Adamski
-displays it to his friends in a cheap plastic box—which is how it is
-sold in tourist shops in Rome. Adamski says his meeting is at the
-request of the extraterrestrials he is in contact with in order to ask
-for a “final agreement” from the pope because of his decision not to
-communicate directly with them anymore and to offer John XXIII a liquid
-substance in order to save him from the gastric enteritis that he
-suffers from. (Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold
-Story, Ceti, 1983; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001;
-“Vatican
-Visit,” The Adamski Case, October 7, 2019; Marc Hallet, A
-Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man
-Who Spoke to the Space Brothers, The
-Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3685
Date: 6/4/1963
-Description: A multicolored object, the size of a light truck, was
-reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area
-over 3 km wide on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border, with no
-results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Lyle, Minnesota
-ID: 572
Date: 6/15/1963
-Time: 10:39 AM
-Description: Witness: 3rd Mate R.C. Chamberlin, of S/S Thetis. One
-luminous disc travelled at 1.5 times the speed of satellite for 3-4
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 200 miles north of Venezuela (14’ 27’ N, 69’ 57’ E)
-ID: 486
Date: 6/15/1963
-Description: 8:39 p.m. In the Indian Ocean southwest of India, 3rd Mate
-R. C. Chamberlin of the SS Thetis sees in the northwest a luminous disc
-travel at 1.5 times the angular speed of a satellite. (Sparks, p. 294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3687
Date: Summer 1963
-Time: 9:30 or 10 PM
-Description: Witness: Grace Dutcher. Eight-ten lights moved at random,
-then in an oval formation, then singly, during the 1 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middletown, New York
-ID: 487
Date: summer 1963
-Description: Allen
-H. Greenfield and Rick
-Hilberg start publishing Saucer Album in Cleveland, Ohio. It becomes
-UFO Magazine in mid-1964 and continues through the summer of 1970. After
-a few years’ hiatus, it returns as UFO Magazine News Bulletin in early
-1974 and continues at least until February 1979. (Saucer
-Album 1, no. 1 (Summer 1963))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3686
Date: 6/26/1963
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Enrico A. Gilberti Jr. and his wife Janet
-are awakened at their home on 344 Commercial Street, Weymouth,
-Massachusetts, by a loud roar. They look out the window and see a
-Saturn-shaped object moving slowly above the treetops 100 feet off the
-ground and 300 feet away. Gilberti describes it as “two hamburger buns
-one on top of another with a sandwiched piece of meat protruding
-around.” It is about 30–40 feet across and has two brilliant lights. The
-UFO follows some power lines across a field and disappears to the
-northeast. “The roar was deafening.” Neighbors hear the noise but do not
-see anything. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman
-of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1963, The Author,
-2005, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3688
Date: 6/26/1963
-Description: Four glowing greenish objects with halos are seen by a
-technician and many others at Pinecrest, California. Three objects
-moving westerly are approached by a similar object from the west. The
-fourth object stops and hovers as the three approach, split formation,
-and continue west. Then the fourth object continues east. (UFOEv, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3689
Date: 6/28/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man is driving along the Lyndoch-Gawler Road
-near Sandy Creek, South Australia, when he comes across a blood-red,
-glowing object, 25 feet across and 12 feet high, in the road ahead. He
-is within 12 feet of it when he hits the brakes. The object turns a
-lighter reddish-yellow and rises up into the air several hundred feet.
-It turns on its side and speeds away. This and other UFO incidents cause
-Sen. Jim
-Cavanagh to ask the federal government to make its UFO dossier
-public, but Minister for Air David
-Fairbairn refuses, saying that the vast majority of reports are
-explainable. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-January–June 1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 86–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3690
Date: 6/28/1963
-Time: 2130
-Description: A fiery red object, 8 m wide 4 m high, with a concave top
-and flat bottom, was seen on the road by a Willaston resident who
-stopped his car 4 m away. The object rose, tipped to one side and flew
-away at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 141; FSR 64, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Sandy Creek, Australia
-ID: 573
Date: 7/1963
-Description: The CIA has synthesized many of the findings from its
-psychological research into what became known as the “KUBARK
-Counterintelligence Interrogation” handbook, which cites the MKUltra
-studies and other secret research programs as the scientific basis for
-their interrogation methods. Donald
-Ewen Cameron regularly travels around the US teaching military
-personnel about his techniques (hooding of prisoners for sensory
-deprivation, prolonged isolation, humiliation, etc.), and how they can
-be used in interrogations. Latin American paramilitary groups working
-for the CIA and US military personnel receive training in these
-psychological techniques at places such as the School of the Americas in
-Fort Benning, Georgia. (In the 21st century, many of these torture
-techniques are used at US military and CIA prisons such as Guantanamo
-Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq.) In the aftermath of the 1975
-congressional hearings, major news media mainly focus on sensational
-stories related to LSD, mind-control, and brainwashing, and rarely use
-the word “torture.” This suggests that the CIA researchers are, as one
-author put it, “a bunch of bumbling sci-fi buffoons” rather than a
-rational group of men who have run torture laboratories and medical
-experiments in major US universities; they have arranged for torture,
-rape, and psychological abuse of adults and young children, driving many
-of them permanently insane. (Central Intelligence Agency, “KUBARK
-Counterintelligence Interrogation,” July 1963; Wikipedia, “Unethical
-human experimentation
-in the United States”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3691
Date: 7/1/1963
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witness: R.B. Stiles, ll, using a theodolite. One light,
-the size of a match head at arm’s length, flashed and moved around the
-sky for 1.5 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Glen Ellyn, Illinois
-ID: 488
Date: 7/2/1963
-Description: Nineteen-year-old NICAP member John
-P. Speights of Raleigh, North Carolina, writes a letter questioning
-the Air Force’s treatment of UFOs to Rep. Carl
-Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
-Vinson forwards it to USAF along with his own request for information on
-Blue Book. The Air Force treats the request gingerly because of the
-implication of a congressional hearing and prepares a reply to Vinson on
-July 18, but there is no evidence that it is sent. USAF Maj. Maston
-M. Jacks does reply to Speights on August 5. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December
-1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 19–20; US Air Force, Foreign Technology Division, “Congressional
-Correspondence on the U.S. Air Force UFO Program,
-Congressman Carl Vinson”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3692
Date: 7/15/1963
-Description: A farmer discovered strange crater 2.5 m wide and 2.5 m
-deep. Vegetation around it was burned and there were four holes in the
-ground around the crater itself.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Charlton, Great Britain
-ID: 574
Date: 7/16/1963
-Description: Farmer Roy Blanchard of Charlton, Wiltshire, England,
-discovers a strange crater on the ground overlapping his potato and
-barley fields. It is about 8 feet wide and 4 inches deep. A hole in the
-center is 3 feet deep and less than a foot in diameter. All vegetation
-inside the circle is burned, leaving only bare earth, and there are four
-slots in the ground around it, each about 4 feet long and a foot wide. A
-small piece of metal is found. Astronomer Patrick
-Moore states that a “shrimp-sized meteorite” has caused the crater.
-But a military investigation shows no burn or scratch marks or any trace
-of an explosion. (Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
-a History: July–December 1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 12–16; UFOFiles2, p. 116;
-Nick Redfern, “The Curious
-Caper of the Charlton Crater, Part 1,” Mysterious Universe,
-September 28, 2015; Nick Redfern, “The Curious
-Caper of the Charlton Crater, Part 2,” Mysterious Universe,
-September 28, 2015; Matthew Richardson, “The
-Charlton Crater”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3693
Date: 7/17/1963
-Description: A passenger of a Convair-880 related to UFO investigator,
-James Moseley, that the 4 engine jet airliner she had been flying in was
-pursued by an UFO. The jet, traveling at 600 mph, made a sharp turn to
-avoid the UFO, now rapidly closing in on the plane. Just as they were
-about to collide, the UFO swerved away at fantastic speed and
-disappeared in the night sky. When the (unnamed) woman confronted the
-pilot about the incident, he said, “I wouldn’t dare risk telling the
-airline of the incident. If I could tell you of some of the experiences
-my buddies have had, you’d never fly again!”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: US
Date: 7/20/1963
-Description: An A-1 piloted by Louis
-Schalk briefly achieves a speed of Mach 3 for the first time.
-(Jacobsen, Area 51, p.
-201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3694
Date: 7/22/1963
-Time: 2030
-Description: William Holland, 12, and two other persons saw a hovering,
-silvery object with a flashing red light on top, at 20 m altitude. It
-had three “legs” and a periscope underneath that pointed at the
-witnesses. The object went up into a cloud of unusual color, which flew
-against the wind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Parr, Great Britain
-ID: 575
Date: 8/1/1963
-Description: Evening. A former RAF pilot and flight instructor sees a
-triangular UFO that lingers for a long time over Garston, Hertfordshire,
-England, then climbs out of sight. Thousands of other people in the
-London area, including an air traffic controller four miles away and
-future UFO researcher Timothy
-Good in Bcckenham, London, also see the object, which has a
-tetrahedral shape and glassy appearance when seen through binoculars. A
-USAF F-100 Super Sabre from RAF Bentwaters [now Bentwaters Parks] in
-Woodbridge, Suffolk, and another plane from the De Havilland Aircraft
-Company are sent up to investigate but cannot get anywhere near the UFO,
-which is at an estimated 90,000 feet. An amateur astronomer in Bushey,
-Hertfordshire, takes a clear photo. The official explanation is a
-balloon. (UFOEv, p. 141;
-Good Above, p. 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3695
Date: 8/4/1963
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce are driving east
-on State Highway 15 past the Mount Vernon, Illinois, airport when they
-notice a bright white round object about 20° above the southwest
-horizon. It seems to be keeping pace with them for several miles.
-Suddenly it moves about 600 feet in front of them and to the left. When
-Austin drops Phyllis off at home in Wayne City, it is hanging in the
-southeast. They continue watching it about 15 minutes, then Austin
-leaves for home. As he turns east on a gravel road, it shoots ahead of
-him, taking on an orange hue. At one point it comes within 100 feet of
-his car, swerves upward, and passes above him as the car radio makes a
-whining noise and the car engine almost fails. The object then moves
-behind him from west to east. When he arrives home, it is hovering about
-900 feet to the southeast. Ronnie is so shaken, he is given a sedative.
-His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Austin, and brother and sister also
-see the light, which finally becomes indistinguishable with a star by
-1:10 a.m. (NICAP, “The
-Wayne City Car Chase (EM RA Traces)”; Jeffrey Liss, “The Light That
-Followed a Car,” Fate 16, no. 11 (November 1963): 26–35; Schopick,
-pp. 81–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3696
Date: 8/5/1963
-Description: Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear
-tests were conducted
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
Date: 8/5/1963
-Description: The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is signed by the USSR,
-UK, and US governments in Moscow, Russia, before being opened for
-signature by other countries. The treaty formally goes into effect on
-October 10. The treaty prohibits all above-ground tests of nuclear
-weapons. (Wikipedia, “Partial
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3697
Date: 8/7/1963
-Time: night
-Description: Five persons observed a luminous source flying slowly over
-the railroad tracks. Direction of travel: west, then north. It appeared
-ready to land in a wooded area. Its luminosity was variable.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Centralia, Illinois
-ID: 576
Date: 8/7/1963
-Description: The first flight of the USAF version of the A-12, the
-Lockheed YF-12 interceptor, takes place at Edwards AFB in California.
-(Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-YF-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3698
Date: 8/8/1963
-Time: 2210
-Description: An oval, luminous object coming from the north dived toward
-Centralia Road, followed a car, flying around it. Then it went away
-toward the west, disappeared like a bulb turned off, and was seen again
-in the west flying very fast. It was observed by numerous people. Total
-duration: 15 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois
-ID: 577
Date: 8/10/1963
-Description: 9:32 p.m. Several airmen of the 91st Bombardment Wing at
-Glasgow Air Force Base [now closed] near Glasgow, Montana, are walking
-in the parking lot when a bright light appears above them, bathing
-everyone in an orange glow. It is coming from a disc-shaped object with
-a dome that has some odd characters carved in it. The object moves up,
-then to the right, then down and left. It makes a square, then an X
-within the square, stopping at all points before moving again. The
-underside of the object is a large panel of blue light. They watch it
-for 3 minutes then it disappears. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May 1985):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3699
Date: 8/11/1963
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: R.M. Boersma. One light moved around the sky for
-20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Warrenville, Illinois
-ID: 489
Date: 8/13/1963
-Description: An elliptical object with lights on its entire length and
-occasional flashes at both ends was seen at ground level for over one
-hour by an entire family.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 141 (Vallee)
-Location: Ellsworth, Maine
-ID: 578
Date: 8/13/1963
-Time: 8:04 PM
-Description: Witness: A.F. Schelling. One fireball became a dark object
-after 4 minutes, and then a bigger glow, a minute later, and finally
-exploded. Note: same witness had another, undescribed, sighting on
-Aug. 14
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
-ID: 490
Date: 8/20/1963
-Time: 2132
-Description: In a wooded area near Rome, a man in a car observed an
-object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret,
-flying low over his vehicle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rome, Italy
-ID: 579
Date: 8/20/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Italian President Antonio
-Segni’s personal driver encounters a UFO near the entrance of the
-Castel Porziano Presidential Estate in Rome, Italy. When he sees a
-metallic domed disc with portholes moving in front of him in the
-driveway ahead, the driver stops the Fiat 2300 immediately. The UFO,
-about 65 feet diameter, passes a few feet above the car, making a
-hissing noise and causing the body to vibrate and the instruments to go
-crazy, then reverses course and passes over the car again with the same
-effect. It then tilts 90° and darts away to the west. It leaves behind a
-smell of heated metal. (1Pinotti 148–151; “Quando
-gli UFO arrivarona anche in Italia,”
-Oggi Notizie, November 26, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3700
Date: 8/22/1963
-Description: Test pilot Joseph
-A. Walker reaches an altitude of 353,200 feet (66.9 miles) in an
-X-15 rocket plane. (Wikipedia, “Joseph
-A. Walker”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3701
Date: 8/28/1963
-Time: 1915
-Description: Two brothers, F. and R. Eustagio, 11 and 9, saw a luminous
-sphere at treetop level. Through an opening they observed “several rows
-of people inside” and a thin, 3 m tall being, whho glided down to the
-ground along two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange,
-swinging motion, then sat down. He wore a transparent helmet, had one
-eye in the middle of his forehead, wore high boots that left a
-triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. He made a
-threatening gesture and flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren
-somehow became convinced that the being was “good” and would
-return.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 37; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Sagrada Famila, Brazil
-ID: 580
Date: 8/28/1963
-Description: 7:00 p.m. José Marcos Gomes Vidal, 7, and his friends
-Fernando, 12, and Ronaldo Gualberto, 7, are in the Gualbertos’s backyard
-in Sagrada Familia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to wash a coffee strainer in
-a cistern. Suddenly, Fernando notices a glow coming from the top of an
-avocado tree. When he looks up, he sees a UFO hovering above the tree’s
-branches. The craft, which is spherical and has a pair of antennas on
-top, is completely transparent. It holds four human-like passengers
-sitting inside, one of whom sits in front of a machine that appears to
-be a control panel. The passengers are about 6 feet tall and dressed in
-spacesuits. They all have only one eye like a cyclops. Three of them are
-thin and bald, while the other looks like an overweight woman with
-blonde hair. The UFO shoots out two rays of yellow light. One of the
-cyclops appears between the lights, slowly floating down onto the
-ground. Once his boots touched the earth, the creature begins to walk
-toward José, who is completely unaware of what is happening since he is
-still collecting water. Fernando panics and tackles José, who falls to
-the ground, and Fernando gets back up and faces the cyclops. Now all
-three boys are aware of the visitor. The cyclops moves his head and
-makes hand signals. It speaks a few sounds in a strange language. The
-creature then turns around and stares back at the UFO. Fernando,
-spotting a brick on the ground, picks it up and aims it at the cyclops,
-who turns around and shoots Fernando’s hand with a yellow light from a
-triangular crest on his chest. Fernando drops the brick, and all three
-of the boys become calm and frozen. For a few more minutes, the cyclops
-speaks to them, then it points one of his fingers at the moon and begins
-to walk back toward the UFO. José asks if he will ever come back. The
-cyclops shakes his head affirmatively, plucks a plant from the ground,
-and then waves his hand at the UFO, which shoots out two rays of yellow
-light again. The cyclops slowly floats back up into the vehicle, and the
-UFO takes off eastward and disappears out of their sight. (Brazil 66–72;
-Tristan, “The Alien
-Cyclops of Sagrada Familia,” Bizarre and Grotesque, March 24,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3703
Date: 8/28/1963
-Description: After the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, J.
-Edgar Hoover singles out Rev. Martin
-Luther King
-Jr. as
-a major target for COINTELPRO. Soon after, the FBI is systematically
-bugging King’s home and his hotel rooms, as they are now aware that King
-is growing in stature daily as the leader among leaders of the Civil
-Rights Movement. (Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3702
Date: 9/1963
-Description: Lt. Col. Robert
-J. Friend leaves Project Blue Book and is replaced by Maj. Hector
-Quintanilla. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 25–27;
-Sparks, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3704
Date: 9/7/1963
-Description: Capt. Swett gives
-a formal lecture on hypnosis to a meeting at the Unitarian Church in
-Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After the lecture, the Hills tell
-him that Barney was going to a psychiatrist, Duncan Stephens, whom he
-likes and trusts. Swett suggests that Barney ask Stephens about the use
-of hypnosis in his case. At his next therapy session, Barney mentions
-his UFO encounter to Stephens, who recommends Dr. Benjamin Simon, a
-well- known psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts, with much experience
-in hypnosis.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3705
Date: 9/12/1963
-Description: Patrick Loreno and 18 other men aboard Texas Tower 2, a
-USAF radar station 110 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, spot an
-object 3 miles from their location. They report the sighting to the
-Coast Guard and request an investigation, but the object sinks before a
-boat can get there. The object has a controlled light and smoke or steam
-appears on its surface. The mn watch it for 20 minutes. There is no
-record of a ship or a submarine in the area. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the
-Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3706
Date: 9/14/1963
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witness: E.A. Grant, veteran of 37 years training forest
-fire lookouts for the U.S. Forest Service. One round object intercepted
-a long object and either attached itself to the latter or disappeared.
-Sighting lasted l0 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Susanville, California
-ID: 491
Date: 9/14/1963
-Description: 3:15 p.m. US Forest Service instructor Edward
-A. Grant and his son see a round object over Susanville, California,
-that at first seems to be a balloon, but is moving erratically. The
-movements are very fast and the direction changes very definite. They
-watch it pass overhead for several minutes. Suddenly, a long cylindrical
-object with fins along its sides appears from the north and passes
-overhead toward the south. The round object moves very rapidly to
-intercept the long object, ejecting a yellowish-brown trail, and merges
-with it. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR
-29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 4; Sparks,
-p. 295)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3707
Date: 9/15/1963
-Time: 66 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. F.E. Roush. Two very bright gold objects–one
-shaped like a banana and the other like an ear of corn–one remained
-stationary, the other moved from west to north during 10 minutes,
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Vandalia, Ohio
-ID: 492
Date: 9/19/1963
-Time: 2000
-Description: Four children saw a bright oval object hover in a field and
-drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted with a 3 m
-tall man, dressed in “a white monklike suit,” who held out his hands and
-made unintelligible sounds. The children fled in panic, and one girl was
-admitted to the hospital in shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Saskatoon, Canada
-ID: 581
Date: 9/19/1963
-Description: 6:50 p.m. More than 140 residents of Wonthaggi and South
-Dudley, Victoria, Australia, observe a mystery object like an orange
-beach ball maneuver in the sky for 25 minutes. At first it hovers, then
-it begins moving slowly and silently, putting on sudden and intermittent
-bursts of speed, before disappearing in an easterly direction into the
-Bass Strait. During the 25 minutes that the object is visible, TV sets
-malfunction in South Dudley, Wonthaggi, and lnverlock. TV sets variously
-display white screens, gray screens, double images, or snow and lines.
-Still other sets go completely blank. After the UFO leaves at 7:15, all
-TV sets resume normal operation. (“UAO’s
-Upset TV Reception,” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, pp. 1, 6; Schopick,
-pp. 109–111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3709
Date: 9/19/1963
-Description: Adm. Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter writes to astronomer Donald
-H. Menzel, saying that his book The World of Flying Saucers has
-“effectively put to rest all surmises about flying saucers being from
-‘outer space.’” (Christopher D. Allan, “Admiral Hillenkoetter: From
-Believer to Skeptic,” IUR 20, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3708
Date: 9/19/1963
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Four children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, see a
-bright, oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the
-site, they are confronted by a man about 10 feet tall dressed in a white
-“monk-like” suit who holds out his hands and makes unintelligible
-sounds. The children flee, and one girl is admitted to the hospital in
-shock. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 294;
-Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR
-24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3710
Date: 9/27/1963
-Description: Blue Book releases a statement on the Hill case,
-claiming insufficient information, although they strongly suspect the
-UFO is the planet Jupiter. (Clark III 581)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3711
Date: 10/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Five members of a family in Millersport, Ohio,
-see what seems to be an airplane on fire, but the house-sized object
-approaches and hovers about 300 feet away. They see a dark disc with a
-dome and antenna on top and three ball-shaped protrusions on the bottom.
-Around the rim are evenly spaced openings that emit fiery beams. In the
-dome, several large windows are visible in which a figure can be seen,
-at least by the mother. The dome rotates as the object hovers, and it
-makes a low humming noise. It finally rises slowly and makes a small
-circle in the air before speeding away. (Michael Swords, “Close
-Encounters of the First Kind: Do We Really Care?
-Part Two,” The Big Study, February 15, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3714
Date: 10/1963
-Description: A Lisunov Li-2 airliner on the Guangdong to Wuhan, China,
-air route is chased by three luminous UFOs for 115 minutes. The pilots
-provide a minute-by-minute report by radio to the Chinese Civil
-Aeronautics Administration. After landing, the crew is debriefed by air
-traffic control, and the passengers are told not to discuss the incident
-with anyone. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China,
-UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3713
Date: 10/1963
-Description: Maj. Hector
-Quintanilla is appointed director of Project Blue Book. He is
-assisted by Sgt. David Moody, who is particularly hostile to UFOs and
-tends to label every report as “possible” this or that. (Sparks,
-p. 14; Clark III 922–923)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3712
Date: 10/1963
-Time: 0900
-Description: A middle-aged woman, who had seen a strange craft hovering
-near her house the previous Jul., observed a gray-colored object, 3.5 m
-long, hovering less than 2 m above ground. Through the transparent front
-part she could see three figures. Suddenly one of the occupants was
-standing on the grass. He was clothed in “asbestostextured coveralls”
-and neither the face, nor the hands, nor the feet was visible. When she
-asked, “What do you want?” the answer, in English, was: “One of our
-party knows you; we will return.” The object then decreased in size,
-tilted, partially sank into the ground, grew to its previous size, and
-departed to the east, producing steam, a flash, and a noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Whidbey Island, Washington
-ID: 582
Date: 10/4/1963
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Connecticut State Representative Luther
-B. Martin sees a delta-shaped, silvery object leaving a flare-like
-trail at Hartland, Connecticut. A row of black markings is visible along
-the blunt forward edge as the object passes from south to north. He
-estimates its speed at 2,000 mph. (“UFO
-Sightings Centered in Western U.S.,”
-UFO Investigator 2, no. 10 (Dec. 1963/Jan. 1964): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3715
Date: 10/4/1963
-Time: 3:32 PM
-Description: Witness: R.E. Carpenter, 15. One intense oblong light with
-tapered ends and surrounded by an aqua haze, flashed and flickered while
-stationary for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bedford, Ohio
-ID: 493
Date: 10/12/1963
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Driving in a blinding rainstorm on the road
-between Monte Maíz and Isla Verde, Córdoba, Argentina, Eugenio Douglas
-feels heat and a prickly sensation all over his body. He sees a
-brilliant light in front of him. Temporarily blinded, he loses control
-of his truck and ends up in the ditch. Shaken but not injured, he gets
-out of the vehicle and looks up at the road, which he finds is blocked
-by an oval-shaped object at least 30 feet high. A door opens on the side
-and three huge “robots in human form” emerge. They wear helmets with
-short antennas and are 12–15 feet tall. Douglas takes a few shots at
-them with his revolver and runs away. The robots return to the UFO,
-which chases him down the road and eventually flies away. The next day,
-police find large footprints near the abandoned truck. (Gordon
-Creighton, “Argentina,
-1963–64,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 16–17;
-Clark III 280; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
-July–December 1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 64–65; Roberto Banchs, “Monte Maíz, Cordoba: La
-Vision Fantasmagorica de E. Douglas (11 Oct 1963),” Visión OVNI,
-November 10, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3716
Date: 10/12/1963
-Time: 0330
-Description: E. Douglas, while driving a truck through,a violent
-rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35
-m high, from which three giants, 3 m tall, wearing luminous clothes and
-strange helmets, emerged. Douglas fired at them, as a red beam burned
-him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz. He suffered burns
-similar to ultraviolet exposure. Footprints of large dimension were
-found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1963; Austr; FSR 8; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Monte Maiz, Argentina
-ID: 583
Date: 10/21/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Yolié del Valle Moreno and her family at Trancas,
-Tucumán, Argentina, observe six strange objects for 40 minutes in the
-back courtyard of their house. One UFO hovers at ground level above some
-railroad tracks, while another with a dome and portholes is near another
-house. They can see some 40 humanlike figures (silhouettes) moving
-around within two bright lights linked by a prolongation or tube. When
-witnesses flash a light at the object, the house is flooded with a
-strong beam. The temperature rises inside the house and the inhabitants
-smell a strong sulfurous odor. All six objects are about 24 feet in
-diameter, have a white and a red beam of light, and leave a cloud of
-white smoke that does not disperse for 4 hours. Beneath the space where
-one of the objects has been rocking back and forth, the witnesses find
-innumerable white balls one-quarter-inch in diameter piled into a cone 3
-feet high and within a circle 28–30 feet in diameter. They consist
-primarily of calcium carbonate. (Gordon Creighton, “Argentina
-1963–64, Part II,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966):
-23–24; Oscar A. Galindez, “Trancas,
-after Seven Years,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 3 (May/June 1971):
-14–20, 32; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 66–74; Carlos Iurchuk, “Los Asombrosos Fenomenos de
-Trancas por el Dr. Oscar Galindez,” Visión OVNI, January 1, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3717
Date: 10/21/1963
-Time: 2130
-Description: Six strange objects were observed for 40 min causing a
-local panic. One was hovering at ground level above some railroad
-tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was nea a house.
-When witneses flashed a light, the house was flooded with a strong beam.
-Temperature rose and a sulphurous odor was noted. Figures were seen in
-the vicinity of the first disks. All six objects had a white and a red
-light beam, measured 8 m in diameter, and left a cloud of white
-smoke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 145; LDLN 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Trancas, Argentina
-ID: 584
Date: 10/23/1963
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Driving south of South River, New Jersey, on
-State Route 18, a man glimpses something like a flashlight off to his
-left, and three figures, 3–4 feet tall, cross the road in front of him.
-They are dressed in “tight- fitting silver-gray one-piece suits” that
-“seem to glow once they hit the headlights.” Their heads are found, but
-the witness can see no other features. They begin quickly “fluttering”
-across the road, faster than the “fastest sprinter.” (Center for UFO
-Studies, [case
-documents]; Clark III 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3718
Date: 10/23/1963
-Time: 8:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: several unnamed students, including Gordon. One
-object shaped like a circle from below and like a football from the
-side, hovered low over the observers, making a deep, pulsating, loud,
-extremely irritating sound, for 6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Meridian, Idaho
-ID: 494
Date: 10/24/1963
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witnesses: A. McLean (12) and G. McLean (8). One light
-moved for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files.
-Note: Project Blue Book chief Maj. H. Quintanilla told the youngsters,
-in a letter, that this was “one of the most complete” of the unexplained
-cases for the year.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cupar Fife, Scotland
-ID: 495
Date: 10/31/1963
-Description: Eight-year-old Rute de Souza hears a strange roar and
-watches a silvery object coming towards her house near Iguape, São
-Paulo, Brazil. It soars above her, hits a palm tree, gyrates a bit in
-the air, then falls into the Rio Peropava near the opposite shore. She
-runs to get her mother and uncle, who also hear the sound. They see the
-river boiling up in the spot, followed by an eruption of muddy water and
-mud. Fishermen, including Tetsuo Ioshigawa, also view the event. The UFO
-is estimated to be 25 feet in diameter. Divers, both equipped and
-unequipped, fail to find any wreckage in the river, which is only 12
-feet deep. (“Disc
-Submerged in Brazilian River,”
-APRO Bulletin, January 1964, pp. 1–2; Harry E. Rieseberg, “A
-Submerged UFO?” Exploring the Unknown 6, no. 2 (December 1965):
-64–67; Brazil 517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3719
Date: 10/31/1963
-Time: 1400
-Description: A farmer, Issuo Oikiti, and two other witnesses saw a
-luminous object, resembling a huge, aluminum ball, which hit the river,
-changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side and plunged
-into the water, which appeared to boil.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Vuillequez (Vallee)
-Location: Peropava River, Brazil
-ID: 586
Date: 10/31/1963
-Time: 0415
-Description: Jim Davidson saw an object about 3 m long, bearing orange
-and red lights, which came close to his light truck, flew ahead of him,
-then departed and appeared to land behind a hill. Two witnesses
-independently reported a maneuvering light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Austr. FSR May., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Daylston, Australia
-ID: 585
Date: 11/1963
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A man and his daughter are driving just north of
-Andover, New Jersey, when they see three strange lights in the sky. They
-are perfect ovals possibly a quarter mile high. The lights take off at a
-great speed in “perfect unison” toward the north. (Center for UFO
-Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3720
Date: 11/1/1963
-Description: A member of the CIA-trained 35th Black Cat Squadron,
-Republic of China pilot Yeh
-Changti is flying an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft to spy on
-China’s nuclear program when he is shot down by an SA-2 missile over
-Shangrao, Jiangxi, and held in mainland China until 1982. Yeh is
-incarcerated for four years and undergoes numerous interrogations.
-Although some claim he was tortured, Yeh later says he was treated
-humanely. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he is released
-and sent to work on a farm, before being transferred to work at Hanyang
-Arsenal in Wuhan. (Wikipedia, “Yeh
-Changti”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 216–218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3721
Date: 11/3/1963
-Description: The Hills give
-a presentation at the Two State UFO Study Group in Quincy Center,
-Massachusetts. One of the attendees tape-records the session. Another
-speaker at the session is Capt. Ben
-Swett of Pease AFB, himself a practicing hypnotist, who tells them
-he thinks hypnotic regression is a good idea. (Clark III 584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3722
Date: 11/12/1963
-Description: The crew of the Argentine Naval auxiliary transport, ARA
-Punta Médanos, sees a large UFO off its stern [in the Atlantic
-Ocean?]. It is moving at high speed; when it appears, the needles of the
-ship’s magnetic compass suddenly and simultaneously swing off course,
-pointing towards the UFO, which is about 6,000 feet away. The compasses
-return to normal after the object leaves. (“Argentine
-Navy Discloses Important E-M Case,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4
-(Aug./Sept. 1965): 6; Schopick, pp. 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3723
Date: 11/15/1963
-Description: Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object
-that appeared about to land, but it “vanished.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Bloomingdale, New Jersey
-ID: 587
Date: 11/16/1963
-Time: evening
-Description: Four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton, while
-walking on a country road, saw a moving star turn into a reddish glow
-coming toward them, then disappearing behind some trees. Shortly
-thereafter, a bright, golden light was seen 80 m away, floating 3 m
-above ground, and a dark figure the size of a man, with wings like a
-bat, came toward them. They fled in terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Saltwood, Great Britain
-ID: 588
Date: 11/16/1963
-Description: Evening. Four teenagers—John Flaxton, Mervyn Hutchinson,
-Jenny Holloway, and another youth—are in Sandling Park near Saltwood,
-Kent, England, when they see a moving reddish-yellow “star” above the
-woods. It comes down at an angle of 60°, then vanishes. Moments later,
-they see a bright, golden light in a field about 240 feet away, floating
-10 feet above the ground, and seemingly 15–20 feet across. It seems to
-move along with the teens for a short while. It disappears behind trees,
-then a dark figure shambles out of the woods. It is all black, about the
-size of a human but without a head and has bat wings. The teenagers run
-away. Other witnesses come forward to report strange lights and giant
-footprints in the woods. (Charles A. Strickland, “Sightings
-at Saltwood, near
-Hythe, Kent,” LUFORO Bulletin 4, no. 5 (Nov./Dec./Jan. 1963–1964):
-2–3; “The
-Saltwood Mystery: Strange Happenings
-in Kent,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2(Mar./Apr. 1964): 11–12; A.
-Cecil Harper, “A
-Saltwood Sighting,”
-BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Summer 1964): 12; Nick Redfern,
-“An
-Update on a Sinister Winged
-Monster,” Mysterious Universe, June 14, 2018; Theo Paijmans, “The
-Headless Horrors of Sandling Road,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018):
-30–31; Clark III 779)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3724
Date: 11/17/1963
-Description: Jacques
-Vallée meets J.
-Allen Hynek for the first time at his residence in Evanston,
-Illinois. He begins actively assisting Hynek in his UFO work and helping
-him analyze Project Blue Book data. (Clark III 1213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3725
Date: 11/20/1963
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Capt. J. Murray and three members of the crew of
-the Aberdeen collier Thrift see a flashing red light as they are
-traveling south in the North Sea from Aberdeen to Blyth, Northumberland,
-England. It passes within a mile of their port side, 15–30 feet above
-sea level and suddenly disappears 3 miles astern, presumably into the
-water. The collier, which puts about and makes for the object’s
-vanishing point, has 2 radar contacts on its screens, but they disappear
-as the ship approaches. They search for 3 hours but find no wreckage.
-(“Mystery
-at Sea,”
-Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1964): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3726
Date: 11/22/1963
-Description: President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in
-Dallas, TX.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 11/22/1963
-End date: 1/20/69
-Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 11/22/1963
-Description: President John
-F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee
-Harvey Oswald. (Wikipedia, “Assassination
-of John F. Kennedy”; Wikipedia, “John
-F. Kennedy assassination conspiracies”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3727
Date: 12/1963
-Description: A Japanese man reported the landing of an object, from
-which emerged a being who spoke to him in a language he could not
-understand, climbed aboard again, and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN67 (Vallee)
-Location: Japan, exact location unknown
-ID: 589
Date: 12/10/1963
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A large, bright, dome-shaped UFO lands at RAF
-Cosford in Shropshire, England, seen by two student cadets returning
-late from leave. It bathes the area in intense green light from a height
-of 10 feet, then disappears behind a hangar. Scorch marks are later
-found where the object had been. (“A
-Landing at Cosford? More
-Confusion at the Air Ministry,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1964): 17, iv; “The
-Cosford UFO:
-The Mystery Deepens,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 3 (May/June
-1964): 31–32; “The
-Lesson of Cosford,”
-Flying Saucer Review 10. No. 4 (July/Aug. 1964): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, The
-Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse:
-UFOs, a History: July–December 1963, The
-Author, 2005, pp. 85–86; Good Above, pp. 56–58;
-Nick Redfern, “UFO
-Landing or Much Ado about Nothing?” Mysterious Universe, October 20,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3729
Date: 12/10/1963
-Time: 2330
-Description: At the RAF camp, two airmen observed a dome-shaped object
-that landed behind a hangar. It gave out a bright glow, and the
-witnesses fled when an opening became visible.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Cosford, Great Britain
-ID: 590
Date: 12/11/1963
-Time: 7 AM
-Description: Witness: W.W. Dolan, professor of mathematics and
-astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linfield College. One bright,
-star-like light hovered, slowed, dimmed and flashed in 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: McMinnville, Oregon
-ID: 496
Date: 12/14/1963
-Description: The Hills have
-an initial meeting with Benjamin Simon, a well-known hypnotist in
-Boston, Massachusetts, recommended to them by Dr. Stephens. It is clear
-to Simon that the Hills believe they have seen a UFO, but which may have
-been an experimental aircraft. This has set in motion an
-anxiety-provoking psychological experience whose sources it might be
-possible to uncover through hypnosis. (Clark III 584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3730
Date: 12/14/1963
-Time: 0100
-Description: Messrs. Muller and Immelman suddenly found the countryside
-illuminated and saw an object, 15 m in diameter, with intense orange and
-blue lights, emitting sparks, flying toward their car. They stopped and
-jumped out as it dived five or six times, at one point hovering for two
-min 15 m above them, making a humming sound, before flying away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 146; FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Vereeniging, South Africa
-ID: 591
Date: 12/16/1963
-Time: 5:05 PM
-Description: Witness: unspecified persons aboard a military aircraft.
-One white light blinked 2-3 times per second as it moved very fast
-across the sky for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 800 miles north of Midway Island (40’ N, 175’ 54’ W)
-ID: 497
Date: winter 1963
-Description: A series of at least three incidents at Walker AFB [now
-closed] at Roswell, New Mexico, involve unidentified aerial craft
-maneuvering silently above an Atlas missile silo designated Site 9,
-northeast of Sunset, New Mexico. Three former missile personnel at the
-base—Jerry C. Nelson, Bob Caplan, and Gene Lamb—relay their experiences
-to Florida Today reporter Billy Cox in June 2001. (Nukes 147–152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3728
Date: 12/25/1963
-Time: night
-Description: A fisherman witnessed the landing of a craft, from which a
-terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he
-could not understand, left footprints on the sand, and went back to the
-machine and flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 147;LDLN 70 (Vallee)
-Location: Libreville, Gabon
-ID: 592
Date: 12/27/1963
-Description: At Bank’s Stables in Epping, Essex, England, trainee riding
-instructor Pauline Abbott sees a shiny white UFO on the ground. It is
-about 8 feet long, 3 feet high at the center, and has what looks like a
-window on one side that is brighter than the rest of the object. It
-takes off, flies horizontally for 100 feet, and disappears. Grass is
-found flattened over a circular area. Marks “like three large
-fingerprints pushed together into mud” are found, forming a square with
-8-foot sides within an 11-foot circular depression that contains a
-3-foot central circle. (G. G. Doel, “The
-Epping Sightings,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Summer
-1964): 5–6; J. Cleary-Baker, “Evaluation
-by BUFORA Evaluating Officer,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1
-(Summer 1964): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3731
Date: 12/27/1963
-Time: 1600
-Description: A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank’s
-Stables. It was about 3.5 m long, 1 m high, and had something like a
-windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. It took off, flew
-horizontally for 30 m, and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened
-over a circular area, and four traces were found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BUFORA 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Epping, Great Britain
-ID: 593
Date: 1964
-Description: British writer W.
-Raymond Drake writes Gods or Spacemen?, the first of a series of
-books espousing his view that the world’s folklore, mythology, and
-religion are replete with references to space beings who came to Earth
-in several waves: the Uranids hundreds of thousands of years ago; the
-Saturnians centuries later; and the Jupiterians who landed near Crete.
-(W. Raymond Drake, Gods or Spacemen? Amherst, 1964; Wikipedia, “W.
-Raymond Drake”;
-Clark III 108; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics
-in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3734
Date: 1964
-Description: MKSEARCH is the name given to the continuation of the
-MKUltra program. The MKSEARCH program is divided into two projects
-dubbed MKOFTEN / CHICKWIT. Funding for MKSEARCH commences in 1965 and
-ends in 1971. The project is a joint project between the US Army
-Chemical Corps and the CIA Office of Research and Development to find
-new offensive-use agents with a focus on incapacitating agents. The
-purpose of the project is to develop, test, and evaluate capabilities in
-the covert use of biological, chemical, and radioactive material systems
-and techniques for producing predictable human behavioral and/or
-physiological changes in support of highly sensitive operational
-requirements. (Wikipedia, “Project
-MKUltra”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3732
Date: 1964
-Description: Ray
-Stanford founds Project Starlight International to document the
-existence of UFOs. He establishes a Laboratory for Instrumented Research
-on a 400-acre site northwest of Austin, Texas, that includes two
-buildings. Equipment eventually includes radar, a laser system,
-magnetometers, a gravimeter, microcomputer, microphones, video
-equipment, and still cameras. In the event of UFO activity, the
-Operation ARGUS (Automated Ring-up on Geolocated UFO Sightings) computer
-kicks in and automatically telephones all volunteers within the computed
-visibility radius of the UFO. Volunteers attempt to locate and
-photograph the UFO visually. On June 8, 1977, the FCC licenses its
-Raytheon Model 1700 radar system with the call sign K12XBJ. (Margaret
-Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 259–260;
-Ray Stanford, “A Technological Approach to UFOs: A Status Report on
-Project Starlight International, June 30, 1977,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August
-1977): 5–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3733
Date: 1/1964
-Description: Lionel Beer begins publishing Spacelink, a newsletter of
-the Isle of Wight UFO Investigation Society. It folds in April 1971. (Spacelink 1,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1964))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3735
Date: 1/1/1964
-Description: Many witnesses in Shanghai, China, see a huge cigar-shaped
-UFO flying toward the southwest. MiG fighters are scrambled in pursuit
-but fail to intercept it. The official explanation is that it is a US
-missile. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO
-Photo Archives, 1983, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3736
Date: 1/4/1964
-Description: Barney
-Hill has his first hypnosis session with Benjamin Simon. The
-sessions will continue until June 6. The Hills undergo sessions
-separately, and for the most part are instructed not to remember their
-experiences afterwards. Barney’s sessions are particularly intense.
-However, by the end of the sessions, although they disagree with Simon
-on the nature of the experience, both the Hills and Simon agree that the
-therapy is successful. The stress and anxiety are gone. Simon submits a
-statement to the Hills’ insurance company, which initially declines to
-pay, until Simon explains that he was treating them for what will later
-be called PTSD. (Clark III 584–585)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3737
Date: 1/23/1964
-Description: The landing craft Loellen M. is in the Gulf of Carpentaria
-between Cape Grey and Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia,
-when a crew member notices the compass is malfunctioning (“haywire”) and
-the vessel is off course, He notices an odd phosphorescence in the water
-on the starboard side about 6 feet away from the ship. It is a ghostly,
-pulsating white light that is rotating in a clockwise direction. It
-seems to be “miles across.” As the light wheel moves to the ship’s port
-side, another rotating light approaches the ship’s starboard side. This
-undoubtedly involves some unusual bioluminescence, but it is significant
-that it is the first “unknown” in the RAAF’s UFO files. (Swords
-390)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3738
Date: 1/25/1964
-Description: The London UFO Research Organisation merges with the
-British UFO Association (a consolidation of several UFO groups in the
-UK) to form the British UFO Research Association. It begins publishing a
-new magazine, BUFORA Journal, in the summer. (“Editorial:
-The Problems Facing Us,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1
-(Summer 1964): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3739
Date: 2/3/1964
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Doris Player wakes up to see her bedroom
-illuminated near Gum Creek, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Suddenly a
-5-foot 3-inch being wearing blue-green coveralls, a brown balaclava, and
-an open brown jacket appears. He wears elbow-length, black gloves with a
-cord going from his helmet to his left shoulder. He has a red face and a
-big nose and holds a black box that buzzes and clicks as he points it.
-The witness goes back to sleep. (Mark Cashman, “Behavioral
-Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999):
-19– 20; Thomas Brisson, “UBO’s
-(Unidentified Box-like Objects), Part 2,” Vomanomalous, July 15,
-2014; “Documentary
-on UFO’s, Adelaide, Australia, Part 1,” MaS7eRjEd3ye YouTube
-channel, February 5, 2009, at 6:05)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3740
Date: 2/10/1964
-Description: “The Bellero Shield” episode of Outer Limits airs on
-ABC-TV. It features an alien with wraparound eyes. UFO skeptic Martin S.
-Kottmeyer alleges that this episode influenced Barney
-Hill’s hypnotic recounting of events, although Betty Hill says they
-had never watched it. (Clark III 589; Internet Movie Database, “The
-Bellero Shield”;
-Martin Kottmeyer, “Entirely
-Unpredisposed: The Cultural Background of UFO Reports,” Magonia 35
-(January 1990))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3741
Date: 2/29/1964
-Description: President Lyndon
-B. Johnson holds a press conference to announce that the US has
-repeatedly broken the Soviet’s world record for air speed by a secret
-aircraft called the A-11—a fictitious name for the Air Force’s YF- 12, a
-twin-seat version of the Lockheed A-12 built as an interceptor. He says
-the A-11 can fly more than 2,000 mph at an altitude of 70,000 feet. The
-YF-12A is announced in part to continue hiding the A-12, its
-still-secret ancestor; any sightings of CIA/Air Force A-12s based at
-Area 51 in Nevada can be attributed to the well- publicized Air Force
-YF-12As based at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Jacobsen, Area
-51, pp. 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3742
Date: 3/1964
-Description: Allen
-H. Greenfield, Rick
-Hilberg, and
-Dale Rettig begin publishing the American UFO Committee Review in
-preparation for their first Congress of Scientific Ufologists meeting in
-Cleveland, Ohio. Greenfield publishes the journal in Atlanta, Georgia,
-for seven issues, until fall 1966. (American
-UFO Committee Review 1, no. 1 (March 1964))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3743
Date: 3/7/1964
-Description: Betty
-Hill has her first hypnosis session with Benjamin Simon. Betty’s
-account closely matches her dreams from 2 years earlier, and her account
-is consistent with Barney’s. Many abduction elements come to light:
-telepathic commands, semen extraction, a rectal probe, skin scrapings, a
-pregnancy test with a needle, the Star Map. The aliens are 5 feet tall
-with gray skin, oddly shaped heads, and broad foreheads. Simon discounts
-the possibility of an alien abduction and prefers to think that Betty’s
-dream influenced Barney’s memories. The Hills do not agree. (Wikipedia,
-“Barney
-and Betty Hill”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3744
Date: 4/1/1964
-Description: The UK Air Ministry, Admiralty, and War Office are
-consolidated into a new Ministry of Defence. The Air Ministry becomes
-the Air Force Department, within which is a secretariat called S4 (Air)
-that deals with, among other things, UFO reports from the public.
-Another office, Defense Secretariat 8, is created under the authority of
-the Secretary of State and also has authority over UFO reporting.
-(Wikipedia, “Ministry
-of Defence (United Kingdom)”;
-Good Above, pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3745
Date: 4/3/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Four people in a car observed a rigid configuration of
-intense red and white lights, apparently attached to a large object that
-came to ground level, hovered, and flew off very fast as they were
-driving about 2 km west of Monticello.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Challenge 31 (Vallee)
-Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
-ID: 594
Date: 4/3/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. R. Wold, a graduate student in anthropology, and
-two others see four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with a
-white light above, near the ground about one mile west of Monticello,
-Wisconsin. It tilts and flies away. (Sparks, p. 296)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3746
Date: 4/3/1964
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. R. Wold (he was a graduate student
-in anthropology). Four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with
-a white light above, were near the ground, tilted and flew away after
-3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
-ID: 498
Date: 4/11/1964
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Physiotherapist William B. Ochsner and his wife
-and two children are having a picnic on a hill about 10 miles northwest
-of Homer, New York. They see an unusually wide vapor trail in the sky
-stretching from northeast to southwest. At the far end of the white
-trail is a smoky, spiral portion about one mile long. The vapor trail
-drifts off. After 10 minutes, Ochsner notices that the spiral portion is
-still visible, having moved a bit to the west. With binoculars, he sees
-wisps of smoke streaming out of it. It changes from a horizontal to a
-vertical position with greater smoke activity. It stops and hangs there
-for 2–3 minutes before sinking into the clouds. After another 3 minutes,
-they see a horizontal pencil-shaped object moving from left to right on
-the horizon. A flash of white light erupts from its end and shoots
-forward a short distance then stops. It becomes thick in the middle, a
-cloud of smoke emanates from it, and it shoots backward rapidly. Again
-it hovers and changes to a saucer shape. It then divides into two parts,
-one above the other. The top object slowly recedes into the distance,
-while the bottom objects heads downward at a 45° angle, divides in two
-again, with the top part fading away and the bottom part assuming a
-vertical pencil shape, which fades away. The whole display takes 45
-minutes. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 60–61;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1
-(Spring 2004): 7–9; Sparks, p. 297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3747
Date: 4/11/1964
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner and wife. Two
-cloud-like objects darkened; one shot away and returned during the 30-45
-minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Homer, New York
-ID: 499
Date: 4/15/1964
-Alternate date: 4/24/1964
-Description: USAF Intelligence officer meets with 2 Aliens at
-prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico near Holloman AFB.
-Project SIGMA operates at AFB, New Mexico.
-Type: alien meeting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Location: Holloman AFB
Date: 4/20/1964
-Description: Early morning, During Operation Deep Freeze VII, six
-members of a US Coast Guard aircraft sight a V-formation of 9
-glowing-white objects speeding at an estimated 35,000 feet altitude.
-They are flying a in a C-130 turbo-prop transport from McMurdo Station,
-Antarctica, with supplies. The right-side observer first sees the
-objects approaching at about 460 mph from above and to their right side.
-When they come abreast of the airplane, they slow to its speed. After a
-short time, they fly above the airplane and take up position above and
-to its left side. The pilot attempts to radio the ground but the radio
-is dead, and their radar also stops working. When the pilot tries to
-switch to auxiliary power, it too is not functioning. At one point the
-airplane’s engines stop (the oil begins to congeal in the cold air).
-Instead of losing altitude, it maintains “a steady altitude and course.”
-The airplane allegedly continues flying in complete silence, then it
-enters a “strange haze” (like a white-out) with the air filled with
-static electricity. There is electrical arcing from one observer’s body
-to metal inside the fuselage. The haze vanishes after about 20 minutes.
-The power suddenly returns, and the crew can restart the engines in
-sequence. The airplane has covered a distance of 305 miles during the
-45–50 minutes at indicated airspeed of 184–218 knots. (NICAP, “C-130
-Crew Encounters UFO / EME to Radio and Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3748
Date: 4/22/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Marie Morrow and two other persons were driving west, about
-2O km east of Lordsbury when the entire area was illuminated by a bluish
-light “as bright as day,” and a round object flew about 3 m above the
-car, making a whining sound, then went north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO May., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Lordsbury, New Mexico
-ID: 595
Date: 4/22/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Marie Morrow, Ruth Ovelette, and Morrow’s son are
-driving west about 10–15 miles east of Lordsburg, New Mexico, when a
-brilliantly luminous object sweeps about 10 feet above their car from
-behind, illuminating the interior and emitting a whirring, whining
-sound. The UFO then rises but maintains its course along the highway
-before veering toward the north and vanishes. (“Huge
-Light Buzzed Car in New Mexico,” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, p. 10;
-Clark III 1091–1092)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3749
Date: 4/24/1964
-Time: 1745
-Description: Policeman Lonnie Zamora observed the landing of a white
-craft, resting on four legs, in a depression 4 km outside Socorro. Near
-it were standing two figures, below average height, dressed in white.
-Within 30 m of the object, he saw a red insignia on its aluminumlike
-surface. It rose to 4 m with a strong roar, became silent, hovered and
-flew away. Traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Challenge 34; Humanoids 47; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Socorro, New Mexico
-ID: 597
Date: 4/24/1964
-Time: 1000
-Description: Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object,
-about 8 m long and 6 m wide, in his field. He spoke in English to two
-dwarfs, 1.2 m tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying
-trays.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 59; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Tioga City, New York
-ID: 596
Date: 4/24/1964
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. Watched object
-with flame underneath descend toward the desert. Two small humanoids
-observed near vertical oval on ground. Later watched object take off
-with a roar, go silent and fly away. Burning and charred brush found at
-landing sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Socorro, New Mexico
-ID: 500
Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: Whitish elliptical object with legs seen on ground by
-police officer, left imprints and scorched foliage when it took
-off
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Socorro, NM
-ID: 9
Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: Farmer found shiny elliptical object in field, confronted
-by two small humanoids who spoke with him
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Newark Valley, NY
-ID: 10
Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: Around 5:50 p.m. Socorro, New Mexico, police officer Lonnie
-Zamora, while
-chasing a speeder, hears a continuous roaring sound and sees a brilliant
-blue “cone of flame” in the sky to the south-southwest. The bottom of
-the flame is out of sight behind a hill. Thinking there has been an
-explosion, he tries to pursue it, turning off to the right on a rough
-gravel road, but loses sight of it while trying to get the car up a
-steep hill. By the time he reaches the top, the sound stops and the
-flame is no longer visible. He then notices a metallic object in a
-ravine about 450 feet away. At first, he thinks it is an overturned car,
-but then he sees “two figures in what resembled white coveralls, pretty
-close to the object on the northwest side, as if inspecting it.” One
-seems to turn in a startled way as if he hears Zamora’s car approaching.
-The figures are small, and the object is oval-shaped and positioned so
-its long axis is horizontal. Zamora loses sight of object as he drives
-through a dip in the road. He radios headquarters that he is
-investigating a possible car accident. He stops a second time and gets
-out, hearing 2–3 loud thumping noises like a door shutting hard. He
-walks three steps to the front of the car to possibly 50 feet away from
-the object when he hears a very load roar increasing in volume and sees
-a smokeless blue-orange flame coming from beneath. He notes a red
-insignia or lettering on the side of the object. Zamora thinks it is
-going to explode and runs away, putting the car between him and the
-object and dropping to the ground. He feels some slight heat from the
-flame. The roaring noise stops, and Zamora looks up to see the UFO
-flying away to the southwest at a level height, just clearing an 8-foot
-dynamite shack. He runs back to the patrol car and radios headquarters,
-just as the object climbs slowly and goes past Box Canyon or Six Mile
-Canyon Mountain (about 6 miles away). The entire incident takes place in
-less than 2 minutes. Police Sgt. M. S. Chavez arrives, and they find
-burning brush (including a badly damaged creosote bush) where the UFO
-has been, as well as four asymmetrically placed, trapezoidal imprints
-12–16 inches long, 6–8 inches wide, and 4–6 inches deep. An FBI agent,
-D.
-Arthur Byrnes Jr., who
-has heard about it on the police radio, speaks with Zamora in the
-evening. He notifies army intelligence at White Sands Missile Range, who
-sends Capt. Richard T. Holder. Military police arrive and collect
-samples, working by flashlight. The next morning, Holder gets a call
-from a colonel at the war room of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asking for
-a report. T/Sgt. David Moody from ATIC and Maj. William Conner from
-Kirtland AFB check the area for radioactivity on April 26. Hynek arrives
-on April 28 and interviews Zamora and Chavez. Richard
-H. Hall and Ray
-Stanford arrive for NICAP and obtain some metal traces on a rock in
-the landing area; they take the sample to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
-Center, where metallurgist Henry
-E. Frankel agrees to analyze the material. His tentative analysis
-suggests a zinc-iron alloy, perhaps from a zinc pail. In 1966, Blue Book
-chief Maj. Hector
-Quintanilla writes in a classified article in Studies in
-Intelligence that “This is the best-documented case on record, and still
-we have been unable, in spite of a thorough investigation, to find the
-vehicle or other stimulus that scared Zamora to the point of panic.”
-Some investigators think the case might involve a test of a Lunar
-Surveyor module from White Sands. (Wikipedia, “Lonnie
-Zamora incident”; NICAP, “Lonnie
-Zamora / Socorro Landing Case”; Sparks,
-p. 297; “UAO
-Landing in New Mexico,” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, pp. 1, 3–10; “Physical
-Evidence: Landing Reports,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11
-(July/Aug. 1964): 4–5; Coral Lorenzen, “UFO Lands in New Mexico,” Fate
-17, no. 8 (August 1964): 27–38; Hector Quintanilla Jr., “The Investigation
-of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence 10, no. 4 (February 1966): 95–110;
-Clark III 1083–1093; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed.,
-1974, pp. 165–166;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 223–229;
-Good Above, pp. 343–345, 371–373;
-Story, pp. 341–344;
-Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976,
-pp. 8–11; Ray Stanford, Socorro ‘Saucer’ in a Pentagon Pantry,
-Blueapple, 1976; “The Socorro, New Mexico, Landing: Additional
-Witnesses?” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 15; ClearIntent, pp. 139–141;
-Kenneth Eugene Firestone and Ronald L. Firestone, “Socorro,
-New Mexico: Revisited,” Ground Saucer Watch, 1981; Kim Hansen, “UFO
-Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 62–66; Don Berliner,
-with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The
-Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 78–80;
-David E. Thomas, “A
-Different Angle on the Socorro UFO of 1964,” New Mexicans for
-Science and Reason, 2001; Paul Harden, “The
-1964 Socorro UFO Incident,” El Defensor Chieftain, August 2, 2008;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Socorro
-UFO Landing Analysis,” A Different Perspective, November 22, 2009;
-Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Socorro Symbol:
-Resolved?” A Different Perspective, October 15, 2016; Kevin D.
-Randle, “No
-Socorro Solution by Chief of
-Project Blue Book,” A Different Perspective, November 7, 2017; Kevin
-D. Randle, “Zamora
-vs. People,” A Different Perspective, November 9, 2017; Kevin D.
-Randle, Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro,
-New Page, 2017; Justice Fodor, “Ray
-Stanford and His NASA-Goddard UFO-Metal Cover-Up Claim,”
-Alien Expanse, February 14, 2019; Center for UFO Studies, [correspondence];
-Center for UFO Studies, [case files: Files
-1 and 4R, Files
-2, Files
-3, MiscR, Zamora];
-Center for UFO Studies, [Clippings1, Clippings2])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3751
Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Dairy farmer Gary Wilcox of Newark Valley, New
-York, is driving a tractor on his property when he sees a shiny object
-on the inside edge of a nearby patch of woods. He gets off the tractor
-and approaches the object, which is egg-shaped, 20 feet long, 16 feet
-wide, and four feet high. It is hovering two feet above the ground and
-making a sound like a car idling. He touches it and feels a hard metal.
-Two figures suddenly appear from under the object. They are 4 feet tall
-and 2 feet wide, dressed in seamless silvery garments. Each carries a
-tray filled with alfalfa, roots, soil, leaves, and brush. Wilcox hears a
-voice say, “Do not be alarmed. We have talked to people before.” They
-ask him what he is doing, and Wilcox says he is spreading manure. One
-humanoid asks if he can have some and converses some more about space
-exploration. They claim they are from Mars. After a while, the UFO takes
-off in a horizontal direction. Wilcox notices some small depressions
-where the figures were standing, as well as a thin, red, jellylike
-substance. (Olga M. Hotchkiss, “New York UFO and Its ‘Little People,’”
-Fate 17, no. 9 (September 1964): 38–42; Berthold E. Schwarz, “Gary
-Wilcox and the Ufonauts,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients,
-special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 20–27; Clark III
-795–799; Marcus Lowth, “The
-Gary Wilcox Occupant Encounter: The Fertilizer Case,” UFO Insight,
-December 27, 2018; Story, pp. 246–249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3750
Date: 4/25/1964
-Description: Evening. Two motorists driving on US Hwy 84 between Abiquiu
-and Espanola, New Mexico, see a strange object that is definitely not an
-airplane fly straight toward their car before shooting away. All they
-can see is a blue-flamed exhaust. (Clark III 1092)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3753
Date: 4/25/1964
-Description: Morning. J. D. Hatch is driving on US Hwy 70 between
-Mescalero and Tularosa, New Mexico, when a bright oval object descends
-and seemingly lands on the other side of Round Mountain east of
-Tularosa. (Clark III 1092)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3752
Date: 4/25/1964 (approximate)
-Description: Night. Two Spanish-speaking people 9 miles away from
-Golden, New Mexico, watch a light come down from the sky and leave three
-“smelted” circles some 2 feet in diameter and separated from each other
-by 20 feet. They mention this story to James Scartacinni, 15, and his
-grandfather visit the site the next day and find the circles, which they
-estimate must have been subjected to a temperature of 2,300° F. They
-return to town and call the state police, who notify the military.
-Almost immediately, men in uniform cordon off the area, dig up the
-burned areas to a depth of one foot, and carry the material away.
-(“Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March
-1982):12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3754
Date: 4/26/1964
-Time: 1230
-Description: Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped
-object about 70 m away, on the ground, north of La Madera. Blue flames
-appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about
-the length of a Phone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found,
-according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: La Madera, New Mexico
-ID: 598
Date: 4/26/1964
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Orlando
-Gallegos steps outside his father’s ranch at La Madera, New Mexico,
-to chase away some horses in the yard. He sees a peculiar structure in
-the Rio Vallecitos creek bed some 900 feet away. It looks like a butane
-tank “as long as a telephone pole” about 14 feet in diameter, metallic,
-and shooting blue flames out of holes in the sides. As he watches over
-the next minute, the flames subside. It is still there when he goes
-inside, where no one else believes him. It is gone the next morning, but
-state police (including Capt. Martin E.
-Vigil, David
-Kingsbury, and
-Albert Vega) investigate and find the ground still smoldering and
-scorched with four depressions, one of them 8 by 12 inches in size. The
-charred area is in the shape of two overlapping circles and about 20
-feet across. Hynek is
-refused authorization to go visit the site. (“Mystery
-Object Report Is Told,” Albuquerque Tribune, August 27, 1966, p. 1;
-Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 222–223;
-Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 54–55; “Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2
-(March 1982):12–13; Clark III 1092; Sparks, p. 298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3755
Date: 4/28/1964
-Time: morning
-Description: Numerous witnesses, among them policeman Paul Arteche, saw
-a reddish, round object hover at low level, then take off very rapidly
-toward the west.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Anthony, New Mexico
-ID: 599
Date: 4/28/1964
-Description: Early evening. A round, whitish object hovers then darts
-away over Anthony, New Mexico. State policeman Raúl
-Arteche sees it moving west over the Port of Entry near El Paso,
-Texas. He says it looks like the object Lonnie
-Zamora saw. (“Other
-Recent Sightings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 (July/Aug. 1964):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3756
Date: 4/28/1964
-Description: Early morning. Don Adams is driving in Edgewood, New
-Mexico, when his car stalls. He sees a glowing, greenish object 100 feet
-overhead and fires six rounds from a .32 pistol at it with no effect. He
-can hear the bullets bouncing off. It silently moves away to the north.
-(“Other
-Recent Sightings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 (July/Aug. 1964): 7;
-“Green
-Object at Edgewood,” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3757
Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Several children living in Canyon Ferry,
-Montana, see a lighted, egg-shaped object the size of an automobile land
-about 150 feet away, then take off. The witnesses are Linda Davis, 11,
-and children of the Harold Rust family. It leaves four 8 x 10 inch
-rectangular indentations in the ground, 4–8 inches deep, about 13 feet
-apart, and a burned area. (“Kids
-Called Hoaxers by U.S.A.F,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 1, 5;
-Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 223–224;
-Sparks, p. 298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3759
Date: 4/30/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: Several anonymous adults observed an elongated, glowing
-object. Two children saw a lighted craft land and take off, leaving four
-rectangular indentations.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Canyon Ferry, Montana
-ID: 601
Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown,
-dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 km west of Baker on U.S.
-Highway 91. They lost sight of it a moment, could not see it again, and
-found only a depression in the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 5; Anatomy 75 (Vallee)
-Location: Baker, California
-ID: 600
Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: Glowing oval object landed, indentations and scorch marks
-found at site
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Canyon Ferry, MT
-ID: 11
Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: A B-57 pilot at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico,
-radios to the control tower that he is watching an egg-shaped, white UFO
-with markings that match the Socorro object. He continues to watch it as
-it lands at the base. Coral
-and Jim Lorenzen insist they heard the story from a reliable source.
-In addition, a ham radio operator claims to have heard the exchange
-between the pilot and control tower. Holloman AFB denies the incident
-occurred. Shortly afterward, an airman walks into a clothing store in
-Alamogordo and spins an incredible story of a UFO parked in a hangar
-under heavy guard at Holloman. A couple days later, he returns to the
-store and denies everything. (Coral Lorenzen, “UAO
-Landing at Air Force Base,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 1, 3–4;
-Coral Lorenzen, “UFO
-Lands at Air Force Base,” Fate 17, no. 10 (October 1964): 45–52;
-Clark III 332)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3758
Date: 5/1964
-Description: NICAP publishes its special 184-page report, The UFO
-Evidence, but due to a printing delay, copies are not actually available
-until late June. Copies are sent to the media and to every member of
-Congress on July 1. Edited by Richard
-H. Hall, it
-consists of a summary of hundreds of unexplained reports studied by
-NICAP investigators through 1963. Sightings are systematically broken
-down by witness category and special types of evidence. Individual
-chapters are devoted to sightings by military personnel, pilots and
-aviation experts, and scientists and engineers. Another chapter is
-devoted to evidence of intelligent control and another to physical
-evidence or interactions, such as electromagnetic effects, radar
-tracking, photographs, sound, physiological effects. Another section
-examines observed patterns, such as descriptions of shape, color,
-maneuvers, flight behavior, and concentrations of sightings. House
-Majority Leader John
-W. McCormack (D-Mass.) requests two copies, one for his Capitol Hill
-office and another for his state home office. (Richard H. Hall, ed., The
-UFO Evidence, NICAP, 1964; Wikipedia, “National
-Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena”; Richard Hall, “NICAP
-and Lessons from the Past,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June 1992): 17, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3760
Date: 5/5/1964
-Time: 0830
-Description: A farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field and
-fly rapidly into the cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a
-depression and imprints in the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Comstock, Minnesota
-ID: 602
Date: 5/5/1964
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Alfred Ernst, a farmer near Comstock, Minnesota,
-sees a luminous UFO like a child’s top from about 1,500 feet away. It
-rises straight up and disappears into the overcast sky after a few
-seconds. Ernst and his brother find a crater-like depression, about 3
-feet in diameter and 6 inches deep at the center, at the spot where the
-object was sitting. A series of smaller holes form an X around the
-larger depression. The earth seems burned on the perimeter of the hole
-and a whitish substance is found. (“Physical
-Evidence: Landing Reports,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11
-(July/Aug. 1964): 5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 56–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3761
Date: 5/5/1964
-Description: Object landed in field, physical traces
-Type: landing
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Comstock, MN
-ID: 12
Date: 5/9/1964
-Time: 1100
-Description: Three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie
-Montello, saw a silvery, dome-shaped object arrive from the south and
-land in a field 150 m away. Estimated diameter: 3 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Mogadore, Ohio
-ID: 603
Date: 5/9/1964
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witness: J.R. Betz, U.S. District Court reporter. Three
-light green crescent-shaped objects, about half the apparent size of the
-Moon, flew very fast in tight formation from east to west, oscillating
-in size and color for 3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 501
Date: 5/10/1964
-Description: Domed disc rose from woods, electromagnetic (E-M) effects
-on van, 10-meter (30-foot) burnt circle found next day
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: La Rioja, Argentina
-ID: 13
Date: 5/13/1964
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Mrs. M.
-Walter McKarley and her children see a large round object that
-appears in their headlights after they pull into a driveway at Rio
-Vista, California. It seems to be resting on the ground about a quarter
-of a mile away. Higher in the sky is a small star-like object (probably
-Venus). As they drive away, the large object seems to pace their car for
-a short time. It then moves swiftly to the left and disappears behind a
-water tank. (“Physical
-Evidence: Landing Reports,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11
-(July/Aug. 1964): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3762
Date: 5/13/1964
-Description: A woman saw two objects, one of which landed in a field. It
-was round and luminous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Rio Vista, California
-ID: 604
Date: 5/15/1964
-Description: Between 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Two targets are
-simultaneously tracked on surveillance and FPS-16 radars at Stallion
-Site, the most northerly range of the Army-controlled Holloman–White
-Sands complex a few miles east of San Antonio, New Mexico. The targets
-are north of the radar site, performing “perfect, precise flight
-maneuvers” in tandem, involving separations and rejoins and “up-and-down
-‘pogo’ maneuvers.” One radar operator obtains a visual sighting of two
-brown-colored, football-shaped objects that are flying at very low
-altitude and are lost from view behind buildings at the site. The two
-targets are displayed as skin paints. However, IFF transponder codes are
-also received on two different frequencies alternately. (NICAP, “UFO
-Auto-Tracked, Sends
-Phony IFF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3763
Date: 5/17/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: A fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from
-Wooster and Smithville at 2110. then from Lawrence and Burbank between
-2125 and 2130. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of
-color, apparently interfering with police radio. lt went down toward the
-northwest, seemingly ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity allegedly was
-found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Akron UFO Res. Soc. (Vallee)
-Location: Massillon, Ohio
-ID: 605
Date: 5/18/1964
-Description: A bright, silvery object, 3 m long, 1.5 m high, with a
-cone-shaped front part, resting on four legs, was seen in a wheat field
-by 10-year-old Mike Bizon. It made a beeping noise, rose first to the
-altitude of the Phone poles, then took off vertically. Wheat was found
-flattened in all directions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Hubbard, Oregon
-ID: 606
Date: 5/18/1964
-Time: 5:15 PM
-Description: Witness: civil engineer F. Meyers. One small, glowing white
-oval split twice after moving from the right of the Moon around to the
-left. Sighting lasted 17 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Vernon, Virginia
-ID: 502
Date: 5/19/1964
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Mike Bizon, 10, sees a square or spindle-shaped,
-bright-silver UFO on the ground in Hubbard, Oregon, while he is leading
-a cow out to pasture. The cow, normally eager to be let out, acts very
-reluctant and nervous. The object is resting on four legs in an adjacent
-wheat field. It rises slowly off the ground to the height of a telephone
-pole, then zooms straight up emitting a soft beeping sound. Bizon smells
-an odor like gas fumes. Three imprints in the shape of an equilateral
-triangle are found in an area of flattened wheat about 4 feet wide.
-(Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 53–54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3764
Date: 5/19/1964
-Description: Rectangular object with legs left flattened wheat and three
-indentations on the edge of a circle
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hubbard, OR
-ID: 14
Date: 5/21/1964
-Description: 4:30 a.m. At Altus AFB, Oklahoma, Missile Site 7, southeast
-of Ranchland, Texas, a large bright light is seen directly over the
-facility below 10,000 feet. The light is bright enough to light up the
-silo cap. Its apparent size is as large as a basketball held at arm’s
-length. The object is first noticed hovering over the south fence of
-Site 7 for 8–10 minutes. (NICAP, “Light
-Hovers over Missile Silo”; Nukes 159–160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3765
Date: 5/24/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: A man driving on Millinocket Lake Road saw a fiery,
-spherical object to the side. He stopped and left his car with a friend
-to observe it better. When they became afraid and walked back to the
-car, the sphere followed them; the engine could not be started as long
-as the sphere remained within 2 or 3 m of the car. It flew away after
-five min. It was described as a ball of fire without structure, about 75
-cm in diameter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Millinocket, Maine
-ID: 607
Date: 5/24/1964
-Description: James
-P. Templeton, using
-a Pentacon camera with Kodacolor X stock, takes a photo of his
-5-year-old daughter Elizabeth when his family is picnicking on the
-marshes at Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, England. When the film is developed,
-a man, encased in a white spacesuit and helmet, is clearly visible
-behind Elizabeth’s head. Templeton and his family claim they had seen no
-one when the photo was taken. He tells the Carlisle police, who are
-puzzled. Kodak is intrigued enough to conduct an inquiry. They rule out
-a double exposure. However, one possibility is that the image is an
-overexposed view of the back of Templeton’s wife. After the photo
-receives some local publicity, Templeton gets a call from someone
-describing himself as an investigator. Templeton agrees to meet with him
-and an associate and visit the marsh. Two men dressed in dark business
-suits show up and drive him to the site. They refuse to give Templeton
-their names, referring to themselves only as “9” and “11.” They are
-mostly interested in finding out if any nearby animals had been
-agitated. Then they insist that the figure was just a passerby, get
-angry, and drive away, leaving Templeton stranded and having to walk
-home 5 miles away. (Gordon W. Creighton, “The
-Mysterious Templeton Photograph,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1964): 11– 12; Jenny Randles, “The Riddle of the Templeton
-Photograph,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 12–15; “The Templeton
-photograph” [in color], Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2 (Summer
-2001): inside cover; Jenny Randles, “Casebook: The Solway Spaceman,”
-Fortean Times 196 (May 2005): 29; Andy Roberts and David Clarke,
-“Farewell to the Solway Spaceman?” Fortean Times 286 (April 2012):
-28–29; Jenny Randles, “Moderations, Part One: Lost and Found Files,”
-Fortean Times 292 (September 2012): 29; Clark III 1126–1127; Patrick
-Gross, “The Solway
-Firth Photograph, 1964”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3766
Date: 5/26/1964
-Time: 7:43 PM
-Description: Witness: P. Wankowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian
-satellite tracker. One thin, white ellipsoid (3.5 times as long as wide)
-flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
-ID: 503
Date: 5/26/1964
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witness: Rev. H.C. Shaw. One yellow-orange light, shaped
-like the bottom of a ball, was spotted in a field and chased down the
-road for 2 miles.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pleasantview, Pennsylvania
-ID: 504
Date: 5/26/1964
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Rev. H. C. Shaw sees a yellow-orange light
-shaped like the bottom of a ball in a field at Pleasant View,
-Pennsylvania, and chases it down the road for two miles. (Sparks, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3769
Date: 5/26/1964
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Terry
-Balliet, their family, and two neighbors see two UFOs in the
-northwest sky near Palmerton, Pennsylvania. One is a large, stationary,
-dome-like object emitting hazy whitish light from the underside. A
-smaller disc-like object is intermittently visible maneuvering around
-the larger one. It finally merges with the large object, which moves
-away to the east. The large object is seen twice more in the evening,
-moving back and forth from east to west. (“Other
-Recent Sightings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 (July/Aug. 1964):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3768
Date: 5/26/1964
-Description: 7:43 p.m. Paul Wańkowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian
-satellite tracker, sees a thin, white ellipsoid, estimated at 15–20 feet
-in length at 1,000 feet altitude, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It flies
-straight and level from nearly overhead to the east-northeast, where it
-disappears behind the roof of a Sears Roebuck store as viewed from his
-car in the parking lot to the south. He briefly loses sight of it as it
-passes behind cumulus cloud cover. No noise or trail. The tops of
-cumulus clouds are at least 3,500 feet altitude, thus the UFO’s speed is
-at least 700 mph and length 50– 70 feet. (NICAP, [Blue
-Book documents]; Sparks,
-p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3767
Date: 6/1964
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A young couple is driving home from a dance at a
-small place north of Santa Barbara, California, when a circular, glowing
-object silently appears above their car. They stop to watch. It is about
-100 feet high and 40 feet in diameter and seemingly emits some heat. It
-hovers for 2 minutes then speeds off ahead of them, lighting up the
-valley as it goes and apparently traveling about 1,800–2,400 mph. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3771
Date: 6/1964
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Bert Gammie, his mother, and his daughter Lynn
-are driving along the northern shore of Green Lake, British Columbia,
-when they see a light above a mountain across the lake to the south.
-Soon they notice it is moving and is now almost directly overhead. He
-stops the car and gets out for a closer look. The object is circular,
-dull metallic, and has a series of vents in the tail trailing white,
-blue, red, and orange exhaust. They watch it for 3 minutes moving slowly
-to the north at about 50 mph and making a whistling noise. It makes a
-sharp right-angle turn, proceeds west, and disappears from sight. Gammie
-reports the sighting to the RCAF in Vancouver, and a senior air force
-officer visits him later and shows him a bulky portfolio of glossy UFO
-photos, many of them showing detailed features. Gammie tells him that
-the UFO he had seen did not exactly resemble any of the photos, and the
-officer tells him that the RCAF would not admit to interviewing him if
-the case receives any publicity. (“‘That
-Awful Looking Shooting Star,’” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 5 (1975):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3772
Date: 6/1964
-Description: BUFOI magazine (Belgian UFO Information) is launched by a
-George Adamski group in Anvers, Belgium, and edited by May and Patrick
-Morlet. It runs until 1979. (BUFOI
-Magazine, no.
-1 (June 1964))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3773
Date: 6/2/1964
-Time: 1600
-Description: A “black object with flames” is blamed for burns suffered
-by an 8-year-old child, who said he saw the object coming from the sky.
-His grandmother, Mrs. Frank Smith, who was standing nearby, heard a
-sound similar to that of a bullet, but saw nothing. The child suffered
-second-degree burns on his face, and lost part of his hair.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Saucer News Mar., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Hobbs, New Mexico
-ID: 608
Date: 6/2/1964
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Charles Keith Davis is outside his grandmother’s
-home in Hobbs, New Mexico, when a small, tan, top-shaped object with a
-soot-like trail appears and hovers above the boy’s head, enveloping him
-in a cloud. He starts crying and screaming, and the object shoots
-straight up and disappears. His hair is singed and his face and ears are
-swollen and burned, although he does not feel any pain. They take him to
-the hospital, where doctors notice the soot embedded in his flesh. The
-burns respond well to treatment and he stays 5 nights in the hospital.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 191–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3774
Date: 6/2/1964
-Time: 1730
-Description: David Wilson, 14, was going to get some straw for his
-rabbits when he stopped with other children to observe half-a-dozen
-dwarfs, about 80 cm tall, dressed in bright green, and having hands
-lighted “like electric bulbs,” who seemed to be searching for something.
-Another child later reported that she had seen a silvery disk-shaped
-object, the size of a car, take off from the same location.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Dec.,64 (Vallee)
-Location: Leam Lane, England
-ID: 609
Date: 6/5/1964
-Description: A 42-year-old doctor and his wife were 30 km away from the
-airport when an intensely bright object appeared on the road ahead. They
-drove very close to it and saw three men dressed in gray, one of whom
-told him in Spanish that “they had a mission on Earth.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Pajasblancas, Argentina
-ID: 610
Date: 6/8/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: Helen Reed observed a spinning object 5 m above ground,less
-than 20 m away, coming and going with right-angle turns. It had a dome
-from which colored light emanated (blue turning to red) and bands of
-yellow light. The object was lost to sight behind trees in the
-north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois
-ID: 611
Date: 6/13/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Karen Fahle saw a bright object coming to the ground about
-200 m away. While approaching its lights blinked and turned to dark red.
-Five min later it went away slowly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: AMUFO Sep., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Penberville, Ohio
-ID: 612
Date: 6/13/1964
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witness: B.L. English, announcer for radio station WTOD.
-Three glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides, moved slow,
-hovered and then moved in circles very fast, all the while making a low,
-rumbling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Toledo, Ohio
-ID: 505
Date: 6/14/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Charles Englebrecht went outside when his TV set and all
-house lights suddenly failed and saw a glowing blue-white object, about
-30 nn in diameter, land about 18 m away in the field. He felt a mild
-electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move
-forward.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Dale, Indiana
-ID: 613
Date: 6/14/1964
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Charles Englebrecht, 18, is watching TV at home
-in Dale, Indiana, when the house lights and TV suddenly go out. He
-notices that a small, bright orange-colored, basketball-sized object has
-landed in his back yard. As he goes out the side door and tries to
-approach it, he feels a tingling sensation and has difficulty moving.
-After a few seconds the sphere takes off and goes over the nearby barn.
-Several items in the backyard have been moved (lawn mower, chicken
-feeder). He smells sulfur or burning rubber and find three imprints in a
-triangle with the dimensions of 2 feet by 4.5 feet by 4.5 feet. (NICAP,
-“The
-Dale Landing Case”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3775
Date: 6/15/1964
-Description: A miner, R. A. Donoso, observed a strange machine land.
-From it emerged two fairskinned men who asked for water in a language
-which appeared to be a mixture of English and Spanish. Donoso took some
-water from his car radiator for them and they left. Their craft was
-about 3 m long and 1 m wide.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65; 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Aria, Chile
-ID: 614
Date: summer 1964
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A meteorologist at Westford, Massachusetts, sees
-a bright lightning flash 5 miles to the south. At the same time, his car
-headlights and the headlights of an approaching car go out, as well as
-his radio. No thunderclap is heard. He notes that the sky is clear and
-there are no thunderstorms in the entire Boston area. (“Astronomers and
-UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3770
Date: 6/23/1964
-Description: Author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” and journalist Frank
-Scully dies in Palm Springs, CA. In 1988 his large archive of
-1950’s-early 60’s material (personal notes, private correspondences,
-newspaper clippings, etc.) is contributed by his wife Alice to the
-American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming) in Laramie, WY.
-Type: death
-Reference: link
-Location: Palm Springs, CA
Date: 6/27/1964
-Description: Teenage UFO buffs Allen
-H. Greenfield, Rick
-Hilberg, and Dale Rettig hold the first Congress of Scientific
-Ufologists in Cleveland, Ohio. It becomes an annual meeting and changes
-its name to the National UFO Conference, which runs until 2005.
-(Wikipedia, “National
-UFO Conference”; “Ufologists
-to Meet,” Lexington (Ky.) Herald, June 22, 1964, p. 20; Story, p. 91;
-David Halperin, “Cleveland
-2015: ’Congress of Scientific Ufologists’
-50th Reunion,” davidhalperin.net, June 25, 2015; National UFO
-Conference, “Congress
-of Scientific UFOlogists”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3776
Date: 6/29/1964
-Description: Brilliantly lit top-shaped object made head-on passes at
-car, paced ahead of it, hovering and darting motions
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lavonia, GA
-ID: 15
Date: 6/30/1964
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Beauford
-E. Parham is driving near Lavonia, Georgia, on his way back from a
-business trip when he notices a brilliant light in the sky. It is moving
-towards his car at a 45° angle. In an instant it appears right in front
-of his headlights, no more than 5 feet away and a foot above the ground.
-Shaped like a giant top, it emits a “hissing sound like a million
-snakes.” The amber-colored UFO has a sharp, steeple-like cone rising
-from its top midsection. It moves above his car leaving a strong odor of
-embalming fluid and a gaseous vapor that leaves an oily substance over
-his car, even after repeated washings. After several passes over his
-car, it starts spinning and takes off vertically. Parham now notices his
-arms are beginning to burn. He immediately reports his sighting to the
-mayor of Lavonia, then personnel at the Anderson Regional Airport in
-South Carolina, where he meets local FAA officials who check his car for
-radiation. They get readings from the oily stains, as well as both his
-arms from the shoulder down. (“Man
-Claims Car Buzzed by an Unknown Object,” Greenwood (S.C.)
-Index-Journal, July 3, 1964, p. 5; NICAP, “Lavonia
-/ Tallulah Case (Radiation)”; Schopick, pp. 71–72;
-Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 5–7; Clark III 678–680)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3777
Date: 7/1964
-Description: NICAP report, The UFO Evidence, released to Congress and
-news media.
-Type: report
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 16
Date: 7/7/1964
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Three members of the Henry
-Ivester family in Turnerville, Georgia, are watching TV when sudden
-interference prevents them from further viewing. They go out on the
-front porch and see an object moving silently above the trees 300 feet
-away. It stops to hover a few feet above a neighbor’s garden across the
-highway. Its bottom side is fully visible; on the dark upper side are
-three lights: red, clear, red. The red lights are blinking. As the
-object ascends, the lights go out. A brilliant green light then shines
-from the bottom, illuminating the trees. A foul odor “like embalming
-fluid or brake fluid” hangs in the air after the object leaves. (“Unearthly
-Objects Hovering
-in Sky?” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, July 17, 1964, p. 23; Schopick, pp. 72–73;
-Clark III 679; “An Interesting
-UFO Story from Georgia,” The Paranormal Effect, October 3,
-2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3778
Date: 7/7/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Nine persons from three different houses, including J.
-Ivester, described an object like “a flying top.” TV interference was
-associated with the object’s presence. It flew silently at tree height
-and hovered over the vard of Mrs. Russell Mickinan’s house. The lower
-part was bright red, with three lights on the upper part. As it left, a
-green light illuminated the countryside. A powerful odor similar to
-“embalming fluid” was noticeable when police arrived. The next day,
-witnesses felt a burning sensation on their faces and arms.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
-ID: 615
Date: 7/12/1964
-Description: Assistant Professor Vyacheslav Zaitsev is aboard a Tupolev
-Tu-104 airliner above Bologoye, Tver Oblast, Russia, when he sees a huge
-disc with a domed cabin suddenly appear below the aircraft, fly a
-parallel course for a while, then swerve abruptly and speed away. (Felix
-Ziegel, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 28; “Russian
-Scientist Confirms Important Cases,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5
-(March 1968): 6; Good Above, p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3779
Date: 7/14/1964
-Description: After 11:00 p.m. Atlanta Constitution reporter Tom
-Winfield sees a top-shaped, misty-orange object circling above the
-southeast section of Gainesville, Georgia, at about 500 feet. It stops
-and hovers a few moments then shoots up out of sight. He takes a photo,
-but nothing registers on the film. (“Unearthly
-Objects Hovering in Sky?” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, July 17, 1964,
-p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3780
Date: 7/14/1964
-Time: evening
-Description: Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While
-riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified
-them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Nov., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
-ID: 616
Date: 7/15/1964
-Description: MP Arthur
-Henderson in the UK House of Commons asks the former Secretary of
-State for Air Hugh
-Fraser about cooperation between the RAF and USAF in UFO
-investigations. Fraser says he is aware of the US Project Blue Book, and
-that 10% of the cases are insufficient evidence. (Good Above, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3781
Date: 7/16/1964
-Time: 11:15 PM
-Description: Witness: Northern Air Service pilot K. Jannereth. Four
-white lights in a stepped-up echelon formation, were joined by two more.
-They closed in on the airplane, then rapidly slowed nd flew along with
-it for a total of 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan
-ID: 506
Date: 7/16/1964
-Description: Shortly after noon. Five boys (Edmund Travis, Randy Travis,
-Floyd Moore, Billy Dunlap, and Gary Dunlap) are playing around an apple
-tree at Conklin, New York, when they notice a shiny, dome-shaped object
-in a field along the roadside. Looking for the source of a whistling
-sound, the boys spot a 3-foot-tall humanoid figure crouching in a tree
-about 150 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny black uniform,
-short-sleeved shirt, and black helmet. The whistling appears to emanate
-from his stomach. The boys throw stones and apples at it, but the figure
-is too far away. After about 15 minutes, the figure, moving stiffly,
-falls backwards out of the tree and floats slowly into the bushes. They
-can see it crawling through the weeds back to the UFO. A round,
-flattened area is found in the field where the grass is crushed and
-bushes are broken. In the middle is dried, yellow moss that apparently
-has been subjected to great heat. Three depressions are where the UFO
-legs apparently were. (Clark III 296–297; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-10, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3782
Date: 7/16/1964
-Time: 1500
-Description: Edmund Travis, 9, Randy Travis, 7 Floyd Moore, 10, and two
-other boys, saw a dwarf dressed in a black suit and a helmet, with a
-glass section in front of his face, which looked human. He appeared to
-request some water in a strange tone, which sounded “as if it came from
-a pipe.” He then walked to a shiny machine partially hidden in the
-brush, as the boys ran home.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Conklin, New York
-ID: 617
Date: 7/16/1964
-Description: Humanoid with dark suit and helmet, climbed on top of
-craft. Physical traces found at site
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Conklin, NY
-ID: 17
Date: 7/16/1964
-Description: Pilot observed formation of four white lights joined by two
-others, paced aircraft for five minutes
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Houghton Lake, MI
-ID: 18
Date: 7/20/1964
-Time: 4:45 AM
-Description: Witness: J.J. Winkle. One 60’ diameter round-topped,
-flat-bottomed object with a long acetylene-colored flame shooting
-downward, flew straight and level, made a half loop, then rose up.
-Sighting lasted l minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Littleton, Illinois
-ID: 507
Date: late 7/1964
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Richard H. VanPelt and his teenage son are
-driving on Beeler Road south of Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio, when
-they see a Saturn-shaped metallic object hovering above Breese Road 600
-feet away. It is about 1,200–1,500 feet in the air and has a revolving
-ring around its center. It suddenly starts to move to the southwest,
-then tips on end and with tremendous speed goes straight up and out of
-sight. (Richard H. VanPelt, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 3 (June/July 1984): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3783
Date: 7/27/1964
-Time: 8:20 PM
-Description: Witness: A. Borsa. One white ball of fire, the size of a
-car, climbed slowly, then speeded up. Sighting lasted 2-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Denver, Colorado
-ID: 509
Date: 7/27/1964
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Duabert, engineering supervisor. One aluminum
-sphere with a luminous ring, remained stationary for 4-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Norwich, New York
-ID: 508
Date: 7/27/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: An engineer stopped his car when he saw an aluminum-looking
-object, stationary, about 15 m above ground. The edge of the craft
-seemed fluorescent, and three beams of very bright light were emitted
-before it flew off at high speed. Total duration: 6 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sherburne, New York
-ID: 618
Date: 7/27/1964
-Description: Aluminum-colored sphere with luminous ring hovered for four
-to five minutes. Air Force unidentified case
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Norwich, NY
-ID: 19
Date: 7/28/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: A former Navy pilot and another man, both regarded as
-trustworthy, were at work in a field when they saw an intense light,
-cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in
-the sky when the one on ground was turned off, then the reverse took
-place. A round, aluminum-looking object, about 10 m in diameter, with
-one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level
-with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet. Piercing and
-high-pitched voices similar to those of children playing were heard.
-After 40 min the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying
-at low altitude circled its position. On Jul. 31 and August 1, the
-densely wooded area was explored from a helicopter and on foot by
-Sheriff Nickell and a U.S. Air Force officer, but nothing was
-found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake Chelan, Washington
-ID: 619
Date: 7/29/1964
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 20
Date: 7/30/1964
-Description: A whitish, elliptical object followed a car, then landed in
-a field. The driver got out to observe it, but when the object started
-in his direction he became afraid and drove off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Flemington, New Jersey
-ID: 620
Date: 8/1964
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Raimo Blomqvist is visiting with his parents at
-their summer cottage at Kallavesi lake, Finland, when he suddenly
-notices a strange, colorful ball of light coming from the sky. The light
-approaches and turns out to be an oval glowing object. While it is
-hovering above the shallow water of an island he sees something fall
-from the object and hears a sound resembling hot metal touching cold
-water. The object shoots straight upward. Blomqvist recovers a
-2–2.5-inch piece of stone. In 1975, Blomqvist contacts UFO investigators
-and gives them the stone. The fragment is x-ray analyzed at Åbo Akademi
-University in Turku, which states that it appears to be volcanic.
-Analysts at the University of Turku look at it with a mass spectrometer
-and conclude it is mostly iron, not a piece of ore, not volcanic, not a
-meteorite, and not machined, although it has been subjected to a
-temperature of around 650° C. (“Fragment
-Fell from UFO,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 6 (December 1977): 1, 3;
-“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 3 (Mar. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3784
Date: 8/1964
-Description: Midnight. Air Policeman Arthur McEnaney and other guards
-see a round UFO hovering above a four-silo Atlas complex near Francis E.
-Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming. (Nukes 159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3785
Date: 8/2/1964
-Description: Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Vietnam
Date: 8/7/1964
-Description: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against
-Vietnam begin
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Vietnam
Date: 8/9/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Baltazar Flores, Franciso Perez, Ruben Lozaya,
-and Elpidio Salas are camping near the Cerro Viejo, Sonora, Mexico,
-where they plan to explore for minerals. Suddenly a “dark, cloud-like
-object” approaches at high speed. As it passes by, the trees shake and
-they hear an explosion. They return the next day and less than 2 miles
-from their campsite they find a compact, gelatinous mass of
-green-turquoise color about 8 inches long. When they poke it with a
-stick, the stick becomes covered with a sticky substance like chewing
-gun. They report the incident to the authorities, but no one is
-interested. One of the witnesses returns 3 days later and finds most of
-the mass gone, with some residue on the rocks and grass. (“Strange
-Gelatinous Fall in Mexico,” APRO Bulletin, November 1964, p. 1;
-Clark III 1102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3786
Date: 8/10/1964
-Time: 5:16 AM
-Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. B.C. Jones and
-navigator lst Lt. H.J. Cavender, in parked USAF C-124 transport plane.
-One reddish, blinking light approached the runway, stopped and made
-several reverses during 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wake Island
-ID: 510
Date: 8/10/1964
-Description: Blinking red light approached air base runway, hovered,
-reversed direction. Air Force unidentified case
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wake Island
-ID: 21
Date: 8/11/1964
-Description: 5:30 p.m. John Dodson, 15, and Frankie Jimenez, 14, are
-walking near the railroad tracks south of State Highway 281 east of
-Defiance, Ohio, not too far from the General Motors foundry. They see a
-slowly rotating whitish disc apparently hovering above a GM water tank.
-The object has a lighted flange-like base, a dome on top, and is making
-a whirring or hissing noise. It begins to move horizontally at a
-moderate speed, then shoots up vertically and disappears. (“Maney
-Reports Boys’ Sighting,” APRO Bulletin, November 1964, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3787
Date: 8/11/1964
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 22
Date: 8/12/1964
-Time: 2200
-Description: Witnesses got out of their car to watch an object
-resembling a “burning haystack,” oval or crescent-shaped, which rose
-from the ground, crossed the sky, and was lost to sight in the
-south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Brekkens Corner, Montana
-ID: 621
Date: 8/15/1964
-Time: 1:20 AM
-Description: Witness: S.F. D’Alessandro. One 10’x5’ bullet-shaped object
-with wavy lines on the rounded front part and six pipes along the
-straight rear portion, made a “whishhh” sound. Witness’ dog growled
-during sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: New York, New York
-ID: 511
Date: 8/15/1964
-Time: 8:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: E.J. Haug, of the San Francisco Orchestra and
-the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and C.R. Bubb, a high school
-mathematics teacher. Three bright silver, round objects, in a stack
-formation, flew very fast, changing positions within the formation. The
-sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yosemite National Park, California
-ID: 512
Date: 8/18/1964
-Description: 12:35 a.m. USAF Major D. W. Thompson and First Pilot 1st
-Lt. J. F. Jonke are flying a C-124 transport with the 31st Air Transport
-Squadron, 1607th Air Transport Wing, 200 miles east of Dover AFB in
-Delaware at 9,000 feet over the North Atlantic. A blurred reddish-white
-glare appears ahead and 500 feet below them on a collision course.
-Thompson takes evasive action, and the light makes a right turn and
-disappears. Air traffic control shows nothing on their radar in that
-location. (NICAP, “Object
-on Collision Course with C-124”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 50–51;
-Sparks,
-p. 300)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3788
Date: 8/18/1964
-Time: 12:35 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Maj. D.W. Thompson and First Pilot lst Lt. J.F.
-Jonke, on a USAF C-124 transport plane. One round, blurred,
-reddish-white object was on a collision course with the C-124 from ahead
-and below. The airplane evaded the object. Sighting las ted 2
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles east of Dover, Delaware
-ID: 513
Date: 8/22/1964
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Robert
-D. Briele, an
-engineer for WFBR-AM radio, and a friend watch a lighted triangular
-object pass directly overhead in Baltimore, Maryland. Through binoculars
-he can see a steady white light at each corner. A small green light is
-also on one corner and a red light in the center. The object moves
-slowly and silently from northeast to southwest, disappearing in 10
-minutes. (“UFO
-Sighting Wave Persists,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 12
-(Sept./Oct. 1964): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3789
Date: 8/25/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: Richard Pratt, 17, heard a whistling noise and saw a
-silvery, oval object surrounded with a soft white glow, supporting a
-dome, which went down to ground level. A similar object had been
-observed one hour earlier at Littleton, about 50 km west, by four boys.
-It was described as silvery gray, with three blinking red lights and a
-white light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Lynn, Massachusetts
-ID: 622
Date: 8/30/1964
-Description: Night. Clifford Runyon and Connie Thies are driving from
-Tipton to Bennett, Iowa, when they see a cigar- shaped object with two
-bright lights hovering 500 feet up in the eastern sky. The UFO climbs as
-they drive toward it, and their radio goes out and the car engine
-sputters. (“UFO
-Sighting Wave Persists,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 12
-(Sept./Oct. 1964): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3790
Date: 9/4/1964
-Description: Declassified documents show that from 1962 through 1964,
-the CIA has spent a total of $2.6 million to finance the campaign of Eduardo
-Frei Montalva for the presidency of Chile and spent $3 million in
-anti–Salvador Allende propaganda
-“to scare voters away from Allende’s FRAP coalition.” Richard
-Helms coordinates the action. The CIA considers its role in the
-victory of Frei a great success. They argue that “the financial and
-organizational assistance given to Frei, the effort to keep [Julio]
-Durán in the race, the propaganda campaign to denigrate Allende—were
-‘indispensable ingredients of Frei’s success,’” and they think that his
-chances of winning and the good progress of his campaign would have been
-doubtful without the covert support of the US. Thus, in 1964 Allende
-loses once more as the FRAP candidate for president. (Wikipedia, “Salvador
-Allende”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3791
Date: 9/4/1964
-Description: A bow-and-arrow hunter separated from his companions was
-treed by humanoid and robot-like beings after a UFO was observed
-descending
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cisco Grove, CA
-ID: 23
Date: 9/5/1964
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Donald Schrum and his friends are bow-and-arrow
-hunting in an isolated area of Placer County, California, near the Loch
-Leven Lakes in the vicinity of Cisco Grove. Schrum becomes separated
-from his companions. At sunset he decides to sleep in a tree for the
-night. Later he sees a white light zigzagging at low altitude and,
-thinking it is a helicopter, jumps out of the tree and lights fires to
-attract its attention. The light turns toward him and stops about 50–60
-yards away. The object’s strange appearance frightens Schrum, so he
-climbs back up in the tree. After a while two humanoid beings and a
-robot-like creature approach the tree. From then on, Schrum is in a
-state of siege as the beings try to dislodge him from the tree. At one
-point a white vapor emanates from the robot’s mouth and Schrum blacks
-out, but wakes up again, nauseous, and begins lighting matches and
-throwing them down to frighten the beings away; they back away. Finally,
-he shoots an arrow at the robot; when it hits, there is an arc flash and
-the robot is knocked backwards. This is repeated two more times, and the
-humanoids scatter each time. A second robot appears and a vapor renders
-Schrum unconscious. When he awakes, he discovers that the two humanoids
-are climbing up the tree toward him, so he shakes the tree and throws
-things down at them to ward them off. The same actions are repeated all
-night. Near dawn, more beings approach and “large volumes of smoke”
-drift up and he blacks out. He awakes hanging from his belt, and the
-creatures are gone. Later, when reunited with his companions, Schrum
-finds that one of the other hunters, who also have gotten lost and
-separated from their camp, saw the UFO. (NICAP, “Cisco
-Grove / Alien Encounter”; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore
-Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 17–23; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 210–212;
-Sparks, p. 301;
-Clark III 236–240; Ted Bloecher and Paul Cerny, “The Cisco Grove Bow and
-Arrow Case of 1964,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 16–22, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3792
Date: 9/5/1964
-Time: 2200
-Description: A hunter, who had lost his way in the mountains, observed
-approaching lights that seemed to land. From a vantage point in a tree,
-he saw a dome-shaped object at ground level, about 500 m away. Several
-creatures, one of them a robotlike figure with “eyes” about 10 cm in
-diameter, came near, apparently trying to dislodge the witness from his
-tree. The creatures appeared to fear the light from flaming objects
-thrown at them. The witness fell asleep after an exhausting series of
-attempts to keep the creatures away. At dawn there was nothing to be
-seen.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Cisco Grove, California
-ID: 624
Date: 9/5/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Chafredo Dagota observed a circular object that came to the
-ground briefly. It stood on a sort of pillar and emitted a blinding
-light. He caught sight of two figures moving near it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Cofico, Argentina
-ID: 623
Date: 9/10/1964
-Time: 7:09 PM
-Description: Witness: chemist P.H. DePaolo. Four white lights, 3-4
-apart, were seen to the north, going west for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cedar Grove, New Jersey
-ID: 514
Date: 9/11/1964
-Time: 0600
-Description: Karen Campbell was scared by an oval, dull copper object
-that flew low over her car. It measured about 1.2 m in height, had a
-dome on top, made a “rushing” noise, and seemed to “float” over the
-car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 148 (Vallee)
-Location: Ulysses, Oklahoma
-ID: 625
Date: 9/14/1964
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Astronomers Luis Ferro and Renato Matteassi at
-the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina, watch an object
-with the apparent size twice that of the Moon passing across the
-constellation Lyra. The central portion is white and green, while the
-rear looks like half-rings of blue. Its speed is estimated as three
-times the speed of sound. They watch it for 3 minutes moving toward
-Jupiter. (Gordon Creighton, “Argentina 1963/1964:
-Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3793
Date: 9/15/1964
-Description: 8:27 a.m. USAF Lt. Robert Jacobs is officer-in-charge of
-photo-optical instrumentation for the 1369th Photographic Squadron at
-Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base] near Lompoc,
-California. His crew films an SM-65F Atlas missile launch where a UFO
-allegedly causes the ICBM’s warhead to malfunction over Big Sur,
-California. At the time of the filming, apparently no one knows anything
-about a UFO sighting. But the next morning, Jacobs is ordered to report
-to the office of Maj. Florenz
-J. Mansmann, First Strategic Aerospace Division, his commanding
-officer, where he is shown the film and told to forget it ever happened.
-Kingston George, the project engineer for the experiments and who
-probably never saw the film, “identified” the object as “nothing to do
-with UFOs” in an article in the Skeptical Enquirer. Before Mansmann’s
-death, and 40 years after the actual event, the major confirms the UFO
-incident in writing. The controversy centers on the opinions of some
-researchers who suggest that the telescope imaging system is not
-adequate enough to produce the results described by Jacobs and Mannsman.
-However, several other researchers have shown that, with the viewing
-conditions at the height of the equipment used, and the imaging systems
-operating at that shoot, the incident could have occurred as described.
-(NICAP, “The
-Big Sur Filming / UFO Disables Dummy Warhead?”; Robert Jacobs, “How
-a UFO Destroyed an American Rocket,” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1
-(October 1983): 23–24; Kingston A. George, “The
-Big Sur ‘UFO’: An Identified
-Flying
-Object,” Skeptical Inquirer 17 (Winter 1993): 180–187; Robert
-Hastings, “A Shot across the Bow: Another Look at the Big Sur Incident,”
-IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 3–11, 20–24; Mark Rodeghier, “Image
-Resolution of the Optical System at Big Sur,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January
-2007): 20; Robert Hastings, “Answers on Big Sur,” IUR 31, no. 4
-(Mar. 2008): 18; Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs Are
-Stalking and Intercepting Dummy Nuclear Warheads during Test
-Flights,” UFOs & Nukes, August 23, 2011; Nukes 187–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3794
Date: 9/15/1964
-Description: James Warren was awakened by a noise, and saw an object
-bearing blinking red and green lights fly over his house at treetop
-level. He called the police, who also reported seeing the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jan., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Core Lane, Louisiana
-ID: 626
Date: 9/16/1964
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Several teenagers at Little Hulton, Greater
-Manchester, England, watch a noiseless, pearly white triangular object
-traveling with its base forward toward the north. (“Manchester
-Disbeliever’s Testimony,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1964): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3795
Date: 9/18/1964
-End date: 9/24/1964
-Description: Numerous high-speed UFOs are reported and tracked on radar
-in an area between Surabaya, Malang, and Bangkalan, Java, Indonesia.
-Antiaircraft batteries and Air Force pilots reportedly open fire on
-them, even though officials suspect they could be British aircraft from
-the HMS
-Victorious protecting Malaysia. (Good Above, p. 429;
-Rahadian Rundjan, “Mencari
-UFO di Langit Indonesia,” Historia, June 19, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3796
Date: 10/1964
-Description: An engineer and three technicians at the Wallops Flight
-Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, see a triangular- shaped object
-speed in from the north, make a 90° turn, and disappear in under a
-minute. They all agree that it moved faster than a jet. (Harold H.
-Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965):
-48– 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3798
Date: 10/1964
-Description: Air Force and Army radar stations tracked an UFO as it
-hovered over and flew along the demilitarized zone between North and
-South Korea. The UFO was visible for over an hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Korea
Date: 10/7/1964
-Description: 11:10 p.m. R. Shannon and his wife see a blood-red triangle
-in the sky above Dulwich, London, England. They watch it for 10 minutes
-before it begins revolving swiftly, almost to a blur, then explodes
-silently and disappears. (R. Shannon, “Dulwich
-De-Materialisation?” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1965): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3799
Date: 10/11/1964
-Description: Engineer, others, observed dome-shaped object following jet
-fighters. UFO shot straight up and out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brockton, MA
-ID: 24
Date: late 1964
-Description: Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander 1Lt. Philip E. Moore
-is on duty in Site 7 (east of Hagerman, New Mexico), one of the 579th
-Strategic Missile Squadron’s underground Atlas missile launch facilities
-at Walker AFB [now closed] in Roswell, New Mexico. He gets a call from
-an adjacent missile silo around 10–15 miles away, saying that a UFO is
-hovering and maneuvering over their site. Maj. Dan Gilbert sends three
-enlisted crew members—T/Sgt. Jack Nevins, Airman1C Bob Garner, and
-Airman 1C Mike Rundag—above ground to see what is going on. They see a
-silent light that moves very quickly (instant stop and instant go) back
-and forth between Site 6 and Site 8. Gilbert goes up and sees the same
-activity. (Nukes 152–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3797
Date: 10/22/1964
-Description: Flying Saucer Review editor Waveney
-Girvan dies, and Charles
-Bowen takes control and oversees the magazine until 1982, its most
-influential period. (Charles Bowen, “Our
-Friend Waveney Girvan,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1964): 5; Clark III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3800
Date: 10/29/1964
-Description: 12:00 midnight–3:00 a.m. Irene Page watches a sparkling
-ball of light that maneuvers around her yard, illuminating her property
-in Brimfield, Massachusetts. When she first sees it, the TV set fades,
-and lights in the room blink on and off several times. (“Flashing
-UFO Seen Three Hours,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1965, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3801
Date: 11/1964
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. Lehel observed a lighted object at hilltop level, about
-700 m away. At the site, a wide circle of crushed vegetation was found,
-three branches were broken, and a pole was calcined.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 76 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Alexis de Montcalm, Canada
-ID: 627
Date: 11/3/1964
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A barking dog alerts the caretaker of the Butano
-Creek Girl Scout Camp near Pescadero, California. He goes outside and
-sees a bright light maneuvering erratically in the northeast. He flashes
-an SOS signal at it with a flashlight, and the light silently moves
-toward him. He flashes more SOS signals and it moves even closer,
-hovering above some trees a half mile away and moving back and forth. It
-lights up the sky like a full moon. The caretaker and another employee
-run into a cabin to get their wives. The four watch for a while longer,
-then flash another SOS. The light approaches again, then retreats, dims,
-and takes off. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-p. 242)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3802
Date: 11/5/1964
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek writes to a citizen interested in the Socorro, New
-Mexico, case and affirms his opinion that Lonnie
-Zamora’s story was “told by a man who obviously was frightened badly
-by what he did see.” He says he cannot dismiss it as a hoax or
-hallucination. (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from
-the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3803
Date: 11/9/1964
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Trevor Foss responds to his son’s call to watch a
-light in the northern sky over Kailoa Station, Gisborne, New Zealand.
-Through night binoculars he sees a ball of light traveling south toward
-him. It takes 5 minutes to reach the southern horizon and has rotating
-light beams that project downward and to the rear, as well as 6 jet-like
-blue flames. (“Farmer
-Observes Sphere,” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3804
Date: 11/14/1964
-Description: Midnight. Astronomers at the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos
-Aires, Argentina, see an elongated, flat, reddish-orange object crossing
-the sky from east to west and then back again at a speed 4.5 times that
-of a satellite. (“Mystery
-Object over Argentina,” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, p. 2; Gordon
-Creighton, “Argentina 1963/1964:
-Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3805
Date: 11/14/1964
-Time: 9:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Dr. G.R. Wagner, MD; and two girls. Three dim,
-reddish lights flew through a 160^ arc in 5-6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Menominee Falls, Wisconsin
-ID: 515
Date: 11/19/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The USS
-Gyatt destroyer is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 miles
-northwest of Puerto Rico when its radar detects a bogey approaching the
-island from the northeast at speeds exceeding Mach 1. The ship relays a
-message to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station [now José Aponte de la Torre
-Airport] in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, which then contacts Lt. Cmdr. K. H.
-Woodsbury, pilot of an F-8C aircraft of Utility Squadron Eight that is
-already flying in the neighborhood at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The
-aircraft reports a stranger closing in very fast. The pilot describes
-the object as delta-shaped and about the size of a fighter. Its color is
-black or gray and it has no contrail or lights except for a light source
-emitting from the tail during periods of acceleration. The pilot pursues
-the object but cannot intercept. The target accelerates out of sight in
-a wide starboard turn climbing through 50,000 feet at about an 18°–20°
-angle in excess of Mach 1. Woodsbury says: “Its speed, acceleration,
-ceiling and ability to decelerate exceed any aircraft I have ever seen
-or heard of. There is no reasonable explanation for this target.” During
-the encounter the SPS-49 radar is jammed for a short period of time.
-Other radar encounters take place in the Caribbean November 16–18 and
-24. (NICAP, “U.S.S.
-Gyatt Tackles Bogey”; Sparks, p. 302)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3806
Date: 11/19/1964
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witnesses: unidentified military persons. One bright white
-flashing light was travelling from horizon to horizon in 20
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 1,400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan (34’ 55’ N, 164’ 05’ E)
-ID: 516
Date: 11/21/1964
-Description: The FBI sends Martin
-Luther King Jr. a “suicide package” note that contains audio
-recordings of his sexual indiscretions and a letter telling him, “There
-is only one way out for you.” The FBI’s COINTELPRO program is also
-targeting Malcolm
-X. (Wikipedia,
-“COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3807
Date: 11/22/1964
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Private pilot George
-Henry Lissauer is driving near Georgetown, South Carolina, when he
-sees two large, silvery, oval-shaped UFOs, each accompanied by 6–8
-smaller objects. The formations are moving slowly at about 3,000 feet
-altitude. After 2–3 minutes, the smaller objects go into the larger
-objects and disappear. Lissauer goes directly to Myrtle AFB [now Myrtle
-Beach International Airport] and reports them. (“Increased Landings
-Hint New UFO Phase,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 3 (June/July 1965): 2;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2
-(Summer 2004): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3808
Date: 11/25/1964
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A 29-year-old woman sees two lighted objects
-land on a hilltop near New Berlin, New York. Through binoculars she can
-see some 9–11 humanoid beings apparently engaged in repair work on a
-round object with landing struts for four hours. Some of them are
-holding boxes filled with unusual gadgets. The next day, she and her
-husband and father-in-law find two equilateral triangular imprints on
-the site, as well as a cable with some thin aluminum strips and
-insulation. Around 4:55 a.m., one UFO shoots straight up and abruptly
-disappears, while the other rises straight up a minute later and follows
-the other one. (Berthold E. Schwarz, “New
-Berlin UFO Landing
-and Repair by Crew,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3–4 (November
-1975): 22–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3809
Date: 11/25/1964
-Description: Two objects landed on hilltop, large group of humanoid
-beings engaged in apparent repair operation for four hours
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Berlin, NY
-ID: 25
Date: 11/26/1964
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A family of five in Adams, Wisconsin, is
-returning home from Thanksgiving dinner when an extremely bright light
-appears over their car, completely shutting off its headlights and
-radio. The father jumps out of the car and looks straight up into the
-light, shading his eyes with his hands, but he is persuaded to come
-back. Suddenly the light disappears and the electrical systems return.
-No one talks about the incident for 16 years, when the father says the
-light was “motionless like a floodlight of gigantic proportion.” (“Recently
-Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): 5;
-“Out of the Not-Too-Distant Past.” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6
-(Jan./Feb. 1982): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3810
Date: 12/1964
-End date: 1/1965
-Description: sighting concentration around Washington, DC, which led to
-CIA contact with NICAP to obtain information.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington DC
-ID: 27
Date: 12/10/1964
-Description: Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials).
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Fort Riley, KA
-See also: 11/65
Date: 12/19/1964
-Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured):
-Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Naval Air Station between 1500 and 1530
-hours. Two UFOs approached Air Base at 3800 mph. Another UFO approached
-at 6000 mph. Radar operator, Chief Pinkerton had visual on Radar. US
-Coast Guard had “visual” on the UFOs. Official statement to press: the
-(single) blip was caused by faulty radar equipment!
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Patuxent Naval Air Station
-See also: 1/25/65
Date: 12/19/1964
-Description: 3:50 p.m. Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland
-tracks two large targets on radar moving at 6,900 mph. (Harold H.
-Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965):
-46–47; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 87;
-Sparks,
-p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3811
Date: 12/21/1964
-Description: 4:50 p.m. Kenneth Norton Jr., 14, is looking out his
-bedroom window in Staunton, Virginia, when he sees a “fast-moving object
-without wings or tail structure.” He describes it as cigar-shaped and
-about 125 feet in diameter, in view for 5 seconds. (Richmond (Va.)
-Times-Dispatch, January 15, 1965; “‘Saucer’
-Reports Are Flying,”
-Staunton (Va.) Daily News Leader, January 15, 1965, p. 2; Clark III
-493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3812
Date: 12/21/1964
-Time: 1700
-Description: Mr. Burns saw a huge object cross the road, hover at ground
-level in a field for less than one min, then take off vertically. There
-were other witnesses in the area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Harrisonburg, Viginia
-ID: 628
Date: 12/21/1964
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Driving east on US Highway 250, Horace Burns is
-approaching Fishersville, Virginia, when an enormous object appears from
-the north and descends slowly in a gradual slant. Just before it crosses
-the highway 200 feet in front of him, the UFO narrowly misses power
-lines. It is so huge that when it passes nearly in front of him, it
-fills his entire windshield. The UFO comes down gently and lands in a
-field to Burns’s right. Meanwhile, Burns’s car engine has shut off. The
-object appears to be at least 125 feet in diameter and 80–90 feet high.
-After 60–90 seconds, it rises up several hundred feet, makes a sound
-like rushing air, and shoots off to the northeast, vanishing from sight.
-A high level of radioactivity is detected at the site December 30 by
-investigators German professor Ernest
-G. Gehman and engineer Harry M. Cook. They obtain a Geiger counter
-reading of 16–18 milliR/hr. Two Blue Book investigators—T/Sgt. David N.
-Moody and S/Sgt. Harold T. Jones—visit the site with Gehman on January
-12 and take further readings (1.5 milliR/hr on Burns’s left rear car
-door). They dispute Gehman’s earlier results, but a possible 11x–12x
-drop in radiation level in 13 days possibly indicates a radionuclide
-with a 3–4 day half-life. (“‘Saucer’
-Reports Are
-Flying,” Staunton (Va.) Daily News Leader, January 15, 1965,
-pp. 1–2; NICAP, “Car
-Engine Fails after Object Lands”; “Opposition
-Flap 1965,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 (May/June 1965): 3–4;
-Clark III 491–494, 950; Sparks,
-p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3813
Date: 12/21/1964
-Description: Cone-shaped object crossed highway, car engine failed,
-object landed. Radioactive area found at landing site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Staunton, VA
-ID: 26
Date: 12/22/1964
-Description: The first flight of an SR-71 Blackbird takes place at Air
-Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, piloted by Robert J. Gilliland.
-The SR-71 reaches a top speed of Mach 3.4 (~2,588 mph) during flight
-testing. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3815
Date: 12/22/1964
-Description: A D-21 drone (renamed from Q-12 in its transition to
-Project Tagboard) mounted on an M-21 begins captive flight-testing at
-Area 51 in Nevada. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-D-21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3814
Date: 12/28/1964
-Description: Two young girls, R. Bender and J. Quinn, observed an object
-flying 17 m above the ground. It was shaped like two plates glued
-together, with two rows of intense lights, and a turret with a green
-light on top. When an opening became visible, the witnesses thought the
-thing was about to land, and they fled.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
-Location: Auckland, New Zealand
-ID: 629
Date: 1965
-Description: While visiting the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, R.M.
-(initials), a government employee of 23 yrs., went through a double-
-door marked “Off Limits” and suddenly came face to face with an Alien in
-a self contained space suite. Description: About 4.5 ft. tall with a
-translucent dome over its’ large head; wasn’t human; large eyes under a
-heavy brow; no noticeable nose; a slit for a mouth; bluish skin. When
-the creature walked it didn’t bend its’ knees. R.M. later found out from
-a retired Air Force Colonel from Wight-Patterson AFB, that 2 live Aliens
-were held in captivity in an artificial environment. The Colonel also
-said that a 2-man sized craft crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana, as
-a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. (The Alien
-would have to lock his knees in a high-gravity environment to avoid
-falling down.)
-Type: alien sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
-Location: Fairborn, Ohio
Date: 1965
-Description: G. J. Kok and S. Sluis found the Werkgroep Nederlands
-Onderzoek Bureau voor UFOs (later UFO-Workgroep Nederland) in
-Uithuizermeeden, Netherlands. It publishes Tijdschrift voor Ufologie.
-(Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3822
Date: 1965
-Description: Tomezo Hirata founds the Japan UFO Research Association in
-Kobe, Japan. It publishes JUFORA from 1967 to 1991.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3823
Date: 1965
-Description: Ross Liverton reports a ring of bare earth, 8 feet wide, in
-the ground on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, where a UFO is seen. It
-remains visible for 4 years. The site contains some unidentified whitish
-material that resolves into fibers during a soil immersion test. Vallée
-says the material is “vegetal in nature.” (Vallée, Invisible College,
-pp. 36–37; Ted Phillips, “Landing
-Report from Delphos,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9
-(February 1972): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3824
Date: 1965
-Description: A couple is driving on a country road in Buenos Aires
-province, Argentina, when their car engine begins to fail, so they pull
-over in front of a tree. They notice an object behind the tree that
-emits a luminous ray toward them that bends at three places, vertically
-and horizontally, to avoid the tree. The woman’s cheek feels as if
-something is probing her. (Jean Bastide, La Mémoire des OVNI, Mercure de
-France, 1978; “Beam
-of Light with Three Corners,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec, 1983/Jan. 1984): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3825
Date: 1965
-Description: A short color film of a “huge, windowed, hovering craft”
-with three smaller objects attached to it “as a kind of tail” is taken
-by a converted RAAF aircraft during a photo-mapping flight over central
-Australia. A door on the large object opens—two vertical panels and two
-horizontally aligned panels slide apart—and the three smaller objects
-fly inside. A US Air Force sergeant with a top-secret clearance is shown
-this clip at a CIA screening in Texas in 1967. He says the filmed image
-of the UFO is extraordinarily clear, filling the entire screen. (Budd
-Hopkins, Missing Time, R. Marek, 1981, p. 253)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3826
Date: 1965 (approximate)
-Description: A-12 pilot Ken
-Collins continues to test A-12s at Groom Lake, Nevada. One night (in
-1964 or 1965 maybe), he is awakened by base commander Col. Hugh
-“Slip” Slater and asked to take an A-12 up to find a Russian
-reconnaissance balloon that is floating in American airspace in a
-westerly direction with the prevailing winds. Collins is tasked with
-finding the balloon visually and using radar. In the air, he realizes it
-is a wild goose chase because, flying at 2,200 mph, even if he sees the
-balloon briefly it would be behind him in a second. He identifies an
-object on radar 350 miles away. He circles it as closely as he can,
-which is a circle with a radius of 400 miles. He never makes visual
-contact and returns to Area 51. Jacobsen says
-that this Soviet violation of US airspace has “never been declassified.”
-(Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3816
Date: 1965
-Description: USAF Gen. Curtis
-LeMay writes in his autobiography that some UFOs are not explained
-very easily: “There is no question about it. These were things which we
-could not tie in with any natural phenomena known to our investigators.”
-He expresses his dislike of NICAP’s position that USAF is trying to
-muzzle the media. “There were some cases we could not explain,” he
-writes. “Never could.” (Curtis E. LeMay, Mission with LeMay, Doubleday,
-1965, pp. 541–543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3817
Date: 1965
-Description: Less than 20% of the public believes in UFOs, according to
-polls and private Air Force and NICAP estimates. This soon rises to 33%
-by July. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3818
Date: 1965
-Description: John Harney begins publication of the Merseyside UFO
-Research Group Bulletin in Liverpool, England. (Merseyside
-UFO Research Group Bulletin, no.
-2 (June 1965))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3819
Date: 1965
-Description: Jean-Pierre D’Hondt founds Groupement Nordiste d’Études des
-OVNI in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, France. It publishes Recherches
-Ufologiques from 1977 to 1983. (Recherches
-Ufologiques, no.
-1 (1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3820
Date: 1965
-Description: Jacques Bonabot, Jean-Gérard Dohmen, and Roger Lorthioir
-found Groupement pour l’Étude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde in Bruges,
-Belgium. It publishes Bulletin du GESAG. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO
-Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3821
Date: 1/3/1965
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 28
Date: 1/5/1965
-Description: Aerospace engineer watched round glowing object move
-rapidly from horizon to nearly overhead
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wallops Island, VA
-ID: 29
Date: 1/5/1965
-Description: 5:56 p.m. NASA engineer Dempsey
-Bruton, head of the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island,
-Virginia, observes a round, bright-yellow light rising from the horizon.
-The apparent size of the object is that of a nickel held at arm’s
-length. As the object reaches an overhead position, it disappears. The
-length of observation is approximately 8–9 seconds. The witness claims
-that his wife and brother-in-law also see the object. (NICAP, “Bright
-Yellow Light Flies Ahead”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3827
Date: 1/11/1965
-Description: 4:20 p.m. At least 12 persons, including six Army Signal
-Corps communications system specialists, at the Munitions Building at
-Nineteenth Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.,
-observe 12–15 white oval objects maneuvering erratically at
-12,000–15,000 feet altitude above the US Capitol Building. Two delta-
-wing jets, apparently from Andrews AFB in Maryland, are seen in pursuit,
-but the objects easily outmaneuver them. Among the witnesses are Paul M.
-Dickey Jr., Edward Shad, Sam Webb, Jack McBride, and Sam Marrone. The
-objects are also tracked on radar. The Defense Department denies the
-incident, but the witnesses publicly maintain their story. The Pentagon
-forces a TV crew about to interview the witnesses to shut down that
-evening. (NICAP, “Over
-a Dozen Ovals Chased by AF Jets”; Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs
-Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 47–48; Frank Edwards,
-FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3829
Date: 1/11/1965
-Description: Army Signal Corps communications system specialists
-observed 12-15 white ovals maneuvering erratically, with jets seen in
-pursuit
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 30
Date: 1/11/1965
-Description: Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons see a
-triangular UFO that flies slowly out of the southeast and then “suddenly
-plunged into the sea some miles offshore” at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It
-leaves behind two trails of fire. (Sanderson, InvRes, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3828
Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 10:58 a.m. The Kiwi Transient Nuclear Test is conducted at
-Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project NERVA. The nuclear
-rocket engine code-named Kiwi is allowed to overheat until it bursts,
-sending fuel hurtling skyward. Deadly radioactive fuel chunks as large
-as 148 pounds shoot up into the sky and last as far away as a quarter
-mile. A radioactive cloud rises up to 2,600 feet, then drifts out over
-Los Angeles, California, and out to sea. The AEC calls it a “safety
-test,” but the USSR says it violates the test ban. (Jacobsen, Area 51,
-pp. 309– 310;
-Wikipedia, “NERVA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3831
Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Department of Justice Inspector Robert E.
-Kerringer [or is it Donald E. Flickinger, an agent of the US Bureau of
-Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?] is driving near Lynden, Washington,
-when he sees a low-flying object, 30 feet in diameter, that avoids
-collision with his car at the last moment. He gets out and sees it
-hovering for one minute, then it flies off at high speed with a sound of
-rushing air. He learns that nearby Blaine Air Force Station [now closed]
-is tracking the UFO. (NICAP, “Driver
-Avoids Collision with 30ʹ Object”; Sparks, p. 303;
-“New
-Sightings Put AF on Spot,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April
-1965): 4; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3830
Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: Border Patrol officer saw bright disc illuminating ground,
-swoop down, hover near car, accelerate up into clouds with rushing air
-sound
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lynden, WA
-ID: 31
Date: 1/12/1965
-Time: night
-Description: A member of a federal agency, who was driving toward the
-base, saw a low-flying object, 10 m in diameter, which avoided collision
-at the last moment. He got out of the car and observed it hovering for
-one min, then it flew off. at high speed. The object was tracked on
-radar. The same night, a round, glowing object with a dome on top landed
-on a nearby farm, melting snow in a 10 m diameter urcle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Blaine Air Force Base, Washington
-ID: 630
Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 8:20 p.m. A Mrs. Jubert in Custer, Washington, sees through
-her window what seems to be the landing lights of an airplane apparently
-coming into her yard. She herds her three teenage girls outside in the
-opposite direction. The four lights merge into one intense white light,
-which moves in a straight line toward the house, lifts several hundred
-feet and clears a clump of evergreens, then dips down on the far side
-and touches the ground. A border patrol officer also sees the object
-after he is alerted by radio. He is buzzed by the UFO, which is low
-enough that he stops his car, gets out, and watches it move out of
-sight. Where the object lands in 16 inches of snow, they find a large
-circular imprint about 10–12 feet in diameter. The ground beneath the
-melted snow ring shows evidence of having been scorched. Oval-shaped
-tracks 8 inches long and 8 inches apart, in a single file, are found
-leading from the landing site to the evergreens, where they disappear.
-One month later, the circular area still shows traces. (“New
-Sightings Put AF on Spot,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April
-1965): 4; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 152–153;
-Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO
-Sightings, CUFOS, 1975, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3833
Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A NASA public relations employee named Milliner
-and her husband are walking toward their house when they see a bright
-yellow object moving swiftly over the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops
-Island, Virginia. They watch it for 2 minutes. (Harold H. Deneault Jr.,
-“UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3832
Date: 1/14/1965
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Old Dominion college student James
-Myers sees a diamond-shaped object rise from the ground to 1,500–2,000
-feet near Norfolk, Virginia. He loses sight of it behind a church and
-when it reappears it looks round, bright, and silvery. (Harold H.
-Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965):
-49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3834
Date: 1/14/1965
-Time: 2400
-Description: James Myers saw an object rise from the ground, appearing
-as a bright, circular silvery craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Norfolk, Virginia
-ID: 631
Date: 1/15/1965
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Charles Knee Jr., a former newsman, is driving
-on State Highway 4A between Wilmot and Enfield, New Hampshire, when the
-radio suddenly stops, the lights on the car go out, and the engine
-quits. He loses control of the car and pulls to the side of the road and
-then hears a loud humming sound like a high- frequency electrical whine.
-He opens the car door, steps out, and sees a bright light below the
-cloud cover at around 2,000–5,000 feet altitude. It seems to hover for a
-moment and then takes off to the south. As the light leaves and the
-whine dies away, the headlights and radio come on and the motor starts
-by itself. The whole thing lasts about 15–20 seconds. (Manchester (N.H.)
-Sunday News, January 16, 1965; Schopick,
-pp. 148–150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3836
Date: 1/15/1965
-Description: Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a
-diameter of 408m, 100m deep
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Kazakhstan
-Atomic type: subsurface
-Atomic KT: 140
Date: 1/15/1965
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Mathew Rybczyk is watching TV at his home in
-Manchester, New Hampshire, when the set goes blank. Going outside to see
-if the antenna is damaged, he sees a flashing light moving across the
-tree line to the east and making a humming noise. When the light
-disappears, the TV set comes on again. (Manchester (N.H.) Sunday News,
-January 17, 1965; Schopick,
-p. 148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3835
Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: Hall also
-meets for 90 minutes with retired Navy Capt. John
-Lawrence Counihan who is on the staff of Sen. Thomas
-J. Dodd (D-Conn.). Counihan says that the Committee on Astronautics
-and Space Science would be considered “nutty” if it took up hearings,
-but it might be willing to consider an informal briefing by NICAP.
-(Swords 306)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3838
Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: 6:15 p.m. William
-Blackburn, a
-draftsman at a General Electric plant, is chopping wood at an archery
-range east of Staunton, Virginia, in an area known locally as Brands
-Flats. He sees two saucer-like shapes in the sky at 2,000–4,000 feet
-altitude. The larger one seems to be about 80 feet across. The smaller
-one, 20 feet across, descends quickly and silently and lands 45–55 feet
-away from Blackburn. A door opens, making a slight noise and revealing
-an interior light. Three figures, each 3 feet tall and wearing
-tight-fitting metallic-looking suits, emerge. They have reddish-orange
-skin and piercing eyes. One has an extra-long finger on its left hand.
-They speak in an unintelligible language, then return to the UFO. The
-door closes so perfectly that an outline cannot be seen, and the object
-takes off. The entire episode lasts only 5 minutes. Blackburn sees no
-traces in the snow, but thinks the object and humanoids are hovering.
-(NICAP, “Two
-Humanoids Approach Witness”; Clark III 196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3839
Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: NICAP Acting Director Richard
-H. Hall meets with a CIA agent and passes on some UFO case
-information and other materials to OSI for preparation of a paper on
-UFOs. Hall is given a direct phone number for the agent’s office. He
-uses the phone line only once to “report some high-quality UFO sightings
-to the CIA.” He is also given a CIA security clearance without his
-consent or knowledge. A January 25 CIA memo confirming the meeting shows
-an inordinate amount of interest in NICAP, given the CIA’s mandate for
-acquiring foreign intelligence. (ClearIntent, pp. 231–234;
-Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 11, 354–358; Good
-Above, pp. 349–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3837
Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: Humanoid beings emerged from landed object at archery
-range, approached witness, who froze, apparently paralyzed
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brand’s Flats, VA
-ID: 32
Date: 1/19/1965
-Time: 1815
-Description: A workman cutting wood on the Augusta archery range saw two
-saucer-shaped objects, 30 m and 6 m in diameter, hovering in the sky.
-The smaller one landed, a door opened, and three pilots emerged. They
-looked human, but had a reddish-orange skin and staring eyes. One of
-them had “a long finger on his left hand.” Their clothes were the same
-color as the craft, whose open door showed a strange light inside. The
-object was so highly polished that “I would bet on a clear day you could
-not see it at five thousand feet.” The occupants spoke sounds that were
-not understood and reentered the object. The door outline could not be
-seen when it was closed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Brands Flat, Virginia
-ID: 632
Date: 1/23/1965
-Description: 8:40 a.m. Two separate cars driving in different direction
-stall out near the intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614 in
-Lightfoot, Virginia. One of the drivers, Thomas
-F. Mains, sees a lightbulb- or mushroom- shaped object 75–80 feet
-tall and 10–25 feet wide, hovering over nearby field about 4 feet off
-the ground. It is metallic gray, with red-orange and blue lights and is
-making a vacuum cleaner noise. It suddenly accelerates horizontally to
-the west against the wind and disappears. (NICAP, “UFO
-Hovering over Field Stalls Cars”; Sparks, p. 304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3840
Date: 1/23/1965
-Time: 8:40 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. T.F. Mains. One mushroom or lightbulb-shaped
-object, 75-80’ high, 25’ diameter on top and l0’ bottom diameter;
-metallic grey with a red-orange glow on the near side and a blue glow on
-the far side. The object made a sound like a vacuum cleaner. The
-witness’ car electrical system was affected as the object moved away at
-an altitude of 4’. The sighting lasted 25 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
-ID: 517
Date: 1/23/1965
-Time: 0840
-Description: A 31-year-old man driving a ’64 Cadillac was at the
-intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and State Route 14 when the engine
-failed, and he had to stop by the side of the road. He then observed an
-object about 1.2 m above ground. It was shaped like a mushroom or an
-electric bulb, 25 m high, 8 m in diameter made noise similar to a vacuum
-cleaner had a metallic gray coIor, a red-orange light on one side, and a
-blue one on the other. It took off against the wind toward the west, at
-high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
-ID: 633
Date: 1/23/1965
-Description: Metallic-appearing, mushroom-shaped object, red-orange
-glow, at low level. Sound like vacuum cleaner heard, E-M effects on
-car
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Williamsburg, VA
-ID: 33
Date: 1/25/1965
-Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case
-#(censured).
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-See also: 12/19/64
Date: 1/25/1965
-Description: Night. Policeman Woody Darnall, his family, and several
-neighbors see a glowing object hovering on a mountainside near Marion,
-Virginia. It seems to explode and take off in a shower of sparks. A
-group of Marion residents and state forest officials climb to the area
-and find several treetops bent over and one green tree on fire where the
-UFO was seen. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate
-18, no. 7 (July 1965): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3841
Date: 1/25/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Woody Darnell, policeman, his family, and several neighbors
-saw a stationary object on the ground. It took off with a shower of
-sparks. Several trees were found uprooted or calcined at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Marion, Virginia
-ID: 634
Date: 1/25/1965
-Description: Night. Nine persons near Fredericksburg, Virginia, see a
-UFO that resembles a “Christmas sparkler.” One witness says it looks
-like a spinning top spitting sparks out of the bottom as it moves up the
-Rappahannock Valley at treetop level. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs
-Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3842
Date: 1/26/1965
-Description: Evening. Steven Houffer, 16, and six friends are driving on
-US Highway 250 near Brands Flats, Virginia, when they see a small man
-walking toward the road from a field. He sits down and peers intently at
-passing cars. Houffer stops the car and he and his friends get out. When
-they approach, the being runs up a hill. Two other entities appear and
-run in the same direction. They are all about 3.5 feet tall, wear
-silvery one-piece garments, and leave no footprints. Police officers
-conduct a search with local photographer Charles Weaver, but find
-nothing. Some time later, Houffer and Weaver see a “glowing aluminum
-barn,” which they go down to investigate. Weaver is walking around
-inside when something hits him on the head. The two turn to run after
-Weaver snaps a photo. In the light of the flashbulb, they see a little
-man standing by the barn. The photo is allegedly confiscated by
-government agents. A local man, Donald Cash, 6 feet tall, confesses to
-dressing up in overalls to pose as an alien, although his story does not
-completely match the details of the account. (“UFO
-Posses Hit,”
-Staunton (Va.) Daily News Leader, January 28, 1965, pp. 1–2; Jerome
-Clark, “Two
-New Contact Claims,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 (May/June 1965):
-20–21; “Fed
-Up with Play: Green Man Confesses,” Staunton (Va.) Daily News
-Leader, January 31, 1965, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3844
Date: 1/26/1965
-Description: Evening. Rev. H. Preston Robinson and others in Marion,
-Virginia, watch an object hovering 600 feet above the city. The object
-makes a steady buzzing sound and has several lights on its round bottom.
-Spinning clockwise, it shoots out of sight at fantastic speed. It emits
-a ball of fire as it disappears. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return
-to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3843
Date: 1/27/1965
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Donald
-Keyhoe and NICAP board member Joseph
-Bryan III appear on the Les Crane Show and are questioned
-skeptically by Crane.
-(Donald E. Keyhoe, “The
-Crane Show Fiasco,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April 1965):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3846
Date: 1/27/1965
-Description: NASA engineer saw V-shaped object with red-orange lights
-zigzagging at low level. Object touched down briefly, took off, rapidly
-climbed out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hampton, VA
-ID: 34
Date: 1/27/1965
-Description: 6:00 p.m. NASA research engineer A. G. Crimmins
-Jr. observes an object at Plum Tree Island Wildlife Refuge, near
-Poquoson, Virginia, that is approximately 75 feet across and 10–15 feet
-in height. The object has 3– 7 lights colored red and orange and appears
-to rotate. It moves approximately a quarter mile west of its original
-position on a zigzag course and then appears to land on the ocean shore.
-It remains still for about 5 minutes, then takes off to the north and
-turns right to depart to the east at a high rate of speed. Crimmins
-watches it through 20x binoculars. The same object is apparently seen by
-retired USAF Maj. John R. Nayadley, another NASA research engineer, who
-observes a V-shaped object with blinking red-orange lights over Hampton,
-Virginia. (NICAP, “Zig-Zagging
-Object Lands / Takes Off”; “New
-Sightings Put AF on Spot,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April
-1965): 4; UFOEv II 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3845
Date: 1/29/1965
-Description: In Monterey, California, Mayor George Clemens and his
-family see a bright light performing acrobatics in the northern sky. It
-hovers, then shoots straight up about 500 feet, fades, drops down, and
-hovers again. Then it drops toward the water and disappears. The Coast
-Guard finds nothing. (Sanderson, InvRes, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3847
Date: 1/30/1965
-Description: 2:00 a.m. TV repairman Sid
-Padrick is walking along Manresa Beach near his home in Watsonville,
-California. He hears a jet-like noise and sees a huge UFO moving slowly
-towards him. He hears a voice saying, “We are not hostile,” and inviting
-him aboard. He enters the craft and sees a human in a flying suit who
-calls himself “Xeno” and gives Padrick a tour of the ship and other crew
-members that culminates in a deeply spiritual experience. Padrick
-reports his experience to Hamilton AFB [now closed] on February 4 and
-receives a 3-hour visit from Maj. Damon
-B. Reeder on February 8, and perhaps other officers after that.
-(Jerome Clark, “Two
-New Contact
-Claims,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 (May/June 1965): 20–21;
-Clark III 869–871; Good Above, pp. 293–298;
-Good Need, pp. 247–251;
-Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976; “Contactee
-Loses Court Case,” UFO Investigator, April 1971, p. 1; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, August
-19, 2008; Marcus Lowth, “Sidney
-Padrick’s California Beach Encounter with ‘Xeno,’” UFO Insight,
-October 12, 2017; Curt Collins, “1965:
-UFO Contact in California,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, December
-30, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3848
Date: 2/1965
-Description: George
-Langelaan, ex-secret
-service officer and author of the short story “The Fly,” gives a lecture
-at Mourenx, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, and declares that the Russian
-and US secret services have collaborated on the UFO problem and
-concluded that the objects are extraterrestrial. (Good Above, p. 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3849
Date: 2/3/1965
-Time: 2045
-Description: A man saw a light on the beach near Penguin Street and got
-out of his car to observe it. He then heard a modulated whistling sound
-and saw an object, 7 m wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of about
-20 m. He came back to the site with other persons, and a dog that became
-restless at a spot where grass was found flattened. Another witness,
-driving near Humphrey Ave., saw the object as it rose over South
-Brighton.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 149 (Vallee)
-Location: South Brighton, New Zealand
-ID: 635
Date: 2/3/1965
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A man sees a light on the beach near Penguin
-Street, South New Brighton, New Zealand, and gets out of his car to
-observe it. He hears a modulated whistling sound and sees an object, 22
-feet wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of 60 feet. He returns
-with other witnesses and a dog that gets restless at a spot where grass
-is flattened. Another witness sees the UFO as it is rising above the
-suburb. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3850
Date: 2/4/1965
-Description: Several persons observed five luminous objects in flight. A
-transparent craft landed, and five creatures, about 2 m high, with one
-eye on the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct a
-villager. Approximate date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Torrent, Argentina
-ID: 636
Date: 2/11/1965
-Description: Personal Interview report by Capt. D.M. (initials): Aerial
-encounter of three UFOs with radar and visual sightings. Air Force
-flight F-169 en route from Anchorage, AL, to Japan. Capt. R.W.
-(initials) and Capt. W.(initial) observed 3 UFOs on radar 5 miles off
-the wing. The UFOs paced the Flying Tiger freighter aircraft for 30
-minutes then climbed away at a steep angle at about 1200 knots ground
-speed. Estimated size (thumb and finger method) approx. 200 to 1000 ft.
-diam., glowing red and oval shaped. The pilot remarked, “we often see
-UFOs on the Alaskan run!”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 2/11/1965
-Description: The Pentagon sends Blue Book chief Maj. Hector
-Quintanilla to Richmond, Virginia, on a debunking tour. Stressing
-delusions and hoaxes, he tells reporters that not a single UFO report is
-genuine. His press conference display includes false UFO photos and fake
-debris. “I am a facts man,” Quintanilla says. “I cannot explain why
-people want to see UFOs.” (“AF
-Misleads Senator,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 2 (May/June 1965):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3852
Date: 2/11/1965
-Alternate date: 2/15/1965
-Description: Night. A Flying Tiger Line cargo aircraft (Flight F-169) en
-route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tachikawa Airfield, Tokyo, Japan,
-encounters three gigantic, glowing, red UFOs, at least 200 feet in
-diameter, about 4 hours out of Anchorage. The aircraft radar also picks
-them up about 5 miles off the wing. They pace the plane for 30 minutes,
-then speed away at 1,380 mph. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-over Pacific Ocean”; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
-1988, pp. 249–250; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3851
Date: 2/11/1965
-Description: Flying Tiger aircrew observed three red oval objects,
-tracked on airborne radar. Paced aircraft for 30 minutes, departed
-upward at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pacific Ocean
-ID: 35
Date: 2/16/1965
-End date: 2/18/1965
-Description: Astronauts Neil
-Armstrong, Richard
-F. Gordon Jr., Buzz
-Aldrin, David
-Scott, and Rusty
-Schweikart visit Sedan Crater and Buckboard Mesa at the Nevada Test
-Site to practice carrying out geological observations in preparation for
-a moon landing. (Nevada National Security Site, “Apollo
-Astronauts Train at the Nevada Test Site,”
-July 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3853
Date: 2/21/1965
-Time: 2100
-Description: About 50 Toba Indians, including policemen, saw three
-little men with luminous glows emerge from an object that had made
-several low passes over the village with other flying craft. A
-photographer took several pictures and noted that the creatures feared
-the light from his flash camera. The object increased in luminosity as
-it took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Chalac, Argentina
-ID: 637
Date: 2/26/1965
-Description: 3:00 p.m. George
-Adamski takes his last film of a spaceship at Madeleine
-Rodeffer’s house in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Clark III 41; Good
-Above, pp. 374–377;
-Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space,
-Abbeville, 1985, pp. 42–48;
-Rene Erik Olsen, [George
-Adamski photo analysis], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, A
-Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the
-Space Brothers, The
-Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3854
Date: 2/27/1965
-Description: The first conference of Australian UFO organizations takes
-place in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is arranged by W. Howard
-Sloane of the Ballarat Astronomical Society to share information and
-remove some of the stigma of UFO research. The conference is held at the
-Ballarat Municipal Observatory in Mount Pleasant. Representatives of the
-Perth UFO Research Group, the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society,
-the UFO Investigation Centre NSW, and the Flying Saucer Research Society
-of South Australia are in attendance. Witnesses include Rev. William
-Gill and Charles Brew. Former Air Marshal George
-Jones attends, and the RAAF is represented by B. G. Roberts, senior
-research scientist at the Operational Research Office, Department of
-Air. Roberts says that the RAAF has determined that 90% of reports are
-explainable, but that only those that might be a threat to national
-security are worth investigating and “there are no documents, files, or
-dossiers held by the Department which prove the existence of ‘flying
-saucers.’” The researchers quiz him on the 1953 Drury photographic case,
-but Roberts is unaware of that one. Jones insists on keeping an open
-mind about reports like those by Gill and Brew. (Swords 391–392; “First
-Australian Convention of UFO Groups,” Australian Flying Saucer
-Review (UFOIC), no. 8 (June 1965): 13–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3855
Date: 3/2/1965
-Time: 1355
-Description: John F. Reeves, 65, retired, was walking in the woods when
-he observed an object 10 m in diameter, 2m thick, saucer-shaped with an
-outer rim and a stairway. After watching it for 10 min, he saw a
-robotlike being, about 1.30m tall, wearing a silver uniform, glass
-headgear, and then returned with a The being walked walked to the craft,
-then returned with a box that emitted a flash when pointed at the
-witness. The object subsequently took off with a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Brooksville, Florida
-ID: 638
Date: 3/2/1965
-Description: 1:55 p.m. John F. Reeves, 65, retired, while walking in the
-woods east of Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, sees a bluish-green and
-reddish-purple object 20–30 feet in diameter, 6 feet thick,
-saucer-shaped, and with an outer rim and a stairway, two 2-foot windows
-on top, landed on the ground on four 4-foot legs about 2,000 feet away.
-He approaches to 100 feet. After watching the object for 10 minutes, he
-sees a robot-like being about 200– 300 feet away, about 5 feet tall,
-wearing a gray-silver uniform, glass dome headgear, wide-spaced eyes,
-and pointed chin. It walks to 15 feet away from Reeves, stares at him
-for 1.5 minutes, points a box or 6–7-inch black object at Reeves that
-emits a flash 3 times, then walks back to the landed vehicle and climbs
-in. The object has Venetian blind–like blades on the rim that open and
-close; the rim starts rotating counterclockwise, the landing gear
-retract, then it takes off with a whooshing-rumbling sound and
-disappears vertically in less than 10 seconds, dropping two sheets of
-paper with indecipherable writing, and leaving indentations and
-footprints in the ground. The case is investigated by MacDill AFB in
-Tampa. Richard
-Hall supervises the investigation for NICAP and concludes it is a
-hoax. (NICAP, “Landed
-Object and Entity Case / Hoax”; “The
-Florida ‘Landing’ Incident,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1965, pp. 1,
-3; Joan Whritenour, “UFO
-Lands?” Interplanetary Intelligence Report 1, no. 1 (May 1965): 4;
-“Project
-Blue Book,” Interplanetary Intelligence Report 1, no. 2 (July 1965):
-8; Clark III 209–218; Jerome Clark, “Passport to Moniheya,” IUR 20, no.
-3 (May/June 1995): 10–19; Sparks,
-p. 304) March 5 — Two Air Force radar technicians are repairing the
-height-finder antenna at Benton Air Force Station [now Ground Equipment
-Facility QRC] in Ricketts Glen State Park near Red Rock, Pennsylvania,
-when they see a small, saucer-shaped object land nearby. As they
-approach it, a beam of light comes out and strikes both of them. That is
-the last thing they remember, and they fail to report to the command
-post. Their equipment is left behind at the antenna, but air police
-cannot locate the men. Pennsylvania State Police assist in a search of
-the area. About 16 hours later, a state trooper locates the two men
-walking along State Route 487 south of Lopez, about 10 miles away. They
-seem dazed, so they are taken to a hospital in Williamsport, where they
-are found to be dehydrated and confused. No alcohol or drugs are found.
-They are then taken to an Air Force hospital at Stewart AFB [now Stewart
-Air National Guard Base] in Orange County, New York. Trace amounts of
-alpha radiation are found on their clothing and strange marks are on
-their necks. AFOSI special agents interview them, but the men cannot
-remember anything. After 2 weeks in the hospital, they are released back
-to their unit. (“Pennsylvania Abduction from Air Force Base,” Filer’s
-Files, September 9, 1999; Good Need, pp. 251–252)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3856
Date: 3/4/1965
-Time: 9:23 PM
-Description: Witness: W.V. Harrison. Three lights rose from the ground,
-several seconds apart. The next day, an oily spot was found at the
-site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corvallis, Oregon
-ID: 518
Date: 3/4/1965
-Time: 1830
-Description: A farmer and his employee saw from their car three
-yellow-orange spheres rapidly rising. Oily spots were found in the
-field.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Corvallis, Oregon
-ID: 639
Date: 3/8/1965
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: J.H. Martin, instrument maker for U.S. Bureau of
-Standards. Six lights flew overhead slowly for 3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Airy, Maryland
-ID: 519
Date: 3/8/1965
-Description: 7:40 p.m. J. H. Martin, an instrument maker for the
-National Bureau of Standards, and his two sons observe in Mount Airy,
-Maryland, six lights he estimates to be 1,000 feet away and moving at a
-speed of 20 mph with no sound. They appear as three pair of lights, all
-with the same intensity. They are comparable to a traffic signal. The
-lights pass between the barn and the house at an estimated altitude of
-100–500 feet, flying in a straight line toward the hills two miles away.
-They are in view for approximately 3 minutes. (NICAP, “Six
-Lights Just Miss House”; Sparks, p. 304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3857
Date: 3/8/1965
-Time: 1940
-Description: Three persons saw a cigarshaped object with two fixed red
-lights, which flew above them, avoided hitting the house at the last
-moment, and was lost to sight in the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
-ID: 640
Date: 3/15/1965
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. James W. Flynn is deep in the Everglades
-in his swamp buggy, somewhere east of Immokalee, Florida, with his four
-hunting dogs. He sees a hovering object like an upside-down cone about
-200 feet above some cypress trees slightly over a mile away. It moves
-back and forth from its original position. Through binoculars it looks
-25 feet high and 50 feet in diameter, with square windows emitting a
-yellowish glow. Around its base an orange-red glow extends downwards and
-illuminates the ground some 75 feet around the rim. Some 40 minutes into
-the sighting, Flynn decides to approach it in his buggy. A high-pitched
-ringing sound bothers one of his dogs. He stops 600 feet away and walks,
-waving his arms, toward the UFO, which is hovering 4 feet off the
-ground. A blast of wind from the object nearly knocks him off his feet.
-He continues, and at 75 feet from the UFO he waves his arms again. The
-object beams a light like a “welder’s torch” that hits his forehead. He
-blacks out twice. When he wakes up he is temporarily blinded. In the
-morning he finds a symmetrical circle of burned ground. The tops of
-trees are burned. Flynn makes his way to the home of Henry Osceola (or
-Henry Billy) later in the day and arrives at his own home in East Fort
-Myers on March 17 and spends 5 days in the hospital with damage to his
-right eye, bruises, burns, deep muscle tissue damage, and loss of
-hearing. His eye damage is permanent. The landing marks and burned trees
-are verified by the Lee County sheriff’s office. (NICAP, “Everglades
-/ James Flynn Case”; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 12–16; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
-Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 192–195; Clark III 438–440; Patrick Gross, “UFO
-in the Everglades, USA 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3858
Date: 3/15/1965
-Time: 0100
-Description: In the Everglades, 30 km east of Big Cypress, James Flynn,
-45, who was hunting, saw a huge, lighted object 1 m above the swamp
-surface. He watched it for 40 min, observing that it was conical, twice
-as wide as it was high, and seemed built from metal sections over one
-square m each. It showed four rows of square windows, 70 cm wide.
-Estimated diameter: 25 m. A yellow light shone through the windows, and
-the object made a sound of a transformer and wind. Flynn got within 2 m
-of it and made a gesture. A beam of light from the underside of the
-object struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness for 24
-hours. He had lost vision in the right eye, saw poorly with the left,
-went to a doctor in Fort Myers, and spent five days in the
-hospital.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Sep.,65 (Vallee)
-Location: Fort Myers, Florida
-ID: 641
Date: 3/15/1965
-Description: Hovering cone-shaped object, animal reaction. Witness
-struck on forehead by light beam, unconscious, eye damage. Damaged
-foliage found at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Everglades, FL
-ID: 36
Date: 3/17/1965
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Walter Jacobs, steward on the freighter Iron
-Duke, sees a bright orange object with a dent on top and a knot on the
-bottom off Newcastle, New South Wales. He takes a photograph but it is
-not published. (“UAO Photographed
-Clearly in Australia,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1965, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3859
Date: 3/18/1965
-Alternate date: 3/21/1965
-Description: 7:06 p.m. Capt. Yoshiharu Inaba is flying a TOA Airlines
-Convair 240 from Osaka to Hiroshima, Japan, at an altitude of 6,500
-feet. Just after the aircraft passes Himeji, Hyogo, an elliptical
-luminous object appears and follows the plane. Inaba makes a 60° turn to
-avoid a collision, but the object makes a similar maneuver then follows
-along the plane’s left wing for about 56 miles. Emitting a greenish
-light, the object affects the automatic direction finder and the radio.
-As copilot Tetsu Majima radios the Matsuyama control tower, he hears
-frantic calls from Joji Negishi, the pilot of a Tokyo Airlines Piper
-Apache, who says he is being chased by a luminous object over Matsuyama.
-The object shoots away and disappears. (NICAP, “Object
-Paces Japanese Airliner”;
-“UFO
-Encounters over Japan,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April
-1965): 6; Timothy Green Beckley, “Saucers Chase Japanese Airliner,” Fate
-18, no. 8 (August 1965): 32–35; Schopick,
-pp. 150–153; Good Need, p. 253;
-Patrick Gross, “Aircraft–UFO
-Encounters, Japan, March 18, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3860
Date: 4/1965
-Description: Felipe Martinez, 37, reported that he was paralyzed during
-the landing of a silent, large, egg-shaped object, from which emerged a
-small man, about 1 m tall, wearing a helmet linked to the object by
-three cables. The being spoke slowly and with difficulty in,
-Spanish.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Monte Grande, Argentina
-ID: 642
Date: 4/4/1965
-Time: 4:05 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF A/2c Corum, a weather observer;
-confirmation by college student R. Pittman not clear from available
-data. One 40’ black, oval object with four lights along the bottom, flew
-in and out of the clouds for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
-ID: 520
Date: 4/4/1965
-Description: USAF weather observer saw black oval with body lights
-flying in and out of clouds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Keesler AFB, MS
-ID: 37
Date: 4/8/1965
-Time: 2130
-Description: A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 m away, in the
-northwest at 30 m altitude. It turned east, then left toward the south.
-First seen as a single, bright light, then two luminous sources were
-visible through a “door” in the object, which appeared metallic. Radio
-interference was noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kindrae, Minnesota
-ID: 643
Date: 4/20/1965
-Description: John Carstairs Arnell, scientific advisor to the Canadian
-Chief of Air Staff, prepares a four-page “Suggested Statement by the
-Minister of National Defence,” Paul
-Hellyer. It reiterates the US opinion that UFOs do not constitute a
-national security threat because most sightings involve natural
-phenomena seen by unreliable witnesses. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 16–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3861
Date: 4/23/1965
-Time: 0800
-Description: A woman observed an object land near her house while she
-was working in her kitchen. It was shaped like a disk, showed portholes
-and a cylinder about 1 m high, with a sliding door from which a small
-creature, about 1 m tall, emerged and jumped to the ground. Its face was
-not clearly visible but it had pointed ears, a sort of tail, and was
-linked to the main object by a cable. It wore white clothing, appeared
-to pick up something from the ground, and reentered the cylinder, which
-then slid up into the larger white disk. The outside rim started
-spinning in a counterclockwise motion with a soft whistling sound and
-the object rose straight up, out of view. Estimated diameter of the
-disk: 7m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rivesville, West Virginia
-ID: 644
Date: 4/24/1965
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Ernest
-Arthur Bryant is walking toward Scoriton Down near Scoriton (or
-Scorriton), Devon, England, when he sees a saucer-like object approach
-him. It stops nearby and a door opens. Three beings appear and beckon to
-him. He approaches the saucer. Two of the three beings appear to be
-nonhuman, but the third seems to be a youth in his teens. The youth
-speaks with an accent that Bryant thinks might be Russian and calls
-himself Yamski. He says that he is from Venus, and then remarks that he
-wished “Des” was there, as he would understand what is happening. At the
-close of their conversation, he says that in a month he will return and
-bring proof of “Mantell.” Ufologists who eventually hear the story
-immediately associate Yamski with George
-Adamski, the
-controversial contactee who died on April 23. Adamski was of Polish
-background and had a noticeable accent. If this were Adamski, he has
-lost any signs of aging. Adamski’s friend Desmond
-Leslie was a coauthor of his first book. Captain Thomas
-F. Mantell, piloting
-an F-51, had been killed in 1948 when he began chasing what he thought
-was a UFO. According to Bryant, the saucer returns June 7 and leaves
-some items, including several pieces of metal, allegedly from an F-51.
-He reports the story to the British UFO Research Association, which
-launches an investigation. The various items Bryant turns over to the
-two investigators (a turbine fitting, metal parts, a broken bulb and
-fitting, a phial containing silver sand, and a piece of paper on which
-the words “Adelphos Adelpho” are written) prove to be mundane and
-irrelevant to the F-51, according to aeronautical engineer Leonard
-G.
-Cramp. In
-spite of problems with the story, one of the investigators, Eileen
-Buckle, rushes into print with a book, The Scoriton Mystery. Shortly
-afterward, Bryant unexpectedly takes ill and dies from a brain tumor on
-June 24, 1967. The other investigator, Norman Oliver, visits his widow.
-She says that she is familiar with the story in the book, as her husband
-had presented it to her first as the script for a science fiction novel.
-It is only after the investigation is well along that she realizes her
-husband was trying to sell the story as a real event. She indicates that
-the supposed items related to Mantell were purchased at a naval surplus
-store. Alice Wells, head of the Adamski Foundation, dismisses the
-Scoriton story from the beginning, as does Desmond Leslie. Between their
-rejection and Oliver’s uncovering of the hoax, few remain to support
-Bryant except Buckle. (Clark III 1040–1044; Story, pp. 324–326;
-Eileen Buckle, The Scoriton Mystery, Spearman, 1967; Norman Oliver,
-Sequel to Scoriton, The Author, 1968; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-19, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3862
Date: 4/26/1965
-Time: 1700
-Description: Gary X., 9, saw an object which came down silently and
-hovered at ground level 60 m away. A sort of periscope emerged from it,
-and a strange noise (also heard by the boy’s father) was noted. After
-1-2 min the “periscope” disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up
-at unbelievable speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: New London, Minnesota
-ID: 645
Date: 5/1965
-Description: Hayden
-C. Hewes’s Interplanetary Intelligence of Unidentified Flying
-Objects publishes the first issue of the Interplanetary Intelligence
-Report, which lasts through September/October 1966. (Interplanetary
-Intelligence Report 1,
-no. 1 (May 1965))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3863
Date: 5/1/1965
-Description: Pilots Robert
-L. Stephens and fire control officer Daniel Andre reach a speed of
-2,070 mph in a Lockheed YF- 12A at Edwards AFB, California. The YF-12A
-also reaches an altitude record of 80,257 feet. (Wikipedia, “Robert L.
-Stephens”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3864
Date: 5/6/1965
-Description: 9:10 a.m. The crew of a US Navy ship in the Philippine Sea
-notices an aircraft approaching. At 9:14 a.m., the SPS-6C air search
-radar detects four targets at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6
-minutes at extremely high speed (3,500 mph), making various maneuvers.
-As seen through binoculars, they appear as three lighted objects, one of
-1st stellar magnitude the others 2nd magnitude. The objects hover
-directly over the ship for 3 minutes. There is no IFF response. One
-object to starboard appears larger on radar. The objects depart to the
-southeast at extremely high speed. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-by U.S. Flag Ship in the Philippines”; Sparks,
-p. 305; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3865
Date: 5/7/1965
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witness: M.E. Marshall. One light, like a satellite, split
-into two parts, one of which was copperish color, then two more joined
-up. One object may have been tumbling. Sighting lasted 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oxford, Michigan
-ID: 521
Date: 5/23/1965
-Time: 2100
-Description: About 70 km from Mackay, Jim Tilse, Eric Judin, and John
-Burgess saw a circular object, 10 m in diameter, flying erratically,
-making a buzzing sound. It had headlights, a tripod landing gear, and
-supported another disk-shaped device. Police investigation disclosed
-damaged trees and other landing traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Eton Range, Australia
-ID: 646
Date: 5/24/1965
-Time: 0130
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. French observed an object in a field at 4 m
-altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and
-made a high-pitched sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview 44; LDLN 80 (Vallee)
-Location: Geradton, Australia
-ID: 647
Date: 5/24/1965
-Time: 1840
-Description: Hunters saw through binoculars an object resembling an
-upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in
-circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under
-Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on
-the hill, but they could not approach the object before it took off,
-because of the difficult terrain.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Paso de las Carretas, Argentina
-ID: 648
Date: 5/24/1965
-Description: 12:05 a.m. John Burgess, James Tilse, and Eric Judin are
-playing cards at the Epsom Retreat Hotel near Epsom, Queensland, when
-their attention is drawn to something on or near the ground. It appears
-to be a disc- shaped object with banks of lights underneath it to their
-southeast. Tilse estimates its diameter to be 30 feet, Judin as 20 feet,
-and Burgess as 6 feet. In the moonlight, its color seems to be charcoal.
-At times, it seems to approach them, then recede. Finally, it rapidly
-rises to about 300 feet, then it accelerates away to the northeast.
-Burgess and Judin heard a buzzing sound. Total duration is 40 minutes.
-Two days later, a circular depression is found nearby close to a
-telephone line. Tilse says that “tops of trees appear to be burned.”
-(“The
-James Tilse Report,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1965): 13–14; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from
-UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 63; “UAO
-Buzzes Hotel in Australia,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, p. 3;
-Keith Basterfield, “Cold
-Case Investigation: Eton Ridge, Queensland, 24 May 1965,”
-Unidentified Aerial Phenomena— Scientific Research, June 13, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3866
Date: 5/24/1965
-Description: Circular UFO with three legs on or near the ground, trees
-illuminated. Departed rapidly with buzzing sound. Circular ring
-impression found at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mackay, Australia
-ID: 38
Date: 5/28/1965
-Description: 3:25 a.m. An Ansett-ANA DC-6b airliner piloted by
-Capt. John Barker is flying over Bougainville Reef off the coast of
-Queensland, Australia, when it is paced for 10–15 minutes by an oblate
-UFO with exhaust gases coming from it. The copilot and a stewardess also
-see the object. Barker takes photos of the UFO, but when he lands in
-Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, he is not allowed to have the film
-processed until he returns to Australia. When he eventually arrives in
-Brisbane, he is flown directly to Canberra where both the film and the
-flight recorder are confiscated. The Directorate of Air Force
-Intelligence in Canberra later denies that any such incident took place.
-However, an official statement by Barker to the RAAF surfaces, in which
-he says: “I had always scoffed at these reports, but I saw it. We all
-saw it. It was under intelligent control, and it was certainly no known
-aircraft.” (Good Above, pp. 168–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3867
Date: 5/28/1965
-Description: Police statement (interview); Bougainville Reef, Australia:
-An Ansett-A.N.A. DC-6B airliner (VH-INH) en route to Port Moresby, New
-Guinea, was buzzed by a UFO at about 3:25 a.m. The pilot radioed the
-Townsville Ground Control Tower and talked to Mr. O. (initial).
-Description: slightly spherical and oblate, flattened on top and bottom;
-appeared to have exhaust gasses coming from it. Photos of the UFO were
-taken by the pilot but were later confiscated at Canberra as was the
-taped conversation to Mr. O., the Tower operator. Mr. O. was threatened
-with dismissal if he talked about the incident.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Bougainville Reef, Australia
Date: 5/28/1965
-Description: Elliptical object paced airliner, accelerated and sped
-away, photographs taken
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
-ID: 39
Date: 6/1965
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. J. Whitehead is in the garden at her cottage
-in Flasby, North Yorkshire, England, when a large disc-shaped object
-passes over, making a slight swishing noise. On the underside are three
-“windows” in a triangular formation. She feels a strange calming
-sensation as the UFO passes by. (Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real
-Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3869
Date: 6/1965
-Description: Systems analyst Jacques
-Vallée publishes Anatomy of a Phenomenon, which generates particular
-excitement for its sober, scientific treatment of the UFO phenomenon.
-Well reviewed, it plays a significant role in the renaissance of
-interest in UFOs as scientists express a willingness to examine the UFO
-problem. It is the first book by a working scientist to argue for the
-extraterrestrial hypothesis. (Jacques Vallée, Anatomy
-of a Phenomenon,
-Regnery, 1965; Clark III 1213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3868
Date: 6/2/1965
-Time: 2000
-Description: Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by
-his sons and saw a spherical object with flashing lights that appeared
-to land silently on a hillside situated on Mr. Watson’s property.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Kuranda, Australia
-ID: 649
Date: 6/4/1965
-Description: During the Gemini
-4 mission, astronaut James
-McDivitt spots an object that he describes as a “white cylindrical
-shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it.” He takes two
-photos of it. His partner, Ed
-White, is asleep at the time. McDivitt maintains that it was some
-unknown but man-made piece of debris, while James Oberg, flight
-controller at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, argues that it
-is most likely the Titan II second stage of the craft. (“‘Object’
-Astronaut Sighted Still Unidentified,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 3
-(June/July 1965): 3; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 212–213;
-“The
-Gemini IV Photograph,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1965): 3; Condon, pp. 205–207;
-Good Above, pp. 378–379;
-“Gemini
-4 Astronaut James
-McDivitt UFO Sighting,” SpaceTimeForum YouTube channel, June 9,
-2013; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; Lee Speigel, “NASA
-UFO Files Revealed on Science Channel Special,” HuffPost, March 27,
-2012; Patrick Gross, “NASA
-Photographs of Unidentified Objects”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3870
Date: 6/7/1965
-End date: 6/8/1965
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Meteorological officer Jorge Stanich is
-performing a routine observation at the Argentinian Deception Station on
-Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, when he
-notices a stationary, bright, yellow light at an altitude of 25° above
-the horizon. He estimates its distance at 1.2 miles. The object is
-visible for 5 seconds. Six and a half hours later, at 2:20 a.m., he
-again sees a stationary light in the northwest at an altitude of 40°
-above the horizon for 4 seconds. (Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception
-Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 142–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3871
Date: 6/18/1965
-Alternate date: 6/20/1965
-Description: 4:20 p.m. The Commander of the Chilean Aguirre Cerda
-Research Station [destroyed in 1967] on Deception Island in the South
-Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Mario
-Jahn Barrera, together
-with Chilean Air Force pilot Lt. Benavidez, a meteorologist, and seven
-other witnesses, observe a UFO that maneuvers rapidly on an oscillating
-course for 25 minutes. (Good Above, p. 309;
-Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception
-Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3872
Date: 6/19/1965
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two farm boys are stacking hay near Rocky,
-Oklahoma, when a bright white, circular, wingless craft appears and
-descends at a 45° angle to the height of nearby telephone wires. The
-apparent size of the full moon, it moves horizontally across the
-farmyard. It has numerous lights around the outside and appears to be
-rotating in a counterclockwise direction. Their dogs start barking at
-it. They believe it is going to crash, so they run back into the barn
-after 3 minutes. It is last seen over a small silo. (J. Allen Hynek, The
-UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3873
Date: 6/25/1965
-Description: Frank Stavano and 24 other witnesses hear a loud,
-inexplicable explosion at his father Joseph’s farm near Carrollton,
-Ohio. Two days later, Joseph Stavano is cutting hay when he discovers a
-strange circular formation from which the wheat is completely missing in
-the center for a diameter of 26 feet; at the edges the stubble is bent
-or broken outward at an angle of 20–30° from the horizontal. No other
-path leads into the circle but his own. Soil samples show no evidence of
-explosives or other foreign matter. (“Photograph
-of Carrollton, Ohio, Ground Mark Received
-at CUFOS,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 (October 1980):
-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3875
Date: 6/25/1965
-Description: The Phoebus 1A nuclear rocket engine is tested at Area 25
-of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project Rover. It runs at full power
-for 10.5 minutes. Unfortunately, the intense radiation environment
-causes one of the capacitance gauges to produce erroneous readings. When
-confronted by one gauge that says the hydrogen propellant tank is nearly
-empty, and another that says it is a quarter full, and unsure which is
-correct, the technicians in the control room choose to believe the one
-that says it is a quarter full. But the tank is indeed nearly empty, and
-the propellant runs dry. Without liquid hydrogen to cool it, the engine,
-operating at 2,000° C., quickly overheats and explodes. About a fifth of
-the fuel is ejected and most of the rest melts. The whole
-decontamination effort takes 400 people two months to complete, and
-costs $50,000. (Wikipedia, “Project
-Rover”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3874
Date: 7/1965
-Description: 11:30 p.m.–midnight. Talking on the phone in her
-second-floor bedroom in Lake Forest, Illinois, Pat Harvey sees a flash
-and hears a commotion or “rustle” outside. When she finishes the
-conversation, she looks out the window toward her neighbor’s lawn and
-sees a transparent bubble of light about 100 feet away. Inside the globe
-are several individuals who look like normal human beings, though
-slightly shorter (5 feet tall) and with skin that looks tanned. They are
-lying down in a somewhat haphazard arrangement. There are no visible
-instruments or seats. The object bobs up and down slightly, and the
-beings’ arms are moving in a way that reminds Harvey of “rowing
-motions.” (Clark III 277; Patrick Gross, URECAT, June
-21, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3877
Date: 7/1965
-Description: Hynek writes
-a letter to the Air Force calling for a systematic study of UFOs. He
-writes that “enough puzzling sightings have been reported by intelligent
-and often technically competent people to warrant closer attention than
-Project Blue Book can possibly encompass at the present time.” (J. Allen
-Hynek, “Are
-Flying Saucers Real?” Saturday Evening Post, December 17, 1966,
-p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3876
Date: 7/1/1965
-Description: 5:45 a.m. Maurice Masse is farming just north of Valensole,
-Alps-de-Haute-Provence, France, when he is startled by a whistling sound
-and sees an elliptical object resting on four legs some 200 feet away
-from him in his lavender field. Squatting on the ground near the object
-are two figures about the size of 8-year-old boys, apparently looking at
-a lavender plant. Masse approaches them to about 20 feet and the figures
-stand up. They are dressed in gray-green overalls and have smooth,
-pumpkin-like heads. Their eyes are large and slanted, their mouths have
-no lips and look like little holes. He hears some grunting sounds, and
-Masse hints that there is a telepathic communication. One of the figures
-points a pencil-like object at Masse and he is paralyzed. They enter the
-UFO through a door and the object shoots off at enormous speed with a
-whistling sound. It takes Masse another 20 minutes to regain control.
-Tracks left by the landing gear are found later by Masse and confirmed
-by gendarmes. (Wikipedia, “Rencontre
-de Valensole”; NICAP, “Humanoids
-near Elliptical Object with Legs on Ground”;
-Clark 1205–1207; Good Above, pp. 133–134;
-G.E.P.A. Investigation, “The
-Significant Report from France,”
-Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 5–6; Aimé Michel, “The
-Valensole Affair,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965):
-7–9; Luis Schönherr, “Luis
-Schönherr’s Questionnaire,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June
-1966): 21; G.E.P.A. Representative, “A
-Tentative Reply to Luis Schönherr’s Questionnaire,”
-Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 22–23; Aimé Michel, “Valensole—Further Details,”
-Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 24–25; Aimé Michel and
-Charles Bowen, “A
-Visit to Valensole,”
-Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 6–12; Kim Hansen, “UFO
-Casebook,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 66–69; Patrick
-Gross, “Close
-Encounters of the 3rd Kind: Valensole, France, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3878
Date: 7/1/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: Farmer Maurice Masse, 41, heard a strange noise and saw an
-egg-shaped object 30 m away in a lavender field. The craft was set on a
-central pivot with six legs, was about 5 m long, and had a door showing
-two seats back to back. Near it were two dwarfs the size of 8-year-old
-children, with heads, normal human eyes, fine hands with five fingers,
-and no hair. They seemed surprised when the witness came near, and
-stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him,
-causing inhibition of movement. They spoke among themselves in shrill
-sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and “vanished.”
-Traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Valensole, France
-ID: 650
Date: 7/1/1965
-Description: Elliptical object with legs observed on ground, two small
-humanoids pointed pencil-like device at witness, paralyzing him. Strong
-physical trace evidence at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Valensole, France
-ID: 40
Date: 7/2/1965
-End date: 7/3/1965
-Description: Meteorological observers at scientific research bases
-watched zigzagging and maneuvering objects, including a lens-shaped
-disc. E-M effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antarctica
-ID: 41
Date: 7/2/1965
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Five garrison members of the British Antarctic
-Station B [abandoned in 1969] on Deception Island in the South Shetland
-Islands, Antarctica, have a UFO sighting while conducting routine
-meteorological observations. The witnesses see a light in the north
-quadrant, zigzagging, hovering, and accelerating at times, and
-maintaining altitudes between 20° and 45° above the horizon. The light
-is green and red, at times yellow, and is observed for perhaps 15–20
-minutes. The edges of the light resemble those of a bright star. (Schopick,
-pp. 153– 155; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 162;
-Good Above, p. 309;
-Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception
-Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, p. 146; Richard H. Hall, “UFO
-Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3879
Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: Newspaper reports, Antartica: Argentine, British and
-Chilean military and scientific personnel observed an UFO moving at a
-frightening speed doing incredible maneuvers. It was something solid,
-glowing blue-green and causing E/M interference with our equipment.
-Lenticular shaped “flying saucer”. Tracked by theodolite, binoculars and
-magnetograph tapes. Also, 10 color photographs were taken of the
-UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Antartica
Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: 7:42 p.m. 17 people (including three visiting Chilean
-personnel) observe a lens-shaped disc that maneuvers erratically across
-the sky for about an hour at the Argentine Deception Station in the
-South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. The object changes colors (red,
-yellow, green, orange, blue, white) as it zigzags from a position about
-30° above the horizon in the north-northwest. The object hovers,
-accelerates, reverses direction, and changes its luminosity. At times it
-goes behind some clouds, but it is also seen in front of some cirrus
-clouds. Finally, it disappears to the northwest, decreasing in size and
-gaining altitude. Cpl. Uladislao Duran Martinez takes 10 color photos
-through theodolite and field glasses. (“Chile,
-Argentina Confirm UFO Films,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4
-(Aug./Sept. 1965): 2; Dan Lloyd, “Things
-Are Hotting Up in the Antarctic,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1965): 4–5; Schopick,
-pp. 155–159; Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception
-Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 154; Richard H. Hall,
-“UFO
-Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965”; Good
-Above pp. 309–310;
-Condon, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3882
Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: 7:20 p.m. The meteorologist and eight other witnesses at
-the Chilean Aguirre Cerda Station [destroyed in 1967] on Deception
-Island, Antarctica, watch for a total of 20 minutes a bright and
-apparently solid object zigzagging from the east quadrant to the south
-quadrant. It maintains an altitude above the horizon between 35 and 20
-degrees. It is white and star-like with some orange hues. (Daniel A.
-Perisse, “Deception
-Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 153–154; Richard H.
-Hall, “UFO
-Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965”; Good
-Above, p. 309)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3881
Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: 5:03 p.m. Two meteorologists at the Argentine Orcadas Base
-on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, observe for 15
-seconds a round, bluish-white object moving east to west on a parabolic
-path. Two variometers (magnetic field measuring instruments) register
-sudden and strong disturbances. (Schopick,
-pp. 153– 155; Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception
-Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 153; Richard H. Hall,
-“UFO
-Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica,
-July 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3880
Date: 7/6/1965
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. E.R. Hayner. One flashing light, like a
-satellite, was seen for less than 1 minute. No further data was in the
-files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kiel, Wisconsin
-ID: 522
Date: 7/6/1965
-Time: night
-Description: The commander and crew of the Norwegian tanker “Jawesta”
-observed a lighted object flying out of the sea. First Officer Toronin
-Lien first saw a large, blue, intense flame behind the ship at high
-speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculors as
-its altitude reached about 300m. Its shape was that of a cigar, with a
-row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a
-bluish trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 150 (Vallee)
-Location: Puerto La Cruz, Portugal
-ID: 651
Date: 7/6/1965
-Description: 6:52 p.m. Chief Mate Torgrim Lien of the Norwegian ship TT
-Jawesta watches a star-like UFO through binoculars in the North Atlantic
-Ocean about 900 miles southwest of the Azores. He, the captain, and
-other officers see an intense blue, fiery tongue of light approaching
-the ship at tremendous speed. As it gets closer, he sees it is a
-cigar-shaped UFO with a row of square windows. (“‘Cigar’
-Passes a Few Hundred Feet above Norwegian
-Ship,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3883
Date: 7/8/1965
-Description: Police lieutenant and officer saw hovering white object
-that undulated, darted here and there, zigzagged, and sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sunnyvale, CA
-ID: 42
Date: 7/9/1965
-Time: 1230
-Description: At the Cote-de-Thermont, 30year-old Mrs. Zielonka saw a
-metallic object rise at high speed and fly away toward Metz. Estimated
-diameter: 3 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 152 (Vallee)
-Location: Moyeuvre, France
-ID: 652
Date: 7/9/1965
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Connie Wolferd and other residents of Bunker
-Hill, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, watch a clam- shaped object, about
-10 feet in diameter, with red lights around its rim hover above some
-nearby trees. Wolferd is sitting on the porch listening to the radio
-when it suddenly stops functioning. The living room lights flicker
-(although fluorescent lights in the kitchen and bathroom do not), and a
-neighbor’s loud TV suddenly stops. She hears something making a
-“bleep-bleep” sound, looks up, and sees the object. Neighbors find the
-leaves of nearby trees are singed. (“Bunker
-Hill Girl Tells of Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects in July,”
-Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News, August 10, 1965, p. 20; Schopick,
-pp. 177–178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3885
Date: 7/9/1965
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A white cylindrical object is seen flying over
-Santa Maria Island in the Azores islands, Portugal. All electric clocks
-at the Santa Maria Airport stop when the object passes overhead. Weather
-personnel and other witnesses all agree that the UFO is at an altitude
-of 24,000–30,000 feet. At no time does it make any sound. According to
-witnesses, the clocks stop at the same time the UFO reaches the zenith
-directly over the airport. Attempts to identify it are unsuccessful.
-(NICAP, “Clocks
-at Airport Stopped When UFO Passes Over”; “The Portuguese
-UAOs,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, p. 7; “United Press
-International Reports on Two UFOs,” Fate 18, no. 11 (November 1965):
-59–61; Schopick,
-pp. 160–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3884
Date: 7/12/1965
-Description: Student Humberto Aranjo da Silva nearly hit a saucer-shaped
-craft, 6 m in diameter, with two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, which
-had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84; SBEDV 51, 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil
-ID: 653
Date: 7/12/1965
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Laura de Freitas Machado Fernandes gets up to go
-to the well for some water at her home in Porto, Portugal, near the
-Porto Airport. She notices a luminous red object shaped like a
-cardinal’s hat coming from the west at high speed. It stops in mid-air
-and hovers above some nearby woods, rocking back and forth. She rushes
-back to warn her husband, Manuel Fernandes. They notice that their radio
-set has started making a loud noise. They estimate the object is about a
-quarter-mile away. Its top part is orange, and on its brim is a
-flickering red light. They watch it for 3 minutes before it takes off to
-the north at full speed. The radio goes back to normal. (“The
-Portuguese UAOs,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 3, 7; “United
-Press International Reports on Two UFOs,” Fate 18, no. 11 (November
-1965): 59–61; Schopick,
-pp. 162–167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3886
Date: 7/15/1965
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous
-object, its color changing from blue to orange, about 12 m in diameter,
-and showing several portholes. The object left traces on the
-ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1965 (Vallee)
-Location: Loretami Valley, Argentina
-ID: 654
Date: 7/15/1965
-Description: 11:00 a.m. An object descends near the Canberra Deep Space
-Communication Complex in Tidbinbilla, Australian Capital Territory,
-interfering with its tracking of Mariner 4. It is also observed by
-control tower operators at Canberra Airport. (“Canberra
-Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1965): 18–19;
-Schopick, pp. 167–169;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 106;
-Randall C. Hecker, “Did UFO Sabotage Mariner IV?” Fate 20, no. 5 (May
-1967): 32–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3887
Date: 7/17/1965
-Description: A blinding object, smaller than an airplane and having
-metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two
-workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which
-remained on the sand for two min, leaving X-shaped traces. It flew up to
-about 10 m altitude, then went away. The craft showed a round central
-section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 153 (Vallee)
-Location: Colonia, Uruguay
-ID: 655
Date: 7/19/1965
-Time: 1930
-Description: Maria Andres, teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and
-others saw a small object leave a larger one, land, and burn a spot on
-the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding
-light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Asi Jul. 30, 1965 (Vallee)
-Location: Villas Rosas, Argentina
-ID: 656
Date: 7/19/1965
-Time: 2130
-Description: Mr. Crowe was attracted by a strong light on the beach, and
-walked within 20 m of the craft producing it, which took off with a
-yelloworange light. Estimated diameter: 7 m, height, 3 m, with
-blue-green edges.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview 44 (Vallee)
-Location: Vancluse, Australia
-ID: 657
Date: 7/19/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Carlos Videla Zamudio saw a “strange machine” land on an
-isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from
-inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 m, and disappeared
-at fantastic speed. This was the third landing on a beach reported in
-Jul..
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 155; LDLN 78; APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Chanaral, Chile
-ID: 658
Date: 7/19/1965
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Denis
-Crowe, an
-aircraft artist, is strolling along a beach at Vaucluse, New South
-Wales, when he encounters a glowing disc resting on legs. It is about 20
-feet in diameter and 9 feet high. The top and bottom are silver gray and
-the rim in between is glowing greenish-blue. A hollow area at the very
-top seems to be a glass dome. There are no windows or antennae. Dogs in
-the neighborhood all bark at it. When Crowe is 50–60 feet from the
-object, it takes off with a sound like air forced from a balloon. He
-watches it for about 10 seconds until it disappears into the clouds.
-After the object takes off, the dogs are strangely silent. (NICAP, “Glowing
-Disc on Legs
-Freaks Dogs”; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,”
-IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 16–17; Good Above, p. 531)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3888
Date: 7/19/1965
-Description: Domed disc with legs on beach, dogs barked loudly. Object
-took off with sound of rushing air, yellow-orange glow from
-underside
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vaucluse, N.S.W., Australia
-ID: 43
Date: 7/20/1965
-Description: Domed object paced car, climbed out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chesterville, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 44
Date: 7/20/1965
-Time: 0800
-Description: R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas when he saw
-a parachutelike object land. Going near, he observed a chromiumlooking,
-egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part.
-A blond-haired pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed
-to study a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated
-before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took
-off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Quilmes, Argentina
-ID: 659
Date: 7/23/1965
-Description: An object was observed to land on ranch 45 km north of this
-town by a chemical engineer, his wife, and several farmers. It remained
-on the ground for 45 min, leaving traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Saucer News 61 (Vallee)
-Location: Lima, Peru
-ID: 660
Date: 7/25/1965
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witness: amateur astronomer M.D. Harris, 16. One bright
-blue star crossed 90 of sky in 10-15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Castalia, Ohio
-ID: 523
Date: 7/25/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object
-on the ground emitting green light flashes. He woke up other employees,
-who had time to note that the object was about 3 m in diameter, had
-small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage.
-The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the
-ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Chosica Power Plant, Peru
-ID: 661
Date: 7/26/1965
-Time: 2000
-Description: A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, a others who fled, saw two
-objects at ground level, about 3 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with five
-occupants, wearing luminous helmets, speaking among theselves, in
-unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in his hand.
-The witness experienced headaches for five days.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
-Location: Carazinho, Brazil
-ID: 662
Date: 7/26/1965
-Description: Night. Adilon Batista de Azevedo, 14, leaves home with two
-friends to go to a movie theater on the outskirts of Carazinho, Rio
-Grande do Sul, Brazil. When they pass a vacant lot on Rua David
-Canaberra between the Rua 15 de Novembro and the Rua Alexandra de Motta,
-they see a light beam coming from a cloud illuminating an area about 33
-feet in diameter and hear a buzzing noise. The other boys run, but
-Adilon remains and sees an oval- shaped object landing in the vacant lot
-and hovering about 3 feet off the ground. Another smaller object
-descends and hovers next to the first. Two beings about 5 feet tall
-emerge from the larger object and walk around it. They are wearing dark
-clothing and light helmets. After 5 minutes, 3 others emerge from the
-smaller object and converse with the others. The beings reenter the
-objects, which take off several minute apart. Adilon gets a headache
-that remains with him for 5 days. Possible helicopters? (“Research
-in Brazil,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 45– 47 (July/Dec. 1965): 7–9; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, April
-6, 2008; Brazil 73–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3890
Date: 7/26/1965
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Astronomers Robert Vitolniek, Ian Melderis, and
-Esmeralda Vitolniek at the Baldone Astrophysical Observatory in Latvia
-are observing noctilucent clouds when they see a star-like object
-drifting slowly westwards. Through binoculars the light seems to be
-sharply defined, and through a telescope it looks like an array of three
-greenish lights around a larger, central sphere. After 20 minutes, the
-three smaller lights move away from the central one, and they disappear
-into the distance at 10:00 p.m. (Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27; Hobana
-and Weverbergh 286–287; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3889
Date: 7/28/1965
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A USAF Reserve major and his wife observe a manta
-ray–shaped object fly almost directly overhead at Carswell AFB [now
-Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base], Fort Worth, Texas,
-below 1,000 feet altitude. The object moves at a constant speed on the
-same course. The object is approximately 40 feet long and has two
-brilliant white lights pulsating off and on once every second. It is
-completely silent and flies directly through the Carswell control zone
-at low altitude. The sighting is verified by three other persons on
-duty. The report states: “This sighting was a positive observation,
-under ideal circumstances, of a definite object of an unconventional
-nature—possibly of foreign origin, which could be a threat to national
-security.” (NICAP, “RAPCON
-Fails to Identify Low Flying Manta Ray”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3891
Date: 7/29/1965
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 45
Date: 7/29/1965
-Time: 2300
-Description: Alain Bressol observed a large, disk-shaped object in a
-field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew at high speed toward the south.
-Official report.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 156;LDLN 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Grouzies, France
-ID: 663
Date: 7/30/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: Two children attracted by the barking of a dog saw a
-luminous object resting on a tripod landing gear, and observed it for
-one hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Goonumbla, Australia
-ID: 665
Date: 7/30/1965
-Description: Hundreds of people in two separate spots observed an object
-that landed for five min. It emitted a blinding purple light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 157; LDLN 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Puerto Monte, Chile
-ID: 664
Date: 7/31/1965
-Description: A woman in a car saw an object on the road. It took off,
-then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The
-object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
-Location: Belluco, Chile
-ID: 666
Date: 7/31/1965
-Description: 1:05 a.m. Wynnewood, Oklahoma, police officer Lewis Sikes,
-29, reports a UFO to the northeast. A little later, simultaneous radar
-fixes are obtained at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City and Carswell AFB [now
-Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base], Fort Worth, Texas.
-Both Tinker and Carswell track the object to a point 15 miles southwest
-of Tinker when it disappears. A few minutes later, it is tracked to a
-point 29 miles south of Tinker when it is lost again. (NICAP, “Gnd/Visual
-and AF Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3892
Date: 7/31/1965
-End date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Summer 1965 sighting wave mostly in Southwestern U.S. and
-northward through the central tier of states, later in eastern U.S. (See
-separate chronology, section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 46
Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: 8:08 p.m. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol starts receiving
-25–30 visual sightings of UFOs, many by police and highway patrol
-troopers from Purcell north to Norman to Chandler and back south through
-Meeker and Shawnee, Oklahoma. The sightings continue through dawn and
-vary from one to four objects that start and stop, often having a red
-color and varying to a white and blue luster. (NICAP, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3894
Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: 9:08 p.m. Four objects, bluish-white with a red haze, are
-seen from the control tower at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
-T/Sgt John
-R. Lang, 34,
-is the watch supervisor. All the objects appear at approximately 22,000
-feet altitude. One is moving south, and another is moving north at
-speeds of 150–200 mph. Two of the objects appear stationary. The 746th
-Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron reports radar contact with one
-object at 10,000 feet in the vicinity of Norman, Oklahoma, 20 miles
-south of Tinker AFB. The duration is 90 minutes. An Air Force weather
-observer, who wishes to remain anonymous, looks at a UFO through his
-40x-telescope at Oklahoma City. It is tilted about 45° then straightens
-out. “It looked like Saturn with a flat top and flat bottom.” (NICAP,
-“Four
-Lights Observed, Radar Contact on One”; “UFOs
-Leave Local Radar
-Tracks,” Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, August 2, 1965, pp. 1–2; “Radar
-Didn’t Detect UFOs
-Spotted in Area,” Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1965, pp. 1, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3895
Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: Night. A TWA Boeing 707 airliner flying west of Topeka,
-Kansas, picks up 12–15 targets on Air Intercept Radar flying toward them
-at high speed on a 50-mile scope. They change to a 20-mile scope and
-observe the objects approaching in formation. The pilot, copilot, and
-engineer all witness this clearly. The aircraft passes the objects but
-cannot see them visually. Two films of the scopes are taken. (NICAP, “707
-Picks Up 12–15 Targets”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3896
Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: Night. Two rookie police officers in Caldwell, Kansas,
-speed toward the airport to investigate local sightings when they see an
-egg-shaped machine about 300 feet long hovering above the ground. They
-try to get closer, but it disappears behind a hedgerow and shuts its
-lights off. They return the next day, but find no traces. (“Caldwell Officers
-Are ‘Believers’ Now,” Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, August 2, 1965, p. 1;
-Jerome Clark, “The
-Greatest Flap Yet?”
-Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966): 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3897
Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: 1:30–4:30 a.m. Various personnel from Francis E. Warren Air
-Force Base west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, report more than 70 UFOs near the
-base’s ICBM Minuteman I launch control facilities (LCFs) and launch
-facilities (LFs, missile silos). A Lieut. Anspaugh logs the reports and
-incoming telephone calls for three hours. The reports begin with a
-“large circular object emitting several colors but no sound” seen by
-civilians over Cheyenne itself at 1:30 a.m. This results in an alert at
-the base for all personnel to be on the watch for anything suspicious.
-Five objects are spotted over the Sioux Army Depot [now closed] in
-Sydney, Nebraska, at 1:45 a.m. Two UFOs are seen over the Echo LCF
-southeast of Pine Bluff at 1:48 a.m. Nine more objects are sighted at
-2:50 a.m. The Echo LCF reports six UFOs stacked vertically. A Strategic
-Air Command team at the H-2 LF northeast of Gurley reports a white UFO
-directly overhead at 3:00 a.m. The Sioux Army Depot reports five objects
-going east at 3:35 a.m. Reports of white, round- or oval-shaped objects
-in various formations, continue solidly at the H- 2 LF for the next 40
-minutes. At 4:05 a.m., the Warren base commander calls to say that the
-Quebec LCF southwest of Chugwater has nine UFOs in sight: four to the
-NW, three to the NE, and two over Cheyenne. Sightings continue to be
-reported the next two nights at missile sites assigned to Warren AFB,
-for a total of 148 objects seen by 143 combat defense force airmen,
-missile maintenance men, and NCOs. The sheer scope and blatant
-ostentation of the UFOs’ reported aerial displays over a sensitive
-atomic missile base is remarkable. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 209–211;
-Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable
-Reports from
-the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 (August 2008): 8–14, 23–27; Robert
-L. Hastings, “Yet
-Another Nuclear Missile
-Launch Officer Talks about UFOs at F. E. Warren AFB,” UFOs &
-Nukes, February 5, 2012; Nukes 223– 238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3893
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Unidentified blips show up on the Weather Bureau
-radar screen at the Wichita Municipal Airport [now Wichita Dwight D.
-Eisenhower National Airport] in Kansas and continue intermittently until
-after 6:00 a.m. Most of the sightings are in the vicinity of Wellington,
-Kansas. The altitude ranges from 5,000–20,000 feet. Wichita
-meteorologist John Shockley tracks several UFOs on the Weather Bureau
-radar flying at altitudes of 6,000–9,000 feet. His assistant Ellis
-Pike notes that they look just like airliner blips. They brighten
-and dim on the screen, moving at 45 mph. At least four citizens see
-colored glows in the southern sky during the early morning hours. One
-says: “They were red and exploded in a shower of sparks and at other
-times fluttered like a leaf in the clear sky.” (NICAP, “Weather
-Radar Blips and Sky Glows”; Condon, pp. 158–160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3900
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: The crew of the Russian steamship Raduga in the Red Sea
-watch a fiery sphere emerge from the water 2 miles away, causing an
-enormous pillar of water to rise and collapse. It hovers above the
-surface at an altitude of 490 feet. A motorboat with six Arab fishermen
-is in the area and also sees the object, which is apparently 200 feet in
-diameter. The object shoots straight up, and the boat is hit by a strong
-wave that overturns it. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets,
-Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 59–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3902
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings,
-close to the ground, in the 600 block on Northwest 63.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
-ID: 668
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: As they patrol near Eagle Mountain Lake, two Tarrant
-County, Texas, deputy sheriffs see an object as bright as burning
-magnesium land. An extensive investigation by police finds no traces.
-(Sparks, p. 306)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3903
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: Project Blue Book puts out an official USAF press release
-declaring the majority of the sightings on August 1 are “most likely”
-due to the planet Jupiter and the stars Rigel, Capella, Betelgeuse, and
-Aldebaran, “clearly visible in the eastern sky.” But astronomer Robert
-Risser of the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
-counters that Jupiter and the four stars are “on the opposite side of
-the earth” at the time of the sightings. (“Mystery
-Flying Objects ‘Seen’
-in Eight States,” Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1965, p. 1; Clark III
-388)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3899
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as
-bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near
-Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to
-negative results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Justin, Texas
-ID: 667
Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: 3:00 a.m. KXWI-TV news photographer Robert Campbell hears
-on his radio a conversation between Oklahoma and Texas highway patrolmen
-that a UFO has been tracked on radar and is streaking towards the Texas
-border. Campbell takes his 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera and drives into
-Sherman, Texas, where he locates Chief of Police Peter McCollum.
-Together they search for the object and soon see it hanging stationary
-one mile east of Bells on US Highway 82. The object has a “Mercury
-capsule” shape at one end, possibly rounded at the other end. Several
-distinct bands circle the cylinder, with disc-shaped embossments on the
-surface. He takes four camera exposures, two minutes each at
-three-minute intervals. The negatives are carefully examined by USAF
-scientific advisers and astronomical experts. No acceptable explanation
-can be found for the object recorded on the negatives. (NICAP, “The
-Sherman, Texas, Photo Case”; “Sherman
-1965,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-Sherman Case, Texas, USA, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3901
Date: 8/2/1965
-Alternate date: 8/3/1965
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Mr. A. L. Smith, accompanied by his 14-year-old
-son Alan and three other witnesses, watch an unusual, multicolored UFO
-over Tulsa, Oklahoma. The UFO is slowly moving toward the witnesses.
-Still several hundred yards away, it pauses briefly and hovers. At that
-precise moment, Alan snaps a photograph with his inexpensive camera,
-using ASA 64 film. Alan decides not to try for a second shot. He takes
-his camera inside the house and runs back outside just in time to see
-the object rapidly flying away into the night sky. The photo is a
-probable fake of a color wheel for an aluminum Christmas tree. (NICAP,
-“The
-Smith / Tulsa Photo Case”; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case
-Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p.147;
-Larry Robinson, “The
-Tulsa Photo,” MidiMagic, October 25, 2016; Patrick Gross, “Project
-Blue Book Case
-9966”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3898
Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: Denver Post editorial: “Maybe it’s time for more people to
-get serious about the UFO question. . . . If we still choose to be
-skeptical, we nevertheless are not nearly so ready as we once were to
-dismiss all reports of variously shaped but elusive flying objects as
-products of midsummer night dreams.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 47
Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: Highway investigator Rex Heflin, three Polaroid photos of
-domed-disc UFO (section VII). August 4, 1965. Fort Worth Star Telegram
-(TX) editorial: “They can stop kidding us now about there being no such
-thing as ‘flying saucers. . . .’ Too many people of obviously sound mind
-saw and reported them independently. . . . Their descriptions of what
-they saw were too similar to one another, and too unlike any familiar
-object. . . .”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Santa Ana, CA
-ID: 48
Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: A young man saw an object rise from the lake area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake Hefner, Oklahoma
-ID: 669
Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Three young men watch a triangular
-object with a light at each of its points move from north to south along
-the Jura Mountains from Biel/Bienne to Vignelz, Canton Bern,
-Switzerland. Suddenly it stops, changing color from yellow to dark red,
-makes a 180° turn, then takes off “like lightning” toward the east where
-it vanishes. (“Bright
-Pointed Triangle Again,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1966): iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3905
Date: 8/3/1965
-Time: 2000
-Description: Approximate date. Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey
-Lawrence saw an object dive toward them. They switched off the car
-headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the oval object, which
-hovered at ground level, its color changing from orange to fluorescent
-green, before it took off at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
-Location: Carnarvon, Australia
-ID: 670
Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: 12:37 p.m. Los Angeles County Highway Accident Investigator
-Rex
-Heflin takes four clear Polaroid photos of a hat-shaped UFO on a
-lonely stretch of road near Santa Ana, California. The object is silent,
-and a beam of white light is rotating beneath it. He radios his
-supervisor, but the radio goes dead. One of Heflin’s coworkers offers to
-send the photos to Life magazine; he does, but Life declines to use
-them. Soon, someone from NORAD shows up demanding the prints and Heflin
-turns them over. They are not seen again. The photos are most likely a
-prank hoax by Heflin using a hubcap, complicated by flawed photographic
-analyses and investigations. (NICAP, “Santa
-Ana / Rex Heflin Photos”; “Calif.
-Man Snaps UAO Photo,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 4, 6; “Photo
-‘Hoax’ Label Questioned,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 5
-(Nov./Dec. 1965): 8; “The
-Heflin Story,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1966): 7–8; Schopick,
-pp. 170–174; Ralph Rankow, “The
-Heflin Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1968): 21–24; UFOEv II 284–286; Condon, pp. 84–85, 437–455;
-Robert J. Kirkpatrick, “The Heflin Case: Then and Now,” IUR 11, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1986): 10–13, 23; “Heflin’s 1965
-Photos Finally Validated,” RR0; Ann Druffel, Robert M. Wood, and
-Eric Kelson, “Reanalysis
-of the 1965 Heflin
-UFO Photos,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 14, no. 4 (2000):
-583–622; Ann Druffel, “Goodbye,
-Rex Heflin,”
-UFO, August 2006, pp. 52–63; Mary Castner, unpublished document)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3904
Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: A bright, silvery object landed on a hill for 45 min. There
-were numerous witnesses, among them military men. Official
-investigation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Chena, Chile
-ID: 671
Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: E-M effects on truck, domed disc swooped overhead, hovered
-just above road, blocked highway
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Abilene, KS
-ID: 49
Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force radar tracked
-formations of 7-10 UFOs over Lake Superior and Duluth, MN, moving at
-about 9,000 mph, altitudes between 5,200 and 17,000 feet
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Michigan—Minnesota
-ID: 50
Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two unnamed 14 year olds. One light moved around
-the sky for 16-17 seconds. No further data in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tinley Park, Illinois
-ID: 525
Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Don
-Tenopir, 44, is driving a truck on State Highway 15 about 25 miles
-south of Abilene (near Elmo, Kansas), when all his lights go out. They
-come back on intermittently. A UFO passes just above his truck with a
-wind-like sound and hovers about 100 feet in front of him. Tenopir stops
-his rig, and the object slowly rises and takes off to the southwest. It
-seems to be 14–15 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick with a 4-foot hump in
-the middle, and orange-colored. It is shooting off rays in spurts. He
-stops in Abilene to report his sighting to Abilene Reflector-Chronicle
-reporter Ed
-Corwin. (“Beatrice
-Trucker Joins UFO Viewers,” Beatrice (Neb.) Daily Sun, August 5,
-1965, p. 1; Jerome Clark, “The
-Greatest Flap Yet?” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966):
-29–30; Schopick, pp. 175–177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3906
Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: Night. Radar operators at Calumet Air Force Station [now
-operated by Keweenaw County] near Phoenix, Michigan, track 7–10 objects
-in V-formation traveling from southwest to north-northeast at about
-9,000 mph over Lake Superior. The same night, radar targets at Duluth,
-Minnesota, are chased by USAF jets. (Sparks,
-p. 306; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3907
Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 2200
-Description: Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disk 50 m in diameter land
-with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The
-object illuminated a wide area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Trapua, Brazil
-ID: 674
Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 0130
-Description: Truck driver Don Tenopir had reached a point 35 km from
-Abilene, going toward Lincoln, when his headlights blinked and failed.
-An object then dived toward the truck and stopped on the road 30 m ahead
-causing a car coming in the opposite direction to leave the road in
-order to avoid it. The object was orange, 5 m in diameter, 1.5 m high,
-with a dome and a “black spot.” It took off toward the west, then turned
-south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 82 (Vallee)
-Location: Abilene, Kansas
-ID: 673
Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 0130
-Description: A man in a car observed a red and blue light thought it
-came from a police car, then was passed by a huge, orange object flying
-at ground level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 672
Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: J.A. Carter, 19. One light flew fast, straight and
-level for 12 seconds. No further data in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 524
Date: 8/5/1965
-Time: 2030
-Description: Several children saw an object shaped like two saucers
-glued together come to ground level several times on the farm of William
-Butcher. It was chromelike, measured about 16 m in diameter, took off
-with green and yellow flames, and illuminated the clouds when it flew
-into them. Capt. James Dorsey and four technicians from Niagara Falls
-AFB investigated the case. They found no trace, concluding, however,
-that the witnesses were not lying.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Cherry Creek, New York
-ID: 675
Date: 8/6/1965
-Description: Cascade (ID) News editorial: “An objective observer is
-about forced to the conclusion that there are objects of some sort
-appearing in the skies that cannot be explained by any conventional
-circumstances. There is absolutely no reason to deny the UFOs’ existence
-because we don’t understand them.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 51
Date: 8/8/1965
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A luminous UFO is allegedly photographed in
-Beaver, Pennsylvania, by James Lucci, 17. According to estimations by
-witnesses, the diameter of the UFO is around 42 feet. Lucci is
-photographing the full moon with his brother John, 23. According to
-them, a shining object appears from behind a hill. James manages to take
-two shots before the flying object leaves. His friends encourage him to
-send the photos to the Beaver County Times, where they are analyzed and
-declared authentic. However, both the Colorado project and UFO
-researchers determine the photo is a hoax created by holding a plate up
-next to the moon with a fist (probably John’s) and blurring it with
-motion. (Condon, pp. 83–84,
-455–457;
-Mark Cashman, “The End of a Photographic Case,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter
-1998): 21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3908
Date: 8/9/1965
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A professional astronomer and his wife, along
-with three others, are driving eastward on Long Island, New York, when
-then see a silvery disc heading slowly south. Its base has a ring of
-bluish-white lights that make the object appear to rotate. It has a
-white light on top. After accelerating, the object becomes a white,
-starlike object far to the east. It moves up and down for another 5
-minutes, then rapidly moves south and disappears over the Atlantic
-Ocean. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3909
Date: 8/9/1965
-Time: 2330
-Description: Three girls driving a car observed what they first thought
-was the rising moon. It was a circular, pale-yellow object, with a
-silhouette moving inside the glow. There were five other witnesses one
-of whom stated that as he approached the object, it appeared to “blow
-up” with a bang.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
-ID: 676
Date: 8/10/1965
-Description: Boeing aerospace engineer saw two silvery, disc-shaped
-objects that hovered for several minutes, departed upward at high speed
-one after the other
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Seattle, WA
-ID: 52
Date: 8/10/1965
-Description: 9:40 P.M. Fireball meteor traveling easterly across
-northeast sky.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pacific Northwest
-ID: 53
Date: 8/11/1965
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 54
Date: 8/11/1965 (approximate)
-Description: 3:30 p.m. David Gibson is sitting in the front yard of his
-house in Waverly, Iowa, with his father and sister. They hear a
-high-pitched whine and see an object descending to the south. The
-silvery UFO is about 15–20 feet in diameter and looks like two saucers
-put together. It lands on a tree-lined hill out of view and the whining
-sound fades away. Gibson walks about a half-mile to take a look and
-briefly sees a “being,” about 3–3.5 feet tall, watching him from behind
-a tree at the top of the hill. It quickly vanishes and he hears a rush
-of air. He reaches the spot but sees no footprints. About 40 feet south
-of the tree he finds a burned area about 15–20 feet in diameter and
-three rectangular impressions in the shape of a triangle. (Jerome Clark,
-“Iowa’s
-Bashful Humanoid,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 (November 1975):
-52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3910
Date: 8/12/1965
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Maj. Jack D. Bond is sitting in a passenger seat
-of a T-29 aircraft on a heading of 300° and descending from 4,000 feet
-to 3,000 feet near Springfield, Ohio. He sees a UFO ascending and
-descending that is slightly higher than the T-29. It appears to be 5–7
-miles away and moving in a general direction of 90°. The object’s speed
-is highly erratic during the 3 ascents and descents that the object
-makes. On its third descent the object appears to level off and
-accelerate at a speed of 690 mph or more. Project Blue Book evaluates
-this sighting as a solar mirage, even though the position and time of
-day rule that out. (NICAP, “Object
-Has 3 Ascents and 2 Descents”;
-Clark III 388–389)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3911
Date: 8/13/1965
-Description: Portsmouth (NH) Herald editorial: “Perhaps we really do
-have visitors from somewhere beyond our present ken.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Portsmouth, NH
-ID: 55
Date: 8/13/1965
-Description: 9:30 p.m.? Leonard Chalupiak has just put his car into his
-garage at Baden, Pennsylvania, when he sees a disc-shaped object about
-300 feet in diameter flying in front of the moon toward the north at
-about 50 mph and 2,300 feet away. It is surrounded with orange lights
-that weaken as a blue light comes on, which is intense for about 3
-seconds. Then all the lights disappear and a sort of “shock wave” that
-shakes the tree leaves commences. The witness goes into his house and
-calls the Air Force. About 20 minutes later his vision becomes hazy, his
-eyes grow painful, and he gradually loses vision in both eyes. He
-notices his entire body is sunburned. A medical examination indicates
-exposure to ultraviolet radiation. His vision returns gradually over
-several days. The Air Force labels it a hoax, perhaps confusing it with
-the Beaver, Pennsylvania, hoax photo of August 8. (NICAP, “Object
-Crosses Moon / Medical Effects on Witness”; Vallée, Magonia, p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3912
Date: 8/13/1965
-Description: A 37-year-old civilian had just put his car in the garage
-when he saw an object about 100 m in diameter, shaped like a disk, which
-flew in front of the moon in a northerly direction at about 80 km/h. It
-was surrounded with orange lights that weakened as a blue source came
-on, very intense for about 3 sec then all lights disappeared as the
-object was about 700 m away. This was followed by a sort of “shock-wave”
-effect, and tree leaves were shaken. The witness entered his house and
-called the Air Force. Twenty minutes later his vision became hazy and
-his eyes were painful. He gradually lost vision in both eyes, and his
-entire body was “sunburned.” Medical examination compared the symptoms
-to ultraviolet exposure. His vision came back gradually over a period of
-several days.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Baden, Pennsylvania
-ID: 677
Date: 8/13/1965
-Time: 0700
-Description: Ellen G. Ryerson, 16, and her sister, Laura, were going to
-work in a bean field when they observed three creatures about 1.60 m
-tall, with bulging eyes, expressionless faces, white craniums, large
-pores, and a protrusion at the back of their heads. They wore purple
-jerseys and white shirts. They had disappeared when the running girls
-looked back.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Renton, Washington
-ID: 678
Date: 8/14/1965
-Time: 0200
-Description: Patrick Nash and his family were awaiting a ferry boat when
-a brilliant, orange-red object shaped like a large soup plate appeared
-50 m away, rose from the ground, flew low over the car, landed 20m away
-on the other side, vanishing suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
-Location: Stranraer, Scotland
-ID: 679
Date: 8/15/1965
-Time: 0200
-Description: A guard saw a boatlike object flying at high speed, with
-red flames on its sides. It circled and came low over a farm. In fear,
-the man fired at it with his rifle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Nablus, Jordan
-ID: 680
Date: 8/15/1965
-Time: 2300
-Description: Five persons in a car heard a humming sound, and an object
-with changing colored lights landed and blocked the road while the car
-engine stalled. The object was as wide as the road, and 3 m high. Before
-it took off, three human beings were seen inside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
-Location: Salto, Uruguay
-ID: 681
Date: 8/16/1965
-Description: Christian Science Monitor editorial: “[UFOs] sighted early
-this month over Texas may give scientists something to think about for a
-long time. . . . They give the clearest evidence of all that something
-strange actually was in the sky. . . . It makes the clearest case yet
-for a thorough look at the saucer mystery.”
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 56
Date: 8/16/1965
-Description: 10:45 p.m.–12:20 a.m. A woman leaves her house on the
-northwest edge of Sedalia, Missouri, to drive to a drug store. As she is
-returning home, she sees an unusual figure in the ditch to her right. It
-turns and waves at her, then stumbles as it climbs out of the ditch.
-Something (a large bird?) flies up in the air a few feet from the car.
-She steps on the gas and goes home, where her husband asks her where she
-has been because it is now 12:25 a.m. In 1977, she undergoes hypnotic
-regression with hypnotist Ron Owen and recalls an abduction experience
-where she undergoes some type of examination. (Clark III 278–279;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-25, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3913
Date: 8/18/1965
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Michael S. Henry and another college student are
-driving 3 miles south of Noblesville, Indiana, when a large red lighted
-object swoops down on their car. The radio and ignition go dead. The UFO
-looks like a top, with a large, gray cone and a flat or slightly domed
-top. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports,
-Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3914
Date: 8/19/1965
-Description: E-M effects in barn, elliptical object landed nearby,
-animals reacted, beeping sound. Object shot straight up into clouds.
-Physical traces at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cherry Creek, NY
-ID: 57
Date: 8/19/1965
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Thelma B. Schumaker and her mother, Mrs. W. H.
-Blackburn, are awakened by an explosion in their backyard in Mount Airy,
-North Carolina. The sound seems to rise and travel west. They see a
-bright golden cigar hovering in the north. The object moves to the right
-then to the left, then up and down, left again, then disappears behind
-some high oak trees. The next morning, the witnesses find a 6-inch-wide
-circle of depressed sod that is worn down to the soil. The circle is 12
-feet in diameter. (Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO
-Sightings, CUFOS, 1975, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3915
Date: 8/19/1965
-Description: 8:20–9:00 p.m. Harold Butcher, 16, is milking the cows in
-his father’s barn in Cherry Creek, New York, and listening to radio
-station WKBW. Just outside, a 3-year old bull is tied by its nose to a
-metal pipe. Harold hears the bull make a noise “like I have never heard
-come from an animal before.” Looking out the window, he sees the animal
-is bending the pipe. Simultaneously, he sees a metallic-looking,
-football-shaped UFO about 50 feet long and approximately 20 feet thick
-hovering just above the trees an estimated 450 feet from the barn.
-Slowly, the object descends behind a maple tree, emitting a red vapor
-from around its edges and a “beep-beep” sound. Meanwhile, the radio is
-emitting static, even though WKBW usually has a clear signal. Harold
-calls the house on an intercom, then runs outside. As he approaches the
-bull, the UFO rises and moves behind some clouds “as fast as a snap of
-my fingers” emitting red vapor toward the ground, then bounces back to
-the ship as it hovers about 10 feet in the air. The noise also increases
-to a level approximating a sonic boom as it goes up. As the UFO
-disappears, the clouds turn green. Inside, the boy’s mother,
-Mrs. William Butcher, notes that there is “definite interference” in her
-radio reception. Harold’s brother, Robert, also goes outside and the two
-boys see that the UFO has reappeared, this time hovering over a pine
-grove. It ascends again, emitting the red vapor and turning the clouds
-green. Others in the house include William Butcher Jr. and Kathleen
-Brougham, a friend. They do not see the object. It returns twice at 8:45
-and 9:00 p.m., finally disappearing to the southwest. Trooper E. J. Haas
-and a fellow officer arrive on the scene shortly thereafter. As they all
-walk out to inspect the area of the initial sighting, they notice a
-pungent odor. Harold and the young daughter suffer from upset stomachs.
-Mrs. Butcher says the cows produce only one can of milk that evening, as
-opposed to their usual two and a half cans. Harold discovers a purple,
-oily-smelling liquid and gives a sample of it to the state police, who
-turn it over to Capt. James A. Dorsey and five others from Niagara Falls
-Air Force Base [now Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station], who come to
-investigate the report the following afternoon. When NICAP investigator
-Jeffrey Gow arrives on the scene, he notices the foot-tall grass in the
-area “seemed to be bent over in long curved sweeps.” Radar targets are
-picked up between 8:00–8:30 p.m. by an AN/FPS-6 Long Range Height Finder
-Radar of the 763rd Radar Squadron at Lockport Air Force Station [now
-closed] near Shawnee, New York. The target is sighted near the upper
-limit of the radar. (NICAP, “Close
-Encounter Has Radar Evidence”; NICAP, “Cherry
-Creek (Butcher) Trace Case”; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; “Landing
-Probed by NICAP, AF,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1965): 7;
-“The
-Cherry Creek Incident,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, p. 7; Schopick,
-pp. 178–184; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 170–172;
-Robert A. Galganski, “Incident at Cherry Creek,” IUR 21, no. 3 (Fall
-1996): 3– 12, 27–29; Sparks,
-p. 307; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 118–124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3916
Date: 8/19/1965
-Time: 8:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Butcher, son Harold, 17, and
-children. A large elliptical object, with a reddish vapor underneath,
-came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few
-seconds later. Radio drowned out by static, a tractor engine stopped.
-When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be
-heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a
-purplish liquid, 2”x2” marks and patches of singed grass were found at
-the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cherry Creek New York
-ID: 526
Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 0300
-Description: Mrs. T. E. Schumaker was awakened by a loud humming sound
-and found she could not speak or move for a while. When she finally
-reached her window, she saw a vertical, cigarshaped, luminous object. It
-moved right and left, then back, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind
-some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, 4 m in diameter,
-was found in the yard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66,2 (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina
-ID: 682
Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 1150
-Description: Several tourists, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter,
-observed a strange craft landing near the Inca ruins that they were
-visiting. Two creatures described as luminous dwarfs, who seemed to have
-“vertical mouths,” were seen briefly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 43 (Vallee)
-Location: Cuzco, Peru
-ID: 683
Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 1820
-Description: Four students working on a farm noted radio interference
-and a peculiar “beeping sound,” then saw an object at low altitude on
-the farm of William Butcher. It was shaped like two saucers glued
-together, had a shiny chromelike surface, diameter of 15 m, height of 6
-m, and left a trail and smell of burned gasoline. It rose straight up
-into the clouds, which were illuminated with green light. Five min later
-it came down again over a woods, rose, and finally flew off to the
-southwest. Effects were noted on animals: milk production decreased from
-2 1/2 barrels to one; a dog barked, and other animals were
-terrified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Cherry Creek, New York
-ID: 684
Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Yacobi heard a loud humming sound and saw a
-glowing, oval, flashing object land 200 m away. Figures moved around it,
-as if examining the craft, which took off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
-Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
-ID: 685
Date: 8/21/1965
-Description: Science editor, Christian Science Monitor: “Flying saucers
-are all but literally knocking on the laboratory door. . . . Something
-definitely is going on that cannot yet be explained.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 58
Date: 8/21/1965
-Time: 1530
-Description: A man was repairing the broken chain of his motorbike when
-an object shaped like a top, gray, spinning, 1.8 m high, same diameter,
-suddenly appeared 5 m away, 1.5 m above the road. It shot off toward the
-northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
-Location: Bury’s Bridge, Eire
-ID: 686
Date: 8/23/1965
-Time: 0100
-Description: Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad
-crossing when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then
-landed near the tracks. It was round, 5 m in diameter, and 2.5 m high. A
-door opened, and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and
-reentered the object, which flew off in a spiral.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 158 (Vallee)
-Location: Apostoles, Argentina
-ID: 687
Date: 8/25/1965
-Time: 0300
-Description: Zoilo Campos Aguilar observed an object very close to the
-ground for 38 min. It was semi-oval, with a powerful yellow-orange light
-and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. Apparent diameter
-was that of the full moon. The witness was a night watchman.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Terreon, Mexico
-ID: 688
Date: 8/25/1965
-Time: 1010
-Description: A red object shaped like a plate, emittting fire and smoke
-through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it
-allegedly landed on the roof. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor
-College observed the craft, which had two antennae on top, rise spinning
-and emitting red light beams It flew off to the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Callao, Peru
-ID: 689
Date: 8/30/1965
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: M.A. Lilly, N. Smith, T. Nastoff. One white
-ball, 5-8’ in diameter and trailed by a 2-3’ light, hit the road 100’ in
-front of the witness’ car, bounced and flew away. Sighting lasted 3-4
-seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Urbana, Ohio
-ID: 527
Date: 8/30/1965
-Description: Hynek writes
-to Lt. Col. John Spaulding in the Office of the Secretary of the Air
-Force to suggest that the Pentagon work with the National Academy of
-Sciences to establish a panel of physical and social scientists to study
-the UFO phenomenon. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], p. 1; Swords 306)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3917
Date: 8/30/1965
-Description: A spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which
-an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a “foggy”
-trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: La Blanquilla, Venezuela
-ID: 690
Date: 9/1/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: A worker observed the landing of an oval object on an
-airfield where he had gone “drawn by a strange feeling.” Four other
-persons also saw the object, from which a dwarfish creature, 85 cm tall,
-emerged. The entity had a head double the size of a normal human head,
-and made gestures that were not understood. He reentered the machine,
-which became illuminated and took off, first vertically, then toward the
-west.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Huanuco, Peru
-ID: 691
Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Project Blue Book File #(?): Damon/Angleton, TX. Deputy
-Sheriffs Billy E. McCoy and Robert W. Goode were investigating an UFO in
-the back-woods roads when the purplish UFO shot instantly towards them
-to within 150 feet and hovered at 100 feet off the ground. The bright
-glow illuminated the interior of the car and the surrounding fields
-(11:30 p.m.). “Every blade of grass stood out clearly” in the field.
-Officer Goode, who was driving with his arm out the window, felt heat on
-his arm and later reported that a cut that was on his arm healed more
-rapidly than normal [U/V effects].
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Angleton, TX
Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 0200
-Description: A young man and two Police officers observed five lights in
-a rigid configuration moving over a field, sometimes fluttering to low
-altitude with a falling-leaf motion. The lights illuminated the
-countryside and flashed in sequence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fuller (Vallee)
-Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
-ID: 693
Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Brazoria County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Billy
-McCoy and Deputy Robert Goode. One triangular object, 150-200’ long,
-40-50’ thick at middle and dark grey, with a long, bright, pulsing,
-purple light on the right side and a long blue light on the left side.
-Came from distance to 150’ off highway and 100’ in the air. Purple light
-illuminated ground beneath object and interior of police car. Driver
-felt heat on his left arm. Initial sighting lasted 5-10 minutes. Second
-sighting.occurred later that night.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Damon, Texas
-ID: 529
Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 2 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Exeter Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand, Jr. and David
-Hunt, and Norman Muscarello. One large, dark, elliptical object with a
-row of red lights around it, moved slowly and erratically around houses
-and trees, while lights blinked in sequence. Farm animals were very
-noisy. Sighting lasted about 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
-ID: 528
Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Citizen reports of glowing red, elliptical object at low
-level, verified by police, row of bright pulsating red lights, animal
-reactions
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Exeter, NH
-ID: 59
Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: Two Angleton sheriffs, McCoy and Robert Goode saw from
-their car a huge object 70 m long, 15 m high, with a bright, violet
-light at one end and a pale-blue light at the other. They stopped to
-watch it and saw the craft fly within 30 m, casting a huge shadow when
-it intercepted the moonlight. They felt a heat wave and drove away in
-fear, but returned to the site a second time, only to turn around when
-they found the object was still there. Goode had been bitten by an
-animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled
-freely. After exposure to the light from the object, the pain was gone,
-and the wound cured unnaturally. Later that evening, two men found him
-at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should
-keep future encounters to himself.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Aug.,65 (Vallee)
-Location: Damon, Texas
-ID: 694
Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 0120
-Description: J. Fernandez was awakened by a humming sound and saw a
-luminous, oval object rising from the roof of his house. Its color
-varied from white to red, and it left marks on the roof.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
-Location: San Justo, Argentina
-ID: 692
Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Two sheriffs saw huge, brightly illuminated object speed
-toward their patrol car, hover, illuminate them and the terrain in
-purple light. Heat felt
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Damon, TX
-ID: 60
Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Exeter, New Hampshire, Police Officer Eugene
-F. Bertrand Jr. comes across a woman parked on State Highway 101.
-“She was real upset,” he says, “and told me that a red glowing object
-had chased her.” Around 2:00 a.m., while walking home to Exeter on Route
-150 (Amesbury Road) near Kensington, New Hampshire, teenager Norman
-J. Muscarello is terrorized by a large object with four or five
-bright red lights that approaches from nearby woods and hovers over a
-field. Horses are spooked. Muscarello gets a ride to the Exeter police
-station, pale and shaken, and reports the incident at 2:24 a.m. Officer
-Bertrand drives him back to the field along Route 150 to investigate.
-When he is called to investigate Muscarello’s report, the earlier
-incident causes him to pay attention. At first Bertrand and Muscarello
-see nothing, but when Bertrand flashes a light around the field around
-3:00 a.m., a huge dark object with red flashing lights rises up over the
-trees, moving back and forth, tilts, and comes toward them. They both
-see pulsating red lights that dim from left to right then right to left
-in a 5- 4-3-2-1 then 1-2-3-4-5 pattern. Each cycle takes about 2
-seconds. The object hovers for several minutes, and everything is silent
-except for the dogs and horses. Then it darts, turns sharply, slows
-down, and begins to move away. Another patrolman, David
-R. Hunt, pulls
-up and sees the pulsating lights and the UFO. Bertrand says the lights
-are always in a line and at a 60° angle; when the object moves, the
-lower lights are always forward of the others. In the daytime, the
-police station calls Pease AFB [now Pease Air National Guard Base] in
-Portsmouth to reconfirm the incident. By 1:00 p.m., 2–4 police officers
-arrive to interview the three witnesses at length. Journalist John
-G. Fuller investigates the case during the next month. He finds a
-huge gap between media coverage and local perceptions. Raymond
-Fowler finds that the local advertising plane operated by Sky-Lite
-Aerial Advertising Agency of Boston was not running between August 21
-and September 10. (Wikipedia, “Exeter incident”;
-“UFOs
-Panic Police, Motorists,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4
-(Aug./Sept. 1965): 1, 3–4; “The
-Exeter, N.H.
-Case,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 7–8; John G. Fuller, “Outer-Space
-Ghost Story,” Look, February 22, 1966, pp. 36–42; Clark III 440–444;
-Hynek UFO Report, pp. 154–166;
-John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966; Schopick,
-pp. 197–199; Sparks,
-p. 307; Jean Fuller, “The
-Exeter Incidents,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1967):
-25–27; “Tale of an ‘Exeter Terrestrial,’” IUR 8, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1983): 12– 14, excerpted from Exeter Area High School
-newspaper, Talon 5, no. 1 (1981); Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 69–72; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots
-UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research,
-2005, pp. 143–145; Schuessler, “The
-Exeter, N.H. UFO Case, September
-3, 1965: Briefing Document,” October 2002; Martin Shough, “Exeunt
-Exeter? Should This 1965 New Hampshire
-Classic Finally Shuffle Off the Stage?” April 2012; Center for UFO
-Studies, [case
-documents]; Center for UFO Studies, [John G. Fuller tape-recorded
-interview transcripts, part
-one, part
-two]; Patrick Gross, “The Exeter
-Cases, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3918
Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Brazoria County Sheriff’s Deputies Billy
-E. McCoy and Robert Goode are patrolling Highway 36 between West
-Columbia and Damon, Texas. They see a dark-gray triangular object,
-150–200 feet long and 40–50 feet thick at the middle, with a long,
-bright, pulsing, purple light on the right side and a long blue light on
-the left side. It approaches to within 150 feet from the highway and 100
-feet in the air. Purple light illuminates the ground beneath the object
-and the interior of the police car, and the object casts a shadow in the
-moonlight. Goode feels heat on his left arm; an alligator bite on his
-left index finger is suddenly relieved of pain, later healing rapidly
-but unnaturally. They drive away in fear but return later that night to
-find the object still there. (NICAP, “Dark
-Grey Disc Shadows Police Car”; “UAO
-Pursues Police,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 1, 3; Clark III
-355–357; Sparks, p. 308;
-Michael D. Swords, “Damon,
-Texas Comments, by Request from Kandinsky,” The Big Study, March 26,
-2011; “Damon
-1965,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014;
-Patrick Gross, “Damon,
-Texas, September 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3919
Date: 9/5/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: Governor Sebastian Macha saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm
-tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which left with
-a thundering noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Barbara, Peru
-ID: 695
Date: 9/6/1965
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Capt. Marcelo Cisternas is piloting a DC-6b at
-8,500 feet for LAN Chile Flight 904 in northern Chile when he sees a
-zigzagging object change course and approach his airliner. The UFO
-follows the aircraft for 13–14 minutes at a distance of 1.8 miles. It is
-emitting a light of an intense color that shifts to radiant white.
-Cisternas checks with control towers in Arica and Iquque, but no other
-flights are expected in the area. (Good Above, p. 311)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3920
Date: 9/7/1965
-Time: 2100
-Description: More than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground
-level, leaving crater-like depressions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: San Joaquin, Peru
-ID: 696
Date: 9/8/1965
-Time: 2200
-Description: A child reported the observation of a luminous object from
-which seven creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same
-day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of
-Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Puno, Peru
-ID: 698
Date: 9/8/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: After work, latex collectors saw an object resembling a
-huge wheel, intensely bright, with two flaming openings in front, about
-to land near them. They went into hiding, and observed the craft as it
-flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Alto Purus, Brazil
-ID: 697
Date: 9/10/1965
-Description: Three women were said to have observed a group of beings, 3
-m tall, without noses or mouths with red, bright eyes, wearing gray
-clothing and boots. No object was described. Approximate date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 159 (Vallee)
-Location: Mexico City, Mexico
-ID: 700
Date: 9/10/1965
-Description: Four persons saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes,
-dressed in black, walking in a street. The entity was holding a metallic
-tube, was pursued, and vanished suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 159; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Jalapa, Mexico
-ID: 699
Date: 9/10/1965
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Farmer Antônio Pau Ferro is working on his farm
-in São João, near Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil, when he hears a noise
-and sees two metallic objects descending from the sky about 26 feet
-away. They touch the ground in a uniform motion, let two humanoids about
-2.5 feet tall exit, then rise up again to 16 feet and hover. The beings
-approach Ferro, then move back to the two UFOs. They pick up a tomato
-and examine it. The objects descend and envelop them, then take off with
-a whining and then a low sound. (Clark III 523; Brazil 76; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, May
-17, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3921
Date: 9/11/1965
-Time: 0800
-Description: Antonio Pau Ferro saw two objects land. Two dwarfish beings
-emerged, 70 cm tall, dressed like humans, with “ugly” skin. They
-appeared to examine some tomato plants, reentered their craft, 6 m in
-diameter, and flew off. They spoke in a language which was not
-understood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Guarulhos, Brazil
-ID: 701
Date: 9/14/1965
-Description: Domed disc descended, humming sound, blue light. Motorbike
-engine failed, witness paralyzed, shock, static electricity
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Langenhoe, Essex, UK
-ID: 61
Date: 9/14/1965
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Engineer Paul Green is riding a motorcycle south
-of Langenhoe, Essex, UK, near Langenhoe Hall Lane when he hears a
-high-pitched humming to the east and notices a pinpoint of blue light
-moving in his direction. The humming becomes a loud buzzing, and his
-engine sputters and dies and the headlight goes out. The light resolves
-into an enormous domed disc that tilts and slowly descends. The
-underside of the disc has numerous round items. Green walks toward the
-object, but he feels paralyzed as the flashing blue light becomes
-intense, fluctuating in rhythm with his heartbeat. He feels a tingling
-like an electric shock. The object seems to land in an area with
-farmhouses. Green notes that another cyclist has had a similar problem,
-but with some difficulty he gets his cycle started. The next day he
-notices that his hair and clothes are imbued with static electricity.
-(Bernard E. Finch, “The
-Langenhoe Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1965): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3922
Date: 9/15/1965
-Time: 2400
-Description: Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on a
-patrol of the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road when their headlights
-illuminated a disk 10 m in diameter, copper-colored, resting on the
-road. Ten sec later it took off in a pool of flames, at high speed. The
-tar on the road kept burning for some time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Silverton, South Africa
-ID: 702
Date: 9/16/1965
-Description: NICAP Report #(?): Pretoria, S. Africa: Constables John
-Lockem and Koos de Klerk while on patrol (after midnight) suddenly had a
-domed, disc shaped object come into their van headlights. It was sitting
-on the road. The UFO was copper colored and about 30 ft. in diam.
-Immediately the UFO lifted off, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes
-or channels on the underside. The flames deflected about three feet off
-the macadam road surface and were still visible after loosing sight of
-the craft. Road damage: part of the road was caved-in, and in a 6 foot
-area the gravel was separated from the tar. Samples of the road surface
-were taken for analysis, report was never released. Lt. Col. J.B. Brits,
-District Commandant of Pretoria North said the incident was “highly
-secret”, and inquiry is being conducted in top circles.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Date: 9/16/1965
-Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. Constables John Lockem and Koos
-de Klerk are patrolling on the Pretoria- Bronkhorstspruit highway in
-South Africa when their police van headlights suddenly illuminate a
-domed, disc- shaped object sitting on the road. The UFO is copper
-colored and about 30 feet in diameter. Within seconds, the object lifts
-off the road, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes or channels on
-the underside. Flames from the macadam road surface shoot up in the air
-about 3 feet as the UFO departs, blazing long after it is out of sight.
-Later investigation shows that part of the road is caved in as if from a
-heavy weight, and the gravel is separated from the tar in a severely
-burned area about 6 feet in diameter. Lt. Col. J. B. Brits, district
-commandant of Pretoria North, tells the media that the incident is
-considered “as being of a highly secret nature and an inquiry is being
-conducted in top circles.” Samples of the road surface are taken for
-analysis by a leading scientific agency; the report is never made
-public. (Philipp Human, “Two
-Policemen See Saucer on Main Road,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1965): 9–11; “Police
-See UFO Blast Off from Highway,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4
-(Aug./Sept. 1965): 5; Schopick, pp. 187–192;
-UFOEv II 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3923
Date: 9/16/1965
-Description: Constables in police van encountered domed disc on highway,
-object lifted off emitting flame. Tar and gravel road severely
-damaged
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pretoria, South Africa
-ID: 62
Date: 9/17/1965
-Description: A UFO is seen hovering above Medina del Campo, Valladolid,
-Spain, for several hours. Heliodoro Carrión takes off in his light plane
-and goes to 15,000 feet. An Iberia Airlines jet passes him on the way up
-at 24,000 feet. Carrión estimates the UFO is at least 4 times larger
-than the jet. (“More
-Sightings over Spain,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3924
Date: late 9/1965
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Two French submarines, the Junon (S648) and the
-Daphné (S641), escorted by the logistic support vessel Rhône, are
-anchored off Fort-de-France, Martinique, when a large luminous object
-the color of a fluorescent tube arrives slowly and silently from the
-west. Michel Figuet on the Junon goes into the coming tower and gets six
-pairs of binoculars that he distributes to companions. There are 300
-witnesses, including four officers on the Junon, three officers on the
-Daphné, a dozen French sailors, and personnel of the weather
-observatory. All witnesses aboard the Junon see the object as a large
-ball of light or a disc on edge arriving from the west. It moves slowly,
-horizontally, at a distance estimated at 6 miles south of the ships,
-from west to east. It leaves a whitish trace similar to the glow of a TV
-screen. When it was directly south of the ships the object drops toward
-the earth, makes two complete loops, then hovers in the midst of a faint
-halo. Figuet watches the object vanish in the center of its glow “like a
-bulb turned off.” The trail and the halo remain visible in the sky for a
-full minute. At 9:45 p.m. the halo reappears at the same place, and the
-object switches on again. It rises, makes two more loops, and flies away
-to the west, where it disappears at 9:50 p.m. (Jacques Vallée, “Estimates
-of Power Optical Output in Six Cases
-of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity
-Characteristics,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3
-(1998): 348–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3925
Date: 9/20/1965
-Time: 1630
-Description: A farm woman saw an object land, and six dwarfs, 80 cm
-tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white clothes and “walked
-like ducks.” She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke
-in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid
-resembling vinegar was found on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Pichaca, Peru
-ID: 703
Date: fall 1965
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A Chesapeake & Ohio train is moving 8 miles
-south of Fostoria, Ohio, when the fireman and engineer see a large
-cigar-shaped object in the sky a considerable distance away. It is dark
-in color and positioned at a 45° angle from the horizon. It appears to
-be creating its own cloud screen. Suddenly a small object falls out of
-the tail and descends slowly in a fluttering fashion. Near the ground
-the small object stabilizes, emits coal-black smoke from its top, and
-then rises upward faster and faster. Three more objects leave the large
-one, each taking 10–12 minutes. They go off in different directions.
-After the last one leaves, a white cloud forms around the large object,
-which remains in the sky with other normal white clouds. (Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring
-2004): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3929
Date: 9/23/1965
-Description: A major blackout in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, coincides
-with the appearance of a glowing, disc- shaped UFO hovering low over the
-city. Witnesses include the governor of Morelos state, Emilio Riva
-Palacio; Valentín
-López González, the mayor of Cuernavaca; 24th military zone chief
-Gen. Rafael Enrique Vega; Joaquín Díaz
-González, president
-of the Lion’s Club; founder of the Folkloric Ballet of Mexico, Amalia
-Hernández; and future Mexican President Luis
-Echeverría. The power only fails as long as the UFO is there. (Frank
-Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 145;
-Schopick, pp. 192–196;
-Antonio Huneeus, “UFO
-Sighting by Mexican
-President Luis Echeverría,” OpenMinds, October 6, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3926
Date: 9/25/1965
-Time: 9:55 AM
-Description: Witness: Bett Diamon. Five orange lights in a row flew fast
-and made an abrupt turn during the 1 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chisholm, Minnesota
-ID: 530
Date: 9/25/1965
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Dr. George Walton, physical chemist, and wife.
-Two round white objects flew side-by-side, at 30-50’ altitude, pacing
-the witnesses’ car for 6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rodeo, New Mexico
-ID: 531
Date: 9/26/1965
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale is founded in Milan, Italy,
-as a test of cooperation among several regional UFO groups. It begins
-publishing Notiziario UFO, edited by Roberto
-Pinotti, in
-January 1966. (Story, p. 67;
-1Pinotti 143–146; Notiziario
-UFO 1 (1967)))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3927
Date: 9/27/1965
-Time: 0815
-Description: Addie Jones, 61, saw a silvery object, 10 m in diameter,
-rise from a wooded area and hover silently before leaving toward the
-west. Under the object was a boxlike device. Distance to witness: 400 m.
-No light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 160 (Vallee)
-Location: Fredonia, New York
-ID: 704
Date: 9/27/1965
-Description: At 5:15 P.M., scientist saw metallic-appearing,
-cigar-shaped object that changed course
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Columbus, OH
-ID: 63
Date: 9/27/1965
-Description: Fireball meteor sighting at 7:56 P.M. American Meteor
-Society No. 2389.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern United States
-ID: 64
Date: 9/28/1965
-Description: USAF Director of Information Gen. Eugene
-B. LeBailly writes to the military director of the USAF Scientific
-Advisory Board, saying that Gen. Arthur
-C. Agan has found Project Blue Book to be a worthwhile program and
-that the Air Force should continue to investigate UFOs “to assure that
-such objects do not present a threat to our national security.” The
-project will remain at the Foreign Technology Division (Wright-Patterson
-AFB). He also requests that a “working scientific panel composed of both
-physical and social scientists be organized to review Project Blue
-Book—its resources, methods, and findings.” (Maj. Gen. E. B. LeBailly,
-“Unidentified
-Flying Objects (UFOs),” memorandum for military director, Scientific
-Advisory Board, September 28, 1965)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3928
Date: 9/28/1965
-Description: Memo from Maj. Gen. E. B. LeBailly, USAF director of
-information, to USAF Scientific Advisory Board requesting a scientific
-panel to review the methods and findings of Project Blue Book. LeBailly
-noted: “Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from
-intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity
-cannot be doubted.”
-Type: memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 65
Date: 9/29/1965
-Description: Two men in a car, Julio L. de Romana and Antonio Chavez
-Bedoya, saw a strange being, 80 cm tall, by the side of the road. The
-creature had only one eye, and gold and silver stripes over its entire
-body. Soon afterward a craft flew over their car. Several persons living
-20 km away also reported an unidentified object within min of this
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Arequipa, Peru
-ID: 705
Date: 10/1965
-Description: The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre is formed in Hobart,
-Tasmania, by Robert Burge. It publishes the TUFOIC Newsletter for many
-years, but the organization folds in December 2015. (TUFOIC
-Newsletter, no. 7 (1971); Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and
-Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3930
Date: 10/1965
-Description: Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan
Date: 10/1/1965
-Description: The Swedish Defense Staff transfers the responsibility for
-UFO investigation to the Swedish National Defence Research Institute
-[now the Swedish Defence Research Agency] in Sweden, where it remains.
-Few civilian reports are classified as secret, but sensitive reports by
-the military are restricted. (Swords 367–368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3931
Date: 10/1/1965
-Description: Three students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela
-Sanchez, who were walking to General San Martin School, were attacked by
-small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived
-at the school in a state of terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI (Vallee)
-Location: Aguas Blancas, Argentina
-ID: 706
Date: 10/2/1965
-Description: John
-G. Fuller summarizes the Exeter sighting in his “Trade Winds” column
-in the Saturday Review. He writes to his editors beforehand that
-“reliable, but off-the-record information from the Pease AFB indicates
-frequent radar blips and fighters are constantly scrambled to pursue
-these objects. This information is not official, but it comes from a
-reliable source.” (John G. Fuller, “Trade
-Winds,” Saturday Review 48, no. 40 (October 2, 1965): 10, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3932
Date: 10/4/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: Betty Valine and her 12-yearold son Robbie observed a
-large, plate-shaped machine with a dome on top, inside which three
-creatures were clearly visible. The witnesses did not see the object
-touch down.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Rio Vista, California
-ID: 708
Date: 10/4/1965
-Description: An object was said to have landed near Southington. No
-details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
-Location: Southington, Connecticut
-ID: 707
Date: 10/4/1965
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witness: Tucker. Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middletown, Ohio
-ID: 532
Date: 10/7/1965
-Description: Radar-visual sighting of 12 UFOs, jet interceptor
-pursuit
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Edwards AFB, CA
-ID: 66
Date: 10/13/1965
-Description: Two adolescent girls, Marg Gudajtes and Judy Norlock, saw a
-large, metallic, oval object with bluish lights land in a park at the
-edge of town. It had left by the time they returned with help. An oval
-area of crushed grass was observed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Minot, North Dakota
-ID: 709
Date: mid 10/1965
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Bill
-Hertzke, a
-ranch hand on the Circle J Ranch near Cochrane, Alberta, is on his horse
-in a pasture when he sees an object like a small airplane parked on the
-ground. It is silver-gray with swept-back wings, about 16 feet long, a
-wingspan of about 12 feet, and its fuselage is about 4-5 feet deep. He
-rides over and examines it. The exterior is irregular, “like a waffle.”
-A transparent dome covers the cockpit. Through it he can see complicated
-instruments (knobs, dials, and switches), a TV screen, and two
-transparent (like Plexiglas) bucket seats. There are no visible motors,
-propellers, jets, insignia, or identifying marks of any kind. It has an
-exterior door about 2 feet wide and 3 feet high that is open about 2
-inches. His horse is extremely skittish, so he ties it to a tree and
-returns on foot. He spends 10–15 minutes examining it and can see no
-landing gear (although it seems to be suspended 18–20 inches off the
-ground) or seams of any kind. He realizes he can go inside the door but
-is a bit too scared to even touch the object, and has to return to
-chores anyway. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968,
-pp. 87–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3933
Date: 10/18/1965
-Description: Thousands of persons saw a circular object that flew over
-the beach, circling. Later two witnesses saw it land in an isolated spot
-between Cuaranga and the Santos Air Base.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 32; LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Ponte Praia, Brazil
-ID: 710
Date: 10/21/1965
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Five witnesses are in a car near Saint George,
-Minnesota, returning to their homes in Gibbon from a bow-hunting trip.
-Arthur
-A. Strauch, a Sibley County deputy sheriff, is the first to spot a
-strange object that seems to be 2,000 feet above the ground and a
-quarter of a mile distant in the northwest sky. After watching for about
-10 minutes from the car, the group drives down the road about a half
-mile and stops. Strauch observes it both with the naked eye and through
-7x35 binoculars. At first they hear no sound, but as the object flies
-over them, Donald Martin Grewe describes the sound as a “whistling
-whine.” Strauch snaps a photograph just as the object begins to move.
-The object then flies into the wind for several hundred feet, then stops
-for a few seconds, at which time its lights change from bright white to
-dull orange, alternating several times. It then moves toward the
-southeast at a high rate of speed and disappears out of sight. (NICAP,
-“The
-St. George Multiple-Witness Photo
-Case”; “Deputy
-Snaps UAO Color Photo,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 1, 3;
-Story, pp. 351–352;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-St. George Multiple-Witness Sighting and Photograph, USA,
-1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3934
Date: 10/22/1965
-Description: Afternoon. Geof Gray-Cobb, a Canadian technician working
-with the Deep Space Instrumentation Facility [now the Hartebeesthoek
-Radio Astronomy Observatory] in Gauteng, South Africa, in tracking Mariner
-4, is
-present when the spacecraft’s signal strength begins rising at a point
-when it should not have. The team alerts the Jet Propulsion Lab. The
-signal strength is now so high that the instruments are clicking as they
-max out. Gray- Cobb says the “raw radio energy” is coming in
-indecipherable “blips and dashes.” Nothing can be seen visually. Eight
-minutes later, everything goes silent. JPL later asks them to point
-their dish in the direction it was pointing when they picked up the
-signal. They do, but forget to correct for the earth’s rotation.
-Nonetheless, they get the signal again, which means it is a local
-source. Nothing is visible in the sky, but a sound sweep reveals that
-the source is a perfect circle 2° in diameter. The team directs a packet
-of radio pulses at the source, but it falls silent. Two months later,
-Gray-Cobb discovers that the pages for the event are gone from the log;
-the tape recording of the event is also missing. The manager tells him
-that two men with “authorization” had come three days after the event to
-confiscate the tapes. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32,
-no. 4 (October 2009): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3935
Date: 10/22/1965
-Description: Evening. José Camilo Filho is walking through a field near
-the city cemetery in Canhotinho, Pernambuco, Brazil, when he runs across
-two little men only 3 feet high with whitish hair sitting next to a tube
-4 feet tall and resting on the ground. When they see Camilo, they jump
-up in a disorganized fashion, colliding with each other. One picks up
-the tube and the other points a straw at Camilo, who runs ahead. He
-decides to return and take a closer look, but the men and tube are gone.
-(Gordon Creighton, “The
-Humanoids in Latin America,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids,
-special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 45; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-27, 2008; Brazil 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3936
Date: 10/22/1965
-Description: Approximate date. Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near
-a landed object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Canhotinho, Brazil
-ID: 711
Date: 10/23/1965
-Description: Night. KEYL-AM radio announcer James F. Townsend, 19, is
-driving on State Highway 27 four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota,
-when he slams on his brakes to avoid hitting a rocket-like device
-resting on three legs or fins. As his car skids to a stop 20 feet from
-the object, the vehicle’s motor and electrical system die. The object
-looks like it is made of stainless steel, stands 30–40 feet high, and is
-10 feet in diameter. In a circle of light under it, Townsend sees three
-things that resemble beer cans with “tripod legs and three matchstick
-arms.” They have no eyes, but Townsend feels as if they are looking at
-him. He gets out of the car to try to knock one over, but they come over
-to him and they stand there looking at him. Eventually they turn around
-and “scoot under the ship,” disappearing into the light beneath it. An
-ear-splitting humming sound emanates from the UFO, which assumes a
-bright illumination and shoots off. The Todd County sheriff and UFO
-investigators assume that Townsend, a deeply religious man, is sincere.
-(“‘Space
-Things’ Stop
-His Car,” Minneapolis Star, October 25, 1965, pp. 1, 4; Sparks, p. 308;
-“‘Little,
-Little Men’ in Minn.,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, p. 8; Clare
-John Jansen, “Little Tin Men in Minnesota,” Fate 19, no. 2 (February
-1966): 36–40; Clark III 280; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-January 5, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3937
Date: 10/23/1965
-Time: 1915
-Description: James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his
-engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object
-10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting
-on fins on the road. Three creatures with “tripod legs and matchstick
-arms,” brownish-black in color, having no eyes or facial features, stood
-in a large, lighted circle under it, facing the witness for a few
-moments before disappearing in the intense light. The object rose
-straight up for 400 m, with a high-pitched humming sound, stopped and
-vanished. The car then resumed normal operation by itself.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota
-ID: 712
Date: 10/25/1965
-Description: The Betty
-and Barney Hill story is publicly revealed in an article by reporter
-John
-H. Luttrell in the Boston Traveler newspaper. He has obtained a copy
-of the tape recording at the Quincy Center UFO group, as well as a tape
-of an interview the Hills gave to UFO investigators after they completed
-their therapy. UPI picks up the story the same day. The Hills are caught
-completely by surprise. (Clark III 585)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3938
Date: 10/27/1965
-Description: The Air Force issues a press release that gives two basic
-explanations for the Exeter, New Hampshire, sightings: Some stem from a
-high-altitude SAC exercise out of Westover AFB [now Westover Air Reserve
-Base] near Chicopee, Massachusetts; others are explained by temperature
-inversion that causes the appearance of stars and planets to dance and
-twinkle. Around the same time, John
-Fuller hears from an Air Force pilot that pilots have been ordered
-to shoot down UFOs when possible, but the objects appear to be
-“invulnerable” and can outmaneuver any aircraft. (John G. Fuller,
-Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966, pp. 201–202, 205–206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3939
Date: 10/30/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Witnesses in a Volkswagen encountered a strong light on the
-road. A truck and another Volkswagen arrived and went near the object,
-which took off suddenly and flew over them. It was also observed by
-dozens of witnesses at the Pinhal Junction.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Pinhal, Brazil
-ID: 713
Date: 11/1965
-Time: dusk
-Description: Eric Williams saw a large object, 30 m in diameter, 15 m
-high, about 75 m away. He reported seeing clearly a row of portholes
-illuminated with a greenish light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Broken Hill, Zambia
-ID: 714
Date: 11/1965
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Aaron David Kaback is on duty at the motor pool
-in the Army’s Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas when the duty
-officer takes him to a remote area of the base where they see a landed
-UFO with an Army helicopter flying above it. He contacts Leonard
-Stringfield about his story. A subsequent investigation by Citizens
-Against UFO Secrecy finds many discrepancies in Kaback’s account and
-very little credibility. (“Ft.
-Riley
-Landing: Hoax or Delusion?” Just Cause 1, no. 6 (September 1978):
-11–14; Clark III 603–604; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes,
-Avon, 1995, p. 201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3941
Date: 11/1965
-Description: Fort Riley, KA: “AK” (Aaron Kaback) was on guard duty at 2
-a.m. when the duty officer drove up and ordered him to hop into the
-jeep. He and 3 other officers were driven out to a remote area where a
-large oval object was resting. An army chopper was hovering above the
-object and shining a bright light on it. The object was approx. 35–48
-ft. in diam., had a fin on the end and an exhaust port or some kind of
-hole below the fin. It had rows of squares around the rim and remained
-completely dead for the 2 1/2 hours they guarded it. (Kaback seems to be
-confused as to the actual date this incident occurred.)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Fort Riley, KA
-See also: 12/10/64
Date: early 11/1965
-Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Houston, Texas,
-to discuss the UFO investigation and the possibility of an independent
-study. (USAF Scientific Advisory Board, Special
-Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory
-Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project “Blue Book,” Brian O’Brien,
-chairman of the Advisory Board, March 1966)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3940
Date: 11/5/1965 (approximate)
-Description: Day. Mauritz Löugren and a friend see a triangular-shaped
-object moving back and forth for 20 minutes over Luleå, Sweden. It
-disappears silently to the west at great speed. (“World
-Round-Up,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966):
-iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3942
Date: 11/9/1965
-Description: 5:16 p.m. The Northeast power blackout, a significant
-disruption in the supply of electricity, affects parts of Ontario,
-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode
-Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Over 30 million people and 80,000
-square miles are left without electricity for up to 13 hours. The cause
-of the failure is the setting of a protective relay on one of the
-transmission lines from the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Station
-No. 2 in Queenston, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. Prior to and coincident
-with the blackout, there are a number of reports of unusual lights in
-Syracuse and Niagara Falls, New York, and Holliston, Massachusetts, and
-there is speculation that the blackout is related to UFO activity in
-some way. But there is no evidence of a direct connection. (Wikipedia,
-“Northeast
-blackout of 1965”; “New
-Clues to UFO Electrical Interference,”
-UFO Investigator 3, no. 5 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 3–4; “The
-Question of the Power Blackouts,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965,
-pp. 4–6; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966,
-pp. 230–235; Schopick, pp. 201–203;
-Condon, pp. 110–115;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 130–137; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from
-the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Chris
-Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press,
-2006, pp. 99–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3943
Date: 11/9/1965
-Time: dawn
-Description: During the great power blackout, actor Stuart Whitman was
-startled to hear a whistling sound outside his 12th floor window and to
-observe two hovering objects, one orange and the other blue giving off a
-luminescent light. He then heard an English message indicating that the
-blackout was a “demonstration.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: New York City, New York
-ID: 715
Date: 11/10/1965
-Description: Massive power blackout in northeastern United States at
-about 5:25 P.M. (EST). Some reports of UFOs coincided, with resulting
-speculation about a possible relationship
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern US
-ID: 67
Date: 11/10/1965
-Description: Before dawn. Actor Stuart
-Whitman is staying in a hotel in Manhattan, New York City, during
-the Northeast power blackout. He hears a “sound, like a whippoorwill
-whistling outside my twelfth-story window.” He steps to the window and
-sees 2 luminous UFOs hovering nearby, one orange, the other blue. He
-hears voices from the UFOs in his head, telling him they are fearful of
-earth because humans are messing around with “unknown quantities” that
-might disrupt the balance of the universe. They claim the blackout is a
-small demonstration of their power and ask Whitman to do what he can to
-fight malice, prejudice, and hate on earth. The objects disappear. (“El
-Paso Blackout Recalls New York Experience to Actor,” El Paso (Tex.)
-Herald-Post, December 24, 1965, p. 4; Jerome Clark, “The
-Greatest Flap Yet? Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1966): 10; Clark III 1280–1281; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July
-25, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3944
Date: 11/13/1965
-Description: Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director
-saw an object land 100 m away, flashing a beam of light toward the sky.
-Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object
-were two dwarfs. One of them wore coveralls, the other had a gray shirt
-and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with
-a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon’s apron, was
-also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very
-bright.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Mogi-Guassu, Brazil
-ID: 716
Date: 11/16/1965
-Description: T. Untiedt was driving on Highway 28 about 5 km west of
-Cyprus when he saw a red flourescent, cylindrical object with a cone on
-top, 4 km long and 2 m in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The
-car slowed down as the observer was 400 km away from the object, which
-took off toward the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Cyrus, Minnesota
-ID: 717
Date: 11/26/1965
-Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. Numerous power outages around St. Paul,
-Minnesota, are accompanied by observations of white or blue lights in
-the sky. (“Power
-Outages Accompanied by Flashes,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966,
-pp. 3–4; Schopick, pp. 199–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3945
Date: 11/29/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a
-blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground
-level. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices
-emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were
-flattened.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jan., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Springhill, Nova Scotia
-ID: 718
Date: 11/30/1965
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Seaman Ian Kinsey is on watch at Canadian Forces
-Base Cornwallis [now Cornwallis Park] in Nova Scotia. As he is passing a
-window, he sees a lighted yellow oval object resting on the beach. Five
-minutes later a sliding door on the object’s side opens, emitting a
-white light. Then a smaller, cigarette-shaped UFO enters the larger
-object through the dear. The bigger object rises, pushing rocks and logs
-away from the center of the beach. It cruises slowly over a mountain and
-disappears. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange Effects
-from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3946
Date: 12/5/1965
-Description: During the Gemini
-7 mission, the astronauts mention a “bogey.” James
-Oberg, based
-on his trajectory analysis of the mission, describes the astronauts’
-comments as referring to booster-associated debris and not a reference
-to some sort of UFO. Astronaut Frank
-Borman later confirms that what he saw was not a UFO. When he offers
-to go on the television show Unsolved Mysteries to clarify, the
-producers tell him, “Well, I’m not sure we want you on the program.”
-(Wikipedia, “UFO
-sightings in outer space”; Condon, pp. 207–208;
-Good Above, p. 378)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3947
Date: 12/9/1965
-Description: A UFO crash-landed in the Kecksburgh, PA woods. It had
-appeared as a fireball flying across several U.S. states and Canada.
-Dozens of witnesses described military personnel cordoning off the
-landing area. The object was transported away by military truck. In
-Feb. 1969, the key witness (John Murphy ) to this incident was struck
-and killed by a car on a highway near Ventura. Researcher, Stan Gordon
-kept the research of this incident alive. The Blue Book report changed
-the name of Kecksburg to “Acme” PA. After 20 yrs. Bill Bulebush came
-forward with a description of the downed UFO.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Kecksburgh, PA
Date: 12/9/1965
-Description: 4:47 p.m. A large, brilliant fireball is seen by thousands
-in at least six states and Ontario, Canada. It streaks over the Detroit,
-Michigan–Windsor, Ontario, area, reportedly drops hot metal debris over
-Michigan and northern Ohio starting some grass fires and causes sonic
-booms in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. It is
-generally assumed and reported by the press to be a meteor after
-authorities discount other proposed explanations such as a plane crash,
-errant missile test, or reentering satellite debris. However,
-eyewitnesses in the small village of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, claim
-something has crashed in the woods. A boy sees the object land; his
-mother Frances
-Kalp sees a wisp of blue smoke rising from the woods and alerts
-local radio station WHJB. Another observer reports feeling a vibration
-and “a thump” about the time the object reportedly lands. Others from
-Kecksburg, including local volunteer fire department members (Carl Metz
-and Paul Shipco), report seeing an object in the shape of an acorn and
-about as large as a Volkswagen Beetle. Writing resembling Egyptian
-hieroglyphs is also said to be in a band around the base of the object.
-A reporter and news director for WHJB, John
-J. Murphy, arrives
-on the scene of the event before authorities have arrived, in response
-to several calls to the station from alarmed citizens. He takes several
-photographs and conducts interviews with witnesses. His former wife
-Bonnie Millslagle later reports that all but one roll of the film is
-confiscated by military personnel. WHJB office manager Mabel Mazza
-describes one of the pictures: “It was very dark and it was with a lot
-of trees around and everything. And I don’t know how far away from the
-site he was. But I did see a picture of a sort of a cone-like thing.
-It’s the only time I ever saw it.” Witnesses further report that an
-intense military presence, most notably the US Army, is secures the
-area, orders civilians out, seals the area within 2 hours of the event,
-and then removes an object on a flatbed truck. The military claims they
-have searched the woods and can find “absolutely nothing.” The official
-explanation of the widely seen fireball is that it is a mid-sized
-meteor, as suggested, for example, by University of Michigan astronomer
-William
-P. Bidelman. However,
-speculation as to the identity of the Kecksburg object (if there was
-one—reports vary) include an alien craft; debris from Kosmos
-96 (James Oberg),
-a Soviet space probe intended for Venus that fails and never leaves the
-Earth’s atmosphere (now seen as unlikely); a General Electric Mark 2
-Reentry Vehicle launched from Johnson Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on
-December 7 by the Air Force as a spy satellite (John Ventre and
-Owen
-Eichler); and a secret Corona spy satellite, KH-4A
-1027, launched
-from Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base] on December 9 (Bob Wenzel
-Gross). (Wikipedia, “Kecksburg
-UFO incident”; Stan Gordon, “The
-Kecksburg UFO Crash: An Interim Report,”
-Flying Saucer Review 37, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 2–5; Kevin D. Randle, A
-History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 95–120;
-Leslie Kean, “Forty Years of Secrecy: NASA, the Military, and the 1965
-Kecksburg Crash,” IUR 30, no. 1 (October 2005): 3–9, 28–32; Robert R.
-Young and Leslie Kean, “Kecksburg Controversy,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May
-2006): 25–28; Peter Brookesmith, “Rockets, Reptiles, and a
-Resurrection,” Fortean Times 360 (December 2017): 28; Clark III 340;
-Good Need, pp. 255–258;
-“Five
-Decades Later, the Kecksburg UFO Is Identified
-(Probably),” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, December 6, 2015;
-Matthew Dinkel, “Acorn
-from Space: The
-Kecksburg Incident,” Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Fall 2010;
-Center for UFO Studies, [case documents];
-“Missile,
-Reentry Vehicle, Mark 2,” Smithsonian National Air and Space
-Museum)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3948
Date: 12/13/1965
-Description: An amateur astronomer in Fort Worth, Texas, watches a UFO
-through several different telescopes. It has a recessed ring with small
-dark objects attached around its edge and a dark cross on its bottom. It
-moves from directly beneath the Moon and past Arcturus, then suddenly
-disappears. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4
-(October 2009): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3949
Date: 12/15/1965
-Description: 8:45 p.m. C. M. W. Martyn of Worcester Park, southwest
-London, England, watches a “candle-wax white” triangular object, about
-130 feet wide and completely silent, pass over his home toward the
-northwest at about 1,200 mph. (“Surrey
-Deltavolant?” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 2 (March/April 1966):
-35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3950
Date: 12/16/1965
-Description: A railroad worker, Cesar T. Gallardo, was surprised when
-his carbide lamp and his radio stopped working. He saw strange lights
-outside the sleeping coach where he was reading, and a luminous being
-whose legs were clad in shiny dark cloth came in, tore up his newspaper,
-poured the contents of an oil can into a small bottle and went away,
-leaving the witness amazed. Other people saw “a luminous man” walking
-along the tracks. Police report.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Sauce Viejo, Argentina
-ID: 719
Date: 12/19/1965
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Edward A. Bruns is driving his father’s 1962
-Ford pickup truck, heading west just south of Herman, Minnesota. He sees
-a bright, oval-shaped object hovering several feet above the road. It
-covers the entire road and is shaped like two saucers with a dome on
-top. A window-like structure surrounds the dome and emits a green light.
-Suddenly the truck engine stops, the headlights go out, and the vehicle
-lifts up, spins violently to the right, ending up in a ditch on the
-other side of the road. Stunned, Bruns stares at the UFO, which makes a
-whistling sound, emits sparks, shoots upward, and disappears. He runs
-home, scared and nervous. His father goes to the site of the crash but
-cannot get the truck out. A reporter later confirms seeing the truck in
-the ditch with a complete “absence of skid marks in the snow to account
-for how it got there.” (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3951
Date: 12/20/1965
-Description: Domed disc, E-M effects on engine and headlights, truck
-spun off road into ditch. Object ascended with whistling sound, sparks
-from underside
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Herman, MN
-ID: 68
Date: 12/20/1965
-Description: Edward Burnd, 15, was driving west in a farm truck when he
-saw an object 2 m above the road about 30 m away. As the engine died,
-the object glowed red and the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke,
-the truck was facing east and rested in a ditch.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Herman, Minnesota
-ID: 720
Date: 1966
-Description: Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF
-archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the
-4/54 Edwards AFB meeting.
-Type: hand written note
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: 1966
-Description: Jacques and
-Janine
-Vallée publish Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, a general
-survey of the present state of the UFO problem. The first section gives
-an analysis of UFO patterns by examining UFO features, the second part
-deals with sighting frequencies, and the third part analyzes cases
-according to type. (Jacques and Janine Vallée, Challenge
-to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery,
-1966; Clark III 1213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3952
Date: 1966
-Description: Cornell University astronomer Carl
-Sagan coauthors a book with Russian astrophysicist Iosif
-Shklovsky on Intelligent Life in the Universe (an expansion of
-Shklovsky’s 1962 book) in which he speculates that Earth might have been
-visited by aliens many times in the past few billion years, at least
-once in “historical times.” Discussing the biological as well as
-astronomical issues of the subject, its unique format—alternating
-paragraphs written by Shklovsky and Sagan—allows them to express their
-views without compromise. (I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, Intelligent
-Life in the Universe, Holden-Day,
-1966; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994):
-142–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3953
Date: 1966
-Description: Francis Schaefer founds the Cercle Français de Recherches
-Ufologiques in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1975 to 1984 it publishes
-Ufologia. (Ufologia,
-no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3955
Date: 1966
-Description: Roger A. MacGowan and Frederick
-I. Ordway III publish Intelligence in the Universe, discussing
-cosmology, biological origins and evolution, SETI within and outside the
-solar system, and speculations on intelligence. (Roger A. MacGowan and
-Frederick I. Ordway, Intelligence in the Universe, Prentice-Hall, 1966;
-Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3954
Date: 1/7/1966
-Time: 15l7
-Description: A civilian had to stop his car when an object he first
-thought was a helicopter landed on the road about 5 km southwest of
-Georgetown. The craft was about 8 m in diameter, supported a cone with a
-flashing green light, made a loud whirring sound. It appeared to hover,
-then left at high speed. The witness could then restart his engine,
-which had died during the close approach. Sulphur or a “rotten egg”
-smell was noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Wilmer, Alabama
-ID: 721
Date: 1/7/1966
-Description: 3:27 p.m. High school student Gary Finch is driving on the
-Wilmer-Georgetown Road about 3 miles southwest of Georgetown, Alabama.
-He sees a large silver ball about 15–20 feet in diameter that descends
-then hovers about 5 feet above the road. On top of it is a cone with a
-large green light, and it is making a whining sound. As he approaches
-it, his car engine cuts out and his watch stops. After 1–2 minutes, it
-disappears in a gradual climb. (“Mobile
-Reports Flying Objects,” Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal, January 13,
-1966, p. 10; NICAP, “E-M
-Effects on Car and Watch”; Schopick, pp. 75–76;
-Hynek UFO Report, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3957
Date: 1/7/1966
-Description: 4:10 a.m. Police Constable Colin Perks is checking business
-property along Alderley Road in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, when he
-hears a high-pitched whine. He sees a greenish-gray glow in the sky
-about 300 feet away and 35 feet in the air. It comes from a glowing
-elliptical object about 30 feet long and 20 feet wide that remains
-stationary for 5 seconds before moving away quickly to the
-east-southeast. (J. Cleary-Baker, “Police Constable
-Observes a UFO,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 9 (Summer 1966):
-5; UFOFiles2, pp. 73–75;
-Jenny Randles, “Perks of the Job,” Fortean Times 344 (October 2016):
-29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3956
Date: 1/8/1966
-Description: Night. A luminous, disc-shaped object cruises low from
-north to southwest among the buildings of Valencia, Venezuela. At 10:00
-p.m., two similar objects are seen flying at a higher altitude. (“More
-S.A. Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, March/Apr. 1966, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3958
Date: 1/11/1966
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
-at Palm Beach Towers, FL
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 1/11/1966
-Description: 7:40 p.m. A nurse and others together in a car near
-Myerstown, Pennsylvania, see a luminous disc, like one saucer inverted
-on top of another, at relatively close range as it hovers above their
-car. After about 5 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates and speeds
-away. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp.
-102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3959
Date: 1/12/1966
-Description: Pilots Alvin
-S. White and Carl
-Cross reach a speed of 2,020 mph in a North American XB-70 Valkyrie
-at Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “North
-American XB-70 Valkyrie”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3960
Date: 1/14/1966
-Description: 5:55 p.m. After his 11-year-old son runs into the house in
-Weston, Massachusetts, and says a flying saucer is outside, an associate
-laboratory director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes
-outside with the rest of the family and sees an erratically moving
-bright light. They observe it through binoculars for 5–10 minutes. (J.
-Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 43,
-52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3961
Date: 1/16/1966
-Time: 0400
-Description: On the Morlaix-Callac Road, 23year-old Eugene Coquil was
-driving his Renault Dauphine when he saw headlights in a field and
-observed an object come over his car and land on the other side of the
-road. It was square with four vertical lights resembling lamps. The
-witness drove away and did not see the object leave.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; 161 (Vallee)
-Location: Bolazec, France
-ID: 722
Date: 1/17/1966
-Description: A B-52G Strategic Air Command bomber collides with a KC-135
-tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean
-Sea off the coast of Spain. The tanker is completely destroyed and the
-B-52G breaks apart, killing 3 of its 7 crew members. Of the four
-Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carries, three are found on land near
-the small fishing village of Palomares, Spain. The non-nuclear
-explosives in two of the weapons detonate upon impact with the ground,
-resulting in the contamination of a 0.77-square-mile area by plutonium.
-The fourth, which falls into the Mediterranean, is recovered intact
-after a 2 1⁄2-month-long search. Some 800 individuals with no hands-on
-expertise improvise search and decontamination procedures. More than
-1,400 tons of radioactive soil and plant life are excavated and shipped
-to the Savannah River plant in South Carolina for burial. (Wikipedia,
-“1966
-Palomares B-52 crash”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 297–300)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3962
Date: 1/18/1966
-Description: 4:55 p.m. Two surveyors are taking readings at China Lake
-Naval Ordnance Test Station [now Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake]
-in the western Mojave Desert, California. The surveyor using a
-theodolite hears a hum, looks up, and sees a UFO flying nearly straight
-at him from an angle of 35°–40° and from almost exact north. It passes
-directly overhead at less than 150 feet, then dives smoothly, turns to
-the east, then comes to within 10 feet of the sloping ground. The
-surveyor observes the object through the theodolite until it is lost in
-front of a lava flow about 2 miles away. Both observers (the other one
-is in a truck) say it is moving at 150 mph and it is a dull black color
-and very quiet. They attempt to report the sighting, but the radio is
-garbled. Their truck has difficulty starting, and the theodolite
-exhibits an odd change in the gravity reference indicator, requiring it
-to be re-leveled. (“A Professional Observation,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March
-1982): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3963
Date: 1/19/1966
-Description: Around 9:00 a.m. A banana grower, George Pedley, is driving
-a tractor about one half mile from a farmhouse at Tully, Queensland,
-Australia, owned by Albert Pennisi. Pedley’s attention is drawn by a
-hissing sound, clearly heard over the noise from the tractor’s engine.
-He looks about for the source of the noise and sees an unusual object
-about 75 feet away. It is some 30 feet in the air, rising vertically,
-and is shaped like “two saucers face to face.” It is light gray in
-color, dull, and non-reflective. He estimates its size as 25 feet long
-by 8–9 feet deep. The hissing diminishes as the object rises to a height
-of 60 feet, then departs, climbing at about an angle of 45°, extremely
-fast, to the southwest. The duration of his observation is only 5–6
-seconds. The object appears to be always rotating. After its departure,
-Pedley finds a clearly defined, nearly circular depression in swamp
-grass, in a water-filled lagoon, at the point where he first saw it. The
-marking is about 32 feet long by 25 feet wide. The grass on the surface
-of the water is flattened in a clockwise direction. Royal Australian Air
-Force intelligence officers find a variety of circles in the area,
-ranging from 8 to 30 feet in diameter. Within each circle the plant
-roots are pulled completely out of the soil, as if the ground has been
-subjected to an intense rotary force. (“The
-Tully ‘Nests’: How Freakish Can Whirlwinds Be?” Australian Flying
-Saucer Review (Victorian Edition), no. 5 (July 1966): 3–7; “UFOs
-No Strangers to Tully,” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 9
-(November 1966): 15; “1966:
-Tully…After Tully,” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 9 (November
-1966): 16–21; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic,
-“Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 26–27; Bill Chalker, “The
-1966 Tully Saucer ‘Nest’: A Classic UFO Physical Trace Case,” 1997;
-Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966—Part One,” IUR 22, no. 4
-(Winter 1997–1998): 14–20; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966,
-Part Two,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 17, 31; Clark III
-1136–1138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3964
Date: 1/19/1966
-Description: 7:55 p.m. Two luminous objects pass over Acarigua,
-Venezuela, one from the north, the other from the east. When the paths
-of the two objects cross, the lights go out in the entire city. (“More
-S.A. Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, March/Apr. 1966, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3965
Date: 1/19/1966
-Time: 0900
-Description: George Pedley, 27, was driving his tractor when he heard a
-high-pitched sound and saw a strange gray-blue craft, 8 m in diameter, 3
-m high, rise from the lagoon 25 m away. It was spinning like a top, rose
-to 20 m, and flew to the southwest on a fast, oblique course. Flattened
-reeds were found in several places.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66,2; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Horseshoe Lagoon, near Tully, Australia
-ID: 723
Date: 1/29/1966
-Time: 0010
-Description: Two civilians returning from a sporting event observed what
-they first thought was the moon. After driving for about 1 km, they saw
-that it was a flat, well-defined object, which had blocked the road. The
-object was the size of a truck and cast an intense yellow-orange light
-on the ground. The witnesses turned around and drove back to
-Rexburg.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rexburg, Idaho
-ID: 724
Date: 2/2/1966
-Time: 11:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Wise. One silver,
-diamond-shaped object with several balls constantly in very fast motion
-around it, and much light. Object hovered over the trees for 3-4
-minutes, while a dog barked, and then zipped out of sight. Sighting
-lasted 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Salisbury, North Carolina
-ID: 533
Date: 2/3/1966
-Description: USAF Scientific Advisory Board met to review Project Blue
-Book. Issued report dated “March 1966” recommending contracts to
-universities to study selected UFO sightings.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 69
Date: 2/3/1966
-Description: A six-member Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book,
-headed by University of Rochester optical physicist Brian
-O’Brien, meets
-at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. All but one (astronomer Carl
-Sagan) are members of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
-(psychologist Launor
-F. Carter, industrial
-psychologist Jesse
-Orlansky, rocket
-scientist Richard
-W. Porter, computer engineer Willis
-Ware), and none have any sympathy with the idea that UFO reports
-represent anything extraordinary. Also attending is Lt. Col. Harold
-A. Steiner, assistant secretary to the Scientific Advisory Board.
-They receive a briefing from Quintanilla, review
-the Robertson Panel report, and examine a few UFO cases. The group
-recommends that Blue Book “be strengthened to provide opportunity for
-scientific investigation of selected sightings in more detail and depth
-than has been possible to date.” Furthermore, USAF should negotiate
-contracts “with a few selected universities to provide scientific teams
-to investigate promptly and in depth certain selected sightings of
-UFOs…. The universities should be chosen to provide good geographical
-distribution.” They also conclude that “perhaps 100 sightings a year
-might be subjected to this close study, and that possibly an average of
-10 man-days might be required per sighting so studied. The information
-provided by such a program might bring to light new facts of scientific
-value.” The group recommends that Blue Book data be given “wide
-unsolicited circulation among prominent members of the Congress and
-other public persons.” The Air Force ignores their recommendations.
-((USAF Scientific Advisory Board, Special
-Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to
-Review Project
-“Blue Book,” Brian O’Brien, chairman of the Advisory Board, March
-1966; Clark III 1191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3966
Date: 2/6/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright orange
-disk, about 11 m in diameter, with three legs, which came down, landed,
-and took off again at high speed on the “El Relajal” estate.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Aluche, Spain
-ID: 725
Date: 2/6/1966
-Time: 5:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Gulley. One yellow, lighted
-object at 500; altitude and a pulsating red glow on the lawn. The house
-lights went out, and high frequency bothered the witnesses’ ears.
-Sighting lasted 5-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nederland, Texas
-ID: 534
Date: 2/6/1966
-Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Several persons in the barrio of Aluche,
-Madrid, Spain, allegedly see an unusual flying object. Looking out a
-window, Maria Ruiz Torres watches an object descending. She sees a
-“gigantic eye” looking at her through a porthole. Another witness, Juan
-Jiminez Dias, thinks he sees a door open in the craft. Other observers
-include soldiers at a nearby ammunition dump. Motorist José
-Luis Jordán Peña gets a close, extended view of the object, which he
-characterizes as “enormous.” Jordán Peña sends Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera a
-sketch of the UFO, which has three legs and a curious symbol on its
-underside—something like two reverse parentheses with a vertical bar
-positioned between them. No other witness mentions anything like this.
-In 1992, Jordán Peña confesses to hoaxing his sighting, including the
-landing marks and physical traces, in order to prove his theory that
-paranoia is much more widespread in Spain that psychiatrists are willing
-to admit. (Antonio Ribera, “The
-San José de Valderas Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1969): 3–10; “Background of ‘Ummo’ and the Sightings,” CUFOS
-Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 2–3; Clark III 1183; Scott Corrales, “The
-UMMO Experience: Are You Experienced?” Strange Magazine, January 31,
-2001; Alain Moreau, “UMMO:
-Une imposture?” Les Cles de l’Inexplique)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3968
Date: 2/6/1966
-Description: 6:05 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
-R. Gulley see a tadpole-shaped object about 14 feet long and 2 feet
-wide with eight yellow-and-red, neon-like lights at 250–500 feet
-altitude in Nederland, Texas. It casts a pulsating red glow on the lawn.
-Her house and street lights go out as high-frequency sound assaults the
-witnesses’ ears. The object blinks out when aircraft pass overhead, then
-comes on again afterward. It departed to the west about 1.5 miles to the
-vicinity of the airport, where an aircraft’s landing lights light up the
-UFO. Then it disappears in a slow climb. (NICAP, “House
-Lights Go Out When ‘Tadpole’ Flies Over” ; Sparks. p. 309;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3967
Date: 2/6/1966
-Description: Brightly lighted disc with legs seen landing and taking off
-again. Imprints and scorch marks found at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Aluche, Madrid, Spain
-ID: 70
Date: 2/11/1966
-Description: Glowing orange object with domed top hovered, maneuvered
-over area, seen by police and citizens. Tracked on Air Force and Federal
-Aviation Administration (FAA) radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Skowhegan, ME
-ID: 71
Date: 2/16/1966
-Time: 2030
-Description: A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods. It
-showed flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later
-seen to join the first one.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine
-ID: 726
Date: 2/17/1966
-Description: NICAP contacted by United Nations Secretary General U
-Thant’s office requesting information and documents on UFOs.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 72
Date: 2/22/1966
-Description: Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one
-sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the
-UFO.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Exeter, NH
Date: 2/22/1966
-Description: Miami News: Engineer, inventor and lecturer Norman S. Bean
-is interviewed. States that after enough reports are gathered flight
-paths can be determined, craft can fly at 5000mph, wobble after stopping
-and can turn on a dime, must use some sort of gravitational propulsion
-to avoid destruction from high G-forces, occupant description,
-Wright-Field has had wreckage of 4 crashed discs for years, many
-sightings are related to water being pumped in or out of crafts. Reports
-forwarded to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson
-AFB.
-Type: interview
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 2/26/1966
-Description: A civilian witness was driving 8 km east of Farmington when
-a flying oval object, the size of a car, came within 3 m of him, then
-circled twice and left toward the north. It emitted a bright red glow,
-supported a sort of dome with a green light on top, produced radio
-interference, and made a strange “signallike noise.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hanna City, Illinois
-ID: 727
Date: 2/27/1966
-Description: A nationally broadcast public affairs interview program,
-The Open Mind, presents a panel discussion titled “Are Flying Saucers
-Only Science Fiction?” Princeton University history professor Eric
-F. Goldman is moderator. Panelists include astronomer Donald
-H. Menzel, plant
-physiologist Frank
-B. Salisbury, journalist
-John
-G. Fuller, psychologist R.
-Leo Sprinkle, and
-astronomer J.
-Allen Hynek. Menzel
-calls the Exeter police officers “hysterical subjects,” although he
-cannot remember their names and is unfamiliar with the case. (“Notable
-Broadcasts of the Past:
-The
-Open Mind NBC
-Public Affairs Presentation, February 27, 1966,” Journal of UFO
-History 1, no. 2 (May/June 2004): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3969
Date: 3/1966
-Description: Kathleen Reeves and a friend are walking on a rural road
-near their homes in Toledo, Oregon, when they think they see a
-neighbor’s field on fire. The fire seems oddly dome-shaped. They
-continue walking and see another smaller, duller light. Kathleen thinks
-it might be a prank, so she throws a rock at it. Suddenly, a group of
-much larger lights come on all around the small one. Frightened, the
-girls run home. Over the next few months, through October, the Reeves
-home experiences such poltergeist phenomena as whirring or sawing
-noises, rose-colored lights inside, small rings of light that crawl over
-the bedroom walls, and light beams. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the
-Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3970
Date: 3/1966
-Description: Midwestern and northeastern U.S. sighting wave (see
-separate chronology, section VIII).
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 73
Date: 3/3/1966
-Time: 1920
-Description: Several civilians reported an object that flew slowly
-toward the south, hovered, came within 15 m of them, and finally flew
-off toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Oswego, New York
-ID: 728
Date: 3/5/1966
-Description: The D-21 is first launched from an M-21 off the coast of
-California. The drone is released but stays close to the M-21’s back for
-a few seconds, which seems like “two hours” to the M-21 crew.
-(Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-D- 21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3971
Date: 3/6/1966
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Ivan de Almeida and other medical staff at the
-Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro,
-Brazil, watch an oval object with a bright red-orange light that shines
-on the ocean waters below. After 2 hours it climbs up slowly, dims, and
-disappears. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Report
-from Brazil: The First UAO
-Sightings in 1966,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3972
Date: 3/12/1966
-Description: 10:40 a.m. A security guard at the Fábrica Nacional de
-Motores in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, alerts 10 employees
-to a mysterious light that is approaching the factory. It descends to
-1,500–1,800 feet and hovers above the plant. The object is approximately
-18 feet in diameter and emits a brilliant white light that makes it
-difficult to look at directly. It periodically flashes even brighter.
-Plant director Col. Jorge Alberto Silveira Martins calls the Army and
-Air Force. After 30 minutes, the object dims and moves away at
-tremendous speed before the Army trucks arrive. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Report
-from Brazil: The First UAO Sightings in 1966,” APRO Bulletin,
-March/April 1966, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3973
Date: 3/14/1966
-End date: 3/20/1966
-Description: Sheriffs reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic
-speeds and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, hovering. Selfridge
-AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake Erie
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Dexter, Milan, and Ann Arbor, MI
-ID: 74
Date: 3/14/1966
-Description: 3:30 –5:30 a.m. Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies Buford
-Bushroe and John Foster see highly maneuverable disc-shaped UFOs with
-flashing red and green lights over Dexter, Michigan. They call in a
-report that sets off a two-and-a-half hour chase that stretches over
-three counties and out over Lake Erie. Police from five jurisdictions
-are involved. Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base],
-near Mount Clemens, reports tracking UFOs on radar over Lake Erie.
-(UFOEv II 184–185; O’Connell 177; Patrick Gross, “Michigan 1966:
-Sheriffs Watch High-Performance Discs, Also Tracked on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3974
Date: 3/16/1966
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Many people see a white, oval object crash into
-the Atlantic Ocean close to the Ilha Cagarras off Ipanema, Brazil. Some
-see a few smaller white parachute-shaped objects fall from it. A
-thorough search turns up nothing in the sea or the island itself.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3975
Date: 3/17/1966
-Description: 4:25 a.m. Police Sgt. Neil Schneider and Deputy David
-Fitzpatrick see top-shaped objects making sharp maneuvers over Milan,
-Michigan. They alternatively hover, rise and fall quickly, dart around
-at jet-like speed, dimming and brightening periodically. Two objects are
-operating together, while a third UFO hovers at a lower altitude. (UFOEv
-II 185; O’Connell 177; Sparks,
-p. 310)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3976
Date: 3/17/1966
-Description: Mr. Ward saw an object 12 m in diameter and 7 m high,
-emitting a pulsating white light, in a field. It had a revolving section
-with portholes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Aug., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Harrow, Canada
-ID: 729
Date: 3/17/1966
-Time: 0000
-Description: A police officer observed an object in the southwest. He
-thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He
-tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did
-not work properly. The object, which now colored lights spinning at the
-periphery, and a diameter of 16 m, came within 25 m of the patrol car,
-following it for 1 km, then flew off toward the northwest. The witness
-had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like that
-object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Michigan
-ID: 730
Date: 3/20/1966
-Description: La Porte, IN: Patrolman Michael Spevak was on duty when 2
-youths pulled over and pointed out an UFO that they said had been
-following them from Michigan City to La Porte. According to the young
-men, the object frequently burst into such a bright glare that it
-blinded them, forcing them off the highway. It had been following them
-at an altitude of about 60 ft. Both the young men and the patrolman
-noticed a cross-shaped appendage protruding from the lower portion of
-the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F, p257)
-Location: La Porte, IN
Date: 3/20/1966
-Description: 7:30 p.m. After his dogs start making a racket, Frank
-Mannor and his 26-year-old son Ronald see strange lights over a
-swampy area in Dexter Township, Michigan. They walk over to the area for
-a look, taking about 30 minutes, and see a pyramid-shaped object with a
-rounded top, corrugated surface, and blue, red, and white lights.
-Mannor’s son-in-law Bob Wagner, back at the house, sees the object light
-up and rise to 500 feet, then come down again making some noise.
-Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies David Fitzpatrick and Stanley
-McFadden arrive about 9:00 p.m. drive towards the swamp on Quigley
-Road. They see a brilliant light that dims and then reappears. By this
-time a crowd has gathered. One man reports that when two flashlights
-appear in the distance, the object seems to react by flying away at high
-speed. At another point the object passes directly over the Mannors with
-a whistling sound like a rifle bullet ricocheting. It remains in the
-swampy area for 30 minutes. (“Swamp
-Gas Answer Disproved,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966):
-5; UFOEv II 185–186; O’Connell 175–177, 184–185; Sparks,
-p. 310; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; Patrick Gross, “Hillsdale,
-Michigan, 1966: The Infamous ‘Swamp Gas’ Case”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3977
Date: 3/20/1966
-Time: 12:15 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF Res. Maj. K.C. Smith, employee of NASA at
-Cape Kennedy. One pulsating light which varied from white to intense
-blue made a jerky ascent and then rapidly accelerated away to the north
-after 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami, Florida
-ID: 535
Date: 3/20/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald, saw a luminous object
-hovering over a swamp. It was described as brown, with a “scaly”
-surface, coneshaped, and showing bluish lights that turned red. Then the
-whole object lighted up with a yellowish glow and flew away at high
-speed with a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Dexter, Michigan
-ID: 731
Date: 3/20/1966
-Description: Dexter, MI.: Frank Mannor, age 47, and Ronald Mannor, age
-19, went out at night through swampy, hummocky terrain to investigate
-flashing lights in the swamp. They saw a domed, elliptical object with
-aquilted surface hovering about 8 ft. off the ground in a patch of
-apparent mist. The object glowed “blood red” and the body lights
-disappeared. They lost sight of the UFO and didn’t see it again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Dexter, MI
-See also: 3/21/66
-See also: 4/1/66
Date: 3/20/1966
-End date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Egg-shaped object with flashing lights across the center
-(red-white-blue-green-red) hovered over power lines, bobbed around, and
-rocked in a pendulum motion
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Exeter, NH
-ID: 75
Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Engineer, inventor, and lecturer Norman S. Bean is quoted
-in the Miami News: “We have good reason to believe that the Air Force
-has wreckage from at least four of these small vehicles and has been
-conducting studies of such wreckage at Wright Field for years”. Also
-mentions what is now known as the US Gravity Control Research
-Program.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Medium
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Miami, FL
Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Law enforcement officer F.B. (initials) at Dexter,
-Michigan, and officer “C” (initial) on patrol sighted a landed saucer in
-a swamp. Description: Large craft, like a pot; no windows; had a dull
-glow and steam was coming up from the water. Sounded like a turbine, a
-low whine or hum. He notified Selfridge AFB which immediately sent out
-MP’s, well armed. All law officers were ordered back and their film was
-confiscated. Later his report and other reports disappeared from police
-headquarters. Then, everyone in the force, including he and “C”, were
-transferred to other parts of the county. The UFO wasn’t disabled. F.B.
-saw it take-off and climb straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C)
-Location: Dexter, MI
-See also: 3/1/67
Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: 10:32 p.m. Cynthia “Pinky” Poffenberger and 16 other
-Hillsdale (Michigan) College students see a football- shaped object with
-red, green, and white pulsating lights descend from the sky and pass
-close to their dorm. It settles in a hollow in the Slayton Arboretum
-about 1,500 feet away. Some 87 students collect to watch the UFO, then
-they notify Civil Defense Director William Van Horn, who arrives with
-police. From the dormitory, the landed lights appear yellowish-white,
-dimming and intensifying. Only student Barbara
-Kohn stays most of the night, watching the lights vanish, reappear,
-and recede. Around 5:10 a.m., Kohn sees a lighted object move away and
-disappear from sight. Radiation is later detected at the landing area of
-about 330–600 microroentgens/hr, roughly 10–20 times the background
-level. (O’Connell 177–180, 185–188; Clark III 950; Sparks,
-p. 311; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents]; Jack Butler, “UFO:
-In 1966, Hillsdale Had Its Own Close Encounter,” The Collegian
-(Hillsdale College), March 19, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3978
Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Officials, college students saw UFO settle in a hollow,
-emitting orange, red, and white lights
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hillsdale, MI
-ID: 76
Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and a group of
-students observed a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the
-light appeared to manuever for about two hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hillsdale, Michigan
-ID: 732
Date: 3/22/1966
-Description: Morning. Contactee George
-Hunt Williamson sees three large UFOs with brilliant, flashing,
-blue-white lights hover above him for one minute in Key West, Florida.
-He hears a familiar buzzing in his head. (Michael D. Swords, “A Little
-Walk in the Strange Life of George Hunt Williamson,” IUR 26, no. 2
-(Summer 2001): 14, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3979
Date: 3/22/1966
-Time: 1:30 AM
-Description: Witness: S.J. Musachia. White flashing lights, and the air
-full of smoke. Lit up witness’ apartment. Sound of “yen” heard up close
-during 4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 536
Date: 3/22/1966
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Several people standing outside the Waterfront
-Playhouse in Key West, Florida, during an intermission, see three UFOs
-ringed with flashing blue-white lights hovering nearby. They zoom off
-over the Gulf. (“Keys
-Theatre-Goers Report ‘Flying Discs,’” Miami (Fla.) Herald, March 24,
-1966, p. 3-C)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3980
Date: 3/23/1966
-Time: 5:05 AM
-Description: Witness: W.E. Laxson. One large object, like a wingless
-C-124 transport plane; 75’ long, 8’ high and 12’ wide; with a bubble
-canopy on top. Sat on highway, a man dressed in military work clothes
-entered, and it rose after about 40 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Temple, Oklahoma
-ID: 537
Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: Two young men were walking through a wooded area when they
-saw a bright object that they thought was a balloon covered with
-fluorescent paint but it became so intensely bright that they could not
-look directly at it. As they walked closer, it exploded, leaving no
-trace.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Fort Pierce, Florida
-ID: 733
Date: 3/23/1966
-Time: 0505
-Description: An electronics instructor, who was driving to work at a
-local Air Force Base, observed an object blocking the road. It was
-shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 m long, with a “bubble” on top
-resembling the canopy on a B-26, rested on legs, and had very bright aft
-and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of
-the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft
-which bore the identification “TL 4768” (see case 417). When the witness
-approached, the “pilot” went back inside, a sound resembling that of a
-highspeed drill was heard, and the object rose. No engine was observed.
-The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Temple, Oklahoma
-ID: 734
Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: Huge, elongated craft blocking high-way, flashing body
-lights, port, door, antenna on top, spindly legs. Human-like figure
-entered, craft took off, hovered, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Temple, OK
-ID: 77
Date: 3/23/1966
-End date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Hynek spends
-three days in Michigan, interviewing witnesses in Dexter and Hillsdale,
-finding the reports contradictory and vague, and encountering a media
-frenzy. He participates in a police UFO chase that turns out to be the
-star Arcturus. A photograph taken by Deputy David Fitzpatrick on March
-17 is obviously a time lapse of the Moon and Venus. He interviews two
-Hillsdale students, Sara Robechek and Jo Wilson. William Van Horn tells
-him that he at first thought the lights were marsh gas until they rose
-into the air 150 feet and he seemed to perceive a “convex-shaped” solid
-mass between two lights. (O’Connell 183–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3984
Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: 11:50 p.m. John T. King sees a yellowish, elliptical object
-with a dome-like projection on top just off the ground near Bangor,
-Maine. It has a yellow-orange light in the center, a bluish light on the
-right, and a white light on the left. When the object moves toward his
-car, the car lights dim and his radio stops playing. King says he can
-hear the elderberry bushes scraping as it approaches and hovers 50 feet
-away. Frightened, he takes his .22 magnum pistol and fires it four times
-at the UFO, which glows brightly and takes off at high speed, making a
-“zinging” sound like the recoil of a spring. (“Close-Range
-Sightings Increase,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3983
Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: 5:00 p.m. At least a dozen adults and children in Trinidad,
-Colorado, see two disc-shaped objects with domes flying in-line,
-traveling with a bobbing motion over the terrain. (“Discs
-at Trinidad, Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 1; James
-E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3982
Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: 5:05 a.m. As Sheppard AFB (near Wichita Falls, Texas)
-civilian instructor William E. “Eddie” Laxson is driving west on US
-Highway 70 eight miles south of Temple, Oklahoma, he finds the road
-blocked by a wingless aircraft, shaped like a fish, in the road. It is
-about 75 feet long, nearly 8 feet high, 12 feet wide, with a Plexiglas
-bubble on top, and bright lights forward and aft. Laxson stops his car
-about 300 feet away and walks to within 50 feet, noticing a designation
-on its side like “TLA138” or “TLA738” or “TL 4768.” He sees a “man”
-wearing a baseball cap or mechanic’s hat climbing up steps or a ladder
-on the object. Soon after it lifts off with a hissing or high-speed
-drilling sound and heads off southeast at about 700 mph. There are no
-landing traces. Laxson finds another witness, truck driver C. W.
-Anderson, parked a mile down the road. Laxson thinks it is some kind of
-military vehicle. (NICAP, “Wingless
-Craft Blocks Road / ‘Man’ Observed”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 208–210;
-Clark III 681–682; Sparks, p. 312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3981
Date: 3/24/1966
-Time: 2215
-Description: Two women saw a glowing object on the road. As they came
-near it, they found that it hovered and showed two intense white lights,
-as well as a green and red light. The object was bowlshaped, and they
-lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying
-low on a southnorth trajectory.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
-ID: 735
Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: House Minority Leader Gerald
-Ford (R-Mich.) issues a press release proposing that Congress
-investigate the rash of UFO reports in southern Michigan and the rest of
-the country: “I think the American people would feel better if there was
-a full-blown investigation of these incidents, which some persons allege
-have taken place.” (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, [Ford
-UFO news releases and other documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3986
Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: John King, 22, working with the Bangor Police Department,
-suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He
-fired at it four times, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the
-object flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Bangor, Maine
-ID: 736
Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Evening. Mrs. Robert Gorisek of LaSalle, Illinois, sees a
-triangular object hover above her car for more than an hour as she is
-driving home from work. The object keeps up with them as they drive
-through several towns. It has red, orange, and white lights. (“UFO
-Sightings Widespread over Country,” Great Bend (Kan.) Daily Tribune,
-March 25, 1966, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3988
Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Mrs. R. H. Chappell and her sister Janie Kidd see two
-triangular UFOs hovering 40–50 feet above Saanich Inlet, British
-Columbia. Ruby-red lights flash back and forth between them, as if they
-are signaling. The objects remain motionless for a couple of minutes
-before moving off slowly and gracefully. (Marler 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3987
Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Quintanilla needs
-quick answers, so he schedules a press conference at Selfridge AFB [now
-Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, for Hynek to
-make a statement. Hynek, disappointed with the quality of the sightings
-and suspecting a mundane explanation, announces: “It would seem to me
-that the association of the sightings with swamps, in these particular
-cases, is more than coincidence. No group of witnesses observed any
-craft coming to or going away from the swamps. The glow was localized
-there…. It appears to me that all the major conditions for the
-appearance of swamp lights were satisfied.” The swamp gas theory doesn’t
-go over very well with the witnesses, the media, or the public. (“Termed
-Marsh Gases by Air Force Expert,”
-Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, March 25, 1966, p. 11; “Gas
-Theory Belittled by Viewers of UFOs,” Lansing (Mich.) State Journal,
-March 26, 1966, p. 1; “Swamp
-Gas Answer Disproved,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966):
-5; O’Connell 190–198; Swords 307; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue
-Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3985
Date: 3/26/1966
-Description: Jean Voilquin, 54, saw a strange “wheel” roll 15 m away at
-a speed of about 30 km/h. It was about 80 cm in diameter, 25 cm thick;
-it rolled away and vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN; GEPA 8 (Vallee)
-Location: Attigneville, France
-ID: 737
Date: 3/26/1966
-Time: Midnight
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. P.N. Beer and Mrs. E. Smith. One flashing
-light buzzed their car from the front then hovered. Sighting lasted l0
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Texhoma, Oklahoma
-ID: 538
Date: 3/26/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Two civilian women were driving back from Amarillo when
-they saw an object aproaching from the north. The engine died and the
-headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 m away.
-After 10 min, the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They
-reported the object had a wafflelike surface and glowed with an intense
-red light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Texahoma, Oklahoma
-ID: 738
Date: 3/27/1966
-Description: Control tower personnel, police. Radar-visual sighting of
-maneuvering object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Columbus, GA
-ID: 78
Date: 3/27/1966
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Both Federal Aviation Administration operators at
-Muscogee County Airport [now Columbus Metropolitan Airport] and military
-operators at Fort Benning report a radar-visual sighting of a
-maneuvering, oblong, green-white object over Columbus, Georgia. The
-object appears to change shape from cigar to wedge to triangle. (“Glowing
-Object in Sky Is Sighted in Georgia,” Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune,
-March 28, 1966, p. 14; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3989
Date: 3/28/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly
-encountered a large lighted object 1 m above the road on a hilltop. It
-flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs had to
-be replaced. The object was oval, 7 m long, dark gray, and showed about
-30 lights along its periphery.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee
-ID: 739
Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) issued call for UFO
-hearings.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 79
Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: NICAP press conference at National Press Club.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 80
Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: Gerald
-Ford writes to George
-P. Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Science and Astronautics
-Committee, and L.
-Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
-saying he is dissatisfied with Hynek’s
-explanation of the Michigan sightings. He “strongly recommends” a House
-committee investigation into the “UFO phenomena.” (Gerald R. Ford
-Presidential Library, [Ford
-UFO news releases and other documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3990
Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James
-E. McDonald writes a 2-page letter to Thomas
-F. Malone, chairman
-of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Atmospheric
-Sciences, urging that a panel be set up by a scientific body to study
-Blue Book’s UFO files. He also writes to his legislator Rep. Morris
-K.
-Udall (D-Ariz.) about the idea, asking him to pass the letter on in
-confidence to Gerald
-Ford (R-Mich.). (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes
-from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): 11, 13; Clark
-III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3991
Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A man driving about 60 mph in Fayetteville,
-Tennessee, encounters a large, lighted object only 3 feet above the road
-on a hilltop. The object is oval-shaped, 23 feet long, dark gray, and
-has about 30 lights around its perimeter. As it flies off, his car
-engine and headlights die. The driver has to replace the light bulbs in
-his headlights after the incident. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on
-Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011):
-19; Sparks,
-p. 312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3992
Date: 3/29/1966
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Charles Cozens, 13, is strolling in a field
-behind the Hamilton Mountain Police Station in Hamilton, Ontario. He
-sees two luminous oval objects about 8 feet in diameter descend and
-land, making a buzzing sound. The objects have a row of multicolored
-lights around their rims “flickering like a computer.” He approaches for
-a closer look and touches the nearest object, which feels hard and
-smooth like metal, but neither hot nor cold. He then touches an
-antenna-like projection at the end of one of the objects and receives a
-shock. Frightened, he runs home. His parents confirm a 3-inch burn mark
-on his hand and question him thoroughly before reporting the incident to
-authorities. His first-degree burn is treated at a hospital and heals
-normally. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 4–5; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and
-Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3995
Date: 3/29/1966
-Description: 4:15 p.m. A 10-year-old boy and his Dalmatian are walking
-familiar paths in a wood lot behind their home near Hampton Falls, New
-Hampshire. He notices something silver on a ridge and walks toward it.
-He sees an “L” shaped box, long side parallel to the ground, sitting on
-tripod legs. His dog runs ahead and sniffs the boxy structure, and then,
-appearing uninterested, the dog goes off into the woods. The boy stops
-about 24 feet away, not sure what he is seeing. The object makes
-intermittent sounds and movements in the following minutes. Then a blast
-of air from the object sends debris flying. A short high-pitched, then
-low-pitched, sound is heard as the object lifts off the ground about one
-foot, stops, swings in a clockwise motion, and settles back on the
-ground. Intermittent electric-like humming sounds are heard until the
-object again, with a blast of air stirring up debris and the same sounds
-as earlier, ascends vertically, this time to about 10 feet, where it
-pauses, moves horizontally, pauses and rotates clockwise again, then
-accelerates straight up. On the final ascent, the sound increases in
-pitch and loudness. The witness’s mother and sister who were at some
-distance from him also hear the sound. When the object moved
-horizontally, saplings directly under it swayed. Three elongated
-imprints are found in the form of a triangle. Reportedly plants do not
-grow in the area for the next 2 years. (NICAP, “Hampton
-Area, New Hampshire:
-March 29, 1966”; Raymond Fowler, “The Flying Box, and Other Cases,”
-IUR 28, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 15–20, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3994
Date: 3/29/1966
-Description: NICAP board member Charles
-A. Maney writes to Gerald
-Ford, imploring him to contact NICAP for proof that the Air Force is
-withholding evidence about UFOs. (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath:
-Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010):
-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3993
Date: 3/30/1966
-Description: An elongated object about 30 m long and 9 m high was
-reported to have landed near a highway for 5 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Pecos, Texas
-ID: 740
Date: 3/30/1966
-Description: The Christian Science Monitor editorialized that the
-Michigan sightings had “deepened the mystery” and “it is time for the
-scientific community to conduct a thorough and objective study of the
-‘unexplainable.’”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 81
Date: 3/30/1966
-Description: 8:35 p.m. A woman and her four children watch an oval
-object crossing the road as they are driving south about 9 miles north
-of Lewisburg, Indiana. It comes close to the car and she hears a
-pulsating sound, but it seems to come through the car radio, not
-directly from the object. She drives away, but the UFO pursues her for 8
-miles. It changes from reddish-orange to blue-white before it
-accelerates away. (Sparks,
-p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3996
Date: 3/30/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: An anonymous witness saw a round object with two lights
-land near the Ohio State University campus. A door opened and a very
-thin, child-sized figure was seen. The object then began to move torward
-the witness’s car and rose rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jun., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Mansfield, Ohio
-ID: 742
Date: 3/30/1966
-Time: 2035
-Description: A civilian woman and her four children observed an oval
-object crossing the road as they were driving south about 15 km north of
-Lexisburg. It came close to the car, and a pulsating sound was heard,
-increasing in frequency as the object came nearer, but it seemed to come
-through the car radio rather than directly from the object. The witness
-drove away in fear, but was followed for 13 km by the object, whose
-color suddenly changed from reddishorange to bluish-white before
-accelerating out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lexisburg, Indiana
-ID: 741
Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: JANAP 146(E), a joint Canadian–US instruction, adds that
-photos should be sent to the US Director of Naval Intelligence and adds
-special CIRVIS reporting instructions for unidentifiable objects. The
-Canadian Air Defence Command ends its investigation of UFOs and
-transfers the responsibility to the Directorate of Operations. (Joint
-Chiefs of Staff, “JANAP
-146(E) Canadian–United States Communications Instructions for Reporting
-Vital Intelligence Sightings,” March 31, 1966; Antonio F. Rullán,
-“Blue
-Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,”
-December 10, 2002; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981,
-pp. 171–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3998
Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: Editorial, Indianapolis (IN) News: “What is needed,
-obviously, is more public inquiry conducted under scrupulously objective
-auspices. . . . Too many people have seen too many things for the
-subject to be dismissed with mere off-hand explanations.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Indianapolis, IN
-ID: 83
Date: 3/31/1966
-Time: 2115
-Description: Charles Kozens, 13, saw two objects, 2.5 m long, 1.2 m
-high, with flashing lights, land near Hamilton. When he tried to touch
-an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Hamilton, Canada
-ID: 745
Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Jeno Udvardy is driving home from a late work
-shift near Vicksburg, Michigan. He sees a cluster of lights on the
-highway ahead and slows down. When he is within 10 feet, he realizes the
-lights are on a disc hovering a few feet above the road. It has a
-brilliant white light, and red, green, and purple blinking lights.
-Udvardy backs up and his car is buffeted by gusts of wind as the object
-lifts up. The car motor stalls. He rolls down the window and hears a
-humming sound. Moments later, the UFO speeds off at a steep angle. (“Close- Range
-Sightings Increase,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3997
Date: 3/31/1966
-Time: 0600
-Description: Two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish
-light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a
-construction area. Silhouettes could be seen moving inside, one of them
-gesturing as the craft took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jun., 6 (Vallee)
-Location: San Francisco, California
-ID: 744
Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: Luminous object hovered, blocked roadway, bobbed up and
-down, moved quickly. Car buffeted, humming sound. Object rose, sped off
-at steep angle
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vicksburg, MI
-ID: 82
Date: 3/31/1966
-Time: 0200
-Description: A man driving home saw lights on the road and discovered a
-gray,lens-shaped object hovering at 1 m altitude. It had one intense
-white light and three colored flashing lights. Driving within 2 m of it,
-he became afraid and backed up, but the object suddenly flew over and
-behind him. A noise similar to that of a swarm of bees was audible. It
-left at high speed toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Vicksburg, Michigan
-ID: 743
Date: 4/1/1966
-Description: From LIFE magazine: In a hastily called press conference,
-the USAF spokesman J. Allen Hynek suggested that the Dextor, MI, UFO and
-others seen in the swamps near Hillsdale may have been marsh (or swamp)
-gas that had spontaneously ignited.
-Type: magazine article
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dextor, MI
-See also: 3/20/66
-See also: 3/21/66
Date: 4/1/1966 (approximate)
-Description: Night. Students at Western Michigan University in
-Kalamazoo, Michigan, see a star-like object that looks football-shaped
-through binoculars. It moves in geometric angles around two bright stars
-until it shoots straight up and disappears. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know
-Where You Live,” IUR 30, no.2 (January 2006): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4000
Date: 4/1/1966
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A man driving 5 miles south of Tangier,
-Oklahoma, reaches a hilltop and sees a green object wider than the road
-flying north at very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a “heat
-wave.” The car engine dies. (Sparks, p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3999
Date: 4/1/1966
-Time: 2240
-Description: A civilian man, 34, was driving about 10 km south of
-Tangier when he reached a hilltop and saw a green object flying north at
-very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a “heat wave.” The car
-engine died. The witness noted that the object was wider than the
-road.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Tangier, Oklahoma
-ID: 746
Date: 4/1/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Darlene Underwood and her mother saw two starlike objects
-land in a field. One of them rose rapidly when a train came into view.
-It went behind a hill, while the second one hovered at tree height with
-its lights off. When the train had passed, both objects landed again and
-two manlike shadows were seen. Voices shouting in a foreign language and
-what sounded like a pig being butchered were heard. Light signals.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: IIR May., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Liberty, Missouri
-ID: 747
Date: 4/2/1966
-Description: 2:02 p.m. James Kibel, a Melbourne businessman who is a
-member of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, sees a shiny,
-hemispherical object above his garden in Balwyn, Victoria. It looks to
-be 20–25 feet in diameter and 120 feet in the air. “It seemed to float
-down towards me,” he says. “It resembled a big mushroom with a stalk
-pointing towards the earth.” He snaps a Polaroid photo, after which the
-object takes off and disappears to the north. However, when B.
-Roy Frieden, professor
-of optical sciences at the University of Arizona, examines the photo, he
-finds a jagged line of discontinuity running across the center of the
-image suggesting there are separate photos joined together and
-rephotographed. In 2017, Canadian researcher François Beaulieu
-reexamines the original and notices the reflection of the house below in
-the shiny object, and he finds that the discontinuity is actually caused
-by the Polaroid developing chemicals spreading unevenly across the
-photo. (“V.F.S.R.S.
-Member Snaps a UFO,” Australian Flying Saucer Review (Victorian
-Edition), no. 5 (July 1966): 2; “Report
-on UFO Photographed at Balwyn,” Australian Flying Saucer Review
-(Victorian Edition), no. 6 (December 1966): 11–12; Story, p. 40;
-Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “Stage
-One Report on the 2nd April 1966,
-Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, UFO Observation and Photgograph by James
-Johnson Kibel,” 2016; Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “Stage
-Two Report on the 2nd April 1966, Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria, Visual
-and Photographic
-UFO Sighting by James Johnson Kibel,” 2016; François Beaulieu, “A
-Re-evaluation of the Balwyn UFO
-Photograph,” February 23, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4001
Date: 4/4/1966
-Time: 0605
-Description: A civilian man, 40, saw an object resting on the ground as
-he was going to work, less than 2 km southeast of Hague. It was an
-elongated craft, 2 m long, 70 cm high. When he tried to touch it, the
-craft left at great speed toward the west. It had six openings, 10 cm in
-diameter, and made a “turbine” noise so loud that the witness had to put
-his hands over his ears. After going away for a few meters, it vanished
-suddenly. Rain was falling throughout the observation, which lasted four
-min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hague, Florida
-ID: 748
Date: 4/4/1966
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Businessman Ron Sullivan is driving about 60 mph
-near Burkes Flat, Victoria, Australia. In the distance he sees a light
-near the road. Suddenly, the headlights of his vehicle bend to the right
-and light up a nearby fence. He brakes his car. In the middle of an
-adjacent field, he sees a column of light some 25 feet high and shaped
-like an inverted ice cream cone, 3 feet wide at the bottom and 10 feet
-wide at the top. It then rises to a height of 20 feet, after which the
-whole light complex disappears. There is no associated noise. Sullivan
-drives on to Wycheproof, where he checks his lights but finds nothing
-wrong. On the night of April 7, 19-year-old Gary Taylor is killed at the
-same spot when the car he is driving leaves the road and hits a tree.
-Police find a circular impression about 2–5 inches deep and 5 feet in
-diameter in the freshly plowed field. (NICAP, “Bent
-Headlights Case”;
-Bill Chalker, “The
-Bent Headlight Beam Case Revisited,” UFO Research Australia
-Newsletter 5, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 17–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4002
Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 1900
-Description: A landed object was observed through binoculars by four
-persons. It took off, hovered for a while, and left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kittery, Maine
-ID: 752
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to
-extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan.
-Type: announcement
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-G p64)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witness: Lillian Louis. One vapor-like sphere hovered and
-spun at low altitude, shooting its exhaust onto the ground below.
-Sighting of 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lycoming, New York
-ID: 540
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: Midnight. W. Smith and another man in Alto, Tennessee, stop
-to watch a 100-foot long UFO hovering 15 feet above a swamp. They try to
-follow it, but it flies away, flying between a high-tension power line
-and a row of trees. Cows, dogs, and horses are restless in all the areas
-where the object passes over. (Sparks,
-p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4006
Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 11:55 PM
-Description: Witness: W. Smith. One oval object with a dark top,
-appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise during
-the 2.5 hour sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Alto, Tennessee
-ID: 539
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: R. Sullivan was driving toward Maryborough when his
-headlight beams appeared to “bend” to the right. He then observed a
-vertical, conical beam of light in a nearby field, very white at ground
-level and rainbowlike up to an altitude of 7 m. Top and bottom
-diameters: 3 and 1 m respectively. The object producing the light flew
-away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO May., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Wycheproof, Australia
-ID: 749
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: The House Armed Services Committee conducts the first
-public hearing by the US Congress on the topic of UFOs. Air Force
-Secretary Harold
-Brown testifies that while USAF has done an excellent job on UFOs,
-perhaps there is room for “even stronger emphasis on the scientific
-aspects.” Hynek recommends
-that a “civilian panel of physical and social scientists … examine the
-UFO problem critically for the express purpose of determining whether a
-major problem exits.” Quintanilla is
-the only other witness. After Committee Chairman L.
-Mendel Rivers expresses
-some enthusiasm for the idea, Brown suddenly realizes that maybe he has
-found a way to get the Air Force out of UFO investigations. Shortly
-after the hearing, Brown tells the USAF Office of Scientific Research to
-accept the February 3 O’Brien recommendation
-to seek a university that will accept a contract to study the 600
-officially unidentified UFO sightings. (US House Committee on Armed
-Services, Hearing, Unidentified
-Flying Objects, 89th
-Congress, 2nd Session, April 5, 1966; Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4005
Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 0130
-Description: A woman was awakened by a flash, thought her heater had
-exploded, but found everything in order. The next day she was told that
-a pulsating, luminous object had flown at very low altitude over her
-trailer, circled and left. Three witnoises. Low buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Durhamville, New York
-ID: 750
Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 0300
-Description: A civilian woman, 42, went to get a glass of water in her
-kitchen and saw a spinning object, 3 m in diameter, 6 m above ground
-near her house. It departed very suddenly, leaving a trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lycoming, New York
-ID: 751
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Lillian
-Louis, in Lycoming, New York, sees a spinning object from her
-kitchen window. It seems to be 10 feet in diameter and is shooting
-exhaust 20 feet above the ground near her house. It departs suddenly,
-leaving a trail. (Sparks, p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4004
Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Two civilian men stopped to watch an object hovering above
-a swamp, tried to follow it, but it flew awav. They observed that
-animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the
-object crossed. A photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force
-showed an oval object, 30 m long, flying at 5 m altitude, between a
-high-tension line and a row of trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Alto, Tennessee
-ID: 753
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Durhamville, New York, is awakened by
-a flash. She thinks her trailer heater has exploded, but everything is
-in order. The next day, three witnesses tell her a pulsating, luminous
-object had flown directly above her trailer. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 327)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4003
Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs in U.S.
-Congress. Only Air Force witnesses called to testify. Hearings used as
-forum to announce that new independent scientific study would be
-undertaken.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 84
Date: 4/6/1966
-Description: NICAP Assistant Director Richard
-Hall writes to Gerald
-Ford, congratulating
-him on his call for a congressional investigation, saying, “History will
-record the important role you have played in helping to bring about a
-rational study of UFOs and public enlightenment on the subject.” (Bill
-Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford
-Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): 10, 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4008
Date: 4/6/1966
-Description: Around 11:00 a.m. A class of students and a teacher from
-Westall High School [now Westall Secondary College] in Clayton South,
-Victoria, Australia, are just completing a sport activity on the main
-oval when they see an object, described as a gray saucer-shaped craft
-with a slight purple hue and about twice the size of a family car.
-Witness descriptions are mixed: Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher,
-tells The Dandenong Journal at the time that he saw a silvery-green
-disc. According to witnesses, the object is descending and then crosses
-and flies over the high school’s southwest corner, going in a
-southeasterly direction before disappearing from sight as it descends
-behind a stand of trees and into a paddock at The Grange in front of the
-Westall State School (primary students). After about 20 minutes, the
-object—with witnesses now numbering over 200—then climbs at speed and
-departs towards the northwest. As the object gains altitude, some
-accounts describe it as being pursued from the scene by five
-unidentified aircraft that circle it. Some describe one disc, others
-claim to see three. The Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society arrives
-on the site on April 8, speaks to students, and views the ground
-marking, originally described as a large patch of yellow, flattened
-grass with a swirly pattern. (“Audio
-Reveals Creepy Details
-of Australian UFO Mystery,” Melbourne Herald Sun, August 7, 2018;
-Wikipedia, “Westall
-UFO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4007
Date: 4/7/1966
-Time: 2130
-Description: Six teenagers reported strange lights following their car
-as they left the site of a picnic in a state of extreme fear. An unknown
-man, 2.20 m tall, wearing black clothes, had been seen passing in front
-of the shelter entrance and walking on the roof.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Daniels Park, Colorado
-ID: 754
Date: 4/8/1966
-Time: 0805
-Description: Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, 12 were walking to school when
-they saw a circling object making the sound of humming bees. They ran
-for cover, trying to stop a car. The craft resembled an upside-down
-plate, very smooth, apparently metallic, with a black spot near the rim,
-a red light and an antennalike projection, and red and white lights
-spinning counterclockwise. Diameter2.5 m, height, 1.5 m. Minimum
-altitude was 2 m, held for 5 min, with a slight rocking motion. The
-object then took off at great speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 108 (Vallee)
-Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
-ID: 755
Date: 4/8/1966
-Description: 8:05 a.m. Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, both 12, are walking
-along Redcoat Road in Norwalk, Connecticut, when they see sunlight
-reflecting off a distant object to the west and behind them. It zooms
-toward them in a flash, passes overhead from west to east, turns, makes
-a second pass from east to west, turns again, and makes a third pass. It
-makes a low humming sound when it passes about 15 feet above them. The
-boys run to the Holy Ghost Seminary nearby and hide under a nearby
-bridge abutment as the object continues to maneuver. When it hovers, it
-does so edge down and makes a fluttering motion. The disc looks
-metallic, 8 feet in diameter, has a black spot on top near its rim, and
-a red light on top of an antenna-like protrusion. Red and white lights
-appear to rotate counterclockwise. Nearly 2 hours later, the object
-takes off in a burst of speed. (“Boys
-Chased by UAO,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1966, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4009
Date: 4/11/1966
-Time: 0000
-Description: A civilian man, 43, saw a well-defined object 5 m above
-ground, 100 m away. It showed a flashing red light, rose, was lost in
-the fog, then came back at treetop level with a strong whistling sound.
-Its shape was that of a cigar, 15 m long. It had no wings, tail
-assembly, or wheels.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Greensburg, Pennsylvania
-ID: 756
Date: 4/12/1966
-Time: 1945
-Description: During a power failure many residents, including Robert
-Moses and Robert McCambly, saw an oval object with a dome on top and
-lights (red to white to green) around the bottom, which appeared to land
-on the roof of the Oliver Wendelle Holmes grammar school after a series
-of maneuvers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
-ID: 757
Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale
-F. Spaur and Deputy Wilbur Neff are 4 miles east of Randolph, Ohio,
-when they see a moving light through some trees at the top of a small
-hill along the road. The light is headed in their direction. They have
-heard of a UFO reported over police radio that night and figure this
-must be what was seen. The object hovers 50–100 feet in the air, bathing
-the two officers in a bright light. Spaur’s eyes water up. They rush to
-the cruiser and radio the station; the dispatcher says to wait there
-until a car with a camera arrives. The object makes some sharp
-maneuvers, and Spaur drives toward it cautiously. The UFO is 18–24 feet
-thick and about 35–45 feet in diameter. The object is so bright he
-hardly needs his headlights to drive. It speeds up whenever Spaur
-accelerates, and soon he is driving at 80 mph. As the UFO reaches
-Mahoning County, the pursuit is being broadcast over police radios in
-three counties. As they reach East Palestine, Ohio, Patrolman H.
-Wayne Huston sees
-the UFO and follows Spaur and Neff, at times reaching 100 mph. Just
-before 5:30 a.m., two police officers in Salem, Ohio, see the UFO as a
-“bright ball” much larger than a jet. They also see three jets following
-it, apparently Air Force Reserve planes from Youngstown, Ohio. Police
-officer Frank Panzarella in Conway, Pennsylvania, sees the UFO, very
-bright and in the “shape of a half of a football.” He hears on his radio
-that a jet interception is in progress. Now in Pennsylvania, Spaur and
-Neff are given orders to abandon the chase. For most of the event, the
-object has remained at 1,000 feet, but now it rises to 3,500 feet and
-hovers. Then it shoots even higher and disappears. In 30 minutes, many
-police and civilians have seen the UFO. Panzarella alerts the Rochester,
-Pennsylvania, police operator, John Beighey, and asks him to contact the
-Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. Beighey calls Panzarella and
-says the Air Force wants to talk to the police witnesses. Spaur, Neff,
-and Huston go to the Rochester, Pennsylvania, police station and Spaur
-phones the USAF station at Pittsburgh. Spaur speaks to some colonel who
-tries to convince him he has seen something conventional. NICAP’s
-William B. Weitzel, a philosophy professor, begins his own
-investigation, tracking down witnesses. Within a few weeks, he or his
-NICAP associates have interviewed all the police officers, as well as
-several others who have figured in the UFO chase, either as dispatchers
-or as those who overheard the radio communications. NICAP members also
-interview some civilians who claim to have seen a UFO at the same time
-of the chase and/or had monitored police scanners. (NICAP, “Portage
-County UFO Chase”; Sparks,
-p. 314; “Saucer
-Chase Sets
-Probers Humming,” Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal, April 18, pp. 1–2; J.
-Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 113–124;
-Patrick Gross, “1966
-Portage County UFO Chase by Policemen”; William B. Weitzel, “The
-P-13 UFO: Summary Report on April 17, 1966, UFO ‘Chase’ from Portage
-County, Ohio, into Conway,
-Pennsylvania,” June 28, 1966; William B. Weitzel, “The
-Portage County Sighting,” April 8, 1967; NICAP, [case
-photos and drawings]; Michael D. Swords, [case
-files and clippings]; Center for UFO Studies, [Gerald
-Buchert photo case file]; Center for UFO Studies, [clippings, part
-one, part
-two]; Clark III 906–914)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4010
Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: A person in a car saw an oval object the size of a car
-follow his vehicle, then cross the road behind it at 5 m altitude. The
-object reflected sunlight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Millersville, Texas
-ID: 758
Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: Ravenna, OH, to Conway, Penn.: Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur
-and Wilbur Neff of Portage Countywere on patrol when an UFO stopped
-above them, illuminating them and the surroundings (it was just about
-dawn). As the UFO moved away from them at about 300–500 ft. above the
-road, it would alternately start and stop ahead of them playing cat and
-mouse. At E. Palestine, OH, officer Wayne Huston joined in the pursuit.
-At speeds of 100 mph in unfamiliar territory, they were soon low on gas
-and had to give up the game with the UFO. Through local police dispatch
-the officers alerted the Air Force, who sent out fighter planes to
-investigate the UFO. As the officers saw the AF planes approaching the
-UFO shot straight up and out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p259)
-Location: Ravenna, OH
-See also: 6/24/66
Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: Sheriffs confronted by glowing object, light beam
-illuminated road, humming sound. Chased UFO across state line, other
-police witnesses en route. Object shot straight up out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ravenna, OH
-ID: 85
Date: 4/18/1966
-Time: 2210
-Description: An egg-shaped object, 25 m long, 5 m high, gray-colored,
-was observed from a distance of 25 m by a 42-year-old witness driving a
-car. The object supported a cockpit with windows and three rows of
-lights, emitted red flames, and made the same noise as a heavy truck on
-wet pavement. The object followed the car for some time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
-ID: 759
Date: 4/18/1966
-Description: The Air Force begins a cursory investigation into the
-Portage County, Ohio, police chase case. Initially they telephone local
-news outlets, seeking information. However, local newspapers and radio
-have only vague outlines of the case. Air Force investigators also
-interviewed meteorologists and weather agency personnel, hoping to learn
-that a weather balloon was launched in the area during the UFO chase.
-They learn that there were no weather balloons launched that morning,
-and also that the wind had been so mild that the police would have had
-no difficulty catching up with any wind-borne object. Quintanilla calls
-Spaur to
-ask him about “this mirage you saw.” Spaur insists he has seen a clearly
-defined metallic object maneuvering at very low altitudes. When
-Quintanilla asks if they watched the object for more than a few minutes,
-Spaur asserts that he and Neff chased it for over half an hour, and that
-Huston saw
-the object for much of that period, and that Panzanella too had seen it.
-Quintanilla then, as Spaur said, “kind of lost interest.” (Clark III
-910)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4011
Date: 4/18/1966
-Description: An egg-shaped object, 80 feet in diameter and 15 feet high,
-is observed from a distance of 80 feet by a 42- year-old witness driving
-a car near Battle Creek, Michigan. The object supports a cockpit with
-windows and three rows of lights, emits red flames, and makes the same
-noise as a heavy truck on wet pavement. The object follows the car for
-some time. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 329;
-Sparks, p. 314)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4012
Date: 4/19/1966
-Description: 10:45 p.m. In Peabody, Massachusetts, witnesses report an
-oval object with red, green, and white body lights, oscillating up and
-down when in motion. The object appears to land in a field off State
-Highway 114. At 12:00 midnight, two men driving along that route see the
-lighted disc rise and fly away. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4013
Date: 4/19/1966
-Time: 2245
-Description: A man saw what he thought was a crashing plane, then
-observed it was oval, had white, red, and green lights, flew low over
-him, circled, came down with pendulum motion, and appeared to land on
-Route 114. At midnight, two men driving along that route saw a beam
-sweep the road, stopped, and saw the object in a field. It was a disk
-with a white, a green, and three red lights. The two reports were
-independent.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Peabody, Massachusetts
-ID: 761
Date: 4/19/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: Two women saw a cigar-shaped object, with bright, red
-lights at both ends, flying erratically. It made a whistling sound when
-moving, was silent when hovering. Minimum distance: 100 m, length, 20 m.
-The lights began flashing and the object went down behind some trees
-when five planes and a helicopter came over the area. Two of the
-aircraft circled the location, then flew on. The whistling sound was
-again heard, but the object was not seen after the departure of the
-planes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bellingham, Massachusetts
-ID: 760
Date: late 4/1966
-Description: When he learns that Rep. J.
-William Stanton (R-Ohio) has expressed an interest in the UFO chase,
-NICAP investigator William B. Weitzel writes him a detailed letter,
-outlining the inconsistencies and shortcomings of Quintanilla’s
-explanations. Portage County (Ohio) Judge Robert
-Eugene Cook (an acquaintance of Spaur and
-Neff) also writes to Stanton, defending the police officers’ judgment
-and characterizing the Air Force investigation as “grossly unfair” to
-Spaur and Neff. Stanton fails to get an answer from the Air Force, so he
-contacts USAF Chief of Community Relations Division Lt. Col. John
-Spalding, who
-promises to send an investigator. Stanton later writes to Defense
-Secretary Robert
-McNamara about Blue Book’s treatment of his constituents. (Clark III
-911)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4021
Date: 4/21/1966
-Description: Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) issued news release announcing
-that USAF was arranging for a “study of UFOs by topflight scientists not
-connected in any way with the Air Force.”
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 87
Date: 4/21/1966
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 86
Date: 4/21/1966
-Description: William
-Dean Howe, MP
-for Ottawa, Ontario, urges a serious investigation of UFOs in the
-Canadian House of Commons. (“Canadian
-Projects,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 10 (Feb./March 1969): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4014
Date: 4/22/1966
-Time: 1530
-Description: Several people were said to have observed an object fly at
-low altitude and land outside Bagley. Four dwarfs seemed to make
-repairs, then the craft flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Mar., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Bagley, Minnesota
-ID: 762
Date: 4/22/1966
-Description: Quintanilla announces
-in a press release that the Portage County, Ohio, UFO is an Echo
-satellite, with later observations (in Pennsylvania) of Venus.
-Quintanilla calls Spaur’s
-superior, Portage County Sheriff Ross Dustman, to
-give him this explanation, and Dustman laughs out loud. (Clark III
-910)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4015
Date: 4/22/1966
-Description: Lt. Col. Robert
-R. Hippler of the USAF Directorate of Science and Technology is
-tasked with recruiting a university for the UFO project suggested by the
-O’Brien committee in February. He assembles a panel of experts that
-suggests he bring in H.
-Guyford Stever, head of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
-Stever queries MIT, Harvard, the University of California, Northwestern
-University, and the University of North Carolina, but all refuse to deal
-with UFOs. (Swords 307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4016
Date: 4/22/1966
-Description: 9:00–9:45 p.m. Witnesses in Beverly, Massachusetts,
-including two police officers, see a platter-shaped object the size of a
-large automobile with 3 red-green-white lights hover silently over
-Beverly High School then depart to the southwest. At one point,
-witnesses see the object only 20–30 feet above the head of another
-witness. (Condon, pp. 266–270;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 106–108;
-Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence,
-University of North Texas, 1995; Sparks,
-p. 314; Patrick Gross, “The
-Case in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, on April 22, 1966”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4017
Date: 4/22/1966
-Time: 2100
-Description: A child saw a blinding, multicolored source of light making
-a buzzing sound as it flew over the road 15 m away from the house. It
-seemed to land in a field near the school. Three adults came out to calm
-the child and also saw the object circling and hovering. They called the
-police. Two officers arrived and saw the object appearing to “dance”
-with two other craft. All witnesses then observed the arrival of one
-helicopter and two aircraft, as the remaining object flew away to the
-southwest. Police described the object as plate-shaped when stationary
-above the school building. TV reception was blurred throughout the
-observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
-ID: 763
Date: 4/23/1966
-Description: 10:45 p.m. On hearing a listener call in a live UFO
-sighting on WMEX radio, Jeanne Kalnicki of Dorchester, Massachusetts,
-goes to the window with her two daughters and sees an oval, domed UFO
-with a ring of blinking red lights bobbing up and down above a building
-across the street. A yellow light is on top of the dome and alternately
-flashes on when the red lights blink off. It moves across the street and
-appears to be moving directly toward them at eye level. Humming, the
-object moves between their apartment building and the one next door,
-where it hovers for a few minutes. When the yellow light goes off,
-Kalnicki can see a glow within the dome. The object then moves
-erratically away to the east. The family goes to bed, but at 5:00 a.m.,
-11-year-old Judy Kalnicki is too upset to sleep, She wakes up when she
-sees a light coming in her window and realizes that the UFO is right
-outside, bobbing up and down, looking about the size of their 1955
-Lincoln automobile, and flashing its lights as before. Thinking it is
-going to come inside her bedroom, Judy screams. Seemingly in response,
-the object speeds up its bobbing motion, and she hears a heavy thudding
-sound. The windows rattle, Judy’s bed rocks, and all the lights in the
-house go off. Downstairs, their German shepherd is whining and
-scratching at the door. The entire family rushes to the back porch,
-where they watch the object for about 12 minutes moving to the north
-toward Boston. The lights come back on. NICAP’s investigation shows that
-the power failure affected 2,500 homes in the area and was caused by two
-cables burning out a block away from the Kalnicki apartment. One
-particle on the window sill registered a strong radiation reading of
-.025 millimentgens per hour from a Geiger counter. (Donald E. Keyhoe and
-Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 46–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4018
Date: 4/24/1966
-Time: 0330
-Description: Tom M. Lasseter, architect, was camping near the river when
-he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disk,
-7 m in diameter, at treetop level 60 m away. It had a row of
-lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Pedernales River, Texas
-ID: 764
Date: 4/24/1966
-Time: 1810
-Description: Two men saw an object dive within 30 m of their car. It was
-silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was
-lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Ashby, Massachusetts
-ID: 765
Date: 4/24/1966
-Description: Night. Marvin and
-Viola
-Swartwood are driving in a rainstorm on State Highway 34B near
-Fleming, New York, when a “brilliant, flashing ball of fire” appears
-three feet above the front and slightly to the right of their car. The
-fire ball lights up the surrounding area, falls onto the car with a loud
-snap, and vanishes. As the ball lightning hits, Viola feels a shock in
-her neck and an impulse in her right arm. They drive to the sheriff’s
-office and then to a local hospital because the right side of Viola’s
-body is partially paralyzed. She is in satisfactory condition 5 days
-later. There is no damage to the car or any reports of normal lightning
-in the area. (“‘Ball
-of Fire’ Hits
-Car; Woman Passenger Hurt,” Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard, April 28,
-1966, p. 38; “Ball-of-Fire
-Victim’s Condition
-Improving,” Binghamton (N.Y.) Press and Sun-Bulletin, April 29,
-1966, p. 3C; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR
-27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4019
Date: 4/25/1966
-Description: 8:52 p.m. Florida Gov. W.
-Haydon Burns’s campaign airplane is paced by a UFO. Copilot Herb
-Bates first notices the UFO when the Convair takes off from Orlando,
-Florida, headed for Tallahassee. It appears as two bright yellow globes
-side by side. In the vicinity of Ocala, at about 6,000 feet, everyone on
-board is alerted and watches the object pacing the plane on the right
-side. The lights fluctuate in brightness but are very distinct. Burns
-orders the pilot to turn toward the UFO, and the lights quickly begin a
-steep climb then disappear. (Bill Mansfield, “I
-Was with Burns and Saw ‘Flying Saucer,’” Miami (Fla.) Herald, April
-27, 1966, p. 1; “Florida
-Governor Sights
-UFO,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 3; “Governor
-Haydon Burns Sees a UFO,” Educating Humanity, April 26, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4020
Date: 4/26/1966
-Time: 2330
-Description: A young man saw a silent object shaped like two bowls glued
-together, 30 m altitude, ahead of his car. Estimated diameter: 10 m. He
-drove away without looking behind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Follansbee, West Virginia
-ID: 766
Date: 4/30/1966
-Time: 3:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Anita Miller. One light moved around the sky for
-2.5 hours. No further detail in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sacramento, California
-ID: 541
Date: 5/4/1966
-Description: 4:30 a.m. An FAA air traffic controller tracks an
-unidentified non-transponding target for about 5 miles at Charleston,
-West Virginia. The crew of Braniff Airline Flight 42, headed east at
-33,000 feet, sees a white-blue object giving off brilliant, flaming
-light of alternating white-green-red colors. The radar shows the object
-veering 8–10 miles away at the 10 o’clock position, then approaching the
-Braniff airliner to a distance of 3 miles. It then makes a 180° left
-turn to the northwest within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph, which
-the Braniff crew confirms as the object descends from 20° above the
-horizon. (NICAP, “Charleston
-R/V Case”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974,
-pp. 83–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4022
Date: 5/7/1966
-Time: 9:55 PM
-Description: Witness: A/3c W.L. Whitehead. One short, cylindrical object
-with pointed ends and a yellow light at one end and blue light at the
-other, flew straight and level for 35 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goodfellow AFB, Texas
-ID: 542
Date: 5/8/1966
-Description: Gallup Poll reported 96 percent public awareness of UFOs,
-and that nearly half of the adult population believed UFOs were
-real.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 88
Date: 5/8/1966
-Description: Quintanilla calls
-Spaur again
-and tells him to be ready for an interview the next day.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4024
Date: 5/8/1966
-Description: A Gallup Poll taken April 14–19 reveals that 46% of
-Americans who have heard about UFOs think they are real, although only
-7% think they are from outer space. 5% of US adults have seen a UFO.
-(“Five
-Million Say They’ve
-Seen Saucers,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 7; Robert
-J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1993): 11–12; Lydia Saad, “Eyewitnesses
-to Flying Saucers,” Gallup Vault, April 12, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4023
Date: 5/9/1966
-Description: Weitzel is at Portage County police headquarters in
-Ravenna, Ohio, to record Spaur’s
-interview and has brought two reporters and UFO researcher David Webb.
-Dustman is
-there too. Quintanilla asks
-Weitzel and Webb to leave, and the reporters leave as well. The
-interview becomes heated at times. (“Interview with Deputy Sheriff Dale
-Spaur, 1966,” SpaceTimeForum YouTube channel, March 28, 2013; Clark III
-911–912)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4025
Date: 5/10/1966
-Time: 1652
-Description: A man observed the landing of an oval object and two
-beings, who ame out of the object through a system of light beams. They
-used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially
-plants. They were 2 m tall, had oversized heads, appeared bright and
-“transparent.” Their eyes were slanted, their shoulders very broad. They
-wore no apparent weapon, but their belts were very wide and emitted
-light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it
-with these beams. They went back aboard their craft “as if carried by
-the light.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Marisela Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 767
Date: 5/10/1966
-Description: CBS Reports “Flying Saucers: Friend, Foe or Fantasy?”
-presented extremely negative Air Force and “scientific” views, primarily
-those of Dr. Donald Menzel and Dr. Carl Sagan, both skeptics.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 89
Date: 5/10/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: Approximate date. The crowd at a movie projection panicked,
-thinking it was an earthquake, as an unknown object exploded. According
-to police, a sulphurous odor and a trace 25 cm deep, 35 cm wide, were
-noted at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Atafona Campos, Brazil
-ID: 768
Date: 5/10/1966
-Description: The documentary “UFOs: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy?” appears on
-CBS Reports, hosted by Walter
-Cronkite and narrator Bill
-Stout. Guests
-include Carl
-Sagan, Donald
-Menzel, Harold
-Brown, Lawrence
-Tacker, Donald Keyhoe, and
-J.
-Allen Hynek. The
-tenor of the show is to debunk UFOs, although Cronkite says the CIA has
-been secretly tracking UFO sightings around the world, even as it denies
-doing so. Air Force Capt. Gary Reese claims that NORAD’s
-satellite-tracking radar covers altitudes from 100,000 feet to 2,000
-miles up but never finds any UFOs. He neglects to mention that UFOs are
-found in the atmosphere below 100,000 feet. (Even so, NORAD has been
-detecting occasional Unidentified Satellites, USATs, for years.) Reese
-makes a broad statement that the Air Force has never substantiated a
-“flying saucer” despite NORAD’s covering “nearly every square foot of
-the US” on its radar. USAF Maj. Albert Morse of NORAD spacetrack network
-supports Reese. A handwritten letter by Robertson Panel member Thornton
-Page, discovered in the Smithsonian’s archives by Michael
-Swords, confirms the CIA’s long-suspected role in the CBS program.
-In the September 10, 1966, letter, Page relates to Frederick
-C. Durant that
-he “helped organize the CBS TV show around the Robertson Panel’s
-conclusions.” Quintanilla has
-spent 3 days editing and censoring the TV program’s script to make sure
-it conforms to USAF public relations policy. (“UFOs:
-Friend, Foe or Fantasy? 1966” nutsandbolts ufo YouTube channel,
-February 15, 2013; “Columnists
-Hit NBC Documentary,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 8;
-Clark III 808; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 206–207;
-Terry Hanson, “Close
-Encounters of the Nuclear Kind,” Online Journal, March 31, 2009;
-Swords 195–196, 308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4026
Date: 5/16/1966
-Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near
-Cordoba when he saw a disk-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings
-resembling “green birds” came out for a few instants, then took off
-again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Cordoba, Spain
-ID: 769
Date: 5/17/1966
-Description: Weitzel writes to Quintanilla with
-another critique of the Blue Book explanation. Even Hynek urges
-FTD to change the designation to “unknown.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4027
Date: 5/21/1966
-Description: Experienced pilot in light plane encountered disc with dome
-that made sharp turn, passed beneath his wing
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Willow Grove, PA
-ID: 90
Date: 5/21/1966
-Description: 3: 15 p.m. William C. Powell is flying a light Luscombe
-aircraft over Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with one passenger, Muriel
-McCrave. He spots a bright-red circular disc with a dome on top as it is
-apparently following an outbound flight of Navy jets from NAS Willow
-Grove [now NAS Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove] at 4,500 feet. The
-object makes a sharp turn without banking and approaches his plane on a
-near-collision course, passing below the starboard wing about 300 feet
-away and disappearing to the rear. They both get a good look at the
-object, which has no wings or visible means of propulsion. (NICAP, “Domed
-Disc Observed by Pilot and Passenger
-(Powell Case)”; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4028
Date: 5/22/1966
-Description: A witness driving between Blue River, British Columbia, and
-Jasper, Alberta, sees a gray object the size of a car and shaped like a
-bowl land on the road and make a whining noise. After it silently takes
-off, the object leaves three impressions of landing pads about 4 feet
-square. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Nihgt,
-2022, p. 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4029
Date: 6/1966
-Description: Broadcaster Frank
-Edwards publishes Flying Saucers—Serious Business, and it becomes
-one of the best-selling UFO books of all time. (Frank Edwards, Flying
-Saucers—Serious Business, Bantam, 1966; Clark III 435; Nick Redfern,
-“Spying
-on the Saucer Writers,” Mysterious Universe, February 20,
-2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4030
Date: 6/1966
-Description: 3:15 a.m. Edward Argerake is asleep at his home in
-Chelmsford, Massachusetts, when his bedroom explodes in light. He hears
-a pinging noise a light source begins pulsing with diffraction rings
-outside his window shades. He begins to feel numb and weak, but the
-sounds grows louder and he lapses into unconsciousness. He wakes up at
-6:15 a.m. and the light and noise are gone. Because of this event he
-becomes interested in UFOs and joins NICAP’s Massachusetts subcommittee.
-(Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007):
-10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4031
Date: 6/1/1966
-Description: 10:30 p.m. On Lake Ontario, off Clarkson, Ontario, former
-RCAF pilot Richard H. Plewman and Jack Grant are cruising on the lake
-when they see lights on the water ahead. They can see a disc with a dome
-on top casting an oval reflection on the lake surface. Around the dome
-is a row of bright yellow lights; blue-green lights are visible around
-the lower perimeter. After hovering briefly, the UFO takes off at high
-speed and disappears. (“New Reports
-by Space Experts Add to UFO Proof,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 9
-(Aug./Sept. 1966): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4032
Date: 6/2/1966
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Harold Harper is talking with neighbors in his
-front yard in Massillon, Ohio, when they see a large lighted object
-coming from the southwest. It is about 50–60 feet in diameter, smoky in
-color, and cigar-shaped with a ball on one end. It stops and hovers at
-about 1,000 feet altitude. Then three smaller objects appear to come
-from it; they gain altitude, separate, and disappear at terrific speed
-in different directions. The large object goes straight up at terrific
-speed. (Massillon (Ohio) Evening Independent, June 3, 1966; Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
-2004): 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4033
Date: 6/3/1966
-Time: 2145
-Description: Two witnesses observed a stationary object 3 m above
-ground. It had a diameter of 7 m, lights on top and bottom and smaller
-lights at the rim. It flew away very fast to the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: West Point City, Pennsylvania
-ID: 770
Date: 6/6/1966
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Dorothy Gray. Two domed discs with sparkling upper
-surfaces and square windows in their tops, revolved above a lake,
-apparently causing strange behavior of the lake water during the 25
-second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spooner, Wisconsin
-ID: 543
Date: 6/6/1966
-Description: James
-McDonald has obtained a small amount of money from the Office of
-Naval Research to travel to Wright- Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, and
-examine the Blue Book files. On his first visit, he is steered to an
-unedited copy of the Robertson Panel report. As it has not been
-released, McDonald is disturbed, seeing it as evidence that the CIA is
-directing a cover-up. (Clark III 1017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4034
Date: 6/6/1966
-End date: 6/10/1966
-Description: The US Army releases Bacillus globigii into the tunnels of
-the New York City Subway system during peak travel hours as part of a
-field experiment on the vulnerability of subway passengers in New York
-City to covert attack with biological agents. (“How
-the U.S. Government Exposed Thousands of Americans to Lethal
-Bacteria to
-Test Biological Warfare,” Democracy Now!, July 13, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4035
Date: 6/8/1966
-Time: 6:45 AM
-Description: Witness: Max Baker. One bright silver, cigar-shaped object,
-as long as an airliner, buzzed the witness’ car. Sighting lasted 1
-minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kansas, Ohio
-ID: 544
Date: 6/8/1966
-Time: 0645
-Description: A civilian man, 43, driving west between Kansas and Toledo,
-saw an object appear out of nowhere. It was cigar-shaped, bright
-metallic, and flew low to the northeast. Minimum distance: 30 m. The
-object was completely silent, and the size of an airliner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sandusky Road, Ohio
-ID: 771
Date: 6/8/1966
-Description: McDonald visits
-Hynek at
-the Lindheimer Astrophysical Research Center in Evanston, Illinois,
-saying heatedly that he should have spoken up about the CIA cover-up and
-all the absurd explanations that he made up: “Allen, how could you have
-sat on this data for 18 years and not let us know about it?” Hynek’s
-then-associate Jacques Vallée has
-to intervene. Hynek replies that if he did, the Air Force would just
-replace him and he would lose access to all the files. McDonald says
-Hynek should have spoken up in 1953 and cannot get Hynek to agree that
-he is even a little bit timid. (O’Connell 201; Clark III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4036
Date: 6/8/1966
-Description: X-15 pilot Joseph
-A. Walker is killed when his F-104 Starfighter chase aircraft
-collides with a North American XB-70 Valkyrie. At an altitude of about
-25,000 feet, Walker’s Starfighter is one of five aircraft in a tight
-group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104
-drifts into contact with the XB-70’s right wingtip. The F-104 flips
-over, and, rolling inverted, passes over the top of the XB-70, striking
-both its vertical stabilizers and its left wing in the process, and
-explodes, killing Walker. The Valkyrie enters an uncontrollable spin and
-crashes into the ground north of Barstow, California, killing copilot Carl
-S. Cross. Its pilot, Alvin
-S. White, ejects
-and is the sole survivor. (Wikipedia, “Joseph
-A. Walker”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4037
Date: 6/11/1966
-Time: 0345
-Description: A civilian who was going fishing saw an object dive toward
-his car and hover at treetop level, stopped and observed it for two min.
-It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller, oval
-object on top. It took a 45 (degree) inclination, rose, made a
-right-angle turn, and changed color (white to yellow to blue to green)
-as it accelerated.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
-Location: Westport, Connecticut
-ID: 772
Date: 6/11/1966
-Description: Early morning. Several witnesses driving from Dabajuro to
-Coro, Falcón State, Venezuela, stop to watch a triangular object that
-stops and hovers in midair for short intervals. The object gives off a
-beam of light in various directions. (“The
-South American Scene,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1966, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4038
Date: 6/13/1966
-Description: The policeman who had observed an object over Milan on
-Mar. 17 saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street
-intersection. He drove toward it with his headlights illuminating the
-object, which took off like an airplane, flying away to the southeast.
-Investigation by Selfridge AFB.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Michigan
-ID: 773
Date: mid 6/1966
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Student pilot Joseph
-Gambucci is flying near Hibbing, Minnesota, when he sees a bright,
-elliptical light making three 360° turns to the left at approximately
-3,000 mph. The light is white, mixed with green and red. It climbs to
-40° above the horizon then disappears at a height of 31,000 feet.
-Gambucci checks with Duluth Air National Guard Base, which reports
-having a UFO on radar at the same position as his aircraft. Other radar
-units in northern Minnesota and southern Canada are said to track the
-object. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4039
Date: 6/16/1966
-Description: Dusk. Several witnesses in Uniopolis, Ohio, watch a domed
-black disc with lights and a powerful light beam shining from its
-bottom. One of the observers is alerted by his dog barking persistently
-and looking to the south. The object flies directly over the house,
-heading north, and is also seen by his wife, a neighbor, and the
-neighbor’s children. The light beam shines into a nearby wood, lighting
-up the trees. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4
-(Winter 2001–2002): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4040
Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 12:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: members of a Boy Scout group, including
-Sterrett. One bell-shaped object with three flashing red lights hovered
-for 5 hours and was then joined by six others.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Burnsville, North Carolina
-ID: 545
Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 0400
-Description: A truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disk-shaped object over
-Le Rouret. It remained motionless for five min, then disappeared. Its
-lights were alternately red and bluish-green.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84; 163 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Rouret, France
-ID: 775
Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 0345
-Description: The Mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, Leon Barbier, saw a large, round
-object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
-Location: Bar-sur-Loup, France
-ID: 774
Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Four campers saw an object with three flashing red lights
-land on the ground 200 m away. It remained there all night, rose at
-dawn, was then observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped
-craft. Broken trees and other traces were found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina
-ID: 776
Date: 6/19/1966
-Description: Brilliantly lighted object illuminated terrain at Army
-base, widespread E-M effects on vehicles and machinery. Object shot
-straight up out of sight within seconds
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
-ID: 91
Date: 6/19/1966
-Description: 12:05 a.m. A group of Boy Scouts camping out at Mount
-Mitchell State Park, North Carolina, sees three red pulsating lights in
-a triangular pattern approach, then hover until about 5:00 a.m. The
-lights blink at different speeds, with the center one turning white
-every fifth pulsation. At sunrise, the object lifts up, appearing red
-and bell-shaped through binoculars. Six smaller objects are hovering
-nearby on either side of the larger object, changing formation. The
-group then disappears behind a mountain. When the Scouts start to
-explore in the direction of the objects, about 60 feet from their camp
-they discover trees with broken branches and some crushed undergrowth,
-plus three holes in the ground forming an equilateral triangle. (Fred
-Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28,
-no. 3 (Fall 2003): 10; Sparks,
-p. 315)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4041
Date: Summer 1966
-Description: Nha Trang, Vietnam: At this active Army Base at about 9:45
-p.m., what was thought to be a flare lit up the north sky. The bright
-UFO approached the base alternately moving at low to high speeds. Upon
-descending toward the soldiers it hovered at an altitude of 300–500 ft.
-All of a sudden the 6 generators failed along with the engines of the
-idling Skyraiders, bulldozers and trucks. The entire valley and
-surrounding mountains were illuminated by the hovering UFO for about 4
-min. after which it went straight up and disappeared in about 3
-sec. After the incident a plane load of officials from Washington
-arrived to investigate.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
-See also: 3/4/69
Date: Summer 1966
-Description: Results of an Iowa Poll, Iowa: 45% Iowans queried believe
-UFOs to be real objects. Of the 45%, 21% were of the opinion that the
-UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin.
-Type: poll
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Iowa
Date: 6/23/1966
-Time: 2130
-Description: A 61-year-old civilian woman was reading when an intense
-red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and
-saw a lighted object 20 m away 1 m in diameter, which backed up and flew
-away “like a bullet.” Three other persons saw it from the next house.
-(Atic) <*>
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: (Vallee)
-Location: Hamburg, New York
-ID: 777
Date: 6/23/1966
-Description: 3:42 a.m. NASA contract flight engineer Julian Sandoval and
-two independent witnesses see a glowing elongated object with a blunt
-end. It has a series of four body lights varying from brilliant green to
-a bluish tinge, and is hovering at an estimated 12,000 feet near
-Placitas, New Mexico. When the object moves its glow brightens, and it
-appears to be a powered craft. The witnesses watch the object for an
-hour and a half, after which it climbs vertically, accelerates to a high
-velocity, and disappears to the northeast in about 12 seconds. In a
-report to NICAP, Sandoval estimates the departure speed at “Mach 6 or
-better.” (“New
-Reports by Space Experts Add to UFO
-Proof,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 9 (Aug./Sept. 1966): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4042
Date: 6/24/1966
-Description: Elliptical object with body lights, surrounded by mist or
-vapor, observed by police officer, led him on cat-and-mouse chase.
-Object accelerated and sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Richmond, VA
-ID: 92
Date: 6/24/1966
-Description: Officer William L. Stevens, Jr., observed a
-dirigible-shaped UFO at 3:30 in the morning near the fairgrounds. It was
-about 100 ft. long and 30 ft. thick with greenish-yellow lights on its
-perimeter. Stevens attempted to chase the UFO but it maintained an even
-distance from him even though he sped up and slowed down. “The object
-seemed to be playing cat & mouse with me,” he later said. After
-10–15 min. the UFO accelerated and sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Richmond, VA
-See also: 4/17/66
Date: 6/25/1966
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Several objects violate the air space over the
-Ellsworth AFB H-01 missile launch facility southwest of Union Center,
-South Dakota, setting off the vibration sensors. Helicopters attempt to
-chase the objects, but they fly away quickly to the north-northeast.
-Other sightings take place over the next week. (National UFO Reporting
-Center, [case
-report]; Nukes 241–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4043
Date: 6/27/1966
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witness: Radio Officer Steffen Soresen, of the S/ Mt.
-Vernon Victory. One “cloud” expanded with a light inside, and then
-accelerated away after several minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: 400 miles east of Wake Island (19’ N, 172’ E)
-ID: 546
Date: 6/30/1966
-Description: Richard
-Helms becomes director of central intelligence. He is the first DCI
-since Dulles to
-push hard for results in the mind-control field. Operation MKSearch goes
-into overdrive. Old projects are resurrected, abandoned projects
-reactivated. The safe houses are told to expect a steady supply of Viet
-Cong expendables to experiment on. One of the projects to be revived is
-the less than successful Operation Mindbender. Renamed Operation
-Spellbinder, the assignment is to create a sleeper killer, a real-life
-Manchurian Candidate. A hypnotist is recruited from the American Society
-of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He becomes known to the CIA staff
-as “Dr. Fingers” and is selected because his file states that he has no
-qualms about conducting potentially terminal experiments. The intended
-victim of the experiment is Fidel
-Castro. After
-attempts to program several would-be assassins, the operation is
-discontinued and written off as a complete failure. (Sid Taylor, “A
-History of Secret
-CIA Mind Control Research,” Nexus, April/May 1992; “Project
-Spellbinder,” in Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger, Conspiracies and
-Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier, 2nd ed., Visible Ink,
-2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4045
Date: 6/30/1966
-Description: On James
-E. McDonald’s second visit to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio,
-his request for a photocopy of the Robertson Panel report is denied.
-(Clark III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4044
Date: 7/1966
-Description: 11:00 a.m. An Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain is flying 25
-miles southwest of Provo, Utah, when the pilot snaps two color-slide
-photos of a reddish disc-shaped object that briefly comes into view
-before speeding away. The Condon commission declines to examine the
-photos in detail, noting some discrepancies. (Condon, pp. 270–273;
-Patrick Gross, “UFOs
-Photographed”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4046
Date: 7/4/1966
-Description: The Freedom of Information Act, requiring the full or
-partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents
-controlled by the US government, is signed into law by President Lyndon
-B. Johnson. (Wikipedia, “Freedom
-of Information Act (United States)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4047
Date: 7/5/1966
-Description: Several persons reported seeing a very small creature
-leaving a luminous trail, quietly walking along the streets, while
-children and adults panicked.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 164 (Vallee)
-Location: Chaclacayo, Peru
-ID: 778
Date: 7/7/1966
-Description: In a Blue Book briefing, Brig. Gen. William
-C. Garland, deputy
-chief of USAF Public Information at the Pentagon, again denies that
-NORAD radars have picked up any “spaceships,” interplanetary
-“interlopers,” or “extraterrestrial vehicles.” (Clark III 808)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4048
Date: 7/9/1966
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Kenneth
-Arnold takes a 16mm film of a UFO over Idaho Falls, Idaho. The
-object looks like a weather balloon, but it is flying at a speed of
-45–75 mph into a north-northwest wind. (Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4049
Date: 7/11/1966
-Time: 7:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Carl Wood and Charles Hawthorne. One large (100’
-wide, 20’ high) bright red object with small windows and yellow lights.
-The object emitted a humming noise, seemingly from the outside, and a
-qrinding noise which seemed to come from inside. Observed for 1
-hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Union, Pennsylvania
-ID: 547
Date: 7/11/1966
-Description: Two civilian women saw a red, luminous object 30 m away in
-a field. It had small openings and made a whirring sound. Length, 30 m;
-height, 6 m; duration, 90 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Union-Kirkwood, Pennsylvania
-ID: 779
Date: 7/13/1966
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Railway linesman Camillo Faieta is on duty at the
-crossing in Fornacette, Pisa, Italy, when he is dazzled by a powerful
-light coming from the Emissario Canal. The light goes out and he sees an
-object hovering above a small islet in the canal. Two little men emerge,
-but the bright light comes on again and the object takes off. Police
-turn up other witnesses, but Italian and US air force officers from the
-nearby Camp Darby military complex tell Faieta not to speak about the
-incident any further. (1Pinotti 147–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4050
Date: 7/13/1966
-Description: Camillo Faieta, 35, a lineman, was on duty when a light
-dazzled him, and he observed that it came from an object on a small
-island on the Emissario Canal. Two little men were seen briefly on the
-ground before the departure of the object. There are four other
-witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 86; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Pontedera, Italy
-ID: 780
Date: 7/17/1966
-Time: 0345
-Description: Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan
-when they saw a gray oval, metallic object, about 5 m long, hovering at
-low altitude, about 300 m from them. They noticed several window-like
-openings on the craft, which emitted a light beam. All the dogs in the
-vicinity were barking.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Rebouillon, France
-ID: 781
Date: 7/18/1966
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Service station personnel in Baytown, Texas, see
-a white object shaped like two saucers face-to-face with a row of square
-windows in between. The object is hovering above a store about 300 feet
-away, then it begins moving, rapidly accelerates, and speeds away.
-(James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,”
-in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House
-Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29,
-1968, pp. 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4051
Date: 7/19/1966
-Description: MP John
-Langford-Holt asks UK Prime Minister Harold
-Wilson in the House of Commons whether, since the Defence Secretary
-is responsible only for air defense implications of UFOs, he would
-allocate the assessment of their wider implications to another
-department. Wilson says he will not, but that reports are taken
-seriously when there is adequate information. (Good Above, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4052
Date: 7/20/1966
-Description: James
-E. McDonald’s third visit to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. He is
-again denied a copy of the Robertson Panel report because it has been
-“reclassified.” He is convinced that USAF has done a lousy job of
-investigating UFOs and that UFOs are actually good evidence for the ETH.
-(Clark III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4053
Date: late 7/1966
-Description: Col. J.
-Thomas Ratchford, an AFOSR scientist, approaches the National Center
-for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, about contracting with
-the Air Force for a UFO study. Its director, Walter
-Orr Roberts is interested, but William
-W. Kellogg, associate
-director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, is not. Roberts
-suggests the University of Colorado. Ratchford talks to prominent
-University of Colorado physicist Edward
-U. Condon, who
-hesitates but finds the $300,000 offered by the Air Force (plus $13,000
-in operating expenses) attractive. (Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4056
Date: late 7/1966
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Raquel Jodorowsky is in a traffic jam in Mexico
-City, Mexico, as people are getting out of their cars and looking to the
-sky. A large glowing object is hanging at 45° above the horizon to the
-east. The object ejects smaller bright objects that fly away. After 30
-minutes the large object dims, becomes smaller, and disappears.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4057
Date: 7/22/1966
-Description: 9:00 p.m. W. J. Norton, curator of the Ludlow Museum, and
-his family see a UFO shaped like a silver isosceles triangle to the east
-of Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales. It hovers for 30–40 seconds and
-emits a low hum. (“Llandrindod
-Triangle,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1966):
-32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4054
Date: 7/22/1966
-Description: 11:25 p.m. While driving his son home from the railway
-station in Fremont, Indiana, a realtor and retired WWII Navy officer see
-an illuminated, 25-foot diameter disc with portholes on its lower convex
-surface. The object descends low over the car and hovers above it. They
-have it in view about 5–8 minutes. When two other cars approach, the
-object extinguishes its lights, then shoots straight up into the sky,
-leaving a trail of bluish light. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 108–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4055
Date: 7/25/1966
-Time: 1 AM
-Description: Witness: college student James Clark. One object which
-changed color from orange to red to blue to green and back to orange.
-Followed witness’ car at high speed, then stopped and hovered over the
-car. Rose and flew up and out of sight in less than 5 seconds. Entire
-sighting involved about 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Vanceboro, North Carolina
-ID: 548
Date: 7/25/1966
-Time: 0200
-Description: A man driving between Greenville and Vancehars saw a glow
-in the woods and was followed by the light even at speeds of 170 km/hr.
-He finally stopped to observe it, but became afraid when he saw that it
-came from a pulsating object that flew within 100 m of the car, 15 m
-above ground. The color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to
-green, and the object wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 m, then
-suddenly left straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Vancehars, North Carolina
-ID: 782
Date: 7/26/1966
-Description: Six FAA personnel observed oval UFOs, radar-visual
-sighting. One object accelerated rapidly
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Atlanta, GA
-ID: 93
Date: 7/28/1966
-Time: evening
-Description: A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red,
-lighted object cross the sky and appear to touch the ground. It then
-rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found
-flattened over an area 3 m in diameter, and covered with an oily
-substance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 166; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Montsoreau, France
-ID: 783
Date: 7/29/1966
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek writes to a citizen interested in UFOs and says that he
-thinks the Portage County, Ohio, case should be labeled unidentified and
-has told the Air Force as much. Its evaluation as a satellite or Venus
-has not originated with him as a mere consultant. (Bill Murphy, “The
-Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no.
-2 (July 2010): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4058
Date: 7/30/1966
-Description: The fourth and final launch of a D-21 drone from an M-21
-ends in disaster 150 miles off the coast of California. Unlike the three
-previous launches, this one is performed straight and level, not in an
-outside loop to assist in the separation of the drone from the aircraft.
-The D-21 suffers engine problems and strikes the M-21’s tail after
-separation, leading to the destruction of both aircraft. The two crew
-members eject and land at sea. The pilot, Bill
-Park, survives,
-but the launch control officer, Ray Torrick, drowns. Johnson decides
-to refit the D-21 to launch from a B-52 bomber in order to not endanger
-any more M-21s. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-D-21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4059
Date: 7/31/1966
-Time: 2025
-Description: Young witnesses reported an object flying erratically and
-landing 300 m away. It had the shape of a mushroom and swept the area
-with a light beam. A strange being, 1.80 m tall, was seen. Police
-report.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 167; FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Erie, Preque-Ile Park, Pennsylvania
-ID: 784
Date: 7/31/1966
-Time: 7:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Douglas Tibbetts, 16; Betty Klem, 16; Anita
-Haifley, 22; and Gerald Labelle, 29. Square or hexagonal object with
-edges lit or reflecting light, came tumbling down from right to left.
-Stopped 5-10’ above the beach and settled heavily down; circle of
-spotlights at top were visible when it was on the ground. Sighting
-lasted 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania
-ID: 549
Date: 8/1966
-Alternate date: 9/1966
-Description: Mid-afternoon. Two men are returning home from bowling in
-Norwood, Massachusetts. The Moon is visible in about three-quarter phase
-in the sky. Both glance up and see a group of 6–7 disc-shaped objects
-moving horizontally toward the Moon. When they reach a position just
-below the Moon, they loop around it in an upward, back, and onward
-motion, then continue on their way. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where
-You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4074
Date: 8/1/1966
-Description: Jacques
-Vallée meets, through his friend Aimé
-Michel, with
-physicist Yves
-Rocard and gives him a copy of outstanding Blue Book UFO reports,
-but the contact goes no further. (Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science,
-North Atlantic, 1992, pp. 55, 198, 201–202)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4060
Date: 8/1/1966
-Time: 1945
-Description: Several young witnesses reported seeing an unidentified
-object at low altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 109 (Vallee)
-Location: Rushville, Indiana
-ID: 785
Date: 8/1/1966
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Several children are playing outside in
-Rushville, Indiana, when they see an object hovering above a tree near
-them. Its altitude is about 75 feet. They describe it as round, brighter
-than the moon, silver, and about 4 times larger than the full moon. It
-has a fuzzy edge and rocks slightly as it hovers. One girl, Donna
-Glosser, calls it to the attention of others who are about a half-block
-away. When she does, the object changes to reddish- orange, seems to
-revolve, and moves across a road so fast it seems to jump. It stops
-abruptly over some trees on a hill about one block away. At least one
-adult watches the object for 5 minutes. The same object is apparently
-seen by a group of teens at the Dairy Delight Drive-In about a mile and
-a half away. It becomes brighter after 45 seconds and speeds away. (“Children
-Watch Object in Central Indiana,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1966,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4061
Date: 8/6/1966
-Time: 1400
-Description: A civilian man and his family observed a dark object
-hovering near their isolated house. It had a square “door” emitting a
-yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was
-dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft
-humming sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Texas
-ID: 786
Date: 8/7/1966
-Description: The Washington Star runs an article on UFOs by retired USAF
-Lt. Col. Charles
-Cooke saying that he has analyzed first-hand UFO encounters by Air
-Force pilots that show strong support for the ETH.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4062
Date: 8/9/1966
-Description: Robert
-J. Low, assistant
-dean in the University of Colorado Graduate School, is also interested
-in the UFO project. He consults with several scientists and reports on
-what they tell him in a memo to E. James Archer, dean of the graduate
-school, and Thurston
-E. Manning, university vice president. The memo, which is not sent
-to Condon and
-is intended to show university officials that the project will not
-embarrass them, says: “Our study would be conducted almost exclusively
-by nonbelievers who, although they couldn’t possibly prove a negative
-result, could and probably would add an impressive body of evidence that
-there is no reality to the observations. The trick would be, I think, to
-describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally
-objective study but to the scientific community, would present the image
-of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having
-an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer.” He recommends stressing
-the psychology and sociology of the witnesses rather than physical
-evidence. The memo stays under wraps for a year and a half. (Robert J.
-Low, “Some
-Thoughts on the UFO Project,” memo to E. James Archer and Thurston
-E. Manning, August 9, 1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 239;
-Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4063
Date: 8/9/1966
-Description: Robert J. Low, later coordinator of the Colorado UFO
-project, sent a memo to University of Colorado officials suggesting how
-they could deal with scientific disdain of UFO sightings. “The trick
-would be” to make it “appear a totally objective study”
-Type: memo
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 94
Date: 8/15/1966
-Description: Office of Scientific Intelligence Deputy Director Karl H.
-Weber writes to Col. Gerald E. Jorgensen, chief of the USAF Community
-Relations Division, that “We are most anxious that further publicity not
-be given to the information that the [Robertson] panel was sponsored by
-the CIA.” Weber notes that there is already a sanitized version
-available to the public. (Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s
-Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no.
-5 (1997): 67–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4064
Date: mid 8/1966
-Description: Rep. J.
-Edward Hutchinson (R-Mich.) introduces HR 866 for an investigation
-into Project Blue Book’s methods.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4065
Date: 8/16/1966
-Description: The chief of the Australian Directorate of Public Relations
-writes to the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence requesting
-reconsideration of its decision to stop making summaries of UFO
-sightings reported to the Department of Air available to the public. DPR
-hopes the summaries will be useful in responding to public inquiries and
-thinks that restricting them will reinforce the theory that the
-government has something to hide. The summaries continue to be published
-erratically through the end of the 1970s. (Swords 393–394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4067
Date: 8/16/1966
-Description: Iraqi Air Force Col. Munir
-Redfa defects by flying a MiG-21 to Israel. In what is considered
-one of Mossad’s most successful operations, Redfa’s entire extended
-family is smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The MiG-21 fighter is
-evaluated by the Israeli Air Force and later loaned to the US for
-testing and intelligence analysis at Area 51. Knowledge obtained from
-analysis of the aircraft is instrumental to the successes achieved by
-the Israeli Air Force in the Six-Day War. (Wikipedia, “Munir
-Redfa”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4066
Date: 8/18/1966
-Description: Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed
-a strange glow in the forest and discovered a very large, egg-shaped
-object, stationary 2 m above ground. It had large, circular openings
-emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The
-hunters ran away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Barinas, Venezuela
-ID: 787
Date: 8/19/1966
-Time: 1650
-Description: A border patrolman saw a bright, shiny disk on its edge, 10
-m in diameter, 5 m high, floating down the side of a hill, wobbling from
-side to side 3 m above ground. It reached the valley floor, climbed to
-about 30 m, and moved across to a small reservoir where it assumed a
-horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disk. It
-hovered for one min and seemed about to land less than 80 m away, but
-tilted back on edge and flew into the clouds at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
-ID: 788
Date: 8/19/1966
-Time: 4:50 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Border Patrolman Don Flickenger. Round disc
-with domed top, 30’ in diameter and 15’ high, colored white, silvery or
-aluminum. Moved across a valley from the southeast, hovered over a
-reservoir, appeared to land in a small field, then rose up into clouds
-very rapidly. Sighting lasted 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
-ID: 550
Date: 8/19/1966
-Description: 4:50 p.m. US Border Patrolman Donald E. Flickinger, in the
-process of taking two prisoners back to Canada, sees a silvery domed
-disc floating down the side of a hill near Donnybrook, North Dakota,
-about 10 feet off the ground. It moves across a valley and climbs to 100
-feet, hovers over a reservoir, then appears to land in a field 250 feet
-away. It tilts on edge and rises into the clouds at high speed.
-Flickinger finds three odd indentations in the field in the form of a
-triangle with sides of 10–12 feet. Some stones alo seem to have been
-moved recently. (Hynek UFO Report, photo betw.
-pp. 152–153; Condon, pp. 273–274;
-Sparks,
-p. 317)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4068
Date: 8/20/1966
-Description: A woman called police to report a luminous object rising
-and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site
-they found the bodies of two men, electronics technicians Pereira da
-Cruz and Viana. The bodies had lead masks on the upper part of the face.
-An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death. Investigation
-disclosed several earlier incidents and an organization to which these
-men belonged.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Niteroi, Brazil
-ID: 790
Date: 8/20/1966
-Time: early
-Description: Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find
-the whole house bathed in bright light, and they observed a “six-story”
-object at treetop level 60 m away. It gave off rainbow colors which
-appeared to pour off its edges “like water” in a fantastic display.
-Distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic
-animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes
-for several days.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Heraldsburg, California
-ID: 789
Date: 8/20/1966
-Description: Afternoon. Some boys looking for a lost kite on the Morro
-do Vintém in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discover the bodies of two
-dead males and report them to the authorities. The Morro do Vintém is a
-hill with difficult terrain, and the police are unable to reach the
-bodies until August 21. When a small team of police and firefighters
-arrive, they encounter an odd scene: the bodies are resting next to each
-other, partly covered by grass. Each one is wearing a formal suit, a
-lead eye mask, and a waterproof coat. There are no signs of trauma or
-struggle. Next to the corpses, police find an empty water bottle and a
-packet containing two wet towels. A small notebook is also identified,
-on which were written the cryptic instructions, “16:30 be at the
-specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect
-metals await signal mask.” The two men are identified as Manoel Pereira
-da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos
-dos Goytacazes. Following an investigation, police reconstruct a
-plausible narrative of the men’s last days. On August 17, Cruz and Viana
-leave Campos dos Goytacazes saying that they needed to purchase some
-materials for work (although they tell others they are on a secret
-mission). The two men then board a bus to Niterói and arrive at 2:30
-p.m. Evidence shows that the waterproof coats were purchased at a shop
-there, and one bottle of water from a local bar. Upon being interviewed,
-the waitress from the bar described Miguel as “very nervous,” and
-noticed he frequently checked his watch. That is the last time they are
-known to have been seen alive; it is presumed they go directly from the
-bar to the spot where they were discovered. One theory revolves around
-the testimony of a friend of the two men, who claims that they are
-members of a group of “scientific spiritualists” who are apparently
-attempting to contact extraterrestrials or spirits using psychedelic
-drugs. Believing that such an encounter would be accompanied by blinding
-light, the men cut metal masks to shield their eyes and may have died of
-drug overdoses. This account is corroborated by the esoteric diary entry
-found at the scene and by mask-making materials and literature
-concerning spirits found at the men’s homes. In April 1980, Jacques
-Vallée locates the exact spot where the bodies were found and notes
-that no vegetation is growing there. (Wikipedia, “Lead
-Masks Case”; Charles Bowen, “The
-Mystery of the Morro do Vintem,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1967): 11–14; Clark III 774–775; Jacques Vallée,
-Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, Ballantine,
-1990, pp. 3–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4069
Date: 8/22/1966
-Description: Phil
-Klass asserts in Aviation Week that the Exeter UFO was a plasma
-discharge from high-voltage power lines. (Philip J. Klass, “Plasma
-Theory May Explain Many UFOs,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 85
-(August 22, 1966): 48–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4070
Date: 8/22/1966
-Description: “Plasma Theory May Explain Many UFOs,” by Philip J. Klass,
-Aviation Week.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 95
Date: 8/23/1966
-Time: 77 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Broomall and Gilpin. One circular, luminous
-white object split into five objects and all streaked away toward the
-west. Sighting lasted 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Ohio
-ID: 551
Date: 8/24/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: An airman observed and reported by radio a multi-colored
-light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and
-confirmed the unknown. A second object, white, was seen to pass in front
-of clouds. At the radar base, an object was detected and tracked. The
-observations lasted nearly 4 hours and were confirmed by three different
-missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations
-where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground
-level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
-ID: 791
Date: 8/24/1966
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Airman 3d Class Michael D. Mueller reports by
-base radio seeing a multicolored light high in the sky above the Minot
-AFB M-6 Minuteman launch site southeast of Norma, North Dakota. A team
-goes to his location and confirms the object and sees a second white
-object passing in front of clouds. The base radar detects the object,
-which is tracked at about 100,000 feet (20 miles). The object rises and
-descends a number of times, and each time Maj. Chester A. Shaw Jr., in
-charge of the M-6 missile crew, finds his radio transmission interrupted
-by static, even though he is 60 feet underground. The UFO gradually
-descends to ground level 10–15 miles south of the base. The Air Force
-sends a strike team to check on it. When they are within 10 miles of the
-site, static disrupts their radio contact. Five to eight minutes later,
-the glow diminishes and the UFO takes off. Another UFO is sighted and
-tracked on radar; the first object flies underneath this second one. The
-two objects disappear separately. The entire episode lasts about 4 hours
-and is confirmed by two other missile launch sites, M- 4 and N-7 (near
-Mohall). Another report from the same time period mentions that some
-missiles went off alert for 24 hours after a UFO sighting at the N-1
-missile alert facility. (NICAP, “Minuteman
-Site Jammed by UFO”; Condon, pp. 274–277;
-Sparks, p. 317;
-Robert L. Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005, p. 5–6;
-Nukes 238–240, 248–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4071
Date: 8/26/1966
-Time: 8:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Funk and their three children. A
-cluster of four small, glowing, orange-yellow lights in a triangular
-formation, moved from east to west for 4.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gaylesville, Alabama
-ID: 552
Date: 8/27/1966
-Description: Hynek releases
-to the press a letter rejected by Science magazine in which he reports a
-pattern to UFO sightings that “suggests that something is going on” and
-disputing seven misconceptions about UFOs. (“Expert Criticizes
-Scientists for Dismissing UFOs,” Miami (Fla.) Herald, August 28,
-1966, p. 5-C)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4072
Date: 8/27/1966
-Description: Dr. J. A. Hynek released to the press a letter rejected by
-Science magazine reporting a “pattern” to UFO sightings that “suggests
-that something is going on” and disputing seven misconceptions about
-UFOs. Science had a belated change of heart and published the letter on
-October 21, with the headline, “UFOs Merit Scientific Study.”
-Type: report or memo
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 96
Date: 8/31/1966
-Description: Col. Ivan
-C. Atkinson, deputy
-executive director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
-formally approaches the University of Colorado with a request to conduct
-a comprehensive and independent examination of the UFO problem.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4073
Date: 9/1966
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Airman 1C Patrick McDonough is working on an
-astro-azimuth observation at one of the Malmstrom AFB missile launch
-facilities near Conrad, Montana, when a UFO comes in from the north and
-stops directly overhead at 300 feet. It is about 30–50 feet in diameter
-and disc-shaped, with dim lights outlining it and a white light
-emanating from the center. It remains about 20–30 seconds, then shoots
-away noiselessly to the east at tremendous speed. Montana Highway Patrol
-dispatchers in Pondera County receive more than 20 UFO reports that
-morning. (Nukes 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4077
Date: 9/1966
-End date: 12/1966
-Description: Local concentration peaking in late 1966 and 1967
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Uintah Basin, UT
-ID: 97
Date: 9/1966
-Description: Early morning. A UFO is seen hovering at low altitude by
-all personnel at Heathrow Airport Air Traffic Control in London,
-England, at a time when no aircraft are in motion. The UFO is tracked on
-radar and its speed at departure is clocked at 3,000 mph. The Ministry
-of Defence is notified, and investigators arrive on the scene and tell
-the witnesses that they have seen nothing, threatening to charge them
-under the Official Secrets Act if they reveal the sighting publicly.
-(Good Above, pp. 71–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4076
Date: 9/1966
-Time: 0330
-Description: A police officer was driving at nearly 200 km/h toward the
-north on Route 71 when he suddenly saw an object on the road ahead and
-another one following his car. The first one looked like a flaming car
-and was the size of a 3-story house. It flew away as the policeman was
-about to hit it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 168 (Vallee)
-Location: El Campo, Texas
-ID: 792
Date: 9/1966
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Deputy Sheriff Ed Korenek is driving north of El
-Campo, Texas, on State Highway 71 when he sees something like a car on
-fire ahead of him. Suddenly he notices that another object is pacing
-him, He hits his brakes and reaches for the radio, but it is dead. He
-sees another flaming object above Wharton Regional Airport to the east.
-He accelerates toward the object ahead of him, which slides off the
-highway to the right, sucking its flame up behind it as it moves away.
-The object above the airfield disappears, and when Korenek turns his car
-around, his radio begins working again. (“The
-Texas Flap,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4078
Date: 9/1/1966
-Time: 2:45 PM
-Description: Witness: T.H. Ridman. One oval object with lights that
-flashed red and white and occasionally blue, travelled west, then
-disappeared downward. It returned, several minutes later, at which time
-a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Willsboro, New York
-ID: 553
Date: early 9/1966
-Description: Night. Bank official Gerardo Bagnulo is on a pleasure
-outing with members of his family when he sees two objects moving across
-the sky on the coast of the Gargano promontory in southern Italy. He
-manages to take one color photo before the objects disappear near the
-northwest horizon. The photo shows both a round object and a cylindrical
-object. (Roberto Pinotti, “The Gargano Peninsula Cigar,” IUR 9, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1984): 6; “As
-is often the case,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6
-(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 8; Roberto Pinotti, “Evidence
-for UFOs in the Italian Past,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS,
-1988, pp. 115–116; 1Pinotti 154–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4075
Date: 9/3/1966
-Description: Science columnist John Lear receives a declassified
-(sanitized) copy of the Robertson Panel report and publishes a version
-of it in the Saturday Review. He calls for the release of the full
-document. (John Lear, “The Disputed
-CIA Document on UFOs,” Saturday Review, September 3, 1966,
-pp. 45–50; Clark III 1017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4079
Date: 9/3/1966
-Time: 1400
-Description: Two young witnesses went outside when the TV set became
-blurred. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the
-house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as an
-earlier sighting (see Case 786).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Texas
-ID: 793
Date: 9/3/1966
-Description: “The Disputed CIA Documents on UFOs,” by John Lear in
-Saturday Review discusses oddities about the January 1953 Robertson
-Panel report before it was declassified.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 98
Date: 9/5/1966
-Time: evening
-Description: A civilian man observed a peculiar light phenomenon and a
-small figure that appeared to enter a bedroom. The figure was not seen
-again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Texas
-ID: 794
Date: 9/5/1966
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Franz Trautsamwieser takes a photo of the Church
-of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, from the other side of the
-canal. He does not see anything, but the developed photo shows a
-UFO-shaped whitish object next to the tower. (“UFO
-over Venice?” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1967, cover,
-17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4080
Date: 9/6/1966
-Time: 6:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Stahl and Ladesic. One white cylinder of light
-came from the east at high speed, stopped and hovered for 3 minutes, and
-then turned and slowly disappeared. Sighting lasted 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Suffolk County AFB, New York
-ID: 554
Date: 9/7/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: About 15 km east of Durand, Mrs. E. Bruns and her two
-children observed an elongated object, about 10 m long, with revolving
-lights, hovering 1 m above ground and making a deafening noise. After 30
-sec, it tilted and took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Durand, Wisconsin
-ID: 795
Date: 9/9/1966
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: Jacobson. One solid object, larger than an army
-tank, with lights all around it, made a low humming sound and
-disappeared into woods at the end of the 30 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Franklin Springs, New York
-ID: 555
Date: 9/9/1966
-Time: 2100
-Description: A man saw an object descend from a cloud bank, slow down,
-and land with a soft whirring sound. It showed three horizontal bands of
-light-blue, red and green.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Franklin Springs, New York
-ID: 796
Date: 9/12/1966
-Description: The Air Force turns down a proposal Hynek has
-made for them to create a computer program to put Blue Book’s UFO
-reports into a machine-readable format, ostensibly because it is too
-preoccupied with the Vietnam War. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4081
Date: 9/13/1966
-Time: 7:30 AM
-Description: Witness: Rotenberger. One silvery-grey ellipse with a clear
-bubble protruding from its top, hovered about a mile away, then landed
-within 300 yards and took off very fast. It made a low-pitched whine
-during the 5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gwinner, North Dakota
-ID: 556
Date: 9/13/1966
-Description: 7:30 a.m. 11-year-old Randy
-Rotenberger, near Stirum, North Dakota, sees a silvery domed disc
-hover about one mile away, approach, then land within 900 feet, making a
-low-pitched whine. It takes off so fast it just vanishes.” An Air Force
-investigator finds landing indentations 7 inches deep and [possibly]
-radiation level of 100 microroentgens/hour. Electrical power is off in
-the area for about 4 hours. (NICAP, “Domed
-Object Leaves Traces”;
-Sparks, p. 319;
-Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 58–59; Clark III 950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4082
Date: 9/13/1966
-Time: 0730
-Description: A child of 11 years saw a disk-shaped object land near a
-farm. It had a tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one
-green light, and a transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an
-Air Force Lt. Col. went to the site and discovered three traces,
-apparently left by spherical objects, 18 cm deep, very compact.
-Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The child reported
-that the object “went away so fast that it vanished.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Stirum, North Dakota
-ID: 797
Date: 9/17/1966
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary see a glowing
-cigar-shaped object oriented vertically, tilted at times, for about an
-hour near the edge of the water at Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts.
-Two smaller glowing objects approach the larger object, moving around
-erratically, with an up-and-down skipping motion. The two rendezvous
-with the larger object, then a third smaller object is seen. The smaller
-objects periodically leave the larger object and flies around the area.
-One flies low over Ipswich Bay toward the witnesses’ home. At closer
-range it shows an elliptical shape illuminated by a faint glow. (“‘Satellite’
-UFO Landing Case in Massachusetts,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10
-(Oct./Nov. 1966): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4083
Date: 9/17/1966
-Time: 0445
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary saw a golden-white, luminous
-object resting on the beach, with two bright lights flying in and out of
-the craft. It went away after one hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 88; NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Cranes Beach, Massachusetts
-ID: 798
Date: 9/19/1966
-Description: Air Force Regulation (AFR) 80-17 promulgated to replace AFR
-200-2, placing UFOs under the Research and Development command and
-reflecting the University of Colorado Project study in progress.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 99
Date: 9/19/1966
-Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 is replaced by AFR 80-17, which
-orders members of the military who investigate UFO reports to release
-information if there is an explanation, but if there is none to withhold
-the information, even from the Colorado project (explicitly modified
-November 9). Radarscope photos are automatically classified. However, it
-does require that every Air Force base have an official with scientific
-background responsible for investigating UFOs. (US Department of the Air
-Force, “Research
-and Development: Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Air Force Regulation 80-17, September 19,
-1966)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4084
Date: 9/20/1966
-Description: Private pilot encountered coneshaped object, “singing”
-noise. Object descended, followed aircraft, accelerated up and
-away
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sebring, FL
-ID: 100
Date: 9/21/1966
-Time: 0630
-Description: Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright
-object that flew down at high speed, stopped abruptly, remained at
-ground level for 20 min, and flew away straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Summerside, Canada
-ID: 799
Date: 9/21/1966
-Description: At a meeting of the University of Colorado psychology
-department, Stuart
-W. Cook announces that the university is considering taking on the
-UFO project, with Condon directing.
-Cook says it will need the help of psychologists. William
-A. Scott and David
-R. Saunders are interested. Around this time, Condon agrees to an
-informal question-and-answer session about the project. George
-Gamow and Richard Sigismond are in attendance. Gamow is surprised
-that Condon has never heard of the Trindade Island UFO photos. Sigismond
-applies for an opening on the committee and is accepted, but he declines
-the offer after a 20-minute interview with Condon, whose negative bias
-on the subject is unyielding. (Richard Sigismond, “A Confrontation with
-Dr. Condon: Prelude and Aftermath,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 3–5,
-16; “Condon Confrontation Continues,” IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 9;
-Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4086
Date: 9/21/1966
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Eight RCAF airmen are refueling an aircraft in
-Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, when they see an object in the
-east moving at great speed. It comes to a complete stop, descends, and
-hovers for 20 minutes. It then shoots up and disappears quickly. At
-about the same time, fishermen Ivan Collicut and Patrick O’Halloran are
-out for an early morning catch at Burton, Prince Edward Island, when
-they see a rapidly moving light. (“Near-Landing
-Observed by RCAF,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 (Oct./Nov. 1966):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4085
Date: 9/22/1966
-Description: Hovering object with smaller satellite objects operating
-independently, emitted light beams, finally sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Deadwood, SD
-ID: 101
Date: 9/22/1966
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Police from several vantage points in Deadwood,
-South Dakota, see a large white hovering object, changing color to green
-to red then back to white. It hangs motionless for 15 minutes. When a
-spotlight is shone on it, the object blacks out. Two smaller white
-objects operating independently approach and hover nearby. The large
-object bobs around and emits blue light beams toward the ground, and
-finally speeds away in 3 seconds. (NICAP, “Satellite
-Objects, Sept. 22, 1966, Deadwood, SD”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO
-Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4087
Date: 9/22/1966
-Description: Psychologist Michael Wertheimer tells Cook he
-will participate in the Colorado project. (Clark III 1193) September 22
-— Hynek appeals
-to Secretary of the Air Force Harold
-Brown to create a program to put UFO reports into a machine-readable
-database. He also recommends a more scientific approach to data
-acquisition that will make the Air Force look better to the public and
-the scientific community. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek correspondence],
-pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4088
Date: 9/24/1966
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A man named Gaines is driving his girlfriend home
-in Peoria, Illinois, when they see a large, luminous, blue sphere
-hovering low in the sky. It shoots off, so he drops the girlfriend off.
-On the way home the blue ball returns; his car begins to pick up speed,
-the brakes won’t work, and the doors won’t open. He races on this way
-for a few blocks, then the UFO takes off. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing
-Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (Mar. 2008): 17) Autumn — Night. A
-young couple parking in a rural area near Rockford, Illinois, see a
-bright light that appears over some nearby trees. It is so intense that
-it hurts their eyes, so they start the car up and drive down a gravel
-road. The light is gone, but near where it had been they can now see two
-gray figures with large slanted eyes and wearing clothing with a square
-insignia on the torso. As they leave the area, they smell a pungent,
-metallic odor. (“Letter,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 6, 9; “Out of
-the Past,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4089
Date: 9/28/1966
-Time: 3:38 PM
-Description: Witness: Clarke. Three round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored
-objects with rotating rings around them. Two remained stationary, while
-the third varied its altitude during the 90 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wilmington, Ohio
-ID: 557
Date: 10/1966
-Description: Hynek’s
-lengthy letter about UFOs and Project Blue Book is published in Science
-magazine. It addresses seven misconceptions about UFOs. “I cannot
-dismiss the UFO phenomenon with a shrug,” he concludes. (O’Connell
-201–204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4090
Date: 10/1966
-Description: The Canadian Directorate of Operations issues Canadian
-Forces Administrative Order 71-6, “Reporting of Unidentified Flying
-Objects,” to make it easier to obtain UFO reports from military bases
-and police forces. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981,
-p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4091
Date: 10/1/1966
-Description: James
-E. McDonald writes to Thomas
-Ratchford of the USAF Office of Scientific Research to tell him that
-he will soon speak out for radical changes in the handling of UFO
-reports. (Clark III 697)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4092
Date: 10/2/1966
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Mrs. Everett Steward is talking on the telephone
-at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, when she smells a foul odor in the
-room. She goes to her bedroom, but she has a feeling of being watched.
-Looking out the window, she sees an oval-shaped object with portholes
-and red, green, and white lights revolving around it. It is 75 feet in
-diameter and hovering at 100 feet. She wakes up her husband, who also
-sees it, and calls her married daughter, Mrs. Janet Emery, a mile away;
-the Emerys also see it, and a neighbor with binoculars can see that it
-has square windows glowing yellow. Janet goes outdoors and sees the UFO
-eject a red ball, which maneuvers while the first UFO takes off
-southward. The red ball flies 75–100 feet over Janet’s head; its
-underside is shiny like aluminum foil. Mrs. Steward goes to bed, but the
-odor is still in the house. After some time, the room is filled for an
-instant with brilliant white light; then this vanishes and a globe of
-light about 21 inches in diameter appears at the foot of her bed. Inside
-are 5 “non-human, hairless heads” with oval, sunken eyes. Instead of
-noses, there are slits, and they have no mouths. Telepathically, they
-repeat several times: “We have made contact.” Mrs. Steward screams and
-the globe disappears. She is so disquieted by the experience that she
-goes under psychiatric care for the next 2 years. (Stringfield,
-Situation Red, Doubleday, 1977, pp. 33–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4093
Date: 10/3/1966
-Description: “Many UFOs Are Identified as Plasmas,” by Philip J. Klass
-in Aviation Week.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 102
Date: 10/3/1966
-Description: Phil
-Klass has another article in Aviation Week on plasmas as an
-explanation for UFOs. (Philip J. Klass, “Many UFOs Are Identified as
-Plasmas,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 85 (October 3, 1966):
-54–73) October 4, 18 — Excerpts of John
-G. Fuller’s book about the Betty
-and Barney Hill abduction case, Interrupted Journey, appear in a
-two-part article of Look magazine. (Wikipedia, “Barney
-and Betty Hill”; John G. Fuller, “Aboard
-a Flying
-Saucer, Part I,” Look 30, no. 20 (October 4, 1966): 44–48, 53–56;
-John G. Fuller, “Aboard
-a Flying Saucer,
-Part II,” Look 30, no. 21 (October 18, 1966): 111–121; Clark III
-585)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4094
Date: 10/4/1966
-End date: 10/5/1966
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Jack Jones is delivering newspapers on John
-Street in Connersville, Indiana. He notices a group of lights in a field
-to the west past the dead end. He thinks it might be a new light
-installation and moves on. The next day, Jones is with another paper
-carrier, Don Doe, and he suggests they go see the new lights. Jack sees
-the lights, but they are in a different position somewhat to the north.
-Both boys sit on their bicycles and watch a dark disc-shaped object with
-flashing red, green, and white lights on it that is apparently on the
-ground some 840 feet into the field. They estimate it is 27 feet in
-diameter and 10 feet high. They hear a high-pitched whirring sound and
-smell a faint odor of sulfur and tannic acid. After watching it a few
-minutes, they hear a new sound as if someone is walking slowly toward
-them through some thick weeds. They take off on their bicycles and don’t
-look back. Some days later, investigators find three holes, 8 feet apart
-in an equilateral triangle, where the object was seen. The holes measure
-7 inches at the top and 1 inch at the bottom. (“UAO
-Landing in Indiana,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1966, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4095
Date: 10/5/1966
-Description: At a University of Arizona Department of Meteorology
-colloquium, James
-E. McDonald gives his views on the reality of UFOs and the Air
-Force’s concealment of information. His colleagues respond negatively,
-and McDonald acknowledges to Gerard
-Kuiper that what he is doing is professionally risky. Nevertheless,
-the university’s Space Sciences Committee gives him a $1,300 grant
-toward his research expenses. (“UFOs
-Are ‘Real,’
-Physicist Asserts,” Arizona Daily Star, October 6, 1966, p. B-1;
-Clark III 697)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4096
Date: 10/5/1966
-Description: A boy saw a disk-shaped object with a transparent dome and
-a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a
-“heat wave,” and was lost in the clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Potomac, Maryland
-ID: 800
Date: 10/5/1966
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: several members of one family. One small, bright
-orange, moon-shaped object remained stationary in the northeast for
-about 20 minutes, then suddenly took off very fast to the WNW.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
-ID: 558
Date: 10/6/1966
-Description: Thurston
-Manning signs the University of Colorado contract with the Air
-Force. The project is to run from November 15, 1966, to January 1968.
-(Clark III 1193)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4097
Date: 10/7/1966
-Description: USAF public announcement of grant to University of Colorado
-for a UFO study to be headed by Dr. E. U. Condon.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 103
Date: 10/7/1966
-Description: The Air Force publicly announces the creation of the
-University of Colorado UFO project. Low is
-made project coordinator. The primary team will be Saunders, ESSA
-astronomer Franklin
-Roach, Wertheimer, chemist Roy
-Craig, University
-of Arizona electrical engineer Norman Levine, administrative assistant
-Mary Lou Armstrong, University of Arizona astronomer William
-K. Hartmann, physicist Frederick
-Ayer, and psychologists Dan
-Culberson and James Wadsworth. (Office of Assistant Secretary of
-Defense (Public Affairs), “Air Force Selects University of Colorado to
-Investigate Unidentified Flying Object Reports,” October 7, 1966,
-release no. 847-66, in Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968,
-pp. 222–224; “UFO
-Probe Given to Colorado U.,” San Francisco Examiner, October 7,
-1966, p. 42; Clark III 697, 1193)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4098
Date: 10/7/1966
-Description: McDonald speaks
-to the media about the secret Robertson Panel report. The CIA has
-ordered the Air Force to debunk UFOs, he says. (“UFO
-Hush Blamed
-on CIA Men,” Phoenix Arizona Republic, October 7, 1966,
-pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4099
Date: 10/8/1966
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Loch Ness monster researcher Frederick
-William “Ted” Holiday is fishing on the lifeboat slipway at Tenby
-harbor, Pembrokeshire, Wales, when he and other fishermen notice a
-small, bluish, luminous cloud moving in a circle about three times its
-own diameter above them. After a short time, he resumes his fishing, but
-10 minutes later a dark object emerges from the cloud and beams down a
-brilliant ruby light on them. The cloud moves west and the object moves
-southwest. By the time he retrieves binoculars from his car, both
-objects are gone. (F. W. Holiday, “Was
-God at Aberfan?” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1972):
-3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4101
Date: 10/8/1966
-Description: Condon is
-widely quoted in the media as saying it is “highly improbable” that UFOs
-exist. “The view that UFOs are hallucinatory will be a subject of our
-investigation, to discover what it is that makes people imagine they see
-things.” (Chesly Manly, “UFOs
-Prober Keeps
-Open Mind and Door,” Chicago Tribune, October 16, 1966, pp. 1,
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4100
Date: 10/10/1966
-Description: Hynek discusses
-UFOs in Newsweek. (“UFO’s for Real?” Newsweek, October 10, 1966,
-p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4102
Date: 10/10/1966
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Police Sgt. Benjamin Thompson of the Wanaque (New
-Jersey) Reservoir Police watches a bright light performing fantastic
-maneuvers over the reservoir. He notices a slight mist in the wake of
-its movements. It descends to 150 feet above the water, then shoots up.
-Thompson has also seen UFOs at the reservoir in January and March. Some
-teenagers see a UFO in the area 2 nights later. (“UFOs
-Return to Wanaque Reservoir,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10
-(Oct./Nov. 1966): 6; Sanderson, InvRes, pp. 58–62;
-Center for UFO Studies, [case
-files])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4103
Date: 10/11/1966
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Two boys in Elizabeth, New Jersey—Martin Munov
-and James Yanchitis—are walking home on 4th Street near East Jersey
-Street, adjacent to the elevated New Jersey Turnpike. Yanchitis tells
-his friend that there is someone following them. They turn and see a man
-standing behind a high wire fence separating them from the turnpike 30
-feet above them. The fence is 8 feet high and the embankment running up
-to it is steep. John Keel interviews the two boys three days after the
-incident. They tell him that the man is 7 feet tall, has a dark
-complexion, and is wearing a green work suit. He has a bald head, large
-eyes, and a huge grinning mouth full of white teeth. (John Keel, Strange
-Creatures from Time and Space, Fawcett, 1970, p. 176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4104
Date: 10/11/1966
-Description: Project Sign (“Saucer”) report of February 1949
-declassified from its formerly SECRET status.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 104
Date: 10/14/1966
-Time: 1845
-Description: A adolescent first saw a bright light, then a plate-shaped
-object hovering near the house. It took off at high speed, causing
-static on the phone as the boy was calling his mother to describe it.
-When she came home, she found her son in a state of shock and the dog
-hiding in a corner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Newton, Illinois
-ID: 801
Date: 10/14/1966
-Time: 2230
-Description: James Roberts saw two round pinkish-red objects on a
-hillside near his home. He fled when they took off with a hissing sound
-emitting streams of fire.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Fork, West Virginia
-ID: 802
Date: 10/15/1966
-Description: Red-orange disc-shaped object followed car, ground brightly
-illuminated, engine, headlights failed. Physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Split Rock Pond, NJ
-ID: 105
Date: mid 10/1966
-Description: Keyhoe is
-stressed by Condon’s
-statements, so he calls both Condon and Low. Both
-assure him they were misquoted and ask for NICAP’s support. He expresses
-his doubts to Saunders, who
-with Richard
-Hall convinces him to lend his support to the project, for now.
-(UFOs Yes, 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4106
Date: 10/15/1966
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Forester Jerry H. Simons is driving home from a
-camping expedition, notices a reddish glow behind him, and stops his car
-near Split Rock Pond, south of Newfoundland, New Jersey, to investigate.
-A flat- bottom, red-orange disc with a dome on top is hovering above and
-behind his car. Near panic, he flees the area with the object following
-him. When the light from the object illuminates the ground around him,
-his car engine, dashlights, and headlights all fail. When the object
-recedes, his lights and engine function normally. This sequence is
-repeated three times, strongly demonstrating a direct correlation
-between the light from the UFO and the failure of his car’s electrical
-system. Shortly after the sighting, Simons begins experiencing a
-recurring illness (the reason for his story appearing in a medical
-journal); it is characterized by fatigue, anorexia, soreness, muscle
-weakness, chills, and significant weight loss. After about 6 months he
-has fully recovered. (Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFOs:
-Delusion or Dilemma,” Medical Times 96 (October 1968): 967–981;
-UFOEv II 37; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 2,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4105
Date: 10/19/1966
-Description: James
-E. McDonald speaks to the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the American
-Meteorological Society on the inadequacy of military UFO investigations
-and the need to take seriously the “possibility that these aerial
-objects may be some type of extraterrestrial probes.” (James E.
-McDonald, “The
-Problem of the Unidentified Flying
-Objects,” October 19, 1966; Clark III 697)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4107
Date: 10/20/1966
-Description: 11:50 p.m. A telecommunications technician in Moose Jaw,
-Saskatchewan, sees a strangely behaving nocturnal light. (J. Allen
-Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4109
Date: 10/20/1966
-Description: Hynek visits
-Franklin
-Roach in Boulder, Colorado, to meet Condon and
-other Colorado project members. He notes that Condon has a “basically
-negative attitude.” (Clark III 1193)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4108
Date: 10/21/1966
-Description: Night. Three junior high school students are standing at
-one end of their street in Amsterdam, New York, when they notice a
-star-like light to the right of the Moon. The star proceeds to draw
-aright-angle step around the Moon and continues northward, where it
-joins two other objects. The three objects then form 90° angles,
-equilateral triangles, and other geometrical figures. Two of the
-students go home for binoculars, and while they are away the sky show
-stops. They remain in the sky, but stationary. The objects look
-spherical through binoculars with some sort of lighted, colored areas
-that rotate. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2
-(January 2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4111
Date: 10/21/1966
-Description: Hynek’s
-letter on misconceptions about UFOs is belatedly published in Science.
-(J. Allen Hynek, “UFO’s Merit
-Scientific Study,” Science 154 (1966): 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4110
Date: 10/23/1966
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: Mr Acquino. One object with arms in front of it
-which sparkled like an arc-light. Traveled south along some power lines,
-then turned southwest. Made a slight humming sound during the 4 minute
-sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Southhampton, Long Island, New York
-ID: 559
Date: 10/26/1966
-Description: 11:50 p.m. A man is driving in a rural, wooded area near
-Takoma Park, Maryland, when he sees a disc that seems about to land in a
-clearing. It puts on a red-and-green light show as it hovers. A large
-central beam of light shines onto the field below. The car radio bursts
-with static, and he hears a whirring sound coming from the object. He
-tries to accelerate the car, but it won’t move. Radio and drive
-functions resume when the UFO moves away. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing
-Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no, 4 (March 2008): 17, 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4112
Date: 10/26/1966
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witness: civilian control tower operator Ralston. One white
-object approached runway at 50’ altitude. Runway lights were then turned
-on, and object accelerated and climbed away so fast that witness was
-unable to use binoculars. Sighting lasted 3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cold Bay Air Force Station, Alaska
-ID: 560
Date: 10/28/1966
-Description: The Space Defense Center’s satellite-tracking Delta I
-computer system at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, becomes operational.
-(Wikipedia, “Space
-Defense Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4113
Date: 10/31/1966
-Description: Night. An observer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, notices a
-particularly bright star in the southwestern sky that is moving in a
-wide arc. When it reaches Ursa Major, it paces along the Big Dipper,
-then turns and takes an approximately parallel course to the front of
-the constellation. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30,
-no. 2 (January 2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4114
Date: 11/1/1966
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Mrs. Ray Tibbetts is talking on the phone in her
-home at Newfields, New Hampshire, when her son, Dale, yells that there
-is a strange light outside. Her foster daughter, Anita Purrington, joins
-Dale and they both get excited. Mrs. Tibbetts runs to a window when the
-house lights begin blinking on and off. She goes to her son’s room and
-sees a huge object with two tiers of four windows from which a strange,
-yellow-green light is shining. The size of one of the windows is as big
-as her living room wall. An apparent ceiling line is visible in the
-bottom tier. Suddenly an intense white light shoots out from the object
-at Mrs. Tibbetts, who is knocked backward and gets spots before her
-eyes. When her vision clears, the UFO is gone. She has pains in her eyes
-the next two days and they are extremely sensitive to light. She drives
-to a clinic in Exeter, New Hampshire, which finds a spasm in the eyelid
-and tearing, but it attributes this to the cobalt therapy she has been
-getting. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4116
Date: 11/1/1966
-Description: Official contract starting date of Colorado UFO
-Project.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 106
Date: 11/1/1966
-Description: The University of Colorado UFO project officially launches.
-Michael
-D. Swords writes: “It was one of the most peculiar scientific grants
-of all time. Normally a governmental grant goes to a scientist who has
-initiated it or is at least vitally interested and experienced in the
-field, and essentially knows exactly what he is going to do. This grant
-was to a scientist who was pushed into it, had little interest and
-apparently no experience, and, despite his brilliance, ‘didn’t have a
-clue.’ Because the reports of the UFO phenomenon are so complex and
-multidimensional, this short-term ‘backwards grant’ was doomed to fail
-before it was even signed.” (Swords 309– 312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4115
Date: early 11/1966
-Description: Low and
-Hynek make
-the Colorado project’s first field trip, to Minot and Donnybrook, North
-Dakota. November 2 — 7:25 p.m. Woodrow
-Derenberger is driving his panel truck home to Parkersburg, West
-Virginia, on Interstate 77 when a low-flying dark object about 35 feet
-wide cuts in front of him and forces him to stop. It hovers a foot above
-the ground, only 20 feet ahead. The object has a profile similar to a
-kerosene lamp chimney flattened on the bottom side. A door opens and a
-smiling man of dark complexion descends, wearing a topcoat (“blue and
-quite shiny, having a glistening effect”) over shiny blue trousers.
-Without opening his mouth, which bears a fixed grin, he addresses
-Derenberger telepathically, asking him to open his window. For the next
-10 minutes he conducts a telepathic conversation, first asking
-Derenberger’s name and saying that his own is “Indrid Cold” from a
-planet called Lanulos in the “Ganymede galaxy.” He tells Derenberger not
-to think of him as an alien and concludes by saying, “We will see you
-again.” After admitting Mr. Cold, the UFO rises vertically and
-disappears. A truck driver named Walter
-Vanscoy is going north on I-77 and sees, in apparent confirmation of
-the encounter, a truck parked on the berm of the southbound I-77 lanes
-with a man wearing a knee-length coat standing by the passenger side.
-Derenberger’s space adventures are only beginning. (“The
-Woodrow Derenberger Interview,
-November 3, 1966,” The MothMan Wikia; “Parkersburg
-Salesman Speaks
-with Spaceman,” Beckley (W.Va.) Raleigh Register, November 4, 1966,
-pp. 1–2; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, pp. 50–52;
-Woodrow W. Derenberger and Harold W. Hubbard, Visitors from Lanulos,
-Vantage, 1971; Clark III 402–403; Jerome Clark, “The Adventures of Woody
-Derenberger,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 7–8; Taunia
-Derenberger-Bowman, Beyond Lanulos: Our Fifty Years with Indrid Cold,
-The Author, 2016; Theo Paijmans, “The Terrible Grinning Men,” Fortean
-Times 397 (October 2020): 32–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4117
Date: 11/2/1966
-Time: evening
-Description: Mrs. Mark deFriend, 32, saw an object at ground level in
-front of her car on a rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over
-the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in
-front of the car, then was lost to sight behind some trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 168 (Vallee)
-Location: El Campo, Texas
-ID: 803
Date: 11/2/1966
-Time: 1925
-Description: W. Derenberger, salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on
-the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped,
-the object came within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark
-complexion, dressed with a shirt and ordinary trousers, both a shiny
-blue color, came out, smiled at the witness who then thought that he
-received a message, although no word was spoken. The message described a
-hypothetical “other world” and suggested that the observation be
-reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people
-who drove by the witness did report seeing a man speaking to him, as
-well as a strange vehicle nearby.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 169; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Parkersburg, West Virginia
-ID: 804
Date: 11/4/1966
-Description: Derenberger has
-another encounter when he lapses into a trance while driving a truck
-with a colleague along US Highway 50 near Parkersburg, West Virginia. He
-starts speaking, sometimes mumbling, other times conveying messages
-about “ships.” Derenberger later says that Cold was sending him a
-telepathic message that his ship was directly above the truck. A
-sighting of a UFO “like two glass chimneys from a kerosene lamp welded
-together at their widest or bulging ends” at 6:45 p.m. by Irma
-Hudgins and her daughter Pamela
-Sue near the intersection of I-77 and State Highway 47 seems to
-confirm some UFO activity. Derenberger has further meetings with Indrid
-Cold and his companion Carl Ardo, who often pass undetected among
-earthlings, through the early 1970s and in 1984. (John A. Keel, The
-Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, pp. 54–55;
-Clark III 404–410; Jerome Clark, “The Adventures of Woody Derenberger,”
-IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 8–11, 20–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4118
Date: 11/5/1966
-Description: Condon tells
-the press that he knows “some people [McDonald]
-who believe the air force is misleading us, but I don’t think so. Maybe
-they are. I don’t care much.” (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed.,
-1974, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4119
Date: 11/6/1966
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A driver on State Highway 47 near Parkersburg,
-West Virginia, sees a UFO and gets out to watch it. At first it looks
-like two lights near the American Viscose plant across the Little
-Kanawha River. The object crosses the river and the highway then turns
-off its lights at about 100–150 feet altitude. The lights come back on
-and it starts moving toward the witness, stopping right over his car and
-focusing a bright beam of light on him for 10 seconds. It shuts off and
-the object moves leisurely away to the south. (Clark III 405)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4120
Date: 11/8/1966
-Time: At night
-Description: Witness: college graduate Annis. A group of lights that
-flashed and changed color hung stationary, almost touching the road, and
-would abruptly vanish during the 5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Saginaw, Michigan
-ID: 561
Date: 11/11/1966
-Description: Hynek and
-Vallée give
-an extended briefing to Condon and
-his staff. Hynek urges the project to adopt a rating system, by which if
-a sighting emerges as both strange and credible, it will be deemed
-worthy of further investigation. Vallée recommends standardized report
-forms that ask all the right questions. They both sense that Low, not
-Condon, is “clearly the decision-maker.” Hynek tells Craig that
-the project must recommend that scientific investigation of UFOs be
-continued. (Clark III 1193; UFOs Yes, 50–61; Sparks,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4121
Date: 11/13/1966
-Description: Barber and amateur astronomer Ralph
-Ditter Jr. of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of
-a daylight disc. Later, Raytheon deals with the photographic analysis of
-the photos. The report states that the object in the photos is 3–4
-inches in diameter, not 30 feet as claimed by Ditter; the object is not
-at a considerable distance, but a mere 3–4 feet from the camera lens;
-and the photos are not taken in rapid succession, but approximately 70
-minutes has elapsed between photos. Also, the numbers on the backs of
-the photographs are out of sequence with Ditter’s story. (NICAP, “The
-Ditter Photo Hoax”; Center for UFO Studies, [Ditter
-photos]; Center for UFO Studies, [case documents, part
-one, part
-two]; E. L. Merritt, “Photogrammetric
-Analysis of a Non-Synchronous
-Pair of U.F.O. Exposures,” June 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4122
Date: 11/14/1966
-Description: Quintanilla, Lt.
-William
-Marley, and Col. Robert
-Hippler of AFOSR brief the Colorado project staff. Quintanilla
-contradicts Hynek’s
-account of the swamp gas explanation. (UFOs Yes, 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4123
Date: 11/15/1966
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Two young couples from Point Pleasant, West
-Virginia—Roger and Linda
-Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette—are joyriding in an area
-outside of town known as the “TNT area” [the site of a former World War
-II munitions plant and now part of the McClintic Wildlife Management
-Area] when they encounter a large gray creature whose eyes glow red when
-the car’s headlights pick it up. Scarberry describes it as shaped like a
-man but nearly 7 feet tall. They describe it as a “large flying man with
-10-foot wings” that are folded against its back. Terrified, they drive
-away but pass a similar creature on a hill by the road. As they pass it,
-it spreads its wings, rises into the air, and pursues their car, keeping
-pace at even 100 mph. The entity does not pursue them into town, but
-they drive directly to the Mason County Courthouse, where they tell
-their story to Deputy Millard
-Halstead, who
-accompanies the witnesses back to the site. He hears strange static
-disturbances coming from his radio, but they find no evidence of the
-encounter. On November 16, Sheriff George
-E. Johnson holds a press conference to discuss the sighting, the
-press begins calling the creature “Mothman” based on a comic book
-character. The Scarberrys and Mallettes go back to the site in the
-daylight and find odd-looking tracks like “two horseshoes put together.”
-After this sighting, more people begin reporting encounters, and
-hundreds of cars swarm out to the TNT area at night in search of a
-Mothman sighting. In May 1976, representatives of the Ohio UFO
-Investigators League reinterview several witnesses, all of whom stick to
-their stories and sometimes add interesting details. (John A. Keel, The
-Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, pp. 59–61;
-Clark III 779–781; “Scarberry
-and Mallette’s Mothman Sighting,” The MothMan Wikia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4124
Date: 11/17/1966
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two police officers see a round, glowing object
-with a wide, flat rim around the center resting on the ground near
-Gaffney, South Carolina. They estimate the diameter to be about 20 feet.
-As they watch from less than 50 feet away, a door opens and a small
-humanoid being descends. The observation lasts several minutes.
-Footprints are found at the site. (John A. Keel, “The
-Little Man of Gaffney,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 2 (March/April
-1968): 17–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4125
Date: 11/17/1966
-Time: 0400
-Description: Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins saw a dark,
-spherical machine with a flat rim land near them. Estimated diameter: 7
-m. An opening and a short ladder became visible, and a small man,
-dressed in a shiny gold suit, emerged, came within 6 m of them, and
-spoke in perfect English before taking off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Gaffney, South Carolina
-ID: 805
Date: 11/19/1966
-Time: 0750
-Description: Two local businessmen observed a dark, gray, metallic
-sphere, from the top of which projected a dozen “tentacles” over 2 m
-long, flying at about 40 m altitude and then coming down behind a house.
-It was assumed that it plunged into the bay, but a search by patrol
-boats was unsuccessful.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bavonne, New Jersey
-ID: 806
Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: 4:20 p.m. At least eight employees of the American
-Newspaper Publishers Association in New York City watch a UFO from their
-offices on the 17th floor at 750 Third Avenue. The UFO is a rectangular,
-“cushion- shaped” object whose bright, reflective surface first catches
-the eye of Assistant General Manager Donald R. McVay. They go outside
-onto the terrace and watch the object move southward over the East
-River, then hover above the United Nations building. It flutters and
-bobs “like a ship on agitated water.” It rises slowly and moves south
-then west. One of the other witnesses is the manager of the Publications
-Department, William H. Leick. (“Major
-Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan,/Feb. 1967): 4;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
-2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4129
Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A deer hunter searching for game near Roaring
-River State Park, Missouri, returns to his group’s camp and becomes
-alarmed when he sees smoke rising from it. He finds their tent and other
-camping equipment destroyed. The tent is still smoldering, one of the
-aluminum tent poles is singed, and the aluminum cots are melted. The
-tent is set up under two trees, but their leaves show no traces of
-damage at all. About 15 feet away is a dead tree with its top still
-burning. The witness then heasr a low humming sound and sees an object
-rising from the valley about 300 feet away. He is able to take a
-photograph of it as it ascends and manages a second photo a few seconds
-later. It is an aluminum-colored disc, about 25 feet in diameter and 8
-feet thick, with a band around its center and some kind of projection at
-its rear. The humming sound intensifies as the object picks up speed and
-disappears in 20 seconds. (CUFOS case file; Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, Center
-for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 44; B. J. Booth, “UFO
-Encountered, Photographed, Roaring River, Missouri,
-1966,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4128
Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: 9:00–10:00 a.m. A biochemist and consultant to a logging
-company and his wife are traveling on State Highway 58 through the
-Willamette Pass, Oregon, when he decides to stop and take photos of some
-scenery. He stops at the Diamond Peak overlook, takes 2 photos, then
-pauses to take a third. Suddenly, he claims, a disc- shaped object with
-a domed top ascends into his field of view. After stopping for 3
-seconds, it shoots off toward the right and disappears into a cloud
-bank. When he develops the roll of film, the photos show a blurred disc-
-shaped object with two black bands beneath and sitting atop a seeming
-column of vapor. NICAP is given the photo but is not impressed. In 1989,
-physicist Irwin
-Wieder performs a detailed analysis of the photo and determines that
-it is a blurred photo of the “Diamond Peak” sign taken from a passing
-car. (Clark III 1281–1283; Irwin Wieder, “The
-Willamette Pass Oregon UFO Photo Revisited: An Explanation,” Journal
-of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 2 (1993): 173–198; Irwin Wieder, “The
-Willamette Pass Photo Explained,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993):
-18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4127
Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: McDonald informally
-visits several Colorado project members. He explains radar complexities
-and mirage effects and tells them that they will soon be “confronting
-astonishing evidence of mishandling of the UFO problems by your
-sponsoring agency.” (UFOs Yes, 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4126
Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: Two witnesses observed a dark, red object land by the side
-of the road, later following their car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 168 (Vallee)
-Location: El Campo, Texas
-ID: 807
Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Spanish contactee Enrique
-Villagrasa receives by telephone his first message from inhabitants
-of the planet Ummo. The caller speaks in a slow monotone and with a
-foreign accent, answering questions about history and science.
-Villagrasa has the impression he is talking to an “electronic brain.”
-Other messages follow, and Villagrasa passes them on to Fernando
-Sesma, an employee of the Spanish telegraph service and head of
-Amigos de los Visitantes del Espacio. (Clark III 1184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4131
Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: At Saunders’s
-invitation, Hall and
-Keyhoe brief
-the Colorado project members. They meet with Low and
-show him some strong NICAP reports like the 1959 Redmond, Oregon, case.
-Low dismisses it as too old because the witnesses “wouldn’t remember the
-details.” Keyhoe focuses on the cover-up, while Hall argues that the
-best way to assess UFO evidence is to look at the aggregated evidence.
-(Clark III 1193; UFO Yes, 62–63; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed.,
-1974, pp. 108–110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4130
Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: Night. Janis Bodungen, 17, is on her way home on Farm Road
-1300 northwest of El Campo, Texas, when she sees teo bright lights
-coming toward her. As they approach, the two lights turn into one large
-golden light as tall as the trees. She turns the car around and speeds
-away. (“The
-Texas Flap,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, pp. 3, 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4132
Date: 11/30/1966
-Description: 4:35 p.m. J. G. Hockenberry is flying a Cessna 150 near New
-Kingstown, Pennsylvania, when he sees a saucer-shaped object, about 30
-feet in diameter, approach and hover beside the aircraft. It has a dull,
-gray-white finish and one blinking red light. When the pilot flies into
-a cloud layer, the object rises straight up and out of sight. (NICAP
-case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4133
Date: 12/1966
-Description: Low visits
-NICAP headquarters in Washington, D.C. He admits that Condon thinks
-the early reports are worthless. Keyhoe tells
-Low that before he wastes any time supplying them with reports, he wants
-to know what Condon thinks of the 1965 cases they already provided.
-Otherwise, NICAP might pull out. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed.,
-1974, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4134
Date: 12/1966
-Description: Colorado project member and psychologist William
-A. Scott devises a witness questionnaire. One page is devoted to the
-UFO, the other 20 are about the psychological profile of the witness.
-When he discovers that the witness is not the project’s main focus, he
-goes home. (UFOs Yes, 67–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4135
Date: 12/2/1966
-Description: Wertheimer goes to Washington, D.C., to interview witnesses
-of the National Airport radar-visual sightings of 1952. Virtually every
-witness disputes Gen. John
-A. Samford’s explanation of temperature inversions. (UFOs Yes,
-72–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4136
Date: 12/7/1966
-Description: A TAP Air Portugal airliner piloted by Capt. Henrique Maia
-is paced by two luminous objects near Luanda, Angola. (Lorenzen, UFOs
-over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4137
Date: 12/15/1966
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Four witnesses driving northwest toward
-Woodstown, New Jersey, see a triangular object with rounded corners and
-three blinking lights. It is moving slowly in the opposite direction.
-When they leave Woodstown to the southeast at 6:15 p.m., it reappears
-and passes over the car. (Marler 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4138
Date: 12/17/1966
-Description: Hynek’s
-article, in which he states that hundreds of puzzling UFO cases exit and
-urges a serious inquiry, appears in the Saturday Evening Post. (J. Allen
-Hynek, “Are
-Flying Saucers Real?” Saturday Evening Post, December 17, 1966,
-pp. 17–21, transcribed by
-NICAP)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4139
Date: 12/17/1966
-Description: “Are Flying Saucers Real?” by Dr. J. A. Hynek in Saturday
-Evening Post, stating that hundreds of puzzling UFO cases exist and
-urging a serious inquiry
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 107
Date: 12/21/1966
-Description: Lockheed test pilot William
-C. Park flies an A-12 for 10,198 statute miles in only 6 hours, at
-an average speed of 1,660 mph. (“William
-C. Park Jr.,” Roadrunners Internationale)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4140
Date: 12/25/1966
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witnesses: civilians and military persons. Three round
-objects, as large as cars, gave off vapor, then became three bright
-reddish-orange lights. Blast at beginning of 90 minute sighting pushed
-one witness against a car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Monroe, Oregon
-ID: 562
Date: 12/28/1966
-Description: The Defense Department makes a recommendation to President
-Johnson to
-terminate the A-12 program due to budget concerns and because of the
-development of the SR-71 Blackbird. It is to be phased out by June 1968.
-(Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4141
Date: 12/30/1966
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A physics professor named Galloway [possibly Louie
-A. Galloway III] is driving through a wooded area near Haynesville,
-Louisiana, and sees a bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to
-white, in the woods about one mile away. He estimates its visible light
-power output at about one megawatt. Coming back the next day, he locates
-traces of burns and calls the USAF and University of Colorado UFO
-project. (Condon, pp.
-61, 277–280;
-Sparks, p. 320;
-Jacques Vallée, “Estimates
-of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial
-Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 350– 352)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4142
Date: 12/30/1966
-Time: 2015
-Description: A physics professor driving through a wooded area saw a
-bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods
-about 1.7 km away. Coming back the next day, he located traces of burns,
-and called the Air Force and the University of Colorado.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Haynesville, Louisiana
-ID: 808
Date: 12/30/1966
-Description: Two luminous objects paced Canadian Pacific Airlines plane
-at 35,000 feet for seven minutes, emitted light beams up, then down,
-accelerated away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Peru
-ID: 108
Date: 1967
-Description: Robert
-M. Wood, physicist and aerospace manager for McDonnell Douglas
-Corporation, is assigned the task of exploring breakthroughs in gravity
-propulsion. The project includes laboratory evaluation of hypotheses,
-field observations, and examination of UFO literature. At one point
-there are 4 full-time and 3 part-time employees involved in the effort,
-code-named BITBR (“Boys in the Back Room”). Wood networks with James
-E. McDonald, J.
-Allen Hynek, Carl
-Sagan, and
-the Colorado project. The initiative is terminated in 1969 at Wood’s
-recommendation due to its inability to project a technological payoff.
-(Robert M. Wood, “A Little Physics…A Little Friction: A Close Encounter
-with the Condon Committee,” IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4145
Date: 1967
-Description: A French government UFO project, to be led by former
-inspector general at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique Jean-Luc
-Bruneau, is
-approved. Bruneau recommends that the study first become a project of
-the Centre Nationale d’Études Spatiales, and later a European
-initiative. But the project is postponed because of the political crisis
-in France in May 1968. (Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official
-UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4144
Date: 1967
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile reaches its peak at 31,255 bombs.
-(Ryan Crierie, “U.S.
-Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”) 1967 — Night. Miss E. R. East, of
-Gibsons, British Columbia, is awakened by a banging noise and sees a
-brilliant orange-red light soaring above hills behind the town. As she
-watches, its color changes to glowing white and the object moves toward
-the Strait of Georgia. Suddenly, a 10-foot-wide beam of light shoots
-down to the water. As it strikes the surface, it bends and lies flat on
-the surface, lighting up the wharf on Keats Island. As she stares at it,
-her eyes begin to sting. (John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, Hancock House,
-1977, pp. 37–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4143
Date: 1967
-Description: In 1967 a drought reduced water levels in Lake Karachay
-where nuclear waste was being dumped, exposing radioactive dust. The
-dust was spread by gale-force winds in the area, spread over 25,000
-square kilometers and exposing another 500,000 residents to nuclear
-fallout. The lake would eventually accumulate over 120 million curies of
-radionuclides. To put that in perspective, the Chernobyl incident
-released 1 million.
-Type: radiological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Lake Karachay, Russia
Date: 1/1967
-End date: 5/1967
-Description: Intensive U.S. and international UFO sighting wave (see
-separate chronology, section VIII).
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 109
Date: 1/1967
-Description: Night. French rocket scientist Jean-Pierre
-Morin is driving three members of a launch team to the tower at
-Interarmy Special Vehicles Test Center at Hammaguir, Algeria. When they
-arrive at a row of buildings, they notice a light in the sky silently
-coming toward them. Their car engine sputters and fails. It stops and
-hovers at an elevation of 45° about 1,600 feet away. Morin thinks it is
-attached to a black, cylindrical object 980–1,300 feet in length and 100
-feet in diameter with “flames” of different colors along its side. The
-light begins moving slowly again, and a car with astrophysicists stops
-and watches it for another 20–30 minutes before it ascends and
-disappears. (Good Need, pp. 296–297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4146
Date: early 1/1967
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Robert Blaine is driving with five other
-witnesses on State Highway 55 two miles southeast of Farwell, Minnesota,
-when his headlights and engine suddenly go out. He sees an orange flash
-to his left at the level of his hood and tiny beads of light cross in
-front of the windshield. A passenger sees an orange-and-red flash go by
-on the driver’s side at window level. The car coasts to a stop, then the
-engine and headlights go back on again by themselves. (“Car
-Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4147
Date: 1/3/1967
-Description: Dome-shaped object hovered over car, roadway brightly
-illuminated. Forward motion slowed, unable to accelerate, loss of
-steering control
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Richmond, IN
-ID: 110
Date: 1/3/1967
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 111
Date: 1/3/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A dome-shaped object hovers for several miles and
-10–15 minutes above a car in New Richmond, Michigan. It illuminates the
-road, and the car draws to a stop with loss of steering control and the
-radio failing. Examination of the car by Fred Hooven and David Moyer,
-engineers at the Ford Motor Company, two months later shows no faults
-unexplainable by ordinary causes. (Condon, pp. 102–106, 282–285;
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 65–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4148
Date: 1/5/1967
-Description: An A-12 flown by pilot Walter
-Ray is lost during a training flight near Leith Canyon, Nevada. Due
-to a faulty fuel gauge, the aircraft runs out of fuel 70 miles from
-Groom Dry Lake. Ray glides to a lower altitude to perform a controlled
-bailout but cannot separate his parachute from his ejection seat. He is
-the first pilot to be killed in an A-12 accident. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4150
Date: 1/5/1967
-Description: Hynek writes
-to Condon, telling
-him that he, Jacques
-Vallée, and William T. Powers are devoting more personal time to the
-UFO problem and are setting up a file area in the Lindheimer Observatory
-at Northwestern University in Evansto, Illinois. He mentions that there
-is enough underground interest in UFOs among his scientific colleagues
-that he is thinking of creating an informal “invisible college” to
-discuss the subject quietly. He mentions that he sat in on a hypnosis
-session a few weeks previously with Benjamin Simon and was allowed to
-question Betty
-and Barney Hill. He
-also suggests that the Colorado project recommend that police squad cars
-carry cameras that can document ongoing UFO reports. (Center for UFO
-Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], pp. 6– 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4149
Date: 1/5/1967
-Time: 0430
-Description: A civilian man, 32, driving to work in his 1964 Chevy
-truck, had to stop and inspect the vehicle when its engine stalled. Only
-then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw
-it land on the road, and locked himself inside the cabin. The craft
-settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 m in diameter and was
-10 m high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man
-dressed in blue coveralls “with something like a glass fishbowl on his
-head,” of medium height, seemed to check something and left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Winsted, Minnesota
-ID: 812
Date: 1/6/1967
-Description: Hynek speaks
-to an overflow crowd at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
-Maryland. He says he has had to revise his thinking on UFOs, urges
-scientists to take an active role in investigations, and confirms
-reports that NORAD and SAC radar has tracked UFOs, citing a case in
-which SAC radar tracked a UFO at 4,000 mph on an erratic flight path.
-(Story, p. 413)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4151
Date: 1/9/1967
-Description: Two teenage brothers of Mount Clemens, Michigan, Daniel A.
-and Grant
-P. Jaroslaw, take some Polaroid photos from the backyard of their
-home of a domed object moving slowly above Lake St. Clair. After they
-release the images to a wire service, the Air Force requests the
-originals for analysis. They refuse to relinquish them but give an
-officer at Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] some
-copies. Maj. Raymond
-Nyls attempts to recreate the photos at the original site using a
-block of wood hanging from a string on a children’s swing set. USAF
-turns the copies and Nyls’s recreations over to the National
-Photographic Interpretation Center, which takes a serious look and
-suspects a hoax but cannot prove it conclusively. (“Two
-Brothers Photograph Circular
-Object in Michigan,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Joey
-Del Ponte, “Formerly
-Secret Memo
-Shows How the Air Force Investigated UFO Sightings,” Muckrock,
-February 14, 2018; Curt Collins, “Dr. Hynek
-and the UFO Photo Investigation of 1967,” The Saucers That Time
-Forgot, October 21, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4152
Date: 1/12/1967
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A luminous object crosses the sky off Agadir,
-Morocco. It leaves a white trail that turns into a rainbow and falls
-into the sea with a deafening sound. The US Defense attaché in Rabat,
-Naval Capt. C. G. Strum, says the sighting “could be valuable in pursuit
-of Project Moon Dust.” (US Department of Defense, “UFO Sighting
-over Agadir, Morocco,” January 18, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4154
Date: 1/12/1967
-Description: The USAF advisory committee holds a special briefing in
-Boulder, Colorado. Condon discusses
-project plans and asks the Air Force where the project should place its
-emphasis. Lt. Col. Hippler,
-along with Col. Raymond
-Sleeper, Blue
-Book’s boss as Foreign Technology Division Commander, says the project
-is not required to prove or disprove anything, but that “we don’t want
-any recommendation from you unless you feel strongly about it.” He
-rejects Wertheimer’s suggestion that the project should concentrate on
-witnesses, not sightings. Hippler and Ratchford do
-not adequately respond to Low’s
-question about what USAF wants from the project. (“Air
-Force Advisory Panel Briefing,” January 12, 1967; Roy Craig, UFOs:
-An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of
-North Texas, 1995, p. 235; Michael D. Swords, “The
-USAF-Sponsored Colorado
-Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs,” 1995 MUFON Symposium
-Proceedings, MUFON, 1995; Clark III 1194; Swords 314–315)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4153
Date: 1/13/1967
-Description: Condon and
-Low visit
-Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD’s underground Space Defense Center complex in
-Colorado, for a “classified briefing” by orbital analysts 1Lt. Henry
-B. Eckert Jr. and Capt. Dick A. Cable of the 9th Aerospace Defense
-Division’s 1st Aerospace Control Squadron about NORAD’s radar network,
-hours after another classified briefing for Condon and staff at Boulder
-concludes. The Cheyenne Mountain briefing is the first in a series of
-tactical moves designed to discourage Condon’s project staff, Hynek, and
-McDonald from
-using NORAD as a source of UFO data or resource for future
-investigations or instrumentation. (Clark III 804–805; UFOs Yes,
-66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4155
Date: 1/13/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. The crew of a Lear Jet flying at 41,000 feet
-over southwestern New Mexico sees a flashing red luminous object in
-their 10 o’clock position. The object splits into four smaller red
-objects vertically several times, each separated by about 2,000 feet and
-each emitting a “red ray.” It then retracts the lowest objects into the
-top object. Albuquerque radar tracks a target 39 miles ahead of the Lear
-Jet moving on the same heading, with no transponder signal. At that
-moment the object blinks off visually for 30 seconds then blinks back
-on. The UFO floods the jet with an intense red light so bright that the
-pilot has difficulty seeing his instrument panel. It maintains its
-position in front for a few minutes then blinks out, comes on again, and
-falls back behind the left wing. It then pulls forward again.
-Albuquerque radar reports that it looks like the target had merged with
-the jet. Both the UFO and the jet make left turns over Winslow, Arizona,
-after which Los Angeles Center radar picks up both targets. Past
-Flagstaff, the object climbs at a 30° angle and disappears to the west
-in less than 10 seconds. (NICAP, “R/V”;
-Sparks, p. 321;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4157
Date: 1/13/1967
-Description: Early morning. Sgt. Norman Finley of the Joplin, Missouri,
-police alerts fellow officers about an unexplained object overhead.
-Pittsburg, Kansas, police dispatcher James Cunningham notifies the
-Joplin police that a UFO has been seen over Pittsburg. He describes it
-as an object with bright colors of “vivid blue-green with flashing
-lights.” Cunningham alerts the Joplin station because the object seems
-to be leaving Kansas and heading for Missouri. After receiving that
-call, Joplin’s Lt. Charles
-Hickman drives to Stone’s Corner near the Joplin airport. He waits
-for nearly an hour before spotting a UFO in the sky, which he watches
-for more than an hour. It is about 1,000 feet high and seems about as
-big as two houses. It makes turns and maneuvers “as if it were being
-controlled.” For the next three days, there are more sightings in the
-early morning hours at Coffeyville, Kansas; Joplin, Springfield, and
-Newton County, Missouri; and northeast Oklahoma. (UFOs Yes, 109–110;
-Condon, pp. 286–290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4156
Date: 1/15/1967
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Helen Godard and her two nieces see a domed disc
-with white light emanating from portholes in its base in Granville,
-Massachusetts. They hear a humming sound, and the sky and ground are
-illuminated by white light. Red flame jets appear at one end when the
-object moves. Speed is variable. At one point, all the lights go out,
-and when they come back on the portholes are showing red light. The
-object is seen three times within 20 minutes before it disappears over a
-mountain to the east. (“Major
-Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 4;
-Condon, pp. 285–286)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4158
Date: 1/16/1967
-Description: Hippler writes
-to Condon,
-saying that “No one knows of a visitation. It should therefore follow
-there has been no [extraterrestrial] visitation to date.” Moreover,
-Condon should “consider the cost of the Air Force program on UFOs, and
-determine if the taxpayer should support this for the next decade.” (Lt.
-Col. Robert H. Hippler, Letter
-to Edward U. Condon, January
-16, 1967; Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Hippler Letter,” A Different Perspective, March 21, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4159
Date: 1/16/1967
-Description: Approximately 4:30-6:30 A.M. Sodium vapor clouds from
-rocket launched at Eglin AFB, FL, blue-green color, visible over wide
-area.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Southeastern United States
-ID: 112
Date: 1/17/1967
-Time: 1845
-Description: A woman walking home saw a beam of light about 1 m in
-section sweep the ground in her direction. It came from a circular,
-white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots
-before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a
-separate location, 2 km away (LDLN).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: (Vallee)
-Location: Romieres, France
-ID: 809
Date: 1/17/1967
-Time: night
-Description: F. Bedel, 23, driving on Route 135 about 8 km north of
-Freetown saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue, and white
-blinking lights, lost control of his car, and ran off the road. Less
-than 2 km away, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30
-m of his car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 22 (Vallee)
-Location: Freetown, Indiana
-ID: 810
Date: 1/17/1967
-Description: Night. Francis Bedel Jr. is driving on State Highway 135
-five miles north of Freetown, Indiana, when a glowing white light darts
-into his field of vision. It hovers above the road for a few seconds,
-then slowly reverses its course. Bedel is so busy staring at the
-spectacle that he loses control of his car, which goes off the road and
-is badly damaged. Phil Patton and his wife apparently see the same
-object, about 30 feet in diameter, that comes within 100 feet of their
-car on the same road. It has a brilliant red light and flashing ywllow
-and white lights on its perimeter. (NICAP, “The
-1967 UFO Chronology”; “UFO
-Caused Car Wreck?” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4160
Date: 1/18/1967
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A family in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, watches
-through binoculars a disc with a red light on a projection at the rear
-approach them at about 400–500 feet altitude. As it nears, the object
-emits two pinkish-white light beams downward at about a 45° angle from
-its forward edge. It then turns, rises suddenly, joins a second object,
-and both speed away. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., UFOs:
-A New Look, NICAP, 1969, Appendix
-D)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4161
Date: 1/19/1967
-Time: 0905
-Description: Two min later it flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Charleston (West Virginia) Tad Jones, 38, was driving near
-Charleston when he saw a large, metal sphere, about 6 m in diameter,
-having four legs equipped with wheels and a very small propeller
-underneath
-ID: 811
Date: 1/19/1967
-Description: 9:05 a.m. Tad Jones is driving a truck in Dunbar, West
-Virginia, when he sees a dull, aluminum sphere about 20–25 feet in
-diameter hovering about 4 feet above the road some 500 feet ahead of
-him. It has two antennae protruding from the top and two legs beneath
-it, with a propellor between them that rotates slowly when hovering (but
-faster when flying). There is a window at the top and a flange in the
-middle. When he gets to about 10 feet of it, the object ascends swiftly.
-(“Major
-Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan./Feb. 1967):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4162
Date: late 1/1967
-Description: McDonald is
-lobbying Frederick
-Seitz, president
-of the National Academy of Sciences, with some mild criticisms of the
-Colorado project and the establishment of a UFO research panel. Seitz is
-not convinced. (Clark III 698)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4164
Date: 1/20/1967
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Three girls (Kimberly Lodge, Ellen Kenney, and
-Janice Shafer), 16–17 years old, are driving near Methuen,
-Massachusetts, when they see a string of 9–10 bright red lights on a
-dark object that is moving over a field. The object hovers and swings
-around, revealing lights of a different color and configuration. When
-the girls stop to watch, their car stalls and the radio and lights go
-off. It has four glowing lights in the shape of a trapezoid, with red
-lights on top and white lights forming the base. The lights appear to be
-reflecting off a metal surface. The object starts moving slowly and then
-shoots away at high speed. A second car about 3 miles away also sees 7–8
-bright lights flying low. (NICAP, “Car
-Stalls after Girls See UFO over Field”; “Major
-Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 3–4;
-Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974,
-pp. 138–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4163
Date: 1/24/1967
-Description: 5:25 p.m. A 14-year-old boy in Yorba Linda, California,
-sees an object shaped like a top hat apparently hovering above houses
-across the street. It seems large and cylindrical, dull metallic, and
-has four legs. He grabs a camera and snaps a photo of the object, which
-has started moving away. (Ann Druffel, “The
-Yorba Linda Photograph,”
-in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Encounters, special issue no. 5 of FSR,
-November 1973, pp. 26–35; UFOEv II 286–287; Patrick Gross, “Yorba
-Linda, California, January 24, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4165
Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: Betty Andreasson abduction
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: South Ashburnham, MA
-ID: 114
Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: Dr. E. U. Condon, scientific director of the Colorado UFO
-Project, spoke to the Corning, NY, section of the American Chemical
-Society, stating that the government should get out of the UFO business,
-since there was apparently nothing to it.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 113
Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: Condon gives
-a talk in Corning, New York, and says: “It is my inclination right now
-to recommend that the government get out of this business. My attitude
-right now is that there’s nothing to it … but I’m not supposed to reach
-a conclusion for another year.” Keyhoe is
-astonished by Condon’s remarks. (“Most
-UFOs Explainable, Says Scientist,”
-Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette, January 26, 1967, p. 19; UFOs Yes,
-117–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4166
Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Betty
-Andreasson has her first abduction experience in South Ashburnham,
-Massachusetts. Placed under hypnosis on several occasions in 1977,
-Andreasson relates that following the appearance of the creatures every
-member of the family except her enters a state of paralysis “as if time
-had stopped for them.” A Christian evangelical, Andreasson thinks they
-must be angels. The culminating event is when Andreasson witnesses a
-giant phoenix-like bird burn up and reappear from the ashes as a giant
-worm. Further hypnotic probing brings forth apparent memories of
-lifelong interactions with extraterrestrials. Raymond
-E. Fowler’s 1979 book about the case contains the first reference to
-an implant in abduction literature, a motif that later becomes much more
-common. (Clark III 114–122; Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Affair,
-Prentice-Hall, 1979; Raymond E. Fowler, The
-Andreasson Affair: Phase Two, Prentice-Hall,
-1982; Raymond E. Fowler, The Watchers, Bantam,
-1990; Raymond E. Fowler, The
-Watchers II, Wild Flower, 1995; Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson
-Legacy, Marlowe, 1997; Betty Andreasson Luca and Bob Luca, A Lifting of
-the Veil, The Authors, 2017; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification
-System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19; Marcus
-Lowth, “The
-Extraordinary Claims of Betty Andreasson,” UFO Insight, March 24,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4167
Date: 1/26/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen
-when he saw an object, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, cross the
-road silently 100 m away, at low speed. Length, 20 m; height, 3 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Coffeen, Illinois
-ID: 813
Date: 1/26/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. The teenage daughter of a lieutenant colonel
-residing on a US Army base in Heidelberg, Germany, hears a strange
-pulsating sound. She tells her father, and they look out the window to
-see a dirigible- shaped object about 50–60 feet long hovering about 150
-feet off the ground above a motor vehicle shed. Before long, a crowd of
-50–60 people gather around their apartment building to watch the object,
-which is only 100 feet away. Some observers with binoculars say it is
-metallic and has lights that alternate in red, blue, and green colors.
-After about 20 minutes, US Air Force jets approach in response to a call
-from the base, and the UFO’s lights increase in intensity and it speeds
-away. (“Around
-the Globe,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4168
Date: 1/28/1967
-Time: 1345
-Description: Children observed “a little blue man with a tall hat and a
-beard” that disappeared in a puff of smoke; they later saw him again,
-and heard “foreign-sounding” voices.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Studham, Great Britain
-ID: 814
Date: 1/28/1967
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Alex Butler, 10, and five young friends are
-playing on Studham Common as they are making their way to Studham Lower
-School, Bedfordshire, England. Suddenly a flash of lightning strikes
-nearby, and Alex sees a little blue man about 3 feet tall with a high
-bowler hat and beard standing motionless on the opposite bank. It is
-clothed in a one-piece garment with a broad black belt and black box in
-front. A dim glow envelops him, giving him a blue color. The other boys
-see it too. They begin to run toward the creature, but it disappears in
-a puff of smoke. The little man appears in a different spot, and the
-boys start running there, but again he disappears. As the vanishing act
-repeats again, the boys hear a deep-toned sound emanating from two spots
-nearby. At that point the school bell sounds, and the boys rush off to
-class. Miss Newcomb, the school headmistress, interviews the boys and
-collects their written reports in a scrapbook (now lost). (R. H. B.
-Winder, “The
-Little Blue Man on Studham Common,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1967): 3–4; Theo Paijmans, “In Search of the Little Blue
-Man,” Fortean Times 339 (May 2016): 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4169
Date: 1/30/1967
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Reinhardt
-N. Ausmus and his wife Ruth are
-driving north on State Highway 99 in Sandusky, Ohio, when they spot a
-bright light in the sky. Stopping their car, they watch it hover for
-several minutes before it is suddenly extinguished. (“UFO
-over NASA Station,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 (March/April 1967):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4171
Date: 1/30/1967
-Description: 8:04 a.m. Commercial pilot Delton
-Schwanz is with his wife Della and
-three children 5 miles southwest of Crosby, North Dakota, when they see
-a bright-white, sharply outlined, lozenge-shaped object to the west. It
-momentarily hovers, then moves in level flight to the left, with a
-smooth climb in the southwest. It drops white “strips” of light that
-descend vertically and disappears to the south by ascending to about
-30°–45° elevation. At around the same time, George Larsen (Larson?) and
-Larry Pateof (Pace?) are driving by car 20 miles west of Crosby near the
-intersection of Highways 5 and 85 and see a large white light moving
-rapidly from west to south dropping something and disappearing suddenly.
-(Sparks, p. 321;
-Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 73–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4170
Date: 1/31/1967
-Description: Saunders stops
-in at NICAP in Washington, D.C., to pick up some case material. Keyhoe and
-Hall show
-him a clipping about Condon’s
-statements in Corning, New York. Saunders suggests that Condon is
-misquoted. But several NICAP members had been in the audience and one
-has already resigned to protest NICAP’s support of a sham investigation.
-(Clark III 1194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4172
Date: 2/1967
-Description: Soviet cosmologist Felix
-Ziegel writes an article revealing that “UFOs have been seen all
-over the USSR; the craft of every possible shape, small, large,
-flattened, spherical. They are able to remain stationary in the
-atmosphere or shoot along at 100,000 kilometers per hour. They move
-without producing the slightest sound, by creating around themselves a
-pneumatic vacuum that protects them from burning up in our stratosphere.
-Their craft have the mysterious capacity to vanish and reappear at will.
-Besides, they are able to affect our power resources, putting to a halt
-our electricity-generating plants, our radio stations, and our engines,
-without, however, leaving any permanent damage. So refined a technology
-can only be the fruit of an intelligence that is indeed far superior to
-ours.” The article is regarded in the West as the first-ever evidence
-that the Soviets are aware of UFO phenomena too. (CIA translation of
-Felix Ziegel, “UFOs:
-What Are They?” Smena, no. 7 (February 1967): 27– 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4175
Date: 2/1967
-Description: Although a UFO wave is in progress, practically no one at
-the Colorado project has the knowledge or resources to perform a serious
-investigation. Other than Low and
-the junior staff, nearly everyone lacks basic equipment, questionnaires,
-cameras, or tape measures. (UFOs Yes, 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4173
Date: 2/1967
-Description: John
-A. Keel speaks with USAF Col. George
-P. Freeman, who
-tells him that “Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing
-impressive credentials from government agencies have been silencing UFO
-witnesses.” The Air Force is unable to find out anything about them
-because this is a federal offense. (John A. Keel, The Mothman
-Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, p. 25;
-Nick Redfern, “MIB
-Are Not from the Government,” Mysterious Universe, June 23,
-2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4174
Date: 2/1/1967
-Description: In Boulder, Colorado, Saunders confronts
-Condon, who
-confirms the Corning quote and wonders why Saunders is making a fuss.
-After 30 minutes, Saunders persuades him that he is having a negative
-effect. Finally, Condon writes Keyhoe saying
-that his words were taken out of context and that he will look at the
-NICAP case files. (Clark III 1194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4176
Date: 2/1/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Three witnesses independently saw a craft emitting light
-signals land a few meters away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 93 (Vallee)
-Location: Boadilla del Monte, Spain
-ID: 815
Date: 2/2/1967
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Oswaldo Sanvitti is flying a Faucett Perú
-DC-4 airliner from Chiclayo to Lima, Peru, when the crew and passengers
-notice a bright light coming toward them from the west. Sanvitti
-estimates it is about 9 miles away, but it soon reaches the aircraft and
-hovers above it. The cabin lights dim, the plane’s compass fluctuates,
-and the radio gives off static. The UFO speeds away to the east,
-increasing its luminosity by 50%, but reappears 5 minutes later with
-another object. Both UFOs trail the aircraft until 5 minutes before it
-lands at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Callao. (Lorenzen, UFOs
-over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 24–25; Good Above, p. 533;
-Patrick Gross, “Aircraft
-Encounters with UFOs”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4177
Date: 2/2/1967
-Description: Airliner buzzed by maneuvering coneshaped object, took
-position above tail. Lights in plane dimmed, radio interference, radio
-compass oscillated
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lima, Peru
-ID: 115
Date: 2/5/1967
-Description: Evening. A young man in Hilliard, Ohio, hears a strange
-noise and a barking dog. He looks up and sees an object approaching at a
-low altitude over a road shoulder. It lands on three legs in a field.
-The object is egg- shaped and about 75 feet long and 45 feet high. An
-“elevator-like” shaft opens and beings emerge carrying small, circular
-balls that they place on the ground around the UFO. The human-like
-creatures appear to be waiting for something. Then a man approaches from
-across the field and talks to them, apparently by telepathy. The witness
-accidentally steps on a twig, and the beings hear it. One runs toward
-him and catches him by the back of the neck, leaving a burned wound.
-Another being comes and both drag him toward the object. As they get
-close, the beings look at each other, seemingly panic-stricken. They
-drop the witness, collect the balls, and run inside the UFO, which takes
-off. (“Startling
-Cases Investigated,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 (May/June 1967):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4178
Date: 2/5/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: A young man heard a strange noise and a barking dog, and
-saw an egg-shaped object land. From an elevatorlike shaft came human
-figures that placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked to them
-and appeared to speak with the entities. The witness was seen, the
-creatures tried to abduct him, and then took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Hilliards, Ohio
-ID: 816
Date: 2/6/1967
-Description: The mission of the Space Defense Center’s
-satellite-tracking radar (useless for UFOs) moves from Ent AFB [now the
-US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to “adjacent
-to the NORAD command center” (air defense UFO trackers) in Cheyenne
-Mountain, Colorado. However, they are separated from each other by
-partitions and use separate computers. (Wikipedia, “Space
-Defense Center”; Clark III 808)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4179
Date: 2/6/1967
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Donald and Marie Guseman. One large,
-Saturn-shaped object–5O’ in diameter and 20’ high–with two bright
-lights, a green light on one side and a red light on the other. Hovered
-motionless over the trees, then slowly moved north and suddenly
-disappeared after 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Odessa, Delaware
-ID: 563
Date: 2/8/1967
-Description: 6:43 p.m. Mary McCarthy and five of her young nieces and
-nephews see a glowing object as they are eating dinner at their farm 3
-miles south of Deep River, Ontario. The television immediately stops
-working properly. About a quarter of a mile away on a hill is a circular
-“craft” with a large core of dazzling, pulsating yellow lights in its
-center. From this core, red lights pulsate outward toward the rim,
-somewhat like neon lights. They have it in view for 40 minutes. After
-the object leaves, the TV starts working again. A Canadian Forces
-spokesperson says the lights were airplanes shooting flares in the area.
-(Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 124–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4180
Date: 2/9/1967
-Description: Condon recommends
-NICAP’s UFO Evidence to geophysicist Merle
-Tuve. (Swords 319)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4181
Date: 2/9/1967
-Description: 6:30 p.m. George Kawalski, a section foreman for the Great
-Northern railroad, sees an object hovering above the depot in Chester,
-Montana, from his home two blocks away. The object disappears straight
-up after bathing the depot in light. (“Third
-Report of UFOs Heard from Chester Area,” Great Falls (Mont.)
-Tribune, February 11, 1967, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4182
Date: 2/10/1967
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A couple in Alton, Illinois, sees a round,
-rotating, 25-foot diameter luminous object that changes color from red
-to white with occasional flashes of green. The object also has white
-lights in a triangle on the bottom. It flies, hovers, and passes over
-the witnesses. While hovering, a humming or droning sound is heard.
-(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 11, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4185
Date: 2/10/1967
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Two separate groups of four and three people in
-Woodstock, Connecticut, see a triangular object with a white light at
-each apex. It is moving with its blunt end forward from northeast to
-southwest at 1,000 feet altitude. The object is silent when hovering but
-makes a rumbling or roaring sound when it moves. The family TV set
-reception is disrupted when it passes by. (Marler 135–136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4184
Date: 2/10/1967
-Description: 3:42 a.m. Erie County Constable Gary Butler is patrolling
-in the area of NASA’s Plum Brook Station [now the Neil A. Armstrong Test
-Facility] in Sandusky, Ohio, when he sees a bright, bluish disc moving
-toward the southwest some 2 miles away. As it was disappearing behind
-some trees, he tries to radio in a report, but experiences some
-interference. (“UFO
-over NASA Station,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 (March/April 1967):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4183
Date: 2/11/1967
-Time: 0145
-Description: Miss Hildebrand, 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a
-large shiny object off the road. Returning to the scene with a
-policeman, the found broken branches at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Milford, Ohio
-ID: 817
Date: 2/12/1967
-Time: 3:40 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Lou Atkinson. Four fluorescent,
-football-shaped objects, a dull, almost grey luminous color; flew
-northeast in a very rigid formation for 4-10 seconds. Made a chirping
-noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
-ID: 564
Date: 2/12/1967
-Description: Domed disc with revolving lights at bottom edge flew over
-car just above phone lines. Later at treetop level, stopped, banked, and
-took off
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wharton, TX
-ID: 116
Date: 2/13/1967
-Description: 5:58 p.m. Sachio Sakuma is taking photographs of the Moon
-with a Petri V6 camera in Tokyo, Japan. On developing one image, he
-finds a luminous, oval-shaped object with a slight trail a short
-distance above the lunar crescent. (“Report
-from Japan,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4186
Date: 2/13/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Thompson is driving through Bigfork,
-Montana, with her two children when her pickup’s engine fails and the
-lights go out. Getting out, she sees overhead an intense greenish-blue
-light. She feels heat coming from the object. It changes direction
-abruptly, veering to the right as it changes to reddish-orange. As it
-moves away, the truck starts up on its own. (Brad Steiger and Joan
-Whritenour, New UFO Breakthrough, Universal, 1968, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4187
Date: 2/14/1967
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A farmer in Miller County, Missouri, notices that
-his cows are all staring in one direction. He goes to investigate and
-sees a landed object about 360 feet away. He sees several entities
-moving around it, so he picks up some stones and approaches it. From
-about 30 feet away, the object looks like a hovering parachute or a
-grayish-green shell. The creatures, apparently wearing overalls, scurry
-behind the craft and go inside. The farmer throws one stone, but it
-stops in midair about 15 feet away and drops to the ground. He throws
-the other stone to try to strike the top of the object, but it bounces
-off something. When he gets to 15 feet away, he walks into an invisible
-wall and can’t see the object at all. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4188
Date: 2/14/1967
-Description: Disc-shaped object in field, small beings moved around
-beneath it. Beings disappeared behind shaft, object sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Jefferson City, MO
-ID: 117
Date: 2/15/1967
-Description: Night. A Guatemalan Aviateca airliner piloted by Col.
-Alfredo Castaneda and Col. Carlos Samyoa encounters an object like a
-flying top as they are flying over Mexico at 10,000 feet. They put the
-aircraft into a sharp turn in order to avoid a collision, just before
-the object zooms out of sight. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas,
-Signet, 1968, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4189
Date: 2/16/1967
-Description: 11:43 p.m. S/Sgt Max Recod and his wife are driving along
-Route 66 south of Kingman, Arizona, when they see a formation of four
-lights, three red and one green, approaching their car at low altitude.
-The lights are attached to an object that emits a light beam from its
-bottom center that moves around and illuminates the desert. The lights
-disappear, but a few minutes later the UFO reappears from behind a hill
-a mile away, followed by two white lights flying in step formation, one
-of which lands or nearly lands. The remaining light merges with the
-large object. (“Sighting
-Evidence Grows,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 3 (Nov./Dec. 1967):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4190
Date: 2/16/1967
-Time: 9:11 PM
-Description: Witness: Miss Lynn Marsh. One light with faded edges seemed
-to follow observer in her car for 5-6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Stoughton, Wisconsin
-ID: 565
Date: 2/17/1967
-Alternate date: 2/18/1967
-Description: Around 10:00 p.m. Contactee Stella
-V. Lansing takes motion picture footage on a borrowed Keystone 8mm
-Capri camera of some yellow-orange lights on Ware Road near the
-junctions of Old Warren Road and Flynt Street in Palmer, Massachusetts.
-Suddenly a white light shoots upward in a zigzag motion and she is able
-to film some of its maneuvers. Subsequent frames seem to show
-low-contrast images of four human-like beings apparently conversing.
-Lansing is later studied by New Jersey psychiatrist Berthold
-E. Schwarz, who finds her repeat UFO sightings, further UFO films,
-and photographs showing superimposed clock-like patterns a subject of
-some interest. (Story, pp. 202–204;
-Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella
-Lansing’s UFO Motion Pictures,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1972): 3–12, 20; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella
-Lansing’s Movies: Four
-Entities and a Possible UFO,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Encounters,
-special issue no. 5 of FSR, November 1973, pp. 3–9; Berthold Eric
-Schwarz, “Stella
-Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 4
-(January 1975): 3–9; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella
-Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns—Part 2,”
-Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975): 20–27; Berthold Eric
-Schwarz, “Stella
-Lansing’s Clocklike UFO
-Patterns—Part 3,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April 1975):
-18–22; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella Lansing’s
-Clocklike UFO Patterns—Part 4,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 1 (June
-1975): 14–17; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO Contactee Stella Lansing:
-Possible Medical Implications of Her Motion Picture Experiments,”
-Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine
-23, no. 2 (1976): 60–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4191
Date: 2/20/1967
-Description: Condon, Saunders, Low, William
-Price of AFRSTA(?), and Thomas
-Ratchford, USAF senior scientist, visit the CIA’s National
-Photographic Interpretation Center in Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County,
-Virginia, to meet with its founder Arthur
-C. Lundahl and acquaint themselves with the CIA’s analysis
-capabilities. NPIC personnel will be available to perform work of a
-“photogrammatic nature, such as attempting to measure objects imaged on
-photographs,” but it will be strictly technical and no written comments
-or documentation is to be made public. After lunch, the group meets in
-the Pentagon with Brig. Gen. Edward
-B. Giller, director of the AF Special Weapons Center at Kirtland
-AFB, New Mexico. (Wikipedia, “Arthur
-C. Lundahl”; ClearIntent, pp. 141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4192
Date: 2/20/1967
-Time: 3:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF veteran/truck driver Stanton Summer. One
-orange-red object flew parallel to truck for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oxford, Wisconsin
-ID: 566
Date: 2/21/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Sherry Kohler is driving east on Western Avenue
-in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, when she sees a greenish spherical object
-with a wispy white trail flying at airplane speed on her right side for
-about 10 seconds. A second witness, Richard
-R. Dern Sr., sees a similar object about 10 minutes later. (Center
-for UFO Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4193
Date: 2/22/1967
-Description: 6:30 a.m. As Mrs. James A. Clevenger stands by her kitchen
-sink in Milton, Indiana, her collie dog jumps against the window and
-races around, barking and jumping. She notices an oval object with a row
-of bright lights. She lets the frightened dog inside and it promptly
-hides. She goes out to the end of her front walk and sees the UFO moving
-slowly at 100–200 feet altitude, following the course of a creek. She
-runs inside and calls her neighbor Mrs. Judd Alford, who can see a ring
-of white lights at 200 feet. Her fox terrier runs inside at full speed
-and hides under a chair. The object disappears behind trees a few
-minutes later. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4194
Date: 2/22/1967
-Time: night
-Description: G. Grammond saw an object with flashing red and green
-lights glide, circle, and land in a field. He saw it again spinning in
-the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses 5 min
-later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Chippenham, Great Britain
-ID: 818
Date: 2/23/1967
-Time: 1030
-Description: Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone when
-they were surprised to hear a very strong sound and saw an object flying
-low over their area. A third person saw the object, and many heard it.
-The snow was swirling under it. The object was mushroom-shaped,
-supported a dome with a fin, was greenish, and left toward the Severn
-River.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 170 (Vallee)
-Location: Linstead, Maryland
-ID: 819
Date: 2/23/1967
-Description: Lt. Col. Robert
-Hippler says that Secretary of the Air Force Harold
-Brown has established the policy that all USAF information on UFOs
-classified up to and including Secret is to be provided to the
-University of Colorado project. (NICAP, “Declassification
-of UFO Reports”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4195
Date: 2/24/1967
-Description: Approximate date. An engineer from Osorno, well-known
-locally, saw an object touch down and a strange being, 1.50 m tall,
-emerge, wearing a transparent suit. He had a very white face and white
-hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no apparent nose. Seeing the witness,
-he got back inside the machine, which took off at great speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 59; Vuillequez (Vallee)
-Location: Riachuelo, Chile
-ID: 820
Date: 2/24/1967
-Description: A well-known engineer in Osorno, Chile, sees a disc-shaped
-object land near him. Seconds after touching down, a strange being,
-about 4.5 feet tall and wearing a transparent outfit, emerges. It has a
-white face and hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no neck. When it sees
-the man looking, it gets back into the object and takes off. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4197
Date: 2/24/1967
-Description: Paul
-Santorinis, civil
-engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, gives a
-lecture to the Greek Astronautical Society, stating that a “world
-blanket of secrecy” surrounds UFO reports and describes his experience
-with ghost rockets over Greece in 1946. (Good Above, p. 23;
-Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4196
Date: 2/25/1967
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Two teenage boys in Fargo, North Dakota, see a
-round or disc-shaped brightly illuminated object only a few feet in
-diameter. It moves higher, accelerates, and flies away to the northeast.
-(Fargo (N.Dak.) Forum, February 25, 1967; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO
-Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 56;
-Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], pp. 27–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4198
Date: 2/26/1967
-Description: and some other countries. 6:30-9:30 P.M. Objects with
-streams of lights, erratic motions. No USAF unknowns or Colorado Project
-cases for this date. Suspected extraordinary phenomenon (meteor train?)
-or military maneuvers.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Across U.S
-ID: 118
Date: 2/27/1967
-Time: 8:19 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Sheriff Grysen, wife and others. Large white
-light, with smaller red and green lights seen to the sides. Made almost
-instantaneous 90^ turn to left, shot out over road and stopped, moving
-too fast to follow. Sighting lasted 1 hour, 11 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Grand Haven, Michigan
-ID: 567
Date: 3/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A luminous hemispherical object is seen over Dry
-Creek Basin, San Miguel County, Colorado, moving slowly, then
-accelerating. The witness’s car engine, radio, and lights experience
-interference. (Condon, pp. 295–297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4206
Date: 3/1967
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A group of students at the Ramón Martín Middle
-School in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, watch a triangle-shaped object above a
-nearby mountain. It has a cupola on top and flies around silently before
-vanishing. (Jorge Martín, “Triangular
-UFOs over Puerto Rico,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn
-1999): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4205
Date: 3/1967
-Description: Cuban air defense radar controllers report a UFO
-approaching Cuba from the northwest, moving at 660 mph at an altitude of
-33,000 feet. Two MiG-21s are scrambled and are guided to within 3 miles
-of the object. The flight leader radios in that the UFO is a bright
-metallic sphere with no visible markings. He is unable to establish
-radio contact with it and Cuban air defense orders him to shoot it down.
-The flight leader reports that his radar is locked and missiles ready.
-Seconds later, a wingman screams into the radio that the flight leader’s
-MiG has disintegrated. The UFO then accelerates and climbs above 90,000
-feet, heading towards South America. The US 6947th Security Squadron
-headquartered at Homestead AFB [now Homestead Air Reserve Base] in
-Miami–Dade County, Florida, is monitoring the incident and sends a
-report to the NSA at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. NSA orders the
-squadron to ship all tapes and data to them and list the airplane loss
-as “equipment malfunction.” The details sound like it might be the CIA’s
-Oxcart A-12, the Air Force version of which is the SR-71, which are
-known to overfly Cuba. (NICAP, “The
-1967 Cuban Jet Incident”; ClearIntent, pp. 195–201;
-“1967: Two Cuban Jets Pursue a UFO, the UFO Destroys One Jet,” IUR 3,
-no. 9 (September 1978): 11–13; Good Above, pp. 421– 422)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4204
Date: 3/1967
-Description: Day. Augusto Arranda is taking photographs of the scenery
-in the Huascarán mountains near Yungay, Peru. He takes three photos of a
-disc-shaped object and one photo showing two objects. A Kodak employee
-sends one to ufologist Richard Greenwell, and APRO obtains the other
-three in 1969 from Eastman Kodak’s International Division. The
-circumstances of the sighting remain unknown. (Patrick Gross, “The
-Yungay Photographs, Peru, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4203
Date: 3/1967
-Description: Michel M. Jaffe, a ham radio operator in Mountain View,
-California, begins publishing Data-Net Report, a UFO newsletter for
-radio enthusiasts that continues to 1973. (Data-Net
-Report, no.
-1 (March 1967))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4202
Date: 3/1967
-Description: Members of the Colorado project visit APRO headquarters;
-the Lorenzens give
-them some case leads that are never followed up because they are old.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4201
Date: 3/1967
-Description: Low calls
-Keyhoe and
-reveals that none of the Blue Book cases have been spot-checked for
-inaccuracies because “Condon hasn’t
-found any AF explanations he considers untrue.” Low later visits NICAP
-in Washington and Keyhoe asks him how many NICAP cases he has examined.
-Low says, “Probably four or five.” Low says he ultimately hopes to
-review 85–90 cases. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4200
Date: 3/1/1967
-Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, sends notice to all
-branches of the military warning of persons imitating military officers
-and harassing private citizens and confiscating UFO photos.
-Type: notice
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 3/21/66
Date: 3/1/1967
-Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt
-T. Wheless, USAF
-assistant vice chief of staff, circulates a memo on “Impersonations of
-Air Force Officers,” which outlines Rex
-Heflin’s accounts of the NORAD impostor and another case in which it
-reports that “a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police
-and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school
-room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and
-that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting.” All USAF
-personnel hearing about such incidents should report them to AFOSI.
-(ClearIntent, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4207
Date: 3/1/1967
-Description: Many residents of Valparaiso, Chile, watch four bright
-domed objects, flashing blue and red lights, move south to north above
-the city. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4208
Date: early 3/1967
-Description: Low writes
-a position paper that expects the Colorado project will fail to support
-the ETH. Before sharing his paper with project members, he shares his
-views in talks with the Rand Corporation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and
-Boeing. Despite his attempts to “build the record,” the project’s
-failure to move quickly has forced it to prepare a proposal to extend
-its contract. (UFOs Yes, 130–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4199
Date: 3/2/1967
-Description: 10:25 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Two radars at White Sands Missile
-Range, New Mexico, plot 20 silver objects, radar blips at an altitude of
-7 miles. A news blackout is invoked by the military. Twenty-nine people
-report seeing one or more objects in groups, ranging in appearance from
-silvery objects flying overhead to a saucer-shaped object. Intermittent
-unexplained radar targets are seen during this time. (NICAP, “Two
-Radars Plot 20 Objects”; Condon, pp. 150–151, 291–295;
-Sparks,
-p. 322)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4209
Date: 3/2/1967
-Description: Radar-visual sightings of three to four silvery discs
-traveling about 2,000 mph. News blackout invoked by military
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: White Sands Missile Range, NM
-ID: 119
Date: 3/3/1967
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Sandwich when they
-saw a lighted object going up and down, turning from white to greenish
-blue, and following their car for 20 min until they reached Route 113.
-It left to the northeast. They reported feeling an “electric discharge”
-as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Red Hill, New Hampshire
-ID: 821
Date: 3/4/1967
-Time: 2400
-Description: The Sodestrom family obsered two plate-shaped objects, one
-30 m in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color. They hovered at
-20 111 altitude for 15 min. The object left with a hushed whistling
-sound, illuminating the forest with intense light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 171 (Vallee)
-Location: Vilhelmina, Swedish Laponia
-ID: 822
Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: Night. The Russell Carter Jr. family is traveling about 10
-miles east of Hayes, South Dakota, on US Highway 14 when a bright light
-follows their car. The V-shaped object approaches from far away and is
-lower than the telephone wires, bathing the road and an area around the
-car in a brilliant light. They hear a humming sound and experience a
-feeling of numbness at its closest approach. (“Pierre
-Family Sees UFO in Hayes Area,” Rapid City (S.Dak.) Journal, March
-7, 1967, p. 1; “Car
-Followed by Flying Object,” APRG Reporter, no. 56 (May 1967):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4213
Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: ADC radar at Minot AFB, North Dakota, tracks an
-unidentified target descending over the Minuteman ICBM missile silos of
-the 91st Strategic Missile Wing. Base security teams see a metallic,
-disc-shaped object ringed with bright flashing lights moving slowly,
-maneuvering, then stopping and hovering about 500 feet above the ground.
-The object circles directly over the launch control facility. F-106
-fighters are scrambled, but at that moment the object climbs straight up
-and disappears at high speed. (NICAP, “Disc
-Hovers 500ʹ over Missile Silos / ADC Radar
-Confirms”; Sparks,
-p. 322; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet, 1974,
-pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4212
Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: 5:30 p.m. John and Miriam Coyle take a series of six photos
-of a silvery UFO at Hallam, Victoria, Australia. The object circles them
-slowly. (“U.F.O.
-Photographed over Hallam,” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 7
-(September 1967): 15; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic,
-“Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4211
Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: 1:25 a.m. Lenny and Tommy Söderström are returning home to
-their farm in Lövåsen, Vilhelmina, Sweden, when they notice a
-“spaceship” behind a barn. They rush inside and wake their parents and a
-sibling. Looking through the kitchen window, they see a dark,
-cigar-shaped object, 82–130 feet wide, silhouetted against the sky.
-Wobbling slightly on its axis, it hovers 24 feet in the air. After
-someone turns on the kitchen light, the UFO shoots off toward the north,
-emitting a whistling sound, as a smaller object appears from behind it.
-This UFO is a silvery globe about 20–40 feet in diameter; it turns and
-approaches the farmhouse. When it passes above a power line, it stops
-and hovers for 4 minutes. It takes off toward the northeast. (“Two
-from Sweden,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 9; Clas Svahn, “Skräcknatten
-i Vilhelmina,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige; Clark III
-246–247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4210
Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: Radar tracked object descending over missile sites,
-security teams saw disc with flashing lights hover about 500 feet off
-ground. Object departed straight up
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minot AFB, ND
-ID: 120
Date: 3/6/1967
-Time: 4:25 AM
-Description: Witness: Deputy Sheriff Frank Courson. One object shaped
-like a rubber cup which is placed under furniture leg, with a dome set
-in the cup. Bottom of object spun rapidly, rim pulsated red. Approached
-witness and passed overhead at low altitude, making a hieeing
-sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Galesburg-Moline, Illinois
-ID: 569
Date: 3/6/1967
-Time: 12:01 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Jerome Wolanin, assistant news director of radio
-station and former policeman, and wife. One round saucer or oval-shaped
-object with red, green and yellow lights around bottom rim which
-pulsated red. Flew level, east to west, and was joined by second object
-from west. First object opened top, second came over and hovered for 30
-seconds and disappeared. Sighting lasted more than 40 minutes. Objects
-made hissing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Benton Harbor, Michigan
-ID: 568
Date: 3/7/1967
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Lucille Drzonek and her daughters, ages 24 and
-17, are driving northwest on US Highway 20 just past Keeneyville,
-Illinois. Their beagle is with them. They see a solid object, estimated
-at 15 feet in diameter, outlined in bright white lights and with two big
-beams in front. As it nears the ground it takes on a disc shape and
-begins flashing red and green lights. The beagle is so frightened that
-its hair stands up straight on its back. As they turn off the highway
-toward Bartlett, Illinois, the object descends into a woods, lighting
-the trees with a red glare. It projects two white light beams into the
-rear window of their car. As they pull into their home, the UFO is
-hovering about 10 feet above a tree in their yard. A strange, localized
-gray mist appears and when it dissipates the UFO is gone. The beagle is
-visibly upset for the next two days. A veterinarian suggests he might
-have heard a noise inaudible to humans. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I.
-R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 34–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4214
Date: 3/8/1967
-Description: Many people in Comas, Peru, watch 15 discs circle
-noiselessly low above town for 15 minutes. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the
-Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4216
Date: 3/8/1967
-End date: 3/9/1967
-Description: Domed circular object with red body lights approached
-witnesses, gave off burst of brilliant white light, hissing sound,
-accelerated away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Henderson and Galesburg, IL
-ID: 121
Date: 3/8/1967
-Time: 0105
-Description: Two persons observed deep fog in the vicinity of a cemetery
-and saw a light in the center, coming from an object hovering 100 m
-above ground. Thinking it was a fire, the witnesses stopped. Paralysis
-and ignition interference were then noted while the object, about 13 m
-in diameter, oscillated and then departed with a whirring sound. It took
-about 20 min for the witnesses to recover muscular coordination.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Leominster, Massachusetts
-ID: 823
Date: 3/8/1967
-Description: 1:05 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wallace are returning
-home to Leominster, Massachusetts, when they pass through a dense fog
-near St. Leo’s Cemetery and notice a bright light on the left. Wallace
-turns the car around and heads back for a closer look. The glow is from
-a light that is hovering 400–500 feet above the cemetery. Intrigued,
-Wallace places the car in neutral, pulls the emergency brake, and steps
-outside. As he points toward the light, something pulls his arm back and
-drops it on the roof of the car, which then stalls and the electrical
-system goes out. He remains immobile for more than 30 seconds even as
-his wife is trying to pull him back. As the lights and radio come back
-on, the UFO rocks back and forth, rises with a humming sound, and
-disappears. Wallace goes back into the car, which now starts normally.
-Wallace still feels “slow and sluggish” on the drive back, and he
-collides with the garage door as he pulls into his driveway. They return
-to the cemetery 10 minutes later, but the fog is gone. (“Driver
-Shocked, Paralyzed,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 (March/April 1967):
-7; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects?
-Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 10; Clark III 251; Randle, Levelland,
-2021, pp. 139–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4215
Date: 3/9/1967
-Time: 9:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Jack Lindley. One bright white, saucer-shaped
-object, as big as a jet airliner, flew straight and fast to the east for
-2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Onawa, Iowa
-ID: 571
Date: 3/9/1967
-Time: 7:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two housewives. One object shaped like a pancake
-with a rounded top; object was pulsating red, with red lights around its
-rim. Approached witnesses and seemed to explode with a brilliant white
-light that lasted 10 seconds and almost blinded them. Then it
-accelerated to the north and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Galesburg, Illinois
-ID: 570
Date: 3/9/1967
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Jack Lindley sees a bright white saucer-shaped
-light, as big as an airliner, fly straight and fast to the east over
-Onawa, Iowa. (Sparks,
-p. 323)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4217
Date: 3/9/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Three witnesses observed an object as they were driving on
-Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, left suddenly at high
-speed. Its size was that of a car, and the underside showed several
-lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Follansbee, Virginia
-ID: 824
Date: 3/11/1967
-End date: 3/13/1967
-Description: Night. Red, green, and white lights are observed in the air
-by several witnesses at Tillamook, Oregon, including police and
-sheriff’s deputies. Radar contact is made in the same area as the visual
-sightings by the radar station at Mount Hebo Air Force Station [now
-closed]. On March 11, objects are observed for one hour. On March 12,
-they are again observed for one hour. On March 13, the objects are seen
-for four hours and 35 minutes. The radar returns show hovering and rapid
-movement of the targets. The visual sightings also show rapid movement
-of the objects at times. One radar sighting shows a rapid distance
-change from 39–48 miles within one minute. (NICAP, “Colored
-Lights and Radar Returns”; Condon, pp. 122–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4218
Date: 3/12/1967
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Larry Burke sees an object with red, green, and
-white flashing lights southwest of McIntosh, South Dakota. He picks up
-three friends—Dick Makens, Junior Edinger, and Charles Warren—to go
-investigate. On a country road one mile west of town they see four
-blinding, fluorescent-green lights low above the road ahead. As they are
-driving up a hill, the car engine stops. Frightened, they let the car
-coast back down the hill, and the engine starts again. The witnesses
-disagree on the size, shape, and altitude of the lights. (“Car
-Buzzing Incidents on
-Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4219
Date: 3/12/1967
-Description: A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object
-resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 m above ground. It was not
-larger than a car, took a 45 (degree) orientation, oscillated, and left
-to the northwest. Three photographs were reportedly taken.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rochester, Minnesota
-ID: 825
Date: mid 3/1967
-Description: Night. Future UFO researcher Robert
-Hastings has a part-time job as a janitor in Malmstrom AFB near
-Great Falls, Montana. One night as he is cleaning out the Radar Approach
-Control center, one of the FAA controllers calls him over to look at 5
-unidentified targets that two jet fighters have gone up to intercept.
-Soon he is asked to leave and clean the room later. Later on, he hears
-that the targets ascended vertically, leaving the jets far behind, and
-that the incident takes place in the Judith Basin area many miles to the
-south. (Nukes 6–7, 279, 282–286)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4220
Date: 3/16/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Beryl
-Dux sees two white cloud-like objects over Belvedere, New Jersey.
-She calls her sister Olive to watch, and suddenly a dull orange object
-comes out of the cloud on the right. It is spinning rapidly and
-descending quickly, but it goes into the white cloud on the right. The
-two clouds merge and vanish gradually. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery
-Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4222
Date: 3/16/1967
-Description: Security guards saw glowing red disc hover near missile
-site, weapons shut down
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT
-ID: 122
Date: 3/16/1967
-Description: 8:30 a.m. At the Malmstrom AFB Echo-Flight missile launch
-facility between Winfred and Hilger, Montana, 1Lt Walter Figel, deputy
-crew commander of the Missile Combat Crew, sees one of his Minuteman
-missiles go into “no-go” status. He calls the missile site to see if
-there is scheduled maintenance and is told no. The guard tells him of a
-large, round object over the site. Within seconds, the nine other
-missiles shut down. Strike teams are dispatched to the two Launch
-Control Centers, where maintenance and security personnel tell them
-about the UFOs. The missiles are offline for the greater part of the
-day. (Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005; Robert
-L. Hastings, “The
-Echo and Oscar Flight Incidents,” UFOs & Nukes, November 12,
-2012; Nukes 254–258, 265–268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4221
Date: 3/20/1967
-Time: 2245
-Description: A man and his daughter saw two lights that they thought
-were landing lights on aircraft, but they came to ground level, flew
-straight toward the car, and suddenly vanished. At the same time, five
-figures appeared about 3 m away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths
-and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose
-“hunterlike” clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Butler, Pennsylvania
-ID: 826
Date: 3/20/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A man and his daughter living in Butler,
-Pennsylvania, take the car out to go looking for lights his wife had
-seen in the sky earlier. After stopping with the car lights off for a
-while, he sees two yellowish-white globes of light at 200 feet altitude,
-which start moving toward the car in a parallel course. The objects
-descend a quarter mile away, then shoot toward the witnesses at 70–80
-mph. The daughter hears a “chorus of voices” in her head saying “don’t
-move” repeatedly. The man switches on the headlights, the lights
-disappear, and the voices stop. Moments later, 10 feet from the car,
-they see five figures standing in an irregular semicircle. The man gets
-into the car but the daughter continues staring at the figures, which
-have slits for eyes and mouths. All have long blond hair and are wearing
-something like baseball caps. They wear loose-fitting clothing. The
-witnesses drive away quickly and go to their minister’s home. (Robert A.
-Schmidt, “Humanoids
-Seen at Butler,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1968):
-5–6; Clark III 277–278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4223
Date: spring 1967
-Description: Night. Centenary College Instructor John O. Williams has
-taken his astronomy class to an open field on the Shreveport, Louisiana,
-campus to observe the sky. The see a bright orange light precisely due
-west of them at an elevation of about 30° approaching at a modest
-angular rate of 1° per second. It remains silent even as it passes above
-them. A second light, much fainter and blue in color, is following it.
-The second light turns away and moves south into the distance. The
-orange light continues eastward, then performs a tight 180° turn and
-returns to their zenith. It accelerates west and disappears from view.
-After about 20 minutes it disappears, followed by a thread of rippling
-blue light. The thread breaks into 7–8 individual blue lights, which
-exit in several directions. (John O. Williams, “Louisiana Lights in
-1967,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4239
Date: spring 1967
-Description: The United Aerial Phenomena Agency begins publishing Flying
-Saucer Digest, edited by Allan J. Manak in Cleveland, Ohio. Rick
-Hilberg takes over as chief editor in 2003. It continues until at
-least fall 2017. (Flying Saucer
-Digest 1, no. 1 (Spring 1967))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4238
Date: spring 1967
-Description: Psychologist David
-R. Saunders, a
-principal investigator for the Colorado project, launches UFOCAT, a
-computerized database of UFO cases, after researcher Jacques
-Vallée gives the project 3,000 cases from his own collection.
-Saunders codes the cases with such parameters as source, date, time,
-location, state and county, country, witness names, age, gender, special
-features, duration, and other elements. (Center for UFO Studies, “UFOCAT-2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4237
Date: 3/21/1967
-Description: A Brazilian military aircraft with 14 passengers encounters
-a glowing-red, oblong object over the state of Rio Grande do Sul,
-Brazil, while on its way to Salgado Filho Airport near Gravataí. The
-control tower operator there alerts pilots of a Cruzeiro do Sul aircraft
-coming in from the southwest. Minutes later these pilots see apparently
-the same object, which follows them for 25 minutes before zipping up
-into the sky. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968,
-pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4224
Date: 3/21/1967
-Description: Night. Mary Beth Neufeld and three other teenagers are
-driving on US Highway 56 one mile west of Hillsboro, Kansas, when they
-see a bright object “like an upside-down cup on a saucer.” They start
-driving toward it, but it approaches them and hovers above the car for a
-few seconds. The car starts rocking and the engine quits. When the UFO
-leaves, they are able to start it up again. (“Car
-Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967,
-p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4225
Date: 3/22/1967
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witness: Douglas Eutsler, 15. Fluorescent, solid,
-multicolored lights stood still, then flew away at high speed after 1
-minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wapello, Iowa
-ID: 572
Date: 3/22/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Ann-Lis Danielsson is driving home to Tjuvkil,
-Västra Götaland, Sweden, when she notices a greenish illumination
-outside her car. Slowing down, she sees a disc about 15 feet in diameter
-hovering 500 feet away at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It begins to circle
-the area slowly, rising and sinking and giving off a whining noise.
-After pacing her for 15 minutes, it climbs vertically with an
-oscillating motion. (“Girl
-Reconnoitred by Disc,”
-APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4226
Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Truck driver Ken Williams driving northwest on US
-Highway 87/89 sees a dome-shaped object emitting a bright light land in
-a ravine near Belt, Montana. As he approaches, it takes off and settles
-back, hidden from the highway. Numerous other reports come in from this
-area. At dawn, police and a helicopter from Malmstrom AFB conduct a
-search without success. (NICAP, “Dome-Shaped
-Object Lands in Ravine”; Sparks, p. 323;
-Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32,
-no. 1 (August 2008): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4231
Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: Late evening. An airman with the Malmstrom AFB Oscar-Flight
-Launch Control Center for the SAC USAF 341st Strategic Missile Wing
-south of Roy, Montana, sees a star-like object zigzagging high above
-him. Soon, a larger and closer light appears and behaves similarly. He
-calls his NCO and the two men watch as the lights streak through the
-sky, maneuvering in impossible ways. The NCO phones his commander, 1Lt.
-Robert
-Salas, who is below ground in the LCC. Salas is dubious and tells
-them to let him know if they get any closer. A few minutes later the NCO
-calls him again and shouts that a red, glowing UFO is hovering outside
-the front gate. Salas tells him to make sure the site is secure while he
-phones the command post. Meanwhile, one of the guards is injured when he
-approaches the UFO and has to be evacuated by helicopter. As Salas
-briefs Lt. Fred
-Meiwald, an alarm rings through the small LCC and both men see a
-“no-go” light turn on for one of the missiles. Within seconds, 4– 7 more
-Minutemen nuclear ICBMs go offline in succession. The USAF investigation
-includes full-scale tests on- site, as well as lab tests at Boeing’s
-Seattle plant. No cause for the shutdown can be found. (“‘Echo
-Flight’ Missile Incident”;
-Sparks, pp. 4,
-323; Jim Klotz and Robert Salas, “The
-Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident,” November 27, 1996; Robert L.
-Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1
-(August 2008): 9–10; Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant,
-BookSurge, 2005; Nukes 259–263, 268–277; Kevin D. Randle, “Robert
-Salas and Me,” A Different Perspective, May 19, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4230
Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 10:45 a.m. An astronomer at the Catalina Station
-observatory on Mount Bigelow 18 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona, sees
-a white oval disc the apparent size of the moon moving silently in a
-straight line from northwest to northeast. It slowly changes from an
-elongated shape to a more circular one. He estimates its speed as 600
-mph, size as 230 feet, and distance as 6–12 miles. It disappears after
-50 seconds. (“Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR
-2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4229
Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: Numerous reports came from this area, including one of a
-landing observation. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom AFB helicopter made
-a search, with negative results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Belt, Montana
-ID: 827
Date: 3/24/1967
-Time: 99 PM
-Description: Witness: truck driver Ken Williams. One dome-shaped object,
-emitting a bright light, landed in a ravine. As the witness approached,
-it took off and settled back, hidden from the highway. Sighting lasted
-several minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Belt, Montana
-ID: 573
Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 8:45 a.m. An airline pilot watches a small silvery-white
-disc hovering for 10 minutes above Los Alamos, New Mexico. Then it moves
-across the sky and disappears into clouds. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO
-Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4228
Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 5:30 a.m. USAF S/Sgt Johnny Ferguson is traveling with his
-wife and three children near Loco, Texas, where they are terrified by a
-mysterious bright blue-neon light that chases them at high speed along
-the road. It finally splits into two, changes to a reddish color, and
-disappears behind a hill. Ferguson reports the incident to Deputy
-Sheriff George
-Hooten, then drives into nearby Wellington. (Curt Collins, “Contact
-in Texas: The Lost UFO
-Photos,” Blue Blurry Lines, November 18, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4227
Date: 3/25/1967
-Time: dawn
-Description: An intensely luminous object woke up several residents.
-People in trains going toward Acapulco and people traveling by car saw
-the same phenomenon. It came to ground level with a blinding light, then
-took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 177 (Vallee)
-Location: Iguala, Mexico
-ID: 828
Date: 3/26/1967
-Time: 2045
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward
-Gretna. Near three radio towers situated 3.5 km south of Altona, they
-saw a very bright object at ground level, illuminating the countryside
-with a pink glow. The object itself was dark, with a luminous band
-around it, was motionless and pulsated, then suddenly disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 173 (Vallee)
-Location: Altona, Canada
-ID: 829
Date: 3/26/1967
-Time: 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: man, woman, three boys. One oval object, which
-looked like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, flew from
-southeast to northwest with tumbling motion for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Winchester, Ohio
-ID: 574
Date: 3/26/1967
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Five witnesses in New Winchester, Ohio, see an
-oval object, like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, fly from
-southeast to northwest with a tumbling motion. (Sparks,
-p. 323; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4232
Date: 3/27/1967
-Description: Day. The crew of a Brazilian Air Force C-47 and the crew of
-a Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul photo- mapping aircraft see a UFO in
-the vicinity of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The BAF crew
-describes it as a “reddish-colored full moon” that is flying in circles.
-They report the sighting to the tower at Salgado Filho International
-Airport, which asks the mapping aircraft to identify the object. The
-Cruzeiro plane follows the UFO for 15 minutes before it disappears.
-(Good Above, p. 311)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4233
Date: 3/28/1967
-Description: 2:25 a.m. Electrical worker David
-Morris, 20,
-is driving home to Munroe Falls, Ohio, from nearby Kent when he sees a
-glowing red-orange object shaped like an inverted cone hovering just
-above the ground. The object is about 12 feet wide at the base and 25
-feet high, with a ball-shaped object at its top. Looking at the road
-ahead, Morris sees four or five large-headed humanoids moving rapidly
-back and forth about 50 feet ahead. He slams on his brakes, but it is
-too late. He feels a thump against the right front corner of his car and
-sees an arm with a thumbless mitten fly up, then down. The car stops 10
-feet later; Morris thinks about providing assistance, but the
-otherworldliness of the situation causes him to get away quickly. In his
-rearview mirror he sees a group of the entities position themselves
-around something lying on the ground. In the morning, Morris finds three
-dents in the front bumper and right headlight ring of his car. (“Youth’s
-Car Strikes UAO Occupant,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, pp. 1–4;
-Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 28–29; Clark III 782–783)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4234
Date: 3/28/1967
-Description: A second briefing for Robert
-Low by NORAD analysts effectively diverts researcher attention away
-from NORAD’s 500 defense radars and onto its useless handful of space
-defense satellite-tracking radars and cameras (referred to as
-“spacetrack” and are the least likely to detect UFOs). Low tries to find
-out if NORAD can help with identifying satellites that might be
-misreported as UFOs and whether NORAD can’t track a UFO entering the
-atmosphere from outer space (or just aren’t), but the analysts are
-evasive. NORAD says its satellite-tracking radars (with non-ballistic
-maneuvering and erratic flight paths) actually can “see” UFOs, but no
-one will ever know because the data that does not fit satellite or
-ballistic trajectories are thrown out automatically by system computers.
-No mention is made of NORAD’s high priority for not ignoring
-unpredictable, UFO-like maneuverable cruise missiles or hypersonic space
-planes. This discussion is distributed as a briefing paper to all
-Colorado project members on June 6, including Condon. (Clark
-III 804–810)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4235
Date: 3/31/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Farmer Carroll Wayne Watts reportedly sees a
-cylindrical object about 100 feet long that is hovering just off the
-ground near Loco, Texas, and emitting a motor-like sound. A voice
-addresses him from within the object requesting that he undergo a
-physical examination so that he can go on a flight. When Watts refuses
-to do so, the craft takes off. Watts has another encounter, an apparent
-abduction, on April 11. In a series of other experiences and sightings,
-on June 7, 11, and 13, he manages to take Polaroid photographs. In all,
-he haw 10 photographs of the cylindrical UFO in flight, and another shot
-of a little man from the ship. Most of Watts’s pictures are black and
-white, but at least three of them are shot in color. He later admits the
-observation is a hoax. (“Another
-UFO Visit Reported from Loco,” Wellington (Tex.) Leader, April 6,
-1967, p. 1; Curt Collins, “UFO Contact:
-April 1, 1967, from Loco, TX,” Blue Blurry Lines, March 31, 2017;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Carroll
-Wayne Watts
-Contact/Abduction,” A Different Perspective, April 25, 2020; Curt
-Collins, “Contact
-in Texas: The Lost UFO
-Photos,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, November 18, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4236
Date: 3/31/1967
-Description: Three strange objects, a bright, orange light emitting a
-shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources, were seen in a field.
-No details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Hanley, Great Britain
-ID: 830
Date: 3/31/1967
-Description: Carroll Watts contactee case. Cylindrical craft hovering
-just above ground, voice communicated with witness
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wellington, TX
-ID: 123
Date: 4/1967
-Description: Brinsley
-Le Poer Trench founds Contact (UK) in London, England, to promote
-contact between ufologists internationally. It launches a newsletter
-first called International Sky Scouts Newsletter, then retitled
-Awareness, which continues through 2012. (International
-Sky Scouts Newsletter, no.
-1 (April 1967); Story, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4240
Date: 4/1/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: Two boys saw an orange disk, less than 1 m in diameter,
-flying at high speed, stop and hover for three min, 20 m above ground.
-Chief of Police Peter Mehan confirmed that the sighting was under
-investigation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 174 (Vallee)
-Location: New Westminster, Canada
-ID: 831
Date: 4/4/1967
-Description: The Federal Aviation Agency issues N 7230.29, requiring air
-traffic controllers to forward UFO reports to the Colorado project. (US
-Federal Aviation Agency, “Reporting
-of Unidentified Flying Objects,” FAA Notice N 7230.29, April 4,
-1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4241
Date: 4/4/1967
-Description: Carlo Cammarata watches a metallic object about 100 feet in
-diameter hovering some 20 feet above the terrace of his house in San
-Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy. He also sees three humanoids
-wearing silvery suits and green belts with lights on them. They seem
-interested in the birds Cammarata is keeping caged on the terrace,
-touching them occasionally. They ascend into the object on a luminous
-beam and speed away. (1Pinotti 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4242
Date: 4/4/1967
-Description: FAA Notice N7230.29 published, establishing procedures for
-“Reporting of Unidentified Flying Objects” to the Colorado UFO
-Project.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 124
Date: 4/5/1967
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Justice of the Peace John H. Demler is driving
-north on State Highway 72 just south of Lickdale, Pennsylvania, when his
-car’s engine sputters and stops and the lights go out. He sees an object
-approaching about 20 feet above the road. It is about 30 feet across and
-looks like “it had lights in back of a painted black glass.” It flies
-over the car as Demler lowers his window and he notices a smell of
-sulfur and oil. It emit a sound like an electric motor, which grows
-louder as it leaves the area. The UFO shoots off sparks similar to that
-of “grinding on an emory wheel.” The UFO comes to a stop alongside the
-car, tilts, starts off slowly, then puts on such a terrific burst of
-speed that Demler and his automobile seem to be pulled to it. The car
-settles down so fast that he is moved all the way across the front seat.
-When he looks up again, the object has “turned to a bluish tinge” and is
-far in the distance. The next day, the skin on his hands and feet begin
-to peel and Demler is a nervous wreck. His coworkers confirm he is in a
-state of physical or psychological shock for many hours. (“Startling
-Cases Investigated,”
-UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 (May/June 1967): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4243
Date: 4/5/1967
-Description: Jonestown/Lickdale, PA. Disc passed over car, gave off
-sparks, car rocked, engine failed, humming sound heard. Sulphur-like
-smell. Physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 125
Date: 4/5/1967
-Time: 1945
-Description: Justice of the Peace John H. Demler was driving north on
-Route 72 when his car stalled and the lights went out. He then saw an
-object, 10 m in diameter, which gave off a smell of sulphur and
-camphorated oil, hovering low over the car, which was pulled and rocked
-when the object took off. Physiological effects (perspiration and
-peeling skin) were reported after 12 hours. The object gave off a sound
-resembling an electric motor, and emitted sparks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Jonestown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 832
Date: 4/6/1967
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A Pacific Western Airlines pilot and crew see a
-dull orange-red object that flies erratically as it paces the aircraft,
-then speeds away. Confirmed by radar at Edmonton, Alberta, International
-Airport. (Condon, pp.
-130–131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4246
Date: 4/6/1967
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Robert Apfal, a teacher at Crestview Elementary
-School in Opa-locka, Florida, is in the schoolyard with six students,
-facing northeast. They spot a metallic, slightly reflective, disc-shaped
-object hovering about 60 feet above the ground over a telephone pole
-about one mile away. The object disappears as they watch. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4245
Date: 4/6/1967
-Description: The Arizona Daily Wildcat publishes an interview with James
-E. McDonald, who says he has found “almost no correlation between
-so-called ‘evaluations or explanations’ that are made by Blue Book and
-the facts of the case.” He adds that the good cases have been “swept
-under the rug in a most disturbing way by Project Blue Book
-investigators and their consultants” and that “nobody there with any
-strong scientific competence is looking into the problem.” (“The UFO
-Phenomenon: A New Frontier Awaiting Serious Scientific Exploration,”
-Arizona Daily Wildcat 58, no. 110 (April 6, 1967): 4–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4244
Date: 4/6/1967
-Time: 1245
-Description: An entire class at an elementary school observed an object
-20 m above ground, 2 km away. It vanished suddenly as the children and
-their teacher, 33-year-old Robert Apfel, were watching it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 176 (Vallee)
-Location: Crestview, Florida
-ID: 833
Date: 4/7/1967
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Some 200 children at morning recess at Crestview
-Elementary School in Opa-locka, Florida, see an oval-shaped object
-hovering above some trees to the north of the school. It seems to move
-toward the school and then drop below a pine tree. Some of the kids
-notice an antenna-like structure, while others think there are two
-objects. The UFO is also seen by teachers Virginia Martin, Marian
-Waters, and Robert Apfal, who has his students sketch what they had
-seen. The drawings depict a turreted structure in the treetops. The Air
-Force claims a helicopter is in the area practicing takeoffs and
-landings. (“10
-Chaotic Minutes, and the Kids Screamed,” Miami Herald, April 8,
-1967, p. 1-B; “AF
-Says ‘It’ Was Copter; People Who Saw It Say No,” Miami Herald, April
-11, 1967, p. 1-B; NICAP, “Teachers,
-200 Children See UFO in Broad Daylight”; “The
-North Dade Affair,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 10;
-Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4247
Date: 4/7/1967
-Time: 0945
-Description: More than two hundred children and three teachers saw an
-oval object, with a light at each end, come to ground level. Several
-other objects also were seen, moving up and down with a pendulum
-motion.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Crestview, Florida
-ID: 834
Date: 4/8/1967
-Description: Four college students on a double date in Banner Elk, North
-Carolina, notice a greenish fluorescent glow on the ground 180 feet
-away. Their car engine fails and the radio is flooded with static. An
-object passes near the car and disappears into the distance. The
-witnesses panic then push the car to a main road where they are able to
-restart it. They find three round imprints, about 6 inches in diameter
-and 2 inches deep, in the shape of an equilateral triangle. (Fred
-Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28,
-no. 3 (Fall 2003): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4248
Date: 4/10/1967
-End date: 4/11/1967
-Description: A bright white object circles one Minuteman launch site
-near Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, for prolonged periods. It
-eventually ascends to an altitude higher than the capabilities of Air
-Force interceptors. The local radio station is told to keep quiet about
-it. (Raymond Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, Prentice- Hall,
-1981, p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4249
Date: 4/12/1967
-Description: 8:59 p.m. In Phoenix, Arizona, a bell-shaped object
-approaches a car from the left side, glowing red-orange with
-yellow-orange pulsations. It hovers over a streetlight, then makes a
-pass at the car. At that point, the car engine stops. The UFO banks
-eastward, then westward, and flies away. The three witnesses continue
-their trip and see the same object eight more times, plus another
-whitish object. The car engine continues to operate normally throughout
-the remaining sightings. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 34; Randle,
-Levelland, 2021, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4250
Date: mid 4/1967
-Description: Dusk. Gary Statenberg is working with a tractor on Jamie
-Ediger’s farm in Dayton, Oregon, when he sees an object moving
-toward him down the river basin at about 500 feet altitude. It stops,
-descends to 100 feet, and hovers about 600–700 feet away. He shuts off
-the tractor but can hear no sound coming from the object, which has red
-flashing lights around its base. There is a small dome with portholes on
-the top. Suddenly it takes off to the north, the lights changing to
-green as it does so. Statenberg returns home badly shaken. (Robert Low
-papers, American Philosophical Society, June 14, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4251
Date: 4/16/1967
-Description: Businessman Guillermo Roldan and his daughter Chichita see
-a glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky above Boraure,
-Venezuela, at great speed. It stops abruptly then descends and lands.
-Roldan rushes toward the spot, but the object takes off at high speed.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4252
Date: 4/16/1967
-Description: Guillermo Roldan, his daughter, and other persons saw a
-glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky at high speed, stop
-suddenly and descend to ground level. As the witnesses rushed toward the
-area, the object took off at very high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 60 (Vallee)
-Location: Boraure, Venezuela
-ID: 835
Date: 4/17/1967
-Description: 9:00 p.m. School principal John L. Metz and three teachers
-in separate cars are driving home in Jefferson City, Missouri, and see a
-350–400 foot, bluish-white, WWI-helmet–shaped object come over the
-Missouri River bluff and move directly above their cars, bathing them in
-intense light. Metz observes it through 8x binoculars. The object hovers
-above power lines for about 10 minutes then heads toward the airport.
-Two smaller objects emerge from its base; they are disc- or
-helmet-shaped and the size of a DC-3. Metz drives to the airport on
-Highway 94 and finds two more witnesses. Jefferson City Memorial Airport
-employees watch a flat, circular, star- like orange light flashing an
-intermittent red-blue through a 30x 40mm telescope around 9:40–10:08
-p.m. The Ozark Airliner Flight 319 crew sees two large round objects
-moving in various directions below their airplane during its final
-landing approach. (Sparks, p. 324;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 110–111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4254
Date: 4/17/1967
-Description: 2:20 a.m. SP4 Robert M. Harkinson of the US Army’s 524th
-Military Intelligence Detachment is stationed in Saigon [now Ho Chi Minh
-City], Vietnam, when he sees five bright-white, oval-shaped objects
-traveling in close formation at high speed across the sky. They flash by
-in about 5 seconds and disappear behind a cloud. He estimates their
-speed to be about five times that of any jet aircraft. About 5 minutes
-later, he sees several jets flying on the same course as the objects.
-(John J. Stahl Jr., “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” case report, April 17, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4253
Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Clifton
-N. Crowder, manager
-of the Mobil Chemical Company warehouse in South Hill, Virginia, leaves
-the warehouse and starts home. About 50–75 yards down a narrow asphalt
-highway his headlights fall on an object 400 feet away on the road
-ahead. It is pewter-colored, shaped like a storage tank, about 12 feet
-in diameter, and 15–16 feet high. It is standing on legs about 3–3.5
-feet long. He switches to his bright lights and the object belches a
-white burst of flame from the bottom and ascends rapidly. Meanwhile, the
-road is on fire. After it dies out, Crowder drives to South Hill and
-contacts police. They return and find a kidney-shaped black spot on the
-road, about 3 feet wide at the widest point. William T. Powers,
-assistant to J.
-Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, arrives on the scene to
-examine the spot. Using kerosene, gasoline, and a blowtorch, he attempts
-to simulate the black spot, but has no luck. Where each leg of the
-machine rested he finds two spike holes, similar to those made by
-football cleats. They are about 6 inches apart, 7/8 inch in diameter,
-and about one inch deep. The four feet are about 11.5–12 feet apart and
-the diagonals are 16 feet 1 inch and 16 feet 6 inches, respectively.
-Powers concludes that the center of gravity is above the firepoint and
-notes that the intersections of the diagonals deviate 2 degrees from
-90°. (“South
-Hill, Va. Landing,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 11; Sparks,
-p. 324; Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of
-UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 10; Gordon Lore, Flying Saucers from
-beyond the Earth: A UFO Researcher’s Odyssey, BearManor, 2018,
-pp. 60–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4258
Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: Coup d’état in Greece. Although there are persistent rumors
-about an active support of the coup by the US government, there is no
-evidence to support such claims. The timing of the coup apparently
-catches the CIA by surprise. (Wikipedia, “Greek
-military junta of 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4257
Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: Robert
-J. Low issues a position paper that outlines, after months of
-discussions and briefings, a framework for the Colorado project’s goals
-and procedures. It includes acquiring data on new cases, contracted
-reviews on such special topics as radar and mirages, a special section
-on photo cases, and a statistical treatment of bulk data. He divides the
-research question into three tiers: “Are there really sightings that are
-unexplained?” “Are any of these external stimuli solid objects?” and
-“Are any of these objects extraterrestrial spaceships?” He asks the
-group to discuss criteria for answering those questions. (Swords
-317–318)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4256
Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Two couples see an unexplained light near
-Ephrata, Washington, and chase it in their car. They came upon a UFO
-sitting on the road and have to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting it.
-The object takes off, moves behind the car, and follows it for 5
-minutes, then disappears as traffic became heavier. The witnesses are
-badly shaken by the experience. (NICAP, “The
-1967 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4255
Date: 4/21/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Crowder was driving home when he saw an object on the
-road 70 m away. Supported by four legs, it was a vertical cylinder, 5 m
-in diameter, with a half-sphere on top. It was gray and its base was 1 m
-above the pavement. When the witness turned his high beams on, the craft
-gave off a vertical light and vanished. The road burned for 15 min.
-Mr. Martin, who lived nearby, also observed the light. Holes, traces of
-burns, and calcined matches were noted at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: South Hill, Virginia
-ID: 836
Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 126
Date: 4/22/1967
-Description: At the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper
-Editors in Washington, D.C., James
-E. McDonald says
-of Donald
-Menzel, “when he comes to analyzing UFO reports, he seems to calmly
-cast aside well-known scientific principles almost with abandon, in an
-all-out effort to be sure that no UFO report survives his attack.” He
-also says, “I have learned from a number of unquotable sources that the
-Air Force has long wished to get rid of the burden of the troublesome
-UFO problem and has twice tried to ‘peddle’ it to NASA—without success.”
-(James E. McDonald, “UFOs:
-Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Times?” April 22, 1967; Clark III
-699; “Our
-Speaker(s) Tonight: James E. McDonald, Donald H. Menzel, Hector
-Quintanilla,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4259
Date: 4/22/1967
-Description: American Society of Newspaper Editors sponsors panel
-discussion on UFOs at its annual meeting in Washington, DC. Panelists
-included Dr. James E. McDonald, Dr. Donald Menzel, and Maj. Hector
-Quintanilla.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 127
Date: 4/24/1967
-Description: After reading a March 7 column by Drew
-Pearson that alleges the US attempted to assassinate Fidel
-Castro, President
-Johnson directs
-CIA Director Richard
-Helms to conduct an investigation. The result is a 133-page report
-by CIA Inspector General John
-S. Earman, transmitted
-on April 24 to Helms, that clearly shows the CIA was in contact with and
-cooperated with Maj. Rolando
-Cubela Secades of the Cuban military in plans to assassinate Castro.
-The operation is known as Project AMLASH. After receiving the report,
-Helms orally briefs the President about its contents. According to his
-testimony before the Select Committee, when asked if he has told the
-President “that efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro had continued into
-Johnsonʼs presidency, Helms replied, ‘I just can’t answer that, I just
-don’t know. I can’t recall having done so.’” (US Department of State,
-Office of the Historian, “Document 315,” in Foreign Relations of the
-United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti;
-Guyana)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4260
Date: 4/26/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Brian Dorscht saw a dark object, measuring 1 m in diameter
-and 1.5 m in height, with flashing green and white lights. When 1 m
-above ground, six legs came out, and it landed on a lawn near the
-National Grocers Company. The whirring sound the object was making
-stopped, and the witness became afraid and ran away. Police found six
-prints at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 177; SS&S; Summer, 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Kitchener, Canada
-ID: 837
Date: 4/27/1967
-Time: 2200
-Description: Four boys with binoculars observed an object come lower
-with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods 1 km away. It was
-concshaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to
-orange to white.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Green Lake, Wisconsin
-ID: 838
Date: 4/28/1967
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Brian F. Jenkins and seven other coast guards at
-Brixham, Devon, England, watch a huge, cone- shaped object through 25x
-binoculars mounted on a tripod. The object is hovering at 15,000 feet
-and seems to be revolving. Jenkins says the cone is pointing down, and
-the object seems made of glass or highly polished metal: “Near the
-bottom there was a triangular-shaped opening or door with a white rim on
-the top that reflected a lot of sunlight. The bottom was crinkled, very
-white, and seemed to consist of strips of metal hanging down.” It drifts
-to the northwest, rising to 22,000 feet and 8 miles away. At 12:40 p.m.,
-a jet aircraft approaches it, flies above it, passes it, turns, and
-approaches it from below before it disappears from sight. Possible
-balloon. (“British Radar/Visual
-Case,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 (May/June 1967): 8; Good Above, pp. 60–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4262
Date: 4/28/1967
-Description: Condon recommends
-J.
-Allen Hynek and Richard
-H. Hall to Encyclopedia Britannica as excellent persons to write UFO
-entries. (Swords 319)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4261
Date: 4/29/1967
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Ian McGregor and two other oil drillers drive out
-to an airstrip near Mount Whaleback, Western Australia, to look for a
-UFO that has been appearing in the area for several nights. Toward the
-southeast a bright haze appears that turns into an inverted cone of
-light that is followed by an orange disc that rises vertically, turns on
-its edge, and approaches them. They flash their headlights and the
-object stops moving. It then returns in the direction it came from and
-lands in the same spot. Their compasses are not working accurately. They
-wait iuntil 11:30 p.m., but do not see it again. (L. J. Locke, “UFOs
-in Western Australia: From Mayanup to Mt, Newman,” Australian Flying
-Saucer Review, no. 8 (1968): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4263
Date: 5/1967
-Description: The CIA launches the Phoenix Program in Vietnam to gather
-information on the Viet Cong, whose members would then be neutralized
-(captured, converted, or killed). Emphasis for the enforcement of the
-operation is placed on local government militia and police forces,
-rather than the military. Heavy-handed operations—such as random cordons
-and searches, large-scale and lengthy detentions of innocent civilians,
-excessive use of firepower, torture, and targeted killings—have a
-negative effect on the civilian population. Between 1968 and 1972,
-Phoenix “neutralizes” 81,740 people (26,369 are killed) suspected of
-belonging to the National Liberation Front. The reported torture is
-carried out by South Vietnamese forces with the CIA and special forces
-playing a supervisory role. (Wikipedia, “Richard
-Helms”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4264
Date: 5/1967
-Description: Evening. A farmer near Holbæk, Denmark, is working outside
-when he sees a strange lilac-colored light. Approaching, he sees a domed
-object with windows. Something is moving behind it. He goes home but
-returns to the spot the next day and finds an odd substance. It looks
-like “cotton wool,” but is finer than cotton. He leaves it in the same
-spot, but it dissipates over the next three days. There is also a
-depressed area where the object had been, and some wire is pulled away
-from some pylons. (“Denmark:
-Flying Saucer Landed in a Field outside ‘Holbak’?????”
-Saucer Scoop 2, no. 4 (July 1967): 4; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair:
-Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 (August 2008): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4268
Date: 5/1967
-Description: Evening. A woman in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, sees a
-light shining through her basement window. Across the street she notices
-a large object beaming with three colored lights and rotating. She goes
-outside with another woman and watch the slight slowly spin for 20
-minutes above a neighbor’s house. When she tries to call the neighbors,
-all she gets is a busy signal, and when she looks outside again, the
-object is gone. The next day, the neighbor tells her that there was
-nothing wrong with the phone and that all evening she had been playing
-cards with friends and talking about UFOs. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4
-(Winter 2002–2003): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4267
Date: 5/1967
-Description: 12:30–3:15 p.m. During a reconnaissance exercise in
-Madagascar, a detachment of 23 officers and men serving with the French
-Foreign Legion watch a bright object landing in a “falling leaf” motion.
-When it touches down on tripod legs, the glow dissipates. The egg-shaped
-craft is 23–26 feet high and has no visible markings except for openings
-at the base through which flames are visible. The witnesses seem
-paralyzed or at least extremely distracted while the UFO is on the
-ground. When they recover their senses, they find that 2.75 hours have
-elapsed. For 2 days afterward, they all have violent headaches, a
-buzzing in their ears, and a throbbing in their temples. (H. Julien, “A
-1967 Landing in Madagascar,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 1 (June
-1977): pp. 29–30; Good Need, pp. 297–298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4266
Date: 5/1967
-Description: A man identifying himself as Maj. Richard French visits a
-woman in Owatonna, Minnesota, who has had a UFO encounter the previous
-November. He is 5 feet 9 inches with an olive complexion and hair too
-long for an Air Force officer. He is wearing a fashionable gray suit,
-white shirt, and black tie. At one point, French complains of stomach
-problems, and the woman recommends Jell-O. He says he will return if the
-symptoms persist, so he shows up the following morning. The woman sits
-him down with a bowl of Jell-O, which he tries to drink. “I had to show
-him how to eat it with a spoon,” the woman tells John
-A. Keel. (John
-A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, Manor Books ed., 1976, pp. 171–173;
-Clark III 734)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4265
Date: 5/1967
-Alternate date: 6/1967
-Description: A couple captures on an 8mm film camera 10 frames (2.5
-seconds) of footage of an unusual object at Alberton, South Australia.
-The UFO is enveloped in a striking blue light that gives the appearance
-of a searchlight moving around its circumference. The developed film
-appears to show a craft with portholes and a sweeping searchlight.
-(David Reneke, “The
-Australian UFO Photo File,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 2, no.
-4 (July/Aug. 1981): 10–15; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony
-Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 26; Patrick
-Gross, “The
-Alberton UFO Footage, Australia, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4269
Date: 5/1/1967
-Description: Night. A man’s car engine fails while he is driving near
-Peeltree, West Virginia. He sees a 40-foot-long elliptical object emerge
-from behind a shed and hover 15 feet from his car. It tilts toward the
-car at a 30° angle. He hears static on the radio, and the dashboard
-temperature gauge goes off the dial. He feels an intense wave of heat
-when he puts his head out the window, and his hands burn when he touches
-the horn rim and dashboard. He also reports headaches and a partial loss
-of vision. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4271
Date: 5/1/1967
-Description: The Colorado project issues a press release calling for
-photos of UFOs taken by private citizens and provides recommendations to
-the photographers and the information it should include. The release is
-basically a rewrite of a document prepared by NPIC staff and approved by
-Lundahl on
-March 24. (Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4270
Date: 5/4/1967
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 128
Date: 5/5/1967
-Description: Indonesian Air Marshal Roesmin
-Noerjadin admits that sometimes UFOs pose a problem for the
-country’s air defense, and sometimes the military is forced to fire on
-them. (Good Need, p. 254)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4273
Date: 5/5/1967
-Description: Condon,
-Low, Hartmann, Ratchford,
-and Charles Reed of the National Research Council are briefed by an
-unnamed specialist [probably Everitt L. Merritt of the Autometrics
-Division of the Raytheon Company of Alexandria, Virginia] at the NPIC on
-a photogrammetric analysis he had carried out on the November 1966 UFO
-photo case from Roseville, Ohio. The analysis debunks the photo. The
-committee is again impressed with the technical work performed, and
-Condon remarks that for the first time a scientific analysis of a UFO
-will stand up to investigation. (Wikipedia, “Arthur
-Lundahl”; E. L. Merritt, “Photogrammatric
-Analysis of a Non-Synchronous Pair
-of U.F.O. Exposures,” June 1967; Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma,
-Warner, 1999, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4272
Date: 5/6/1967
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A mechanical engineer and his daughter are
-driving on the Durango–Mazatlán Highway in Mexico. They spot a
-disc-shaped object landed on the ground off the highway. They stop the
-car and he takes three photos as the object takes off. The first photo
-shows the object at treetop level, partially hidden by a tree, with a
-portion of its landing gear visible. The second object shows the object
-in flight against a clear sky. The third photo shows nothing. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4274
Date: 5/6/1967
-Time: 1100
-Description: A mechanical engineer and his daughter saw a disk-shaped
-object on the ground off a highway. They stopped the car and took three
-photos of the object as it was taking off. The first one showed the
-object at treetop level, the second showed it in flight, and the third
-photo missed the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Durango, Mexico
-ID: 839
Date: 5/7/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Ricky Banyard, 14, saw a strange object in the sky and
-followed it with a friend, Glenn Coates, through binoculars. It hovered
-near a cemetery, making a hushed whistling sound and illuminating the
-ground with a vertical beam of light. The object left suddenly with a
-roar similar to that of a jet, and a series of “bangs.” Stones were
-found calcined at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 178 (Vallee)
-Location: Edmonton, Canada
-ID: 840
Date: 5/7/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Ricky Banyard, 17, and four others watch and
-follow a spherical object with a spinning top and bottom and with red
-and green lights for 4 hours in Edmonton, Alberta, in the Mount Pleasant
-Cemetery. As it hovers at about 200 feet, a light beam comes from the
-bottom of the object, illuminating the ground. They hear a muffled
-whistling noise as the object hovers, then a screaming noise like a jet
-engine starting up. All its lights go out, and the object takes off in a
-flurry of explosive sounds. Black streaks are later found on the charred
-road surface. (“A
-UFO in Detail,” Edmonton (Alberta) Journal, May 8, 1967, p. 33; “Eerie
-Object in Graveyard,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4275
Date: 5/7/1967 (approximate)
-Description: A couple are driving through the state of Tabasco, Mexico,
-when they see a bright point of light in the sky. It descends to a spot
-about 500 feet away and gives off an intense white-orange light from its
-cone-shaped body. The couple stops and shuts off their headlights. When
-the object approaches closer, the man turns the headlights on again. The
-UFO stops in midair and blinks its light off and on twice. The couple
-become frightened and drive to the nearest town. Several people return
-with them to the spot and the object is still there. When they turn
-their headlights off and on, it approaches them. Some of the men run to
-the object with weapons raised, and it takes off into the sky within
-seconds. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4276
Date: 5/9/1967
-Description: In a field which belonged to the Mayor, Mr. Maillotte, a
-depression was discovered, and blue powder was found in small trenches
-radiating from that area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at
-the spot. No radioactivity.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 179 (Vallee)
-Location: Marliens, France
-ID: 841
Date: 5/10/1967
-Description: Richard
-Helms goes to the White House to give President Lyndon
-Johnson the answers to the questions he’d been asked seven weeks
-earlier. The only account of that meeting is Helms’s own. He says he
-described the [inspector general’s] conclusions and that Johnson said:
-“Then you were not responsible for Trujillo, ‘No.’
-Correct answer. ‘Diem?’
-‘No.’ Correct answer. ‘Castro, he’s
-still alive, okay.’” At the same meeting Helms also tells Johnson about
-the mail interception program “and some other things that were going
-on.” Johnson’s response to that was equally laconic; he just nodded and
-said something along the line of, ‘But be careful, don’t get caught.’”
-(Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA,
-Random House, 1979, pp. 156–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4277
Date: 5/11/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Michael Campeadore, 25, a hospital employee, was driving to
-Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck, but saw
-nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to the left, and thinking
-that it was a jet plane about to crash, he got out and saw it stop 30 m
-away at 30 m altitude. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome
-on top and looked metallic. The witness became afraid and emptied his
-.25 Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit
-metal and the object took off at great speed. When he told his story at
-a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports
-had been made in the Saint George area recently.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 180 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint George, Utah
-ID: 842
Date: 5/13/1967
-Description: 4:40 p.m. An object is picked up on radar at the Colorado
-Springs, Colorado, airport. A Braniff flight is coming in for a landing
-on runway 35. The track of the object behaves like a ghost echo, perhaps
-a ground return being reflected from the Braniff aircraft. The blip
-appears at about twice the range of the Braniff blip. When the Braniff
-airliner touches down, however, the situation changes radically. The UFO
-blip pulls to the right (east) and passes over the airport at an
-estimated height of about 200 feet. The object track passes within 1.5
-miles of the control tower. The object is not visible even through
-binoculars by personnel in the control tower. The Colorado project finds
-this to be one of the most puzzling radar cases on record. (NICAP, “Invisible
-UFO Tracked on Radar”;
-Condon, pp. 170–171, 310–316)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4279
Date: 5/13/1967
-Description: 1:43 a.m. Michael Campeadore is driving in Arizona about 17
-miles southwest of St. George, Utah, when he hears a loud humming sound.
-After stopping the car and getting out, he notices a huge object, 45–50
-feet in diameter, hovering 25–30 feet above him. He reaches into the car
-and gets a .25 caliber pistol, loads it, and fires point blank at the
-object. He hears the bullets hit and ricochet as they strike. Before he
-has finished the clip, the object begins moving off and disappears in
-seconds. (“Car
-Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4278
Date: mid 5/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Patricio Hanessian and Alfredo Padilla are
-driving in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, and see a flat-bottomed,
-domed object in the sky. The central part is bright white and the edge
-is bright pink or red. It holds its position for 2–3 minutes then moves
-away, reappearing about 500 feet in front of their car, where it hovers
-for 2 minutes before speeding off. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas,
-Signet, 1968, pp. 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4280
Date: 5/16/1967
-Description: Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine
-forest north of Nieva-Segovia. They saw “people” enter the ashcolored
-craft, which took off straight up, at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
-Location: Nieva-Segovia, Spain
-ID: 843
Date: 5/16/1967
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Ship Master Donald W. Dee and 3rd Mate Homer
-Hawthorne, seamen Earle Bradley and Eric Koster, all crew of the Pacific
-Coast Transport ship SS Point Sur, see six red point-source lights that
-seem to be pacing the ship over the Gulf of Mexico. One object is
-confirmed by sporadic radar returns as at 12,000 feet, 11 miles away.
-Through 7 x 50 binoculars, the objects appear brilliant yellow with red
-lights across upper two-thirds, but to the naked eye, the colors blend
-to reddish-orange point sources. They pulsate with a 4.5-second period
-and an approximate 1:3 brightness ratio. The lower objects rise and fall
-near the horizon. (NICAP, “SS
-Point
-Sur Case”;
-Sparks, p. 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4282
Date: 5/16/1967
-Description: CIA Director Richard
-Helms makes one last pitch for the A-12 Oxcart program to President
-Johnson,
-saying the aircraft are essential for finding the SAM missile launch
-sites responsible for shooting down pilots in North Vietnam. They can’t
-want for the Air Force’s SR-71 to become operational. Johnson authorizes
-A-12’s to deploy to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, before the
-monsoons start. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4281
Date: 5/17/1967
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Red Ledford. One round, orange-colored object,
-similar in size to a small aircraft, zigzagged back and forth over a jet
-that was heading northeast for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rural Hall, North Carolina
-ID: 575
Date: 5/17/1967
-Description: The first official Soviet UFO Study Group is launched in a
-preliminary meeting at the Moscow Aviation and Cosmonautics Center with
-Maj. Gen. Porfiri Stolyarov at the helm and cosmologist Felix
-Ziegel as his deputy. Also in attendance are Heinrich Ludwig, Nikolai
-Zhirov, Igor
-Bestuzhev-Lada, Valentin
-Akkuratov, Leonid Reino, Georgi Uger, Georgi Zevalkin, Grigory
-Sivkov, Yekaterina
-Ryabova, and Natalia
-Kravtsova. (Wikipedia,
-“Felix
-Ziegel”; Good Above, p. 570;
-Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4283
Date: 5/20/1967
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Stefan
-Michalak is quartz prospecting near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, when he
-sees two red, glowing, cigar-shaped objects in the sky. One object
-begins to hover then move away, while the other lands on a large, flat
-rock 160 feet away. The landed object is more than 35 feet wide and 10
-feet thick with a 3-foot high cupola. It goes through several color
-changes then appears like hot stainless steel with blinding
-purple-colored lights coming through slits in the cupola. It is making a
-whirring sound and warm air seems to be coming from it. Michalak sits
-and sketches the object for 30 minutes, then a small door opens on the
-side, revealing a lighted interior. Michalak walks to 60 feet away and
-hears voices inside. Thinking it is a US aircraft, he steps forward and
-shouts. “Okay, Yankee boys, having trouble? Come on out and we’ll see
-what we can do about it.” He says the same thing in five other
-languages. There is no response, so he puts green lenses over his
-glasses and looks inside, where he sees a series of flashing lights. He
-pulls his head back, noting that the wall is 18 inches thick. Almost
-immediately the opening closes. When his glove accidentally touches the
-surface, it burns and melts. The UFO angles upwards and he sees a 9-by-6
-inch gridlike vent with a uniform pattern of small holes. A blast of hot
-gas erupts from the grid, searing his chest, sending him reeling
-backwards, and burning his shirt and undershirt. He rips the flaming
-clothing off just as the UFO ascends in a rush of air. It heads off to
-the west, the same direction the other UFO has gone. Michalak now has a
-headache and severe nausea, so he starts driving back to his motel. He
-eventually gets to Misericordia Hospital in Winnipeg and receives a
-sedative. His chest burn heals, but the gridlike burn lesions on his
-abdomen persist. The symptoms continue well into 1968, when Michalak
-visits the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, staying there 2 weeks
-and undergoing outpatient treatment. He relocates the landing site on
-June 30, 1967, and the RCAF visits it in July, noting a 15-foot circle
-of cleared vegetation on the flat rock. Michalak obtains metal samples
-of unknown provenance from the site in 1968. (Wikipedia, “Falcon
-Lake Incident”;
-NICAP, “Falcon
-Lake / Michalak Encounter”; Stephen Michalak, My Encounter with the
-UFO, Osnova, 1967; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-pp. 195–198; Condon, pp. 316–324;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 37–45; Chris Rutkowski, “The Falcon
-Lake Incident, Part 1: Prologue 1967,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no.
-1 (June 1981): 14–16; Chris Rutkowski, “The
-Falcon Lake Incident, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 2
-(August 1981): 15–18; Chris Rutkowski, “The
-Falcon Lake Incident, Part 3,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 3
-(November 1981): 21–25; Chris Rutkowski, “Burned by a UFO? The Story of
-a Bungled Investigation,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987): 21–24; Edward
-M. Barker, “Letter,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 21–22; Good
-Above, pp. 195–200;
-Chris Rutkowski, “The Falcon Lake Case: Too Close an Encounter,” JUFOS 5
-(1994): 1–34; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus,
-UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 81–86;
-Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn
-Press, 2006, pp. 72–93; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about
-UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 10, 22; Clark III
-475–481; Chris Rutkowski and Stan Michalak, When They Appeared: Falcon
-Lake 1967, August Night, 2019; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 107–118, 154–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4284
Date: 5/20/1967
-Description: Witness approached landed object, violet light, rushing air
-sound, voices heard. Experienced severe burns on chest, weight loss, and
-vomiting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada
-ID: 129
Date: 5/20/1967
-Description: A bizarre announcement is published in the Spanish
-newspaper Informaciones declaring that soon a spacecraft will land in
-Madrid, Spain, and fly earthbound terrestrials back to their home planet
-Ummo. (Clark III 1184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4285
Date: 5/20/1967
-Time: 1213
-Description: Polish-born Steve Michalac, 52, industrial mechanic and
-prospector, saw two redglowing objects flying at high speed. One of them
-blew vegetation as it landed, surrounded by a glow, and it was observed
-for 30 min before a door opened, showing a purple light. A high-pitched
-sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted.
-Approaching, the witness heard voices, and upon touching the craft, he
-burned his rubber-coated glove, and was “blown out” by hot air when the
-subject started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face
-burns, second and third degree burns on his chest, vomited frequently
-for 4 days, and lost over 10 kg. Diameter of craft, 11 m; height, 3 m,
-with a 1-m-high superstructure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 60; Condon 316 (Vallee)
-Location: Falcon Lake, Canada
-ID: 844
Date: 5/22/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: A teacher, 45-year-old Mr. Tyrode, saw a glow, then an
-object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light. It
-flew less than 20 m above his car, at 40 km/h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 94 (Vallee)
-Location: Evillers, France
-ID: 845
Date: 5/24/1967
-Time: 2300
-Description: Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the
-side of the road, but it was turned off when they drove within 150 m of
-its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly
-away for several minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Arbonne, France
-ID: 846
Date: 5/26/1967
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Three teenagers (Bobby Grant, Joseph Romero, and
-Johnny Sanchez) are driving along Atrisco Drive NW, north of Central
-Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A white light seems to follow them,
-weaving back and forth over the road. Finally it catches up with the car
-and hovers silently above it. The engine quits and the headlights fail.
-The teens leap from the car and the object suddenly flies off to the
-southwest. They can start the car again. (“Car
-Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967,
-p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4286
Date: 5/30/1967
-Description: A-12 spy planes begin Operation Black Shield in North
-Vietnam out of Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan, locating and
-photographing surface-to-air missile sites that are shooting down US
-pilots. The A-12s fly at 80,000 feet and at about Mach 3.1, carrying out
-22 sorties in 1967. However, the Russians monitor the flights and the
-Vietnamese move their SAM sites immediately after flyovers. (Wikipedia,
-“Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4287
Date: 5/31/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A woman at a farmhouse near Beausejour,
-Manitoba, sees an intensely bright red light with a smaller blue light
-on the bottom that approaches from the south and hovers about 375 feet
-away. A white light on the bottom becomes brighter as the object hovers,
-its glow illuminating the ground. The object lands and leaves a burning
-area 90 feet by 150 feet in size with radioactive soil. The area is
-still smoldering on June 15, despite several rains. (“Second
-Landing in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4289
Date: 5/31/1967
-Description: Fernando
-Sesma, president
-of the Amigos de los Visitantes del Espacio, speaks to an audience of 40
-persons gathered at a café in Madrid, Spain. He says that the Ummites
-(who have been supplying him with messages since 1965 describing in
-excruciating detail life on the planet Ummo, which revolves around a
-star 14.6 light years away) have given him a startling printed message
-predicting that a spacecraft will appear on the evening of June 1. The
-space people have supplied the exact geographical coordinates: the area
-of San José de Valderas, Madrid. All the Ummite messages, passed on to
-Sesma by his associates Enrique
-Villagrasa and Alicia
-Araujo, are usually postmarked in Madrid, but as time goes by, other
-postmarks indicate mailings from London, Germany, Austria, New Zealand,
-Yugoslavia, and Canada. (Clark III 1184–1185; Fernando Sesma, UMMO, otro
-planeta habitado, Gráficas Espejo, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4288
Date: 6/1967
-Description: Low says
-he wants the Colorado project to compile a case book of its best UFO
-reports. Richard
-Hall is invited for 2 days of consulting and narrows the case list
-to 100. A small team agrees to go over the list and decide which ones
-deserve more intensive analysis. By August, Saunders becomes
-the lone staffer selecting cases and he only has 12. (UFOs Yes,
-81–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4290
Date: 6/1967
-Description: The newly formed Surrey Investigation Group on Aerial
-Phenomena publishes the SIGAP Newsletter in Camberley, Surrey, England,
-until June 1969. It revitalizes the newsletter as the New SIGAP Bulletin
-from 1977 to 1979. (SIGAP
-Newsletter, no.
-1 (June 1, 1967); SIGAP
-Bulletin, no. 15 (August 1, 1968); The
-New SIGAP Bulletin, no.
-1 (July 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4291
Date: 6/1967
-Description: Night. Giuseppe Aldini, 17, is with his family in
-Montalcino, Siena, Italy, when he sees a round, luminous object from his
-window. Later he notices a glowing red light on a nearby hill. The next
-day he goes to the spot and finds a circular burned area 100 feet in
-diameter with four imprints in its center. Inside are many black
-minerals that are analyzed by the University of Florence’s Mineralogical
-Institute and found to be quartz crystals. (1Pinotti 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4292
Date: 6/1/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: John Norton, 7, had to be taken to a hospital after
-observing a disk-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with
-green and red lights, which landed in a clearing and took off “like
-lightning.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Richmond, Virginia
-ID: 847
Date: 6/1/1967
-Description: The UFO seen by José
-Luis Jordán Peña in Aluche, Madrid, Spain, allegedly reappears in
-the neighborhood of San José de Valderas. This time, Jordán Peña plays
-UFO investigator, taking statements from witnesses who describe a
-low-flying disc-shaped object with the same strange symbol on the
-underside. An anonymous man takes several photographs that he drops off
-at a photo lab on June 2. He then calls newspaper photographer Antonio
-San Antonio, telling him where to pick them up. All but one show an
-edge-on view of what appears to be a large, squat disc with a rim
-through its midsection. One photo shows the bottom of the UFO with the
-Aluche symbol, this time with a horizontal bar crossing the verticals
-and linking the two arms. In August, another photographer calling
-himself Antonio Pardo produces two more photos of the edge-on disc taken
-the same day, as well as some hard green-colored plastic strips bearing
-the distinctive Aluche symbol supposedly found in a capsule that
-leaflets by a “Henri Dagousset” predicted in June would be found. Jordán
-Peña later confesses to hoaxing the plastic strips, which are made of
-Tedlar (polyvinyl fluoride) produced by DuPont for the US space program.
-Independent analyses by French space scientist Claude
-Poher and the US group Ground Saucer Watch determine that the San
-José de Valderas photo with the Ummo symbol is a small model—an 8-inch
-plate suspended by a string or fishing line— held close to the camera.
-The symbol apparently is drawn in ink. (Wikipedia, “Ummo”;
-Antonio Ribera, “The
-San José de Valderas Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1969): 3–10; Oscar Rey Brea, “Algo
-sobre las fotografias del sepuesto OVNI de San José de Valderas,”
-Stendek 3, no. 9 (August 1972): 5–11; Antonio Ribera and Rafael
-Farriols, Un caso perfecto, Plaza y Janés, 1976; Fred Adrian, “Ground
-Saucer Watch Computer Photographic Analysis (Critique), San José de
-Valderas, Spain, 1967,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 11–13; Claude
-Poher, “Remarks on Aluche, San José de Valderas, and the ‘Ummo’ Affair:
-A Monstrous Hoax!” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 3–10; Scott
-Corrales, “The
-UMMO Experience: Are You Experienced?” Strange Magazine, January 31,
-2001; Clark III 1183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4293
Date: 6/3/1967
-Description: The town of St. Paul, Alberta, officially dedicates a UFO
-landing pad as a public park and as a safe place for aliens to land.
-Minister of National Defence Paul
-Hellyer flies in by helicopter to launch the pad. It consists of a
-raised platform with a map of Canada embossed on the back stop,
-consisting of stones provided by each province of Canada. (Wikipedia,
-“St. Paul,
-Alberta”; “World’s
-First UFO Landing Pad,” Atlas Obscura, April 19, 2010; George M.
-Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 20;
-Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn
-Press, 2006, pp. 240–243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4294
Date: 6/3/1967
-Description: Two Spanish Air Force fighter pilots chased UFO, radios
-failed. Cat and mouse pursuit. Object shot straight up and
-disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Extremadura, Spain
-ID: 130
Date: 6/7/1967
-Time: 0130
-Description: A vehicle stalled in the vicinity of a brilliant,
-transparent, mushroom-shaped object, aboard which occupants with catlike
-faces were seen. Under the object was a quadrangular protuberance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Itajuba, Brazil
-ID: 848
Date: 6/7/1967
-Description: Dr. James E. McDonald, University of Arizona atmospheric
-physicist, gave a presentation on UFOs to the Outer Space Affairs Group
-of the United Nations. Secretary General U Thant expressed deep concern
-over UFO situation.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 131
Date: 6/7/1967
-Description: James
-E. McDonald speaks before the United Nations Office for Outer Space
-Affairs meeting in New York City on the “International scientific
-aspects of the problem of the unidentified flying objects.” UN
-Secretary-General U Thant has
-arranged for the lecture, based on conversations he has had with John
-G. Fuller and J.
-Allen Hynek in early 1966. McDonald urges the UN to undertake a
-systematic global study of the UFO problem, but it does not act on the
-recommendation. (James E. McDonald, Letter
-to UN Secretary-General U Thant, June 5, 1967, p. 1; James E.
-McDonald, “Statement
-on International Scientific Aspects of the Problem of the Unidentified
-Flying Objects,”
-presented to the UN Outer Space Affairs group, June 7, 1967, pp. 2–3;
-Clark III 698, 1189; Patrick Gross, “Scientists
-Taking Position”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4295
Date: 6/9/1967
-Description: Day. Two Spanish Air Force pilots flying Lockheed T-33s at
-4,000 feet encounter a UFO over the Extremadura region, Spain. Attempts
-at radio contact fail, and when they fly above or below the object,
-their radios cease to function and emit interference noises. The UFO
-soon moves off, easily outstripping the jets, stopping and waiting for
-them to approach, then moving on again, The two pilots notify the
-Talavera la Real Air Base in Badajoz and Torrejón Air Base in Madrid,
-from which two faster fighters are scrambled. The new fighters
-experience the same radio interference and maneuvers until the object
-shoots straight up at high speed. (Antonio Ribera, “Spanish
-Jets Chase
-UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 (May/June 1968): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4296
Date: 6/11/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: Two children saw a disk-shaped object 1 m in diameter and
-25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 m above them. They
-took a series of photos that show only a blur.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 181 (Vallee)
-Location: Price Hill, Ohio
-ID: 849
Date: 6/11/1967
-Description: Silvery cylinder seen for several minutes, chased by two
-F-102 interceptors
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Da Nang, Vietnam
-ID: 132
Date: 6/12/1967
-End date: 6/13/1967
-Description: The Colorado project plays host to 34 Air Force officers
-having UFO responsibility at various bases. Low and
-Saunders try
-to get them excited about reporting UFOs to the project, but aren’t very
-successful. (NICAP, “UFO
-Investigators Meeting 12 and 13 June 1967”; UFOs Yes, 125–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4297
Date: 6/13/1967
-Description: An object hovering 4 m above ground, and three dwarfs, were
-observed. Traces and an oily substance were found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Caledonia, Canada
-ID: 850
Date: 6/13/1967
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Carmen Cuneo, a mine worker in Caledonia,
-Ontario, steps out of the mine headquarters building and sees two
-strange objects near a pond in the vicinity of the mine dump. One is
-cigar-shaped and about 36 feet long with four windows along the side; a
-boom-like aerial protrudes from one side. The other is disc-shaped and
-about 15 feet across. Both are hovering 12 feet above the ground. Three
-small men wearing what look like miners’ hats with four amber lights are
-underneath the boom. After watching for 10 minutes, Cuneo goes back to
-find another witness, but when he returns the men are gone. The two
-objects, however, remain until 3:05 a.m. when they take off to the
-southwest, flashing multicolored lights. (“June
-Sighting of Occupants in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4298
Date: 6/18/1967
-Description: Late evening. A family is returning home by boat near
-Clearwater Bay on Shoal Lake, Ontario, when they notice a bright oval
-object hovering 50 feet above the treetops about a half-mile away. As
-they approach, the object turns an orange tinge and suddenly sweeps
-toward their boat at great speed. They beat a hasty retreat to the other
-shore, while the UFO returns to its original position. The same thing
-happens when they approach the object again. After about 15 minutes, the
-object takes off at an incredible speed to the northwest. One resident,
-who is not aware of the UFO, reports later that the static on his radio
-was so bad that he had to turn it off. Wilted leaves on the top of
-birch, hazel, and chokecherry trees are discovered in the sighting area.
-Leaf samples are analyzed by the Canadian Department of Forestry, which
-cannot find an explanation for their condition other than heat. The
-University of Manitoba finds evidence of fungus on one sample but not on
-others. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 150–152;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 31–34; Christ Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, pp. 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4300
Date: 6/18/1967
-Description: Several people in Mulluri, [perhaps near Viña del Mar],
-Chile, see three discs flying in a V formation above the town. They
-flash orange and blue lights alternately and make no sound. They
-maneuver for 10 minutes before disappearing at high speed. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4299
Date: 6/20/1967
-Time: 1200
-Description: Farmer Arvi Juntunen heard a loud humming sound and saw a
-round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 m away. It had a domed
-top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize
-it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Suomussalmi, Finland
-ID: 851
Date: 6/22/1967
-End date: 6/25/1967
-Description: Condon attends,
-at the invitation of James
-W. Moseley and against the better judgment of the rest of the
-Colorado project staff, the Congress of Scientific Ufologists at the
-Hotel Commodore in New York City for the 20th anniversary of the Kenneth
-Arnold sighting. Speakers include Gray
-Barker, John
-A. Keel, Moseley, Art Ford, Gordon Evans, actor Roy
-Thinnes, and
-Ivan
-T Sanderson. Kenneth Arnold and Raymond
-A. Palmer are originally scheduled but cancel. (Swords 316, 320;
-James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth!
-Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 209–218;
-Karl Machtanz, “Saucer
-News NYC
-Convention Memories,” In Honor of Jim Moseley, February 3, 2014;
-Rick Hilberg, “Jim
-Moseley’s Giant UFO
-Show,” In Honor of Jim Moseley; Curt Collins, “The
-National UFO Conference,” In Honor of Jim Moseley, March 11, 2014;
-Curt Collins, “The
-UFO Anniversary and the Giant New York Convention of 1967,” The
-Saucers That Time Forgot, June 22, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4301
Date: 6/23/1967
-Description: Broadcaster Frank
-Edwards dies of a heart attack. (“Death
-of Frank Edwards,” UFO Investigator 4, no 2 (October 1967): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4302
Date: 6/24/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. At Paso de los Libres, Corrientes, Argentina,
-policemen see 8–10 bright lights that fly in formation over a military
-post at an estimated 15,000 feet altitude. Other groups of UFOs are seen
-the same night at Yapeyú and Santo Tomé in Corrientes; Oberá in
-Misiones; and Resistencia and Barranqueras in Chaco, Argentina. All are
-observed for at least 1–2 minutes. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas,
-Signet, 1968, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4303
Date: 6/24/1967
-Time: 3:12 AM
-Description: Witness: artist Ray Stanford. One solid, blue-white,
-elliptical object flew from northwest to northeast and stopped,
-seemingly in response to flashlight signal, for 1.5 minutes. The object
-then proceeded along its original path at high speed and disappeared
-behind clouds. Sighting lasted 9 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Austin, Texas
-ID: 576
Date: 6/24/1967
-Description: In Asunción, Paraguay, many residents see six objects in
-formation maneuvering over the city. Communications interference is
-reported by the airport control tower director. (NICAP, “The
-1967 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4304
Date: 6/24/1967
-End date: 6/25/1967
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds the first UFO
-conference in Italy at Riccione, Rimini. (1Pinotti 143–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4305
Date: 6/27/1967
-Description: McDonald is
-in Australia, financed by a small grant from the Office of Naval
-Research, to do cloud-physics research. Earlier in June, in a memo to Low,
-he said he planned to do some UFO investigating and lecturing. Low
-forwards the letter to Philip
-Klass in December. (Clark III 700)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4306
Date: 6/28/1967
-Description: A NASA management instruction issued by Kurt
-H. Debus, director of Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island,
-Florida, on “Processing Reports of Sightings of Space Vehicle Fragments”
-notes that “Under no circumstances will the origin of the object be
-discussed with the observer or person making the call,” including
-“reports of sightings of objects not related to space vehicles.” (John
-F. Kennedy Space Center, “Processing Reports
-of Sightings of Space Vehicle Fragments,” NASA Management
-Instruction KMI 8610.4, June 28, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4307
Date: 6/29/1967
-Time: 1:30 AM
-Description: Witness: truck driver Damon Brown. One oyster-shaped
-object–2OO’ wide, and 25-30’ thick–with a huge red light at each end and
-one on the bottom, and a row of blue lights along the bottom. Circled
-m.n aircraft, hovering then moving rapidly, and then followed the
-witness’ car for about 500’, veered south and departed at great speed
-after 8-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey
-ID: 577
Date: 6/30/1967
-Description: Condon, David
-Saunders, Norm
-Levine, Franklin
-Roach, Mary Lou Armstrong, and visiting journalism grad student
-Herbert Strentz hold a meeting about a “case book” of significant cases.
-Condon tries to dissuade Saunders and Levine from pursuing this, but
-they prevail. (Swords 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4308
Date: 7/1967
-Description: Even though the Colorado project is requesting UFO reports
-from NICAP, Keyhoe is
-withholding them. Roy Craig discovers
-the Low memorandum
-while searching for unrelated information in the files. He shares it
-with Norm Levine and David
-Saunders, who
-realize that it clearly implies that the project is a “whitewash
-noninvestigation.” The memo makes the rounds of project personnel, then
-gets refiled. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 121;
-UFOs Yes, 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4309
Date: 7/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness sees an intense orange light through
-the window of her home in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. She
-calls her mother and they go outside to watch a cigar-shaped light
-hovering, moving up and down slightly, and turning over on its side. It
-has portholes around its lower edge. After 20 minutes, it moves off to
-the western horizon at a high rate of speed. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3,
-no. 6 (June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4310
Date: 7/1967
-End date: 12/1967
-Description: Intensive U.S. and international sighting wave. (See
-separate chronology, Section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 133
Date: 7/1/1967
-Description: The Denver Post reveals that the Colorado project has
-requested an additional $280,000 to extend it into September. Condon is
-upset. USAF ultimately approves an additional $183,155, plus $29,750 for
-expenses, bringing the total to $525,905. (UFOs Yes, 182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4311
Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: R. T. (initials), with ALPHA RED TOP SECRET CRYPTO
-Clearance, rank PFC, assigned to Canine Corps at Camp Pendleton, San
-Diego, CA., states that he and his dogs were air transported 2.5 hrs. to
-a sight in a desert (unknown location) UFO crash-sight. Saucer:
-Metallic, 30 ft. diameter, domed top, no windows. He also observed:
-Large walk-in refrigerator, empty body bags, men at work with technical
-instruments.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA
Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Warren Smith and two friends hiking in the
-mountains near Highwood Ranger Station, 50 miles southwest of Calgary,
-Alberta, take two color photos of a daylight disc that appears to be
-about 25 feet in diameter. The disc appears from less than 2 miles away
-and at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet. It travels toward the
-hikers, gradually losing altitude, then at a distance of about one-half
-mile it hovers for a moment and an object appears to fall from it. It
-disappears from sight at treetop level at great speed. The photos are
-examined by both Canadian and American authorities; Hynek describes
-them as some of the best photos on record at the time. An analysis by
-Canadian National Defence finds the object is an oblate ellipsoid with a
-diameter of 40–50 feet and a thickness of 11–14 feet. The witnesses sign
-statutory declarations to the effect that the photos are not a hoax; if
-proven false, they would be subject to prosecution under the Canada
-Evidence Act. Nevertheless, the Colorado Committee thinks the object
-could be a hoaxed hand-thrown model. Ground Saucer Watch declares it
-genuine. (Canada, National Research Council, [case
-documents], 1967, pp. 13–33; Condon, pp. 469–475;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 67–68;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 9–13; Wendelle C. Stevens, “Hikers
-near Calgary Photograph a UFO in 1967,” OpenMinds, November 24,
-2010; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 119– 125, 158–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4312
Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Thomas
-H. Nicholl, his family, and another couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Dowd,
-are sitting on the Nicholls’s porch in Leawood, Kansas, when they see an
-unusual orange-red light approach from the north- northeast. It is
-bright metallic in color, about 50 feet in diameter, and traveling 100
-mph at an altitude of 2,000– 3,000 feet. The red-orange color emanates
-from three lights on the rear side. After 5 minutes, the object blows
-up, leaving in its wake a “nearly pure white” cloud that dissipates. The
-witnesses see fragments falling to earth. (“Exploding
-Disc,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 11 (May 1969): 7–8; Clark III
-340–341)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4314
Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Joe Ferriere sees a large, cigar-shaped object
-about 75–100 feet long hanging low in the sky above Woonsocket, Rhode
-Island. A peculiar piston-like apparatus appears to be pumping in and
-out of its left end. It is moving right to left in the manner of a
-pendulum. Before it moves off to the east, it releases a glowing disc-
-shaped object, about 12–15 feet in diameter. He takes a total of 6
-photos of the objects. (“Long
-Rectangular UFOs:
-Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 2, no. 9 (September 1981): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4313
Date: 7/4/1967
-Description: 5:15 a.m. At least five witnesses from two independent
-locations about 5 miles west of Corning, California, see an oblong,
-metallic-appearing object with a brilliant light on top and a smaller
-light on the bottom near the front. Jay Munger, proprietor of an
-all-night bowling alley, and two police officers, Frank Rakes and James
-Overton, describe it as a dark-gray flattened sphere with a brilliant
-light beam on top directed upward, and a smaller and dimmer light on the
-bottom directed downward. A dark band circles the midsection. Two men
-north of Corning independently see the object. The witnesses estimate a
-diameter of 50–100 feet. At first the object appears to be hovering,
-then it moves slowly a few hundred feet above the ground, finally
-picking up speed and disappearing from view to the south after being
-visible for about 10 minutes. (James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying
-Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US
-House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July
-29, 1968, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4315
Date: 7/5/1967
-Description: Night. A witness is driving five miles north-northeast of
-Murray Bridge, South Australia, on the Karoonda Highway when he notices
-interference on the car radio, which becomes a high-pitched whine. He
-turns the radio off. Within 300–450 feet, his car engine stops by
-itself. The ignition is on but the warning lights on the dash come on.
-Looking up, he sees a distinct break in the fog with stars visible and a
-“large dark shadow” at a height of 20 feet. The shadow seems 120 feet
-thick. Above it is a grayish-blue glow. The top of the shadow appears
-convex. He stops the vehicle and gets out to look, but the shadow and
-light are gone. There is no sound, and the object has vanished. The
-witness returns to the vehicle, tries the ignition, and the motor works.
-There is no longer radio interference. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on
-Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011):
-19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4317
Date: 7/5/1967
-Description: 4:20 a.m. A motorist on State Highway 31, near the Depot
-Road area of Coventry, Connecticut, sees an orange ball of light that
-appears to be hanging from a tree. He drives into Coventry and reports
-the matter to the police but the object is gone when they arrive on the
-scene. Investigators from the University of Colorado and APRO find an
-area of grass some yards from the location that appears to have been
-swirled flat as if subject to a rotating force. A photograph taken of
-the scene turns out black. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet,
-1968, p. 63; Condon, pp. 329–331)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4316
Date: 7/5/1967
-Description: One hundred persons claimed to have seen a silvery
-disk-shaped object, about 10 m long, land in the area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Clifton, Great Britain
-ID: 852
Date: 7/6/1967
-Description: 6:00 p.m. An Air Canada DC-9 Vanguard has just taken off
-from its stop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is heading east. Air traffic
-controllers notice an unexpected radar return, also heading east, near
-the aircraft. In the space of 70 seconds, they watch the target
-accelerate from 800 to more than 4,000 mph before it zips off the scope
-near the town of Vivian. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, p. 126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4319
Date: 7/6/1967
-Description: The Colorado project staff meet again to nominate the first
-set of UFO reports for its “case book.” Condon refuses
-to nominate a case, but Low proposes
-the Red Bluff police report of August 1960, which is far outside
-Condon’s concept of limiting cases to no more than a year old. (Swords
-120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4318
Date: 7/6/1967
-Description: 9:24 p.m. A radar operator in the airport at Kenora,
-Ontario, notes an unidentified target heading northeast. It approaches
-to about 40 miles, then turns and retreats to 50 miles away. At 9:35
-p.m. another target appears, following an Air Canada flight; it turns
-northeast and disappears from the scope. At 9:53 p.m., an additional
-blip follows another Air Canada airliner before veering away to the
-northeast. None of the pilots see anything unusual. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4320
Date: 7/7/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Antonio Brambila and another man saw a glow coming from a
-disk, 6.5 m in diameter and 2.5 m high, with a dome on top and four
-telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 91 (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 853
Date: 7/7/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Antonio Brambilla and another man watch a UFO
-land on some grass in a deserted part of the Rondò-Torretta quarter in
-Milan, Italy. A glow comes from the object, which is about 21 feet in
-diameter and 8 feet high. It has a dome on top and four telescopic legs
-with spheres on their tips. They feel a strange vibration that makes
-them weak, but the feeling dissipates as the legs of the UFO retract and
-it takes off. (1Pinotti 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4322
Date: 7/7/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Winnipeg International
-Airport in Manitoba, while monitoring an eastbound Air Canada flight on
-radar, notice a target moving at high speed toward Kenora, Ontario. At
-9:24 p.m., the same or a similar object is detected on the Kenora
-Airport radar headed northeast. For three hours the object executes
-various maneuvers, including 180° turns and twice follows Air Canada
-flights before resuming its northeast course and disappearing off the
-scope. (Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs
-and the Canadian Government,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 6 (1975):
-21; Good Above, p. 200;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4321
Date: 7/10/1967
-Time: 5:50 PM
-Description: Witness: golf pro Harold Washington (Capt, USMC, ret.). One
-object with a dome, the top colored gunmetal blue, the bottom the color
-of old lead. Moved east, crossed the highway tilted upward, moved to the
-right, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds.
-Object made a swishing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lizelia, Mississippi
-ID: 578
Date: 7/11/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: Two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 m
-away from the road, which took off, rising rapidly. It had windowlike
-openings emitting a bright light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 183 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina
-ID: 854
Date: 7/13/1967
-Description: 11:26 p.m. Robert Richardson and Jerry Quay are driving
-near Whitehouse, Ohio. When rounding a bend, they encounter a brilliant
-blue-white light blocking the road. It appears to be a triangle 8 feet
-tall and 21 feet wide. Richardson brakes and close their eyes. They feel
-a bump but can see nothing. The local police do not take the incident
-seriously. However, the accident is investigated by the state police and
-highway patrol, who find only skid marks at the scene. The next day
-Richardson returns to the site and finds a piece of metal in the road.
-Marks on his car hood and bumper suggest a collision with an object
-taking off. On July 18 and 23, Richardson is visited by mysterious men,
-those on the second occasion being foreign-looking, who make a threat
-against his wife. Roy Craig of
-the Colorado project conducts a test on the metal and finds it consists
-of iron and chromium, with traces of nickel and manganese. Fibrous
-material from the front bumper is 92% magnesium, 5% aluminum, 2% zinc,
-and 1% manganese. (“UAO
-Struck by Automobile in Ohio,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1967, pp. 1,
-3; Condon, p. 93;
-Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1
-(Spring 2002): 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4323
Date: 7/17/1967
-Time: 1600
-Description: Children were terrified by four dwarfish creatures dressed
-in black clothing, about 1 m tall, who moved very rapidly among the
-bushes. They were dark-skinned, had bulging eyes, and spoke among
-themselves in a strange, musical dialect.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 182 (Vallee)
-Location: Arc-sous-Cicon, France
-ID: 855
Date: 7/17/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: E. Browne, walking in a wood, saw a disklike, dull,
-blue-gray object with a rough surface, hovering about 2 m above ground.
-An opening became visible in the middle section and two men dressed in
-silvery clothes emerged, walked in the woods, then reentered the craft,
-which rose and vanished from sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
-ID: 856
Date: 7/17/1967
-Description: 11:25 p.m. Emma Funk is driving on State Highway 22 north
-of Millerton, New York, when a black, shiny object the size of a
-baseball flies into her headlight beams. It heads toward the windshield,
-brushes against it, then veers off to the left. As it brushes, her car
-lights up “like a great electric light bulb,” her engine quits, and the
-headlights go out. Funk is stunned, and when she regains her senses, the
-car is facing the opposite direction, toward the south. The engine
-starts up normally, but there is a cracked area in the windshield the
-size of a fist. She can’t account for about 15 minutes. (“Object
-Hit Car in Millerton; Engine Stalled, Lights Went Out,” Poughkeepsie
-(N.Y.) Journal, July 19, 1967, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very
-Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4324
Date: 7/18/1967
-Time: 0130
-Description: A minister was awakened by a strange sound and had the
-“impulse” to go downstairs and look outside. Between his house and the
-next one, he saw a silhouette wearing a luminous suit. He thought
-someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and
-looked real. It turned into a shapeless glow and vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keel; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Boardman, Ohio
-ID: 857
Date: 7/20/1967
-End date: 7/21/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Barbara Fawcett is driving alone on North Key
-Largo, Florida, near Jewfish Creek. She sees a large light in her
-rear-view mirror apparently following the car. The burning yellow light
-seems to be floating 6–8 feet off the ground, and it stays over the
-road. She accelerates to 100 mph as the light overtakes her car and
-seems to be about to land on top of it. As a car approaches in the
-opposite direction, the object emits a bright yellow glow that lights up
-the road and then disappears. She decides to return home to Pompano
-Beach with her sister the same morning, and at 2:30 a.m. they are on US
-Highway 1 near the same spot when she sees the light again, rising from
-a swamp and moving toward them 15 feet above the ground. Her sister’s
-toy poodle is terrified. The light veers away from the road and appears
-to land on a sand dune. (“Landing
-in Florida,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1967, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4325
Date: 7/21/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: Barbara Fawcett, 18, and her sister saw a yellow “jagged”
-object rise above a swamp and land on a hill. Air Force investigators
-found a very large scorched area at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Jewish Creek, Florida
-ID: 858
Date: 7/21/1967
-Description: Ronnie Hill, 14, of Pamlico County, North Carolina, sends a
-color photo of what looks like a little man in a spacesuit standing in
-front of a spherical UFO to a New York magazine editor. It winds up in
-the hands of John
-A. Keel. Hill
-tells him the UFO landed in his backyard. Keel gathers affidavits from
-Ronnie’s teachers, parents, and the local 4-H club, and submits the
-photo to “several professional photographers” in New York, who cannot
-find evidence of a hoax. Soon, however, Keel has doubts and the photo is
-revealed to be that of a small model positioned in front of an egg.
-(John A. Keel, “The
-‘Little Man’ of North Carolina,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1969): 15–16; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam,
-1980, p. 230;
-Clark III 603; Aaron Sakulich, “The
-Strange Tale of Ronnie Hill,” The Iron Skeptic, January 13,
-2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4326
Date: 7/24/1967
-Time: 2200
-Description: Between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, Daniel Bonifait and his
-family saw a red disk, the size of a building, fall 300 m away behind a
-hill. Dark forms were observed on the disks surface, and the forest
-seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Mareuil, France
-ID: 859
Date: 7/25/1967
-Description: Round, blue-white object hovered near missile site, animals
-reacted. Object started, stopped, moved up and down. changed color to
-red when accelerating
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Garrison, ND
-ID: 134
Date: 7/26/1967
-Description: 8:38 p.m. Capt. Shindler is piloting Pacific Western
-Airlines Flight 748 westbound near the Westfall River in the Rocky
-Mountains of British Columbia. He notices a small pink light moving
-erratically at about 16,000 feet. It zips away after 18 minutes. Radar
-operators in Kamloops also observe the object. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4327
Date: 7/28/1967
-Description: Oval object approached fire lookout tower, hovered,
-illuminated ground
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gilroy, CA
-ID: 135
Date: 7/29/1967
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 136
Date: 7/30/1967
-Description: 6:15 p.m. The Naviero, a ship of the Argentine Shipping
-Lines Company, is 120 miles off the coast of Garopaba, Santa Catarina,
-Brazil, when Office Jorge Montoya notices a strange object in the ocean
-about 50 feet away on the starboard side. Capt. Julián Lucas Ardanza
-comes to the deck and sees a cigar-shaped UFO about 110 feet long,
-glowing blue and white. It paces the ship for 15 minutes, then suddenly
-dives and passes underneath the ship, vanishing in the depths. Chief
-Officer Carlos Lasca describes the object as a “submergible UFO with its
-own illumination.” (Oscar A. Galíndez, “Crew
-of Argentine Ship See Submarine UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 2
-(March/April 1968): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4328
Date: 7/30/1967
-Description: 10:17 p.m. George and
-Brownie
-Petyak see a bright yellow star-like light at about 65° elevation to
-the east of Kernville, California. It is later joined by a second
-similar object appearing to try to “steer” the first onto a “definite
-course.” Through binoculars the first object appears bright blue. A
-second independent observation from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
-in the Mojave Desert locates an object visually and/or on radar to the
-west over Walker Pass (about 20 miles) and is reported to Edwards AFB.
-Thus the visual sighting lines intersect from opposite directions. A
-controller at Edwards uses RAPCON (Radar Approach Control) radar (or
-Boron AFS FPS-35 search radar) and confirms the visual report at China
-Lake but tries to dismiss the 115 mph target as merely civil aircraft
-that “frequently” fly over the area. The Kernville witnesses report by
-phone during their sighting to the Boron AFS ADC radar site. Blue Book
-claims the date of the sighting is in question because the questionnaire
-sent to the Petyaks uses the military time (Greenwich Meridian Time or
-Zulu time) instead of local time. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual
-and Sighting Lines Intersect”; Sparks, p. 326;
-Condon, p. 122;
-Clark III 392)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4329
Date: 7/31/1967
-Time: 2215
-Description: A guard, Sidney Zipkin, 50, was driving through a large
-parking lot when he observed a cigar-shaped object, 16 m long, with
-green lights under it, land on the pavement. He stopped his truck within
-30 m of the object, with the headlights aimed on it, and was surprised
-to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by the vehicle
-and enter the craft, which took off straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 184 (Vallee)
-Location: Churchville, New York
-ID: 860
Date: 7/31/1967
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Sidney Zipkin is driving a truck on Main Street
-in Churchville, New York, when he sees a cigar- shaped object about 50
-feet long in a parking lot. It has greenish blinking lights underneath
-it, on or near the ground. He shines the truck headlights on the object
-and sees two small men in shiny black uniforms board the object, which
-takes off straight up. (“UFOs
-in Churchville?”
-Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1967,
-pp. 1B–2B)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4330
Date: 8/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A man is returning to his mother’s home in
-Wapakoneta, Ohio, when he sees a strangely bright star to the left of
-Polaris. As he watches, it grows a bit brighter and begins to move
-directly beneath Polaris and then continues to the right. It repeats
-this in reverse and then goes under Polaris and stops. The star then
-migrates north and south, tracing out the elements of a large cross. It
-does this several times rapidly. Then it comes back below Polaris and
-just sits there. After nearly 3 hours, the witness decides to stop
-watching. At that, the star goes up to Polaris and shoots away to the
-left. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2
-(January 2006): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4332
Date: 8/1967
-Description: At the request of President Johnson, the
-CIA sets up Operation CHAOS to gather intelligence about foreign
-influence on American dissent. Its mission is to gather and evaluate all
-information about foreign links to racial, antiwar, and other protest
-activity. The operation is launched under DCI Richard
-Helms and counter-intelligence chief James
-Jesus Angleton, and
-headed by Richard
-Ober. The
-program runs through 1973, amassing 10,000 files on more than 300,000
-individuals and 100 domestic groups. The operation also infiltrates
-foreign intelligence targets and domestic radical organizations. The NSA
-assists in the surveillance with its own Project MINARET. Operating
-between 1967 and 1973, over 5,925 foreigners and 1,690 organizations and
-US citizens are included on the Project MINARET watch lists. NSA
-Director Lew
-Allen testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975
-that the NSA has issued over 3,900 reports on the watch-listed
-Americans. At some point, the NSA is tasked with monitoring the overseas
-telephone calls and cable traffic of two prominent members of Congress,
-Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho)
-and Sen. Howard
-Baker (R-Tenn.). The FBI begins COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE, which focuses
-on Martin
-Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as
-well as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Revolutionary
-Action Movement, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Congress of Racial
-Equality, and the Nation of Islam. BLACK HATE establishes the Ghetto
-Informant Program and instructs 23 FBI offices to “disrupt, misdirect,
-discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist
-hate type organizations.” (Wikipedia, “Operation
-CHAOS”; Wikipedia, “Project
-MINARET”; Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”;
-Matthew M. Ald and William Burr, “Secret
-Cold War Documents Reveal NSA Spied
-on Senators,” Foreign Policy, September 25, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4331
Date: 8/1967
-End date: 11/1967
-Description: Hundreds of sightings in wave that peaked in October. House
-of Commons took interest in November.
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: UK
-ID: 142
Date: 8/3/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver, Amauri, at km 15 on
-the Miguel Peraira Highway saw two yellowish lights, then many others,
-about 500 m away to the left. They blinked and faded. Similar lights
-were seen again at Conrado. When the driver blinked the car’s
-headlights, the objects seemed to respond. An object which illuminated
-the whole area was seen resting in a woods.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 17 (Vallee)
-Location: Conrado, Brazil
-ID: 861
Date: 8/3/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Two persons saw a luminous, whitish object, 10 m in
-diameter, resembling two plates glued together. The whole yard was
-illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of
-the craft, and something similar to a light bulb lowered itself to
-ground level. This, too, had an opening, from which stepped a small man
-in silvery, luminous clothes, his head surrounded with vapor. He was
-about 5 m away from the witnesses, and was observed to pick up stones,
-examine them, look up and seem to communicate with the main object. He
-then dropped the stones and stepped into the “bulb” that reentered the
-craft, which took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 44 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 862
Date: 8/3/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A married couple and their teenage son are
-sleeping in their car outside their home in Caracas, Venezuela. They
-wake up and see a white, disc-shaped object hovering 100 feet above a
-nearby palm tree. Within a few minutes, an opening appears in the UFO,
-and a smaller lightbulb-shaped object emerges and drifts downward,
-stopping just inches from the ground near their front porch. A door
-slides open and a small, glowing figure steps out, who bends over, picks
-up some stones, examines them, and looks up at the larger object,
-apparently communicating with someone. He looks toward their car
-frequently. After a few minutes, the figure reenters the small object,
-which returns to the large disc and enters it. The disc speeds away and
-disappears in seconds. (“Occupants
-Seen at Caracas,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4334
Date: 8/3/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Amauri Barbosa da Silva and Jonil Faydit Vieira
-are driving on the road to Japeri from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they
-see several yellowish lights that eventually extinguish themselves, one
-at a time. Later, they see similar lights positioned directly in front
-of them. Da Silva blinks his headlights, and the lights respond
-similarly. The lights maintain their position in front of them, moving
-from one side of the road to the other. When they are approaching Miguel
-Pereira on a mud road between Arcádia and La Chaumiere, they see two
-bright beams of light, one yellow and one blue, about 1,000 feet away
-from them on the right, apparently attached to the dome of a disc. The
-object follows them for at least 40 minutes and is seen by Nelson
-Gonçalves Ferreira at their destination in Miguel Pereira. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 16–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4333
Date: 8/4/1967
-Time: early
-Description: Engineer Hugo S. Yepes was on a beach 25 km north of Recife
-when he saw a disk, 6 m in diameter, come out of the water. It was gray,
-looked metallic, hovered for a few sec at 1 m altitude, then rose slowly
-to the east and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Recife, Venezuela
-ID: 863
Date: 8/4/1967
-Description: Night. A bright object appears in the sky in the area of
-Morro do Policia in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for 30 minutes and is
-photographed by Brazilian Air Force technician Otacilio Freitas Dias. It
-flies in an erratic zigzag path, sometimes slowly, at other times at
-high speed, and sometimes hovering. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas,
-Signet, 1968, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4336
Date: 8/4/1967
-Description: Early morning. An engineer, Hugo Sierra Yepez [or Yepes],
-is fishing from his boat in the sea about 15 miles north of Arrecife [or
-La Guaira], Vargas, Venezuela, when he feels a vibration and the water
-begins to boil “in big bubbles, in a circle about six meters in
-diameter.” A gray-blue, flat globe emerges. As it hovers close to the
-surface, dripping water, he notices a revolving rim with triangular
-windows of blue and red. It ascends in a curve then shoots upward. (“The
-Question of Submerging UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 (March
-1968): 5; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4335
Date: 8/4/1967
-Description: Saturn-shaped object with rotating ring emerged from sea,
-hovered, ascended slowly, accelerated into sky and out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: La Guaira, Federal District, Venezuela
-ID: 137
Date: 8/5/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine saw a glowing, white
-object on a west-east trajectory north of Sawyer. The object was hidden
-by a hill at first but all of a sudden it appeared again over a
-cemetery, came to ground level, and sped away to the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Sawyer, North Dakota
-ID: 864
Date: 8/5/1967
-Description: Morning. After a night of heavy rain, Edgar Schielke finds
-a circular mark more than 30 feet in diameter in his cow pasture near
-Duhamel, Alberta. A UFO group from Edmonton visits the field and finds
-three additional rings. An RCAF team from CFB Namao [now CFB Edmonton],
-along with Gareth
-H. S. Jones of the Defense Research Establishment Suffield [now DRDC
-Suffield], visits the farm on August 11 after much of the evidence has
-been trampled. Jones finds two more rings. The marks vary from 5 to 7
-inches wide and from 31 feet 9 inches to 36 feet 3 inches, and each is
-incomplete on its western side. He is puzzled as to what made the marks,
-can find no evidence of a hoax, and seriously considers whether an
-aerial object could have made them. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 162–165, 197–205)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4337
Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: Antonio Neri Perez and several other people saw three
-glowing, red disks take off from a field near the house.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Hidalgo, Mexico
-ID: 865
Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: 7:55–8:20 p.m. Formations of lights in groups of 3–5 are
-seen in many states of Mexico, including Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo,
-Veracruz, and Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán. Most are generally moving
-west to east. Many people at the Mexico City International Airport watch
-a group between 8:10 and 8:20 p.m. Technicians in the control tower can
-make out 9–10 objects through binoculars. Capt. Angel Fojo Ceballos and
-Capt. José Luis Espejo are flying an Aeronaves de México [now
-Aeroméxico] DC-9 at 23,000 feet over Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. They
-see three bright points flying in formation from northwest to southeast
-an estimated 30–40 miles away. They cross the horizon at 55,000–60,000
-feet in 40–45 seconds. One of the objects appears to break formation and
-approach the aircraft, showing a round shape and metallic composition,
-but then it veers away and out of sight. The events are thought to be
-the reentry of the Pioneer 7 rocket body that had launched from Cape
-Canaveral on August 15, 1966. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet,
-1968, pp. 65– 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4339
Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A Peruvian airliner piloted by Capt. Samuel
-Sanguaza, copilot César Jordan, and subofficers Oscar Guevara and Jorge
-Sarguaza encounters a globe of light while flying between Lima, and
-Pisco, Peru. The light changes color from red to orange and blue as it
-paces the aircraft for 15 minutes, bobbing up and down, moving closer
-and receding, before it zooms away as the airplane nears Pisco.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4340
Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: Office worker Antonio Neri Perez and several others watch
-three glowing red discs take off in V formation from a field near their
-house in Tetepango, Hidalgo, Mexico. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas,
-Signet, 1968, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4338
Date: 8/7/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: In the San Bernardino section, Pedro Riera, of Avila Ave.,
-was awakened by the shaking of his bed and saw a creature in his room,
-which “flew” out through the open window. Lights on the ground blinded
-the witness when he rushed to the balcony. Other people had seen a
-strange vehicle parked in the street. That afternoon, a strange dwarf
-entered the office of Dr. S. Vegas, who examined him. The being spoke
-perfect Spanish, had peculiar heart sounds, and did not understand the
-notion of “age.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 74 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 866
Date: 8/8/1967
-Description: Evangelical pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras is on the
-shore at Catia La Mar, Vargas, Venezuela, when he sees the water
-stirring up in a vast round area. The water begins to turn light blue,
-then whitish, yellowish, then brilliant orange. An orange disc rises out
-of the sea about 1,650 feet from shore, hovers, then rises obliquely and
-disappears. It makes an intense buzzing sound. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the
-Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4341
Date: 8/8/1967
-Description: 8:40 p.m. An object shaped like a sharply outlined
-asymmetrical crescent flies over the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical
-Station near Kislovodsk, North Caucasus, Russia. The object is slightly
-smaller than the moon with a color described as reddish by some
-observers, yellow by others. It flies from west to east about 20° above
-the horizon, moving from the Big Dipper to Cassiopeia in about 30
-seconds at a uniform speed. The witnesses are Anatoli Sazanov, a
-specialist in the ionosphere; V. A. Tsion of the Leningrad Polytechnical
-Institute; and seven members of a biological expedition. (Felix Ziegel,
-“Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 28; James E.
-McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 61; Hobana and Weverbergh 288–289;
-Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat,
-Ballantine, 1992, p. 192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4342
Date: 8/8/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: Evangelic Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore
-when he saw a diskshaped object with a very bright orange glow emitting
-a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea, hover a few seconds then rise
-obliquely.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 55 (Vallee)
-Location: Salina, Venezuela
-ID: 867
Date: 8/10/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Harry E. King and Michael Swartz see a bright
-round ball, about 50–60 feet in diameter, in the air about 1,300 feet
-away near Winter Haven, Florida. It hovers for 3–4 minutes, then moves
-slowly for a quarter mile, rises, shoots away, and disappears in one
-second. At 10:00 p.m., they watch a bright light descend for 5 minutes,
-move back and forth for one minute, then suddenly disappear. (NICAP case
-file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4343
Date: 8/11/1967
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 138
Date: 8/12/1967
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Robert
-P. Miedtke and his wife are sleeping in a camper on property
-belonging to some relatives on County Highway I some 11 miles west of
-Ogema, Wisconsin. They are awakened by their dog barking outside. They
-look out the window and see a large, fluorescent, half-moon-shaped
-object in a neighboring pasture about 450 feet away. It is shining a
-beam of light at a milk house only 25 feet from their camper. The dog
-has stopped barking and they can hear none of the usual night sounds.
-After about one hour, they hear the sound of someone walking in the
-gravel and sand outside. Three times the footsteps are heard going from
-north to south. The Miedtkes remain in bed, hoping no one would know
-they are in the camper. After another hour, just before dawn, they hear
-the dog whimpering and barking, followed by the muffled noise like a
-huge generator that fades away after 6–8 seconds. (“Possible
-Landing in Wisconsin,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4344
Date: 8/12/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog,
-saw a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short
-flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps
-around their trailer. At dawn there was a sound like that of a
-generator, and seconds later the object was gone.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 27 (Vallee)
-Location: Ogema, Wisconsin
-ID: 868
Date: 8/13/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Between Pilar de Goiás and Crixás, Goiás, Brazil,
-a plantation worker at the Estancia de Santa Maria, Ignácio da Souza, is
-returning home from work when he and his wife see an object in the form
-of an upside-down basin 115 feet in diameter sitting on the landing
-strip of the ranch. They initially think it is some flying machine
-tested by the ranch owner, Ibiracy de Moraes, a wealthy man and former
-president of the Bank of Brazil. Between the object and the couple,
-there are three humanoid, child-size beings that they initially think
-are naked children before realizing that they are hairless creatures
-wearing a tight suit of yellow. The beings seem to be playing around
-silently, but then move quickly towards them. Da Souza tells his wife to
-lock herself up in their house. He is armed with a rifle and frightened,
-so da Souza shoots the closest of the beings. At the same time, the UFO
-emits a ray of green light that hits him, throwing him to the ground
-unconscious. Seeing her husband fall from the kitchen window, his wife
-runs onto the scene shouting, interposes herself between the beings and
-the body of her husband, and picks up his rifle. But during this time
-the beings have retrieved the one that had fallen to ground and quickly
-flee to enter the craft. After a short time, it slowly rises vertically
-while emitting a buzz similar to that of a swarm of bees. Taken to the
-hospital of Goiânia, the state capital, de Souza suffers from nausea and
-a general numbness. Burns are noted, initially attributed to a toxic
-plant, but when de Souza and de Moraes hear the erroneous diagnosis and
-are told what had happened, doctors perform a blood analysis that
-returns with a diagnosis of advanced leukemia with life expectancy of
-two months. Da Souza quickly deteriorates, suffers, develops yellowish
-spots, and dies on October 11. In accordance with his instructions, his
-wife burns the bed, the mattress, and the clothing that he has used.
-(Clark III 353–354; Brazil 85–88; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August
-15, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4345
Date: mid 8/1967
-Description: About 12:00 noon. Electrical engineer Albert Fulton and
-superintendent Sherman Anderson are making rounds at the Nova Scotia
-Light and Power substation in Caledonia, Nova Scotia. They notice steam
-rising from one of three large transformers, then Fulton spots two
-silvery disc-shaped objects maneuvering around the sky some distance
-away. The pair watches them a they zip back and forth in different
-directions from horizon to horizon in 3–4 seconds. Each time they leave
-a silvery line about 10 times their length behind them, which disappears
-when the objects stop. They watch this spectacle for about one minute,
-then both discs come to a common point in front of a suddenly visible
-gray, cigar-shaped object. After stopping briefly the two smaller
-objects merge into the cigar, taking 12–15 seconds. The large object
-disappears. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR
-29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4346
Date: 8/18/1967
-Description: A CIA report summarizes interviews with unnamed Russian
-astronomers that may possibly have been conducted by members of the
-Condon commission. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Report
-on Conversations with Soviet
-Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR,”
-August 18, 1967; Good Above, pp.
-230–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4347
Date: 8/22/1967
-End date: 8/31/1967
-Description: Low, Roach, and
-Hynek attend
-the XIIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in
-Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Low wastes an opportunity
-to meet with Charles
-Bowen in London, England, and instead goes to Loch Ness, Scotland,
-“because neither the Loch Ness monster nor UFOs exist.” (Michael D.
-Swords, “The
-USAF-Sponsored Colorado Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs,”
-1995 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1995; Swords 321; Good Above,
-p. 230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4348
Date: 8/23/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: A boy and a girl, both 15, noticed a red glow coming down
-in the woods. Later they saw a large source of light in mid-air and
-heard piercing whistling sounds, then footsteps, and saw a jumping
-creature, 10 m away. It was about 1.30 m tall, had an oversized head,
-made jerky motions, raised a tube in its arms, and had a “shimmering”
-appearance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Kolmarden, Sweden
-ID: 870
Date: 8/23/1967
-Time: early
-Description: Stanley Moxon, of Toronto, driving to Montreal, was between
-Joyceville and the Glen Grove Rd. when he encountered a large,
-diskshaped craft and two creatures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in white suits
-and helmets. They “flew back” into the object at once and it left
-silently at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 32 (Vallee)
-Location: Joycevi]le, Canada
-ID: 869
Date: 8/23/1967
-Description: Huge disc on or just above ground in field, three small
-humanoid beings emerged, apparently gathered specimens. Physical
-traces
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Joyceville, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 139
Date: 8/23/1967
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Stanley Moxon is driving on Ontario Highway 15
-between Joyceville, Ontario, and Pine Grove Road when he sees a green
-light in a field to the south. He turns off his lights and drives down a
-side road to get closer. Minutes later, he turns on his lights again and
-they shine on a huge metallic disc hovering just above the ground. Two
-entities, 4 feet tall and dressed in white suits and helmets, appear to
-be startled and hurry back into the craft, which takes off at tremendous
-speed. (“Occupant
-in Ontario,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4349
Date: 8/23/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Two 15-year-olds are strolling around the
-Kolmården ridge area in Östergötland, Sweden, when they see a reddish
-glow moving back and forth in the nearby woods. Continuing home, they
-run across a locked, deserted shack that seems to have some yellowish
-lights moving around in one room and noises like muted thuds. The red
-glow reappears moving close to the ground from the west. Suddenly it
-turns brilliant white and appears to land on the other side of a brook.
-They run home and see a huge light like a flashlight hovering 13 feet
-above the ground near the house. They hear a whistling sound coming from
-the brook and what seem to be footsteps coming toward them. They run to
-a ravine where they see, about 35 feet away, a small being with a
-disproportionately large head and wearing dark clothing. It lifts its
-arms and seems to be holding a box-like apparatus with a tube. Two thin,
-wire-like bands appear around the creature’s ankles and give off an
-intense white light. They run home again. The next day they return to
-where the being was and find some odd three-toed footprints about 6
-inches long. (“‘Monster’
-Report from Sweden,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4350
Date: 8/24/1967
-Description: Two humanoid beings in silvery suits, round helmets,
-emerged from disc with dome
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wodonga, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 140
Date: 8/24/1967
-Time: 1700
-Description: A motorcyclist was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white
-light so dazzling that he had to stop. He then saw a metallic object, 30
-m away, its shape that of two saucers one on top of the other, with a
-dome on top, silvery, the lower half dark gray, about 10 m in diameter,
-and bearing a black mark or insignia. Near it appeared two figures about
-1.5 m tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from
-them scared the witness, who drove away but was followed by the
-object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Sydney-Melbourne Road, Australia
-ID: 871
Date: 8/24/1967
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Ron Hydes is riding his motorcycle near Wodonga,
-Victoria, Australia, when he is surrounded by a blinding blue-white
-light that illuminates the road. As he stops, a bright lens-shaped domed
-disc, estimated to be 25–30 feet in diameter, descends within a few feet
-of the ground about 100 feet away. Two humanoids about 5– 5.5 feet tall
-with round helmets and silver coveralls emerge. One steps nearer to the
-witness, who flees. The object, surrounded by a pinkish glow, follows
-the motorcycle at about 100 feet off the ground. Hydes can hear a
-humming sound above the motorcycle’s engine. He stops again and the
-object hovers, the hum subsiding. After 30 seconds, the color around the
-object changes from pink to brilliant red, and it tilts up at a 45°
-angle, then shoots away. (“Occupants
-Attempt to Lure Motorcyclist,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967,
-pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4351
Date: 8/25/1967
-Time: 1700
-Description: Three disks of large dimension were seen to emerge from the
-sea by Ruben Norato, after he observed a “precipitous movement of the
-water.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Catia la Mar, Venezuela
-ID: 872
Date: 8/25/1967
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Ruben Norato sees a “precipitous movement of the
-water” from the beach at Catia La Mar, Vargas, Venezuela, from which
-arise “three huge plate-shaped discs” that streak out of sight. (“The
-Question of Submerging
-UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 (March 1968): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4352
Date: 8/26/1967
-Description: Campers saw glowing oval that beamed light down, engulfed
-canoe. Memory loss and abduction. (See section XIII bibliography,
-Fowler, 1990a.)
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: abduction
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eagle Lake, Allagash Waterway, ME
-ID: 141
Date: 8/26/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Esteban D. Cova, a private in the Marines, was relieved of
-duty at the airport and returned to his quarters. Then he met an ugly
-dwarf, 1 m tall, with a huge head, bulgy eyes, and a body covered with
-“hairy stuff or wiry metal.” It made a deep whistling sound, and Cova
-felt a prickling sensation in his body. In perfect Spanish the creature
-said: “Won’t you come with me? We need one human being.” Cova
-fainted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 79 (Vallee)
-Location: Maiquetia Airport, Venezuela
-ID: 873
Date: 8/26/1967
-Description: Saki Macharechi spotted an object in flight, which he
-thought was a heron, land near a bridge. He then saw that it was a
-dwarf, about 1 m tall, with huge eyes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Maturin, Venezuela
-ID: 874
Date: 8/27/1967
-Description: David
-Saunders proposes to the Colorado project team that they issue
-technical reports on whatever phase or case they have concentrated on.
-These will be circulated among the staff for review but not for veto.
-They would stand as the author’s own work without censure. Appropriate
-disclaimers would be attached before they are issued to the public. A
-final report might be cobbled together from these technical reports. Condon and
-Low apparently
-disapprove of this immediately. (Swords 323)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4353
Date: 8/27/1967
-Description: 11:20 p.m. Kenneth Flack is passing a car near Texas Creek,
-Colorado, when his engine and car lights fail. He pulls to the side of
-the road, along with the car he is passing and a camper-trailer. He sees
-a large object in a field some 900–1,200 feet away. It is
-football-shaped and silvery. He approaches it on foot and is hit by a
-bright light coming from the object that knocks him out. Bystanders from
-other cars carry him back to the roadside and tell him that he had been
-frozen in a standing position for 5 minutes. Flack is intensely cold and
-sleepy, so another unidentified driver gives him a ride back to Pueblo
-in a camper (“1967
-Landing in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1969, pp. 3–4;
-Lorenzen, The Shadow of the Unknown, New American Library, 1970,
-pp. 138–139; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 21; Randle,
-Levelland, 2021, pp. 143–144; CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4354
Date: 8/28/1967
-End date: 8/29/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m.–1:10 a.m. Leslie and Jacqueline Dowdell see a
-3–4 dancing lights zigzagging to the northeast over Rivers, Manitoba.
-The lights resolve into one object the color of a mandarin orange that
-hovers for 2–3 minutes, changing colors, before zooming away to the
-north. At 12:30 a.m., Cpl. A. Fedun of CFB Rivers [now closed] sees a
-round ball of orange light moving northwest. At 12:45 a.m.,
-Commissionaire G. Stefanson hears a loud noise, and LAC J. Hebert and
-Judy Ross, driving one mile east of Rivers, watch a white flashing light
-that remains stationary for 30–50 seconds. They later find some odd dust
-on their car and some bubbling of the paint on the top. At 1:00 a.m.,
-Cpl. K. McArthur hears another loud blast that rattles windows on the
-base. At 1:10 a.m., LAC K. Taylor, 8 miles east of Rivers, sees a red
-ball of flame trailed by a blue light at 3,000–4,000 feet. An
-investigating team from RCAF Trainiong Command Headquarters in Winnipeg
-immediately comes out to investigate. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 251–260)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4355
Date: 8/29/1967
-Description: 10:30 a.m. François Delpeuch, 13, and his sister
-Anne-Marie, 9, are herding cows at Cussac, Cantal, France. They see four
-small black beings about 47 inches tall with large heads and pointed
-chins around a landed sphere 15 feet in diameter. As the UFO begins to
-take off, the beings are sucked into it head-first, and it leaves very
-quickly in a blinding light. The police note “sulfur odor and the dried
-grass” at the landing spot. The case is reopened and studied in depth by
-Claude
-Poher. (Wikipedia, “Close
-encounter of Cussac”; Jöel Mesnard and Claude Pavy, “Encounter
-with Devils,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1968): 7–9;
-Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story. Signet, 1969, pp. 280–282; [Claude
-Poher], “Enquête
-sur l’Observation du 29.08.67 de Cussac (Cantal),”
-Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, Centre
-Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, 1978; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and
-Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007):
-16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4356
Date: 8/29/1967
-Time: 1030
-Description: Two children saw a sphere, 2 m in diameter, and “four
-little devils.” One of them was bending over, apparently busy with
-something on the ground, and another held a mirrorlike object. They
-hovered and flew around the sphere, then dived into it as it rose with a
-soft whistling sound. A smell of sulphur began to spread, and the object
-flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5; LDLN 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Cussac, France
-ID: 875
Date: 9/1967
-Description: Afternoon. Paul
-Stehlin, military aviator and vice-president of Bugatti, is flying
-his own plane near Vélizy- Villacoublay, Yvelines, France, when he sees
-a silver, cigar-shaped object beside him. The object accompanies the
-aircraft for a few minutes, then it accelerates and leaves the plane
-behind at terrific speed. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4362
Date: 9/1967
-Description: The CIA staff’s frank opinions on Vietnam are sometimes
-modified before reaching President Johnson.
-At one point the CIA analysts estimate enemy strength at 500,000, while
-the military insists it is only 270,000. No amount of discussion
-resolves the difference. In September 1967, the CIA under DCI Richard
-Helms goes along with the military’s lower number for the combat
-strength of the Vietnamese Communist forces. This leads a CIA analyst
-directly involved in this work to file a formal complaint against Helms,
-which is accorded due process within the agency. (Wikipedia, “Richard
-Helms”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4361
Date: 9/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Capt. Grigory Demyanovich Oleynikov of the
-Russian fishing boat Kama is in Vyborg Bay in western Russia when he
-notices a luminescent, milky-white disc descending through the cloud
-layer. It stops and hovers at an altitude of 1,300 feet and seems to
-have a diameter of about 50 feet. The bottom portion contains nozzles
-that emit flames. Athen in complete silence it takes off straight up.
-(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-p. 153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4359
Date: 9/1967
-Alternate date: 10/1967
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Some 40 soldiers and officers at an antiaircraft
-artillery unit stationed at Floreşti, Romania, watch an aluminum-colored
-object hovering about 2,400 feet in the sky. The unit commander reports
-it to the General Command in Bucharest, who order him to shoot it down
-if it makes any hostile maneuvers. The object stays in position for more
-than two hours, but disappears after a white cloud passes in front of
-it. (Romania 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4358
Date: 9/1967 (approximate)
-Description: Saunders and
-Levine visit Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to look at the Project Blue
-Book files. They find cases stored adjacent to the official files, and
-some in a classified safe. Saunders also finds problems when he examines
-the statistics in Blue Book Special Report no. 14. Plus all of
-Battelle’s original IBM cards have been thrown away. (UFOs Yes,
-115–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4357
Date: 9/1967
-Description: The Midwest UFO Network publishes its first issue of
-Skylook.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4360
Date: 9/1/1967 (approximate)
-Description: The Colorado project obtains a third-hand report of a UFO
-sighting at Edwards AFB, California, on or around this date. A civilian
-employee at the base has seen the report, mentions it to a relative, who
-then discusses it with a scientist cooperating with the project.
-According to the story, 6 UFOs follow an X-15 as it lands. When project
-members call Edwards, they get a runaround. After 2 weeks of phone
-calls, they find that no X-15 flew on September 1. (There are flights on
-August 21, 25, and October 3 and 4, however.) But no one denies that a
-UFO sighting took place. (UFOs Yes, 124–125; Condon, pp. 341–342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4364
Date: early 9/1967
-Description: Evan Evanson, 18, is returning home in a pickup truck on
-Highway 36 south of Taber, Alberta, when his engine heats up and he
-pulls to the side of the road to let it cool off. Through the driver’s
-window he sees a soundless, green, glowing object like two plates put
-together. It seems near enough to touch. The music on the truck radio is
-replaced with a beeping sound. Suddenly the object disappears, and
-Evanson notices that the truck engine has stopped. (“First
-Sighting of UFO Reported at Taber,” Calgary (Alberta) Herald,
-September 5, 1967, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4363
Date: 9/2/1967
-Time: night
-Description: Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, saw an object on the Plains
-Highway, and a creature, of which he took several photographs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Hato Viejo Farm, Venezuela
-ID: 876
Date: 9/3/1967
-Description: Paula Valdez, suffering from a headache, was suddenly
-aroused by a whistling sound and saw a small man, with a large head and
-prominent eyes, who said: “I want you to come with us, so that you’ll
-know other worlds, and you’ll realize how small your world is.” The
-witness screamed wildly, and the apparition ran.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 80 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 877
Date: 9/4/1967
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Police officer P. A. Andrade is on duty at city
-hall in Valencia, Venezuela, when he hears a humming noise and footsteps
-in a nearby garage. He meets a dwarf, 3 feet tall, with a big head and
-bulging, reddish, glowing eyes, wearing a silver-colored,
-metallic-looking coverall. Andrade points his automatic weapon at the
-creature, but a voice from a hovering disc says in Spanish that he
-should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tries to convince Andrade
-to “come to their world,” adding it is “very distant and much larger
-than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings.” When Andrade
-declines, the creature flies back into the object, which takes off.
-(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 82; Vallée, Magonia,
-pp. 351–352;
-Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR
-24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4365
Date: 9/4/1967
-Time: 0510
-Description: Police Officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall when
-he heard a humming noise and footsteps in a garage. He met a dwarf, 1 m
-tall, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes, wearing a
-silver-colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine
-gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disk said in Spanish
-that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince
-Andrade to come to “their world,” adding it was “very distant and much
-larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings.” When
-Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which
-left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 82 (Vallee)
-Location: Valencia, Venezuela
-ID: 878
Date: 9/4/1967
-Description: The Industrial Psychologists’ section of the American
-Psychological Association sponsors a program on “Problems and Methods of
-Gathering Data on UFOs.” Participants include Harold
-Greenwald, Richard
-H. Hall, Gustave
-J. Rath, R.
-Leo Sprinkle, and David
-Saunders. (Story,
-p. 413)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4367
Date: 9/4/1967
-Description: Dawn. A paperboy in Clevedon, England, discovers a
-5-foot-wide, saucer-shaped, metallic object in a field. He calls the
-police, who send it to the guided weapons division of British Aerospace,
-whose chief design engineer declares it an expensive hoax. Soon five
-identical objects are found in fields and golf courses in the southern
-part of England. The sites lie on a straight path 220 miles long that
-spans 1° of latitude, running west to east from Clevedon to the Isle of
-Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. A USAF intelligence officer takes photos
-of one in Welford, Berkshire, and chemists with Britain’s Home Office
-analyze samples of a foul liquid that is seeping from one of the
-objects. But the objects are a prank involving 15 engineering
-apprentices, primarily Christopher
-Southall and Roger
-Palmer, at
-the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. The objects are made of
-fiberglass, and the smelly liquid is a fermented mixture of flour and
-water. (Wikipedia, “1967
-British flying
-saucer hoax”; Clark III 604–605; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals,
-Blandford, 1995, pp. 108–111;
-John Keeling, “Invasion 1967,” Fortean Times 228 (November 2007): 32–41;
-“The
-Great Saucer Invasion: The Day Six
-‘Spaceships’ Landed in England,” BBC News, September 3, 2017; Curt
-Collins, “The
-UK Saucer Invasion of 1967,”
-The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 30, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4366
Date: 9/5/1967
-Description: Saunders suggests
-to Low that
-his academic commitments might require a reorganization of project
-duties, namely that Low, Roach, and
-himself report directly to Condon,
-with others reporting to them. Low blows up. Low ultimately agrees but
-replaces Roach with Norm Levine. (UFOs Yes, 139–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4368
Date: 9/6/1967
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Several witnesses at Meir, Stoke-in-Trent,
-England, see a vertically oriented “sausage-shaped cloud” in the eastern
-sky, behind which a light flashes for about 20 seconds at irregular
-intervals. A bright, glowing orange oval then emerges from the cloud and
-heads southeast at “fantastic speed.” A light again flashes in the cloud
-for about 10 seconds, then stops. The mode of disappearance of the cloud
-is not reported. (Roger Stanway and Anthony R. Pace, Flying Saucer
-Report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, Newchapel Observatory, 1968,
-pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30,
-no. 3 (May 2006): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4369
Date: 9/8/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: A. Aguilar, 23, saw a creature outside her bedroom window
-and screamed. Her parents ran into the room in time to see it soaring
-over rooftops, surrounded by a bluish-yellow glow. It moved as if
-suspended from a balloon. A strong smell of “melted iron” was detected
-by all.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 81 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 879
Date: 9/9/1967
-Description: A 3-year-old saddle horse named Lady [not Snippy] belonging
-to Nellie
-Lewis of the Harry
-King Ranch in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, just south of Great
-Sand Dunes National Monument, is found dead a couple days after it has
-gone missing. The animal appears to have been skinned from the neck to
-the shoulders, which are nothing but bleached bones. The cut in the neck
-looks smooth and surgical. The soil beneath the horse is damp, and there
-is a medicine-like smell. A nearby bush is flattened oddly. Alamosa
-County Sheriff Ben Phillips blames Lady’s death on lightning. A few days
-later, rangers at Great Sand Dunes arrest John
-Henry Altshuler, a pathologist at Ross Medical Center in Denver, for
-trespassing after dark; he has actually gone to the area to look for
-UFOs. When they find out he is a specialist in blood coagulation, they
-say they will drop the arrest record if he takes a look at the dead
-horse. He finds that Lady’s lungs, heart, and thyroid are completely
-missing and finds the complete absence of blood distressing. Altshuler
-begins to think the dead horse has something to do with the UFOs he had
-seen when he was in the Great Sand Dunes. Nellie Lewis also admits she
-has been watching something in the sky every night. Duane
-Martin, a US Forest Service ranger, records a pulse of unusually
-high radioactivity near Lady’s carcass, although others think it is only
-background radiation. The Pueblo Chieftain reports on the case in its
-October 5 edition and it gets picked up by the AP. Pathologist Robert O.
-Adams, chief of surgery at Colorado State University’s College of
-Veterinary Medicine, investigates Lady for the Colorado project and
-concludes that bacteria, birds, and coyotes are responsible for the lack
-of blood and organs. He finds an infection in the horse’s right flank
-that could have killed it; the cut at the neck might have been someone’s
-mercy killing. “Exhaust marks” found are probably fungal infestations,
-and indentations are probably weathered hoofprints. Alamosa veterinarian
-Wallace Leary later finds evidence of two bullet holes in Lady’s rump.
-(“The Snippy
-Case,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 6; “Colorado
-Horse Death Ruled No UFO Case,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 2 (October
-1967): 4; Donald Merker, “The Appaloosa from Alamosa,” Fate 21, no. 3
-(March 1968): 35, 45–52; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968,
-pp. 148–158; Condon, pp. 344–347;
-UFOs Yes, 155–169; “Town
-Gets Snippy about Skeleton of Mutilated Horse,” Denver Post,
-December 8, 2006; Greg Newkirk, “Death
-on the Great Sand Dunes: The Strange Case of Snippy the Horse, the First
-Cattle Mutilation,” Week in Weird, January 8, 2013; Sylvia Lobato,
-“After
-50 Years, Snippy Still a Mystery,” Alamosa (Colo.) Valley Courier,
-September 29, 2017; Clark III 130–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4370
Date: 9/10/1967
-Description: Cone-shaped object, haze or mist around lower portion,
-approached airliner from west, passed under starboard wing, turning and
-maneuvering
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Barcelona, Spain
-ID: 143
Date: 9/10/1967
-Description: Several residents of Bruzual, Apure, Venezuela, watch a
-white, luminous disc following the course of the Apure River from west
-to east at low altitude. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet,
-1968, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4371
Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: Richard
-H. Hall resigns as assistant director of NICAP for personal reasons
-and is replaced by Gordon
-I. R.
-Lore. (“Assistant
-Director Hall Resigns, Is Replaced by Gordon Lore,” UFO Investigator
-4, no. 2 (October 1967): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4372
Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: 3:30 p.m. About a dozen employees of the Douglas Point
-Nuclear Generating Station near Kincardine, Ontario, watch a UFO pass
-over the plant in an easterly direction. At one point it hovers above
-Lake Huron about a mile and a half offshore and drops something into the
-water. Other plant workers see similar objects over the lake or above
-the plant on five succeeding nights. The plant isn’t operational for
-another year. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and
-Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 122–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4373
Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: 10:42 p.m. According to radar operators at Kincheloe AFB
-[now Chippewa County International Airport] south of Sault Ste. Marie,
-Michigan, more than 20 radar targets appear and disappear over the
-middle of Lake Superior over an 80-minute period, tracked at speeds of
-up to 2,000 mph, sometimes turning at sharp right angles and involving
-separation and merging of distinct targets. Radar at Duluth, Minnesota,
-has also picked up the targets. The Colorado project sends John
-Ahrens and Norm Levine to investigate. They check out rumors of
-visual sightings at Sault Ste. Marie, but these do not conform to the
-radar trackings. At Duluth, they draw a complete blank with denials all
-around. (NICAP, “17
-Unknowns in 80 Minute Period”; UFOs Yes, 123–124; Condon, pp. 164–165;
-Sparks, p. 326)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4375
Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. During a raging storm near Rosario, Santa Fe,
-Argentina, a family watches a huge, glowing orange object hovering in a
-field about 1,000 feet away from the farmhouse. The object emits
-brilliant beams of light. After 4 hours it ascends and is lost to sight
-in seconds. The next day, the witnesses find a sootlike material on the
-ground and tracks about 2 inches wide in the flattened grass. (Lorenzen,
-UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4374
Date: 9/11/1967
-Time: 2130
-Description: During a raging storm, an entire family watched a large,
-glowing object in a field 300 m away, giving off brilliant beams of
-light for 4 hours, after which it took off in seconds. Sootlike material
-with an unpleasant smell and tracks on flattened grass were noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Villa Constitucion, Argentina
-ID: 880
Date: 9/13/1967
-Description: Condon gives
-a dinner speech at a spectroscopy symposium at the National Bureau of
-Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and talks primarily about
-contactees and crackpots. (UFOs Yes, 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4376
Date: 9/14/1967
-Time: 1100
-Description: Fabio J. Diniz, 16, was walking near a hospital when he saw
-a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and
-a guillotinelike door that slid up. The boy fled, but a voice told him
-in Portuguese: “Don’t run away.” He saw two men, 2 m tall, dressed in
-green tight-fitting clothes. They told him not to be afraid and to
-return the next day, “otherwise we will take your family.” They had
-greenish skin, and round eyes set wide apart.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: La Baleia, Brazil
-ID: 881
Date: 9/14/1967
-Alternate date: 9/17/1967
-Description: 10:50 a.m. “Fábio Jose Diniz,” 16, is walking along an
-asphalt path near the deserted grounds of an isolation unit at Hospital
-da Baleia on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He notices an
-object in an adjacent football field. It is shaped like a mushroom with
-a domed top and surrounded by a row of portholes and a thick central
-“stalk” in contact with the soil. A hazy screen like a force field drops
-around the object, and a door appears out of nowhere and slides upward
-along the column. Two humanlike figures, 6 feet tall, emerge, dressed in
-one-piece diving suits of greenish material and helmets. One of them
-carries a tube-like implement, and the other has a probe sticking up
-from his helmet and talks to Diniz in Portuguese, telling him not to run
-away. He starts running anyway, but the figure tells him to come back
-the next day or they will take his family. The figure reenters the UFO,
-which takes off vertically. He sees psychologist and UFO researcher Hulvio
-Aleixo, who says he is in severe shock. At the landing site, police
-find some foul-smelling black material that crumbles easily. This is
-examined by geophysicist Roberto Murto, who finds it is made of iron,
-magnesium, and silica. An impression like a large footprint is also
-found. Aleixo subjects the boy to psychological testing and he finds no
-disorder. The UFO fails to return the next day. (“Flying
-Saucer Is Reported,” Baltimore (Md.) Sun, September 25, 1967, p. 3;
-Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 85; Jenny Randles,
-UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 97– 99;
-Clark III 177–178; Brazil 88–91; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral
-Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999):
-18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4377
Date: 9/15/1967
-Description: The carcass of a horse named Snippy was discovered. Unusual
-radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the
-spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Condon 344; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Alamosa, Colorado
-ID: 882
Date: 9/15/1967
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Separate witnesses in Winsted, Connecticut, see a
-large glowing, pulsating object hovering nearby and several small beings
-with large heads moving around it. The object’s light dims when cars
-approach. (“Flap
-Continues in the States,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 9;
-Condon, pp. 347–351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4379
Date: 9/15/1967
-Description: Astronomer William
-Markowitz publishes an article in Science magazine that declares
-extraterrestrial UFOs to be a priori impossible because they do not
-follow the laws of physics. (William Markowitz, “The Physics
-and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Science 157 (1967):
-1274–1279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4378
Date: 9/15/1967
-Time: 2045
-Description: Two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and
-three small figures, about 1.25 m tall, witll oversized heads, running
-near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of “a power
-mower when it fires but fails to start.” The object blacked out, and the
-figures hid while a car passed, after which the object pulsated between
-very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several
-times.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 166; Condon 347 (Vallee)
-Location: Winsted, Connecticut
-ID: 883
Date: 9/17/1967
-Description: Roach resigns
-from the Colorado project in order to pursue academic interests. (UFOs
-Yes, 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4380
Date: 9/18/1967
-Time: 0100
-Description: Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating
-sound and saw an object giving off a green glow hover near his cabin.
-Radio interference.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 34 (Vallee)
-Location: Nanton, Canada
-ID: 884
Date: 9/18/1967
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Russell Hill is stationed as a forestry lookout
-at the Raspberry Ridge station near Mount Burke, Alberta. He hears a
-strange pulsating sound as a green light sweeps the walls of the lookout
-cabin. He sees an object hovering to the southwest and giving off a
-greenish glow. He attempts to radio the nearby Highwood Ranger Station,
-but the radio ane lights do not work. The object turns white and shoots
-up straight into the sky. (“Object
-Photographed in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967,
-p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4382
Date: 9/18/1967
-Description: Saunders, Low, and
-Condon meet
-for 3 hours to discuss Saunders’s suggestions for improving the public
-image. Saunders argues that the public can tell the project is headed
-toward a negative conclusion. Condon says that if they find
-extraterrestrial evidence, he would not disclose it to the public. (UFOs
-Yes, 140–141; Swords 324)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4381
Date: 9/20/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Mrs. Charles Pasko notices a peach-pink glow in
-the woods outside her home near Winsted, Connecticut. Thinking it is a
-fire, she wakes up her son Jack and they watch it for a while. Three
-days later her husband and a forest ranger try to find the burned spot.
-They locate a burned and depressed teardrop-shaped area about 35 feet in
-diameter. They also find three triangular imprints forming an
-equilateral triangle with sides 10 feet long, and a fourth depression in
-the center. Other witnesses had seen a UFO coming in at a slant,
-breaking and burning tree leaves. Several tall trees in the area are
-broken off at the top. (“September
-Landing in Conn.,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4385
Date: 9/20/1967
-Description: 8:30–9:30 p.m. Seven people in Stoke-on-Trent, England, see
-a large, bright, silver-colored, oval-shaped object almost overhead and
-moving slowly to the northeast. It stops and hovers, then 2–3 smaller
-silvery objects emerge from the larger one and move rapidly away in
-different directions. The large UFO moves off to the northeast and
-slowly disappears. (Roger H. Stanway and Anthony R. Pace, Flying Saucer
-Report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, Newchapel Observatory, 1968,
-p. 16; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29,
-no. 2 (Summer 2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4384
Date: 9/20/1967
-Description: NICAP provisionally withdraws its support from the Colorado
-project. Saunders tells
-Low about
-it. (UFOs Yes, 141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4383
Date: 9/22/1967
-Time: night
-Description: Near Caracas, a race track employee was attacked by a very
-strong creature that choked him, but ran away when a horse was heard
-neighing frantically in the stable. Thirty min later, a horse was
-attacked, and an employee saw a dwarf, 1 m tall, “zoom” out of the
-building.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 885
Date: 9/22/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Simon Williams and his son Eugene, 14, are
-starting a pickup truck with jumper cables in Allen [or Fittstown],
-Oklahoma, when they see a disc with a brilliant silvery light and
-smaller flashing lights around the rim heading west. It seems to come
-closer and hover above a highway. Eugene thinks he can see the
-headlights of passing cars reflected on its bottom surface. It then
-proceeds slowly west. (“Flap
-Continues in the States,”
-APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 9; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas,
-Signet, 1968, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4386
Date: 9/23/1967
-Description: Geology professor watched flight of two silvery
-cigar-shaped objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Amherst, MA
-ID: 144
Date: 9/25/1967
-Description: Saunders, Low, and
-Condon have
-another meeting at Condon’s home. Saunders tells Condon that the
-problems with NICAP would not have arisen if Condon had been more
-circumspect with his negative remarks. Condon says he understands but
-offers no change. (UFOs Yes, 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4387
Date: 9/27/1967
-End date: 9/29/1967
-Description: The Rocky Mountain News publishes a commentary by Condon wherein
-he debunks UFOs and disparages NICAP’s contributions. It quotes Low in
-a similar vein. Condon talks to the project staff and retracts nothing,
-only saying that he was misquoted about being disenchanted about the
-project. Project members hold a meeting without Low and Condon to decide
-what to do. Levine pushes for mass resignation. Craig is
-the sole dissenter. Saunders sides
-with Levine but wants to explore other strategies. Ultimately, they
-decide to prepare their own report, one “so compelling that Condon would
-be forced to accept it on its merits.” (UFOs Yes, 142– 146; Swords
-325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4389
Date: 9/27/1967
-Description: BUFORA researchers Anthony R. Pace and Roger H. Stanway
-visit the S4 UFO desk at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, London,
-England. They talk to a Mr. Cassells, who assures them that all UFO
-reports are treated seriously but the Ministry’s interest is solely in
-national defense. He adds that no person from the Ministry ever makes
-on-the-spot inquiries or field investigations. (Roger H. Stanway and
-Antony R. Pace, Flying Saucer Report: UFOs Unidentified, Unidentifiable,
-1972; Good Above, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4388
Date: 9/28/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Omar Amaya T., chief dispatcher at the Maiquetia
-International Airport [now the Simón Bolívar International Airport],
-Venezuela, watches three luminous disc pass across the sky from north to
-south. Suddenly one lags behind and dives toward the sea but veers up
-just before contact. Resuming its position in the formation, it joins
-the other objects as they disappear to the east. (Lorenzen, UFOs over
-the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4390
Date: 9/28/1967
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Many people in Caracas, Venezuela, watch a
-luminous metallic disc cross the sky with an oscillating motion and
-appear to land on Cerro El Ávila. A Similar object is seen taking off
-from the same spot about 2 hours later. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the
-Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4391
Date: 9/29/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Four workers in a restaurant at Wernersville,
-Pennsylvania, are alerted by a neighbor to go outside and watch nine
-red, pulsating, cigar-shaped objects flying northeastward. A large
-triangle-shaped object, also pulsating red, flies into view. The
-triangle stops and changes colors to white, green, then back to red. It
-takes off in a zigzag motion to the northeast. (R. G. Shunk, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4392
Date: 10/1967
-Description: The DOSAAF Cosmonautics Committee invites the Soviet UFO
-Study Group to function under its auspices. (Wikipedia, “Felix
-Ziegel”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4393
Date: 10/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. David R. Smith watches a diffuse object with a
-series of 5–6 lighted square and oval windows about 450–600 feet away at
-treetop level near Homer, Louisiana. It rises and heads south. After 50
-seconds, the lights blink out. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4394
Date: 10/2/1967
-Description: Aircraft engineer sighted disc-shaped object with windows,
-blinking lights, light beam illuminating ground
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Melville, NY
-ID: 145
Date: 10/3/1967
-Description: Pilot William
-“Pete” Knight reaches a speed of 4,519 mph (Mach 6.72) in a North
-American X-15 rocket plane, a record that stands today. (Wikipedia, “William
-J. Knight”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4395
Date: 10/4/1967
-Description: From early evening until 11:30 p.m., numerous independent
-witnesses observe unexplained aerial activity in Nova Scotia. Near
-Sambro at 9:00 pm, Capt. Leo Howard Mersey and 20 crewmembers of the MV
-Nickerson see four brilliant red lights in a rectangular formation that
-appear to be on or just above the water. Occasionally one flares up so
-brightly that it causes an afterimage in their eves. The objects are
-also tracked on ship’s radar. They file a report with the Lunenburg CMP
-office. Between 11:00 and 11:30 pm, northwest of Brier Island, the
-captain and crew of a fishing vessel see a brilliant white light the
-size of the moon. As they watch, three brilliant yellow lights emerge
-and form a triangle around the larger light. The satellite objects then
-move across the sky and back at high speed. Observations are also made
-by other vessels. Five miles southwest of Weymouth, a policeman and
-three game wardens see an orange-colored light just above the tree line
-moving silently and slowly with spark-like objects emanating. At about
-11:20 p.m., just west of Shag Harbour, Laurie
-Wickens and four other teenagers driving in a car along Highway 3
-see an object flying low, flashing four lights one after the other, in a
-straight line. It appears to be slowly descending at a 45° angle.
-Multiple witnesses hear a whistling sound “like a bomb,” then a
-“whoosh,” and finally a loud bang. When next seen by the teens, the
-object has hit the water’s surface 820– 980 feet offshore. It drifts on
-the surface, showing a pale-yellow light. Wickens contacts the RCMP
-detachment in Barrington Passage and reports he has seen a large
-airplane or small airliner crash into the waters off Shag Harbour.
-Within about 15 minutes, 10 RCMP officers arrive at the scene. Concerned
-for survivors, the RCMP detachment contacts the Rescue Coordination
-Centre in Halifax to advise them of the situation and ask if any
-aircraft were missing. Before any attempt at rescue can be made, the
-object starts to sink and disappears from view. A rescue mission is
-quickly assembled. Within half an hour of the crash, local fishing boats
-go out to the crash site in the waters of the Gulf of Maine off Shag
-Harbour to look for survivors. No survivors, bodies, or debris are
-found, either by the fishermen or by a Canadian Coast Guard search and
-rescue cutter, which arrives about an hour later from nearby Clark’s
-Harbour. By the next morning, RCC Halifax has determined that no
-aircraft are missing. The same morning, RCC Halifax also sends a
-priority telex to the Air Desk at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters
-in Ottawa, which handles all civilian and military UFO sightings,
-informing them of the crash and that all conventional explanations such
-as aircraft or flares have been dismissed. The head of the Air Desk,
-Squadron Leader William Bain sends another priority telex to the Royal
-Canadian Navy headquarters concerning the “UFO report” and recommends an
-underwater search be mounted. The RCN in turn sends another priority
-telex tasking Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic with carrying out the search. A
-detachment of RCN divers from Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic is assembled on
-the HMCS
-Granby on
-October 6 and for the next three days they comb the seafloor looking for
-an object. The final report says no trace of an object is found. In the
-1990s, researcher Chris
-Styles finds evidence that there is a second crash the same night.
-Witnesses see American naval exercises in Shelburne Harbour 30 miles to
-the northeast. Speculation is that the original object may have traveled
-underwater from Shag Harbour to Shelburne. (Wikipedia, “Shag
-Harbour UFO incident”; Sanderson, InvRes, pp. 38–39;
-Condon, pp. 351–353;
-Good Need, pp. 279–282;
-Don Ledger, “UFO Crash at Shag Harbour,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter
-1997–1998): 8–9, 20; Don Ledger and Chris Styles, Dark Object, Dell,
-2001; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report,
-Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 94–98; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts
-about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 9–10; “The
-1967 Shag Harbour UFO
-Crash: Documents Related to Crash,” Roswell Proof; “Shag
-Harbour News Articles,” Roswell Proof; Clark 284–285; Chris
-Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 129–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4396
Date: 10/5/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Colorado Superior Court Judge Charles
-E. Bennett and his wife Christina spot
-three circular, red- orange objects traveling from the east to the
-southeast in a triangular formation over Denver, Colorado. They can hear
-a distinct humming or whirring sound. They move out of sight in 6
-seconds. (“Flap
-Continues in the States,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967,
-p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4397
Date: 10/6/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Radar at Vandenberg AFB, near Lompoc, California,
-detects a very large stationary object some miles over the Pacific Ocean
-off the Northern California coast. Later, radar detects numerous small
-but strong targets traveling eastward in irregular flight. (NICAP, “Condon
-Case 35”; Condon, pp. 171–172, 353–365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4398
Date: 10/7/1967
-End date: 10/9/1967
-Description: Capture and death of Che
-Guevara in Bolivia. Félix
-Rodríguez, a Cuban exile turned CIA Special Activities Division
-operative, advised Bolivian troops during the hunt for Guevara in
-Bolivia. In addition, the 2007 documentary My Enemy’s Enemy alleges that
-Nazi war criminal Klaus
-Barbie advised and possibly helped the CIA orchestrate Guevara’s
-capture. (Wikipedia, “Che
-Guevara”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4400
Date: 10/7/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Russell Hill is sitting down to dinner at the
-Raspberry Ridge Lookout Station in Alberta when the cabin lights begin
-to flicker. He goes out to check the generator and sees an odd green
-light moving slowly up the valley from south to north. It approaches to
-within 500 feet of the cabin. The object is about 75 feet in diameter
-and looks like two bowls clamped together. Around the rim is a pulsating
-green light that seems to come from a neon tube. Another green light is
-rotating slowly inside the top portion, and there are porthole-shaped
-indentations in the side. Suddenly the light on the rim is extinguished,
-the upper gfreen light turns white, and the object ascends at a terrific
-speed, trailing jets of flame. (“Object
-Photographed in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967,
-p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4399
Date: 10/9/1967
-Description: 5:40 p.m. The 13-year-old son of a prominent businessman is
-riding a bicycle along a wash in the back of his home in the area of the
-Tucson Speedway in Arizona. He comes across a cylindrical metallic
-object standing on end and sitting on two legs about 44 feet away from
-him. The legs end in circular pads and are joined by a curved bar. The
-object, which is making a low-pitched hum, is about 8 feet tall and more
-than 2 feet wide. The boy approaches it for a better view, but it takes
-off vertically and disappears in 12 seconds. He finds two impressions in
-the hard surface of the wash, 13.4 inches across and about 42 inches
-apart (measuring from the outer edges). (“Landing
-at Tucson,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4401
Date: 10/9/1967
-Time: 1740
-Description: A boy riding his bicycle saw an aluminum cylinder standing
-on end, 3 m high, 80 cm wide, supported by two legs ending in round pads
-joined by a bar. He got within 12 m of the object before it rose
-vertically with a deep, low-pitched hum, but no smoke, flame, or haze.
-It left two impressions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 119 (Vallee)
-Location: East Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 886
Date: 10/10/1967
-Description: The Lorenzens visit
-the Colorado project and find its investigatory procedures “sadly
-lacking,” with no standard report form or methodology. They also meet
-with Boulder Daily Camera journalist R. Roger Harkins, who has been
-covering the Colorado project. They give him a 7-point rationale on why
-the CIA might be interested in UFOs, just to see if it gets published.
-Harkins dictates the story to the Associated Press, but it is never
-published. The Lorenzens suspect the project has a CIA mole. (Low did
-work for the CIA in 1949 when it was aiding Albanian resistance
-fighters.) (UFOs Yes, 129, 175–176; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO
-Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, p. 5; Robin W. Winks, Cloak and
-Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961, Morrow, pp. 396–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4402
Date: 10/11/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Nora Tibbs is driving on Highway 2 near
-Aldersyde, Alberta, when the headlights, radio, and car engine stop. She
-notices an oval-shaped object with a turret on top that begins to circle
-her car. It has two white lights and a lighted-up underside. It circles
-the car four or five times at a height of 1,000 feet, then flies away.
-The witness feels cold during the sighting. The car engine starts by
-itself as the object leaves. (“Object
-Photographed in
-Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11; Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, Center for UFO Studies, 1978,
-p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4404
Date: 10/11/1967
-Description: Rex
-Heflin is visited by a strange group of men in air force uniforms.
-He obtains their names. They ask him about his 1965 photos and topics
-like the Bermuda Triangle. He notices a figure in the back seat of their
-car and a violet glow. Heflin thinks he is being photographed or
-recorded. The FM radio acts strangely.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4403
Date: 10/11/1967
-Time: 0010
-Description: Othmar Willi, 37, observed three cylinders, 10 m high, 5 m
-in diameter, with two rows of square windows and a small cone on top,
-hovering 50 m away and 5 m above a maize field, making a noise
-resembling a swarm of bees. A small object was dropped briefly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Oberhrendingen, Switzerland
-ID: 887
Date: 10/12/1967
-Description: Night. Comedian Dick
-Gregory is at a party with friends at Big Sur, California, when
-three lights appear in the sky. One is fiery red, while the other two
-are bright green. The objects dart about sideways, backwards, in
-circles, in jagged lines, and in formation. When Gregory’s writer, Jim
-Saunders, signals with a flashlight, the objects seem to respond by
-moving in the same direction as the beam. The partygoers watch the
-lights for about 40 minutes. Gregory takes two Polaroid photographs that
-show a red object at the top and two green ones at the bottom. (Margaret
-Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4405
Date: 10/13/1967
-Description: McDonnell Douglas aerospace engineer Robert
-M. Wood briefs the Colorado project on UFOs. Subsequently, Wood
-writes Condon a
-critical but polite letter listing his concerns about the project’s
-shortcomings. He later learns that Condon has contacted CEO James
-Smith McDonnell and tried to get him fired. (Robert M. Wood, “A
-Little Physics…A Little Friction: A Close Encounter with the Condon
-Committee,” IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4406
Date: 10/14/1967
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Physicist Lewis
-E. Hollander Jr. and his wife and son are driving near Mendota,
-California, when they see a reddish-orange light source hovering close
-to the road. They then notice a triangular shape beneath the light.
-Thirty seconds later it moves upward to the west, increasing its speed.
-The triangular shape fades, and Hollander notices a white glow
-(“definitely an ionization color”) behind it. It disappears at an
-extreme altitude after 3 minutes. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4407
Date: 10/14/1967
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A father and son are returning from a fishing
-trip when they notice an odd orange object like a “haystack on fire”
-landed in the desert near Ouray, Utah. They stop, get out of the car,
-and watch. The object lifts off immediately, looking like a half-moon in
-shape and size. It then goes over to the Moon and flies a loop around
-it, keeping its flat side down. Then it flies across the Moon’s face and
-leaves to the northwest. (Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display,
-Devin-Adair, 1974, pp. 53–55; Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You
-Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4408
Date: late 1967
-Description: The Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of
-Toronto, Ontario, begins a UFO study. By October 1968, it is on the
-verge of collapse for “lack of something to investigate.” The study
-terminates in 1970, but no report on its findings is ever released.
-(Arthur Bray, “Government
-Cover-Up Exposed,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 2 (1975): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4442
Date: 10/17/1967
-Description: Rep. Louis
-C. Wyman (R-N.H.) submits House Resolution 946 for a full UFO
-investigation by the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. (“Investigation
-of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Congressional Record, House, 90th
-Cong., 1st Sess., October 17, 1967, vol. 113, part 21, p. 28949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4409
Date: 10/18/1967
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: John Herbert. One bright, fiery ball flashed four
-times while moving east, just above the tree tops. Sighting lasted 1
-minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
-ID: 579
Date: 10/18/1967
-Description: 400 individuals attend the first meeting of the UFO Study
-Group of the All-Union Committee on Cosmonautics of the Russian DOSAAF.
-Retired Soviet Air Force Maj. Gen. Porfiri Stolyarov is elected chairman
-and Felix
-Ziegel agrees to be deputy chairman. Members include author Alexander
-Kazantsev, engineer Arkady Tikhonov, a cosmonaut, 18 scientists, and
-200 qualified observers stationed throughout the country. (“Late
-News: Official
-Russian Move on UFOs,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1967): 2; Hobana and Weverbergh 35; Good Above, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4410
Date: 10/20/1967
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 146
Date: 10/21/1967
-Time: 2200
-Description: Four boys were driving east on State Route 7 when they saw
-three men on the road, who “almost flew off and disappeared.” They were
-about 1.20 m tall and wore shiny blue-green clothing. Their faces looked
-human, but they had very large ears. The next day a small footprint
-showing four toes was found in the mud.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Duncan, Oklahoma
-ID: 888
Date: 10/21/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Ivan Ritter, Jerry Bennet, and two other teens
-are driving east out of Duncan, Oklahoma, on the new State Highway 7.
-They see something in the road ahead, far out of the range of their
-headlights. When the driver turns on his high-beam lights, they see
-three men who seem to fly off the road and disappear. They are about 4
-feet tall and wearing tight-fitting blue-green clothing. Their faces
-appear human, but with large ears. The next morning, Ritter and Bennet
-look around for evidence at the landing site, but all they find is a
-small, four-toes footprint in the muddy bottom of a creek bed about 300
-feet from the road. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968,
-pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4412
Date: 10/21/1967
-Description: 6:16 a.m. Two control tower operators and an observer at
-the south end of the runway at Blytheville Air Force Base [now Arkansas
-International Airport] in Blytheville, Arkansas, see two dark oblong
-objects flying east to west at about 1,200–1,500 feet. They are tracked
-by RAPCON radar for 2 miles. They make a turn to the southwest and
-disappear. (NICAP, “RAPCON
-Tracks Object, Two Objects Observed from the Ground”; J. Allen
-Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 60, 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4411
Date: 10/22/1967
-Description: Night. Edward Fortney and another real-estate agent are
-locking up for the night in Charleswood, a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba,
-when they notice a formation of brilliant red, pulsating lights above an
-adjacent field. They are joined by six other people who have stopped
-their car to look at the lights. Two similar lights appear and take up a
-position near the formation. The objects then rise and move away
-noiselessly in formation. Floating above Canada Highway 100, they appear
-to change positions, forming a perfect triangle. Fortney looks at them
-through binoculars and sees dark rectangular objects that the lights are
-attached to. The formation dips and bobs toward a line of high-voltage
-towers half a mile away. The three lights in triangular formation break
-up and form a single file, the wires and towers lighting up with a red
-glow as they speed over them. They are last seen traveling northwest. On
-his way home, Fortney experiences a “skullbuster” headache that lasts
-until midnight. The next day, he visits the site in the field and finds
-child-like footprints in the moist soil, 7 inches long and under 3
-inches wide, leading to and from a peculiar circular pile of fist-sized
-stones. The heel marks seem deeply impressed in the soil. Fortney also
-experiences leg and back pain, sunburn on his face and hands, and a
-yellow- green coating on his tongue. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings,
-Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 47–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4413
Date: 10/24/1967
-Time: 2130
-Description: Donald Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crozier, 10, saw a bright
-object hovcrillg in mid-air. It tilted toward them, and they could see
-two big, square windows separated by a bar, and strange lettering under
-them. Two aliens, and control panels with lights and knobs, could be
-seen inside. It vanished on the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III, 180 (Vallee)
-Location: Newfield, New York
-ID: 889
Date: 10/24/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Donald
-Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crosier, 10, are sitting on the Crosier front
-porch in Newfield, New York, when they see a bright disc-like object
-approach them with its leading edge tilted toward them. On top is a
-knob-like protuberance with an antenna and hanging beneath the object is
-a “square box” full of red, green, and white lights. Two humanoid
-figures and control panels are visible through windows. The object then
-tilts back and shoots out of sight. Their hand-held radios produce loud
-static during the sighting. (“Flap
-Continues in the States,”
-APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout
-Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 23–24; Condon, pp. 375–379)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4415
Date: 10/24/1967
-Description: UFO with windows approached, tilted down. Two humanoid
-figures and control panels visible. Object tilted back up, shot out of
-sight in seconds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Newfield, NY
-ID: 147
Date: 10/24/1967
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two police constables, Roger Willey and Clifford
-Waycott, chase a bright cross-shaped light in their patrol car at 90 mph
-between Holsworthy and Hatherleigh on the A307 road, Devon, England. The
-object appears to land behind some trees, but takes off before they can
-reach the site, though they approach to within 120 feet of the object.
-The UFO is later observed to rendezvous in the sky with a similar
-object. Other policemen report a UFO on this day and the following day.
-(Bernard Wignall, “The
-Okehampton Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1967): 5; UFOFiles2, pp. 75–76;
-Geoff Falla, “The
-Flying Cross Episode,” BUFORA, 2012; Ian Ridpath, “Devon
-‘Flying Cross’ of 1967 Revisited,” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic, March
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4414
Date: 10/25/1967
-Time: 2045
-Description: Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, 14, and a third boy,
-reported the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top,
-200 m away. It took off diagonally, leaving some traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Malvern, Great Britain
-ID: 890
Date: 10/25/1967
-Description: 3:15 p.m. R. G. Putnam, a brakeman on a train running from
-Truro, Nova Scotia, to Moncton, New Brunswick, when he sees a disc with
-green vapor billowing from it pacing the train at treetop level near
-Wentworth Station, Nova Scotia. Putnam feels an intense blast of
-radiation, forcing him to cover his face with his hands to look at it.
-The object soon drifts away from the train, tips to a 45° angle, then
-turns to a vertical poistion. A jet arrives, seemingly in pursuit, and
-the object levels out, taking on the appearance of a cigar-shaped cloud.
-Both fly out of sight to the west after 35 minutes of observation. One
-week later, the hair on the back of Putnam’s hands disappears, his hands
-shrivel up, and his eyes are sore and swollen. Two weeks later, his
-chest and throat get sore. He reports the sighting to the RCMP and the
-Canadian Forces, but apparently gets no response. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4416
Date: 10/26/1967
-Time: 0430
-Description: A businessman driving north between Hook and Reading was
-puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down. He then
-observed a dull object, 20 m in diameter, 100 m away, at about 15 m
-altitude. He made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Reading, Great Britain
-ID: 891
Date: 10/26/1967
-Description: 11:25 a.m. J. B. W. “Angus” Brooks, a former BOAC pilot and
-photo interpreter, is walking his Dalmatian and German shepherd at
-Moigne Downs near Ringstead Bay, Dorset, England. An odd-looking craft
-descends and hovers at an altitude of 200–300 feet at a distance of
-about a quarter mile from them for 22 minutes. The German shepherd has
-been foraging for game; when she returns she seems “distraught” as she
-stands beside Brooks. Her ears are pricked, indicating she is worried
-about the sounds she is hearing, although Brooks can detect no sound
-from the object. The odd-shaped craft has a central round chamber
-estimated to be 25 feet in diameter and 12 feet thick. Four long slender
-fuselages (estimated 75 feet long and 8 feet wide) extend from the
-central chamber. In flight, one of the 4 fuselages leads, while the
-other three are together in the rear. As the object slows to hover, the
-fuselages move to form a cross. The object rotates 90°, then remains
-motionless for 22 minutes despite strong winds. Upon departure, the
-leading fuselage is not the one that led on approach. The remaining 3
-fuselages come together in the rear as on the approach, and the object
-climbs away with increasing speed. The craft appears translucent, taking
-on the color of the sky above it. There are dark shadows along the bases
-of the fuselages and the center chamber. On future visits to this area,
-the German shepherd appears nervous. (Angus Brooks, “Remarkable
-Sighting near Dorset,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1968): 3–4; R. H. B. Winder, “Comment
-on the Angus Brooks Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1968): 4–5; “‘Flying
-Cross’ UFOs
-over Britain,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 3 (Nov./Dec. 1967): 3; “Important
-New Details on Flying Cross,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 4
-(Jan./Feb. 1968): 4–5; Good Above, pp. 63–64,
-455;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 77–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4417
Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: A spinning object, 7.5 m in diameter, emitting red and
-green lights, came down to a river, causing thunderous agitation of the
-water, and took off over a forest, with a heat wave.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 92 (Vallee)
-Location: Dympep, India
-ID: 892
Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Timothy Robinson, 13, and his family are startled
-by the roar of a jet aircraft overhead at Winchester, Hampshire,
-England. He dashes out into the garden and sees two English Electric
-Lightning fighters fly low overhead. Ahead of the aircraft is a black,
-mushroom-shaped object streaking away to the west. It changes direction
-abruptly to the northwest and disappears into a cloud, climbing steeply
-and outmaneuvering the Lightnings. (Good Above, p. 62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4421
Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Truck driver Chris
-R. Helgesen observes a spinning, reddish, round object, about 100
-feet in diameter, pace his truck for about half a mile on US Highway 83
-north of Max, North Dakota. The object then hovers above a field, paces
-the truck again, hovers, paces the truck again (stopping when it stops),
-turns blue, picks up speed, turns green, then shoots away to the
-southeast, turns yellow, and vanishes. Helgesen has it in view for about
-one hour. (“New
-Close-Ups, Pacings,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 (March 1968):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4420
Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Charlie Little, the pilot of a Piper-Twin
-Comanche, with two other pilots and a passenger on board, is flying over
-the Atlantic northeast of Jacksonville, Florida. They see a bright
-light, which becomes visible as six huge, round, bright-white lights in
-a horizontal row on a darker object. It approaches on a collision course
-and is seen to be a gray equilateral triangle with a triangular opening
-at its center. The object makes an unbanked 180° turn, then takes off
-and disappears in a flash. (Willy Smith, “A Huge ‘Open’ Triangular UFO,”
-IUR 9, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 4–6; Philip J. Klass, “Letter,” IUR 10,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 13; “Charles Little Responds,” IUR 10, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1095): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4418
Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A waitress driving home in Parshall, North
-Dakota, sees a large, round, revolving object with alternating
-triangular areas of coloration. The object is low and moving
-horizontally an estimated two blocks away. As it paces her car, she sees
-2–3 white light beams coming down vertically from the object. Her car
-drives like it has flat tires or rocks that are hitting the bottom of
-the chassis. A second witness, police Lt. Glen G. Brunsell, sees a
-low-altitude, bright round light like a welding-torch that illuminates
-the ground. The object moves slowly with vertical oscillations and
-changes color from blue to green-white. It departs vertically,
-disappearing in 5 seconds. (“AF
-Log Reveals Wave,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 7 (July/Aug. 1968): 6–7;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4419
Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: Sphere rose, paced car, which began steering hard. Object
-hovered near missile base, shot straight up out of sight in
-seconds
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Parshall, ND
-ID: 148
Date: 10/30/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: A businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook when his car
-failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling
-deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a
-mushroom-shaped craft, 10 m in diameter. He had no recollection of
-starting the car again after the departure of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Boyup Brook, Australia
-ID: 893
Date: 10/30/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Alexander
-Spargo is traveling alone in his car on the Mayanup–Kojonup road
-about 10 miles east of Mayanup in Western Australia at a speed of about
-60–65 miles per hour. He is approached by a lighted object from the sky.
-A beam of light comes from a “tube” on the object and immerses the car.
-Almost immediately, the car stops dead. However, there is no feeling of
-deceleration. The vehicle’s motor, lights, and radio go off. Spargo
-hears no noise. The tube seems 2–3 feet in diameter. It is not
-uncomfortable to the eyes. After about 5 minutes, the tube closes off
-and the object disappears. His vehicle is suddenly going at 60–65 miles
-per hour again, with no feeling of acceleration. The object is only seen
-from underneath, but he estimates its diameter as 30 feet and about 100
-feet up in the air. It glows an iridescent blue. (Keith Basterfield,
-Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2
-(1990): 27–28; Keith Basterfield, “Cold
-Case Investigation: Boyup Brook
-WA, 30 Oct 1967,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific
-Investigation, September 23, 2012; Keith Basterfield, “Police
-Report on the Boyup Brook Encounter, Uncovered,” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena— Scientific Investigation, August 29, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4422
Date: 11/1967
-Description: Ufologist Ted
-Bloecher privately publishes a massive Report on the UFO Wave of
-1947, detailing 853 reports gleaned from his years of research into
-newspaper archives in June–July 1947. The preface is written by James
-E. Mcdonald. (Ted Bloecher, Report
-on the UFO Wave of 1947, The
-Author, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4423
Date: 11/2/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Navajo ranch hands Willie Begay and Guy Tossie,
-both 23, are driving south of Ririe, Idaho, on US Highway 26 when they
-are blinded by a flash of light. Their car comes to a stop, and
-immediately in front of them they see an object 6–8 feet in diameter and
-3 feet thick, hovering 5 feet off the ground and shaped like two saucers
-joined together. Around the rim is a row of alternately flashing orange
-and green lights. On top is a transparent dome, where two small entities
-are visible. The dome flips open, and one occupant floats out and
-approaches the car. It is 3 feet tall, bald, with ears set high on its
-head, round eyes, and a mouth like a slit. It is wearing tight-fitting
-coveralls and carries a pack on its back. It opens the car door and sits
-behind the wheel as Begay and Tossie move in horror to the right. The
-car begins to move as if fastened to the craft into a field of wheat
-stubble where Tossie gets out and runs toward the farmhouse of Willard
-Hammon for help, followed by another entity apparently holding a
-light. Begay stays in the front seat of the car with the first entity,
-who tries to communicate with him, twice saying something in a high,
-chirruping voice. The second entity returns, and the two float back to
-the craft, which rises and departs, a yellow flame-like light coming
-from the bottom. Hammon lets Tossie inside his farmhouse, where he
-eventually calms down and tells his story. They go back to the site,
-where they find Begay in a state of shock in the car. At 11:30 p.m., an
-anonymous witness driving between Ririe and Rigby, Idaho, sees a landed
-UFO with a small occupant who stops the car and taps on the side window.
-(“NICAP Panel
-Studies Occupant Reports,” UFO Investigator 5, no. 1
-(Sept./Oct. 1969): 5–6; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 23–27; Clark III 1009–1010;
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 145–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4424
Date: 11/2/1967
-Description: Domed disc, lights along rim, two beings visible in clear
-dome, hovered above car. Car drawn into adjacent field, witnesses
-confronted by beings
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ririe, ID
-ID: 149
Date: 11/2/1967
-Time: night
-Description: Will Begay and Clyde Soccie, in their early 20’s, said that
-an object landed on top of their car, forcing them to stop. Two dwarfs
-spoke to them, but were not understood. The object left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Ririe, Idaho
-ID: 894
Date: 11/3/1967
-Description: Carlos Spini and another man saw a luminous, blue, circular
-object land nearby, as they were examining some cows. It took off when
-they came near.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: San Jeronimo, Argentina
-ID: 895
Date: 11/5/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Lorry driver Karl Farlow told police that as his lights and
-radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, he saw
-an egg-shaped object, 3 m long, 15 m away. Moments later, a white Jaguar
-coming in the opposite direction also stopped. The object, emitting a
-green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered
-between the two vehicles for 2 min and left at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6; 68, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Fordingbridge, Great Britain
-ID: 896
Date: 11/6/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. On a section of the A338 road [now B3347] south
-of Sopley, Hampshire, England, truck driver Karl Farlow (or Barlow)
-finds that the lights on his diesel truck have failed. As he pulls over,
-he sees a glowing, 15-foot-wide, egg-shaped UFO that moves slowly across
-the road from the right, passes slowly to the left, then speeds up and
-disappears. The object makes a sound like a refrigerator and gives off a
-smell like a drill boring through wood. Before it goes away, a Jaguar
-sports car comes from the opposite direction, and its engine stalls and
-lights fail. The UFO glows a vivid green color. The diesel engine is not
-affected. The driver of the Jaguar is a veterinary surgeon, and he and
-Farlow call the police from a nearby call box. The witnesses note that
-there are marks on the ground and the road surface seems to have melted.
-The veterinarian’s girl passenger is taken to a hospital suffering from
-shock. A week later, Farlow notices that a 200-foot stretch of the road
-at the encounter site has been completely resurfaced and the call box
-has been repainted. (NICAP, “Disabled
-Engine Continues to Run”;
-Roy Winstanley, “Now
-the UFOs Are Stopping the Traffic,” Spacelink 5, no. 1 (December
-1967): wrap; “Landings
-on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, pp. 1, 3; Good Above,
-pp. 64–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4425
Date: 11/8/1967
-Description: 3:30–4:00 a.m. A business executive is driving near Lake
-Elsinore, California, when his lights go out, the car stops, and the
-radio goes out. He feels a strong pressure on his head and shoulders. He
-then notices a red- orange object 30 feet in diameter hovering in the
-road ahead at about 160 feet in altitude. The object hovers about 90
-seconds before it takes off into the fog. (Condon, pp. 380–385;
-Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4426
Date: 11/8/1967
-Description: Through unrelenting pressure by British ufologist Julian
-J. A. Hennessey, the
-Ministry of Defence and RAF UFO files are no longer discarded every five
-years as of transitory interest. The MoD confirms that it will retain
-its remaining UFO documents. Further pressure to retain files comes in
-1970 from MP John
-Langford-Holt. (UFOFiles2,
-pp. 114–115;
-David Clarke, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” August 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4428
Date: 11/8/1967
-Description: MP Peter
-Mills asks about UFO sightings in Devon, England, in the UK House of
-Commons and receives assurances from Under-Secretary of State for
-Defence Merlyn
-Rees, who says that the October 24 police chase involved either
-aircraft or the planet Venus. Mills asks if the ministry consulted
-scientists about the sightings, and Rees replies that both scientists
-and psychologists have been consulted. (Good Above, pp. 65–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4427
Date: 11/10/1967
-Description: Stolyarov and Ziegel, speaking
-on Russian Central TV, encourage viewers to send their first-hand
-accounts in to the newly formed Soviet UFO Study Group. The response is
-overwhelming and embarrassing to the DOSAAF All-Union Committee of
-Cosmonautics. Army Gen. A. L. Getman dissolves the UFO Study Group by
-the end of November. (Wikipedia, “Felix
-Ziegel”; Good Above, p. 233;
-Joe Brill, “UFOs
-behind the Iron Curtain,”
-Skylook, no. 86, January 1975, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4429
Date: 11/13/1967
-Description: Condon, Low, and
-editor Harriet Hunter meet to discuss the final University of Colorado
-report. Condon deliberately excludes the other senior staff because he
-is now insisting on no old cases and no “case book.” He insists on
-including everything in which the Colorado project participated in, even
-phone calls. He wants to write a section on the harm done by
-irresponsible UFO authors. The meeting ends with a roughed-out list of
-subject sections and authors. Condon reserves writing the summary and
-methodology sections himself. He assigns to Hunter the job of selecting
-which cases are included and how they are written up (perhaps he no
-longer trusts Low to do this). (Swords 326–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4430
Date: 11/14/1967
-Description: Keyhoe writes
-separate letters to Condon and
-Low,
-asking if they will agree to examine NICAP’s cases. November 15 —
-Canadian Forces Wing Commander Douglas
-F. Robertson prepares a 28-page briefing document, CDS Briefing on
-Unidentified Flying Objects, on the status of UFO sightings in Canada to
-Gen. Jean
-Victor Allard, Chief of the Defence Staff. It reviews facts and
-procedures and describes cases that have been handled within the
-ministry, including the Falcon Lake and Shag Harbour cases, as well as
-the Warren Smith photo. Robertson advises that UFO sightings are taking
-up too much of the military’s time, but that the scientific community,
-specifically the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies,
-might find them interesting. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 24–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4431
Date: 11/14/1967
-Description: Orlando Gonzales and two other persons saw an oval object,
-1.5 m high, resting in the middle of a highway 80 m away. It left
-straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Barinas, Venezuela
-ID: 897
Date: 11/15/1967
-Description: The crew of Quebecair Flight 650 sees a bright object at
-the end of the runway at Sept-Îles Airport, Quebec. It is as large as a
-star and stationary. (Good Above, p. 200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4432
Date: 11/16/1967
-Time: 1830
-Description: Farm manager Alan Pool, 43, saw an object, 6 m in diameter
-and 1.5 m high, with round and square windows, land in a field with a
-whining noise. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Yerecoin, Australia
-ID: 899
Date: 11/16/1967
-Time: 1700
-Description: Mrs. Quick and another woman saw a flickering light and a
-deep-red, glowing object at ground level, with a dark figure, slightly
-larger than a normal human, approaching it. The object disappeared
-suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Storrington, Great Britain
-ID: 898
Date: 11/17/1967
-Description: 6:00 p.m. David Seewaldt, 13, is crossing a vacant lot in
-Calgary, Alberta. He hears a high-pitched sound and sees a slivery gray
-UFO the size of a house about to land. A beam of light shoots from it,
-putting him in a “trance” and pulling him into the craft, where he meets
-two hideous-looking entities with brown crocodile skin, slits for
-mouths, and holes for noses and ears. They wear no clothes and have
-hands with only four fingers. They take Seewaldt’s clothes off and lead
-him into another room where one studies his hair, eyes, and nose. An
-orange ceiling light is directed on him and he is given a shot with a
-small needle. The entities dress him again and beam him back to the
-field. He runs home in a state of terror and hides under the bed. All
-conscious memory of the event vanishes until 5 months later, when it
-returns in a dream. In 1968 he is hypnotically regressed by a Dr. Masson
-of the University of Alberta. (W. K. Allan, “Crocodile-Skinned
-Entities at Calgary,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April 1975):
-25–26; Clark III 280; “David Seewaldt,” etcetrasetcetras, June 13,
-2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4433
Date: late 11/1967
-Description: Night. A large, illuminated hemispherical object appears
-low over the shore of the Baltic Sea near Liepāja, Latvia. Its light is
-difficult to look at with the naked eye. Later it begins to move and
-quickly vanishes over the horizon. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO
-Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4434
Date: 11/21/1967
-Description: 4:30 p.m. David V. Marin sees an object that looks like an
-upside-down candle from his backyard at the edge of Poienarii Burchii,
-Romania. He watches it for 10 minutes as it hovers at about 90 feet. It
-starts moving slowly northwest and its tail elongates. (Romania
-15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4435
Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: Saunders pays
-Keyhoe a
-surprise visit in Washington, D.C., and allows him to photocopy the Low memorandum,
-saying it should be shared with the NICAP board. Roger Harkins hears
-about the memo about the same time. (UFOs Yes, 179, 193–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4436
Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: MP Patrick
-Wall asks the UK Secretary of State for Defence Merlyn
-Rees what exchange of UFO information between the UK, US, and
-Russian governments is taking place. Rees replies that the ministry is
-in touch with the Americans but not the Russians. (Good Above, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4437
Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Ladislau Schmidt is sitting in his kitchen in
-Petrila, Romania, with the outside door open. Suddenly his chickens run
-inside the house, terrified. Looking up, he sees a silvery disc-shaped
-object with a dome and antennas hovering at 15,000 feet. It rotates and
-moves away at high speed to the northwest until it is out of sight.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 166–167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4438
Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: 4:25 p.m. US Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. John
-Rich Butler and copilot Lt. John H. Gould are flying 10 miles off
-the New Hampshire coastline when they see an object like a white rocket
-flying with a lateral motion. It first moves upward for 2 seconds at the
-rear of the aircraft. It reappears and disappears twice, then another
-object that looks like a light aircraft with an unusual white, flashing
-light passes above them at a distance of 100–200 feet. Gould has the
-impression it has swept wings. (NICAP case file; Jan L. Aldrich, “Updated
-Draft Catalogue of UFOs/USOs
-Reported by Seagoing Services, NavCat 2,0, 1964–2007,” 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4439
Date: 11/24/1967
-Time: 1430
-Description: Technician Ugo Battaglia, 39, and a boy, heard a
-high-pitched sound and saw a bright, metallic, disk-shaped object come
-down, hit a tree and hover, while three tall men in white coveralls
-walked around. The boy later suffered severe headaches. Traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-ID: 900
Date: 11/24/1967
-Description: Canadian Wing Commander D. F. Robertson, after advocating
-that the RCAF transfer its UFO files to the National Research Council,
-writes a memo urging the NRC to work with the University of Toronto and
-the Department of National Defence in investigating Canadian UFO
-reports. (Good Above, p. 192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4440
Date: 11/29/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Percy McBride saw a flashing object, the size of a station
-wagon, with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in a woods for 15
-min. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers
-tuned on different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance
-supported by a pole underneath.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Yarmouth, Canada
-ID: 901
Date: 11/30/1967
-Description: Allen R. Utke, Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh assistant
-professor of chemistry, writes Gerald
-Ford in support of House Resolution 946 sponsored by Rep. Louis
-C. Wyman, remarking that the UFO “phenomenon could be of great
-importance and concern to this country.” (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas
-Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July
-2010): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4441
Date: 12/1967
-Description: The Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Physics Department, led by
-Lev
-Artsimovich, passes
-a resolution denouncing studying of UFOs as such. The Soviet UFO Study
-Group is effectively neutered. (Wikipedia, “Felix Ziegel”;
-Hobana and Weverbergh 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4443
Date: 12/1/1967
-Description: Condon and
-Low write
-Keyhoe back
-separately and do not commit to looking at his reports, although they
-praise NICAP’s assistance. (“The
-Colorado Project Report,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 4
-(Jan./Feb. 1968): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4444
Date: 12/2/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A lieutenant-major in the Romanian army is on
-duty in the radar station at Băneasa Airfield [now Aurel Vlaicu
-International Airport] near Bucharest, Romania, when he goes outside to
-observe an airplane. But the supposed aircraft is a strong, stationary
-light 30–40° in the north that descends rapidly, ascends again, moves
-left to right, then descends again. Through binoculars it looks conical
-or bullet shaped. Dozens of other personnel watch it until it disappears
-around 11:30 p.m. (Hobana and Weverbergh 176–177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4445
Date: 12/3/1967
-Description: Officer Herbert Schirmer vehicle encounter and abduction
-case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ashland, NE
-ID: 150
Date: 12/3/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: Police Officer Schirmer observed a bright, aluminum-colored
-object just above the road and approached within 14 m, when the object
-rose, emitting a shrill beeping noise and a red-orange beam. Under
-hypnosis at the University of Colorado, the witness reported that a
-small human form, about 1.30 m tall, came from under the craft and
-approached him to communicate a message stating that “they” came from
-space and would meet him again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Ashland, Nebraska
-ID: 902
Date: 12/3/1967
-Description: Abduction of Herbert Schirmer, a Nebraska patrolmen. Was
-told there were alien bases off the Florida coast, the polar region, and
-off the coast of Argentina. Motherships were cigar shaped, 6ft diameters
-discs for recon surveillance.
-Type: abduction
-Reference: Matrix 1, Valerian
-Location: Nebraska
Date: 12/3/1967
-Description: Early a.m. Police Sgt. Herbert
-Schirmer checks on restless cattle twice at a barn near Ashland,
-Nebraska. At 2:30 a.m. he is driving on US Highway 6 when he notices
-some red lights along State Route 63 that might be a stalled truck. He
-drives a short distance up that road and stops with his headlights
-shining on the object. The red lights are blinking through the windows
-of a disc hovering at a tilt 150 feet away and 6–8 feet above the road.
-It looks made of shiny, polished aluminum. It ascends slowly with a sort
-of siren sound and emits a flamelike substance from the bottom. His head
-sticking out the window, Schirmer watches it pass overhead then shoot up
-out of sight. He drives back to the police station and writes in the log
-book, “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe
-it or not!” He is puzzled to see it is 3:00 a.m. He gets a headache and
-a buzzing noise in his head. He also has a red welt below one of his
-ears. In the morning, Chief Bill Wlaskin goes to the site and finds a
-piece of metal that he shows to Colorado project investigators. It turns
-out to be composed of iron and silicon. On February 13, 1968, Schirmer
-is hypnotized in Boulder, Colorado, by R.
-Leo Sprinkle. During the session he remembers that his car engine
-and radio failed, and a blurry white object came out of the UFO and
-communicated with him telepathically. He is taken on board by aliens
-(who first ask him, “Are you the watchman over this place?”). They are
-humanoids, 4–5 feet tall with long heads, gray-white skin, and cat-like
-eyes. They wear silver-gray helmets with small antennas on the left side
-of the ear area. Their uniforms and gloves are the same color. An
-unusual feature of this case is the emblem of a winged serpent on the
-left breast of each entity’s uniform. The Colorado project comes to a
-predictable conclusion: “Evaluation of psychological assessment tests,
-the lack of any evidence, and interviews with the patrolmen left project
-staff with no confidence that the trooper’s reported UFO experience was
-physically real.” Schirmer undergoes hypnosis again on June 8, 1968, and
-more details emerge. (Clark III 1034–1038; Condon, pp. 389–391;
-Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th
-Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 3–4; Story, pp. 318–319;
-Kevin D. Randle, “The Schirmer
-Abduction,” A Different Perspective, October 13, 2008; Randle,
-Levelland, 2021, pp. 147–149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4446
Date: 12/5/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Six teenagers returning from a basketball game
-in Concordia, Kansas, detour to drive by a cemetery. They see a light
-blinking in the sky ahead, moving in an up-and-down motion to the north.
-It appears to be flashing different colors or rotating. They follow it
-for about two miles, hoping for a better look. (Condon, pp. 391–394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4447
Date: 12/8/1967
-Description: Bright illumination from domed disc, object tipped forward,
-two humanoid figures visible inside. Object rotated, moved away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Idaho Falls, ID
-ID: 151
Date: 12/8/1967
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Marilyn Wilding, 15, goes out on her front step
-in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to look for a friend. A light reflecting on the
-snow on the ground causes her to look up, and she sees a brightly lit
-circular object “about as big as a car” hovering above the house. The
-object then tips and rotates so she can see it has a transparent dome on
-top. Inside the dome are two indistinct figures. The object rotates
-clockwise, maintaining its inclination. It begins moving away; as it
-recedes into the distance, its light dims and turns orange. (UFOEv II
-459; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “Circular
-Object with Dome and Two ‘Figures’ Inside”; Patrick Gross, “Falls, Idaho,
-December 8, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4448
Date: 12/10/1967
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Psychologist Adina Păun is walking past the
-Republic Factories in Bucharest, Romania, when she sees a bluish-green
-object above the plant at about 45°. It has projecting, tapered spines
-that are as long as half its diameter. It is higher than rain clouds
-that sometimes obscure it, but lower than high-altitude, fast-moving
-white clouds. She continues watching it for 15 minutes as she walks
-along, but it drifts out of sight when she gets home on Magnet Strada.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4449
Date: 12/12/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Rita Malley is driving home from work on Route 34
-in Newfield, New York, with her young son. She notices a red light
-behind her. As it draws closer, she sees it is a disc-shaped object as
-large as a boxcar moving at about 90 feet above the road. Then it passes
-overhead and causes the car to go off the road into a ditch, and Malley
-became terrified. Her son in the back seat looks immobilized with his
-eyes “bugged out.” A white beam emanates from the humming object above
-her and she hears voices in her head saying that her son would not
-remember this and that a friend of hers has been killed in a car
-accident. (This turns out to be true.) The car then moves out of the
-ditch and back onto the road facing the wrong way. She finds that she
-can control the car again and speeds home. (Lloyd Mallan, “Ithaca’s
-Terrifying Flying Saucer Epidemic,” Science and Mechanics 39 (July
-1968): 30–33, 96–97; T. M. Wright, “UFO’s over Ithaca,” Fate 22, no. 2
-(February 1969): 44–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4452
Date: 12/12/1967
-Description: The British Embassy in Moscow, Russia, is directed by
-London to look into British-Russian cooperation in the investigation of
-UFO reports with Stolyarov’s Soviet UFO Study Group. The embassy does
-not hear back and does not pursue the subject. (Good Above, pp. 234–235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4451
Date: 12/12/1967
-Description: Levine, Saunders, and
-Mary Lou Armstrong bring Hynek together
-with James
-McDonald to discuss forming a new group after the project ends, no
-matter what its conclusion is. The meeting goes fairly well. After Hynek
-leaves, McDonald brings up the Low memorandum.
-He has apparently heard about it from Keyhoe.
-Saunders gives him an official copy. Levine approaches Craig about
-a separate report, but Craig considers it mutiny. (UFOs Yes,
-179–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4450
Date: 12/13/1967
-Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 152
Date: 12/13/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. As a man is driving near Edmonton, Alberta, his
-car lights dim and engine sputters. He pulls to the side of the road and
-opens the hood, when he notices a dome-shaped object hovering 450 feet
-away. It is metallic, has lights around the edge, and is about 50 feet
-high. The object rocks back and forth within a range of 10–15 feet but
-remains above the road. Over the next hour, the car body heats up and
-the witness’s hair gets hot. His flashlight fails to work. Finally, the
-object shoots straight up and vanishes in 2–3 seconds. His headlights
-come back on, but he starts the motor only with difficulty. (Mark
-Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4453
Date: 12/15/1967
-Description: The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River between Point
-Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, collapses under the
-weight of rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people.
-(Wikipedia, “Silver
-Bridge”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4454
Date: 12/16/1967
-Description: Philip
-Klass, who
-has heard of McDonald’s
-UFO activity in Australia from Low,
-starts a letter-writing campaign directed at the Office of Naval
-Research, wanting to know who approved his funding and whether they are
-funding his forthcoming trip to Europe and Russia. His campaign
-continues for the next 18 months, bluntly attacking McDonald’s integrity
-and calling him a habitual liar. (Clark III 700)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4455
Date: 12/19/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness is driving westbound on the east edge
-of Belleville, Illinois, when he sees a triangular object with a row of
-square lights on one side. He tries following it and manages to stay
-roughly beneath it until he loses track of it near Southwestern Illinois
-College. Because it appears to be heading toward nearby Scott AFB and
-the witness is familiar with the base, he goes to the control tower
-there to see if they have tracked anything unusual but they have not.
-(Marler 204–208, 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4456
Date: 12/22/1967
-Description: Six teenagers observed a silvery, disk-shaped object with a
-pointed projection on top and multicolored lights, 100 m away, and felt
-a heat wave when it hovered above them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jun., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Holmes County, Ohio
-ID: 903
Date: 12/24/1967
-Description: Evening. A couple driving near Tucson, Arizona, see a
-star-like object fall to earth. Two minutes later, they spot a blob of
-red light. Their engine and headlights fail. The object approaches the
-car, passes overhead, then moves away to the south. The engine and
-lights come back on as it departs. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving
-Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4457
Date: 12/24/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A faculty member of the Harvard Medical School
-and several members of his family in Belmont, Massachusetts, see a
-silently moving, bright orange light. It is joined by a second light one
-minute later, and a third about 30 seconds after that. He retrieves some
-binoculars and watches all three. The first two stop about 15°–25° above
-the horizon and remain still; the third is still moving. Three or four
-more lights arrive, some hovering, others moving. Two or three of the
-hovering lights appear to drop smaller lights that flash as they fall.
-All are orange in color. After about 20 minutes, they have all
-disappeared. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974,
-pp. 45–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4458
Date: 12/27/1967
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two people are traveling along a back road in
-Wells Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, when they see three
-lights on the horizon. They stop the car as the lights approach. They
-are attached to a domed disc that is following the road at a height of
-300–400 feet. As it approaches to within about 3,000 feet, it makes a
-banking movement that reveals square, fluorescent panels on the bottom.
-The dome light in their car turns on spontaneously as the whole bottom
-of the UFO flashes. The two witnesses get back in their truck and drive
-on, but the object follows them for a while, then moves off toward
-Elmira, New York. About 20 minutes later, the parents of one witness
-experience a power failure in their home on Elmira’s south side.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR
-27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4459
Date: 12/29/1967
-Description: 10:35 p.m. C. J. McCready, his wife, and daughter see a
-round, glowing, sparkling, red object above their home on Briarcliff
-Road, Atlanta, Georgia. It hovers and drops several trails of a white
-substance that appear to fall like a liquid as the object moves slowly
-northwest. It is visible for 5 minutes. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4460
Date: 1968
-Description: Presbyterian religious scholar Barry
-Downing publishes The Bible and Flying Saucers, in which he equates
-Jesus and angels with space visitors and burning bushes, clouds, and Ezekiel’s
-chariot with spacecraft. Downing also believes that Jesus left earth in
-a flying saucer to another planet, or perhaps another spatial dimension,
-and that a flying vehicle operated by intelligent alien beings was
-responsible for the parting of the Red Sea. (Barry Downing. The Bible
-and Flying Saucers, Lippincott, 1968; Clark III 109; Jerome Clark,
-“Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3
-(Fall 1997): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4462
Date: 1968
-Alternate date: 1969
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Polish Air Force pilot takes off from Warsaw
-Modlin Airport, Poland, in a MiG-21 for a short, routine mission. Soon
-he sees two identical white discs, about 6–10 feet in diameter, moving
-at the same altitude and speed as his MiG. His wingman also sees them.
-He approaches to within 50 feet of them. During the 5-minute encounter,
-radio contact with the controller is lost and contact between the two
-pilots deteriorates. Four UFOs follow the two MiGs for another 3–6
-miles, then they accelerate and overtake them, disappearing ahead.
-(Poland 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4470
Date: 1968
-Description: Fabio
-Zerpa founds the Organizacion Nacional Investigadora de Fénomenos
-Espaciales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It publishes a monthly magazine,
-Cuarta Dimension. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980,
-p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4469
Date: 1968
-Description: Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate
-all UFO information pertinent to space technology.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 1953
-See also: 12/69
-See also: 1976
Date: 1968
-Description: An Australian nuclear physicist attached to the Directorate
-of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (part of the Joint Intelligence
-Bureau) cooperates with other defense intelligence scientists to form a
-“rapid intervention team” to investigate UFO incidents involving
-physical evidence. The effort lasts until a wave of UFO reports takes
-place in Western Australia and he is denied further access to RAAF
-files. (Bill Chalker, “The
-UFO Connection: Addendum,”
-Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 (July 1986): 20; Good Above, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4467
Date: 1968
-Description: Vladimir Godic and Crystal Walsh found UFO Research South
-Australia, a group committed to use scientific methodology in
-investigation and research. (Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony
-Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4466
Date: 1968
-Description: UFO skeptic and electrical engineer Philip
-J. Klass publishes his first UFO book, UFOs—Identified, in which he
-theorizes that sightings are caused by ball lightning and anomalous
-free-floating plasmas. Klass’s plasma hypothesis is not well received by
-anyone on either side of the UFO debate, who note that Klass is using
-one unverified phenomenon (his hypothetical plasmas) to explain another
-unverified phenomenon (UFOs). Klass and physicist James
-E. McDonald engage in a bitter, 18-month-long debate, leveling a
-variety of charges and accusations at one another. In September 1968,
-Klass writes to McDonald’s superiors at the US Navy (McDonald is
-formally retired from the Navy, but often works with the Office of Naval
-Research), questioning how McDonald could spend so much time on UFO
-research and still fulfill the requirements for his atmospheric research
-grant. This does not result in McDonald losing ONR funding, but it does
-draw some criticism of Klass from members of the UFO community. (Philip
-J. Klass, UFOs—Identified, Random House, 1968; Clark III 659)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4465
Date: 1968
-Description: Italian author Renato
-Vesco writes Intercettatelli Senza Sparare, making a case that the
-Germans had developed anti-gravity devices at the end of World War II,
-testing disc-shaped and tubular craft that were responsible for foo
-fighters. After the war, these concepts were acquired by the US and
-Russia, leading directly to functional flying saucers. (Renato Vesco,
-Intercept—But Don’t Shoot, Zebra/Grove, 1971; Marcello Pupilli and
-Giuseppe Stilo, “Solitudine
-di un uomo: Le teorie ufologiche e la vita di Renato Vesco
-(1924–1999),” UFO Forum, no. 18 (August 2001): 33–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4464
Date: 1968
-Description: Science-fiction author Otto
-Binder publishes Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, which borrows
-liberally from the theories of engineer Max
-W. Flindt (cofounder of the Ancient Astronaut Society), who contends
-that extraterrestrials had conducted genetic engineering on our apelike
-ancestors to create modern mankind. Binder writes that space people
-return every few centuries to interbreed with humans to improve the
-stock. He follows this up with Mankind—Child of the Stars in 1974,
-coauthored with Flindt. (Otto O. Binder, Flying Saucers Are Watching Us,
-1968; Clark III 109; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient
-Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4463
Date: 1968
-Description: The Canadian National Research Council, from its base at
-the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa, Ontario, takes over
-the collection of UFO reports from the Department of National Defence.
-It partners with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to do the actual
-investigations. The NRC’s primary interest is in tracking meteors and
-meteorite falls. Non-meteoric sightings are kept in a separate file but
-transferred to the Public Archives of Canada [now Library and Archives
-of Canada] at the end of every year. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada,
-Signet, 1981, p. 175; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, pp. 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4468
Date: 1968
-Description: NORAD has control of continental-scale Over the Horizon
-radars that cover virtually the entire Eurasian continent looking for
-Russian and Chinese missile launches. (Clark III 807)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4461
Date: early 1968
-Description: Four artillerymen stationed at the naval garrison at Lüda
-[now Dalian], Liaoning, China, see a luminous, gold, oval-shaped object
-that leaves a thin trail in the air. It climbs steeply at high speed and
-disappears. When it begins to climb, all communications and radar
-systems fail, nearly causing an accident in the fleet. The naval patrol
-goes on alert, and the fleet commander orders his men to prepare for
-combat. After 30 minutes, comms and radar return to normal. A two-man
-coast guard patrol allegedly sees the UFO land on the south coast and
-fires at it with automatic weapons. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong,
-UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archive, 1983, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4471
Date: 1/1968
-Description: John Harney and Alan W. Sharp launch a new publication,
-Merseyside UFO Bulletin (MUFOB), in Liverpool, England, as an
-independent publication from the openly skeptical newsletter begun by
-the Merseyside UFO Research Group. John Rimmer assumes the post of
-associate editor with the third issue. (Merseyside
-UFO Bulletin 1,
-No. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1968); Clark III 706; “History
-of Magonia,”
-Magonia Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4472
Date: 1/15/1968
-Description: The USAF Air Defense Command is renamed the Aerospace
-Defense Command. (Wikipedia, “Aerospace Defense
-Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4473
Date: 1/15/1968
-Description: 7:25 a.m. Two farmers driving a truck near Three Hills,
-Alberta, see an object that looks “like a stunted dill pickle,”
-greenish-blue in color and silent. Another truck stops and they point
-out the object to the others, who say it looks like a flying saucer.
-They contact the Calgary Airport, but officials there have had no
-reports. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 60–62,
-63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4474
Date: 1/15/1968
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Janice, Denise, and Lori Achzehner are playing
-records in Villa Park, Illinois, when their father’s “Saucer Seeker” UFO
-detector goes off. They run outside and see a large orange light
-hovering near the house. For 45 minutes they watch as a series of 6
-objects fly in and out of the area. Through binoculars they can see that
-the objects are triangular or cone-shaped, no more than a mile away, and
-500–1,500 feet high. As they watch, one of the objects approaches a
-commercial airliner, makes a 180° turn without slowing, then follows the
-aircraft until they are out of sight. (“Use
-of Detectors in Spotting UFO,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968,
-p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4475
Date: 1/19/1968
-Description: DIA Intelligence Report from Liaison in Moscow, Russia
-mentioning an attempt by the British Government in 1967 to collaborate
-with the Soviets in UFO research.
-Type: intelligence report (B1-E p543)
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Moscow, Russia
-See also: 2/22/68
Date: 1/19/1968
-Description: McDonald calls
-Low on
-the phone and expresses his concerns about the project. The two reach an
-impasse. (UFOs Yes, 185; Swords 328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4476
Date: 1/20/1968
-Description: Round orange-red object hovered near ground, moved abruptly
-to position behind car, road illuminated. Made repeated passes at
-car
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vermillion, SD
-ID: 153
Date: 1/20/1968
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Robert Ballard and his wife Lynn are visiting
-his parents near Vermillion, South Dakota. Robert goes outside to warm
-up his car for the trip home. He sees a large object and calls to his
-father to come outside. They watch a big ball of red and orange fire to
-the east. At first they think it is the moon and go inside, but as
-Robert and Lynn are leaving, the object gives off a flash, and one of
-the dogs begins barking vigorously. They drive toward the object, which
-seems to be flickering in a field. It seems to be spinning and is 20
-feet above the ground, sometimes less. When Ballard turns onto State
-Highway 50, the UFO, about 30 feet in diameter, starts following them.
-He accelerates to 60 mph and the object jumps to just behind their car.
-At one point it is hovering only 3 feet above an intersection. It keeps
-following them at telephone height, even though Ballard speeds up to 110
-mph. After another car goes by them, the object speeds up and heads
-straight toward them from behind. Soon it rises and disappears to the
-east. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 37–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4478
Date: 1/20/1968
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Police deputies Bias Fortes and Pinheiro Chagas
-are driving 9 miles outside of Brasília, Brazil, when they see a
-triangular UFO. They stop and get out to observe it better and watch it
-hover for 5 minutes. It accelerates suddenly and speeds to the
-southwest, (“First
-Sightings of 1968 in Brazil,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4477
Date: 1/21/1968
-Description: A fire breaks out in the navigator’s compartment of a USAF
-B-52 near Thule Air Base, Greenland. The bomber crashes 7 miles from the
-air base, causing the non-nuclear explosives aboard to detonate and
-rupturing and dispersing its nuclear payload of four hydrogen bombs
-carried on an ongoing (since 1960) Operation Chrome Dome alert mission
-to deter a Soviet nuclear first strike. The recovery and decontamination
-effort is complicated by Greenland’s harsh weather. Contaminated ice and
-debris are buried at the Savannah River plant in South Carolina. Bomb
-fragments are recycled by Pantex, in Amarillo, Texas. The incident
-causes outrage and protests in Denmark. USAF Strategic Air Command
-Chrome Dome operations are discontinued immediately after the accident,
-which highlights the safety and political risks of the missions. Safety
-procedures are reviewed and more stable explosives are developed for use
-in nuclear weapons. A BBC News report in 2008 seems to confirm through
-declassified documents and interviews with those involved that one
-nuclear bomb was lost. However, the Danish Institute for International
-Studies concludes in August 2009 that there is no missing bomb and that
-the US underwater operation was a search for the uranium-235 of the
-fissile core of a secondary, a small object one half meter long. For the
-first time, the report is able to present an estimate of the amount of
-plutonium contained in the pits of the primaries. (Wikipedia, “1968
-Thule Air Base B-52 crash”; Wikipedia, “Operation
-Chrome Dome”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4479
Date: 1/22/1968
-Description: In response to a question by MP Teddy
-Taylor, UKSecretary of State for Defence Merlyn
-Rees writes that the total number of reports for 1967 “reflects a
-wave of public interest in UFOs, reaching a peak toward the end of the
-year,” and that unexplained sightings (only 46 out of 362) are due to
-lack of sufficient information. (Good Above, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4480
Date: 1/26/1968
-Description: A-12 pilot Jack
-Weeks is dispatched from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on a
-sortie to locate the USS
-Pueblo, which has been captured by North Korean forces on January
-23. His photographs pinpoint the Pueblo’s exact location in the harbor
-of Changjahwan Bay near Wonsan, North Korea. Instead of war plans, the
-US proceeds with negotiations for the return of the crew. (Jacobsen,
-Area 51, pp. 271–274)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4481
Date: 1/31/1968
-Description: Morning. At Lajes Air Base on Terceira in the Azores, a
-Portuguese military watchman, Serafim Vieira Sebastião, notices a
-strange interference on his transistor radio. Looking around, he sees an
-oval metallic object surmounted by a transparent tower on top of which
-is a small balustrade on which two beings are leaning. The silhouettes
-of two more beings are visible in the tower. The object is hovering
-above a munitions dump. Serafim phones one of the other sentries then
-shines his flashlight on the machine. As he does so, the men on the
-tower see him. The object emits a cloud of gaseous dust that overpowers
-him. When his colleague finds him a few minutes later, the object has
-vanished. (“OVNI
-com quatro seres ataca guarda açoriano,” Insólito, no. 13 (June
-1976); Nuno Alves, “O
-Caso Ilha Terceira (31 de Janeiro de 1968) Serafim Vieira
-Sebastião,” UFO Portugal, October 28, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4483
Date: 1/31/1968
-Description: McDonald sends
-Low a
-7-page, single-spaced letter, citing Condon’s
-negative statements, his preoccupation with crackpot elements, Condon’s
-failure to conduct any investigations himself, the lack of communication
-between Low and Condon and the active investigators, and the failure of
-the project to take seriously any assertions of cover-up. He mentions
-Low’s memorandum, saying “I am rather puzzled by the viewpoints
-expressed there.” He concludes: “I am not opposed to negative
-findings—on UFOs or other scientific questions; what bothers me is that
-it appears that these negative findings were being adumbrated as early
-as January 1966, and perhaps even earlier.” He sends a copy to the
-project’s open files. (UFOs Yes, 185–187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4482
Date: 2/1968
-Description: Felix
-Ziegel, Soviet
-cosmologist and assistant professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute,
-Russia, writes an article on UFOs for Soviet Life with reports supplied
-by Novosti. He mentions four UFO reports and concludes that they could
-be extraterrestrial in origin. He thinks the 1908 Tunguska event is a
-remarkable UFO case and reveals that the USSR established a “UFO Section
-of the All-Union Cosmonautics Committee” in October 1967. Ziegel soon
-afterwards receives a letter from Edward
-Condon, the director of the University of Colorado UFO Project,
-suggesting that the Soviet and the American groups should cooperate,
-starting with an information exchange. Ziegel and 12 other members of
-his group sign a letter requesting the Soviet government to create a
-state-sponsored organization that would coordinate all the UFO research
-in the country. Next month he receives an official negative response.
-(Wikipedia, “Felix
-Ziegel”; Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27–29;
-Central Intelligence Agency, “Nothing
-But the Facts on UFOs, or Which Novosti Writer
-Do You Read?” April 9, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4485
Date: 2/1968
-Description: Canada’s National Research Council agrees to become the
-official government archive for existing and future UFO reports. The
-files are kept in an office of the Council’s Upper Atmosphere Section
-(Astrophysics Branch) in Ottawa, Ontario. But the NRC does not
-investigate reports. (Good Above, p. 192;
-Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs
-and the
-Canadian Government,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 (Spring 1976):
-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4484
Date: 2/1/1968
-Description: Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, a watchman at the Azores Air
-Station, saw “an oval object with a metallic gleam, topped by a glass
-tower with a small balustrade on which two beings were standing.” There
-were two other figures inside the tower. When he shone a light toward
-it, a cloud of dust surrounded the witness, the craft vanished, and he
-fainted. Investigation by American military authorities.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Criacao do Cabrito, Azores
-ID: 904
Date: 2/4/1968
-Description: Barking dogs, unusual sound, attracted attention to round
-object with ports, flames from underside. Object moved jerkily, rising
-and falling, hovered briefly, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Redlands, CA
-ID: 154
Date: 2/4/1968
-Description: 7:20 p.m. About 200 residents of Redlands, California, see
-or hear a huge, low-flying, disc-shaped object as it passes overhead.
-The UFO is about 50 feet in diameter, with seven lights on its base
-emitting bright orange flame. Some 8–10 other lights on its rim
-alternate red and green, giving the impression that the object is
-rotating. A minister recording his sermon captures a high-pitched,
-modulated, whining sound from the UFO on tape. The UFO apparently
-descends just west of Columbia Street and north of Colton Avenue, then
-proceeds to the northwest for about a mile at an altitude of 300 feet.
-Coming to a stop, it hovers briefly, jerks forward, hovers again, then
-shoots straight up in a burst of speed. The object is not detected on
-radar at Norton AFB [now closed] near San Bernardino or March AFB [now
-March Air Reserve Base] in Riverside County. An investigation is
-conducted for APRO by four University of Redlands faculty: Philip
-Seff (geology), Judson Sanderson (math), Reinhold Krantz (math), and
-John
-Brownfield (art). They conclude that the object is not attributable
-to any known phenomenon or aircraft, but that the recorded sound comes
-from an emergency vehicle. (Sparks,
-p. 327; James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 52–53; Story, pp.
-299–300;
-William F. Krupke, “Sonic
-Analysis of the Redlands UFO Tape Recording,” Journal of Scientific
-Exploration 30, no. 2 (2016): 175–198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4486
Date: 2/5/1968
-Description: McDonald’s
-letter arrives in Boulder, Colorado. Low is
-out of town and the staff read it first. Low does not see it until 4:00
-p.m. the following day when Mary Lou Armstrong shows it to him. He
-explodes, saying whoever gave the memo to McDonald should be fired. Condon is
-also furious. (UFOs Yes, 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4487
Date: 2/7/1968
-Description: Low summons
-Saunders to
-Condon’s
-office, asking him if he knew McDonald had
-a copy of the memo. Saunders said yes, and didn’t think he needed to
-alert anyone, since McDonald is a friend of the project. Condon says,
-“For an act like that, you deserve to be ruined professionally!”
-Saunders avoids admitting he was responsible (indirectly) for McDonald’s
-having the memo. When Norm Levine arrives, Saunders is ordered to leave.
-Levine tells him the memo’s release is a group effort. Condon tells
-Levine not to discuss this meeting or communicate further with McDonald.
-Levine says he can’t do that, Condon tells him he is no longer useful,
-and Levine walks out. Condon and Low meet with other staff members the
-rest of the day. (UFOs Yes, 188–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4488
Date: 2/8/1968
-Description: Condon and
-Low meet
-with Thurston
-Manning and Stuart W. Cook from the University of Colorado’s
-Psychology Department. Condon tells Mary Lou Armstrong that Saunders and
-Norm Levine will be fired. Low types the letters himself and Condon
-signs them. Condon also writes a letter to Hynek asking
-him to provide 10– 15 of the best cases from his files. (UFOs Yes,
-192–193; Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4489
Date: 2/9/1968
-Description: Dr. David Saunders and Dr. Norman Levine, members of Air
-Force-sponsored Colorado UFO project, fired by Dr. E. U. Condon for
-alleged “incompetence” in controversy over project management
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 155
Date: 2/9/1968
-Description: Condon and
-Low meet
-with Craig,
-who admits knowing about the memo and says he was concerned about it. He
-leaves the meeting “deeply concerned” about the project’s viability.
-Roger Harkins writes up the events at the project for the Boulder Daily
-Camera; when he interviews Condon, he realizes that Condon “honestly
-didn’t know anything about that memo until a couple of days ago.” Condon
-admits, in contrast to his statements earlier, that Saunders and
-Levine were fired for insubordination, not incompetence. (UFOs Yes,
-194–195)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4490
Date: 2/9/1968
-Time: 4:20 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. R.W. Bland. One object, 100’ in diameter, with
-concave sides having “portholes” in the center of each gave off
-yellow-green light. Hovered 25’ above ground, then moved rapidly toward
-the southwest. Gave off pulsating sound, like a length of wire whirled
-at high speed above the head. Sighting lasted 1-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Groveton, Missouri
-ID: 580
Date: 2/13/1968
-Description: Luminous elliptical object followed car for 30 minutes,
-moved back and forth across road, made sharp turns and unusual
-maneuvers, suddenly disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Missoula, MT
-ID: 156
Date: 2/14/1968
-Description: F.
-Robert Naka, USAF
-chief reconnaissance scientist at MITRE Corporation, tells Robert
-Low that, contrary to what NORAD had briefed him on in 1967, NORAD
-radars can and do track UFOs “coming in from outer space.” He does not
-deny that NORAD has already tracked such objects on occasion. (Clark III
-804)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4492
Date: 2/14/1968
-Description: Hynek replies
-to Condon, saying
-that he will send him some of his best cases over the next few weeks,
-but requests that in return they be given a “thorough investigation.” He
-even offers to go to Wright-Patterson AFB and send him copies of good
-Blue Book cases, since Quintanilla has
-scrupulously been sending him copies of only those he asks for. (Center
-for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4491
Date: 2/16/1968
-Description: Novosti Science Commentator Villen Lyustiberg writes
-“Flying Saucers? They’re a Myth” in the newspaper Moskovskij
-Komsomolets. Novosti releases an English translation on March 12. It
-explains US reports as either misobservations or misreporting by the
-media. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Nothing
-But the Facts on UFOs,
-or Which Novosti
-Writer
-Do You Read?” April 9, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4493
Date: 2/18/1968
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Teenagers Richard Frombach, Boone Powers,
-and Chris Beachner are parked next to a pond in a gravel pit near
-Vashon, Washington, when they notice a glowing oval object resting on a
-hill to the east. They drive into town to pick up an additional witness,
-Joseph Frabush, and return to the area, park on the main road, and walk
-into the pond area. The object has moved to the east. Frabush thinks it
-is metallic and about 30 feet long. They drive back into town for more
-witnesses, but when they return the light is gone and the 100-foot pond
-is completely frozen over. Temperatures in the area have been above
-freezing for several days. Small puddles and mud patches surrounding the
-pond are not frozen at all. The pond ice is dry, even though it has been
-raining all night. Investigators find that the ice is 3 inches thick in
-some spots, composed of 2–5 layers, and riddled with bubbles filled with
-air and dirt. (“The
-Strange Case of the Frozen Pond,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968,
-pp. 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4494
Date: 2/19/1968
-Description: 11:55 a.m. Martha Heggs is in her farmhouse kitchen about
-10 miles west of Bengough, Saskatchewan. She hears a high-pitched whine
-that has such a penetrating intensity it is similar to a mild electric
-shock, causing a tingling sensation throughout her body. Looking out,
-she sees an object 300 feet away circling around a pole with an electric
-transformer on it. The object is shaped like two saucers edge-to-edge,
-surmounted by a dome with 6–7 ports, rounded at the top and extending
-straight down to the base of the dome. These ports are indented and
-white in color, resembling frosted glass. The saucers are about 8 feet
-wide and the dome about 4 feet wide. The body of the object looks like
-dull aluminum. There is a smaller, vented structure on top of the dome
-and an antenna on top of that. When the object first appears, a dog is
-seen cowering and lying in the snow, trying to cover its ears with its
-paws. Sixteen head of cattle, loose in the farmyard, bolt when the
-object moves into the area. They enter the cattle sheds and do not
-emerge until at least 30 minutes after the object disappears. The object
-moves about the farmyard, sometimes hovering, its altitude ranging from
-3 feet to 20 feet. After 20 minutes, still 9–12 feet above the ground,
-the object leaves the farm through a windbreak and moves north until
-lost to view. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., UFOs: A New
-Look, NICAP, 1969, Section IV, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4495
Date: 2/19/1968
-Description: Witness felt “tingling sensations”, domed disc with ports
-maneuvered around farm, emitting high-pitched whine. Dog cowered in
-snow, tattle bolted
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada
-ID: 157
Date: 2/20/1968
-Description: The US Embassy in Moscow sends an unclassified airgram to
-the US Department of State drawing attention to Felix
-Ziegel’s article in the February 1968 issue of Soviet Life, which
-refers to the Soviet UFO Study Group and concludes that international
-cooperation in studying UFOs is vital. (Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects,”
-Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27–29; Good Above, pp. 235,
-473–474)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4496
Date: 2/22/1968
-Description: UNCLASSIFIED AIR GRAM, U.S. Dept. of the State regarding
-UFOs in the Soviet Union: Feb. 1968, Soviet Life published three pages
-pertinent to UFOs, by Felix Zigel. He also published a UFO article in
-1966. Until recently no study of UFOs had been made in the Soviet
-Union.
-Type: unclassified air gram
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p473)
-Location: Soviet Union
-See also: 1/19/68
Date: 2/22/1968
-Description: Mary Lou Armstrong tells Condon that
-the staff has no confidence in Low as
-project coordinator, that Low has no interest in UFO sightings or
-reports, and that the staff has come to a radically different
-conclusion. (UFOs Yes, 199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4497
Date: 2/23/1968
-Description: Hynek writes
-another letter to Condon,
-saying that he has reconsidered his decision to send him his best cases,
-as he thinks the Colorado project will be unable to investigate them
-adequately before its contractual period is up. He does send him a
-catalog of recent Blue Book cases and offers to help him obtain from
-Wright-Patterson any of the unidentified or insufficient evidence cases
-that he wants to see. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek correspondence],
-pp. 14–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4498
Date: 2/24/1968
-Description: Armstrong resigns from the Colorado project, citing an
-“almost unanimous lack of confidence” among senior staffers in Low’s
-competence. She also complains that Low has been less than honest about
-the radical difference between staff views of UFOs and the views Low and
-Condon are
-expressing. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974,
-pp. 239–241,
-274–282;
-Clark III 698, 1197).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4499
Date: 2/27/1968
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Truck driver Andrew Perry is driving from
-Bideford to Cullompton, Devon, England, when he sees a bright light
-appear at the crest of a hill. As he gets closer, he sees the light is
-coming from a mushroom- shaped object. As he reaches about 900 feet away
-from the object, he stops the truck and climbs to the top of the cab to
-get a better view. He sees about 4–5 figures about 4 feet tall spread
-out around the object. Suddenly they scramble toward the UFO and
-disappear inside. The object emits a high-pitched whirring sound that
-causes his truck to vibrate. Perry gets upset and climbs back into the
-truck, driving it fast down the road. Meanwhile, the UFO has risen about
-200 feet into the air and is passing above his truck, making a noise so
-loud he can’t hear the engine running. Suddenly the truck engine cuts
-out. A few seconds later, the noise stops and Perry sees the UFO moving
-away in the distance. He drives to the nearest police station to report
-the incident. (UFOFiles2, pp. 126– 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4501
Date: 2/27/1968
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A brilliant flood of light from her window
-abruptly awakens a woman named Bernor in Templeton, Massachusetts. She
-becomes paralyzed, her face is immobile, and her hands and feet ache.
-The light goes on and off about 7–8 times, ending around 5:00 a.m. She
-slowly recovers over the next few days. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of
-the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4500
Date: 2/28/1968
-Description: Condon has
-a slight heart attack. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
-correspondence], p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4502
Date: 2/29/1968
-Description: Chairman of the Soviet Astronomical Services Evald
-Rudolfovich Mustel, president
-of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society D. Marynov, and
-Secretary of the National Committee of Soviet Physicists V. A.
-Leshkovtsev write an article in Pravda claiming that there have been no
-unexplainable sightings of UFOs on Russian soil. UFOs are “anti-Soviet
-products of decadent capitalistic warmongering.” (Good Above, pp. 235–236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4503
Date: 3/1968
-Description: Swiss author Erich
-von Däniken writes Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, translated into
-English as Chariots of the Gods?, the first of several books setting out
-the “ancient astronaut” hypothesis in which ancient gods are space
-visitors, Homo sapiens was created by cross-breeding or genetic
-engineering, nuclear wars were fought in the ancient world, and
-monuments were built by levitation. (Erich von Däniken, Chariots
-of the Gods? Bantam, 1973; Wikipedia, “Chariots
-of the Gods?”; Clark III 110; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed:
-Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997):
-29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4505
Date: 3/1968
-Description: EG&G technician Thornton
-D. Barnes arrives in Area 51 in Nevada to reverse-engineer the
-Soviet MiG-21 acquired through defecting Iraqi fighter pilot Munir
-Redfa. Soviet-built radar systems acquired in the Middle East are
-installed around Groom Lake (to aid stealth testing of the SR-71), and
-Barnes is also assigned to evaluate them as well as the ECM capabilities
-of the MiG. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 290–293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4504
Date: 3/1/1968
-Description: An Over the Horizon Forward Scatter Radar System
-440L/Program 673A is turned over to NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain facility
-in Colorado by Air Force Intelligence. It has been previously used to
-collect intelligence on Soviet missile launches since it was built in
-1960–1962. It soon picks up unidentified radar returns. (Clark III
-811)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4507
Date: 3/1/1968
-Description: Boulder, Colorado, police arrest Colorado project officer
-Jim Wadsworth for possession of marijuana. He pleads no contest and
-resigns. (UFOs Yes, 200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4506
Date: 3/2/1968
-Description: A magnetic monitoring device with a film camera set up by
-the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau at Horseshoe Lagoon, Tully,
-Queensland, is triggered around the time that an airliner flying at
-6,000 feet from Cairns to Iron Range is paced by a UFO. About 50 feet of
-film is exposed. On March 4, another 16 feet is exposed during a local
-UFO sighting. The film is apparently intercepted by the RAAF after
-Victor Mele, the owner of the film, sends it to a Kodak processing
-facility in Melbourne, Victoria. (Good Above, pp. 170–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4508
Date: 3/3/1968
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Several witnesses are traveling east on Knud
-Drive in Columbia, Tennessee, when they notice a large rectangular
-object approaching them silently from behind. When they stop the car,
-the object is directly overhead and moving east. It has hundreds of
-small, dimly lit points of light in 5–6 rows on its base. Witness Norman
-E. Bryant thinks it is 1,000 feet long, 250 feet wide, and flying at an
-altitude of 2,000 feet. It passes them in a matter of seconds. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983):
-4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4509
Date: 3/3/1968
-Description: About 9:50 P.M. (CST). Hundreds of people reported fiery
-objects streaking across the sky, some showering sparks, leaving bright
-trails. Zond IV Soviet satellite reentry and decay (Sagan and Page,
-1972, 155-161).
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern and Central United States
-ID: 158
Date: 3/3/1968
-Time: 0615
-Description: Nick Sgouris, while driving to work, observed a luminous,
-cigar-shaped object, about 20 m long, showing numerous multi-colored
-lights. The car almost stopped as the object flew low overhead, and the
-witness was briefly paralyzed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRG Bulletin 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Syracuse, New York
-ID: 905
Date: 3/4/1968
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A man is driving his new Triumph Spitfire up a
-country lane near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, when two golden objects
-shoot over the top of his car, killing his headlights, radio, and
-engine. Moments after the objects pass to the north, the headlights come
-back on, but the radio still fails. He is able to restart his car engine
-after the lights come on. A BUFORA investigator takes the radio to his
-workplace at British Aerospace and finds that two key transistors have
-burned out, seemingly due to a power surge. Once the transistors are
-replaced, the radio works again. (Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part
-4,” Fortean Times 328 (July 2015): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4511
Date: 3/4/1968
-Description: 6:15 p.m. A cigar-shaped object approaches a car in West
-Seneca, New York, and passes in front of it. The object is 50–60 feet
-long with blinking yellow lights. The witness tries to speed up, but the
-accelerator does not respond. The object disappears instantly. (Mark
-Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4510
Date: 3/8/1968
-Description: The first SR-71s arrive at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan,
-to replace the Oxcart A-12s. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4512
Date: 3/10/1968
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Valentina Flores is bringing in her llamas on her
-farm between Opoco and Uyuni, Bolivia, when she discovers that her sheep
-pen is covered with a net made of some plastic-like material, and that
-inside the pen is a helmeted being, 3.5 ft tall, who is engaged in
-killing her sheep using a tubular instrument with a hook on the end.
-Flores throws stones at the being, whereupon he walks over to an
-instrument resembling a radio and, moving a wheel on it, quickly absorbs
-all the netting. The woman approaches the pen with a cudgel, upon which
-the being throws its instrument at her several times; it returns to him
-like a boomerang, after it inflicts superficial cuts on her arms. The
-entity picks up the machine, which has absorbed the net as well as a bag
-containing sheep entrails, and puts them into a rucksack on his back.
-Two legs emerge from the rucksack and extend down to the ground, at
-which time the entity rises straight up into the air with an
-extraordinary sound and vanishes. 34 sheep are found dead; from every
-one, “certain small portions of the digestive organs were missing.”
-(Oscar A. Galíndez, “Violent Humanoid
-Encountered in Bolivia,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1970): 15–16; Clark III 138–139; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-9, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4513
Date: 3/12/1968
-Description: James
-E. McDonald presents a paper, “UFOs: An International Scientific
-Problem,” at an astronautics symposium of the Canadian Aeronautics and
-Space Institute, analyzing in depth Philip
-Klass’s plasma theory of UFOs and rejecting it as “superficial.”
-(James E. McDonald, “UFOs:
-An International Scientific Problem,” March 12, 1968; Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4514
Date: 3/19/1968
-Description: 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Gregory L. Wells is walking toward
-the trailer home of his parents in Beallsville, Ohio, when he sees an
-oval-shaped, bright red object hovering above some nearby trees and
-illuminating the road. It has a band of dimmer red lights around its
-midsection. Suddenly a big tube emerges from the object and moves around
-until it is pointed at him. A light beam shoots out and hits the upper
-part of his arm, knocking him down. His jacket catches fire and he rolls
-around, screaming with fright. His mother and grandmother come out to
-help, and they both see the red UFO, which just fades away after 10
-minutes. The boy is taken to a hospital and treated for second-degree
-burns. His scars are still visible three months later. (“Boy
-Burned by UAO in Ohio,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, pp. 1, 3;
-James E. McDonald, “Statement
-on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
-Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
-Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4515
Date: spring 1968
-Description: Two prospectors, Ed Sampson and Bill Johnson, are sleeping
-in the Anza Borrego Desert, California, when they wake up at the sound
-of an explosion. The sky above is filled with a fading red light, and
-they see flashes on the western horizon. The two climb to the crest of a
-hill and look down. Sampson sees a “red, circular flying saucer”
-hovering over the valley, while entities with glowing red eyes march in
-single file close to the ridge of an adjacent canyon. Something like a
-church bell rings out at intervals, and mechanical clanking is also
-audible. After noticing two glowing-eyed creatures standing behind them,
-they take off running. (Clark III 557)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4522
Date: 3/26/1968
-Description: McDonald addresses
-the question, “Are UFOs Extraterrestrial Surveillance Craft?” in a talk
-at the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute for Aeronautics and
-Astronautics. (James E. McDonald, “Are
-UFOs Extraterrestrial
-Surveillance Craft?” March 26, 1968; Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4516
Date: 3/29/1968
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Meteorologist Ştefan Bălaşa and a group of skiers
-watch a shiny object 75°–80° in the sky near the weather station on
-Semenic Mountain, Romania. Through binoculars it appears cone-shaped.
-Bălaşa continues to watch it until 6:40 p.m. when it begins to dim and
-move slowly to the east-northeast. The same or similar object appears in
-the same area on the evening of March 30. (Romania 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4517
Date: 3/29/1968
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Spectators at a football match in Tismana,
-Romania, see a stationary, bright-blue-green conical object that changes
-its color to red and disappears by 7:30 p.m. (Hobana and Weverbergh
-237–238; Romania 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4518
Date: 3/29/1968
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Two students and two teachers in Târgu-Jiu,
-Romania, see a whitish-blue isosceles triangle in the southeast sky. It
-changes color to orange then red and departs to the southwest. (Hobana
-and Weverbergh 134– 135; Romania 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4519
Date: 3/30/1968
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Teofil Iorga and 120 other construction workers
-at the Banat Mine in Oraviţa, Romania, see a luminous globe in the sky.
-At 6:10 a.m., a stationary yellowish-white object appears in the
-northeast. Iorga takes a photo of it at 8:00 a.m. and looks at it
-through a theodolite at 8:15 a.m. It is shaped like a truncated cone
-with one side exposed to the sun. At 9:00 a.m., the object ascends and
-moves to the south. (Hobana and Weverbergh 129– 130; Romania 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4520
Date: 3/30/1968
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Meteorologist Vasile Coţoi and Ingeborg Vityi
-observe a white conical object maneuvering slowly against the wind at
-the weather station on Ţarcu Peak, Romania. They watch it for 2.5 hours
-before it disappears. At 1:00 p.m. it is logged by the weather station
-near Berzasca about 1 mile inland from the Danube River. At 4:00 p.m. it
-reappears at the Semenic Mountain weather station and is also seen at
-Caransebeş, Romania, and other places. (Hobana and Weverbergh 131–138;
-Romania 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4521
Date: 4/2/1968
-Description: Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is
-released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 4/4/1968
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two young men in Cochrane, Wisconsin, see a UFO
-hover above a car ahead of them; its headlights suddenly go out. The
-object appears metallic and glows orange when standing still, but gets
-redder and brighter when moving. The object then comes toward their car
-and the engine conks out. It hovers overhead for a moment, during which
-time the witnesses feel increased heat and weightlessness. The object
-departs over a nearby field, emitting a cloudy haze all around its
-periphery. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4524
Date: mid 4/1968
-Description: Evening. Engineer Gu Ying is sent to a military
-construction regiment in the north Gobi Desert, China, when the entire
-battalion notices a huge, luminous, red-orange disc with a flashing
-light landing in the sand. It is about 9 feet in diameter. The commander
-dispatches a team of motorcycle troops to approach it. As they get
-closer, the object shoots up into the sky and disappears. The UFO leaves
-ground traces like a “seared cross.” The soldiers assume it is a Russian
-device. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO
-Photo Archive, 1983, pp. 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4523
Date: 4/27/1968
-Description: The May 14 issue of Look magazine contains an article by John
-G. Fuller on the Low memorandum
-and the near-mutiny at the Colorado project. (John G. Fuller, “Flying
-Saucer Fiasco,” Look 32, no. 10 (May 14, 1968): 58–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4525
Date: 4/29/1968
-Description: Low tells
-the press Fuller has
-quoted him out of context. Condon and
-Low spend the morning talking to legal counsel.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4526
Date: 4/30/1968
-Description: Rep. J.
-Edward Roush (D-Ind.) denounces the Colorado project in Congress
-based on the Look article and raises doubts about its scientific
-integrity. He writes to Air Force Secretary Robert
-Seamans to ask for his comments on “this deplorable situation” and
-he writes to the Comptroller General Elmer
-B. Staats to investigate the use of public funds for the project.
-(UFOs Yes, 201–202; “Congressional UFOing,” Wall Street Journal, May 3,
-1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4527
Date: 4/30/1968
-Description: Keyhoe and
-the NICAP Board of Directors write to President Lyndon
-Johnson, enclosing the Low memo
-and other evidence and urging that he create an entirely new commission.
-Col. Bernhard M. Ettenson, from the Office of the Secretary of the Air
-Force, writes back to say that “we expect that Dr. Condon will
-fulfill the terms of the agreement.” (“The
-Inside Story of the Colorado Project,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 6
-(May/June 1968): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4528
Date: 5/1968
-Time: 2400
-Description: Gerardo Vidal and his wife were driving along Route 2 when
-they were caught in “a dense fog” and lost consciousness for 48 hours.
-When they came to, it was daytime, and the car, whose paint was badly
-scorched, was parked in an unknown road. They spoke to local people and
-found that they were in Mexico.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Chascomus, Brazil
-ID: 906
Date: early 5/1968
-Description: Five UFOs are seen diving into the ocean off Arrecife,
-Vargas, Venezuela. (“Current
-South American Flap,”
-APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4529
Date: early 5/1968
-Description: Night. Gerardo Vidal and his wife are driving home from
-Chascomús to Maipú, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are just outside
-Chascomús when their car is enveloped in a thick green fog. The next
-thing they know they are driving on a road near Mexico City in broad
-daylight, 4,400 miles to the northwest. Their watches have stopped, and
-they discover that two days have passed. They visit the Argentine
-embassy in Mexico City, where Vidal calls a relative in Maipú to report
-that they are well. However, a June 4, 1968, Reuters dispatch from
-Mexico City contains a denial of the incident by the Argentine embassy,
-and subsequent inquiries can find no one in Maipú that could be the
-Vidals. Finally, in October 1998 Argentine film director Aníbal
-Uset admits to researcher Roberto E. Banchs that he had invented the
-Chascomús teleportation as a publicity stunt to spread a fantastic story
-based on the plot of his upcoming film Ché OVNI. The movie’s poster even
-shows a UFO carrying off an automobile. (La Razon (Buenos Aires), June
-3, 1968; Oscar A. Galíndez, “Teleportation
-from Chascomús to
-Mexico,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1968): 3–4; “Further
-News on South America,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1968, pp. 7–8;
-Internet Movie Database, “Ché
-OVNI”; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for
-Alien Intelligence, Ballantine, 1990, p. 96;
-Roberto E. Banchs, “The Chascomús Teleportation Hoax,” Fortean Times 351
-(April 2017): 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4530
Date: 5/10/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Grant Callison of Galesburg, Illinois, looks out
-his kitchen window and sees a giant bird illuminated by a streetlight.
-He and his wife Wilma rush outside for a better look and see three of
-them flying in a V-formation at an altitude of 500 feet. They look like
-they have metallic feathers or scales. They are flying with a graceful,
-fluttering motion. They then see two objects to the south with pulsating
-red lights moving in the same direction at the same speed (about 25–35
-mph). On May 20, around 9:00 p.m., the Callisons have another odd
-sighting of a single bird-like creature. (Grant Callison, “Winged
-Creatures over Illinois,” UFOexperiences, February 6, 2006; Clark
-III 655)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4531
Date: 5/11/1968
-Description: A farmer in Brinkley, South Australia, notices strands of
-material about 65 feet long falling on his property. He says it is like
-asbestos rope and as wide as a pencil. On the same day, web-like “fine
-woven cotton” is seen on a lawn and draped over wires and a fence in
-Cheltenham, Adelaide, South Australia. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair:
-An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4532
Date: 5/13/1968
-Description: George
-H. Estabrooks, a
-Canadian-American psychologist and former consultant for the FBI and
-CIA, tells the Providence Evening Bulletin that the key to developing an
-effective spy or assassin is by creating a multiple personality with the
-aid of hypnosis, a procedure he describes as “child’s play.” Estabrooks
-suggests that Lee Harvey
-Oswald and Jack
-Ruby could have been controlled in this manner. “This has and is
-being done. I have done it. It is child’s play now to develop a multiple
-personality through hypnotism.” (Providence (R.I.) Evening Bulletin, May
-13, 1968; Colin A. Ross, Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple
-Personality by Psychiatrists, Manitou, 2000, p. 162; Phil Kirby, “Event
-/ TV Times: The
-Prisoner:
-Free for All,” The Culture Vulture, May 10, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4533
Date: 5/14/1968
-Description: LOOK article, “Flying Saucer Fiasco” by John Fuller,
-reporting internal controversy in the Colorado UFO Project and the Low
-“trick” memo.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 159
Date: 5/15/1968
-Description: Low is
-relieved of 90% of his duties with the Colorado project, effective May
-24 and will go back to his job as assistant to Thurston
-Manning. (UFOs
-Yes, 204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4534
Date: 5/17/1968
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Caetano Sergio dos Santos is returning home from
-his job as a night watchman at Caconde, São Paulo, Brazil. In the
-courtyard of his house he sees a cylinder-shaped object, about the size
-of a powdered-milk can, stuck in the ground. At each end are dials, one
-with a black band, the other with a red one. They are encased under a
-glass or plastic lens with embossed figures arranged in a semicircle.
-Above each figure is something like an Arabic numeral. Dos Santos takes
-the object into the house and studies it for 90 minutes, then puts it on
-a windowsill in the bathroom before going to bed. He goes back to work,
-then at about 1:00 a.m., he returns home and notices that the object is
-lighting up the house, with his wife and son, very agitated, standing
-outside with neighbors. She tells him that a loud buzzing and intense
-heat had wakened her, both emanating from the object. Dos Santos goes
-inside and finds a hole in the roof, tile scattered over the floor, and
-the object gone. (“Brazilian Object
-Real Puzzler,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1968, pp. 1, 3; Walter
-Buehler, “The
-Mysterious Caconde Case,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1969): 18–19; Clark III 339)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4535
Date: late 5/1968
-Description: Condon hires
-science writer Daniel
-S. Gillmor to edit the final project report. Gillmor receives
-editorial help from Joseph
-H. Rush, a
-physicist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Also
-assisting is associate editor Harriet Hunter and several specialists
-from the local lab of the Environmental Science Services Administration
-(including Gordon
-David Thayer). Franklin
-Roach returns to work on astronaut sightings. By June 1, the date on
-which the investigative phase ends, there is a substantially new
-crew.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4537
Date: 5/21/1968
-Description: Philip
-J. Klass attempts to refute James
-E. McDonald’s criticisms of his plasma theory of UFOs in a privately
-circulated paper. (Phillip J. Klass, “Dr. James
-E. McDonald’s ‘Mathematical Proof,’” The Author, May 21, 1968,
-pp. 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4536
Date: 5/27/1968
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A man is driving near Punta Gorda, Florida, when
-his headlights and engine fail. As he gets out to check, he sees a light
-slowly descending at treetop level. The object is shaped like a
-Pilgrim’s hat with a green glow and bluish color surrounding it. A few
-minutes after landing, it takes off at high speed, disappearing in the
-northwest. The car starts once it is gone. The witness notices that his
-watch has stopped. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports
-Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4538
Date: 5/31/1968
-Description: McDonald speaks
-to the Chicago Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on UFOs.
-(James E. McDonald, “UFOs: Atmospheric or Extraterrestrial?” May 31,
-1968; Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4539
Date: 6/1968
-Time: 0050
-Description: Pedro Pretzel, 39, motel owner, observed an object 50 m
-away on road 20, showing two powerful red headlights. Arriving at his
-room, the witness found his daughter unconscious. When she came to, she
-said that a blond man, 2 m tall, wearing a blue, bright suit, and
-holding a paleblue sphere in his hand, had appeared and spoken to
-her.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Carlos Paz, Argentina
-ID: 907
Date: 6/3/1968
-Description: McDonald addresses
-the Burro Club (Democratic Congressional Administrative Assistants and
-Aides) in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., on the question
-“Does Congress Have a Responsibility to Investigate the UFO Problem?”
-(Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4541
Date: 6/4/1968
-Description: A-12 pilot Jack
-W. Weeks is lost over the South China Sea near the Philippines
-during a functional checkout flight after the replacement of one of its
-engines. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4542
Date: 6/6/1968
-Description: Capt. U. Tiviroli, commander of an Argentine Airlines Avro,
-sees a UFO, along with his copilot and 18 passengers, for 5 minutes
-during a night landing at Punta Arenas airport, Chile. An unusually
-bright object, long and spindle-shaped, appears above the plane. It
-moves in a course parallel to the plane and stops suddenly in midair.
-Then it swerves in a right angle back to the plane. It is also seen by
-airport observers. (“Argentinian
-Pilot Reports
-UAO,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4543
Date: 6/11/1968
-Description: MP John
-Langford-Holt asks UK Prime Minister Harold
-Wilson whether he is aware that some UFO reports are made to the
-Ministry of Defence, while police reports are made to the Board of
-Trade. Wilson replies that reports going to the Board of Trade are
-passed on to the Ministry of Defence. (Good Above, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4545
Date: 6/11/1968
-Description: Philip
-J. Klass attempts to refute James
-E. McDonald’s criticisms of his plasma theory of UFOs in another
-unpublished paper. (Philip J. Klass, “Does
-Dr. James E. McDonald Really Speak with Authority?” The Author, June
-11, 1968, pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4544
Date: 6/14/1968
-Time: 0300
-Description: Jorge Yaru, 35, saw a strange light outside and a bright
-object, the size of a bus, 30 m away. It had yellow, green and red
-lights at the bottom. As he approached, the object rose suddenly,
-hovered for 40 min, and left at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Mendiozaca, Argentina
-ID: 908
Date: 6/14/1968
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. Isidro Puentes Ventura is on
-guard duty in Cabañas, Artemisa, Cuba, when he sees on the ground a
-brilliant domed UFO with several antennas on top. He approaches to
-within 165 feet and fires about 40 machine gun rounds into it, convinced
-it is American. The object turns orange and emits a whistling sound as
-Puentes loses consciousness. At dawn, an Army patrol finds him still
-unconscious and takes him to a hospital in Pinar del Rio, where he
-remains in shock for 6 days, unable to speak. He is then taken to a
-Naval hospital in Havana, where he remains in shock another week. At the
-site, Cuban and Soviet intelligence specialists find 48 spent cartridges
-and 14 bullets flattened by impact with something solid, as well as
-equally spaced indentations on the ground. Tests reveal that the soil
-has been exposed to a high temperature. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles
-of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 82–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4546
Date: 6/15/1968
-End date: 6/17/1968
-Description: Night. Allied forward spotters along the eastern part of
-the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam see about 30 strange slow-moving
-lights. At the time they are interpreted as North Vietnamese
-Russian-built M-14 Hound helicopters ferrying men and materiel over the
-border. The lights appear the following evening, and several US 7th Air
-Force Phantom fighter-bombers soon arrive on the scene and fire on the
-intruders, supported by anti- aircraft ground fire. During the Allied
-attack the presumed helicopters move down the east coast and out to sea.
-The destroyers HMAS
-Hobart,
-USS
-Edson,
-and USS
-Theodore
-E. Chandler are ordered to undertake surveillance missions around
-Cồn Cỏ (Tiger Island) along the north central coast. Around 3:14 a.m. on
-June 17, the ships are involved in a friendly fire incident in which the
-Hobart is hit by 3 missiles from one of the Phantoms, causing major
-damage and killing two of the crew. (Jon Wyatt, “HMAS
-Hobart Hit during Vietnam UFO Enciunter?” AUFORN Special Report, no.
-34 (April 2003), reprinted in UFO Evidence) June 16 and 19 — Night.
-Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Maj. Niceforo Léon
-observe a round object with a vivid blue light near El Choro, Poopó,
-Bolivia. It lands, leaves a strange, powerful odor, and burns grass and
-shrubs. (Gordon Creighton, “A
-New South American ‘Wave,’” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1968): 23–24; Oscar A. Galíndez, “South
-America Revisited,” Australian UFO Review, no. 10 (December 1969):
-41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4548
Date: 6/15/1968
-Description: 1:05 a.m. María Elodia Pretzel, daughter of the owner of
-the Motel La Cuesta on National Highway 20 east of Villa Carlos Paz,
-Córdoba, Argentina, is locking up for the night when she encounters a
-strange-looking man in the dining area. He is 6 feet tall and dressed in
-a blue helmet and a suit that glows with an eerie light and seems made
-up of scales. In his left hand he is holding a glassy sphere that is
-radiating a coherent light that lights up the room. She feels somewhat
-paralyzed and is getting a mental message not to be afraid. The entity
-raises its other arm, which is emitting beams of light, and she feels
-helpless, falling backward. The entity walks slowly toward the outside
-door, putting one foot directly in front of the other, arm extended and
-holding the now extinguished sphere, and passes outside. Still shaken,
-María goes to the laundry room and drops on the floor, head and arms on
-a divan. A few minutes later, her father, Pedro Jacobo Pretzel, arrives
-and discovers her. Minutes earlier, he had seen two odd, stationary red
-lights about 5–6 feet from the ground off Highway 20. Maria is conscious
-but very disturbed, a condition that lasts for several days. (Oscar A.
-Galíndez, “The
-Anthropomorphic Entity at Villa Carlos
-Paz—Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January 1981): 8–17,
-29–31; Oscar A. Galíndez, “The Anthropomorphic
-Entity at Villa Carlos Paz—Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6
-(March 1981): 15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4547
Date: 6/16/1968
-Time: night
-Description: Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Major
-Niceforo Leon observed a round object with a vivid blue light. It
-landed, left a strange, powerful odor, and burned grass and
-shrubs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: El Choro, Argentina
-ID: 909
Date: 6/18/1968
-Description: Jorge Raul Scassa Sutter and Ruben Andrawos are flying a
-Cessna 182 from Villa Dolores, Córdoba, Argentina, to La Guardia,
-Catamarca, Argentina. They see an object looking like an overturned soup
-plate with a cupola on top. The object is grayish-blue with no windows,
-and its diameter is about 90 feet. The object is at the same altitude as
-the aircraft, 7,500 feet, and at a distance of 330 feet. It disappears
-by flying to the north at a fantastic speed. There is a possible VHF
-interference (“frequency fading”) when the object approaches the
-aircraft in front. (La Gaceta de Tucumán, June 19, 1968; NICAP, “Cessna
-182 Encounters UFO / VHF I/FF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4549
Date: 6/19/1968
-Time: night
-Description: A settler, Romulo Velasco, 25, saw a bright object land.
-From it emerged a strange “tall, slim being” who came toward the
-witness, who fainted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Cabreria, Argentina
-ID: 910
Date: 6/20/1968
-Description: The US Seventh Air Force holds a “joint service conference
-on the UFO problem” in Hawaii after a series of tragic incidents on June
-15–17, including a missile attack on “unidentified helicopters” that hit
-the Australian Navy destroyer HMAS
-Hobart, killing two sailors. An investigation reveals that the Air
-Force is in the midst of a wave of sightings of things that are not
-enemy helicopters in central Vietnam, just south of and within the DMZ.
-(Clark III 1051; Sparks, pp. 327–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4550
Date: 6/20/1968
-Description: A husband and wife encounter an array of lights that hover
-above their car near Roswell, New Mexico. Both have a feeling of great
-peace. When the UFO vanishes, the wife finds that the arthritis in her
-neck has been healed. (Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological
-Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4552
Date: 6/20/1968
-Description: Following the publication of their book Flying Saucer
-Report: UFOs Unidentified, Unidentifiable, British researchers Anthony
-R. Pace and Roger H. Stanway visit the UK S4 (Air) UFO desk in
-Whitehall, London, again and meet with Leslie Akhurst, John Dickison,
-and Alec Cassie. Their request to record the interview is denied, but
-they are impressed with Cassie’s ability to recall UFO cases mentioned
-in their book. (Good Above, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4551
Date: 6/21/1968
-Description: A man riding his bicycle encountered a large object, 50 cm
-above the ground. The top part was spinning, and it cast a vertical beam
-of red light toward the ground. Calcination traces were found by
-police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Miramar, Argentina
-ID: 911
Date: summer 1968
-Description: Three teenagers notice an irregular triangular object
-flying to the west over housing in Stazic street in Rzeszów, Poland. It
-is dark with some brighter bulges on the bottom and emits a buzzing
-sound. (Poland 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4540
Date: 6/25/1968
-Time: 105
-Description: Jorge Ribles, electrician at the Carmal Chemical Plant,
-noticed that the engines were at a standstill, while the countryside was
-lit up with intensive reddish light. Another man, 52-yearold Jose J.
-Rociski, fell unconscious as a vivid light enveloped him. He was unable
-to move his left arm for three days, and suffered from pain and extreme
-nervousness.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Bouchard, Argentina
-ID: 912
Date: 6/26/1968
-Description: An Argentine Trotskyist using the pseudonym J.
-Posadas, who formed a movement in 1962 based on the inevitability of
-nuclear war, has proclaimed an interest in UFOs as entities with the
-ability to master sophisticated technologies that are compatible with
-socialism. If UFOs exist, they might be helpful in addressing some of
-the major problems in the earth. In his pamphlet, Les Soucoupes
-Volantes: Le processus de la matière et de l’energie, la science et le
-socialisme, Posadas pleads that “We must call upon beings from other
-planets when they come to intervene, to collaborate with the inhabitants
-of the Earth to overcome misery. We must launch a call on them to use
-their resources to help us.” (J. Posadas, Flying
-Saucers: The Process of Matter and Energy, Science, the Revolutionary
-and Working-Class Struggle, and Socialism, June
-26, 1968; A. M. Gittlitz, I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and
-Apocalyptic Communism, Pluto, 2020; Ian Parker, “Believe
-It or Not!” Socialist Resistance, May 1, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4553
Date: 7/1968
-Description: A man is driving on Blacketts Lake Road southwest of
-Sydney, Nova Scotia, when he sees a saucer-shaped object descending
-below the tree line near the lake. He parks his car and runs along a
-trail to get closer. He is about 75 feet from the object, which is only
-6 feet above the ground in a clearing. The UFO suddenly rises and flies
-away. The RCMP blocks access to the site during its investigation. (“Former
-RCMP Officer Photographs UFO near Sydney,
-N.S.,” Journal UFO 2, no. 4 (March 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4556
Date: 7/1968
-Description: A CIA team flies into Saigon [now Ho Chi Minh City] to
-experiment on three Viet Cong prisoners at Biên Hòa Hospital. Working in
-an enclosed compound, the team’s neurosurgeon and neurologist insert
-tiny electrodes into their brains. Behaviorists then experiment on the
-men, arming them with knives and trying to induce violent behavior in
-them using direct electrical stimulation. After a week of
-experimentation that fails to incite the men to attack each other, they
-are shot dead and their bodies burned. (Sid Taylor, “A
-History of Secret CIA Mind Control Research,”
-Nexus, April/May 1992)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4555
Date: 7/1968
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Walter Rizzi is taking a nap in his car by the
-road just south of the Gardena Pass, South Tyrol, Italy, when he wakes
-to the smell of something burning. He sees a light about 1,600 feet
-further downhill shining through the mist. The mist parts, and he sees
-an enormous object that suddenly reminds him of an encounter he had with
-a strange hermit on the island of Rhodes in Greece when he was in the
-Italian army in World War II. The hermit had predicted he would someday
-meet with advanced beings from the cosmos who would provide him with the
-assurance of life throughout the universe. Rizzi makes his way downhill
-toward the object, which is silvery, some 260 feet in diameter, standing
-on three legs, bathed in fleecy white light, and emitting a burning
-odor. He gets within 10 feet and cannot go further. He sees two beings
-inside a transparent cupola on the top who are looking down at him. To
-the right of the object is a robot about 8 feet tall with three legs and
-four arms. A beam of light comes from the center of the object, and
-Rizzi sees another being dressed in a tight-fitting suit and glass
-helmet descending. They communicate telepathically about other planets
-and the universe. Eventually the entities reenter the object and take
-off. Rizzi claims there are landing marks, effects on the grass, and his
-watch starts losing time. (Gordon Creighton, “Introductory
-Comments on the Rizzi Case,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3
-(September 1980): 21–22; Walter Rizzi, “Close
-Encounter in the Dolomites,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3
-(September 1980): 22–27; 1Pinotti 158–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4557
Date: 7/1968
-Description: British physicist Reginald
-Victor Jones publishes a skeptical view of UFOs in Physics Bulletin,
-but supports genuine scientific inquiry. (R. V. Jones, “The
-Natural Philosophy of Flying Saucers,” Physics Bulletin, July 1968,
-pp. 225–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4554
Date: 7/1/1968
-Time: 0400
-Description: Raul Calcedo met two giants, almost 3 m tall, in Ricardone.
-He fled in terror, in spite of a strange power that tended to make him
-stay.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Ricardone, Argentina
-ID: 913
Date: 7/1/1968
-Time: 1230
-Description: Three boys saw an object, about 8 m wide, 350 m away. It
-had a large tripod under carriage and a ladder reaching down to the
-ground. These devices were retracted, and the object rose a few meters,
-then flew off at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Botucatu, Brazil
-ID: 914
Date: 7/1/1968
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Three boys are sitting on the main gate of the
-UNESP Hospital das Clinicas of the Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu,
-São Paulo, Brazil. Suddenly they see a large object “as big as a house”
-sitting about 1,150 feet to the west of them. It has a large tripod
-undercarriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. The boys can
-hear a weird “tinging sound on a high note.” They start to yell as the
-UFO retracts its tripod and ladder and rise into the air and speed off
-to the east, reaching a great altitude. Alerted by their shouts, other
-witnesses see the object moving away. A student named Antônio Alegre
-examines the landing site shortly afterward and finds marks forming an
-isosceles triangle, two sides measuring 20 feet and one side 23 feet.
-(Nigel Rimes, “Landing
-at Botucatu,”
-Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1968): 21–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4559
Date: 7/1/1968
-Description: NASA publishes a Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar
-Events, by Barbara
-M. Middlehurst, Jaylee
-M. Burley, Patrick
-Moore, and
-Barbara
-L. Welther. Moore
-invents the term “transient lunar phenomena” to describe short-lived
-changes in brightness, color, or appearance on the surface of the moon.
-(Wikipedia, “Transient
-lunar phenomenon”;
-Barbara M. Middlehurst, Jaylee M. Burley, Patrick Moore, and Barbara L.
-Welther, Chronological Catalog
-of Reported Lunar Events, NASA
-Technical Report R-277, July 1, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4558
Date: 7/2/1968
-Time: 0815
-Description: A boy, Sola, saw, a few meters away, a strange being, about
-2.10 m tall, hovering in the air, his body emitting a peculiar glow,
-near a bright, unknown object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Cofico, Argentina
-ID: 915
Date: 7/2/1968
-Time: 1125
-Description: Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with
-short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to
-him. Near them was an elliptical, silvery machine, 2 m long, 60 cm high,
-with three 50 cm legs. The men gave him an envelope with a childish
-message and flew off. The witness’s horse and dog were paralyzed for
-several minutes. The boy arrived home “like a madman.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina
-ID: 916
Date: 7/2/1968
-Description: 10:00–10:30 p.m. Fred Coulthard Jr. and his brother Wayne
-are at a family get-together in the backyard of their father’s home in
-Wooler, Ontario, when they see an object with rotating red lights that
-agitates the family’s horses and cats. Around 11:30 p.m.,
-poltergeist-like disturbances (a shattered window, objects thrown
-around, a strong odor of roses) begin in the house and continue for
-several days. “Fairy rings” are discovered on the ground in a wooded
-valley north of town. (Mrs. W. Greystone, “Canada’s
-UFO Poltergeist,” in Charles Bowen, ed., Beyond Condon, special
-issue no. 2 of FSR, June 1969, pp. 66–68, 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4561
Date: 7/2/1968
-Description: 11:25 a.m. Oscar Heriberto Iriart, 15, sees two men of
-normal height motioning to him at Sierra Chica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-They have short, white hair and red clothes. They also have
-semi-transparent legs because he can see through them to the grass
-behind. Near the men is an elliptical, silvery machine, 6.5 feet long, 2
-feet high, with three legs 19 inches high. The men give him an envelope
-they telepathically say contains an important message, telling him to
-dip it in water before reading, then they fly off. Iriart dips the
-envelope in a puddle and finds that both the envelope and his hands are
-dry. The message is written in Spanish in a crude handwriting: “You are
-going to know the world. F. Saucer.” The witness’s horse and dog are
-paralyzed for several minutes. The boy arrives home terrified. The
-family goes to the landing site and finds three holes, each about 5
-inches deep and forming an isosceles triangle, the base side measuring
-6.5 feet and the other 2 sides 5.2 feet wide. At 11:15 p.m., five
-skeptical men (including Police Sgt. Raúl Coronel) from the Sierra Chica
-Social Club visit the landing site and declare the holes to be fake.
-However, they see a zigzagging light a few feet from the ground and
-heading their way. They drop to the ground, it passes over them, and
-then shoots away straight up. (Gordon Creighton, “A New
-South American ‘Wave,’” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1968): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4560
Date: 7/9/1968
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Witnesses at Long Beach, California, see a huge,
-glowing, cloud-like mass over the Santa Catalina Channel for 90 minutes.
-Five smaller objects are seen maneuvering around it. (Ann Druffel, “Santa
-Catalina Island
-Recurring ‘Cloud Cigars,’” in Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS
-Conference, Chicago, 1976, pp. 62–74; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite
-Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 9–10; Ann
-Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January
-2007): 13–14; Wim van Utrecht, “‘Mother
-Ship’ over California,”
-Caelestia, August 5, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4562
Date: 7/13/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Irena
-Scott and her sister Sue Postle are traveling west of Boston,
-Massachusetts, on State Highway 9 when they see an unusual object to the
-south. They watch it intermittently after turning south on State Highway
-128 and I-95. It is moving in an erratic pattern and blinking. Then they
-see a basketball-sized object 20–50 feet away, near the ground, and
-constantly changing colors. Scott pulls over to the side of the road,
-loads her camera, and takes five photos, only one of which shows the
-light. (Irena Scott, “Fear and Ambiguity in Massachusetts,” IUR 13, no.
-4 (July/Aug. 1988): 14–17; Irena Scott, “UFO Studies in the Scientific
-Literature,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 18; Irena Scott, “A
-Photograph and Its Aftermath,” IUR 15, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1990): 12–14,
-23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4563
Date: 7/17/1968
-Description: Late evening. A civil servant is allegedly snatched off the
-São Paulo Highway in Brazil and taken into a UFO by four green entities
-wearing devices that look like headphones. While he is in a state of
-paralysis, they question him via telepathy about human customs,
-physiology, and reproduction. The creatures depart abruptly as if in
-response to instructions. (Gordon Creighton, “Physical
-Examination by ‘Miniature Martians,’” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1969): 32, 34; Clark III 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4564
Date: 7/18/1968
-Description: 1:05 a.m. RCMP Constable W. J. Whyte and his wife spot a
-yellow circular object at high altitude moving west to east near Truro,
-Nova Scotia. It looks like a satellite, but turns reddish before
-disappearing in the distance. At 1:10 p.m., a couple near Onslow
-Mountain a few miles to the north see a rosy red light in the southwest
-hovering just above the trees. They watch it for 15 minutes before it
-moves and accelerates out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4565
Date: 7/20/1968
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. Three 14-year-old girls at a summer
-camp at Kaarnajärv, near Otepää, Valga County, Estonia, see a swiftly
-moving star and a cigar-shaped object in the distance that quickly
-disappears. Somewhat disturbed, they decide to retire to bed. Through a
-window they see a bright object about 165 feet away. It is surrounded by
-reddish-orange and yellow beams of light. Soon it goes out, leaving only
-a dark greenish nebula with a blue-green ring around it that illuminates
-the surrounding woods. They watch it for about 5 minutes until it blinks
-out. One of the girls goes outside and sees a female figure, less than 5
-feet tall and wearing a silver ribbon, standing where the object had
-been. It vanishes. The next morning, they find a circular burnt area
-about 6 feet in diameter and four wedge-shaped prints in the soil. (Juri
-Lina, “UFO
-Landings in Estonia,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 (June 1978):
-3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4566
Date: 7/22/1968
-Description: 1:20 a.m. Adela Casalvieri de Panassiti, 45, night nurse at
-the Dr. Carlos Pereyra Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Ituzaingó 2837,
-Mendoza, Argentina, hears a loud, penetrating, humming noise outside in
-the hospital courtyard. Going out to see what it is, she observes a
-mushroom-shaped landed object only 65 feet away. It is luminous and
-sitting in the middle of the courtyard. A bright red beam comes from the
-object and strikes her, and she finds that her legs are paralyzed.
-Putting her hands up to her face for protection, she discovers she is
-completely unable to move. She remains immobilized for a number of
-minutes until the red beam is extinguished. At this time, the object
-ascends vertically then flies off rapidly to the south, barely clearing
-the wall that surrounds the courtyard. Before it disappears, she is able
-to observe several human-looking figures through square portholes that
-encircle the craft. These beings move back and forth, passing each
-other, and are visible from the waist up only. A lead- gray stain, 31 x
-12 inches, that smells of sulfur is found at the landing site. It
-persists for two days. Several small potted trees are burned. Casalvieri
-de Panassiti has first-degree burns on her face and hands (an allergic
-reaction?), and parts of her nurse’s cap and clothing are singed. In
-addition, her watch, which has stopped at 1:30 a.m., is found to be
-radioactive, as is her ring. The daughters of a garrison commander
-witness a luminous, egg- shaped object at the same time from the
-garrison casino. (“Argentina:
-Hospital Landing at El Sauce,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1968): 32; Roberto Banchs, “Mendoza: Agitacion por
-Apariciones de OVNIs (22 Julio y 09 Ago 1968),” Visión OVNI, November
-11, 2008; Scott Corrales, “1968:
-A Nurse Burned by an Alleged
-UFO (CE-2),” Inexplicata, July 25, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4568
Date: 7/22/1968
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Off-duty police constable Martyn
-Johnson is walking with his girlfriend in Sheffield, South Yorkshire,
-England, when they see two lights approaching them from above a nearby
-park. They are giving off many colored lights. As they hover above a
-nearby house, the couple’s poodle becomes agitated and runs off. The two
-lights then become four and arrange themselves in an oblong formation.
-All at once they vanish at terrific speed, following a railway to the
-northeast. A few hours later, Johnson is awakened and told to report to
-police headquarters, where there are two “government men” waiting to
-quiz him about the sighting. They desperately try to convince him that
-he has seen an aircraft or helicopter. They tell him he is sworn to
-secrecy for the next 25 years. When he asks what he has seen, they tell
-him, “What you have seen is an unidentified flying object or UFO. Some
-people call them spaceships, and if the people of the world knew how
-many genuine sightings there were like yours, there would be total
-panic.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4567
Date: 7/23/1968
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Daíldo de Oliveira, a night watchman for the CESP
-electrical substation near Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, confronts three
-intruders who overpower him outside a control center building. A large
-UFO 50 feet tall is resting nearby on the ground; it takes off in a
-zigzag pattern towards the city of Lins. (Clark III 183–185; Brazil
-93–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4569
Date: 7/25/1968
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Juan Sivori, his wife, and a daughter see a
-silver object shaped like a spinning top a they are driving along
-Highway 226 near La Pastora, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is only 115
-feet from them and the size of a truck. The engine of their car stops
-running as the UFO hovers for about 5 minutes at a height of 33 feet.
-When it rises into the air and vanishes, the car engine starts up again.
-(Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary
-Catalogue of Type I
-Cases in Argentina, Part 4,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories,
-no. 16 (August 1973): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4570
Date: 7/26/1968
-Description: “UFO Project: Trouble on the Ground” by Philip M. Boffey in
-Science magazine, reporting on the internal problems of the Colorado UFO
-Project.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 160
Date: 7/28/1968
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A farmer, his wife, and two children near
-Upton, Quebec, are awakened by the barking of their dog. When he gets up
-to investigate, he sees a sparkling, rotating “cloud” in the yard. It
-flies just over him and goes into a nearby field. About 12 feet in
-diameter, it is dark on the bottom but luminous on top. The cows in the
-field are being chased by 4 or 5 small entities, perhaps 3 feet tall
-with heads shaped like bottles. As the UFO flies above them, they
-disappear. The cattle seem ill for weeks afterwards. (John Brent
-Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, Global Communications, 1979; Clark
-III 280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4571
Date: 7/29/1968
-Description: The hearings that Rep. J.
-Edward Roush and NICAP have been calling for are held as a
-“Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects” before the House Committee on
-Science and Astronautics. Rep. George
-P. Miller (D-Calif.) is chairman of the committee, but Roush directs
-most of the proceedings. Hynek,
-McDonald,
-Sagan,
-Robert
-L. Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago), James
-A. Harder (UC-Berkeley), and Robert
-M. L. Baker Jr. (UCLA) give testimony. Hynek is introduced by
-Rep. Donald
-Rumsfeld (R-Ill.). Menzel,
-R.
-Leo Sprinkle, Garry
-C.
-Henderson, Stanton
-T. Friedman, Roger
-N. Shepard, and
-Frank
-B. Salisbury offer prepared papers. NICAP representatives are not
-permitted to testify. Many witnesses parrot the NORAD party line that
-its radars only look in certain directions (when indeed it looks for
-many types of potential attacks in all directions). Harder states: “On
-the basis of the data and ordinary rules of evidence, as would be
-applied in civil or criminal courts, the physical reality of UFOs has
-been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” McDonald makes the biggest
-impression, presenting 30 pages of UFO reports. He states: “my own
-present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are
-probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very
-tentatively be termed ‘surveillance.’” Menzel concludes that UFOs merit
-no more scientific study than “the concept of ghosts, spirits, witches,
-fairies, elves, hobgoblins, or the devil.” The symposium has no lasting
-impact, as Congress does nothing about the problem. (Symposium
-on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings,
-US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess.,
-July 29, 1968; “Congressional
-Hearings on UFO Problems: Scientists Urge Unbiased
-National Investigations,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 7
-(July/Aug. 1968): 1–5; Clark III 811)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4572
Date: 7/29/1968
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 161
Date: 7/29/1968
-Description: House Science and Astronautics Committee symposium on UFOs
-chaired by Rep. Edward Roush (D-Ind.). Witnesses included Robert M.
-Baker, Robert L. Hall, James A. Harder, J. Allen Hynek, James E.
-McDonald, and Carl Sagan.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 162
Date: 7/30/1968
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A land surveyor and his wife in Claremont, New
-Hampshire, are preparing to retire when they see a dome-shaped object in
-a field about 230 feet behind their house. It is about 20 feet wide and
-moving slowly 10 feet above the ground, creating shadows on the freshly
-cut hay. The UFO shines a 20-foot wide gray-colored beam of light onto
-the ground. Their children moan and cry out in while they are sleeping
-and their dogs are whining loudly. They hear a high-pitched humming
-sound like a utility pole transformer. A few minutes later the object
-moves 25 feet to the east, the humming growing louder. At one point, a
-projection from the object descends to the ground. Around 4:30 a.m., the
-object goes brighter and slowly moves off toward the west. (Donald E.
-Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 38–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4573
Date: 7/30/1968
-Description: Dome-shaped object hovered low over ground, grayish light
-beam cast sharp shadows. Humming sound, dogs reacted strongly
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Claremont, NH
-ID: 163
Date: 7/31/1968
-Time: 0900
-Description: Luce Fontaine, 31, a farmer, was in a clearing when he
-suddenly saw an oval object, 25 m away, less than 5 m above ground. It
-had a clear center, dark-blue ends, two protrusions on top and bottom,
-and measured 5 m in diameter, 2.5 m in height. In the object stood two
-beings, 90 cm tall, wearing coveralls. A violent flash and a blast of
-hot air were noted as the object vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 96 (Vallee)
-Location: Plaine-des-Cafres, La Reunion Island
-ID: 917
Date: 7/31/1968
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Farmer Luce Fontaine is collecting grass for his
-rabbits at La Plaine des Cafres on the island of Réunion (in the Indian
-Ocean east of Madagascar), when he sees an oval-shaped object about 75
-feet away. It is sitting about 15 feet from the ground on a flange of
-metal; a similar structure protrudes from its top. The cylinder has two
-blue ends and a transparent center through which he can see two
-humanoids less than 3 feet tall in metallic helmets and dressed in puffy
-suits like the Michelin Man (the tire company mascot). Seemingly sensing
-Fontaine looking at them, they turn their backs and the object
-disappears in a sudden flash of light and a burst of hot air. The
-incident is investigated by Capt. Maljean of the local Gendarmerie and
-Capt. Léopold Legros of the Civil Protection Service, who detect an
-abnormal amount of radioactivity at the site and on Fontaine’s clothing
-10 days afterward, as well as six apparent landing marks in the ground.
-A country club called “La Soucoupe Volante” (Flying Saucer) is later
-built on the site. (“Contact
-Casualty on Réunion,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1969): 8, 11; Jean-Claude Bourret, Le Nouveau Défi des
-O.V.N.I., France-Empire, 1976; Antonio Huneeus, “The
-‘Michelin Man’ Encounters on Réunion Island,” Open Minds, July 30,
-2010; Patrick Gross, “Plaine
-des Caffres, La Réunion, July 31, 1968”; La Soucoupe Volante Country
-Club, Facebook
-page)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4574
Date: 8/1968
-Description: The US Air Force Weapons Laboratory begins to set up a
-field instrumentation lab at Con Thien combat base near the
-Demilitarized Zone, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, specifically for the
-purpose of investigating and tracking unidentified aircraft. The first
-project name is HAVE FEAR. At least 500 UFO sensor trackings via
-radar-visual, laser range-finder, video camera, infrared, nightscope,
-and telescope are investigated through April 1969. The UFOs, often seen
-as red lights, usually travel at speeds of 30–80 mph at altitudes of
-1,200–1,600 feet. After several days of tracking, the red blinking
-lights extinguish when under radar surveillance. They are only seen at
-night and only in certain places. In mid-August, Project LETHAL CHASER
-is added, using portable manpack radars. The findings involve 99% UFOs
-and only 1% IFOs, primarily because the system does not include human
-anecdotal accounts. Pacific Air Forces’ unit history clearly states the
-investigation is about UFOs, not enemy helicopters. (Clark III
-1050–1054; Sparks, p. 328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4575
Date: 8/4/1968
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Three witnesses in Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan,
-watch a luminous object, about 25 feet in diameter, as it hovers for
-several minutes. Later it circles above the house 300 feet away. A
-4-foot circle of barren grass is found, although an 18-inch circle in
-the center is undamaged. (Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, Center
-for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4576
Date: 8/7/1968
-Description: 8:10 p.m. As a young man and woman watch from the end of a
-dock at Buff Ledge Camp [now closed] along the shore of Lake Champlain
-north of Burlington, Vermont, a bright light appears in the southwest
-sky and swoops down in a long arc until it stops and assumes a
-horizontal position. It now resembles a white, glowing, cigar-shaped
-object, possibly as far away as the Adirondack Mountains more than 10
-miles from the witnesses. According to the young man, three tiny white
-lights emerge one at a time from the right-end bottom of the UFO. As
-soon as the third is expelled, the object retreats along its original
-path and vanishes seconds later. The three smaller objects perform a
-series of spectacular maneuvers, all the while moving closer. After 5
-minutes the objects assume a horizontal triangle formation, and two head
-off in opposite directions, one to the north, the other to the south,
-making a sound like “thousands of different tuning forks.” The remaining
-object (40–50 feet across) moves toward the witnesses. It ascends and
-vanishes in three seconds, only to reappear moments later as it descends
-along the same trajectory and plunges broadside into the water. A sudden
-wind blows waves across the heretofore placid surface. Animals up and
-down the shore howl and shriek. A few minutes later the UFO surfaces and
-moves toward the witnesses. It stops 60 feet from them, hovering about
-15 feet above the water. The young man can see two figures with large
-heads, oversized oval eyes, and small mouths. Visible to the waist, they
-are short and clothed in skintight gray or silver uniforms. Thus begins
-an abduction experience that was only uncovered through separate
-hypnotic sessions with each of the witnesses by Walter
-N. Webb years later. Webb’s background checks, buttressed by
-psychological analyses, convinces him that there is no question of a
-hoax. (Walter N. Webb, Encounter at Buff Ledge: A UFO Case History
-CUFOS, 1994; Richard F. Haines, [Review], JUFOS 6 (1995/96): 248–251;
-Clark III 220–222; B. J. Booth, “The
-Buff Ledge Abduction,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4578
Date: 8/7/1968
-Description: McDonald addresses
-the Boeing Management Association in Renton, Washington, on “UFO
-Investigations: Past, Present, and Future.” (Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4577
Date: 8/7/1968
-Description: Dual abduction of male and female summer camp staff
-members. Independent recall of event years later
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Buff Ledge, VT
-ID: 164
Date: 8/15/1968
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Dick Skewes is driving west with his wife
-Anne and babysitter Gail Yemm about 20 minutes east of Springhill, Nova
-Scotia, on the Trans-Canada Highway. After driving up a hill, he sees a
-group of 5–6 lights hovering 50 feet above some trees on his left.
-Another light is approaching at high speed to join the others. One of
-the objects breaks away and descends silently over the highway in front
-of them, its yellow lights flashing brilliantly, on an apparent
-collision course. When it is 40–50 feet away it veers upward and
-disappears to the east. Skewes continues down the highway and loses
-sight of the objects when he rounds a bend. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s
-UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 79–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4579
Date: 8/16/1968
-Description: 2:51 a.m. The crew of a Canadian Forces Hercules C-150E are
-flying above Regina, Saskatchewan, when they see a cigar-shaped object
-cross their flight path. It has 6 rectangular patches on its side. It is
-visible with the naked eye for about 90 seconds, then it rapidly shrinks
-and disappears to the southwest very rapidly. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO
-Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4580
Date: 8/16/1968
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A farmer doing barnyard chores at La Serra
-d’Almos, Catalonia, Spain, glimpses a light more than half a mile away.
-He thinks someone’s car has stalled, so he walks over with his dog
-intending to help. But he finds a globe-shaped, glowing object hovering
-3 feet above the ground. On the other side of it, he sees two creatures
-of an octopus-like appearance. Light-colored, 3 feet tall, they are
-running on “four or five legs” toward the UFO, which abruptly takes off.
-Reporters and UFO investigators find a considerable area of burned grass
-at the site. Those who visit the site shortly afterwards find their
-watches stop mysteriously. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A
-Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS,
-1976, pp. 14–15; Clark III 280– 281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4581
Date: 8/17/1968
-Description: 8:21 p.m. Capt. Benjamin Gabrian is flying an Ilyushin
-Il-18 airliner at 22,800 feet in the vicinity of Oradea, Romania, when
-he sees an oval object on his right about a half-mile away and 900 feet
-higher. It is moving at high speed and emitting a bright green light.
-They watch it for 10–15 seconds before it accelerates and disappears to
-the west. (Hobana and Weverbergh 180–182; Romania 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4582
Date: 8/18/1968
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Technician Emil Barnea, his girlfriend Zamfira
-Matea, and two other friends are picnicking in the Hoia Baciu forest
-near Baciu, not far from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, when they see a round,
-metallic, luminous object moving slowly through the sky. Its brilliance
-increases and decreases as it maneuvers around for 2 minutes. Barnea
-succeeds in taking four photos of the object before it suddenly
-accelerates and shoots upwards. (Hobana and Weverbergh 99–107; UFOEv II
-287; Adrian Pătruţ, “Phenomena
-in the Hoia Baciu Wood near Cluj-Napoca,” Flying Saucer Review 53,
-no. 1 (Spring 2008): 10; Chris Hill, “Hoia Baciu: Romania’s Haunted
-Forest,” Fortean Times 382, August 2019, pp. 32–36; Patrick Gross, “Emil
-Barnea’s Photographs, Cluj, Romania, 1968”; Romania 21–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4583
Date: 8/18/1968
-Description: Round silver object flew overhead, reversed direction,
-three photos taken. Object finally shot upward out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cluj, Romania
-ID: 165
Date: 8/21/1968
-Description: 6:58 a.m. The Canadian destroyer HMCS
-Mackenzie is on a mission in the Pacific Ocean about 930 miles off
-the coast of California. Four of the ship’s crew, including Maj. W. J.
-Draper, see a group of starlike lights approaching from the northeast,
-initially only 10° above the horizon. They are flying in a row, and one
-in the middle of the line seems larger and has a white glow around it.
-Within 5 minutes, the procession of 20 objects passes nearly overhead,
-heading west. They maintain a steady course until they are lost to view
-13 minutes later. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, pp. 73–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4584
Date: 8/22/1968
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Capt. Walter Gardin and Capt. Gordon W. Smith are
-flying over Zanthus, Western Australia, at 8,000 feet in a Piper Navajo
-single-engine airplane when they see a large cigar-shaped object
-surrounded by five smaller ones. The formation maintains a constant
-angle from their own flight path for more than 10 minutes, while they
-are flying at 224 mph. The large object then opens up its center and the
-smaller objects fly to and from the larger object. Ground air control
-reports no known air traffic in the area. At this point the radio fails
-at all frequencies until the objects fly away. (“Pilots
-See Formation over Australia,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1969, pp. 1,
-4; Paul B. Norman, “‘Motherships’
-over Australia,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March 1979): 9–10;
-Paul B. Norman, “Countdown
-to Reality,” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 2 (January 1986): 19–20;
-Good Above, pp. 172–173;
-Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “The
-BOAC Labrador Sighting of June 29, 1954: Similar Reports,”
-Caelestia, October 31, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4585
Date: 8/22/1968
-Description: Luminous white UFO emitted six smaller “satellite
-objects”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kalgoorlie, Australia
-ID: 166
Date: 8/25/1968
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Hospital assistant Maria José Cintra of the
-Serafim Ferrreira sanitarium in Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, hears a noise
-like the braking of a car. Cintra readies herself to meet people needing
-medical assistance. She opens a glass door and asks the visitor if she
-is a patient. The visitor, just over 6 feet tall, answers in an unknown
-language. The visitor is wearing a blue satiny cape, matching shoes, and
-a dress with a high collar and long sleeves. She shows Cintra a vessel
-with engraved ornaments, and Cintra fills it with water from a fountain
-and offers her a doughnut. The visitor walks to the door of the
-sanitorium and through some flowerbeds. At this point Cintra notices a
-semicircular “pebble-like” light on the ground and a UFO floating 1–2
-feet above the grass. She feels the force of an invisible rotating
-movement and notices that the visitor is no longer there. The UFO rises
-into the air, making soft sounds like those she heard when the visitor
-arrived. Later, she and the sanitorium manager and his wife find
-high-heeled footprints on the freshly waxed floor near the door. On the
-lawn they discover a spot of scorched grass that persists for 4 months.
-Subsequent investigation reveals a depression in the ground 5–7 inches
-deep, apparently made by a vehicle with a diameter of about 6.5 feet.
-From his bed, another patient has seen the UFO land some 260 feet from
-the fence of the sanitorium and remain there for 15 minutes. (“Mulher Extraterrestre
-Pede Água, em Lins, Est. de São Saulo,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 66/68
-(Jan./June 1969): 72–74; Nigel Rimes, “Another
-Hospital Visited,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969):
-4–6; Gordon Creighton, “Confrontation
-at Lins,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969): 22–23;
-Clark III 684–685; “O Fantástico
-Caso Lins,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; “O
-Fantástico Caso Lins,” Oarquiva; Brazil 99–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4586
Date: 8/26/1968
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Pearl Christiansen is unchaining the driveway to
-her ranch near Gleeson, Colorado, when she notices a round, silver disc.
-She watches it for 5 minutes, then a second object appears, “very shiny
-and gold.” Both are hovering above 7,200-foot high Brown’s Peak. They
-remain for several hours, then just after midnight they back away behind
-the mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Mayfield also see the objects. Daily
-Citizen reporter Cecil James and photographer Dan Tortorell visit the
-apparent site and find erratic burned patches of Dasylirion plants
-(charred at the base but not at the top) and grass. Rocks show evidence
-of high heat and are still hot to the touch two days later. (Cecil
-James, “Gleeson
-UFO Leaves
-Traces,” Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen, October 19, 1968, Olé
-magazine, pp. 10, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4587
Date: 8/27/1968
-Time: early
-Description: Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira
-Sanatorium, was awakened by a noise. At the front door was a
-“foreign-looking” woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes,
-and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown
-language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with
-beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something such
-as “Rempaua,” and went out to a pearlshaped, bright object that took off
-with the sound of wings.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Lins, Brazil
-ID: 918
Date: 8/31/1968
-Time: early
-Description: Three witnesses, among them two Casino employees, stated
-that they observed five dwarfs, with oversized heads, who emerged from a
-landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Le Figaro Sep. 2, 1968 (Vallee)
-Location: Mendoza, Argentina
-ID: 919
Date: 9/1/1968
-Description: 3:42 a.m. Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando José Villegas
-are driving home after getting off work at a casino in Mendoza,
-Argentina. On the Calle Neuquén, their car stops and the lights go out.
-They find themselves unable to move and several humanoid beings standing
-near an enormous landed UFO. They receive telepathic messages from the
-aliens who make marks on the windshield and one side of their car and
-see a screen full of dystopian images. The beings prick their fingers
-and take blood samples before gong back to the UFO. However, the two
-later admit to making up the story. (Charles Bowen, “One
-Day in Mendoza,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1968):
-2–5; Clark III 601)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4588
Date: 9/4/1968
-Description: Two US Air Force pilots flying in the vicinity of Goose Bay
-AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, spot a spherical metallic object
-flying in a southerly direction at 33,000–41,000 feet. It crosses behind
-them, stops, performs two 360° turns and disappears after 5 minutes at
-30° above the horizon. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and
-Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4590
Date: 9/4/1968
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A scoutmaster and 12 River Scouts are having a
-camp-out by bonfire in the mountains near Caracas, Venezuela, when they
-see two intensely glowing red discs, each about the size of the full
-moon, as they rise one at a time from some low hills, hover momentarily,
-and descend again. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969,
-p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4591
Date: 9/4/1968
-Description: Hynek receives
-a letter from Col. Raymond
-S. Sleeper, commander of the Air Force Foreign Technology Division.
-Sleeper notes that Hynek has publicly accused Project Blue Book of
-shoddy science, and further asks Hynek to offer advice on how Blue Book
-could improve its scientific methods. Hynek later declares that
-Sleeper’s letter is “the first time in my 20 year association with the
-air force as scientific consultant that I had been officially asked for
-criticism and advice [regarding] … the UFO problem.” (J. Allen Hynek,
-The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., pp. 189–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4589
Date: 9/5/1968
-Description: Night. Thousands of people in Madrid, Spain, see a bright
-object in the sky, causing a monumental traffic jam. The Spanish Air
-Force scrambles an F-104 jet to intercept it. The pilot climbs to 50,000
-feet but the object is still above him, and he has to return for fuel.
-Air Force radar tracks the UFO moving slowly at 90,000 feet. A photo
-taken through a telescope at the Royal Observatory of Madrid shows a
-triangular object, apparently solid on one side and translucent in some
-sections. The object disappears at great speed. The Madrid Weather
-Bureau says it has no meteorological balloons aloft. (“Triangle-Shaped
-Object over Madrid,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1968, p. 4; Good
-Above, pp. 149–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4592
Date: 9/6/1968
-Description: 9:30 p.m. John Dow and Paul Franklin are driving on
-Springfield Road in Taradale, New Zealand, when they notice 20–30 red
-and green lights flying aimlessly above the city dump. They pull off the
-road to watch, and a “thunderous explosion” rips through the air,
-shaking the car. Immediately, the lights begin to group, take off
-vertically, and disappear. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr.,
-Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4593
Date: 9/10/1968
-Description: Evening. John Dow and Paul Franklin are on the Omarunui
-Road southwest of Taradale, New Zealand. They see a circular object with
-a red and green light that is only a few feet in diameter and glowing
-white. Heading toward the source, they watch as the UFO disappears
-behind a cloud. After crossing a bridge, they see the object again,
-hovering on the opposite side of the river. The object glows intensely
-and speeds toward the automobile from the rear. Panicking, they try to
-jump out of the car, which is traveling at 35 mph, but get tangled up
-and the car veers out of control. Both of them fall out the left door as
-the bright UFO hovers 2 feet above the car roof. The car crashes into
-the store of a fruit dealer on Gloucester Street. A crowd gathers around
-the two young men, still dazed and shocked. Nearly 24 hours later the
-witnesses are treated for “bruises and abrasions” at the Napier Hospital
-outpatient clinic because “their clothes were sticking to them.” Dow is
-charged with reckless driving, but the circumstances convince the court
-to drop the charge and the insurance company pays for the damages.
-(Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 48–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4594
Date: 9/13/1968
-Description: Condon calls
-together Craig, Gillmor, Roach, and
-Rush to
-discuss what the project’s recommendations should be. He writes the
-recommendation section shortly afterwards. (Roy Craig, UFOs: An
-Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of North
-Texas, 1995, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4595
Date: 9/15/1968
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: missionary pilot Jay Cole, flying a Beech C-45
-twin-engined utility plane. One light performed aerobatics for 15
-minutes and then vanished. A second light appeared, heading toward them
-on a collision course, made a 90 degree turn and disappeared. Later,
-ground radar told them a target was following them. Sightings lasted 15
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Ocala, Florida
-ID: 581
Date: 9/15/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Farmers in the area around Carora, Lara,
-Venezuela, have a difficult time controlling their cattle and horses
-when a saucer-shaped object with flickering yellow lights flies over the
-area at high speed and low altitude. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story,
-Signet, 1969, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4596
Date: 9/15/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mathematician Miron Oprea is driving with his
-wife and two nephews northwest of Ploieşti, Romania, when they see a
-cylindrical object emitting a bluish light and descending slowly to the
-west near the Vega oil refinery. (Hobana and Wverbergh 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4597
Date: 9/16/1968
-Description: A car-racing contest at Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela, is
-disrupted when a low-flying disc flies above the grandstands. A
-photographer gets a snapshot that shows a sausage-shaped object about
-12–15 feet above the heads of the crowd on the uppermost tier of
-bleachers. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4598
Date: 9/17/1968
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Two air control tower operators at Nellis Air
-Force Base, Nevada, watch a bright light moving in a way they cannot
-explain. (J. Allen Hynek. The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 44;
-Sparks,
-p. 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4599
Date: 9/18/1968
-Description: Farmer Marius
-Magnan sees three dull metallic, gray, football-shaped UFOs at an
-altitude of 2,500 feet and 2 miles away at Ste. Anne, Manitoba. They are
-traveling northwest to southeast in a vertical orientation at tremendous
-speed. The UFOs are discharging white substance from the upper surface
-just like popcorn. The white substance streams upward from two of the
-objects and downward from the third. After they disappear, a white,
-fibrous substance falls and settles on foliage, buildings, and power
-lines. The University of Manitoba analyzes a sample and finds it to be
-“cellulose-like and unstable,” with a uniform fiber diameter of 5
-microns, and probably rayon coated with a gummy substance. (Brian
-Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006):
-104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4600
Date: 9/18/1968
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Patrolman Arthur H. Byrd sees an object flashing
-red, blue, and yellow lights on Hunter Road in San Marcos, Texas,
-approaching at great speed. He follows it along Interstate 35 toward
-Luling and San Antonio, and at Redwood Road it comes to a stop. It
-slowly fades away by 7:15 a.m. (“UFO
-Said Followed for Hours,”
-Austin (Tex.) American, September 19, 1968, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4601
Date: 9/19/1968
-Description: 3:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m. A lighted white object is seen by many
-witnesses over Cluj-Napoca and other towns in northwestern Romania. Some
-of the sightings are attributable to a balloon, but others seem to be
-moving against the wind and internally lit. (Hobana and Weverbergh
-139–149; Romania 27–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4602
Date: late 9/1968
-Alternate date: late 9/1969
-Description: Night. A teenager is putting hay in a rabbit pen at his
-home in the East Linden neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. He hears a
-clapping noise and sees an entity dressed in a black uniform with a
-silver belt walking in the woods nearby. Its head has an eerie yellow
-glow. Scared, he runs into the house to get his parents, but the entity
-is gone when they go out to look for it. The next morning a neighbor
-stops by to ask if they had seen any lights in a field the night before.
-The families go to the field and find a large oval place where the
-grass, weeds, and bushes have been pressed down. (Irena Scott,
-“Observation of an Alien Figure,” IUR 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1987): 20,
-25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4603
Date: 9/26/1968
-End date: 9/27/1968
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Industrial chemist Henrique Schneider Jr. gets up
-and checks the fire in the kiln next to his house in Vila Baumer in the
-northern part of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He comes across a
-strange object in the pottery yard about 16 feet away. It is a
-cone-shaped device about 13 feet high sitting on a tripod under which a
-bluish light illuminates the ground, and it has a rectangular opening
-through which comes a treadmill. On the treadmill are two squared
-cylinders standing on end, both motionless. Schneider feels paralyzed
-and begins to converse telepathically with the nearest cylinder, which
-answers his questions clearly and briefly about where they come from,
-which is another star system, and they are investigating global warming
-on earth. Soon the treadmill goes back up into the object, the entrance
-closes, and it takes off with a hissing sound. The next day, Schneider
-finds a burned circle of grass just over 2 feet in diameter at the
-landing site. Inside this is a smaller circle of compressed grass and
-three holes where the tripod stood. (Carlos Varassin, “O
-Estranho Caso da Vila Baumer,”
-SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 (September 1973/June 1974): 41–44; “Contato
-Imediato em Joinville,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil
-141–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4604
Date: 9/29/1968
-Description: Night. Amateur astronomer Hermanus
-Voorsluys and ex-police officer Reginald
-Neal take several photographs of a UFO that they have seen for
-several nights above Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt at the southern tip
-of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. One photo shows a large object
-surrounded by four smaller luminous objects that have emerged from it,
-as well as a fifth object that has just appeared. After a zig-zagging
-descent, the smaller objects return to the level of the parent object
-and disappear. (“Mystery
-over Naval Base,” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1969):
-4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4605
Date: 9/30/1968
-Description: Philip
-J. Klass writes a letter to Robert
-A. Frosch, wanting
-to know who has financed James
-E. McDonald’s
-visits to Australia to investigate UFOs and who would fund his upcoming
-trip to Europe and the USSR. In late 1967, McDonald had secured a modest
-grant from the Office of Naval Research in order to study cloud
-formations in Australia. While there, McDonald conducts some UFO
-research on his own time. Klass mounts an extended, concerted campaign
-against McDonald, arguing that he has squandered government funds. The
-ONR responds by announcing that they had known of McDonald’s UFO
-interests and have no objections to his personal hobbies. The University
-of Arizona comes to McDonald’s defense, announcing that his UFO research
-was done on his own time, and has no adverse impact on his regular
-teaching and research duties at the university. (Clark III 700)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4606
Date: 10/1968
-Description: Brazil’s System of Investigation of Unidentified Aircraft,
-created by the Fourth Air Zone Command of the Brazilian Air Force and
-sponsored by Brig. Gen. José Vaz da Silva and coordinated by Maj.
-Gilberto Zani de Mello, goes into operation to investigate UFO
-sightings, especially physical trace cases. The operation lasts until
-the end of 1972. (Wikipedia, “SIOANI”;
-Clark III 1072–1073)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4608
Date: 10/1968 (approximate)
-Description: A 7-page National Security Agency thought piece on UFOs is
-written by an unnamed NSA analyst around this time. It is declassified
-in 1984 with a disclaimer saying that it does not represent NSA policy.
-It discusses various hypotheses for UFOs (hoaxes, hallucinations,
-natural phenomena, secret earth projects, and extraterrestrial
-intelligence) and speculates what each answer would mean for the human
-species, placing credence in the ETH. ([US National Security Agency],
-“U.F.O.
-Hypothesis and Survival Questions,” [October 1968]; Good Above, pp. 423–424)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4607
Date: 10/2/1968
-Description: 6:20 a.m. While oiling his tractor’s engine at the end of
-Avenida da Saudade in Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, Turíbio Pereira sees only
-a few feet away a golden cigar-shaped object hovering one foot above the
-ground. It is about 16 feet long and 10 feet wide. There is a platform
-around it and on the top a transparent dome is open. Inside there are
-four stools and an instrument panel. Pereira sees four beings around it
-wearing blue tunics and red skirts. One is on the platform with a weapon
-in its hand, another is picking up earth samples, the third is looking
-at his tractor’s engine, and the fourth is inside the object at the
-instrument panel. The being with the weapon fires it and a luminous ball
-hits Pereira in the stomach, paralyzing him. The entities go inside, and
-a transparent dome encloses them. The object ascends and shoots off at
-high speed. With difficulty, Pereira climbs off the tractor and stumbles
-to the road where a friend takes him home. Later he is given a medical
-examination by Antônio Geris and summoned to a Brazilian Air Force
-facility where he is questioned and held for three days. (Gordon
-Creighton, “Confrontation
-at Lins,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969): 22–23;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-22, 2006; Brazil 105–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4609
Date: 10/5/1968
-Description: 7:52 p.m. John D. Hickey and his family are driving near
-West Morehead Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. While stopped at a
-traffic light, he sees a black object like a short cigar moving on his
-left, but it stops and hovers above a low building about 500 feet away.
-Suddenly three large gray-white lights shaped like television picture
-tubes turn on, each about 22 inches in diameter. A small black arm-like
-device moves slowly out of one end, extends a few feet, then stops. A
-blue light is at one end. The three large lights begin to blink slowly,
-then rapidly for 25 seconds. The blue light goes out, the arm retracts,
-the large lights blink more slowly until they stop. The lights go out
-and the object moves to the east. (“Nocturnal
-Light Becomes CE-I in Charlotte, NC,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1984): 1, 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4610
Date: 10/7/1968
-Description: Hynek responds
-to Col. Sleeper’s
-request with an extended commentary prefaced by a succinct, eight-point
-critique of everything Project Blue Book has done wrong: the project
-suffers from (1) inadequate execution, (2) inadequate staff, (3) lack of
-open consultation with scientists outside the Air Force, (4) laughable
-statistical methods, (5) too much time spent on routine cases and not
-exceptional cases, (6) inadequate data provided by local Air Force base
-investigators, (7) biased evaluations, and (8) inadequate use of the
-project’s own scientific consultant. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO
-Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 202–206,
-283–305;
-Clark III 925)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4611
Date: 10/9/1968
-Time: 0620
-Description: Doribio Pereira, 41, municipal employee, suddenly observed
-a golden, cigar-shaped object, and a figure armed with a flashing weapon
-that immobilized him. Three beings were standing on a platform under the
-craft, and another figure appeared to be using a keyboard inside the
-transparent top part. The object took off rapidly, leaving the witness
-in a state of shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Lins, Brazil
-ID: 920
Date: 10/18/1968
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses view a conical object that
-appears above Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, traveling from northwest
-to southeast. The UFO at first appears bright blue then changes first to
-a whitish-blue then to red. When it reaches a point just south of
-Sarajevo and northeast of the city of Mostar, the object turns to the
-east. It remains in view from 90 minutes to two hours. Members of the
-Akademski Astronomsko-Astronautiki Klub take photos of the object and,
-six months later, issue a report on their investigation of the incident.
-It estimates that the UFO was flying at an altitude of 16 miles and a
-speed of 20 mph, probably guided by air currents and not self-propelled,
-and most likely was a military reconnaissance balloon. (Hobana and
-Weverbergh 84–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4612
Date: 10/24/1968
-Description: 6:47 p.m. The Romanian oil tanker Argeş is steaming through
-the Mozambique Channel when Third Officer Ştefan Anton and Commander
-Nicolae Ştefanescu see a bright orange-yellow disc half the diameter of
-the Moon moving swiftly and emitting blue-green rays from its center. At
-one point it stops abruptly for a moment andchanges course to the east.
-By sextant they estimate it is 15.5 miles away and 56 feet in diameter.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 250–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4614
Date: 10/24/1968
-Description: 2:15–5:18 a.m. Sixteen military personnel stationed
-throughout the Minuteman ICBM missile complex at Minot AFB, North
-Dakota, report a very large, brightly illuminated aerial object,
-alternating colors from brilliant white to orange-red and green, with
-the ability to hover, accelerate rapidly, and abruptly change direction.
-Ground radar tracks an unidentified target correlated with a visual
-orange glow and radios it (saying, “Someone is seeing flying saucers
-again”) to the attention of the USAF crew of a B-52H Stratofortress
-bomber at 2,000 feet as a UFO target 24 miles to the northwest. It
-shifts to 15 miles at 3:35 a.m. RAPCON alerts the pilots (instructor
-pilot Maj. Bradford
-Runyon and copilot Maj. James
-Partin) to the location of the UFO near Bowbells, North Dakota,
-which the B-52 navigator Capt. Patrick
-D. McCaslin observes on the radarscope maintaining a three-mile
-distance throughout a standard 180° turnaround. Radar navigator Maj.
-Charles Richey captures the tracking on film. As the B-52 starts its
-descent back to Minot AFB, the UFO appears to close distance to one mile
-at a high rate of speed, pacing the aircraft for nearly 20 miles before
-disappearing off the radarscope. Both B-52 UHF radios cannot transmit
-during the close radar encounter with the UFO and when the radarscope
-film is recorded. Shortly afterwards, RAPCON provides vectors for the
-B-52 to overfly a stationary UFO on or near the ground. After turning
-onto the downwind leg of the traffic pattern, the pilots observe a
-large, illuminated UFO ahead of the aircraft for several minutes, before
-turning onto the base leg over the UFO while observing it at close
-range. After the B-52 lands, both outer and inner-zone intrusion alarms
-are activated at the remote missile Launch Facility Oscar-7. The
-duration of the reported observations is over three hours. Other
-witnesses include Capt. Thomas Goduto, S/Sgt
-James
-F. Bond, S/Sgt
-William
-E. Smith, A1C
-Robert
-O’Connor, A1C
-Joseph
-P. Jablonski, and
-A1C Gregory Adams. The chief of the 862nd Combat Support Group, Lt. Col.
-Arthur
-J. Werlich, is designated as Blue Book liaison and he calls the
-report in at 4:30 p.m. after SAC investigations, an analysis of the
-radarscope film, and the B-52 crew debriefing. Werlich provides Blue
-Book with selected data through October 31. On November 13, Blue Book
-chief Lt. Col. Hector
-Quintanilla completes his evaluation and forwards the final report
-to SAC headquarters. It is a single-page letter providing several
-possible explanations for the various reports, along with 11 pages of
-attachments cobbled together in support. He attributes the B-52 radar
-contact and loss of UHF transmission to “a plasma similar to ball
-lightning.” (NICAP, “Minot
-Tracks Object, B-52 Sees and Tracks UFO”;
-Sparks, p. 330;
-Clark III 748–763; Thomas Tulien, “A
-Narrative of Events at Minot Air Force Base,” Sign Oral History
-Project; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 137–139;
-Martin Shough, “Minot
-Air Force Base, Oct 24 1968,” 2006; Nukes 319–323; Thomas E.
-Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (Mar. 2012): 32–33; “The Minot
-AFB B-52 UFO Incident,” Above Top Secret forum, February 24, 2010; “New
-Witness to UFO Incursion at Nuke Missile
-Complex,” The UFO Chronicles, October 17, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4613
Date: 10/31/1968
-Description: The Colorado project delivers its report, Scientific Study
-of Unidentified Flying Objects, to the Air Force. The first two
-sections, conclusions and recommendations, are written by Condon himself.
-He concludes that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be
-justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” It
-is a clear signal to shut down Project Blue Book. Yet 30% of its cases
-are unexplained. Condon says a UFO cover-up is unthinkable because no
-one could keep such a secret for so long. He refutes the claim that the
-CIA has installed an agent within the project. He disapproves of UFO
-“amateurists,” especially NICAP. The project ignored old cases because
-they only offered witness testimony, are probably misidentifications,
-and it makes little sense to reinterview witnesses. But this means
-ignoring the most compelling cases of the past 20+ years. Condon rejects
-the ETH because it is so unlikely that aliens can get here from there.
-This attitude suggests that Condon’s approach is fundamentally
-antiempirical. The report also includes summaries of field studies,
-photographic evidence, direct and indirect physical evidence, optical
-and radar cases, and astronaut sightings. In the field studies section,
-Roy
-Craig concedes that some of the older cases suggest something
-extraordinary (Great Falls, RB-47). William
-K. Hartmann divides photo cases into fabrications,
-misidentifications, poor image quality, and clear images that lack
-sufficient data. Great Falls and McMinnville are the only two that he
-considers unusual. Gordon
-Thayer discusses the predominance of anomalous propagation in radar
-cases. In finding natural explanations, Thayer often disregards witness
-testimony. The rest of the report is mostly padding. (Wikipedia, “Condon
-Committee”; Michael D. Swords, “The University of Colorado UFO
-Project: The ‘Scientific Study of UFOs,’” JUFOS 6 (1995/96): 149–184;
-Swords 329–332)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4615
Date: 10/31/1968
-Description: Colorado UFO Project final report submitted to secretary of
-the Air Force for review by the National Academy of Sciences.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 167
Date: 11/1968
-Description: Two children are playing in the garden of their father’s
-hotel in Southampton, England, when they notice a “speck” come out of
-the clouds. It grows in size and comes closer, moving above the hotel
-roof. The shape is a large flattened disc with black square windows on
-the side. It moves to a point about 10 feet directly above them and
-hovers for 30 seconds, then it speeds up and disappears behind some
-trees. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4616
Date: 11/2/1968
-Description: 3:55 a.m. A partially paralyzed Algerian veteran, Dr. X,
-has suffered an injury to his leg while chopping at a stump on his
-property in a village in the south of France on October 29. He is lying
-in bed when he is awakened by his crying 14-month-old son. He sees two
-luminous objects outside his house. They are coming close together and
-merging about 590 feet away. A vertical beam of light is aimed at him
-for a second as the object tilts, and then the display vanishes with a
-sort of explosion, leaving behind a slowly dissolving cloud. Shortly
-afterwards, the man’s leg heals and his war wound is better. He also
-experiences nightmares, stomach pains, and a red pigmentation appears
-around his navel, forming a triangle. He goes to a dermatologist but
-does not mention the UFO; the doctor is stumped. The man’s son also
-develops a red triangle. In November 1984, a French radio reporter
-records the gradual reappearance of the triangle on X’s abdomen. (Aimé
-Michel, “The Strange
-Case of Dr. X,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, special
-issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 3–16; Aimé Michel, “The
-Strange Case of Dr. ‘X,’ Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1971): 3– 9; Clark III 410–413)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4617
Date: 11/2/1968
-Time: 0355
-Description: During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor was awakened by his
-crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house,
-and observed them coming close together and merging about 180 m away. A
-vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object
-tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly
-dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological
-phenomena were later recorded.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 1 (Vallee)
-Location: France
-ID: 921
Date: 11/6/1968
-Description: Two teenage boys see a disc-shaped UFO about 200 feet in
-diameter discharging angel hair over the Spring Branch West area of
-Houston, Texas. C.
-E. “Gene” Senter investigates and recovers a twig with angel hair
-that he puts in a plastic bag and freezes. A chemist analyzes the
-substance in a petroleum-industry lab but finds out little other than it
-is sticky and fibrous. (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A
-Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4618
Date: 11/15/1968
-Description: The Air Force sends the Colorado report to the National
-Academy of Sciences for review by an 11- member panel, chaired by Yale
-University astronomer Gerald
-Maurice Clemence and charged with an independent assessment of its
-scope, methodology, and findings. (Clark III 1197–1198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4619
Date: 11/20/1968
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Milan and Doris Milakovic and their son are
-driving southwest out of Hanbury, Staffordshire, England, when several
-rabbits run across the road from their left. Suddenly they see a
-brilliant object. They stop the car and watch as it rises from a field
-on their left, silently pass over the car, and move toward a solitary
-house about 300 feet away on the right where it stops and hovers,
-“quivering like jelly.” The air temperature seems to drop. For
-approximately 5 minutes, they see what appear to be several humanoid
-figures walking across the bright top of the UFO, which is as wide as
-the house. Intermittently, some of the figures bend down as though
-looking at something in the part of the object below the rim. Then the
-UFO begins moving up in a pulsating or jerky movement. The intensity of
-its light increases and Milakovic feels like his eyes are burning.
-Thoroughly frightened, Milakovic pushes his wife and son back into the
-car and speeds away from the scene. (W. Daniels and N. M. H. Turner, “The
-Milakovic Report,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969):
-2–3, 24; Patrick Gross, “UFO
-with Humanoid Occupants, Hanbury, England, November 20, 1968”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4620
Date: 11/20/1968
-Time: 1730
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Milakovic were driving to Hednesford when they
-suddenly saw a brilliant object rising from a held to the left and
-hovering above a house. It appeared to “quiver like a jelly.” Several
-figures were seen on the deck of the craft for about five min, then it
-left with a jerky motion.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Hanbury, Great Britain
-ID: 922
Date: 11/22/1968
-Description: Oval object beamed light down on car, electrical system
-failed. After it departed rapidly straight up, electrical system resumed
-functioning
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Albany, GA
-ID: 170
Date: 11/22/1968
-Description: Domed disc descended, flew over shrimp boat. Hovered
-briefly, shone light down on boat, then took off straight up out of
-sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Biloxi, MS
-ID: 169
Date: 11/22/1968
-End date: 11/27/1968
-Description: Flurry of sightings primarily in the southeastern and
-northwestern United States.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 168
Date: 11/22/1968
-Time: 2100
-Description: A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with
-a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting
-flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was
-lost to sight at the horizon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: France-Soir Nov. 24, 1968 (Vallee)
-Location: Fleury-d’Aude, France
-ID: 923
Date: 11/23/1968
-Description: 8:05 p.m. An accountant named Jones is driving his 1967
-Ford Custom along the road between Newton and Albany, Georgia. When he
-rounds a bend he sees a brilliant yellowish-white light about 200 feet
-ahead of him and 50–75 feet above the road. As he approaches, the car
-radio fades into static. Then the object emits a beam of well-defined
-light about 5–6 feet across that illuminates the trees and causes his
-engine and radio to cut out as it passes over his car. The object
-changes color to orange-red and ascends at a high rate of speed,
-disappearing in less than 15 seconds. The car engine starts
-spontaneously afterward. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 189–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4621
Date: 11/23/1968
-Time: 8:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Jones, accountant. One oblong light, 120-150’
-wide. Hovering 75’ above the ground, it emitted a beam that lit the
-ground. Radio gave off static, then car engine stopped. Light flew away
-vertically and car engine restarted itself. Sighting lasted 3-4
-minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Newton, Georgia
-ID: 582
Date: 11/25/1968
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Elaine Pelchy is driving with her 2-year-old son
-and dog on Highway 174 south of Marcellus, New York, when they see an
-object with five red, blinking lights about 100 feet in front of her car
-and heading southeast. The radio gets a lot of static and the English
-setter begins to get nervous, clawing at the window and putting its head
-over its eyes and ears. The boy starts crying, then the car engine
-begins to sputter. The object executes a U-turn and moves to the
-northwest as the lights change to blinking blue and white. Suddenly, the
-UFO stops and changes to a white, dome-shaped object with a “fluorescent
-star” next to it. The larger object merges into the star and disappears.
-Pelchy drops her son off at her mother-in-law’s, then returns on the
-same route. The dog starts to whine again as a light the size of a
-basketball fluctuates in intensity and zigzags across the sky. She goes
-home but returns to the scene with a neighbor and the light is still
-visible and maneuvering. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, pp. 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4622
Date: 11/26/1968
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Three control tower operators (Jack Wilhelm, Jack
-Reeves, and John Fischer) at Bismarck (North Dakota) Airport observe two
-swiftly moving round objects traveling in opposite directions. They
-reverse course and approach each other, hover together, then instantly
-zoom off to the northeast. Air Force radar at Great Falls, Montana,
-picks up “foreign objects” at the same time 85 miles northeast of
-Bismarck. The objects are also seen by Robert Watts, who is flying a
-Cessna 150. (NICAP, “Air
-Force Radar Tracks Objects”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 43–44, 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4623
Date: 11/26/1968
-Description: Four bright, oval objects paced aircraft. Pilot turned
-plane toward them, objects formed vertical stack, shot up and out of
-sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lake Cyprus, FL
-ID: 172
Date: 11/26/1968
-Description: Pilots saw two luminous objects join up, hover about 10
-seconds, then speed out of sight in seconds. Confirmed by Air Force
-radar
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bismarck, ND
-ID: 171
Date: 11/27/1968
-Description: Round object with body lights hovered, shone red light beam
-to ground. When officer shone flashlight at object, it immediately
-blacked out
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Belcourt, ND
-ID: 173
Date: 11/27/1968
-Description: A 41-page paper by George Kocher of the RAND Corporation,
-“UFOs: What to Do?” is produced as an internal document. It notes the
-likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, speculates UFOs may well
-have been around for a long time, looks at some compelling reports, and
-assesses the difficulty of estimating the number of sightings worldwide
-“because of the lack of suitable data collection means.” (George Kocher,
-“UFOs:
-What to Do?”
-RAND Corporation, November 27, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4624
Date: 12/1968
-Description: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
-announces that it has formed a UFO Subcommittee to study the UFO
-phenomenon objectively. Joachim
-P. Kuettner of ESSA Research Laboratories is the chairman; other
-members include Jerald
-M. Bidwell of Martin Marietta, Glenn A. Cato of TRW Systems Group,
-Bernard N. Charles of Aerospace Corporation, Murray Dryer of ESSA
-Research Laboratories, Howard D. Edwards of Georgia Institute of
-Technology, Paul
-MacCready of Meteorology Research, Andrew J. Masley of Douglas
-Missile and Space Systems Division, Robert Rados of NASA Goddard Space
-Flight Center, and Donald M. Swingle of the US Army Electronic Command.
-It announces in Astronautics and Aeronautics that the UFO issue “cannot
-be resolved without further study in a quantitative scientific manner
-and that it deserves the attention of the engineering and scientific
-community.” (“AIAA
-Committee Looks at UFO Problem,” Astronautics and Aeronautics,
-December 1968, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4626
Date: 12/1968
-Description: David
-R. Saunders (along with journalist R. Roger Harkins) explains his
-version of the Colorado project in UFOs? Yes! (David R. Saunders and R.
-Roger Harkins, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong, Signet,
-1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4625
Date: 12/8/1968
-Description: Top-shaped object paced car, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Grey, South Australia
-ID: 174
Date: late 12/1968
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Traumatologist Sebastian José Tarda is on
-vacation in Patagonia and leading a group of secondary school students
-on a motorboat field trip on Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina. Tarda is
-taking photos of the lake shore near Puerto Blest, but does not notice
-anything unusual. When one slide is developed, it shows a blurry white
-object against a mountainous background. An analysis by the Argentine
-UFO group Circulo de Investigación Cientifico Espacial states that the
-image is not caused by a lens flare, damaged emulsion, or a known
-object. Another analysis suggests that the object moved while the
-shutter was depressed. Ground Saucer Watch considers it a lens flare.
-(“UFO
-Appears in Photo over Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 3, no. 1 (February 1982): 1–2; “Dr. Tarda
-1968 Photograph Judged Lens Flare by GSW,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 3, no. 2 (April 1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4628
Date: 12/26/1968
-Description: The Spanish Air Ministry’s press office issues a release
-inviting citizens to report UFO cases to the air force. A few days
-later, Second Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mariano
-Cuadra Medina issues the first regulations in Spain on how to handle
-UFO reports. The information is rated confidential. (Swords 423)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4627
Date: 1969
-Description: Gérard Lebat founds Groupe d’Études des Objets Spatiaux,
-which publishes GEOS International from July 1969 to July 1970, then Les
-Extraterrestres from November 1970 to October 1979, then Hypothèses
-Extraterrestres from January 1980 to July 1981, in Rebais,
-Seine-et-Marne, France. (GEOS
-International, no. 1 (July 1969)); Les Extraterrestres, no.
-9 (Nov./Dec. 1970); Hypothèses
-Extraterrestres, no.
-13 (January 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4630
Date: 1969
-Description: Contactee Ted
-Owens writes How to Contact Space People. Owens, who calls himself
-the “PK Man,” attributes his psychic and precognitive abilities to UFO
-occupants who operated on his brain when he was a child, a modification
-that made him half-human, half-alien. He claims to be in two-way contact
-with saucer intelligences. (Ted Owens, How to Contact the Space People,
-Saucerian, 1969; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 235–236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4632
Date: 1969?
-Description: A retired Colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB with Top Secret
-Clearance states that a 2-man saucer crashed near Whitewater Lake,
-Indiana as a result of an electrical disturbance in the
-atmosphere.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
-Location: Whitewater Lake, Indiana
-See also: 1968
Date: 1969
-Description: Night. During its extended deployment to Vietnam with the
-7th Fleet, the destroyer USS
-Leary is
-navigating fishing waters in the Gulf of Tonkin. Ensign Will
-Miller is alerted by the lookout about a possible light from a
-fishing boat in the water ahead. But the light suddenly moves from above
-the water to below the surface and heads rapidly toward the ship at 45°
-to the bow, passing below the vessel. The sailors run to the starboard
-side to see whether it will emerge, but it does not. Nothing is tracked
-on radar or sonar or by the ECM system. (Good Need, pp. 284–285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4634
Date: 1969
-Description: Spanish ufologist Antonio
-Ribera receives his first Ummo communication, a letter postmarked
-from Paris, Franca. An Ummo cult has begun to form, and books—both
-journalistic accounts and anthologies of Ummo writings—find an avid
-readership. (Clark III 1185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4633
Date: 1969
-Description: The CIA’s Operation Often is initiated by the chief of the
-CIA’s Technical Services Branch, Sidney
-Gottlieb, to
-“explore the world of black magic” and “harness the forces of darkness
-and challenge the concept that the inner reaches of the mind are beyond
-reach.” As part of the operation, Gottlieb and other CIA employees visit
-with and recruit fortune-tellers, palm-readers, clairvoyants,
-astrologers, mediums, psychics, specialists in demonology, witches and
-warlocks, Satanists, and other occult practitioners. (Wikipedia, “Project
-MKOFTEN”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4629
Date: 1969
-Description: In Passport to Magonia, Jacques
-Vallée proposes a radically revisionist argument that UFOs are
-better understood when related to folk traditions about supernatural
-creatures (elementals, fairies, angels, demons) than to astronomers’
-speculations about life in outer space. He says science cannot
-adequately deal with such matters, although he does not specifically
-disavow the scientific method. It is the first book to question the ETH
-and the first to lay the groundwork for the psychosocial hypothesis,
-which sees UFOs as largely the product of unusual mental states and
-perpetuated by social acceptance. He argues that ostensible otherworldly
-manifestations are fantastic images propelled via psychic technology
-from humanity’s future to generate myths and religions that will change
-fate. In time the book leads to a new school of ufology whose advocates
-hold that UFOs and other anomalous experiences are internally generated
-and shaped entirely by cultural processes as opposed to nonhuman
-intelligences. Jerry
-Clark writes that the “genius of Passport, a genuinely brilliant
-work, is its success in placing UFOs into not only cultural but
-experiential context.” (Jacques Vallée, Passport
-to Magonia, Regnery, 1969; Clark III 939–940, 1214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4631
Date: 1/1969
-Description: John Magor begins publishing the quarterly Canadian UFO
-Report in Duncan, British Columbia. It persists through the summer issue
-of 1979. (Canadian
-UFO Report 1, no. 1 (January 1969))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4635
Date: 1/6/1969
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Future president Jimmy
-Carter is preparing to give a speech at a Lions Club meeting at
-Leary, Georgia. One of the guests calls his attention to a strange
-object visible about 30° above the horizon to the west of where he is
-standing. Carter describes the object as being bright white and about as
-bright as the moon. It appears to have closed in on where he is standing
-but stops beyond a stand of pine trees some distance from him. The
-object changes color, first to blue, then to red, then back to white,
-before appearing to recede into the distance. Carter feels that the
-object is self-illuminated and not solid in nature. Carter’s report
-indicates that it is witnessed by about 10–12 other people and is in
-view for 10–12 minutes before it passes out of sight. Skeptic Robert Sheaffer concludes
-that the object is a misidentification of Venus. Ufologist Allan
-Hendry does calculations and agrees with the assessment of the
-object as Venus. A member of the Carter family thinks it might have been
-a barium cloud produced by rockets launched from Eglin AFB near
-Valparaiso, Florida. (Wikipedia, “Jimmy
-Carter UFO
-incident”; Clark III 225; Good Above, pp. 368, 516–517;
-Robert Sheaffer, “President
-Jimmy Carter’s Sighting
-of a UFO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4636
Date: 1/8/1969
-Description: National Academy of Sciences letter by Dr. Frederick Seitz,
-president, to secretary of the Air Force, stating that the NAS review
-panel “unanimously approved” the Colorado University (Condon Committee)
-report.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 175
Date: 1/8/1969
-Description: Science reporter Walter
-Sullivan writes that the soon-to-be-released Colorado project report
-will debunk the extraterrestrial hypothesis and dismiss “demands of some
-scientists and laymen for a large-scale effort to determine the nature
-of such ‘flying saucers.’ Such a project, the report says in effect,
-would be a waste of time and money.” Sullivan dismisses the project’s
-critics as “UFO enthusiasts.” (Walter Sullivan, “U.F.O.
-Finding: No Visits
-from Afar,” New York Times, January 8, 1969, pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4638
Date: 1/8/1969
-Description: The National Academy of Sciences releases its review of the
-Colorado project report, giving its enthusiastic approval. In a letter
-to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alexander
-H. Flax, Frederick
-Seitz expresses the hope that the review would “be helpful to you
-and other responsible officials in determining the nature and scope of
-any research effort in this area.” (National Academy of Sciences, “Review
-of the University of Colorado Report on
-Unidentified Flying Objects by a Panel of the National Academy of
-Sciences,” January 8, 1969; Story, pp.
-244–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4637
Date: 1/9/1969
-Description: University of Colorado “Condon Report” publicly
-released.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 176
Date: 1/9/1969
-Description: The Colorado project report is released to the public in a
-965-page Bantam Books edition. (Edward U. Condon, scientific director,
-Scientific
-Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Bantam, 1969; [HTML
-version])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4639
Date: 1/11/1969
-Description: Press conference at National Press Club. Donald Keyhoe,
-NICAP director, Richard Hall, N1CAP assistant director, Dr. James E.
-McDonald, and Dr. David R. Saunders disputing conclusions of the Condon
-Report.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington US
-ID: 177
Date: 1/11/1969
-Description: Keyhoe, Saunders, and
-McDonald hold
-a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to
-criticize the Condon report. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet
-ed., 1976, pp. 216–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4640
Date: 1/17/1969
-Time: 3:24 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Roman Lupton, test facility mechanic. Several
-amber lights–one of them blinking–in an elliptical formation, flew
-forward slowly while moving up and down, then turned and disappeared
-after 2 minutes. Made a humming sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook
-Unknowns PDF
-Location: Crittenden, Virginia
-ID: 583
Date: 1/20/1969
-End date: 8/9/1974
-Description: President Richard Nixon in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: (Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)
Date: 1/21/1969
-Description: The Lucens reactor in Vaud, Switzerland, suffers a
-loss-of-control accident that leads to a partial core meltdown and
-massive radioactive contamination of its cavern, which is sealed.
-(Wikipedia, “Lucens
-reactor”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4641
Date: 1/22/1969
-Description: Elements of the Ninth Marine Division go more than a mile
-into Laos to protect the flanks of a major combat operation. The New
-York Times reveals the operation on February 12. Though American combat
-involvement in Laos is not officially acknowledged until 1969, the US is
-known to have organized, trained, and equipped a clandestine army of
-Laotian irregulars since the early 1950s, under the direction of the
-CIA. (Seymour M. Hersh, “Secret
-1969 Foray into Laos Reported,” New York Times, August 12, 1973,
-p. 1, 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4642
Date: 1/25/1969
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A young couple is driving near Plattville,
-Illinois. The woman sees a bright object like an ice- cream cone low in
-the sky ahead, traveling big end first. They get within a quarter mile
-and the object turns point up and only 30 feet off the ground. Security
-lights on a nearby farmhouse go off. The object spins and flashes, and
-the car engine and lights go off. The front end of the car lifts 3 feet
-off the ground. The UFO moves away and the car drops and regains its
-power. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no.
-4 (March 2008): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4643
Date: 1/31/1969
-Description: After a series of UFO sightings and radar trackings
-beginning in October 1968, the US Air Force and Army set up another UFO
-observation network in the West Central Highlands near Pleiku, Vietnam,
-using pulse acquisition radar, continual wave acquisition radar, and
-illumination radar. The system picks up 365 unidentified tracks through
-April. (Clark III 1052–1054)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4644
Date: 2/1969
-Description: 2d Lt. Carmon L. Morano replaces Lt. Col. Hector
-Quintanilla as head of the moribund Project Blue Book. (Sparks, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4645
Date: 2/1/1969
-Description: Roscoe Drummond, syndicated columnist, in Christian Science
-Monitor (response to University of Colorado report): “I find it hard to
-escape the conclusion that there are too many unexplained and presently
-unexplainable unidentified flying objects from too many credible and
-responsible witnesses to banish the subject from public concern.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 178
Date: 2/7/1969
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Tiago Machado, 19, wakes up at his home in
-Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil, and hears a neighbor shouting about a
-silvery-blue object landed on a hill on the grounds of the Zootecníca.
-He watches it for a time, then goes in to get binoculars. He goes off to
-the hill and approaches the object until he is about 33 feet away. It is
-a disc made of silvery metal with a dome on top. It is about 13 feet in
-diameter and stands on three legs. A door opens and two men come
-floating down to the ground. Machado can see two other beings inside.
-The men walk toward him, making signs. They are wearing silver diver’s
-suits, have black teeth and thin-lipped mouths, and one eye is lower
-than the other. Each has a kind of burn or cicatrice on each cheek.
-Machado is nervous, so he lights a cigarette. The beings apparently
-think this is funny, so he tosses the cigarette pack toward them. One of
-them leans sideways and stretches out his hand. The pack floats 8 inches
-up to his hand and disappears. Suddenly one of Machado’s friends calls
-out to him, and the beings walk back to the UFO, still facing him, and
-jump up to the door. The last one in pauses and pulls out a kind of
-weapon, points it at Machado, and a flame like a welding arc comes out
-of the barrel and floats toward him, hitting him in the thigh. He feels
-faint and paralyzed as the UFO takes off. His friends carry him to a
-neighbor’s house and find a red swelling on his leg. Later,
-investigators find three imprints in an equilateral triangle at the
-site, each about 5 inches in diameter. Soil samples taken show no
-radioactivity. (Nigel Rimes, “The
-Pirassununga Landing,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients,
-special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 39–45; Brazil 109–114;
-“Caso
-Tiago Machado,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4646
Date: 2/12/1969
-Description: McDonald presents
-“A Dissenting View of the Condon Report” to the DuPont Chapter of the
-Scientific Research Society of America in Wilmington, Delaware. (James
-E. McDonald, “A Dissenting View of the Condon Report,” February 12,
-1969; Patrick Gross, “Scientists
-Take Position”; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4647
Date: 2/13/1969
-Description: McDonald speaks
-on “UFOs: A Challenge to Observation” at the American Meteorological
-Society in Washington, D.C. (James E. McDonald, “UFOs:
-A Challenge to Observation,” February 13, 1969; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4648
Date: 2/18/1969
-Description: Morning. Barbara Smyth, a teacher in a small town in
-Alberta, is driving to school when she sees on her right a “gigantic,
-bright pinky-red coloured” object “about seven times the size of a steel
-granary of 14ft. diameter.” It looks like two rounded layers divided by
-a thin blue line. There are two flashing white lights on the top and a
-tent-like structure that pulsates and changes color from silver to fiery
-yellow. The UFO starts spinning counterclockwise and jumps over to the
-next hill. Suddenly, her car is no longer under her control as it floats
-down a very bumpy road. After three minutes the UFO disappears, and the
-car returns to normal. (W. K. Allan, “A
-UFO and the Car Which ‘Floated Along,’” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 6 (August 1971): 8, iii; Clark III 250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4649
Date: 2/19/1969
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Two telephone linemen are working atop a pole
-near Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Quebec, when the see a gray, metallic cylinder
-with four fins at its end moving slowly west to east over the trees and
-about 150 feet above the ground. The object is 100 feet long and only 15
-feet in diameter. The men watch it for a few minutes as it glides slowly
-out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4650
Date: 2/21/1969
-Description: Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 3/1969
-Description: Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information
-representative Maj. David
-J. Shea attends a meeting in the Pentagon in which “there was no
-doubt that Project Blue Book was finished.” (Clark III 926)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4651
Date: 3/3/1969
-Description: Hynek submits
-a UFO research proposal to Col. George
-R. Weinbrenner, FTD
-Commander, in which he reveals that out of the approximately 10,000
-reports in the Project Blue Book files, he estimates that 1,000–3,000
-(10%–30%) are “interesting” unexplained cases (“unknowns”). (J. Allen
-Hynek, “Preliminary
-Proposal for Subject
-Investigation,” March 3 and 19, 1969)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4653
Date: 3/3/1969
-Description: The US Navy establishes its Fighter Weapons School (Top
-Gun) to teach fighter and strike tactics to selected aviators and
-officers at Naval Air Station Miramar [now Marine Corps Air Station
-Miramar] in San Diego, California. Its focus is on combat training
-against MiG fighters, now that MiG testing at Groom Lake, Nevada, has
-been successful. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4652
Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: Object emitting blinding light beam paced ahead of vehicle,
-heat felt. Light beam associated with E-M effects. Object rose and fell,
-veered off, flew out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Atlanta, MO
-ID: 179
Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: 10:00 p.m. RCMP Constable R. J. Shannahan is on foot patrol
-near 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister’s residence in Ottawa, Ontario.
-He looks up and sees two bright flashing red lights above and slightly
-inside the gates to Rideau Hall. One light moves east and is lost to
-view in one minute, while the other moves west and is visible for 5–6
-minutes. No jets are scrambled, and there is no indication that radar
-installations are asked about unidentified targets. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 75–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4655
Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: 6:40 a.m. William
-Overstreet, 50, is driving his truck on Missouri J between Elmer and
-Atlanta, Missouri, when he sees a bright reddish-orange light about 100
-feet in diameter and floating along at 40 mph. It begins to follow the
-road and beams a strong, cone-shaped white light on to the road from a
-height of 50 feet. Overstreet can feel the heat. The object changes from
-red to a blue sphere surrounded by a red ring. He attempts to drive
-through the beam, but his motor and radio die when he gets to within 6
-feet. The beam moves away a bit, he tries again, and the same thing
-happens. The UFO moves about a mile away, turns back to red, switches
-off the beam, and cruises away. (NICAP, “100ʹ
-Object Affects Radio and Truck Engine”; “E-M
-Effect on Truck in Missouri,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1969, p.4;
-Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March
-2008): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4654
Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: Near Atlanta, Missouri: The City Marshall and Mail Carrier
-in Elmer, Missouri, William R. Overstreet observed an UFO at early dawn
-over the road ahead of him. It was about 100 ft. in diam. apparently
-rotating clockwise and emitting a strong white beam of light down to the
-road which seemed to magnify the size of theroad it was shining on. He
-felt intense heat from the direction of the UFO and his CB radio was
-dead. As heneared the light beam from the UFO his truck motor and radio
-quit. As the beam moved away from his truck he was able to start the
-engine again. He followed the UFO for about 4 mi. staying away from the
-beam. The UFO followed the contour of the land it was flying over. After
-7–8 min. the UFO veered away and went out of sight. “I had never
-believed in them too much until I saw this,” he said. “Now I know that
-there is something to these UFOs!”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p265)
-See also: 8/13/75
-See also: 6/66
Date: 3/6/1969
-Description: Light beam shone on road ahead of car, dog reacted. Witness
-drove beneath domed disc, car motion slowed. Eye irritation
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lancaster, MO
-ID: 180
Date: 3/6/1969
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A woman is driving with her St. Bernard dog
-between Glenwood and Lancaster, Missouri. The dog becomes agitated and
-she sees a bright blue-white beam of light illuminating the road and a
-domed disc 1,000 feet in the air. The dog jumps into the front seat and
-become quite panicked. She tries to drive through the beam, but the car
-slows from 50 mph to 8 mph but manages to get to the other side when the
-car picks up speed. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 32; Ted Phillips, “UFO
-Events in
-Missouri, 1857–1971,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 8
-(December 1971): 11; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,”
-IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4656
Date: 3/10/1969
-Description: Disc with dome passed overhead, stopped, emitted light beam
-onto road, illuminating police chief’s car. Finally ascended, flew away
-to south
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Westhope, ND
-ID: 181
Date: 3/14/1969
-Description: Flight surgeon, crew of KC-135, observed huge black
-cylinder hovering, inclined in vertical position. Fighter aircraft sent
-to investigate, object disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Thailand
-ID: 182
Date: 3/17/1969
-Description: Two pilots are flying a Cessna 150 between Phoenix and Lake
-Havasu, Arizona, when the pilot in the right seat rises up and sees
-maybe 2 dozen oval, white discs on the left side of the plane, flying
-very low and in a rough formation. Each has the hint of a blister near
-the front. The speed is 200–300 mph, and the only maneuver they make is
-pitch and roll, all done simultaneously, in unison. For 20 seconds, both
-pilots watch the objects pass below their aircraft and beyond. (Michael
-D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4657
Date: 3/18/1969
-Description: The US begins a covert SAC bombing campaign, Operation
-Menu, in eastern Cambodia that lasts until May 26, 1970. An official
-USAF record of US bombing activity over Indochina from 1964 to 1973 is
-declassified by President Bill
-Clinton in 2000. The report gives details of the extent of the
-bombing of Cambodia, as well as of Laos and Vietnam. The Menu bombings
-are an escalation of what has previously been tactical air attacks.
-Operation Freedom Deal immediately follows Operation Menu. Under Freedom
-Deal, B-52 bombing is expanded to a much larger area of Cambodia and
-continued until August 1973. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Menu”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4658
Date: 3/28/1969
-Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 4/1969
-Description: “The Condon Report and UFOs” by Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
-Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, called the report: “a strange sort of
-scientific paper [that] does not fulfill the promise of its title. . .
-[It] leaves the same strange, inexplicable residue Of unknowns which has
-plagued the U.S. Air Force investigation for 20 years.”
-Type: report
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 183
Date: 4/1969
-Description: Hynek writes
-a review of the Condon report
-for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, calling it a “strange sort of
-scientific paper [that] does not fulfill the promise of its title…. [It]
-leaves the same strange, inexplicable residue of unknowns which has
-plagued the U.S. Air Force investigation for 20 years.” (J. Allen Hynek,
-“The
-Condon Report
-and UFOs,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 25 (April 1969):
-39–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4659
Date: 4/3/1969
-Description: 7:38 P.M. Bright fireball meteor traveling south-southeast
-to north-northwest, leaving long trail, sparks.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Southern UK
-ID: 184
Date: 4/12/1969
-Description: During a Fouga Magister aircraft training mission at Pori
-Airport, Finland, a Finnish Defence Forces flight controller tells
-pilot-in-training Tarmo
-Tukeva to investigate seven air balloons that are floating at
-approximately 5,000–9,800 feet above the airport. Tukeva reports that
-the objects are ball or disc-shaped but cannot determine how far away
-they are. Tukeva sees the objects accelerate away from him “at great
-speed.” Indeterminate radar images are also later reported 125 miles
-away in Vaasa. A second pilot-in-training, Jouko Kuronen, overhears the
-radio communications between the flight controller and Tukeva and sees
-the UFOs as well. According to the Finnish Armed Forces magazine
-Ruotuväki, the reports are similar to other cases occurring over bodies
-of water during ongoing military exercises and may have been due to
-“transnational spy planes or aircraft.” (Wikipedia, “Finnish
-Air Force UFO sighting”; “1969:
-Pilots Report 7 Yellow Spheres at Pori Airport, Finland,” UFO
-Casebook, August 13, 2013; “Ruotuväki:
-Ilmavoimien lentäjät tekivät merkittävän ufo-havainnon 60-luvulla,”
-Ilta-Sanomat, May 8, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4660
Date: 4/17/1969
-Description: Morning. T. J. Hefferman of Bungawalban, New South Wales,
-wakes up and notices that his dogs are “strangely subdued.” Outside, he
-finds a flattened area in a sacaline (Reynoutria sachalinensis) forage
-crop on his property. A roughly circular area is flattened in four
-distinct patches, the largest 60 by 15 feet. All the stalks lie in one
-direction, north to south. The previous night, two men working night
-shift on a flood mitigation dredge a quarter mile north of the farm had
-seen a glow in the sky, and a neighboring farmer had seen two “toplike
-objects” moving about for a number of nights. G. Testa, an independent
-investigator from Lismore, visits the site on April 20 and takes 25 feet
-of 8mm color film to document the damage. (Bill Chalker, “1969:
-The Great UFO Daze
-of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020; Clark III 1138–1139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4661
Date: 4/19/1969
-Description: Evening. Two witnesses 5 miles east of Hill City, Kansas,
-watch a multi-colored object approach to within 100 feet of their car.
-The car engine fails. The object hovers at 75 feet above the ground for
-3 minutes, then slowly moves away. The car then restarts without
-trouble. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1982, p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4662
Date: 4/20/1969
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman out walking at Harwood Island, New South
-Wales, sees and hears a large patch of 2-year- old cane rustling and
-waving on a still night. A powerful beam of light switches on across the
-top of the cane path, and it slowly turns in a half circle before going
-out and being replaced by a “low beam” and “cabin lights.” A UFO is
-above the cane and she feels a powerful force lifting her up and pulling
-her toward the object when the “high beam” is on. The helmet-shaped
-object is 20–28 feet long and 22 feet wide. At its closest the UFO is
-40–50 feet away. It disappears suddenly. (Bill Chalker, “1969:
-The Great UFO Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020; Clark
-III 1139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4663
Date: 4/22/1969
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving in heavy rain near
-Hammond, Ontario, when they see an object like a huge “drinking cup
-turned upside down.” It has two bright lights directed horizontally and
-appears to have a row of portholes with pink light coming from within.
-They estimate it is 5 feet off the ground, 20 feet long, and 200 feet
-away. They can hear a whining noise like a generator. After 15 minutes,
-the object turns and zooms over some nearby power lines, over the trees,
-and out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4664
Date: 4/23/1969
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Virginia A. Guinn and a boarder are awakened by
-loud howlings and yowlings from the dogs and cats at her farm in Silver
-Spring, Maryland. Going outside, the witnesses see a round UFO “as large
-as two rooms” that is a bluish-white color like the glow around a
-welder’s arc. The object is moving beyond the barn to the
-north-northeast. They heard a humming noise and the object blinks out
-and the animals quiet down. Guinn discovers later that morning that the
-horses in the barn had broken free of their stalls and knocked harnesses
-off the walls. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4665
Date: 4/25/1969
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman and her 11-year-old daughter are
-travelling by taxi past Roberts Park in Greenacre, New South Wales, when
-they spot a “Japanese lantern” above some trees. One minute later, as
-the taxi turns a corner, they see it again, 100–130 feet away,
-apparently in the same spot. The driver stops the taxi, and they can see
-what looks like a metallic craft, approximately 33 feet in diameter,
-with the appearance of “two soup bowls joined rim- to-rim.” There is a
-steady red light on top. The object seems to be noiselessly rocking
-backwards and forwards, at a frequency of 1–2 rocks per second. A
-“depressing blue glow” can be seen through a window that takes up most
-of the upper part. A humanoid figure is apparently operating controls
-near the window. Another figure is pointing at the witnesses. A third
-seems to be walking toward a back door. All three are apparently
-human-sized and are either wearing tight black clothing, are black
-skinned, or seen in silhouette. After 15 seconds or less, the driver
-speeds off down the road, drops the couple off, and drives off quickly
-without taking their fare. At 8:00 p.m., the woman and her daughter
-return to the park. The UFO is not to be seen. (Bill Chalker, “1969:
-The Great UFO Daze
-of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4666
Date: 4/26/1969
-Description: Condon speaks
-publicly for the first time after the end of the Colorado project in an
-address to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia,
-Pennsylvania, on “UFOs I Have Loved and Lost.” He concludes by saying,
-“Let me say that where corruption of children’s minds is at stake, I do
-not believe in freedom of the press or freedom of speech. In my view,
-publishers who publish or teachers who teach any of the pseudosciences
-as established truth should, on being found guilty, be publicly
-horsewhipped, and forever banned from further activity in these usually
-honorable professions.” (Henry W. Pierce, “Professors
-Threaten Own Free Speech,” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, May 10,
-1969, p. 21; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet eds., 1976, p. 224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4667
Date: 5/1969
-Description: Rod B. Dyke launches the monthly UFO Newsclipping Service
-in Seattle, Washington, which soon becomes a primary source for media
-reports on UFOs and related phenomena. The service is largely run by Lucius
-Farish as co-editor in Plumerville, Arkansas, beginning in July
-1977. Farish publishes it on his own from January 1991 until November
-2007, when Dyke reacquires it and keeps it going again with co-editor
-Chuck Flood until December 2008. The final editor is David
-Marler, who
-runs the service from January 2009 to August 2011, when it ceases
-publication. (UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 1 (May 1969))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4668
Date: 5/1969
-Description: John
-A. Keel begins publishing an unscheduled, free newsletter titled
-Anomaly in New York City. It continues until April 1974. (Anomaly, no.
-1 (May 1969))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4669
Date: 5/1/1969
-Description: 5:30 p.m. An illuminated triangular object moves
-soundlessly from south to north over Negru Vodă, Romania. After 20
-minutes of hanging motionless it disappears swiftly to the east. (Hobana
-and Weverbergh 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4670
Date: 5/4/1969
-End date: 5/9/1969
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A 24-year-old Brazilian soldier named José
-Antônio da Silva is fishing by himself at Bebedouro (apparently a small
-lagoon in the Área de Proteção Ambiental do Carste de Lagoa Santa) near
-Matozinhos, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he begins dozing off. He
-perceives figures moving around him, and he feels himself shot with
-something that paralyzes his legs. Two small humanoid beings, joined by
-a third, drag him off into a strange machine shaped like two saucers
-joined together by a thick, vertical cylinder. The machine lifts off,
-and after a long interval it lands. Da Silva is carried by his armpits
-into a large quadrangular room, where he finds himself with his original
-three captors and a fourth being—also humanoid, with red hair and a
-beard that comes down to his waist—who seems to be their leader. He
-remembers afterward that all four have mouths that look like fishes’
-mouths. The room is made of stone. Inside, on a low shelf seemingly
-fashioned out of stone, da Silva sees the bodies of four human men lying
-stretched out side by side. Naked, rigid, and positioned on their backs,
-the bodies bear no visible wounds, but it is obvious that they are dead.
-One is a well-built black man and another has light brown skin. Two
-others, more slightly built, are Caucasian, one of them very blond “like
-a foreigner.” The beings do not speak any Portuguese but, using
-pictures, the leader manages to convey to da Silva that they want him to
-be their guide and weapons provider for what he supposes is a subsequent
-invasion of Earth. He refuses, fingering his crucifix, which the angry
-leader rips from his hand. Out of nowhere, da Silva sees appear in front
-of him a human figure who stands motionless, gazing at him in a friendly
-fashion. The figure, about five and a half feet tall, is Caucasian,
-slender, bearded with long fair hair, and dressed in a friar’s cassock.
-Amazingly, the little men seem oblivious to his presence. Speaking in
-Portuguese, the figure gives da Silva certain “revelations” that he
-afterward insists on keeping secret. He apparently knows who the figure
-is but he does not reveal that either, saying only that he wasn’t Jesus.
-The figure vanishes, and the beings who have abducted him start
-quarreling among themselves. They carry da Silva back to their machine;
-there follows another flight, another landing. Da Silva awakens in the
-dawn of what turns out to be May 9, four and a half days after his
-abduction, some 300 miles to the east of the place where he had been
-abducted. He supposedly bears the physical marks of his ordeal— wounds
-on his neck, lameness in one leg—for days afterward. (Húlvio Brant
-Aleixo, “O
-Caso ‘Bebedouro,’” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 (Sept. 1973/June 1974):
-7–22; Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “Abduction
-at Bebedouro,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1973):
-6–14; Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “Bebedouro
-II: The Little Men Return
-for the Soldier,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 (November 1975):
-32–35; Walter Buhler, “Thoughts
-on the
-Bebedouro Case,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 (November 1975):
-36–38; “O
-Caso de Bebedouro,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; David Halperin,
-“Jerome
-Clark and Loren Coleman: ‘Descent into Hell’ and the
-Bebedouro Abduction,” davidhalperin.net, July 27, 2018; Clark III
-185–189; Brazil 116–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4671
Date: 5/11/1969
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Near the village of Chapeau, Quebec, on
-L’Isle-aux-Allumettes in the Ottawa River, farmer Leo Paul Chaput is
-awakened by his dog barking. He looks out the window and sees a
-brilliant light close to the ground. The light source seems to be a
-domed craft with a flat bottom (like a World War I helmet) about 500
-feet away. He looks away briefly, and the object is gone, although he
-can hear the diminishing sound of a motor. When Chaput gets up in the
-morning, he finds a large circular indentation in the ground, 600 feet
-from his house. The impression is 32 feet in diameter and is surrounded
-by a ring of scorched grass 2.5 feet wide. Inside, the vegetation is not
-damaged, but there are three holes that form a perfect equilateral
-triangle, 15 feet on a side. The holes are 8 inches in diameter and 3
-inches deep. He finds a second, slightly smaller circle to the
-southwest, again with scorched grass and 3 indentations. A third ground
-marking, a semicircle, is near the second. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon
-I. R. Lore Jr., Strange
-Effects from UFOs, NICAP,
-1969, p. 45; Brian C. Cannon, “UFO Alert
-in Ontario,” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1969): 19–21;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 153–154;
-Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn
-Press, 2006, pp. 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4672
Date: 5/12/1969
-Description: The DARPA Pandora Project committee discusses plans to move
-forward with eight human subjects who will be exposed to microwaves
-similar to the Moscow Signal and then given a full battery of medical
-and psychological tests. The committee recommends “gonadal protection be
-provided” to the male test subjects; however, human testing is not
-pursued. The program is shut down later in 1969, with an effect of the
-signal on behavior and/or biological functions deemed “too subtle or
-insignificant to be evident.” (Wikipedia, “Moscow Signal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4673
Date: 5/18/1969
-End date: 5/20/1969
-Description: Evening. A localized power blackout cuts off electricity at
-the Lester Kaiser farm near Rising Sun, Indiana, for 2 hours. The next
-night, George Kaiser watches a hairy, muscular, bipedal creature that
-flees upon being seen. It leaves tracks showing three toes and a big
-toe. On May 20, a neighbor sees a glowing, greenish-white UFO as it
-hovers for several minutes. (John Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and
-Space, 1970, pp. 94–95; Clark III 556; Patrick Gross, URECAT, May
-29, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4674
Date: 5/22/1969
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Graham Longey sees a large, brilliant, circular
-white object hovering a few feet off the ground at Glenorchy, Tasmania.
-Windows encircle its midsection. It begins to move rapidly upward, and
-by the time he dashes out of his house it is gone. On the site, Longey
-finds an elliptical area of burned grass 18 feet by 12 feet. A small
-tree nearby is scorched and has limbs broken. He notices an oily smell.
-(Clark III 1139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4675
Date: 5/23/1969
-Description: 6:35 p.m. A 13-year-old boy in Cloverdale, Western
-Australia, notices a moving light to the south and about 10° above the
-horizon. He calls his mother, who sees a steady red light on top of a
-more diffuse blue-white light darting haphazardly in a zigzag pattern
-but in general moving to the north until it disappears behind their
-house. The witnesses shift their position and can still see the light
-hovering in the northwest. The light is now seen as circular with hazy
-edges and about half the diameter of the full moon. At about 7:00 p.m.
-it moves at high speed to the north. The mother calls the radar station
-at Kalamunda, which simultaneously gets a request from Perth Airport to
-check out an unidentified echo on their meteorological radar. The
-Kalamunda operator sees a large echo some 9 miles away, which reappears
-for short durations on 5 further occasions and is last seen at 7:42 p.m.
-(Swords 397–398; Bill Chalker, “1969:
-The Great UFO Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4676
Date: 5/28/1969
-Description: McDonald presents
-a talk that is critical of the Colorado project at the Sacramento,
-California, section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
-Astronautics. (James E. McDonald, “A Very Creditable Effort?” May 28,
-1969; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4677
Date: 5/31/1969
-Description: The Midwest UFO Network (later Mutual UFO Network) is
-founded in Quincy, Illinois, by Walter
-H. Andrus Jr., who
-leaves APRO and takes many of its members with him. It is conceived as a
-grassroots organization with state and local leaders overseeing
-activities and investigations. Allen R. Utke, associate professor of
-chemistry at Wisconsin State University, is selected as the first MUFON
-Director (Clark III 784)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4678
Date: 6/1969
-Description: Although President Richard
-Nixon does not trust J.
-Edgar Hoover, he
-accepts the FBI’s help through an “intelligence letter” program,
-codenamed INLET. This program is not only intended to provide the
-president with domestic and international security issues, but also,
-“items with an unusual twist or concerning prominent personalities which
-may be of special interest to the President.” Nixon orders seven
-wiretaps on his staffers. (John Greenewald, “INLET
-(Intelligence Letters) Reports, 1960s and 1970s,” The Black Vault,
-May 7, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4679
Date: 6/10/1969
-Description: McDonald gives
-a public talk sponsored by NICAP in Washington, D.C., on “UFOs Unsolved:
-A Scientific Challenge.” (James E. McDonald, “UFOs:
-Unsolved: A Scientific Challenge,” June 10, 1969; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4680
Date: 6/11/1969
-Description: McDonald meets
-privately with representatives on the Air Force Office of Scientific
-Research in Arlington, Virginia, urging a new look at the UFO problem.
-(Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4681
Date: 6/17/1969
-Description: Turkish Air Force pilot Süleyman Tekyildirim is ordered to
-intercept a UFO above his base in Turkey in a US- built F-5A Freedom
-Fighter. He flies above it, thinking it is a meteorological balloon
-because it looks gray and like an upside-down light bulb. However, it
-moves to his left and takes off at fantastic speed. He tries to reach
-it, but it eludes him and speeds away. (Good Need, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4683
Date: 6/17/1969
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Kaneto and Kioko Nobutoshi witness a “brilliantly
-illuminated window” hovering in the air in Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil. It
-appears to be 30 feet in diameter, 10 feet high, and illuminates a small
-part of the ground. The sighting lasts 45 minutes, with the object
-stationary all the time. It then vanishes. Later examination of the
-ground underneath reveals a circle of flattened grass, 25 feet in
-diameter, swirled counterclockwise, with some small secondary swirls.
-(Hans Bemelmans, “Reports
-from Ibiuna,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1970):
-15–19; Terry Wilson, “1969:
-Ibiuna,” Old Crop Circles)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4682
Date: 6/19/1969
-Description: 12:25 a.m. Radio/TV engineer Robin Peck is driving a van
-just north of Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England, when his headlights and
-motor fail. He looks under the hood, feels some “static electricity,”
-and his hair stands on end. He looks up and sees a bluish,
-upside-down-mushroom-shaped object hovering 100–150 feet over the trees
-on a nearby farm. It has an orange glow around it. Peck feels that the
-air is electrified. His luminous wristwatch glows intensely and
-unnaturally. After about one minute the object takes off and disappears
-rapidly. The van’s electrical system returns to normal. (Peter Johnson,
-“Auto-Stop
-near Docking,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 (June
-1971): 1–2; UFOFiles2, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4684
Date: 6/19/1969
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Arthur Hendry, 17, is getting ready to cycle
-home near Docking, Norfolk, England, when he hears a strange whistling
-noise above him that intensifies and becomes a powerful throbbing. His
-muscles feel frozen or paralyzed as if he is receiving a severe electric
-shock. After a few seconds the noise stops, and he feels normal again.
-(UFOFiles2, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4685
Date: 6/19/1969
-Description: E-M effects on car, static electricity. Bluish object
-shaped like inverted mushroom hovered overhead. Took off at high
-speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Docking/Bircham Newton, UK
-ID: 185
Date: 6/26/1969
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Sr. Benedito, a justice of the peace, is walking
-along a trail about 4 miles northwest of Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil, when
-he hears a humming noise like a swarm of bees. He sees an odd object
-rocking from side to side that suddenly drops into the brush out of
-sight. Thinking it is an accident, he approaches to within 20 feet and
-sees the landed object, which then ascends, hovers a moment, and takes
-off in a gentle climb. He hears the humming sound again and feels a
-blast of air as it moves away. The Brazilian Air Force investigates the
-landing, and UFO investigator Hans Bemelmans finds some scorched grass
-in the thickly tangled brush. (Hans Bemelmans, “Reports
-from Ibiuna,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1970):
-15–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4686
Date: 7/1969
-Alternate date: 8/1969
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A US Marine private named Earl
-Morrison is on guard duty with other soldiers in a bunker near Da
-Nang, Vietnam, when they see a black, naked woman with bat-like, glowing
-wings moving through the air toward them. It flies about 6–7 above their
-heads. She soon starts flapping her wings and flies away. (“Don Worley,
-“The
-Winged Lady in Black,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10
-(June 1972): 14–16; Clark III 779)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4688
Date: 7/1969
-Description: After a series of UFO sightings and landing traces are
-reported in the area around Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil, the Brazilian Air
-Force informs local officials who are investigating the reports that
-they must not “under any circumstances give any information on UFO
-activity to any press, radio, or television reporter or representative.
-This is a matter of national security, and all press releases will be
-made by the Brazilian Air Force Public Relations Department.” (Hans
-Bemelmans, “Reports
-from Ibiuna,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1970): 15;
-“Brazil:
-Censorship of UFO Reports,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1973): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4687
Date: 7/3/1969
-Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test
-attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 7/4/1969
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Two children, Mauricio Gnecco and Enrique Osorio,
-in Anolaima, Colombia, see a glowing object about 900 feet away. It
-approaches to within 180 feet and the children run over the hill to tell
-other children and adults. Thirteen people, including their father,
-return to see the object. Arcesio Bermúdez takes a flashlight with him
-and returns in terror after seeing a small person and a craft that
-lights up and flies away. Within 2 days, Bermúdez loses all appetite,
-his skin temperature drops, blue spots appear on his skin, and his
-stools become bloody. Within a week, two Bogotá physicians, unaware of
-his UFO experience, concludes he has gastroenteritis. Within hours of
-his exam, Bermúdez dies. His doctor claims he has previously been in
-good health. His injuries suggest a fatal whole-body ionizing radiation
-dose of 300–500 rems. Likely only X-rays, gamma rays, or neutrons could
-travel a distance of 45 feet through the air. (“UFO
-Observed at Farmhouse in Colombia,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1969,
-pp. 1, 4–5; Story, pp. 23–25;
-Clark III 253, 950; “Colombia:
-Arcesio Bermúdez, the Man Killed by
-a UFO,” Inexplicata, December 14, 2015; Cristian Ávila Jimenez, “La
-misteriosa muerte de columbiano 3 días después
-de ver supuesto OVNI,” El Tiempo (Bogotá), August 20, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4689
Date: 7/11/1969
-Alternate date: 7/18/1969
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Economics student Tim Oliver is near a golf
-course on the outskirts of Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, when he sees a
-red “star” over a hill about a mile away. On closer inspection, it
-proves to be a hovering UFO. He quickly goes home, and by the time he
-returns with his mother in the family car, the UFO has been joined by
-another identical object. They are moving about 20 mph to the southeast,
-50 feet in the air, 200 feet apart, and nearly parallel to some
-high-powered electrical lines. As they drive to right outside the golf
-course, both UFOs apparently respond to their presence by turning toward
-them but soon resumed their parallel course when Oliver turns the car
-engine off. Oliver walks to within 50 feet of the leading object. Each
-is about 30 feet in diameter, saucer-shaped, with an upper flat-topped
-cupola and about 24 square windows through which comes the bright red
-light. They are completely silent. Both he and his mother (who has
-watched from the golf course fence) see the UFOs disappear to the
-southeast, still flying parallel to the power lines. (Bill Chalker, “1969:
-The Great UFO
-Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4690
Date: 7/12/1969
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Patti Barr and Kathy Mahr, two teenage cousins,
-hear a loud roaring noise at Van Horne, Iowa, while upstairs in their
-house. They look out the window to see a reddish-orange ball of light
-rotating and spinning counterclockwise above the adjacent soybean field.
-The next morning, they tell Pat’s father, farmer Warren Barr, who then
-discovers a 24-foot-diameter, nearly bare oval in the soybean field. The
-plants’ leaves are severely dehydrated, dry, and brittle. This case was
-investigated by several groups at the time; localized intense heat or
-radiation is listed as most likely cause. (“Sight
-UFO over Benton County Farm,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, August 6,
-1969, p. 4C; NICAP, “The
-1969 UFO Chronology” and [photos];
-“UFO
-over Iowa Bean Field,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1969, pp. 1, 4; J.
-Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 149–150;
-Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Iowa UFO Landings,” Official UFO, July 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4692
Date: 7/12/1969
-Description: Contactee Paul
-Solem, who
-has been speaking to Shoshone-Bannock Indians at Fort Hall Indian
-Reservation in Idaho about a migration of Indian peoples and the coming
-of a True White Brother, publicly calls for the appearance of the flying
-saucer beings. Many people, including Idaho State Reporter Barbara
-Boren, see two “star-like moving lights” high in the air. (Barbara
-Boren, “Blast
-Rocking North America to Start Indian Migration, Says
-Self-Styled Seer,” Pocatello Idaho State Journal, July 16, 1969,
-pp. 1, 8; Clark III 1094)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4691
Date: 7/13/1969
-Description: Early morning. Edgar Paquette and Mrs. Leo Edwards are
-driving near Petawawa, Ontario, when they see a bright star that lights
-up the Ottawa River next to them. Convinced the light is following them,
-Paquette turns off the headlights, which makes the object appear to
-hesitate. But he gets out of the car, causing the interior light to go
-on, and the object descends to within 60 feet of the ground. When he
-starts signaling it with a flashlight, it comes even closer, and
-Paquette sees that it is 8 feet in diameter with two legs beneath it.
-Both of them panic and drive home, dragging their teenage children out
-of bed to look at the light. Ontario police officers Jack McKay and
-Grant Chaplin follow the light for 38 minutes as it travels at a high
-altitude. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, pp. 83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4693
Date: mid 7/1969
-Description: Bernard O’Brien is cutting grass in a field with his
-tractor near Manotick, Ontario, when a small cloud of smoke rises from
-the ground as he passes over a particular spot. He notifies the field’s
-owner, John Fox, who comes out for a look. Fox finds three near-perfect
-circles in the field, two together and the third nearly 150 feet away.
-Each of them are rings of affected grass 15–20 feet in diameter and
-about a foot wide. Grass is flattened inside the circle, but the rings
-themselves are dark and contain a crystalline substance. Peter
-Millman of the National Research Council claims that the circles are
-caused by the fairy ring mushroom (Marasmius oreades) because an
-analysis of the crystalline substance shows no evidence of mineral
-content or radioactivity. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, pp. 187–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4694
Date: 7/16/1969
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Sylvia Annola, 10, sees a large gray object with
-blinding lights descending above a well on her family’s farm near Abee,
-Alberta. She looks directly at the object, which is only about 10 feet
-away, and experiences a temporary loss of vision. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO
-Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 50–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4695
Date: 7/21/1969
-Description: The Apollo 11 Lunar Module lands the first astronauts on
-the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz
-Aldrin. (Wikipedia, “Apollo
-11”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4696
Date: 8/1969
-Description: 1:45 p.m. James D. Appleman is driving on the Pennsylvania
-Turnpike when he notices a dome-shaped, metallic object hovering in the
-clouds ahead. He stops the car and gets his camera out of the trunk, but
-by that time the object is gone. (“Did
-a Twin Photograph a Twin UFO?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1
-(January 1981): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4697
Date: 8/22/1969
-Description: The National Amateur Astronomers Association hosts an open
-forum in Denver, Colorado, “Science and the UFO,” with presentations by
-James
-A. Harder, R.
-Leo Sprinkle, J.
-Allen Hynek, David
-Saunders, James McDonald, and
-Frank
-Salisbury. When
-asked how many of the 500 people assembled have had a UFO sighting,
-about 75 hands go up. (“Scientists Urge New UFO Studies,” Fate 23, no. 4
-(April 1970): 38–48; George W. Earley, “Astronomers Raise Their Hands,”
-IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4698
Date: 8/29/1969
-Description: 6:20 a.m. Norman Vedaa and a passenger are driving along
-Interstate 80S [now Interstate 76] about 70 miles east of Denver
-[putting them roughly near Fort Morgan, Colorado]. They notice a
-brilliant, yellow-gold object hovering high in the air. They manage to
-take two photographs before it speeds away. Ground Saucer Watch
-concludes from its density profile in the photos that it is a solid
-object. (William H. Spaulding, “Observational
-Data of an Anomalistic Aerial Phenomenon,” Flying Saucer Review 22,
-no. 1 (May 1976): 12–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4699
Date: 8/30/1969
-Description: Afternoon. Future ufologist Bill
-Chalker, 17,
-is relaxing on a surfboard in the middle of the Clarence River in
-Grafton, New South Wales. He notices streams of fine filament coming
-down out of the sky over the river. He collects some samples, seeing no
-spiders, but the material dissipates into nothing. He later learns that
-other people, including his parents, watched an elongated white UFO
-moving at right angles to the filament fall. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel
-Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Clark
-III 124–126; Bill Chalker, “1969:
-The Great UFO Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4700
Date: 8/30/1969
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Ion Hobana is at the North Railway Station in
-Bucharest, Romania, when he sees a triangular object rise from behind
-the station building. It is a dull orange color and moves with one of
-its sides facing forward. Three smaller globes trail it in a straight
-line. The object travels to the right and disappears after a few
-seconds. (Hobana and Weverbergh 179–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4701
Date: 8/31/1969
-Description: Day. An RAAF Canberra bomber chases but fails to catch a
-UFO over northern New South Wales. The plane is dispatched from RAAF
-Base Amberley near Ipswich, Queensland, after hundreds of people in
-Kygole and along the Darling Downs report the object, which is shaped
-like an aluminum Zeppelin. Some witnesses observe the object for 3 hours
-as it hovers above towns and farms. The UFO speeds away when the
-Canberra tries to close in on it. (“RAAF
-Chase UFO over Darling Downs,” UFOIC Newsletter, no. 26 (December
-1969): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4702
Date: 9/4/1969
-Description: A farmer, Bert
-O’Neil, discovers a circular patch of dead and silvery-white manuka
-plants (Leptospermum scoparium, tea tree) in the midst of otherwise
-green and lush growth on a remote section of his farm near Ngatea, New
-Zealand. Near the center of the circle, he finds three ground
-indentations, positioned so as to form the inside points of a triangle.
-Off to one side is the taller stand of tea tree, also bleached and dead.
-He remembers seeing this from afar three weeks earlier, arousing his
-curiosity. The dead scrubweed within the circle is still standing and
-undisturbed. It looks as if some large object has come down from the sky
-and landed on three long stilts. At first, O’Neil only discusses his
-find within the family, but the news quickly leaks to the local radio
-and press. (Harold H. Fulton, “The
-Ngatea Mystery Circle, 1,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1970): 27–28; Harold H. Fulton, “The
-Ngatea Mystery Circle, 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3 (May/June
-1970): 32– 33; Harold H. Fulton, “The Ngatea Mystery Circle: Terrestrial
-or Extraterrestrial?” UFOcus NZ, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4703
Date: 10/1969
-Description: NICAP obtains a copy of a chapter of a textbook in use at
-the US Air Force Academy, Introductory Space Science, for the academy’s
-Physics 370 course. The last chapter is on “Unidentified Flying Objects”
-and concludes that the “UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in
-nature for almost 50,000 years” and considers the “unpleasant
-possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien
-controlled UFO’s.” It recommends keeping an “open and skeptical mind.”
-(“AF
-Academy Teaches Students UFOs Real,” UFO Research Newsletter 1, no.
-1 (April 1971): 1; ClearIntent, pp. 13–14;
-Good Need, p. 230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4704
Date: 10/1969
-Description: Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p516)
-Location: Leary, Georgia
Date: 10/3/1969
-Description: After 8:00 p.m. RCMP Constable S. B. Barrie and his wife
-Vivian are driving 5 miles west of Rennie, Manitoba, on a poor highway
-in bad weather. He stops to clean mud off the headlights and noticees a
-light to the east hanging just off Highway 44 and over the trees. He
-continues driving and he sees the light as a light-pink inverted saucer
-moving with a jerky motion. Now only 500 feet away, it seems to be 20
-feet in diameter with an odd white tail that snakes toward the ground.
-Suddenly the car’s windshield wipers stop working, the headlights go
-out, and the engine stalls. Barrie gets out of the car and the object
-zooms silently to the southwest and is lost to sight. He senses the air
-has a strange, heavy odor, but he is able to get the car started again.
-(Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4705
Date: 10/8/1969
-Description: A large area of St. Louis, Missouri, is blanketed by a
-pure-white, sticky substance ranging from dime-size to 10-foot-long
-streamers. The majority of it sublimates on ground contact. The
-Smithsonian concludes it is caused by ballooning spiders, even though
-only one spider specimen is found. When a sample is tested by Wayne E.
-Black of the St. Louis County Health Department, he finds the samples
-test negative for protein, the basic composition of spider web.
-(Washington Post, March 28, 1970; “A
-Classic Case of ‘Angel-Hair,’” Pursuit 3, no. 4 (October 1970):
-72–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4706
Date: 10/20/1969
-Description: Brig. Gen. Carroll
-H. Bolender, USAF
-Deputy Director of Development, writes a draft document saying that the
-“continuation of Project Blue Book cannot be justified either on the
-ground of national security or in the interest of science.” Bolender
-adds that “reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect
-national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force
-Manual 55-1 and are not part of the Blue Book system.” This is a clear
-indication that Blue Book is only a front for a classified UFO project.
-(Brig. Gen. C. H. Bolender, “Unidentified
-Flying Objects (UFO),” October 20, 1969; Swords 336)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4707
Date: 10/24/1969
-Description: 12:43 a.m. A Chilean Navy destroyer is moving north at 20
-knots in the South Pacific Ocean about 350 miles south of Valparaiso,
-Chile. The radar officer reports a target rapidly approaching the ship,
-apparently moving 213 miles in one minute, which would indicate a speed
-of 12,780 mph. At 12:47 a.m., the target is only 12 miles away, and it
-suddenly breaks into six targets. The officer in charge and five other
-personnel can now see one massive and five smaller lighted objects
-approaching the ship. The large UFO looks like a big box with
-semicircles on the side, and it is bigger than the ship, which is 360
-feet long. The five smaller objects are egg- shaped, bluish, and no more
-than 8 feet long and 5–6 feet wide. At about 6,000 feet from the ship,
-the smaller objects move away from the larger one, three to portside and
-two to starboard, and begin flying in ellipses between the ship and the
-large object. At 900 feet away, the officers can hear the object make a
-humming noise. The ship’s power and instruments go dead as the large
-object passes overhead. Bright red lights under the UFO seem to be
-moving back and forth inside the craft, visible through a half-circle on
-the bottom. “Corn cobs” with green or turquoise pulsating lights are on
-the side. When the UFO is 600 feet away, the power comes back on. The
-smaller objects, never coming closer than 1,500–3,000 feet, fly around
-the ship and join up with the large object on the other side. All 6
-objects vanish about 2 miles away. At least 8 minutes have passed, with
-three radar technicians tracking the UFOs. The ship’s commander orders
-everyone to keep silent about what they have seen. The sighting is
-deleted from the ship’s log. The six witnesses are debriefed for two
-days in Valparaiso by two Chilean Navy officers and four Americans who
-are allegedly naval attachés with the US Embassy. (NICAP, “Six Objects
-Observed and Tracked by Destroyer”; Bill Chalker, “EM
-UFO Incident off Chile in 1969,” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 3 (January
-1986): 7–8; Bill Chalker, “An Extraordinary Incident off Chile,” IUR 10,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 4–6; Bill Chalker, “EM
-UFO Incident off Chile in 1969 (Conclusion),” APRO Bulletin 33, no.
-5 (April 1987): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4708
Date: 10/24/1969
-End date: 10/27/1969
-Description: The Turkish Air Force is inundated with reports of UFOs
-over Ankara, Turkey. Jet fighters are scrambled from Mürted Air Base
-[now closed] northwest of the city and close to within 7.5 miles, but
-the objects always pull away and climb higher. Even the base commander,
-Ercüment Gökaydin, flies with the interceptors to 35,000 feet, but the
-UFO is at a height of 50,000 feet. It is a silvery, oval disc. The jets
-take gun-camera film, which has never been released. One pilot says the
-object has three round portholes. (Good Need, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4709
Date: 10/27/1969
-Description: NICAP Assistant Director Gordon
-I. R. Lore Jr. writes board member Joseph
-B. Hartranft
-Jr. an 11-page letter outlining the organization’s difficulties. He
-alerts the board of directors to the growing financial crisis brought on
-by Donald
-E. Keyhoe’s failure to keep adequate books and records. He urges the
-hiring of a business director. In the summer he had gotten permission
-from Keyhoe to fire five of NICAP’s eight employees as a cost- saving
-measure. (Clark III 794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4710
Date: 10/30/1969
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin are driving at their mine
-site near Redding, California, when they see a rattlesnake in the road.
-As they get out to go to the mine and kill the snake, they find the area
-oddly hot. They notice a disturbance in the brush some 60 feet away in a
-flattened area of mine tailings. An egg-shaped object rises noiselessly
-a few feet off the ground and takes off down the canyon, swaying but not
-striking small trees. Soon it zooms upward at a sharp angle and is out
-of sight in seconds. They find a shallow, oval, depressed spot less than
-2 inches deep and 10 feet across in the mine tailings. A conical pile of
-unusual-looking sand is also discovered, and two days later they find a
-metallic glob about the size of a fist nearby. They have the material
-analyzed in 1977. Scattered about in the unusual sand pile are irregular
-bits of pale-green glass-like material made of nearly pure silicon. The
-metal glob is completely black on the outside and 77% copper in the
-interior, combined with tin and traces of silver, chromium, and other
-metals. Both are considered foreign to the geology of the mine site.
-(“The Redding, California CE II Case,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978):
-insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4711
Date: 10/30/1969
-Description: Circular object with lights hovering over airport sped away
-making high, whining sound when security guard shone spotlight on
-it
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Waipukurau, New Zealand
-ID: 186
Date: 11/8/1969
-Description: Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been working
-with other scientists to set up a “rapid intervention team” for the RAAF
-to investigate UFO physical evidence. In a memo to the director of the
-Joint Intelligence Bureau, he indicates he is working with John Morton
-of Australian National University, John Symonds from the Australian
-Atomic Energy Commission, and Michael
-Duggin of the National Standards Laboratory. The plan is soon
-dropped by the JIB. (Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,”
-IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 21; Swords 396–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4712
Date: 11/9/1969
-Description: The D-21 drone makes its first reconnaissance mission over
-China, launched from a B-52. It flies over the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base
-in Xinjiang but strays off course into Siberia and crashes. (Wikipedia,
-“Lockheed
-D- 21”;
-Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4713
Date: 12/1969
-Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project
-BLUEBOOK is closed.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A)
-Attributes: Majestic
Date: 12/3/1969
-Description: The NICAP board of governors demands Keyhoe’s
-resignation. He retires, under protest, at age 72. Leading the effort is
-board chairman Col. Joseph
-Bryan III, who
-takes over as acting president. (“Major
-Keyhoe Retires,”
-UFO Investigator, May 1970, pp. 1, 3; “NICAP
-Redeploys,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4714
Date: 12/5/1969
-Description: Bryan dismisses
-NICAP Assistant Director Gordon
-I. R. Lore Jr., replacing him with G. Stuart Nixon as
-secretary-treasurer. (“Major
-Keyhoe Retires,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, pp. 1, 3; Clark III
-794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4715
Date: 12/17/1969
-Description: Air Force Secretary Robert
-Seamans announces the termination of Project Blue Book, based on the
-Condon report, the NAS endorsement, and “past UFO studies.” He repeats
-the Bolender wording
-that Blue Book “cannot be justified either on the ground of national
-security or in the interest of science.” Technically, Blue Book does not
-terminate until January 30, 1970. Blue Book records are moved to Maxwell
-AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, in a building that requires security
-clearance to enter. Eventually, the files, minus the witness names, are
-consigned to the Modern Military Branch, Military Archives Division,
-National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Office of Assistant Secretary of
-Defense, “Air
-Force to Terminate Project ‘Blue Book,’” December 17, 1969; “Air
-Forces Closes Study of U.F.O.s,” New York Times, December 18, 1969,
-pp. 1, 41; “The
-Book Is Closed,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 3; Sparks,
-p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4716
Date: 12/17/1969
-Description: Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr.,
-announced termination of Project Blue Book UFO study.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 187
Date: 12/18/1969
-Description: Condon is
-quoted in the New York Times that his investigation “was a bunch of damn
-nonsense,” and he is sorry he “got involved in such foolishness.” (“Air
-Forces Closes Study of U.F.O.s,” New York Times, December 18, 1969,
-pp. 1, 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4717
Date: 12/26/1969
-End date: 12/27/1969
-Description: The American Academy for the Advancement of Science holds a
-special two-day segment on “Unidentified Flying Objects” at its annual
-meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Hotel. The program is
-arranged by Thornton
-Page (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center), Philip
-Morrison (MIT), Walter
-Orr Roberts (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), and
-Carl
-Sagan (Cornell). Rising to the occasion, James
-E. McDonald presents
-an excellent critique of the Air Force and Colorado project
-investigations as well as an in- depth examination of the RB-47 and
-Lakenheath-Bentwaters cases. Donald
-Menzel attempts to show that all UFO sightings can be explained,
-even though some of his “explanations” are complex. Morrison discusses
-the nature of hard evidence and concludes that reliable UFO reports
-would stand up both in a court of law and in the rigors of science.
-Cornell University Press publishes the proceedings, UFOs—A Scientific
-Debate, in 1972. (James E. McDonald, “Science
-in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations,”
-December 27, 1969; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 9–10; Clark III 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4718
Date: 12/26/1969
-End date: 12/30/1969
-Description: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
-annual meeting, in Boston, MA, included panel discussion on UFOs.
-Scientists joined in statement asking for preservation of Air Force UFO
-files for future study.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Boston, MA
-ID: 188
Date: 12/28/1969
-Description: A man named Patric is driving from Midland to Windsor,
-Ontario, on heavily snowed roads after an accident has blocked the main
-highway. Suddenly, his car engine, headlights, and radio fails, and he
-crawls to a halt in front of a star-like glow with a prismatic,
-multi-colored aura 100 feet ahead. Inside the glow is a domed object. A
-loud humming noise commences and the object shoots into the sky. The car
-comes back to life, but Patric inexplicably reaches Windsor one hour
-late. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374
-(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4719
Date: 1970
-Description: The crew of a US Air Force C-5A Galaxy transport, flying at
-500 mph at 37,000 feet, encounters a UFO over Moula Idris, Saudi Arabia
-[=Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, Morocco?]. An RAF officer on detachment is
-flying the aircraft, and he describes the object as like two saucers
-joined together, surrounded by red, green, and yellow and flying at
-75,000 feet. (Good Need, pp. 298–299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4724
Date: 1970
-Description: UFO-Sverige is formed as the first nationwide UFO
-organization in Sweden; it is essentially an association of 20 UFO
-groups in different parts of the country. The secretary’s office is
-located in Skånninge. It publishes the magazine UFO-Information from
-1969 to 1980, then UFO-Aktuellt beginning in 1980. (Wikipedia, “UFO- Sverige”;
-UFO-Information, no.
-1 (October 26, 1969); C. Göran Norlén and Johan Gustavsson, “Tidskriften UFO-Aktuellt,”
-Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4723
Date: 1970
-Description: The CIA is testing a small drone aircraft in the shape of a
-bird at Groom Lake, Nevada. Called Project Aquiline, the agency wants to
-fly a reconnaissance UAV over key intelligence targets, such as ICBM
-sites and nuclear test grounds in the Soviet Union and China, without
-detection. At least one of the prototypes is flown from Area 51 more
-than 20 times. The project is cancelled in 1971 before deployment and
-has never been declassified. (Wikipedia, “Project
-AQUILINE”; David Hambling, “Area
-51’s Robotic Spy Bird,” Wired, November 6, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4722
Date: 1970
-Description: Ivan
-T. Sanderson publishes his last UFO book, Invisible Residents, which
-compiles reports of unusual objects seen in or around bodies of water.
-He speculates that such cases need not involve the presence of
-extraterrestrials, but possibly an indigenous intelligence that evolved
-independently in the oceans. (Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, World,
-1970; Clark III 1028)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4720
Date: 1970
-Description: John
-A. Keel publishes UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, in which he presents
-a theory that UFOs are produced by ultraterrestrials—beings who are able
-to manipulate matter and our senses and who in the past manifested
-themselves as fairies or demons. (John A. Keel, UFOs:
-Operation Trojan Horse, Manor
-Books ed., 1976; Wikipedia, “Operation
-Trojan Horse (book)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4721
Date: 1970’s
-Description: Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot
-asking for information.
-Type: letter
-Reference: BSRA archive
-Location: San Diego, CA
Date: early 1970
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A peasant in the Taijiang(?) District of Fujian
-province, China, sees a metallic, pan-shaped object land behind a hill.
-It radiates a brilliant green light, and a strange musical tone emanates
-from it. After he reports it, the local army commander mobilizes
-hundreds of soldiers who attempt to surround the object. After about one
-hour, the object emits a bright white light and takes off vertically.
-(Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo
-Archive, 1983, p. 56) Early 1970s — 2:30–3:00 a.m. Two young men in
-Furnace Creek, California, are followed by a red ball of light the size
-of a beach ball. They get scared and run ahead to their house, slamming
-and locking the door behind them. The ball stops at the edge of their
-yard, hovering and oscillating in size. After 4–5 minutes, the ball
-moves away and creates a vortex, causing stones to rise and circle in
-the air. They can hear the sound of the stones hitting together. Then
-the light blinks out, and the rocks crash down onto the road. (Michael
-D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR
-27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4725
Date: 1/1/1970
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Registered nurse Doreen Kendall is looking out a
-window at the Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan, British Columbia,
-and sees a bright, Saturn-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter
-hovering one story above her, about 60 feet off the ground and 40 feet
-away. It has a row of lights around its middle. She can see two humanoid
-figures in dark, tight-fitting clothing and wearing headgear in the
-upper portion. One stands at an instrument panel, with the other behind
-it. The second being looks directly at Kendall, then touches the first
-being, who moves a lever, apparently causing the craft to tilt down and
-provide a view of its interior. Kendall calls for other witnesses, who
-arrive in time to see the UFO leave. (“Human-Like
-Pair in
-Saucer,” Victoria (B.C.) Daily Times, January 5, 1970, pp. 1–2; “UFO
-Occupants Seen near Hospital,” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 7 (Summer
-1970): 3–12; UFOEv II 459–460; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 139– 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4726
Date: 1/1/1970
-Description: Hospital nurse saw craftlike object hovering near building,
-two humanoid figures visible in upper portion
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Duncan, B.C., Canada
-ID: 189
Date: 1/3/1970
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 190
Date: 1/7/1970
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Two skiers, lumberjack Aarno Heinonen and farmer
-Esko Viljo, at Imjärvi, Finland, watch a disc- shaped, buzzing UFO
-approach them and hover. It is so close to Heinonen that he could touch
-it with his ski pole. From an opening in the center of the object’s
-bottom, a bright light beam is emitted, creating an illuminated area of
-3 feet in diameter on the snow beneath it, edged with black. A red gray
-mist descends again; when it clears, both men can see, only 10 feet
-away, a 3-foot tall humanoid creature standing in the illuminated area,
-carrying in its hands a black box with a pulsating yellow light. Its
-arms and legs are very thin, its face pale like wax, and its nose
-hooked; it wears a light green coverall with darker green knee boots,
-white gauntlets, and a conical metallic helmet. Then the mist again
-descends, and long red, green, and purple sparks float out from the
-lighted area. A sort of flame rises from this spot and enters the UFO;
-then the mist and the UFO vanish. After this experience, Heinonen finds
-his right leg numb, and he vomits and passes black urine; Viljo also
-suffers severe physiological effects. Heinonen claims, two years later,
-a series of contacts with a female spacewoman. (Sven-Olof Fredrickson,
-“Finnish
-Encounter in the Snow,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1970): 31–32; “Finns
-Observe UFO Occupant,”
-APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1970, pp. 6–7; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “A
-Humanoid Was Seen at Imjärvi,”
-Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1970): 14–18; Sven-Olof
-Fredrickson, “More
-on the Imjärvi Case,”
-Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 22; Anders Liljegren,
-“The
-Continuing Story of the Imjärvi
-Skiers, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 (September 1980):
-15–17; Anders Liljegren, “The Continuing
-Story of the Imjärvi Skiers, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5
-(January 1981): 18–20; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 75–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4727
Date: 1/7/1970
-Description: Two skiers saw disc-shaped object approach, hover, humanoid
-appeared in light beam from object. Memory loss, extensive physiological
-effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Imjarvi, Finland
-ID: 191
Date: 1/21/1970
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of
-Aeronautics and Astronautics sponsors a panel that meets in New York
-City to discuss differing viewpoints on UFOs. Among the panel members
-are Hynek, McDonald, Thornton
-Page, Gordon
-D. Thayer, and
-Philip
-Klass. The
-subcommittee, led by Joachim
-P. Kuettner, consists of scientists with no previous position on
-UFOs and reaches several middle-of-the-road conclusions. It criticizes
-the NAS position that the ETH is the least likely explanation and
-rejects McDonald’s position that it is the “least unsatisfactory.” It
-criticizes the Condon report, in which the conclusions do not match the
-data, and recommends a moderate-level, ongoing study of UFOs. (“UFOs,
-an Appraisal of the Problem: A Statement by the UFO
-Subcommittee of the AIAA,” Aeronautics and Astronautics 8, no. 11
-(November 1970): 49–51; Clark III 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4728
Date: 1/29/1970
-Description: A Uruguayan professor of socioeconomics takes a photo of a
-cigar-shaped object in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Analysis shows that it
-was probably a streetlamp. (“A
-Street Lamp, or Sign, Or,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 3
-(June/July 1983): 1; “Rio
-de Janeiro 1970 Photograph Termed Streetlamp,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 3, 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4729
Date: 1/30/1970
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Project Blue Book’s doors close as its office is
-staffed for the last time. The files have been packed in boxes and are
-on their way to the Air Force Archives at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery,
-Alabama. (“The Book
-Is Closed,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4730
Date: 3/28/1970
-Description: 11:00 p.m. About 30 UFO spotters gathered on Cradle Hill,
-just outside Warminster, Wiltshire, England, see a flashing purple
-light. One of their sensors buzzes, indicating a strong magnetic field,
-and one observer (Norman Foxwell) takes photos that appear in the
-July/August 1970 Flying Saucer Review. But the UFO is actually a light
-beam from a high-intensity purple spot-lamp operated by a group of UFO
-debunkers, among them physicist David I. Simpson. Foxwell himself is
-part of the skeptical group (having pre-exposed a spurious UFO image),
-as is the individual who operated the bogus magnetic-field sensor. The
-hoax is revealed six years later. (John C. Ben, “Photographs
-from Cradle Hill,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970):
-4–5; Percy Hennell, “The Warminster
-Photographs Examined,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1970): 6–7; Charles Bowen, “What
-the Eye Sees,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): 7;
-Pierre Guérin, “Warminster Photographs:
-A Tentative Interpretation,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1970): 7–8; Charles Bowen, “Progress
-at Cradle Hill,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1971):
-11–12; S. E. Scammell, “A Surveyor’s
-Criticism,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1971): 13;
-John E. Ben, “Continued Investigations
-at Warminster,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1971):
-14–16; Terence Collins, “A Further
-Examination of the Warminster Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 17,
-no. 2 (March/April 1971): 16– 18; Michael Samuels, “Unexpected
-Photographic Effects at Warminster,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2
-(March/April 1971): 18–21; David I. Simpson, “Experimental
-UFO Hoaxing,” MUFOB, new series 2 (March 1976): 3–6, 11–12; David I.
-Simpson, “Controlled
-UFO Hoax: Some Lessons,” Skeptical Inquirer 4, no 3 (Spring 1980):
-32–39; David Clarke, “The Warminster Syndrome,” Fortean Times 331
-(October 2015): 40–47; David Clarke, How UFOs Conquered the World,
-Aurum, 2015; Steve Dewey and Kevin Goodman, History of a Mystery: Fifty
-Years of the Warminster Thing, Swallowtail, 2015; Clark III
-602–603)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4731
Date: 3/31/1970
-Description: Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Link
-See also: 2/1/58
Date: 4/15/1970
-Description: Daylight disc photo similar to August 3, 1965, Santa Ana,
-CA, photos
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mar,del Plata, Argentina
-ID: 192
Date: 4/29/1970
-End date: 4/30/1970
-Description: Around midnight. Several independent groups of witnesses to
-the west of Lake Anten, Västra Götaland, Sweden, watch a red, glowing
-sphere fly around the lake and neighboring areas. It occasionally sends
-out a beam of light to the ground. Some of the observers get the
-impression that the beams originate on the ground rather than from the
-object. The next morning a few of the observers get into boats and sail
-to the spot where the sphere was seen hovering. In one corner of the
-garden of an isolated farmhouse named Enebacken, they find three round
-marks, one foot in diameter and 1.5 inches deep, burned into the ground
-in the shape of an equilateral triangle. A UFO group in Gothenburg,
-Sweden, takes soil samples to a laboratory for gamma-ray testing and
-finds significant non-background radiation at a peak that seems to
-derive from cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. (Sven-Olof Fredrickson,
-“A
-Landing near Lake Anten?” Flying Saucer Review 17, no 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1971): 13–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4732
Date: 5/5/1970
-Description: Although the Air Force is no longer involved with UFOs, the
-Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio continues to
-contract Hynek’s
-services as a “special consultant” on atmospheric phenomena. He reports
-to Col. George
-R. Weinbrenner, whom
-he visits every once in a while in Dayton. He continues with the
-contract through 1974. (Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16,
-no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 12, 23; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt,
-Inside the Real Area 51, Tantor Media, 2013, pp. 203–213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4733
Date: 5/14/1970
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A graduate engineering student in Bangor, Maine,
-notices two nocturnal lights in the Ursa Major constellation moving in a
-counterclockwise circle around a common center at a constant velocity.
-They abruptly stop moving, leaving them in a north-south position. After
-a short time, they move away from each other, then the light moving
-south suddenly halts. The other light is moving slower than a meteor but
-faster than a jet aircraft. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4734
Date: 5/29/1970
-Description: John L. Acuff, an experienced manager but not a UFO
-researcher, becomes the new president of NICAP. He is the former
-executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Society of Photographic
-Scientists and Engineers [now the Society for Imaging Science and
-Technology], which has cooperated with NICAP on photoanalysis but also
-has military and CIA connections. Acuff and G. Stuart Nixon dismantle
-the NICAP system of affiliates and state subcommittee system that have
-promoted the organization for years. Regional members are told to
-operate independently from one another; cooperation is discouraged.
-Criticism of the government’s UFO policy is no longer permitted and
-NICAP turns into a mere “sighting collection center.” Nixon is appointed
-executive director. (“NI-CIA-AP
-or NICAP?” Just CAUSE 1, no. 7 (January 1979): 5–13; Richard H.
-Hall, “The
-Quest for the Truth about
-UFOs: A Personal Perspective on the Role of NICAP,” in 1994 MUFON
-UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201; Clark III
-794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4735
Date: 6/1970
-Description: Contact (UK) begins publishing The UFO Register, a journal
-edited by J.
-B. Delair that focuses on sightings and data. It continues
-sporadically until 1995. (The
-UFO Register 1, part 1 (June 1970))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4736
Date: 6/1970
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A truck driver is approaching Emerald Beach, New
-South Wales, when he sees a bright light on he ocean side of the
-highway. A circular object rises from behind some woods 1,600 feet from
-the road. It hovers for 30 seconds at an altitude of 66 feet. Relative
-to the trees, the object appears to be about 33 feet in diameter, and
-flames seem to shoot from its base. It slowly returns to the ground,
-where it is partially obscured by trees, but it continues to emit beams
-of light from its top and sides. Fearful, the driver leaves the area.
-Ufologist Bill
-Chalker accompanies the witness to the landing site, where they
-discover six circles of dead grass of varying sizes and burned trees.
-(Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4737
Date: 6/13/1970
-Description: MUFON holds its first annual conference in Peoria,
-Illinois. Shortly afterwards, Walt
-Andrus succeeds Utke as MUFON director. (John F. Schuessler, “A
-Brief History of MUFON,” November 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4738
Date: 6/27/1970
-Description: 11:40 a.m. Aristeu Machado, his wife and children, and João
-Aguiar of the Brazilian Federal police, see a metallic, domed disc
-resting on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean about a half-mile off the
-coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two humanoid figures are standing on
-the rim. After a while the object skims the surface of the water and
-takes off, lights flashing from the underside. Once airborne, the wife
-can clearly see the two occupants sitting inside. (UFOEv II 460; Brazil
-128–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4739
Date: 6/27/1970
-Description: Domed disc on ocean surface, two humanoid figures visible,
-took off in an arc, headed out to sea
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-ID: 193
Date: 7/1970
-Description: Afternoon. John and
-Mary
-Pilichis see a huge cigar-shaped object over their home at Rome,
-Ohio. At the same time, their daughter Bonnie and a friend are at a
-swimming pool about one-half mile away when they see 3 silvery discs
-flying end-to-end in the direction of their home. The parents then see
-the discs as well. The cigar and the discs form a line and move into a
-large, peculiar cloud. After 3–4 minutes, the cloud begins to break
-apart, with no UFOs showing. (Ohio UFO Reporter, Sept./Nov. 1971;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May
-2006): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4740
Date: 7/4/1970
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A 33-year-old Port Monmouth, New Jersey,
-housewife wakes up and sees a “big round ball” with an “eerie white
-glow” hovering over the meadows across the street. She watches it
-bouncing back and forth for 15 minutes as a series of red lights flash
-in sequence across it. The size is about 25–30 feet wide. The
-streetlight has gone out and comes back on when the object leaves. Her
-son and brother-in-law later find three imprints 30–40 feet apart in the
-shape of a triangle in the meadow. They also find circles impressed in
-the grass, the largest 15–20 feet in diameter. Then they find tracks
-“going to the creek like they had dragged some small round thing into
-the ditch” as well as “two sets of a dozen imprints which were about two
-feet apart. They were curved like raindrops. It was very visible, the
-grass was all crushed down, there was mud on the banks of the creek, and
-there were signs of the tracks in the mud.” One week later, the light
-returns and crosses the field across the street. The family television,
-the car ignition, and the telephone behave strangely for days afterward.
-(Berthold E. Schwarz, “The Port
-Monmouth Landing,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 3 (May/June 1971):
-21–27; Clark III 251–252)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4741
Date: 7/23/1970
-Description: President Nixon makes
-it clear that he wants a major effort against domestic dissidents. At an
-Oval Office meeting in June with the Inter Agency Committee on
-Intelligence (H.
-R. Haldeman, John
-Ehrlichman, Tom Charles
-Huston, J.
-Edgar Hoover, Richard
-Helms, Adm.
-Noel Gaynor, and Lt. Gen. Donald
-W. Bennett), Nixon hears suggestions for expanded mail openings,
-resumption of illegal break-ins, electronic surveillance, and expanded
-counterintelligence. He approves the plan in July but will not sign it;
-neither will Haldeman or Ehrlichman. The plan was originally put
-together by Huston. Hoover torpedoes it when he announces that he will
-go along with it as soon as he gets written authorization from Nixon for
-all those break-ins and wiretaps. (Wikipedia, “Huston
-Plan”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4742
Date: 7/25/1970
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A witness comes across a landed domed disc, about
-20 feet in diameter and 10 feet high with windows in the dome and
-portholes in its side, sitting on 4 legs near Jabreilles-les-Bordes,
-Haute-Vienne, France. He is blinded by a yellow-orange light beam and
-paralyzed by fright. As the object ascends with a whistling sound, he
-feels a wave of heat. At 330 feet altitude, the object jumps vertically
-and disappears behind a mountain. Four imprints are found forming an
-irregular figure on the hillside. (MM. Gaille, J. Gorce, and J. F.
-Gorce, “Atterrissage
-près de Jabreilles-les-Bordes (Haute Vienne), part 1,” Lumières dans
-la Nuit, no. 113 (August 1971): 11–14; MM. Gaille, J. Gorce, and J. F.
-Gorce, “Atterrissage
-près de Jabreilles-les-Bordes (Haute Vienne), part
-2,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 114 (October 1971): 9–14; Ted
-Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS,
-1976, p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4743
Date: 8/1970
-Description: Day. A group of Russian hydrologists are conducting
-research on a motorboat on Kronotsky Lake, Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
-Suddenly, about a half-mile away a dome of water rises up and a
-gray-colored oval object rises up. It is roughly 165 feet in diameter,
-rises to about 500 feet, and hovers nearly overhead. The engine of the
-motorboat stalls. The team watches for another 90 seconds before they
-row away, but the object moves away at reat speed and disappears. The
-boat’s motor starts working again. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO
-Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp .82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4744
Date: 8/7/1970
-End date: 8/12/1970
-Description: Evening. Contactee Paul
-Solem, who
-has managed to convince a number of Hopi Indian elders, among them Chief
-Dan
-Katchongva, that
-he is a true prophet heralding the coming of a True White Brother,
-publicly summons his space brother friends telepathically for 15 minutes
-in Prescott, Arizona, where UFOs have been reported over the previous
-few days. After Solem announces that “they’re here,” a “star” appears
-that had not been there before and Solem receives a message from space
-brother Paul 2, who tells him that the saucers are appearing because of
-a Hopi prophecy. Others see zigzagging lights in the sky over the next
-few nights, and Prescott Courier photographer Chuck
-Roberts takes a time-lapse photo of one. (Jerome Clark, “Indian
-Prophecy and
-the Prescott UFOs,” Fate 24, no. 4 (April 1971): 54–61; John A.
-Keel, “America’s First UFO Experts: The Hopi,” UFO Report, Summer 1974;
-Armin W. Geertz, The Invention of Prophecy, University of California,
-1994; Clark III 1094–1095)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4745
Date: 8/11/1970
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 194
Date: 8/13/1970
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Police officer Evald Hansen Maarup is driving 5
-miles south of Haderslev, Denmark, when he is surrounded by a
-bluish-white light. His engine stops and the car lights and radio go
-out. Heat inside the car increases. He sees a conical light coming from
-the bottom of a large, silent, gray object. After a few seconds, the
-light is drawn into the UFO, a process that takes about 5 minutes. It
-speeds away vertically. (“UFO’et
-ved Haderslev,”
-UFO-Nyt, 1970 no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1970): 211–213; “Et
-mærkeligt ‘Tysk Militærfly,’” UFO-Nyt, 1974 no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1974):
-205–206; “The
-Haderslev UFO,” BUFORA Journal 8, no. 4 (September 1979): 26–27; Kim
-Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 72–75;
-“Dansk
-Politibetjent stoppet af
-UFO,” UFO-Sandheden, February 1, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update
-on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September
-2011): 15–16; Lon Strickler, “The
-Maarup Encounters,” Phantoms and Monsters, September 5, 2012;
-Patrick Gross, “Close
-Encounter in Denmark, August 13, 1970”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4746
Date: 8/13/1970
-Description: Egg-shaped object approached police car, engine, lights,
-and radio failed. Object took off at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Haderslev, Denmark
-ID: 195
Date: 8/14/1970
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Residents of Little Heart’s Ease and St. Jones
-Within on the Southwest Arm in Newfoundland watch a blood-red fireball
-8–10 feet long with a trail of lighter color for about 5 minutes as it
-passes overhead to the northeast. It makes a rushing noise before it
-crashes into the water near the mouth of the harbor at Little Heart’s
-Ease. When the RCMP arrive to investigate, they go out in a boat but can
-find no submerged object. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August North, 2022, p. 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4747
Date: 8/29/1970
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Several witnesses in Enebacken, Sweden, see a
-bright, round, red light maneuvering around the ground, emitting beams
-of yellow-white light. Three round landing marks in a triangular
-formation are found in the garden of Richard Johansson’s small farm near
-Lake Anten. Soil samples are taken and analyzed, with the results
-showing an increased level of gamma radiation in the test samples from
-one of the landing marks. (Sven- Olof Fredrickson, “A
-Landing near Lake Anten?” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1971): 13–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4748
Date: 8/30/1970
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A 7-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana, sees a
-metallic disc in the east-northeast hovering over Wheatland Road. She
-tells her parents, and her father goes outside and sees it too. He
-re-enters the house to get his 7x50 binoculars. The object is about a
-quarter of a mile away and looks like a squared-off conning tower about
-30 feet in diameter. They watch it for 90 seconds, after which it leaves
-in a swooping dive to the north-northeast. (NICAP, “Domed
-Disc Observed in Broad Daylight / MADAR Connection”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4749
Date: 9/1970
-Description: 9:00 p.m. While walking home from a high school football
-game in Jessup, Pennsylvania, Frank Scassellati, 16, observes a glowing
-white, apparently metallic, silvery disc in the southeast sky moving
-from left to right. Around the dome on top is a row of rectangular
-windows; three spheres and a flat circle are visible on the underside.
-The object moves out of sight behind local terrain. Though he does not
-report the sighting to any authorities, Scassellati says that a few
-nights later he notices a limousine parked outside of his house with
-four men in black suits and hats sitting in it. They reappear for
-several nights but he has no interaction with them. (Center for UFO
-Studies, [case
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4750
Date: 9/8/1970
-Description: Dusk. A farmer near Zillah, Washington, is dismounting from
-his tractor when he sees a triangular object hovering in the air. Steel
-gray in color, it has a red light at each of its bottom corners and
-white lights in its center. It eventually moves upward and out of sight.
-(“Sighting
-Advisory,” UFO Investigator, January 1971, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4751
Date: 10/24/1970
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Gerald Adams and Donna Martin are parked on a
-dirt road 3–4 miles north and a half-mile west of MacGregor, Manitoba.
-They notice a bright light approaching from about a half-mile away. When
-it lands 150 feet from them, they notice it is an oblong object 8 feet
-in diameter with 9 “rods” and a red light on top. Adams takes Martin
-home but returns to the site. The object has moved farther away and is
-hovering above the ground. As he drives closer, he sees a humanoid
-entity about 4 feet tall dressed in a helmet and a silver metallic
-uniform crossing the road about 50 feet in front of him. He brakes, but
-the entity has gone. The UFO slowly lifts vertically from the ground and
-speeds away to the northwest. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 146–150, 160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4752
Date: 10/29/1970
-Description: Disc with dome descended, hovered over car, driver blinded
-by strong blue-white light, physiological effects. Object departed
-rapidly straight up
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Helleland, Norway
-ID: 196
Date: 10/29/1970
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Reidar Salvesen is driving about 2 miles east of
-Helleland, Rogaland, Norway, when a dazzling light forces him to stop
-the car. He looks up and sees a globe about 60 feet in diameter
-approaching noiselessly. It stops about 18 feet in front of the car and
-hovers for 50 seconds about 30 feet up. Suddenly the object shoots
-straight up into the air, causing Salvesen to fall on the pavement. He
-hears a sharp crack caused by his front windshield shattering. About
-3,200 feet in the air the globe changes to a fireball, which quickly
-disappears. After sweeping up the shards of windowpane glass, he drives
-on, but feels a numbness in his tongue a few minutes later. He also has
-an abrasion on his hand from falling down, but the skin sloughs off as
-if burned, and he has a redness around his eyes when he returns home.
-His travel clock starts keeping time badly. (“I
-Met a ‘Flying Saucer,’” Scandinavian Newsletter, no. 1/2 (April
-1971): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4753
Date: 11/1970
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute for
-Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) published its report, UFO, An
-Appraisal of the Problem, recommending continued investigation of UFO
-sightings.
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 197
Date: 11/1970
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of
-Aeronautics and Astronautics publishes a formal statement in its journal
-Aeronautics and Astronautics. It recommends “a continuing,
-moderate-level effort with emphasis on improved data collection by
-objective means and on high-quality scientific analysis” as the “only
-promising approach” to solving the UFO problem, and sharply criticizes
-the Colorado project’s conclusion that studying the subject will not add
-to scientific knowledge. (“UFOs,
-an Appraisal of the Problem: A Statement by the
-UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA,” Aeronautics and Astronautics 8, no.
-11 (November 1970): 49–51; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
-Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 249–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4754
Date: 11/1/1970
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Stewart Wilkinson and his wife are driving on
-the Trans-Canada Highway just west of Pense, Saskatchewan, when they see
-an disc-shaped object with a beam of light extending down to the road.
-It follows his car about 20 feet to the right at an altitude of 10–15
-feet. At one point it moves ahead and hovers above a truck parked a
-half-mile away. When he comes alongside the truck, the object moves to
-the left side of his car about 30 feet away and almost on the ground.
-Wilkinson slows down and comes to a stop, and the object follows suit,
-hovering for another 10–15 seconds before disappearing into the lights
-of Moose Jaw to the west. It has followed his car for 12 minutes and 10
-miles. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, pp. 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4756
Date: 11/5/1970
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Albert Formiller is fishing for bass in Cholla
-Bay, Sonora, Mexico, when he sees a light in the sky coming from a
-saucer-shaped object, which stops and hovers about 200–300 feet above
-the surface. A light from a tube on the bottom illuminates a broad
-stretch of water about one half-mile wide. It changes from a broad
-floodlight to a sharp spot on the surface, apparently as it is raised or
-lowered. After a few minutes, a cloud forms around the object. After 5
-minutes, the searchlight is turned off and a similar light appears on
-top of the UFO, illuminating the upper part of the cloud. The object
-then moves west and is visible for 20 minutes in all. (Carl W. Feindt,
-“Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010):
-23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4755
Date: 11/16/1970
-Description: Evening. One adult and four teenagers are leaving a
-basketball game at Beckemeyer (Illinois) Elementary School when they
-notice a triangular object with orange and white lights moving in an
-erratic manner to the south. They watch it for 10 minutes, and a smaller
-object emerges from the triangle. (“UFO
-Sighted,” Breese (Ill.) Journal, November 19, 1970, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 20 (December 1970): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4757
Date: 11/17/1970
-End date: 11/20/1970
-Description: At a Radar Meteorology Conference in Tucson, Arizona, McDonald presents
-a paper on “Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns.”
-(James E. McDonald, “Meteorological
-Factors in Unidentified
-Radar Returns,” November 1970; Story, p. 416)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4758
Date: 11/29/1970
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A 17-year-old student at Oizumi High School is
-riding his bicycle home at Tatebayasi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, when he
-sees 5–6 objects flying in formation on a straight path from northeast
-to southwest. Seconds later, a solitary object appears to the north and
-approaches swiftly. The student parks his bicycle and runs up some steps
-to a raised enclosure for a better view. The single UFO changes course
-and circles several times, descending slowly. It then hovers, climbs,
-and disappears. The student gets back on his bike and sees a bright
-flash of white light to the southeast, which startles him and he pedals
-home quickly. The student returns the next day to the enclosure, which
-is actually a raised tombstone. He finds four circular patches of
-flattened grass. (Takao Ikeda, “A
-Close Encounter in Tatebayasi,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories,
-no. 10 (June 1972): 10– 11, 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4759
Date: 12/14/1970
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Belgian writer Julian Weverbergh and his wife are
-awakened in Bucharest, Romania, by a bright red glow, which changes to
-white. A spherical light is hovering above a bus before disappearing.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 271)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4760
Date: 1971
-Description: A secret computer database of the NORAD Unknown Track
-Reporting System (NUTR) that logs air defense unknowns is launched and
-maintained for assessment of “airspace sovereignty.” (Clark III
-801)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4762
Date: 1971
-Description: Unhappy with NICAP leadership, Raymond
-E. Fowler (and most of his Massachusetts Subcommittee) transfers his
-allegiance to MUFON. (Clark III 517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4761
Date: 1/3/1971
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Maun and Matta Talana are drinking coffee when
-they see a brilliant light approaching from the lake outside their home
-at Saapunki, Kuusano, Finland. It is about 33 feet in diameter and
-moving against the wind. Their electricity goes off briefly. Looking out
-the window, the Talalas see their whole yard bathed in light caused by a
-huge fireball about 60 feet away, which rises up and disappears after a
-few seconds. Around 8:30 a.m., their son Timo asks them what the marks
-are in the snow outside. He has noticed a spot of hard green ice that is
-not covered with snow. Mauno takes some green ice and melts it into dark
-green water. The melted area is about 20 feet long by 10 feet wide, in
-the middle of which are ice needles as big as fingers with a ball of ice
-on top and some soot. The following day, he tells the newspaper, which
-sends a photographer to the site. UFO researchers from Oulu arrive on
-January 6 and take samples from the melted area and measure radiation.
-(Elis W. Grahn, “Saapunki
-UFO and Green Ice,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April
-1971): 2–3, 27; “Green Water
-from Saapunki: Result of Water Sample Analysis,” Flying Saucer
-Review 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1971): 26– 27; Ahti Karavieri, “The
-Saapunki UFO: Results of Investigations,” Flying Saucer Review 17,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1971): 23–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4763
Date: 1/7/1971
-Description: Two boys independently observe a metallic object with an
-orange glow flying over Dennis, Massachusetts. It descends and
-disappears over some trees and looks as if it is about to fall into
-Scargo Lake. One boy sees a hole in the ice on the lake; steam is rising
-from it, and the water in the hole looks agitated. NICAP investigator Walter
-N. Webb visits
-the lake on January 10 and reports that the hole “was formed by a rather
-sudden melting process.” (“NICAP
-Probes Crashed Object Report,” UFO Investigator, February 1971,
-p. 1; “NICAP
-Probes Crashed Object
-Report: Search Still Hampered by Bad Weather,” UFO Investigator,
-March 1971, p. 3; Clark III 339)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4764
Date: 1/23/1971
-Description: The Porto Alegre, Brazil, newspaper Correiro do Povo notes
-UFO sightings are recurring in a rural location close to the federal
-capital of Brasília. An unnamed local peasant is quoted as saying that
-the “state governor” shows up regularly and looks for “little stones” in
-the nearby woods. Always dressed in black, he arrives via an airplane
-“made of two dishes, like, one atop the other, and when it goes up in
-the air it changes color and then disappears quicker than a flash.”
-(Gordon Creighton, “South
-American Roundup, 1971, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 10 (June 1972); 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4765
Date: 1/25/1971
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Gunar Gruenzner is taking photos of the scenery
-near Praia da Armação beach in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil,
-when he claims to see an intense light beginning to descend. He snaps a
-photo but can no longer see the light. The photo shows a circular light
-with a dark aura. Probably a film defect. (“Observations diverses
-à l’étranger: Photographie au Brésil,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no.
-120 (October 1972): 13–14; Wim van Utrecht, “Shiny
-Cigar Photographed over Brazilian Beach,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4766
Date: 2/1971
-Description: The Borderline Science Investigation Group is founded in
-Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, by Ivan A. W. Bunn. It publishes Lantern, a
-newsletter that continues for 40 issues through late 1982. (Lantern,
-no. 3 (Autumn 1973))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4767
Date: 2/5/1971
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Petter Aliranta and Esko Juhani Sneck are working
-in the woods around Kangaskylä, near Kinnula, Finland, when they see a
-15-foot object descend to a clearing 50 feet away. As it lands, a small
-entity just under 3 feet tall glides to the ground from an opening on
-the underside. Through 3 windows on the UFO, three more entities can be
-seen. The entity approaches Aliranta, who turns on his chain saw.
-Suddenly, the being turns around and heads back to the UFO. As the
-humanoid is rising back up into the air, Aliranta grabs it by the heel
-of its boot with his bare hand. It burns him like a hot iron, and he has
-to let go. The burns are clearly visible 2 months later. The humanoid
-gets back inside, and the UFO takes off with a hum. Before the two men
-go back, they look at markings in the snow. At the end of each landing
-foot there had ben a round plate. These plates have penetrated the full
-depth of the snow (1.3 feet), leaving four round prints forming an even
-square 6.5 feet on each side. Circular footprints left by the entity are
-clearly visible, about 6 inches wide. Possible hoax. (Tapani Kuningas,
-“The
-Humanoid at Kinnula,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1971): 18–19; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April
-5, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4768
Date: 2/23/1971
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Thousands of people in Turin and other places in
-Piedmont, Italy, observe a conspicuous red cloud in the western sky,
-just above the crest of the Alps, moving majestically and changing shape
-slowly. Someone takes a photograph of it from Caluso. The following day,
-the French Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales
-announces that the cloud was caused by a Tibere, an experimental
-three-stage rocket for atmospheric reentry tests. (Sofia Lincos and
-Giuseppe Stilo, “La
-lunga notte della nube rossa,” CICAP, November 5, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4769
Date: 3/2/1971
-Description: James
-E. McDonald testifies as an expert in atmospheric physics at the
-House Committee on Appropriations hearings on the Concorde supersonic
-transport and its potentially harmful effects. His opponents question
-his credentials and ridicule him as someone who believes in “little men
-flying around in the sky.” (Clark III 701)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4770
Date: 3/8/1971
-Description: The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI burgles an
-FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, takes several dossiers, and
-exposes the FBI COINTELPRO program by passing this material to news
-agencies. (Wikipedia, “Citizens’
-Commission to Investigate the FBI”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4771
Date: 3/14/1971
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Five silver objects, four of them in a box
-formation with a fifth leading, are seen over Christies Beach, Adelaide,
-South Australia. Filaments fall. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An
-Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4772
Date: 3/15/1971
-Description: 3:10 p.m. Several silvery-white balls are seen in the air
-over Maslin Beach, Adelaide, South Australia. White “fairy floss” is
-found on the ground that tends to melt and disappear when picked up. It
-is extremely light and tenuous. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An
-Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4773
Date: 4/1971
-Description: Hoover terminates
-the COINTELPRO program, but the FBI continues to use similar tactics
-from time to time. (Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4776
Date: 4/1971
-Description: James
-McDonald shoots himself in the head, leaving him blind, and is
-committed to the psychiatric ward of the V.A. Medical Center in Tucson,
-Arizona. He has been depressed about his disintegrating marriage. He
-signs himself out in June. (Clark III 701)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4777
Date: 4/1971
-Description: UFO Research Associates in Washington, D.C., begins
-publication of the UFO Research Newsletter, edited by Gordon
-I. R. Lore Jr. It
-runs until September 1980. (UFO
-Research Newsletter 1, no. 1 (April 1971))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4775
Date: 4/1971
-Description: Industrial Research magazine publishes the results of a
-survey in which 80% of its members reject the Condon report, 76% believe
-that the government is concealing UFO facts, and 32% accept the ETH.
-(Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 234–235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4774
Date: 4/2/1971
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Following several sightings of a bright
-light in the sky at West Kempsey, New South Wales, an aboriginal man at
-Greenhill sees a hairless face pressed up against his kitchen window.
-Immediately he is “sucked out” through the window and falls 7 feet to
-the steps below. Frightened but largely unhurt, he runs away and his
-wife pursues him. She takes him to the hospital where a cut on his hand
-is treated. (Eileen Buckle, “Defenestration
-at Kempsey,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1971):
-20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4778
Date: 4/14/1971
-Description: CIA Director Richard
-Helms gives a rare public address in which he insists that the CIA
-does not surveil domestic mail. However, the HTLINGUAL program, which is
-still in effect until 1973, does so. The New York City component of the
-program alone examines more than 2 million mailed items every year,
-photographs 30,000 envelopes, and opens 8,000–9,000 letters. (Wikipedia,
-“HTLINGUAL”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4779
Date: 4/14/1971
-Description: Close-range sighting of disc with windows, two humanoid
-figures visible inside, light beam upward from top
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Callery, PA
-ID: 198
Date: 5/1971
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Alojz Krz comes across a UFO sitting on three
-legs in a shallow hollow in a field near Stara Cerkev, Slovenia. He
-approaches within 65 feet of it, and it frightens him considerably.
-Around 8:00 p.m., 17-year-old Angela Rajhs is bicycling in the same area
-and watches the landed object for 4–5 minutes. As she is cycling away,
-the object takes off, turning in a wide spiral. Rajhs returns to the
-scene with her parents the next day and finds several pointed holes in
-the ground about 6–8 inches in diameter. The nearby grass seems burned.
-(Milos Kremelj, “Close
-View of Landed Craft,” Canadian UFO Report 4, no. 4 (Summer 1977):
-9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4783
Date: 5/1971
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A 16-mm film is allegedly taken of retrieved UFOs
-at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It supposedly
-shows “three disc-shaped craft,” one of which lands and the other two
-fly away. A door opens on the landed vehicle and three human-sized
-beings emerge with an odd, gray complexion and pronounced noses. They
-wear tight-fitting jump suits and thin headdresses that appear to be
-communication devices. In their hands they hold a “translator.” A
-Holloman base commander and other Air Force officials go out to meet
-them. (Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking
-Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe
-Productions, 1989; Clark III 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4782
Date: 5/1971
-Description: The Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux is
-established in Brussels, Belgium, by Lucien
-Clarebaut. It
-publishes the journal Inforespace from 1972 to 2007. (Comité Belge
-d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, “Qui sommes-nous?”;
-Inforespace, no.
-1 (1972))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4781
Date: 5/1971
-Description: Oswald
-G. Villard Jr., Antony
-C. Fraser-Smith, and
-R. P. Cassam write an article at the request of the Office of Naval
-Research and the Advanced Research Projects Agency that explores whether
-long-delayed radio echoes could be attributable to an extraterrestrial
-probe. They consider it possible but inefficient. (Oswald G. Villard, et
-al., “Long-Delayed Echoes: Radio’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Effect,” QST 53 (May
-1969): 38; Oswald G. Villard, Antony C. Fraser-Smith, and R. P. Cassam,
-“LDEs, Hoaxes, and the Cosmic Repeater Hypothesis,” QST 55 (May 1971):
-54–58; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and
-Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4780
Date: 5/23/1971
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Rudi Nagora and his wife are driving near Sankt
-Lorenzen ob Eibiswald, Styria, Austria, for a Sunday outing. Nagora gets
-out of the car and hears a whizzing sound and sees a silver, metallic
-object overhead moving in a zigzag pattern. He takes 11 consecutive
-color photographs of it over a 10-minute period. (Richard F. Haines, “An
-Analysis of Multiple UAP Photographic Images (May 23, 1971, Austrian
-Alps),” JUFOS 9 (2006): 31–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4784
Date: 5/24/1971
-Description: 12:10 p.m. Retired artist Julio
-Suárez Marzal is in the first-floor dental office of Walter Griehl
-on the Avenida Pedro Molina in Mendoza, Argentina, when they see a
-flattened, Saturn-shaped object about a half-mile away to the south.
-Griehl goes to retrieve some binoculars and misses most of the sighting.
-It is an incandescent dark orange in color and moving from east to west.
-It begins floating down with a rocking movement and approaches to within
-230 feet. Suárez Marzal sees that it is revolving because of a small
-circular mark on its rim. A dense cloud issues from the object and
-surrounds it, turning it pearly gray with a faintly bluish sheen. As it
-gets closer, the circular mark seems to extend like a bronze-colored
-cylinder and has a handle-like protuberance on top. At one point it
-moves away to the northeast and disappears for 4 seconds but reappears
-even closer, only 130 feet away. It remains stationary for 10 seconds,
-and the cylinder seems deliberately pointed toward the short-wave
-antenna on the nearby central post office. He estimates it is 18–20 feet
-in diameter. It continues rocking and changes shape from a globe to a
-hat to an oval. Then after being visible for 90 seconds it takes off
-suddenly to the south, leaving a trail of vapor. (Antonio Baragiola, “A
-Remarkable Case from Mendoza, Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review 18,
-no. 2 (March/April 1972): 7–11; François Lagarde, “Note
-on the Mendoza Report,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 (March/April
-1972): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4785
Date: 5/24/1971
-Description: Saturn-shaped object darted around, rocked back and forth
-while hovering, rapid acceleration upward at angle
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mendoza, Argentina
-ID: 199
Date: 5/25/1971
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Mr. C. Archer is woken up in his home at
-Lynchford, Tasmania, by his dogs barking and a strange humming noise
-like a generator. He can’t see anything outside and after 30 minutes the
-humming stops. The next day, a flattened area of grass and blackberries
-is found about 600 feet from the house. It is about 30 by 15 feet with a
-spiral pattern in the middle and 6 regularly placed indentations. Later,
-another set of similar indentations is found, roughly in the shape of a
-triangle. (W. K. Roberts, “Burst
-of UFO Activity in Tasmania,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories,
-no. 9 (October 1971): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4786
Date: 6/1971
-Alternate date: 7/1971
-Description: 8:30 p.m. The aircraft carrier USS
-John
-F. Kennedy is completing an Operational Readiness Exercise in the
-Caribbean Sea when an incident occurs following an 18-hour period
-simulating General Quarters. Yeoman Third Class James M. Kopf is in the
-Communications Center monitoring messages on various teletypes. Suddenly
-all the messages begin coming in garbled and he hears that all ship
-communications are out, including the radar, compasses, and electrical
-systems. A signalman from the deck tells them over the intercom that
-something is hovering above the ship. Kopf and others rush topside and
-see a huge, pulsating, orangish sphere stationed silently above the ship
-at a 60°–70° angle. The object remains about 20 minutes, but Kopf sees
-it only one minute before General Quarters sounds and he needs to return
-to his battle stations. The two F-4 Phantom jets on high readiness alert
-cannot take off. Soon the messaging returns to normal and the crew
-stands down after 2 hours. Kopf thinks only about 18 men witnessed the
-object out of the 5,000 on the carrier, because everyone is exhausted
-from the exercise. He hears that commanding officer Capt. Ferdinand
-B. Koch is frustrated by the event, but two days later Koch reminds
-the crew that certain events are to be considered classified. (Good
-Need, pp. 285–288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4787
Date: 6/9/1971
-Description: Evening. Esther Clappison sees a light through her windows
-in Rosedale, Alberta, and goes out onto her porch and sees a rectangular
-object on the ground. One end of it is open, revealing a diffused, white
-light. Two human- like forms are moving about inside. A third figure is
-outside in a crouched position, picking up rocks. They all appear to be
-wearing drab-green coveralls. She goes inside briefly, but the object is
-gone when she returns. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and
-Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 67–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4788
Date: 6/13/1971
-Description: 11:40 a.m. James
-E. McDonald is found dead along a shallow creek in Tucson, Arizona,
-of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note nearby notes his
-domestic problems. (Ann Druffel, “Remembering James McDonald,” IUR 18,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): 4–6, 23–24; Clark III 701)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4789
Date: 6/13/1971
-Description: The New York Times begins publishing excerpts of the
-Pentagon papers, leaked by former military analyst Daniel
-Ellsberg, which
-detail the secret history of the US political-military involvement in
-Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. (Wikipedia, “Pentagon
-Papers”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4790
Date: 6/26/1971
-Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test
-attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 6/29/1971
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A man is hiking in Delamere Forest east of
-Chester, England, when an “electric blue light” appears ahead and moves
-toward him, dancing erratically in and out of the trees. He walks toward
-it but before taking 20 steps he finds himself walking calmly back. The
-object then moves along a mud track and disappears into a small “garage”
-in the bushes. After wandering around in a disoriented state for some
-time, he searches for the “garage” but cannot find it. (Jenny Randles,
-“Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311 (March 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4791
Date: 7/7/1971
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Spanish physician Guillermo Arguello de la Motta
-is a guest of his friend Antonio Arocha at San Juan de los Morros,
-Guárico, Venezuela. They suddenly see two men dressed in black, both
-wearing red ties and black berets. They emerge from a brand-new red Ford
-Mustang, at a distance of 1,600 feet from the house. They stand there
-waiting for 5 minutes, then begin to put on orange belts, talking
-together animatedly. Suddenly a shining object appears in the sky,
-descends, and stops at a height of 2 feet from the ground. It is
-circular, bell-shaped underneath, and has a “turret” on the top. The
-object changes rapidly in color from orange to blue and to white.
-Suddenly a small staircase is dropped from the object, enabling the two
-men from the Mustang to enter the UFO. The staircase is drawn in, then
-the object takes off at an impressive speed. (Gordon Creighton, “South
-American Round-Up,
-Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 (June 1972):
-9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4792
Date: 7/8/1971
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Miner Claude Girard is parked on the road near
-the bridge over the Hurricana River in Joutel, Quebec, when he sees a
-circle 15–20 feet in diameter on the surface of the water with a jet of
-water in the center reaching a height of 20 feet. When the water jet
-settles down, Girard can see a cylindrical object, 6–8 feet in length
-and rusty black in color, beneath the surface. It slowly begins to lean
-to one side and sinks in less than a minute. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s
-UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4793
Date: 7/17/1971
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Tea planter Parl Abeywickrema, his two
-assistants Oswin de Alwis and Nimal Dunuwille, and the driver Sirisena
-Wijesinghe are driving between the Hope Estate in Rikillagaskada, Sri
-Lanka, and the Rockwood Estate in Hewaheta when they see a bright object
-larger than the full moon above the hilly horizon. Soon it approaches
-the, and Abeywickrema orders the driver to stop. They watch the object,
-now hovering about one- quarter mile away at an altitude of 1,000 feet.
-After 10 minutes it silently swoops toward them at high speed and stops
-300 feet away at a height of 100 feet. The object is about 25 feet in
-diameter with two “tapering wings” on either side and casts a
-fluorescent yellow glow. After a few more minutes, the UFO moves toward
-the southwest at a 45° angle after drawing its two wings inside the main
-body. Some 50 witnesses report the same or similar objects in the same
-area that night, and both Abeywickrema and Wijesinghe report seeing UFOs
-around 2:00– 3:00 a.m. after returning home. (Story, pp. 169–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4794
Date: 7/29/1971
-Description: A CIA internal memo reports that a citizen named Vartorella
-has expressed the opinion that the CIA used the Colorado project as
-“whitewash to cover a CIA-initiated program begun prior to January
-1953.” The writer runs through a brief history of the Robertson Panel
-and suggests the following response: “We’re sorry, but we have had no
-interest in the UFO matter for many years, have no files or persons
-knowledgeable on the subject, and hence are unable to respond to his
-charges and questions.” (ClearIntent, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4795
Date: 7/29/1971
-Description: Night. A woman living on a farm outside Saint Hyacinthe,
-Quebec, watches as two dark circular objects with red rotating lights
-hovering above her potato field. It quickly disappears. The next
-morning, her husband finds two 11-foot-wide circular patches of crushed
-and burned potatos where the UFO had hovered. Investigators estimated
-the object had burnes or irradiated the field from a height of 15 feet.
-(Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4796
Date: 8/6/1971
-Description: U.S. KH-9 “Big Bird” spy satellite incinerated on reentry
-into atmosphere.
-Type: official
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 200
Date: 8/9/1971
-Description: Airline flight paced for 20 minutes by glowing orange disc
-(“like two round basins, one on top of the other”)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minas Gerais region, Brazil
-ID: 201
Date: 8/11/1971
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 202
Date: 8/16/1971
-Description: Jan-Ove
-Sundberg sees a landed UFO in a cleared area above Foyers,
-Inverness, Scotland, on Loch Ness. Three human-shaped figures in gray
-coveralls emerge from some bushes and enter the craft, which then takes
-off. Sundberg snaps a photo, then contacts writer and monster researcher
-Frederick
-William “Ted” Holiday, who is looking for a UFO connection with the
-loch. However, Sundberg eventually confesses that he made up the story.
-(F. W. Holiday, “Exorcism
-and UFO Landing at Loch Ness,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1973): 3–7, 13; Roland Watson, “Ted
-Holiday’s Final Days,” Loch Ness Monster, May 31, 2008; Clark III
-600–601)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4797
Date: 9/3/1971
-Description: G.
-Gordon Liddy and E.
-Howard Hunt break into the office of Lewis J. Fielding, Daniel
-Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. (Wikipedia, “Daniel
-Ellsberg”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4798
Date: 9/4/1971
-Description: Aerial survey plane photo showing disc on edge
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lago de Cote, Costa Rica
-ID: 203
Date: 9/4/1971
-Description: 8:25 a.m. Pilot Omar Arias is flying a twin-engine Canadian
-Aero-Commander F680 at a height of 10,000 feet above Lago de Cote, Costa
-Rica, taking aerial photos as part of a preliminary study for future
-hydroelectric projects. On board are photographer Sergio Loaiza, a
-specialist in aerial photography, plus geographer Juan Bravo and
-topographer Francisco Reyes. Loaiza was using a R-M-K 15/23 camera,
-specially made for cartography and using high-resolution black-and-white
-film, strapped on the bottom of the aircraft and taking automatic photos
-with an intervalometer. No one sees a thing while they are up in the
-air, but when Loiaza reviews his images, he discovers in frame 300 what
-seems to be a huge metallic disc against the dark background of the
-lake. The object does not appear in the previous or following frames. Jacques
-Vallée obtains a copy of the negative and examines it with Richard
-Haines and concludes that the photo shows “an unidentified, opaque,
-aerial object was captured on film at a maximum distance of 10,000 feet.
-There are no visible means of lift or propulsion and no surface markings
-other than darker regions that appear to be nonrandom.” (Richard F.
-Haines and Jacques Vallée, “Photo Analysis
-of an Aerial Disc over Costa Rica,” Journal of Scientific
-Exploration 3, no. 2 (1989): 113–131; Richard F. Haines and Jacques
-Vallée, “Photo
-Analysis of an Aerial Disc over Costa Rica: New Evidence,” Journal
-of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 (1990): 71–74; Mick West, “1971
-Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo,” Metabunk,org, May 10,
-2021; Bryce Zabel, “The
-Best UFO Photo Ever Taken?” Medium: The Trail of the Saucers, May
-10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4799
Date: 9/12/1971 (approximate)
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Juan Rodríguez Domínguez, 82, who goes by the
-nickname of Juan el de la Palmareña, is in his hut on the Los Lunarejos
-farm just over a mile from Aznalcóllar, Seville, Spain, when he sees a
-bus-sized object landing near an abandoned well 1,000 feet away. More
-than 50 “soldiers” in blue “uniforms” emerge. They march in formation
-into a hollow in the field and are lost to view. Juan can now see only
-five or six “chiefs” standing on a slope and staring in his direction.
-When they shine a light at him, he ducks behind the hut. A bit later he
-looks out again and they shine the light once more. Frightened, he flees
-to Aznalcóllar to inform his employers, who do not take him seriously.
-He later insists that the object and the “soldiers” have left marks in
-the ground, but police do not bother to follow up. (Ignacio Darnaude,
-“An
-‘Army of Humanoids’ Stated to Have Landed
-in Spain,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 19–21;
-Ignacio Darnaude, [case
-clippings]; Clark III 282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4800
Date: 9/19/1971
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Arthur Honke, Alec Honke, and Gordon Campbell are
-driving north just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, to do some hunting. They
-see a bright flash as something passes overhead and in front of the car.
-It now appears ahead of them on the right side of the road. Honke pulls
-alongside it and steps out of the car. They can hear a low-pitched
-humming from the object only about 150–225 feet away. It is shaped like
-two saucers, one on top of the aother, and has flashing green and red
-lights and one white statonary light. The object hovers for 30 seconds,
-then starts moving slowly to the southeast. But as the men drive north
-again, the object begins following them at a distance for about 45
-minutes. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, pp. 86–87, 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4801
Date: late 9/1971
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Chen Chu, a member of a People’s Liberation Army
-unit stationed in Dingzhou, Hebei, China, is on assignment in a small
-valley north of the city when he and other soldiers notice a ball-like
-object rising slowly to the north of their quarters. It is emitting
-mist, and after a few seconds it spurts out a large jet of smoke and
-rises in the air. It hovers a few more seconds then rises to a higher
-level. Soon it drops down toward the ground and disappears. The unit
-dispatches a motor vehicle to find the object, but due to the ruggedness
-of the mountain roads, it turns back after more than 3 miles. (Wendelle
-Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983,
-p. 72) Autumn — Gene and Geneva Steinberg begin publishing Caveat
-Emptor, a newsletter on UFOs and other anomalies, in Charleston, South
-Carolina. It runs until October 1974, then goes on hiatus until late
-1988 when it is again edited by the Steenberg’s, this time in New
-Jersey. It persists until fall 1990. (Caveat
-Emptor 1, no. 1 (Fall 1971))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4802
Date: 10/2/1971
-Description: 6:30 a.m. An ex-Air Force man is driving from Caro to
-Watrousville, Michigan, and spots a triangular UFO with a large white
-light at the bottom and many smaller red lights around it. It makes
-sharp turns at fantastic speed and moves quickly out of sight. (“Sighting
-Advisory,” UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4803
Date: 10/2/1971
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Two students, Vània, 9, and Vera, 21, are sitting
-down outside their residence on a busy street in the populous
-neighborhood of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they see a
-luminous, yellow, silent object above a building across the street some
-260–300 feet away. They run out into the street to alert others, and the
-object follows them above the roofs of houses. Another student, Nelson
-Calmon Schubsky, 23, and his fiancée rush into the street along with
-many others to see the object. Chbosky has a Leica camera and takes two
-photos without having time to adjust the settings. The UFO has three
-luminous appendages (white, yellow, and red) and is rose-colored in the
-center with a red outline. It pulsates rapidly, changes color, and
-disappears behind a nearby tower. Chbosky’s photos are blurry. (“UFO
-é Fotografado no Rio de Janeiro (RJ),” Portal Fenomenum, June 15,
-2016; Clark III 1007–1009; Brazil 146–149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4804
Date: 10/5/1971
-Description: Early morning. While on the downwind leg of the pattern to
-runway 20L at the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, four
-pilots on board a single-engine Cessna airplane watch as a “huge star”
-approaches them on their starboard side. The object descends to their
-altitude and slows rapidly to their air speed, smoothly changing its
-direction to fly parallel with them at an estimated distance of 98 feet.
-It looks like an “inverted dish” with a small rounded protrusion
-centered on its upper surface that seems to contain oval windows. What
-appears to be the head of a person is seen in one window looking at
-them. The UFO is seen for about 85 seconds. The object descends at high
-velocity toward the water’s surface, turns sharply left without any
-hesitation and disappears from sight in several seconds. The reporting
-witness is Chief Flight Instructor José Américo C. Medeiros, 23, pilot
-of the Cessna. (Richard F. Haines, “Airplane Pacing in Rio,” IUR 34, no.
-2 (Mar. 2012): 3–6, 26–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4805
Date: 10/11/1971
-Description: Soviet Salyut 1 space station burned up during atmospheric
-reentry.
-Type: official
-Type: landing
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 204
Date: 11/2/1971
-Description: Brilliantly lighted, mushroomshaped object hovered just off
-ground, sheep reacted, light beam, landing traces, physiological
-effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Delphos, KS
-ID: 205
Date: 11/2/1971
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Ronald Johnson, 16, is tending sheep on his
-family’s farm at Delphos, Kansas, when he hears a rumbling sound and
-sees (75 feet away in a small grove of trees) an object become suddenly
-illuminated with a mass of blue, red, and orange colors. Nine feet in
-diameter and 10 feet high, the UFO is slightly domed at the top and is
-hovering 2 feet above the ground. He and his dog stare at the object
-while the sheep are bellowing. After several minutes, the glow at the
-base becomes more intense and the object takes off at an angle, clearing
-by no more than 4 feet a shed attached to the sheep pen. The rumbling is
-replaced by a high-pitched wail. Johnson is temporarily blinded but
-recovers his sight a few minutes later and sees the object still there.
-He runs into the house to tell his parents, and they also see the light
-in the southern sky moving off into the distance. At the site where the
-UFO has been is a glowing, gray-white circle where the soil seems to be
-crystallized. After the parents touch the soil, it turns their fingers
-numb, persisting for several weeks. Johnson takes a photo of the circle.
-Seven separate soil analyses are conducted. Soil samples taken from the
-ring so not absorb water, have a higher acid content, and contain more
-soluble salts and calcium. They also produce less seed growth than
-control samples and are coated with a hydrocarbon of low molecular
-weight that is difficult to remove. A second substance is also found
-that is composed of white, crystalline fibers. (NICAP, “Delphos,
-Kansas, November 2, 1971”; “Landing Case
-in Kansas,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1971, pp. 1, 3; Ted Phillips,
-“Landing
-Report from Delphos,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9
-(February 1972): 4–10; Vallée, The Invisible College, Dutton, 1975,
-p. 35; Clark III 400–402; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 79–82; Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Landing: New
-Evidence from the Laboratory,” IUR 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1987): 21–25;
-Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Landing: New Evidence from the Laboratory,
-Part Two,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June 1987): 19–21; Erol A. Faruk, “The
-Delphos Case: Soil Analysis and Appraisal of a CE-2 Report,” JUFOS 1
-(1989): 41–65; Michael D. Swords, “Research Note: Delphos, Kansas, Soil
-Analysis,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 115; Michael D. Swords, comp., “Soil Analysis
-Results,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 116–133; Erol A. Faruk, “Further Comment on
-the Delphos Data,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 134–137; 8 (2003): 1–25; Ted Phillips
-and Jennie Zeidman, Delphos: A Close Encounter of the Second Kind, UFO
-Research Coalition, 2002; Phyllis A. Budinger, “New Analysis of Soil
-Samples from the Delphos UFO Case,” JUFOS 8 (2003): 1–25; Erol Faruk,
-“The
-Delphos CE2 Case:
-A New Appraisal of the Data,” Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies,
-November 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4806
Date: 11/3/1971
-Description: The Ugandan representative to the United Nations, Grace
-Ibingira, asks the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to
-encourage astronauts who encounter UFOs to treat them respectfully. He
-wants to insert a clause to that effect into a UN statement on space
-exploration, but his colleagues are unmoved. (Clark III 1189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4807
Date: 12/1971
-Description: At Tooligie Hill, South Australia, farmer Robert Habner
-finds a single-ring crop circle 10 feet in diameter in a wheat paddock.
-Another family had seen a red ball of light in the area the previous
-night. (Allen Tiller, “Tooligie
-Hill UFO Crop Circle,” Eidolon Paranormal, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4808
Date: 12/20/1971
-Description: Prior to the launch of a Black Arrow rocket, an
-unidentified aircraft is seen by a trained meteorological observer over
-prohibited airspace at the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South
-Australia. The RAAF explains it as reentering space debris, although it
-is impossible to confirm. (Swords 401) Last week of December — After
-sunset. Norman W. Kasting is flying on a commercial airliner between
-Dallas, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. He notices something approaching
-the plane from behind on the west side. It passes within a few hundred
-yards of the aircraft and 10–20 feet below its level, flying faster than
-the plane. The object is metallic and shaped like an upside-down bowl
-about 30–40 feet in diameter and 15 feet tall. It has orange or amber
-lights around the edge. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4809
Date: 1972
-Description: Betty
-Hill begins making numerous trips to a rural area near Kingston, New
-Hampshire, where she claims to see 6–7 UFOs every night, often at close
-range. Saucer-seeking pilgrims join her on these vigils. CUFOS field
-investigator John
-Paul Oswald joins her occasionally and is convinced she is only
-seeing airplanes and, on one occasion, a streetlight. She claims no
-further abductions or CE3s, but many ufologists think her celebrity has
-clouded her judgment. (Clark III 586)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4810
Date: 1972
-Description: Project SNOWBIRD established to test fly a captured flying
-saucer. This was an alleged ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that
-researched, developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and
-test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the
-CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project,
-however another “Project Snowbird” has been found described as a “Joint
-Army/Air Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in
-1955” in the 1963 Gale Research’s Code Names Dictionary. Project
-SNOWBIRD is another project that was revealed in the Project AQUARIUS
-Briefing Document.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A, SNOWBIRD)
-Reference: archive.org
Date: 1972
-Description: Kilbjørn Stenødegård founds the Norsk UFO Center in
-Trondheim, Norway. It publishes UFO Forum from 1973 to 1978. The Norsk
-UFO Center in Bergen publishes Rapportnytt from 1974 to 1981. (UFO
-Forum, no.
-1 (1973); Rapportnytt, no. 1 (1974))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4815
Date: 1972
-Description: Luis do Rosário Real founds the Sociedade Pelotense de
-Investigacão e Pesquiso de Discos Voadores in Pelotas, Rio Grande de
-Sul, Brazil. It publishes a Boletim SPIPDV. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO
-Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 296)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4814
Date: 1972
-Description: Alberto Romero founds Grupo de Pesquisas Aérospaciais
-Zenith in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It begins publishing Boletim G-PAZ
-annually. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 136–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4813
Date: 1972
-Description: The Centro de Estudos Astronomicos e de Fenómenos Insolitos
-is founded in Porto, Portugal. It begins publishing a monthly journal,
-Insolito, in 1975. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980,
-p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4812
Date: 1972
-Description: Oscar A. Uriondo and Roberto E. Banchs found the Centro de
-Estudios de Fénomenos Aéreos Inusuales in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-(Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4811
Date: 1/1972
-Description: Air Commodore Anthony
-Norman Davis becomes the first head of the British UFO desk to
-appear on TV to explain how the ministry investigates sightings. The
-program is part of the BBC’s Man Alive series and includes the “man from
-the ministry” engaging in debate with a panel of experts and taking
-questions from the audience. The program is filmed in Banbury, England,
-town hall following a wave of UFO sightings in Oxfordshire. Davis says
-all reports received by the Ministry of Defence are “examined with an
-open mind and without prejudice” but denies that the MoD possesses any
-evidence that can prove the existence of extraterrestrial visitors.
-(UFOFiles2, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4816
Date: 1/1972
-Description: Night. High school senior Donna Wilkins is driving in a
-rural area near Bartelso, Illinois, with a boyfriend when they see
-lights traveling back and forth in an odd pattern in the distance.
-Suddenly a luminous triangular object appears right next to them and
-they speed up. It maintains the same position above their car even
-though they accelerate to 85 mph. The underside seems to be composed of
-metal beams. It disappears beyond a tree line as they enter town, (“They
-Still Keep Seeing UFOs in Carlyle,” East St. Louis (Ill.) Metro-East
-Journal, May 31, 1972, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 38 (June 1972):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4817
Date: early 2/1972
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Sarajevo International Airport in Bosnia picks up
-an unidentified radar target traveling at about 37 mph. It appears
-visually as a triangular object. When a Jat Airways Convair approaches
-the target, it accelerates and vanishes. (Milos Krmelj, “Report
-from Ljubljana, Slovenia,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no.
-13 (February 1973): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4818
Date: 3/1972
-Description: Victor
-Marchetti, who
-has worked as an analyst for the CIA from 1955 to 1969, announces his
-plans to write a nonfiction book about the agency and completes a draft
-of an article for Esquire which, according to a later CIA account,
-includes “names of agents, relations with named governments, and
-identifying details of ongoing operations.” The CIA receives a copy of
-the article and decides to seek an injunction against its publication.
-The basis for seeking an injunction against Marchetti is the secrecy
-agreement which he signed when beginning employment at CIA. The agency
-presents the agreement and the parts of the draft article it considers
-in violation of the agreement, to Judge Albert
-Vickers Bryan Jr. of the US District Court for Eastern Virginia, who
-grants a temporary restraining order in April. The case proceeds to
-trial, at which Bryan finds for the CIA and issues a permanent
-injunction requiring Marchetti to submit his writings to CIA for review
-prior to publication. Marchetti appeals the injunction to the Fourth
-Circuit Court of Appeals, which upholds Bryan’s restraint but limits it
-to classified material. The appeals court also finds that Marchetti is
-entitled to timely review of materials he submits to the CIA. Marchetti
-appeals again to the US Supreme Court, but SCOTUS rejects Marchetti’s
-appeal in December. Marchetti continues work on his book with a
-coauthor, John
-D. Marks, and
-signs a book contract with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. In August 1973,
-they submit their manuscript to the CIA. After reviewing the manuscript,
-the agency responds with a list of 339 passages that it claims are
-classified information and demands their deletion. Marchetti and Marks
-reject the demand and indicate they will go to court to print the
-manuscript as written. The CIA then withdraws its objections to 171 of
-the items but stands firm on the remaining 168. The trial is held again
-before Judge Bryan. This time, however, he rejects all but 26 of the
-deletions requested by the CIA on the grounds that the information in
-them is not properly or provably classified. The CIA appeals Bryan’s
-ruling, and ultimately the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds all
-168 of the deletions. The book is published by Knopf in 1974 as The CIA
-and the Cult of Intelligence. It is printed with blanks for deleted
-passages and boldface type for the 171 deletions that CIA originally
-requested and later withdrew. It is the first book the federal
-government of the United States ever goes to court to censor before its
-publication. (Wikipedia, “Victor Marchetti”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4819
Date: 3/8/1972
-Description: President Nixon legitimizes
-the use of special access controls and the “special access program” is
-finally made official. These are security protocols that provide highly
-classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that
-exceed those for regular (collateral) classified information. SAPs can
-range from black projects to routine but especially sensitive
-operations, such as COMSEC maintenance or Presidential transportation
-support. In addition to collateral controls, an SAP may impose more
-stringent investigative or adjudicative requirements, specialized
-nondisclosure agreements, special terminology or markings, exclusion
-from standard contract investigations (carve-outs), and centralized
-billet systems. (Wikipedia, “Special
-access program”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4820
Date: 3/12/1972
-Description: The tabloid newspaper The National Enquirer announces a
-$50,000 reward to “the first person who can prove that an Unidentified
-Flying Object (UFO) came from outer space and is not a natural
-phenomenon.” It has appointed five experts to a blue-ribbon panel that
-will evaluate all the entries: J.
-Allen Hynek, R.
-Leo Sprinkle, Frank
-B. Salisbury, James
-A. Harder, and
-Robert
-F. Creegan. The deadline for evidence is January 1, 1973. On May 23,
-1973, the panel announces that none of the entries examined warranted
-the full prize, but it has decided to award $5,000 to the Johnson family
-of Delphos, Kansas, for submitting the 1971 landing trace evidence. The
-panel awards seven other UFO cases with a portion of the reward, the
-last going to Deputy Sheriff Val
-Johnson in 1980. (Isaac Koi, “Concensus
-Lists: National Enquirer Panel,” UFOs and Rationality, April 1,
-2008; Curt Collins, “The
-Blue Ribbon UFO Panel of the National
-Enquirer,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, September 13, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4821
Date: 3/19/1972
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A boy named Mario goes out onto his patio at
-Santa Maria Acuexcomac, Puebla, Mexico, to look for a broom when he sees
-a bluish light, which gets larger as if it is approaching the ground. He
-sees that the thing is descending into a vacant lot and, thinking it is
-a hot air balloon, runs towards it. When he reaches the lot, he sees the
-thing is a kind of luminous sphere giving off a blue light like that of
-a welding torch. Mario now becomes frightened and runs to call his
-mother. As he goes in the house, two neighbors, Zacarian Mendoza and
-Manuela Carlotta de Mendoza, also see the object. When Mario comes out
-again accompanied by his mother Josefina, the object, which has been on
-the ground for 7 minutes, begins to rise up, producing a hum and casting
-off more blue sparks. Gradually the light and sound are lost in the sky.
-The next day, Mario goes to the site and finds four deep tracks, about 8
-inches deep, separated exactly from each other in the form of a square
-of 8.2 feet. At an equidistant point in the center of the tracks there
-is a black burnt mark on the ground. (Ted Phillips, “Landing Traces:
-Physical Evidence for the UFO,” in MUFON Symposium 1973, Midwest UFO
-Network, 1973, p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4822
Date: 4/1/1972
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two students are driving between Cacuso and
-Lucala, Angola, when suddenly their vehicle’s engine and lights fail.
-They check the batteries and fuses, which are all normal. Then they see
-two bright lights. Shortly afterward, they hear a whistling noise coming
-from an object about 130 feet away. It is about 130 feet across, partly
-lit up, and has three legs hanging from it. It rise to a height of 40
-feet, where it hovers briefly, retracts its legs, whistles again, and
-turns on edge as it moves away. As soon as it leaves, the vehicle’s
-lights come back on and the engine returns to normal. (Herbert S.
-Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34,
-no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4823
Date: 4/14/1972
-Description: Evening. At least four adults in various parts of
-Waterbury, Connecticut, spot a triangular-shaped UFO moving silently.
-The witnesses estimated its width at about 130–195 feet. (“Sighting
-Advisory,” UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4824
Date: 4/24/1972
-Description: Day. A man in Willow Point, British Columbia, on the Inside
-Passage takes a photo of a disc-shaped object spinning “like a top” and
-hovering in the sky above Quadra Island. The object has a dull sheen
-like dirty chrome and lights flashing around its rim. The UFO wobbles,
-tilts, and shudders, then shoots straight upward about 1,000 feet. It
-then takes off to the north on a zigzag course. The photo is blurry, but
-shows a disc. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, pp. 72–73, 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4825
Date: 5/26/1972
-Description: President Richard
-Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid
-Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the 1972 Moscow
-Summit. Under the terms of the treaty, each party is limited to two ABM
-complexes, each of which is to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic
-missiles. Ratified by the US Senate on August 3, the treaty remains in
-force until June 2002 when the US withdraws. (Wikipedia, “Anti-Ballistic
-Missile Treaty”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4826
Date: 6/1972
-Description: Edward Harris begins publishing Cosmology Newslink, a
-monthly newsletter on UFO and contactee topics, in Dunmow, Essex,
-England. It persists until the Summer 1994 issue. (Cosmology
-Newslink, no.
-1 (June 1972))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4828
Date: 6/6/1972
-Description: New York City artist and psychic Ingo
-Swann visits the Stanford Research Institute [now SRI International]
-in Menlo Park, California, to begin remote viewing experiments. He is
-brought by Harold
-E. Puthoff and other scientists to a building where, several floors
-below, is a heavily shielded magnetometer whose sole function is to
-measure quarks. One scientist asks him to “perturb” the device. As Swann
-sits there trying to visualize the magnetometer, a scientist monitoring
-it tells the group that the needle is moving wildly and malfunctioning.
-The scene is repeated several more times, each time when Swann is
-imagining the device. Puthoff is intrigued. He writes up his findings
-and a few weeks later he is visited by two CIA intelligence analysts who
-want Puthoff and SRI to investigate remote viewing for espionage
-purposes. (Wikipedia, “Ingo
-Swann”; Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers:
-The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies, Dell,
-1997; Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S.
-Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and
-Psychokinesis, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 130–136; Edwin C. May and Sonali
-Bhatt Marwaha, eds., The Star Gate Archives, Volumes 1–4, Reports of the
-United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972–1995, McFarland, 4
-vols., 2018–2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4829
Date: 6/9/1972
-Description: Motorist experienced engine failure, pulsating yellow oval
-object visible on road ahead. Object illuminated trees as it
-departed
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Algodonales, Cadiz, Spain
-ID: 206
Date: 6/17/1972
-Description: 2:30 a.m. The White House Plumbers are arrested in the
-process of burglarizing and planting surveillance bugs in the Democratic
-National Committee offices at the Watergate Building Complex in
-Washington, D.C. (Wikipedia, “Watergate
-scandal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4830
Date: summer 1972
-Description: Early morning. The Musson, a Russian scientific ship, is in
-the North Atlantic roughly 300 miles from Bermuda. The electrician,
-radio operator, and one of the navigators see an elliptical object
-moving slowly through the cloudless sky at high altitude from north to
-south. It changes shape to a wheel and then to an elongated,
-silvery-white ellipse, then it disappears from view. (Stonehill and
-Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4827
Date: 6/22/1972
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Javier Bosque, a seminarist of the order of
-St. Joseph Calasanz, is reading in bed at his room at the Colegio
-Escolapios in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, when he notices a bright light
-outside through the half-closed shutters of his window. To his surprise,
-the window begins opening by itself and a 2-foot-long, football-shaped,
-metallic, luminous object enters his room and approaches the foot of his
-bed. His radio begins to emit a loud, continuous sound. He reaches over
-and turns on a cassette tape recorder. The object descends from about 6
-feet above the floor to 15 inches above it. A beam of solid light
-extends from the object, touching the radio twice, retracts, then
-touches the cassette recorder. Bosque grabs the recorder and holds the
-microphone in his lap. The object ascends to about 6 feet above the
-floor and moves out the window and up. The radio sound weakens. The
-8-minute sound recording is analyzed by laboratories in Spain, Brazil,
-France, and the US. It contains some pure tones at first, followed by
-modulations in amplitude. Robert H. Coddington finds, after an analysis
-of the tape, that it most likely is a recording of the chance reception
-of an ordinary test transmission from a terrestrial broadcast station
-and does not match Bosque’s narrative. (Albert Adell and Pere Redón, “UFO
-Enters and Inspects
-a Room,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 2 (March/April 1973): 10–13,
-iii; “Bosque
-Spanish UFO Tapes Deemed
-Non-Startling,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980):
-4; Willy Smith, “A Bizarre Event at Logroño: A Taped UFO Sound,” IUR 7,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1982): 8–10; “Logroño
-(Spain) Tape Recording Explained,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 5–7; Robert H.
-Coddington, “Further Analysis
-of the Logroño Tape,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May
-1983): 7–10; Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2
-(June 2007): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4831
Date: 6/26/1972
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Bennie Smit, the new owner of Braeside Farm 9
-miles from Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa, is alerted to a
-“fiery red ball hovering at tree-top level” by his hired hand Boer de
-Klerk. Its color changes to bright green and then to whitish yellow,
-with flames shooting out. Smit dashes home, grabs a rifle, and calls the
-police. He shoots at the object, but the bullets have little effect. At
-10:30 a.m., police sergeant Piet C. Kitching and warrant officer P. R.
-van Rensburg arrive at the spot where the UFO is still hovering. As the
-object moves away, Smit fires at it an eighth time; this time he hears a
-thud, and the object moves up and down and stops changing colors. Smit
-and Kitchin fire at it some more, after which it disappears and
-reappears about 60 feet away looking gunmetal gray in color and somewhat
-oval-shaped. After they fire two final shots, the object moves away
-through the trees around noon. The next day, van Rensburg leads a team
-of police officers to the site, looking for evidence. They find nine
-circular imprints of its supposed landing gear found in damp clay soil.
-On June 28, Brig. A. Vosloo, divisional commander of police for the
-Eastern Cape, takes soil samples and plaster casts of the imprints.
-(Wikipedia, “UFO
-Sightings in South Africa”; Charles Bowen, “A
-Hot Reception at Fort Beaufort,” Flying Saucer Review Case
-Histories, no. 11 (August 1972): 1–7; Philipp Human, “Fort
-Beaufort Tailpiece,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 11
-(August 1972): 7; Clark III 510–511)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4832
Date: 6/29/1972
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A dark, wedge-shaped UFO passes directly over
-several witnesses at 200–500 feet altitude in Buffalo, South Dakota, at
-a slow speed. About 100 feet long, it has two brilliant white lights at
-the front and two orange-white lights in the rear. It moves with the
-blunt edge forward and hovers intermittently for 40 minutes. It emits a
-sound like rushing air. (Glenn McWane and David Graham, The New UFO
-Sightings, Warner, 1974; Marler 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4833
Date: 7/1972
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek publishes The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, in
-which he charges the Air Force with indifference and incompetence in its
-UFO investigations. He also critiques the Condon report and details
-well- documented reports of six types of UFOs: nocturnal lights,
-daylight discs, radar/visual observations, and close encounters of the
-first, second, and third kind. It is an “articulate challenge to his
-colleagues to tolerate the study of something they cannot understand,”
-according to a reviewer in Science. (J. Allen Hynek, The
-UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974; Clark III 620)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4834
Date: 7/3/1972
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Maureen Puddy, 27, sees a disc-shaped object on
-the Mooraduc Road near Frankston, Victoria, Australia. The object is a
-huge blue disc that hovers above her car. (Keith Basterfield, “Present
-at the Abduction,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June 1992): 13–14, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4835
Date: 7/4/1972
-Alternate date: 7/4/1973
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Capt. Erling Bakke and his wife see a peculiar
-vessel on the water east of Sundsøya, Trøndelag, Norway. It is black,
-about 25 feet long, 6 feet high, and traveling about 60 mph. It rises up
-at a 45° angle, then disappears. (J. O. Sundberg, “Stor
-Expedition till Nansenfjorden,” UFO Information, 1975, no. 3,
-pp. 9–10; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine
-Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4837
Date: 7/4/1972
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Girl guide leader Claudine Dieupart alerts 43
-other girl guides and Belgian missionary Rev. Fr. Quertemont, who are
-sitting around a campfire at Lamonriville, Malmédy, Belgium, to a
-triangle of white lights moving overhead. They watch the lights for 5
-minutes. At 10:30 p.m., several witnesses at a bus stop in Liège view a
-triangle of bright globes of light moving slowly from west to east. They
-pass through a cloud bank, illuminating it. About the same time, other
-witnesses in the western suburbs see a similar display. At 10:31 p.m., a
-factory worker in Flawinne watches a triangle of three bright lights
-ascending vertically. At 10:40 p.m., a couple in Spy observe a
-triangular display of lights surrounded by bluish sparks. At 10:45 p.m.
-a farmer in Ellezelles notices three bluish beams of light shining down
-from a luminous cloud. (Marler 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4836
Date: 7/5/1972
-Description: 12:10 p.m. A witness in Belgium is parking his car when he
-notices a dozen whitish objects flying about randomly at a low altitude.
-A neighbor describes them as vaguely shaped, fleecy, and rotating
-slowly. They seem to be moving around a dark triangular object. (Marler
-87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4838
Date: 7/10/1972
-Description: Luminous object beamed light at car, engine lost
-power
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Alcaracejos, Cordoba, Spain
-ID: 207
Date: 7/19/1972
-Description: 10:35 p.m. Herbert and Mady Mathar and their two children
-are walking in Faymonville, Belgium, when they see a red-orange point of
-light slowly moving toward them. Closer, they see that it is hat-shaped.
-Mathar runs inside to get a camera and takes two photos before the
-object disappears. Ballester Olmos and van Utrecht conclude that the
-photos show the Moon setting in the southwest. (Vicente-Juan Ballester
-Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium
-in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT
-Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 99–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4839
Date: 7/25/1972
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Maureen Puddy sees the same object she had seen
-on July 3 at almost the same spot. This time it seems to drain power
-from the car, causing it to stop, the car steering itself off the road.
-A voice in her head tells her, “All your tests will be negative. Tell
-media, do not panic. We mean no harm.” Several months later, she is
-“mentally” abducted into a room where she sees an entity. This event
-occurs while two other people are present with her, but they only report
-that Puddy lapses into unconsciousness. On a later occasion, the entity
-appears as she is driving the car. (Judith M. Magee, “The
-Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy,” Australian Annual Flying Saucer
-Review, 1983, pp. 4–9; Judith M. Magee, “The
-Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy,” Victorian UFO Research Society,
-1996; Keith Basterfield, “Present at the Abduction,” IUR 17, no. 3
-(May/June 1992): 13–14, 23; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification
-System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 20) July 27 —
-The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Oceans and International
-Environment holds hearings on Senate Resolution 281, proposing an
-international treaty to ban weather modification as a weapon of war.
-Dartmouth environmental scientist Gordon
-J. F. MacDonald opposes the bill, saying that research needs to be
-unfettered, but he mentions weapons that might use electrical waves,
-created by the differential between the ionosphere and the surface of
-the earth, “that would be tuned to the brain waves…. About ten cycles
-per second…. You can produce changes in behavioral patterns or in
-responses.” (Prohibiting
-Military Weather Modification,
-Hearings before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International
-Environment, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 92nd Cong., 2nd
-Sess., on S. Res. 281, pp. 72–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4840
Date: 8/1972
-Description: The Archives for UFO Research (Arbetsgruppen för Ufologi)
-is founded in Södertälje, Sweden, by Håkan Blomqvist, Kjell
-Jonsson, and
-Anders
-Liljegren. Its
-specialized research library for UFO literature is established in 1974,
-and in 1979 AFU moves to Norrköping. It publishes Ufologen from 1972 to
-1974 and the AFU Newsletter from March 1975 to October 2008. In April
-2013 it changes its name to the Archives for the Unexplained. Its
-holdings in 2020 include a reference library of more than 20,000 titles,
-more than 50,000 magazine issues, some 500,000 clippings, and more than
-50,000 European UFO cases. (Wikipedia, “Archives
-for UFO
-Research”; Archives for the Unexplained, “About
-AFU”; Ufologen, no
-1 (July 1972); AFU
-Newsletter, no. 1 (March/April 1975); AFU
-Annual Report, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4842
Date: 8/1972
-End date: 10/1972
-Description: Numerous UFO sightings are reported throughout rural areas
-of Puerto Rico, as well as in San Juan and Ponce. People travel to the
-small town of Adjuntas, where the objects are seen frequently. One
-Friday night, the mayor of Adjuntas is traveling with a group of people
-in three cars along a lonely stretch of road in Barrio Garzas when he
-sees three bright discs moving through the sky. Their light changes in
-color and intensity. Sightings also center on the town of Utuado, where
-the Air National Guard has scrambled F-104s to chase the objects. A
-teacher at Utuado High School is driving back from town with his brother
-when they see a bright light off in the bush 300 feet from the road.
-They get out of the car and approach the light, which is sitting in a
-clearing. It is a flattened disc about the size of a small house and has
-a set of small, dark rectangles evenly spaced around its edge. It is
-brilliantly lit and its colors are constantly changing. They watch the
-object for a few minutes until it vanishes like “someone turning off a
-light.” (Salvador Freixedo, “UFOs
-over the Caribbean,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 14
-(April 1973): 9–10; Henry Cordova, “Encounter in Puerto Rico,” IUR 25,
-no. 1 (Spring 2000): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4846
Date: 8/1972
-Description: Ingo
-Swann returns to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park,
-California, as do the two CIA intelligence analysts. With Swann in a
-Faraday cage, the SRI team conducts a series of what’s-in-the-box tests
-in which office supplies hidden inside a box are presented to Swann, who
-is asked to identify the objects inside. During a lunch break one of the
-CIA agents walks outside and collects a small brown moth, capturing it
-alive, and sealing it inside a box. When Swann looks at the box, he sees
-“something small, brown, and irregular, sort of like a leaf…. Except
-that it seems very much alive, like it’s even moving.” (Annie Jacobsen,
-Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4841
Date: 8/9/1972
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A married couple, both college professors, are
-camping out in a garden in the backyard of some friends’ home just off
-the road to Nîmes at Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, France. The woman is
-walking outside and sees a shiny white ball the size of a small car
-sitting in a nearby parking lot. She hears footsteps behind her and sees
-a dark shape about 4 feet tall in the shape of a parallelepiped topped
-by an oval where a head would be. It has 2 white circles for eyes, but
-no visible arms or legs. It turns toward her and she feels an
-extraordinary fear. After a few seconds, she runs back inside the tent.
-(Patrick Gross, “Saint-Jean-du-Gard,
-France, August 9, 1972”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4843
Date: 8/10/1972
-Description: Bright daylight fireball meteor filmed lasting up to 45
-seconds or more.
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Western United States
-ID: 208
Date: 8/10/1972
-Description: 2:29 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor passes 35 miles above the
-Earth’s surface, entering the atmosphere above Utah at 9.3 miles/second
-and passing northward, leaving the atmosphere over Alberta. It is seen
-by many people and recorded on film and by space-borne sensors. An
-eyewitness to the event, located in Missoula, Montana, sees the object
-pass directly overhead and hears a double sonic boom. The smoke trail
-lingers in the atmosphere for several minutes. (Wikipedia, “1972
-Great Daylight Fireball”; “A
-Meteor That Missed Mountain States
-May Have Had Hiroshima Bomb Force,” New York Times, July 4, 1974,
-p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4844
Date: 8/11/1972
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 209
Date: 8/12/1972
-Description: 2:00 a.m.–5:00 a.m. About 30 young members of the Taizé
-Community in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, France, are having a discussion in a
-rustic theatre circle to the northwest of the community buildings.
-Renata Faa is the first to see a star-like object come out of the sky in
-the west. It lands on the ground on a ridge facing them. Eventually,
-after more yellow lights appear on the object, they see it as
-cigar-shaped and about 100 feet long. Five other white lights emit
-luminous beams that extend progressively across the ground. Two cupolas
-are visible on its left side. Three small white discs appear on the
-right side, apparently emerging from the main object, and perform
-complex maneuvers. Some of the witnesses feel a tingling in their
-fingertips and knees. Faa and three of the other witnesses decide to
-walk through the fields and approach the object. Around 3:00 a.m., a
-multitude of red particles appear in the air around the approaching
-witnesses and in the ground around them. The lights on the object
-constantly change their patterns of display and movement. The four
-witnesses see a dark mass like a haystack on their left about 30 feet
-away. A small red light is moving haphazardly around it. When one of
-them shines a flashlight on the haystack, the beam travels horizontally
-for a bit then is directed perpendicularly upward. Finally, toward 5:00
-a.m., the large object rises up and moves off to the south, following
-the terrain. (J. Tyrode, “Taizé:
-A Case Right out of the Ordinary,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1973): 16–21; F. Lagarde, “A
-Few Words about Taizé,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1973): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4845
Date: 8/12/1972
-Description: Elliptical object with bright lights hovered near ground
-emitting light beams downward, satellite objects emerged. UFO reacted to
-flashlight
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Taize, France
-ID: 210
Date: 8/19/1972
-Description: Luminous, bowl-shaped object hovered near ground. Blinding
-white light brightly illuminated terrain. Object made “whooshing” noise,
-shot straight up
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Colby, KS
-ID: 211
Date: 9/1972
-Description: 8:00 p.m. While commuting home by train from nearby
-Debrecen, Hungary, workers see about 7 luminous, orange-colored ellipses
-floating high above Nyírábrány. The phenomena are still there as they
-are walking home from the train station. The lights are as bright as the
-full moon and remain in position in a formation of three rows. The
-spectacle lasts for 30 minutes. The display is seen for the next four
-evenings in a row in the same part of the sky west of the village. On
-the last night, one of the lights disappears but returns to the same
-position in the formation. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in
-Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4848
Date: early 9/1972
-Description: Just after midnight. Vasile Cărăbuş, a night watchman at an
-agricultural cooperative in Valea Plopului, Romania, sees a yellow star
-with a trail crossing the sky. It then hovers and appears to land in an
-orchard on the Odaia hill about 1 mile away. A couple days later,
-Cărăbuş and other locals visit the orchard and find a circular area 15
-feet in diameter where all the stems are broken off about 3 feet from
-the ground. In the center of the circle is a mound of earth about 2 feet
-in diameter and 15 inches high. In the middle of this is a round hole at
-least 6 feet deep, around which are three identical impresions 4.5 feet
-apart. Hundreds of curious onlookers visit the site, among them engineer
-Justin
-Capră, who
-detects a substantial increase in gamma radiation in the center of the
-circle. Ufologist Călin Turcu notes that the vegetation on the mound of
-earth is completely absent for the next 4 years and frail after that.
-(Hobana and Weverbergh 276–279; Romania 34–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4847
Date: 9/10/1972
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Greengrocer Allan James is checking a load on
-his truck prior to descending from the top of a hill west of Georges
-Creek, New South Wales. He notices a huge, cigar-shaped object with
-smaller objects emerging from each end. They group into an arrowhead
-formation before moving southeast. The large object then climbs at a
-high rate of speed and disappears. The duration is about 10 minutes.
-(Eileen Buckle, “Is
-Kempsey a UFO
-‘Window’?” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 6 (April 1975): 3–4; Herbert
-S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
-2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4849
Date: 9/14/1972
-Description: 4:20 a.m. An unidentified target is detected on radar at
-the Palm Beach (Florida) International Airport by FAA air traffic
-controller C. J. Fox. Fox describes the contact as a “good clear
-target.” The object is tracked for over an hour when at approximately
-6:00 a.m., NORAD is alerted. Two F-106 jet fighters are dispatched from
-Homestead AFB [now Homestead Air Reserve Base] in Miami–Dade County to
-locate and identify the object. The UFO disappears from radar scopes
-shortly before the jets arrive. At the airport, FAA watch supervisor
-George Morales views the object through binoculars and describes it as
-silver-white in color and cigar-shaped. Officials at Miami International
-Airport, which also tracks the strange object, report no aircraft are
-known to be in the area where the UFO was spotted. (NICAP, “Ground/Visual;
-Two 106’s Scrambled”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4850
Date: 9/14/1972
-Description: 4:00 p.m. David Owen is sitting on his patio in Bateau Bay,
-New South Wales, when he notices a distinct “red arrowhead” moving from
-southwest to northwest in a slow climb. After watching it for several
-minutes, he takes a color photo with his Instamatic, which shows a disc
-reflecting light. (“Australian
-Arrowhead Photograph
-Reveals Unseen Possible UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2
-(February 1981): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4851
Date: 9/14/1972
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A married couple in Houston, Missouri, watches an
-unusual bright object after their portable TV is disturbed by
-interference. It is larger than a star and persists for several minutes
-before it disappears in a burst of speed. At 3:00 a.m. they are awakened
-by their dogs barking at something in a nearby woods. They see a bright
-flash of light at ground level. The next morning, they find an evergreen
-tree about 300 feet from the house that is yellow on one side and
-normal-looking on the other. Next to it is a 20 feet x 14 feet oval area
-of depressed grass. In the center are three small imprints, each sowing
-an extension or “toe.” The imprints are about 2.5 inches long; one is
-1.5 inches deep. A blackened area in the shape of a triangle is in the
-center of the imprints. (Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS,
-1976, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4852
Date: 9/20/1972
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A man is driving near Rougemont, Quebec, when he
-sees a Saturn-shaped object about 100 feet in diameter moving with a
-pendulum motion toward Mont Rougemont. It climbs to the top of the hill
-and settles in for 4 minutes. He watches it increasingly brighten from a
-row of windows at the upper dome and glow pink on the bottom side. He
-flashes his lights at it, and it rises and dives at his car, passing
-just 30 feet above it. The engine stalls, the radio goes off, and the
-headlights dim. A wave of heat passes over him, then the UFO races away.
-((Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 144–146; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,”
-IUR 31, no. 4 (Mar. 2008): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4853
Date: 9/25/1972
-Description: 1:00–1:30 a.m. Near Anderstorp, Sweden, a witness is
-driving his Opel at 25 mph when the car radio stops working. A couple
-minutes later, a very bright blue-white light appears behind the car,
-enveloping the entire vehicle in light at the same time as all
-electrical equipment in the car ceases to work. The headlights go out
-and the engine and wipers stop. The light persists for 5 minutes, and
-the temperature inside the car rises. Suddenly the light is gone, and
-the electrical system works again. The car starts at the same time as
-the witness smells a strong odor of ammonia or ether. The witness drives
-home quickly, terrified. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4854
Date: 9/27/1972
-Description: 5:40 a.m. Teodoro Merlo, maintenance man for the
-Ika-Renault factory in Santa Isabel, Córdoba, Argentina, is making early
-rounds at the plant. He enters a previously locked washroom and sees a
-man sitting on one of the basins who is nearly 8 feet tall and wearing a
-close-fitting, dark-blue, one-piece garment tight at the wrists. It has
-a bald head with high, pointed ears, and very white skin. As Merlo
-approaches, the light by the janitor goes out and a light near the
-entity goes on spontaneously. Merlo hears a noise like “a metal object
-striking glass,” and the entity disappears. (Oscar A. Galíndez, “The
-Anthropomorphic Phenomena at Santa Isabel, Part 3,” Flying Saucer
-Review 21, no. 5 (February 1976): 14–16; Oscar A. Galíndez, “Argentina:
-The Anthropomorphic Phenomena
-of Santa Isabel,” Inexplicata, September 22, 2011; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February
-23, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4855
Date: 10/1972
-Description: Harry Belil begins publishing Beyond Reality, a newsstand
-magazine devoted to parapsychology and (sometimes) UFOs, in New York
-City. It continues through November 1980 and publishes several special
-UFO issues. (Beyond
-Reality, no.
-1 (October 1972))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4856
Date: 10/1/1972
-Description: The CIA awards the Stanford Research Institute [now SRI
-International] in Menlo Park, California, a contract for $49,909 for an
-eight-month research project on remote viewing. It is given the name
-Biofield Measurements Program. (Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little,
-Brown, 2017, pp. 136–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4857
Date: 10/2/1972
-Description: A letter from the Dept. of National Defense, Canada, Brig.
-Gen. L.A. Bourgeois states: All UFOs reported to CFHQ are investigated
-by the Director of Operations. It isn’t a practice to allow the public
-to study these files. Since the beginning of 1968 these UFO reports have
-been passed along to the NRC. Evidence suggests that UFOs present no
-threat to the world. They exhibit a unique scientifically advanced
-technology.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p467)
-See also: 9/19/26
Date: 10/2/1972
-Description: A letter from the Canadian Department of National Defence
-states that UFO reports received by the Canadian military are passed on
-to the National Research Council to determine whether a scientific
-investigation is warranted. It notes that “certain reports suggest that
-they exhibit a unique scientific or advance technology that could
-possibly contribute to scientific or technical research.” (Good Above,
-pp. 193, 467)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4858
Date: 10/8/1972
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Security guard John Byrne is patrolling
-Cairo Mill, an old factory at Waterhead, Lancashire, England, that has
-been converted to an electronics system testing facility for jet
-aircraft. Near the bicycle shed he hears a deep humming noise like a
-generator inside a closed room. The sound bores into his head. He looks
-up and sees a huge object parked at a height of 300 feet adjacent to the
-tower end of the mill. It resembles a glowing bell shape turned on end
-with the flat base vertical to the sheer wall of the tower. The object
-is giving off a blue, fluorescent glow that falls like a curtain of
-solid light. Byrne watches for several minutes until the object turns
-sharply on edge and moves straight up into the sky until it is only a
-blob of light. (Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 (July
-2019): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4859
Date: 10/9/1972
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Ralph and Grace Clapp are driving along Middle
-Country Road near Selden, New York, when they see a bright white light.
-It is joined by a red and a green light. They continue driving, and
-around 7:55 p.m. at the top of a hill west of Coram, the white light
-hovers into view above the treetops to heir left. Grace sees rectangular
-windows and no wings on a triangular object that is at least 100 feet
-across and moving slowly and continuously through the sky. (Ted Bloecher
-and Sylvia Meagher, “The Seldon UFO,” IUR 32, no. 2 (December 2008):
-11–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4860
Date: 10/23/1972
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Daryle Brown and two copilots are flying a
-Wardair airliner at 22,000 feet some 180 miles northwest of Churchill,
-Manitoba, when they see a bright streak of light approaching from the
-west. As it comes closer, it appears to be a bullet-shaped object larger
-than a Boeing 727 and adorned with a cluster of multicolored pulsating
-lights. Brown notifies the 15 passengers aboard and turns out the
-interior lights so they can see the object better. Almost a dozen
-portholes are visible, while red and yellow lights are flashing on the
-top. At the rear of the object is a fog-like cloud and orange sparks. It
-takes up a position about 2,500 feet in front of the jet and on the same
-flight path. The object shines a beam of light at the airplane, bathing
-it in light that is bright enough to read to, and stops in mid-air
-directly in front of the jet. Before Brown can take evasive action, it
-moves off to the right. A dense fog engulfs the object as it disappears
-in the distance. (Jeff Holt, “Rencontre
-avec un UFO dans le Grand
-Nord Canadien,” UFO-Quebec, no. 9 (1977): 13–14; Yurko Bondarchuk,
-UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979,
-pp. 167–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4861
Date: 10/28/1972
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Cpl. Juan Fuentes Figueroa and four other
-Uruguayan Navy seamen are stationed at the lighthouse on Isla de Lobos,
-off Punta del Este, Uruguay. Fuentes goes to inspect the electrical
-generators and discovers some odd lights, which prompts him to retrieve
-a handgun from his room. When he returns, he notices an object in the
-shape of an inverted bowl with several white, yellow, and violet lights
-on top of a 20-foot terrace. An entity is next to the object and two
-others (one much taller) are descending from the UFO. They all notice
-Fuentes and face him from about 89 feet away. He raises his gun to shoot
-but feels strangely paralyzed and confused. The beings reenter the UFO,
-which moves straight up emitting a humming noise. When it reaches a
-height of 150 feet, it tilts, belches a bright fireball, and silently
-disappears at tremendous speed to the southeast. (Willy Smith, “Alien
-Encounter at Isla de Lobos, Uruguay, 10-28-1972,” UFO Casebook;
-Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes,
-1987, pp. 106–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4862
Date: 11/7/1972
-Description: Contactee Gabriel
-Green runs for US President as a candidate of the Universal Party,
-with Daniel
-Fry as his running mate, on the ballot in Iowa. The party offers
-solutions recommended by extraterrestrials for national and
-international problems. He gets less than 200 votes and subsequently
-retires from public life. (S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest,
-Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and
-Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing
-Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 52–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4863
Date: 11/10/1972
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A 19-year-old is riding his Yamaha 250cc Twin
-motorcycle near Heathfield, East Sussex, England, when suddenly the
-headlights dim and go out and the engine fails, emitting an “electrical
-arcing” odor. He looks up and sees a white blob about 100 feet away
-hovering above some trees. It is about 60 feet high, 30–40 feet in
-diameter, and glowing white but fuzzy in appearance. After a few seconds
-it zooms away at about 100 mph in a straight line and is lost to sight.
-The motorcycle starts by itself. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle
-Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4864
Date: 11/12/1972
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three soldiers (Petrus Nel, Fanie Rosseau, and
-Gerrie Buitendag) are guarding a petrol dump at Rosmead, East Cape,
-South Africa, when they see a red light moving in circles above the
-tennis court adjacent to the primary school. At nearby Middelburg police
-station, Sgt. John Goosen and Constable Koos Brazelle are looking
-towards Rosmead with binoculars and see an odd light above the town.
-School Principal Harold Truter sees the light moving vertically up from
-his home near the tennis court. The court is churned up with huge chunks
-of surface tar dug up, so he calls the Middelburg police about it.
-Goosen and Brazelle respond. There are 5 holes in the court, the largest
-10 feet in diameter. Two spike holes are also found. The only entrances
-to the court are still locked up and there are no vehicle tracks inside
-or outside. A eucalyptus tree at the end of the court has suddenly begun
-to die and appears scorched. District Police Commandant Col. B. J. van
-Heerden unsuccessfully tries to duplicate the damage with shovels.
-(Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4865
Date: 11/13/1972
-Description: Two witnesses watch an unknown aircraft maneuver along
-Sognefjord, Vestland, Norway. Thirty Norwegian Navy vessels, plus NATO
-forces, are already investigating a mystery submarine reported in the
-fjord. The same night, four other witnesses observe a “bright object” on
-the water. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine
-Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4866
Date: 11/17/1972
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Two RCMP officers see an object 12 feet in length
-heading northwest near McIvers on the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. It
-disappears in the water with a loud splash. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s
-UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 102)c
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4867
Date: 11/20/1972
-Description: CIA chief Richard
-Helms comes to Camp David to an interview with Nixon about
-what he thinks is a “budgetary matter.” Nixon’s chief of staff, H.
-R. Haldeman, also attends. Helms is informed by Nixon that his
-services in the new administration will not be required. On Helms’s
-dismissal William
-Colby later comments that “Dick Helms paid the price for that ‘No’
-[to the White House over Watergate],” distancing the CIA from the
-scandal. Helms begins a CIA clean-up, closing down Operation Often and
-other sensitive programs. (Wikipedia, “Richard
-Helms”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4869
Date: 11/20/1972
-Description: 1:00 p.m. An unidentified submerged object is seen near
-Kyrkjebø, on Sognefjord, Norway, as it heads away from Mårenlandet
-toward the fjord’s southern end. Around 1:15 p.m., it is seen by five
-police officers on Kvamsøy. Norwegian Navy frigates drop mines on the
-object. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine
-Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4868
Date: 11/21/1972
-Description: Night. Four witnesses see four rockets shooting up from the
-water at Hermansverk, Vestland, Norway. They are silent and resemble
-small red balls of light. They are also seen the following day, and the
-Norwegian Navy fires an antisubmarine missile at the intruders. (Ole
-Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in
-Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4870
Date: 11/23/1972
-Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final
-test attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome
Date: 11/26/1972
-Description: Judy Kendall abduction, three types of beings
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Between Bedoga Bay and Woodland, CA
-ID: 212
Date: 11/28/1972
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness at Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia,
-sees lengths of glistening material wrapped around a signpost and on
-looking up sees that more is falling from the sky. He collects a small
-sample of the thickest section, but the strands dissolve in his fingers.
-(Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no.
-1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4871
Date: 11/30/1972
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A motor mechanic named Maxwell is out testing
-his vehicle in Murray Bridge, South Australia, when the engine dies and
-lights go out as he is coming over a rise in the road. The lights come
-back on but vary in intensity several times. He decides to stop the car.
-To his left he sees a “diamond shape with the top cut off” noiselessly
-sitting on the ground 148 feet away in a paddock. His car radio starts
-making a noise like a “computer on TV,” a constant rhythm. He tries the
-ignition key but nothing happens, not even the oil light comes on. He
-tries the wipers and the electric air horn but they do not work either.
-He locks all the doors and winds up the windows and just sits there for
-the next 45 minutes. After this time the object leaves, and he finds he
-can restart the car. An inspection of the vehicle the next day reveals
-no cause for the electrical problems. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on
-Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011):
-19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4872
Date: 12/1972
-Description: Night. Romanian Air Force pilot and writer Lt. Col. Doru
-Davidovici is at an unnamed military base in Romania when he sees an
-oval UFO flying parallel to the ridge of a roof. It traverses 50°–60° of
-horizon in 45–50 seconds and disappears among some trees. It is
-egg-shaped, a white-violet color as if wrapped in a cloud of bright
-light, and leaves a long trail behind, but it changes to red-orange
-before disappearing. Radar at the base tracks the object flying north to
-south at 3,700 mph at a height of 43 miles. (Romania 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4873
Date: 12/2/1972
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Four witnesses in Hinojos, Huelva, Spain, see a
-fiery, square-shaped object flying close to the ground, lighting up the
-terrain. The headlights in two cars die. The car with a gasoline-powered
-engine also stalls, but the car with the diesel engine keeps running.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part
-Two,” IUR 34, no. 11 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4874
Date: 12/13/1972
-Description: 7:04 p.m. Fritz Abbehusen is watching TV in Dias d’Ávila,
-Bahia, Brazil, when his set experiences some interference. He goes out
-on the porch and sees a huge, round luminous object descending to a hill
-approximately 3 miles from his home. After a while, he goes to get
-binoculars, and with these he can see that the luminous shape is
-hovering a several feet above the ground. Its lower part is glowing like
-a neon light, while the upper part has a row of orange-red portholes.
-His wife Margarida and servant join him to look at the display.
-Suddenly, three blinking lights emerge from the object. One of these
-lights slowly moves in the direction of his house. After 15 minutes, the
-moving light has arrived within 165 feet in back of the house. Three
-small beings emerge from it, wearing what appears to be a one-piece suit
-of whitish or light-gray color. The beings keep their elbows close to
-the body when walking, as if on tiptoe, raising their knees
-exaggeratedly at each step. They go away, but the big object remains on
-the hill until around midnight. At one time it emits a beam that sets
-the brush on fire. (Patrick Gross, “Dias
-d’Ávila, Brazil, December 13, 1972”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4875
Date: 12/24/1972
-Description: 9:40 a.m. L. J. Reeves is stationed at the PIN-1 Distant
-Early Warning site at Clinton Point, Northwest Territories, on the
-Amundsen Gulf. He sees an object like a bright star that moves west to
-east, stops, then continues on and fades into the distance after 5
-minutes. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, p.73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4877
Date: 12/24/1972
-Description: 3:00 a.m. The Romanian ship Moldoveanu is in the Labrador
-Sea off Labrador, Canada, when the crew notices a shiny object headed at
-high speed straight toward their vessel and flying low over the waves.
-It stops above the ship, changing its shape and color. After an hour, it
-shoots into the sky and disappears. (Hobana and Weverbergh 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4876
Date: 12/30/1972
-Description: A man driving on the A4155 from Henley to High Wycombe,
-England, rounds a bend and sees an object resembling a vertical cone.
-What seem to be fluorescent strip lights run down the side, and it emits
-an intense, high-pitched whistle. The next thing he knows, he is driving
-through Marlowe in total silence with no memory of how he got there.
-Some 90 minutes have vanished from his memory. (Jenny Randles, “The
-Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4878
Date: 1973
-Description: Suomen Ufotutkijat ry, the Finnish UFO Research
-Association, is founded in Tampere, Finland. Over the years it has
-published a Quarterly Report, an Annual Report, and a member newsletter
-Ufotutkija beginning in 1997 (now called Yhteydeksi). (Wikipedia, “Suomen
-Ufotutkijat”; The
-UFO Research of Finland Annual Report, 1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4884
Date: 1973
-Description: David Duquesnoy founds the Association des Amis de Marc
-Thirouin in Valence, France, named in honor of the founder of the first
-UFO organization, Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes
-Volantes, in France in 1951. It begins publishing UFO Informations,
-edited by Michel Dorier, in March 1974 and continues it through 1983.
-(UFO
-Informations, no.
-1 (March 1974))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4883
Date: 1973
-Description: The Midwest UFO Network changes its name to the Mutual UFO
-Network and focuses on building a national grassroots UFO investigation
-network.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4882
Date: 1973
-Description: Dr. Joseph
-C. Sharp of Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, while in a
-soundproof room, allegedly hears spoken words broadcast by “pulsed
-microwave audiogram.” Broadcast in a range between 300 MHz to 3GHz,
-Sharp is able to identify words that are broadcast without any form of
-electronic translation device—by direct transmission to the brain. (Jim
-Keith, Mind
-Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control, 2014,
-p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4881
Date: 1973
-Description: Most Project MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed by
-order of CIA Director Richard
-Helms. A cache of some 20,000 documents survives Helms’s purge, as
-they are incorrectly stored in a financial-records building and
-discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. These documents are fully
-investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. HTLINGUAL and the NSA’s
-Minaret programs are shut down to avoid exposure during the Weathermen
-trial. (Wikipedia, “Project
-MKUltra”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4880
Date: 1973
-Description: NORAD now has infrared sensor satellites covering 100% of
-the earth’s surface from geostationary orbits on a 24-hour basis. (Clark
-III 807)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4879
Date: 1/1/1973 (approximate)
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A married couple is driving in
-Osorno, Chile, when their car stalls just as a disc- shaped object with
-flashing red and green lights flies overhead. The engine comes to life
-again after the object disappears. (“Shape-Changing
-UFO Stops Car,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 (May/June 1973):
-29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4885
Date: 1/3/1973
-Description: NASA announces that Project NERVA has been terminated, even
-though the project to build a nuclear rocket has been proceeding well.
-Annie
-Jacobsen claims that some failed nuclear tests that have never been
-declassified could have been responsible. (Wikipedia, “NERVA”;
-Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 311–313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4886
Date: 1/11/1973
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Building surveyor Peter Day is driving near
-Cuddington, Bucks, England, when he sees an orange light in the north,
-moving eastwards. He finds a convenient place to stop, wind down the
-window, and point his movie camera at the object. He captures 20 seconds
-of the orange blob on color film as it pulsates and passes behind
-distant trees before disappearing suddenly (in a single frame). (Jenny
-Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 160–161;
-Jenny Randles, Fire
-in the Sky: Case History Number 2, The Buckinghamshire UFO Movie
-Film, BUFORA,
-1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4887
Date: 2/2/1973
-Description: Intense blue-white light paced airliner for 20-25 seconds,
-navigation instruments malfunctioned
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Auckland, New Zealand
-ID: 213
Date: 2/2/1973
-Description: Richard
-Helms is abruptly dismissed and James
-R. Schlesinger is named director of central intelligence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4888
Date: 2/8/1973
-Description: Youths photographed disc-shaped object, analysis supported
-authenticity
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Conejo, CA
-ID: 214
Date: 2/14/1973
-Description: Disc with dome maneuvered around DC-8 aircraft, confirmed
-by airborne radar. Shadowy figures seen in dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: McAlester, OK
-ID: 215
Date: 2/19/1973
-Description: President Richard
-Nixon meets on the 18th green of the Inverness (Florida) Golf and
-Country Club with entertainer Jackie
-Gleason. Gleason
-has long been a fan of UFOs. He later becomes a subscriber to the
-newsletter Just Cause (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy). Gleason has a
-collection of 1,700 books on parapsychology, UFOs, and the unknown.
-Gleason’s second wife, Beverly
-McKittrick, says
-that Nixon took Gleason to a heavily secured area at Homestead AFB [now
-Homestead Air Reserve Base] in Miami-Dade County where he views the
-remains of small aliens in a top secret repository. McKittrick relates
-this story in an unpublished manuscript of Gleason called “The Great
-One.” Larry
-Bryant, editor
-of Just Cause, the newsletter Gleason had a subscription to, files a
-Freedom of Information Act request with Homestead AFB. Bryant requests
-documentation on the repository and Gleason’s visit there to see the
-alien bodies. Homestead replies that “no such records existed.” Bryant
-also sends an advertisement to the Homestead AFB newspaper soliciting
-information. The public affairs officer at Homestead denounces the
-Bryant advertisement and “forbade its publication.” At the same time
-Bryant writes Gleason providing him with a draft affidavit. He asks
-Gleason to execute the affidavit so it can be used as part of a growing
-accumulation of evidence Bryant is collecting in preparation for taking
-the government to court to release all information on alien crash
-retrievals. Gleason does not reply. Shortly before his death in 1987,
-one story says Gleason confirms the story about seeing the bodies at
-Homestead. The person who Jackie Gleason tells the story to is Larry
-Warren, who
-is a member of the Air Force Security Police at RAF Bentwaters [now
-closed] near Woodbridge, Suffolk, one of two bases in England where in
-late December 1980, three days of bizarre UFO incidents take place.
-Warren says that Gleason and Nixon enter a room with 6–8 glass-topped
-freezers. Inside “were the mangled remains of what I took to be
-children.” On closer inspection, he sees that some of the figures look
-old and injured. Gleason cannot sleep or eat for three weeks after the
-visit. The director of the Secret Service under President Clinton, Lewis
-C. Merletti, claims
-that the idea of a president escaping his secret service agents only
-happens in the movies. In response to a question by reporter Joan London
-about the possibility of the president escaping his protection to go out
-and secretly do something, Merletti claims, “all Hollywood. There’s no
-sneaking out. It has never happened.” Marty
-Venker, a Secret Service agent who worked with Merletti under
-Presidents Ford and
-Carter, however,
-tells a different story. In his book Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service
-Agent he explains that not only can the president disappear, but it has
-happened. Venker states that in the exact year of the Homestead incident
-with Gleason, 1973, Nixon tries to cut his secret service protection.
-Venker also states that it was not uncommon for Nixon to try to elude
-his Secret Service detail. The agents working on the Nixon presidential
-detail were warned about it. Nixon is familiar with Homestead AFB, which
-is only minutes from his Biscayne Bay compound. There is no proof that
-Nixon escorted Jackie Gleason to view alien bodies at Homestead, but
-everything checked out indicates it could very well have happened. It
-would have been very easy in terms of distance for the Gleason/Nixon
-alien event to have occurred. (presidentialufo.com, “President
-Nixon, 37th President, January 20, 1969–August 9, 1974”; Brian J. Robb,
-“The Entertainer, the President, and the Aliens,” Fortean Times 366 (May
-2018): 30–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4889
Date: 2/21/1973
-Description: Night. Clearwater High School basketball coach Reggie Bone
-and five players on his team are driving back to Clearwater after a
-game. On US Highway 60 near Ellsinore, Missouri, Bone notices a “bright
-shaft of light beaming down out of the sky.” A few miles later, near
-Brushy Creek, student Randal Holmes notices another light, and Bone
-pulls over for a closer look. They see lights about 600 feet away from
-the road hovering over an open field at about 400 feet altitude. The
-lights seem to be portholes, each a different color: red, green, amber,
-and white. According to student Cary Barks, they watch it for 10 minutes
-before the lights rise up noiselessly and disappear over a hill. Around
-10:00 p.m., Edith Boatwright of nearby Mill Spring sees a similar object
-flying low near her farmhouse. (“Mysterious
-Lights Keep Piedmont in the Dark,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March
-23, 1973, p. 1; MUFON, “Piedmont Missouri Case, 1973”; Harley D.
-Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of
-UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, pp. 6–7;
-Marler 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4890
Date: 3/2/1973
-Description: Schlesinger appoints
-William
-Colby head of the CIA’s clandestine branch.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4891
Date: 3/20/1973
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Lucie Vandervoort is looking out a window of her
-house in Tarcienne, Belgium, when she sees a bright light approaching.
-It passes over the roof of a nearby house, then banks, makes a 90° turn,
-and begins to blink as it disappears to the east. Similar objects appear
-every 10 minutes, continuing until 9:15 p.m. The objects’ slow speed
-allows her to take photos. At one point she looks through her late
-husband’s World War I trench periscope and sees a humanoid figure
-dressed in shiny, tight-fitting clothes and standing in the front of one
-of the objects. Only one photo turns out and shows a squarish light
-against a dark sky. Analysis suggests that the objects were probably
-aircraft taking off from the military base at Florennes a few miles
-away, the humanoid figure was imaginary, and the photo was a blurry
-streetlight. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium in
-UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT
-Report no. 7, 2017, pp.172–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4892
Date: 3/24/1973
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Arthur de Weerdt is watching a distant airliner
-in Borgerhout, Belgium, when he notices another sunlit object pacing the
-aircraft at a higher altitude. Suddenly the object stops and remains
-motionless for about one minute, then moves at a greater speed, making
-an angle of 70° before coming to another wobbling halt for about 8
-minutes. De Weerdt manages to take a color photograph of the object,
-which shows a whitish spot. Ballester Olmos and van Utrecht suspect the
-witness saw a weather balloon and that the photo is the result of a
-development flaw. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium
-in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988),
-FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 183–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4893
Date: 3/28/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two witnesses see an object with a rough
-triangular shape hovering at about 200 feet above trees on Stony Lane in
-Exeter, Rhode Island. It glows with brilliant white lights and has
-smaller green and red lights at the points of the triangle. The object
-makes a slight buzzing sound as it moves away. (“Flap
-over Rhode Island,” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 6 (May/June 1973):
-9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4894
Date: 3/29/1973
-Description: The last United States combat troops left Vietnam
-Type: war
-Reference: link
-Location: Vietnam
Date: 4/1973
-Description: Scottish author Duncan
-Lunan claims he has identified and deciphered a hidden radio message
-sent as long delayed echoes by an alien space probe that had been
-detected in 1927. Published along with an accompanying editorial
-disclaimer, Lunan maintains that the putative message comes from an
-object at the L5 point in the same orbit as the Moon, sent by the
-inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötis. He says the message
-reads, “Start here. Our home is Epsilon Boötis, which is a double star.
-We live on the sixth planet of seven, coming from the sun, which is the
-larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has
-three. Our first and third planets each have one. Our probe is in the
-position of Arcturus, known in our maps.” (“Spaceprobe from Epsilon
-Boötis,” Spaceflight 15, no. 4 (April 1973); Duncan Lunan, Man
-and the Stars: Contact and Communication
-with Other Intelligence, Souvenir, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4895
Date: 4/1973
-Description: Southeast Missouri State University physics professor Harley
-Rutledge hears of numerous reports of unidentified lights in the sky
-around Piedmont, Missouri, and decides to subject these reports to
-scientific analysis. He puts together a team of 620 observers with
-college training in the physical sciences, including a large array of
-equipment at 158 different viewing stations: binoculars, RF spectrum
-analyzers, Questar telescopes, low-high frequency audio detectors, an
-electromagnetic frequency analyzer, cameras, sound recorders, Geiger
-counters, and a galvanometer to measure variations in the Earth’s
-gravitational field. The resulting Project Identification commences in
-April, logging several hundred hours of observation time and 157
-documented sightings over the next 7 years. This is the first UFO
-scientific field study, able to monitor the phenomena in real-time,
-enabling Rutledge to calculate the objects’ actual velocity, course,
-position, distance, and size. Observation of the unclouded night sky
-often reveals “pseudostars”—stationary lights camouflaged by familiar
-constellations. Some objects appear to mimic the appearance of known
-aircraft; others violate the laws of physics. The most startling
-discovery is that on at least 32 recorded occasions, the movement of the
-lights synchronize with actions of the observers. They appear to respond
-to a light being switched on and off, and to verbal or radio messages.
-Rutledge publishes a final report, Project Identification, on his field
-research in 1981. (Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification:
-The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall,
-1981; Mark Rodeghier, “Book Review: Project Identification,” IUR 7, no.
-1 (January 1982): 14–16; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam,
-1980, p. 249;
-Greg Little, “Why
-Do Ufologists Largely Ignore the Most Scientific Field Study of
-UFOs Ever
-Conducted?” Alternate Perceptions, no. 146 (March 2010))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4896
Date: 4/1/1973
-End date: 4/8/1973
-Description: At least 16 sightings of round or egg-shaped objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles Basin, CA
-ID: 216
Date: 4/6/1973
-Description: Domed disc with ports and legs hovered in a grove of trees,
-physical traces found
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ellsinore, MO
-ID: 217
Date: 4/9/1973
-Description: Physicist Peter
-A. Sturrock mails questionnaires to all 1,175 members of the San
-Francisco, California, Chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics
-and Astronautics asking their opinions on the UFO phenomenon. He
-receives 423 responses from scientists who have seen things they thought
-could be UFOs. (Peter A. Sturrock, “UFO
-Reports from AIAA Members,” Astronautics and Aeronautics 12 (May
-1974): 60–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4897
Date: 4/27/1973
-Description: Ingo
-Swann, in
-a remote-viewing experiment at Stanford Research Institute, concentrates
-on the Pioneer
-10 space probe on its way to Jupiter. Monitored by Harold
-Puthoff and Russell
-Targ, Swann yields 13 specific factors about Jupiter, none of which
-are scientifically anticipated—including the existence of a planetary
-ring. (Wikipedia, “Ingo
-Swann”; Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial
-and Human Telepathy, Ingo Swann Books, 1998, pp. 18–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4898
Date: 5/1973
-Description: A series of meetings takes place between USAF
-representatives (Col. William
-T. Coleman and Col. George Weinbrenner)
-and two well-connected Hollywood figures: documentarist Robert
-Emenegger and producer Allan Sandler. The
-colonels encourage the pair to make a documentary on the UFO phenomenon
-and the question of extraterrestrial life. Not only will they have the
-military’s full cooperation, they will also have access to their files,
-including those of the Department of Defense. Upon arriving at Norton
-Air Force Base [now San Bernardino, California, International Airport]
-the two men are immediately taken to a “clean room used by the CIA,”
-designed so that “there was no way anyone could eavesdrop” on events
-taking place inside. Here the proposal takes place, including the
-promise of using 3,200 feet of a 1971 UFO landing footage at Holloman
-AFB, New Mexico, that shows several of the “alien visitors” and their
-meeting with the representatives from the US government. Paul Shartle,
-chief of requirements for the Norton AFB audiovisual program, promises
-to get the Holloman footage. Emenegger is told that the military is
-monitoring signals from an alien group that their extraterrestrial
-visitors know nothing about. At the last minute, permission to use the
-film is withdrawn, though Emenegger and Sandler are encouraged to
-describe the Holloman landing as something that might happen in the
-future or could have happened. Emenegger goes to Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio to talk to Weinbrenner, who while haranguing about the need to find
-out about Soviet Mig-25s, hands Emenegger a signed copy of Hynek’s
-The UFO Experience. (presidentialufo.com, “Disclosure Pattern 1972–75”;
-Clark III 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4899
Date: 5/9/1973
-Description: Schlesinger orders
-all CIA officials to report on any activities that “might be construed
-to be outside the legislative charter of this Agency.” The CIA Office of
-the Inspector General compiles these into a 693-page report on
-“potential flap activities,” including surveillance of journalists,
-Operation Chaos, MKUltra, and mail interception. These come to be known
-as the Family Jewels. (Wikipedia, “Family
-Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4900
Date: 5/18/1973
-Description: Two men at Miliscola Beach, Bacoli, Naples, Italy, see a
-bright disc with a dome 165 feet away over the sea. It hovers at a
-height of 10 feet and then moves closer. Their car engine and lights
-fail. The dome is bright like a white neon light, and a red light is
-rotating around it. After 3–4 minutes, the object lifts off and the car
-can be restarted. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4901
Date: 5/19/1973
-Description: Strange, nylon-like patterns are seen in the sky above
-Gawler, South Australia. After falling, they vaporize when touched.
-(Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no.
-1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4902
Date: 5/22/1973
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Onilson Pátero, an organizer of public libraries
-for the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is just outside Catanduva, after
-giving a ride to a stranger. First his car radio gets static and the
-engine begins to fail. Suddenly he notices a blue circle of light about
-8 inches in diameter moving around inside his car. It passes in front of
-the dashboard and he sees it is transparent. Then a beam of blue light
-shines on him from the top of the hill he is driving up. He pulls over
-to avoid a collision, but the light keeps coming toward him. Overcome by
-a sensation of heat and stuffiness, he steps out of the car and hears a
-buzzing noise. The UFO is a gray structure about 25 feet thick and 36
-feet wide, resembling two soup plates attached rim to rim. A tube
-stretches out from its base toward the ground. Pátero panics and runs
-about 100 feet when something holds him back. Turning, he sees that a
-rod of blue light from the UFO is moving above his car. The light seems
-to make the car transparent, allowing him to see the contents of the
-trunk, the wheel gears, the engine, and the interior of the body. Pátero
-faints. An hour later, two young men drive by and see him lying on the
-ground in gushing rainwater. They speed on into Catanduva and return
-with a policeman, Clóvis Queiros. Turning Pátero over, he regains
-consciousness and they take him to the hospital, where he is soon
-released. However, the next day he feels an itchiness on his back and
-stomach. Irritated patches of his skin turn purplish blue. Later, these
-spots turn yellow and eventually disappear. Subsequent medical
-examinations show no cause for the discoloration, and Pátero seems in
-good mental health. He experiences another encounter on April 26, which
-some investigators think might be a fantasy. (“Close
-Encounter in Brazil,” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 6 (May/June 1973): 1, 3;
-“Caso
-do Automovel que Ficou Transparente,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98
-(September 1973/June 1974): 30–40; “Caso
-de Onilson Pátero,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 99/103 (July 1974/April
-1975): 2–18; Gordon Creighton, “The
-Car That Turned Transparent,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4
-(November 1975): 14–15; Brazil 154–163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4903
Date: 5/24/1973
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Harley Rutledge and three other members of his
-Project Identification team at the municipal airport in Farmington,
-Missouri, see a configuration of four lights (white, red, red, white)
-flying silently overhead at an altitude of about 2,500 feet. Through
-binoculars, Rutledge can see the white lights reflecting off a metallic
-structure that could be anywhere from 368 to 2,600 feet across. The
-array moved quickly out of sight. (Harley D. Rutledge, Project
-Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena,
-Prentice-Hall, 1981, pp.
-77–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4904
Date: 5/27/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A Mrs. Geni, 57, is preparing some wedding cake
-at her home in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Through her
-balcony window she sees a reflection of some kind in her walled-in
-backyard. When she goes to her porch door, she sees a flying object
-hovering above the roof of one of the rented buildings on the ground
-floor in the back some 50 feet away. The object is white-metallic and
-luminous on the bottom, about 6.5–13 feet wide and 3–6 feet high, with a
-kind of credenza behind which three entities can be seen. They are small
-with large round heads, big eyes, protruding lips, dark brown skin,
-small ears, long flat noses, small arms, and wearing a cap with a ball
-in the center. Each holds a device like a flashlight that emits a beam
-of different colors: green on the left, red in the middle, and orange on
-the right. The object emits a noise like a motor as it sways above the
-building, then after a few minutes it moves away beyond the horizon.
-Mrs. Geni goes back to work, but she now has pains in her knees, legs,
-and head. She screams in pain, and the young woman who rents the
-building in the back arrives to help. She also has heard the motor noise
-and confirms that Mrs. Geni’s face is swollen with bloodshot eyes that
-last for 3 days. At about 5:00 a.m., Mrs. Geni suffers a prolapsed
-uterus, for which she has to undergo surgery on June 8. She gradually
-loses hearing in her right ear, her vision deteriorates, and spots
-appear on her skin. A clock in the kitchen begins to behave erratically.
-In the backyard, a dwarf coconut tree and a jabuticaba tree both lose
-their leaves prematurely. (“Caso
-dos Anões de São José do Rio Preto,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 121/125
-(March/Dec. 1978): 15–19; Brazil 163–166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4905
Date: 6/4/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Jill Cotmore wakes up in her home near Tyringham,
-New South Wales, with an uneasy feeling. She lights a cigarette and the
-room is immediately engulfed in a bright light, even though the windows
-have heavy curtains. It is so bright that she can’t even see a cupboard
-3 feet away from her. Outside, her horse is going berserk. Suddenly, the
-light is gone. The next day, she finds the horse frothing, and it had
-apparently been running around the house during the night. This takes
-place in the middle of a concentration of UFO reports in the area. (Bill
-Chalker, “An
-Australian Chronicle, Part Two,” APRO Bulletin, June 1976,
-p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4906
Date: 6/28/1973
-Description: Mobile home park UFO landing, sound, E-M, animal reactions,
-light beams, bright illumination, physical traces
-Type: landing
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Columbia, MO
-ID: 218
Date: 6/28/1973
-Description: 12:30 a.m. University of Missouri animal care technician
-James G. Richards, 41, and his daughter Vanea, 16, hear a loud,
-persistent, thrashing sound outside their house trailer in Columbia,
-Missouri. Richards moves to the window and sees two bright, silver-white
-light beams about 5 feet apart from each other and 50 feet away from his
-window. The beams disappear, and a glowing bright oval form appears,
-about 12–15 feet in diameter, lighting up the area. The thrashing sound
-is apparently made by trees moving as if blown by wind, and after the
-oval form appears, this sound suddenly ceases. As Richards moves from
-window to window, he notices his dogs lying very still near the corner
-of the trailer that is nearest to the oval object. The dogs are large
-security animals that are not easily frightened. Richards thinks it
-strange they are not barking at all the noise and the bright lights. The
-object moves away to 200 feet from the window and hovers, and now, less
-bright to the eye, the witnesses can see a blue band of light and an
-orange glow extending around the outer edge of the oval. The oval moves
-back near its original position and disappears by growing smaller before
-police arrive at 1:45 a.m. Later searches uncover broken tree limbs,
-damaged foliage, scorched leaves up to a height of 35 feet, and
-impressions on the ground as deep as 2 feet. (NICAP, “Columbia,
-Missouri: June 28, 1973”; Ted Phillips, “Landing
-at Columbia, Missouri,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1973): 18–25; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
-1988, pp. 268–270; UFOEv II 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4907
Date: 7/1973
-Description: David
-Rockefeller founds the Trilateral Commission in Tokyo, Japan, to
-foster closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe, and North
-America. It initiates its biannual meetings in October in Tokyo.
-(Wikipedia, “Trilateral
-Commission”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4908
Date: 7/7/1973
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A Mrs. Good is closing the curtains of her house
-at Porthcothan Bay, Cornwall, England, when she sees two dark
-semi-cigar-shaped objects hovering over the bay. They are positioned on
-either side of a glowing, symmetrical ring. After a few seconds, the
-ring enters the left object and the two shoot off at terrific speed
-upward. The remaining object follows the same path a short time
-afterward. She reports the sighting to the nearby RAF St. Mawgan, which
-explains the sighting as “sun dogs.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 86–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4909
Date: 7/12/1973
-End date: 7/16/1973
-Description: A fire destroys some 16–18 million official military
-personnel records at the Military Personnel Records Center in Overland,
-Missouri. The losses to federal military records collection include 80%
-loss to records of US Army personnel discharged November 1, 1912, to
-January 1, 1960; 75% loss to records of US Air Force personnel
-discharged September 25, 1947, to January 1, 1964, with names
-alphabetically after Hubbard, James E.; and some US Army Reserve
-personnel who performed their initial active duty for training in the
-late 1950s but who received final discharge as late as 1964. None of the
-records have duplicate copies, nor are there microfilm copies. No index
-of these records was made prior to the fire. (Wikipedia, “National
-Personnel Records Center fire”;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Military Records,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4910
Date: 7/25/1973
-Description: 1:35 p.m. A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8 is flying west
-at 31,000 feet above the eastern coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, when
-the pilot sees a “large balloon in close proximity” and radios air
-traffic control to report it. He says it is 200 feet in diameter and 3
-miles away and has been paralleling their course for 5–6 minutes at a
-speed of 575 mph. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4911
Date: 7/26/1973
-Description: A secret US State Department airgram on “Guidance for
-Dealing with Space Objects Which Have Returned to Earth” refers to
-Project Moon Dust: “the designator MOONDUST is used in cases of non-US
-space objects or objects of unknown origin.” (Christopher D. Allen,
-“Dubious Truth about the Roswell Crash,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4912
Date: 7/27/1973
-Description: A 16-year-old UFO buff finds and photographs some strange
-marks on the ground near Lago d’Idro, Brescia, Italy. In 1977 he
-undergoes hypnotic regression and realizes he has been touched by a
-human shape that makes him lose consciousness. When he wakes up he is
-being sucked into an aerial object through an opening at its base. He
-finds himself in a round room with four beings. Then a woman comes in
-and the entities begin moving around and touching him. He is paralyzed
-and can only move his eyes. He is then taken to another room and
-directed to sit on a chair as the UFO lands in the spot where he had
-been before. He then leaves the object and watches it take off. He picks
-up his camera and photographs the ground traces. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian
-Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1989): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4913
Date: 8/1973
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Three people are sitting in their front yard in
-West Seneca, New York, when they hear a low hum coming from an object
-above their garage. It is a silvery half-egg with glowing
-orange-and-blue overtones. It begins a slow descent toward the roof, and
-when it is only 5 feet away, one of the witnesses yells for it to stop.
-The object stops, hovers briefly, and shoots away straight upward. One
-of the witnesses hears the same hum at about the same time two days
-later, and the same object appears, moving down the street. The object
-is only 3–4 feet above the pavement and covers the width of the road.
-The witness approaches it, and it stops at the end of his driveway. He
-walks toward it and gets only 4–5 feet from it without feeling any heat.
-When his dog barks, he backs away. The object waits a moment, then
-slowly moves 20 feet down the street, quickly rises, and vanishes
-rapidly at a 45° angle. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from
-the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 23–24) Between August
-3–6 — Night. A woman and her children are watching the stars in their
-backyard in San Antonio, Texas. Two “very perfect” cumulus clouds move
-into view low above them. A perfectly round sphere with a green glow
-slowly emerges from the top of the cloud on the left. Soon they see
-lightning going back and forth from the two clouds but never toward the
-ground. One lightning bolt hits the sphere and red sparks fly out,
-whereupon the sphere slowly reenters the cloud. The clouds remain
-stationary for 35–40 minutes until the sphere disappears, then they
-float on. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,”
-IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4914
Date: 8/11/1973
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 219
Date: 8/28/1973
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Journalists Titus Zăgrean and Ion Moise are
-driving near Budacu de Jos, Romania, when they see a big milky-white
-light in the sky approaching the road they are on. As it crosses the
-road, they see it is rotating and about 3 feet in diameter. Moving to
-the west, it veers sharply to the north, accelerates, changes color to
-yellow-orange then red, and departs at fantastic speed. (Romania
-40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4915
Date: 8/31/1973
-End date: 12/1973
-Description: Flurry of sightings in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
-Mississippi, and Ohio. Fast-moving oblong objects with bright flashing
-or revolving lights witnessed by local and state police. (See separate
-chronology, section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 220
Date: 9/1973
-Description: Jenny
-Randles and David Rees found the Manchester Aerial Phenomena
-Investigation Team in the Greater Manchester area, England. It publishes
-the Skywatch newsletter through early 1982. (Skywatch,
-no. 1 (September 1973))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4916
Date: 9/1973
-Description: At Great Lakes Naval Base, Instructor R. K., Gunnery School
-Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed envelope to the Commandant in the
-quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft. diam. and 10 ft. ht.
-resting on a wooden platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering,
-it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from
-one end to the other and there were no windows. R.K. believed this
-saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a
-missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft. water between Hawaii and the
-mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii then
-stateside to Chicago.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII)
-Location: Hawaii
Date: 9/4/1973
-Description: William
-Colby is named director of central intelligence to succeed James
-R. Schlesinger, who leaves on July 2 to become Secretary of
-Defense.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4917
Date: 9/11/1973
-Description: Chilean President Salvador
-Allende is overthrown by the armed forces and national police in a
-coup d’état with the covert support of the CIA. (Wikipedia, “United
-States intervention in Chile”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4918
Date: 9/17/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Anne Taylor is walking to her farm in Romford,
-Essex, England, after walking her three dogs when she sees a green light
-near the cowshed. She continues watching the light, which starts moving
-toward her slowly. Her two terriers are whining and cringing. The light
-approaches to within a few feet of her, about 12 feet above the ground.
-It is completely silent. Her watch has stopped, and her spine begins to
-tingle. She hears a jet plane in the distance, and the light goes out.
-She hears an “electric whirring” and the green ball shoots straight up.
-Her dogs return to normal behavior, and her watch starts up again when
-she returns to the house. (UFOFiles2, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4919
Date: 9/23/1973
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A truck driver is driving to work near Tyler,
-Texas, when a small “cub airplane” seems to fly directly in front of
-another car on the highway, nearly causing a wreck. The plane flies up
-over the side of the road and hovers above some trees. Then it changes
-into a cigar shape with lights. The driver gets out of his truck to
-watch. The cigar moves off then returns with a new, round shape. It
-lights up with many multicolored lights and moves above a nearby house.
-It makes a low, “loop-loop-loop” thumping sound. Then a large, bright,
-square light descends and swings from the other object. It approaches
-the truck, then swings back and forth. He tries to jump back in the
-truck but apparently passes out. He later notices he has some marks on
-his hip and shoulder. He does remember seeing the UFO change from a
-round shape into a triangle, and then move out of sight. (Michael D.
-Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2
-(Summer 2002): 24; Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29,
-no. 2 (Summer 2004): 17) Autumn — Late night. 1st Lt. Walter F. Billings
-is a deputy crew commander at the Francis E. Warren AFB Golf launch
-control capsule missile site northwest of Sidney, Nebraska. Over UHF
-radio, he hears the crew at LCC India, southwest of Sunol, Nebraska,
-order its security guards to investigate an alarm at one of India’s 10
-launch sites. The guards find that the inner security alarm has also
-been triggered, meaning that something has penetrated the security fence
-surrounding the site. They find a large, bright UFO hovering above the
-site. One minute later, the UFO moves off slowly for several thousand
-feet then zooms off at a high rate of speed. All crews on duty that
-night are told not to say anything to the public or media about anything
-they heard on UHF radio that night. (Nukes 338–339)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4920
Date: 10/1973
-Description: Night. Sgt. Michael D. Jenkins of the 96th Security Police
-Squadron is stationed at Dyess AFB southwest of Abilene, Texas, when a
-major alert goes off at the base after a large ball of light is reported
-hovering 100–150 feet above igloo bunkers housing nuclear weapons.
-Twelve police with M-16s are sent to the Weapons Storage Area, and an
-incoming C-130 is asked to do a fly-by of the area to get a look at the
-object. Three K-9 teams that normally patrol the perimeter report that
-their dogs are afraid and acting up. An order to fire on the object
-comes from Strategic Air Command Headquarters Offutt AFB near Bellevue,
-Nebraska. Jenkins hears gunfire and sees a bluish-white streak as the
-object speeds off. As it leaves, it drops a trail of “angel hair” all
-the way from the weapons area to the southwest perimeter of the base.
-The angel hair hangs around on the area ropes and buildings for three
-days. On the third day it rains and the material dissolves, completely
-disappearing. (Robert L. Hastings, “UFO
-Fired Upon As It Hovered over Nuclear Bomb Storage Facility, Says Former
-USAF Security Policeman,” UFOs & Nukes, December 1, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4922
Date: 10/1973
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek and Sherman J. Larsen establish what will become the
-Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois, with Larsen’s existing
-Public Education Group as a base. (Clark III 627; Sherman J. Larsen,
-“The Founding of CUFOS,” IUR 11, no. 3 (May/June 1986): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4921
Date: 10/4/1973
-Description: Elliptical object with dome hovered about 10 feet off
-ground, swaying back and forth. Humanoid being appeared, reptered craft
-when observed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chatsworth, CA
-ID: 221
Date: 10/6/1973
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A couple strolling along a country road near
-St.-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, see a bright light like a projector
-emanating from a nearby field. Later, at 11:30 a.m., the woman is
-hanging clothes on a line in her backyard when she notices a column of
-smoke rising from fields in the north. She calls over two workmen doing
-repairs at her home, and they see a yellowish object like a tent near
-the smoke. Soon a square, yellow object resembling a bulldozer emerges
-from the tent and travels about 180 feet to a small spring. Between the
-two objects, moving around in the field, are five “little people” about
-4 feet tall performing various actions. Assuming them to be boy scouts,
-the witnesses notice they are wearing some kind of helmets and clothing
-that is the same color as the tent. The witnesses return to their work
-and 20 minutes later someone notices that the objects and figures have
-disappeared. The couple’s daughter returns in half an hour and goes to
-check the location. She finds a large, circular patch of burned and
-crushed grass about 45 feet in diameter, as well as two tracklike marks,
-each about 6 inches wide. Returning, the daughter feels ill with
-headache and nausea. A month later, UFO investigators arrive and find
-additional marks in the shape of a triangle. (Wido Hoville, “Un
-atterrissage á Saint-Mathias de Chambly,”
-UFO-Quebec, no. 1 (1975): 6–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The
-Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 106–107; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-7, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4923
Date: 10/8/1973
-Description: Evening. A police officer near Laurel, Mississippi, chases
-a yellow object shaped like a top and making “exhaust-like” noises for
-several miles. As he approaches within 200 feet, his car stalls and the
-radio and headlights die. When the object moves away, the lights and
-radio come back, but the engine will not start for several minutes.
-(Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4924
Date: 10/10/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A family in Niantic, Connecticut, watches two
-greenish discs and a white sphere maneuvering over a nearby lake. Odd
-clouds seem to be accompanying the two discs. One disc and its cloud
-disappear, while the other disc flies in and out of its cloud as if
-playing “peekaboo.” (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO
-Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4925
Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Larry Booth of Pascagoula, Mississippi, finishes
-watching TV and checks the front door. He sees a huge round object
-hovering 5–8 feet above a nearby streetlight. It has red lights that are
-moving in a clockwise motion around it. It slowly moves away. (Clark III
-895)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4928
Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Parole Officer Raymond
-Broadus, Pascagoula City Councilor Emmanuel P. Sigalas, and an
-unidentified woman are driving on US Highway 90 west of Gautier,
-Mississippi, when they see a large, swiftly moving object that descends
-and hovers a few hundred yards above the ground and meanders toward the
-Pascagoula River. (Clark III 895)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4927
Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Two men, 19-year-old Calvin Parker and
-42-year old Charles
-E. Hickson Sr., both
-of Gautier, Mississippi, are fishing in the Pascagoula River when they
-hear a buzzing noise behind them. Both turn and are terrified to see a
-10-foot-wide, 8-foot-high, glowing egg-shaped object with blue lights at
-its front hovering just above the ground about 40 feet from the
-riverbank. As the men, frozen with fright, watch, a door appears in the
-object and three strange beings float just above the river towards them.
-The two become numb and paralyzed as the entities carry them into the
-UFO. Some kind of “eye” device scans them before they are released 20
-minutes later. They first contact Keesler AFB in Biloxi, but no one is
-interested; then they drive to the offices of the Mississippi Press
-Register a few blocks away, but it is closed. So they call the Jackson
-County Sheriff’s Office to report their encounter, and they arrive there
-at 10:30 p.m. At one point during 2 hours of intense grilling by Sheriff
-Fred
-R. Diamond, they
-are left alone in an interrogation room where they are unknowingly tape
-recorded while they continue to speak to each other about the abduction,
-emotionally distressed. (Wikipedia, “Pascagoula
-Abduction”; NICAO, “The
-Hickson/Parker Incident”; “The
-Pascagoula Affair,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1973): 1,
-3–4; Clark III 893–898; Charles Hickson and William Mendez, UFO Contact
-at Pascagoula, Wendelle C. Stevens, 1983; Calvin Parker, Pascagoula: The
-Closest Encounter: My Story, Flying Disk, 2018; Calvin Parker,
-Pascagoula: The Story Continues: New Evidence and New Witnesses, Flying
-Disk, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4926
Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: Charles Hickson and Charles Parker abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pascagoula, MS
-ID: 222
Date: 10/12/1973
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A commercial pilot is flying a Piper PA-32
-Cherokee Six near Mount Baldy, Arizona, at an altitude of 2,500 feet. He
-notices a red flashing light on the ground in a remote area, and circles
-around for a closer look. As he does so, the light begins moving too and
-reaches a speed about the same as his plane, 170 mph. It is flashing
-regularly at 2-second intervals. The object is skimming over the ground,
-apparently following undulations in the landscape. He changes course
-again to intercept the light, which accelerates instantaneously to 800
-mph, moving up and over Mount Baldy, following its contours. The pilot
-follows it for a few minutes, about 50–60 miles. After about 5 minutes
-the light makes a right-angle turn and accelerates vertically. After
-8–10 flashes, it disappears into the upper atmosphere. (Mark Rodeghier,
-“Out of the Past: An Incredible Light,” IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984):
-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4929
Date: 10/15/1973
-End date: 10/16/1973
-Description: Sheriffs saw and chased pulsating orange objects that
-alternately hovered, swinging like pendulum, darted around at high
-speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pine, LA
-ID: 223
Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Upon arriving home at Albany, Ohio, Mary Geddis
-sees a “ghost-like” figure floating about 50 feet above the ground at
-1,000 feet distance; it is about 4 feet tall and thin, “like a person
-draped in a close-fitting sheet.” It is seen only briefly when she
-notices a bright white object moving about, and approaches to within 200
-feet before going away. The object is about 20 feet in diameter and
-about 25–30 feet off the ground. Later, as she is making supper, she
-sees a “little blue-green thing” about 2.5 feet tall and with a face
-with “spiky things at the tops and the sides of the head” looking in an
-open door; it has stumpy arms (she sees no legs) and quickly disappears
-from sight. UFO sightings occur around the same time in nearby Athens,
-Ohio. (George M. Eberhart, “The
-Little ‘Electric’ Man,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975):
-10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4931
Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A 50-foot-wide bluish object hovers 2–3 feet
-above US Highway 82, seemingly suspended on a beam of light, near
-Eupora, Mississippi, 300 feet from a car. The engine and headlights fail
-as the object lands. Another object hovers about 60 feet above the
-first, illuminating it. A “catfish-like” creature emerges with flippers
-for hands, a wide mouth, and feathers on its back. It holds onto a
-handrail on the craft and never goes down to the ground. It gets back in
-and the object rises into the air. The driver restarts the car.
-(Columbus (Miss.) Triangle Advertiser, October 24, 1973; David Webb, 1973:
-Year of the Humanoids, CUFOS, 1976, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4932
Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: Night. William and Donna Hatchett are driving down a
-country road near Mannford, Oklahoma, when she sees a bright light
-coming from the south. They first think it is a security light on a
-pole, but then realize the object is pacing them and descending. When
-the Hatchetts stop the truck, the light also stops in front of them. As
-the object hovers, it gives off a blinding light and a penetrating
-low-pitched hum. They have a feeling that there are occupants who know
-everything they are thinking. Donna is so afraid that she twice leaves
-the truck cab and goes into the back. William manages to persuade her to
-return, and they set off, the object rising up in the opposite
-direction. (Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Casebook, Warner, 1989,
-pp. 143–144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4933
Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: Midnight. Single mother Pat Roach is dozing on the couch
-with her 5-year-old son Kent in an isolated house on the outskirts of
-Lehi, Utah. Suddenly, Kent wakes up screaming that he has seen a
-“skeleton.” Roach has a vague memory an intruder and a bright light.
-Suspecting a prowler, she phones a neighbor, who calls the police at
-12:10 a.m. A few minutes later, officers arrive, talk to Roach, find
-nothing amiss, and leave. Roach then checks on her other children. Two
-of them, Bonnie and Debbie, tell her they had seen a spaceman who had
-come into the house and taken them on a spaceship. Debbie remembers
-being told not to tell anyone, as well as seeing a line of people
-waiting to go on board. Disturbed, Roach takes her children and spends
-the rest of the night at a friend’s house. In 1975, Roach sees an
-article by Kevin
-Randle on UFO abductions and contacts him. Randle arranges for an
-interview and hypnosis sessions with APRO’s research director James
-A. Harder. An
-abduction tale slowly emerges that involves some elements that are
-little known in 1975, among them the aliens’ clinical coldness, their
-curiosity about human emotion, their interest in gynecology, and human
-participants in the physical examination. However, Randle now believes
-that Roach underwent sleep paralysis, was influenced by some abduction
-accounts over the years, and was led into the narrative by Harder’s
-leading questions during hypnosis. (Clark III 1011– 1012; Story, pp. 309–310;
-Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space,
-Berkley, 1977, pp. 9–24;
-Kevin D. Randle, “Alien
-Abduction and Leading the Witness,” A Different Perspective, March
-28, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4934
Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: At a press conference in Illinois, USAF Chief of Staff
-Gen. George
-Scratchley Brown states that sightings of what were presumed to be
-enemy helicopters during the Vietnam War took place, always at night,
-and prompted shooting by US ground forces. A Combat Air Activities file
-of 16 such incidents between 1967 and 1969, especially around Pleiku in
-February 1969, documents some of this activity. (Barry Greenwood, “Air
-Force Vietnam
-Era UFO Reports Surface,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 (May 2015):
-3–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4930
Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: Ohio Gov. John
-J. Gilligan and his wife Mary are
-driving near Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they see an amber-colored
-vertical beam of light. When asked to confirm the sighting, he tells
-reporters: “I saw this. It wasn’t a bird or a plane.” (“Gilligan
-Spots Strange Object,” Hamilton (Ohio) Journal News, October 17,
-1973, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4935
Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: Pulsating object photographed during sighting wave
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Elkhorn, WV
-ID: 224
Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Falkville, Alabama, Police Chief Jeffrey
-Greenhaw responds to a phone call about a UFO on the outskirts of town.
-On a gravel road, he sees a 5-and-a-half-foot-tall, silver-suited figure
-in his headlights. He stops, gets out, and talks to the figure, all the
-while taking Polaroid photos of it. It steps towards him and Greenhaw
-turns on the red rotating police car light. The figure runs away and
-although Greenhaw pursues it in his car, it eludes him. The photos
-quickly become a national news story. NICAP investigator Marion Webb and
-others strongly suspect this is a hoax. (NICAP, “Falkville,
-Alabama, Entity / Jeff Greenhaw Case, Oct. 17, 1973”; “Police
-Chief’s Nightmare: Real or Contrived?” UFO Investigator, October
-1974, pp. 1–2; “Police
-Chief Hoaxes UFO,”
-UFO Investigator, January 1977, p. 4; Clark III 482; Good Above, pp. 301–302;)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4937
Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: Paul Brown is driving on US Highway 29 near Danielsville,
-Georgia, when his car radio suddenly goes wild with strange sounds. He
-sees a silver, oval-shaped object about 300 feet ahead on the road. He
-stops and sees two beings with red faces and white hair. Brown grabs a
-pistol and steps halfway out of his car, but the beings return to the
-object, which takes off with a whooshing sound. (Athens (Ga.)
-Banner-Herald, October 18, 1973; “First
-Flap in Six Years Resurrects UFOs As National Controversy,” UFO
-Investigator, November 1973, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4936
Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: Capt. Lawrence Coyne, while flying an Army helicopter with
-three other crewmen were 45 minutes out over Mansfield when Staff
-Sgt. Robert Yanacsek spotted a red glowing UFO headed toward their
-helicopter at an estimated 600 mph. It stopped abruptly 500 ft. above
-them. It had a big, gray, metallic looking hull about 60 ft. long,
-shaped like an airfoil or streamlined cigar with a red light in front
-and a green light in the rear, the lead edge glowed red a short distance
-from the nose. There was a center dome. The ’copter radio wouldn’t
-function and the copter was set for a 20 degree dive but gained altitude
-from 1700 ft. to 3500 ft. with no power applied. After a slight “bounce”
-the UFO took off to the N.E.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p319, 271)
-Location: Mansfield, OH
Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Army Reserve Capt. Lawrence
-J. Coyne (with his crew 1st Lt. Arrigo Jezzi, Sgt. John Healey, and
-Spec5 Robert Yanacsek) is flying an Army Reserve UH-1 Huey helicopter at
-1,200 feet from Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio. Healey notices a steady,
-southbound red light. It looks like the port-wing light of an aircraft
-but seems brighter and carries none of the other FAA-required lights. He
-watches it disappear behind the helicopter and doesn’t tell the others.
-A couple minutes later, Yanacsek sees a bright red light on the eastern
-horizon and watches it for 90 seconds, realizing it is pacing the
-helicopter. He mentions it to Coyne, who tells Healey to watch it. Soon
-the light turns and comes towards the helicopter. Coyne takes the
-controls from Jezzi and puts the helicopter into a descent. He calls
-Mansfield (Ohio) Approach Control but fails to get a response. The red
-light is now closing on them at a dangerous rate of speed, possibly 684
-mph. Coyne pushes the stick down, forcing the helicopter to descend
-quickly. When he gets to an altitude of 650 feet above the treetops,
-Coyne looks up and sees the object covering the entire front windshield.
-The red light is on its nose and a white light is on the tail of this
-cigar-shaped, metallic structure. Under the tail, a green beam sweeps a
-90° arc and shines through the windshield. It hovers above them for
-10–12 seconds before accelerating and heading northwest. The bright
-white light just snaps out. Coyne looks at the altimeter and realizes
-they have been ascending and are now at 3,500 feet, but the stick is
-still down. He pulls the stick up and the helicopter levels out at 3,800
-feet. Reviewing his instruments, Coyne notices that the magnetic compass
-is rotating slowly, while the Radio Magnetic Indicator is functioning
-normally. They make radio contact with Akron and fly on to Cleveland
-without further incident. Other witnesses on the ground have seen the
-incident. (NICAP, “Coyne
-Helicopter, E-M / Magnetic Compass Encounter”; Jennie Zeidman, “UFO–Helicopter
-Close Encounter over Ohio,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no, 4 (November
-1976): 15– 19; Jennie Zeidman, “More
-on the Coyne Helicopter Case,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4
-(January 1978): 16– 18; Jennie Zeidman, A Helicopter-UFO Encounter over
-Ohio, CUFOS, 1979; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 82–85; Jennie Zeidman, “Green Light over Mansfield,”
-IUR 13, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1988): 13–14; Jennie Zeidman, “The Coyne Case:
-Correction and Update,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 17–18; Michael
-D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund
-for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Patrick Gross, “The
-Coyne Incident, Mansfield, Ohio, USA, 1973”; Kevin D. Randle, “The
-Coyne Helicopter UFO Case,” A Different Perspective, August 5, 2014;
-Kevin D. Randle, “The Coyne
-Helicopter Encounter–Explained?” A Different Perspective, May 1,
-2018; Good Above, pp. 302–303;
-Clark III 309–312; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 159–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4939
Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: Army Reserve helicopter encountered domed, craftlike object
-that beamed green light into cockpit, lifted helicopter off course
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mansfield, OH
-ID: 225
Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A witness in Hamilton, Illinois, sees a huge gray
-oval or oblong UFO. A second object appears that resembles the first but
-seems to be covered in “cobwebs” on its upper surface. About 15 minutes
-later, “cotton-like” material is found that when handled becomes a
-“small ball which melted as it was touched.” The next morning, a
-collected sample has totally sublimated. (Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of
-Angel Hair, 1947– 2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4938
Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A group of people in Wooster, Ohio, notices a
-bright, pulsing, triangular object with three colored lights at each
-apex, pulsating at different rates. When the object moves, the red light
-becomes brighter. It moves right, left, up, and down for 25 minutes. The
-UFO then dips down and shoots straight up into the sky. (Michael D.
-Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4940
Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 226
Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Two women driving in a Volkswagen near Fort
-Smith, Arkansas, see a glowing object approach them from the south. It
-descends within 6 feet of their car, at which point the headlights,
-radio, and engine all fail. The object is about 8 feet in diameter,
-shaped like a disc, and emits a “computer-like” sound. After about 5
-minutes, it moves away quickly. (Fort Smith (Ark.) Southwest Times
-Record, October 21, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4941
Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Sam Richerson and his wife awaken in their home
-in Campbellsville, Kentucky, when a barking dog disturbs his young son
-from a deep sleep. When his wife attends to him, she notices a glowing
-object across the street. They stand and watch the object for 15
-minutes. It is a triangular-shaped object the size of two cars hovering
-at treetop height 300 feet away. (Campbellsville
-(Ky.) News-Journal, October 25, 1973; Marler 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4942
Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A witness sees a triangular-shaped object with
-bright white lights hovering above Milton Road in Alton, Illinois. A
-second triangle is above the first. (“Latest UFO over Milton (Road),”
-Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, October 22, 1973; Marler 90, 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4945
Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 6:50 a.m. A conductor on a Louisville & Nashville
-Railroad train moving northeast out of Mount Vernon, Indiana, sees a
-bright white light coming out of the north and heading east. When they
-reach Caborn, Indiana, he notifies the rear conductors, who can now see
-a bright light (possibly another train) behind them. The train’s
-automatic blocking system is showing a red light, indicating there is a
-train to the rear. When the train reaches Belknap, the engine stops
-because a rear diesel unit has apparently overheated. The yardmaster in
-Evansville informs them that there never was any train behind them. The
-conductor hits a reset button and the train starts with no trouble. The
-light in the rear seems to be moving away, and the blocking system turns
-to an amber signal. (NICAP, “UFO
-Disables Train”; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4943
Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: A UFO passes over Round Valley Reservoir, Clinton Township,
-New Jersey. Three people who are driving by and watching the object
-experience car failure. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4944
Date: 10/21/1973
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Reafa
-Heitfeld wakes up in her trailer on the west side of Cincinnati,
-Ohio, and notices a bright light shining outside. The source is a row of
-six lights forming an arc outside her window, as well as another bright
-light over the parking lot. Outside the second light she can see a gray
-“apelike creature” that seems to be fixing something. In the process of
-calling the police, she hears a loud, deep, booming sound, and the
-object and creature are gone. Investigator Leonard
-Stringfield finds that a fire alarm had gone off at the same time in
-a nearby warehouse only 150 feet away, although firemen can locate
-nothing that set it off. (Clark III 554)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4946
Date: 10/22/1973
-Description: 9:45 p.m.–after midnight. Dewayne and Debbie Donathan are
-driving toward their home 9 miles east of Hartford City, Indiana, when
-they see two strange-looking figures 30 feet ahead of them on the road.
-Four feet tall, they are dressed in tight-fitting silver suits and wear
-boxlike shoes. They move in a clumsy fashion, their arms flopping oddly
-along their sides. Debbie accelerates and drives past the figures. The
-witnesses alert the sheriff’s office, and two officers and a civilian
-friend, Gary
-Flatter, investigate.
-They see no figures but hear an odd, high-frequency sound. Around
-midnight, Flatter hears the sound again south of the original encounter
-and notes wild animals leaving the area. His headlights pick up two
-4-foot figures 20 feet off the side of the road. He can see a hose going
-from their egg-shaped helmets down to their chests. Three times they
-rise 3 feet into the air then float down. The fourth time, they fly
-away, still standing erectly. (“Occupants
-in Indiana,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1973): 1, 3; Clark
-III 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4949
Date: 10/22/1973
-Description: 6:50 p.m. A man is farming in Upton, Indiana, when he
-notices an object that looks like it is going to land. He and his
-daughter walk toward the other side of the field to investigate. They
-can see an object with red, white, and green lights near the railroad
-tracks. As a train passes through, the object dims and hovers near it
-for one minute, then takes off to the southeast. An object is seen
-flying above a train at Maunie, Illinois, the same evening. (NICAP, “The
-1973 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4948
Date: 10/22/1973
-Description: June Margolin sees a shiny globe dropping web-like
-substance in large amounts over Sudbury, Massachusetts. It drapes over
-trees and telephone lines. She collects a sample and puts it in the
-refrigerator, but the substance still dissipates into strong white
-threads. The University of Massachusetts field station examines a
-sample. It is not spider web, but there is not enough of it for a
-chemical analysis. X-ray fluorescence and diffraction analysis indicates
-sodium, aluminum, silicon, sulfur, chorine, potassium, calcium, iron,
-nickel. The substance is 95% organic. Two other analyses indicate
-slightly different composition. (“UFO
-‘Angel’s Hair’ Still Remains
-a Mystery,” UFO Investigator, March 1974, pp. 1, 3; Brian Boldman,
-“Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 105–106; Brian
-Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall
-2001): cover)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4947
Date: 10/23/1973
-Description: Bonnie Collier observes two metallic cigar-shaped objects
-over Midway, Texas. She photographs one of them. About 20 minutes later,
-she notices monarch butterflies are getting entangled in “sheets of a
-web-like substance” falling to earth. She retrieves a grapefruit-sized
-sample from a mesquite tree and stores it in a box. Some 20 years later,
-the sample is analyzed by two engineering students at the University of
-Texas at Austin. A neutron activation survey indicates high
-concentrations of sodium, potassium, zinc, and lanthanum. Other tests
-indicate the sample is spider silk produced by a cribellate orb weaver
-spider. (Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26,
-no. 3 (Fall 2001): 14; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A
-Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4950
Date: 10/24/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. David Simpson’s car engine stops and the
-headlights go out when an oval object, 12 feet wide by 8 feet high,
-lands close by near Dobson, North Carolina. He sees a humanoid with
-balls of fire for eyes looking into the car. After the creature leaves,
-the car engine and lights come back on without his having to start the
-ignition. (David Webb, 1973:
-Year of the Humanoids, CUFOS,
-1976, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4951
Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: Director of FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, states: UFOs are not
-and never has been a matter that is within the investigative
-jurisdiction of the FBI.
-Type: statement
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p475)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A 22-year-old man and two 10-year-old boys
-allegedly see a bright-white, dome-shaped UFO about 100 feet in diameter
-land in a field near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. “Screaming sounds” emanate
-from somewhere nearby. The UFO makes a lawnmower-like sound. Suddenly
-they see two large apelike creatures with glowing green eyes walking
-along a fence, one in front of the other. The older witness fires a
-tracer slug with his rifle over the creatures’ heads, but they continue
-moving forward, seemingly communicating by making whining sounds. The
-tall and closer of the two, about 8 feet tall, is running its left hand
-along the fence, while the smaller one is struggling to keep up. The
-older witness fires three bullets into the larger creature’s chest. It
-whines and reaches toward the smaller creature. The UFO vanishes and the
-lawnmower sound ceases. The area where the UFO had been is now glowing
-brilliant white. The hairy creatures head toward the woods. A policeman
-arrives at 9:45 p.m. and finds the landing spot still glowing slightly.
-They hear something moving in the woods nearby and smell a sulfur-like
-odor. The officer and the witness panic and jump into the police car and
-drive about 150 feet. Stan
-Gordon shows up at 1:30 a.m. with four members of his Westmoreland
-County UFO Study Group. In the company of the witness and his father,
-they walk around the field until the witness undergoes a violent
-emotional attack, during which he growls like an animal and throws his
-father and an investigator to the ground. During his attack, he has an
-apocalyptic vision in which he receives a dire warning from a man in a
-black hat and cloak. The older witness undergoes hypnosis with
-psychologist Berthold
-Eric Schwarz, who says he has visions about the impending end of the
-world and after the event he “felt like an animal.” (Berthold Eric
-Schwarz, “Berserk:
-A UFO-Creature
-Encounter,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 1 (July 1974): 3–11; Clark
-III 556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4954
Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Lt. Commander Moyer is traveling south from Naval
-Communication Station Harold E. Holt, a restricted US National Security
-Agency station along Murat Road on North West Cape, north of Exmouth,
-Western Australia, when he sees a large, black object in the sky 5 miles
-to his west at an altitude of 2,000 feet. After about 20–25 seconds, the
-object accelerates at speed to the north. It is first seen at about 20°
-elevation, to the west. Moore estimates its angular size as half a
-degree. It is initially stationary and there is no associated noise at
-any point, no trail or exhaust. It is last seen at 45°–50° elevation. At
-about 7:20 p.m., William Gordon Lynn, an Australian civilian and US Navy
-employee fire captain, notices a large, stationary, black object in the
-clear sky. It has a halo around the center, which appears to be either
-revolving or pulsating. He watches it for an estimated four minutes,
-after which it takes off speedily in a northerly direction and
-disappears after a few seconds. He thinks it is about 30 feet in
-diameter and hovering at 1,000 feet over the hills west of the base. On
-this same date, the base is communicating a DEFCON III alert to
-conventional and nuclear forces in the region during the Yom Kippur War
-(an NSA misreading of a Syrian message to the USSR had indicated a
-Soviet build-up). (NICAP, “Black Sphere
-Observed / DEFCON-3 Reached”; Bill Chalker, “The North West Cape
-Incident: UFOs and Nuclear Alert in Australia,” IUR 11, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1986): 10–11; Bill Chalker, “The
-UFO Connection: Startling Implications for
-Australia’s North West Cape, and for Australia’s Security,” Flying
-Saucer Review 31, no. 5 (July 1986): 16– 18; Good Above, pp. 174–175;
-Bill Chalker, “UFOs
-Sub Rosa Down Under, Part 4,” 1996; Swords 403–405)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4953
Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: FBI Director Clarencc
-M. Kelley explains in a letter to a resident of La Habra,
-California, that the investigation of UFOs “is not and never has been a
-matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.” (Good
-Above, pp. 253, 475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4952
Date: 10/28/1973
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Karl Fichtinger watches an odd orange-yellow
-light to the south of Bad Traunstein, Austria, that projects two beams
-of light that creep slowly upward like a pair of snail feelers. After
-moving up a short distance, they begin curving outward. After 7–10
-seconds when they reach a certain height they stop moving, the two tips
-turn green for 2–3 seconds, a green mist falls down sideways, and the
-beams disappear. After 2–5 seconds the process repeats again and again.
-Around 12:30 a.m. he wakes his friend Johann Pritz in another house and
-they continue to watch the display for several hours. At 2:00 a.m. the
-light emits a red “missile” that moves east, stops, turns yellow-orange,
-and produces a similar pattern of signals. Then they notice a third
-object in the west that looks more like a dark domed disc, and it is
-also sending thin feelers up light upward. Three more smaller lights
-join the one in the east. At 3:30 a.m., the missile in the east stops
-and takes off to the south but the others remain. The witnesses go home
-at 4:30, and all the objects are gone by 6:00 a.m. They estimate that
-the first object has given off 1,200 signals, the domed disc some 550,
-and the missile a minimum of 360. (Ernst Berger, “Luminous ‘Snails’
-near Traunstein, Austria,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 (October
-1974): 12–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4956
Date: 10/28/1973
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Truck driver Dionisio Llanca is changing a tire
-along Highway 3 some 11 miles from Bahía Blanca, Argentina, when a UFO
-lands and three humanlike beings, two men and a woman, approach him.
-Nearly paralyzed by the light from the UFO, Llanca lets one of the
-beings take a blood sample and later remembers going on board the craft,
-whose occupants warn him that humans are headed towards disaster. He
-loses consciousness and wakes up in a railyard 5.5 miles away, then
-finds himself in a hospital. However, Argentine UFO investigators find
-major discrepancies and consider Llanca’s story an invention devised to
-make some money. (“Occupant
-Encounter in Argentina,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 3 (Nov./Dec. 1973):
-7–8; “Possible
-Hoax,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1974): 11; Gordon
-Creighton and Charles Bowen, “The
-Extraordinary Case of Dionisio
-Llanca and the Ufonauts,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 (November
-1980): 2–10; Guillermo Roncoroni, “Dionisio
-Llanca: El Informe Solari,” UFO Press, no. 19 (Jan./March 1984):
-32–35; “The
-Case of Dionisio
-Llanca in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 (December
-1984): 25–26; “The
-Abduction of Dionisio
-Llanca,” Above Top Secret forum, February 4, 2016; Clark III
-601–602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4955
Date: 11/1973
-Description: Numerous reported landings, humanoids, and E-M effects on
-cars in province
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Quebec, Canada
-ID: 227
Date: 11/1973
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness in Sauk Village, Illinois, is sitting
-in her dark living room when a light outside causes it to get brighter.
-She sees a lighted domed disc hovering in the front yard. A central
-section is filled with alternating blue and gold rectangular lights. It
-appears to be revolving, except for the dome, which is stationary. Her
-husband joins her and they continue watching it for 10 minutes. It
-quickly takes off straight up in 10 seconds. (“Illinois,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May 1985): 5, 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4957
Date: 11/2/1973
-Description: Night. Police officers looking into reports of a “strange
-animal” seen in the area of Midland, Pennsylvania, spot a large,
-disc-shaped object in the sky overhead. At least 100 other people also
-see the object. (Clark III 556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4959
Date: 11/2/1973
-Description: 2:45 a.m. Lyndia Morel, a masseuse in Manchester, New
-Hampshire, leaves work and begins driving on State Highway 114 to her
-home in nearby Goffstown. On the outskirts of Manchester, she sees an
-odd light in the sky that is flashing different colors. The light
-vanishes when she reaches Goffstown, but it reappears twice more,
-seemingly brighter and closer. She sees that it is an orange-and-gold
-globe covered with hexagons like a honeycomb, with an oval window on the
-upper left. The red, green, and blue flashes come from somewhere near
-the center of the object, and she hears a high-pitched sound. Suddenly
-she is unable to remove her hands from the steering wheel. She feels
-that the object is taking control of her and the car and pulling them
-in. Her car speeds up against her will as she passes Westlawn Cemetery.
-The object is now only a few hundred feet away, and through a window she
-sees a smallish humanoid figure standing behind a console. The figure
-has a round, grayish head, a wrinkled face, a downturned slit of a
-mouth, and two large eyes with dark pupils. She feels that he is sending
-her a telepathic message to be unafraid. Somehow, she slows the car and
-turns into the driveway of a house just past the cemetery. She jumps out
-and runs to the kitchen door of the house, ignoring a German shepherd
-dog that growls and barks at her. She pounds on the door and rings the
-bell and yells for help as the UFO moves to a position across the
-street, hovering and watching her, still emitting a high-pitched sound.
-The residents, Mr. and Mrs. Beaudoin, come to the door and find a
-terrified woman who is covering her ears and claiming that a UFO is
-after her. The Beaudoins cannot see or hear anything, but Mrs. Beaudoin
-calls the police. Investigator Walter
-N. Webb finds that the position of the UFO corresponds too closely
-to the planet Mars, at least in the later stage of the sighting, to rule
-that explanation out entirely. (“Occupant
-Encounter in New Hampshire,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4
-(Jan./Feb. 1974): 5–7; “The
-1973 UFO Encounter of Lyndia Morel,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4958
Date: 11/3/1973
-Description: Day. At the bottom of a gully in an isolated section of the
-woods near Midland, Pennsylvania, two hunters find a 42-foot ring
-impressed in the grass. Investigator Stan
-Gordon finds a trail of three-toed footprints—11 inches long and 5
-inches wide—some 250 yards from the ring. (Clark III 556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4960
Date: 11/6/1973
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A USAF security policeman at the eastern portion
-of Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque, New Mexico, sees a large, glowing
-object hovering 100 feet above the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage
-Facility. It is an oblate spheroid, 150 feet in diameter, gold in color,
-and absolutely silent. Nine other air policemen are alerted, and four
-F-101 Voodoo Air National Guard interceptors are scrambled from
-Kirtland. The UFO begins moving east and passes out of sight at treetop
-level in the Manzano Mountains. (R. C. Hecker, “New
-Mexico Reports,”
-APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1974): 5; Good Need, p. 321)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4962
Date: 11/6/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Off-duty patrolmen Gary Steinberg and Thomas
-Brown are sitting in an unmarked patrol car in Freeport, New York,
-facing east. They see a bright light in the sky that is not the
-helicopter they think it is at first. They watch it for 5–10 minutes
-before it moves away to the southeast. Steinberg tries to get closer in
-the patrol car, while Brown stays behind and directs him by radio. He
-gets to within 300–400 feet of it, as it is 700–800 feet in altitude. It
-now appears football-shaped and 100 feet long. He watches it for 10–15
-minutes as it glows silvery blue with an occasional yellow-red pulsating
-tint. The object then moves off to the southwest, stopping occasionally.
-A smaller object comes up on his right and drifts up to the larger
-object and merges with it. The larger object dims in sections (about
-16), one after the other, and it takes off to the southwest and
-disappears in a couple seconds. (Dick Ruhl, “Merging
-UFOs over Long Island,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1974): 1,
-3– 4; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29,
-no. 2 (Summer 2004): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4961
Date: 11/8/1973
-Description: Top-shaped object with windows moved with “incredible
-speed,” darted behind jet interceptor, shot straight up in sky
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: La Paz, Bolivia
-ID: 228
Date: mid 11/1973
-Description: Evening. Two sentries at a lookout post on the perimeter of
-Istrana Air Base, Veneto province, Italy, see two beings, about 4 feet
-11 inches tall, dressed in white. Further away they see an
-unconventional craft. The beings run to the UFO and speed away. Marks
-are found at the landing site. (“Italy:
-Top Secret,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975): iii; Good
-Above, pp. 143–144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4963
Date: 11/16/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 11-year old boys are outside in Lemon Grove,
-California, intending to play in a vacant lot or field in the
-neighborhood. When they arrive, there is a dark object hovering about 18
-inches above the field. It seems inactive. One of the boys cautiously
-approaches and raps it with his flashlight, making a sound like metal on
-metal. Instantly, the object’s dome lights up in a brilliant red light
-that illuminates the entire area. It rises three or four more feet off
-the ground, and a row of green lights light up around its perimeter,
-flashing in sequence. The thing begins rotating and making a “woooo
-woooo woooo” sound. The object is easily visible now and appears as a
-domed disc. The dome is large and tall (about equal to half or more of
-the disc height) and glowing bright red, then flashing intermittent red.
-The boys are now frightened and start to run away as the object takes
-off toward the southwest. At the site are found three marks forming an
-equilateral triangle within an area of grass swirled in a
-counterclockwise pattern. A magnetometer at La Posta Astro-Geophysical
-Observatory in Campo, California, allegedly registers a perturbation at
-7:20 p.m. (NICAP, “Object
-Hovers 18ʺ off Ground / Magnetometer Perturbation”;
-“Boys
-Encounter Landed Object,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1974):
-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4964
Date: 11/17/1973
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Johann Pritz notices an oblong object emitting
-lights upward (similar to those he had seen on October 29) as he is
-driving near Ulltichschlag, Austria. He drives home to Bad Traunstein
-and continues watching the display to the south. He gathers several
-other witnesses in town, and they continue watching until the object
-fades out after 7:00 p.m. (Ernst Berger, “Luminous
-‘Snails’ near Traunstein, Austria,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2
-(October 1974): 16–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4965
Date: 11/18/1973
-Description: About 6:00 p.m. Four women are driving south from Tracy,
-Quebec, to Contrecoeur when they see a “watermelon-sized” ball of
-yellowish light suddenly appear above a pylon a quarter of a mile ahead
-of them. As they pass, it starts moving westward over the St. Lawrence
-River. The object seems to change shape as it flies, becoming
-alternately larger and smaller, dimming and growing in intensity. The
-light follows them as they weave in and out through wooded areas.
-Eventually the object is lost to sight as the women drive into Montreal.
-At one point they encounter a large volume of traffic that seems to be
-slowed by an odd pink cloud lying across the highway. They also see a
-small human figure standing in the middle of the road. (Chris Rutkowski
-and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006,
-pp. 107–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4966
Date: 11/22/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A woman living in an isolated area near Joliette,
-Quebec, notices a white object outside her kitchen window. She moves
-closer to the window and sees a 4-foot-tall being with huge glowing
-eyes. Around its head or helmet there is a halo; its shoulders slope at
-a 45° angle from the head. After 15 seconds, the figure withdraws. She
-alerts her husband, who goes outside to investigate but only finds the
-dog “scared to death.” The following night the cat is spooked. (Claude
-Macduff, “The
-November 1973 UFO-Invasion of Quebec,” The UFO Register 7, no. 1/2
-(1976): 12–15; Clark III 496; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The
-Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 108–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4967
Date: 11/28/1973
-Description: Gallup Poll showed that 51 percent of Americans believe
-UFOs are “real,” 11 percent claim personal sightings, and 93 percent are
-aware of the subject.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 229
Date: 11/28/1973
-Description: A Gallup poll shows that 51% of Americans believe UFOs are
-“real,” as opposed to 27% who think they are “imaginary.” And 11% claim
-to have seen a UFO, extrapolating into 15 million Americans. (“51%
-in Gallup Poll
-Believe in U.F.O.’s: 11% Note Sightings,” New York Times, November
-29, 1973, p. 45; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on
-UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4968
Date: 11/30/1973
-Description: UFO hovered and darted around near CaseIle Airport, seen by
-pilots and tracked on airport radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Turin, Italy
-ID: 230
Date: 11/30/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Pilot Riccardo Marano is about to land at Caselle
-Airport, Turin, Italy, in a Piper Navajo, when the controller notifies
-him that there is a UFO about 1,320 feet above the runway. He sees a
-luminous, multicolored ball of light changing from violet to blue to
-dark red. “When I got closer and had a better view, the object at once
-made off, flying in a most irregular fashion, maneuvering in a way I
-have seen no plane do, making fantastic lateral deviations, and sudden
-vast jumps to and fro, as if it enjoyed playing hide-and-seek. Its speed
-was as high as” 540 mph, Marano says. Col. Rustichelli, commandant of
-the Caselle military airfield, sees the UFO on his own radar screen. “It
-was something solid, lit up, like a plane on my radar.” Commander
-Tranquillo, pilot of an Alitalia Air Line DC-9 en route from Turin to
-Rome, calls to the control tower: “I see a shining thing giving out
-intermittent flashes of light, four miles from me. I dare not approach.
-I give way.” Commander Mezzalami in another Alitalia DC-9 reports: “I
-was able to observe the object … notified by the control tower just as I
-was about to touch down. I had a good view of it I can offer no
-theories as to its significance and can only say that it was something
-very strange indeed.” (NICAP, “UFO
-Darts To and Fro, Observed from 3 Aircraft and Gnd Radar”;
-Story, p. 373;
-F. Lagarde, “Italie:
-Turin 30 Novembre et Suza 24 Novembre 1973,” Lumières dans la Nuit,
-no. 133 (March 1974): 5–6; Gordon Creighton, “The
-Italian Scene Once More,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 (October
-1974): 27; 1Pinotti 185–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4969
Date: 12/1973
-Description: Kansas is quietly undergoing an epidemic of strange cattle
-deaths. The incidents first receive wide publicity in the December 22
-Kansas City Times, which takes note of the fact that most of the deaths
-are Black Angus. They have died within a few miles of US 81 in a dozen
-counties in north-central Kansas. Many show knife marks on the
-carcasses, including the apparent butchering of sex organs. The lack of
-blood and footprints is also puzzling. Sheriffs from the affected
-counties meet and decide that cultists are responsible. But according to
-the Kansas State University Veterinarian Laboratory in Manhattan, the
-animals have died of bloat and coyotes have eaten the soft parts. Many
-ranchers reject the explanation. Mystery helicopters are also linked to
-the mutilations. (Clark III 133; “Cattle
-Mutilations Baffle Kansas
-Farmers, Officials,” Kansas City (Mo.) Times, December 22, 1973,
-pp. 1–2, 16; Jerome Clark, “Strange Case of the Cattle Killings,” Fate
-27, no. 8 (August 1974): 79–90; Roberta Donovan and Keith Wolverton, Mystery
-Stalks the Prairie, THAR
-Institute, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4970
Date: 12/1973
-Description: Donald
-E. Keyhoe publishes Aliens from Space, in which he continues to
-ignore occupant cases but finally admits that the CIA, not the Air
-Force, is the primary perpetrator of the UFO cover-up. (Donald E.
-Keyhoe, Aliens from
-Space: The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday,
-1973; Clark III 649–650)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4971
Date: 12/1973
-Description: The Société Varoise d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in
-Toulon, France, begins publishing the journal Approche in conjunction
-with the Société Vauclusienne d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in Vedene,
-France. (Approche, no.
-1 (December 1973))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4972
Date: 12/3/1973
-Description: James Yorke and his family watch a triangular UFO with
-colored lights on the bottom for 15 minutes two miles north of
-Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It is over Minas Basin and crossing the water
-very slowly. (Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no.
-3 (Fall 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4973
Date: 12/6/1973
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Witnesses at Fabrègues, Hérault, France, see a
-landed domed disc on legs with a brightly lit “blister” on top, flashing
-red and white lights around the rim and making a humming sound. A door
-opens and a ladder unfolds, causing the witnesses to flee. The craft
-changes to an orange glow and chases them. Later, four imprints in a
-51-inch square are found, along with ladder marks. The area appears
-“swept” as if by a blast. (Yves Herbo, “Décembre
-1973: Atterrissages avec traces à Fabrègues,” Sciences Faits et
-Histoires, November 21, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4974
Date: 12/8/1973
-Description: While harvesting, farmer Kevin O’Connell finds seven
-sections of his oat crop flattened into circles 3 miles west of
-Bordertown, South Australia. They are spread over 20 acres and the
-largest is 14 feet in diameter. The oats are flattened counterclockwise.
-(Terry Wilson, “1973:
-Bordertown,” Old Crop Circles)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4975
Date: 12/10/1973
-Description: Egg-shaped object with body lights sped toward witnesses,
-hovered. Reacted to light signals, sped off to south, departed upward at
-steep angle
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hochries, Germany
-ID: 231
Date: 12/13/1973
-Description: Patrick Thrush spots a hovering UFO above a river with a
-tube leading from the craft to the water. Witness takes 2 photos with
-his flash, the tube retracts and the UFO goes over his car and drops
-warm dry “rocks” on it. UFO seen by another witness. Norman S. Bean
-contacted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Bradenton, FL
Date: 12/15/1973
-Description: A single crop circle is found in a wheat field at Wokuma,
-South Australia. The wheat has been flattened counterclockwise and there
-are two bare patches. (Terry Wilson, “1973:
-Wokuma,” Old Crop Circles)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4976
Date: 12/20/1973
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Michael Wagner and Robert B. Klinn of Pacific
-Palisades, California, see a yellow, glowing blob hovering in the
-south-southeast. Through a telescope, the blob is seen to be a precise
-arrangement of round, yellow-gold lights. It fades away after 75
-minutes. (Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Island Recurring ‘Cloud-
-Cigars,’” Proceedings
-of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center
-for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 67–68; Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel
-Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4977
Date: 1974
-Description: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed
-Type: law
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1974
-Description: Contact (UK) expands to Contact International, after
-establishing many overseas branches in Turkey, Colombia, and elsewhere.
-It has an international membership of 2,000. (Story, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4980
Date: 1974
-Description: Perry Petrakis founds the Association d’Étude sur les
-Soucoupes Volantes in Aix-en-Provence, France, and soon establishes
-branches in Vevey, Switzerland, and Kalmthout, Belgium. It begins
-publishing the AESV bulletin through June 1981. AESV continues under the
-name SOS-OVNI in 1990. (AESV,
-no. 6 (April 1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4979
Date: 1974
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Two women are driving along Hamilton Road,
-Quakers Hill, New South Wales, when the car suddenly shakes violently
-and stops. The radio will not turn on. The driver gets out of the car to
-get her children out of the back seat when she looks up and sees a
-massive disc-shaped object at an altitude no greater than the nearby
-power pole. It is surrounded completely by lights and has a dome in the
-middle on the top. The object is gun-metal gray and the size of half a
-football field. It silently moves over the dairy farm next to the road.
-Then it stops and shoots up into the air. The car starts up with no
-problems afterward. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4985
Date: 1974
-Description: John Hind establishes the Irish UFO Research Centre in
-Belfast, Northern Ireland. It publishes the Irish UFO News from 1976 to
-1980. (Irish
-UFO News 1 no. 2 (July 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4981
Date: 1974
-Description: The French government decides to systematically gather UFO
-reports from the gendarmerie and transmit them to the Centre National
-d’Études Spatiales (CNES). At the time, the gendarmerie has about 300
-reports and is getting 100 new ones each year. A committee of the
-Institut des Hautes Études de Defense Nationale recommends the creation
-of a special UFO investigation agency. (Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to
-SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter
-2000–2001): 11; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official
-French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4978
Date: 1974
-Description: John Rimmer has moved from Liverpool to London, England, in
-1973, but John Harney moves there this year to work for the Kew
-Observatory. MUFOB continues in London, with Rimmer taking over the bulk
-of the editorial work. (“History
-of Magonia,”
-Magonia Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4984
Date: 1974
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of
-Aeronautics and Astronautics is disbanded. (Story, p. 8)
-1974 — Bob
-Gribble, a Seattle, Washington, fireman, establishes the National
-UFO Reporting Center, with a hotline phone number that is shared with
-Federal Aviation Administration offices. (“Profile,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March
-1982): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4983
Date: 1974
-Description: UFO skeptic Philip
-J. Klass publishes UFOs Explained, taking on some difficult UFO
-cases but finding none worthy of attention. Ufologists take vigorous
-issue with his representation of cases and publish numerous refutations
-that are little noticed outside the UFO community. (Philip J. Klass,
-UFOs Explained, Random House, 1974; Clark III 659)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4982
Date: 1/1974
-Description: Don
-Berliner of the Fund for UFO Research does an exhaustive review of
-the then unreleased Project Blue Book files at Maxwell AFB, Alabama,
-which include many witness names that are later redacted for public
-release. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4986
Date: 1/1974
-Description: Since 1968, Marjorie
-E. Fish, a schoolteacher in Oak Harbor, Ohio, has been fascinated
-with the star map drawn by Betty
-Hill after her abduction. If she could figure out what stars are on
-the map, she might be able to determine where the UFO came from. With
-much difficulty and many failed attempts, Fish creates a 3D map that
-indicates the relevant stars are the two in the Zeta Reticuli binary
-system, 39.3 light years from earth. She first publishes her results in
-Pursuit. Later observations reveal some interpretations in Fish’s map to
-be inaccurate, and she rejects her hypothesis in 2011. (Wikipedia, “Betty
-and Barney Hill”; Marjorie E. Fish, “Validation
-of the Betty
-Hill Map,” Pursuit 7, no. 1 (January 1974): 4–8; Terence Dickinson,
-“The Zeta Reticuli Incident,” Astronomy 2, no. 12 (December 1974): 5–18;
-“Update on the Betty Hill Star Map,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2
-(Jan./Feb. 1981): 16, 29; Allan Hendry, “UFO Road Map: or, Lost in the
-Stars,” Fate 35, no. 2 (February 1982): 56–63; David J. Eicher, “The
-Zeta Reticuli (or Ridiculi) Incident,” January 31, 2001; Brett
-Holman, “Goodbye, Zeta Reticuli,” Fortean Times 242 (December 2008):
-50–52; Colin Johnston, “The Truth about Betty Hill’s UFO Star Map,”
-Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, August 19, 2011; Clark III
-586–487)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4987
Date: 1/3/1974
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two young student teachers are driving home near
-Leek, Staffordshire, England, when a green mass appears to follow them.
-The couple feels a presence. Despite being on a lonely road, they get
-out of the car to watch a dark mass low above their heads, with arcs of
-blue and green light encircling them. In terror, they head off over the
-moors, but moments later they run over a cattle grid, inexplicably
-finding themselves in Ilam 12 miles away. Seconds later there is another
-bump and they reach a developed area that turns out to be a town 20
-miles to the north. They find a police station to report the incident
-and find that it is now 3:30 a.m. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of
-Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4989
Date: 1/7/1974
-Description: UFO landed, humanoid encounter
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Warneton, Belgium
-ID: 232
Date: 1/7/1974
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A man’s car suddenly dies as he is driving near
-Warneton, Belgium. He sees a landed domed disc with a flat bottom like a
-WWI helmet, 23–33 feet in diameter and 7–10 feet wide. It has a flange
-around its base and three legs. White and orange alternating bands are
-on the glowing object. Two humanoid beings approach him. They have broad
-shoulders, heads shaped like inverted pears, long arms, large eyes, and
-no noses. One is about 4 feet tall, the other somewhat taller; a third
-being remains near the craft. They wear internally lit cube- shaped
-helmets with the face visible, gray jumpsuits, and gloves. The taller
-being comes within 12–15 feet of the vehicle, then opens and closes its
-mouth. The witness feels a shock to the back of his head and hears a
-low- pitched sound. The two humanoids quickly return to the craft, which
-now pulses with an electric blue color, and departs. (MM. Bazin,
-Bigorne, and Bodin, “Atterrissage
-à Warneton (Belgique): Contact avec les Ufonautes,” Lumières dans la
-Nuit, no. 139 (November 1974): 3–6; “The
-Robots at Warneton,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975):
-6–9; UFOEv II 493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4990
Date: 1/8/1974
-Description: 3:00 a.m. John
-E. Justice leaves the Ohio Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio, when
-his headlights dim and the engine dies. He sees a display of aerial
-lights descending a short distance in front of him. The blinking lights
-are multicolored “like a rainbow.” Suddenly they blink out and are
-replaced by a blinding steady white light about 6 feet ahead of and 3
-feet above the car. The light is coming from the inside of the object,
-where he can see a lighted room with a golden aisle and five occupants
-seated on the left-hand side in a straight row. Each seat is a different
-color, and the garments of the occupants match the color of the seat.
-Each has long brown hair that reaches the floor. The object departs
-suddenly, the interior blinking out and the colored lights reappearing.
-The car engine starts without difficulty. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update
-on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011):
-16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4991
Date: 1/18/1974
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Giuseppe Cardelli is driving between Milan and
-Bologna, Italy, when he sees a “strange shining ball” in the sky. He
-stops his car, gets out, and photographs it. He submits the photo to
-NASA, which replies on June 18 that it has no explanation. A consultant
-wonders whether the photo shows a reflection in the car window and finds
-the “wiggly clouds to the right” interesting. (“Italian
-Photo Unexplained,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 3 (September 1975): 1,
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4992
Date: 1/23/1974
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Witnesses at Llandrillo, northern Wales, see a
-bright object followed by a luminous tail and (according to one witness)
-a blinking blue light. The object is motionless for several minutes,
-during which time it dims then becomes very bright. It appears to crash
-around Cadair Bronwen mountain, east of the village. Many people hear a
-terrific explosion and a violent shaking of the ground recorded up to 60
-miles away. Astronomers at Leicester University, England, record at
-least three fireball meteors this evening. The British Geological Survey
-identifies the source of the explosion as an earthquake. Police and a
-mountain rescue team from RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales, are in the area
-almost immediately and cordon off access to the supposed crash site on a
-barren hilltop. They find no trace of a crash the next day, but a nurse
-on the way to the crash site after being telephoned by police
-headquarters is on her way up the mountain with her daughters when she
-sees something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seems to be intact
-and is large, circular, and glowing orange. The nurse and her daughters
-are within a few hundred feet when police and military forces show up
-and clearly tell her to leave the area. Researcher Tony
-Dodd is reportedly approached by a retired military man using the
-name of “Robert Prescott” who tells him that he and some others were
-assigned to transport two oblong crates from the crash site to a place
-called Porton Down where the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science
-and Technology Laboratory is located. They are instructed not to stop
-for anyone. Military personnel open the crates and Prescott sees two
-humanoid figures, apparently dead, about 5–6 ft tall, very thin, almost
-skeletal in nature with a covering skin. These are placed in
-decontamination suits. Other units supposedly transport live aliens from
-the crash site. At 10:00 p.m., a man watches a luminous sphere descend
-into the sea near the Dee Estuary about 25 miles north. Nick
-Redfern speculates that a UK version of Project Moon Dust might be
-in activation, which could explain reports of mystery helicopters in the
-area in prior weeks. Jenny
-Randles hears later from a former UK government official that a
-crashed UFO is being kept in a military base in South Wales. In May,
-Welsh MP Dafydd
-Elis-Thomas asks Defence Minister Brynmor
-John if any official investigation was made; John says the only
-official investigation was made by the RAF Valley team. National
-Archives files released in 2005 show that the MoD consulted the
-Meteorological Office and DI55, which says the meteor explanation is the
-likeliest. (Wikipedia, “Berwyn Mountain
-UFO incident”; Jenny Randles, “The Night the Mountain Exploded,” IUR
-21, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 9– 11, 32; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO
-Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 116–124; Andy Roberts,
-“Fire on the Mountain: The Berwyn Mountain Incident,” IUR 24, no. 3
-(Fall 1999): 16–23, 30; UFOFiles2, pp. 90–91;
-“Files
-Released on 1974 ‘Welsh Roswell,’” BBC News, August 5, 2010; Andy
-Roberts, UFO Down? The Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash, CFZ Press, 2010; Clark
-III 287–288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4993
Date: 1/24/1974
-Description: While the RAF rescue team is still operating around Cadair
-Bronwen, three family members see a bright object in the sky near the
-mountain. Through field glasses, they see a disc-shaped object divided
-into red, green, yellow, and purple sections. After 10 minutes they call
-the police and the object disappears behind a cloud.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4994
Date: 1/26/1974
-Description: V-formation of luminous orange discs observed by airline
-crew
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lisbon, Portugal
-ID: 233
Date: 1/26/1974
-Description: 2:59 a.m. Capt. Lars Berglund and the crew of a Boeing 727
-airliner flying near Lisbon, Portugal, see a V- formation of 10–15
-luminous orange discs. Berglund rules out a satellite reentry because of
-its precision. After the formation passes, another Portuguese aircraft
-reports the same objects to ground control. A Norwegian and a British
-aircraft also report the same phenomenon. (“Formation
-Seen by Air Crews,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 5 (March/April 1974): 7–8;
-“Airliner
-Met 15 UFOs over Lisbon,” UFO-Sweden Special Report, 1974 no. 4,
-pp. 3– 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4995
Date: 2/1974
-Description: Hynek visits
-the APRO headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, asking for a contact list of
-APRO investigators for the Center for UFO Studies to make use of in a
-cooperative fashion. Coral
-Lorenzen is suspicious of Hynek’s background and does not provide
-him the list. (“Hynek:
-UFO Movement Basically Amateurs,” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 2 (January
-1986): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4996
Date: 2/6/1974
-Description: Late evening. A woman watching TV in rural Fayette County
-near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, hears a “rattling of tin cans” on her
-porch. She grabs and loads a shotgun, turns on the porch light, and
-steps into the doorway of the porch, where she encounters a 7-foot-tall
-apelike creature with its hands raised in the air. She fires into his
-midsection and it “just disappeared in a flash of light.” Her
-son-in-law, who lives in a trailer 100 feet away, hears the shot, grabs
-a revolver, and heads for her house. Along the way, he sees “shadows of
-four or five hairy people” who approach him. They have “fire red eyes
-that glowed in total darkness.” About 1,500 feet away, a red, flashing
-light hovers above the trees. Investigating police arrive and find no
-tracks but notice that the animals seem terrified. The son-in-law tells
-investigator Stan
-Gordon that he had encountered a similar apelike creature in
-November 1973. (Clark III 556–557; Stan Gordon, “UFO’s, in Relation to
-Creature Sightings in Pennsylvania,” MUFON 1974 UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, MUFON, 1974, pp. 132–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4997
Date: 2/8/1974
-Description: Sunset. Mullah Umar Siddiq, merchant Ibrahim Khaleb, and
-physician Muhammad Watif are standing on the roof of the Al-Hud Mosque
-in Al Mukalla, Yemen, when they see three large white discs gliding
-slowly downward. They gather some provisions, hire three camels, and
-head for the Wadi Jawlan 32 miles to the east, where they estimate the
-objects have landed. At dawn, they dismount to say prayers, and a vivid
-glow lights up the eastern sky above the Wadi Jawlan for a few seconds.
-The light is yellowish-white and comes from three beams that are
-stabbing upwards and fanning out into the sky. Although the light dies
-down, the beams are still visible, eventually growing paler. They find
-deep, clear-cut tracks of caterpillar-track vehicles all over the rugged
-area. At three places, about 325 feet apart, they find numerous scoop
-marks, about 33 inches wide, in an area in the form of a triangle with
-sides 17 feet wide. The rock has been fused and melted and the grass and
-thorn-scrub is burnt. (Gordon Creighton, “An
-Arabian Landing?” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974):
-12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4999
Date: 2/8/1974
-Description: 7:25 a.m. Ten girls from the orphanage school in Vălenii de
-Munte, Romania, watch two yellow-orange spheres above a hill to the
-southwest of town. After 10 seconds, they merge into one object and take
-the form of an elongated oval with an orange dome. It begins moving
-slowly toward the west-southwest, then accelerates and disappears behind
-the treeline after 40 seconds. Fresh marks are found in a plowed field
-at the site where the object was seen. (Romania 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4998
Date: 2/14/1974
-Description: 4:25 a.m. Two brothers are transporting their parents’
-furniture in a U-Haul truck near Ely, Nevada, when they notice a round,
-orange object that paces them, then approaches. They feel as though they
-are “hit by a blast of wind or force field.” The engine and lights give
-out, the steering goes, and the truck seems to momentarily float, come
-back down, and coast to a stop. Ahead of them, just over a hill, they
-see a large, round object with a domed top and wings. The other object
-approaches again. One brother points a flashlight at it, whereupon they
-both get an intense feeling of isolation that lasts about 20 minutes.
-Since the truck appears to be damaged, they flag down a passing car and
-call for a tow truck. When the tow truck hauls it away, the rear wheels
-fall off. It needs new tires, a rear axle, outside housing, and gears.
-(“Car
-Disabled by UFO?” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 6 (May/June 1974): 4–5;
-UFOEv II 218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5000
Date: 2/14/1974
-Description: Round orange object paced, approached truck, E-M effects on
-lights and engine, truck lifted off road, steering control lost, feeling
-of vacuum
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ely, NV
-ID: 234
Date: 2/21/1974
-Description: French radio journalist Jean-Claude
-Bourret interviews French Defense Minister Robert
-Galley for his France Inter radio program, OVNIs: Pas de panique!
-Galley says his department has been interested in UFO reports since the
-French wave of 1954. Ministry records contain many baffling radar/visual
-cases. He speaks of the strong quality of the evidence and that people
-must regard UFOs with a “completely open mind.” The mass of UFO reports
-“from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from
-the gendarmerie charged with conducting investigations,” all of which
-are forwarded to CNES, would make people see that it is “pretty
-disturbing.” (“French
-Minister Speaks on UFOs,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 (October
-1974): 3–4; Good Above, p. 129;
-Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,”
-IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 11; Yves Herbo, “OVNIs
-et divulgation: Le Ministre des Armées françaises l’a fait en 1974,”
-Sciences Faits et Histoire, February 2, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5001
Date: 3/1974
-Description: About 9:00 p.m. A missile launch officer with the 564th
-Strategic Missile Squadron is on watch at the Malmstrom AFB Romeo Flight
-missile alert facility near Brady, Montana, when both the outer and
-inner alarms go off. A security alert team arrives and sees a large,
-brilliantly self-illuminated object hovering above the Romeo-29 launch
-facility. Suddenly, the missile starts a countdown. The officer quickly
-flips the inhibit switch, which puts the system offline. Then the system
-spontaneously restarts and the missile goes into launch mode again,
-followed by an inhibit order that does not work. But the launch code is
-false and the missile remains in its pad. Meanwhile, the UFO moves away
-straight up at high speed. An F-106 interceptor attempts unsuccessfully
-to reach it, and Malmstrom AFB radar tracks the UFO. Later he learns
-that the ground electronics in Romeo-29 are fried as if from a surge.
-(Nukes 353–355; Robert L. Hastings, “Former
-U.S. Air Force Missile Launch Officer Says
-a UFO Activated One of His ICBMs—Twice!” December 7, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5002
Date: 3/1974
-End date: 6/1974
-Description: Concentration of UFO sightings, including vehicle
-encounters
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Spain
-ID: 238
Date: 3/9/1974
-Description: 9:58 p.m. Fiat Corporation pilot Alfonso Isaia chases a
-luminous, saucer-shaped object with colored rings near Milan, Italy. The
-UFO is confirmed by Milan radar. (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1989, p. 19;
-Massimiliano Aiello, “L’avvistamento
-del Pilota del Agnelli,” Massimiliano Aiello, January 17, 2013;
-1Pinotti 188–189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5003
Date: 3/9/1974
-Description: Luminous saucer-shaped object with colored rings ahead of
-plane confirmed by Milan radar, chased by pilot
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 235
Date: 3/13/1974
-Description: An Argentine Airlines plane en route from San Juan, Puerto
-Rico, to Córdoba, Argentina, is flanked by two glowing objects that pace
-it for several minutes, then speed away. (UFOEv II 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5004
Date: 3/13/1974
-Description: Argentine Airlines plane flanked by two glowing objects
-that paced it for several minutes, then sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: En route San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Cordoba, Argentina
-ID: 236
Date: 3/17/1974
-Description: The crew of a TWA airliner over Taiwan sees a shiny oval or
-cigar-shaped object and four smaller, spherical, satellite objects.
-(UFOEv II 415; Richard F. Haines, “A Review of Selected Sightings from
-Aircraft from 1973 to 1978,” in 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings,
-MUFON, 1979, p. 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5005
Date: 3/17/1974
-Description: TWA airliner crew observed shiny oval or cigar-shaped
-object, five smaller spherical-appearing satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Taiwan
-ID: 237
Date: 3/20/1974
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Adrian Sánchez Sánchez, a salesman, is driving
-near El Castillo de las Guardas, Seville, Spain, when he sees a large
-metallic UFO, 450–600 feet long, with three smaller ships shaped like
-yo-yos. It flies silently and has no windows but towers above and below.
-One of the objects silently pursues Sánchez and disappears as he enters
-a village. (Eileen Buckle, “Spanish
-UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 3;
-UFOEv II 345)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5006
Date: 3/23/1974
-Description: 3:00 a.m. The chauffeur of the president of the Cádiz
-Provincial Commission is driving on the highway in Sanlúcar de
-Barrameda, Spain, when he sees a “luminous, metal-like” object moving
-upward with great brilliancy. As he approaches it, he feels a strange
-sensation. His car comes to a near stop, wavering back and forth like a
-feather. (UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5007
Date: 3/23/1974
-Description: Night. A young man (pseudonym Harald Andersson) comes out
-of the parish house in Markim, Stockholm County, Sweden, when he hears a
-voice in his head telling him to follow a dark forest road. Just after
-passing a small cottage, he sees two runestones by the side of the path.
-Suddenly a blinding light knocks him to the ground where he lies
-unconscious for a while, then wakes up on the doorstep of his villa in
-Lindholmen, Vallentuna. His wife, disturbed by his condition (bleeding
-from his forehead and a burn on his cheek), takes him to Danderyds
-Hospital where hypnotherapist Ture
-Arvidsson regresses him to the time of the incident (twice, on April
-1 and May 20). He discovers that a beam of light has floated him up into
-the air while tall, hooded figures touch his head with an unknown
-device, saying they will meet again in the future. Extraordinary
-abilities follow, including his ability to disrupt a compass needle, see
-vibrant auras, and premonitions. The incident is apparently witnessed by
-another man a short distance away. The Swedish Home Guard assigns 50 of
-its personnel to work with 15 ufologists to examine the region. The
-group reports a few odd lights in the sky. (Håkan Blomqvist, “An Abduction
-in Sweden?” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 (August 1987):
-14–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5008
Date: 3/23/1974
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A French doctor allegedly photographs an odd
-object near Albiosc, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. The color image
-shows a red object like a domed disc and four bright, beamlike
-extensions. UFO investigator Jean Bedet receives the slide anonymously
-on April 14, with a note pinned to his car windshield when he is
-visiting the town of Tavernes, Var. Bedet says his wife and others had
-seen a similar object at 11:00 p.m. the same night. The consensus among
-researchers in France is that the photo is a hoax perpetrated by Bedet
-to confirm the visual sighting. (Michel Monnerie, “La
-Veillée Nationale d’Observation à Barjols (Var),” Lumières dans la
-Nuit, no. 138 (October 1974): 22–26; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “An
-Approach to UFO Pictures in France,”
-FOTOCAT Report no. 6, [2009], p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5009
Date: 3/26/1974
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Truck driver Maximiliano Iglesias sees a strange
-object like a plate placed above another large, round object hovering
-above the highway in Valdehijaderos, Salamanca, Spain, 650 feet away.
-Another object is 60 feet away. Two beings come out of the first UFO,
-point to the truck, then go in again. Both objects fly away. At 11:30
-p.m., the same witness watches three silver ships parked on the highway
-with a floodlight. He stops his engine as some figures approach. He runs
-and they follow. They are about 6.5 feet tall, with arms and legs, but
-he cannot see their faces. On March 27, the Guardia Civil investigate
-and find a hole in the ground. (Pere Rédon, “Valdehijaderos,
-de Nuevo,” Stendek 5, no. 18 (December 1974): 12–16; Eileen Buckle,
-“Spanish
-UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 4–6;
-UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5010
Date: 3/27/1974
-Description: Antoine,
-Jerri, and Terry Betz investigate a small brush fire near their
-residence on Fort George Island, Florida, and come across a metal sphere
-the size of a bowling ball and weighing 22 pounds. They think the sphere
-could be a 16th-century cannonball and decide to take it home. Several
-days later, while Terry is playing the guitar, the sphere seems to react
-to the music and makes a throbbing noise. Later, the sphere rolls and
-stops on its own and changes direction. The sphere makes a noise when
-hit with a hammer, and Terry finds that it moves after being shaken and
-placed on the ground. In 2012, an analysis by Skeptoid indicates that
-the sphere is a ball check valve produced by the Bell & Howell
-company. Its size, weight, and metallurgical composition match those of
-the company’s check valves. The ball is almost perfectly balanced, and
-it takes only a small stimulus to make it move or change direction. New
-Mexico artist James Durling-Jones, who collects scrap metal for his
-sculptures, remembers loading ball check valves into the rooftop luggage
-rack of his Volkswagen van and driving through the Jacksonville,
-Florida, area around Easter of 1971. A few of the balls rolled off the
-luggage rack and were not retrieved. Skeptoid concludes that this is the
-sphere’s origin. (Wikipedia, “Betz
-mystery sphere”; Brian Dunning, “The
-Betz Mystery Sphere,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 334, October 30,
-2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5011
Date: 3/27/1974
-Description: Night. A large, brightly shining, spindle-shaped object
-that remains stationary in the air is seen by numerous witnesses in
-Málaga, Spain, and photographed by Sr. Salas, picture editor of the Sur
-newspaper. (Eileen Buckle, “Spanish
-UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5012
Date: 3/29/1974
-Description: 1:45 a.m. A French vacationer and a local female friend are
-lying on a sloping beach near Lomé, Togo, when they hear a high-pitched
-whine and see an unlighted cylindrical object above the ocean. It heads
-toward them on a level flight path until it gets to 500 feet away. It
-stops, and within moments a tidal wave washes over the two witnesses.
-Wave after wave crash over them as they hold onto a nearby tree. The UFO
-emits powerful beams of light, and the Frenchman can see the waters
-parting in a deep trough. They remain paralyzed for 20 minutes until the
-UFO turns off its lights and flies out to sea. The water surface returns
-to normal. Over the next few days, the man feels strangely exhausted and
-has a ringing in his ears. (Joël Mesnard, “UFO
-over Sea Causes Surge of Tidal Waves,”
-Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 4–5, iv; Clark III
-250–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5013
Date: 3/30/1974
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Motorists are blinded by a bright yellow-green
-object on or near the ground along a road near Ombreiro, Lugo, Spain.
-Car engines fail, headlights go out. After 3–4 minutes, the UFO rises
-silently and moves away horizontally. It makes a soft buzzing or
-whistling sound. (UFOEv II 454)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5014
Date: 3/30/1974
-Description: Blinding light from hovering object, car engine quit,
-lights went out. Object flew away with whistling sound, car then
-functioned normally
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hombreiro, Lugo, Spain
-ID: 239
Date: 4/1974
-Description: A woman military staffer at the GEC-Marconi contracting
-company in Frimley, Surrey, England, learns that a break-in has occurred
-the previous night. A guard suffers a nervous breakdown, is taken to an
-unnamed hospital, and is not seen again. Later, she hears a discussion
-in her supervisor’s office and describes it to Nick
-Redfern: “We have no way of keeping these beings out. We just don’t
-know what to do next. If they can get in here, they can get in
-anywhere.” She learns that the guard had seen an alien sifting through
-files and papers. A blue light emanated from its helmet, and the being
-dematerialized before the guard’s eyes. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda:
-UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 126; Nick Redfern,
-“An
-Extraterrestrial 007?” Mysterious Universe, December 9, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5015
Date: 4/1974
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A staff sergeant assigned to the 355th Security
-Police Squadron stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Adana, Turkey, witnesses
-a white, glowing UFO hovering silently over the nuclear storage area
-about 500 feet above the ground for one hour. It appears to be the size
-of a Volkswagen. At 4:00 a.m., the UFO suddenly and silently accelerates
-toward the city. The witness sees the object from the Security Police
-dormitory about 2 miles away. The next day, other security personnel
-tell him that the only measures taken are “to set up their M-60 machine
-guns, and that they were not to fire on the object unless it initiated a
-hostile act.” (Brian Vike, “Sgt. Reports Bizarre
-Events at WY Missile Base,” Rense.com, July 7, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5016
Date: early 4/1974
-Description: A couple driving on a country road in east Hancock County,
-Ohio, spot a low light in the northeastern sky. They drive toward it,
-but it shoots up into the air so they can see its underside. As the man
-alerts people to the object on his CB radio, he sees the object lower a
-box, seemingly to take samples. Then the object approaches the couple
-and they drive away quickly, but it follows them for 47 miles. At 2:15
-a.m., they pull into a Wigwam restaurant, where a man rushes up to them
-and asks them, “What did you see in the sky?” He denies having a CB
-radio, and talks in a strangely slow and choppy manner. The man
-continues to bother them, so they drive away from the Wigwam. Soon they
-are followed by some strange lights and an orange ball. They stop the
-car where the road ends and see a “little man on a little black object.”
-The lights follow them all the way home to Findlay, Ohio. (Clark III
-731–733)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5017
Date: 4/4/1974
-Description: Two 12-year-old girls in A Estrada, Galicia, Spain, see a
-noiseless metallic object that stops for a few seconds 30–40 feet from
-the ground, then moves off. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A
-Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events
-in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS,
-1976, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5018
Date: 4/13/1974
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Julio Acosta Bertol (a teacher), his wife, and a
-student at Herrera de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain, observe a luminous
-rhomboid object with a pink-yellowish semicircle on its upper left. The
-student hears a prolonged, alarm-like noise. They watch the UFO for 5–6
-minutes from a distance of 900 feet before it moves off. (Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos, A
-Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS,
-1976, p. 49; Nick Redfern, “Spain’s
-UFO Wave: 1973–1974,” Mysterious Universe, August 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5019
Date: 4/15/1974
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Torres observe a flat, round
-object moving to the north over the low hills in back of their home in
-Tijeras Canyon, New Mexico. It is in the apparent area of the Manzano
-Nuclear Weapons Storage facility attached to Kirtland AFB. The object
-changes course to the east at an altitude of 2,000 feet and appears to
-be 50–75 feet in diameter. It is rotating silently on a central axis.
-The object turns abruptly to the south, passes behind a small mountain
-peak, turns east again, and vanishes over the Manzano Mountains. (R. C.
-Hecker, “New
-Mexico Reports,” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1974):
-5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5022
Date: 4/15/1974
-Description: A photojournalist takes four photos of a round object over
-A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. (Dolan II, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5021
Date: 4/15/1974
-Description: Passengers on a ferry on the Strait of Gibraltar between
-Ceuta and Algeciras, Spain, see a round, intense torch-like light rise
-out of the water near a huge rock, travel at low altitude, then fall
-into the water again. This happens once again. (UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5020
Date: 4/16/1974
-Description: 12:50 a.m. Mauro Bellingeri, 26, and his wife Carla Farè,
-23, are returning to their villa in Santa Maria del Tempio,
-Alessandrino, Italy, when they notice a bright object that dives
-abruptly toward them, stopping at a height of 40 feet above the villa.
-The Bellingeris get out of the car to look at the motionless object. It
-has a transparent dome and a central ring of revolving red, green, and
-yellow lights. Inside the dome are three human- like beings with large,
-round, opaque, grayish helmets. At the base of the headgear is a
-hoselike apparatus. One being turns in their direction, then moves back.
-All three beings then rotate in unison. At this point, 3–4 jets of flame
-appear beneath the craft, the central portion begins to revolve rapidly,
-and they hear a whistling sound and feel a blast of air. The UFO speeds
-away, continuing to whistle. (UFOEv II 460–461; 1Pinotti 189–191; Carlo
-Pirola, UFOs: Reinvestigation in Italy, Lulu.com, 2019, pp. 68–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5023
Date: 4/16/1974
-Description: Disc with dome descended, three beings visible inside
-transparent dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Casale Monferrato, Italy
-ID: 240
Date: 4/19/1974
-Description: About 9:30 p.m. Ruth Currie and her daughter Laurie see a
-bright light that seems to be only several hundred feet from their house
-in Altamont, New York. Curious, they walk toward it until they are
-within about 200 feet. An oval object is resting on the roadway. It
-appears to have large windows in the top half, from which comes a
-brilliant golden glow. Changes of contrast in this light give them the
-impression that something is moving around within. Currie sends her
-daughter to get a neighbor, Rose Curtis, and they return shortly. Currie
-then retreats to her home and phones her husband, who drops what he is
-doing and hurries over. He can see an object rising up. It shifts speeds
-and accelerates out of sight. During the bulk of this encounter, the
-neighborhood dogs are putting up a continuous volley of barking. The
-next morning, the witnesses get together and go to the site, where they
-find an area of burned grass 50–75 feet in diameter. (Center for UFO
-Studies, HUMCAT
-Index 1974, p. 40; NICAP, “The
-1974 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5024
Date: 4/29/1974
-Description: Roy Hiltner discovers an odd imprint in his soybean field
-near North Creek in northwestern Putnam County, Ohio. It is a depression
-8 feet in diameter and 12 inches deep, with seven 4-foot-long grooves
-radiating from it. In the center are two holes, each 12 inches in
-diameter and 12 inches apart. Local and state officials examine the site
-and cannot determine a cause. (“Two
-Physical Trace Cases in Northwest Ohio Unexplained,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July 1985): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5025
Date: 5/1974
-Description: 3:30 a.m. US Army Pfc R. Jack Phillips is assigned to the
-193rd Military Police Battalion guarding Area 3 of an Army Ordnance
-Depot [now returned to Germany] where surface-to-surface Pershing
-missiles are stored near Fischbach bei Dahn, Rhineland-Palatinate,
-Germany. Suddenly waking up, he watches an extremely bright star above
-him for about 15 seconds. Suddenly it approaches very quickly and hovers
-just beyond the depot fence line about 300 feet away. The light now
-looks like a domed disc about 60 feet in diameter with a concave
-indentation on its underside. It is covered in a greenish glow and
-completely silent. After 5 seconds the object gets much brighter for a
-second then dims again. The security lights in the complex go out.
-Phillips tries to report this, but his field phone is out. The backup
-generators fail to turn on. Some 30 seconds later, the object takes off
-so swiftly that he can’t tell in which direction it leaves. The lights
-come back on and all the bunker alarms go off. A roving unit needs to
-come by to reset all the alarms manually. Phillips admits that most of
-the guards sleep on duty, and that is probably why no one else has seen
-the object. (Nukes 343–346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5027
Date: 5/1974
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Iuliu Marian and his wife wake up abruptly in
-their home in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Outside they see a bell-shaped
-object or silhouette with a light tube in the center that seems to be
-waiting for them. Marian grabs a sports sword he keeps under the bed and
-goes outside, but the object is already moving away. He follows it
-around a corner of the house and the object is nowhere to be seen.
-Marian senses the object is still there somehow because he feels some
-kind of force field. Against his will he returns to his bedroom, the
-forcefield disappears, and he goes right back to sleep. (Romania
-128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5026
Date: 5/5/1974
-Description: 5:30 p.m. David Dorn and Troy Warton, both 11, leave home
-in Lincolnshire, Illinois, to play basketball. As they walk down the
-street, they notice a dark object in the western sky. It comes closer,
-drops to a height just above the treetops, hovers slightly, then rises
-up and disappears. David has a new camera and he snaps six photos with
-his Kodak X-15 camera. The color pictures reveal a distinct dark object
-in the clouds and over the trees. Unfortunately, he discards the
-negatives. (“Boy’s
-New Camera Records UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5
-(September 1980): 1) May 7 (possibly 1973) — 9:00 p.m. Margaret
-K. Roffe, nurse’s
-aide at the Coatesville (Pennsylvania) Veterans Administration Hospital,
-hears tree branches swishing and swaying nearby and sees a UFO descend
-and land on the roof of Building no. 1 about 150 feet away. Four
-silver-colored legs emerge from the object, followed by a ramp with
-steps. Three small figures climb down backwards. They are speaking to
-each other in high, squeaky voices that sound like “so many birds.” She
-says “The being nearest the edge of the roof had a very elongated head,
-grayish=looking skin, arms that extended well below his knees, and what
-looked like long claws instead of fingers. His legs appeared rather
-short.” He is bald and looks old. The scene is well lit by an
-illuminated dome on the roof of the building. When one of the entities
-notices the witness, they reenter the object, which takes off slowly
-over the trees, which are again violently agitated. The legs withdraw as
-it takes off. (Clark III 277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5028
Date: 5/7/1974
-Alternate date: 5/9/1974
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Businessman Amadeo Villar is driving with his
-wife and daughter near Altos de Cabrejas, Cuenca, Spain, when they see a
-bright orange object for 40–50 seconds. It darts behind the clouds,
-where it is still dimly visible. (José Vicente Avila, “Spain:
-A UFO over Cabrejas, Witnessed by Three (1974),” Inexplicata,
-October 28, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5029
Date: 5/9/1974
-Description: The documentary film UFOs: Past, Present, and Future is
-released along with a paperback book of the same title by Robert
-Emenegger. The
-film shows stock footage of Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, and a
-recreation of a landing at a hypothetical military base. (Wikipedia,
-“UFOs: Past, Present, and Future”; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past,
-Present, and Future, Ballantine, 1974; Internet Movie Database, “UFOs:
-It Has Begun”; “UFOs
-(It Has Begun) Past, Present, and Future documentary,” Jaded Truth
-YouTube channel, September 29, 2017; Clark III 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5030
Date: 5/15/1974
-Description: A businessman and a teacher in Pedroche, Córdoba, Spain,
-see a round object the “size of a table” that chases their car and
-obstructs their path on the road. They turn the car around rapidly and
-flee. (UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5031
Date: 5/17/1974
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Electronic scanning equipment at the Manzano
-Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility attached to Kirtland AFB near
-Albuquerque, New Mexico, registers a burst of energy in the upper
-atmosphere in the 250–275 MHz range. The burst throws all the facility’s
-instruments off. A trajectory of an apparent falling object is plotted,
-and a recovery team is dispatched to an area southwest of Chilili, New
-Mexico, that is cordoned off. A few hours later, a circular, metallic
-object about 60 feet in diameter is dismantled and transported into a
-hangar at Kirtland AFB. (R. C. Hecker, “New
-Mexico Reports,” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1974): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5032
Date: 5/20/1974
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A baker named Le Meur, with his wife and two
-children, is traveling on a small road toward Landévennec, Finistère,
-France, when they notice a powerful light ahead at ground level. It
-consists of a string of 7–8 spheres, each about one foot in diameter and
-arranged horizontally, about 3 feet above the road. Le Meur turns around
-and heads to the local Gendarmerie station in Telgruc-sur-Mer to report
-it. The police examine the site the next day and find a patch of ferns
-that appear abnormally wilted. They collect some plant and soil samples
-and send them to a lab in Paris for analysis. The wilted, brown ferns
-are found to be without chlorophyll and an unknown element (indicating
-pheophytins associated with the degradation of chlorophyll) shows up in
-the chromatography in ultraviolet light. (Joël Mesnard, “Landévennec,
-May 20, 1974,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 20–21; Jérôme Frasson, “An
-Attempt to Learn about the Trauma Undergone by the Ferns,” IUR 32, no. 4
-(October 2009): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5033
Date: 5/22/1974
-Description: The wife of a journalist on Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain,
-photographs an object described in a US Defense Department report as
-“somewhat like a top.” It remains stationary for a while, then rises and
-disappears. (Dolan II 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5034
Date: 5/28/1974
-Description: Day. A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sees a large
-glowing object moving across the western face of the Sandia Mountains.
-It is so bright that no structure is visible. The witness opens his
-window to listen for noise coming from the object, but there is none. As
-he watches, the object appears to land on a nearby hill where it remains
-for an hour before it shoots into the air and vanishes. Three young men
-are camping in the Sandia Mountains that day around noon. They notice a
-silver-white UFO on the ground on the east side of Tramway Boulevard NE,
-between Menaul Boulevard and Copper Avenue. Next to it is a silver,
-triangular-shaped object with odd rune-like symbols on one of the
-pointed ends. After reporting the sighting, they wind up being taken to
-Kirtland AFB for interrogation by civilian intelligence agents. They are
-told they have witnessed a “Soviet incident” and are to keep their
-mouths shut, which they do for 34 years before talking to Linda
-Moulton Howe in 2007. Around 9:00 p.m., a family sees a large,
-glowing, football-shaped disc moving across Albuquerque toward the
-Sandia foothills. They jump in their car and try to follow the object,
-using dirt roads on the east side of Tramway. They are stopped by a
-state police officer, beyond whom they can see the UFO hovering low next
-to a rocky hill. It is surrounded by armed military personnel. (“Recent
-Sightings Reported in New Mexico,” UFO Investigator, July 1974,
-p. 3; Linda Moulton Howe, “Glowing
-Disc Encounter with Military in Albuquerque, NM,”
-Earthfiles, November 29, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5035
Date: 5/31/1974
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A prolonged Peugeot-pacing case from Mvuma to
-Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, takes place along the A4 highway, during which
-motorists experience electromagnetic effects, loss of steering control
-for their vehicle, abnormal cold and silence, translocation from one
-place to another, altered appearance of the terrain, humanoid encounter,
-and amnesia. (Carl Van Vlieden, “Escorted
-by UFOs from Umvuma to Beit Bridge,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 2
-(August 1975): 3–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5036
Date: 6/1974
-Description: MUFON pledges its cooperation with CUFOS, offering its
-network of investigators to secure raw data for analysis. (Skylook, June
-1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5039
Date: 6/1974
-Description: Astrophysicist Michael
-H. Hart formulates the basic points of Enrico
-Fermi’s “Fermi Paradox” for an article in the Quarterly Journal of
-the Royal Astronomical Society. The paradox is the apparent
-contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial
-civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy and various high
-estimates for their probability (such as those that result from
-optimistic parameters for the Drake equation). (Wikipedia, “Fermi
-paradox”; Michael H. Hart, “Explanation
-for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth,” Quarterly Journal of
-the Royal Astronomical Society 16 (June 1975): 128–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5041
Date: 6/1974
-Description: The Circulo de Argentino de Investigaciones Ufológicas in
-Córdoba, Argentina, publishes the first issue of OVNIs: Un Desafio a la
-Ciencia, edited by Oscar A. Galíndez. It runs for 10 issues through
-February 1976. (OVNIs:
-Un Desafio a la Ciencia, No. 1 (July 1974))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5040
Date: 6/9/1974
-Description: Night. Maj. Shiro Kubota and Lt. Col. Toshio Nakamura are
-flying an F-4EJ Phantom II interceptor over the northern perimeter of
-Japan, apparently to intercept a Soviet aircraft. Ground control
-explains that they are to investigate a bright orange-red light reported
-by ground witnesses and tracked on radar. Leveling off at 30,000 feet,
-they see the light a few miles ahead. It appears to be about 33 feet in
-diameter, with square-shaped marks around its side. The object dips in a
-shallow turn as they approach. Suddenly the object reverses direction
-and shoots straight toward them. Nakamura forces the aircraft into a
-sudden dive to avoid it, missing the UFO by “inches.” The object then
-makes high-speed passes at the plane, drawing closer. Then, allegedly,
-the UFO strikes the F-4, forcing the two pilots to eject. Nakamura’s
-parachute catches fire and he falls to his death. (Good Above, pp. 430–431)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5042
Date: 6/12/1974
-Description: Alfred A. Knopf publishes The CIA and the Cult of
-Intelligence by Victor
-Marchetti and John
-D. Marks, which discusses how the CIA works and how its original
-purpose (collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments,
-corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers) has,
-according to the authors, been subverted by its obsession with
-clandestine operations. Marchetti uses the expression “cult of
-intelligence” to denounce what he views as a counterproductive mindset
-and culture of secrecy, elitism, amorality, and lawlessness within and
-surrounding the CIA in the service of American imperialism. (Wikipedia,
-“The
-CIA and the
-Cult of Intelligence”; Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The
-CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Knopf,
-1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5043
Date: 6/14/1974
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Santiago Pulido Romero is driving in Medellín,
-Badajoz, Spain, near the Castillo when he sees a pot- shaped object
-rapidly approaching him 300 feet above the ground. He turns off his car
-lights, but the object follows his car parallel to the road about 210
-feet away to the right. When he switches his headlights back on, the
-object begins approaching again, so he switches them off and the object
-retreats. When he arrives at his father’s property, the object hovers
-over the barn, moving up and down, so he runs into the house. Later
-Pulido goes outside to check, and the object is still hovering, lighting
-up the entire area like daytime. Three humanoid beings are visible
-inside the object. Early the next morning at sunrise, the object
-abruptly speeds away. Other witnesses in separate locations also see a
-UFO. (Eileen Buckle, “Spanish
-UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 6–7;
-“Un
-OVNI repond à des signaux lumineux en Espagne,” Inforespace, no. 22,
-August 1975, pp. 14–15; “1974:
-UFO with Occupants Hover over Farm,” ThinkAboutIt, April 6,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5044
Date: 6/15/1974
-Description: Mountain guide Keo Wha Unan is inspecting the outer
-perimeter of a rock formation near Mount Dhajar (apparently in the Bayan
-Har Mountains, Tibet) to make certain it is safe for the next day’s
-climb. He emerges from a cave and sees a silvery disc hovering about 4
-feet above the ground behind a crest of high rocks. It is windowless and
-shiny with no protrusions. He sees three humanoid figures gathering snow
-and rocks and putting them inside the UFO. After 5 minutes, they climb a
-ladder into the craft. The object rises a few feet and shoots straight
-up like a flash. (Harry Hill, “The
-Bizarre Ancient Astronauts of Tibet,” UFO Update!, no. 5 (Winter
-1980): 49, 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5045
Date: 6/16/1974
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A farmhand is driving near Cáceres, Extremadura,
-Spain, when a bright object illuminates the highway. He sees three tall,
-helmeted figures standing inside the craft. When the witness turns off
-his headlights, the UFO moves away; when he turns them back on, the UFO
-approaches and follows him home about 230 feet above his car. He turns
-off his lights again, and the UFO slowly flies away. (UFOEv II
-346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5046
Date: summer 1974
-Description: Late evening. A witness living southwest of Lodi,
-Wisconsin, sees an intensely bright light that is illuminating a hill on
-an adjacent golf course. It covers an area the size of a football field,
-but he cannot see a beam or light source. A few hours later, a couple
-driving on State Highway 113 south of Lodi observe a triangular object
-with red and blue circular lights suspended beneath it. The object
-passes silently less than 20 feet above their car, hovers momentarily,
-and resumes its slow pass overhead. It is twice the size of their car.
-They watch as the lights shut off and the object is gone. At 1:00 a.m.,
-a man in Lodi sees what he thinks are headlights pulling into his
-driveway. He sees three bright points of light fixed horizontally in the
-black sky. He goes in to get his brother who has a telescope, and they
-attempt to spot the lights (only two now) with the scope. It takes a
-while, and when they look straight up they see a large, triangular
-object right above them. No lights are visible, but its undersurface is
-clearly defined and metallic. It moves over the house, tips upward at a
-45° angle, and shoots away. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings,
-Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1988): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5037
Date: summer 1974
-Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. California Gov. Ronald
-Reagan and his pilot Bill Paynter in his Cessna Citation see a
-bright white light zigzagging through the sky near Bakersfield,
-California. They follow the light for several minutes. Paynter says it
-“was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it
-appeared to elongate.” Then, “to our utter amazement, it went straight
-up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all
-about it…. And we read up on the long history of UFOs.”
-(presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January
-20, 1981–January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5038
Date: 6/25/1974
-Description: 1:15 a.m. A witness is up late in his trailer home at
-St.-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Quebec, when he hears a “bumm, bumm, bumm”
-sound, as if something very heavy has fallen onto the ground. He looks
-out the living room window and sees a UFO hovering low above a near
-field. It is a disc with a red domed area and an orangish lower area
-punctuated by oval windows from which comes white light. He sees a
-6-foot-tall robot that has apparently emerged from the object and is now
-only 15 feet from his window. He and his wife see three more robots near
-the trailer next door. The observation lasts 3 hours as the couple peek
-out of the window periodically. At one point, they see 15 robots
-standing in line together close to a creek for 5 minutes. As if on
-command, they suddenly move together; when they look out again at 4:20
-a.m., the craft and the robots are gone. (Marc Leduc, “Un
-atterrissage et des humanoïdes á Drummondville,” UFO-Quebec 1, no. 1
-(1975): 10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5047
Date: 7/2/1974
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Some fishermen at Praia dos Navegantes beach,
-Santa Catarina, Brazil, see a disc with small thrusters on its sides
-descend and fall into the ocean about 328 feet away. Thinking it is an
-aircraft, the men head to the splashdown site to help survivors. As
-Ubelino Severino gets closer, the object sinks, leaving only foam at the
-surface. (Brazil 517–520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5048
Date: 7/9/1974
-Description: Psychic Pat
-Price accurately remote views the Soviet URDF-3 facility adjacent to
-the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan for the Stanford Research
-Institute [now SRI International] in Menlo Park, California. In another
-experiment, Puthoff and
-a skeptical scientist named Earl Jones drive to 9 separate metropolitan
-areas, all chosen by Jones. Back in the SRI lab, Targ monitors
-Price, who describes 7 of the places accurately —in some cases before
-Jones and Puthoff even reach the target or before Jones has decided on a
-target. Price also claims to sense four underground alien bases,
-volunteering the data outside the SRI experimental parameters. The bases
-are located under Monte Perdido, Huesca, Spain; Mount Nyangani,
-Zimbabwe; Mount Hayes, Alaska; and Mount Ziel in Australia’s Northern
-Territory. (Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of
-America’s Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pp. 113, 118, 148–151;
-Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 166–171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5050
Date: 7/9/1974
-Description: Early morning. An elliptical object with rows of
-alternating red and green lights hovers about 200 feet above a park in
-Kingston, New York. A hazy white glow emanates from the underside. The
-object moves to within 500 feet of a police car. When officers James
-Wallace and Richard Ramsdell turn their spotlight on, a brilliant beam
-lights up the cruiser. The beam switches off and the object races away
-at high speed. (“Hovering
-Object Shines Spotlight
-on Police Car,” UFO Investigator, October 1974, p. 3; UFOEv II
-45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5049
Date: 7/9/1974
-Description: Elliptical object with body lights hovered low, moved
-toward police car. Officer turned spotlight on it, brilliant white beam
-from object illuminated patrol car
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kingston, NY
-ID: 241
Date: 7/14/1974
-Description: 3:36 p.m. A Scandinavian Airlines flight en route to
-Burlington, Vermont, is flying at 35,000 feet 35–40 miles southeast of
-Quebec City, Quebec. Capt. Korsvold and the crew notice a triangular
-object moving southwest and has it in sight for 7 minutes. Radio
-interference is reported. At the same time, C. W. Bacon is flying a
-private jet about 35 miles southeast of Quebec City and sees the same
-triangular object, but it seems to be stationary. Air traffic control at
-CFB Bagotville in Saguenay, Quebec, reports strong interference on a
-frequency of 121.5 MHz, a frequency reserved for aircraft in distress.
-The signal is also disrupting transmissions for 10 minutes at RCAF
-Station Mont Apica [now the Lac Castor Canadian weather radar station].
-All is quiet after both the UFO and interference are gone. (Good Above,
-p. 200;
-Arthur R. Bray, The UFO Connection, Jupiter, 1979, pp. 45–46; Patrick
-Gross, “Files
-Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”; Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5051
Date: 7/15/1974
-Description: Two unregistered helicopters, a white helicopter, and a
-black twin-engine aircraft open fire on Robert Smith Jr. while he is
-driving his tractor on his farm in Honey Creek, Iowa. This attack
-follows a rash of cattle mutilations in the area and across the nearby
-border in Nebraska. (Wikipedia, “Cattle
-mutilation”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5052
Date: 8/8/1974
-Description: President Richard
-Nixon resigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5053
Date: 8/9/1974
-Description: President Gerald Ford in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 8/11/1974
-Description: 3:23 a.m. Police officers Mark E. Paine and Michael Alden
-watch three luminous UFOs in a triangle formation between Tilton and
-Concord, New Hampshire. A fourth object, a domed ellipse, rises from the
-trees and approaches their car. As the officers signal the object, it
-signals back, then veers away. (UFOEv II 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5054
Date: 8/12/1974
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy sees a disc maneuvering near a
-hedgerow at La Brousse, Charente-Maritime, France. It is about the size
-of a medium car, dull-lead in color, with a green reflective dome. One
-of three windows open “exactly like the shutter of a vanishing headlight
-on a sports car.” The lower part of the object rotates, but the dome
-does not. Later, three sharply defined circles of burnt straw form an
-isosceles triangle within an oval area of crushed straw. Within each
-imprint are two small pieces of lead. (M. Chasseigne, “Atterrissage
-à La
-Brousse, près de Matha,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 140 (December
-1974): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5055
Date: 8/16/1974
-Description: 8:00 p.m. David Bates, 8, Steven Stillie, 10, and Henry
-Stillie, 7, are taking a shortcut past an abandoned sandpit close to
-their homes in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Suddenly they hear a
-high-pitched whine and the cat Bates is carrying panics and escapes his
-hold; it runs several yards and then stops abruptly. They then see an
-object with a red light on top and flashing green and white lights on
-either end. Moving slowly, the UFO reverses course and with an
-undulating motion heads for the clearing where the sandpit lies and
-lands there, about 150 feet away. The whine becomes intense. As the
-object settles down, it releases a blast of hot air that blows dust on
-he boys. It extends three short legs and blue sparks leap up from the
-ground. The boys run home. Investigator Graham Conway finds residual
-material present in three indentations at the site. Analysis shows that
-it contains an abnormally high amount of zinc. (Graham Conway, “Close
-Encounter,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 4 (1975): 8–11; Graham
-Conway, “Close
-Encounter,” UFO*BC; Graham Conway, “CE2 Secrets,” IUR 17, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1992): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5056
Date: 8/23/1974
-Description: 9:00 p.m. John
-Lennon and May
-Pang watch a rotating, oval-shaped disc with a red light on top from
-the roof of his penthouse apartment on East 52nd Street in New York
-City. It is flying less than 100 feet away and moves off soundlessly as
-they watch it. Lennon mentions it in a liner note to his 1974 Walls and
-Bridges album. (David Halperin, “John
-Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (1) Their Story,” davidhalperin.net,
-February 11, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5057
Date: 8/25/1974
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. A document is leaked to UFO researchers in
-the US and UK in 1992 and is apparently composed by someone within the
-US intelligence community who either personally knows about the case or
-who has run across top-secret documents. Now known as the “Deneb
-Report,” the document alleges that the following incident took place.
-Military radar at Corpus Christi, Texas, detects an unknown target
-moving toward the Texas Gulf coast. Traveling at a speed of 2,500 mph at
-an altitude of 75,000 feet, the UFO is first spotted over the Gulf of
-Mexico about 200 miles east of Corpus Christi. After going through
-maneuvers suggesting intelligent control, the object quickly turns south
-along the Texas coast, avoiding entry over land, and seems headed toward
-Brownsville. As the disc continues to hug the Texas coastline, it
-exhibits controlled descent, calculated turns, speed reductions, and
-other clear indications of control. The object descends from 75,000 feet
-to about 45,000 feet by the time it crosses over land into northern
-Mexico, about 40 miles south of Brownsville. Its speed is down to 2,000
-mph and it is slowing very gradually. Zigzagging around mountain peaks
-that tower above 5,000 feet, the UFO continues to descend, although its
-speed is still near 2,000 mph at the time that it encounters another
-aircraft headed toward it on a collision course. Somewhere over a vast
-desert plain known as El Llano near Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico, a mid-air
-collision occurs with a small aircraft flying from El Paso to Mexico
-City. Debris from the crash rains down on the desert plain below, and
-efforts are soon underway by both Mexico and the US to recover the
-remains. Mexican spotter planes first locate the wreckage of the
-aircraft, even as US electronic surveillance personnel listen in on the
-rescue activities from across the Texas border. The Americans hear the
-Mexican spotter planes say that the small craft is almost totally
-destroyed and that they have found a second crash site nearby with the
-remains of a nearly intact, shiny, silvery disc. The object is 16 feet,
-5 inches in diameter, and equally convex on both upper and lower
-surfaces. There is an outer rim around the central circumference. The
-height is slightly less than 5 feet. They see no visible portholes,
-doors, or markings. In addition, no lights of any kind are apparent.
-There is also no obvious mechanism for propulsion. The external surface
-of the disc is like silvery polished steel. Mexican troops recover the
-crashed disc, winching it up onto the bed of a large military truck.
-They also retrieve fragments of the crashed civilian aircraft, although
-there is not much left of it. (“Presidio 1974,”
-Texas UFO Museum and Research Library; Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The
-Coyame Incident, Roswell Books, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5058
Date: 9/1974
-Description: Author Charles
-Berlitz writes The Bermuda Triangle, in which he popularizes the
-concept of the Bermuda Triangle as an area of ocean prone to
-disappearing ships and airplanes. He quotes his friend J. Manson
-Valentine, who has reported several UFO sightings in the area. He also
-perpetuates a fake radio transmission from Lt. Charles Taylor of the
-missing TBM Avenger bombers in December 1945 containing the warning,
-“Don’t come after me… They look like they are from outer space.”
-Berlitz’s claims of unusual EM effects occurring in the Triangle are
-also fabrications. (Charles Berlitz, The
-Bermuda Triangle, Avon,
-1974; Story, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5059
Date: 9/1/1974
-Description: 11:00 a.m. While he is driving a swather to harvest his
-rapeseed crop near Langenburg, Saskatchewan, farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36,
-notices a metallic-appearing dome-shaped object about 50 feet away and
-stops to investigate. Walking to within 15 feet of it, Fuhr sees that it
-is spinning and swirling the grass beneath it. This frightens him and he
-backs away. Climbing back on the swather, he looks around and sees four
-more identical domes “like brushed stainless steel” arranged in a rough
-semicircle, all hovering and spinning about a foot above the ground.
-Whether from fear or an EM effect, Fuhr cannot get the throttle and
-steering wheel of the swather to respond. One object suddenly takes off,
-quickly followed by the other four, ascending in a step formation. At
-about 200 feet they stop, each emitting a puff of gray vapor from
-exhaust-like extensions at the base. The vapor extends about 6 feet,
-followed by a downward gust of wind which flattens the rapeseed in the
-immediate area. The objects then form a straight line, hover for a
-minute or two, then suddenly ascend into the low cloud cover and
-disappear. Fuhr goes to the landing area and finds five rings of
-depressed grass swirled in a clockwise fashion. There is no evidence of
-heat or burning. Some additional circles are found in the area later
-that month. Fuhr later learns that cattle in a nearby field bellowed and
-broke through a fence about the time of the sighting. Royal Canadian
-Mounted Police Constable Ron Morier, quoted by Canadian Press, says:
-“Something was there and I doubt it was a hoax. There’s no indication
-anything had been wheeled in or out and Mr. Fuhr seemed genuinely
-scared.” Later Morier tells an investigator, “There is no way that this
-is a hoax. Whatever was in there, it came out of the air and departed
-the same way, as far as I could tell.” (Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS,
-1975, p. 104; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions,
-Methuen, 1979, pp. 22–24; Chris Rutkowski and John P. Timmerman,
-“Langenburg, 1974: A Classic Historical CE2 and a Crop Circle
-Progenitor?” IUR 17, no. 2 (March/April 1992): 4–11; Michael D. Swords,
-GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO
-Research, 2005, pp. 148–159; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The
-Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 110–113; “Interview
-with Edwin Fuhr 37 Years Later:
-The Langenburg UFO Case,” AboveTopSecret forum, January 20, 2017;
-Mark Melnychuk, “The
-Farmer Who
-Saw and the Mountie Who Believed: Sask.’s Most Famous UFO Sighting,”
-Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, September 29, 2017; Clark III 673–675; Chris
-Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, pp. 192–
-196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5060
Date: 9/1/1974
-Description: Five dome-shaped objects in pasture, spinning and swirling
-grass. Objects took off, aligned in formation, climbed into clouds
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada
-ID: 242
Date: 9/9/1974
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Professor Andrei Antalffy and his wife are in
-their summer cottage near Târgu Mureş, Romania, when she notices a
-silvery-white light behind the house. They go outside and see a
-rectangular “wall of opaque light” about 82 feet long and 550 away from
-them. In front of the wall on the ground are four orange spheres about
-18 inhes in diameter and grouped two-by-two. They continue to watch the
-display from inside the cottage until midnight when they retire for the
-night. (Romania 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5061
Date: 9/16/1974
-Description: Around 9:30 p.m. Mrs. A. Richards is driving a 1968 Toyota
-a few miles northwest of St. Helens, Tasmania, with her two children.
-The car radio suddenly turns to static as she is passing over a bridge
-and the sky ahead lights up. The car then loses power as it travels up
-an incline, and everything goes dead—car lights, radio, heater, and
-engine. The landscape is lit up by a bright area of light ahead. The
-mother tries to start the car without success. A deafening vibrating
-noise then seems to envelop the car. About the same time all three of
-them feel electric shocks like vibrations for one minute, and a choking
-smell fills the car so that they leap from the car and flee the scene,
-leaving the car and the glow in the sky behind. After nearly 2 miles,
-they reach a house whose resident gives them a ride back to the car to
-see what is wrong. The hood is warm, but the car starts up and there is
-no sign of a light. A check at the local garage finds water in the
-radiator low, otherwise both radio and electrical systems are in working
-order. The mother suffers from swollen arms and fingers the following
-day. The right side of her face is numb and she has red marks above her
-right eyebrow. (“Auto-Stop,”
-TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 14 (1975): 10–11; “UFOs
-and Auto-Stops,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 91 (February 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5062
Date: 9/21/1974
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A Swedish army officer is driving with his
-family near Knutby, Uppsala County, Sweden, when a blinding light
-approaches the car from the right at an altitude of about 30 feet. The
-car stops and the radio and headlights go out. The UFO passes the road
-ahead and then lands on the left side about 250 feet from the road. A
-large area is lit up by the blinding, green-shimmering light from the
-object. The witnesses hear a sound like a swarm of bees. Through
-binoculars, the officer sees an egg-shaped structure some 33 feet long
-and around 10 feet high. The car engine still does not work. He gets out
-of the car, then hears a deafening roar. The UFO is taking off
-vertically with a rocking motion. It flies off slowly at about 100 feet
-altitude for a few hundred yards, then takes off and disappears in a
-fraction of a second. He gets back in the car and the radio is playing
-music and the car starts easily. (Boris Jungkvist, “Swedish
-Army Officer Experiences Landing and EM Effects,” AFU Newsletter,
-no. 17 (Oct./Dec. 1979): 11–13; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011):
-16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5063
Date: 9/26/1974
-Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. More than 100 people in north Zealand,
-Denmark, watch unusual objects and lights in the sky. One driver is
-suddenly surrounded by a dazzling red light that illuminates the area.
-The engine, lights, and radio fail. After several attempts, he restarts
-the car and turns on the lights. A cone of white neon light descends
-toward the car. A bumping noise and a sound like broken glass is heard
-on the roof, and then a foot-long spurt of flame erupts from the car
-radio. The engine and lights fail again. After about 6 seconds a
-distinct “click” is heard, and everything works normally again. The car
-engine and radio are undamaged. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on
-Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011):
-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5064
Date: 9/27/1974
-Description: An 11-year-old boy and an older friend are on a farm near
-Jindabyne, New South Wales, when they notice a bright white light about
-one-half mile away for about 30 minutes. In 1983, the younger man begins
-to have “vivid memories” of that evening and realizes that both
-experienced about two hours of missing time. Soon the memory of an
-abduction emerges in which both witnesses undergo an examination of some
-kind. (Mark Moravec, “The
-Jindabyne UFO Abduction Case,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 5,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 6–10; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1988,
-pp. 13–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5065
Date: 9/30/1974
-Description: Newsweek brings the issue of cattle mutilations to a
-national audience. Noting that “more than 100 cattle have been found
-dead and gruesomely mutilated in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa,” it lists
-possible culprits: witchcraft cultists, UFOs, helicopter-borne rustlers,
-marijuana smugglers, and predators. In months and years to come, the
-scare spreads from the Midwest to the West to the South. (Clark III 133)
-Autumn — 10:00 a.m. A metallic disc some 300 feet across approaches a
-South Korean antiaircraft shore battery. The commander launches an
-MIM-23 Hawk guided missile which is immediately shot down by a “white
-ray” from the UFO. The second ray is directed at the battery, melting
-the remaining two Hawk missiles into an unrecognizable mass. (Soviet
-Military Review, June 1989; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest,
-1977, pp. 135–136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5066
Date: 10/10/1974
-Description: 10:10 p.m. John Breen, a Canadian armed forces pilot, is
-paced by a UFO over Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in his Cessna 172, en
-route from Deer Lake to Gander. A passenger first notices a strange
-light following the plane when they are 50 miles away from Gander. Every
-time Breen looks at the light it seems to turn off, but finally he gets
-a better view: “It seems to be sort of a triangle—or delta-shaped,
-luminescent greenish light following us.” It stays on for 3–4 seconds,
-then goes off for a bit, then on again. Gradually it remains steady.
-About 25–30 miles from Gander, Breen radios the airport, which has no
-traffic in the area. The object’s reflection is clearly visible in the
-water of Gander Lake. Breen says: “I started a right turn and then cut
-hard left. Gander then picked up the object for two or three sweeps,
-which would have been about 10–12 seconds. When we turned around, I just
-saw it going off the other way and then I lost it because of the back of
-the airplane.” (Gregory M. Kanon, “’Something’s
-Up Here with Us!” Canadian UFO Report 4, no. 6 (Winter/Spring 1978):
-3–4; Good Above, pp. 200–201;
-Patrick Gross, “Files
-Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”; Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5067
Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: Robert Spencer Carr described in great detail on a local
-radio show interview the Aztec crash, had anonymous military and
-civilian witnesses, made international news.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Tampa, Florida
-See also: 3/25/48
Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: 4:15 a.m. The captain and crew of a Capital Airlines DC-8
-descending into Gander, Newfoundland, watches as a UFO flashing red and
-white lights draws alongside the plane as it flies at 290 mph at 7,500
-feet. It maintains a parallel course until it finally disappears in
-cloud cover about 5 miles from Gander. Air traffic control at Gander
-confirms there is no other aircraft in the vicinity. (Good Above, p. 201;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-p. 91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5068
Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: 4:10 p.m. An astronomer in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, is
-driving a pickup truck when he sees a silver-gray domed disc behind him
-to the west. It moves from southeast to northwest on a level, straight
-course, but in the last 2–3 seconds it turns upward, accelerating
-rapidly. The witness’s truck stalls out when he tries to accelerate, but
-the tape deck keeps operating. (“Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part
-2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5069
Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: The Energy Reorganization Act dissolves the Atomic Energy
-Commission and splits responsibility for its functions, assigning to the
-Energy Research and Development Administration [now the US Department of
-Energy] the responsibility for the development and production of nuclear
-weapons, promotion of nuclear power, and other energy-related work, and
-assigning to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the regulatory work,
-which does not include regulation of defense nuclear facilities.
-(Wikipedia, “Energy
-Reorganization Act of 1974”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5071
Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: Robert
-Spencer Carr is the guest on a local radio show to promote the
-upcoming Flying Saucer Symposium by PSI Conferences in Tampa, Florida.
-During the interview, Carr makes the shocking disclosure of the US
-government’s cover-up of the UFO crash in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948
-with 12 dead aliens aboard. The Air Force allegedly is storing the
-bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, in Hangar 18. The
-announcement creates a media sensation that lasts for months in print
-and broadcast news. (Dave Casey, “UFOs
-and 12 Little Men,”
-Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, October 12, 1974, p. 1; Curt Collins, “Robert
-Spencer Carr and Hangar 18,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 29,
-2018; Curt Collins, “Inside
-Hangar 18 with Dr. Robert Carr,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June
-1, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5070
Date: 10/14/1974
-Description: 9:09 p.m. Air Force security personnel assigned to the
-Bomber Alert Area of Grand Forks AFB near Emerado, North Dakota, see two
-large, solid black, oval shapes hovering at 1,500 feet altitude in the
-northwestern sky. Although each of the unlit objects has five small
-lights arrayed across its surface, the UFOs approach to within
-one-quarter mile of the alert area before they are noticed. Within a
-3-minute period, 14 security police sentries, two military pilots, and a
-B-52 maintenance supervisor independently report the objects to their
-respective control locations. Static on radio and other communications
-networks are noted. After hovering for 2 minutes, the UFOs slowly move
-in tandem toward the south, making a faint humming sound as they fade
-from view. (Nukes 347–348)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5072
Date: late 1974
-Description: President Gerald
-R. Ford creates the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a group of
-scientists, technicians, and engineers operating under the US Department
-of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Its task is to be
-“prepared to respond immediately to any type of radiological accident or
-incident anywhere in the world.” Since 1975, NEST has been warned of 125
-nuclear terror threats and has responded to 30. All have been false
-alarms. (Wikipedia, “Nuclear
-Emergency Support Team”; Jeffrey T. Richelson, Defusing
-Armageddon, Norton,
-2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5087
Date: 10/15/1974
-Description: Night. Five witnesses in Ramona, California, watch a
-mysterious round object as it maneuvers over the Santa Maria Valley. It
-lands on a hillside and turns ruby red before becoming a brilliant white
-light. As it passes over, horses act up and a dog tries to grab one
-witness by her sleeve back into the house. Another dog, chained, runs in
-and out of the doghouse repeatedly, and the chickens and goats are
-agitated as well. Radio and TV reception is disrupted, and a compass
-points to the object as it is moving. The object hovers briefly, then
-shoots away, emitting a noise like something between a hum and a
-foghorn. (NICAP, “Object
-Lands / Animal Reactions /
-Compass Deviates”; Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal,
-no. 258 (October 1989): 24) October 25 — 4:15 p.m. Oil-well digger E.
-Carl Higdon Jr. is hunting elk on the northern edge of Medicine Bow
-National Forest southeast of Rawlins, Wyoming, when he sees five elk
-standing motionless. He attempts to shoot one, but the bullet falls
-about 50 feet from him as if hitting an invisible obstruction. He goes
-to pick it up, then hears a twig snap and sees a humanoid being (more
-than 6 feet tall) under a tree about 50 feet away. Its hair is sticking
-up “like wheat straw,” it is bow-legged, and it is wearing a black
-coverall suit and black shoes. Two belts cross its chest, and another is
-wrapped around its waist. The being asks Higdon how he is doing and
-whether he is hungry, after which it tosses him a package of pills. It
-tells him to take one, saying it will last for four days. Higdon looks
-up the hill and sees a transparent, lighted cubicle. Suddenly he finds
-himself inside it, strapped to a seat with a helmet on his head. Two
-humanoids are also inside, as well as four seats, a control panel, a
-mirror, a map, and several elk, frozen in a cage. The craft takes him to
-what seems to be another planet with a mushroom-shaped tower, 100 feet
-tall. He and one of the humanoids float to the tower, go down an
-elevator, pass down a corridor, and go into a room with a platform.
-After being screened by a “glassy shield,” Higdon is told he is “not any
-good for what we need” and is taken back to the original location, where
-he rolls down a hill, hurting his head, neck, and shoulder. Around 6:30
-p.m., Higdon radios his boss, Roy Fleming of the AM Well Service in
-Rawlins, with his location and asks for assistance. At 11:40 p.m.,
-Higdon is found by a rescue party, which includes Fleming, the Carbon
-County sheriff, a deputy, and three other men in several
-four-wheel-drive pickup trucks. He seems confused, so he is taken to
-Carbon County Memorial Hospital, unable to remember his own name. He
-does not recover his memory until the evening of October 27. Many
-details emerge after Higdon is hypnotized by R.
-Leo Sprinkle on November 2 and 17. (Clark III 573–576; Lorenzen,
-Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 25–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5073
Date: 10/17/1974
-Description: Dogs barked furiously, circular yellow-white object emitted
-two light beams to ground, illuminated terrain brightly
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Maitland, N.S.W., Australia
-ID: 243
Date: 10/20/1974
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 244
Date: 10/25/1974
-Description: Carl Higdon abduction
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Rawlins, WY
-ID: 245
Date: 10/27/1974
-Description: Abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: case
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Aveley, UK
-ID: 246
Date: 11/1974
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Claire Haser, on an isolated ranch northeast of
-Goldendale, Washington, sees a yellowish-white glow in the sky on the
-ground to the north. At 11:00 p.m., as visitors are leaving, she steps
-outside and sees it again, closer and more intense. Suspended in the air
-only 10 feet away from the porch and 15 feet above the ground is a
-“cylinder” about 3 feet long and 14 inches in diameter, standing with
-its end pointed toward the ground. Projecting from the object is a long,
-narrow, beam of light about 2 inches in diameter and 3 feet long. The
-end of the beam is diffuse, and it is slowly rotating clockwise. She
-watches it for 10 minutes. Not wanting to approach the object, everyone
-goes back inside. The object is gone 30 minutes later. (Greg Long,
-“Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5075
Date: 11/1974
-Description: Night. A witness is traveling in his 1971 Mitshubishi Colt
-near the Sideling hill in northeastern Tasmania when he notices a huge
-flame-colored glow lighting up the bush to the north. It looka larger
-than a house. The headlights, radio, and motor of his car all cut out
-and he is left watching the glow for several minutes. He notices his
-luminous watch dial has become brighter and that the car’s clock is
-running 2 minutes slower after the sighting. The mass of light moves
-back and forth, rises up and away from the witness, and disappears. The
-witness then able to start his car and continue on his journey.
-Afterward, the front left mudguard changes color from red to more of an
-orange. (“UFOs
-and Auto-Stops,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 91 (February 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5076
Date: 11/1974
-Description: The Centre for UFO Studies–Australian Co-Ordination Section
-is founded by Harry Griesberg and David Seargent in Gosford, New South
-Wales, as a clearinghouse for UFO reports throughout Australia. It
-publishes the ACOS Bulletin through December 1979. (ACOS
-Bulletin, no.
-1 (March 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5074
Date: 11/2/1974
-Description: Robert
-Spencer Carr gives a lecture at the Flying Saucer Symposium at the
-International Inn in Tampa, Florida, on the 1948 Aztec, New Mexico,
-crash/retrieval and the aliens allegedly stored in Hangar 18, calling it
-the “worst-kept secret in the world.” Carr’s hour-long lecture is short
-on specifics, but in the question-and-answer session afterward, he is
-asked about his sources for the information. Carr says there are three
-witnesses, but they must remain unnamed. He says that the US government
-will end the coverup, admit that UFOs are really spacecraft from other
-worlds, and it will happen soon—before the end of the year. Curt Collins
-writes, “Part of the reason Carr’s story took hold was that it was so
-familiar, people wanted something like it to be true, and that it seemed
-to come from an authority figure, a university professor with official
-governments contacts and sources It also struck a chord with the public,
-capitalizing on their distrust of the government following the Vietnam
-war and Watergate scandal.” (“UFOs
-and 12 Little Men,” Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, October 12, 1974,
-p. 1; “Symposium
-Hums with UFO Talk,” Tampa Bay Times, November 4, 1974, p. 1-D; Curt
-Collins, “Ufology 1974: The Flying Saucer Symposium in Tampa,” The
-Saucers That Time Forgot, May 25, 2018; Curt Collins, “Robert
-Spencer
-Carr and Hangar 18,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 29, 2018;
-Curt Collins, “Inside
-Hangar 18 with
-Dr. Robert Carr,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 1, 2018; Curt
-Collins, “The
-Day after Saucergate,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 4,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5077
Date: 11/4/1974
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A witness is driving near Scottsdale, Tasmania,
-when he sees a large, silent UFO. His car engine and radio cut out and
-his watch dial lights up brightly. The object moves away and abruptly
-ascends vertically. The left-hand mudguard changes color permanently
-from red to orange. (Ted Phillips, “Vehicle Effects,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 446 (June 2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5078
Date: 11/5/1974
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Harold Verge is driving between Mahone Bay and
-Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, in the pouring rain when he sees three bright
-amber lights appear in his rear-view mirror. Suddenly they move to the
-rigt side of his car and pace it for 30 seconds before disappearing
-abruptly. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5080
Date: 11/5/1974
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Jesse and Johanna Chilton are driving south on
-Provincial Highway 2 near Olds, Alberta, when they see a disc about 9
-feet in diameter and 50 feet away on their right at a height of 25 feet.
-It turns and passes them in the opposite direction and they note several
-exhaust ports emitting yellow flame. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 226–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5079
Date: 11/7/1974
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Two schoolgirls are biking home from school in
-Waterford, Connecticut, when they see a ball of fire in the sky. They
-ride to one of their homes and go out in a car, hoping to take a photo.
-When they get to the shore of Niantic Bay, they see it again with
-several other people who have stopped. The object is now shaped like a
-triangular space capsule with rounded corners. Flames shoot from the
-back as it performs elaborate rolls and maneuvers. Then it takes off.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
-2004): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5081
Date: 11/11/1974
-Description: Night. Police officers Zachary Space and Lester Nagle watch
-an object hovering level with high-tension wires east of Madison, Ohio.
-It comes down above the wires for 15–20 seconds, rises up slowly out of
-sight, then appears again. Along with a deputy sheriff, they watch the
-object for 20 minutes. It leaves like a flash. (Fort Worth (Tex.) Cross
-Country News, January 8, 1975; Marler 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5082
Date: mid 11/1974
-Description: 5;30 p.m. Giovanna Sensoli is attending to her animals by
-her farmhouse near Castelleale, Romagna, Italy, when she notices her
-chickens and rabbits seem terrified. She notices a man seated on a box
-that is suspended in the air above her house, rocking to and fro, and
-only about 12 feet from her. He seems to be about 6 feet 6 inches tall
-and dressed in a shiny, one-piece garment with green, red, and white
-markings, and a pair of ski boots with square toes and heels. A helmet
-covers his face, but he seems to be looking for something. The box has a
-control rod with colored stripes. The man moves a bit further away to
-the east on his box. Sensoli sees a bright light to the north and she is
-overcome by heat. The house is lit up for a few seconds. Sensoli follows
-the man, trying to understand his gesticulations, but he departs to the
-east, followed by the light. The incident has lasted 15 minutes.
-(Gianfranco Lollino, “The
-‘Flying Man’ at Castelleale (Italy),” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 4
-(June 1987): 25–27; 1Pinotti 193–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5083
Date: 11/17/1974
-Description: 9:00 a.m. A businessman is taking a walk along the shore of
-Nørresø in Viborg, Denmark, when he notices an object above the eastern
-bank of the lake. He snaps a photo of it as it hovers in the air about
-1,600– 3,300 feet away. He looks around to see if there are other
-witnesses, but when he looks back the object is gone. The photo shows a
-circular object with an estimated diameter of about 65 feet with some
-cloudy filaments hanging from its base. Investigators suspect it may be
-a rare instance of a small cumulus cloud that has developed from a black
-smoke ring. (Wim van Utrecht, “Jellyfish
-UFO Photographed over
-Denmark,” Caelestia, May 17, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5084
Date: 11/22/1974
-Description: 7:30 p.m. At two-minute intervals, three bright red lights
-are seen climbing very quickly from the horizon at Madeira, Canary
-Islands, after which they create brilliant concentric circles. A
-reporter in Funchal takes a few photos. The lights are probably Poseidon
-missiles launched by the submarine USS
-Mariano G. Vallejo several hundred kilometers to the west.
-(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile
-Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5085
Date: 11/28/1974
-Description: 11:43 a.m. Hugo W. Feugen is flying his own Aeronca
-Champion aircraft on a bright day over Shabbona, Illinois, and he is
-checking his position on the aeronautical map to determine if he was
-still on course. When he looks up, he notices that the magnetic compass
-is rotating counterclockwise at a rate of four revolutions per minute.
-He looks to his right side and sees nothing but the town below him. When
-he turns to his left, he sees a disc or ellipse flying parallel to his
-aircraft at the same speed (75–80 mph) and altitude, pacing him at 120°
-at an estimated one-quarter of a mile distance. He estimates its size as
-120 feet long and 30 feet thick. After pacing him for 8–10 seconds, the
-object tips slightly and he sees that it is not an ellipse but round in
-shape. As it tips up at an angle, it accelerates to a fantastic speed
-toward the east and is out of sight in less than one second. (NICAP, “Pilot Says
-Compass Affected”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5086
Date: 12/1974
-Description: Astronomy magazine editor Terence
-Dickinson writes an open-minded article about Marjorie
-E. Fish’s analysis of Betty
-Hill’s star map and solicits comments from scientists about it.
-Virtually every issue of the magazine in 1975 carries letters debating
-the pros and cons of the map, including one by Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. (Terence
-Dickinson, “The Zeta Reticuli Incident,” Astronomy 2, no. 12 (December
-1974): 5–18; David J. Eicher, “The
-Zeta Reticuli (or Ridiculi) Incident,” January 31, 2001; Clark
-587)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5088
Date: 12/1974
-Description: Date given by Professor Carr on 10/11/74 predicting the
-government will launch a carefully-engineered acclimation effort to
-prepare American public for an announcement of the existence of
-extraterrestrial life.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Tampa, Florida
Date: 12/1974
-Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a vertical object floating above
-Wemeth Low, a hill near Higher Chisworth, Derbyshire, England. It has a
-flattened upper end and a tapered base. It changes shape from round to
-oval and cigar and back to oval before it disappears and discharges
-several small spheres from its blunt end “like soap bubbles.” (Herbert
-S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring
-2004): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5089
Date: 12/2/1974
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Dairy farmer William
-L. Bosak is driving back to his house southeast of Frederic,
-Wisconsin, on County Road W when he sees an object reflected in his
-headlights on the westbound side of the road in front of him. It is a
-disc-shaped UFO, the bottom half obscured by the fog. But what holds his
-attention is something inside the object’s “curved front of glass.”
-Inside stands a figure with its arms raised above its head. He thinks
-the figure is as scared as he is because its eyes are protruding. It is
-generally human in shape, but its body is covered in dark tan fur except
-on the face and chin. Its head hair seems to be swept back, and the
-calf-like ears stretch out about 3 inches. The mouth and nose seem flat.
-Bosak speeds past the object and his car lights suddenly go dim. He
-hears a whooshing sound and the UFO is lost to view. (“Occupant
-Case in Wisconsin,” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1975): 1, 4;
-Jerome Clark, “The
-Frightened Creature on County Road W,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no.
-1 (June 1975): 20–21; Clark III 557–558; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-October 20, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5090
Date: 12/9/1974
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A married couple in Bad Traunstein, Austria,
-watch for more than 30 minutes a triangular object that hovers above a
-nearby pylon and sends out beams of green, blue, and red light. (Ernst
-Berger, “The ‘Snails’
-Are Still Around,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 5 (February 1976):
-29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5091
Date: 12/11/1974
-Description: 1:22 a.m. Teacher Călin Turcu hears his dog barking
-insistently in the backyard of his home in Vălenii de Munte, Romania.
-Beyond a river about a half-mile away he sees a pulsating, dazzling
-white light like that coming from a welding machine that illuminates the
-trees for miles around. In the next 3–4 minutes he takes 7–10 photos.
-The light persists for 12 minutes until it ascends and fades slowly out.
-(MUFON UFO Journal, no. 114 (May 1977); Augustin Moraru, “Phénomène
-Lumineux Photographie au-dessus de Valenii de Munte,” UFO- Quebec,
-no. 13 (March 1978): 18–19; Romania 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5092
Date: 12/17/1974
-Description: 2:30 a.m. John Wagner is in his farmhouse near MacNutt,
-Saskatchewan, when he notices a large, bright glow to the west that
-lasts for 25 minutes. The next morning, he finds a circular ring in the
-snow about 20 feet in diameter. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 190–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5093
Date: 12/18/1974
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Executive Engineer Mohammad Riaz and others see a
-circular light appear above the V-shaped mountain overlooking the
-approach to Pattan, Pakistan, for about 25 minutes. It is also seen in
-Chitral, Pakistan. An earthquake (Hunza Earthquake) centers on the area
-on December 28, so this could be a type of earthquake light. (Col.
-William S. Gilliland, “Balls
-of Fire Memo,” US Department of Defense Intelligence Information
-Report, December 18, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5094
Date: winter 1974
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Harry Charlton and his wife have just driven
-east through Melrose, New Mexico, when they see two objects moving on
-their left at about 1,500 feet altitude. They have no wings, tail
-sections, or engine nodules. Both are dull gray, like galvanized sheet
-iron. The larger one is in front, with a slightly smaller one about 600
-feet behind. Charlton thinks they are about a half-mile away, but he can
-hear no noise or see any smoke. When the objects are about abreast of
-the car, a sliding door opens on the larger one near the front end. A
-large, shiny sphere (like polished aluminum) about 15–20 feet in
-diameter emerges, moves toward the smaller object, and enters it after a
-door opens near the rear end. After they move out of sight in a few
-minutes, Charlton sees two F-111s take off in their direction from
-Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis. (Harry Charlton, [Letter],
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 5 (May 1981): 3.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4988
Date: 12/22/1974
-Description: Investigative journalist Seymour
-Hersh reveals some of the contents of the CIA “Family Jewels” in a
-front-page New York Times article. Covert action programs involving
-assassination attempts on foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert
-foreign governments are reported for the first time. In addition, the
-article discusses efforts by intelligence agencies to collect
-information on the political activities of US citizens. (Wikipedia, “Family
-Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5095
Date: 12/31/1974
-Description: Night. Dave Percy and two other security guards at the
-Pickering, Ontario, Nuclear Generating Station are preparing to greet
-the new year when they see a cluster of bright red spheres over Lake
-Ontario to the south. One of them moves closer and hovers over the
-Number 3 and 4 reactor buildings. It is about 30 feet across. The object
-hovers for 6–7 minutes, then after a bright flash it takes off. (Yurko
-Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979,
-p. 120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5098
Date: 12/31/1974
-Description: The CIA Family Jewels reports describe numerous activities
-conducted by the CIA during the 1950s to 1970s that violate its charter.
-According to a briefing provided by CIA Director William
-Colby to the Justice Department, these include 18 issues that are of
-legal concern. The documents are released on the CIA website on June 25,
-2007. (Wikipedia, “Family
-Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5096
Date: 12/31/1974
-Description: The Privacy Act, signed into law by President Gerald
-R. Ford, establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice that
-governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of
-personally identifiable information about individuals maintained in
-systems of records by federal agencies. The act also provides
-individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amend their
-records, and it sets forth various agency record-keeping requirements.
-Each agency must file an annual report on its FOIA requests to Congress.
-Citizens can also petition courts to render decisions on whether or not
-to release documents from agencies. FOIA soon disproves the longstanding
-denial of interest in UFOs by the CIA, FBI, and military agencies.
-(Wikipedia, “Privacy
-Act of 1974”;
-ClearIntent, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5097
Date: 1975
-Description: MUFON moves its headquarters from Quincy, Illinois, to
-Seguin, Texas.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5099
Date: 1975
-Description: John
-A. Keel publishes The Mothman Prophecies, an investigation into
-sightings of a winged creature called Mothman in the area around Point
-Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966–1967. It combines these accounts with
-his theories about UFOs and various paranormal phenomena, ultimately
-connecting them to the collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio
-River on December 15, 1967. (Official investigations in 1971 determine
-it was caused by stress corrosion cracking in an eye bar in a suspension
-chain.) Other entities that Keel chronicles are not-quite- human
-individuals (men in black) who intimidate witnesses and seem linked with
-UFOs. Sometimes, he writes, they threaten witnesses who have not told
-anyone else about their sightings. Usually they wear dark suits,
-sometimes with turtle-neck sweaters, and have dark complexions and
-Oriental features. Others are pale and bug- eyed. Their behavior is
-frequently odd, as if they are operating in an environment alien to
-them. In many cases they drive black Cadillacs or other limousine-like
-vehicles. (John A. Keel, The
-Mothman Prophecies, Saturday Review, 1975; Wikipedia, “The
-Mothman Prophecies”; Clark III 640, 729–730)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5100
Date: 1975
-Description: Night. Sgt. Eric Slater is flight security controller at
-the Francis E. Warren AFB Tango-1 missile launch facility southeast of
-Wheatland, Wyoming. He sees a bright white light coming over the
-mountains from the Romeo-1 launch facility northwest of Meriden, hugging
-the contour of the landscape. It stops about 3 miles away and hovers for
-1–2 hours. At one point a light beam shoots down from the UFO into the
-valley below. Then it comes straight for Tango-1. Slater sees it has a
-dome on top and small, alternating red-and-blue lights on each side. It
-only leaves when two F-4 Phantoms from Denver enter base airspace to
-pursue it. (Nukes 336–337)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5110
Date: 1975
-Description: Jacques
-Vallée publishes The Invisible College, in which he speculates that
-the UFO phenomenon is a “control system” in which UFOs have been
-conditioning the human species throughout history using a
-thermostat-like precision. He believes that it is producing a silent
-change in human consciousness. (Jacques Vallée, The Invisible College,
-Dutton, 1975; Story, p. 90;
-Clark III 1214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5102
Date: 1975
-Description: Wido Hoville founds the UFO-Quebec organization in
-Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, and begins publishing the journal
-UFO-Quebec, edited by Norbert Spehner. It continues until December 1981.
-(UFO-Quebec,
-no. 1 (Jan./April 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5103
Date: 1975
-Description: Pierre Monnet founds the Groupement de Recherche et d’Étude
-du Phénomène OVNI in Sorgues, Vaucluse, France. It publishes Vaucluse
-Ufologie from 1977 to 1981. (Vaucluse
-Ufologie: Bulletin d’Information du GREPO, no.
-1 (Jan./Feb. 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5104
Date: 1975
-Description: Gilbert Peyret founds Groupement Langeadois de Recherches
-Ufologiques in Le Puy, France. It publishes OVNI 43 from 1978 to 1980.
-(OVNI
-43, no.
-1 (January 1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5105
Date: 1975
-Description: Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear stated “The main Air Force sightings
-were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base
-guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over
-the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for
-up to two and three hours over a period of three days.”
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Loring AFB
Date: 1975
-Description: ATF agent Donald E. Flickinger, acting on information
-supplied to him by a writer who has been investigating animal
-mutilations, launches an investigation into a supposed Satanist network
-said to be behind the cattle mutilations. He determines the story is a
-scheme hatched by a federal prisoner to get leverage to be transferred
-to a county jail. (Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers, Mute Evidence, Bantam,
-1984, p. 40; Clark III 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5109
Date: 1975
-Description: Martial Robé founds Groupe Privé Ufologique Nancéien in
-Nancy, France. It publishes Réalité ou Fiction from 1975 to 1987. (Réalité
-ou Fiction, no.
-0 (1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5106
Date: 1975
-Description: The Centro Investigador de Objetos Volantes Extraterrestres
-begins publishing Vimana, edited by Julio Arcas Gilardi, in Santander,
-Cantabria, Spain. It continues through 1980. (Vimana,
-no. 1 (1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5107
Date: 1975
-Description: The German-speaking MUFON Central European Section begins
-publishing a monographic series of reports on specific ufological
-topics. Edited by Illobrand
-von Ludwiger in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Bavaria, Germany, the first
-is titled Die Erforschung unbekannter Flugobjekte. The 12th title is
-published in 2009. Von Ludwiger publishes two further monographs under
-the imprint of the Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft zur Analyse anomaler
-Phänomene in 2017 and 2019. (“Die
-Erforschung unbekannter Flugobjekte,” Bericht, Mutual UFO Network–
-Central European Section, no. 1 (1975); “Rätselhafte
-Lichter und Objekte am Himmel,” IGAAP-Bericht, no. 1 (2017))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5108
Date: 1975
-Description: Jerome
-Clark and Loren
-Coleman publish The Unidentified, one of the first books to reject
-the notion of alien involvement in UFO experiences and maintain that UFO
-visions and other paranormal experiences are the psyche’s attempt to
-escape the stranglehold that rationalism has on human consciousness.
-Clark later comes to believe his own conclusions are unverifiable,
-ill-conceived, grandiose, and dismissive of physical evidence. (Jerome
-Clark and Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO
-Mystery, Warner, 1975; Clark III 942)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5101
Date: 1/1975 (approximate)
-Description: Kevin
-D. Randle and Robert C. Cornett prepare a catalog of “Unknown” cases
-from the Project Blue Book files before they are withdrawn from public
-access in April. About 40 of these cases are not in the Don
-Berliner version. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5111
Date: 1/1/1975
-Description: 6:25 a.m. Four Spanish Army soldiers (Manolo Aguera, Felipe
-Sánchez, Ricardo Iglesias, and José Laso) are driving near
-Quintanaortuño, Burgos, Spain, when Aguera sees a light fall from the
-sky at great speed. He stops the car and all four get out and watch a
-bright yellow object just above the ground some 1,300 feet away where
-the light has fallen. It has the form of a truncated cone and emits
-white jets of light toward the ground. The light goes out suddenly and
-four others appear in a straight line, lighting up in succession.
-Driving on toward Burgos, the soldiers stop two more times to watch the
-lights. Investigator Malo Martínez later finds two parallel scorched
-areas where there are numerous randomly spaced holes where the grass has
-been burned all the way to the ground. (“Aqui
-Vimos el OVNI,” Stendek, no. 18 (December 1974): cover; Pere Redon,
-“Burgos:
-Primer Caso de 1975,” Stendek, no. 19 (March 1975): 3–9;
-Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A
-Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain
-and Portugal, CUFOS,
-1976, p. 53; Pere Redon, “The
-Landing near Burgos,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977):
-22–24, 27; Swords 433)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5112
Date: 1/1/1975
-Description: Just before sunrise. Actor Warren
-Oates is with four friends (Lee
-Clayton, Trina
-Mitchum, Judy A. Jones, and Ted
-Markland) in the desert about 20 miles northeast of Palm Springs,
-California, when they see an object moving in a semicircle through the
-night sky. They describe it as an oval, metallic object flashing yellow,
-green, and white lights, with one large orange light in the center.
-Clayton, watching it through binoculars, sees a bell shape on the top,
-and estimates it is about 3–5 miles away at an altitude of 2,000 feet.
-It stops and hovers momentarily before moving off behind the mountains.
-(Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5113
Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: 2:45 p.m. Michael Lindstrom and his wife are relaxing on
-the beach near the Kauai Sands Hotel on the east side of the island of
-Maui, Hawaii. His wife notices a strange object moving southward over
-the beach toward her, and she runs to tell her husband, who is walking
-nearby. It is soundless, has a square shape, its center is white or
-silver, and it has a black stripe along its perimeter. A row of lights
-is visible along the lower edge. He estimates that it is flying at 5,000
-feet altitude traveling diagonally to the direction of the wind, and is
-about one mile away. Before it disappears to the southwest after two
-minutes, Lindstrom takes three photographs (slides), which show a
-spherical object bisected by a black square and topped by five bright
-dots. (Bruce Maccabee, “A Rare Photo Coincidence,” IUR 15, no. 3
-(May/June 1990): 4–9, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5114
Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: 11:00 p.m. An officer and several soldiers on a military
-patrol at the Las Bardenas Reales firing range near Arguedas, Navarre,
-Spain, see a group of intense lights moving slowly then remaining
-stationary on the ground for 25 minutes. Through binoculars, they see an
-object shaped like “half an orange” that rises and slowly disappears on
-the horizon. Some 30 observers view the lights for 3–4 minutes.
-(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue
-of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, 1976, p. 53;
-Gordon Creighton, “UFO Lands
-on Spanish Air Force Target Range,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5
-(March 1979): 17–18; UFOEv II 87; Swords 433–434, 526; Good Above, pp. 151–152, 459)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5115
Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: Dome-shaped object observed on ground by guard at Air Force
-base. Body lights visible, ground illuminated as object took off
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Navarra, Spain
-ID: 247
Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: Photo of Saturn-shaped object with squarish ring, similar
-to July 7, 1989, case
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kauai, HI
-ID: 248
Date: 1/3/1975
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 249
Date: 1/4/1975
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Carlos Alberto Diaz is walking home from a bus
-stop along Daniel de Solier street, Ingeniero White, near Bahía Blanca,
-Argentina, when he is blinded and paralyzed by a beam of light. He
-revives inside a UFO where three greenish, 6-foot-tall creatures, are
-plucking hair from his head and body. Diaz faints and wakes up in the
-afternoon in Buenos Aires some 400 miles away, where someone takes him
-to the Hospital Ferroviario. However, an extensive investigation by
-ufologist Roberto Enrique Banchs uncovers numerous discrepancies that
-strongly indicate a hoax. (Roberto Enrique Banchs and Richard W. Heiden,
-“Carlos
-Alberto Diaz Is a Hoaxer,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 2 (August 1977): 8;
-Lon Strickler, “The
-Carlos Alberto Diaz Abduction,” Phantoms and Monsters, March 2,
-2012; Clark III 602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5116
Date: 1/8/1975
-Description: Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted
-by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air
-Base
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p459)
-Location: Las Bardenas Reales, Spain
Date: 1/12/1975
-Description: 2:45 a.m. George O’Barski is driving home through North
-Hudson Park, New Jersey, when he hears static on his CB radio. Through
-the window he sees a dark, round object with brightly lit windows
-hovering over the ground about 100 feet away. Ten small (3.5-feet tall),
-helmeted figures dressed in coveralls emerge from the UFO, dig up soil,
-and collect it in bags for about 3 minutes before returning to the
-craft, which takes off with a humming sound. O’Barski returns to the
-site the next day and finds holes that had been left. Hudson County
-Police Officers Thomas Feldhan and John Mackanics investigate and file
-reports. Months later, O’Barski relays the story to an acquaintance, Budd
-Hopkins, who
-is interested in UFOs. Hopkins and two others associated with the Center
-for UFO Studies find independent witnesses, including a doorman at the
-high-rise Stonehenge apartment building, Bill Pawlowski, who sees a UFO
-with multiple lights in the park the same time. Hopkins, Ted Bloecher (then
-the director of New York MUFON), and Jerry Stoehrer, also of MUFON,
-investigate the incident and take soil samples. (Wikipedia, “Stonehenge
-(building)”; Ted Bloecher, “The Stonehenge Incidents, January 1975,”
-Proceedings
-of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center
-for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 25–38; Ted Bloecher, “The
-‘Stonehenge’ Incidents of January 1975,” Flying Saucer Review 22,
-no. 3 (October 1976): 3–7; Ted Bloecher, “The
-‘Stonehenge’ Incidents of January 1975, Part 2,” Flying Saucer
-Review 22, no. 4 (November 1976): 5–11; Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 64; Budd
-Hopkins, Missing Time, R. Marek, 1981, pp. 34–50; Clark III
-1109–1112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5117
Date: 1/20/1975
-End date: 1/22/1975
-Description: At the 13th Aerospace Sciences Meeting of the American
-Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Pasadena, California,
-physicist Peter
-A. Sturrock organizes a UFO symposium that features talks by
-astronomer J. Allen
-Hynek, ufologist
-Jacques
-Vallée, psychologist David
-R. Saunders, Hynek associate Fred
-Beckman, and ufologist Ted Phillips. (Clark
-III 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5118
Date: 1/27/1975
-Description: A US Senate committee to investigate abuses by the CIA,
-NSA, FBI, and IRS is created by a vote of 82–4. Chaired by Sen. Frank
-Church (D-Idaho), the committee is part of a series of
-investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the “Year of
-Intelligence,” including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and
-the presidential Rockefeller Commission. It conducts 800 interviews and
-250 executive and 21 public hearings. The committee’s efforts lead to
-the establishment of the permanent US Senate Select Committee on
-Intelligence in 1976. (Wikipedia, “Church
-Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5119
Date: 1/28/1975
-Description: Afternoon. Eccentric and contactee Billy
-Meier sees a disc-shaped spacecraft in Switzerland and takes several
-photographs of it. The ship lands in a nearby meadow, and a beautiful,
-pale-skinned, amber-haired spacewoman steps out and approaches him and
-talks to him for an hour and a half. Her name is Semjase from the planet
-Erra in the constellation Lyra (although they have since emigrated to
-the Pleiades), and she is the granddaughter of a being named Sfath, who
-had contacted Meier in 1944. Many other contacts continue, and Meier
-produces more photos so that he becomes a regional occult celebrity.
-(Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Contact from the Pleiades, The Author, 1982;
-Gary Kinder, Light
-Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences
-of Billy Meier, Atlantic
-Monthly, 1987; George M. Eberhart, “Photographs and Red Faces,” IUR 12,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): 19; Bruce Maccabee, “Pendulum from the
-Pleiades,” IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 11– 12, 22; Derek
-Bartholomaus, Billy
-Meier UFO Case website)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5120
Date: 1/31/1975
-Description: Night. Mike McKenna, security guard at the Pickering,
-Ontario, Nuclear Generating Station, sees 6 balls of light from his
-position at the east gate. They vary in color from bright red to almost
-white and remain in the area for nearly 2 hours. Two move in from Lake
-Ontario and hover above the plant’s service center. After remaining
-motionless for 30 minutes, they take off straight up at a rocket-like
-speed. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions,
-Methuen, 1979, pp. 120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5121
Date: 1/31/1975
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Alan Lott is walking his dog in Caversham,
-Berkshire, England, when he sees a group of bright lights to the east.
-He calls his wife, Clarice, and they both view the lights through
-binoculars. They are moving slowly and silently in a straight line from
-east to west and are now directly above the Lotts’ house. The three
-brightest lights are orange-yellow and arranged in an equilateral
-triangle formation. There are two smaller lights, one red and another
-white. After 5 minutes, the formation vanishes behind houses and trees.
-(UFOFiles2, pp. 88– 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5122
Date: 2/1975
-Description: Domestic birds, ducks, goats, rabbits, geese, cattle, pigs,
-and sheep are found dead throughout Puerto Rico with what one
-veterinarian characterizes as “strange wounds.” The deaths typically
-occur in the early morning hours and are caused by a sharp instrument
-that can punch through flesh and bone, usually in the neck region.
-Around this time and through July, some Puerto Ricans see large,
-unidentified birds, as well as UFOs. (Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, “UFOs
-and Mysterious Deaths of Animals, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 22,
-no. 5 (February 1977): 15–18; Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, “UFOs
-and Mysterious Deaths of Animals, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 22,
-no. 6 (April 1977): 6–10; Clark III 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5123
Date: 2/1975
-Description: New York City psychic Ingo
-Swann receives a phone call from a friend in a government agency who
-tells him that he will be contacted by a “Mr. Axelrod.” One morning in
-March at 3:00 a.m., Axelrod calls Swann and asks him to be in
-Washington, D.C., at 12:00 noon. This leads to an unlikely adventure
-involving Swann’s remote viewing of a secret extraterrestrial base on
-the hidden side of the Moon and his “shocking” experience with a sexy,
-scantily dressed female alien in a Los Angeles, California, supermarket.
-He concludes that extraterrestrials are living on Earth in humanoid
-bodies. Swann deduces that there are many extraterrestrials, that many
-are “bio- androids,” and that they are aware their only foes on Earth
-are psychics. Later, Swann and Mr. Axelrod take a flight to an unknown
-northerly destination, deduced by Swann as possibly Alaska. Along with
-two twin bodyguards, Swann and Axelrod attempt to secretly watch a
-recurrent UFO appear and suck up the water of a lake. Axelrod discloses
-that the silent, growing, oscillating triangle is simultaneously
-scanning the area and eliminating any animals, and that the silent beams
-emanating from the object are “blasting deer or porcupines from the
-woods or something.” The bodyguards realize they are discovered and the
-group is attacked by the UFO. Swann is thrown to safety by his
-colleagues and sustains a minor injury. (Wikipedia, “Ingo
-Swann”; Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial
-and Human Telepathy, Ingo Swann Books, 1998, pp. 23–61,
-85– 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5124
Date: early 2/1975
-Description: Night. A farmer is walking to his barn north of Lundar,
-Manitoba, when a red ball of light, 14–16 inches in diameter, swoops low
-over his head. As he gazes up at it, he feels as if hot plastic is being
-poured on his head. He suffocates and cannot think clearly while it is
-above him. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5125
Date: 2/4/1975
-Description: Night. Three Pickering, Ontario, ambulance drivers, a
-Durham regional police constable, and Andy Parks, music director of
-radio station CHOO in Agincourt, watch pulsing, multicolored objects
-maneuvering above the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Parks says
-they are “floating around, zipping this way and that.” (Yurko
-Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979,
-pp. 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5126
Date: 2/10/1975
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 15-year-old boys in Annadale, Staten Island,
-New York, see a glowing ball, 20 feet in diameter, hovering about 400
-feet away above some trees near a frozen pond. The brilliant orange mass
-compresses itself from football-shaped to basketball-shaped over a
-period of 10 minutes then suddenly disappears. Another witness who is
-walking a German shepherd dog around the same time reports that the dog
-reacted very nervously to something in the woods. The boys return early
-the next morning and find that some trees, ranging 5– 20 feet in height,
-have been sheared off and some are coated with a carbon-like substance.
-NICAP investigators have dirt and wood samples analyzed at a scientific
-laboratory and find that the trees are only superficially burned on
-their bark but that the fire is oil-based. They suspect the glowing
-object is a low-temperature fuel fire. (“Converging
-Ball of Light Mystifies Witnesses,” UFO Investigator, April 1975,
-p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5127
Date: 2/14/1975
-Description: 12:05 p.m. Antoine Séverin, 21, is on the slope of Piton du
-Calvaire, a hill outside Petite Île on the southern coast of Réunion in
-the Indian Ocean, when he hears a deafening beeping sound, feels a blast
-of heat, and sees a bright metallic object hovering about 5 feet above
-the ground. A ladder with three steps appears on the underside, and a
-small being like the “Michelin man” emerges. He is holding a shining
-object. Two other beings emerge, all with antennae on their heads. A
-fourth is visible through a porthole. Then Séverin is hurled onto his
-back by a powerful flash of light. The beings run up the ladder and
-withdraw it, then the UFO takes off, emitting a loud whistle. For
-several days he has blurred vision, impaired speech, and a medical
-diagnosis of shock. The Gendarmerie investigate the case and judge him
-to be mentally sound. (Lt.-Col. Lobet, “Atterrissage
-à Petit Île (Réunion)
-le 14 Février 1975,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 147
-(Aug./Sept. 1975): 4–10; Lt.-Col. Lobet, “Another Close
-Contact on Réunion, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 (July
-1979): 6–10; Lt.-Col. Lobet, “Another Close
-Contact on Réunion, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2
-(September 1979): 7–10; Patrick Gross, “Petit-Île,
-La Réunion, February 14, 1975”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5128
Date: 2/14/1975
-Description: Three humanoid beings in protective gear emerged from domed
-disc, witness injured, paralyzed, by flash of light
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Petite-Ile, Reunion, France
-ID: 250
Date: 2/17/1975
-Description: Sheriff, county and state officials observed bright, round
-object hovering near missile base. Object made rapid darting movements,
-bobbed up and down
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Harlowton, MT
-ID: 251
Date: 2/17/1975
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Wheatland County Sheriff Richard Egebakken sees a
-bright, round object hovering about 500 feet near the Malmstrom AFB K-01
-Minuteman missile alert facility 1.7 miles east-northeast of Harlowton,
-Montana. When Deputy Larry Clifford drives to a point about one mile
-from the site, the object suddenly shoots up to 2,000 feet, stops, and
-hovers again. State Game Warden Gene
-Tierney says it is not an aircraft. Commissioner Edgar
-Langston, also a pilot, sees the object through binoculars from his
-ranch 15 miles south of Harlowton and sees an antenna-like protrusion on
-the top. Deputy Herb Lynn stops his pickup truck a few miles out of town
-to watch and sees it flitting around the sky in all sorts of crazy
-directions. Deputy Russ Mill, within a mile of K-01, describes a blue
-object bobbing up and down. Radar at Malmstrom AFB does not track
-anything. (UFOEv II 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5129
Date: 2/23/1975
-Description: Night. Glenn E. Bradley sees two large cylindrical objects
-like grain silos floating above Matachewan, Ontario. Both are shining
-white floodlights downward to the ground and have bright lights at the
-top. They are traveling to the west at about 30 mph. Bradley begins
-following them in his pickup truck. Outside the lights of the town he
-notices that the two silos are accompanied by smaller UFOs about 50 feet
-in diameter, all darting about at high speed. They appear to be entering
-and exit the larger silos. (“Silos
-over Ontario,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March
-1985): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5130
Date: 2/26/1975
-Description: Intensely bright domed disc, orange glow, emitted conical
-light beam down on lake, illuminated terrain, sped away at “colossal
-speed”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lake Sorell, Tasmania
-ID: 252
Date: 2/26/1975
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A former RAAF crewman and a companion are on a
-fishing trip to Lake Sorell, Tasmania, when they see three glowing
-objects in the northeast sky, one smaller than the other two. Two of the
-UFOs move closer and hover, then recede, intermittently obscured by
-clouds. Each has a pulsing red light on its base. The main larger object
-is an elongated disc with a row of twinkling red lights around the rim.
-After a bank of clouds go through with a passing storm, the object
-reappears, glows brightly, and suddenly zooms toward the witnesses at
-“phenomenal speed.” It stops abruptly about 2,900 feet away at a height
-of 490 feet, its lights dimming. It projects a brilliant, cone-shaped
-light beam toward the lake and sweeps it toward the terrain,
-illuminating the side of a mountain. Then it sweeps back across the lake
-beneath the object and fades out. The lake’s surface glows a fluorescent
-blue-white. The object then shoots away to the northeast. A second
-object, which has been hovering to the north toward Mount Penny, speeds
-off in the same direction. (“UFO
-and Light in Tasmania,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977):
-30–31; Story, pp. 344–345;
-UFOEv II 219–221; CUFOS
-case files)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5131
Date: 3/1975
-Description: Project Blue Book files transferred from Maxwell AFB,
-Alabama, to Natignal Archives in Washington, DC.
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 253
Date: 3/2/1975
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A couple and their daughter see a large,
-yellowish, egg-shaped light moving erratically in short spurts outside
-their home in the Great Swamp Management Area near West Kingston, Rhode
-Island. It then stops and hovers for 5 minutes. They then see two
-orange-white, ball-shaped objects drop from the large UFO and move
-northward at the approximate speed of an aircraft, disappearing over the
-horizon. The large object again moves erratically toward the southeast,
-gradually picking up speed. (“Object
-Ejects Small Spheres,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 2 (August 1975):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5133
Date: 3/2/1975
-Description: A police officer in Phillips, Wisconsin, hears odd noises
-on his patrol car radio, then he sees a disc-shaped object with a
-rounded hump on its top and bottom, along with red and orange lights on
-the bottom edge. He estimates the object is 30 feet in diameter. When he
-directs his spotlight on it, the object rapidly ascends. (Richard F.
-Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Sourcebooks, 1998,
-p. 109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5132
Date: 3/7/1975
-Description: The US Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, sends a report to US
-Secretary of State Henry
-Kissinger, stating that strange “machines” have been maneuvering
-over Algerian airspace since January, some near military installations
-and usually around 7:00–7:30 p.m., often by multiple witnesses. An
-object with a bright light has been seen near Oran, Bechar, and off the
-coast on March 6 (when it is also confirmed on radar). (ClearIntent, pp. 79–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5134
Date: 3/18/1975
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Pat McCarthy, 19, is in a quarry off Ontario
-Highway 5 near Waterdown, Ontario, trying to take photos of hawks. He is
-about to leave when he sees a dark object resembling a Frisbee. It is
-moving swiftly, and he takes four photos of it, capturing the object 3
-times. He estimates the object is twice as long as a DC-8. He takes the
-camera to the Hamilton Spectator, which processes the film in its
-darkroom. (Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator, March 18–19, 27, 1975; “Canadian
-Photo Case,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 4 (October 1975): 1, 3, 6; Yurko
-Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979,
-pp. 15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5135
Date: 3/22/1975
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Two young men and three girls are driving along
-the Mount Flora to Dingo Beach Road about 50 miles from Nebo,
-Queensland, when they see a strange light in a gravel storage area to
-the left of the road. The object is a box-like mass, 8 feet high and 9
-feet wide, with a row of flashing white-to-yellow lights about 3 feet
-above the ground and a circular mass above it. As they stop the car, the
-object emits a tremendous bang like a shotgun. They are startled and
-drive on, feeling that the circular mass is watching them, then they
-return to the original location, but the girls in the back seat are
-terrified. They drive 9 miles further and find a road construction crew
-and tell them about the UFO. The two men convince one of the workers to
-return to the spot, but the object is gone and they find unusual ground
-marks. On March 25, two investigating officers from RAAF Base Townsville
-examine three oval-shaped areas, one roughly circular area, and one
-rectangular area, all apparently recent and produced by a heavy weight
-or pressure. (Swords 405–406; Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 190–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5136
Date: 3/28/1975
-Description: Sen. Barry
-Goldwater (R-Ariz.) writes, in response to an inquiry from UFO
-researcher Shlomo Arnon: “The subject of UFOs is one that has interested
-me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to
-find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
-where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air
-Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still
-classified above Top Secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan
-underway to release some, if not all, of this material in the near
-future.” (Good Above, p. 2;
-Nick Redfern, “UFOs
-and Senator Barry Goldwater,” Mysterious Universe, May 1,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5137
Date: 3/28/1975
-Description: Letter from Senator Barry Goldwater stating: Ten or twelve
-years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson
-(HANGER-18) where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably
-denied access. It is still classified above TOP SECRET. I’ve heard they
-plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not
-to have to wait too much longer.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p2)
-Reference: See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA
-Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue
-Room
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 4/1975
-Description: Blue Book files are withdrawn from public access by Air
-Force Archives at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, as the security
-classification and privacy review panel begins reviewing them,
-sanitizing witness names, and destroying or removing certain documents
-thought embarrassing. The redactions are made on the original paper
-files. (Sparks, pp. 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5138
Date: 4/1/1975
-Description: The Federal Aviation Administration approves cooperation
-with the Center for UFO Studies, authorizing air traffic controllers and
-other personnel to report UFO sightings as their workload permits.
-(Story, p. 417)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5139
Date: 4/3/1975
-End date: 4/9/1975
-Description: Concentration of sightings of Vshaped objects,
-hover-acceleration, bright illumination
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lumberton, NC
-ID: 254
Date: 4/3/1975
-End date: 4/9/1975
-Description: Some 57 separate UFO sightings involving triangular or
-delta-shaped UFOs occur in the area around Lumberton, North Carolina.
-Many cases involve an object hovering silently at low altitude,
-accelerating instantly, and turning without banking. They are often seen
-at treetop level and with a bright and maneuverable spotlight. Among the
-witnesses are 48 police officers. (“Witnesses
-Discount Theory That UFO Was Airplane,” Raleigh (N.C.) News and
-Observer, April 5, 1975, p. 19; “UFO
-‘Mystery’ Returns with
-New N.C. Sightings,” Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, April 6,
-1975, p. 1; Jennie Zeidman, The Lumberton UFO Report: UFO Activity in S.
-North Carolina, April 3–9, 1975, CUFOS, 1976; “Landing
-Reported in N. Carolina,” Skylook, May 1975, pp. 3–5; UFOEv II
-347–348; Marler 91–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5140
Date: 4/14/1975
-Description: Tage
-Eriksson, head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National Defence
-Research Institute, finds the work a waste of time and tries to get it
-transferred back to the Defense Staff. His request is denied. (Swords
-368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5141
Date: 4/15/1975
-Description: Disc-shaped object with dome, light beam, made right-angle
-turn, approached, hovered. Began to oscillate, shot straight up out of
-sight in seconds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Jose, CA
-ID: 255
Date: 4/20/1975
-Description: Night. Stationary beams of light are seen at San José de
-Jáchal, San Juan, Argentina. In a remote area, three imprints are found
-forming a 12-foot equilateral triangle surrounding a large smoke blot.
-Nearby plants are burned and stones are blackened. Some footprints are
-noted. Seven mushrooms nearly 8 inches tall are found growing there the
-following day. (Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some
-Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5142
Date: 4/26/1975
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two young witnesses see a light descend briefly
-behind a school in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec, for a few seconds. They find
-a piece of metal and a hole in the ground. (Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO
-Sightings, CUFOS, 1975, p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5143
Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: Saturn-shaped UFO, E-M effects on truck, two humanoids
-visible through transparent dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: occupant encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Antonio, TX
-ID: 257
Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Alois Olenick, 48, is driving west on Mogford
-Road south of San Antonio, Texas, when an amber- colored object rises up
-from a grove of trees. The object approaches him quickly, the light on
-its front changing from amber to red. When it hovers over his pickup for
-10–20 seconds, the lights go out and the engine goes dead. He can see
-two occupants through a clear dome on the top of the UFO. They are bald
-with long prominent ears and long noses. The bottom of the object is
-“highly polished metal” that casts a reddish glow. Olenick hears no
-engine noise, only a shriek of wind. The object takes off straight up
-and vanishes instantly. (Gary Graber, “Two Occupants in Craft,” Skylook,
-no. 99 (February 1976): 3–4; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 17;
-UFOEv II 461–462)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5146
Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: 1:34 p.m. Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel is flying a
-Piper PA-24 Comanche from Zihuatenejo, Guerrero, Mexico, to Mexico City
-at about 15,000 feet. While passing over Laguna de Tequesquitengo in
-Jojutla, Morelos, he feels a strange vibration in his airplane. Then he
-sees to the right, pacing alongside, a 10-to 12-foot-diameter disc with
-a dome on top. Another appears to the left of the plane, and a third
-disc approaches head-on, dropping beneath the plane. Carlos feels a jolt
-as if the object has impacted. He pulls the landing gear lever, but it
-fails to operate. The plane feels as if it is pulled or lifted, and the
-controls refuse to respond. Although badly shaken, Carlos notifies
-Mexico City by radio, describing what is happening. At the same time,
-air control radar is showing unexplained objects near his plane that are
-capable of sharp turns, unlike normal aircraft. Finally, their blips
-merge on the radar screen and speed away toward Popocatépetl volcano.
-After the objects leave, Montiel is able to lower his landing gear
-manually and land safely. Aviation personnel who know him testify to his
-sobriety and trustworthiness. A week later, de los Santos is invited to
-discuss the sighting on a TV talk show. As he drives to the interview, a
-large black Cadillac limousine pulls in front of him on the freeway. An
-identical car appears behind, forcing him to the side of the road. Four
-tall, broad-shouldered, pale-skinned men in dark suits jump out and
-approach him, still in his car. Speaking Spanish in a mechanical tone,
-one warns him to keep quiet about the sighting “if you value your life
-and your family’s too.” He breaks his appointment, and does so a month
-later after another visit by the men in black before an interview with
-J.
-Allen Hynek. (NICAP,
-“UFOs
-‘Escort’ Mexican Aircraft
-/ Radar Confirmed”; “UFOs
-‘Escort’ Mexican Aircraft,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 2 (August 1975):
-1, 3–4; Jerome Clark, “Carlos
-de los Santos and the Men in Black,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 4
-(January 1979): 8–9; Clark III 730; UFOEv II 133–134; Patrick Gross, “Piper
-P24 Paced by Three Flying Discs, 1975”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5145
Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A professional photographer is taking pictures of
-the Irma kød company south of Copenhagen, Denmark, when he sees a bright
-flash off to his right. When he develops one photo, the image shows an
-odd object tilted at an angle and slightly out of focus. (Kim Møller
-Hansen, “Danish
-UFO-Photo?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6
-(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5144
Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: Three domed discs paced small aircraft, one off each wing
-and one behind, confirmed by radar. E-M effects on radio, aircraft
-lifted
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tequesquitengo Lake, Mexico
-ID: 256
Date: 5/4/1975
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 258
Date: 5/4/1975
-Description: Before midnight. Paul Dedieu, his brother, and a friend are
-driving near Haywood, Manitoba, when they see an odd star. Red lightning
-seems to light it up and it zooms away, dripping molten metal and
-crashes in the vicinty of Lake Manitoba to the north. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5147
Date: 5/6/1975
-Description: Day. A pilot testing some new equipment in his airplane
-southeast of Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, sees three silvery
-UFOs with portholes flying in formation ahead and closing in on his
-aircraft. The pilot descends to 1,000 feet, but they keep pace, one on
-each wingtip, the third above the plane. The pilot levels off and climbs
-quickly to 3,000 feet, but the objects match his maneuvers for another
-60 minutes. All the control panel instruments go haywire, and the pilot
-loses all sense of time. The UFOs are confirmed by base radar.
-(Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5148
Date: 5/12/1975
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Lyle Carson is in his farmhouse 2.5 miles east
-of Peesane, Saskatchewan, when he and his wife observe a green light for
-10–15 minutes. On May 14, Carson is checking some fences and he comes
-across a perfectly round circle of burned grass, 5 feet in diameter and
-6 inches thick on the outside edge. The RCMP take photos and samples.
-(Ted Phillips, Physical
-Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS,
-1975, p. 107; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5149
Date: 5/13/1975
-End date: 5/14/1975
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses see a bright light a few
-miles north of Carman, Manitoba, where it has been appearing so
-frequently since April 10 that it has been nicknamed “Charlie Redstar.”
-CKY-TV station employees Bill Kendricks and Allen Kerr see a light on
-the western horizon that rises up, moves slowly south, flashes
-brilliantly, then shoots straight up. Newspaper editor Howard Bennett
-and others see a smoky red light above some tall trees. Bennett leads
-investigators to a potential landing site. Using a radiation survey
-meter, they find a few radioactive hot spots about 255 feet apart, each
-with a radius of 25 feet. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The
-Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 124–126; Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 161, 171–181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5150
Date: 5/16/1975
-Description: Three men wander away from a party on the shore of
-Stephenfield Lake, Manitoba, when they see a “moon- shaped” object
-hovering over a dam on the far shore. As they watch, a beam of light
-shoots from the object to the surface of the lake. A glowing object
-appears underneath the surface and begins moving toward the witnesses.
-When it is about 20 feet away, one of them throws a rock at it. It
-appears to break into pieces and return to its original location, and
-the beam goes out. (Chris Rutkowski, Visitations? Manitoba UFO
-Experiences, Winter Press, 1989, p. 18; Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light
-into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5151
Date: 5/26/1975
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Didier Burr, 17, photographs a dark, disc-shaped
-object outside his second-story window in Nancy, France. The sighting
-only lasts 10–15 seconds. The photo shows a slightly blurry disc above a
-nearby building. (Patrick Gross, “Nancy,
-France, May 26, 1975”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5152
Date: 5/30/1975
-Description: Russell Worobetz is cultivating some stubble near Hazel
-Dell, Saskatchewan, when he finds two burned areas in the center of his
-field. They are 5 feet in diameter and 4 feet apart. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5153
Date: 6/1975
-Description: Historian David
-M. Jacobs publishes The UFO Controversy in America, based on his
-Ph.D. dissertation in history. It becomes a classic history of UFOs and
-the investigations of the Air Force and other government agencies.
-(David M. Jacobs, The
-UFO Controversy in America, Indiana University, 1975; Clark III
-629)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5155
Date: 6/20/1975
-Description: 11:10 p.m. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable
-patrolling on Grand Valley Road northwest of Brandon, Manitoba, notices
-a bright white light to the northwest, apparently in the area of
-Kirkham’s Bridge. Another RCMP in the bridge area sees the light 10
-minutes later, apparently 220–300 feet above the ground. One officer
-attempts to close with the light unsuccessfully until he is 3 miles
-southeast of Hamiota. It flashes red and disappears at 12:15 a.m.
-(Patrick Gross, “Files
-Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5156
Date: summer 1975
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. An orange object appears several
-times above two fishing trawlers one mile off the coast of Topsail
-Beach, North Carolina. (Cordy Hieronymus, “Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5154
Date: 6/23/1975
-Description: 12:37 p.m. A British naval vessel is stationed off the west
-coast of Ireland in a thick fog when the radar operator picks up an
-echo, presumably a surface vessel closing in on the ship. However, the
-blip accelerates to an “impossible” speed in one minute. The operator
-notifies the captain, who files a report. The case is investigated by
-the Ministry of Defence. (Peter Bottomley and Gordon Clegg, “MoD
-Tracks UFO on Radar,” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 (March/April 1976):
-8–10; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon &
-Schuster, 1997, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5157
Date: 6/30/1975
-Description: The USAF Aerospace Defense Command becomes the US executive
-agent in NORAD. Its Continental Air Defense Command, which it had taken
-over in 1957, is disestablished and transferred to the Aerospace Defense
-Command. (Wikipedia, “Aerospace
-Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5158
Date: 7/1975
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Margareta Ivanciov is walking from the train
-station in Teremia Mare, Romania, when she sees a bright yellow-orange
-globe nearly 2 feet in diameter floating about 90 feet in front of her
-and 7 feet above the pavement. It speeds up when she approaches it,
-keeping the same distance. She notices that it is composed of thousands
-of bright dots emanating the same color light. It disappears around a
-corner, anticipating her route, and follows her home, where it hovers
-briefly before moving into a neighbor’s yard. (Romania 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5161
Date: 7/1975
-End date: 11/1975
-Description: Concentration of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northern U.S. and Canada
-ID: 259
Date: 7/1975
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A family of four is driving home along the Tasman
-Highway near Hobart Airport, Cambridge, Tasmania. The interior of the
-car becomes hot, the engine stalls, and they roll to a stop. Although
-there is no smell in the air, the family feels that they can taste
-something like gasoline. Then they see an object hovering above the road
-ahead of them. It seems 650–980 feet distant and 65 feet in the air. It
-looks round, is colored a metallic grayish-white, and has its own
-irridescence or glow. The diameter is close to the width of the road,
-perhaps 16 feet. They stare at the object for 2 minutes. Suddenly, in a
-spiraling take-off, the object speeds away to the south. The husband is
-a car mechanic, and he finds nothing wrong with the car. He gets back
-in, starts the car, and they go home without further incident, although
-the object still is visible several more minutes as a diminishing light.
-(“UFO
-Reports from Around Australia,” ACOS Bulletin, no. 12 (December
-1977): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5162
Date: 7/1975
-Description: François Breuil begins publishing L’Insolite in Mâcon,
-Saône-et-Loire, France. It continues until January 1982. (L’Insolite, no.
-1 (July 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5160
Date: 7/1/1975
-Description: Day. A Dutch couple on vacation snap a photo of the
-panoramic landscape of the Pyrenees mountains just after leaving El Pas
-de la Casa, Andorra. They have the roll developed in Calafell,
-Catalonia, Spain, and are surprised to see a strange, yellow-and-orange
-object in motion in the foreground and casting a distinct shadow.
-Investigators from the Netherlands UFO group NOBOVO determine that the
-object is really a road sign photographed directly from their
-slow-moving vehicle (the speed of the car was estimated to be no more
-than 22 mph). (Wim van Utrecht, “Spinning
-UFO Photographed during Take-Off,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5163
Date: 7/2/1975
-Description: Photos of Saturn-shaped object, very similar to Hamazaki
-videotape of July 6-7, 1989
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hawaii
-ID: 260
Date: early 7/1975
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Four young people camping out on the shore of the
-Charvak Reservoir in Uzbekistan wake up in terror for no apparent
-reason. They see a glowing sphere rise silently from under the water
-about one-half mile from shore. Concentric circles of varying thickness
-and brightness form around it. They watch it for 7 minutes, completely
-terrified. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk,
-2020, pp. 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5159
Date: 7/6/1975
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Joe Borda is doing farm chores at Mount Pleasant,
-Ontario, when he sees a domed metallic cylinder landed in a tobacco
-field. Thinking it is probably a tank truck, he continues and goes home.
-On July 8, he comes across a circular crushed patch of tobacco plants
-about 30–40 feet in diameter. Inside the circle are two spots of some
-substance, reddish purple in color, that feels slippery and oily. The
-provincial police remove some soil samples; they are not radioactive and
-do not contain oil. (Graham Conway, “Strange
-Voice Heard after UFO Landing,”
-Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 8 (Summer 1976): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5164
Date: 7/14/1975
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona, headed by William
-Spaulding, files a FOIA request with the CIA for copies of all of its
-UFO documents or investigations. (ClearIntent, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5165
Date: 7/15/1975
-End date: 7/16/1975
-Description: 8:15 p.m. David Burgess, an official at Khami Prison in
-Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and a friend see from their car an orange object,
-almost circular with a flat bottom and a rounded top, hovering above the
-prison about 1–2 miles away. At 8:45 p.m., another official sees an
-object in the same place. The following night at 7:30 p.m., a bright
-silvery object is seen hovering motionless 2–3 miles northeast of the
-prison by a Mr. and Mrs. Rossiter and their three children. It then
-moves rapidly to the east. (“Southern
-Africa Reports Several UFO Sightings,” Skylook, October 1975,
-pp. 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5166
Date: late 7/1975
-Alternate date: early 8/1975
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A married couple and their small son are driving
-in the country near Pittsburg, Kansas, when the wife notices an object
-moving quickly toward them. It comes across the highway at about
-telephone pole height. The object is round and glowing intensely, with
-even more intense, small panels inset all around it. It is as wide as
-the highway and remains hovering. The man pulls the car over and the UFO
-begins to pull away. They continue following it, but the object changes
-its motion frequently. Finally it picks up speed and blinks out.
-(Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR
-27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5170
Date: 7/22/1975
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A young boy on holiday with his family in Wales
-wanders by himself to the top of Wylfa Hill, south of Machynlleth,
-Powys, Wales. At the top he sees an apparently landed object. About 40
-feet wide, it is comprised of a 7-foot round base and surmounted by a
-clear plastic–like, hemispherical dome. Large round lights about 5 feet
-in diameter are spaced evenly around the base, about 7 of which are
-visible, shining in strange colors. Each seems to be recessed into the
-silvery, metallic base. Clearly seen within the dome is a 7-foot-tall,
-15-foot-wide, metallic unit, Two “jelly-like” entities are seen next to
-it, one on each side. They are approximately 7 feet tall, a
-whitish-translucent color, amorphous, and constantly changing shape.
-Inside each entity are hundreds of 6-inch, white, disc-like forms,
-similar to doughnuts. When another of these entities floats toward the
-object, the boy flees the scene and unsuccessfully tries to persuade his
-father to take a look. Returning alone, the boy sees the object carrying
-the entities disappear by pulsing in and out and changing color rapidly
-to match those of the surrounding sky and grass. It then “merges” into
-them. Immediately afterward, the boy suffers acute shock and what a
-doctor diagnoses as hysterical blindness in one eye that persists for
-months. (Andrew Collins, “Jelly-like
-Entities at Machynlleth,”
-Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 4 (January 1979): 14–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5167
Date: 7/26/1975
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Three Dutch hikers are about to take on the last
-kilometers of a two-day mountain trip in the Swiss Alps when they
-allegedly encounter a circular object hovering in the air in front of
-them. It seems to be made of “some sort of metal, not unlike aluminum,”
-is dull gray in color, and resembles an inverted soup plate. The strange
-contraption is approximately 50 feet in diameter and appears to be
-suspended over the small village of Zwischbergen, Valais, Switzerland,
-some 328–1,640 feet away. One of them succeeds in taking a color slide
-of the phenomenon. Immediately after the photo is taken, the object
-starts to move and glides behind the trees, where it disappears from
-view. Possible hoax. (“The Saas Fee Photo,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June
-1995): 19; Wim van Utrecht, “The
-Zwischbergen ‘Saas Fee’ Photo,” Caelestia, July 15, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5168
Date: 7/29/1975
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 261
Date: 7/31/1975
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Farmer Danie van Graan goes to inspect his sheep
-enclosure at Loxton, Northern Cape, South Africa, and sees a silvery
-disc with prong-like legs. He approaches to within 15 feet of it.
-Through a large window he can see 4 people, one standing near a panel of
-flashing colored lights, the other three apparently looking at some
-device. The entities are about 5 feet tall, thin and pale, and are
-wearing whitish coveralls with hoods hanging down around their necks.
-They have fair-colored hair, slanted eyes, and sharp, pointed chins.
-They all suddenly look up at him, and van Graan hears a “tick” noise as
-a light beam hits him in the face. Ill and confused, he tries to avoid
-the beam. His nose bleeds and he starts vomiting. The humming increases
-to a sharp whine, and the object takes off at a sharp angle. Later
-investigation reveals 4 marks on the outside perimeter of a circle 30
-feet in diameter impressed in the ground, with crisscrossed central
-markings. A deposit of small, green granules is found near the center;
-analysis shows this to be carbon dust, grit, shale with feldspar
-inclusions, and thaumasite. Nothing grows in the affected area later.
-(UFO EvII 493–494)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5169
Date: 7/31/1975
-Description: Oval object, occupants visible; light struck witness in
-face, nose bleed and vomiting. Physical traces at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Loxton, South Africa
-ID: 262
Date: 8/1975
-Description: The Aviation and Air Defense division of the Swiss Army
-draws up a seven-page report on UFOs. (“Forscher findet
-verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,” Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July
-8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean Times 312 (April 2014): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5171
Date: 8/11/1975
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 263
Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF, drove out to the
-outskirts of town late one night to watch for meteors. As a disc-shaped
-UFO descended toward him, he tried to start his car to get away but it
-wouldn’t start. He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and
-saw shadowy figures in it and felt numbness, after which the UFO
-departed. After driving home he found he couldn’t account for 1.5 hours.
-The next day his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture
-wound over his spine and a few days later he developed a body rash. As
-months passed he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours. He remembered
-that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small
-4’8” humanoids. They had whitish gray skin, large heads, large eyes,
-small slit-like mouths and mask-like features. He had been in a
-drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod like device into his
-back. After this they escorted him about the ship and later dropped him
-off at his car.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p282)
-Location: Alamogordo, NM
-See also: 3/4/69
Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: Near Haderslev, Denmark: Police Officer Evald Hansen Maarup
-was driving home at 10:50 p.m. when all of a sudden his car was engulfed
-by a bright blue light while at the same time his car lost all power.
-The temperature in his car rose to that of a warm summer day and his
-radio was dead so he couldn’t call for help. The bright beam from the
-UFO was conical in shape with a bottom diam. of 4–5 meters and a top
-diam. at the UFO of 10 meters. Two dome-like protrusions were visible on
-the underside of the UFO that was hovering at about 20 meters altitude.
-He activated a special camera on the patrol car which automatically took
-3 pictures of the UFO. As the UFO sped away he regained power to his
-car. The developed film which was later turned over to the Danish AF
-showed the light source of the UFO on it. No report or analysis has been
-available from the AF to date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-F p281)
-Location: Haderslev, Denmark
-See also: 3/4/69
Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Sgt. Charles L. Moody, stationed at Holloman AFB,
-is out in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, awaiting a meteor
-shower. He sees a metallic disc drop from the sky some 300 feet in front
-of him. It is about 50 feet long, 20 feet wide, and faintly luminous. It
-stops descending at 20 feet altitude and begins approaching Moody.
-Uneasy, he gets in his car and turns the ignition on, but the engine is
-dead. Moody can see an oblong window in the UFO and shadow figures
-moving within. He hears a high-pitched sound like a dental drill for a
-short time, then he feels numb. The next thing he knows, the UFO is
-ascending and disappears from sight within seconds. The car starts and
-he drives home, where he notices the time is 3:00 a.m., representing
-about 90 minutes he can’t account for. Moody gets a pain in his lower
-back in the afternoon. Soon he is put in touch with APRO’s Jim
-Lorenzen, who
-calls him on August 21. Moody now has a heat rash on his lower body. His
-memories about the incident eventually return, and the Lorenzens visit
-him in 1976 at an overseas post where he narrates an abduction scenario
-with shortish, human-like aliens with big heads and wearing coveralls.
-(L. J. Lorenzen, “The
-Moody Case,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 12 (June 1976): 6; L. J.
-Lorenzen, “The
-Moody Case,” APRO Bulletin 25, no. 1 (July 1976): 2, 5–6; Lorenzen,
-Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 38–51;
-Good Need, pp. 323–325;
-Story, pp. 233–234;
-Clark III 770–771)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5172
Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: Sgt. Charles L. Moody abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Alamogordo, NM
-ID: 264
Date: 8/14/1975
-Description: Pilots and air traffic controllers at airport observed
-red-orange disc, gray mist formed, object shot out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Stockton, CA
-ID: 265
Date: 8/14/1975
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Maj. Claude Riddle is flying a helicopter at 900
-feet while approaching Stockton (California) Metropolitan Airport.
-Suddenly, air traffic controller Joe Savage sees flashing lights closing
-in on him in a collision course. When he advises Riddle to take evasive
-action, the object turns orange and shoots up to 5,000 feet, where it
-hovers. Riddle looks behind him and sees another light trailing him a
-mile or so away. When he swings around, he sees it shimmering like a
-diamond and as big as a jetliner. Two blue beams come out from the
-sides. Dan Long, another controller sees the object through field
-glasses at an altitude of about 2,000 feet, then it moves upward while
-emitting a glow of green-tinted smoke and flashing red lights. Gary
-Duran and two friends also see the object while walking near the
-airport. After 5 minutes of hovering near the airport, the object turns
-bright red and shoots off. (“California
-Pilot Encounters UFO,” Skylook, no. 99, February 1976, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5173
Date: 8/20/1975
-Description: Evening. Police stations in the area of Albany, New York,
-receive numerous calls about UFO sightings. State Trooper Michael Morgan
-is dispatched to the scene of one of the sightings, where a police
-detective is observing a blimp-sized object hovering at 500 feet over
-Lake Saratoga. As the reddish, glowing UFO flashes on and off, two
-smaller objects approach and merge with it. Air traffic controllers at
-Albany Airport locate the object on a radar scanner. After a few
-minutes, the two smaller objects break away and leave in the direction
-from which they had come. The first object moves toward the two
-policemen who see a brilliant white light shining from the center of its
-base as it passes over them. Silently, the craft turns and moves away
-slowly. Suddenly, the UFO disappears. After tracking the target for 45
-minutes, the radar operators lose contact with it. However, within a
-short time, they receive a call from the pilot of a military airplane
-who warns them that he has just seen a red fireball 1,000 feet above him
-headed toward the airport. The controllers locate the object just as it
-enters the 50- mile range of one of their radarscopes. The anti-clutter
-device is thrown to ascertain whether or not the blip is a radar angel,
-but the image still comes through clearly. The controllers estimate its
-speed to be 3,000 mph. About five miles outside Albany, the target
-vanishes. The controllers speculate that it has either accelerated to a
-speed of 5,000 mph or has executed a seemingly impossible vertical
-maneuver at high speed. During the same time as the Albany sightings,
-large discs and bright lights are seen at low altitude less than 50
-miles north over the South Glens Falls area and as far north as Lake
-George. The case is investigated by Ernest
-Jahn, who contacts the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge,
-Massachusetts. They are unable to give any explanation for the
-sightings. (Margaret Sachs, UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5174
Date: 8/26/1975
-Description: 3:15 a.m. Terry O’Leary, his girlfriend Jackie Larson, and
-Jackie’s mother Sandy Larson leave Fargo, North Dakota for Bismarck,
-which they plan to reach around 7:00 a.m. Forty-five miles into their
-trip on Interstate 94, they see a brilliant flash of light and sounds
-like thunder. About 50 yards away on their left, they watch 8–10 orange,
-glowing objects heading south to east. One is distinctly larger than the
-others. The lights descend in a straight line at a 30° angle until they
-stop over a grove of trees. Suddenly one of the objects splits in half
-and others shoot away. At this point, the witnesses feel peculiar
-sensations of being unable to move. Jackie finds herself sitting in the
-back seat (she had been in the front seat with the others) and the
-lights are gone. The witnesses drive on to Tower City, North Dakota,
-where Sandy notes the time is 5:23 a.m., an hour later than it should
-have been. Through a mutual friend, Sandy eventually contacts ufologist
-Jerome
-Clark, who puts her in touch with psychologist R.
-Leo Sprinkle, who has used hypnotic regression in abduction cases.
-Sprinkle conducts three hypnotic sessions with Sandy and Jackie Larson
-on December 4–6. Sandy remembers a 6-foot-tall entity that looks like a
-mummy, various medical procedures, and a journey to a place with sand.
-She has further regressions with Sprinkle in January and February 1976,
-and she describes an otherworldly journey with three beings on a UFO.
-Clark writes: “What makes the Larson story interesting, in retrospect,
-however, is its anticipation of many abduction motifs which, though
-barely noted or entirely unknown in 1975, had become repeatedly
-demonstrated aspects of the experience by the late 1980s. (Clark III
-675–678; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer
-Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 52–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5175
Date: 8/29/1975
-Description: Gray, disc-shaped UFO, bright illumination, darted above
-car, hovered, cast pulsating light beam down on it. Physiological
-effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Muret, Haute-Garonne, France
-ID: 266
Date: 9/1975 (approximate)
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Lt. Rafael Muñoz Pastor is returning to Jerez
-air base [now Jerez Airport], Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain,
-piloting a Grumman AN-1 antisubmarine aircraft with four other crew
-members. He is flying at 3,500 feet and is already on the landing
-approach to Jerez, when he receives a call from the Seville air traffic
-center asking him if he can see any aircraft over Sanlúcar de Barrameda,
-Cádiz, where they have a radar target. The crew is seeing a “round
-light, brilliant red in color and with yellowish edges” in the area, so
-they are ordered to get closer. When they are 4–5 miles from Sanlúcar,
-the red ball ascends vertically from 1,000 feet to some 10,000–20,000
-feet. Numerous residents of Sanlúcar also see the object from cafes. An
-F-5A fighter is scrambled from Morón Air Base in Seville province, which
-also spotted the object, and the Grumman returns to Jerez after viewing
-the light for an estimated 45 minutes. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos,
-“Spanish Military UFO Encounter,” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003):
-7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5176
Date: 9/3/1975
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three witnesses in Tujunga, California, see two
-helicopters following a UFO. The top of the object is a vibrant blue
-green, the middle portion white, and the bottom part red. It appears to
-change to a saucer shape and zigzags around the sky. Shortly before
-11:00 p.m., the witnesses see the lights go on at a nearby Nike missile
-base in the mountains. Afterward, the witnesses’ eyes turn red and
-painful. (Ann Druffel, “California Report:
-The Mystery Helicopters,” Skylook, no. 99, February 1976,
-pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5177
Date: 9/11/1975
-Description: Sen. Floyd
-K. Haskell (D-Colo.) contacts the FBI and relates his concern about
-dead and mutilated cattle found in Colorado and other western states.
-The mutilations involve loss of ears, eyes, and genitalia, with most of
-the blood drained from the carcasses. Haskell estimates there have been
-130 mutilations in 9 states during the past two years. He has also heard
-that US Army helicopters have been seen near the sites of some of the
-mutilations. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Animal
-Mutilation Part 1 of 5,” FBI Records: The Vault, pp. 12–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5178
Date: 9/14/1975
-Description: Calling themselves The Two (or Bo and Peep), Marshall
-Applewhite and Bonnie
-Nettles hold a meeting in a hotel in Waldport, Oregon. When 20 of
-the 300 audience members disappear after the meeting, the Oregon State
-Police launch an investigation. Other audience members think the topic
-is vague but involves something about leaving in a UFO from a camp
-somewhere in Colorado. (Clark III 565)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5179
Date: fall 1975
-Description: A married couple and the husband’s business partner
-purchase an abandoned ranch property in a remote rural area of western
-Colorado, hoping to turn it into a working cattle ranch. Not long after
-moving in, numerous weird events start taking place that last for a
-two-year period: whirring noises, UFOs, strange footprints in the snow,
-hairy bigfoot-like creatures, and UFO occupants. The witnesses
-eventually move back to Denver, where they are interviewed by geologist
-John S. Derr and psychologist R.
-Leo Sprinkle, as well as R. Martin Wolf, Steven Mayne, and Jerome
-Clark. (John
-S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on Colorado Ranch,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 1 (July 1978):
-5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on Colorado Ranch, Part
-2,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 2 (August 1978): 7–8; John S. Derr and R.
-Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on Colorado
-Ranch, Part 3,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 3 (September 1978): 6–8; John
-S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on Colorado Ranch, Part 4,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 4
-(October 1978): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Part 5,” APRO Bulletin 27, no.
-5 (November 1978): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Part
-6,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 6 (December 1978): 7–8; John S. Derr and
-R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple
-Phenomena on
-a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Conclusion,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7
-(January 1979): 5–8; Clark III 558–559)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5181
Date: fall 1975
-Description: Evening. Two soldiers of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army
-unit stationed in Jianshui County, Yunnan, China, encounter a huge
-saucer-shaped object circling above their heads and emitting beams of
-soft orange-colored light. One of the men runs into the camp to sound an
-alarm, while the other stays to watch it. A few minutes later, the camp
-commandant and about a dozen armed men run up to the barracks entrance
-and find no trace of the soldier who had stayed behind. The commandant
-orders all officers and enlisted men to search, but they do not find
-him. A few hours later, four soldiers taking over sentry duty suddenly
-hear the sound of someone moaning behind them. They see the missing man,
-who has reappeared. His eyebrows, beard, and hair have grown extremely
-long. When he fully regains consciousness, his memory is completely
-gone. His wristwatch shows that it had stopped long ago. His weapons and
-watch are found to be slightly magnetized. (Paul Dong, “Extracts
-from Paul Dong’s Feidie
-Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions
-and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984):
-17; Clark III 653)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5182
Date: fall 1975
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A couple driving east toward Toppenish,
-Washington, see a bright white light that appears overhead and slightly
-ahead of them. At first they think it might be a helicopter with a
-searchlight, but then an area about one mile in diameter lights up
-around their car, their radio becomes noisy, and their headlights dim.
-The flood-lit area suddenly goes out and the light speeds up in the sky
-and disappears. When they reach Ahtanum, Washington, about 25 miles from
-the first incident, the bright light again appears overhead briefly,
-then streaks away and disappears. (W. J. Vogel, “The Yakimas and
-‘Earthlights,’” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5183
Date: 9/27/1975
-Description: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
-hosts a symposium, “Hypotheses Concerning the Origin of UFOs,” sponsored
-by the Los Angeles, California, section. The proceedings are published
-under the title Thesis and Antithesis. (Story, p. 417)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5180
Date: 9/30/1975
-Description: Domed disc hovered, illuminated area “like daylight,” cows
-fled. Emitted bright red light, humming sound, took off at high
-speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Corning, CA
-ID: 267
Date: 10/1975
-End date: 12/1975
-Description: Reliable military personnel saw unconventional and
-unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage
-sites, aircraft alert areas and missile control complexes at
-installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as
-radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were
-sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no
-indication that the fighters fired on the intruders.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Washington
-Post
-Location: US
Date: 10/1975
-Description: University of Montana sociologists Robert
-Balch and David Taylor locate the followers of Applewhite and
-Nettles in
-Arizona and join the group clandestinely. The Two make themselves
-scarce, fearing an infiltration and possible assassination. Balch and
-Taylor describe the cult in a Psychology Today article in October 1976
-and articles in sociological journals. (Robert W. Balch and David
-Taylor, “Salvation in a UFO,” Psychology Today 10, no. 5 (October 1976):
-58–62, 66, 106; Robert W. Balch and David Taylor, “Seekers
-and Saucers: The Role of the
-Cultic Milieu in Joining a UFO Cult,” American Behavioral Scientist
-20, no. 6 (July/Aug. 1977): 839–860; Robert W. Balch, “Waiting
-for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and
-Beep’s UFO Cult,”
-in James R. Lewis, ed., The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other
-Worlds, State University of New York, 1995, pp. 137–166; Clark III
-565–566)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5184
Date: 10/7/1975
-Description: 8:00 p.m. After his sister calls and alerts him to a “fiery
-glow” near his barn on Three Mile Lake Road north of Bracebridge,
-Ontario, Robert Suffern, 27, drives to the spot and finds no fire.
-However, when he starts going back to his sister’s house he finds a
-large disc-shaped object resting in his path. The UFO quickly ascends
-and is lost to sight. When he turns around and starts heading to his own
-home, a small figure wearing a helmet and silver-gray walks in an
-“ape-like fashion” in front of his car, causing him to hit the brakes.
-It runs into a field. Suffern gets out and puts his hands on a post and
-he seemingly becomes weightless, making it easy to jump over the fence.
-Later that night he sees an “orange fluorescent light” in the pasture of
-his property. Moments later, he receives two phone calls telling him not
-to interfere. On October 12 at 3:00 a.m. Suffern receives a phone call
-from a “Lt. Colin Hunter” from the White House and leaves a number to
-call him back. He calls the number later and talks to a military officer
-claiming to be Lt. Col. Waters. A month later, he and his wife are given
-a thorough examination by Canadian military doctors. (Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-September 13, 2006; “The
-Robert Suffern UFO
-Encounter,” Above Top Secret forum, September 26, 2009; John
-Greenewald, “Suffern
-Three Mile Lake Incident:
-UFO Lands on Road, White House Reportedly Calls,” The Black Vault,
-July 6, 2017; Clark III 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5185
Date: 10/17/1975
-Description: Large object with green flashing lights passed over truck
-from behind, hovered ahead, lights and engine failed, light beam
-directed toward truck
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Helena, MT
-ID: 268
Date: 10/17/1975
-Description: Morning. Masaki Machida, a TV reporter for the Akita
-Broadcasting Company, is at Akita Airport in Akita Prefecture, Japan,
-when he sees a disc-shaped object descending in the east. Air traffic
-controllers and passengers watch the golden disc with white lights hover
-5,000 feet above the ground some 5 miles from the airport.
-Telecommunications officer Kenichi Waga warns all pilots to watch out
-for the UFO. Toa Domestic Airlines pilot Capt. Masarus Saito says the
-object looks like two plates put together. After 5 minutes, it flies off
-to the west. (Margaret Sachs, UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5186
Date: 10/18/1975
-Description: 12:30 a.m. John Struble is driving his truck 25 miles
-northwest of Helena, Montana, when he notices a large object, 50 feet in
-diameter and 25–30 feet in the air. The object passes over his truck
-from the rear and then stops and hovers about 300 feet ahead of him. It
-directs a very bright light at him, causing the truck’s lights and
-engine to go out. The UFO remains for about 5 minutes before it moves
-away. The object makes a noise like a big jet and then rockets straight
-up into the sky and moves away to the east at an incredible speed. When
-the UFO disappears the truck’s lights and engine come back on. Struble
-notices that his nonelectric watch has stopped for 5 minutes, the
-duration of the sighting. (ClearIntent, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5187
Date: 10/20/1975
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 269
Date: 10/20/1975
-Description: An NBC-TV movie, The UFO Incident, on the Betty
-and Barney Hill abduction case airs, starring James Earl
-Jones and Estelle
-Parsons. It
-is based on the book The Interrupted Journey by John
-G. Fuller. (Wikipedia, “The
-UFO Incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5188
Date: late 10/1975
-Description: 2:45 a.m. James D. Appleman of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, sees
-two large condensation trails making a giant X just above the moon. For
-several nights he has been noticing two unusual stars forming different
-shapes, and he thinks this might be related. He grabs his camera and
-takes three black-and-white photos. Two of the photos show two irregular
-light blobs, which he does not remember seeing when he exposed the film.
-In 1980, he sends a copy of the photos to the Center for UFO Studies
-because they resemble the lights in two undated photos taken from an
-airplane by J. Allen Hynek that appeared in his book The UFO Experience.
-(“Did
-a Twin Photograph
-a Twin UFO?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 (January 1981): 1;
-J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine, 1974, opp.
-p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5189
Date: late 10/1975
-Description: Near 12:00 midnight. An incident occurs near Cheyenne
-Mountain, Colorado, the home of the National Combat Operations Center,
-that triggers a Security Option 5 Alert. According to an informant at
-the center interviewed by Francis
-Ridge, nobody
-is allowed to enter the base, except cleared, high-ranking officers or
-cleared security patrols. No one is to leave. Those personnel on base
-who have just completed duty are rolled out of bed. Jet interceptors are
-scrambled. Unidentified targets are tracked on radar for at least 20
-minutes. In fact, everything they put in the air for an attack on the US
-is airborne. The base stays on alert through 6:00 a.m. (NICAP, “Security
-Option 5 Alert at NORAD”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5190
Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Factory workers David Stephens and Glen Gray are
-sitting in a trailer they share in Norway, Maine, when they hear
-something explode outside. Briefly puzzled, they decide to go for a
-drive to nearby Thompson Lake. A short distance down the road, their
-vehicle abruptly turns onto a back road leading into Oxford, Maine. Gray
-no longer has control of the steering. Two minutes later, they pass
-through Oxford, a trip that normally takes 10 minutes, and down the
-eastern side of Thompson Lake. A mile south of Oxford, they see a herd
-of cows resting on the ground and shaking their heads from side to side.
-A few seconds later, they see two white lights on their left in a
-cornfield. The lights suddenly rise into the air. Gray stops the car,
-rolls down the windows and listen for the sounds of an engine, but the
-lights are soundless. Now they have a good view of a huge,
-cylinder-shaped object 20–30 feet away. Around its body are green, blue,
-and yellow lights that suddenly go out when the object ascends above a
-row of trees. Gray starts the car and roars down the road, followed by
-the UFO. The next thing they know, they are a mile farther down the
-road, the car stopped. Their eyes feel like they are on fire and appear
-orange. The UFO is visible in the eastern sky. They drive into West
-Poland, Maine, turn around, and go back the way they came. After a few
-minutes the UFO disappears, and they decide to go south again. For no
-reason, Gray turns onto a gravel road leading to Tripp Pond, where the
-engine stalls and the radio goes out. They can see the cylinder-shaped
-UFO in the sky about 500 feet away, which moves farther away as soon as
-they notice it. Some 45 minutes later, two disc-shaped objects with
-colored lights appear, and a thick fog rises out of Tripp Pond,
-engulfing the car. The radio abruptly turns on, and as they drive
-further, they receive a mental impression indicating that “We’re not
-done with you yet. We are coming back for you.” It is now 6:30 a.m. At
-7:00 a.m., they arrive at Stephens’s parents’ house in Oxford, suffering
-from burning eyes, sore throats, and aching teeth. They are not speaking
-coherently. Gray has some hallucinations later in the day while watching
-TV. Maine ufologists Shirley
-Fickett and Brent
-Raynes soon hear about the case and meet with the two on the evening
-of October 28. Many unusual events take place that night and the next
-day, so Fickett contacts hypnotist Herbert
-Hopkins, 58,
-in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. He conducts eight hypnosis sessions between
-December 1975 and March 1976. Gray becomes upset early in the
-investigation, so only Stephens’s testimony is complete. It indicates an
-abduction scenario similar to other cases. (Brent M. Raynes, “The
-Twilight Side of a UFO Encounter,”
-Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): 11–14; Shirley M. Fickett,
-“The
-Maine UFO Encounter: Investigation
-under Hypnosis,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): 14–17;
-Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Comments
-on the Psychiatric-Paranormal Aspects of the Maine Case,” Flying
-Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): 18–22; Lorenzen, Abducted!
-Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 70–79;
-Marcus Lowth, “The
-Disturbing Alien Encounter of David Stephens,” UFO Insight, August
-29, 2018; Clark III 861–865)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5191
Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Sgt. Grover K. Eggleston of the 2192nd
-Communications Squadron is on duty at the Loring AFB [now Loring
-International Airport] tower near Limestone, Maine, when the call from
-the Command Post comes in. He observes the unknown target. Six minutes
-later, Eggleston notes that the target appears to be circling
-approximately 10 miles east-northeast of the base. This action lasts for
-40 minutes when, suddenly, it disappears from the screen. Either the
-object has landed or it has dropped below the radar coverage. The Wing
-Commander arrives at the weapons storage area 7 minutes after the
-initial sighting. Immediately other units of the 42nd Police begin
-pouring into the area. Security vehicles with blue flashing lights are
-converging from all over the base. Through the Loring Command Post, the
-Wing Commander requests fighter coverage from the 21st NORAD Region at
-Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, New York, and the 22nd
-NORAD Region at North Bay, Ontario. However, fighter support is denied
-by both regions. The Wing Commander then increases local security
-posture and requests assistance from the Maine State Police in trying to
-identify the unknown craft, which they presume is a helicopter. They
-make a call to local flight services for possible identification,
-without results. The 42nd Security Police conduct a sweep of the weapons
-storage perimeter inside and out. An additional sweep is made of the
-areas that the craft has flown over. All actions produce no results. The
-craft breaks the circling pattern and begins flying toward Grand Falls,
-New Brunswick. Radar contact is lost in the vicinity of Grand Falls, 12
-miles from Loring. Canadian authorities are not notified. (NICAP, “UFO
-Circles Weapons Storage
-Area”; ClearIntent, pp. 16–26;
-Nukes 361–363, 369–371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5193
Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented,
-both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National
-Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. Retired Sgt. Stephen B.
-Eichner was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring
-ammunition dump. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a
-football-shaped reddish orange object, three or four car-lengths long,
-hovering over the Loring ammunition dump. He said the object suddenly
-vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway.
-Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force
-planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object.
-Eichner said it made no noise and could not be mistaken for a
-helicopter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Washington
-Post
-Reference: Debrief
-Location: Loring AFB
Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: 7:45 p.m. S/Sgt. Danny
-K. Lewis is patrolling the weapons dump at Loring AFB [now Loring
-International Airport] near Limestone, Maine, when he sees an
-unidentified aircraft approaching the north perimeter at an altitude of
-about 300 feet. It has a red navigation light and a white strobe light.
-The craft enters the perimeter of the base. In the control tower,
-S/Sgt. James
-P. Sampley of the 2192nd Communications Squadron is on radar duty
-and gets a return from an unknown target 10–13 miles east-northeast of
-Loring. Sampley makes numerous attempts by radio on all available
-communications bands, civilian and military, to contact the craft, but
-he gets no response. The unidentified craft circles and comes within 300
-yards of the restricted nuclear storage area at a low altitude of 150
-feet. Back at the weapons dump, Lewis notifies his Command Post at the
-42 Bomb Wing that an unknown aircraft has penetrated the base perimeter.
-The base is immediately put on major alert status, a Security Option 3,
-and Security contacts the tower. (ClearIntent, pp. 16–26;
-Nukes 361–363, 369–371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5192
Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: October 28, 1975; Objects with body lights penetrated
-security areas on two consecutive nights, hovered near weapons storage
-area, tracked on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Loring AFB, ME
-ID: 270
Date: 10/28/1975
-Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report: UFOs, suspicious objects
-seen by ground personnel. Sounded like jet aircraft. Intermittent radar
-contact made with object. Jets scrambled to intercept but objects lights
-went out, interceptors passed and then came on again. Then the object
-increased in speed and raised to a high altitude and could not be
-discerned from the stars. Description: Through binoculars, looked like
-100 ft. sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. To date,
-AF and SAC helicopters have failed to provide a positive I.D. of the
-UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p468)
-Location: Loring AFB
-See also: 11/11/75
-See also: 7/52
Date: 10/28/1975
-Description: 7:45 p.m. While patrolling the weapons storage area,
-S/Sgt. Danny
-K. Lewis, along with Sgt. Clifton W. Blakeslee and Sgt. William J.
-Long, again spots the lights of an unidentified aircraft approaching
-Loring AFB near Limestone, Maine, from the north at an altitude of about
-3,000 feet. It approaches to within about 3 miles of the base perimeter
-and is seen to have a flashing white light and an amber or orange light.
-Lewis reports the sighting to his Command Post, and the Wing Commander
-comes out to the weapons storage area to see for himself. He reports
-seeing an object whose speed and motion are similar to that of a
-helicopter. The craft is also observed on radar and observed over the
-flight line by Sgt. Steven Eichner, Sgt. R. Jones, and others. They see
-an orange and red object shaped like a stretched-out football hovering
-in mid-air. It turns out its lights and then reappears making jerky
-motions, then hovers about 150 feet over the end of the runway. It is
-about four car- lengths long, solid, reddish-orange, with no doors or
-windows, and with no visible propellers or engines. It is completely
-silent. The base goes on full alert and a sweep is made by security, but
-the object turns off its lights and is not seen again. Radar picks up a
-target moving in the direction of Grand Falls, New Brunswick. SAC
-Headquarters is again notified.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5194
Date: 10/29/1975
-Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: AFB penetration. At 290200
-EST, AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter (UFO), possibly
-two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB, Maine, in proximity to
-a weapons storage area. Army Nat. Guard helos called in to assist in
-locating UFO. NORAD informed of the incident by SAC. Received authority
-to proceed into Canadian airspace, if necessary, to locate UFO. A
-similar incident was reported the evening before.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p468)
-Location: Loring AFB
Date: 10/29/1975
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Another unidentified helicopter is seen near the
-weapons storage area at Loring AFB, Maine. October 29 or 30 — 4:00 p.m.
-A radar-visual UFO sighting takes place at Wurtsmith AFB [now
-Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport] near Oscoda, Michigan. (NICAP, “Shiny
-Disc Hovers over Restricted Area”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5195
Date: 10/30/1975
-Description: Security police and others watched objects breach security
-areas, hover low over weapons storage area
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI
-ID: 271
Date: 10/30/1975
-Description: 10:10–11:00 p.m. A series of unidentified helicopter
-sightings take place in a secure area in Wurtsmith AFB [now
-Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport], Michigan, by security police on the ground
-and by the crew of a KC-135 tanker returning from a refueling mission
-piloted by Maj. Frederick Pappas and 5 crew members. The tanker at 2,700
-feet has visual and skin paint over Lake Huron for about 20 miles
-heading southeast. The light hovers and moves up and down in an erratic
-manner. The tanker follows the object for 1–2 hours, but never get close
-enough to see anything other than a single, steady orange light. (NICAP,
-“UFO
-Chased by KC-135 Tanker”; Nukes 371– 372; Skinwalkers 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5196
Date: 10/31/1975
-Description: 11:17 p.m. A visual sighting of an unidentified object is
-reported 4 miles northwest of Loring AFB, Maine. The alert helicopter is
-launched to identify the object but is unable to make contact and is
-launched again at 1:46 a.m., in response to a slow-moving target picked
-up by RAPCON radar. (NICAP, “RAPCON
-Tracks Slow- Moving
-Target during Loring Intrusions”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5197
Date: 11/2/1975
-Description: Night. Witnesses in Medford, Minnesota, including Helen
-Kay, see a brilliant orange-red light go behind a building, where they
-suspect it has landed. At the location, they find a bare spot, 12 feet
-square, of burned grass and ashy residue. At some distance away they see
-a red ball of light above the trees and try to catch up with it by car
-but it eludes them. Soil samples from the alleged landing site are
-submitted to geologist Edward
-J. Zeller at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who subjects them
-to an examination using thermoluminescence and finds the readouts normal
-for the center of the trace but severely elevated at the edges. He
-suspects that the edges have been subjected to hard ionizing radiation,
-but this is not conclusive. (“UFO
-Sighting Noted,” Fergus Falls (Minn.) Daily Journal, November 5,
-1975, p. 22; Edward J. Zeller, “The
-Use of Thermoluminescence for the Evaluation of
-UFO Landing Site Effects,” Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference,
-Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 301–308, reprinted in IUR 28, no. 4
-(Winter 2003–2004): 19–22, 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5199
Date: early 11/1975
-Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. Bill Jackson, a reporter for the Sterling
-(Colo.) Advocate, his wife Cheryl, and their young child are driving on
-State Highway 61 halfway between Otis and Sterling, Colorado, when they
-see a red light in the sky ahead of them. As it approaches, they see it
-is a huge object (as big as a 747) with a dozen rows of multicolored
-lights, perhaps hundreds of them. It passes slowly over their car, so
-close that Jackson thinks he can hit it with a stone. They drive at high
-speed the rest of the way to Sterling. (Richard Sigismond, “A CE-I, a
-Lonely Road, a Black Night,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 5, 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5198
Date: 11/3/1975
-Description: Late night. Unknown individuals penetrate the flight line
-at Grand Forks AFB north of Emerado, North Dakota. At least two KC-135
-aircraft are hit by small arms fire. Security forces pursue the
-intruders but apparently do not apprehend them. (ClearIntent, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5201
Date: 11/3/1975
-Description: 5:45 a.m. Ontario Police constables in Haileybury, Ontario,
-see a round object with fingers of white light emanating from it
-hovering northeast of town. Another object to the north of it has red,
-green, and white lights. After about 1 hour both objects begin moving
-slowly south and gaining altitude. They are still visible at 7:00 a.m.
-(Patrick Gross, “Files
-Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5200
Date: 11/5/1975
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Jim Divall is driving north of Redwater,
-Alberta, when he comes upon a large, black, revolving object in the road
-ahead. He has to drive his vehicle into a ditch to avoid hitting it. The
-object is 40 feet in diameter. He gets out to watch it for a few minutes
-as it makes a rushing sound, then it disappears. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5202
Date: 11/5/1975
-Description: Travis Walton abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Heber, AZ
-ID: 272
Date: 11/5/1975
-Description: Just after 6:00 p.m. Travis
-Walton and six fellow log cutters finish a long day of thinning
-undergrowth in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake,
-Arizona. Heading up Mogollon Rim Road, Walton soon notices something
-shining among the branches off to the right. The others see it too. They
-turn up Old Verde Road toward Turkey Springs. The spaces between the
-trees flash by too quickly to make out what the object is, but a
-clearing reveals a yellowish glow that washes across the road in front
-of them. The driver speeds up to get a closer look. They reach the
-clearing, and about 110 feet away a glowing disc hangs in the air,
-making a high- pitched buzz and floating motionless between the trees,
-only 15 feet off the ground. The truck slams to a halt and Walton opens
-his door to get a better look. There is no sound. One of the cutters
-shouts: “My God! It’s a flying saucer!” Walton then steps out of the cab
-and walks toward the object. The others beg him to get back in the
-truck, but he feels compelled to get a close-up look. He approaches the
-craft cautiously, glancing back to the truck now and then as his friends
-continue to plead with him. Coming within 6 feet, Walton stops and
-stares up at its glowing underside. Suddenly, the silence gives way to
-what Walton later describes as the thunderous swell of a turbine engine.
-A narrow beam of light fires from the bottom of the disc and strikes
-Walton in the chest. It lifts him up, then knocks him unconscious to the
-ground like a thunderbolt. In a panic, the rest of the crew speeds away
-toward the main road, terrified. When the men regain their senses, they
-return to the clearing to rescue Walton, but the craft is gone and so is
-Walton. Despite a thorough search of the area, they find no trace of him
-and drive home. When they report what happened, the authorities discount
-the men’s tale as a ridiculous attempt to cover up a murder and launch
-an extensive search for Walton’s body. They search for several days and
-find nothing. Walton reappears outside Heber, Arizona, on November 10
-and corroborates their story, with the addition of what happened aboard
-the spacecraft. Walton awakes in a hospital-like room, observed by three
-short, bald creatures. He fights with them until a human wearing a
-helmet leads him to another room, where he blacks out as three other
-humans put a clear plastic mask over his face. He remembers nothing else
-until he finds himself walking along a highway, with the UFO departing
-above him. In the days following, The National Enquirer awards Walton
-and his coworkers a $5,000 prize for “best UFO case of the year” after
-they pass polygraph tests administered by Cy Gilson of the Arizona state
-police (repeated in 1993), the Enquirer, and APRO. A private
-investigator named John McCarthy tests Walton using an outdated
-procedure with a polygraph in 1975 and finds him deceptive. (Wikipedia,
-“Travis
-Walton UFO Incident”; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings
-from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 80–113,
-161–190;
-Travis Walton, Fire
-in the Sky, Marlowe, 1996; Geoff Price, “Lie Detection in UFO
-Controversies,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 15–16, 31; Kevin D. Randle,
-“The Truth about Polygraphs,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): 28;
-Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman
-Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Clark III 1234–1249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5203
Date: 11/6/1975
-Description: US Attorney General Edward
-H. Levi issues a set of guidelines to limit the activities of the
-FBI. These guidelines require the FBI to show evidence of a crime before
-using secret police techniques like wiretaps or entering someone’s home
-without warning.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5204
Date: 11/7/1975
-End date: 11/8/1975
-Description: Base personnel saw orange disc that breached security area,
-illuminated missile site, tracked on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT
-ID: 273
Date: 11/7/1975
-Description: 3:00 p.m.–November 8, 9:53 p.m. Remote electronic sensors
-trigger an alarm at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, indicating that
-something is violating security at several missile launch sites.
-Underground, in the launch control facility, two officers note the
-signal, but there is no TV surveillance topside. A missile security
-helicopter checks the area and Sabotage Alert Teams consisting of 4–6
-men are ordered to proceed to the areas. One SAT team drives down the
-highway and onto a dirt road that leads to the K-7 area near Judith Gap,
-Montana. About a mile away, the team sees an orange, glowing object. As
-they close to within half a mile, they can see that the object is
-tremendous in size. They radio to the launch control facility that, from
-their location, they are viewing a brightly glowing, orange, football
-field-sized disc that illuminates the missile site. The SAT team is
-ordered to proceed into the K-7 site. However, they refuse to go any
-farther, clearly fearful of the intimidating appearance of the object.
-It begins to rise, and at about 1,000 feet, NORAD picks up the UFO on
-radar. Two F- 106 jet interceptors are launched from Great Falls and
-head toward the K-7 site. The UFO continues to rise. At about 200,000
-feet, it disappears from NORAD’s radar. The F-106s are never able to get
-a clear sighting of the several UFOs, which play cat-and-mouse with the
-aircraft, extinguishing their illumination when they approach, and
-re-illuminating after the fighters return to base. All members of the
-SAT team are directed to the base hospital, where they are
-psychologically tested. No one can identify the object, but the members
-of the SAT team obviously have been through a traumatic experience.
-Targeting teams, along with computer specialists, are brought to the
-launch site to examine the missile and the computer in the warhead. When
-the computer is checked, they find that the tape has mysteriously
-changed target numbers. The reentry vehicle is then taken from the silo
-and brought back to the base. Eventually the entire missile is changed
-out. Radar and visual sightings continue for the next 31 hours. (NICAP,
-“Malmstrom
-AFB Incident (1975)”; ClearIntent, pp. 27–29;
-Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,”
-IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 7–8; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,”
-IUR 34, no. 2 (Mar. 2012): 11–12; Nukes 358–361)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5205
Date: 11/10/1975
-Description: 10:15–11:20 p.m. A bright light passes over Minot AFB,
-North Dakota, moving west to east at 1,000– 2,000 feet. (ClearIntent, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5206
Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: Evening. Capt. Keith
-Wolverton of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Department and a deputy
-are returning to Great Falls from Missoula, Montana. Suddenly a large
-orange light descends out of the northern sky, lighting up both sides of
-the road. It passes directly over the cruiser at about 200 feet. It goes
-from horizon to horizon in 4 seconds. (ClearIntent, pp. 34–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5210
Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: A Montana Fish and Game Department employee at Freezeout
-Lake, Montana, sees a light flying directly behind a B-52 bomber. Using
-his rifle scope to get a better look, he notes that the strange object
-seems to be pacing the aircraft. The object then briefly attaches itself
-to the B-52, detaches, and climbs out of sight. The sighting is reported
-to Sheriff Pete Howard of Choteau County. Howard conducts follow-up
-interviews with military personnel and learns that as the object
-attaches itself to the B-52, the plane’s radar equipment goes out.
-(ClearIntent, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5208
Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p468)
-Location: US
-See also: 10/28/75
Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: A confidential NORAD communication reveals that Air Guard
-helicopters, Strategic Air Command helicopters, and NORAD F-106s are
-scrambled during the recent UFO sightings over Northern Tier military
-bases. They fail to produce positive identifications. In a priority
-message sent from SAC headquarters in Offutt AFB near Bellevue,
-Nebraska, to numerous Air Force bases during the same month, the Air
-Force reveals its continuation of a policy to deny USAF interest in the
-subject: “News media queries concerning such unidentified overflights
-are properly the concern of the Air Defense Command, and queries should
-be referred to CINC- NORAD/OI… Remarks should be confined to personal
-experiences and care should be taken to avoid speculation or to imply
-Air Force interest beyond security of the installation.” (Margaret
-Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 347;
-Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 87–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5209
Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: Civilians, police officers, military officers, and NORAD
-radar saw and tracked UFOs that alternately hovered and darted around at
-high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 274
Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: 6:15 a.m. A spherical object is observed from Canadian
-Forces Station Falconbridge [now closed] in Valley East, Ontario. The
-object appears to be rotating and has a surface similar to the moon. The
-object ascends and descends. The object is observed on height-finder
-radar at altitudes from 42,000–72,000 feet intermittently for 6 hours.
-Two F-106 jets are sent from Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National
-Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, but report no visual or radar
-contact. Other lights are seen periodically over the next few days,
-including at least seven members of the Ontario Police in Sudbury.
-(NICAP, “Spherical
-Object Tracked on Height
-Finder Radar”; ClearIntent, pp. 50–51;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 152–156; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO
-Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 114–121; Good Above, pp. 202–203;
-Patrick Gross, “Files
-Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”;
-Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 207–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5207
Date: 11/17/1975
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Suzanne Erenberger and Dave Vardeman are driving
-on US Highway 30 about one-quarter mile west of Mount Vernon, Iowa, when
-they see white lights in the southwestern sky. They stop the car and get
-out to watch for a while. Frightened, they drive into town to notify the
-police. The police chief describes Erenberger as “terrified, nearly
-hysterical.” An officer accompanies the two students back to the
-location but sees nothing unusual. Erenberger tells a reporter from the
-Cedar Rapids Gazette that they were only 30 feet away from one of the
-lights, which was only 25 feet off the ground. She makes a drawing of a
-domed object for a high-school newspaper. UFO investigator Kevin
-D. Randle interviews Erenberger on November 27, and she tells him
-there is a bright light coming from a 30-foot-wide disc-shaped object
-with a huge glass dome. She thinks she can see two humanoid shapes
-behind it. But Vardeman separately tells Randle that he only sees lights
-in the distance and nothing else. Randle also talks to an additional
-witness, Richard
-Manson, who has seen a red light about the same time. Randle
-concludes that the lights come from aircraft landing at the Cedar Rapids
-Municipal Airport and that Erenberger’s details are confabulations. (“Coed:
-‘No Doubt about What I Saw,’” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, November
-19, 1975, p. 3C; Kevin D. Randle, “UFOs on Memory Lane,” IUR 26, no. 1
-(Spring 2001): 9–11, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5211
Date: 11/20/1975
-Description: Michel, Robert, and Claude Souris found the Centre d’Études
-et de Recherches des Phénomènes Inexpliqués in Saintes, France. It
-publishes a CERPI Circulaire newsletter from February 1976 to 1981. (CERPI,
-no. 1 (February 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5212
Date: 11/30/1975
-Description: Unit One of the Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia,
-nuclear power plant is being brought back online after scheduled
-maintenance when it begins to run out of control. A partial meltdown
-occurs, destroying or damaging 32 fuel assemblies and releasing
-radiation into the atmosphere over the Gulf of Finland. The official
-line is that a manufacturing defect caused the destruction of only one
-fuel channel, but the accident is really caused by an uncontrollable
-increase in the steam void coefficient. (Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at
-Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5213
Date: 12/1975
-Description: The Air Force panel finishes reviewing the Blue Book files
-and turns over the sanitized version to the National Archives,
-apparently without yet physically moving the files to NARA facilities.
-These files now include an added set of AFOSI files of UFO
-investigations from 1948 to 1968 released by AFOSI in December 1975. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5214
Date: 12/12/1975
-Description: Robert Suffern and his wife meet with two military
-officers, one Canadian, the other American, at his home near
-Bracebridge, Ontario. They tell him the October 7 incident was a
-“mistake” caused by the malfunctioning of an extraterrestrial
-spacecraft. The officers show him close-up photos of UFOs and say that
-their governments have been cooperating with aliens since 1943. (Clark
-III 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5215
Date: 12/14/1975
-Description: Late evening. A man is driving his truck on a gravel road
-along Toppenish Ridge in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington
-State when he sees a cow and two calves running toward him as if fleeing
-from something. Moments later he sees three figures in the ditch. One
-jumps up on the road, covering 15 feet in a single slow-motion leap, its
-arms above its head. The witness describes it as a skinny, 7-foot-tall
-man with a narrow, pale face and long, pointed nose. It is dressed in
-close-fitting black clothing and boots. On its chest there is a white
-trapezoid insignia. The entity is carrying something purple it its left
-hand that has a wire on it that runs down its arm. The other two
-creatures remain on the side of the road. The witness speeds up,
-swerving around the figure. A few moments later, a bright, elongated UFO
-appears behind him. The interior of the truck is flooded with light.
-Suddenly he becomes aware of a “shadow” in the passenger seat. From the
-shape of the head and coat, the man “knows” it is a friend of his. The
-friend looks at him, leans forward and looks up at the light, falls
-back, wipes his eyes, and vanishes. At that moment, the light
-disappears. The next morning, he learns that his friend has been killed
-in a shooting. (Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima
-UFO Microcosm, CUFOS, 1990, pp. 56–60; Clark III 281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5216
Date: 12/15/1975
-Description: Jacques
-Vallée and J.
-Allen Hynek publish The Edge of Reality, which discusses how the
-extraterrestrial hypothesis does not seem to explain UFOs fully.
-Although they acknowledge the UFO phenomenon is real, its reality skirts
-the edges of accepted science, and they both lean toward an
-interdimensional hypothesis. (J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée, The
-Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,
-Regnery, 1975)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5217
Date: 1976
-Description: In Worlds Beyond, Ian
-Ridpath discusses ETI, life and human development, life in the Solar
-System, the feasibility of interstellar travel, and the possibility that
-alien probes have already visited Earth. (Ian Ridpath, Worlds
-Beyond, Harper and Row, 1976; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and
-UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): 146–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5225
Date: 1976
-Description: Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project
-xxxxxxx.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
-Location: US
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 1968
Date: 1976
-Description: US writer Bill
-Kaysing publishes a book claiming that NASA lacks the technical
-expertise to land astronauts on the moon and that numerous optical
-anomalies in the Apollo photos show that the moon landings are faked in
-a studio or at Area 51. The book launches a host of similar moon landing
-conspiracy theories. (Wikipedia, “Moon landing
-conspiracy theories”; Bill Kaysing, We Never Went to the Moon:
-America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, Health Research, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5219
Date: 1976
-Description: David
-Saunders gives his UFOCAT computer file to the Center for UFO
-Studies in Evanston, Illinois, where it is updated by Fred Merritt. The
-database is kept on an IBM mainframe computer at a nearby computer
-facility with a magnetic tape backup. In 1982 it proves too expensive
-for CUFOS to maintain on a mainframe, so it is removed from active use
-and stored on tape. (Fred Merritt, “UFOCAT: A Unique Tool for Research,”
-IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 14–15; Center for UFO Studies, “UFOCAT-2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5218
Date: 1976
-Description: Meteorologist Sture
-Wickerts replaces Tage
-Eriksson as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National
-Defence Research Institute. (Swords 368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5224
Date: 1976
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man who lives on a hill overlooking the Boeing
-factory in Renton, Washington, notices lights hovering above the
-building at the south end of the plant. Suddenly the lights shoot
-straight up in the air and move to the north end of the plant, dropping
-down and hovering again. It then makes a quick arc and hovers about 900
-feet above the witness’s house. The object is circular with a curved low
-top, sides that slope inward, silent, and a continuous row of windows
-separated every 10–15 feet by thin vertical supports. A yellow or amber
-light is at the top. It is about 50 feet in diameter and 12–15 feet
-high. He can see 3–4 images moving back and forth inside the craft.
-After about 3 minutes, the object moves toward Lake Washington and
-disappears in 4 seconds. (“UFO
-Seen Inspecting
-Seattle Boeing Plant,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6
-(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5226
Date: 1976
-Description: Ancient astronaut author Zecharia
-Sitchin writes his first book of many, The 12th Planet, proposing an
-explanation for human origins involving extraterrestrials. Sitchin
-attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki,
-which he claims was a race of beings from a planet beyond Neptune called
-Nibiru. He asserts that Sumerian mythology suggests that this
-hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year- long
-elliptical orbit around the Sun. (Zecharia Sitchin, The
-12th Planet, Avon, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5220
Date: 1976
-Description: In his book Gods of Aquarius, author Brad
-Steiger introduces the concept of “Star People,” human beings tied
-by physiology, past lives, or both, to extraterrestrials who came to
-earth long ago and are preparing them for a societal transformation.
-(Brad Steiger, Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man,
-Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976; Clark III 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5221
Date: 1976
-Description: Author Roberta
-Donovan publishes Mystery Stalks the Prairie with Cascade County
-Deputy Sheriff Keith Wolverton of
-Great Falls, Montana, documenting his investigations of cattle
-mutilations with a suspected cult involvement. They are not sure whether
-mystery helicopters and UFO s are related to the mutilations, but either
-way federal government officials seem to know what is going on. (Roberta
-Donovan and Keith Wolverton, Mystery
-Stalks the Prairie, THAR
-Institute, 1976; Wikipedia, “Cattle
-mutilation”; Nukes 365–369)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5222
Date: 1976
-Description: Historian Nicolas Greslou launches the Comité Savoyard
-d’Études et de Recherches Ufologiques in Chambery, France. It publishes
-a quarterly newsletter, Le Phénomène OVNI, from 1977 to 1985. (Le
-Phénomène OVNI, no. 1 (Oct./Dec. 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5223
Date: 1/3/1976
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 275
Date: 1/4/1976
-Description: A technician driving home is stuck in rush hour traffic at
-Sale, heading toward Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Suddenly his radio
-begins to hiss and crackle, and flashes of light spark out, dancing
-across the windshield. As he looks out through the steady rain, two
-angular, ice-blue lights pass slowly across his field of view. Moments
-later they are gone, the sparking stops, and the radio works again.
-(Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374
-(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5227
Date: 1/6/1976
-Description: Domed disc with body lights descended, illuminated car
-interior with blue light. Missing time, abduction, physiological
-effects
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Stanford, KY
-ID: 276
Date: 1/6/1976
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Mona Stafford and two friends, Louise Smith and
-Elaine Thomas, are driving southwest on Highway 78 between Stanford and
-Hustonville, Kentucky, when they see an intense red glow in the east. It
-grows larger, then descends rapidly to the right of the car at tree-top
-level. As it hovers, they can see a disc shape with round windows with
-rotating, blinking red lights around each of them; yellow lights stretch
-below these, and a luminous blue dome is on top of the object. The UFO
-moves closer, flips on its side, and shines three beams of bluish-white
-light on the road, and another into their vehicle. Smith, apparently
-dazed, gets out of the car, but Stafford pulls her back in. There is a
-“dead silence,” their skin tingles, and they start getting severe
-headaches. They find the car has started back up on its own and is
-moving at 85 mph with no help from Smith. Stafford feels as if it is
-being pulled. Moments later, they find themselves 8 miles away, just
-outside Hustonville. When they get home to Smith’s trailer in Liberty,
-Kentucky, around 1:25 a.m., they find they are missing about an hour and
-a half of time. All three of them experience odd physical and
-psychological symptoms. The women are hypnotized by ufologist R.
-Leo Sprinkle, who
-finds that they have generally compatible memories of an abduction
-event. Over time, their memories of the missing time period grow more
-elaborate, but their story contains elements and images echoed in other
-accounts before and since. (“The
-Kentucky Abduction,” APRO Bulletin 25, no. 4 (October 1976): 1, 3–6;
-Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space,
-Berkley, 1977, pp. 114–131;
-“The Kentucky Abduction,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 6–7; Story, pp. 192–195;
-John Greenewald, “The
-1976 Stanford,
-Kentucky, Abductions,” The Black Vault, April 26, 2016; Clark III
-643–648)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5228
Date: 1/21/1976
-Description: MEMO from NMCC by Rear Adm. J. B. Morin stating: Two UFOs
-reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, N.M. Security Police report
-the UFOs to be 25 yards (75 ft.) in diameter, gold/silver in color with
-blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p524, B1-F p342)
-Location: Cannon AFB, NM
Date: 1/21/1976
-Description: Before 3:55 a.m. Security police see two UFOs near the
-flight line at Cannon AFB, southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. The objects
-are 75 feet in diameter, gold or silver in color, with a blue light on
-top, a hole in the middle, and a red light on the bottom. An Air Force
-officer calls the UFO Education Center in Wisconsin to report he “had a
-very close sighting and was able to witness a type of vehicle that did
-maneuver and that was unlike any type aircraft he has ever seen.” One
-observer claims to see a dozen UFOs through a Starlight Scope from the
-flight tower. A Clovis policeman sees a cigar-shaped object with
-pulsating red, white, and blue lights. (“UFOs Continue
-Clovis Visits,” Las Cruces (N.Mex.) Sun-News, January 25, 1976,
-p. 1; Rear Adm. J. G. Morin, “Report of
-UFO, Cannon AFB, NM,” January 21, 1976; “Cannon AFB: UFOs, Burned
-Circles, and Cows Found Mutilated,” UFO Info; Good Above, p. 524;
-Good Need, p. 349)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5229
Date: 1/23/1976
-Description: 6:00–10:30 p.m. “Scores” of UFO sightings take place around
-Clovis, New Mexico. Town Marshal Willie Ronquillo of
-Texico follows a silent object with green, yellow, and blue lights 900
-feet above his car before it speeds away to the north. A police
-dispatcher in Artesia sees 6–7 flashing lights in the sky at 750–1,000
-feet altitude. They hover for a while, then move away at high speed
-toward Carlsbad. Members of the UFO Study Group, composed of employees
-of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, arrive in Clovis at 11:30
-p.m. to investigate. (“UFOs
-Continue Clovis Visits,” Las Cruces (N.Mex.) Sun-News, January 25,
-1976, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5230
Date: 1/31/1976
-Description: 3:30–5:00 a.m. UFOs are spotted by security police over the
-radar site at the Armament Development and Test Center at Eglin AFB,
-southwest of Valparaiso, Florida. Photos are taken. (Brig. Gen. Fred A.
-Treyz, “Unidentified
-Flying Object Sighting,” January 31, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5231
Date: 2/1976
-Description: Ufologist James
-W. Moseley launches an eight-page newsletter of UFO information and
-rumor. Its title varies, but by July 1981 Moseley has settled on Saucer
-Smear. It is sent out for free every month or so to several hundred UFO
-buffs whom Moseley calls “nonsubscribers.” (Clark III 776)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5232
Date: 2/1976
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Ruby
-Breslin is driving along Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas, when
-her daughter sees an object just as she takes the exit ramp to the
-Northwest Highway. It has windows and a flashing red light on top, and
-hovers for 4–5 minutes before shooting straight up. (“Out
-of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5233
Date: 2/1976
-Description: Night. A married couple living near the Tasman Highway in
-Tasmania have retired for the evening. The woman is already asleep and
-the man has just turned off the light when he sees three 7–8 feet tall
-entities passing through the closed door of the bedroom. One touches the
-man’s leg and he goes numb to the waist. He lets them attach some kind
-of glowing sack to his body, but when they start to approach his wife,
-he lashes out with one arm that hasn’t gone numb. His wife wakes up and
-starts struggling too. The entities exit through some kind of orange
-portal outside the closed window and disappear. (Michael D. Swords, “A
-Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5234
Date: 2/19/1976
-Description: The National Archives starts microfilming the redacted
-Project Blue Book files through the commercial firm Fuller & Dees
-Marketing Group in Montgomery, Alabama. (Sparks,
-p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5235
Date: 2/20/1976
-Description: In answer to a request by UFO researcher Robert
-Todd, the
-National Security Agency states that the NSA “does not have any interest
-in UFOs in any manner.” (ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5236
Date: late 2/1976
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A man in Kettering, Tasmania, is awake tending to
-a child when he looks outside to his east and sees what he thinks is an
-aircraft descending at 45°. After watching for a couple of minutes, he
-goes outside. The object comes down behind a small bank on the far side
-of a sports field opposite his house. He crosses the field, climbs the
-bank, and sees from about 82 feet away, a dome-shaped object emitting a
-bright-white to yellow light from three or four windows. When he looks
-through the object’s windows he can see a tall cylinder (that he likens
-to a ship’s compass mounting), motionless gray shapes (like car seats
-with headrests seen from the rear), and perhaps entities. He hears a
-humming noise. The object takes off to the east with the noise
-increasing in volume. It climbs away at 60° and recedes to a point
-source and disappears. The total duration is 6–7 minutes. The next day
-he returns to the spot and notes the rough grass beyond the sports field
-has been scorched in a circular patch. This grass later dies. On October
-24, 1977, the Tasmanian UFO Information Centre takes soil samples of
-this area that are examined by Geoff Stevens using a thermoluminescence
-test. His investigation reveals no significant, systematic differences
-in the thermoluminescence content of soil and mineral particles taken
-from within the affected area, and control samples taken from outside
-this area. (Geoff Stevens, “Thermoluminescence Measurements of Soil
-Samples Affected by a UFO,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1978, pp. 1, 3–6;
-Keith Roberts and Geoff Stevens, “The
-Kettering, Tasmania, Landing: A Study,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no.
-3 (November 1978): 18–21; “Tasmanian Landing in 1976,” IUR 31, no. 2
-(June 2007): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5237
Date: 3/1976
-Description: Werner
-Walter and Hansjürgen Köhler found Centrale Erforschungsnetz
-Auβergewöhnlicher Phänomene [later Himmelsphänomene] in Mannheim,
-Germany. The first issue of its somewhat skeptical, anti-ETH, monthly
-CENAP-Report is published, continuing until May 2007. (Wikipedia, “Centrales
-Erforschungsnetz Auβergewöhnlicher
-Himmelsphänomene”; CENAP
-Report, no.
-1 (May 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5238
Date: 3/3/1976
-Description: Night. Claude Bosc, a student pilot flying a French Air
-Force T-33 on a training mission at 19,500 feet, sees a rapidly
-approaching bright light in the distance near Tours, Indre-et-Loire,
-France. In 1–2 seconds, the object speeds toward him and his plane is
-surrounded by a green phosphorescent light that illuminates the aircraft
-for several seconds. The green sphere, only 3–6 feet in diameter, avoids
-a collision at the last minute and passes over his right wing. The radar
-shows nothing, but two other pilots see the encounter from a distance.
-(Comité d’Études Approfondies, Les OVNI et la Defense: A Quoi doit-on se
-Préparer? (UFOs
-and Defense: What Should We Prepare
-for?), July 16, 1999, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5239
Date: 3/11/1976
-Description: An Iberian Airlines pilot flying above Palma de Mallorca,
-Balearic Islands, Spain, watches an elongated object, shaped like a
-dirigible gondola and lighted from within through several window-like
-openings, pace his aircraft with occasional bursts of speed. (UFOEv II
-122, 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5240
Date: 3/15/1976
-Description: 10:14 p.m. Two objects are tracked on radar flying over the
-landing strips at Simón Bolívar Airport near Caracas, Venezuela, at
-3,000 mph. Tower operators ask the unidentified craft to identify
-themselves. Instead they take off and disappear over the Caribbean Sea.
-(Richard H. Hall, “UFOs
-Tracked on Radar at Venezuelan Airport,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 110 (January 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5241
Date: 3/22/1976
-Description: 5:42 a.m. A couple are stopped in their car outside a hotel
-in Nemingha, New South Wales, deciding on directions. Suddenly a bright,
-greenish-yellow light descends and completely envelops a nearby white
-car, which drifts to the wrong side of the road, wrapped in a thick ball
-of white haze. Its headlights go out. After 2 minutes the haze
-dissipates, and a woman gets out of the car and wipes a white substance
-off the windshield with a yellow cloth. She is about to get back in when
-its lights come back on by themselves. She throws the cloth on the
-roadside, drives a short way, and the yellow cloth bursts into flame.
-When the white car passes the couple, they notice it is covered in a
-thick white substance, except for the windshield. (Bill Chalker, “Road
-Hazard Down Under?”
-Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February 1977): 28–32; Bill Chalker, “Postscript
-to the Nemingha Case,”
-Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October 1977): 22, 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5242
Date: 3/26/1976
-Description: The CIA responds to the Ground Saucer Watch FOIA request,
-claiming that its only involvement with UFOs was with the 1953 Robertson
-Panel. (ClearIntent, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5243
Date: 3/31/1976
-Description: During a campaign stop in Appleton, Wisconsin, Georgia
-Gov. Jimmy
-Carter is asked by Thomas Heiman, associate director of the UFO
-Education Center, whether he would make public all the UFO files if he
-became president. Carter answers, “Yes, I would make these kinds of data
-available to the public, as President, to help resolve the mystery about
-it.” (Grant Cameron, “Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Prize, and
-Extraterrestrials”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5244
Date: 4/1976
-Description: DARPA names Lockheed the winner of a competition to build a
-stealth bomber. Immediately it begins manufacturing two flying Have Blue
-prototypes in Skunk Works Building 82 in Burbank, California.
-(Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-Have
-Blue”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5245
Date: 4/1976
-Description: Michel
-Monnerie and Raymond Bonnaventure begin publishing Ufologie Contact,
-a newsletter intending to reach all the UFO groups iaround Paris,
-France. It soon falls under the auspices of the Société Parisienne
-d’Étude des Phénomène Spatiaux et Étranges in Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines,
-France, and continues through at least 1981. (Ufologie
-Contact, ser.
-1, no. 2 (May 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5246
Date: 4/2/1976
-Description: 1:50 a.m. Detective Sgt. Norman Collinson is driving home
-along the M62 and M66 motorways near Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
-As he turns north onto the M66 he observes a white disc of light moving
-very fast, crossing the path he is traveling. The object is heading
-toward Knoll Hill, east of Bury. The UFO makes a right- angle turn onto
-a south-southeast heading. Puzzled, the officer stops his vehicle and
-gets out to look at the light. As he does so, the light stops and hovers
-nearby. It then begins to perform a series of spectacular right-angle
-box turns, after which it moves off in the direction of Heywood, with
-Collinson following it in his car. The object stops a second time and
-again repeats the angular movements before streaking away at a
-tremendous speed. The incident is reported to the MOD and Manchester
-Airport. (Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, “Police Encounter
-at Bury,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977): 13,
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5247
Date: 4/3/1976
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Several residents of Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil,
-during an outdoor physical education session, see a large disc-shaped
-object that glides silently a few feet from the ground emitting an
-intense light. At about the same time in another part of the city, Luis
-Barroso Fernandes is preparing to travel to a site a few kilometers away
-on his donkey cart. He soon hears a buzzing sound, and a flying object
-10 feet in diameter positions itself above him. It slowly descends in
-front of his cart about 100 feet away. The device emits a beam of light
-that strikes the donkey and Barroso, who immediately become paralyzed. A
-door opens on the UFO and two small beings emerge. One holds something
-like a flashlight and aims a beam that strikes Barroso in the face,
-causing him to lose consciousness. He wakes up in a different spot,
-dizzy and suffering from a burning sensation on his face, and a
-headache. The left side of his body is reddish, and he has difficulty
-getting into his cart and getting it moving. He asks his wife to take
-him to Dr. Antônio Moreira Magalhães, who prescribes a tranquilizer. He
-continues to feel sick, his eyes burn continuously, and the left side of
-his body is red. A few days later, his hair turns gray and he suffers
-memory lapses. After his symptoms worsen and other doctors fail to help,
-his family checks him into a psychiatric hospital in Fortaleza. His
-condition deteriorates, and he dies in April 1993. (Elias Bruno, “Brazil:
-The Barroso
-Case,” Inexplicata, April 29, 2012; Clark III 180–182; Brazil
-179–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5248
Date: 4/9/1976
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks
-guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should
-remain classified.
-Type: confidential message
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p508)
-Location: Langley, VA
Date: 4/14/1976
-Description: A heavily redacted CIA memo shows a reference to someone’s
-having sought “guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his
-report that should remain classified.” (ClearIntent, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5249
Date: 4/17/1976
-Description: June and Vicky Melling, on vacation in Mawnan, Cornwall,
-England, see a large winged creature hovering above the tower of
-St. Mawnan and St. Stephen’s Church. They are so frightened by the sight
-of a large “feathered bird-man” that their father Dan Melling cuts short
-the vacation. Magician and showman Tony
-“Doc” Shiels investigates
-the case, and one of the girls provides him with a drawing of the
-creature, which he dubs “Owlman.” Other sightings emerge over the next
-few years. Occult historian Gareth J. Medway suggests that the whole
-thing is a hoax by Shiels, who has a reputation for hoaxing. Medway
-notes that witnesses claiming encounters with the legendary monster
-“were either Doc Shiels, or friends of Doc Shiels, or relatives of Doc
-Shiels, or reported their sightings to Doc Shiels (and to no one else),
-or else wrote letters describing what they had seen to newspapers and
-were never interviewed by anyone.” (Wikipedia, “Owlman”;
-Robert J. M. Rickard, “Birdmen of the Apocalypse!” Fortean Times 17
-(August 1976): 14–20; Doc Shiels, “To Wit! To Woo? Some Thoughts about
-Owlman,” Fortean Times 27 (Autumn 1978): 44–46; Jonathan Downes, The
-Owlman and Others, Domra, 1997; Clark III 602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5250
Date: 4/22/1976
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Police officer George Wheeler, on duty at
-Elmwood, Wisconsin, notices a glow at the top of Tuttle Hill. He drives
-closer and sees an object as high as a two-story house and 250 feet
-across with an orange-white light at the top and six bluish-white lights
-on the side. It is 500 feet away and about 100 feet off the ground. He
-thinks he can see, though an open side panel, something moving inside
-it. The object has several partially extended legs and a long, black,
-hose-like appendage. Suddenly the object rises straight up. He sees some
-kind of flash and his car lights go out, the motor stops, the radio goes
-dead, and he becomes dazed. A second police car arrives, noticing that
-the car door is open, and takes the witness to a hospital, from which he
-is released four days later. Some people in the area have difficulty
-with TV reception at the same time as the encounter. (“Sighting
-Reports,” CUFOS News Bulletin, June 1976, pp. 5–6; Patrick Gross, “George
-Wheeler’s Close Encounter, 1976”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5252
Date: 4/22/1976
-Description: 1:45 a.m. RCMP Constable Bill Toffan sees an apparent
-vehicle with its lights flashing ahead of him as he is driving on Canada
-Highway 16 west of Terrace, British Columbia. As he rounds a curve, he
-sees it is actually in the air 300 feet above the trees. Suddenly there
-is a blinding flash and he nearly loses control of his car. After a
-brief report appears in the press, the RCMP orders Toffan not to discuss
-the incident. (“Mountie
-‘Ordered’ into Silence,”
-Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, April 26, 1976, p. 8; Good Above, pp. 194–195;
-Patrick Gross, “Files
-Obtained from
-the National Archives of Canada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5251
Date: 4/23/1976
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A 1st Lt. is on communications duty aboard a US
-Navy destroyer in the Atlantic southwest of Bermuda. The lookout calls
-his attention to a green light dead ahead through light fog three miles
-away at 10° above the horizon. Radar reports no target and the sonar
-room hears no engines. The crew watches the green light dip to 30–40
-feet above the surface and approach the ship. The lieutenant orders a
-course change to starboard, and the green light becomes much larger,
-making a comparable turn to port in order to pace the ship. The ship and
-the object both make subsequent turns, with the light now only 50-60
-feet away. Suddenly a large blip appears on the radar scope. The
-destroyer returns to its original heading and the light stations itself
-on the port beam. When the captain comes on deck, the light circles the
-ship twice. Then once again off to port, it becomes a brighter green,
-tilts at an angle, and submerges. The next day the captain tells the
-crew not to discuss the incident. (Donald R. Todd, “Ship’s
-Crew Sees UFO,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 11 (May 1978): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5253
Date: 4/30/1976
-End date: 5/2/1976
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies holds its first conference on
-UFO research at the Hyatt House in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The
-proceedings are published later in the year, featuring papers on
-sighting waves, exosociology, and humanoid reports. Presenters include
-Ted
-Bloecher, Ann
-Druffel, Loren
-Gross, Richard
-H. Hall, David
-M. Jacobs, James
-McCampbell, David
-Saunders, R.
-Leo Sprinkle, David
-Webb, and Ray
-Stanford. (Charles
-Bowen, “The
-Editor Goes West,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976):
-26–28; Richard F. Haines, “CUFOS
-Holds Its First Technical Conference,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no.
-3 (October 1976): 13–17; Proceedings
-of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5255
Date: 4/30/1976
-End date: 5/1/1976
-Description: The Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
-Paranormal is launched at a specially convened conference of the
-American Humanist Association. Paul
-Kurtz, James
-Randi, Martin
-Gardner, and
-Ray Hyman take
-seats on the executive board. The committee will be funded with
-donations and sales of their magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. (Wikipedia,
-“Committee
-for Skeptical Inquiry”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5254
Date: mid 5/1976
-Description: The US National Archives publicly releases the redacted
-Project Blue Book paper files at its College Park, Maryland, branch. (Sparks, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5256
Date: 6/1976
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch issues its first newsletter, which is
-published through December 1982. (Ground
-Saucer Watch
-Bulletin, no.
-1 (June 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5257
Date: 6/11/1976
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Hélène Guiliana is driving through
-Chatuzange-le-Goubet, Drôme, France, when her car engine misfires and
-stalls and the headlights go out. Some 80 feet away near the Pont du
-Martinet bridge she sees an orange light in the form of a “dome.” She
-experiences fear and covers her face with her hands. After what seems a
-few seconds, the light disappears. Driving home upset and afraid, she
-misses a familiar sign and drives a mile out of her way. When she
-arrives home, it is 4:00 a.m. Under hypnosis on July 22 (repeated on
-August 18), she tells of meeting two waist-high dwarves with large eyes,
-dressed in black overalls. They carry her toward the light, which she
-enters through an iron door. Inside a high, round room, they place her
-on a table, putting handcuffs on er hands and feet. After an
-examination, she is returned outside and the craft departs straight up
-noiselessly. (“L’Etrange
-Rencontre d’Hélène Guiliana,” Ouranos, new ser. 18 (Jan./Mar. 1977):
-5–7; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5258
Date: 6/11/1976
-Description: Dome-shaped object hovered above road, E-M effects on car.
-Missing time, abduction
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Le Martinet, Drome, France
-ID: 277
Date: 6/20/1976
-Description: After 1:00 a.m. A young married couple and their
-4-month-old child are detained and examined by entities as they are
-traveling near Goodland, Kansas, en route to Colorado. UFO investigator
-Richard
-Sigismond meets repeatedly with them in July–October 1976 using
-hypnotic regression techniques to enhance their memories. The experience
-is traumatic for them, and they require counseling. (“Abduction in
-Western Kansas,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 12; “Abduction in Western
-Kansas,” IUR 2, no. 10 (Oct. 1977): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5259
Date: 6/21/1976
-Description: 12:40 a.m. Police officer Th. Brandt-Jensen sees a bright,
-blue-white light cross the road behind him in Ringsted, Zealand,
-Denmark. He thinks it might be an airplane in trouble. He speeds up to
-90 mph toward a crossroad where he can pull off the highway. The object
-catches up to within 165–250 feet and its light strikes his car, the
-engine and lights going out immediately. He guides the coasting vehicle
-to the road shoulder, gets out, and catches a glimpse of the object as
-it disappears behind the horizon. It resembles a glider with a ray of
-light coming from it that swings back and forth as it passes his car. It
-makes a slight whistling sound and appears to be about 50 feet long.
-(“UFO
-Rapporter Danmark,” UFO-Nyt, 1976 no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1976): 186–187;
-Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part
-Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5260
Date: 6/22/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A bright red light like a rocket emerging from
-the sea at a distance climbs diagonally and turns into a brilliant
-semicircular dome over the Canary Islands. It is transparent with a
-bluish-white hue. The crew of the corvette Atrevida watches the object
-for 40 minutes, during which time a foreign tourist takes a photo. 400
-miles to the south, the crew of the ship Osaka Bay also sees the
-luminous phenomena in the shape of a sphere. Maj. Antonio Munáiz
-Ferro-Sastre investigates the sightings for the Spanish Air Force and
-rejects the hypothesis that the light is from a naval missile launch.
-However, two Poseidon missiles are launched in the area around the same
-time by the submarine USS
-Von Steuben. (J. M. Sanchez, “Canary
-Islands Landing: Occupants Reported,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3
-(October 1977): 4–7; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio
-Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000,
-pp. 91–97;
-Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile
-Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005):
-3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5262
Date: 6/22/1976
-Description: 9:27 p.m. Dr. Don Francisco-Julio Padrón León and Santiago
-del Pino are traveling in a taxi when they see a gigantic ball of light
-200 feet ahead of them between Gáldar and Agaete, Gran Canaria, Canary
-Islands. The taxi radio cuts out. Inside the light, which is actually
-like a transparent soap bubble, they see some panels and two enormous
-beings on a platform. The humanoids are some 9–10 feet tall, wear black
-diving helmets and red tight- fitting coveralls, and are moving levers
-about. Their hands are enclosed in black cones. The backs of their heads
-are disproportionately large, and their legs are short. The taxi driver
-switches the headlights on, and the UFO rises as a bluish gas is emitted
-from a tube and expands the size of the sphere to a 20-story building.
-The driver turns the car around and goes to a nearby house. The
-inhabitants say their TV set just blacked out. They continue watching
-through a window. When the sphere stops expanding, they hear a
-high-pitched whistle and the object speeds off to the northwest. (J. M.
-Sanchez, “Canary
-Islands Landing: Occupants Reported,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3
-(October 1977): 4–7; Good Above, pp. 153–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5261
Date: 6/23/1976
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Paulo Coutinho, 18, is returning home from a
-night class in Aricanduva, São Paulo, Brazil, when he sees a light in
-the sky moving westward. Suddenly he feels paralyzed as the light
-approaches and descends about 25 feet away. A short being emerges with a
-big head, large eyes, pointed ears, small mouth, and an upturned nose
-like a pig. It is bald, has no eyebrows, and wears a tight one-piece
-bluish-gray suit with an emblem on its chest. Coutinho rises into the
-air toward a huge cigar-shaped object, in which he undergoes an
-abduction experience. Coutinho is still missing the next morning. A
-friend finds his books and notebooks scattered on the street and brings
-them to his parents. A police search fails to find him. In the evening
-of June 24, Coutinho is discovered lying on the steps of the garden door
-in a semiconscious state. He is cold as if he has been there some time.
-He is later revived at a nearby hospital. The police officer who carries
-him to the ambulance later feels a strong irritation in his arms.
-Ballpoint pens in Coutinho’s pockets are radioactive. (“O
-Caso dos Añoes Extraterrenos
-de Vila Aricanduva São Paulo, Capital,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 116/120
-(July 1977/Feb. 1978): 6–18; “Caso
-Paulo Coutinho,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil
-185–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5263
Date: 6/26/1976
-Description: Spanish journalist Juan
-J. Benitez interviews Gen. Carlos Castro Cavero, commander of the
-Canary Islands division, who tells him: “The nations of the world are
-currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
-There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of
-nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be
-possible to release the news to the world.” He says the Spanish Air
-Ministry investigates UFO cases, including those involving pilots. He
-admits that he has watched a UFO for more than an hour at his ranch. It
-remains stationery for that length of time, then shoots off towards Ejea
-de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, covering 12.5 miles in less than 2 seconds.
-Cavero believes UFOs are “spaceships or extraterrestrial craft.” (Gordon
-Creighton, “Important
-Statement by Spanish Air Force Chief,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no.
-3 (October 1976): 2; Patrick Gross, “Documents:
-50 Years of UFO Disclosure”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5264
Date: 7/1976
-Description: The New England UFO Study Group publishes its first
-newsletter, which lasts through September 1982. (New England
-UFO Newsletter, no.
-1 (July 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5265
Date: 7/11/1976
-Description: Two Indian Air Force MiG 21 jets are scrambled near the
-Pakistani border to intercept what appears initially on radar to be a
-Pakistani jet. But the object is moving at 2,600 mph, and the two pilots
-see the target is an amber- colored disc that pulls away before they can
-catch up to it. (Good Need, p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5266
Date: 7/12/1976
-Description: The National Archives makes available the 94 reels of 35mm
-microfilm with redacted Project Blue Book files. (Sparks, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5267
Date: 7/14/1976
-Description: Before dawn. For a period of two hours, two brightly
-shining UFOs perform fantastic maneuvers at the Gobernador Edgardo
-Castello Airport in Viedma, Rio Negro, Argentina. At dawn, the sunlight
-neutralizes the bright lights of the UFOs, but the observers see them
-leave the area at high speed. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November
-1976): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5268
Date: 7/23/1976
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek arrives on the set of Steven
-Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Mobile, Alabama,
-and gives a lecture on UFOs to some of the actors who are interested (Bob
-Balaban, Richard
-Dreyfuss, Melinda
-Dillon, and
-30+ others. At some point his cameo is filmed. (Bob Balaban, Spielberg,
-Truffaut and Me: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, an Actor’s Diary,
-Titan, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5269
Date: 7/28/1976
-Description: Capt. Eldon
-W. Joersz and Maj. George T. Morgan Jr. attain a world airspeed
-record of 2,193 mph in a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird over Beale AFB near
-Marysville, California. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5270
Date: 7/28/1976
-Description: 3:45 p.m. Adult counselor Ira Leifer and 13 teenage boys
-are resting from a hike in the woods at Camp Delaware [now Greenwood
-Trails] west of Winsted, Connecticut, when they hear a high-pitched
-whine. They see a silvery, flat-bottomed UFO 15–25 feet in diameter
-through a clearing in the trees. A purple haze surrounds it and on top
-they see a red glow. The object is hovering at a steep angle. After
-15–25 seconds the whine returns, and the object takes off and is lost to
-sight in a second or two. (“Daylight CE I Seen by 14 Witnesses in
-Connecticut,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 6–7; Clark III 247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5271
Date: 7/29/1976
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 278
Date: 7/30/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A British Airways Trident 2E piloted by
-Capt. Dennis Wood is flying at 29,000 feet over the North Atlantic about
-40 miles south of Lisbon, Portugal, when air traffic control radios a
-Lockheed L-1011 TriStar that is flying near them and asks for a
-confirmation of a radar target. Wood and his crew look up and see a
-stationary bright light. They announce the sighting to their passengers.
-After several minutes watching the light, two cigar- shaped objects
-appear below and to the right of the light. A Portuguese airliner in the
-vicinity also observes the objects. Wood confirms the sighting, saying,
-“There is no way this is a star or planet.” Fighters are immediately
-scrambled from Lisbon. (NICAP, “Battleship-Sized
-Object Tracked by 3 Airlines”; Jenny Randles, “Casebook: The
-Portugal Sighting,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5273
Date: 7/30/1976
-Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: Reports of UFOs. At approx.
-0345, EDT, the ANMCC received several reports of UFOs near Fort Ritchie.
-At 0130, civilians reported an UFO to the NAB. At 0255, two separate
-patrols sighted three UFOs; oblong with a reddish tint. At 0300, the
-Desk Sgt. (name with held) sighted an UFO over the ammo storage area at
-100–200 yds. altitude. At 0345, an Army Police Sgt. sighted an UFO in
-the vicinity of sight R. ANMCC was requested to have each individual
-write a statement on the sightings. One person said the UFO was the size
-of a 2.5 ton truck.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland
Date: 7/30/1976
-Description: 1:30–3:45 a.m. Patrols at different locations in the US
-Army’s Fort Ritchie [now closed], in Cascade, Maryland, see objects over
-the base. One crew sees three oblong objects with a reddish tint.
-Another watches a UFO over the ammunition storage area at an altitude of
-300–600 feet. In another spot, an Army police sergeant sees an aerial
-object the size of a two-and-a-half-ton truck. (Brig. Gen. L. J. LeBlanc
-Jr., “Reports
-of Unidentified Flying
-Objects (UFOs),” National Military Command Center, July 30,
-1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5272
Date: 7/31/1976
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Debbie Focken and other witnesses see an oblong
-object with illuminated windows hovering about 100 feet above Eldon’s
-Standard Service Station in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Apparently the UFO
-causes extensive electrical damage to a CB radio, a burglar alarm, an
-adding machine, a cash register, and a vending machine. The owner and
-employees claim that lightning has caused the damage, and that is what
-they report to the insurance agency, but there is no thunderstorm that
-evening. (“Gas Station Damaged by UFO?” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1977):
-13; “Council Bluffs CE II,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5274
Date: 8/1976
-Description: American SF novelist George
-H. Leonard publishes Somebody Else Is on the Moon, which records his
-observations, drawings, and NASA photos of lunar pipes, conduits, gears,
-gas nozzles, flares, huge rigs for sifting through dust, hovering
-vehicles, odd lights, and electromagnetic towers on the lunar
-surface—all of it indicating alien mining operations. Leonard argues
-that NASA secretly knows of alien activity on the Moon. It is possible
-that Leonard has written the book as a spoof. (George H. Leonard, Somebody
-Else Is on the Moon, McKay, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5275
Date: 8/1976
-Description: A. Troitsky and six others observe a silvery disc over the
-Pirogovskoye Reservoir north of Moscow, Russia. It is about 8 times the
-apparent size of the full moon and is moving slowly at an altitude of
-perhaps 120 feet. The object has two revolving stripes along its side
-and a black hatch on its underside from which a small cylinder
-protrudes, its lower portion rotating. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s
-USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5278
Date: 8/1976
-Description: Day. A man is working on his mobile home in the forested
-hills near Medford, Oregon, when he sees two intensely bright lights
-“like burning magnesium” silently move across the sky, side by side.
-They appear to be discs, curved on the top and flat on the bottom, and
-in between them is a third object, which seems to be a World War II–era
-bomber. The tips of each wing appear to be resting on the discs, and its
-propellors are not turning. The three objects pass overhead and move
-beyond the hill behind him. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too
-Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003):
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5277
Date: 8/1976
-Description: 10:17 a.m. A Swedish J-5 jet pursues six delta-shaped
-silver objects in formation until they accelerate out of sight over Lake
-Bolmen, Sweden. (“Swedish
-Air Force Colonel Reports Six Delta-UFOs,” AFU Newsletter, no. 18
-(Jan./Mar. 1980): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5276
Date: 8/2/1976
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A domed UFO is seen at an altitude of 15–18 feet
-at St.-Pierre-sur-Mer, Hérault, France. It has orange lights that go on
-and off slowly. (M. Grazioli, “Enquête
-dans l’Hérault,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 166 (June/July 1977):
-26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5279
Date: 8/3/1976
-End date: 8/4/1976
-Description: 11:25 p.m. The pilot of Tunisair Flight Tu8953, en route
-from Monastir to Tunis, Tunisia, sees a flying object at 3,200–3,900
-feet moving north to south. At 11:27 p.m., five objects showing red and
-green lights are seen over Monastir and confirmed on radar. From 12:24
-a.m. to 4:00 a.m., five separate radar returns are tracked and visually
-confirmed. (ClearIntent, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5280
Date: 8/4/1976
-End date: 8/5/1976
-Description: 10:43–10:52 p.m. An Air France pilot en route to Monastir,
-Tunisia, is followed by an unidentified object. (ClearIntent, pp. 80–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5281
Date: 8/6/1976
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A family is driving in Gaspésie National Park,
-Quebec, when a beam of red light penetrates the fog and creates a
-six-inch circle on the road ahead. The beam paces ahead of them for
-several miles, then collapses and withdraws upwards. A dazzling white
-light then approaches and stops ahead. Strong heat builds up in the car,
-so the father stops the vehicle. The headlights and radio fail, and the
-engine dies. All four get out and walk toward the object, which now
-appears as a scallop-shaped craft on landing legs, stretching across the
-road. The wife notices a massive “face” looking at them. Two 7-foot tall
-beings are apparently floating near the UFO, dressed in close-fitting,
-khaki-brown suits. The witnesses flee back into the car. The object
-moves away in a flash of light and burst of heat. The car starts again.
-All four suffer from itching for the next 10 hours. (Jean Ferguson, Les
-Humanoides: Les Cerveaux qui Dirigent les Soucoupes Volantes, Leméac,
-1977; NICAP, “Gaspesian
-Park, Quebec:
-Humanoids/E-M Case”; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the
-Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5283
Date: 8/6/1976
-Description: 12:20 a.m. Police at La Soukra, Tunisia, see four lighted
-objects that disappear one by one until 1:45 a.m. (ClearIntent, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5282
Date: 8/7/1976
-Description: 11:48 p.m. The control tower at the Djerba-Zarzis
-International Airport, Tunisia, tracks a UFO on radar to the northwest.
-The sighting is confirmed by a Tunisair pilot, who says it is a lighted
-object that seems to touch down near the airport then turn south after
-climbing up. (ClearIntent, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5285
Date: 8/7/1976
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mark Ziegelbauer, 15, of Malone, Wisconsin, and
-his father Orville see
-multicolored lights fly past their new silo and land in a distant
-hayfield. Mark drives over to the spot and shines his headlights into
-the field. He sees an object the size of a “camper-trailer” and two
-green men, one about 5 feet 7 inches, the other shorter. They put their
-hands up and “disappeared somehow.” (“Youth
-Claims Seeing 2 Green Men from UFO,” Fond du Lac (Wis.) Reporter,
-August 10, 1976, p. 26; Clark III 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5284
Date: 8/8/1976
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Radar at Sidi Ahmed Air Base at Bizerte Airport,
-Tunisia, tracks a target going east to west. It turns south and
-disappears. Tunisian authorities contact the US State Department asking
-whether the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean can shed any light on
-the incidents. (ClearIntent, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5286
Date: 8/10/1976
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Teresa de Tejero wakes up suddenly in her room at
-the Hotel Da Balaia in Albufeira, Portugal, and sees a vivid luminous
-rectangle on the window curtains. She wakes up her husband Francisco,
-who goes to the window and sees an object with six reddish lights that
-appears to be on another wing of the hotel. One of its lights seems to
-be directed straight into their bedroom. They go back to sleep. In the
-morning, Francisco looks out the window and finds there is no hotel wing
-where he thought the UFO was. He realizes that the object must have been
-huge to masquerade as two floors of the hotel. (Ignacio Darnaude, “Spies
-in the Supernumerary Attic?” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October
-1977): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5287
Date: 8/11/1976
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two boys aged 13 and 14 are standing on the
-beach in La Linea de Concepción, Spain, facing the Strait of Gibraltar
-when they see a yellowish-white UFO approaching from over the
-Mediterranean. It seems to have an axis that bisects it. The object
-climbs rapidly, changing color to whitish and then a vivid yellow. It
-approaches another, larger object and enters it. While they watch it,
-the light of a nearby lighthouse goes out temporarily. The larger object
-remains in place. (“UFO
-Blacks Out Lighthouse,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 1 (June 1977):
-iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5288
Date: 8/13/1976
-Description: 8:30 a.m. The pilot of a Piper Arrow PA-28 is flying at
-3,500 feet between Diepholz and Petershagen, Germany, when he notices a
-strange light approaching from the northeast. After 3–5 minutes, the
-object comes closer and takes a fixed position off the left wing. The
-object is oval-shaped and very bright yellow in its center with an
-indistinct flame-orange boundary. Suddenly the Piper goes into two rapid
-360° clockwise rolls from which the pilot must recover manually. He
-discovers that he has dropped about 500 feet during the roll-and-
-recovery maneuver. When he next checks his instrument panel, he
-discovers that his magnetic compass is spinning in a clockwise direction
-so fast that he can’t read the number in its square window. Looking
-outside again, he sees that the UFO is still behind him, suggesting that
-he has lost the same amount of altitude. The pilot climbs back to his
-cruise altitude and calls on the radio to flight control at Hannover
-airport. The air traffic controller tells him that the radar shows both
-his airplane and another object nearby. The controller says that an
-aircraft will be sent to investigate. Little more than 4 minutes later,
-two USAF F-4 Phantom jets arrive on either side of him travelling
-400–500 mph. The jet on the right side is slightly lower, closer, and
-ahead of the jet on the left. The pilot is certain they are American
-planes. Just as the jets arrive, the UFO accelerates forward and then
-upward at about a 30° angle above the horizontal and turns right,
-passing in front of his aircraft. It quickly outdistances its pursuers
-and is out of sight in a matter of seconds. The compass eventually
-returns to normal operation after the UFO departs. The pilot is
-interrogated after his landing by “military men.” (Richard F. Haines,
-“An Aircraft/UFO Encounter over Germany in 1976,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter
-1999): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5289
Date: 8/14/1976
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A couple out walking along a road on Cartmel Fell
-in Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, see a bright light in
-the sky. Through binoculars, it looks like a silver disc reflecting
-light from its top surface. After 30 seconds, it becomes smaller as if
-it is moving away. Two other witnesses see a similar object at the same
-time. (“Report
-7670,” Northern UFO News, no. 28 (September 1976): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5290
Date: 8/15/1976
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A distant bright light appears above El Real de
-la Jara, Seville, Spain, as 20 automobiles stop on the highway to watch
-it. Taxi driver Pablo Garcia García blinks his lights at it, and the
-object appears to approach much closer. García stops signaling, but the
-other drivers panic and drive away rapidly. (Gordon Creighton, “Some
-Recent Spanish Reports,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 6 (April
-1977): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5291
Date: 8/20/1976
-Description: Brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, with friends Charles Foltz
-and Charles Rak, claim they are abducted by aliens during a camping trip
-near Allagash, Maine. According to the four men, hypnotic regression
-allows them to recall being taken aboard a circular UFO and being
-“probed and tested by four-fingered beings with almond- shaped eyes and
-languid limbs.” In a later interview by the St. John Valley Times,
-Charles Rak changes his story, saying he did see strange lights during
-the camping trip, but the abduction part of the story is a total
-fabrication, and he went along with the narrative for financial gain.
-The other three members of the group stand by the abduction story.
-According to Jim Weiner, “Jack, Charlie, and I, after all these years,
-are still in agreement with the Eagle Lake event as we (three) remember
-it. We also accept the results of the hypnotic regression sessions and
-subsequent polygraph tests as supportive of an abduction scenario.”
-(Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Abductions, Wild Flower, 1993; Jessica
-Potila, “Subject
-of 1976 UFO Incident Casts Doubt on ’Allagash Abductions,’”
-Fort Kent (Maine) Fiddlehead Focus, September 10, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5292
Date: 8/21/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A 90-foot-long cigar-shaped object descends from
-4,000 feet over the Forêt de Molière to the east of Poitiers, France.
-Witnesses hear a humming sound and smell an odor. It ascends and
-disappears. (Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier
-dossier complet des rencontres rapprochées en France, Alain Lefeuvre,
-1979, p. 627)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5293
Date: 8/22/1976
-Description: Midnight–4:00 a.m. Eleven witnesses see a luminous orb,
-9–21 feet in diameter, with antennae, flying over Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel,
-Bas-Rhin, France. (Ph. Wiedenhoff, “Dans
-le Bas-Rhin,” Lumières de la Nuit, no. 166 (June/July 1977):
-17–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5294
Date: 8/25/1976
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Three children see beings in polished-silver
-suits and a UFO rising upward from a schoolyard in North Reddish,
-Stockport, Manchester, England. (David Rees, “‘Floating’
-Entity at Reddish,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 (July 1979):
-29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5295
Date: 9/1976
-Description: The Cambridge UFO Research Group is founded by Bonnie
-Wheeler in Cambridge, Ontario. She produces a bimonthly newsletter
-through September 1994. (Cambridge
-UFO Research Group Newsletter 2, no. 3 (September 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5297
Date: 9/1/1976
-Description: 10:35 a.m. A witness is walking with her dog in a field off
-Larimer County Road 76H northwest of Larimer, Colorado. She looks up and
-sees a large (100 feet long), silver-colored, silent cylinder flying at
-about 50 mph to the south. It is only 200–250 feet in altitude and has
-two rings around it towards each end. She watches it for several
-minutes. (“More Letters,” IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 16; “More
-Similarities Begin to Appear,” CUFOS Associate Bulletin 4, no. 6
-(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5298
Date: 9/1/1976
-Description: Day. A retired science teacher watches a circular glowing
-object while walking on a beach near Aguada, Puerto Rico. The object
-moves slowly, hovers, then falls abruptly, tumbling over and over, until
-it nearly enters the ocean. It then rights itself and moves slowly
-westward. It has a dull gray finish and appears to be quite distant.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5299
Date: early 9/1976
-Description: Three men watch a dense white cloud hover low above Rua
-Cajati in São Paulo, Brazil. It dissipates, revealing a disc-shaped
-object that emits light beams of various colors. When policemen arrive
-and draw their weapons, they become paralyzed like statues. The smoke
-cloud reappears and envelops the disc, which takes off. (O Dia (Rio de
-Janeiro), September 8, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December
-1976): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5296
Date: 9/3/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two women, one 63 and the other an 18-year-old
-relative, are returning from a family visit in Fence Houses, Durham,
-England, when they see a peculiar object resting on a mound of earth in
-a section of mining wasteland. They walk toward it, feeling a sort of
-attraction, and see that it is an oval object about 3 feet high and 5
-feet long and standing on chrome or steel runners. The main compartment
-is glasslike with an orange section on top. When they reach the object,
-they sense the wind and traffic noise have stopped. The older woman
-touches the glassy side, which feels warm. At this point two strange
-entities are seen within the craft with long white hair parted down the
-middle, large eyes, and claw-like hands. They are both the size of a
-large doll, perhaps 1–1.5 feet tall. Frightened, the two women hurry
-away, noting that the street noise has returned. The object then takes
-off at great speed, making a humming noise. (William D. Muir, “UFO
-Landing at Fencehouses, County Durham,”
-Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5302
Date: 9/3/1976
-Description: Early morning. A witness in Bethel, Alaska, hears a
-high-pitched whine and looks out at the tundra where a small (2.5–3-inch
-diameter) white beach ball seems to be moving just above the ground.
-After a while it tilts so that she can see it is a disc with a rotating
-“platinum-shiny” area in the middle. The object arcs upward, then back
-down, and seems to disappear into the ground, whereupon the whine stops.
-She can find no ground markings. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual
-Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002):
-24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5300
Date: 9/3/1976
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Farm laborer João Romeu Klein, 19, returns home
-to Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil, after visiting a friend. As he
-approaches the house, he spots a flying object in the shape of a deep
-dish that rotates slowly counterclockwise. The upper part of the object
-is flattened, and a luminous light on top varies according to the speed
-of the craft’s movement and vacillates from red (high speed) to orange,
-from yellow to light green, and finally to white. When the craft is
-still, the intensity of the light diminishes. The object itself is gray
-in color and nearly 10 feet in diameter. The UFO moves toward Klein,
-passes 33 feet above his head, and then hovers in front of him about 16
-feet from the ground. A bright, red light shines from the center of its
-base, through which three small beings about 3 feet tall slowly descend.
-The humanoids form a line across the entire width of the road and
-prevent him from passing as the UFO moves behind him some 33 feet away
-and 26 feet above the ground, close to some trees. The beings open their
-arms in an apparent blocking gesture, communicating with each other in
-an unfamiliar language. Klein draws his knife and tosses it toward the
-beings; it whizzes through the air, but at one point appears to float
-before falling to another spot. Each being wears a staff at its waist.
-The crew member in the center reacts by waving his staff toward Klein.
-The staff fires a beam of bluish-white light that hits Klein in the left
-thigh. He faints on being struck and is later found by his neighbors.
-His leg is paralyzed, so he goes to Azambuja hospital in Brusque, where
-doctors find no sign of injury. He recovers after a few days. (“Os Tripulantes
-da Serra do Moura, Novo Trento, Brusque, Estado de Santa Catarina,”
-SBEDV Boletim, no. 136/145 (Sept. 1981/April 1982): 10–12; Clark III
-218–220; Luis Lopez, “Quase
-40 Anos Depois, Homem Relata Experiência
-com Extraterrestres em Brusque, SC,” Novos Insólitos, May 12, 2016;
-Brazil 194–198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5301
Date: 9/8/1976
-Description: Leoncio Torres and Elena Bedjara are driving a truck on the
-road between Ollachea and Ayaviri, Peru, when a UFO lands 90 feet in
-front of them. Two strange creatures about 6 feet tall approach the
-blocked truck with flashlights. The creatures touch the couple’s backs
-and they feel a burning sensation. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 1
-(January 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5303
Date: 9/9/1976
-End date: 9/10/1976
-Description: Around 3:00 p.m. A worker at the Liangshan Cotton Mill
-south of Longwangmiao, Shandong, China, sees a spherical object at 45°
-elevation about 9,800–13,000 feet away. The upper part is bright silver,
-and the lower part is dark gray. It moves in the direction of the sun.
-It reappears on September 10, although it seems larger. It shrinks in
-size toward 12:00 noon and finally appears like a twinkling star in the
-daytime. It reverts to its former size in the afternoon, and then in
-front of more than 1,000 witnesses it flies away and disappears around
-5:00 p.m. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO
-Photo Archives, 1983, p. 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5305
Date: 9/9/1976
-Description: About 2:00 a.m. Farmer Hermelindo da Silva is making his
-way home from the bar he owns in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais, Brazil,
-when his dog grows agitated. A flash of light illuminates the area,
-followed by a strange buzzing sound. He sees a bright object about 4
-feet in diameter above him. The dog begins barking nonstop until it
-receives some type of shock, apparently from the craft, and flees in
-terror. The light goes out, and da Silva runs back to the bar and
-flattens himself against the outside wall. The object lights up again,
-scaring him, so he picks up a piece of wood and throws it at the object.
-The light goes out again and the buzzing ceases, only to be replaced by
-a hiss. He feels a blow to his shoulder and falls to the ground, then he
-runs toward his house with the object 10 feet above him. Cables and
-hooks descend from the UFO, accompanied by a small creature about 3 feet
-tall. Da Silva hits its shoulder, causing it to jump and fall, then gets
-into a fight with it for 15 minutes. Finally, the creature loops a cable
-around da Silva’s ankle and hoists him screaming into an opening on the
-craft. His brother-in-law hears him and sees him ascending. Da Silva
-manages to get loose from the cable and falls 20 feet into a plant. He
-runs to the house, bruised. (Clark III 1220–1221; Brazil 198–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5304
Date: 9/10/1976
-Description: 6:00–7:00 p.m. British European Airways Flight 831 from
-Moscow to London is cruising at 33,000 feet over Lithuania when a
-blinding, stationary light is seen on the starboard side of the
-airliner, apparently 10–15 miles away and 5,000–6,000 feet below. The
-light resembles a yellowish sodium vapor lamp and is too intense to view
-directly. It lights up the top of the cloud layer below. The pilot asks
-the Soviet authorities to identify the source, but they come back with a
-negative response, saying he should not ask questions. The light is
-visible for 10–15 minutes. (“Aerial
-Observation of Intense Source of Light,” CIA Foreign Intelligence
-Information Report, November 18, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5307
Date: 9/10/1976
-Description: 12:54 a.m. Bill Pecha Jr. is watching TV in his home 3
-miles southwest of Colusa, California, when suddenly the picture
-crackles, fades, and blacks out, and the air conditioner dies. He goes
-outside to check on the circuit breaker and feels an electrical
-sensation. He looks up and sees an object 85 feet in diameter hovering
-above a TV antenna near the barn about 50 feet away. The main body of
-the craft is a disc shape, which appears to be rotating in a clockwise
-direction, with a large dome that remains stationary on top. The object
-makes little or no sound, and is silver or gray in color, except for the
-very bottom, which has a “porcelain” look about it. Two hook- like
-cables are hanging down. Pecha approaches until he is just under one
-edge. The UFO moves slowly away and retracts its cables. Two hatches
-open on either end, revealing a “spotlight.” He goes inside and wakes up
-his wife Lenda, who also sees the object. Pecha can now see two other
-objects over high-tension power lines a mile to the west, emitting light
-beams at the tops of the transmission towers. The first UFO is moving
-closer and passes over a neighbor’s house, shining a light on it.
-Frightened, Pecha grabs his two children and he and his wife speed away
-in their pickup. They stop at a friends’ house and draw their attention
-to the distant light. The encounter ends at 1:03 a.m. (Paul Cerny, “UFO
-Hovers over California Farm,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 197 (October
-1976): 3– 8; Center for UFO Studies, [case
-files]; “The UFO Finalist,” IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 6–8; Clark
-III 294–296; Micah Hanks, “Tentacles
-and Telephone Lines: The Colusa, California, UFO Incident of 1976,”
-Mysterious Universe, February 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5306
Date: 9/10/1976
-Description: Low-hovering disc with dome, rotating rim and bright
-lights, power failure. Object moved away, shone beams of light
-down
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Colusa, CA
-ID: 279
Date: 9/11/1976
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Herbert
-Hopkins, the
-hypnotist investigating the 1975 Oxford abduction case, is alone in his
-home in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The telephone rings, and the caller
-identifies himself as vice president of the nonexistent New Jersey UFO
-Research Association. He wants to come and discuss the Oxford case.
-Hopkins consents, telling him to come right over. As soon as he switches
-on the back light, he sees a man in dark clothing walking up the porch
-stairs. Hopkins unthinkingly opens the door right away. The stranger is
-wearing a black derby, black jacket, black tie, white shirt, gray
-gloves, black trousers, and black shoes. The crease in his pants is
-razor sharp. The man never introduces himself but sits down and removes
-his hat. He is completely hairless, devoid of eyebrows and eyelashes,
-but his lips are a vivid red. The stranger speaks in a monotone. After
-Hopkins discusses what he knows about the David Stephens case, the man
-remarks, “That’s just what I thought,” and abruptly changes the subject.
-“You have two coins in your left pocket,” he says. Hopkins acknowledges
-he has a dime and a penny. The stranger tells him to take one out and
-hold it in his palm. He does and is shocked to find that its color has
-changed to bright silver, then light blue. It grows blurry and fuzzy and
-finally fades away in a vapor. The stranger says that no one else “on
-this plane will ever see that coin again.” The stranger then asks if he
-knew why Barney
-Hill died, saying “He died because he knew too much. He died because
-he had no heart, just as you have no coin.” He orders Hopkins to destroy
-all the audiotapes of Stephens’s hypnosis sessions, as well as any other
-UFO literature he has sitting around, or he will suffer the same fate as
-Barney Hill. The stranger gets up, speaking slowly, and says his energy
-is running low. He gets up slowly and walks down the porch steps one
-foot at a time. Hopkins sees a bright light outside, rushes to the
-kitchen window, and sees the light and the man are gone. About 90
-minutes later, Mrs. Hopkins and two of their sons arrive home from a
-movie. He tells them what happened, and one of the sons finds a series
-of marks in the narrow driveway that look like a small tractor tread.
-They are gone the next day. Hopkins burns all his tapes, correspondence,
-and literature at the urging of his family. (Berthold Eric Schwartz, “The
-Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4
-(January 1978): 9–15; Berthold Eric Schwartz, “The
-Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 5
-(February 1978): 22–25; Berthold Eric Schwartz, “The
-Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 3,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 6
-(April 1978): 26–29; Clark III 863–864)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5308
Date: 9/11/1976
-Description: Night. Three members of the Hood family are driving back
-along a country road to their home in Little Britain, Ontario. Paul Hood
-notices a flashing light in the treetops. When their car approaches, it
-darts off. Days later, Paul and Don Hood find a 30-foot-diameter circle
-of burned ground and grass swirled in a counterclockwise direction near
-a split-rail fence in a swamp less than a quarter-mile from their home.
-Six holes the size of grapefruits are also present. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5309
Date: 9/13/1976
-Description: Ranch worker George Aguerre sees an object like an upturned
-funnel with windows landing for 3–4 minutes near Tacuarembo, Uruguay. It
-emits two brilliant beams of light from the top and is about 45 feet in
-diameter. Police find landing marks and a burned area. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5310
Date: mid 9/1976
-Description: 4:00 p.m. A copilot of a Boeing 727 for the Brazilian Varig
-airline sees a disc-shaped object about 120 feet in diameter over the
-Amazon forest between Manaus and Belém, Brazil. The aircraft’s radar
-confirms the sighting. The pilot is carrying a camera and snaps a photo
-of the UFO, which starts jumping from one side to the other in front of
-the plane, causing the crew to panic. The sighting lasts about 5
-minutes. (Clark III 198; Brazil 535–536)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5311
Date: 9/16/1976
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A witness in Eureka, California, sees a large
-orange light at treetop level that rushes overhead, then stops and
-hovers for 5 minutes. (“Case 1-1-7,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5313
Date: 9/16/1976
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Six witnesses in Modesto, California, see a
-rolling orange ball of light heading slowly south. Possible balloon.
-(“Case 1-1-6,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5312
Date: 9/18/1976
-End date: 9/19/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Residents of the northeast portion of the city
-of Tehran, Iran, watch a multicolored aircraft hovering a few thousand
-feet in the air. Some of them call the nearby Mehrabad Airport, reaching
-night supervisor Houssain Pirouzi, who goes outside at 11:15 p.m. to
-look. With his binoculars, he sees a bright object flashing colored
-lights and changing positions at an altitude of 6,000 feet. Around 12:30
-a.m., Pirouzi alerts the Iranian Air Force command post. Deputy
-Gen. Nader Yousefi also sees the object and scrambles an Air Force F-4
-Phantom II interceptor piloted by Capt. Aziz Khani and 1stLt. Hossein
-Shokri from Shahrokhi Airbase [now Hamadan Airbase] to the west at 1:30
-a.m. They close in on the object, but the jet’s radio and instruments
-give out. Only when Khani pulls away does functionality return. Squadron
-Cmdr. Parviz Jafari takes off in a second jet with 1stLt. Jalal Damirian
-in pursuit at 1:40 a.m. Some 27 miles from the UFO, Jafari picks the
-object up on radar, the return indicating something the size of a Boeing
-707. Visually, it is flashing like a strobe with intense red, green,
-orange, and blue lights (in a diamond shape) so bright that Jafari
-cannot see its body. He approaches within 70 miles, then the object
-jumps 10° to the right, then twice again the same amount. Suddenly a
-smaller round object comes out of the large object and heads straight
-toward the interceptor at a high rate of speed. Jafari tries to fire an
-AIM-9 heat-seeking missile at it, but his weapons control panel
-malfunctions, as well as his radio and instruments. Jafari turns to the
-left to avoid an impact with the small object, which approaches to 4
-miles distance, then stops. It returns to the large object, which emits
-another smaller object. Jafari is ordered back to the base, but the
-light follows him. During final approach, another object (a thin
-rectangle with three lights) appears at low altitude in front of his
-plane. Gen. Yousefi then orders Jafari to approach the light and get a
-look. When he is within 4 miles, the radio and instrument panel go out
-again. The light disappears from view after Jafari lands. Base Commander
-Gen. Abdulah Azerbarzin claims the complete investigation records are
-turned over to the US Air Force, which insists it only has one memo from
-USAF Lt. Col. Olin R. Mooy, who sat in on one of the pilot interviews. A
-US Defense Intelligence Agency evaluation rates the case High (of major
-significance). The sighting is apparently tracked by a US Defense
-Support Program satellite. (Wikipedia, “1976
-Tehran UFO incident”;
-NICAP, “Iranian
-F-4 Phantom Jet Chase, Radar/Visual/E-M/IAD Signal”; “Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 2; “The U.S. Government and the
-Iran Case,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 6–7; “Review of Iranian UFO
-Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 14–15; “Now
-You See It, Now You Don’t!”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1 (February 1982): 3; Center for UFO
-Studies, [case
-documents]; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 85–88; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio
-Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000,
-pp. 98–104;
-Clark III 624–626; Kean, pp. 86–92, 149–150;
-Swords 340–341; Good Above, pp. 318–321,
-497–500;
-Good Need, pp. 302–303,
-315–317;
-A. Meessen, “Deux
-jets F-4 rencontrent un ovni à Téhéran,” April 30, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5314
Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: Tehran, Iran: Civilians reported an UFO to the AFB. The
-Iranian AF scrambled an American F-4 for intercept. As the F-4 was
-vectored towards the brilliant UFO, all communications and
-instrumentation were suddenly lost. As the pilot broke off pursuit, all
-aircraft functions returned to normal. A second F-4 that was scrambled
-began closing in on the UFO at greater than Mach 1 and was closing on
-the UFO at 150 nautical mph., but the UFO accelerated and stayed ahead
-of the F-4 (confirmed by Radar). Multi-colored flashing lights were
-visible on the UFO. The moment the F-4 pilot tried to lock an AIM-9
-missile at the UFO he lost all weapons panel and communication control.
-The UFO launched two smaller UFOs, one of which began to follow the F-4.
-After evasive action by the F-4, the smaller UFO returned and united
-with the larger UFO. The other smaller UFO seemed to have landed on the
-ground so the pilot flew down to investigate it. The landed UFO appeared
-to be 12feet in diameter. As the pilot descended the light from the
-landed UFO went out and he lost sight of it. The DIA termed this
-sighting as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets
-all the criteria necessary for a study of a UFO phenomenon.” And, “an
-inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72)
-Location: Tehran, Iran
-See also: 10/2/72
-See also: 9/20/76
Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: 1:00–2:00 a.m. A silvery, luminous circular object is seen
-flying southwest to northwest (parallel to the coast) at an altitude of
-3,200 feet in multiple locations in Morocco, including Agadir, El Kelaa
-des Sraghna, Essaouira, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Rabat, Kenitra, Meknes,
-and Fez. It gives off an intermittent trail and is completely silent.
-The US Embassy in Rabat forwards a summary to the US State Department,
-asking for more information. A reply comes in October from Secretary of
-State Henry
-Kissinger, who
-cites the Condon study and natural causes, although he rules out meteors
-and reflections from a polar-orbiting satellite. (ClearIntent, pp. 86– 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5315
Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: F-4 fighter aircraft attempted intercept of radar-visual
-UFO, E-M system failures, physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tehran, Iran
-ID: 280
Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: A TAP Air Portugal Boeing 707 nearly collides with a UFO
-shortly after takeoff at Lisbon, Portugal. The oval object is glowing
-blue with a horizontal row of red and white lights. It is also seen by
-an air traffic controller who says that the object does not show up on
-radar. (“[Aerial
-Emergency in Lisbon Due to a ’Flying Disc’]”
-La Crónica (Buenos Aires), September 23, 1976; Good Above, p. 154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5316
Date: 9/22/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A 10-year-old-boy in Regal, Minnesota, sees a
-3.5-foot-tall creature with a large bald head, large red eyes, and green
-skin floating outside his bedroom window. A couple minutes later, the
-creature floats down to a cube-shaped craft, which he enters. (“Case
-1-1-27,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5317
Date: 9/24/1976
-Description: 7:30 p.m. John Hopkins, the son of hypnotist Herbert
-Hopkins, and his wife Maureen, meet two odd individuals, “Bill” and
-“Jane,” who have arranged a meeting at a fast-food restaurant near their
-home in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The conversation is uncomfortable and
-strange but does not involve UFOs. (Clark III 864–865)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5319
Date: 9/24/1976
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A conservation officer and his wife watch a dark
-object fly over Lake Red Rock near Otley, Iowa. It moves noiselessly at
-40 mph and about 600 feet altitude. Binoculars reveal a blinking red
-light flanked by pairs of amber lights. (“Case 1-1-35,” IUR 1, no. 1
-(November 1976): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5318
Date: 9/25/1976
-Description: Night. Vera White and three others traveling by car between
-farms in the Karawinna area to the west of Mildura, Victoria, Australia,
-notice a strange object on the ground in a paddock. It takes off
-vertically and hovers silently for about 5 minutes. They return to the
-site in the daytime and find a circle of flattened, discolored grass
-about 30 feet in diameter. (Melbourne Sun, September 29, 1976; “Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 10) Autumn —2:00 a.m. Missile
-Combat Crew Commander Bruce Fenstermacher is on alert duty at one of the
-underground launch capsules at Francis E. Warren AFB near Cheyenne,
-Wyoming, with another crewman, when the officer-in- charge at the launch
-facility asks two security guards to report anything that seems unusual.
-A few seconds later, one of them reports seeing a pulsating white object
-in the sky. He can see flashing red and blue lights between the
-pulsations. It is about 10 miles north of their position and close to
-the launch control facility itself. The UFO is hovering about 100 feet
-above the building and looks like a “fat cigar” about 50–60 feet long.
-It begins to move away but stops close to one of the missile silos. Over
-the next 2 hours or so, the UFO hovers near several more missile silos.
-The security guards are terrified and refuse to approach any missile
-site that has the UFO over it. Sometime around 4:30 a.m., the object
-zooms away and disappears in seconds. (Nukes 340–343)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5320
Date: 10/1976
-Description: George J. Myers and his wife are traveling 3 miles
-southeast of Winnebago, Nebraska, on US Highway 73 [now US 75] when they
-notice a large patch of cornfield with no corn growing. It is on sloping
-ground and in the shape of a perfect circle 100 feet in diameter. They
-learn from local farmers that it had appeared earlier in the year while
-the corn was still quite short, killing off growth later in the summer.
-A light “like lightning” was seen shortly before the damaged area was
-noticed. Myers takes photographs of the circle and soil samples, which
-are later taken to the University of Nebraska and show evidence of a
-chemical spill. (“Large
-Circular Physical Trace: Is
-It Common?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 1;
-“Large
-Physical Trace Identified,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1
-(Feb./March 1983): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5323
Date: 10/1976
-Description: Guillermo Carlos Roncoroni begins publishing UFO Press in
-Buenos Aires, Argentina, until November 1986. (UFO
-Press, no.
-1 (October 1976); Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5322
Date: 10/1976
-Description: The head of the UFO desk at the Swedish National Defence
-Research Institute, Sture
-Wickerts, travels to Målilla, Kalmar County, Sweden, to conduct a
-search for an unknown object thought to have crashed in the woods. He
-supervises diving operations into a water-filled hole possibly connected
-to the incident. Nothing is found but old logs. (Swords 369)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5321
Date: 10/7/1976
-Description: Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, addressed the UN
-General Assembly urging recognition of UFOs as a serious international
-scientific problem.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York, NY
-ID: 281
Date: 10/12/1976
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Multiple independent witnesses in Sonora,
-California, are drawn outside by a loud noise like “six jets.” They see
-a large red oblong UFO hovering with a wobbling motion. After 5 minutes,
-the UFO shoots upward and disappears. The next day, angel hair strands
-are found and sent to David Miletich at the University of Chicago. They
-are found to be “whitish, fibrous material of uniform composition being
-quite fine with frequent branching.” The primary constituents are carbon
-and nitrogen, but it is not spider web. A sample tested at the Michael
-Reese Hospital Microbiology Lab shows it to be contaminated with a low
-level of radioactive tritium. (“Angel Hair: Under Analysis,” IUR 2, no.
-8 (August 1977): 4, 8; “Angel-Hair Analysis Complete,” IUR 3, no. 3
-(March 1978): insert; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A
-Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 106–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5324
Date: 10/17/1976
-Description: Control tower and airline pilot on runway observed glowing
-disc like “two plates placed together” hovering to south. Object then
-flew away.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Akita Airport, Japan
-ID: 282
Date: 10/17/1976
-Description: 10:40 a.m. A brilliant golden disc hovers south of Akita
-Airport, Japan, for 5 minutes. Kenichi Waga, telecommunications officer
-in the control tower, says “It was disc-shaped, larger than a car, but
-smaller than an airplane.” Capt. Masara Saito, 34, Toa Airlines [now
-Japan Air System] pilot, is preparing to take off when he notices “a
-strange looking disc-shaped object 5,000 feet from the ground.” Tazawa
-Takumi, air traffic controller on duty, who observes the object through
-binoculars, says it looks like “two plates placed together, with the top
-one inverted.” The unidentified object finally flies away toward the
-sea. (NICAP, “Disc
-Hovers near Japanese Airport”;
-UFOEv II 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5325
Date: 10/19/1976
-Description: 9:35 p.m. A group of people at the southwest end of Lake
-Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a yellow cone of light with a
-row of windows at the bottom hover below the cloud cover for 2 minutes,
-disappear, and reappear in a new location. This repeats 4–5 times before
-the object shoots up into the clouds. (“Case 1-2-20,” IUR 1, no. 2
-(December 1976): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5327
Date: 10/19/1976
-Description: An object like a silver, luminous mercury lamp is seen over
-Paso de Los Toros, Durazno, Uruguay. The UFO allegedly causes the
-deformation of a metal refrigerator, the discharge of three car
-batteries, and the bursting of a refreshment bottle. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5326
Date: late 10/1976
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Four physicians and a diplomat in an undeveloped
-region of Algeria south of Algiers watch a bright oval light on the
-horizon heading toward them. The object casts a faint beam downward,
-sweeping the ground, as it darts around the sky silently. It is bright
-when in motion, but faint when it stops. After an hour it fades, leaving
-a glowing space in the dark sky. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April
-1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5329
Date: 10/22/1976
-Description: 1:20 a.m. Paul Thompson is driving home from his job on
-Interstate 494 where the highway turns to the northeast in Woodbury,
-Minnesota. He sees yellow and red lights about 2 miles ahead on the
-north side of the road. As he moves closer, he finds that the lights are
-actually two objects suspended in the air above a marshy area behind
-some woods about 300–400 feet north of the interstate. They are soft
-rounded triangles with red glows at the tip of the triangle and yellow
-pulsating lights protruding from the blunter ends. The objects are
-apparently metallic, about 20–25 feet in their longer dimension, and
-hover without making a sound. Thompson gets out of his car to watch. A
-truck approaches and one object rises vertically and zooms away. As the
-truck is abreast of his position, the second object ascends and flies
-directly over them. A CUFOS investigator examines the marshy area two
-days later and finds an oblong area, 40 feet by 20 feet, devoid of
-cattails and heavy grass. Inside the oblong is a smaller, irregular area
-where he finds exposed soil is and a few round holes the size of a
-quarter. He takes soil samples, which are sent to University of Kansas
-geologist Edward
-J. Zeller for thermoluminesce testing. The soil from the site center
-shows essentially no thermoluminescence, indicating t had been subjected
-to strong heat. (CUFOS
-case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5328
Date: 10/23/1976
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Three men—Nicholas Flaskas, Frank Zonaras, and
-Bill Zonaras—waiting to film a solar eclipse at Taola Point in Ben Boyd
-National Park, New South Wales, notice two unusual objects on the
-horizon close to the ocean. The UFOs alternately move toward and away
-from them. The men take both motion picture and still photos, showing
-one bell-shaped object and another discoid in shape. They turn their
-attention to the eclipse and when it is over, the objects are gone.
-(David Reneke, “The
-Benboyd UFO Movie: History and Evaluation,” UFO Research Australia
-1, no. 2 (March/April 1980): 19–23; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic,
-and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990):
-31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5330
Date: 10/30/1976
-Description: Spanish journalist Juan
-J. Benítez receives the first batch of some 300 pages of UFO reports
-from the Spanish Air Ministry in Madrid, Spain. The documents include
-photos and clips of gun-camera film taken by air force pilots. (Gordon
-Creighton, “The
-Spanish Government Opens Its Files,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3
-(October 1977): 3; J. J. Benítez, OVNIs: Documentos oficiales del
-gobierno español, Plaza y Janés, 1977; Good Above, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5331
Date: 11/1976
-Description: The first issue of the International UFO Reporter (IUR) is
-published by the Center for UFO Studies, with J. Allen
-Hynek as editor-in-chief and Allan
-Hendry as managing editor. (IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976); Clark III
-567–568, 627)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5332
Date: 11/1976
-Description: Dominique Delille founds Groupe d’Études du Phénomène OVNI
-in Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France. It publishes a quarterly
-newsletter, Siècle Inconnu, which continues under the names GEPO
-Informations and OVNI et Cie through 1983. (INFO
-OVNI, no.
-1 (November 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5333
Date: 11/4/1976
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A married couple in Martinsburg, Ohio, see two
-irregularly shaped objects, rounded on the bottom, hovering low near
-their car. One descends, flying over some woods, while the other is seen
-above the telephone wires by the road. Both have a red light on top, a
-whiter flashing light on the bottom, and a revolving red light. Around
-9:30 p.m., three similar objects are seen by a woman 4 miles away,
-slowly changing formation for 5 minutes in the east. (“Case 1-2-62,” IUR
-1, no. 2 (December 1976): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5334
Date: 11/5/1976
-Description: 8:08 p.m. A young woman is watching television at her home
-in Rives, Isère, France. She sees a bright light outside and calls her
-father. From their balcony they watch an intense white light speed
-across the sky from northwest to southeast and disappear in the
-mountains. The father thinks the light is spinning. At the same time a
-French physicist is driving 7 miles away near Voreppe. He sees a
-luminous disc brighter than the full moon and stops his car to watch it.
-The object is white in the center, bluish-white at the periphery, and is
-surrounded by an intense green halo. It is moving silently southeast but
-stops for a few seconds before moving off 30° from its previous course
-at a much greater speed. It passes in front of the Massif du Taillefer
-before it disappears behind Mont Néron. The sighting lasts 20–25
-seconds. (Jacques Vallée, “Estimates
-of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of
-Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 352–354)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5335
Date: 11/8/1976
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls in the northern part of
-Belmont, North Carolina, see a round gray object about 20–30 feet in
-diameter “on edge.” It hovers several hundred feet in the air for 5
-minutes, then moves east over the trees. It emits a beeping noise and is
-covered in flashing white lights and red steady lights. More than 100
-people report seeing UFOs in nearby Gastonia on November 10. (“Case
-1-2-75,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1977): 11; “106
-People ‘Saw UFOs,’” Gastonia (N.C.) Gazette, November 11, 1976,
-p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5336
Date: 11/10/1976
-Description: 8:20 p.m. A teenage girl driving alone near Putnam,
-Connecticut, passes underneath two dark metallic objects about 50 feet
-in diameter, one flying at an angle behind the other. Both objects have
-a red light in front, two on the sides, and a blue light in the back,
-all blinking. One banks slightly before it goes out of view, revealing a
-row of illuminated windows around the circular edge and a smaller circle
-like a “hatch” underneath. (“Case 1-2- 79,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December
-1977): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5337
Date: 11/14/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt are driving down the
-A272 near Winchester, England, when their car starts to jolt and shake
-and then veers off the road into a grass verge by the roadside. The car
-is subject to electrical interference as the engine roars, and the
-lights seem to shine brighter than usual. They spot what appears to be
-an orange, cigar-shaped craft, 15 feet in length, with three entities
-behind a window. As they watch, a bearded humanoid wearing a silver suit
-comes out of the object, walks to the car, and looks in on the
-witnesses. He then disappears and the couple are able to drive off.
-(Leslie Harris, “UFO
-and Silver-Suited Entity Seen near Winchester,”
-Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February 1977): 3–6; Richard Nash, “UFO
-and Occupants Reported
-near Winchester,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February 1977):
-7–8; Jenny Randles, “Questions
-and Comments
-on the Nash Interview,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February
-1977): 8; Frank J. Wood, “Alleged CE-III
-at Winchester: Vehicle Examination,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5
-(February 1977): 9–14; Good Above, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5338
Date: 11/15/1976
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Six distant objects with brilliant white lights
-are seen performing unusual patterns in the sky at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
-They seem to have a metallic texture and make an intermittent sound like
-a “belt sander on metal.” (“Case 2-1-1,” IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5339
Date: 11/16/1976
-Description: Lockheed’s first Have Blue demonstrator stealth aircraft,
-HB1001, after going through numerous tests and getting a visual
-camouflage makeover, is flown from Burbank, California, to Area 51 in
-Nevada. After four taxi tests, HB1001 is ready for test flights.
-(Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-Have
-Blue”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5340
Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: President-Elect Jimmy
-Carter meets with CIA Director George
-H. W. Bush to discuss certain “exotic and very closely held items
-relating to sources and methods.” At one point, Bush and his aide
-Jennifer Fitzgerald take Carter and Vice President Walter
-Mondale aside to describe particularly sensitive CIA programs.
-Congressional Research Service Policy Analyst Marcia
-S. Smith claims that part of the debriefing is about UFOs, which
-Carter has asked about. But Bush explains that this “information was
-information that existed on a need to know basis only. Simple curiosity
-on the part of the President wasn’t adequate.” Carter determines to
-replace Bush with his Naval Academy classmate Stansfield
-Turner after the inauguration. (presidentialufo.com, “President
-Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and Donald Menzel: The Congressional Research
-Service UFO Studies for President Carter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5341
Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: Commandante Angel Parreno, the pilot of an Iberian Airlines
-Boeing 727 on a flight from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid, Spain,
-watches an unknown object accompany his aircraft for 20 minutes.
-Possible barium cloud released by a rocket. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no.
-4 (April 1977): 2; Good Above, p. 154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5342
Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Witnesses from aircraft and ships around the
-Canary Islands watch a point of light climbing into the sky in a spiral
-motion, expanding to a diameter 3–4 times that of the moon. It has a
-semicircular shape and gives the impression that it is resting on the
-horizon. Among the witnesses are Gen. Carlos Dolz de Espejo, chief of
-staff of the Canary Islands Air Zone, and the crew of the Spanish Navy
-school ship Juan
-Sebastian Elcano. Maj.
-Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre again investigates, concluding that it was a
-“craft of unknown origin endowed with an unknown propulsion energy.” The
-time correlates with four Poseidon missile launches by the submarine USS
-Alexander Hamilton. (Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the
-Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5343
Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three women watch a large yellow-orange light
-slowly and silently meander 150 feet above a church in St. Peter,
-Minnesota. They drive to a police station, where officers also see the
-now distant light head from west to east. (“Case 2-1-16,” IUR 2, no. 1
-(January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5344
Date: 11/23/1976
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A lounge owner and an employee are frightened
-when an object 3 times the size of a helicopter flies over their car
-from the south in Kenner, Louisiana. It has flashing red, green, and
-white lights. The object hovers above some trees in the distance for 2
-minutes, then heads slowly east toward Moisant Airport [now Louis
-Armstring New Orleans International Airport]. (“Case 2-1-25,” IUR 2, no.
-1 (January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5345
Date: 11/24/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An Indiana Gas serviceman sees a 12-foot white
-cone of light with sparklers at its base diminish to a blinding point
-source alongside his pickup truck outside New Albany, Indiana. It
-follows him from the Kentucky border and moves silently ahead into the
-eastern sky when he reaches town. Other witnesses see it as a distant
-point of light; when they leave, the object rushes back over the
-serviceman’s house and disappears into the northwest. (“Case 2-1-27,”
-IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5346
Date: 11/25/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A couple in Beecher, Illinois, watch an oblong,
-glowing, orange object 45° in the western sky for 5–6 minutes. Holding
-stationary, the object diminishes to a point source and returns to its
-original shape, larger than the moon. (“Case 2-1-29,” IUR 2, no. 1
-(January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5347
Date: early 12/1976
-Description: Afternoon. Eero Lammi is on his way home from school in
-Oulu, Finland, when he sees a 15-foot ball of light move across toward
-him from across the Gulf of Bothnia and land in a nearby field. When he
-approaches it, the object shoots out a beam of light that hits him in
-the chest. He feels a searing pain and blacks out. His parents think it
-is a prank until a doctor finds slight burns on his chest and back. The
-case is investigated by the Swedish Military High Command. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5348
Date: 12/5/1976
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Several witnesses at Sollefteå, Västernorrland,
-Sweden, observe an elongated object (an estimated 148 feet long) with
-round openings along the fuselage. A blue-green light is shining from
-the openings, a red light at the front, and a diffuse orange glow from
-the underside. The object hovers above a military base built into the
-mountainside at an elevation of about 165 feet. After a while, the
-object moves on and hovers above a nearby power station. Then it moves
-jerkily sideways, jumping rapidly between different positions. After
-hovering for 15 minutes, it tilts up and rapidly speeds upwards and out
-of sight, disappearing at 3:30 p.m. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4
-(April 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5349
Date: 12/14/1976
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Panoramic radar at an air force base at
-Contrexéville, Vosges, France, picks up unknown targets at 2:00 a.m.,
-3:00 a.m., and 3:30 a.m. Seven air traffic controllers are the
-witnesses. The radar paints the targets as 10–15 miles apart every 10
-seconds, meaning their speed is estimated at 4,200–6,200 mph, a
-supersonic speed of Mach 5 to 8, at an altitude of 6.5 miles. (Claude
-Poher, “A Case of Radar Detection of UFOs in France,” IUR 29, no. 3
-(Fall 2004): 13–14, 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5350
Date: 12/15/1976
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A driver in Holland, Massachusetts, sees a
-cigar-shaped object twice the width of the moon hovering low in the east
-about 500 feet away. Human-like forms are visible through a row of
-windows on the side. It disappears in a bright red flash. (“Case 2-2-1,”
-IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5352
Date: 12/15/1976
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Arnold Barker is driving south on Alberta Highway
-46 [now Highway 63] nearly 3 miles south of Boyle, Alberta, when he sees
-two bright flashing lights flying west to east. As the object passes
-overhead, he realizes it is not an airplane. He jumps out of his truck
-to get a better look and sees that the lights are now red, zigzaging,
-and attached to each other by a faint connection. The object appears to
-be landing silently in a field to the east of the road, but it stops
-about 6–10 feet from the ground and 100–150 feet away. Barker takes a
-few steps toward it, but it takes off and moves north. He gets in his
-truck again to turn around and the object follows him, again as a white
-light. He speeds up to 75 mph and outdistances it. (Chris Rutkowski,
-Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August North, pp. 185–187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5351
Date: 12/16/1976
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Michael Winterborne, meteorological officer for
-the Kalgoorlie Airport in Western Australia, sees a white,
-football-shaped object, glowing and pulsating with fuzzy edges, rush
-from the northeast horizon to the northwest horizon at great speed. At
-2:45 p.m., he sees it again, arching overhead toward the west. Both
-incidents are timed by stopwatch at 12 seconds. Dave Bower, at the
-Scotia nickel mine about 50 miles to the north, sees a UFO drifting
-slowly westward at about 1,000 feet altitude. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2,
-no. 3 (March 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5353
Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: 12:55 a.m. On Wood Canyon Road east of Soda Springs, Idaho,
-police officer Dennis Abrams has a close encounter with a 30-foot
-diameter, oval-shaped UFO. It lacks any seams or windows and has the
-bulk of three to four cars. It emits a light green light and hovers only
-60 feet away. It makes no sound when hovering but makes a whistling
-“wind” sound when in motion. (“CE-I Seen by Independent Policemen in
-Idaho,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5354
Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: A Flugfélag Íslands [now Air Iceland Connect] airliner in
-flight from Akureyi to Reykjavik, Iceland, picks up a clear radar target
-at 18,000 feet over the Mælifell volcano. It tracks the object for one
-minute as it rushes 2 miles below the aircraft at 3,600 mph. The object
-is not seen visually. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977):
-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5355
Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: 5:20 p.m. Several children in Newfolden, Minnesota, see an
-object speeding across the sky then stopping. It has 6–9 orange and
-white lights flashing on and off around the perimeter. (“Case 2-2-9,”
-IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5356
Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A group of witnesses see a red-orange oval light
-pass overhead in Miami, Florida, about 250 feet up. It turns west in a
-smooth, even motion. (“Case 2-2-12,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5357
Date: 12/19/1976
-Description: The first KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellite (codenamed
-Key Hole) is launched by the US National Reconnaissance Office. It is
-the first American spy satellite to use electro-optical digital imaging
-that offers real- time optical observations. The capabilities of the
-KH-11 are highly classified, as are images they produce. The satellites
-are believed to have been the source of some imagery of the Soviet Union
-and China made public in 1997; images of Sudan and Afghanistan made
-public in 1998 related to the response to the 1998 US embassy bombings;
-and a 2019 photo, revealed by President Donald
-Trump, of a failed Iranian rocket launch. (Wikipedia, “KH-11
-KENNEN”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5358
Date: 12/19/1976
-Description: 6:20 p.m. A witness in Concord, California, sees a silent,
-star-like light moving northward in an erratic fashion: zigzagging, up
-and down, in circles, backing up, speeding up for 1 minute. Then it
-speeds up and moves downward in a curve, zooming out of sight in 1
-second. (“Case 2-2-13,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5359
Date: 12/19/1976
-Description: Night. Neil Brennan and Dean Gibbs step outside when they
-hear a whirring noise near Aquinas College, Salter Point, Western
-Australia. Brennan sees a bright disc, 2 feet in diameter, hovering 30
-feet in the air behind his house. It then disappears toward the west.
-(Perth News (W.A.) News, December 20, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no.
-2 (February 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5360
Date: 12/29/1976
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Chapin, who had the previous experience in
-October 1969, again notice that their mine site near Redding,
-California, is unseasonably warm. Chapin walks carefully down toward the
-creek as his wife remains in the car. When he shouts and tells her to
-bring the gun, she observes a similar object to the one they had seen
-seven years earlier, except more pock-mocked on the surface, some
-175–200 feet away from Mr. Chapin. It moves rapidly in the air and zaps
-both of them, knocking them to the ground. Chapin hits his head against
-the canyon wall and his wife falls to the road. They remain unconscious
-for about 15 minutes. (“The Redding, California CE II Case,” IUR 3, no.
-3 (March 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5361
Date: 1977
-Description: Maj. Gen. Hideki Komura, an adviser to Japan’s Cabinet
-Research Office, admits that UFO investigations are carried out at a top
-level. He says that in the 1950s, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force
-encouraged reports from the public, but they had too many reports to
-analyze. Now he admits they cooperate closely with the US government’s
-Foreign Technology Division. (Good Above, p. 431)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5370
Date: 1977
-Description: Former USAF Sergeant, Mario Woods, claims that Richard Doty
-was present at the debriefing of his 1977 UFO incident over a nuclear
-silo at Ellsworth AFB.
-Type: debriefing
-Reference: link
-Location: Ellsworth AFB
Date: 1977
-Description: An Australian soldier is traveling on the Nullabor Plain in
-South Australia when he and a companion, an American soldier, watch the
-descent of a purple-green fireball. They drive to the impact site and
-see a crashed UFO. The Australian goes inside and sees two aliens, one
-dead and the other making a squealing sound. They are about 5 feet tall
-and pot-bellied, with long, thin arms and large, black eyes. When he
-comes out again, he finds that military personnel have arrived. They
-arrest him and his friend and keep him in custody for two weeks. (Bill
-Chalker, “UFO
-Crash/Retrieval Stories: The Australian Experience,” 1998; Clark III
-345)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5369
Date: 1977
-Description: CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), a non-profit freedom
-of information activist group that advocates for the release of
-classified information regarding UFOs, is founded.
-Type: non-profit organization
-Reference: Wikipeda
-Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Date: 1977
-Description: V. Alexeyev said that at some “unnamed” weapons test ranges
-when UFO’s appeared soldiers signaled, mostly in a physical way. The
-UFO’s responded by “compressing” their visual shape.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
-Attributes: communication
Date: 1977
-Description: Roger Thome founds Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche sur les
-OVNI Haute-Marne/Meuse in Chaumont, Haute- Merne, France, which
-publishes five issues of Groupe 5255 in 1980–1982. (Groupe
-5255, no. 1 (February 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5367
Date: 1977
-Description: Fernando António Milhano Patinha founds OVNIGrupo 7 in
-Lisbon, Portugal. It publishes a quarterly magazine, OVNI. (Margaret
-Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5366
Date: 1977
-Description: José Jean Pereira de Alencar founds the Centro de Estudos
-Ufologicos in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, and publishes the journal
-UFOnotas. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5365
Date: 1977
-Description: Lawrence J. Fenwick, Joseph Muskat, and Harry Tokarz found
-the Canadian UFO Research Network in Willowdale, Ontario, to investigate
-reports and inform the public. It begins publishing the CUFORN Bulletin
-in late 1979, lasting until the summer of 1999. (CUFORN
-Bulletin 1, no. 2 (January 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5364
Date: 1977
-Description: Constitutional attorney Daniel
-P. Sheehan, at
-the request of Congressional Research Service researcher Marcia
-S. Smith, visits
-the brand-new Madison Building at the Library of Congress to look at the
-“classified sections of Project Blue Book.” He claims to have seen
-photos of a flying saucer embedded in snow and surrounded by USAF
-personnel wearing parkas. There are symbols on the side of the crashed
-craft. (presidentialufo.com, “President Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and
-Donald Menzel: The Congressional Research Service UFO Studies
-for President Carter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5363
Date: 1977
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek publishes The Hynek UFO Report as a review of and
-commentary on Project Blue Book records. It is largely ghostwritten by
-Elaine M. Hendry, Allan
-Hendry’s wife and a graduate student in astronomy at Northwestern
-University. (J. Allen Hynek, The
-Hynek UFO Report, Dell, 1977; Clark III 620)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5362
Date: 1977
-Description: California State University, Long Beach, English professor
-Alvin
-H. Lawson, along with technical writer John DeHerrera and physician
-William C. McCall, carries out a study in Anaheim (California) Memorial
-Hospital to determine if the abduction stories told by “real” abductees
-under hypnotic regression resemble the stories told by others who are
-asked to imagine an abduction under hypnosis. After the experiment,
-carried out by student volunteers, Lawson declares that the imaginary
-accounts are all but identical to the real accounts. He then formulates
-a Birth Memories Hypothesis, which argues that abductions are
-nonphysical, archetypal fantasies in which the witness’s birth memories
-play a central role. However, Lawson’s methodology and results are later
-critiqued severely. (Alvin H. Lawson, “What
-Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary ‘Abductees’?” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 120 (November 1977): 7–9; Alvin H. Lawson, “What
-Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary
-‘Abductees’? Part 2,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 121 (December 1977);
-Alvin H. Lawson, “What Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary
-‘Abductees’? Part 3,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 122 (January 1978); Alvin
-H. Lawson, “Hypnosis
-of Imaginary ’Abductees,” in Curtis G. Fuller, ed., Proceedings of
-the First International UFO Congress, Warner, 1980, pp. 195–213; D.
-Scott Rogo, “Imaginary Facts: The Case of the Imaginary Abductions,” IUR
-10, no. 2 (March/April 1985): 3–5; D. Scott Rogo, “Birth Traumas from
-Outer Space,” IUR 10, no. 3 (May/June 1985): 4–5, 16; Clark III
-944–945)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5368
Date: 1/1977
-Description: Alfred
-Webre joins the Center for the Study of Social Policy at the
-Stanford Research Institute [now SRI International] in Menlo Park,
-California, as a senior policy analyst. He intends to develop an
-“extraterrestrial communication” project with White House backing. He
-plans to establish a comprehensive UFO database, hire scientific
-advisers to evaluate the data, and issue policy recommendations,
-including one to end military and intelligence secrecy. He is referred
-to an unnamed female staff member of the White House Domestic Policy
-Staff, who is supportive of his proposal. He is promised approval of his
-proposal, but never hears back from the White House again. The request
-is terminated in September. (Steven M. Greer, Disclosure: Military and
-Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History,
-Crossing Point, 2001, pp. 441–446; Dolan II 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5373
Date: 1/1977
-Description: Peter
-A. Sturrock of Stanford University releases the results of his
-survey on UFO sightings and beliefs of professional American
-astronomers. He has mailed out 2,611 questionnaires, with half (1,356)
-completed and returned. Sixty-two respondents (nearly 5%) say they have
-witnessed or obtained an instrumented record of an event they could not
-identify and that might be related to UFOs. Some 53% prefer additional
-scientific study of UFOs. (“Sturrock
-Reports His UFO-Survey Results,” Physics Today 30 (May 1977): 112;
-“Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5372
Date: 1/1977
-Description: The Roper Organization asks two questions about UFOs in a
-survey: 44% “believe in” life elsewhere in the universe and 29% in UFOs
-as extraterrestrial. (Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on
-UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5371
Date: 1/1977
-End date: 5/1977
-Description: Miniwave of UFO sightings, including round and triangular
-objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: UK
-ID: 283
Date: 1/1/1977
-Description: 8:00 p.m. François Perez and his wife are chased in their
-car by a 33-foot long oval object in Valence, Drôme, France. They
-retrace their route one hour later after telling police. They see the
-oval object again, about 1,200 feet from them in a field. It appears to
-be 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a halo of white light.
-After 10 minutes, the object begins flashing and rises up into the air
-at a 45° angle. They complain of eye pain and conjunctivitis for 48
-hours afterward, and Perez’s watch stops working. (“French
-Couple Report Being Chased by ‘Big
-Glowing Star,’” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1977, p. 28; “Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5374
Date: 1/6/1977
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Florida Malboeuf is sitting at her window at 6420
-Casgrain Avenue in Montreal, Quebec, when she sees an oyster-shaped,
-flat-bottomed metallic object with a row of white lights around its
-base. It flies in from the north and lands on the rooftop of a
-three-story apartment building across the street from her only 60 feet
-away. Immediately two figures appear on the roof; they are over six feet
-tall and thin, with long arms. They are wearing white one-piece uniforms
-with their heads covered with tight “bath helmets.” They stand looking
-at the street, then at the sky, then they apparently return to the
-object. A moment later they disappear, and the UFO rises from the roof
-about 20 feet and flies off to the east. Her son André goes over to the
-rooftop in question and finds a large, elliptical-shaped crust of ice,
-about 18 feet in diameter, on top of the snow. He also finds four small
-footprints only 6.5 inches long. (Marc Leduc and Wido Hoville, “Un
-UFO sur une maison,” UFO-Quebec, no. 9 (1977): 6–10; Yurko
-Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979,
-pp. 62–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5375
Date: 1/10/1977
-Description: 12:00 noon. Horse farmer William
-McCarthy is looking out his window at the falling snow when he is
-surprised to see a hole in his pond in the town of Wakefield, New
-Hampshire. The pond, 105 by 75 feet, was frozen solid just the day
-before. He goes outside for a closer look. The hole is perfectly round
-and cuts smoothly through 14 inches of ice. Eight inches of slush
-surrounds the hole. Peering into the hole, McCarthy sees something that
-looks like a one-foot-square box. He races back to the house and brings
-family members over for a look. Then he goes to the barn to pick up a
-rake, hoe, and pole. Back at the pond, McCarthy sees that the box has
-sunk three feet into the muck at the bottom. Frustrated in his attempt
-to retrieve the object, he calls a friend, Bob Palmer, who arrives
-around 2:30 p.m. Concerned that they might be dealing with radioactive
-satellite or aircraft debris, Palmer notifies the police, who soon
-arrive in the company of a local Civil Defense representative. The
-Geiger counter indicates a reading alarmingly above normal (3 roentgens
-per hour versus normal background radiation of .001 roentgen). The
-McCarthys are warned to stay away from the water, and the CD man and the
-police leave to inform their superiors. By 4:00 p.m. the circle of slush
-has expanded to 10 feet. When McCarthy observes the pond in the morning,
-he discovers a second hole, this one about 50 feet from the original.
-Not long afterwards, someone from the attorney general’s office warns
-McCarthy not to let his animals drink from the pond; he reappears later
-in the day to express concern about possible water seepage. He also
-directs McCarthy and his family not to discuss the affair with anyone
-else until the official investigation is completed. The next day the
-pond is frozen over again. Disregarding warnings, McCarthy walks out on
-it and looks down through the clear ice where the hole has been and to
-the pool bottom. A fresh 6-inch-wide trench stretches from beneath the
-first hole all the way to the second. To all appearances, the object
-that entered via the former has left via the latter. State police escort
-all but the officially connected off the farm. Investigators try
-unsuccessfully to drain the pond, then see a 6-by-3-foot opening where
-the original hole had been. Distant observers think they see the
-searchers retrieve a black object and place it inside a van, which
-quickly leaves the area. By the end of the day, a statement from the
-governor’s office declares that more sophisticated equipment has found
-no abnormal radioactivity in the pond and the surrounding area. The
-black object, the authorities contend, is a container filled with soil
-and stone samples collected for analysis. (“What’s
-Going On? N.H. Pond Mystery Called False Report,” Boston Globe,
-January 14, 1977, p. 3; Allan Hendry, “The Wakefield Incident: Telling a
-UFO from a Hole in the Ground,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 8;
-“Wakefield Wrap-Up,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): insert; Clark III
-1233–1234)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5376
Date: 1/10/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. A driver stopped at an intersection in Biloxi,
-Mississippi, watches a disc on edge descend at an 80° angle, growing
-larger. When it reaches treetop level, it banks in a curve into the
-trees. As it leaves, it presents a round face as large as the full moon.
-(“Case 2-2-48,” IUR 2, no, 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5377
Date: 1/11/1977
-Description: The crew of an Indian Air Force jet transport is flying 42
-miles west of Varanasi, India, when it encounters three luminescent
-discs that fly past, circle once, then continue east. Apparently,
-thousands see the objects from the ground over a period of 45 minutes.
-(Good Need, p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5378
Date: 1/13/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A driver is paced by a UFO shaped like a
-flattened football with a dark equator in Plantation, Florida. The
-noiseless object is glowing with a steady white light underneath. It
-moves erratically in front of the car, and turns a corner as she pulls
-into her home. As she jumps out, she sees a second object join it in the
-northeast, and both speed toward the east in 5–6 seconds. (“Case
-2-2-52,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): insert.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5379
Date: 1/15/1977
-Description: 8:15 p.m. An unusually bright light is seen bobbing up and
-down low in the southern sky of Charleston, Oregon, for 30 minutes. It
-gradually drops below the horizon. (“Case 2-3-2,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March
-1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5380
Date: mid 1/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Eino Maki is out grooming the ski slopes at the
-Briar Mountain Lodge near Norway, Michigan. He notices that a nocturnal
-light UFO (seen frequently in the area since November 1976) is keeping
-pace with him as he moves up and down the slopes, edging closer. At
-first it is about 2 miles away at treetop level; now he can see red
-lights on the object. A bit unnerved, Maki goes back to the lodge and
-positions himself behind it. The light moves out of sight, and Maki goes
-back to work about 15 minutes later. Soon the light returns and it is
-below him on the same ski run, shining brightly. He decides to go home
-in his pickup truck. One week later, around 11:00 p.m., the same thing
-starts happening again, but Maki decides to run home right away.
-(Kenneth Schellhase, “UFOs on the Ski Slopes of Northern Michigan,” IUR
-7, no. 2 (March 1982): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5381
Date: 1/20/1977
-End date: 1/20/1981
-Description: President Jimmy Carter in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipeda
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: Night. Capt. Gustavo Ferreira and the crew of Avianca
-flight HK-1273 see an extremely bright white light in front of his
-plane. They are 7 minutes out of the El Dorado Airport in Bogotá,
-Colombia, westbound at 20,000 feet. At the same time, airport radar
-operator Jorge Jimenez watches a target moving at 27,340 mph in a zigzag
-motion. Ferreira watches the light change color in response to his
-turning on his landing lights and head south after 3 minutes. Jimenez
-sees the target cut 90° to the south at the same time. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 2; UFOEv II 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5385
Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Robert Melerine and Irwin Menesses are doing some
-hunting along a dike canal about one mile northeast of Yscloskey,
-St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, one in a boat and the other walking along
-the shore. Melerine sees a bright red light in the sky. Suddenly the
-light seems right around him as the boat is engulfed in the glow, which
-extends to the surrounding landscape. There is no noise, and the light
-flies away into the woods. Menesses is already back at camp and has not
-seen the light. They both get into the boat and move down the dike
-canal, using the outboard motor. The light reappears and moves closer to
-them. Although the motor is running the boat is not moving, seemingly
-held in place. Then the light quickly leaves and the boat lurches
-forward with great force, causing both men to fall. The light again
-flies at low level into the trees and continues on until they lose it.
-They estimate that the light is about 15–25 feet in diameter, roughly
-circular, faceted, and strikingly fast when it moves toward them. Both
-men report nausea, stomach aches, and fever for 2 days after the
-incident (it is flu season). (“Mysterious Hovering Light Observed by
-Yscloskey Men,” St. Bernard (La.) News, January 26, 1977; “Mysterious
-Hovering Light Still a Mystery,” St. Bernard (La.) News, February 9,
-1977; Ted Peters, “Warm
-Light Stops
-Everything!” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 111 (February 1977): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5384
Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Three female factory workers in Bridlington,
-Yorkshire, England, are walking to work on Bessingby Way when they see a
-hazy oval object hovering above the Britax PMG factory roof just before
-it begins moving to the right and stopping again. Almost immediately
-they spot another hazy object hovering above the adjacent K. B. Dixon
-woodyard. It begins moving forward at a slow pace then stops above a
-ventilation pipe in the Dixon factory wall. As it hovers the haze
-disappears, and the object’s features become more distinct. It is larger
-than a double-decker bus and shaped like a rugby ball. All three are
-able to see through a row of windows on the side that reveal a corridor
-inside. On one end is a tube-like structure or pole. Soon it moves over
-some community gardens and hovers briefly at about 6 feet altitude,
-lowers its “pole,” and appears to suck up a polythene bag. Both objects
-now move off to the west. The sighting duration is 5–10 minutes. The
-witnesses are terrified during the event, experiencing a cold sensation
-sweeping over them and a prickly irritation in their eyes. They develop
-sore throats and colds. (Robert Morrell, “UFOs
-over Bridlington Factories,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October
-1977): 8–10, 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5383
Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: Brilliant white light zigzagging erratically at high speed,
-confirmed on ground and airborne radar. Responded to pilot flashing his
-landing lights.
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bogota, Colombia
-ID: 285
Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: Boat brightly illuminated by round glowing object, abnormal
-silence, heat, boat held back as if by invisible force, light beam, time
-loss
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: St. Bernard Parish, LA
-ID: 284
Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: 3:15 p.m. An observer in Aspen, Colorado, watches a
-stationary object for more than an hour. Through binoculars it looks
-like a 3:1 rectangle with rounded corners of blue-green light. It fades
-from view in the same position. (“Case 2-3-12,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March
-1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5382
Date: 1/27/1977
-Description: 1:05 a.m. A 19-year-old trucker is driving on State Highway
-329 southeast of Prospect, Kentucky, when he spots a rectangular,
-orange-red object coming down near his jeep. His radio fails 15 seconds
-into the sighting. He feels compelled to watch the object, which stays
-in the vicinity only a short time. When he arrives home, he discovers
-that it has taken 45 minutes to complete a 7-minute trip. Later under
-hypnosis, he relates being taken inside the object and examined by three
-strange creatures who are shaped like machines (looking like a giant
-one- armed tombstone, a 7-foot teletype machine, and a man-sized Coke
-machine). The electrical system on his jeep goes haywire the day after
-the abduction. (“Single Witness Abduction in Kentucky,” IUR 2, no. 4
-(April 1977): 6–7; Carla L. Rueckert, “Kentucky
-Close Encounter,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October 1977):
-15–16, 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5386
Date: 1/28/1977
-Description: 10:05 p.m. Students in Platteville, Wisconsin, watch an
-orange “fuzzy oval” object larger than a full moon descend from a low
-angle above the southern horizon into distant trees. (“Case 2-3-22,” IUR
-2, no. 3 (March 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5387
Date: 1/29/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A patrolman and an unnamed couple in East Haven,
-Connecticut, see a horizontal row of 5–6 white lights, rotating left to
-right. The object hovers for 6 minutes, rises from 45° in the east to
-80°, drops lower, executes left and right 90° turns, and fades low in
-the southern sky. (“Case 2-3-23,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5388
Date: 2/1977
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A Danish serviceman is walking to his quarters
-at Naval Station Grønnedal [now Kangilinnguit] in Greenland pauses to
-look at the Northern Lights. He retrieves a camera to take photos and
-notices an elliptical dark object below the aurora. The object appears
-on only one of his time-exposure photos. Possible altocumulus cloud.
-(Kim Møller Hansen, “Elliptical
-Object over Greenland Naval Station,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5,
-no. 3 (June/July 1984): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5389
Date: 2/1977
-Description: An Italian Air Force F-104 is followed for 23 minutes by a
-UFO that is brighter than the moon. It remains about 2,400–2,700 feet
-behind the plane. The base authorizes him to intercept it, but when he
-climbs to 12,000 feet, the UFO paces him then disappears.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5390
Date: 2/1/1977
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two helicopter pilots flying south at 60 mph near
-Carthage, Missouri, watch a northbound light pass beneath them and climb
-to their altitude at 2,000 feet and 300–500 feet away. It appears to be
-a dark, vertical cylinder 10–15 feet high, 5–8 feet wide, and with
-struts and a light on the bottom. As the helicopter circles, the object
-rises higher and heads southeast, disappearing in a second or two.
-(“Case 2-3-33,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5391
Date: 2/1/1977
-Description: 9:05 p.m. A police sergeant in Glendale, California, sees a
-bright red light 45° in the west. He drives “within a block” of the
-light and sees it as bigger than the full moon, perhaps 100–150 feet in
-diameter, and hovering silently for 3–4 minutes. It moves at incredible
-speed away to the west. (“Case 2-3-35,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977):
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5392
Date: 2/2/1977
-Description: Farmer Zbigniew Tuszewski finds a strange disc 1.6 feet in
-diameter and weighing 66 pounds in his field in Dalabuszki village,
-north of Gostyń, Poland. Concave on one side, flat on the other, the
-find does not appear to be from a satellite. A spectroscopic analysis
-shows the presence of nickel, cobalt, niobium, molybdenum, vanadium, and
-tellurium; however, another analysis shows no evidence of nickel.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5393
Date: 2/4/1977
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A woman and her daughter step outside their house
-in Senožeti, Slovenia, and see a glowing orange ellipse about four times
-the size of the moon hovering about 10° above the forest. It is silent
-and has 4–7 brighter spots on it. Walking along, they watch the object
-disappear and see a glow arising from the woods as if there is a fire in
-a nearby village. They run to the spot but find nothing there. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5394
Date: 2/4/1977
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. Fifteen children, mostly 10-year-old
-boys, at Broad Haven Primary School in Pembroke, Wales, are playing
-football when they see a silvery cigar-shaped UFO in a field behind the
-building, partially hidden by trees and shrubs. Two in the group say it
-has a silver dome with a flashing light at the top. Six of them claim to
-see a silver man with pointed ears next to the craft. The school’s
-headteacher Ralph Llewellyn asks them to draw the UFO and is amazed at
-how similar the drawings are. Local UFO enthusiast Randall Jones Pugh
-brings the story to the attention of the national media and soon
-sightings of UFOs and alien occupants spring up within a 20-mile radius
-of Broad Haven, especially near RAF Brawdy [now Cawdor Barracks], east
-of St. Davids. (Peter Paget, The Welsh Triangle, Granada, 1979; “Broad
-Haven UFO Sightings Marked 40 Years On,” BBC News, February 4, 2017;
-Peter Paget, The Welsh Triangle Revisited, The author, 2018; David
-Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357
-(September 2017): 16–18; UFOFiles2, pp. 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5395
Date: 2/6/1977
-Description: UFO researcher Larry
-W. Bryant writes a letter to President Jimmy
-Carter, suggesting that he look into the roles played by military
-and civilian intelligence agencies in the UFO cover-up. He receives the
-standard USAF brush-off letter, saying that UFOs are no longer being
-investigated. (Larry W. Bryant, UFO Politics at the White House,
-Invisible College, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5396
Date: 2/9/1977
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A deputy sheriff and constable in Flora,
-Mississippi, watch a UFO six times the size of their car hover 20–50
-feet above them for 30 minutes. (“Case 2-3-48,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March
-1977): 8; “Close Encounter in Mississippi,” IUR 2, no 4 (April 1977):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5398
Date: 2/9/1977
-Description: 5:20 a.m. A high-altitude light is seen hovering for
-several minutes above Bondi, New South Wales, Australia, before shooting
-off to the east. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5397
Date: 2/10/1977
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Tom Thibault is alone on the road to Southville,
-Nova Scotia, when his car is pushed back 250 feet by a 30-by-60 foot
-object hovering silently 10–12 feet above the road. A blue light emerges
-from the object that creates an electric shock and an unbearable noise.
-Thibault suffers a memory loss and gets headaches when he drives by the
-scene afterward. (Digby (N.S.) Courier, February 24, 1977; “Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5399
Date: 2/11/1977
-Description: 8:40 p.m. Health service cook Slavka Gorsek and her two
-children see an intense beam of light come through a bedroom window in
-their home in Gaberke, Slovenia. It illuminates the room briefly then
-goes out. The light is coming from an egg-shaped object about 8–11 feet
-wide that has landed only about 50 feet away behind a chicken coop. It
-is bright white with a green or blue center. For 2–3 minutes they can
-see and hear nothing, until the object flashes again and takes off.
-Three days later Gorsek notices a “glimmering dust” at the landing site
-and the marks of five landing gear. An analysis is performed but with
-ambiguous results. (Milos Krmelj, “UFO Landing
-in Yugoslavia,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 118 (September 1977):
-6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5400
Date: mid 2/1977
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Another nocturnal light mimics Eino Maki’s
-movements as he grooms the ski slopes at Brian Mountain Lodge near
-Norway, Michigan. After going away once, it reappears right over him,
-illuminating him and a large area around him. He races his tractor at
-top speed (15 mph), maneuvering under struts and wires so it can’t get
-at him. Assistant Manager Jake Malone hears the tractor gearing up
-outside and sees a huge brilliantly lit object the “size of a boxcar”
-following Maki up the slope. When he reaches the top, the UFO hovers,
-silently bouncing up and down, about 500 feet from the lodge. Maki
-estimates the object is about 60–80 feet long. Some 10–15 people exiting
-the lodge begin to see the display as well. (Kenneth Schellhase, “UFOs
-on the Ski Slopes of Northern Michigan,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982):
-10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5401
Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: Morning. Four boys and one adult at Penlee Secondary School
-in Plymouth, Devon, England, independently see a cigar-shaped object
-flying horizontally above the school playground before it climbs into a
-cloud and disappears. (David Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground
-Kind,” Fortean Times 357 (September 2017): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5402
Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: Afternoon. Nine children, age 8–11, are playing netball
-with their teacher, Mair Williams, at Rhosybol School in Anglesey, North
-Wales, when they see an object flying north. It has a black dome on top
-and a silver, cigar-shaped base. It remains in sight for 3 minutes, goes
-behind the only cloud in the sky, reappears for one minute, then
-disappears. The teacher takes them back inside, separates them, and
-tells them to draw what they have seen. The sighting is reported to RAF
-Valley in Anglesey, which can offer no positive identification. (David
-Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357
-(September 2017): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5403
Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A commercial pilot standing outside his truck in
-Canton, Mississippi, watches a cylindrical object about 40 feet long
-pass alongside him a few hundred feet away at 30 mph. It has one steady
-white light in front and makes a noise like a wheezing turbine. It
-recedes into the west after 5 minutes. (“Case 2-4-6,” IUR 2, no. 4
-(April 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5404
Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: 9:15 p.m. A woman in Utica, Michigan, watches for 2 minutes
-a vertical cylinder of white light that is pointed at the top. It is
-stationary, silent, shrouded in white haze, and about 10 times as long
-as the full moon. (“Case 2-4-7,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5405
Date: 2/18/1977
-Description: Disc hovered, illuminated barnyard, farm animals reacted,
-watchdog later died. Witness felt electric shock, heat, paralysis.
-Physiological and physical effects.
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Salto, Uruguay
-ID: 286
Date: 2/20/1977
-Description: 10:15 p.m. A domed disc is seen for 1–2 minutes by a man
-and his son in Victorville, California. It is silver in color with three
-windows, three legs or wheels, and two hooks at both ends. It hovers
-above houses 3–4 blocks away, then recedes toward the northwest after
-attaching itself to the top of a second object to form a sphere. (“Case
-2-4-15,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5406
Date: 2/22/1977
-Description: Severe corrosion of the KS 150 reactor in Jaslovské
-Bohunice, Czech Republic, causes a release of radioactive material into
-the plant area, requiring a complete decommission. (Wikipedia, “KS
-150”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5407
Date: 2/22/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Antonio Serena, his wife Francesca Castellanos,
-and their three children are followed by a bright light for one hour and
-a distance of about 25 miles. The light is first spotted as they are
-driving northwest of Llíria in Valencia province, Spain, and follows
-them through the town of Vilamarxant. The car experiences some engine
-and light problems and des not seem to be able to accelerate. When they
-approach the village of Cheste, the light seems to move ahead of them,
-get much closer, and extend some legs in preparation for landing. One of
-the daughters gets sick from anxiety. The object moves away when a
-second auto approaches from the opposite direction. Despite the seeming
-drama of the incident, the light seems to have been Venus and the engine
-problems are due to a drained battery, as Ian
-Ridpath points out. (Story, pp. 327–330;
-Ian Ridpath, “A
-Spanish Close Encounter
-Re-examined,” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5408
Date: 2/24/1977
-Description: Humanoid encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Langenargen, Lake Constance, Germany
-ID: 287
Date: 2/25/1977
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A 16-year-old bicycling near Cyprus College in
-California is followed by a star-like object that appears in the west,
-45° up. The light enlarges to a thin cigar-shape, 4–5 times the width of
-the moon, after rushing toward him in 5 seconds. He cycles away,
-frightened, and has to be driven home in tears by friends. His friends
-and family see the object as a “star” that sets in the west in 25
-minutes. Possibly Jupiter. (“Case 2-4-19,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5409
Date: 2/26/1977
-Description: 9:00 p.m. An accident investigator in Ontario, California,
-sees a white triangle with rounded sides as big as the full moon. It
-moves silently and slowly from overhead toward the east, 45° up. It
-changes course twice in the next 4–5 minutes before it disappears in the
-distance. (“Case 2-4-21,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5410
Date: 3/4/1977
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Ludwig Siegal is driving on Provincial Road 201
-about 4 miles west of Sundown, Manitoba. He sees a shimmering oval
-object ahead of him and silently hovering about 15 feet above the
-highway. It is yellowish cream around the outer edge, darkening to more
-yellowish in the middle. He passes directly underneath the object, which
-does not appear to be solid. Two miles further, Siegal sees three
-entities, 5 feet tall and shaped like bowling pins, in the glare of his
-headlights. They are arranged in a row along the left side of the road
-and have bulbous heads, narrow necks, and flared bodies. Unable to stop
-in time, he crashes into the group but feels no impact. They simply
-disappear as they touch the car’s bumper. Looking in his rear-view
-mirror, he sees all three of them reappear behind his car, shrink to a
-small size, and vanish. Siegal calls the RCMP from a nearby friend’s
-house. They find skid marks, but no traces of blood or any impact marks
-on Siegal’s car. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August
-Night, 2022, pp. 166, 221–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5411
Date: 3/7/1977
-Description: Radar-visual UFO approached Mirage bomber, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France
-ID: 288
Date: 3/7/1977
-Description: 8:34 p.m. French Air Force pilot Maj. René Giraud and
-navigator Capt. Jean-Paul Abraham, flying a Dassault Mirage IV
-supersonic bomber over Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France, see a huge UFO.
-The light appears bigger and bigger as it approaches their aircraft from
-the rear right. The pilot is flying at Mach 0.98 and makes a turn to the
-right and then to the left to make sure the light is not a reflection of
-some sort in the cockpit. As he does these maneuvers, both crew members
-can distinguish that the light is on the front of a dark, solid object.
-Despite the evasive maneuver, the unidentified object manages to stay
-exactly behind them for a few seconds, a very dangerous situation if the
-unknown object is hostile. Then the object makes a turn to the northwest
-at an estimated speed of Mach 2, and flies away to the left of the
-Mirage IV. (Kean, pp. 123–124;
-Good Need, pp. 304–305;
-Patrick Gross, “Mirage
-IV Jet Bomber Encounters UFO, France, March 7, 1977”; “L’Observation
-d’OVNI du Colonel
-René Giraud (1977),” OVNI et Extraterrestre, November 10,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5412
Date: 3/8/1977
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Eleven witnesses in six groups (including Thelma
-Lowe, Harold Wilson, Sara Green, Mrs. Everett Miller, Mrs. W. E. Runge
-II, and Robert Smyth) watch a red ball of fire the size of the full moon
-drift over their houses and alight on the ground south of Gatchellville,
-Pennsylvania. It leaves a large patch of burning grass (100 feet long by
-30 feet wide), with a mysteriously unscathed area delineated by three
-holes at the vertices. (“Case Number 2-4-44,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977):
-6–7; “Close-Out on the Gatchellville, PA CE II,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March
-1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5413
Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: Brightly lighted ellipse hovered, car engine failed, lights
-dimmed. Pressure, tingling sensation felt, physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Nelson, North Lancashire, UK
-ID: 289
Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 12:34 a.m. Captain Assapa, Flight Officer Berehan, and
-Flight Engineer Negassa of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET-701 are flying
-near Qarun Lake, Egypt, when they see a formation of eight lights, with
-two larger ones in the lead, flying southeast. They are the color of
-“arc welding.” (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5414
Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 3:10 a.m. Brian Grimshaw and his friend Jeff are driving to
-a textile factory in Nelson, Lancashire, England, when they see a
-cigar-shaped, metallic object in the sky. They stop the car for a better
-look. The UFO has lights at either end that are changing color, and the
-entire object is surrounded by a gray mist. The witnesses hear a sound
-they describe as like the tide coming in and going out. As the object
-comes closer, the car engine stops and the headlights dim. After five
-minutes, the object flies off and the car restarts. Both witnesses come
-down with headaches shortly afterward. (Tony Grimshaw and Jenny Randles,
-“Frightening
-Car-Stop near Nelson,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977):
-3–5, 12; UFOEv II 223–224; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,”
-Fortean Times 328 (July 2015): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5415
Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Susanna and Maria Stratford watch a shiny saucer
-with a red light on top and a rounded bottom descend to 30 feet above
-the ground and hover for 20 minutes, veering left and right above the
-trees in Saanich, British Columbia. It disappears toward the east. (“Night
-UFO: It Came Back to See Us,” Victoria (B.C.) Times, March 11, 1977,
-p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5416
Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Four adult witnesses in Long Grove, Illinois,
-are attracted outside by a loud crackling noise. Searching around with a
-powerful spotlight, they see an object 60° up in the northern sky about
-1,000 feet up. It is a white, tapered rectangle with a black silhouette
-behind it about the size of the full moon. They watch it maneuver within
-the spotlight beam and watch it sporadically for 30 minutes until it
-vanishes within the beam; the noise stops immediately. (“Case 2-4-46,”
-IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1975): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5417
Date: 3/10/1977
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Ten crew members of two oil tankers anchored one
-mile apart at the Arjuna Oil Field in the Java Sea, Indonesia, see an
-object the apparent size of the full moon. It is primarily dark with a
-red light in the middle and emits beams of yellowish-white light in two
-directions. It is only about 1,000 feet above the surface of the water.
-Coming from the west, it circles the offshore oil field twice and then
-speeds off to the east after 5 minutes. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2
-(February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5418
Date: 3/11/1977
-Description: Rancher B. T. Bray discovers a 14-foot diameter, circular
-ring in a paddock at Brayfield Station, southwest of Port Neill, South
-Australia. No UFO is seen. The topsoil, soft everywhere else, is
-surprisingly hard in the ring, with the grass in the center undisturbed.
-(Adelaide (S.A.) Advertiser, March 12, 1977; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no.
-8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5419
Date: 3/12/1977
-Description: 9:05 p.m. United Airlines Flight 94 is flying south of
-Syracuse, New York, on a course toward Boston’s Logan Airport in
-Massachusetts. Suddenly the airplane starts a gradual, smooth (15° bank
-angle) turn to the left by itself. Within 5–10 seconds both captain Neil
-Daniels, 57, and the flight officer turn and look to their left side and
-see an “extremely bright white light at about their own altitude.” It is
-perfectly round and almost 3° arc in apparent diameter. Daniels
-estimates its distance to be about 3,000 feet and probably as big or
-bigger than a DC- 10 in size. Its intensity is like that of a flashbulb.
-Boston Center calls them and asks, “United 94, where are you going?”
-Daniels replies, “Well, let me figure this out. I’ll let you know.” Then
-they notice that “the three compasses were all displaying different
-readings. The FO’s compass was within 20° arc of the compass in front of
-the captain and was not rotating. It was then that the FO uncoupled the
-autopilot and flew the airplane manually.” Meanwhile, the UAP “followed
-right along with us” for about 4–5 more minutes then “it took off and
-picked up speed very rapidly and just disappeared, over about 15
-seconds, back towards our 8:00 o’clock position and slightly upward.”
-Daniels asked ATC if they have any radar traffic in the area and they
-reply, “no.” Later, ATC tells Daniels, “So whatever it was, we don’t
-know. But it did cause a disruption in the magnetic field around the
-aircraft to the point where it did pull the aircraft off course.”
-(Richard F. Haines, “Aviation
-Safety in America: A Previously
-Neglected Factor,” NARCAP, October 15, 2000, p. 80; “Air
-Force Pilot Neil Daniels Sighting,” Riddlept YouTube channel,
-October 8, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5420
Date: mid 3/1977
-Description: Observers at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, see 20–25
-UFOs flying from the desert toward the city. The pilots and passengers
-of an Iranian airliner flying at more than 6 miles altitude about 87
-miles from the city describe them as yellow in color. A Japanese pilot
-the same distance south of Tehran switches on all his lights when he
-sees a huge object in front of his plane. He claims 15–20 smaller
-objects fly out of the large one directly toward the pilot, who changes
-course and heads for Mehrabad. (“Review of Iranian UFO Reports,”
-IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5421
Date: mid 3/1977
-Description: Around 11:00 p.m. James Ferguson and Tom Patton are in the
-desert about 2 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, preparing to take night
-photographs of saguaro cacti using flash-lighting effects. As they are
-getting ready to take a photo, the floor of the desert around them
-suddenly brightens. They see a large mass of light rise from behind a
-distant range of hills and hover for many minutes just above the
-horizon. Quickly, they turn the camera on its tripod toward the light
-and take a time exposure. Several minutes pass and suddenly the light
-moves rapidly to the north and disappears in the distance. The trail of
-light on the photo shows the light’s departure. (“1977
-Nocturnal Light Photograph Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1,
-no. 1 (May 1980): 1; “Tucson
-1977
-Nocturnal Light Remains Unidentified,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1,
-no. 4 (August 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5422
Date: 3/19/1977
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Sylvia Laidler and her daughter Darlene are
-driving eastbound on Highway 401 near Belleville, Ontario, when a red
-streak appears in the north. The object stops abruptly over the highway
-in front of her car, maintaining a red, pulsating glow, then approaches
-them, flying on the south side of the road at tree-top level. It is
-triangular with turquoise lights, red flashing lights, and a golden
-light flashing at the bottom. It hovers silently above them briefly then
-moves off to the south. (“UFO Hovered over Car,” Belleville (Ont.)
-Intelligencer, May 6, 1977; Marler 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5423
Date: 3/22/1977
-Description: 10:20 a.m. Tom Evison and his wife watch for 15 minutes a
-bright stationary light an estimated 10 miles north of their location in
-Seatoun, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. Seen through a telescope,
-it appears as elongated with black vertical lines. It slowly fades away
-in place. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5424
Date: 3/24/1977
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Witnesses on La Palma and Tenerife, Canary
-Islands, see a reddish light emerge from the sea, climb very fast, move
-in a zigzag fashion, and leave behind a huge, bright halo that lasts 10
-minutes. Several minutes later, a Scandinavian DC-8 passing over Ad
-Dakhla on the coast of Western Sahara observes a luminous cloud to the
-west. A South African Airways jumbo jet describes the same phenomenon.
-310 miles to the south, Capt. M. Brackenridge and the crew of the
-merchant ship Kinpurnie Castle witness a luminous semicircle on the
-horizon, with a small bright arc inside. In only 3 minutes it has
-reached colossal dimensions. Seven minutes later, it has completely
-dispersed, after a second luminous spot appears above it. The sighting
-correlates with the launch of two Poseidon missiles from the USS
-Woodrow Wilson. (Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the
-Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5425
Date: 3/29/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A witness in a rural area near West Decatur,
-Pennsylvania, sees an “upside-down teardrop” object 100–200 feet long
-and 60 feet wide drift in from the east at treetop level. With the point
-of the teardrop pointing upward, the gray-brown object features a large
-panel of fluorescent green light on the bottom. Drifting west into a
-field, the object makes a sound like a “rope spinning in the air.”
-Climbing at a 45° angle to a half-mile up in 15 seconds, it levels off
-and accelerates to the southwest in 8 seconds. (“Case 2-5-43,” IUR 2,
-no. 5 (May 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5426
Date: 4/1/1977
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A woman is driving her three young children
-south on the west side of DeRuyter, New York, when she finds herself
-overtaking and driving underneath a 35–40-foot object hovering 30 feet
-above the maple trees. The UFO has three outer red and blue lights and a
-sequential series of red lights in two rows on the center bottom. One
-mile away, two other witnesses go in search of a red glow without being
-able to overtake it. (“Case 2-5-46,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5427
Date: 4/5/1977
-Description: 2:17 p.m. A pilot driving on I-94 northbound near
-Deerfield, Illinois, sees an object coming toward him (southbound) first
-in the distance then directly above him later on. It is a silver
-mushroom three times the apparent size of the moon, and it moves
-silently toward Chicago against the wind. (“Case 2-5-51,” IUR 2, no. 5
-(May 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5428
Date: 4/5/1977
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A young couple and others in Lincolnton, North
-Carolina, see 5–6 red-orange lights hovering 200 feet away. (“Case
-2-5-52,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5429
Date: 4/8/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A domed disc-shaped object flies around two
-witnesses in Cedar Springs, Michigan, hovering and flashing over some
-nearby trees. Ring ground marks are later found. (“Case 2-5-57,” IUR 2,
-no. 5 (May 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5430
Date: 4/8/1977
-Description: 8:08 p.m. A teenager and his mother in St. Louis, Missouri,
-watch a flat disc four times the width of the moon silhouetted against
-the clouds. It has three steady white lights around its edges and moves
-silently from a high angle in the east to a low angle in the west.
-(“Case 2-5-58,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5431
Date: 4/8/1977
-Description: 10:35 p.m. A cigar-shaped object glowing red at each end
-darts north to south across Interstate 64 in Lexington, Kentucky,
-several times. (“Case 2-5-80,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5432
Date: 4/10/1977
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Martha and Olof Eriksson watch a yellow light
-with a red “textile-like” appendage hanging below it at Flykälen,
-Jämtland, Sweden. It is 100 feet in diameter and moving from south to
-north. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5433
Date: 4/14/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Captain Scherrer, Senior First Officer Schmid,
-and hostess Rothenhofer are on board Swissair Flight SR-798 near
-Maastricht, Netherlands. Schmid notices the first of four
-“lightning-like lights” in an otherwise clear sky. Ground radar calls
-the plane’s attention to a target 15 miles away at their 1 o’clock
-position. The crew sees two targets briefly at that position but only on
-radar. Then all three of them see another flash. Maastricht radar
-watches the target fall back east of the plane and rush at high speed
-back to a 1 or 2 o’clock position only 3 miles away. There is still no
-visual contact. A few minutes later, a third silent lightning-like flash
-is seen just in front of the airliner. Maastricht radar watches the
-target playing with the plane behind its tail and right wing, where the
-fourth flash is seen. A military radar places the speed of the target
-when moving fast at Mach 4 or 5. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June
-1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5434
Date: 4/17/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. A woman in La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium, watches
-a flat cylinder with faceted sides move from the southwest to northeast.
-The object is dark, seems solid, and emits no smoke or trail. It moves
-in a straight line with an oscillation in the same direction as the
-wind. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5435
Date: 4/17/1977
-End date: 4/23/1977
-Description: An International Congress on the UFO Phenomenon is held in
-Acapulco, Mexico, organized by Mexico City businessman Guillermo Bravo.
-Speakers include J.
-Allen Hynek, Jacques
-Vallée, John
-A. Keel, William Spaulding, Walt
-Andrus, and Dennis
-Hauck. Prime Minister Eric
-Gairy makes a strong plea for a United Nations program to
-investigate UFOs. (J. Allen Hynek, “‘First’ International Congress on
-the UFO Phenomenon,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5436
Date: 4/18/1977
-Description: About 12:05 a.m. George Thrupp and Margaret Mancour of the
-weather office at Vancouver International Airport in British Columbia
-have just gotten off their shift when they see a “blue flash” over the
-airport. It appears in the south sky above Richmond. The light is coming
-from a cigar-shaped object larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that is
-orange on the top half and blue on the bottom half with dark portholes
-along the side. (“Pair
-Sight UFO at
-City Airport,” Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, April 19, 1977, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5437
Date: 4/18/1977
-Description: White House Press Secretary Jody
-Powell states in the “Washington Whispers” column of US News and
-World Report that “before the year is out” there will be “unsettling
-disclosures” about UFOs, “based on information from the CIA.” Later, the
-White House claims the story is a “misunderstanding” by Powell. (Robert
-Scheaffer, “‘UFO
-Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year,” Skeptical Inquirer 40, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 2016): 16– 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5438
Date: 4/19/1977
-Description: Early morning. Rosa Granville, proprietor of the Haven Fort
-Hotel in Little Haven, Pembroke, Wales, is disturbed by a strange
-humming noise. She looks out a window and sees an oval-shaped object
-“like the moon falling down” land behind her home. Two tall humanoids
-appear in front of the UFO, which is about the size of a minibus. They
-have blank faces and pointed heads and are wearing white outfits like
-boiler suits. They appear to “take measurements or gather things” and
-climb a grassy bank in a field. When she returns to the window after
-calling other family members, the object and the figures have vanished.
-(UFOFiles2, p. 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5440
Date: 4/19/1977
-Description: Santiago Laco Ozano, 32, is milking cows in Rocha, Uruguay,
-when he hears a strange noise as the area around him is illuminated.
-Looking up, he sees a small object giving off a powerful beam of light.
-He faints, and on recovering about 5 minutes later, notices his hair is
-slightly burned. He is admitted to a nearby hospital, whose personnel
-verify the singeing and that his scalp has no lesions. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5439
Date: 4/21/1977
-Description: 7:15 p.m. A couple in Towson, Maryland, sees a gray capsule
-with short, stubby wings, two yellow headlights, and no windows. Several
-times the full moon, the object flies silently from low in the east to
-above their car in 4 minutes. (“Case 2-6-5,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5441
Date: 4/22/1977
-Description: 3:10 a.m. Three witnesses in Washburn, Wisconsin, see a
-flat, round object with five white lights on its rim and two red lights
-on its bottom. It pursues their car for three-quarters of a mile, even
-around curves and driving at 90 mph. The object overshoots them, slows
-down, and moves only 30 feet in front of them. After 4 minutes it
-accelerates in a steep climb toward the southwest. (“Case 4-22-77,” IUR
-2, no. 6 (June 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5442
Date: 4/23/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Pilot William Sorum and copilot Richard Drzal are
-flying a DC-10, Northwest Orient Flight 27, from Seattle, Washington, to
-Anchorage, Alaska. About 50 miles east of Middleton Island, Alaska, they
-see a bright white star moving smoothly from the southern horizon across
-their field of view to the northern horizon for about 40 seconds. It
-passes in front of them at a 45° above them at their altitude of 39,000
-feet. Radar Approach Controller Terry Siegrist and others at Anchorage
-International Airport see a linear flight of four separate
-unidentifiable blips suddenly appear on radar screens at 30 miles
-distance from the city, covering 10 miles in 6–12 seconds (3,600 mph).
-Correlation between the two observations is not established.
-(“Radar/Visual in Alaska,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5443
Date: 4/25/1977
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Eight soldiers camped on a military patrol 3
-miles from Putre, Arica y Parinacota, Chile, suddenly see two bright
-violet lights nearby. The soldiers’ dog and horses remain still while
-the lights hover nearby. The leader of the group, Corporal Armando
-Valdés Garrido, orders the other soldiers to put out their campfire. The
-two large lights are about a half-mile away and hovering close to the
-ground. Valdés approaches the lights, ordering them to identify
-themselves. At this point a bright light envelops Valdés and he
-apparently vanishes in a mist in plain view of the others. The soldiers
-frantically begin searching for him but are unable to find him. At
-around 4:15 a.m., Valdés suddenly reappears. He has a strange look on
-his face and he gives out a sinister laugh, asking several times where
-his mother is. Then he says, again in a very sinister sounding voice,
-“You will never know who we are and where we come from.” The others
-notice that he appears to have a week’s growth of beard, whereas he had
-been clean-shaven just an hour ago, and his digital watch indicates the
-impossible date of April 30. He is almost in hysterics and one of the
-soldiers has to slap him, at which point Valdés faints. One of the other
-soldiers, Raúl Salinas, who has been standing a few feet in back of the
-others, notices a strange humanoid creature behind some nearby rocks. He
-describes it as half animal and half human; no facial features are
-visible, but it seems to be wearing a helmet and is carrying a red
-light. Salinas is stunned to see the creature appear at several places
-simultaneously. He thinks that there might be several humanoids. He does
-not mention this to the others at the time, since they are already
-scared, but the others do not see the humanoid or humanoids. When Valdés
-wakes up he cannot remember where he has been. In 2013, Valdés, now an
-evangelical pastor, admits that no one on the patrol saw aliens—only
-that they saw something that frightened them. He claims he only left the
-group to go urinate. Many ufologists now feel that the Chilean
-government encouraged the abduction scenario to mask the presence of
-troops and horses in northern Chile in the event of a war with Argentina
-or a regional conflict. (Wikipedia, “Caso
-Cabo Valdés”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 2; “The
-Chilean Abduction,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 1 (July 1977): 1, 3; “Cabo
-Valdés se confiesa: ‘Nunca me abdujeron,’” La Cuarta, February 18,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5444
Date: 4/26/1977
-Description: Pauline Coombes reports seeing a luminous silver figure 7–8
-feet tall looking into her window at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire,
-Wales, for an hour. She doesn’t say anything until her son notices it
-too. Humanoid in form, the figure’s face is black and featureless; it
-vanishes when a neighbor drives up. Two weeks earlier, a yellow sphere
-had chased her car; she accelerated to 80 mph to escape it. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5445
Date: 4/29/1977
-Description: Manuel Lopez, the pilot of a single-engine plane, is
-allegedly blinded in flight by a UFO near Bogotá, Colombia. Circling in
-the air for 2 hours, Lopez’s calls for help are recorded and played on a
-local radio station: “I’ve lost my sight; I don’t know what to do!” Four
-aircraft surround him and talk him down to a safe landing at El Dorado
-International Airport by radio. He is rushed to a military hospital
-suffering from shock. (“Colombian Pilot
-Says UFO Blinded Him,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1977,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5446
Date: 4/29/1977
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A woman and her daughter are driving north of
-Oxford, Ohio, when a white light begins pacing their car on the left
-about 180 feet away. They speed up and pass it after 3 minutes. The
-mother only sees a light, but the daughter perceives a “saucer with a
-vertical cone.” (“Case 2-6-34,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5447
Date: 5/1977
-Description: Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies
-(GEPAN) organized under the auspices of the French national space agency
-for the study of UFOs.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: France
-ID: 290
Date: 5/1977
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield’s Situation Red: The UFO Siege! is published,
-supporting the thesis that the US military has acquired extraterrestrial
-hardware and possibly bodies. The book immediately prompts dozens of
-alleged first- hand witnesses of crashed UFOs or alien bodies to contact
-Stringfield with their stories. One of his informants is a medical
-doctor (“Doctor X”) who says he has conducted medical tests on alien
-cadavers at a major medical facility in the eastern US. Stringfield is
-later able to visit Doctor X and a colleague of his, Doctor Y, who has
-examined an alien tissue sample under a microscope. The aliens are said
-to be 3.5–4.5 feet tall, weighing 40 pounds, with large heads. They have
-slender torsos and long, thin arms. Their skin is tan or gray, elastic,
-and reminiscent of reptilian skin. A colorless liquid is present in the
-bodies; there are no red cells. The eyes are slanted without pupils, and
-they have heavy brow ridges, apertures in place of ears, small noses,
-and slitlike mouths. They have no teeth. Doctor X avoids Stringfield’s
-later questions. (Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege!
-Doubleday, 1977; UFOEv II 593)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5448
Date: 5/1977
-Description: A young radio technician is lying in bed during a power
-blackout in Gloggnitz, Austria. Suddenly a hollow globe about 1.6 feet
-in diameter and made up of separate red bars of light appears over the
-bedroom floor. It begins moving slowly and silently toward a glass door.
-The witness jumps out of bed, bumping into the ball of light with his
-leg. He feels nothing and there are no aftereffects. The bars of light
-begin to shrink in diameter, causing the ball to dim and disappear. No
-traces are left behind. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR
-31, no. 2 (June 2007): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5449
Date: 5/1/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Amateur astronomer Lev Boethin sees a red-brown
-oval object 10 times the size of the moon near Mudeng, Philippines. It
-moves silently from the southeast to the northwest parallel to the
-ground 20° above the horizon. He estimates it is only 300 feet away and
-moving faster than an aircraft. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June
-1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5450
Date: 5/1/1977
-Description: The Groupe d’Etude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non
-Identifiés (GEPAN) is founded as a section of France’s Centre National
-d’Études Spatiales on the initiative of CNES Director Yves
-Sillard. Its purpose is to quiet public fears about a flurry of UFO
-sightings, as well as to coordinate reports of the Gendarmerie, civil
-aviation, the Air Force, and the meteorological service. Its first
-director is aeronautical engineer Claude
-Poher. GEPAN sets up a Scientific Council of astronomers and other
-scientists and professionals to put in place data- collection systems
-for UFO reports from official agencies and investigate cases already
-reported. (Jean-Pierre Petit, “The
-Truth about G.E.P.A.N.,” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 4 (December
-1990): 22–24; Mark Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and
-Defense,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 20–21; Gildas Bourdais, “From
-GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter
-2000–2001): 11–13; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official
-French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 12–13: Swords 440–442;
-Good Above, pp. 135–136;
-Clark III 546)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5451
Date: 5/3/1977
-Description: 3:55 a.m. A caller tells police in Hainault, northeast
-London, that a strange object is above the small lake in Hainault Forest
-Country Park. Two policemen are dispatched, and they see a “large bright
-red light” on the eastern shore. They exit their vehicle and notice an
-object like a “bell tent” about 900 feet away that continuously pulsates
-from dull to very bright red for the next 2–3 minutes. The UFO seems to
-be hovering silently. Then the object appears to “dissolve on the spot.”
-The officers decide somewhat reluctantly to go across the lake and
-investigate. Then one of them looks up and briefly sees a thin, large,
-white crescent hanging in the sky. This also dissolves on the spot.
-Reaching the location of ground zero, they find nothing except a strong
-burning smell. They make a report to the local UFO group, the Essex
-Hotline, and investigator Barry M. King interviews one of the officers
-that night. The next day, one large bush is found damaged: flattened in
-the center and slightly burned. A gorse bush appears to have borne a
-heavy weight, because almost all the limbs are snapped off the central
-branch and displaced in an outward-radiating splay. No radiation or
-magnetic anomalies are found. (Barry M. King, “Landing
-at Hainault Seen by Police,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August
-1977): 8–11; Andrew Collins, “Follow-Up
-at Hainault,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5452
Date: 5/3/1977
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Several people in the eastern part of Jakarta,
-Indonesia, are watching the sky with binoculars when they see a round
-UFO that traverses the sky in one minute. It carries flashing red,
-green, white, and blue lights located in circles around the rim.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5453
Date: 5/3/1977
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A woman in Wilcox, Pennsylvania, sees a large
-silver sphere with many blue lights around its equator. The object
-hovers close to the west side of her house, casting a spotlight on the
-ground. It begins moving and disappears straight up in one second. Her
-two dogs refuse to go near the spot afterward and are fussy about
-eating. (“Case 2-6-53,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5454
Date: 5/7/1977
-Description: Night. Jenny Nordin and a companion in Undersåker,
-Jamtland, Sweden, watch a triangular object with its apex pointing
-downward shining and gleaming above a woods. A string of lights appears
-around its base and the object changes to a rectangle with a pointed
-top. The display continues for 2 hours until a spotlight shines down
-from the right side, illuminating the trees. An enormous object with
-three large windows rises up in the light; both objects hover and
-gradually extinguish. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977):
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5455
Date: 5/8/1977
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A couple driving west on Interstate 80 in Joliet,
-Illinois, watch an object like a silver straw hat move silently
-eastbound over their car. At 2:30 p.m., see a silver sphere with a
-Saturn ring or halo around it. (“Case 2-6-64” and “Case 2-6-65,” IUR 2,
-no. 6 (June 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5456
Date: 5/10/1977
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Phylis Barlow watches a triangular UFO circling
-slowly in the sky above Rome, Georgia. It is flying at a tilt, and on
-the bottom is a circle of foggy light surrounding a triangle of intense
-bright light. She watches it with a friend for 10 minutes as it makes a
-second pass over the area. It descends silently to 1,000 feet and they
-can see it has a grayish-silver color and three creamy yellow,
-honeycombed lights. It moves off to the southeast at great speed. (Rome
-(Ga.) News-Tribune, May 10, 1977; Marler 97–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5457
Date: 5/11/1977
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Three witnesses in Fresno, California, see a
-bright yellow light rise erratically from the northern horizon to a
-fixed position overhead in one minute. A second light, flashing white 3
-times a second, rises from the west to a 50° position above the western
-horizon. Both are stationary for 3 minutes. The yellow object sways back
-and forth. The white light disappears and the yellow light fades into
-the overcast. (“Case 2-6-79,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5459
Date: 5/11/1977
-Description: 9:45 p.m. An adult couple near Bonner Springs, Kansas, see
-a silent disc-shaped object with white windows hovering for 70–80
-seconds, then fly away slowly. (“Case 2-6-84,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977):
-wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5460
Date: 5/11/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman and her son are awakened in their home in
-Clearfield, Pennsylvania, by a loud humming sound. They see a green,
-glowing sphere with a dark equator hovering for 30 minutes near the
-house. It shoots straight up and away and the hum stops. The 11-year-old
-boy stays home from school for several days because he is scared. (“Case
-2-6-77,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5458
Date: 5/15/1977
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A driver in Clarksville, Tennessee, sees a round
-object with 7–8 blue-green lights flashing in its center. It appears to
-drop 7–8 red flares as it is flying southbound in a straight path.
-(“Case 2-7-1,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5461
Date: 5/16/1977
-End date: 5/17/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Officers M. L. Davidson and F. E. Bartlett of
-the Memphis Police Tactical Squad spot a triangular UFO near Old Allen
-Road and Frayser-Raleigh Road in Memphis, Tennessee. At 3:45 a.m.,
-officers T. L. Todd and J. W. Jeter watch a similar object, 300 feet
-long, near the Norris Road exit of Interstate 240. It is hovering about
-200 feet above the ground near some power line towers and is in the
-shape of a perfect triangle standing on edge. Later, Jeter watches it
-through his rifle scope flying horizontally then taking off at great
-speed. A Tennessee State Highway patrolman has also seen a triangular
-object in Collierville. (“Triangular
-Red, Green, Flying
-Object Sighted,” Brownsville (Tex.) Herald, May 17, 1977, p. 1;
-Marler 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5462
Date: 5/17/1977
-Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff re-release JANAP 146 (E),
-specifying “unidentified flying objects” as something that must be
-reported by military personnel. It distinguishes UFOs from other types
-of known aircraft. (Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Change
-No. 2 to JANAP 146 (E),” May 17, 1977)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5463
Date: 5/19/1977
-Description: 10:45 p.m. A travel agent driving in Clayton, New Jersey,
-watches a blindingly bright round object composed of many small white
-lights packed together and three main lights in front. It hovers for
-nearly a minute over telephone wires, then the lights begin flashing and
-the object ascends in a steep climb. (“Case 2-7-15,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July
-1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5464
Date: 5/20/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Three 14-year-old boys are in a field near
-Bayview Avenue and Willow Pass Road, West Pittsburg [now Bay Point],
-California, about a half mile from Suisun Bay. They see a saucer-shaped
-object surrounded by a row of white, rectangular windows that flash on
-and off. A blue light zigzags near the object. It is hovering near the
-ground between railroad tracks and the bay, then it shoots across the
-water in a matter of seconds and returns equally fast, moving silently
-toward them and stopping about 150–300 feet away. One minute later, they
-see three figures advancing toward them from near the lights. They are
-dark human forms, about 5-foot-6 to 6 feet tall, surrounded by mist and
-moving with a stiff, limping walk. The boys run across the street and
-look back in time to see the figures fade from view. (“UFO with ‘Dark
-Figures’ in California,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5465
Date: 5/21/1977
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Three airmen stationed at RAF Waddington in
-Lincolnshire, England, observe a triangular-shaped light moving
-erratically in the sky. Within minutes the light is tracked on radar at
-RAF Patrington [now closed], moving in a zigzag pattern. The target
-registers on radarscopes for 4 minutes until the screens are “partially
-obliterated by high-powered interference” that returns to normal once
-the target disappears. (Good Need, p. 305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5467
Date: 5/21/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A family in St. Louis, Missouri, sees a “comet”
-with a long tail moving in the northeast. (“Case 2-7- 25,” IUR 2, no. 7
-(July 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5466
Date: 5/26/1977
-Description: 1:15 a.m. The crew of an RAF Avro Vulcan B.2 bomber piloted
-by Flight Lt. David Edwards is flying at 28,000 feet over the Bay of
-Biscay off the coast of France at a speed of Mach 0.86 when they observe
-bright lights coming from the west. The lights resemble aircraft landing
-lights, but they soon blink out leaving a large orange glow with a
-bright-green fluorescent spot. An object emerges from the glow, moving
-to the west, climbing at an angle of 45°, and leaving a thin contrail.
-The radar operator reports jamming-type interference. Camera film from
-the aircraft’s radar records a “strong response” from the direction of
-the sighting, consisting of three separate radar returns at varying
-distances, the third made up of three targets all 600 feet wide. On the
-film the UFO appears as an “elongated shadow.” (Good Need, pp. 305–307;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 92–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5468
Date: 5/26/1977
-Description: 8:45 a.m. Two witnesses in Detroit, Michigan, see three
-blue teardrop-shaped objects moving in a V- formation. They move from a
-high angle in the north to a low angle in the northwest, hovering “like
-helicopters” for one minute. They pull out of formation, swoop low,
-regroup, and climb again in formation at a 40° angle, fading from view.
-(“Case 2-7-35,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5469
Date: 5/26/1977
-Description: 4:10 p.m. A 39-year-old radio announcer and his wife are
-watching an eastbound jet overhead at Dowagiac, Michigan. Suddenly a
-brown, cigar-shaped object, distinctly outlined, rushes from the rear
-left side of the plane to a position “one plane length” behind it. The
-object is 1.5 times as long as the jet. It follows for about 30 seconds
-and then rushes ahead of it and is gone in 3 seconds. (“Case 2-7-36,”
-IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5470
Date: 6/6/1977
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Mark Henshall is riding his motorbike home at
-Lartington, Teesdale, England, in the pouring rain when he sees two
-purple lights to his side. He notices he is losing power as he rides up
-a small hill. A car is just starting to pass him, and it too is slowing
-down. Suddenly, both bike and car are enveloped in a nearly blinding,
-fuzzy, ultraviolet light. Henshall feels his bike being pulled up the
-incline and notices steam pouring off his back and legs, which are
-getting unbearably hot. The motorcycle and car stop just as the misty
-violet glow overhead vanishes. The car driver tells Henshall that he
-lost all engine power for 30 seconds and yet was pulled forward. The
-metal side of the motorbike is far hotter than normal and impossible to
-touch without risking serious burns. The brakes are found to be so badly
-worn that they need a complete resetting. When Henshall returns home,
-his mother notices that his face is sunburned and hot to the touch. He
-also experiences nausea for a few days. (Brian Straight, “Vehicle
-Stop near Barnard Castle,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 5 (February
-1978): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5473
Date: 6/10/1977
-Description: A woman in Deerfield, Illinois, watches a gray-white light
-projecting “dots of color” that are drawn back to the source. It remains
-stationary in the low southwestern sky for 15 minutes, then shoots off
-in a slight climb in a matter of seconds. (“Case 2-7-87,” IUR 2, no. 7
-(July 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5474
Date: 6/14/1977
-Description: President Jimmy
-Carter is allegedly given a UFO briefing at the White House and
-bound to secrecy. According to former USAF Capt. Robert
-M. Collins, an MJ-12 officer meets with Carter. A reconstruction of
-the conversation is known as “Executive Briefing: Project Aquarius” and
-later leaked to UFO researcher William Moore. However,
-there is no hard evidence that such a briefing has taken place. (Robert
-M. Collins, ed., “Executive
-Briefing: Project Aquarius”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5475
Date: 6/14/1977
-Description: Prime Minister Eric
-Gairy of Grenada opens the Organization of American States General
-Assembly with a call for a n international investigation of UFOs. He
-says he was asked by participants at the UFO conference in Acapulco,
-Mexico, to continue his efforts. He asks OAS members to support the
-issue when it comes up at the United Nations. (“Caribbean Government
-Calls for UFO Probe,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5476
Date: 6/17/1977
-Description: 12:00 noon. José Francisco Rodrigues is flying a Portuguese
-Air Force Dornier Do 27 light plane over the Castelo de Bode dam in
-central Portugal. When he emerges from the clouds, he sees a dark object
-against a backdrop of white stratocumulus clouds, slightly to the right
-of his plane. Thinking that the object is a cargo plane, he banks to the
-left and immediately radios to ask if there is any traffic in the
-vicinity. Air controller Sgt. Jose Vicente Saldanha replies in the
-negative. As Rodrigues completes a turn to port, the object suddenly
-appears at his 11 o’clock position no more than 20 feet away. It is
-definitely not a cargo plane. The upper section, partially concealed by
-cloud, is black, and on the lower section there are four or five panels.
-The object is about 42–50 feet in diameter. Suddenly it accelerates and
-vanishes from what the pilot believes is an initial stationary position.
-The Dornier begins to vibrate violently and goes into an uncontrolled
-dive. Struggling to regain control, Rodrigues pushes the control column
-forward. Air speed increases to 160 mph then 207 mph as the ground comes
-nearer. He regains control when almost “touching the tree tops” and the
-plane lands in one piece with a badly shaken pilot. During the encounter
-the directional electric gyroscope (connected to a magnetic compass)
-rotates wildly, and by the time the plane lands it has deviated by 180°
-relative to the magnetic compass. (Willy Smith, “Unknown Intruder over
-Portugal,” IUR 10, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1985): 6–8; Good Above, pp. 154–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5477
Date: 6/17/1977
-Description: Dusk. Five individuals—Dale Schexnaider and his wife, their
-two daughters, Jena, 14, and Krissy, 11, and a close family friend—are
-breaking camp and preparing to go home from the Cotile Lake Recreation
-Area, Louisiana. Just before they reach the clearing that leads to the
-road, the male friend begins feeling a “low frequency vibration” in his
-bones. Looking upward, he sees the outline of a huge, disc-shaped UFO
-hovering completely still, surrounded with points of light. The friend
-estimates it is about 75 feet across and 50 feet tall. The two daughters
-have been talking, but they too notice the humming noise and see the
-UFO. The object then floats almost directly above them, and the middle
-of the craft starts to glow. Several rays or beams of blue light shoot
-from the UFO, striking them in the solar plexus. It is an intense,
-electric, silver-blue, thin beam. They hear crackling sounds in the air
-and they can’t move. Slowly they force their heads down to see their
-arms glowing with electric blue light. Movement is difficult—as in a
-dream, slow and heavy. After about 10 seconds, all the lights vanished
-instantly, along with the force field. The craft begins to glide away
-over the treetops. The children are frantic, and the male friend is
-inwardly terrified. The parents are back at the camp and see none of
-this. The case is reported to J.
-Allen Hynek by a friend, and he later visits the witnesses and
-speaks to all three. (“A CE-II As a Picnic Guest,” CUFOS Bulletin,
-Summer 1980, pp. 1, 3; “An Electric-Blue Close Encounter,” CUFOS
-Bulletin, Spring 1981, pp. 4–5, 10, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5478
Date: 6/20/1977
-Description: A committee of advanced workshop participants from the
-Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale has been tackling the
-UFO situation for the French government since at least 1976. It produces
-a report titled Rapport sur les “Phénomènes Aeriens Non Identifiés,
-which is translated into English by Bonita Samuelson and published by
-the Center for UFO Studies in 1980 under the title Report on
-Unidentified Aerial Objects. The committee members are divided about the
-existence of true UFOs, but they agree that the UFO theme can be used in
-psychological warfare. (Claude Maugé, “GEPAN and COMETA,” IUR 27, no. 1
-(Spring 2002): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5479
Date: summer 1977
-Description: Around 2:00 a.m. Senior Airman James M. Dunn is on K-9
-security patrol at the Weapons Storage Area at Loring AFB [now Loring
-International Airport] near Limestone, Maine, when he gets a call from a
-sergeant at Entry Control about a bright light above his truck. He sees
-an intense light, which is directed onto the truck at a 45° angle. The
-interior of the truck cab seems to glow with a greenish hue. About 5
-seconds later the light goes out. Dunn talks to the sergeant, who seems
-a bit stunned. A few minutes later, two F-106 interceptors shoot above
-the WSA, apparently looking for a radar target. (Nukes 373–375)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5471
Date: summer 1977
-Description: Physicist Bruce
-Maccabee uses FOIA requests to obtain some 400 pages of UFO-related
-documents, mostly from 1947–1955, from the FBI by the end of the year.
-(Bruce S. Maccabee, “UFO
-Related Information from the FBI
-File, Part 1,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 119 (October 1977): 13–15, reprinted in
-UFO Investigator, November 1977, pp. 1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5472
Date: 6/24/1977
-End date: 6/26/1977
-Description: Fate magazine holds an International UFO Congress at the
-Pick-Congress Hotel [now the Congress Plaza Hotel] across from Grant
-Park in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in commemoration of the 30th
-anniversary of the Kenneth
-Arnold sighting. Some 1,500 people attend to hear speakers Ted
-Bloecher, Jerome
-Clark, Jacques
-Vallée, Stanton
-T. Friedman, Kenneth
-Arnold, Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen, David
-M. Jacobs, Frank
-Salisbury, J.
-Allen Hynek, Ted
-Phillips, Dennis
-Hauck, Betty
-Hill, and R.
-Leo Sprinkle. Fate editor Curtis
-G. Fuller publishes the presentations in paperback format in May
-1980. (“Chicago UFO Conference,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): wrap; Curtis
-G. Fuller, ed., Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress,
-Warner, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5480
Date: 6/25/1977
-Description: A man is driving on the A303 with his partially sighted
-fiancée near Warminster, Wiltshire, England, when they see a triangle of
-white lights ahead of them. When the lights get near to the car, they
-break away, one to the side of the road, and the two others on either
-side of the witnesses. They dance in the air for a while, then an orange
-globe emerges from the center of each. All the lights move to the rear
-of the car and disappear behind it. (UFOFiles2, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5481
Date: 6/25/1977
-End date: 6/26/1977
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds its Second National
-Conference in Toscolano-Moderno, Brescia, Italy, to commemorate the 30th
-anniversary of Kenneth
-Arnold’s sighting. Speakers include Roberto
-Pinotti, Antonio
-Ribera, Ion
-Hobana, Florin
-Gheorghiţă, W.
-Raymond Drake, Ernest
-Ameglio, Roberto Farabone, Roberto Villamil, Gianni Settimo, Sergio
-Conti, Francesco Izzo, Renzo Cabassi, Stelio Asso, and Mario Pagni. (“2o Congresso
-Nazionale di Ufologia,” Notiziario UFO, no. 75/76 (July/Dec. 1977):
-1–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5482
Date: 6/26/1977
-Description: 2:45 a.m. Two witnesses see a flashing light source pass
-swiftly across the sky twice in about 10 minutes in Greece, New York.
-(“Case 2-8-26,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5483
Date: 6/27/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman and three children in Genesee,
-Wisconsin, drive toward a structure composed of three parallel cylinders
-until they are underneath it. The hovering object looks as big as the
-full moon, with two steady white lights in front and a red light on top.
-When she stops her car, the object moves off to the southeast. (“Case
-2-8-36,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5484
Date: 6/28/1977
-Description: Night. A man with a flat tire is stopped on the highway
-between Abadan and Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, when he suddenly feels heat
-from a nearby “huge, bright object” that changes from red to green to
-purple to blue. Its lights go off, and as the witness sits in the car to
-sleep, the light returns, even closer. When he turns off his car
-headlights, the UFO extinguishes its lights. (“Review of Iranian UFO
-Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5485
Date: 7/1977
-End date: 12/1977
-Description: Numerous UFOs are reported in Colares, Pará, Brazil.
-Residents claim that scars on their bodies are caused by lights in the
-sky that they call “Chupa Chupa” (literally “sucker-sucker”). Believing
-it will keep the lights away, residents of Colares organize night
-vigils, light fires, and ignite fireworks. Mayor José
-Ildone Favacho
-Soeiro officially requests help from the Brazilian Air Force. The
-operation, a historic military operation in the Amazon basin, is
-commanded by Capt. Uyrangê
-Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima. In late 1977, several
-photos of the lights are recorded, but the military remains skeptical.
-After approximately four months, the operation is closed after the Air
-Force can identify no unusual phenomena. The official documents can be
-seen in the Brazilian National Archives. According to ufologist Jacques
-Vallée, a number of individuals are reportedly killed as a result of
-the “lightning” fired at them by the UFOs, and injuries are consistent
-with radiation effects from microwaves. Other ufologists claim that the
-lights from UFOs have sucked blood from 400 people. In 1997, two decades
-after the operation, Capt. Hollanda gives an interview to ufologists Ademar
-José Gevaerd and Marco Antônio
-Petit where he recounts his experiences living alongside his men.
-Three months after the interview, he is found dead in his home “after he
-seemingly hung himself using the belt of his bathrobe,” attracting the
-interest of conspiracy theorists. (Wikipedia, “Operação
-Prato”; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations, Ballantine, 1990, pp. 136– 139, 220–226;
-Good Need, pp. 367–368;
-Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure, Century, 2000, pp. 187–200; “Caso
-Chupa-Chupa e Operação Prato: Entrevista com o Coronel Hollanda,”
-Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil 442–493; Clark III 838–857;
-Patrick Gross, “Colares
-1977”; Skinwalkers 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5486
Date: 7/1977
-Description: Howard Gontovnick begins monthly publication of UFO Canada
-in Laval, Quebec. It continues until April 1979. (UFO
-Canada 1, no. 1 (July 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5487
Date: 7/1977
-Description: Flight Lieutenant A. M. Wood sees two luminous, round
-objects, 4–5 times the size of the full moon, hovering 5,000 feet in the
-air over the sea off RAF Boulmer near Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
-Two other base personnel, a Cpl. Torrington and a Sgt. Graham, watch the
-objects with Wood for almost 2 hours. They are tracked on base radar and
-at RRH Staxton Wold. The objects separate, one moving west of the other
-and “as it maneuvered it changed shape to become body-shaped with
-projections like arms and legs.” (“RAF
-Boulmer: Reports
-of UFO Sightings Were Hushed Up,” Northumberland Today, January 28,
-2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5488
Date: 7/1/1977
-Description: Luminous round object with dome hovered above a NATO base
-security zone, spinning. Changed color, emitted sound like swarm of
-bees
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Aviano, Italy
-ID: 291
Date: 7/1/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Electronic alarms suddenly sound at NATO’s Aviano
-Air Base north of Pordenone, Italy. Something has set off the magnetic
-and motion detectors in the high hurricane-type fence protecting the
-compound. Simultaneously a power outage occurs at the Victor Alert
-facility that houses fighter aircraft, and though a back- up system
-immediately kicks in, minor power fluxes go on for the next 15 to 20
-minutes. An American soldier named James Blake sees a large bright light
-hovering at a low altitude above a soybean field about 600 feet beyond
-the fence line of the compound. Many soldiers see the object, which
-appears to be domed, spinning, and changing colors. It is 150 feet in
-diameter and making a noise like a “swarm of bees.” USAF security and a
-unit from the Italian National Police are dispatched, but the object
-moves away before the units arrive. (Antonio Chiumiento, “UFO
-Alert at a NATO Base in Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2
-(December 1984): 2–5; Good Above, pp. 144–145;
-Jerry Rowles, “The
-Mystery of Aviano,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 334 (February 1996): 3–6;
-John S. Derr, “Quake
-Light?” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 336 (April 1996): 19–20; Gerald E.
-Rowles, “Update
-on Aviano,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 367 (November 1998): 19; 1Pinotti
-199–204; Patrick Gross, “Aviano
-AFB, Italy, July 1st, 1977”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5489
Date: 7/2/1977
-Description: 12:45 p.m. A woman driving her car in Benton Harbor,
-Michigan, sees a silent silver disc, edge on, with the apparent diameter
-of the full moon. It is hovering motionless with its left side tilted
-down. Trees obscure her vision for about one minute; when they clear,
-the object is gone. (“Case 2-8-51,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5490
Date: 7/3/1977
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Jennifer F. Canfield and her husband are sitting
-on their front porch in Pennsylvania across the Delaware River from
-Callicoon, New York, when they notice a brilliant light coming slowly
-and silently up the river from the southeast at 1,000–1,500 feet.
-Through binoculars, it appears to be a domed elliptical object with two
-headlights and apparent windows. The object suddenly blinks out. (“1977
-Sketch/Sighting and 1981 Sketch Similarity:
-Another One,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983):
-1, 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5491
Date: 7/3/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man in Clarksburg, West Virginia, briefly
-watches a silver rectangular object fly under a low cloud cover toward
-the north. It climbs at a 30° angle and is lost in the clouds. (“Case
-2-8-54,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5492
Date: 7/4/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Ten witnesses in different parts of Rapid City,
-South Dakota, observe three dark objects moving silently toward the
-west. Each has a row of closely spaced red lights randomly flashing. Two
-of them seem to merge in the distance, and the remaining pair disappears
-into a cloud bank. (“Case 2-8-55,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977):
-wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5493
Date: 7/6/1977
-Description: 6:30 p.m. At Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia, a ham radio
-operator reports a UFO that moves from west to east in about seven
-minutes. The object is flat, but positioned directly overhead it appears
-round in shape and yellowish-green in color. It hovers for about 5
-seconds, then resumes its movement and disappears in the distance.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5494
Date: 7/7/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. The Russian motor ship Nikolay Ostrovsky is
-going north through the Strait of Tartary, off the east coast of Russia,
-when the crew sees a cloud-like formation in the shape of a rectangle,
-moving at the same speed as the ship, about 980–1,300 feet to the east.
-Radio operator O. Dereza has an eerie feeling of being watched. It
-disappears at 11:32 p.m. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets,
-Flying Disk, 2020, p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5496
Date: 7/7/1977
-Description: 8:30 p.m. As some 3,000 people are attending an outdoor
-screening of a Romanian film in Zhangpu County, Fujian, China, two
-objects appear in the sky, flying low. They emit an intense orange glow
-and are only a few feet apart, traveling in complete silence for a few
-seconds before speeding out of sight. A panic ensues, and allegedly 300
-people are injured and two children killed. (Anthony Lee, “UFO
-Reports from China (2),” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 4 (March
-1983): 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5495
Date: 7/9/1977
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A 38-year-old singer sees a dull-silver,
-saucer-shaped UFO hovering on the left side of Telegraph Road in Flat
-Rock, Michigan. It is only about 200 feet above the ground and 150 feet
-from the road. It has many red and green lights around its rim, and a
-beam of light illuminates the ground for 2 minutes. The object floats
-away over the treetops, moving toward the southwest. (“Case 2-8-72,” IUR
-2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5497
Date: 7/12/1977
-Description: Night. A man and his daughter in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico,
-see a small humanoid in a green inflated suit with a pointed helmet that
-has a light on top. When the daughter switches on an outside light, it
-seems to be scared and activates a backpack that lets it climb upward
-over a neighboring farm and trees. The cows react by making a racket.
-Another person in the area reports an illuminated UFO. (Jenny Randles,
-“Superman vs. Airbus,” Fortean Times 323 (February 2015): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5498
Date: 7/13/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A couple in Dinwiddie, Virginia, see a large
-silvery star stationary in the sky as rolling storm clouds pass
-overhead. It “skips” in position slightly once and increases in
-brightness when lightning flashes. It disappears when another lightning
-strike occurs. (“Case 2-8-84,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5499
Date: 7/15/1977
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Adult witnesses on a boat on the Colorado River
-near Blythe, California, watch an oval light, 3–4 times the size of the
-moon, darting silently above them in all directions and on both sides of
-the river. It stops abruptly, comes close to the boat, then curves
-around the river. (“Case 2-9-2,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5500
Date: 7/16/1977
-Description: 11:15 p.m. As Air India Flight 9, piloted by Capt. Dingra,
-makes its final approach to Dum Dum Airport [now Netaji Subhas Chandra
-Bose International Airport] in Kolkata, India, air traffic controllers
-notice a second object closing in on the Boeing 747. Witnesses on the
-ground report a saucer-shaped object rushing toward the airliner. When
-it gets dangerously close, the passengers and crew can see it. It
-departs 2 miles from the aircraft’s final touch-down. (Good Need, p. 304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5501
Date: 7/16/1977
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. A bright light in the west above
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana, moves 10°–15° from its original position and
-back again. The object remains in the same position, even though the
-stars have shifted by the time it is last seen at 1:15 a.m. (“Case
-2-9-4,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5502
Date: 7/17/1977
-Description: Romanian ufologists Călin Turcu, Valeriu Niculescu, Adrian
-Pătruţ, and Augustin Moraru establish an informal group called “Romanian
-UFO Researchers” (RUFOR). It publishes 27 issues of a RUFOR newsletter
-between 1979 and 1986 and 21 issues of a RUFOR magazine in 1994–1996.
-(Romania 38–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5503
Date: 7/18/1977
-Description: 12:05 a.m. An intense blue-white glow hovers 200–300 feet
-above a creek near Fairview, Pennsylvania. After 4 seconds, it jumps to
-the north with a hum “like a hair dryer” and is lost to sight. (“Case
-2-9-8,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5504
Date: 7/21/1977
-Description: 10:05 p.m. Witnesses in Glenview, Illinois, watch a light
-move from the north to the southeast in about 3 seconds. It stops for 1
-second, hooks backward, and stops again. When the witnesses look back,
-it has disappeared. (“Case 2-9-19,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5506
Date: 7/21/1977
-Description: Frank
-Press, director
-of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, writes to Robert
-A. Frosch, NASA
-administrator, and explains that the White House is receiving numerous
-inquiries about UFOs and wonders if NASA could form a small panel to
-follow up on the Condon report to see if there are any new findings.
-Press also suggests that NASA become the focal point for further UFO
-inquiries. (Story, p. 242;
-Clark III 787; Good Above, pp. 368–369)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5505
Date: 7/23/1977
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A 26-year old woman and her 13-year-old niece
-look out their bedroom window in Lindley, New York, before retiring and
-see 11 or 12 white lights in a dipper-shaped formation that are moving
-about in the sky. One bright light appears on a hill 900 feet away. They
-hear a whooshing sound, then two lights rise into the air. They next
-hear footsteps from Morgan Creek about 300 feet away and see two small
-figures floating up and down in front of a tree. Then they see several
-more figures at various spots carrying what seem to be flashlights. They
-wear tight-fitting, “skin diver” suits with glowing green belts. One of
-the witnesses sees a luminous red rectangular object that approaches the
-creek and then backs away. At this point both witnesses develop severe
-headaches. Then a figure on a distant hill on a neighbor’s farm shines a
-light on a tombstone there, and the stone seems to rise up into the air
-and move back and forth. A figure taller than the others, who are less
-than four feet tall, stands near the light on the hill and calls out an
-“ooh, ooh” signal. The others all approach him and, 5 minutes later,
-deploy back into adjacent fields. One of them approaches the house. He
-comes under the second-story window and drops to the ground, as if to
-conceal himself, then approaches the door and rattles the handle. By
-this time, 3:45 a.m., the older witness has called her mother, who
-notifies the state police. All of the lights and figures disappear just
-prior to the arrival of the police, the lights in the sky
-indistinguishable from stars. Both witnesses believe only an hour has
-passed but in fact more than three hours has elapsed. They complain of
-burning eyes and headaches that last for two days. The witnesses find
-three footprints in the powdery dust of their driveway. Further
-incidents occur on July 25 and August 1. (Allan Hendry, “The Lindley
-Episodes: CE III’s in New York State,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977):
-5–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5507
Date: 7/26/1977
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Astronomer Zhang Zhousheng and others watch a
-strange spiral object in the air above a northern suburb of Chengdu,
-Sichuan, China. At its center is a yellowish light, with the arms of the
-spiral blue and greenish. The object is 60° in the air and moving in a
-straight line at a constant speed. It is visible for about 5 minutes
-before it is covered up by clouds. The object is visible to other
-witnesses in localities along a 110-mile, north-to-south line, for as
-long as 10 minutes. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern
-China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 99–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5508
Date: 7/29/1977
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 292
Date: 7/30/1977
-Description: Early morning. Airmen on the night shift at RAF Boulmer in
-Alnwick, Northumberland, England, are alerted by a call from a civilian
-who is watching two bright objects hovering above the North Sea. Duty
-controller Flight Lt. A. M. Wood and others on the base can also see
-them, hovering close to the shore at about 4,000–5,000 feet. They move
-apart slowly as they climb into the sky. The object on the west side is
-conical with its apex at the top. It seems to be rotating and changes
-its shape to an arrowhead. It is apparently 4–5 times the size of a
-Whirlwind helicopter. After the objects move away out to sea, radar at
-RAF Boulmer picks up two targets 20–30 miles out, corroborated by radar
-at RAF Patrington in Yorkshire. (UFOFiles2, p. 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5509
Date: 7/31/1977
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A university art professor in Normal, Illinois,
-calls his wife and secretary to see a silver “stretched cigar” three
-times its apparent diameter in length. The object flies in a slow,
-straight path from southwest to northeast and is lost in the trees.
-(“Case 2-9-68,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5510
Date: 8/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Graham Niven sees two green objects in the
-southern sky at Raeford, North Carolina. They are moving swiftly to the
-north. (“One
-Reporting Witness: Two Reported Sightings,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5511
Date: 8/1/1977
-Description: 9:30 a.m. An 11-year-old boy playing baseball in
-Springfield, Ohio, sees a white cigar-shaped object flying southbound
-from low in the western sky for 15 seconds. (“Case 2-9-70,” IUR 2, no. 9
-(September 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5512
Date: 8/2/1977
-Description: Marauding UFOs destroy the town of Chester, Illinois,
-according to a hoax concocted by Official UFO magazine editor Myron
-Fass. (Allan
-Hendry, “Sleep Well, Chester, Illinois: It’s Ufology That’s Hurting,”
-IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): wrap; Clark III 599)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5513
Date: 8/3/1977
-End date: 8/18/1977
-Description: Italian researchers Giovanni and Piero Mantero of the
-Centro Internazionale Richerche e Studi sugli UFO in Genoa hold a 15-day
-skywatch on Monte Verrugoli west of La Spezia, Italy. The mountain is
-known for reports of strange phenomena. During the skywatch a total of
-108 nocturnal lights are observed, 82 appearing as points of light, 7
-oblong in shape, 7 spherical, one like a tilted plate, 3 discoid, one
-like a half-moon, and 7 other miscellaneous forms. Most are yellow, but
-some are reddish or blue. Occasionally the unidentified lights seem to
-increase in luminosity in response to signals made with a flashlight.
-During their presence, dogs in the neighborhood bark almost constantly.
-The objects disappear when conventional aircraft appear in the sky.
-Sounds of breaking tree branches are heard, unidentified voices are
-registered on a tape recorder, wristwatches malfunction, and areas of
-flattened grass are found. On one of the last nights of the project,
-Giovanni Mantero claims to have seen a strange aerial entity with a
-transparent face. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980,
-pp. 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5515
Date: 8/3/1977
-Description: Afternoon. NASA astrophysicist Richard
-C. Henry is one of several persons asked to attend a meeting to
-discuss what to do about Frank
-Press’s recommendation. The group decides to turn the issue over to
-Space Science Director Noel
-W. Hinners. At
-the end of the meeting, Henry lets Hinners know that he has some
-relevant expertise on UFOs (as a consultant to APRO). (Richard C. Henry,
-“UFOs
-and NASA,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 2, no. 2 (1988):
-93–142; Clark 787–788)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5514
Date: 8/3/1977
-Description: Orange-red objects hovered nearby, car lost power
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Thaxted, North Essex, UK
-ID: 293
Date: 8/4/1977
-Description: The offices of the Energy Research and Development
-Administration and the Federal Energy Administration are dissolved and
-become the cabinet-level US Department of Energy, with the oversight of
-policies on energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Its
-responsibilities include the nation’s nuclear weapons program, nuclear
-reactor production for the US Navy, energy conservation, energy-related
-research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production. It
-also directs research in genomics; the Human Genome Project originated
-in a DOE initiative.(Wikipedia, “United
-States Department of Energy”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5516
Date: 8/4/1977
-Description: 9:10 p.m. A man in Teddington, southwest London, England,
-is outside watching the sky when he sees a small light traveling fast to
-the right of a well known Heathrow Airport flight path. Watching it
-through binoculars, it looks like a metallic submarine shape with five
-portholes. It hovers for 20 seconds almost on the flight path. It moves
-away quickly when an aircraft approaches. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6
-(June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5517
Date: 8/6/1977
-Description: 8:55 p.m. A young woman close to Port Columbus Airport [now
-John Glenn Columbus International Airport] in Columbus, Ohio, stops her
-car to watch two cylindrical objects with bulbous ends approach her from
-the southwest. They are dark gray or green and have bright white lights
-on opposite ends. They appear to bank and twist for 10–15 seconds. One
-ascends, stops, and vanishes; the other does the same maneuver one
-second later, all “too fast for airplanes.” (“Case 2-9-81,” IUR 2, no. 9
-(September 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5518
Date: 8/7/1977
-Description: A nearly perfect circular ring, 12 feet in diameter and 8
-inches wide is discovered in someone’s backyard on an island in the
-Mississippi River near Galena, Illinois. The ring is caused by a
-substance composed of tiny beads that discolors the grass and leaves on
-the ground. A similar ring is found near Chesterton, Indiana, on August
-12. Analysis by the University of Chicago shows that the rings are
-caused by slime mold. (Allan Hendry, “A Physical Trace Doth Not a CE II
-Make,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5519
Date: 8/9/1977
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness in Wheaton, Illinois, sees 8–16
-pinpoints of light “like magnesium burning” silently maneuvering in and
-out of the overcast clouds. They appear to be approaching very fast from
-60° in the north. Looping and swooping, they move apart after about 15
-seconds. (“Case 2-9-85,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5520
Date: 8/10/1977
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Two adult couples in Bridgewater Township, New
-Jersey, watch a bright, blue-green star silently loping from low in the
-west toward the northeast for 30–45 seconds. (“Case 2-9-87,” IUR 2, no.
-9 (September 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5521
Date: 8/11/1977
-Description: 8:05 p.m. A 37-year-old police detective in South
-Brunswick, New Jersey, watches a silent disc-shaped object come over the
-horizon. Four other witnesses also see it. There is something that looks
-like a rotating “radar mast” on the object. It rises into the clouds and
-shoots off toward the north-northeast after 3.5 minutes. (“Case 2-
-9-88,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5522
Date: 8/11/1977
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A couple are driving near Hayden, Alabama, when
-they see an object hovering silently about 150 feet in the air. A
-blue-gray light in its center turns on and they can see its disc-like
-shape and size, which is about 65 feet in diameter. The object shoots
-north like a bullet, then stops a short distance away. Keeping it in
-view, they drive home and call the police. The woman sees the UFO circle
-around them three times and land. A second object comes out of the hills
-to the northeast and stops directly above the first object at about 400
-feet. The lower object rises up to join the other briefly, and they can
-see a blinking red light on top. The objects accelerate to the south and
-vanish from sight. Total duration is 5 minutes. (“Case 2-9-89,” IUR 2,
-no. 10 (October 1977): wrap) August 13 (approximately) — Night. At
-Nocero Umbra, Perugia, Italy, several witnesses, including Bruno Vitali,
-see a cone-shaped object “more than a meter high.” Vitali tries
-unsuccessfully to hit the object with his car because as he speeds
-forward, the object maintains the same distance. Students who
-investigate the site later find a stone that is intensely hot 2 days
-after the encounter. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 12 (November 1977): 2;
-Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1
-(Spring 2002): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5523
Date: mid 8/1977
-Description: Between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Canute Jensen, 13, and Kevin
-Rurka, 12, are in a treehouse on the Chris Jensen farm 27 miles north of
-Edmonton, Alberta. They are taking photos when they see a large, dark,
-block- shaped object moving through the sky. Canute snaps three photos
-before the object disappears upward in the clouds. (“UFO
-Photographed from a Tree-House in Canada,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 7, no. 8 (August 1981): 1, 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5524
Date: 8/15/1977
-Description: The Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, in searching
-for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, detects a strong,
-intermittent signal lasting for 72 seconds that stands out distinctly
-from the background noise. The team quickly rules out a terrestrial
-origin or a broadcast from a satellite. Nevertheless, the signal is so
-powerful and unusual that Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who analyzes the
-data print out, annotates the signal with the word “Wow!” The Big Ear
-team continued to observe the same part of the sky, as have others, but
-the Wow! signal never returns. In 2020, using the Gaia 3D star database
-developed by the European Space Agency, amateur astronomer Alberto
-Caballero identifies a Sun-like star in the region of the sky where the
-Wow! signal originated. (Wikipedia, “Wow!
-Signal”; Daniela Breitman, “Wow!
-Signal Explained after 40 Years?” EarthSky, June 7, 2017; “Sun-Like
-Star Identified As the Potential Source of the Wow! Signal,” Physics
-ArXiv Blog, November 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5525
Date: 8/17/1977
-Description: 2:00 p.m. James R. Leming is driving on Interstate 70
-westbound about 15 miles west of the Nebraska– Colorado state border. He
-sees a strange object moving swiftly in the sky and pulls over to watch.
-It moves to the north, then veers back to the highway and runs a
-parallel course along the interstate. Directly over the road it remains
-stationary for 3 minutes, and Leming is able to take three photographs,
-only one of which is not blurry because the object began speeding away.
-He estimates it was 600 feet away, its altitude at about 500 feet above
-the road, positioned at a 40° angle above the horizon, and 40–45 feet
-from tip to tip with a downward curve at each end. Ground Saucer Watch
-explains the photo as a chip in the glass of Leming’s windshield, but
-Leming contests that. (“1977
-Photograph/Sighting and 1982 Sketch Similarity,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 1; Fred Adrian, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): 2–3; James R.
-Leming, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 2))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5526
Date: 8/28/1977
-Description: 12:38 a.m. Two witnesses on a deserted rural boulevard near
-Hayward, California, see an odd triangular object with red, blue, and
-white lights. They drive toward it, overtake it, and pass underneath,
-and they see that it is much larger than the full moon. Then it turns
-abruptly and follows them, but they accelerate to 65 mph and evade it.
-(“Case 2-10-35,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5528
Date: 8/28/1977
-Description: 8:40 p.m. The same couple in Hayden, Alabama, who saw a UFO
-on August 11 see a similar bright object 2 miles away from the previous
-site. It has several beige lights, and it darts toward their car in
-seconds when they stop to look. All the lights go out and come back on
-at the same time. (“Case 2-10-37,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5529
Date: 8/28/1977
-Description: 12:10 a.m. For more than 20 minutes, police (including PC
-Ian MacKenzie, PS James Trohear, PC Alexander Inglis, and PC David Wild)
-and citizens in Windermere, Cumbria, England, watch a large lighted
-object in the shape of a “stingray fish” (triangular). It flies slowly
-at 1,500 feet altitude, hovering occasionally. All witnesses describe it
-as silent, except for one, who hears a “quiet hum.” (Nick Redfern, A
-Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997,
-pp. 131–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5527
Date: 8/31/1977
-Description: 12:30–3:15 a.m. A total of seven witnesses see a lighted
-cylindrical object at the top of a disused quarry on the road between
-Sturno and Frigento, Avellino, Italy. Near the object is an entity about
-7 feet 10 inches tall. It has two red-orange lights in a spot where its
-eyes might be and is wearing metallic-looking coveralls, a possible
-helmet, a metallic belt, and a black box on its arm. At one point the
-entity shines a bright beam of light at them. The duration of the
-sighting is due to the original two witnesses going back and forth to a
-nearby village to collect additional observers. A triangle of
-depressions is found that indicates something as heavy as 40 tons has
-landed there. Some of the witnesses are regressed hypnotically and
-recall the same narrative. (Maurizio Verga, “Seven Scared
-Witnesses and a Humanoid,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 1 (May
-1979): 17–19, 22; 1Pinotti 205–210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5530
Date: 9/1977
-Description: Lt. Gen. Akira Hirano, chief of Japan’s Air Self-Defense
-Forces, admits that UFOs are seen frequently in Japan and that they are
-quietly investigated. However, the following day his staff denies that
-he intended to comment on official investigations. (Good Above, p. 430)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5532
Date: 9/1/1977
-Description: Air Force Letter from Col. Charles H. Senn, Wash., D.C., to
-Gen. Duward L. Crow (Ret.), NASA, Wash., D.C. stating: Enclosed are the
-UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries you
-requested. I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening
-of UFO investigations.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p581)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 9/4/1977
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Farmer Luis Sandoval, 74, is resting in a hammock
-near Corozal, Puerto Rico, when he decides to get up and move to another
-spot. He hears some popping noises and sees an object like an elongated,
-bright blue candle. It moves toward him, making an increasingly loud
-roaring-engine noise, then drops down beside him. The object abruptly
-turns into a 3-foot-high dwarf, dressed in jacket and tie, with an ugly
-face. He speaks encouragingly, says he is an extraterrestrial, and gives
-Sandoval a complete physical examination. The dwarf steps away to admire
-the scenery and says, “How nice Puerto Rico is.” He then turns into a
-flaming blue candle and vanishes upward in a flash. Other dwarf
-sightings take place in the area. (Gordon Creighton, “A
-New Medicare?”
-Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 2 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5533
Date: 9/6/1977
-Description: NASA administrator Robert
-Frosch responds to Frank
-Press, saying that he is “inclined to agree” with his recommendation
-on a new UFO panel; however, NASA wants to be assured that an inquiry is
-“justified,” and that if funding is provided, it could hire a project
-officer to review reports from the past 10 years. (Clark III 787)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5534
Date: 9/7/1977
-Description: 10:24 p.m. A white glow is seen rushing silently three
-times over a 15-minute period in Tooele, Utah. It first travels to the
-south but executes a 90° turn toward the west. Five minutes later it
-returns, moving east. Ten minutes later it reappears, slower and lower,
-moving to the northeast. (“Case 2-10-58,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5535
Date: 9/8/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. An ex-pilot sees a dark, bullet-shaped object
-while walking his dog in New Orleans, Louisiana. It rushes silently to
-the east and changes course slightly to the southeast. (“Case 2-10-60,”
-IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5536
Date: 9/9/1977
-Description: Grenada Prime Minister Eric
-Gairy meets with President Jimmy
-Carter in the White House for 45 minutes. Carter gives Gairy a copy
-of the Condon report. (Dolan II 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5537
Date: 9/14/1977
-Description: Press again
-asks Frosch for
-help with Carter’s
-UFO mail problem and repeats his suggestion for a scientific UFO panel
-to investigate reports. (presidentialufo.com, “President Jimmy
-Carter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5538
Date: 9/15/1977
-Description: 2:15 a.m. A 33-year-old bus driver named Antonio Bogado La
-Rúbia leaves his home in Paciência, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to catch a
-bus. As he is walking by a deserted field, he sees a UFO “like an
-enormous hat.” He takes two steps back and is grabbed by two men.
-Suddenly he is floating inside the UFO, surrounded by two rows of a
-dozen men each, about 5 feet 5 inches tall. They are wearing
-football-shaped helmets with a wide band running across the broad
-portion and are cut into mirror-like sections from which blue flashes
-are emitted. They seem like robots, but La Rúbia can hear them
-breathing. A typical abduction scenario follows. (“Brazilian
-CE4 Case,”
-APRO Bulletin 26, no. 4 (October 1977): 1–4; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no.
-11 (November 1977): 2, 8; “Ufonautas
-Unipedais (Robôs) Seqüestram Motorista de Ônibus no Rio de Janeiro,”
-SBEDV Boletim, no. 121/125 (March/Dec. 1978): 20–44; Brazil
-211–224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5539
Date: 9/17/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A couple driving near Kargowa, Poland, notice two
-unusual lights in the sky. They drive a half mile further, then the
-lights approach them at incredible speed and hover above the car. The
-driver stops to look at them and notices that one light is bigger and
-whiter than the smaller yellowish light. When he drives away, the lights
-continue to pace them for 6 miles, keeping 10–30 feet away from the car
-until they reach Wolsztyn, where they rise up and speed away. (Poland
-32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5541
Date: late 9/1977
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness working as a receptionist at the
-Paralela 45 Motel on Highway 1 north of Ploieşti, Romania, sees a large
-object 3–4 times as large as the Moon, which is visible in another part
-of the sky. It has an orange-red core with a yellowish-red halo at the
-edges. It stands motionless for 3–4 minutes, then descends slowly toward
-the southwest before shooting away at an nicredible speed. (Romania
-42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5540
Date: 9/20/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. The watch officer of an Alfa-class nuclear
-submarine in the White Sea off Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia,
-notices an object moving swiftly to the southwest. It seems to stretch
-out, turning into a long, glowing ribbon. As it flies over him, it looks
-like a cylinder with one of the ends becoming asymmetrical. The cylinder
-ejects small objects that fly off in different directions. (Stonehill
-and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5542
Date: 9/20/1977
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A large “star” sending out beams of light appears
-moving slowly over Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia. It is last seen as a
-semicircular glow, bright red in the middle and white on the sides. The
-total duration is 10–12 minutes. Scientist Mikhail Dimitryev describes
-it as a “giant jellyfish.” The phenomenon is seen over a vast territory,
-from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Helsinki, Finland, in the west to
-Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, in the east. Government officials
-from northern European countries send letters to Anatoly
-Alexandrov, president
-of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, expressing concern about whether
-the observed phenomenon is caused by Soviet weapons testing and whether
-it constitutes a threat to the region’s environment. Col. Boris Sokolov reveals
-that the phenomenon is observed from 12:00 midnight by military men
-along the Finnish border; when they try to report it, all their
-communications fail. All communications are restored after the
-phenomenon ceases. Since 1977, the phenomenon has often (though not
-universally) been attributed to the launch of the Soviet satellite
-Kosmos-955. In the same year, a preliminary report for the Academy of
-Sciences of the USSR contains an immense body of visual observations,
-radiolocation reports, physical measurements, and accompanying
-meteorological data. It concludes that “based on the available data, it
-is unfeasible to satisfactorily understand the observed phenomenon.”
-(Wikipedia, “Petrozavodsk
-phenomenon”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): 2;
-Gordon Creighton, “A
-Russian ‘Jellyfish,’” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 (January 1978):
-19–20; Good Need, pp. 351;
-Enrique Vicente, “UFOs in the Soviet Union,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 118–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5543
Date: late 9/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Ethel May Field is in her backyard in Parkstone,
-Poole, Dorset, England, when she hears a humming nose and looks up. A
-circular object with a dome on top is approaching from the
-south-southwest. Its surfaces are gray, and a brilliant blue-yellow
-light is streaming from the underside. It is about 20 feet in diameter,
-and Field can see two humanoid figures visible almost to the waist
-inside the dome. The object hovers above her garden, its light so
-brilliant that she puts her hands up to shield her eyes. She can feel
-the heat on her hands and a vibration in the ground for a second or two.
-The occupants have silver suits and headgear. The figure on the right
-appears to be operating controls, while the one on the left is looking
-directly at her, making a gesture as if pointing downward. Alarmed, she
-runs back to the house and the object speeds away to the northwest. In
-the following week, she develops a skin irritation on the palms of her
-hands. (Leslie Harris, “Parkstone
-UFO and Occupants,”
-Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 2 (August 1978): 6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5549
Date: 9/21/1977
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch files a complaint, spearheaded by
-lawyers Peter Gersten and
-Henry
-Rothblatt, with the CIA for failure to produce materials on the 1952
-Ralph Mayher incident and the Durant report
-on the 1953 Robertson Panel. (“CIA Sued over UFO ‘Cover-Up,’” IUR 3, no.
-1 (January 1978): wrap; “CAUS
-Picking Up
-Where GSW and NICAP Left Off,” Just Cause 1, no. 1 (April 1978):
-1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5544
Date: 9/21/1977
-Description: 8:47 p.m. A student notices a flashing light in the
-northern sky in Phoenix, Arizona. Suddenly, a formation of 8 triangles
-with rounded edges appears, 7 of them in a straight line, equally
-spaced. The eighth is slightly forward. They shoot noiselessly overhead
-and are lost in the glare of the southern sky. One crosses the face of
-the Moon. (“Case 2-11-9,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5545
Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: Three objects like aircraft tracked on FAA radar in
-V-formation at almost 17,000 mph
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Omaha, NE
-ID: 295
Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: 5:25 a.m. Capt. George
-Didlake, piloting Continental Airlines Flight 954, is climbing to
-33,000 feet out of El Paso, Texas, when he sees an elongated object
-rapidly overtaking his DC-10. It has a row of brightly illuminated
-windows running front to rear and is blow the aircraft at roughly 12,000
-feet. First Officer Jack Forsythe and Second Officer Russ
-Goodenough see the object as well. It passes the aircraft at a speed
-“beyond comprehension,” makes a 90° turn, and shoots up out of sight.
-(Dave Kenney, “Airline
-Crew Spots UFO,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 3 (September 1977): 1,
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5546
Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: Four FAA radar controllers in Omaha, Nebraska, track a
-large formation of unidentified objects. They are gone from the scope in
-less than a minute at an estimated speed of 17,000 mph. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, March 1983, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5547
Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: 10:25 p.m. A police detective in Ardmore, Oklahoma, watches
-a pulsating star rush about erratically. (“Case 2-11-12,” IUR 2, no. 11
-(November 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5548
Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: Object with row of “windows” overtook airliner,
-accelerated, made 90-degree turn, soared upward out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: El Paso, TX
-ID: 294
Date: fall 1977
-Description: 5:20 p.m. A female police constable in Isfield, Sussex,
-England, sees a silent object flying at 300 feet altitude while waiting
-for a bus. On an impulse, she waves at the object, which then approaches
-her. It seems to be made of light greenish-gray metal with a moderately
-reflective surface. On top of its dome is a blue-green light, and
-underneath the object is a dense, black, circular section. At its
-closest approach, it is no further than 50 feet away. Her memory is
-unclear after this, but when the bus arrives, she feels numb and
-uncoordinated and seems to have lost 20 minutes of time. (Good Above, pp. 115,
-457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5531
Date: 9/27/1977
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A dredge master and four crew members see a UFO
-that remains visible for one minute off the northwest coast of Wowoni
-Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Consisting of a cone of translucent
-material with dark spots, the object emits violet, white, and red light
-from its top. It has a forward, undulating motion against the wind and
-is spinning on its axis at about 9,000 feet altitude. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5551
Date: 9/27/1977
-Description: 4:36 a.m. A witness is driving toward Kirksville, Missouri,
-about 6 miles west of town when he notices a light behind him to the
-left. It is a yellow-orange object with flashing red lights, as big as
-the Moon, and is following him about 500 feet away at treetop level. He
-increases his speed to 120 mph, but the UFO keeps the same pace. As he
-reaches town the object climbs slightly and shoots off out of sight in 2
-seconds. (“Case 2-11- 22,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5550
Date: 9/28/1977
-Description: 2:45 p.m. A grocery store clerk watches a distant bright
-light moving west over Burlington, Iowa. A second point of light
-appears, catches up to the first one, and both weave a figure 8 at least
-6 times as they pass nearly overhead to the west. (“Case 2-11-24,” IUR
-2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3) Early autumn — 5:20 p.m. A woman police
-constable is waiting at a bus stop near Lewes, East Sussex, England,
-when she notices a large, silent object at about 300 feet altitude. On
-impulse, she waves at the object, which then comes closer. It seems to
-be made of a light greenish-gray metal with a moderately reflective
-surface. A blue-green light is coming out of its dome, and underneath
-the object is a dense, black, circular section. At closest approach, the
-UFO is no more than 50 feet away. She experiences a sense of
-timelessness, and she later cannot account for about 20 minutes of time.
-When the bus arrives, she feels a numbness as she fumbles for change.
-When she gets to the top deck, the object is gone. She develops an acute
-headache that lasts into the following day. Her eyes burn and water for
-a week afterward, and she suffers recurring gastric discomfort. (Good
-Above, pp. 115–116,
-457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5552
Date: 10/1977
-Description: The Petrozavodsk phenomenon in Russia contributes to the
-creation of the Setka program—Soviet research into anomalous atmospheric
-phenomena, proposed by scientist Anatoly
-Alexandrov. Two research commissions are set up: the Setka-MO, under
-the orders of the Ministry of Defense and composed mainly of military
-personnel, and the Setka-AN, under the orders of the Soviet Academy of
-Sciences and composed of scientists. The first group has the task of
-studying the military aspects of the problem, such as the possible
-influences of the UFOs on the malfunctioning of military devices and
-installations; the ministry names special officers in all military units
-who are tasked with the responsibility of watching out for unusual
-phenomena. The second group studies physical effects related to UFOs and
-tries to understand the causes. The coordination of the first commission
-is entrusted to Col. Boris
-Sokolov, that
-of the second commission to Prof. Vladimir
-Migulin, supported by Dr. Yulii
-Platov as deputy coordinator. According to one of his aides, Igor
-Sinitsin, it is KGB Chairman Yuri
-Andropov who initiates these programs. (Wikipedia, “Programma
-Setka”; Good Above, p. 237;
-Good Need, pp. 351–352;
-Nick Paton Walsh, “KGB
-Chief Ordered 4m Soldiers to Keep Watching the Skies for UFOs,” The
-Guardian, March 23, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5553
Date: 10/1/1977
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Leo and John Girardeau are hunting 3 miles west
-of Libau, Manitoba, when they see an object approaching from the west at
-an altitude of 500 feet. As it approaches, the witnesses go into their
-truck and turn on the lights. The object, about 75–100 feet wide and
-25–30 feet high, reverses direction and moves westward. One of the men
-fires a shotgun to lure it back; when this fails, they pursue it in
-their truck. Running out of road a few miles later, they stop and watch
-it move out of sight. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 12 (December 1977):
-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5554
Date: 10/4/1977
-Description: 2:45 p.m. A group of 10 children see a strange object
-hovering between two trees while they are playing at Upton Primary
-Junior School in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. Their teacher,
-Mrs. Hindmarsh, immediately separates them and asks them to draw what
-they have seen. Their drawings are consistent, so she passes them on to
-the Cheshire police, who take the report seriously and check with the
-Manchester Airport, which reports that nothing unusual was detected on
-radar. (UFOFiles2, p. 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5555
Date: 10/5/1977
-Description: 10:40 a.m. TV cameramen Manuel Juarez and Oscar Tobar are
-videotaping a car commercial in Guatemala City, Guatemala, when a UFO
-comes into view. Instead, they videotape the UFO, which is in view for
-51 seconds moving at about 100 mph. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11
-(November 1977): 8; “First Photos of Guatemala Videotape,” IUR 3, no. 1
-(January 1978): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5556
Date: 10/7/1977
-Description: Prime Minister of Grenada Eric
-Gairy addresses the UN General Assembly urging the recognition of
-UFOs as a serious international scientific problem. He says that he has
-seen a UFO and was “totally overwhelmed” by the experience. (UFOEv II
-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5557
Date: 10/7/1977
-Description: The Soviet submarine repair ship Volga is in the Barents
-Sea when its radar picks up an unknown target approaching at a distance
-of 60 miles. Captain Tarankin goes to the bridge and sees 9 bright discs
-moving in from the northeast. They arrive and circle around the ship’s
-masts for 18 minutes. During this time, all of the ship’s communications
-links no longer work. Captain Tarankin tells his men to remember the
-incident, so that no one will be able to say their captain is drunk or
-crazy. After the discs depart, communications is restored. The incident
-raises some concern in the Soviet Navy, and Fleet Admiral Nikolai
-Ivanovich Smirnov issues a directive on mandatory reporting of UFO
-sightings by Soviet hydrographic, scientific research, and
-reconnaissance ships. The directive is written by naval officer and
-ufologist Vladimir
-G. Azhazha and signed by Naval Deputy Chief of Staff Petr
-Nikolayevich Navoytsev. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet
-Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 29–30;
-Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-pp. 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5558
Date: 10/9/1977
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Holly Prunchak is working as a security guard at
-the French-Hecht plant east of Walcott, Iowa, when she sees flashing
-lights rising straight up from distant trees in the northwest. They
-level off and move toward her. They are blinding in intensity and flash
-on and off like a beacon, apparently surrounded by a dark oval shape.
-Her FM radio goes silent, and her walkie-talkie fails. All animal sounds
-go quiet when the object is in view. The object looms about 300 feet
-away, passing near a streetlight that extinguishes for at least one
-minute. The object drops down onto trees of an adjacent farm. At this
-point she hysterically calls for help on a telephone intercom system,
-but no one takes her seriously. (“CE II in Iowa,” IUR 2, no. 12
-(December 1977): 4, 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5559
Date: 10/11/1977
-Description: 7:55 p.m. A farmer in Fairfield, Vermont, hears an odd
-noise and looks out his window. He and his family watch a bright light
-source (a bright red light flashing next to a dimmer white light)
-hovering above a swamp. The object shines a light beam down into the
-swamp as if searching for something. A second red light approaches from
-over a nearby house and comes within several hundred feet of the first
-object; both continue to hover and circle. One vanishes at 11;30 p.m.,
-while the other persists until 1:30 a.m. when the sky becomes cloudy.
-(“Case 2-11-53,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5560
Date: 10/13/1977
-Description: 3:55 p.m. A retired police officer and ex-pilot in Toledo,
-Ohio, watches, along with other young men, a “star” in clear daylight
-rush from south-southeast to north-northeast, passing east of overhead
-in a straight path without sound or trail. The estimated speed is Mach
-1, but it slows down and stops for the last 10–15 seconds before
-vanishing. (“Case 2-11-60,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5561
Date: 10/13/1977
-Description: 10:15 p.m. S/Sgt Steven N. Haidinger is in his backyard at
-Chanute AFB [now closed] near Rantoul, Illinois, where he is looking at
-the moon through his telescope. He hears what sounds like wind passing
-around a building and looks straight up. About 500 feet in the air is an
-object slowly moving from the west-northwest. He trains his telescope on
-it and tries to follow it. The object looks rectangular, about 150 feet
-long, and 10 feet across. It has small, square indentations in patterns
-along its sides and it rotates as it moves, about once every 2 seconds.
-It moves out of sight in about 12 minutes. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 (January 1981): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5562
Date: 10/14/1977
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A physician in Toledo, Ohio, watches a red-orange
-object moving silently east, passing overhead, and disappearing in the
-distance. Possible balloon. (“Case 2-11-63,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November
-1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5563
Date: 10/15/1977
-Description: 6:45 p.m. British diplomat Alan K. Rothnie is driving near
-Rolvenden, Kent, England, when he sees a glowing bluish object in the
-sky traveling fast from south to north and shaped “somewhat like a
-flattened avocado pear.” The blunt leading end seems to be rimmed with a
-shining metal, and the back end is trailing sparks. The object moves
-away in 90 seconds. (UFOFiles2, pp. 87–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5564
Date: 10/17/1977
-Description: A woman and her children watch a blindingly bright red
-light from their first-floor porch in Uccle, Belgium. It is stationary
-and silent for one hour in the southwest at an estimated 1,000 feet
-altitude. Finally, the object moves toward the west, then north, and
-disappears in the distance. An independent group of witnesses several
-streets away also watch the light. A half-hour later, the daughter of
-the original family sees another pair of similar objects in the south
-about 400–500 feet off the ground. These circle for 30 minutes and then
-disappear to the south. One hour later, the family watches another
-bright light maneuvering in the southwest before disappearing. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5565
Date: 10/20/1977
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Keith Kilford and Philip Staff watch a small
-orange triangle over a house in Bromley, Kent, England, that grows to
-twice its size, shrinks again, and moves rapidly away until it
-disappears. It reappears about 10 minutes later and disappears again.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 (December 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5567
Date: 10/20/1977
-Description: Several witnesses in San José, Costa Rica, see lighted
-objects around Pico Blanco, a mountain to the south of town. One
-physician sees a “squat, orange object” for 20 minutes until it ascends
-at great speed and disappears. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 (December
-1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5566
Date: 10/22/1977
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A half-moon-shaped orange cloud, 3 times the size
-of the Moon, is seen hovering and descending at Irondequoit, New York.
-Chunks “like teardrops” are seen falling off. (“Case 2-12-16,” IUR 2,
-no. 12 (December 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5568
Date: 10/23/1977
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A glowing triangular white cloud is seen in
-Rochester, New York, receding to the southwest. (“Case 2-12-17,” IUR 2,
-no. 12 (December 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5569
Date: 10/24/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A musician watches a saucer-shaped object at
-Cerrillos, New Mexico, approaching at a low angle from the south. It
-moves across his view for 15–30 seconds, stops for 15–20 seconds in the
-southwest, and zooms away. (“Case 2-12-25,” IUR 2, no. 12 (December
-1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5570
Date: 10/25/1977
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Three witnesses, including two deaf 14-year-olds,
-Johny Myhr and Frank Sverre Mandt, view a disc-shaped object some 33
-feet in diameter that hovers and then descends behind some bushes at
-Åsbygda, Ringerinke, Norway. After about 10 seconds it rises into the
-air again. The boys run to the nearby Alm school. They notice the object
-ascending at a 40° angle and see several windows in the craft. What
-appears to be a human-looking person is behind one of the windows.
-Tracks are later found in the newly plowed field. Each track is
-rectangular with rounded corners, and measures 5.5 inches by 1.2 feet
-with a depth of 4 inches. The tracks are arranged in a triangular shape.
-(“Strange
-Aircraft Spotted in Åsbygda,” Nordic UFO Newsletter 1, no. 1 (1981):
-16–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5571
Date: 10/26/1977
-Description: Red sphere ahead of airplane, navigation instruments and
-radio E-M effects. UFO changed color to white, climbed vertically at
-high speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Between Abilene and Dallas, TX
-ID: 296
Date: 10/26/1977
-Description: 12:45 p.m. En route from Dyess AFB near Abilene, Texas, to
-Dallas, cruising at 15,000 feet in a T-38 jet trainer, 1st Lt Seth
-Bryant (instructor pilot) and 1st Lt Choate (student pilot) overhear
-transmissions from Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center to
-another pilot who has seen a red object he cannot identify. Choate then
-sees the red object and informs the pilot of its position. The object is
-flying at 10,000–12,000 feet and seems stationary. The distance is
-estimated to be about 23 miles away. Initially, the light is brilliant
-and appears to be closing rapidly. An evasive maneuver is considered but
-deemed unnecessary. The pilot contacts Fort Worth Center, giving the
-position of the object and asks if he is tracking anything on radar, but
-he isn’t. The size of the red light decreases, similar to a very slowly
-rotating beacon, and is lost to sight. The total duration is less than a
-minute. Choate recalls static over his headset at the time. (NICAP, “Near
-Collision with T-33 / Radio Static”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5572
Date: 10/27/1977
-Description: 5:35 p.m. At Cagliari Elmas Airport on Sardinia, Italy,
-three helicopters of the Italian Army’s Aviazione Leggera dell’Esercito
-are followed for more than 5 minutes by an orange disc. It is seen and
-tracked by both military and civilian witnesses and from the airport
-control tower. Air Force Col. Giomaria orders a jet interceptor to take
-off but it fails to catch up to the intruder. Maj. Francesco Zoppi and
-copilot Lt. Riccardelli manage to approach to within 1,000 feet. The
-sighting causes a feverish exchange of messages between airport
-personnel, the NATO base at Decimomannu, Sardinia, the USS
-Saratoga, and
-several military planes in flight. Col. Mario d’Angelo, commander of the
-airport’s Air Force base, sends a detailed report to Attilio
-Ruffini, the Italian Minister of Defense, who orders an
-investigation. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): 2; “Italian Government
-Report,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 146 (April 1980): 15; Good Above, pp. 145–146;
-1Pinotti 211– 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5573
Date: 10/29/1977
-End date: 11/3/1977
-Description: Police and citizens in the area of Erie, Pennsylvania,
-report multiple sightings of star-like lights, some flashing. Some are
-likely aircraft. (“Mini-’Flap’ in Northwestern Pennsylvania: But of
-IFOs?” IUR 2, no 12 (December 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5577
Date: 10/29/1977
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Two young teenagers in North East, Pennsylvania,
-notice a light flashing different colors in the west. They think they
-see a dark “pancake” body twice the Moon’s diameter attached to the
-light. They go into their house where they are babysitting, and the
-object shines a spotlight down to the spot where they were originally
-standing. It hovers about 10 feet above some grapevines, then swoops
-toward the house and moves into trees to the north. They call police,
-but every time one visits the house, all they can see is a distant
-light. (“Case 2- 12-39,” IUR 2, no. 12 (December 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5576
Date: 10/29/1977
-Description: 7:30 a.m. A patrolman in North East, Pennsylvania, spots a
-brown, cigar-shaped object moving towards him. He can see a tail fin. It
-changes direction to the southwest and disappears, (“Case 2-12-37,” IUR
-2, no 12 (December 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5574
Date: 10/29/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Four men at a gas station in downtown Hagerstown,
-Maryland, watch a round white object half the size of the Moon. It
-silently orbits counterclockwise around a cloud, emerging from behind,
-crossing in front, then disappearing behind. (“Case 2-12-38,” IUR 2, no.
-12 (December 1977): 3–wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5575
Date: 10/31/1977
-Description: David
-Williamson Jr., a
-NASA assistant administrator for special projects, drafts a memorandum
-of a proposed letter to be signed by Noel
-W. Hinners and sent to Robert
-A. Frosch. The
-letter mentions a revival of interest in UFOs and paranormal phenomena,
-as well as new sightings. It mentions a lack of tangible evidence to
-analyze and a lack of protocols for investigating UFOs as hindrances to
-NASA setting up an investigatory panel: “All in all, undertaking a
-formal study at this time appears to be fraught with peril.” Williamson
-sees two choices: refuse the project, or have NASA review the best cases
-from civilian UFO organizations and new cases. He foresees problems with
-workload, peer pressure, and prejudgment—an enormous expenditure of
-resources. However, he recommends examining the best cases from the
-civilian groups. The inquiry will be handled by Hinners, Williamson, and
-NASA administrator Kenneth
-D. Chapman. (Clark III 788)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5579
Date: 10/31/1977
-Description: The National Enquirer sends a series of questions to
-Secretary of the Air Force John
-C. Stetson about the 1975 Northern Tier UFO incidents. The Air Force
-admits they do not know what the objects were. (ClearIntent, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5578
Date: 10/31/1977
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Several students in Placentia, California, watch
-a disc with four lighted portholes hovering and eclipsing the moon for a
-few seconds. It shoots away toward the north. (“Case 2-12-46,” IUR 2,
-no. 12 (December 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5580
Date: 11/1/1977
-Description: Afternoon. Students Johnny Myrh and Frank Sverre see a
-flying object approaching from the north as they are walking home from a
-school bus station in Nybygda, Ringerike, Norway. The light-green object
-lands about 300 feet away in a newly ploughed field. They see a
-human-like figure inside the object behind one of its windows. After 10
-seconds, the object lifts off, leaving three equally spaced marks in the
-ground, 1.2 feet long and 3–7 inches wide. Each imprint is made by
-something with a curved bottom. The sighting is partially corroborated
-by one of the attendants at the school who sees a shining object at the
-same time and place but at a much greater distance. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5581
Date: 11/2/1977
-Description: Italian Air Force pilots and pilots of two German Air Force
-F-101G Starfighters, as well as the tower personnel at Cagliari Elmas
-Airport on Sardinia, Italy, see a circular or elliptical ball of fire
-flying at tremendous speed. (Good Above, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5582
Date: 11/10/1977
-Description: 4:31 p.m. UFO researcher Ray
-Stanford sees a stationary metallic gray object in the southwestern
-sky as he is walking his dog in Austin, Texas. Its smaller end is at the
-top and there is a slight variance around the larger, lower end of the
-object, which seems to be vibrating. After several seconds, it seems to
-elongate and rotate. After another 10 seconds, it appears in the shape
-of a Coke bottle, then disappears quickly. (Ray Stanford, “Letter,” IUR
-7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5583
Date: 11/12/1977
-Description: Evening. William
-J. Hermann sees a disc-shaped object chasing a Cessna aircraft over
-Charleston, South Carolina. (Clark III 570)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5584
Date: 11/16/1977
-Description: 10:59 p.m. An alarm sounds at the Ellsworth AFB L-09
-missile site 7 miles southwest of Nisland, South Dakota. Two security
-men, Airmen 1st Class Kenneth Jenkins and Wayne E. Raeke, are dispatched
-to the scene from Ellsworth. As Raeke is inspecting the rear fence line,
-he (allegedly) sees a helmeted figure in a glowing green metallic suit.
-It points a weapon at Raeke’s rifle and causes it to disintegrate,
-burning his hands and arms. Jenkins helps him back to their security
-vehicle. When Jenkins goes back to the rear fence line, he sees two of
-these beings. They ignore his command to halt, so he opens fire on them.
-His bullets strike one on the shoulder and the other in the helmet. The
-figures run over a hill and Jenkins pursues them. He sees them entering
-a 20-foot- diameter saucer-shaped object that shoots away over the
-horizon. As Raeke is air-evacuated from the scene, investigators
-discover that the missile’s nuclear components have been stolen. A
-follow-up investigation by Bob Pratt of
-the National Enquirer determines that Jenkins and Raeke are real and on
-active duty, but everything else about the incident is bogus. Raeke has
-suffered no injuries and does not even know Jenkins. (“Incident/Complaint Report,”
-November 16, 1977; Clark III 358–359)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5585
Date: 11/17/1977
-Description: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven
-Spielberg, premieres
-in New York City. The plot involves benevolent aliens who make their
-presence known to selected individuals and world governments through
-escalating UFO waves. The film culminates in a spectacular landing and
-contact hidden from the public by an ingenious cover-up. (Jennifer
-Henderson and George M. Eberhart, “30 Years of Close Encounters,” IUR
-31, no. 3 (October 2007): 16–18, 28; Clark III 259; Internet Movie
-Database, “Close
-Encounters of the Third Kind”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5586
Date: 11/18/1977
-Description: 9:17 p.m. A bright white light moving at a high rate of
-speed comes alongside a small aircraft flying at 13,000 feet between
-Vichy and Troy, Missouri, and paces the airplane for 3 minutes. The
-light then moves away at high speed. The pilot reports that while the
-light is abreast of his aircraft, one of his transponders stops working.
-After the UFO pulls away, the transponder resumes its normal operation.
-The object paces the aircraft for 3–4 miles at a distance of 17 miles
-and is fairly high above the aircraft. The pilot turns on his other
-transponder and nothing happens, then the object takes off on a
-120°–130° heading and shoots out of sight. The second transponder
-recovers, but the pilot can never get the first one to work again. He
-has no trouble with the other instruments. (NICAP, “UFO
-KO’s Transponder”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5588
Date: 11/18/1977
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A hunter sees an object 4–5 times the size of the
-full moon ascending about 900 feet away in a wooded area near Richmond,
-Virginia. It is smoky-gray and egg-shaped with one white light at the
-top and two flashing lights on the bottom. Possible balloon. (“Case
-3-1-12,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5587
Date: 11/24/1977
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A polygraph examiner with experience as a pilot
-and sailor is sitting on her porch in Smyrna, Georgia, when she notices
-an object the size of a distant aircraft fly out ion front of the moon.
-The object is white, intensely luminous, and shaped like a hemisphere.
-It hovers for a few seconds, shoots straight up, hovers again, and then
-tilts back (showing its bottom portion with two Saturn-like rings of
-light) and flies back in front of the moon and disappears. (“Case
-3-1-20,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5589
Date: 11/27/1977
-Description: William
-J. Hermann chases another disc-shaped UFO in Charleston, South
-Carolina, in his car and takes four photographs. He has other sightings
-on December 2 and 4 and on January 22, 1978, when he snaps eight photos.
-(Clark III 570)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5590
Date: 11/28/1977
-Description: Wellington Friday, UN ambassador at large for Grenada,
-addresses the United Nations on the seriousness of the UFO phenomenon
-and the need for global cooperation in investigating them. He is aided
-in his statement by ufologist Leonard
-Stringfield. Friday
-appeals to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to convene UFO hearings.
-The next two days are focused on preparation of a draft resolution to be
-presented to the General Assembly on November 30. The United States says
-that it can “sympathize” with Grenada’s efforts but cannot support the
-draft resolution. On November 30, the US delegates, Coast Guard Cmdr.
-John Feigle and John Krindler, meet with Grenada Prime Minister Eric
-Gairy in a closed-door session to make the resolution more moderate.
-(Leonard H. Stringfield, “Inside Look at Grenada’s UFO Mission at the
-United Nations,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 6–7; MUFON UFO Journal,
-October 1978; Antonio Huneeus, “Rare
-Footage of Famous 1978 UN
-UFO Hearing Found,” Open Minds, May 13, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5591
Date: 11/29/1977
-Description: Hovering dome-shaped object sped toward witness, stopped,
-beamed blue light onto dead tree, which fluoresced in bright colors.
-Sheep fled
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Waimata Valley, Gisborne, New Zealand
-ID: 297
Date: 12/1977
-Description: Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen publish Abducted!, a collection of 20 years of
-UFO abduction cases. Most of the aliens they describe are small with
-large heads and eyes, no hair, and communicate by telepathy. They
-suggest that abductions are the latest logical step in an alien
-information-gathering process. Each abductee, they believe, has specific
-information of value to the aliens. (Coral and Jim Lorenzen, Abducted!
-Confrontations with Beings from
-Outer Space, Berkley,
-1977)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5593
Date: 12/1977
-Description: GEPAN’s Scientific Council holds its first meeting. The
-group is given a two-volume report of 290 pages, including three general
-presentations, three detailed investigations, an analysis of two UFO
-photos, and five statistical analyses of samples and cases. The council
-reaches conclusions and recommendations for further study. (Gildas
-Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25,
-no. 4 (Winter 2000– 2001): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5592
Date: 12/1/1977
-Description: The Have Blue HB1001 stealth aircraft is tested for the
-first time at Area 52 in the Tonopah Test Range by pilot Bill
-Park. (Wikipedia,
-“Lockheed
-Have
-Blue”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5595
Date: 12/1/1977
-Description: 8:28 p.m. An electrician is driving east out of Elm City,
-North Carolina, when a large object drifts into view from the north. It
-has one intense headlight in front, 4–6 blue lights around the edges,
-and many red and white lights forming portholes along the sides. It is
-shaped like a torpedo with four swept-back fins at the back with a round
-band connecting them, and it is making a humming sound. (“Case 3-1-30,”
-IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 3, wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5596
Date: early 12/1977
-Description: 5:15 p.m. A witness is driving from Falck to Brettnach,
-Moselle, France, when he notices three lights on a triangular object
-hovering silently. It disappears abruptly. (Marler 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5594
Date: 12/2/1977
-Description: Night. A farmer in the Waimata Velley of New Zealand wakes
-up when his dogs bark loudly in their kennels. He goes to the back door
-and sees a landed saucer-shaped craft in a paddock about 100 feet away.
-It is about 50 feet in diameter and bright red with two open doors in
-the side. By the kennels he sees two humanoid beings about 4 feet 8
-inches in height with slim builds. They are carrying one of the dogs,
-which appears comatose. The farmer shoots and hits one of the creatures,
-apparently startling them into dropping the animal. The being that is
-hit runs off into the bushes, and the other runs into the UFO, which
-then ascends vertically. The dog remains dazed for a few minutes and
-then becomes agitated. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June 1978):
-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5597
Date: 12/6/1977
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Three people in a car near Tatapouri Point, New
-Zealand, see a red disc coming from the direction of the ocean. It seems
-to follow their car for about one mile until the driver stops. At that
-instant, the object veers off into the hills northwest toward the
-Waimata Valley. They note their car lights are much dimmer than usual,
-and on arriving at their destination discover that the car battery has
-no water in it. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5598
Date: 12/6/1977
-Description: 9:05 p.m. A man in Big Sandy, Tennessee, sees an unusual
-configuration of lights outside his bedroom window in the
-east-northeast. They are oriented like a telephone pole with a red light
-on top and many white and blue lights down both sides. He and his wife
-watch the object for 10 minutes as it hovers, drops down, and glides to
-another hovering position. Eventually it moves out of sight behind
-trees. (“Case 3-1-40,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5599
Date: 12/7/1977
-Description: The United Nations draft resolution on UFO investigations
-is shelved until next year’s General Assembly. (“United Nations Shelves
-UFO Involvement,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): wrap; Leonard H.
-Stringfield, “Inside Look at Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United
-Nations,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5600
Date: 12/8/1977
-Description: Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects
-maneuvered around airliner
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
-ID: 298
Date: 12/8/1977
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Oxnard, California,
-track 4 UFOs about 3–5 miles north of Laguna Peak. They watch the
-targets for nearly 3 hours. Around 9:00 p.m., a Golden West commuter
-aircraft reports two large bright lights maneuvering around it for 15
-minutes. The pilot says the object approaches so close that it “scared
-the hell out of me.” (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5601
Date: 12/13/1977
-Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 299
Date: 12/13/1977
-Description: The UN General Assembly adopts Decision 32/424, which
-acknowledges Eric
-Gairy’s resolution, forwards it to member states, and shelves the
-matter until the next general assembly one year later. (Leonard H.
-Stringfield, “My
-Advisory Role for Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United Nations,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120 (November 1977): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5602
Date: 12/13/1977
-Description: The National Enquirer publishes Bob
-Pratt’s well-researched article, “UFOs Spotted at Nuclear Bases and
-Missile Sites” about the Northern Tier cases. He lists names and dates
-that can be used for a FOIA request, which UFO researcher Barry
-Greenwood promptly files. (ClearIntent, pp. 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5603
Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: Two UFOs tracked on radar giving “strong” returns, at
-speeds in excess of 1,000 mph. One made head-on pass at an aircraft,
-observed on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Colorado and South Dakota
-ID: 300
Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A red, luminous object is seen by Kenny and Carol
-Drake of Council Bluffs, Iowa, falling to earth near the northern city
-limits. At the scene, they find an area covered by molten metal that is
-glowing orange- red, igniting the grass. Police and firemen who arrive
-15 minutes later all see the fallen mass, estimated at 35–55 pounds. An
-investigation concludes that it is not space debris, a meteorite, or a
-hoax. Two of the 11 witnesses to the fall describe a round object
-hovering in the sky, edged by blinking red lights. The retrieved
-material is composed of solid metal and slag with white ash inclusions.
-(Jacques Vallée, “Physical
-Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained
-Aerial Objects with Material Samples,” Journal of Scientific
-Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 367–372; Keith Basterfield, “Vallée–Nolan,
-et al., Peer Reviewed Analysis of Unusual Materials Paper
-Published,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research,
-December 11, 2021; Garry P. Nolan, Jacques F. Vallée, Sizun Jiang, and
-Larry G, Lemke, “Improved
-Instrumental Techniques, Including Isotopic Analysis, Applicable
-to the
-Characterization of Unusual Materials with Potential Relevance to
-Aerospace Forensics,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences 128 (January
-2022))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5606
Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Marguerite Camp is in her pickup truck on State
-Highway 2 near Kenyon, Rhode Island, when she spots an “ovoid,
-plate-like” object that is tilted slightly to the west. She stops and
-gets out to watch the UFO, which is 3–4 times the size of a B-29 in
-diameter and glowing blue-white. She sees 4–5 dark windows and its
-bottom half is blurry. Another woman, driving an AMC Gremlin, pulls up
-behind her. While they are watching the object, the engines of both
-vehicles stall. The object turns up on its edge and climbs vertically,
-and hovers for 10 more minutes. The second woman gets back in her car,
-starts it up, and drives away. The object speeds off to the west, takes
-on a pinkish glow, and fades in the distance. (Dan Todd, “Large
-Objects Stalls Autos,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 1 (July 1978):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5605
Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: 3:34 a.m. Radar facilities in Colorado and South Dakota
-track two UFOs that give strong returns, moving at more than 1,000 mph.
-They are tracked for the next 30 minutes, during which time one of the
-objects makes a close head-on pass at an aircraft. A third radar station
-is unable to function while the unknowns are in the area. One of the
-other facilities is put out of operation when the main shaft holding the
-radar antenna is severely bent by an unknown force. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-March 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5604
Date: 12/21/1977
-Description: NASA administrator Robert
-A. Frosch sends a response to Frank Press at OSTP, saying that NASA
-would be willing to continue to answer public inquiries and examine any
-bona fide new physical evidence that comes in, but declines to set up a
-panel to investigate cases. (Story, pp. 242–243;
-Clark III 788–789; ClearIntent, p. 193;
-presidentialufo.com, “President Jimmy Carter”; “NASA
-Letter Declines UFO ‘Research Activity,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120
-(November 1977): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5607
Date: 12/22/1977
-Description: White disc, red blinking lights top and bottom, paced
-airliner for 20 minutes. Emitted green “smoke” from underside, sped out
-of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: North Atlantic
-ID: 301
Date: 12/27/1977
-Description: 10:54 p.m. Police officers Ron Arey and Howard Dellinger
-are flying in a Bell Jetranger police helicopter at 1,100 feet in
-Charlotte, North Carolina, when they see two lights approaching from the
-northwest. They pass the chopper to the right at an estimated 200 feet.
-Charlotte FAA air traffic controller Ray Bader confirms two unknown
-targets on radar. Later on, the object circles the helicopter at an
-estimated distance of 200 feet. The UFO looks like a globular white
-light reflecting upward into a silver, parachute-like object with ribs
-connecting the light to it. Possibly a prank balloon. (“Object
-over N.C. on Dec. 27, 1977,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 8 (February
-1978): 1, 5); “A Radar-Visual in Charlotte: UFO or Prank Balloon?” IUR
-3, no. 3 (March 1978): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5609
Date: 12/27/1977
-Description: A White House press release states that it accepts NASA’s
-evaluation of the UFO situation and will not pursue its initiative any
-further.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5608
Date: 12/30/1977
-Description: Stanford astrophysicist Peter
-A. Sturrock writes to Frosch,
-offering to make available physical evidence “such as films, material
-samples, etc.” obtained by his Study Group on Anomalous Phenomena.
-(Clark III 789)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5610
Date: 12/30/1977
-Description: A white, oval light about 27 feet in diameter paces a car
-90 feet away near Keith, South Australia. The two witnesses, a brother
-and sister, report that as they slowed their car to 5–10 kph, the engine
-begins misfiring. They stop, and the light continues on its course.
-After it is gone, the car can be started again and driven with no
-difficulties. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5611
Date: Late 70’s
-Description: In an interview, Colonel-General Gennady Reshetnikov, chief
-of the Top Command Academy of the Air Defence Forces reported several
-incidents where aircraft were scrambled to chase UFO’s. He also
-investigated sightings of a cigar shaped object with portholes in the
-late 70’s over Arctic region of Norilsk, alarming local military
-units.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Norilsk, Soviet Union
Date: 1978
-Description: A Gallup survey this year shows that 57% of Americans think
-UFOs are real, 9% have reported a sighting, and 51% think there is
-intelligent life on other planets. A Roper Organization survey finds
-that 7% have seen a UFO. (“A New Gallup Poll on UFOs,” IUR 3, no. 6
-(June 1978): insert; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on
-UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5612
Date: 1978
-Description: Gene
-Duplantier publishes one issue of Ufolk in Willowdale, Ontario, a
-compendium of photos of many ufologists active in the mid-1970s. (Ufolk,
-no. 1 (1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5613
Date: 1978
-Description: After many years of informal contacts with the Italian
-military, Centro Ufologico Nazionale succeeds in obtaining from the
-staff of the Italian Department of Defense the first official dossier of
-UFO sightings reported by Italian military personnel during 1977.
-(Story, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5614
Date: 1978
-Description: Brazilian ufologist Irene
-Granchi begins publishing a quarterly magazine titled OVNI Documento
-in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia,
-Putnam, 1980, p. 235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5615
Date: 1978
-Description: Timothy
-Green Beckley begins publishing a somewhat sensational UFO Review in
-New York City. It runs at least until 1994. (UFO
-Review, no.
-1 (1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5616
Date: 1/1978
-Description: Playboy publishes a “panel discussion” on UFOs that
-features essays by J.
-Allen Hynek, R.
-Leo Sprinkle, James
-A. Harder, Frank
-Salisbury, Jacques
-Vallée, Philip
-J. Klass, and
-Ernest
-H. Taves. (“Playboy
-Panel: UFOs,” Playboy, January 1978, pp. 67–98, 128, 249–250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5617
Date: 1/1978
-Description: The Russian Academy of Sciences releases a report,
-translated by Richard
-F. Haines and published by the Center for UFO Studies as
-Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: A
-Statistical Analysis, written by Lev
-M. Gindilis of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow.
-Data processing and bookkeeping is performed by I. G. Petrovskaya and
-most of the text is written by engineer-physicist D. A. Menkov.
-Significantly, the report is approved for official publication by
-Academician Nikolai
-Kardashev, one of the USSR’s top experts in SETI. Its reports and
-data come from a sample of 256 Russian cases compiled by Felix Ziegel. According
-to space historian James
-Oberg, many of the sightings in the report correspond to Soviet
-tests and reentries of the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, a
-nuclear weapons delivery system developed in the 1960s. (Wikipedia, “Petrozavodsk
-phenomenon”; L. M. Gindilis, D. A. Men’kov, and I. G. Petrovskaya,
-Observations
-of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: A Statistical
-Analysis, CUFOS, June 1980; “Russian Report on UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers
-of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 16–17; James E. Oberg, “The Great
-Soviet UFO Cover-Up,” MUFON UFO Journal, October 1982; Swords
-458–460)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5618
Date: 1/1978
-Description: During the flight of a Yakolev Yak-40 airliner between the
-Medvezhye gas field and Nadym, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia,
-the crew notices a bright round object that approaches rapidly and
-sometime later appears in front of the aircraft, apparently much larger.
-A crash appears imminent, but the object soars up in front of the nose
-of the airliner. (Paul Stonehill, “Pilot
-and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs,” Open Minds, June 12,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5619
Date: 1/1978
-Description: Night. Police Sgt. Tony Dodd and Constable Alan Dale are
-driving near Cononley, North Yorkshire, England, when the road in front
-of them lights up. They stop the patrol car, look up, and see an object
-about 100 feet away and moving silently at 40 mph. It has three large
-spheres below it, portholes around the perimeter, and a dome on top. The
-object passes overhead and seems to land in a wood on a distant
-hillside. (Good Above, pp. 116–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5620
Date: 1/1/1978
-Description: Veteran pilot observed domed disc with portholes
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Santa Monica, CA
-ID: 302
Date: 1/1/1978
-Description: 12:45–1:00 p.m. Pilots Floyd
-P. Hallstrom (in a Cessna 170A) and Jim Victor (in a Mustang II
-4954) are flying over Santa Monica, California, at 7,500 feet when they
-see an object approaching at high speed. As the UFO passes about 6,000
-feet to his left, Hallstrom is looking down on it an angle of about
-30°–45° and its true form suddenly becomes clear to him. He is able to
-make out the complete form of a saucer and can see the dome, also very
-vividly clear, including all the windows, about 16–20 evenly spaced
-around the circumference of the dome, located just above the base. The
-dome appears to be a perfect hemisphere about 20 feet in diameter
-resting on the base, which is about 30 feet in diameter. The UFO
-continues on a course opposite to the pilot’s with no sign of rotation,
-oscillation, pitch, roll, or yaw. Neither is there any sign of a
-propulsion system. The sun reflects off the dome as a bright spot when
-the UFO passes. After about a minute, the object disappears from view
-behind the Cessna. (NICAP, “Cessna
-Encounters Disc with Dome and Windows”: “An Air-Visual Sighting of a
-Daylight Disc in California,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): insert; UFOEv
-II 136–138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5621
Date: 1/2/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Four young men are driving through an isolated
-area known as Simonswood Moss, between Rainsford and Kirkby, West
-Lancashire, England, when they realize they have taken a wrong turn onto
-a narrow dirt road bordering a ditch. They suddenly see a 7-foot tall
-figure with red eyes appear in the glare of the headlights 26 feet
-ahead. The being is wearing a white fluorescent one-piece suit with
-boots, it has no discernible facial features, and it has short arms
-ending in claws. On its chest is a box with two flashing red lights. The
-figure takes two steps towards the witnesses and suddenly stops. The
-witnesses panic and leave the area, driving to a nearby farm where they
-notify the police. A later investigation suggests that they have seen a
-cow wandering down the lane, the car’s headlights reflecting in its
-eyes. (Peter Hough, “UFO Occupants,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes,
-1987, pp. 129–130; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
-11, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5622
Date: 1/3/1978
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 303
Date: 1/9/1978
-End date: 1/10/1978
-Description: Humanoid case
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: South Middleton, MA
-ID: 304
Date: 1/10/1978
-Description: 12:25 a.m. A 31-year-old paramedic is driving to pick up
-her husband (a policeman) from work in Chicago, Illinois, when her
-3-year-old son draws her attention to a “moving star” nearly overhead.
-At her destination a few seconds later, she notes a silver disc-shaped
-object (“with teacups on top and bottom of saucer”) as large as a full
-moon moving forward with yellow-orange trail behind as it moved. The
-object stops, reverses direction, moves forward again, and moves off
-behind a building. The trail is only visible while the object is in
-motion. Duration is 1–2 minutes. (“Case 3-2-39,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February
-1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5623
Date: 1/14/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Four witnesses inside a house in Delavan,
-Wisconsin, see an orange ball half the size of the full moon descend
-into view through a window. They watch the sphere hover for one minute,
-move 10° to the north, hover, and then move off quickly to the northern
-horizon. (“Case 3-2-50,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5624
Date: 1/17/1978
-Description: As a response to Sturrock’s
-letter, NASA astrophysicist Richard
-C. Henry writes to Noel
-Hinners suggesting that examination of any UFO evidence could be
-assigned to the Astrophysics Division at Goddard Space Flight Center
-managed by Program Scientist Frank
-Martin. He suggests as project scientist Stephen
-P. Maran at
-Goddard. Henry gets no response. (Clark III 789)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5625
Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: MP at Ft. Dix shoots and kills an Alien. Incident report
-sent to Col. Landon and Brig. Gen. Brown (AFOSI). The reporting officer
-was S. W. (initials), Lt. 1st Class. Sgt. J.M. (initials), Security
-Police Squad (PACAF) also witnessed and reported the incident (Sept. 16,
-1980).
-Type: alien encounter
-Reference: link
-Location: Ft. Dix, NJ
Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: During the early morning hours of January 18, 1978, UFOs
-were sighted flying over Fort Dix and McGuire AFB, adjacent military
-bases. Shortly afterward, an Air Force security patrol was ordered to
-the back gate of McGuire AFB to allow entry to New Jersey State Police
-who were searching for something.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Ft. Dix, NJ
Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: Formations of UFOs seen, MP at adjacent Fort Dix shot
-humanoid being, AF security police found body on deserted runway
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
-ID: 305
Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: 3:00–5:00 a.m. A security policeman at McGuire AFB [now
-Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst] in Burlington County, New Jersey, is
-called to help investigate a low-flying UFO over the neighboring Fort
-Dix army base. An Army MP pursues the object, but his radio transmission
-is cut off just as a grayish, 4-foot-tall being with fat head, long
-arms, and a slender body appears in front of his car. The MP fires five
-rounds into the being and one round into the object above. The UFO
-shoots upward and joins 11 others high in the sky, and the being runs
-into the woods toward the Fort Dix fence line. A security patrol finds
-its dead body near the McGuire AFB runaway, giving out a foul,
-ammonia-like stench; then AFOSI arrives and ropes everything off.
-Retired USAF Maj. George
-Filer III, who
-later serves as MUFON New Jersey director, asserts that he was stationed
-on the base at the time and that the story is true, although he did not
-see the alien. (UFOEv II 97–98; Leonard H. Stringfield, “The
-Fatal Encounter at Ft. Dix–McGuire: A Case Study: Status Report IV,”
-1985, in MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, 1985; Leonard Stringfield,
-“The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 153–155; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1987; John L. Guerra,
-Strange Craft: The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s
-Life with UFOs, The Author, 2018; Erik Larsen, “In
-New Book, Retired
-Air Force Major Claims Alien Was Killed at Joint Base
-McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,” app, September 3, 2019; Clark III 511–513;
-Keith Basterfield, “NIDS
-Investigated the Reported Shooting of a Non-Human Entity: Fort
-Dix/McGuire AFB, 18 January 1978; the NIDS Investigation,”
-Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, December 17,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5626
Date: 1/19/1978
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files a request with the US
-State Department for classified UFO documents and includes the date and
-time information, transmittal numbers, and message serial numbers, but
-the department replies that it cannot locate the specified information.
-(ClearIntent, pp. 193–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5627
Date: 1/23/1978
-Description: 7:40 p.m. A carpenter is standing on his front porch in
-Toledo, Ohio, when he notices a stationary saucer- shaped object about
-30° above the horizon in the eastern sky. It is lit by the reflection of
-the city lights and the Moon and is slightly larger than a distant
-aircraft. It has dark, outlined windows and a small structure on top.
-The object then moves off rapidly to the south and blinks out. (“Case
-3-3-14,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5628
Date: 1/24/1978
-Description: The Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reenters the
-Earth’s atmosphere while traveling on a northeastward track over western
-Canada. At first the USSR claims that the satellite has been completely
-destroyed during re-entry, but later searches show debris from the
-satellite has been deposited on Canadian territory along a 370-mile path
-from Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake. The effort to recover radioactive
-material from the satellite is dubbed Operation Morning Light. Covering
-a total area of 48,000 square miles, the joint Canadian–US team
-(consisting of the emergency Nuclear Emergency Support Team) sweeps the
-area on foot and by air through October 15. They are ultimately able to
-recover 12 large pieces of the satellite, 10 of which are radioactive.
-(Wikipedia, “Kosmos
-954”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 314–316)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5629
Date: 1/26/1978
-Description: 12:31 a.m. A policeman in Williamston, North Carolina,
-watches a round light the size of the full Moon at 60° in the northwest.
-The light moves quickly toward the south then hovers 10–15 seconds
-before changing course. A windstorm is in progress and the object is
-beneath the clouds. Another officer 3 miles away also watches the object
-for 10–20 seconds before it disappears. (“Case 3-3-19,” IUR 3, no. 3
-(March 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5630
Date: 1/27/1978
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A flight instructor is flying his Cessna
-172 to Opalocka, Florida, when he sees a formation of six objects with
-no lights over Key West. Each object is disc-shaped and reflects the
-moonlight. They are flying in a ragged straight line, approximately
-equidistant, at 7,000 feet, then disappear in the distance. (“Case
-3-3-24,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5631
Date: 1/27/1978
-Description: Early morning. Four men on the banks of the River Weaver
-see a silver balloon-shaped object land in a meadow near Frodsham,
-Cheshire, England. It emits a strong purplish glow that makes it hard to
-look at. Two entities of normal height emerge. They wear silvery suits
-and have miners’ lamps on their heads, and these glow purple. Cows on a
-nearby field seem to become paralyzed, unable to move. Using a metal
-cage, the entities pen in one cow and seem to measure it. The witnesses
-become frightened and run from the area, and as they run they feel a
-strange tingling sensation in their groins. One of the men develops
-sunburn-like marks on his leg. (Jenny Randles, Alien Abductions: The
-Mystery Solved, Inner Light, 1988, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5632
Date: 1/27/1978
-Description: Cheryl DeSanctis sees a blinking red and white light
-hovering above some trees near Barry Drive in Vineland, New Jersey. She
-watches it for 5 minutes, then a red ball moves from behind it,
-descending to just a few feet above the rooftops where its light
-reflects off the houses. After 10 minutes, the red ball moves to the
-north and the first light departs to the south. (“Vineland
-Is Beset by UFO Sitings,” Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, February 3,
-1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 (April 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5633
Date: 1/28/1978
-Description: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics held
-symposium on Space and UFOs in Los Angeles, CA.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 306
Date: 1/31/1978
-End date: 2/1/1978
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Four boys are playing on the ice of the Montvale
-(N.J.) Memorial Elementary School playing field. They notice an
-“airplane” that passes slowly over the field; moments later, another
-object arrives, shaped like a square with large yellow lights in each
-corner, with a slight dome on top and a red light underneath. It emits a
-red beam of light toward the ground but stops short before touching it.
-They next notice several humanoid figures moving around the school park,
-walking stiffly. They are about average height and bald-headed, dressed
-in bright yellow outfits with boots and gloves. One of them looks
-different, because he has a larger head that seems “creased” down the
-middle and has on a brown cape over the yellow suit. As the boys watch,
-they note an uncanny silence and an unpleasant sulfur-like odor. The
-figures walk away toward the nearby Public Works Garage. The boys then
-notice another figure, this one a woman standing in the parking lot. She
-has medium long brown hair and wears a dark suit with blue fur around
-her shoulders. She walks in slow motion and sits down on a low fence and
-raises her arm very slowly, pointing to the sky at another hovering
-square object. The woman then walks toward the Public Works building and
-at one point seems to appear and disappear as a police vehicle drives by
-near her. A similar scenario occurs the next evening. (Ted Bloecher,
-“CE-III Report from Montvale, N.J.: Preliminary Report,” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 123 (February 1978): 4–7; “A Possible Close Encounter of
-the Third Kind in New Jersey,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): 3, 7; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, December
-6, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5634
Date: 1/31/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Pat Martinelli is outside her home on North
-Maple Drive in Vineland, New Jersey, when she sees an object silently
-hovering above the nearby trees. It is a triangle with the point at the
-back and many red and white lights. (“Vineland
-Is Beset by UFO Sitings,” Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, February 3,
-1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 (April 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5635
Date: 2/1978
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A State Police officer is on foot patrol between
-Ornontowice and Chudów, Poland, when he notices that his dog is acting
-strangely. He looks up and sees a black cigar-shaped object with small
-windows moving above him. He hears a slight humming noise like a vacuum
-cleaner. It moves off to the northeast. (Poland 109– 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5636
Date: 2/1/1978
-Description: NASA Information Sheet claims NASA is not involved in a
-research program involving UFOs, nor is any other government agency. The
-U.S. Air Force no longer investigates UFOs. (see NASA arrest laws re.
-private citizens)
-Type: information sheet
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p515)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 2/1/1978
-Description: Night. Six teenagers are driving north on Hance Bridge Road
-in Vineland, New Jersey. They see a series of four large lights low in
-the sky approaching them. It swerves about 500–600 feet in altitude and
-a mile distant, and they can see that the object is triangular with a
-light in each corner. It returns the way it came, so they decide to
-follow it for 6–7 miles before pulling over and stopping the car. When
-they turn their headlights off, the object’s lights go out. When they
-turn the headlights back on, the UFO lights up again. (“Vineland
-Is Beset by UFO
-Sitings,” Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, February 3, 1978, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 105 (April 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5637
Date: 2/2/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Brian Mosychuk is walking in a neighborhood of
-Edmonton, Alberta, when he sees a car-sized object with blue lights on
-front and back approaching from the northwest. It hovers above him
-making a rumbling sound, then a beam of light shoots toward him.
-Mosychuk leans back to avoid the beam, but it shines on his feet in the
-snow. He runs away, and when the looks back the object is flying away to
-the northeast, leaving behind a red trail. He tells his father, who goes
-out and finds a round circle in the snow. They call the police, who find
-a melted hole about 28 inches in diameter. Samples of snow, including
-some with carbon spots, are taken to CFB Edmonton for a contamionation
-check. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5639
Date: 2/2/1978
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy supplies the US State
-Department with more information regarding UFO documents that it knows
-exist, but are stonewalled for months until they are sent a photocopy of
-an article in UFO Investigator that includes some of the documents. As
-Barry
-Greenwood writes, “the only way to get documents released was to
-have them in the first place so that one could mail them back to the
-agency as proof that they existed.” (ClearIntent, p. 194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5638
Date: 2/4/1978
-Description: 3:30–4:00 a.m. A weird humming sound awakens Claire Semaza
-and her two children in Orange, California. The sound increases in
-volume until it hurts her ears, and the family dog barks frantically,
-punctuated by an odd pause for several seconds. Outside, they see an
-oval or cigar-shaped object not far above the trees about one half-mile
-away. Below and around it is a layer of gray haze. It begins slowly
-rising, leaving the haze behind. The object has a bright red light at
-each end that sends shafts of light toward the ground. Several
-bluish-white lights are visible between the two red ones. It rises
-higher, flashes a brilliant white light on and off for 3 seconds, then
-quickly disappears. Meanwhile, the dog has been taking her 7 puppies one
-by one and hiding them behind the drapes on the second floor. (Idabel
-Epperson, “Canine Mother Hides Puppies from UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-122 (January 1978): 7; “Unusual Animal Reaction in California NL Case,”
-IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5640
Date: 2/5/1978
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two Bradley University security guards in Peoria,
-Illinois, are making their rounds when their car lights up. An intensely
-bright object is ahead of them and about 45° up in the east. They drive
-another two blocks to an open areas and get out of the car to watch two
-objects, the larger of which is as big as the full Moon. They are both
-changing colors from green to red to white. The smaller one abruptly
-disappears as the larger object is flying loops, dropping down behind
-the houses, moving back up, and maneuvering abruptly. They discuss the
-UFOs with some passing students. The object remains visible for at least
-45 minutes. (“Case 3-3-62,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5641
Date: 2/9/1978
-Description: A carbon copy of an apparent USAF incident report is
-received at the office of the National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida.
-Accompanying the document is an unsigned letter dated January 29 and
-“revealing” the Ellsworth AFB incident of November 16, 1977. (Bob Pratt,
-“The
-Truth about the ‘Ellsworth Case,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 191
-(January 1984): 6–9; Clark III 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5642
Date: 2/10/1978
-Description: WJR-AM radio personality Marc Avery is on his way to the
-Detroit Metropolitan Airport on I-275 when he and his wife see two
-lights hovering above their car for 30–50 seconds. He calls the radio
-station and speaks on air, asking if anyone else has seen the lights.
-Two men in the area of Merriman Road and Michigan Avenue in Wayne,
-Michigan, call in to say that 5 minutes earlier they had seen a large
-UFO traveling east to west at treetop level. (“Forty
-Years Ago This Weekend, a WJR Radio Personality May Have Encountered a
-UFO,” Michigan Radio, February 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5643
Date: 2/12/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. David Mace and his wife are driving on Tennant
-Way approaching Lake Sacajawea in Longview, Washington, when they see an
-orange triangle with a hole in it silently hovering above the lake near
-Washington Way. They watch it for 15 seconds before it takes off to the
-west. (“Couple
-Reports UFO above Lake Sacajawea,”
-Longview (Wash.) News, February 13, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service,
-no. 104 (March 1978): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5644
Date: 2/19/1978
-Description: The television series Project U.F.O. debuts in the US on
-NBC-TV. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the show is based
-loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book. The show is created by Jack
-Webb, who pores through Air Force files looking for episode ideas.
-The first season stars William
-Jordan as Maj. Jake Gatlin alongside William
-Caskey Swaim as Staff Sgt. Harry Fitz. Former USAF Col. William
-T. Coleman is a producer. (Wikipedia, “Project
-U.F.O.”; Internet Movie Database, “Project
-U.F.O.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5646
Date: 2/19/1978
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Radar operators on two separate systems in
-Minnesota track a large, solid object, which starts ascending rapidly as
-soon as one operator switches his system to manual. It seems to take
-evasive action by stopping, starting, and descending. The operator
-tracks it traveling about one mile in one second (3,600 mph) and moves
-vertically “instantaneously.” (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5645
Date: 2/22/1978
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Brian Metcalfe, an FAA air traffic controller, is
-driving northeast on Interstate 80, approaching Newcastle, California.
-Seeing two intense lights moving slowly in the sky, he pulls over and
-gets out to look. The only sound he can hear is a low hum. The object
-moves southwest along the freeway at about 30–40 mph at an altitude of
-2,000–3,000 feet. He notices it is delta-shaped. Other witnesses in the
-area also see the object over Auburn, California, just before 10:00 p.m.
-(“More
-Reports Confirm Sighting Strange Craft in Placer Area,” Auburn
-(Calif.) Journal, March 1, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105
-(April 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5647
Date: 2/23/1978
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple hears interference on their car radio
-in Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. When the man gets out to
-investigate, a warm, violet light envelops him. He sees four shapes and
-lights all around. After walking around the car, he goes back inside and
-finds his girlfriend crying. Twenty minutes of missing time has passed.
-(Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions
-in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5648
Date: 2/28/1978
-Description: Stanton
-Friedman has discovered retired Maj. Jesse
-A. Marcel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and interviews him about the
-1947 Roswell, New Mexico, incident. Marcel says the debris was like
-nothing on earth. Friedman has also interviewed Lydia
-Sleppy, who worked at Albuquerque radio station KOAT and remembers
-the military intervention on the story. William
-L. Moore and Friedman compare notes from two separate interviews
-Friedman has conducted about the crash. By 1980, Friedman and Bill Moore
-have interviewed at least 62 witnesses to the Roswell incident. (Charles
-Berlitz and William L. Moore, The
-Roswell Incident, Grosset & Dunlap, 1980; Kevin D. Randle and
-Anthony Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3
-(July 2009): 6–8, 24; Clark III 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5649
Date: 3/1978
-Description: Widespread UFO sightings, including formations and
-disc-shaped objects with windows
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minnesota
-ID: 307
Date: 3/9/1978
-Description: Pilot Luciano Ascione is flying northbound at 2,600 feet 75
-miles away from Vicenza, Italy, when a green, rocket-shaped object
-appears on his right about 1 mile away. Other planes in the area report
-a green flash. (ClearIntent, pp. 92–93;
-1Pinotti 214–215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5650
Date: 3/11/1978
-Description: Sundown. Two men from L’Île-Perrot, Quebec, are camping
-near the shore of Reservoir Baskatong when they see a comet-like, bright
-blue object leaving a fiery trail plummeting toward the surface of the
-lake. It disappears behind trees, and the men jump up, grab their
-cameras, and run to the lake. The object is hovering silently above the
-surface, where it remains stationary for 30 seconds before moving to the
-other side of the lake. One of them starts snapping photos, but after 5
-seconds the object rises swiftly and disappears like a flash into the
-sky. (“UFO
-Said Photographed,” Tampa (Fla.) Times, March 13, 1978, p. 1;
-“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): 2; Wido Hoville and Don
-Donderi, “RR2
-au Lac Baskatong,” UFO-Quebec, no. 16 (December 1978): 8–10, 15–22;
-Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen,
-1979, pp. 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5651
Date: 3/11/1978
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Four witnesses in the Waimata Valley, New
-Zealand, watch a red and green object shaped like a top hat. Two of them
-approach in their car to about 100 feet, but the object shuts off all
-its lights and disappears. The same object reappears twice more the same
-evening. (Gisborne (N.Z.) Herald, March 16, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR
-3, no. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5652
Date: 3/12/1978
-Description: Early morning. A mill worker at Kawerau, New Zealand, is
-driving back to Gisborne when a brilliant orange light illuminates the
-interior of his car. He sees a large oval object floating alongside
-about 50 feet away. He thinks it is as large as a five-story building
-and has thousands of small lights on the sides. Slowly it rises to 300–
-400 feet and floats away. (Gisborne (N.Z.) Herald, March 16, 1978;
-“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, np. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5653
Date: 3/16/1978
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Mayor Mark
-M. Millis of Arroyo Grande, California, and Mayor Al
-Dutra of Grover City are leaving a meeting at Arroyo Grande City
-Hall when they see a triangular-shaped lighted object the size of a
-Boeing 747 moving slowly to the southwest about one mile in the air.
-Capt. Antony Wood of the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department also sees
-the object at Oceano, and other witnesses as far north as Morro Bay
-report the UFO, which has two bright lights in front and smaller ones in
-the back. (“Mayors,
-Police, Others See UFO in South
-County,” Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, March 17, 1978, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5654
Date: 3/17/1978
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Service engineer Ken Edwards is driving back
-from a union meeting in Sale, Greater Manchester, England, on Daten
-Avenue, Risley, past the UK Atomic Energy Authority site. As he is
-approaching the roundabout near the Universities Research Reactor
-building and the UKAEA fire station, he notices a 7-foot-tall silver
-figure coming down a steep embankment to his left. Stopping his van,
-Edwards watches the figure descend with an unnatural stiff-legged gait.
-The figure walks across the road only 15 feet from him. As he passes
-Edwards, the figure looks at him and two beams of light shoot from its
-eyes and dazzle him. It continues walking toward the security fence
-surrounding the UKAEA site. The figure raises an arm (one of two that
-seem to come out of its chest) and walks through the 10-foot-tall,
-barbed wire-topped, chain link fence, disappearing into the darkness. He
-later drives to the Pudgate police station to report the sighting.
-Police accompany him to the site where they find a group of UKAEA
-constabulary officers gathered at the spot, but since there is no hole
-in the fence, they discount his story. However, years later investigator
-Glen Vaudrey discovers that the tall figure was a 6 foot, 5 inch fireman
-dressed in a high-temperature fire suit who was trying to scare some
-students in an isolation building across the road. (Jenny Randles, “Man
-on the Moss,” Fortean Times 305 (October 2013): 29; Glen Vaudrey, “Atom
-Age Alien? Solving the Mystery of the Risley Silver Man,” Fortean Times
-397 (October 2020): 36–41; Jenny Randles, “Silvery Ships from the
-Stars,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5655
Date: 3/18/1978
-Description: William J. Herrmann abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Summerville, SC
-ID: 308
Date: 3/18/1978
-Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Leo Giampietro and his wife are driving 15
-miles west of Palm Springs, California. He pulls over when he sees a
-brown-colored domed disc the size of a distant aircraft moving in a
-straight path over the mountains in the southwest. It hovers for a few
-seconds and he can hear a humming sound. He manages to snap tree photos.
-The noise stops and the object shoots straight up and disappears. (“Case
-3-5-18,” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): 3; “Case Update,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August
-1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5656
Date: 3/18/1978
-Description: 9:15 p.m. William
-J. Hermann is out looking for UFOs near Charleston, South Carolina,
-when he sees apparently the same UFO he has photographed frequently
-before. He starts running toward it when it suddenly swoops toward him
-and directs a paralyzing blue-white beam at him. Hermann loses
-consciousness. When he wakes up again, it is 12:05 a.m. and he is in a
-field in Summerville, 15 miles from his home. He sees the UFO departing
-in its characteristic zigzag pattern. He calls the police, who drive him
-home. The next few nights he suffers from nervousness, headaches, and
-insomnia. Not long afterward, he is hypnotized by James
-A. Harder, an
-engineering professor affiliated with APRO. He recalls an
-abduction/contact experience on board a spacecraft with beings from Zeta
-Reticuli. The leader tells him that if mankind persists in its warlike
-ways, civilization will be destroyed. Hermann continues to experience
-contacts and he begins to channel alien writings. (Wendelle C. Stevens
-and William J. Hermann, UFO Contact from Reticulum, Wendelle C. Stevens,
-1981; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April
-18, 2012; Clark III 570–571)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5657
Date: 3/22/1978
-Description: 7:00 and 8:45 p.m. Two waves of UFO sightings are reported
-over a wide area between Cumberland, Wisconsin, and Newport, Minnesota.
-UFO investigator Robert E. Engberg traces the first wave beginning
-around Chisago City, Minnesota, and moving east between Dresser and
-St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The second wave originates near Cumberland
-and follows an 85-mile course to St. Paul, Minnesota. Witnesses see
-formations of red lights, single round objects with red body lights, and
-orange globes in straight-line and oblique formations. Some disc-shaped
-objects are also reported with rows of body lights. (“Valley
-UFO Sightings of March 22, 1978, Described,”
-Taylors Falls (Minn.) The Dalles Visitor, May 1979, via UFO Newsclipping
-Service, no. 119, pp. 7– 9; “A Mini-Flap in Minnesota: UFO or
-Helicopters?” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5658
Date: 3/22/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Gary Oickle, David Oickle, and two friends are
-sitting around a campfire in Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland, near
-the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tunnel. They see a strange object in
-the southeastern sky that moves around for 10 minutes before it
-disappears behind a ridge. Another object soon appears over their
-campsite from behind a ridge to the north; this time it is a triangular
-shape about 150–200 feet on each side with large windows, three white
-lights at each corner, and a red light on top. Three of the witnesses
-think they see the silhouette of a figure in the windows. It moves very
-slowly, hovering at times, to the southeast. Another star-like object
-appears in the south after the triangle moves away. It changes colors
-repeatedly from blue to green to yellow to red. (Joe and Doris Graziano,
-“Object
-over State Park,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 10 (April 1978): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5659
Date: 3/24/1978
-Description: In one case documented by New Mexico police and the FBI, an
-11-month-old cross Hereford-Charolais bull, belonging to Manuel Gomez of
-Dulce, New Mexico, is found mutilated. It displays “classic” mutilation
-signs, including the removal of the rectum and sex organs with what
-appears to be “a sharp and precise instrument,” and its internal organs
-are found to be inconsistent with a normal case of death followed by
-predation. The animal’s heart, as well as bone and muscle samples, are
-sent to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for microscopic and
-bacteriological studies, while samples from the animal’s liver are sent
-to two separate private laboratories. Los Alamos detects the presence of
-naturally occurring Clostridium bacteria in the heart but is unable to
-reach any conclusions because of the possibility that the bacteria
-represent postmortem contamination. They do not directly investigate the
-heart’s unusual color or texture. Samples from the animal’s liver are
-found to be completely devoid of copper and to contain 4 times the
-normal level of zinc, potassium, and phosphorus. The scientists
-performing the analysis are unable to explain these anomalies. Blood
-samples taken at the scene are reported to be “light pink in color” and
-“did not clot after several days” while the animal’s hide is found to be
-unusually brittle for a fresh death (the animal was estimated to have
-been dead for 5 hours) and the flesh underneath is found to be
-discolored. (Wikipedia, “Cattle
-mutilation”; Amanda Push, “Underground
-Aliens and Cattle Mutilations: Dulce, New
-Mexico, Has Long Been the Site of Strange Activity and Conspiracy
-Theories,” DGO, February 26, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5660
Date: 3/24/1978
-Description: Just after 12:00 noon. Luis Carlos Serra, 16, is picking
-guava in the forest just west of Penalva, Maranhão, Brazil, when he
-hears a sharp noise like a car horn. He looks up and sees a bright white
-light about 20 inches wide high above the palm trees. Suddenly he falls
-flat on his back, paralyzed. After a short time, he starts rising in the
-air toward a round UFO with four balls on the bottom, a dome on top, and
-three windows. He floats through one of the windows head-first. Inside
-he drops to the floor, still paralyzed, and sees three entities about 3
-feet high and wearing “diving suits.” He is taken somewhere with no
-trees and tall grass and subjected to an examination. Soon he loses
-consciousness and wakes up three days later in a scrub forest. A nearby
-fisherman, José Ribamar dos Santos, hears his cry, finds and recognizes
-him, and takes him back to town. Serra is examined in the hospital by
-Dr. Linda Macieira, who finds that he has four teeth missing and is
-completely bald with his hair burned off. He has a general loss of motor
-control and a lack of sensitivity to pain. He does not eat, so he is fed
-intravenously for the 7 days he is hospitalized. On March 30 he is
-transferred to the Serme Hospital in São Luis, where 6 doctors examine
-him, including neurologist Antônio
-Saldanha, who
-finds that Serra still cannot speak and is generally unresponsive and in
-shock. Two psychiatrists, Renato Barcelar and Barcelar Viana, examine
-him after he recovers his ability to speak a few days later. He repeats
-his story without variation every time. He is discharged on April 7.
-(Clark III 899–901; “Caso
-Luis Carlos Serra,” Galáxia Mundo GAEMU, April 2014; Brazil
-251–255)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5661
Date: 3/27/1978
-Description: Astronaut Gordon
-Cooper appears on the Merv Griffin Show and discusses UFO stories
-from government insiders. Merv
-Griffin asks him about occupant reports, and Cooper thinks they are
-credible. From what he has heard (although he has never been briefed on
-the matter), the aliens look no different from ordinary humans. (Thomas
-O’Toole, “Cooper:
-UFO Stories from ‘Credible’ Sources,” Washington Post, April 7,
-1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5662
Date: 3/27/1978
-Description: During a 9-hour period near San Diego, California, an F-14
-Tomcat aircraft loses control and makes touch- and-go landings; an A-4
-Skyhawk crashes into the Pacific 50 miles to the west; and an S-3A
-Viking anti- submarine aircraft from Naval Air Station North Island
-explodes and crashes into the ocean 6 miles from the base. On March 28,
-a college art instructor and a shipping company owner are talking on the
-phone when they are interrupted by another conversation on the line.
-Someone is apparently giving a briefing to a general about aircraft
-losses, instruments going haywire, and something that crashed near Palm
-Springs that the news media was told was a meteor. A “General Kelley”
-[Lt. Gen. Robert
-E. Kelley at Eglin AFB? Lt. Gen. John
-R. Kelly Jr. at the Pentagon?] is said to be on his way to the site.
-No agency admits to having such a conversation. (ClearIntent, pp. 194–195)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5663
Date: 3/28/1978
-Description: 12:00 midnight–1:30 a.m. Irene Bigelow is outside her home
-in Denver, Colorado, when she sees three bright-orange UFOs motionless
-in the air for more than an hour. She estimates they are as large as her
-garage’s double door. At 1:30, they break formation, with the light on
-the right moving to the right. The other two remain stationary at first,
-then all three ascend into the sky in different directions. (Richard
-Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,” IUR 8, no.
-2 (March/April 1983): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5664
Date: 3/29/1978
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Christopher Kloppenborg and Geoffrey Kloppenborg
-are out mustering sheep near Albury, New South Wales, Australia. They
-see a very bright, stationary, chrome-colored light that is casting a
-shadow on a hillside. They use binoculars to watch it for 5–8 minutes.
-It appears to have black shapes along its side and is shaped like a
-short cigar. Geoffrey returns to the house to get a camera, and on his
-return he sees a second, smaller object, traveling over the hills toward
-the first object. It turns in front of the bigger object, and then both
-depart over the hills to the east. (Melbourne Herald, April 8, 1978;
-“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5665
Date: 3/31/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man is walking his dog in a field in
-Dublin, Ireland, when he spots a silver cigar-shaped object hovering
-about 45° above the horizon. For the next 20 minutes, a doorway
-repeatedly (about 20 times) opens, releasing a red light, the door
-closes again, the red light returns to the object, and the door opens
-and readmits it. The object remains motionless another 10 minutes, then
-shoots upward at fantastic speed. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July
-1989): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5666
Date: 4/1978
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is formed by W.
-Todd Zechel, Brad
-Sparks, and
-Peter Gersten.
-Its purpose is to uncover UFO data through the Freedom of Information
-Act, lawsuits against government agencies, and investigation of
-high-quality UFO reports. It launches a newsletter, Just Cause. The
-group brings a lawsuit against the CIA using the Freedom of Information
-Act for release of UFO documents. It receives more than 900 documents
-from the CIA in 1979 but are refused 57 because of “national security
-considerations.” Just Cause lingers on until January 1982 under the
-title UFOrmant. (Wikipedia, “Citizens
-Against UFO Secrecy”; “CAUS Picking
-Up Where GSW and NICAP Left Off,” Just Cause 1, no. 1 (April 1978):
-1–4; ClearIntent, p. 192;
-Clark III 240)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5667
Date: 4/1978
-Description: An Iranian airline pilot is flying between Ahvaz and
-Tehran, Iran, when he sees a glittering flying object. He manages to
-photograph it, but civil aviation authorities prohibit its release.
-Radar controllers at Mehrabad Airport track a target 20 times the size
-of a jumbo jet on their screens. (ClearIntent, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5668
Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: Round object with body lights hovered ahead of car, made
-pulsating sound. Tilted down, beamed a bright light from the top onto
-car.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Strinestown, PA
-ID: 309
Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: Morning. A loud explosion on Bell Island, Newfoundland,
-causes damage to some houses and electrical wiring in the surrounding
-area. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove and other communities explode at
-the time of the blast. It is initially thought to be caused by ball
-lightning. Meteorologists state that atmospheric conditions at the time
-are not conducive to lightning,
-although some witnesses report balls of fire and streaks of light in the
-sky. The boom is heard 34 miles away in Cape
-Broyle. The incident is investigated by John
-Warren and Robert Freyman from Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New
-Mexico, as a possible a “superbolt”—an unusually large bolt of
-lightning. A 2004 documentary on the History Channel about
-electromagnetic pulse weapons, The Invisible Machine, investigates the
-possibility that it may have been the result of top-secret experiments.
-However, on April 23, 2019, hundreds of people on the island hear
-another explosion, which is almost immediately determined to have been a
-massive section of rock breaking away from the northern part of the
-island and impacting the ground and sea with extreme force. Large cracks
-almost two feet across were observed developing in the area in the years
-prior to the collapse, and signs were placed to warn visitors to stay
-away from the unstable features. (Wikipedia, “Bell
-Island (Newfoundland and Labrador)”; ClearIntent, pp. 96–97;
-Brian Dunning, “The
-Bell Island Boom,” Skeptoid podcast no. 190 (January 26, 2010); B.
-Jessee, “The
-Bell Island Boom,”
-Medium: The Mysterious Miscellany, December 23, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5669
Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: 1:40 p.m. Warren Smith is 8–9 miles northwest of Calgary,
-Alberta, when his border collie starts running in circles and looking
-up. Smith looks out his window and sees a silent, grayish-silver disc
-slightly larger than the full moon. It moves straight up and down, in
-and out of the cloud layer three times for about 30 seconds. Each time
-the object comes out of the clouds it remains visible for about 10
-seconds. Smith notices a large number of “lightning rods” that move in
-and out on its surface. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978):
-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5670
Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Lee Robinson is riding her motorcycle on Sunset
-Road toward Henderson, New Zealand, when she stops to watch floating
-lights approaching her from the distance. She makes out a wedge-shaped
-form, broad at the front and narrow at the back, with two red lights, a
-green light, and a glass front. It stops 600 feet away, hovering. Two
-figures in dark robes can be seen from the waist up looking down at her.
-She stares at it petrified for several minutes until a car approaches
-and the object flies off. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September
-1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5671
Date: 4/6/1978
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Vicki Burns is standing outside the stable on her
-farm near Prince George, British Columbia, when a narrow beam of light,
-2 inches in diameter, comes from above some trees and shines into her
-barn for 5 seconds. She hears her horses scream, and inside they seem
-dazed and frightened. She and her mother notice a bright white light
-moving in the sky, darting back and forth. Some neighbors come over for
-3 hours to watch the light for and attend to the horses. An odd circle
-is found on either side of the filly’s neck. A veterinarian, Dr. McKee,
-examines the horses the next day, and they still appear to be in shock.
-He explains the circle as ringworm, but cannot account for the animals’
-fatigue or behavior. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, pp. 223–226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5672
Date: 4/6/1978
-End date: 6/24/1978
-Description: Six cattle are found mutilated on farms near Elsberry,
-Missouri. Orange lights and “flashing stars” are seen in the vicinity.
-(“Background on the Elsberry Events: Are UFOs Linked with Cattle
-Mutilations?” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 5–6; Marler 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5673
Date: 4/9/1978
-Description: 10:10 a.m. A single witness looking out his bedroom window
-in Toronto, Ontario, watches a silver shiny cigar traveling eastbound
-for 10 seconds. The object is brighter than the moon. (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5674
Date: 4/11/1978
-Description: The crew of the HMAS
-Adroit, operating
-out of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, in the Timor Sea, watches
-a UFO hover and sink to the horizon several times before disappearing.
-It is large and bathed in bright red lights. At one point it seems to be
-close to the ship and at another point it flickers on and off. (Swords
-406)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5675
Date: mid 4/1978
-Description: Many residents of Mumbai, India, sight a bright white,
-streak-like light moving at several hundred miles per hour from north to
-south at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. A similar object is seen the
-following day, moving south to north. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6
-(June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5676
Date: 4/19/1978
-Description: Day. Police officer Mark Coltrane is on patrol in Colfax,
-Wisconsin, and stops by the side of the road to eat lunch. His radio has
-some static. He then notices a metallic-looking disc rising into the sky
-a short distance from the parking space. While the object seems to move
-toward him, Coltrane picks up his Polaroid camera, comes out of the car,
-and snaps some photographs. The object is so close in one of the images
-that some details of its lower surface are visible. The total
-observation lasts a few minutes, the object soon accelerating and fading
-into the distance. (Patrick Gross, “Colfax,
-Wisconsin, USA, April 9, 1978”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5677
Date: late 4/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A dog staying with a couple living on Michigan
-Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan, near the Ford Motor plant lets out an
-awful howl. The woman goes outside to see what the matter is and notices
-a large round object, perfectly silent, about 500 feet above the garden.
-It hovers a minute or two then moves toward the Ford plant. It is about
-125 feet in diameter and has a row of windows circling the bottom that
-emit colored light. It stops every 2–3 minutes and never travels more
-than 25 mph. They watch it for a total of 15 minutes, and their landlady
-sees it as well. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 1 (May 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5680
Date: 4/26/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Debra Gairns, her husband, and a friend are
-driving in Welland, Ontario, when a triangular object with red, blue,
-and white blinking lights hovers briefly and silently above their car.
-It moves away and stops above a grove of trees. (Marler 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5678
Date: 4/27/1978
-Description: Two witnesses near the Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International
-Airport in Rome, Italy, watch a small green object shoot out of a larger
-green object. The display moves smoothly from directly overhead to about
-45° in 15 minutes. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5679
Date: 4/29/1978
-Description: Night. Ten persons call the Aurora, Illinois, police
-department to report a UFO. One couple believes they have had a close
-encounter with the object, which they describe as a domed disc the size
-of a football field. The police alert the Center for UFO Studies and Allan
-Hendry interviews some of the witnesses. He learns that some connect
-TV interference and power failures with the UFO’s appearance. An
-11-year-old boy is so frightened that he hides behind the back seat of
-the family car. However, Hendry identifies the source of the sighting as
-an advertising plane owned and operated by a Chicago firm. (Allan
-Hendry, “The Case for IFO Study: A Recent Example,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June
-1978): 6–7; Clark III 568)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5681
Date: 5/1978
-Description: Red Army officer Anatoly Malishev is allegedly confronted
-near Pirogovskoye Reservoir, Mytishchinsky District, north of Moscow,
-Russia, by two entities wearing dark suits who communicate with him by
-telepathy and take him on board their craft. He is given a salty-tasting
-drink, but requests an alcoholic drink, only to find that the entities
-do not imbibe. He asks why, and they reply, “Perhaps if we did, we would
-not be such an advanced civilization.” They take him on a trip to the
-dark side of the Moon (where they have a base) and to their home planet
-3 light years away then back to Earth, all taking about 40 minutes.
-Malishev reports his experience to his superior officers, who threaten a
-court martial. However, he is subjected to hypnosis and passes a lie
-detector test and apparently does not go through a trial. (Nikita A.
-Schnee, “Contact
-Reported near Pyrogovskoye Lake,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6
-(March 1981): 6–8; Heikki Vertanen, “Soviet
-Contact Case near Pyrogovskoe Lake:
-The Missing Pages,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 3 (January 1983):
-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5682
Date: 5/6/1978
-Description: 4:15 p.m. An object crashes into the southern slope of El
-Taire mountain on the Rio Bermejo along the border of Bolivia and
-Argentina. It produces a sonic boom that is heard 120 miles away and
-shatters windows in villages 30 miles away. Argentinian border police
-search for wreckage, while reporters visit the town of Aguas Blancas,
-Bolivia, to interview witnesses. Velez Orozco is one of the witnesses to
-the fall, and he thinks the object was 15 feet in diameter and conical.
-Border Patrol Cpl. Natalio Farfan Ruiz says the object “made the earth
-tremble” as it passed over. The Bolivian Air Force dispatches three
-airplanes and discovers the crash site on its side of the border. One of
-the flights includes a Bolivian astronomer, who sees a rockslide that
-may have been caused by the crash. On May 14, police from Tarija,
-Bolivia, find the object, a dull metallic cylinder 12 feet long with a
-few dents. A telex sent by US Ambassador Paul
-H. Boeker to the State Department requesting an explanation. In a
-secret telex on May 18, Secretary of State Cyrus
-Vance replies that “appropriate government agencies” have been
-consulted, but there is no correlation with known re-entries. He refers
-Boeker to the 1973 Project Moondust order. The US military attaché in La
-Paz sends a message to Wright-Patterson AFB and USAF headquarters at the
-Pentagon, claiming that the Bolvian Army has found nothing, but would
-send two USAF officers to Tarija to investigate. Col. Robert Simmons and
-Maj. John Heise arrive with a Bolivian Air Force officer. On May 23,
-three Bolivian Air Force officers and a guide set out on horseback to
-the mountain, locating the rockslide on May 25. Parallel to the slide is
-a 325-foot trench, 10–12 feet wide at the top. Some of the large rocks
-appear burned, and the grass around it is brown and withered. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 2; ClearIntent, pp. 201– 205;
-Kevin Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible Ink, 2014, pp. 279–280;
-Michael Hesemann, “UFO Crash
-in Bolivia Witnessed by Thousands of People”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5683
Date: 5/7/1978
-Description: A squadron of 40 UFOs circle dozens of times in formation
-over San Luis province, Argentina, in the midst of a luminous
-bluish-green light. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978):
-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5684
Date: 5/10/1978
-Description: Evening. Numerous people watch a moon-sized oval object
-with clearly delineated edges, no trail, and an intense white light in
-Clavarazza, Genoa, Italy. It remains stationary high in the sky for
-three minutes, pulsates for 7 minutes, then blinks out. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1989): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5686
Date: 5/10/1978
-Description: Early morning. Farmer Jan
-Wolski is out driving a horse-drawn cart in Emilcin, Poland, when he
-is jumped by two “short, green-faced humanoid entities” about 5 feet
-tall. They jump onto Wolski’s cart, sit next to him, and start to speak
-in a strange language. At first, he mistakes them for foreigners because
-of their “slanted eyes and prominent cheekbones.” Wolski drives his
-cart, with the two beings aboard, to a clearing where a large white
-object is hovering about 16 feet in the air. It is about 15–16 feet high
-and as long as a bus. Four black objects on the surface generate a
-humming sound. A platform descends to the ground, and he is taken on
-board by the two entities, along with two additional ones. There are
-about 8–10 benches situated around the craft, each for one person to sit
-in. There are some rooks in front of the door, one of which is moving
-its legs and wings but seems to be immobilized. Wolski is then examined
-with a tool that resembles two dishes or “saucers.” After this, he is
-ordered to get dressed again, and then he notices there are no lights or
-windows on the craft, only the daylight coming through the door. The
-entities eat and offer him something like icicles, but he refuses them.
-The UFO’s interior is black with a grayish tint, similar to that of the
-creatures’ outfits. Wolski returns home to his family and notifies them
-of what has happened, urging them to come see the floating craft. He
-tells his sons, who call to other neighbors, and together they go to
-investigate the site. The grass where the craft had been shows signs of
-usage, trodden down and “covered with dew and paths coming in all
-directions.” Wolski goes home, leaving the rest of the neighbors and
-family at the site. His sons claim there are footprints left behind by
-the beings, though they do not describe them well. (Wikipedia, “Emilcin
-Abduction”; “Story of a Polish CE-III,” IUR 8, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1983): 13–14; Poland 35–40; “The Jan Wolski Case: An Amazing
-Close Encounter (Poland, 1978),” History Disclosure, May 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5685
Date: 5/13/1978
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A 16-year-old student, Jamshid Saiadipour, is
-staying up late studying for exams in Shiraz, Iran. He looks through his
-window and sees a glowing, hat-shaped UFO, hovering motionless. He takes
-a photo of it, which appears in the May 18 issue of Tehran Magazine. The
-article winds up in US Defense Intelligence Agency files and is released
-through FOIA in 1980. (“Matching
-Photo from Iran Found in CUFOS Files,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2,
-no. 8 (August 1981): 4; “Sheraz,
-Iran, October 8, 1978,” Popular Mechanics, July 1998, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5688
Date: 5/13/1978
-Description: 3:32 a.m. Police officer Manuel J. Amparano is on the
-outskirts of Kerman, California, when he sees a reddish glow ahead.
-Getting closer, he observes an oval-shaped object, smaller in apparent
-size than the full moon, hanging silently in the sky. It is a very
-bright crimson-red color, which despite its brightness does not hurt his
-eyes. It shoots out a beam of blue light similar to a camera flash, then
-recedes and is gone. Amparano feels “a tingling sensation” in his body
-as he drives to the station, but he is not concerned. When he gets out,
-the 6 witnesses at the station note that he is sunburned “as red as a
-lobster.” His skin shows this condition for about 4 hours before
-returning to normal, even in areas underneath his uniform. However, no
-burn is present where the car door is between him and the flash. Also,
-he has no burn on his back, which is away from the car window as he
-peers out. Although the redness fades, there are areas where the skin is
-actually burned (arms, face, neck). These are noted on a visit to Fresno
-Community Hospital. These burns are visible for 2 days. The day
-following the encounter, “fever blisters” break out on his face and in
-places on his arms, and these last a week. Allegedly, doctors at the
-hospital tell the officer that the burns look like they are caused by
-microwave radiation. (“California Policeman Burned by UFO,” IUR 3, no. 9
-(September 1978): 10–11; “A Classic CE2P: Kerman, California, 1978,” IUR
-33, no. 4 (May 2011): 11–12; Jason Marzak, “1978 Kerman UFO Burning:
-061401,” Fringe Republic, June 11, 2014; Kevin D. Randle, “May
-13, 1978: Kerman, California,” A Different Perspective, June 15,
-2015; Kevin D. Randle, “Kerman,
-California UFO Case: An Update,” A Different Perspective, June 20,
-2015; Kevin D. Randle, “Kerman
-Police Officer Adds His Perspective,” A Different Perspective,
-August 26, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5687
Date: 5/13/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. A teen couple are sitting on a porch in
-Northport, Alabama, when they see an intensely bright pale- yellow
-light. It is oblong in shape and the size of the full moon. It hovers in
-the east for about 15 minutes, rocking slightly black and forth. They
-see three tripod legs on the underside. The girl’s mother comes out and
-notices her daughter is pale and shaking with fear. The object falls a
-short distance and remains stationary again for a few seconds before
-moving slowly away beyond trees on the horizon. (“Case 3-6-29,” IUR 3,
-no. 6 (June 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5689
Date: 5/14/1978
-Description: Navy radar tracked an oblong object with body lights,
-illuminating the terrain, observed by citizens. Object alternately
-hovered and accelerated
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ocala, FL
-ID: 310
Date: 5/14/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. SK-1 Robert J. Clark, the duty officer at the US
-Navy Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range in Ocala National Forest,
-Florida, receives a call from Rocky Morgan reporting an oblong-shaped
-UFO with an intensely bright, flashing light near Silver Glen Springs.
-Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center reports no aircraft in the
-area. Clark and the base air controller, Gary Collison, climb an
-observation tower and contact external security to alert radar
-technician Timothy Collins. They watch a cluster of stationary lights at
-an estimated altitude of 1,600 feet to the west-northwest perhaps 3
-miles away. Collins activates the MSQ-102 Radar. After a 20-minute
-warmup, the radar detects an unidentified blip fluttering over the
-tower. The tracking computer is put on the target, which is showing very
-little movement. At 11:20 p.m., his radar locks on to it at treetop
-level. It seems to be as large as a jetliner. 10–15 minutes later it
-vanishes from both sight and radar, but at 11:40 p.m. he sees a similar
-object 15° to the north. Collins tries to train the radar on the object,
-but it disappears suddenly. Around midnight, another object is seen 3
-miles to the northwest. For 5 seconds it moves at 575 mph, then
-accelerates for 2 seconds, and executes a hairpin turn in one second—a
-radical reversal of direction. Now the UFO is shooting northward toward
-the base, slowing to a mere 3 mph. Collins finally locks on this object.
-Shortly afterward, the target vanishes. A dozen naval personnel visually
-observe red, green, and white lights from the control tower for more
-than an hour. The captain of the Lisa C on the Apalachicola River also
-witnesses the lights at 10:30 p.m. (or 1:00 a.m.). (NICAP, “Radar
-Confirms Unidentified Lights”; “Flying
-Object Baffles Computer with
-Maneuvers in Florida Sky,” International Herald Tribune, May 18,
-1978; “Navy
-Says Unusual Sighting Was Just
-an Object Flying Unidentified,” Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, May 18,
-1978, p. 4-C; “Navy Radar-Visual in Florida, Part I,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June
-1978): 4–5; “Case 3-7-1,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 3; “UFO
-Sighting at Pinecastle
-Elecytronic Warfare Range,” UFO Investigator, September 1978,
-pp. 1–2; Second Look, April, May, June, October 1979; Clark III
-829–830)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5690
Date: 5/15/1978
-Description: Evening. Ignacio Sanchez Munoz, 19, is walking along the
-road between Cuajimalpa borough and Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico,
-after finishing work at a nearby restaurant. He observes a hovering,
-multicolored, luminous, cube-shaped object that is making a buzzing
-sound and emitting a yellow beam. He then receives telepathic thoughts
-telling him that the cube is not occupied, but soon human-like beings
-will arrive on Earth. After conversing with the voice for about an hour
-he is told, “soon we shall return to chat with you.” (“Foreign Forum,”
-IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April
-30, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5691
Date: 5/17/1978
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A 71-year-old farmer is driving his horse-drawn
-carriage through a wooded area about 37 miles outside Lublin, Poland. By
-the roadside he sees 2–4 men about 5 feet tall wearing tightly fitting
-black “diver suits.” The men have green faces, slanting eyes, and webbed
-fingers; they move in a jumping motion and invite him into a
-“bus-shaped” white rectangular vehicle hovering nearby. The interior
-looks like a completely black room outfitted only in benches. He is
-examined by an apparatus that looks like an X-ray machine, and the men
-offer to share with him a transparent substance that they are eating,
-but he declines. The farmer later returns to the site with some
-villagers and finds rectangular footprints in the muddy road bank.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5692
Date: 5/30/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses are stargazing with a telescope 5
-miles west of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when they see four gray-white ovals in a
-fixed sword-like formation pass silently overhead in a straight line
-from the southwest. They are lost behind trees above the northeast
-horizon. Each oval is about the size of the moon and flying in a 45°
-angle to the direction of travel. (“Case 3-7-54,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July
-1978): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5693
Date: 6/1978
-Description: Peter Gersten, on
-behalf of Ground Saucer Watch, files a discovery motion requesting UFO
-files from the CIA. His motion consists of 635 interrogatory questions,
-nearly 300 requests for documents, and includes 60 CIA documents
-attached as exhibits. (Richard Hall, “Lawsuit
-Filed against CIA,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 126 (May 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5695
Date: 6/1978
-Description: GEPAN’s Scientific Council meets for the second time. This
-time, a five-volume report totaling 670 pages is prepared. The first
-volume is a synthesis written by Claude
-Poher. Volumes 2–4 contain 10 detailed field investigations and the
-fifth volume gathers other studies and less detailed cases. The reports
-are never published. According to Jean-Jacques
-Velasco, Poher’s assistant, the statistical study evaluates 678
-reports and classifies them into four categories: perfectly or probably
-identified (26%), insufficient information (36%), and unidentified
-(38%). The council asks for a deeper study on statistical methodology,
-models of propulsion, and the psychology of perception. (“First Summary
-of the Work of the French Government’s ‘GEPAN’ UFO Organization,” IUR 3,
-no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 22; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA:
-Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001):
-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5696
Date: 6/1978
-Alternate date: 7/1978
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Graham Niven and friends are listening to the
-radio in Raeford, North Carolina, when it picks up some strange
-interference for about 10 minutes, They see a rectangular UFO with
-rounded edges coming toward them from the south. (“One
-Reporting Witness: Two Reported Sightings,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5697
Date: 6/2/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A married couple driving toward Hameenlinna,
-Finland, watch a formation of 7–9 bright lights in the eastern sky.
-After 8 seconds, they disappear behind trees. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3,
-no. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5698
Date: 6/10/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A dark, silent wedge-shaped object with a square
-formation of white lights in the back and a triangular formation of red
-and white lights in the front paces a car driven by two students, ages
-21 and 19, as they travel east on State Highway 299 near New Paltz, New
-York. The UFO turns south toward them and passes over their car. The
-male student gets out and runs underneath it, noting it is as large as
-his outstretched hand at arm’s length. It shoots off toward the
-southwest horizon in a few seconds. (“Case 3-7-121,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July
-1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5699
Date: 6/11/1978
-Description: Cessna pilot observed small silvery oval that maneuvered
-near his plane
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
-ID: 311
Date: 6/11/1978
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Capt. Namdar, the pilot of a Boeing 707 flying
-from Shiraz to Tehran, Iran, is descending to 25,000 feet over Isfahan.
-He sees a huge, purple form passing below him at amazing speed. The
-Tehran airport cannot confirm a radar tracking. Suddenly the plane’s
-cabin is flooded with brilliant yellow light radiating from two sources.
-It feels as hot as “a sunny day in summer in Spain.” The purple light
-continues to follow the plane until a portion of the UFO separates from
-it and moves toward the southeast side of the witnesses. Then the
-original object vanishes. (“Review of Iranian UFO Reports,”
-IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5700
Date: 6/11/1978
-Description: 11:28 p.m. After hearing reports of unidentified aircraft
-from two previous sentries, Gunnery Sgt. Brininger and PFC Johnny
-Johnson, go on sentry patrol at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth
-County, New Jersey. Standing outside on an 80-foot tower, the two men
-watch a distinctly outlined, illuminated white ball with a short conical
-tail approach from the south. Within 5 seconds, the object moves west of
-their position and 20°–30° up Briniger estimates that the ice-cream cone
-shaped UFO is as close as 300 feet away and 200 feet in the air, flying
-parallel to the fence line. He directs a spotlight at the object, which
-abruptly makes a sharp turn to the west. It is in sight for 8–10
-seconds. (“Case 3-7-130: Three UFOs over High Security Military Base?”
-IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5701
Date: 6/15/1978
-Description: Before 3:00 a.m. The Russian motor ship Novokuznetsk is
-departing from the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The crew sees from the
-bow four rapidly departing bright white trails about 66 feet in length.
-At the same time, two other trails 33 feet long approach the vessel.
-Later, straight ahead of the ship, a white luminescent sphere rises up
-from the water, flies around the ship, hovers for a few seconds at an
-altitude of 60 feet, flies higher, zigzags, and dives back into the
-water, (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5702
Date: 6/17/1978
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Patrolmen Robert Fiorentino and Amthony Puglio of
-the Maplewood (New Jersey) Police Department see a soundless triangular
-UFO, twice the size of the full moon, while on patrol. It has a white
-light on each tip and red lights in the center. The object circles them
-twice and shines bright lights down on them. (“It’s Unidentified,
-Flies, But Doesn’t Scare Cops,” New York Daily News, June 24, 1978,
-p. 4JL)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5703
Date: 6/17/1978
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Photographer Linda Arosemena is taking photos of
-President Jimmy
-Carter’s helicopter taking off from Fort Clayton [now closed] near
-Balboa, Panama. Her final frame shows an oval object that she has not
-visually noticed. Arosemena, who works for the Defense Mapping Agency at
-Fort Clayton, sends the photo to Carter with an explanation of the
-circumstances. Brenda Reilly and Sandra Chandler report seeing a similar
-object on June 16 while fishing at nearby Fuerte Amador. (“UFOs
-Breach Presidential Security!” UFO Update! no. 2 (Winter 1979): 15,
-56; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5704
Date: 6/18/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Manford Hammond, a water superintendent in
-Elsberry, Missouri, watches an object “like two hubcaps put together”
-that alternately hovers and maneuvers slowly and silently from the
-vantage point of his home on Black Street. (“Case 3-8-12,” IUR 3, no. 8
-(August 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5705
Date: 6/19/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Franck Pavia and Jean-Marc Guitard are stopped on
-the side of a road in Gujan-Mestras, Gironde, France, to repair a turn
-signal when suddenly all the lights in the town go out. A powerful
-rumble startles them, and they notice an oval, red object surrounded by
-white flames flying toward them at an altitude of 11,000 feet. Jean-Marc
-is unable to breathe and faints. The object then changes direction and
-shoots away. They knock on the door of a baker named Varisse to tell
-their story, visibly terrified. At about the same time, a restaurant
-manager named Bachère is driving toward Bordeaux when he sees a large
-orange ball, very bright, hovering above La Réole at about 1,000 feet
-before disappearing. It reappears at the same spot one minute later.
-(Jacques Vallée, “Estimates
-of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with
-Defined Luminosity Characteristics,”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 354–356)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5706
Date: summer 1978
-Description: Day. Eligio Macchini is taking photos from the rail of a
-river excursion boat on the Rhine River, Germany. When the film is
-developed, he notices a dark spot on one print. Years later, he sends it
-to the Center for UFO Studies, which determines it is not an emulsion
-defect or processing flaw. (“Möglicher
-UFO ist über dem Rhein photographieren,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 2 (April 1982): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5694
Date: 6/22/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Pacific Palisades, California, watches
-an irregularly shaped oval glow with shifting green-yellow-gray colors
-like a “TV glow.” Moving slowly eastward at first, it speeds up until it
-recedes to a star size, then arcs back in two minutes and disappears in
-the northwest. Two other witnesses also see the UFO. (“Case 3-18-18,”
-IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978):3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5707
Date: 6/24/1978
-Description: 10:48 p.m. The pilot and passenger of a commercial charter
-plane flying northwest between Madison and New Lisbon, Wisconsin, see a
-distant bright light making extremely fast back-and-forth motions. At
-one point it passes above the plane. The object is tracked on radar by
-air traffic controllers Glen Wonnacott and Wayne Nurenberg at the Aurora
-(Ill.) Air Route Traffic Control Center. (“Radar-Visual in Wisconsin,”
-IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 11–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5708
Date: 6/26/1978
-Alternate date: 6/27/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. The 77-year-old mother of a prominent TV
-commentator is dazzled by a white, rotating globe of light on a rooftop
-terrace across from her inner house court in Vienna, Austria. The light
-appears to be breaking into pieces that fall down. Then a spotlight cone
-moves along the gutter of the terrace from left to right toward the
-light, and both lights go out. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11
-(Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5709
Date: 7/1978
-End date: 12/1978
-Description: Italian, South American, Middle Eastern, and Asian UFO
-wave. (See separate chronology, section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 312
Date: 7/1978
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Seamen on the Russian vessel Yargora in the
-Mediterranean not far off the coast from Algiers, Algeria, observe a
-pearly white flattened sphere moving to the west. On its underside it
-has three antenna. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying
-Disk, 2020, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5710
Date: 7/1978
-Description: 1:00 p.m. A witness and his father are driving a U-Haul
-truck north on Interstate 65 near Ardmore, Alabama. Just after passing
-the welcome center, they look up and see a large silver ball on the tree
-line to the east. After disagreeing on whether it is a weather balloon,
-they stop the truck and get out to look. A door slides open in the
-bottom of the object and a smaller silver ball emerges and moves to
-their right, and a second comes out and moves to the left. They both
-hover for about 5 minutes, then return one at a time to the larger
-object, which stands motionless a few more minutes before slowly moving
-away to the northeast. Suddenly it shoots away at great speed. (Herbert
-S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
-2004): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5711
Date: 7/2/1978
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Verlee Carson is sitting in her house in Ely,
-Nevada, and notices two jets flying overhead to the south. One is
-followed closely by four white balls and the other is followed by three
-balls. (Viril Staff, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5712
Date: 7/3/1978
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Mrs. Jenkinson and a friend are playing tennis
-in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, when they spot a flat, silver oval in
-the sky reflecting sunlight and moving in a straight line northward in
-the western sky. They watch it for 5 minutes. Another object is seen a
-few minutes later in moving north in the eastern sky. (“Case 7887,”
-Northern UFO News 52 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5713
Date: 7/4/1978
-Description: 3:15 p.m. A small domed disc, about 3–4 feet in diameter
-with rotating parts on top, makes a head-on pass at 800 mph toward Floyd
-Hallstrom and Keith Sorensen, who are flying a Cessna at 120 mph and
-3,500 feet altitude near Santa Paula, California. Its dome is a bright
-chrome with two protrusions. Hallstrom turns the plane around and the
-object makes a second pass before disappearing. (“Case 3-8-80,” IUR 3,
-no. 8 (August 1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5714
Date: 7/4/1978
-Description: 3:45 p.m. A 34-year old school principal in Schaumburg,
-Illinois, watches a distinctly outlined metallic sphere the size of
-airplane rush in from the east at a speed faster than an aircraft and
-exceptionally high. The object stops dead over his house and remains
-stationary for 2–3 minutes. Then it starts rising with a slight veer to
-the south until it is out of sight. (“Case 3-8-81,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August
-1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5715
Date: 7/4/1978
-Description: Two Italian Air Force sergeants (Franco Padellero and
-Attilio di Salvatore), an Italian Navy NCO (Maurizio Esposito), and
-Antonina di Pietro are driving in the Parco dell’Etna, Sicily, Italy,
-when they spot a triangular formation of three red pulsating lights
-above Monte Sona. They stop the car for a better look. One of the lights
-breaks away from the group and approaches as close as 980 feet before
-disappearing. They drive in that direction and stop by a ravine to look
-at a luminous disc that gives off a yellow light about 325 feet away.
-Five or six very tall entities are standing next to it. Two of them walk
-up the ravine to within 16 feet of the witnesses. They are dressed in
-tight-fitting white coveralls and have shoulder-length hair. The two
-smile, and one points to the disc, which is radiating multicolored
-lights. The lights go out temporarily when another car drives by.
-Duration is 35 minutes. All the witnesses feel a euphoria, even 36 hours
-afterward. Richard
-Hall notes that the witnesses have satisfied their curiosity and
-drive away without more concern; he indicates that they have been
-exposed to the lectures of contactee Eugenio
-Siragusa, although
-the witnesses seem to be responsible people. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3,
-no. 8 (August 1978): 2; Good Above, pp. 146–147;
-Maurizio Verga, “La
-vague italienne de 1978,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 207
-(Aug./Sept. 1981): 33; Richard H. Hall, “Italian UFO Wave of 1978,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 153 (November 1980): 12–13; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-12, 2009; 1Pinotti 216– 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5716
Date: 7/5/1978
-Description: Many cattle mutilations are occurring on the ranch owned by
-Manuel Gomez near Dulce, New Mexico. State Police Officer Gabe
-Valdez, having
-heard that certain cows might be marked in some way before being
-mutilated, pens 120 of Gomez’s cattle in a corral and moves them through
-a squeeze chute under a series of ultraviolet lights. The examination
-reveals that five of the animals have a “glittery substance on the right
-side of the neck, the right ear, and the right leg.” Valdez and Gomez
-remove the substance, along with control samples, and send them to Robert
-Schoenfeld at the Schoenfeld Clinical Laboratories in Albuquerque.
-Schoenfeld finds “highly suspicious” deposits of potassium (70 times
-above normal), magnesium, calcium, and aluminum. (Tommy Roy Blann, “UFO
-Connection in Dulce and Taos, New Mexico?” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-138 (August 1979): 14; Greg Valdez, Dulce Base: The Truth and Evidence
-from the Case Files of Gabe Valdez, Levi-Cash, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5717
Date: 7/6/1978
-Description: Car levitated, altered environment, memory loss,
-translocation of vehicle
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mendoza, Argentina
-ID: 313
Date: 7/6/1978
-Alternate date: 7/7/1978
-Description: Between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The fiancée of Robert Garbauskas
-is in Sandwich, Massachusetts, taking photos of a ship in the Cape Cod
-Canal when she sees a small, rust-colored, apparently solid object
-hovering about 35° in the sky for 3–4 minutes. She snaps a photo of it,
-which shows a dark object with a yellow arc of light above it. (“1978
-Object with Arc of Light Photographed,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter
-1, no. 4 (August 1980): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5718
Date: 7/7/1978
-Description: At the urging of Grenada Prime Minister Eric
-Gairy, the
-Grenada delegation to the United Nations issues a statement calling for
-“open discussions on the very important subject [of UFOs] … a matter of
-great significance at this time for all mankind.” (“U.N. Background,”
-IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 5; Clark III 1189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5719
Date: 7/7/1978
-Description: The CIA agrees to let Ground Saucer Watch amend its
-complaint to include requests for virtually all CIA- related UFO
-records. The lawsuit opens in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
-(“Update on the Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) Lawsuit Against the CIA,” IUR
-3, no. 7 (July 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5720
Date: 7/11/1978
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A man driving alone in a remote area on State
-Highway 100 three miles south of Waterbury, Vermont, sees a beam of
-light descend from the trees. It is about 1.5–2 feet in diameter but
-spreads out into a cone that covers the entire street and moves toward
-his car, illuminating the interior like “40 flash cameras.” The
-reflection off the car hood is dazzling. Petrified for 45 seconds, he
-finally sticks his head out the door and feels considerable heat. The
-light shrinks and dims, revealing the silhouette of a saucer darker than
-the sky and about 80–100 feet in diameter. The object is at treetop
-level and has small steady white lights on each side and a rib-like
-structure on the bottom. After hovering above the car a few seconds, it
-moves southwest about 200 yards and then takes off almost
-simultaneously. (“Case 3-8-129,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5721
Date: 7/13/1978
-Description: Todd
-Zechel, research director of Ground Saucer Watch and director of
-Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, files a FOIA request with the CIA that
-includes information about a crashed spacecraft. (“GSW + FOIA + CIA =
-1,000 Pages of UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5722
Date: 7/14/1978
-Description: Dawn. A Spanish Army unit on an exercise in Mazarrón,
-Murcia, Spain, watches an unfamiliar group of lights for two hours above
-a road: a red light that vanishes occasionally, two greenish-white
-lights that shine sporadically, and four white lights that appear
-irregularly and fly without any specific formation. Their height over
-the terrain is estimated at 13–100 feet. The lights oscillate and move
-forward, leaving the road and moving around obstacles like houses and
-hills, then coming back to the road in front of the group of soldiers. A
-reconnaissance of the area the following night reveals nothing unusual,
-except the antenna of a meteorological station that probably was not the
-source of the lights. (Swords 434)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5723
Date: 7/14/1978
-Description: Eric
-Gairy, accompanied
-by ufologists J.
-Allen Hynek, Jacques
-Vallée, David
-R. Saunders, Leonard
-H. Stringfield, and
-Claude
-Poher, meet
-with UN Secretary General Kurt
-Waldheim to organize a steering committee to develop plans for
-possible UN involvement in UFO research. (Clark III 1189; “UFOs in the
-U.N.,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5724
Date: 7/16/1978
-Description: Residents sleeping on their terraces in the northern pat of
-Tehran, Iran, spot a “strange glowing object” floating southwest toward
-Saveh. One witness claims it is hovering directly above him. The control
-tower at Mehrabad Airport confirms the existence of the light. An air
-crew reports unusual readings on their instruments. (Tehran Journal,
-July 18, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 2; Good
-Above, pp. 321–322,
-501–
-502)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5725
Date: 7/18/1978
-Description: DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran,
-Iran
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p501)
-Location: Tehran, Iran
Date: 7/19/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A teacher is driving with his wife through
-Hudson, New York, when they spot a motionless, amber- colored, curved
-object in the sky as wide as a full moon. It remains behind them as they
-drive to a friend’s house, where they join another couple to watch it.
-The light suddenly goes out, and 30 seconds later they hear a roar that
-moves off to the southeast. (“Case 3-9-19,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September
-1978): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5726
Date: 7/20/1978
-Description: 1:20 a.m. A soldier on duty at the main gate of the
-military section of the Logroño-Agoncillo Airport in La Rioja, Spain,
-sees a strange object in the air. A second lieutenant and a corporal get
-to the gate in time to watch for 5 minutes an object moving slowly and
-noiselessly east to west some 3,300 feet above the ground. Two of the
-witnesses describe it as lozenge-shaped, while the other two say it has
-the shape of a triangle. All agree that there is an intense white light
-flashing at one-second intervals in the center, while other lights
-appear in various parts of the dark object. It continues to fly steadily
-until it disappears from sight. (Swords 434)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5727
Date: 7/21/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Chloene Bechdolt notices a bright red light near
-the ground in the north field of her farm near Uniopolis, Ohio. She goes
-inside and around 10:00 p.m. notices that the light is still there and
-larger in size. She goes back outside and approaches the light, thinking
-it might be poachers. She thinks she hears someone talking, so she
-shouts a warning at it. The object makes a hum and shoots straight up.
-On July 23, she and her nephew find a 100-foot circular area of cut
-beans in the field, and the timothy stubble looks like it has been
-scorched about one inch from the ground. (“Large
-Circular Physical Trace: Is It Common?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter
-3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5728
Date: 7/21/1978
-Description: 10:15 p.m. A couple in Davyhulme, Greater Manchester,
-England, observes a dark disc hovering in the twilight sky. It is
-surrounded by an aura, from which 30–40 beautiful purple rays shoot out
-at various angles like spokes from a wheel, extending to about 12 times
-the diameter of the central disc. After about 90 seconds, the “rays”
-collapse inward in sequence, and the object slowly extinguishes itself.
-During the sighting, the couple notice with some puzzlement that the
-normally busy street is strangely quiet and devoid of people and
-traffic. (Clark III 866; Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, R. Hale,
-1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5729
Date: 7/22/1978
-Description: 1:15 p.m. A retired couple in Ventura, California, is
-attracted outdoors by an odd noise and see a silver form moving
-overhead. It has lines across its surface and is making a noise like a
-card flapping against bicycle spokes. It flies straight away and
-disappears in the northeast. (“Case 3-9-28,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September
-1978): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5730
Date: 7/23/1978
-Description: Several Coast Guard stations observed cigar-shaped object
-with same pattern of body lights, moving at very high rate of
-speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lake Michigan
-ID: 314
Date: 7/26/1978
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Chinese Air Force flying instructor Sha Yongkao
-is piloting a plane with a student at an airfield in Shangxi province,
-China. They are flying at 9,800 feet when they see two glowing objects
-circle the airport twice before moving off. Yongkao attempts to pursue
-the objects unsuccessfully and is told no other aircraft are being
-tracked in the vicinity. (Paul Dong, “Extracts
-from Paul Dong’s Feidie
-Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions
-and Answers on
-UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5731
Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: 7:46 p.m. Three men are flying a radio-controlled model
-airplane in a field in Marshall, Michigan, when they spot a silver
-cylindrical object with black lines across its surface. It moves
-eastward from directly overhead to a position 45° up in the east and
-vanishes. (“Case 3-9-68,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5733
Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Two witnesses in Sheffield, Ohio, watch a
-“silver banana” with a red and blue flashing light about a half-mile
-away, low in the east. They hear a wavering hum. It approaches their car
-to within 600 feet; the car’s electrical system fails, and the engine
-stops and cannot be restarted for another 90 minutes. After about 15
-minutes the light shoots away to the west. (“Case 3-9-65,” IUR 3, no. 9
-(September 1978): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5734
Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: Woman reported brilliantly lighted object buzzed her car,
-briefly lifted it off road
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Union, MO
-ID: 315
Date: 7/27/1978
-End date: 7/28/1978
-Description: Rash of UFO sightings reported to police over two days,
-probably including Delta Aquarid meteors
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Union, MO
-ID: 316
Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Clora
-E. Winscher is driving a 1974 Mercury Comet east on US Highway 50 on
-the east side of Union, Missouri, at about 45 mph. She notices in her
-rearview mirror a brilliant light approaching from behind at high speed.
-She feels a “terrific shove” and the rear end of the car lifts up and
-gets moved along the road for 300 feet, completely out of control. As
-she approaches a bridge, the car drops down again, and she sees the
-light rise over the roof and disappear upward to the left. Two dents, 22
-inches apart, are found in the upper edge of the trunk, but the paint is
-not fractured. About the same time, 12 miles west in Beaufort, Missouri,
-Velma
-Clines watches a dull red-orange, round UFO fly toward her house
-before it speeds away. (UFOEv II p. 278; “Case 3-9- 59,” IUR 3, no. 9
-(September 1978): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5732
Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Personnel at the Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin,
-Coast Guard station watch a similar light for 4 minutes moving swiftly
-from west to northwest. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin
-Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5738
Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 11:57 p.m. Six members of the Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Coast
-Guard station, including Doug Wangen and Seaman Gary Randall, see a
-lighted object with flashing white, red, green, orange, and blue lights
-coming from Lake Michigan and moving toward Rawley Point. It stops
-abruptly, and Randall snaps 10 photos. The object then “slingshots” to
-the northwest in seconds. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin
-Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5737
Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 11:45 p.m. The Ludington, Michigan, Coast Guard station
-gets a phone call from a man whose daughter and boyfriend have seen a
-strange object over Lake Michigan. Coast Guardsman Don Clark and others
-see a cluster of white lights, one flashing, and one steady green light
-near the shoreline. It is very bright, proceeds westerly past the Big
-Sable Point Lighthouse, and then accelerates silently over the horizon
-“faster than a plane.” Clark radios the Coast Guard station at Two
-Rivers, Wisconsin, about the light. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-
-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5736
Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 8:28 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gruss of Benton Harbor, Michigan,
-see a long, brightly lit, silver cylinder at about 6,000 feet altitude.
-It stays stationary for 30 minutes, then moves southwest. (“Complete
-Details on the Michigan- Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2
-(August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5735
Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 12:01 a.m. A second westbound light is seen by Coast Guard
-at the Ludington, Michigan, station. It has red lights and very bright
-strobes flashing erratically. The Two Rivers, Wisconsin, station spots
-an object 3 minutes later, but it is moving north. (“Complete Details on
-the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August
-1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5739
Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 12:25 a.m. Coast Guard observers at the Grassy Island Range
-Lighthouse in Green Bay, Wisconsin, report to Two Rivers that they are
-seeing a UFO heading to the west at high speed with white and red
-flashing lights. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast
-Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5740
Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 317
Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Seaman Gary Randall and another witness at the
-Two Rivers Coast Guard station see another UFO closing in from the
-southwest. It approaches for 40 seconds then stops for 1 minute. Then it
-flies northeast and shoots straight up and out of sight in 20 seconds.
-(“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR
-4, no. 2 (August 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5741
Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A Coast Guard vessel in Lake Superior among the
-Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, sees a large, yellow- white, oblong object
-that appears and reappears briefly in a slightly different position each
-time. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard
-Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5742
Date: 7/29/1978
-End date: 7/30/1978
-Description: The 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium takes place in Dayton, Ohio.
-Ufologist Leonard
-Stringfield announces that he has collected more than 50 sources
-with “information relative to the subject of retrievals or storage of
-alien craft, and/or deceased alien humanoids recovered from the craft.”
-He presents 17 witness testimonies to the audience as evidence of some
-9–10 possible retrievals of crashed or downed UFOs, although his refusal
-to provide their names embroils him in controversy. This is the first of
-his seven “status reports” on accounts and rumors about UFO
-crash/retrievals. (Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals
-of the Third Kind,” 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON,
-1978, pp. 77–105; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988,
-pp. 75–76; Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s
-Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 145–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5743
Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield gives his first talk on Crash
-Retrievals in Dayton, OH. He is threatened twice (by phone and then in
-person), moved to a location not of his choosing by security men with
-radios.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Dayton, OH
Date: 8/1978
-Description: Bank manager Serrano Silva and a Columbian Navy officer
-suffer temporary paralysis when a flying object buzzes their car on a
-highway between Tunja and Bogotá, Columbia. The car’s engine and
-headlights die. (“South America:
-Hotbed of Bizarre UFO Sightings,” Windsor (Ont.) Star, November 14,
-1978, p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5744
Date: 8/3/1978
-Description: 7:20 p.m. An engineer, his wife, and his daughter are
-driving toward Nurmijärvi, Finland, when a 6-foot oval with clear black
-contours and a light-colored center flies silently in front of them,
-moving from right to left in 5– 10 seconds before vanishing. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5745
Date: 8/3/1978
-Description: 10:50 p.m. During a mini-flap of UFO sightings in Lowell,
-Massachusetts, a couple watch an oval light that has rising bands of
-shifting colors hovering above trees to the northwest. The man jumps in
-the car to drive to it as the woman continues watching and sees a
-smaller light appear to its right. A third light appears to the left,
-which swings above the first light and joins the second one. All of the
-lights vanish. (“Case 3-9-104,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5746
Date: 8/4/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy in East Leroy, Michigan, hears
-a noise and looks out his window to watch a silver cigar drop vertically
-downward to a position 100 feet away and 15 feet up. It snaps into a
-horizontal position and hovers for 5–10 seconds. A white, steam-like
-exhaust emits from a funnel at its rear and steams up the boy’s window.
-After a few more seconds it zooms off into the sky. (“Case 3-9-107,” IUR
-3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5747
Date: 8/5/1978
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A family on the shore of Lake Sorell, Tasmania,
-watch a glow behind a hill to the south. Within minutes, the whole area
-lights up and a small white light appears, moving back and forth at tree
-level. It remains visible 20–30 minutes, then disappears suddenly.
-Earlier in the day, another group had reported a brown, cigar- shaped
-object over nearby Lake Crescent. (Launceston Examiner, August 12, 1978;
-“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5748
Date: 8/5/1978
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A TV director is driving northwest on State
-Highway 5 about 2 miles southeast of Laurie, Missouri. He and his son
-watch two red lights rise up about 25 feet off the road to their left to
-an altitude of 30 feet. They are attached to a triangular object that
-flies over their car to their right, cut back to the top of a hill, turn
-around, and approach them again, only to descend behind trees. The rear
-dimension of the triangle is about 10–15 feet across. (“Case 3-9-120,”
-IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5749
Date: 8/7/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A couple is driving west on War Memorial Drive
-to a First Assembly of God church in Peoria, Illinois when they see a
-shooting star fly across their view. Five minutes later, they arrive at
-church and, walking behind it, see a bright white light with flashing
-red and blue lights hovering about 40 feet in the air for 5–7 minutes.
-It shoots off to the east in a split second. (“Case 3-9-132,” IUR 3, no.
-9 (September 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5750
Date: 8/8/1978
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Witnesses in Belton, Missouri, and several
-military personnel at nearby Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station [now
-closed] witness the flyover of a UFO that is also briefly tracked on
-radar. Joseph Staudinger Jr. sees the object at about 2,800 feet in
-altitude and looking like two white strobe lights in front and back with
-three rows of red lights that are rotating around its middle. The
-encounter lasts 45 minutes. A cattle mutilation has been discovered
-earlier that day in Elsberry, Missouri. (“Heavily-Witnessed Radar-Visual
-Case near Kansas City,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5752
Date: 8/8/1978
-Description: A group of tourists along the shore of the Sea of Azov near
-Henichesk, Ukraine, see a flying disc three times larger than the moon.
-It has protrusions on the top and bottom, two rows of portholes, and is
-surrounded by a bright orange glow. Every 15 seconds, smaller discs (a
-total of 15–20) fly out from the lower protrusion, accompanied by a
-blinding explosion. They hover for a few seconds then depart rapidly to
-the south. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk,
-2020, p. 176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5751
Date: 8/10/1978
-Description: CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator Gene F. Wilson asks
-Todd
-Zechel of CAUS to suspend his FOIA request until he has a chance to
-look at the 1,000 pages of documents that are currently under review for
-release. Most of these files are from the Office of Scientific
-Intelligence in the 1950s, leading CAUS to suspect that they will mostly
-consist of Air Force and Navy UFO reports, plus some records of
-unauthorized CIA investigations. ((“GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of
-UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5753
Date: 8/11/1978
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 319
Date: 8/11/1978
-Description: 11:59 p.m. A deputy sheriff and four youngsters are driving
-on Chancellors Run Road in Great Mills, Maryland, when they see a
-silvery, blimp-shaped light hovering at treetop level above some
-trailers. It appears larger than a full moon. The deputy shines the
-cruiser’s spotlight toward it and scans the length of the object, yet
-the beam does not light up the large shape. She drives closer, but the
-UFO begins to get cloudy on its underside and moves slowly behind the
-trees. (“Case 3-9-184,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5754
Date: 8/11/1978
-Description: Silver dome-shaped object, green glow, hovered overhead,
-began circling. E-M effects, dogs whined. UFO finally took off at high
-speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Roosevelt, UT
-ID: 318
Date: 8/12/1978
-Description: 9:25 p.m. A young couple in Niceville, Florida, are driving
-on a dirt road when a lighted object that looks like an eye moves toward
-them. The center part is like shiny black glass and the body is metallic
-silver with two antennae on top. It fills half the windshield in angular
-size as it moves over the roof of the car. They hear no noise and feel
-no rush of wind. (“Case 3-9-187,” IUR 3, no. 8 (September 1978):
-9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5755
Date: 8/16/1978
-Description: Air traffic controllers at Gatwick Airport near Crawley,
-West Sussex, England, see a UFO but decline to say exactly what it is.
-(Good Above, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5756
Date: 8/17/1978
-Description: Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia William
-Briggs asks Peter Gersten of
-Ground Saucer Watch to identify broadly all categories of UFO documents
-to enable the CIA to search for all its UFO records. Based on a draft by
-Brad
-Sparks, Gersten
-prepares a stipulation that requests the CIA to conduct a reasonable
-search of 22 CIA component branches. US District Court Judge John
-H. Pratt makes the order a binding one, giving the CIA until
-mid-December to complete the task. (“GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of
-UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5757
Date: 8/17/1978
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Radars of the Air Self-Defense Corps at Nemuro
-Radar Site on Hokkaido, Japan, pick up a target flying from the north to
-south-southwest at about 40 mph more than a half-mile above Nemuro
-Channel south of Kunashir Island. It approaches the eastern end of
-Hokkaido and is later picked up by radars at Cape Erimo. Two F-4EJ
-Phantom jets are scrambled from Chitose Air Base about 10 minutes later
-and are guided to the targets, now in the vicinity of Nakashibetsu. But
-the pilots can see nothing on their airborne radars and return empty-
-handed. The target persists on ground scopes, moving south toward
-Kushiro. Twice more, jets are sent up but fail to detect a blip.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5758
Date: 8/18/1978
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A relative staying at the home of UFO researcher
-Douglas Dains in Port Crane, New York, notices the reception on the
-television is disrupted shortly before a UFO detector (a magnetic field
-instrument) starts buzzing. Dains himself is not at home. The relative
-steps outside and sees a domed UFO with a red light on top of an antenna
-approach from the northwest to a position 50 feet behind a tree and 45
-feet in the air. It hovers there for 30 seconds. It then departs to the
-southwest, disappearing behind a mountain. (“The Absent UFO Researcher,”
-IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5759
Date: 8/20/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A nurse is sitting in her car on Oberlin Street
-in Maplewood, New Jersey, when she sees an object shaped like a car
-fender with four blue lights moving toward her from the east. She gets
-out of her car as it flies overhead. Then it stays in place, rocking
-silently back and forth, before taking off to the northeast, making a
-machine-like noise. (“A Huge ‘Car Fender,’” IUR 3, no. 12 (December
-1978): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5760
Date: 8/20/1978
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A 64-year old security guard is on patrol in
-downtown Toledo, Ohio, looking at a “large plane” approaching from the
-north. As it passes overhead at a uniform speed, about 1,500–2,000 feet
-up, it is seen as a cigar with small brackets. It is dull silver,
-distinctly outlined, and twice the angular size of the full moon. It
-then continues its straight path southbound to the horizon. (“A Daylight
-Urban ‘Cigar,’” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5761
Date: 8/21/1978
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A witness sketches an oblong UFO over an open
-area near Banksville, New York. It is at least 150–200 feet long with
-while and blue colors, two lights in front, and silent. It disappears
-over a golf course t the northeast. (“Long
-Rectangular UFOs: Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 9 (September 1981): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5762
Date: 8/21/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A 33-year old housewife, in the company of her
-children, 8 and 10, watches a silver Frisbee-like object from their
-front porch 3 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Standing
-outdoors, they see the saucer in the southeast, much larger than a full
-moon would look, perhaps as large as a car. The Frisbee has a sharp
-outline and metallic appearance. No sound can be heard over the heavy
-traffic noise. According to the children, it then shoots over to the
-southwest in two seconds. Finally, it moves straight up out of sight in
-an instant. Duration is 5–8 minutes. (“A Daylight ‘Frisbee,’” IUR 3, no.
-12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5763
Date: 8/21/1978
-Description: Night. The Madagascar Interior Ministry announces that a
-UFO has crashed and exploded in the marketplace at Fort-Dauphin. Radio
-Madagascar says that the cigar-shaped object had lit up the ground
-before plunging downward. Locals rush out of bed to put out the flames.
-(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5764
Date: 8/22/1978
-Description: 7:03 a.m. Four men are driving in a carpool from Moscow,
-Pennsylvania, to work at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Coolbaugh Township
-on I-380. They watch a small circular “cloud” descend suddenly in the
-south. It changes to a bright silver and hovers, rocking from side to
-side. It now looks solid and metallic. It rises slightly and flies off
-to the southeast at an estimated 800–900 mph. (“A Daylight ‘Cloud,’” IUR
-3, no. 12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5765
Date: 8/22/1978
-Description: An oval-shaped translucent object ringed by a halo of light
-flies silently over the Andes Mountains in Neuquen province, Argentina,
-in a 300-mile path. (“Close
-Encounters Thrill Latins,” Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, November 22,
-1978, p. 6C)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5766
Date: 8/22/1978
-Description: Object ahead of airliner, opening appeared, smaller objects
-emerged, maneuvered around it, reentered and “departed at a tremendous
-speed.”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Adelaide to Perth, Australia
-ID: 320
Date: 8/23/1978
-Description: 8:04 p.m. P. A. Hadden is on board the tanker MV Ficus in
-the Indian Ocean [or the South China Sea] 260 miles from the Malacca
-Strait. He watches an elongated triangle formation of three lights
-moving in from 60° above the northeast horizon. When they reach 75°,
-nearly overhead, the lights suddenly stop. He estimates them to be 100
-miles high. The light in the right rear continues moving in the opposite
-direction of the ship and off to its left at great speed, disappearing
-in the distance; the light in the left rear shifts over to occupy the
-position in the formation it had occupied. After 5 seconds of remaining
-still, it shoots back to the left again and departs at high speed. The
-remaining light rushes forward, following the same path as the first
-light. Total duration of the sighting is 1 minute 20 seconds. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5767
Date: 8/24/1978
-Description: 11:40 p.m. Two 19-year old girls, driving west near tiny
-Ginghamsburg, Ohio, watch two oddly colored orange lights twice the size
-of aircraft landing lights. A humming sound can be heard both from the
-lights and from the car radio. The driver can’t get the car to go faster
-than about 20 mph. The lights are coming from the left, one directly
-over the other. They look away momentarily and the lights are gone; they
-look again, and the lights are moving above the car. From the south they
-have moved to the northwest over a field. A rod or a light beam comes
-down from one ball of light and shines a light at the witnesses for one
-second. The driver tries to flash the car lights at it, to no avail.
-They look away briefly and do not notice how the lights vanish. (“Car
-Interference in Ohio?” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5769
Date: 8/24/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 54-year old cook is driving north from her
-brother’s house about 10 miles south of Ottumwa, Iowa. She is on
-Cliffland Road alongside the Des Moines River in a wooded, rural area. A
-full-moon-sized red- orange light shoots silently from the east to the
-west in several seconds. As it flies across the front of her car, her
-windshield fogs up and the car stalls out to a stop. The interference
-lasts only a few seconds, and the car restarts without her turning the
-key; the window defogs as quickly as it had steamed up. She last sees
-the light against a background of trees up ahead, lower than the
-treetops. (“Car Interference in Iowa,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5768
Date: 8/27/1978
-Description: 4:45 p.m. A Korean War veteran in Gloucester,
-Massachusetts, watches a bright yellow cylinder approaching him from low
-in the north. At an altitude of 2,000 feet, it appears smaller than an
-F-100 fighter. It moves off to the south, flying faster than a jet.
-(“And Then, 3 Hours Later,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5771
Date: 8/27/1978
-Description: 1:40 p.m. Arthur Silva is flying a Cessna 150 about 10
-miles north of Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Harold Johnson as
-passenger. Johnson sees a bright reflective object at the same altitude
-(2,500 feet) directly ahead about 4 miles away. It moves closer, picking
-up speed and shooting by them at about 600 mph, apparently missing the
-plane by 1,000 feet. It is a silvery-white, metallic sphere with no
-wings and about 18 feet in diameter. (“Daylight Sphere over
-Massachusetts,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5770
Date: 8/28/1978
-Description: Six papers are presented at the American Psychological
-Association Symposium in Toronto, Ontario, relating to the topic of
-using hypnosis to investigate UFO experiences. The presenters are H.
-Kent Newman, R. Leo
-Sprinkle, James
-Harder, Alvin
-Lawson, W.
-C. McCall, and Michael
-Persinger. (“Ufologists
-Meet the Social Scientists,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978):
-19–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5772
Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A witness is standing outdoors at a suburban
-shopping center in Nashua, New Hampshire, when she spots a formation of
-6–8 white lights arranged in a circle and moving from southeast to
-north. (“Meanwhile, a Little Ways North,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5773
Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: Late night. Residents of Lisbon, Portugal, see a large
-round object with bright red and white lights flying about 600 feet
-above the ground. (“Portuguese
-Welcome UFO,” Oshkosh (Wis.) Daily Northwestern, August 31, 1978,
-p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5774
Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m.–midnight. A 38-year-old man is driving a pickup
-on State Highway 38 a half-mile west of Nisula, Michigan, when a
-cone-shaped object flies toward him from the east. It has two steady red
-lights at the ends and one steady white light in the middle. It flies
-low and silently over the truck, which then stalls for one second. He
-gets home and he and his wife watch the red lights in the distance,
-still moving slowly up and down from east to south. (“Another Vehicle
-Stalled,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5775
Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: 11:10 p.m. A man in Gloucester, Massachusetts, looks out
-his window to see what is causing a loud sound in 5-second bursts. He
-sees over Ipswich Bay an elongated, fiery red rectangle moving north to
-south at around 100 mph. One end is dipped down 45°. It stops, hovers
-for 10 seconds, and moves out of sight behind trees. (“Again, 3 Hours
-Later,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5776
Date: 9/1978
-Description: GEPAN organizes a large gathering of about 100 people from
-more than 40 civilian UFO groups, but cooperation does not last.
-Criticism comes from both skeptics and the conspiratorial-minded.
-(Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,”
-IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5777
Date: 9/1978
-Description: Chris
-Rutkowski begins publishing the Swamp Gas Journal newsletter in
-Winnipeg, Manitoba. It continues until summer 1997, with six special
-issues thrown in. (Swamp
-Gas Journal, no.
-1 (September 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5778
Date: 9/1978
-Description: UFOs are reported around Heathrow Airport in London,
-England. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority denies that any
-are tracked on radar, but adds, “It’s in the interest of national
-security that not too much fuss is made about this sort of thing.” (Good
-Above, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5779
Date: 9/1/1978
-Description: After 8:00 p.m. Several villagers in Llanerchymedd,
-Anglesey, Wales, including some teenagers and a man hunting rabbits,
-watch a bright white light descend slowly behind a new housing estate.
-An egg-shaped object is seen hovering and illuminating the trees. Other
-independent witnesses see a large silvery sphere above a field and watch
-the cows panic and hear neighborhood dogs start barking furiously. A
-Mrs. Parry and her young daughter look out from an upstairs bedroom and
-see three tall men in gray uniforms with caps or helmets attached to
-their suits walking across a field. Some of the teens run to the village
-to alert the police, who upon their arrival find the village in an
-uproar, thinking it has been invaded. At 10:00 p.m., Vivienne Roberts
-sees a purplish object with a mass of yellow lights above the vicarage.
-Her horses begin to panic and sweat profusely. Later, UFO investigators
-triangulate the position of the supposed landing site and find a
-circular patch of flattened barley and a path leading up to it. (Martin
-Keatman, “The
-Llanerchymedd UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 (March 1980):
-16–23; Story, p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5780
Date: 9/2/1978
-Description: 8:00–8:15 a.m. Roberto Pozzi, 14, hears a noise like ducks
-and hissing combined in a western suburb of Alessandrio, Piedmont,
-Italy. He sees an object over a nearby cornfield. It stops making noise,
-swings laterally, and shoots up into the air. He finds a 22-by-10-foot
-depressed area of cornstalks bent down halfway up the stalk. Two rows of
-stalks are bent to the east, a third row to the west. Other sightings
-take place in the same area around Alessandrio on September 3, 6, 7, and
-13. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979):
-14; 1Pinotti 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5781
Date: 9/3/1978
-Description: David W. Swift of the University of Hawaii Department of
-Sociology presents a paper prior to the American Sociological
-Association meeting in San Francisco, California, on the disconnect
-among scientists’ support for SETI research and their disdain for UFO
-research. (“Scientists’ Selection of New Areas for Investigation: UFOs
-or ETI?” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5782
Date: 9/3/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Edilia Cresta Gallo and three other women see a
-strip of white light descend between a road and a maize field in
-Alessandrio, Piedmont, Italy. The strip morphs into a bright fireball
-about 5 feet wide. It disappears and reappears twice more. The women
-complain of a burning sensation in their eyes. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian
-Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5783
Date: 9/4/1978
-Description: 12:15 a.m. A university professor in Gordon, Wisconsin,
-sees a flashing, pale-yellow ball of light as he is driving north on US
-Highway 53. It crosses the road in front of him only 50 feet away at an
-estimated 160 mph. It makes a sharp 90° turn parallel to the road,
-descending to about 15 feet, and travels parallel to his car at 60 mph
-about 150 feet west of the road. As he slows down to 20 mph for a better
-look, the light also slows down. When the light is 250 feet ahead, it
-goes out. (“A Professorial Witness,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5784
Date: 9/6/1978
-Description: Late evening. Two witnesses at the San Michele boarding
-house in Sassello, Savona, Italy, see two round black objects close
-enough to form a figure 8. The are making sounds like incomprehensible
-radio chatter. They depart at great speed, leaving circular imprints
-behind. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4
-(Sept./Oct. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5786
Date: 9/6/1978
-Description: 6:45 a.m. Juan O. Perez, 12, goes to gather a herd of
-horses near Venado Tuerto, Argentina. As he rides his horse, he senses
-something flying overhead. Several objects appear and begin maneuvering
-and shooting out beams of multicolored light. His horse panics, and
-Perez manages to ride home. His father berates him and tells him to go
-back. When he returns, he finds a large domed object with windows on the
-ground. A door opens and a 7-foot-tall being wearing gloves and a
-cylindrical helmet appears. It seems to be attached to the object by
-some type of breathing apparatus. It invites Perez inside the craft, so
-he ties his horse to a ladder protruding from the bottom of the object
-and climbs in. His horse is panicked again and keeps kicking the object,
-injuring its leg. Inside, he sees a panel with buttons and some tables.
-A robot-like entity is cutting some animal bones into pieces. Perez
-tries touching the tall being and objects inside but is prevented by an
-invisible barrier. Perez jumps out the door and back to the ground. The
-tall being follows him outside. Perez asks for one of the giant’s gloves
-as proof of his experience. When it takes off the glove, Perez sees a
-green, claw-like hand with blue metallic nails. The tall being then
-pricks Perez’s right arm and apparently extracts some blood. As Perez
-rides home with the glove, two flying objects catch up to him and emit a
-small slab and sphere that descend and brush by the horse. They pull the
-glove up with a magnetic force. The wound on Perez’s arm stays open for
-many years and seeps a transparent liquid. A scar remains six years
-later when Perez has a medical check-up for military service; he is
-declared unfit because of the story he tells about its origin. After the
-event, Perez begins having premonitory dreams about unfortunate events.
-(Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact,
-Ballantine, 1990, pp. 153–156;
-“Jacques
-Vallée: The Juan Perez UFO Case,” Above Top Secret, October 20,
-2019; David Metcalfe, “Witness
-of Another World: Exploring the Soul of a Phenomenon,” Exploring the
-Outer Edges of Society and Mind, October 21, 2019; Mark Pilkington, “The
-Gaucho Also Cries,” Fortean Times 391 (April 2020): 38–40; Internet
-Movie Database, “Witness
-of Another World”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5785
Date: 9/7/1978
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A college student in Dayton, Ohio, sees two
-bright orange lights, closely spaced horizontally. They remain
-stationary for 2 minutes, then dim and begin to move for 2–3 minutes.
-(“This One’s 50-50,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5787
Date: 9/7/1978
-Description: 8:40 p.m. Many people in the San Michele boarding house in
-Sassello, Savona, Italy, see a large luminous object hovering above La
-Carta to the east. The boarding house owner, Piera Viacava, switches on
-the TV, but the picture is distorted. The light moves south for a few
-minutes. Franco Viacava drives off in a Fiat with two friends toward the
-light, but their engine loses power and slows down. The radio and tape
-player also malfunction briefly. A French woman driving in the area has
-her car stopped as the object hovers suddenly above her. Her dog barks
-until the light goes away and the car resumes working. (“UFO Flap 1978:
-Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Oct./Nov. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5788
Date: 9/9/1978
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Airline pilots flying over the Mediterranean
-about 88 miles east of Barcelona, Spain, watch some unidentified lights
-for 35 minutes. Personnel from Barcelona Air Control Center maintain a
-conversation with the pilots but detect no targets on their radar
-screens. (Swords 434–435)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5789
Date: 9/10/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Richard Renne is flying his single-engine
-Beechcraft Bonanza at 9,500 feet southeast at 170 mph near Bakersfield,
-Missouri, when he sees a yellowish-white light descending from 15,000
-feet. It follows him behind his right wing, then shoots up to 20,000
-feet in a perfectly straight trajectory. It moves back to his 3 o’clock
-position before it shoots off upward. (“But This One’s Good,” IUR 4, no.
-1 (July 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5790
Date: 9/10/1978
-Description: 10:15 p.m. A stationary formation of several dozen lights
-is seen at Dearborn Heights, Michigan, for 15 minutes before it
-disappears. (“Michigan NL,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5791
Date: 9/13/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Angelo Ciompi watches a reddish disc moving in
-the eastern sky above Spinetta Marengo, Italy. It stops abruptly, drops
-down, and is lost to sight behind some houses. A column of flames rises
-up from the spot. Ciompi and others rush to the area and see a fire
-burning in the brushwood-covered wasteland. Firemen put out the blaze,
-but the area is overflown by lights in the evening that descend and
-ascend at the site. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4
-(Oct./Nov. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5792
Date: 9/14/1978
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Hundreds of witnesses all over Italy, from Sicily
-to Florence, watch a luminous projectile moving northward. Italian
-ufologists are calling it a UFO rather than a meteor because a few
-accounts have it moving in a different direction or appearing to stop
-briefly. Probable meteor. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no.
-3/4 (Oct./Nov. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5793
Date: 9/15/1978
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A 26-year-old secretary is awakened in
-Carpentersville, Illinois, by a whirring sound. She goes to the bedroom
-window to look outside. The noise stops, but then she sees the figure of
-a 6-foot tall man. He is dressed in a silvery suit. Several feet away
-from him she sees a small, silver, domed disc (about 3 feet wide by 2
-feet tall) sitting on the edge of the grass. It is opaque and smooth and
-the source of the whirring sound. The witness then screams at her
-husband to wake up, and her dog starts barking furiously. They both try
-to phone the police but the phone is not working. When the police arrive
-15 minutes later, both the visitor and the UFO are gone. (“Stuffing a
-6-Foot Ufonaut into a 2-Foot UFO,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 12; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, October
-27, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5795
Date: 9/15/1978
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A 31-year-old woman is lying in bed awake for 30
-minutes at her home in Delano, Tennessee, when a funny feeling makes her
-look outside. She stands at the south window looking out at fields and
-sees a bright moon and an object with lights in a long shape, red and
-pink as if on fire, in the southwest. Two “normal” men dressed in white
-suits can be seen about 300 feet from the window, but it is too dark for
-details. They start moving toward the house, but then stop and turn
-back. The UFO comes in fast at this point very close to the ground, then
-leaves quickly, climbing to the west. (“Tennessee Humanoids?” IUR 4, no.
-1 (July 1979): 12; Patrick Gross, URECAT, May
-15, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5794
Date: 9/16/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Stephen Colclough and his girlfriend are driving
-through Dilhorne, Staffordshire, England, when they notice a red and
-white light moving across the sky. Suddenly an enormous black object
-looms up in front of them, completely silent, and shoots a powerful
-searchlight beam for at least 3 seconds. (“UFO Shot a Beam of Light at
-Our Car: Claim,” Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Evening Sentinel, September 16,
-1978; Marler 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5796
Date: 9/17/1978
-Description: Car engine and lights failed, domed disc descended onto
-road. Two small humanoids emerged, examined car, reentered object, took
-off
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Torrita di Siena, Italy
-ID: 321
Date: 9/17/1978
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Hairdresser Rivo Faralli hears an explosion like
-a rifle shot at Torrita di Siena, Italy. He goes to visit his mother on
-the other side of town, who has also heard the noise and seen a flash of
-light that causes the lights and TV to go out. When Faralli is driving
-home at 9:00 p.m. on the Via Pié agli Orti, the engine and lights of his
-car die. He feels paralyzed as he watches a domed disc come near and
-float inches from the ground. The dome opens up and two 3.5-foot-tall
-beings emerge, floating 4 inches from the ground. They are wearing green
-one-piece suits; their helmets have clear visors and two small spiraling
-antennas. Their faces look like green- skinned skulls through the
-visors. Faralli watches them make a full circle around the car without
-noise or gesture, then return to the UFO, which rises up several yards,
-seemingly propelled by three red, orange, and blue-colored beams, and
-shoots off vertically. The car starts on its own. He returns to the site
-the following day and finds three burn marks in the unpaved road.
-Digging into the ground, he finds the earth carbonized to a depth of 8
-inches. Soil samples are taken to the European Atomic Energy Community
-labs at Ispra, which finds that the road material has been burned by a
-temperature less than 500° Celsius, and not by a bonfire or hydrocarbon
-fuels. (Roberto Pinotti, “Landing, E.M. Effects, and Entities at Torrita
-di Siena,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1979): 3–6;
-Maurizio Verga, “Another
-CEIII Report from Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1979): 6–7; “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4
-(Sept./Oct. 1979): 15–16; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 18; UFOEv
-II 495– 496; 1Pinotti 220–223; Patrick Gross, URECAT, January
-15, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5797
Date: 9/18/1978
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Giorgio Filiputti is fishing in the Corno river
-at the point where the Zumiel irrigation canal runs into it south of San
-Giorgio di Nogaro, Udine, Italy, when he hears a whistling sound, sees
-vegetation rustling, and feels a blast of air. Climbing up the riverbank
-to investigate, he sees a domed disc about 13–16 feet in diameter that
-is resting on a mudflat 66 feet away. The object is brassy or yellowish
-metallic with telescopic legs that terminate in flat pads. A figure
-about 3.5 feet tall appears from behind the dome, walking around the
-rim. It wears tight-fitting coveralls of scaly, silvery material that
-sparkles in the sunlight. It wears boots, has two containers at waist
-level, and white gloves. Its face is dark bronze with almond-shaped eyes
-and large pupils. The entity stares at the shocked Filiputti. After a
-few minutes it begins walking again, stoops down, and works on a
-horseshoe-shaped protrusion on the dome. Finally, it continues walking
-around to the other side. Filiputti hears a rumbling sound and a
-piercing whistle as the object begins to rise, withdrawing its landing
-gear. The underside looks like it has a grid pattern, and it emits a
-bluish glow like a tongue of flame. When it reaches an altitude of 33
-feet, it turns on edge and speeds out of sight to the southwest. He has
-been watching it for about 6 minutes. Three circular imprints about 20
-inches in diameter are found in the dry mud and sand. (Antonio
-Chiumiento, “’The Little
-Oriental Airman’: Another Remarkable C.E.III Case in Italy,” Flying
-Saucer Review 28, no. 5 (June 1983): 3–8; UFOEv II 497–498; 1Pinotti
-223–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5798
Date: 9/18/1978
-Description: Whistling sound, disc-shaped object with dome on mudflat.
-Small humanoid emerged, made repair to craft, took off with loud
-explosive sound
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Melaria, Porto Nogaro district, Italy
-ID: 322
Date: 9/20/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people watch a white,
-roughly triangular object over Tuscany, Italy. It moves northeast and
-turns red. Probable balloon. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no.
-3/4 (Oct./Nov. 1979): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5800
Date: 9/20/1978
-Description: 3:40 p.m. G. W. Schoen is spreading fertilizer on a farm
-near Westminster, Maryland, when he notices a gray, pear-shaped object
-tilted at an angle and flying above the edge of a wooded area. He can
-see plates, girders, cylinders, and other structures on it. Schoen
-senses that it is exerting a mild “pulling” force on him. It is visible
-for 30–35 seconds before it passes behind a cloud. He estimates it is
-340–350 feet long. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5799
Date: 9/21/1978
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A young man walking near a yard in Cosenza,
-Calabria, Italy, sees the area illuminated as if by daylight. The
-surrounding blocks are lost to view. On a hill he sees an oval object
-and a human shape with two antennae. Frightened, he runs away but falls
-as four humanoids come closer to him by jumps. He faints, and when he
-comes to he is surrounded by four entities wearing buttoned jackets, a
-rucksack, and helmets with antennae. Their hands look like pincers. He
-faints again and walks up at 8:30 p.m., but the UFO and entities are
-gone. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento,
-“Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5801
Date: 9/22/1978
-End date: 9/23/1978
-Description: Car participating in road rally brightly illuminated by
-glowing object, lifted off road, driver and passenger blinded, steering
-control lost
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
-ID: 323
Date: 9/23/1978
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Carlos Acevedo and Angel Moya are driving a
-Citroën CG on the flat pampas south of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
-stragglers on the final leg of a 39-day stock car race. They notice a
-yellow and violet light shining in their rear-view mirror, approaching
-fast. Suddenly, the engine and headlights quit, then the car is lifted
-15 feet off the road and set down again one minute later 75 miles north.
-The gasoline tank is also allegedly drained. (San Diego (Calif.) Union,
-November 14, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5802
Date: 9/23/1978
-Description: 1:28 p.m. A man is driving past a cattle lot 2 miles north
-of Dexter, Iowa, when he sees a silver cigar- shaped object 150 feet
-above the ground. He jumps out of his truck and tries to get underneath
-it as it hovers, but it moves off to the northeast and is gone in less
-than a minute. (“Another Daylight Cigar,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979):
-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5803
Date: 9/23/1978
-End date: 9/24/1978
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Two cable car technicians at the
-Bâlea Lake resort, Romania, are awakened by a red light visible through
-dense fog. It is apparently coming from an object some 30 feet outside
-their window. The light disappears. At the same time, at a military
-barracks on the site where soldiers have been assigne dwork duties, Cpl.
-Ioan Dörr gets up and goes outside for a drink of water from a tap at
-the corner of the building and sees a dark, motionless silhouette only a
-few feet away. It persists for at least another 5 minutes. The next
-evening at 11:45 p.m., Sgt. Ion Radu notices a dark figure about 8 feet
-tall moving slowly on a mound some 65 feet away. Noticing that something
-had broken open the shutters of their barracks windows, some of the
-soldiers begin throwing stones at it. Radu approaches to within 4 feet
-of the figure and raises a club to hit it, but he feels a hot blast and
-falls backward into the snow. Two other soldiers with him remain
-paralyzed for a few seconds. The entity moves away with kind of a
-floating motion. Radu remains unconscious for about 10 minutes as the
-soldiers try to resuscitate him. Five soldiers see a “wreath of lights”
-at the spot where the figure had stood and others hear mysterious
-scratching at the window shutters. The next morning they find four
-parallel scratches on the shutters about 4 inches apart. The soldiers
-all decide to spend the next night at a nearby resort. (Romania
-130–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5804
Date: 9/24/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Two witnesses see a silver oval moving from east
-to west in Vineland, New Jersey. (“Daylight Oval,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July
-1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5805
Date: 9/26/1978
-Description: 12:05 a.m. A 19-year-old grocery worker is driving on Lunn
-Road in Strongsville, Ohio, when she sees on her left a flat-domed disc
-edge on. She stops her car, and the object moves closer. When it is
-right in front of her car over the road, her FM radio gets lost in
-static for 10–15 seconds and her headlights flash off for one second.
-Then the object slowly rises up and flies off out of sight to her right.
-(“Another EM Story,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5806
Date: 9/27/1978
-Description: 7:25 p.m. Two witnesses see a formation of lights above a
-suburban forest preserve in Gurnee, Illinois. One steady red light is on
-top, two steady yellow lights are below them, and one blue flashing
-light is seen briefly. It suddenly drops halfway to the ground and back
-up again in 5 seconds before moving off to the north. (“Illinois NL,”
-IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5809
Date: 9/27/1978
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Katarzyna Kolińska is on her way to school in
-Przyrownica from Magnusy, Poland, when she sees a bright flash of light
-near a mountain. The children who arrive at the school before classes go
-to a small nearby grove of trees to play. There they encounter a strange
-man, 5.5 feet tall with a green face and dark costume, who is walking
-through the forest 30 feet away. He turns to face the children, and they
-panic and run back to school, one child losing his shoe in the rush. The
-teacher returns with some of the children to the spot, but student Anna
-Jarocińska goes in the wrong direction and meets only 480 feet from the
-school a being whose face is a “featureless mask.” (Poland 43–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5807
Date: 9/27/1978
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Henryk Marciniak is picking mushrooms in the
-forest near Golina, Poland. He notices a strange landed object standing
-on four legs about 330 feet away in a clearing. When he rides over to
-investigate, a door opens and two small beings with unpleasant faces and
-greenish skin emerge, walking down some steps that have appeared. They
-approach him, one poking at the motorcycle and the other holding a
-device like a camera. The first one takes his bag of mushrooms.
-Marciniak shakes hands with them and tries to indicate the mushrooms are
-edible and the bike is for riding. Suddenly a buzzing sound comes from
-the object. The two entities go back inside and the object takes off and
-disappears. Many years later Marciniak denies the story, possibly
-because he wants to be left alone. (Poland 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5808
Date: 9/28/1978
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two women driving south through a residential
-area of Omaha, Nebraska, sees a dark cone- shaped object approaching her
-from the right. It has three bright white lights on the bottom. The
-object slows down, flying low, and the witnesses pass by it. A
-pre-recorded tape in the car’s player gets completely erased as this
-happens, even though other tapes in a box are not affected. (“A ‘Zapped’
-Cassette,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5810
Date: 9/28/1978
-Description: 7:20 p.m. A man in Kettering, Ohio, spots a grayish cigar
-reflecting the light of the setting sun. Flying silently with its long
-dimension in the direction of travel, it seems to be 10,000 feet or
-lower. (“What’s Going on in Ohio? Another Daylight Cigar!” IUR 4, no. 1
-(July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5811
Date: 9/29/1978
-Description: A resident Indian woman sees a disc-shaped object take off
-from the Groendal Nature Reserve near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South
-Africa. (MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5812
Date: 10/1978
-Description: John Acuff’s mismanagement of NICAP (destruction of the
-reporting network, loss of members, paying himself a $20,000
-contractor’s fee) leads to his resignation as director. Acuff remains on
-the board and keeps the case files in his personal possession. He is
-replaced by Alan Hall, a retired CIA employee who accepts the position
-after a number of other ex-CIA men are offered the job. Support for Hall
-on the NICAP board comes from Charles Lombard, an aide to Sen. Barry
-Goldwater and a former covert CIA employee. Lombard and John Fisher
-are voted onto the board. (Richard H. Hall, “The
-Quest for the Truth about UFOs: A Personal Perspective on
-the Role of NICAP,” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON,
-1994, pp. 185–201; ClearIntent, p. 207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5813
Date: 10/1978 (approximate)
-Description: 12:00 noon. Two Chilean F-5 aircraft piloted by Capts.
-Hernán Gabrielli Rojas and Danilo Catalán Farias are on a training
-mission near Mejillones, Chile. Both pilots see a radar target that
-gives a return equal to 10 aircraft carriers. Ground radar at Cerro
-Moreno airport [now Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport] in
-Antofagasta picks up the object and confirms its large size. The pilots
-continue to fly south between 30,000–35,000 feet. At a distance of 20
-miles, they see an object “like a plantain banana” swathed in smoke.
-They approach it cautiously with their gun cameras on, but the UFO
-disappears at a huge speed to the west, heading toward Easter Island,
-vanishing from all three radar screens. Duration is 5 minutes. (Martin
-Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “Antofagasta,
-Chile: October 1978,” Caelestia, October 31, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5814
Date: 10/2/1978
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Four students, ages 12–16, from Despatch,
-Eastern Cape, South Africa, are hiking in the Groendal Nature Reserve
-when they see a silver object on the ground. About 900 feet to the west
-of it are two beings in silver suits that seem to glide without walking.
-A third being joins them, holding a silver “suitcase,” and they glide
-along a fence along a steep incline a short way before vanishing. The
-silver object disappears too. Later, three forest workers find 7-inch
-oval footprints about one mile from the site. On October 18, three South
-African police officers and two trackers visit the encounter site and
-find a large area of depressed grass with 8 symmetrical marks around its
-perimeter and 4 marks within the oval area. (“South African CE III,” IUR
-5, no. 1a (January 1980): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5815
Date: 10/6/1978
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Two witnesses driving west on US Highway 87
-halfway between Capulin and Des Moines, New Mexico, see an octagonal
-object several times larger than the moon with light shining through
-sections of it. As it passes above their car, it seems to be metallic.
-(“The Octagonal Tank,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5816
Date: 10/7/1978
-Description: A woman is driving with her 13-year-old nephew near San
-Cataldo, Sicily, Italy, when one of her tires has a blow-out. She
-repairs the tire but cannot start the car again. Above at an altitude of
-50 feet, she sees a silver object resembling a plate turned upside down,
-about 65 feet in diameter. It emits a strong light, and the bottom has a
-transparent door through which she can see three or four shadows passing
-behind it. The UFO leaves quickly with a humming sound after 5–10
-minutes. (Maurizio Verga, “La
-vague italienne de 1978 (Deuxième Partie),” Lumières dans la Nuit,
-no. 210 (December 1981): 32; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20; Patrick
-Gross, URECAT, November
-17, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5817
Date: 10/7/1978
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Two truck drivers on US Highway 224 near Lodi,
-Ohio, see a tight formation of pink/red lights flashing on and off
-floating toward them to the north. They both stop to get out and look.
-All four lights break formation and move off in different directions,
-disappearing in seconds. (“Intriguing Ohio NL’s,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July
-1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5818
Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 7:00–9:00 a.m. A very small object is seen resting in a
-field 300 feet from the Marlett
-Sturgell farmhouse near Jenkins, Missouri. For 2 hours it is watched
-intermittently by his wife Dora,
-son Norman, son-in-law, and two others, all members of the Sturgell
-family. At 9:00 a.m., it ascends and moves off to the northwest. The
-witnesses then notice a larger, more distant object, wingless, hovering
-in the sky. The small object heads directly toward it and either flies
-under it or enters into it. It moves away rapidly and disappears.
-(“Physical Trace Case in Missouri,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978):
-11–13; Donald L. Seneker and George M. Koch, “Missouri
-Landing- Trace
-Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 135 (May 1979): 3–7; Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
-2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5819
Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 5:11 p.m. A couple in Huntington Park, California, watch a
-huge black disc at a high altitude moving toward the Sierra Madre
-Mountains in the northeast. (“Who Else Saw This Monstrous Disc?” IUR 4,
-no. 1 (July 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5821
Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 7:10 p.m. A student takes a photo of a distant daylight
-disc from his home, 2 miles east of Anderson, South Carolina. (“UFO
-Photo,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5822
Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Elfed Williams is driving south on the A5025
-near Penysarn, Anglesey, Wales, when he sees an orange light that passes
-overhead and hovers in the southwest. He stops at a friend’s house in
-the village and they continue to watch the light, which increases in
-size and is still hovering silently at about 200 feet. At first it looks
-like two saucers joined at the rims by a black band, but when it begins
-approaching the witnesses, it takes on the shape of an orange-hued
-triangle. It moves away then shoots off at a fast speed, (Kevin Babbs,
-“Expanding
-UFO over
-Anglesey,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no, 1 (Jan./Feb. 1979):
-23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5823
Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A Mr. and Mrs. Trantor are driving along the
-A580 near Lowton, England, when their headlight beams catch a figure
-standing in the grassy strip between the two lanes. It is well over 6
-feet tall and dressed in a silver-foil reflective suit. It is immersed
-in orange light. Stunned, they drive past it. (Jenny Randles, “Fake
-Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 8–9;
-Patrick Gross, URECAT, April
-26, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5824
Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Teenager Franklin Youri takes a photo of an
-unusual object behind his home near Lake Urmia, Iran. It appears just
-above the line of the roof, and its shape is similar to the May 13
-Iranian photo. (“Interesting Newly
-Discovered Photo from Iran,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7
-(July 1981): 1, 3; “Sheraz,
-Iran, October
-8, 1978,” Popular Mechanics, July 1998, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5820
Date: 10/10/1978
-Description: 6:35 a.m. A chemistry professor in Agoura Hills,
-California, goes outside to observe Jupiter and sees another bright
-object to the south of it. It is moving slowly and soon splits into two
-lights, one brighter than the other. They spread apart and move away at
-different speeds. (“Another Nocturnal Light That Split Up,” IUR 4, no. 1
-(July 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5825
Date: 10/10/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A Mrs. Grime and her two sons, 15 and 21, see a
-silvery disc ringed by flashing white lights near their home in Leigh,
-England. They can see three bumps on its underside. It makes a faint
-humming sound as it moves overhead. (Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs,
-Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5826
Date: 10/20/1978
-Description: Dusk. Kate Chmurny, an archaeologist at Plymouth State
-College in New Hampshire, watches a triangular object flying at 30 mph
-northward along Interstate 93 at a height of 100 feet above the
-Pemigewasset River floodplain in Campton, New Hampshire. It is about 20
-feet wide and completely silent, moving by raising and lowering one
-side. The object has a single bright white light on the underside and
-rows of red and greenish lights along the edges that reflect against a
-metallic surface. (Joseph K. Long, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 5–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5827
Date: 10/20/1978
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 324
Date: 10/21/1978
-Description: Cessna pilot Frederick Valentich aerial encounter with
-elongated object, plane and pilot disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bass Strait, Australia
-ID: 325
Date: 10/21/1978
-Description: Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report: Fredrick
-Valentich vanished while reporting a UFO playing cat and mouse with his
-airplane which was a Cessna 182L. It’s hovering above me… it’s got a
-greenlight and sort of metallic (like) it’s all shiny (on) the outside…
-it’s hovering and it’s Airplane not an aircraft… (end of
-transmission…pilot presumed dead).
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p461-463, B1-F p298)
Date: 10/21/1978
-Description: 7:06 p.m. Australian pilot Frederick
-Valentich, 20,
-is on a 145-mile training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft over
-Bass Strait between Moorabbin, Victoria, and King Island. He radios
-Melbourne air traffic control to report that an unidentified aircraft is
-following him at 4,500 feet. He is told there is no known traffic at
-that level. Valentich can see a large, unknown aircraft that appears to
-be illuminated by four bright landing lights. He is unable to confirm
-its type but says it has passed about 1,000 feet overhead and is moving
-at high speed. Then he says the aircraft is approaching him from the
-east, thinking that the other pilot might be purposely toying with him.
-The other aircraft is “orbiting” above him. It has a shiny metal surface
-and a green light on it. Then he begins experiencing engine problems.
-Asked to identify the aircraft, Valentich radios, “It’s not an
-aircraft.” His transmission is then interrupted by unidentified noise
-described as being “metallic, scraping sounds” before all contact is
-lost. A sea and air search is undertaken that includes oceangoing ship
-traffic, an RAAF Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft, plus eight civilian
-aircraft. The search encompasses more than 1,000 square miles. Search
-efforts cease on October 25 without result. A Department of Transport
-investigation into the disappearance is unable to determine the cause,
-but it is “presumed fatal” for Valentich. In 1983, an engine cowl flap
-is found washed ashore on Flinders Island. In July 1983, the Bureau of
-Air Safety Investigation asks the Royal Australian Navy Research
-Laboratory about the likelihood that the cowl flap might have traveled
-to its final position from the area where the aircraft disappeared. The
-bureau notes that “the part has been identified as having come from a
-Cessna 182 aircraft between a certain range of serial numbers.” which
-includes Valentich’s aircraft. At least 15 other UFOs are reported
-between midday and 9:00 p.m., six in Victoria, one on King Island, and
-others further away. Roy Manifold, vacationing at Crayfish Bay, Cape
-Otway, Victoria, inadvertently takes two photos of peculiar black
-objects just 20 minutes before Valentich reported his sighting.
-(Wikipedia, “Disappearance
-of Frederick Valentich”;
-“Fred Valentich: The Missing Australian Pilot,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December
-1978): 2–10; Bill Chalker, “The
-Missing Cessna and the UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March
-1979): 3–5; Bill Chalker, “Vanished?
-The Valentich Affair Re-examined,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2
-(December 1984): 6–12; Richard F. Haines, Melbourne
-Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot, L.D.A.
-Press, 1987; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic,
-“Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 31–32; Good Above, pp.
-175–182, 461–463;
-ClearIntent, pp. 93–96;
-UFOEv II 138–140; Kean, pp. 54–58;
-Richard F. Haines and Paul Norman, “Valentich
-Disappearance: New Evidence and a New Conclusion,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 14, no. 1 (2000): 19–33; Clark III
-1208–1212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5828
Date: 10/23/1978
-Description: 6:30–8:30 p.m. Some 200 people involved in 67 sighting
-reports watch a lighted delta-shaped UFO over Leicestershire, England.
-(“Throwing
-a Light on UFO,” Leicester (UK) Mercury, December 2, 1985, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 199 (February 1986): 12; Marler 103,
-120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5829
Date: 10/23/1978
-Description: 10:04 p.m. Chinese Air Force pilots are attending an
-outdoor film screening at Lintao Air Base, Gansu province, China, when
-an elongated object with two searchlights and a glowing tail appears in
-the sky moving to the west. Chinese Air Force pilot Zhou Qingtong says
-it is large and close to the ground. They watch it for 2–3 minutes as it
-circles above them. A report in the CIA files indicates it is flying at
-20,000 feet, varying from witness reports. (“UFO
-Report from China,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February
-1981): 5; “A
-Close Encounter
-with Unpleasant Consequences,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 4 (March
-1983): 25; Good Above, pp. 213–214;
-Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo
-Archives, 1983, pp. 119–120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5830
Date: 10/25/1978
-Description: The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act creates a
-“secret federal court” (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) for
-issuing wiretap warrants in national security cases. This is in response
-to findings from the Watergate break-in, which allegedly uncovers a
-history of presidential operations that has used surveillance on
-domestic and foreign political organizations. (Wikipedia, “Foreign
-Intelligence Surveillance Act”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5832
Date: 10/25/1978
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Giuseppe di Giovanni, a 51-year-old farmer, is in
-search of a stray cow in the hills of San Donato di Tagliacozzo,
-Abruzzo, Italy, when he comes to an open field and spots a large
-light-brown object shaped like a shoeshine box on the ground. Lighted
-windows surround the craft. He approaches to within 3 feet and sees 6–7
-humanoid beings inside. They are small and humanlike, both male and
-female. The women are blonde and have beautiful pink skin. They smile at
-him. The men are uglier, have darker skin, and appear elderly. They
-ignore him. Frightened, he runs behind a bush. When he looks out again,
-the object is gone. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4
-(Sept./Oct. 1979): 17–18; 1Pinotti 238–239)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5831
Date: 10/26/1978
-Description: Night. RCMP Constable James Blackwood receives a report
-about a UFO hovering above Random Island across from Clarenville,
-Newfoundland. He heads down to the waterfront and sees an object about
-200 feet above the sound. He observes it for nearly two hours with
-binoculars and a high-powered scope. It is soundless, oval, and has a
-fin on its tail. When Blackwood flashes the lightbar on his cruiser, the
-object mimics it by flashing some lights of its own. (“ICYMI:
-Story of UFO Sighting in Newfoundland Town Is in Mint Condition,”
-Saltwire, October 8, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5833
Date: 10/28/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Joyce Blackburn is putting out milk bottles on
-the step of her bungalow on the south side of Warrington, England. She
-sees a strange light hovering above the Fiddler’s Ferry Power Station.
-Her husband and two children also watch the UFO until it starts
-pulsating and moving away. Its glow is so bright that their eyes hurt in
-looking at it through binoculars. It vanishes, then reappears heading
-toward them at an angle. They can see it is a disc with a dome on top,
-tilted slightly toward them. As it passes over their heads, they hear a
-faint humming noise and can see three orange bumps in a triangular
-formation on its underside. It moves away to the northeast toward
-another power station. Total duration is 7 minutes. (Jenny Randles,
-“Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986):
-10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5834
Date: 10/29/1978
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Janet Fletcher is stopped at a traffic light in
-Woolston, England, when she gets static on her radio for a few seconds.
-She sees a bell-shaped object to the east hovering above a rail line. It
-has a bright light on top and rings of light circling the base, which
-has three glowing inset lights or bumps. After 30 seconds, it tilts at
-an angle and begins to move away, apparently descending. She moves
-forward when the light changes, but she does not see it again. (Jenny
-Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1986): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5835
Date: 10/30/1978
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Two teenagers see a triangular UFO over a field
-in Sherman, Texas. The object shoots a blue light at the witnesses,
-temporarily blinding them. (“Sherman
-Youth ‘Sights’ UFO,” Denison (Tex.) Herald, October 31, 1978, via
-UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 114 (January 1979): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5836
Date: 10/30/1978
-Description: Pilots and air traffic controllers saw shiny objects, one
-sped away, circled, maneuvered, descended in distance
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tobalaba Airfield, Santiago, Chile
-ID: 326
Date: 11/1978
-Description: A new civilian UFO “initiative group” holds its inaugural
-seminar at Moscow University in Russia. It is directed by former navy
-officer and ufologist Vladimir
-G. Azhazha with the assistance of Nikita A. Schnee. Launched under
-the auspices of the A. S. Popov Scientific and Technical Society for
-Radio, Electronics, and Television, the group calls itself BPVTS for
-short. Members include Lev
-M. Gindilis of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow,
-Vice Admiral M. M. Krylov, space technician Y. G. Nazarov, and cosmonaut
-Yevgeny
-Khrunov. At
-the seminar, some individuals storm into the auditorium and disrupt the
-meeting; university officials ask the group to leave. Schnee claims that
-Felix
-Ziegel is responsible for the disruption in order to thwart the
-activities of civilian researchers. (Nikita A. Schnee, “Ufology
-in the USSR,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 (June 1981):
-8–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5837
Date: 11/1/1978
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Jenny
-Randles’s father is getting static on his VHF radio channel at their
-home in Irlam, Greater Manchester, England. Shortly afterward, they both
-hear a loud roar. She looks out the window and sees a row of four white
-lights that drift slowly past from west to east. An hour later, Randles
-goes outside and talks to 9 children who have been playing outside. They
-have seen the object too. It is diamond shaped and framed by lights that
-do not flash. Some report three lights or bumps on the underside. (Jenny
-Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1986): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5839
Date: 11/1/1978
-Description: The Air Force decides to produce an F-117A stealth fighter
-based on the mostly successful tests of Have Blue aircraft at Tonopah
-Test Range in Nevada. The contract goes to Lockheed’s Skunk Works. (“Lockheed
-F- 117
-Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5838
Date: 11/7/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness traveling west on US Highway 20 near
-South Bend, Indiana, notices a bright light in the sky, much larger than
-a star. Suddenly it moves directly to the south of her location at a
-fast rate of speed. As it approached, it disappears and she hears a
-tremendous roar that shakes the ground. Suddenly, an object banks
-directly in front of her car about 90 feet away and no more than 20 feet
-above the ground, making a slow, deliberate turn, then hovering or
-moving slowly and silently in front of her, then passing behind her car.
-It is ringed with small windows and has alternating and flashing blue
-and red lights near each window. She turns around but loses sight of it.
-(“Recently
-Received Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 4
-(April 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5840
Date: 11/8/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. While fishing in the Adriatic Sea off San
-Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy, on board the Exodus, three
-fishermen—Flaviano Mattiucci, Gennaro Mattiucci, and Dino Focaracci—see,
-at low altitude and for a few seconds, a red and yellow spherical light.
-After emerging from the sea, it seems to return into it, after rising
-and falling from the sky. About one hour later, the radar of another
-fishing boat, the Andrea Padre, reports a moving submerged object, which
-appears to follow the vessel. (NICAP, “Ship
-Tracks Submerged Object / Boat Observes
-Light”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5841
Date: 11/9/1978
-Alternate date: 11/10/1978
-Description: A cylinder-shaped UFO “bigger than a jumbo jet” with a
-large dome and flashing lights appears over the northern oil fields of
-the Kuwaiti Oil Company at Umm Al-Aish, Kuwait, causing the pumping
-station to automatically shut down. It lands and remains on the ground
-for seven minutes. When the UFO vanishes, the pump starts working again.
-There are seven witnesses, one of them an American. This and other
-sightings compel the government of Kuwait to appoint a committee of the
-Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to investigate the reports.
-(NICAP, “Major
-UFO/E-M Incidents over Kuwait”; “UFOs
-over Kuwait,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 (January 1979): 1; “Kuwaiti
-Landing,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 6; ClearIntent, p. 90;
-Clark III 662)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5843
Date: 11/9/1978
-Description: The CIA contacts the NSA with a referral of 15 UFO
-documents for review for possible declassification through the GSW
-lawsuit. (ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5842
Date: 11/9/1978
-Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, in
-a letter to the U.N., states that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and
-crewed by aliens. He also describes seeing 100’s of UFO’s over Europe
-during 1951.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City
Date: 11/9/1978
-Description: Technicians observed landing of discshaped object in oil
-field, E-M effects on oil pumps and communications
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kuwait
-ID: 327
Date: 11/13/1978
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth McKibben, a British nurse at the Inuit
-settlement of Black Tickle, Labrador, sees a red-orange light to the
-west hanging motionless at 1,000 feet above some houses for 30 minutes.
-A second light appears suddenly and moves underneath the first, and both
-begin a slow descent and disappear. Several young students also see the
-object and make drawings of it. A fire had broken out 2 miles west on
-the tundra about 3 hours before the sighting, apparently caused by
-“fireballs” hitting the ground. Teacher Stephen MacDonald goes to help
-put out the fires at Martins Pond, where the tundra is burning in
-patches [methane outgassing?]. (“Canadian Trace?” IUR 5, no. 1a (January
-1980): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5844
Date: 11/15/1978
-Description: Four military aircraft are flying over eastern Washington
-State when an unknown object is detected on radar at 13,000 feet some 40
-miles away. One of the jets is ordered to approach the object. The pilot
-gets a visual confirmation but cannot lock on with his in-flight radar.
-The interceptor comes within 8 miles of the object but is forced to turn
-away by low fuel. (MUFON UFO Journal, August 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5845
Date: 11/20/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A female medical technician, her sister,
-daughter, and two housemaids experience a power failure in their home in
-a northern suburb of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. They see a
-bright light in the sky that shoots out bright blue rays. It moves off
-behind a hill, and two small lights, one yellow, the other reddish,
-approach from the same hill. The witnesses run upstairs and watch from a
-window. The lights stop next to a road, the Avenida de los Martires, as
-a car comes along and illuminates them with its headlights. The women
-now see that the lights are attached to the abdomens of two flying
-entities, which appear to be cone-shaped, twice as tall as a
-normal-sized man, and wearing white translucent sheets. Three
-silhouettes cross the car’s headlights, and all the lights (including
-the car’s) go out. The witnesses hear a metallic noise like a garage
-door. Then the two lights turn on again and fly off. The power in the
-house returns. The episode lasts 45 minutes. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 4,
-no. 2 (August 1979): 2; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-3, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5846
Date: 11/21/1978
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A UFO appears over a Kuwaiti oilfield at
-Al-Sabriyah near the Iraqi border. An employee of the company takes
-photos of it as it passes a water tower and then hovers over the site
-for 30 minutes. Long- distance communications cease functioning. The
-internal phone system works, however, and workers are able to alert
-their boss, who steps outside and sees the object. (“UFOs
-over Kuwait,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 (January 1979): 1, 3; “Kuwaiti
-Landing,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 6; Clark III 663)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5847
Date: 11/21/1978
-Description: Two airliner crews encountered disc with dome, structural
-features, emitting light beams
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Newfoundland
-ID: 328
Date: 11/22/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Elsie Oakensen is driving home to Church Stowe,
-Northamptonshire, England, on the A5 when she passes beneath a hovering
-object shaped like a dumbbell with red and green lights. As she turns
-onto Main Street, her foot is flat on the accelerator but there is no
-sound from her engine and her car coasts to a halt. Her car lights fail
-as circles of light dance around the road, illuminating a nearby
-farmyard. The car restarts, but she only drives about 300 feet when it
-stops again. She claims the “natural light” disappears and she is
-enveloped in pure darkness. Then suddenly a white circle of light
-approximately 3 feet in diameter shines on the road, as if someone has
-pressed on a switch, the normal light returns, and she drives the car
-normally. She estimates she has about 15 minutes of missing time. Later,
-at 7:10 p.m., she feels a tightening sensation around her forehead, one
-that she remembers having felt just prior to the encounter. At 7:20
-p.m., four young women driving through the nearby village of Preston
-Capes see red and green lights and beams shooting out from clouds as
-their car engine temporarily loses power. After trying hypnosis with
-minimal results, Oakensen tries creative visualization at the scene and
-recovers some abduction memories. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, November
-13, 2011; Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311
-(March 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5848
Date: 11/24/1978
-Description: 11:45 a.m. Angelo d’Ambros, 61, is out gathering firewood
-in a copse near Gallio, Vicenza, Italy, when he comes across two
-entities just a few feet away from him. One is about 4 feet tall, the
-other about 8 inches shorter. They are suspended in the air about a foot
-off the ground. They are extremely thin and have a yellowish skin that
-is stretched tightly over their bones. Their heads are bald, and at the
-sides are enormous ears that rise vertically and end in points. Their
-eyes are large and white, without eyelids. Their large noses extend down
-to the lower lip of a sizable mouth from which extend two tusks. They
-wear tight-fitting coveralls. The smaller one starts moving back and
-forth from right to left in very quick jerks. Its motion causes a stir
-in the air, and vegetation rustles as the tips of its ears touch the
-lower branches of nearby trees. Incomprehensible grumblings come from
-the mouth of the shorter entity. The taller being reaches one of its
-long hands to take away d’Ambros’s pruning knife. D’Ambros holds on to
-it tightly, but he feels a strong electric shock. He grabs a large
-branch and takes a swipe at them as they take flight. D’Ambros runs
-after them, and he watches them make for a domed UFO resting in a
-clearing 100 feet away on four landing pods. The entities climb aboard,
-and the object takes off horizontally at a dizzying speed in absolute
-silence and disappears behind high fir trees. The next day he returns to
-the clearing and finds a nearly circular area about 12 feet in diameter
-in which the grass appears black, pressed, and whirled in a
-counterclockwise direction. D’Ambros discovers two U-shaped traces about
-8 inches long. (“Two Humanoids in Gallio,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June 1983):
-8–11; Antonio Chiumiento, “Gallio:
-Faccia a faccia con
-due ufonauti,” Notiziario UFO 3, no. 4/5 (April/May 1980): 4–9;
-Antonio Chiumiento, “Umanoidi
-a Gallio, Seconda
-Parte,” Notiziario UFO 16, no. 99 (May/Dec. 1981): 16–19; 1Pinotti
-241–250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5849
Date: 11/27/1978
-Description: Also December 8, 1978. UN committee meetings on UFOs.
-Speakers included J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, Stanton Friedman,
-Lawrence J. Coyne.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York, NY
-ID: 329
Date: 11/27/1978
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek, Jacques
-Vallée, Stanton
-T. Friedman, Lawrence J. Coyne, and Grenada Ambassador at Large
-Wellington Friday speak before the UN Special Political Committee.
-Grenada seeks to interest the UN in a three-member panel to initiate a
-formal UFO study program, but its efforts are unavailing. (Clark III
-1190; J. Allen Hynek, “Ufologists and the United Nations: A Novel Moment
-in the History of UFO Research,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978):
-3–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5850
Date: 12/1978
-Description: Alan N. Hall, a retired CIA employee, officially becomes
-president of NICAP among baseless charges that a sinister CIA conspiracy
-has undermined the organization. He operates out of his home without
-access to the files. (“To
-Our Readers,” UFO Investigator, April 1979, p. 3; Richard H. Hall,
-“The
-Quest for the Truth about UFOs: A Personal
-Perspective on the Role of NICAP,” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium
-Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5851
Date: End of 1978
-Description: UFO research at the USSR Academy of Sciences came under the
-umbrella of STEKA-AN. UFO acronym was banned until 1989, instead
-“Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena” was the sanctioned acronym.
-Type: book reference
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 12/1/1978
-Description: President Jimmy
-Carter establishes the Information Security Oversight Office through
-Executive Order 12065, “National Security Information.” The office is
-under the jurisdiction of the National Archives and Records
-Administration, and its mission is to provide for an informed American
-public by ensuring that the minimum information necessary to the
-interest of national security is classified and that information is
-declassified as soon as it no longer requires protection. (Wikipedia,
-“Information
-Security Oversight Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5852
Date: 12/2/1978
-Description: A civil servant takes a photo of a UFO as he is walking
-along a beach in Kuwait. It shows a domed disc with a self-luminous tube
-protruding from the bottom. Other witnesses also see the UFO. (“UFOs
-over Kuwait,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 (January 1979): 3; Clark III
-663)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5853
Date: 12/4/1978
-Description: The CIA passes on three other UFO documents to the NSA for
-declassification review. (ClearIntent, p.
-181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5854
Date: 12/6/1978
-Description: 11:30 p.m. While patrolling at Marzano, near Torriglia, a
-village northeast of Genoa, Italy, 26-year-old night watchman Piero
-Fortunato Zanfretta notices four lights moving in a courtyard. He gets
-out of his car holding his pistol and flashlight, moving cautiously
-along a house wall. Something pushes him forward and he falls. When he
-gets up, his head hits something and he points his flashlight upward to
-see a 6-foot-tall creature with an ugly face. Terrified, he runs to the
-car and is blinded by a yellow, triangle-shaped object taking off from
-behind the house. He calls for help on the radio. When his colleagues
-arrive at 1:00 a.m., they find him lying in a nearby lawn in a confused
-state of mind. On December 23, Zanfretta is hypnotized by a medical
-doctor. An abduction scenario emerges in which he is taken to a bright
-room by giant entities who put a hot and painful helmet on his head. The
-humanoids are green-skinned and have yellow triangular eyes, red veins
-on their heads, pointed ears, and rounded fingers. Further abductions
-and memories emerge over time, finally ceasing in 1980. (“UFO Flap 1978:
-Italian Style, Part Two, December,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 13–15;
-Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions
-in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 15–16; Rino Di Stefano, The
-Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story, The Author,
-2014; Jason Charbonneau, “Zanfretta
-Abductions, 1978–1981,” Think Anomalous, May 6, 2017; 1Pinotti
-253–258)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5855
Date: 12/8/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two young men walking along a mountain slope
-near Milanere, Torino, Italy, see a blue-white light among the trees.
-One of them walks toward it, but he disappears. A few minutes later the
-light takes off into the sky. The other man goes for help and a group of
-people comes to search for the missing man. He is found in a different
-direction, unconscious, cold, and weak. Both witnesses suffer from
-conjunctivitis for several days. The one who vanished has a strange scar
-on his leg. He only remembers approaching a pear-shaped light when he
-sees 3–4 human shapes with pumpkinlike heads silhouetted against the
-light. He becomes paralyzed and can vaguely remember being touched and
-raised. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento,
-“Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5857
Date: 12/8/1978
-Description: The United Nations meetings on UFOs conclude, resulting in
-UN Decision 33/426 relating to the “establishment of an agency or a
-department of the United Nations for undertaking, coordinating, and
-disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects
-and related phenomena.” Beyond newspaper publicity, the meetings have no
-impact and no other nation backs Grenada. (“Grenada
-UFO Item,” WikiLeaks, [telegram], December 8, 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5856
Date: 12/10/1978
-Description: The weekly Parade magazine carries a story by Michael
-Satchell summarizing the UFO events at Loring, Malmstrom, Wurtsmith, and
-other Northern Tier bases. (Michael Satchell, “UFO’s vs. USAF:
-Amazing (But True) Encounters,” Parade magazine, December 10, 1978,
-pp. 8–11; ClearIntent, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5858
Date: 12/14/1978
-Description: As a result of the Ground Saucer Watch lawsuit, the CIA
-releases some 340 of its own UFO-related documents, 900 pages in all.
-The letter, signed by CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator George
-Owens, states that 57 documents are being withheld for national security
-purposes. Also, 196 other documents originating from other agencies are
-forwarded to them for response to GSW. The CIA had faced a deadline of
-December 1977 to produce the documents but were granted an extension by
-US District Court Judge John
-H. Pratt. (“The
-GSW vs. CIA Lawsuit,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 20–22; Good
-Above, pp. 327–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5859
Date: 12/16/1978
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Radar detects a UFO at 10,000 feet in the region
-around Calama, Chile. Three F-5Es are sent from Antofagasta to intercept
-it and they see a large triangular object some 50 times the size of
-their planes. (“Select Triangular UFO Cases,” Bob Pratt Files)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5860
Date: 12/20/1978
-Description: US Rep. Samuel
-S. Stratton (D-N.Y.) expresses concern to his Armed Services
-Investigations Subcommittee about the “alleged ability of unknown
-aircraft to penetrate airspace and over above SAC bases, their weapons
-storage areas, missile sites, and launch control facilities, and the
-inability of Air Force equipment and personnel to intercept and identify
-such aircraft.” Stratton sends a letter to USAF Maj. Gen. Charles
-C. Blanton requesting
-incident reports. (ClearIntent, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5861
Date: 12/21/1978
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Capt. John
-B. Randle is flying an Argosy cargo plane from Blenheim to
-Christchurch, New Zealand, when he notices white lights in the sky above
-the mouth of the Clarence River at Waipapa Bay. He contacts Wellington
-Air Traffic Control, which confirms that it has five oscillating objects
-on its scopes. The lights are also seen on the ground. (“The New Zealand
-UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 3; Clark III 799)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5862
Date: 12/21/1978
-Description: Also December 22 and 31, 1978. New Zealand radar-visual and
-photo cases.
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Zealand
-ID: 330
Date: 12/21/1978
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Wellington Air Traffic Control contacts
-Capt. Vern Powell, pilot of a freight aircraft about to make the
-Blenheim to Christchurch run, New Zealand, alerting him to the position
-of the objects, which have stayed in position. He ascends to 7,500 feet
-and sees one white light, tinged with red, through the clouds. It
-follows Powell’s plane, and Wellington radar tracks it for 12 miles
-before it disappears. As they near Christchurch Airport, Powell and his
-copilot Ian Pirie notice a return on their onboard radar. By the next
-sweep it has moved one mile closer, moving at about 8,000 mph. They
-cannot confirm anything visually, but the radar indicates the object has
-streaked off to the left and disappears. Then Powell and Pirie see a
-flashing light in front of them. (“The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,”
-IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 3–4; Clark III 799)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5863
Date: 12/22/1978
-Description: Peter Gersten of
-CAUS files a request with the NSA for copies of the 18 UFO-related
-documents the CIA has referred to it. NSA’s Chief of Policy Roy R.
-Banner later declines their release on the basis of national security.
-(ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5864
Date: 12/24/1978
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Benito Franchi, 45, is working in the power
-station at Pietracamela, Terama, Italy, in a room with two AC
-generators, one connected to power and the other disconnected, when he
-suddenly feels ill and faint. The working generator’s dial hands
-register an overload on the network, and the dial hands on the
-disconnected generator are also waving. This continues for about one
-minute, leaving the dials badly out of calibration. Franchi feels
-paralyzed and falls to the ground. Suddenly everything stops, and out of
-the window he sees three or four bright flashes coming from a ball of
-brilliant red light that hurts his eyes. The object takes off and
-disappears to the southwest. Franchi suffers from severe conjunctivitis,
-and the generator dials must be calibrated again. Shortly afterward, a
-large luminous UFO is seen hovering above the Gran Sasso massif to the
-southwest. (1Pinotti 259)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5865
Date: 12/30/1978
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Erwin Vitelli sees a steely-blue object hovering
-in the southern sky above Zuchwil, Solothurn, Switzerland. It appears in
-the shape of three globes merging with one another, each one with a
-light source directed downward. The object is visible for about one
-minute. (“Early
-Morning, Late December, Swiss Sighting,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 (Feb./March 1983): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5866
Date: 12/31/1978
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in the United Kingdom see a
-bright light with a long trail behind it streak across the heavens from
-northwest to southeast. RAF Fylingdales in the North York Moors,
-England, quickly identifies it as the reentry of a booster rocket that
-launched a Russian satellite, Kosmos 1068, into orbit on December 26.
-Jenny Randles examines reports of the reentry, which in general
-accurately reflect the event, and compares them to UFO reports,
-concluding that it is unlikely that all UFOs are IFOs in various degrees
-of exaggeration. (Jenny Randles, “The Case Against the IFO,” IUR 10, no.
-1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 4–6; Jenny Randles, “Jenny Randles Replies,” IUR 10,
-no. 3 (May/June 1985): 8–9, 15; UFOFiles2, pp. 98–99;
-Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374
-(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5869
Date: 12/31/1978
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Bobby Hines wakes up at her home in Demopolis,
-Alabama, because her dogs are barking outside. She sees a large, bright
-object hovering above the trees 1,800 feet from the house and wakes her
-husband. The UFO is the size of a small house and triangular in shape.
-It approaches the witnesses, moving in a zigzag pattern and hovering 50
-feet off the ground for 30 minutes. Two police officers respond to their
-call and watch the UFO as well, which finally moves off to the southeast
-making a funny noise. (Marler 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5868
Date: 12/31/1978
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Quentin
-Fogarty, a
-reporter for Melbourne’s 0/10 Network assigned to do a story on the Vern
-Powell sighting 10 days earlier, has chartered an Argosy cargo plane,
-piloted by Capt. William Startup and First Officer Robert Guard. While
-flying from Wellington to Christchurch, New Zealand, with David Crockett
-and his wife Ngaire as camera crew over the Cook Strait near the site of
-the Powell sighting, Startup and Guard see 6–7 bright, pulsating lights
-like Chinese lanterns above the sea off Kaikoura. They fade and
-disappear, then return to view. Crockett starts filming. Wellington is
-tracking a target a mile behind the aircraft that stays on the screen
-for about one minute without moving. Another, stronger target appears to
-the right of the plane. Fogarty manages to crack, “Let’s hope they’re
-friendly!” Twice, Startup vainly attempts a 360° turn to get a glimpse
-of the object. After landing at Christchurch, Startup invites the
-passengers to accompany him back to Blenheim. Fogarty, Crockett, and
-another journalist, Dennis Grant, agree to do so. The plane flies out at
-2:15 a.m., and within 2 minutes aircraft radar picks up a target 37
-miles away. Startup turns toward it, but it moves to the right and
-vanishes almost immediately. Other radars pick up targets
-intermittently. The object returns in view of the plane, moving toward
-it, then drops out of sight to the right. Afterward, Fogarty notices a
-strange light that seems to be coming from the cargo hold. Two pulsating
-white lights soon appear on the port side of the plane. One settles into
-a rolling, turning pattern and falls at an incredible speed. This
-sequence Crockett captures on film. Bruce Maccabee spends
-10 days in New Zealand and Australia interviewing witnesses and
-analyzing the film, which he concludes does not have any mundane
-explanation. (Wikipedia, “Kaikoura
-lights”; “The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July
-1979): 4–8; “The New Zealand Film Analysis, Part II,” IUR 4, no. 2
-(August 1979): 3–6); Story, pp. 392–395;
-W. C. Chalker, “A
-Re-Viewing of the Great Nocturnal Light,” Flying Saucer Review 26,
-no. 1 (June 1980): 12–18 Quentin Fogarty, Let’s Hope They’re Friendly!
-Angus and Robertson, 1983; Bruce Maccabee, “Analysis
-and Discussion of the Images of a Cluster of Periodically Flashing
-Lights off the Coast
-of New Zealand,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 2 (1987):
-149–190, slightly revised in
-January 2002; Bruce Maccabee, “Atmosphere
-or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 13, no. 3 (1999): 431–443; Clark III 799–801; “How
-the 40-Year-Old Mystery of a UFO in New
-Zealand Lives On,” News.com.au, December 19, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5867
Date: 1979
-Description: The Argentine Air Force creates another group to study UFOs
-within the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. It lasts until
-1987. (Milton W. Hourcade, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5873
Date: 1979
-Description: The Uruguayan Air Force creates CRIDOVNI, a special
-commission to investigate all UFO sightings within the country. It
-includes freelance ufologists but seems to have disbanded in the
-mid-1980s. (Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5874
Date: 1979
-Description: The English-language Sri Lanka UFO Register begins
-publication in Weligama, Sri Lanka, edited by Ananda L. Sirisena. It
-continues through 1988. (Sri
-Lanka UFO Register, no. 2 (Oct./Dec. 1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5875
Date: 1979
-Description: Jacques Bonabot founds the Studiegroep voor Vreemde
-Luchtverschijnselen in Antwerp, Belgium, as the Flemish counterpart to
-the Groupement pour l’Étude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde in Bruges. It
-publishes SVL Tijdschrift from January 1982 to October 1987. (SVL
-Tijdschrift 1, no. 1 (January 1982))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5871
Date: 1979
-Description: British science fiction author David
-Langford publishes an allegedly nonfiction novelette, An Account of
-a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871. It is an account of a
-UFO encounter, as experienced by a man in Buckinghamshire, England; in
-its framing story Langford claims to have found the manuscript in an old
-desk (the story’s narrator, William
-Robert Loosley, is a genuine ancestor of Langford’s wife). But no
-ufologists take it seriously. (David Langford, An Account of a Meeting
-with Denizens of Another World, 1871, David and Charles, 1979; Clark III
-599–600)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5870
Date: 1979
-Description: Patrick Geoffroy founds the Association Dijonnaise de
-Recherches Ufologiques et Parapsychologiques in Ruffey-lès-Echirey
-(later in Quetigny), Côte-d’Or, France. It begins publishing Vimana 21,
-a journal that continues until early 1989. (Vimana
-21, no. 1 (1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5872
Date: 1979
-Description: Ufologist Paul Bennewitz, President and owner of Thunder
-Scientific Company in Albuquerque, NM, lives next to the Manzano Weapons
-Storage Area, near Sandia Base. He’s also an investigator for APRO
-(Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization), and others see strange lights
-in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: 1/1979
-Description: Axel
-Ertelt begins publishing Mysteria, a journal of UFO and ancient
-astronaut information, in Halver, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It
-continues through at least April 1987. (Mysteria,
-no. 1 (1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5877
Date: 1/1979
-Description: In an article in Just Cause, researcher Todd
-Zechel claims that Keyhoe’s
-National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena has long been
-riddled with CIA-friendly or covert board members and staff, among them
-Joseph
-Bryan III, Karl
-T. Pflock, Stuart
-Nixon, John Acuff, and Roscoe
-Hillenkoetter. Because
-of NICAP’s current acute financial crisis, he concludes that if the CIA
-had wanted to “destroy the leading anti-secrecy organization of the
-1960s, they couldn’t have done a better job.” Richard
-H. Hall disputes this analysis. (Todd Zechel, “NI-CIA-AP
-or NICAP?” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 133 (Jan./Feb. 1979): 6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5876
Date: 1/1/1979
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Former USAF UFO spokesman Albert
-M. Chop and his wife and daughter watch a triangular UFO moving
-slowly eastward over the mountains southeast of Palm Desert, California.
-It is about 10 times as bright as the background stars. It is in sight
-for about 45 minutes, by which time it has become a small, distant light
-in the eastern sky. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980,
-p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5879
Date: early 1/1979
-Description: About 6:00 p.m. A1C John W. Mills III is with a second
-lieutenant conducting a below-ground azimuth alignment procedure at the
-Ellsworth AFB Delta-3 missile site southwest of Cottonwood, South
-Dakota, when the security guard bangs on the ladder and tells them to
-come up. Going topside, they hear a loud, low-frequency hum permeating
-the launch facility. The guard leads them out of the gate where they see
-a dark object with straight edges in the sky. It seems to be shaped like
-a parallelogram, but they can’t tell how high it is. The guard is upset,
-but the other two men are oddly calm, even though they are not supposed
-to be outside the gate, and they return to the missile and descend the
-ladder to continue the alignment. Then the lights go off, the truck
-engine stops running, the radio goes out, and the missile site goes off
-alert. The hum is gone, but they can still see the dark object. Some 10
-minutes later the lights come back on and they notice the object is
-gone. Targeting teams from two other launch sites report similar
-experiences. (Nukes 377–387)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5878
Date: 1/3/1979
-Description: Dog barked, mother and child saw craft on ground, humanoid
-encounter
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mindalore, South Africa
-ID: 332
Date: 1/3/1979
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 331
Date: 1/4/1979
-Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André
-go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home
-in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa. Driving along a remote country
-road, they find the dog standing 60 feet away from a lead-colored,
-egg-shaped object with landing gear. Five or six dark- skinned entities
-are standing in front, wearing white or pink suits and shoes. One with a
-beard bows to Quezet and says something unintelligible. André runs to
-get his father, whereupon the beings enter the craft, which takes off
-making a purring sound. Quezet undergoes hypnotic regression by Bernard
-Levinson on June 21, where she remembers the “leader” cajoling her
-to come on board, which she does with her son, seeing lights, panels,
-chairs, and a table. They jump out again, protesting that they can’t go.
-(“Another South African CE III,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980):
-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5880
Date: 1/5/1979
-Description: Three glowing, red triangular objects confronted car,
-forward motion impeded, physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Auburn, MA
-ID: 333
Date: 1/5/1979
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Anmarie Emery is driving near Auburn,
-Massachusetts, when she notices three, red-glowing, triangular objects
-flying over woods to her left. As she rounds a corner, she sees them
-hovering above the road directly in front of her. The radio goes dead,
-the car slows to a stop (although the engine continues to run), and she
-feels completely paralyzed. The closest object is only 30 feet away. She
-feels heat on her face and smells an unpleasant odor. When another car
-approaches, the three objects shoot straight up, one at a time, and
-everything returns to normal. When she returns home to Cambridge,
-Massachusetts, she notices her face is reddened. She develops a rash and
-peeling skin the next day. (Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
-1988, pp. 302–303; Raymond E. Fowler, “Close
-Encounters with E-M and Physical Effects,” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-134 (March/April 1979): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5881
Date: 1/6/1979
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A journalist aboard the Japanese icebreaker Fuji in
-Antarctic waters sees an object resembling a bluish-white kite moving
-silently at a high rate of speed. Witnesses guess the altitude as 2–3
-miles, with differences of opinion on whether its course s straight or
-zigzag. The crew reports further sightings of a similar object. (Asahi
-Shinbun (Osaka), January 23, 1979; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August
-1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5882
Date: 1/16/1979
-Description: Gen. Emiliano Alfaro Arregui, chief of staff of the Spanish
-Air Force, writes to the Ministry of Defense to say that whenever a UFO
-sighting is reported to the authorities, an Informing Judge is appointed
-by the corresponding Air Region to proceed with a proper investigation.
-Some reports are caused by natural phenomena, while others are
-unidentified. (Swords 424, 513)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5883
Date: 1/18/1979
-Description: 7:07 p.m. Brinsley
-Le Poer Trench, Lord Clancarty, has put down a motion for debate in
-the House of Lords on the official policy of the UK government on UFOs.
-He begins the debate by launching into a history of UFOs and stresses
-the international character of the phenomenon. He concludes with a
-request for the Minister
-of Defence to
-be interviewed on national TV. Lord
-Trefgarne rejects the proposal on the grounds that there are many
-things that can masquerade as UFOs, plus the Bible has nothing to say
-about extraterrestrials. Lord
-Kimberley agrees that a parliamentary group should be set up. Lord
-Oxfuird and Lord
-Davies agree there should be future investigations to settle the
-question. The Bishop
-of Norwich expresses concern that a UFO cult could compete with
-Christianity. Lord
-Gladwyn deems the evidence inconclusive, but Lord
-Kings Norton favors an investigation. Lord
-Rankeillour states emphatically that UFOs exist, and they might be
-dangerous. Lord
-Gainford relates a personal sighting of a nocturnal light over
-Argyll, Scotland, the previous December 31. The Earl
-of Halsbury provides a list of natural causes for UFOs, and Lord
-Hewlett paraphrases debunking arguments. The Earl
-of Cork and
-Orrery lashes out at Trefgarne’s skepticism. Lord
-Strabolgi firmly rejects the request for an official investigation
-on the grounds that all UFO reports can be explained conventionally.
-Clancarty winds it up by saying, “Nothing is impossible in this world or
-this universe. It is just that the seemingly impossible takes a little
-time to come about.” (“Unidentified
-Flying Objects,” Hansard Lords Debate, vol. 397, cc1246–1316,
-January 18, 1979; Allan Hendry, [House of Lords UFO Debate], IUR 4, no.
-2 (August 1979): 9–11; Good Above, pp. 73–75;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 99–104;
-Clark III 616–618)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5884
Date: 1/18/1979
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A car driven by a 42-year-old woodcutter stops
-abruptly in Lusiana, Vicenza, Italy. Its lights go out and the doors
-open by themselves. An orange ball is sitting in the road ahead, and two
-3-foot-tall, copper- colored humanoids emerge from a door. They are
-wearing metallic-looking, scaled coveralls. Their hands are long and end
-in pointed nails. They invite him on board by gestures and he follows
-them into a small room with electronic-looking gadgets and a screen.
-They begin undressing him, but he resists. The wall opens and an overall
-garment is shown to him. He refuses to wear it and he implores them to
-let him go. One of the beings gives him a small box with writing on it.
-A door opens and the man leaves. Suddenly the orange light disappears
-and his car lights come on again. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino,
-and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1989): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5885
Date: 1/20/1979
-Description: The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research committee
-releases its report on eight UFO sightings in Kuwait from November to
-December 14, 1978. The report rejects the idea that the UFOs are
-espionage devices, but it remains equivocal about whether they are
-extraterrestrial. The committee recommends that the government take all
-measures to protect the country and its oilfields. (“‘UFO’
-Sightings Cause Security Concern in Kuwait,” WikiLeaks, [telegram],
-January 29, 1979; ClearIntent, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5886
Date: late 1/1979
-Description: The Setka-AN group of the USSR Academy of Sciences
-publishes a skeptical article in the weekly publication Nedelya that
-tries to show that all UFOs are natural phenomena that UFO enthusiasts
-are popularizing through their inept investigations as anomalous.
-Setka-AN hopes to have a solution to the UFO problem “in a few months.”
-(Nikita A. Schnee, “Ufology
-in the U.S.S.R.,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 (June 1981): 8;
-Good Above, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5888
Date: 1/21/1979
-Description: Front-page stories of another UFO sighting in Kuwait appear
-the day after the committee’s report. (ClearIntent, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5887
Date: 1/29/1979
-Description: Peter Gersten appeals
-the NSA’s decision to withhold the 18 UFO-related documents forwarded to
-the NSA by the CIA but is again denied. (ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5889
Date: 2/1979
-Description: A woman and her aunt in Shelby, Ohio, are just sitting down
-to watch television when a bright light shines outside their window. It
-is hanging in the air behind their dog kennel. When the woman goes out
-to investigate, two more lights appear and enter the original one. Then
-that light disappears and is replaced by red and green lights that
-resolve into a large number of lights of both colors on an object. As
-she approaches, the UFO begins to move toward her and passes overhead.
-It is as big as a jetliner, with bolts on its base as large as
-volleyballs. Her dog begins whining and cowering, and she gets a severe
-pain in her head that causes her to fall on her knees. As the object
-moves away with a soft whirring noise, she gets back on her feet. She
-estimates she was only outside for 5 minutes, but she and her aunt
-cannot account for an additional 45–50 minutes. Her headache persists
-for several weeks. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the
-Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5891
Date: 2/1979
-Description: Mississippi House Resolution No. 14, proposed by Rep. Horace
-Buckley of Jackson and calling for a complete US Senate
-investigation of UFO sightings, dies in committee. (Allan Hendry, “UFOs
-and Government: 1979,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5890
Date: 2/5/1979
-Description: Brilliant illumination of car, E-M effects. Driver shocked
-and dazed, memory loss
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lawitta, Tasmania
-ID: 334
Date: 2/5/1979
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A man is driving on the Lyell Highway near
-Lawitta, Tasmania, when his car radio stops. Seconds later, an intense
-white light envelops the car, and he cannot see beyond the hood. The
-car’s lights and motor fail at the same time. The next thing he knows,
-he is getting stopped in Hobart by police for driving his car without
-headlights. The police find that he does not know his name, where he has
-come from, or where he is going. He is taken to the hospital and
-examined, where he is found to be in a state of shock. It is only at the
-Royal Hobart Hospital that his memory of the preceding events returns.
-His vehicle, a Ford Cortina 71TC, is inspected and found to have a dead
-battery and low oil level. The cut-off switch on the alternator needs
-replacing, as does some wiring, especially for the headlights. Radiator
-water is also found to be low. (“Sightings,”
-TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 27 (May 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5892
Date: 2/9/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Peter Hathaway is driving on the Bruce Highway
-north of the Liverpool Creek bridge near Cowley Beach, Queensland, when
-he sees a “little white light” sitting on the edge of the asphalt. As he
-approaches within 100 feet, he notices a dark beehive-shaped object
-behind it, which now rises vertically off the surface about 3 feet.
-Hathaway is momentarily blinded by a flash of light. Opening his eyes,
-he sees that his car headlights and engine have stopped. He coasts to a
-truck rest stop, where his lights come back on and the engine starts
-perfectly. (“1979,”
-Australian UFO Research Network; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests,
-Aurora, 1988, pp. 304–305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5894
Date: 2/9/1979
-Description: Joseph
-J. F. Clark, associate director, Legislative Liaison for the Air
-Force, responds to Rep. Samuel
-S. Stratton (D-N.Y.)
-saying that “permanent” UFO files are not maintained, but includes some
-memos, messages, and log entries from the Northern Tier cases that have
-already been released through FOIA requests. Stratton fails to follow
-up. (ClearIntent, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5893
Date: 2/16/1979
-Description: Peter Gersten again
-files a FOIA request with the NSA, this time requesting all documents in
-its possession or under the control of the NSA relating to UFOs.
-(ClearIntent, pp. 181–182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5896
Date: 2/16/1979
-Description: New Mexico State Police Officer Gabe
-Valdez informs the FBI that cattle in New Mexico are “being shot
-with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the
-animal after an injection of an anti- coagulant.” In some cases, the
-animal’s legs have been broken, perhaps by clamps being placed on them.
-Helicopters without any identifying numbers are seen in the area of
-these mutilations. Valdez tells the FBI that he thinks it is a
-clandestine operation either by the CIA or the Department of Energy
-(although in 1980 he tells journalist Linda
-Moulton Howe that he thinks aliens are responsible). (Federal Bureau
-of Investigation, [cattle mutilation
-documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5895
Date: late 2/1979
-Description: 9:10 p.m. Chinese Air Force flight instructor Sha Yangkao
-is flying a night fighter over Houma, Shanxi, China, when he sees a
-bright luminous object shoot across the sky from south to north,
-apparently flying supersonically at an altitude of 3,300 feet. (Paul
-Dong, “Extracts
-from Paul Dong’s Feidie
-Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions
-and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5899
Date: 2/22/1979
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls, Lynsey Tebbs and Susan
-Pearson, are tobogganing down the slopes that surround their housing
-complex in Meanwood, Leeds, England. They are startled by a loud whining
-noise coming from an object that is descending nearby. After it lands,
-the noise changes to a hum, which then fades as it rests on the snow. It
-is gray and egg-shaped, with two fins on either side, and is the size of
-a small car. Frightened, the girls run up the hill but pause to take
-another look. The object rests on the ground for about 3 minutes, then
-starts humming and approaches the girls, landing again on the slope
-about 80 feet away. After another few minutes, it wobbles and takes off.
-Investigators from the Yorkshire UFO Society visit the site on February
-25 and find odd indentations in the snow in two places. (Mark Birdsall
-and Graham Birdsall, “Landing
-and Possible Traces near Leeds,”
-Northern Ufology, no. 62 (July 1979): 9–10; Good Above, pp. 72–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5897
Date: 2/25/1979
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Both Circulación Aérea Militar Operativa (CAMO)
-radar and radar at the W-8 military station detect an unidentified
-target 52 miles to the southeast of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, flying
-at an altitude of 14,400 feet. An Iberia airliner in the area is
-alerted, and the pilot reports an intense, elongated light above his
-position. The W-8 local radar detects a transponder signal. (Swords
-435)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5898
Date: 3/1979
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Two Republic of Korea Air Force F-4D Phantom II
-jets, piloted by Lt. Col. Seungbae Lee and Col. Byungsun Lim, are flying
-at 15,000 feet while returning from the annual Team Spirit military
-exercise to Daegu Air Force Base, South Korea. Near Palgong Mountain in
-the Taebaek Range, a star-like, stationary object appears in the
-distance that grows in size as the jets approach. Neither the aircraft
-nor the base can register the object on radar. When they reach within 15
-miles of the light, it shoots away to the east and hovers again. The
-disc is as big as a jumbo jet and radiates bright golden light from top
-to bottom. Red and blue lights sparkle from its rim. After the jets
-circle twice above the object, it speeds away to the east. (Good Need,
-p. 310)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5900
Date: 3/2/1979
-Description: Early morning. Witnesses in Rivera, Uruguay, see an
-oval-shaped object with portholes. One witness, Ernesto Fagundez,
-watches the UFO circle a transmitting tower he is working on then stop.
-Through the portholes he can see entities with large heads that are
-wearing transparent helmets. The object dives over a truck carrying farm
-workers before it rises into the air, leaving a fiery trail and a column
-of smoke. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (Aug. 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5901
Date: 3/3/1979
-Description: The Spanish Joint Chiefs of Staff meet and decide to
-formally define UFO information as classified, rather than confidential.
-The reason is that the civilian UFO group Centre d’Estudis
-Interplanetaris in Barcelona had solicited King Juan
-Carlos I in January to provide access to UFO information collected
-by the Spanish armed forces. (Swords 424, 514)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5902
Date: 3/5/1979
-Description: Dusk. Many residents of the Canary Islands are captivated
-with the sight of a strange sunset. Multicolored concentric rings or
-bright zigzag trails are seen on the horizon towards the west, forming
-an enormous cloud. A few minutes after 8:00 p.m., a point of light is
-seen to ascend, leaving a luminous jet that appears to expand,
-developing into a huge, bright dome. Independent sets of clear photos
-are obtained from distant points of view. The phenomenon is even seen
-from Safi, Morocco. Maj. Pedro Ortega García and Capt. José Juan Abad
-Cellini investigate for the Spanish Air Force and conclude that the
-luminous cloud was 320 miles in diameter at an altitude of 40 miles.
-They again reject the missile hypothesis, but the US Navy has launched
-four Poseidon missiles from the USS
-Kamehameha around the same time that probably account for the
-phenomena. (Vicente- Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy
-Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5903
Date: 3/6/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Ben
-Chastain watches a round, luminous object about 12 feet in diameter
-skimming low over treetops in Westminster, South Carolina, arousing the
-dogs. At one point the object comes within 150 feet, its glow
-illuminating the area. Oconee County Deputy Sheriff Jimmy
-Roach and his wife see the object from a distance. About 8:00 p.m.,
-Bill Osborne watches a larger object (80 feet long and 25 feet wide)
-that sweeps the area with a light beam. (Iris Harrelson Maack, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 12 (June 1979): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5904
Date: 3/6/1979
-Description: Dome-shaped object skimmed treetops, moved up and down,
-illuminated area. Similar object hovered over highway, swept area with
-light beam
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Westminster, SC
-ID: 335
Date: 3/13/1979
-Description: While Grenada Prime Minister Eric
-Gairy is at the United Nations, the New Jewel Movement led by Maurice
-Bishop launches an armed revolution and overthrows the government.
-Gairy stays in exile in the US until 1983.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5906
Date: 3/13/1979
-Description: 11:00 a.m. An uncorrelated radar target is detected over
-the Mediterranean Sea north of Algeria by radar in the Pegaso control
-room at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain. It is traveling at 970 mph
-on a northwest course toward Spain. Three minutes later a scramble is
-ordered, and a Dassault Mirage III fighter takes off from Manises Air
-Base [now Valencia Airport] to identify the target, but the track soon
-vanishes from the radar. It has moved about 71 miles in that time. Four
-minutes later, the target reappears in another position, this time
-motionless. The Mirage is vectored toward the new position. When the
-fighter is about 9 miles from the target, it moves in a northwest
-direction, accelerating to 840 mph and climbing to more than 15 miles.
-Six minutes later, it changes course to the northeast, and in two
-minutes it is gone. The Mirage never gets a visual contact. (Swords
-435–436, 527)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5905
Date: spring 1979
-Description: UFO investigator Raymond
-E. Fowler publishes The Andreasson Affair, introducing the story of
-Betty Andreasson, a
-Massachusetts housewife who recounts a 1967 abduction encounter with
-short humanoids having large heads and eyes. (Raymond E. Fowler, The
-Andreasson Affair, Prentice-Hall, 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5908
Date: 3/28/1979
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Reactor number 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear
-Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, suffers a partial
-meltdown, resulting in a radiation leak. The accident begins with
-failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open
-pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system, which allows large
-amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape, contaminating the
-containment building with thousands of gallons of radioactive water. The
-staff has no choice but to vent radioactive gases directly into the
-atmosphere. The mechanical failures are compounded by the initial
-failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a
-loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and computer
-interface oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators. In
-particular, a hidden indicator light leads to an operator manually
-overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because
-the operator mistakenly believes that there is too much coolant water
-present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release. No one is
-harmed by the released radiation, which is contained entirely in a cloud
-of short-lived isotopes of inert gases that drift out over the Atlantic
-Ocean. (Wikipedia, “Three
-Mile Island accident”; Mike Gray and Ira Rosen, The Warning:
-Accident at Three Mile Island, Norton, 1982; Grace Halden, Three Mile
-Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular
-Culture, Routledge, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5907
Date: 4/9/1979
-Description: Two Apache tribal officers on patrol near Dulce, New
-Mexico, see a round, silent craft hovering 50 feet above the ground,
-with a searchlight aimed downward on cattle below. (Wikipedia, “Cattle
-mutilation”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5909
Date: 4/12/1979
-Description: Early evening. A family is driving home from the grocery
-store at Brockton, Massachusetts. They see a piano- shaped object with
-lights all over it. A spotlight is beaming down, and there is one red
-light on top. They lose sight of the object, but suddenly all four car
-windows go down and back up; then they go down halfway and back up. The
-same thing happens when they stop at a red light. They see the object
-again, which is now following them. They park near their house, and the
-UFO hovers across the street. The man shuts off Michael D. Swords,
-“Messing Around with the Force,” the engine and the windows act up again
-as the UFO moves directly overhead. The father and son get out of the
-car, and the UFO shoots a beam down at each of them in turn. It then
-moves down the street and away. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with
-the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5910
Date: 4/19/1979
-Description: 11:30 p.m. John Milroy and his mother are driving from
-Ardersier to Croy, Inverness, Scotland, when he sees headlights in the
-distance. The lights get larger and rise above the road. Thinking it is
-an airplane crash, they get out of the car and experience an abnormal
-silence; they can no longer hear the car engine or the door slam when
-they flee. Everything reverts to normal when they reach a ditch. The
-mother is so excited she needs to be sedated the next day. (“Foreign
-Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5911
Date: 4/20/1979
-Description: Former astronaut and US Sen. Harrison
-Schmitt (R-N.Mex.) and US Attorney R.
-E. Thompson convene an informal public hearing on cattle mutilations
-in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its goal is to show that criminal activity
-is taking place involving many states and it requires federal action.
-About 200 people attend, including Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram
-reporter Jim
-Marrs. Thompson
-warns law enforcement officers not to reveal any evidence that might be
-used at a later trial. (Thomas P. Deuley, “Mutilation
-Hearings Held in New Mexico,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 137 (July
-1979): 8–9; Christopher O’Brien, Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the
-Cattle Mutilation Mystery, Adventures Unlimited, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5912
Date: 4/21/1979
-Description: Late night. A helicopter pilot and a mechanic are returning
-by car to their unit in the Blonie area, Poland. A light descends
-rapidly and silently over the road, resolving itself into 4 large lights
-attached to a solid object more than 100 feet long. It stops and hovers
-at 300 feet and then shoots upward instantaneously. (Poland 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5913
Date: 4/25/1979
-Description: Retired FBI agent Kenneth
-M. Rommel Jr. begins a major investigation of cattle mutilations.
-Financed by grants from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
-and the Santa Fe, New Mexico, District Attorney’s office (which has been
-designated as the coordinating state investigative agency for cattle
-mutilations), the inquiry focuses on New Mexico cases, though it pays
-some attention to incidents in other states. (Wikipedia, “Cattle mutilation”;
-Clark III 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5914
Date: 5/1979
-Description: Victor
-Marchetti, former
-special assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA and author of the
-1974 book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, writes an article in
-Second Look on “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon.” He asserts that
-“we have, indeed, been contacted—perhaps even visited—by
-extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with other
-national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information
-from the general public.” He claims that the CIA does not discuss UFOs
-openly because they are deemed “sensitive activities,” but he has heard
-rumors of crashed UFOs and extraterrestrial signals picked up by the
-National Security Agency. Attempts by the government to deny the reality
-of UFOs have all the hallmarks of a classic coverup, he writes. (Victor
-Marchetti, “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon,” Second Look 1, no. 7
-(May 1979): 2–7; Nukes 490–491)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5915
Date: 5/1/1979
-Description: Oil field landing, reaction to light, landing traces
-Type: landing
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vizcacheras, Argentina
-ID: 336
Date: 5/1/1979
-Description: 4:00 a.m. YPF company engineers at the Vizcacheras oil
-fields in a remote area of Argentina’s Mendoza province accessible only
-to employees are awakened by goats bleating in a corral. When they go
-outside to investigate, they see a UFO hovering silently about 230 feet
-from the encampment and 65 feet above the ground. They wave a lantern
-and the UFO seems to respond by blinking a light, then slowly lands
-nearby. More light signals are exchanged, then the UFO takes off and
-disappears toward the Andes mountains at 4:35 a.m. After the sighting,
-the goats (about 1,500) refuse to return to their corral. The engineers
-go to inspect the landing spot and find a large circle in which the sand
-has been petrified or hardened into chunks. Soil samples are taken to a
-Professor Corradi for analysis. Corradi, identified as director of the
-Institute for Extrahuman Studies, says the samples are being analyzed by
-the Office of Mining. Corradi remarks that that the “permanent presence
-of the UFOs over the uranium mines of La Pintada and Cuesta de los
-Terneros in San Rafael and now in Vizcacheras, is not a coincidence.”
-(Richard H. Hall, “Extraterrestrial
-Psychology,” 1988; “Argentine Oil Field Landing,” MUFON UFO Journal,
-no. 139 (September 1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5916
Date: 5/4/1979
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 337
Date: 5/7/1979
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Two witnesses on an airliner about one hour
-south of Chicago, Illinois, notice two bright-white rectangular objects
-slightly higher than the airplane. They gradually fade from view. (“Long
-Rectangular UFOs: Five
-Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 2, no. 9 (September 1981): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5917
Date: 5/9/1979
-Description: Early morning. A fleet of 10–15 UFOs alarms people in
-Choconta, Colombia. Eight of the objects have lights that change from
-red to blue to orange and yellow. An electrical blackout takes place,
-and dogs, chicken, and cattle get disturbed and run away. The objects
-examine the Telecom satellite tracking station before ascending rapidly
-and disappearing in the clouds. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August
-1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5918
Date: 5/16/1979
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Arlindo Gabriel dos Santos is hunting with two
-friends in a forest near Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he becomes
-separated from the others. He sees an object descend towards the ground
-in a clearing. He approaches to within 600 feet and sees that the object
-is shaped like a telephone booth about 3 feet tall. He takes a photo of
-the object before it abruptly disappears in plain sight. He walks to the
-clearing and sees another object shaped like a toy top and a little
-larger than the previous object, descending swiftly. It has a small
-propeller on top and a long, pointed protrusion on the bottom. As he
-tries to photograph the second object, he hears a whooshing sound, and
-the craft is quickly enveloped in smoke. He notices a third craft
-descending overhead. This one is barrel-shaped and hovers for a bit
-before landing. It also has a large propeller at one end and is covered
-with red stripes. It vanishes when he tries to approach. Dos Santos
-finally sees a huge, white, egg-shaped object descend. It has a pointed
-top and fin-like protrusions on each side. Next to the fins are several
-windows. As it descends it makes a horrific noise like a choking motor
-and puts out four landing pods. He approaches and tries to take another
-photograph, but there is a sudden flash that temporarily blinds him and
-leaves his eyes irritated. Frightened, he drops the camera and runs, but
-is only able to get about 30 feet before he is can no longer move.
-Behind him he notices two men wearing helmets with transparent visors
-and gloves. They grab him, each taking one arm. He begs them to let him
-go in the name of God, but they answer, “In the name of God, we are all
-brothers; we don’t harm anybody.” The voice comes from a box-like
-apparatus on their backs. He is taken toward the landed UFO. As he gets
-near, he can feel an intense cold surrounding it. Another helmeted
-figure stands by a ladder extending from the craft, looking from side to
-side. The man asks dos Santos if he has seen a “Zurca.” Dos Santos
-thinks he is referring to one of the smaller objects. The man extends a
-gloved hand and pulls dos Santos inside the craft through a square
-doorway. The atmosphere inside the craft is pleasant and cool, and there
-is a smell like “baby powder” in the air. Other men wearing dark,
-tight-fitting outfits are sitting on seats. The men have large slanted
-eyes, thin noses, and large mouths, and they are operating some type of
-machinery. They stand up and begin conversing in an unknown language.
-Suddenly, a heavyset woman emerges from another room. She wears a white
-uniform, gloves, but no helmet. Dos Santos describes her as good
-looking, tanned, with long light fine hair. The woman and one of the men
-then take him into a corridor. He enters a room where he sees a square
-object in the middle. The man pushes a button on the wall and the object
-rises. It resembled a large piece of marble. The woman takes out a long
-wand and points it at the object. On the object dos Santos sees an image
-of the planet Earth and other planets. At this point, the man removes
-his helmet revealing short, light-colored hair. When dos Santos leaves
-the craft, he is told to cover his eyes and not look as the object
-leaves. He follows these instructions and does not see the object
-depart. (NICAP, “May
-16, 1979: Near Baependi, Minas Gerais State, Brazil”;
-“Grandes
-Manobras Extraterrestres na Fazenda do Sobrado, Baependi, MG,” SBEDV
-Boletim, no. 132– 135 (Jan./Aug. 1980): 28–71; Jackson Luiz Camargo, “O
-Caso do Embornal,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil
-258–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5919
Date: 5/19/1979
-Description: 2:27 a.m. Tailor Mike Sacks and his brother Ray are on the
-moors near Stacksteads, Lancashire, England, looking for the UFO that
-Mike had already seen twice the previous winter. They have staked out
-the hills with a camera and suddenly hear a muted howling noise echoing
-through the night. The noise is coming from a white, glowing light
-falling toward them. The glowing mass slows down and the howling stops.
-Now directly overhead, the object is hovering just feet above a stream.
-They see a dome on top that emits electric blue sparks, a middle
-section, and a rim with a translucent metallic glow. The object tilts to
-reveal intricate detail on its underside, then accelerates and
-disappears. The men take a dozen photos, but they only show black sky
-when processed. (Jenny Randles, “The House on Haunted Moor,” Fortean
-Times 322 (January 2015): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5920
Date: 5/20/1979
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A scientist, Ron Kruppa, sees a large UFO
-emitting smaller objects in Davao City, Philippines. (“Stretching the
-Truth in the Philippines,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5921
Date: 5/22/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A man walking in a park in Piastów, Poland, sees
-two bright yellow beams of light coming from a dark object about 10 feet
-wide floating just above the ground. Walking to within 10 feet of the
-object, he can see a third beam of light below it. Green geometrical
-shapes appear and vanish along the side of the UFO. A blinking red light
-shines out on the upper surface, in between the vertical bars of an
-H-shaped sign taking up almost the entire top. Suddenly the object
-shines with a white-blue light, and the man’s face feels like it is
-burning. Frightened, he runs away and does not look back. The next
-morning, he feels as if something heavy is pressing on his head; two
-weeks later, sores containing dried blood break out on his face.
-(Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1986): 15–16; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs in Poland,” UFOs
-1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5922
Date: 5/26/1979
-Description: 12:05 a.m. The pilot of a private airplane flying near
-Hailey, Idaho, spots five orange objects flying in a horizontal line.
-They tilt, spread out, and regroup in a vertical formation. As they pass
-to his left, his magnetic compass and direction finder begin spinning,
-the radio is filled with static, and the engine sputters. One of the
-objects approaches at high speed, and the pilot begins a climb and loses
-sight of the UFOs. (NICAP, “Compasses, Radio,
-Engine Affected on Aircraft”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5923
Date: 5/26/1979
-Description: Private pilot and airline crew saw string of orange objects
-maneuvering and changing formation, tracked on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hailey, ID
-ID: 338
Date: 6/1979
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman doctor is in the TV room of her parents’
-home in Boardman, Ohio, suffering from insomnia. She sees something
-flashing outside the window, illuminating the entire area outside. A
-cylinder-shaped light comes through the closed window and passes three
-feet from her face. It then comes to look more like a paperclip that
-flashes on and off, meandering about, apparently not interested in her.
-She runs into the bedroom and does not see it again. (Michael D. Swords,
-“A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5925
Date: 6/1979
-Description: In Messengers of Deception, Jacques
-Vallée claims that a shadowy human group, some of whom have
-infiltrated UFO organizations like NICAP and CUFOS, is manipulating UFO
-myths for its own purposes, while the UFO phenomenon operates as a
-control system—manifested in “intense activity followed by quiet
-periods—intended to lead human consciousness into a new concept of
-reality.” On the other hand, he argues that the UFO phenomenon is
-ancient and that the message has changed with the times. He claims the
-current concept of flying discs originated in Germany in the 1930s, with
-the unknown private group gaining control of them after World War II.
-Contactees are manipulated by human programmers. Many ufologists think
-Vallée has gone too far in his anti- ETH approach and is conspiracy
-mongering. (Jacques Vallée, Messengers
-of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults,
-And/Or, 1979; Vincent White, “A
-Critique,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 12 (June 1979): 3–5; Clark III
-1214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5924
Date: 6/10/1979
-Description: 4:40 p.m. A family in Milford, Connecticut, watches a disc
-“like two plates put together” approach from the south. It is silver on
-top and dark on the bottom and seems to have a band around the edge and
-triangular markings. After it passes silently behind the trees to the
-north of them after 1 minute, they jump into a car and drive after it.
-It seems to be traveling at 20–25 mph, and they are able to overtake it
-flying parallel to the road. It seems to be flying at an altitude of
-1,000 feet, and disappears to the north. (“Case 4-1-40,” IUR 4, no. 1
-(July 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5926
Date: 6/12/1979
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Members of a rock band practicing in a barn in
-Pine Ridge, South Carolina, step outside to watch an unusual form
-hovering low over the containment building and smokestack of the
-Carolina Power and Light nuclear power plant one half mile away to the
-northeast. An ovoid-shaped object, seen primarily by its lights, shines
-two bright yellowish-white beams of light. After hovering motionless for
-2–5 minutes, all the lights fade except a blue light. The UFO moves off
-and is gone almost instantly. After about 5 minutes, a second object is
-seen hovering for 2–5 minutes to the right of the nuclear power plant
-and directing a beam of light at it. It flies off toward the northwest.
-No one at the power plant reports seeing anything unusual. (“Case
-4-1-47,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5927
Date: 6/14/1979
-Description: 8:30 a.m. A woman in St. Petersburg, Florida, sees an
-object with a long transparent trail. (“Case 4-1-51,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July
-1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5928
Date: 6/17/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness in North Prairie, Wisconsin, watches a
-star, slightly dimmer than Jupiter, move silently across the sky from
-east to west, passing overhead. It suddenly makes a 90° turn to the
-north and is lost in the cloud cover. Ten minutes later, he and his
-family watch a similar light transit the sky, again from east to west,
-in 10–15 seconds. (“Wisconsin NL,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5929
Date: 6/19/1979
-Description: 10:02 p.m. A witness in Clarksville, Tennessee, is walking
-his dog when he sees a metallic egg-shaped object, surrounded by a glow,
-approaching from the west. It appears to be at 8,000 feet altitude. It
-comes to a stop for 30 seconds, then picks up speed slowly for 7
-seconds, and blasts off with a shower of sparks trailing behind it,
-disappearing in the southeast. (“Rocketing ‘Egg’ over Tennessee,” IUR 4,
-no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5930
Date: 6/26/1979
-Description: 3:20 p.m. A sharply outlined “mushroom” is seen moving out
-of the south by a group of eight neighbors in the northeast section of
-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is smaller than the full moon, but at one
-point they can detect four “domes” on its rotating underside. The object
-is illuminated with colors ranging from burgundy to silver. At one point
-it makes a 90° turn and circles around completely, becoming a minty
-green color. It continues slowly north and disappears. (“An ‘Adamski’
-Mushroom?” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5932
Date: 6/26/1979
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A 77-year-old man in Wheeling, Illinois, is
-awakened by his border collie and goes outside. When he opens the back
-door he sees a uniformly glowing “balloon,” 6–7 feet in diameter and
-sharply outlined. His dog steps forward and watches it as it hovers
-rock-steady at 60 feet up and 100 feet away or less. After 4–5 minutes
-it moves slowly behind the trees to the southwest. Running to the front
-of his house, he sees an identical form 70 feet up and moving silently
-to the northwest. It goes behind trees in 3–4 minutes. Duration is 10–13
-minutes. (“Two Glowing Globes,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5931
Date: 6/28/1979
-Description: Security guard Antonio Carlos Ferreira is allegedly
-abducted from his workplace, a furniture factory in Mirassol, São Paulo,
-Brazil. He is approached by three humanoid figures who tranquilize him
-and take him aboard a small ship that ferries him to a larger craft
-further away. There he is put in front of a large TV screen and
-presented with a variety of images before being forced to mate with a
-female alien. He is tranquilized again and returned to the ground. The
-aliens are approximately 4 feet tall with pointed ears, slanted eyes,
-and human-like mouths. They lack eyebrows or eyelashes and speak in a
-language that superficially resembles Japanese. Some have dark skin and
-red curly hair, while others have light skin and straight black hair.
-The ship is spherical with three legs protruding from the bottom, and
-the interior is lit by bright red and green lights. Ferreira states that
-he encountered the aliens again in 1982, with the craft supposedly
-landing close enough for him to see the female alien and a childlike
-alien observing him from a distance. He experiences a third encounter
-later in 1982 in which he is taken into the hangar of an alien craft by
-a green beam of light before being injected with a yellow substance. He
-is then taken to meet the two aliens once more, the younger of whom he
-is led to believe is his own child. Other encounters follow, to a total
-of 16 or 20 between 1979 and 1989. (Wikipedia, “Caso
-Mirassol”; Ney Matiel Pires, “3-Sexto
-Contato com Ufonautas de Antônio Carlos Ferreira,” SBEDV Boletim,
-no. 158–161 (May/Dec. 1984): 14–54; Walter K. Buhler, Guilherme Pereira,
-and Ney M. Pires, UFO Abduction at Mirassol, UFO Photo Archives, 1985;
-Clark III 764–765; Aileen Garoutte, “Contact
-at Mirassol,” UFOexperiences, May 22, 2005; Brazil 277–282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5933
Date: 7/1979
-End date: 12/1979
-Description: Flurries of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, CA
-ID: 339
Date: 7/1/1979
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A factory supervisor and his wife are driving in
-Crystal Lake, Illinois, when they see an aluminum- colored ellipse
-hovering in the north-northeast at an estimated 1,000 feet. It moves
-with jerky movements to the east-southeast, drops down to 500 feet, and
-remains stationary over a stand of trees about one mile away for 2–3
-seconds. It ascends and descends about five times. (“Daylight Disc in
-Illinois,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5934
Date: 7/4/1979
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A Swedish man is walking along a dark road after
-leaving a tavern not far from Monastiri Beach, Poros, Greece. He hears a
-powerful buzzing or shushing noise overhead. Not more than 25 feet above
-the trees on the uphill side of the road is a black, disc-shaped object,
-about 25 feet wide, that is blocking out the light of the stars. Within
-seconds a bright light beams down at him from the center of the object.
-He feels an electrical sensation and a general lightness. The light
-blinks out and the man begins running away, but the disc is descending
-and following him. The beam of light blinks on again when it is 50–60
-feet above him. Two backpackers witness this and come running to aid
-him. The light blinks out again and four blinking red and green lights
-appear at the edge of the disc, which moves ahead another 150–200 feet.
-The UFO then rises to 400–500 feet and flies steadily until it
-disappears behind a hill. (“High Adventure in Greece,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5935
Date: 7/17/1979
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A couple in a rural area northeast of Des Moines,
-Iowa, are fixing breakfast when through their window they see a small,
-circular light source to the northeast. It hovers silently for 5
-minutes. It starts moving slowly upward at a 70° angle, then breaks into
-two smaller objects that shoot out of sight. (“Iowa UFO Splits in Two,”
-IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5936
Date: 7/25/1979
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Farmer Federico Ibáñez Ibáñez, 54, leaves the
-village of Turís, Valencia, Spain, to gather grapes from his vineyard.
-He finds an egg-shaped, white, metallic object resting on two feet in
-the access road to his field. Two small beings run from behind a carob
-tree on his left and enter the craft. They are wearing white outfits
-“puffed up with air” with protruding black tubes. The UFO suddenly
-ascends at great speed, stirring up a whirlwind. The case is
-investigated in depth in 1979 and reinvestigated in 2008. It features
-unique shapes for both the landed craft and its occupants. The one
-witness is apparently credible. Ground traces are found as
-circumstantial evidence. Spanish investigator Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos concludes: “My considered impression is that the
-witness sincerely believes in the tangible reality of his experience,
-and I have not found any reasonable evidence of a lie or episode of
-fantasy, nor any proof that he embellished his account.” Ballester
-Olmos’s latest thought is, “Did the witness invent or hallucinate the
-event under the influence of the current publicity for the Star Wars
-movie?” (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Imagination or Reality? The
-Landing at Turís, Revisiting a 1979 Spanish CE3,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March
-2010): 3–7, 22–24 ; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Imagination
-or Reality? The Landing at Turis,” Academia.edu, [2013])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5937
Date: 7/27/1979
-Description: 11:10 p.m. Gary Hull is on the patio of his in-laws’ home
-in Stamford, Connecticut, when he sees an orange light in the northwest.
-He calls his wife Kathleen and others, and they watch it move silently
-across the sky at treetop level. After 5 minutes, it stops and hovers.
-Four or five white flashes erupt from its right side, followed by 4–5
-faint sounds like firecrackers. At 11:19, a commercial jet flies
-overhead and under the UFO, which accelerates almost straight up in 5–10
-seconds, diminishing to a pinpoint. Other witnesses 3.5 miles to the
-north and a few miles to the west watch similar objects. (“Independent
-Witnesses in Connecticut,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5938
Date: 7/29/1979
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 340
Date: 8/1979
-Description: Evening. A resident of Człuchów, Poland, is rowing his boat
-on a lake when he sees a “dark oblong object” moving rapidly and
-soundlessly along the surface of the water without disturbing it. It
-disappears behind some lakeside vegetation. Another witness on shore
-sees it apparently land, so he calls his two dogs and heads toward the
-spot. About 65 feet from the shore he can see two entities in dark suits
-walking toward the forest. The dogs run toward them and they stop and
-turn around. The dogs stop in their tracks, bark, and retreat in terror.
-The witness watches the entities as they continue walking. They are
-about 5 feet tall and sealed in diving outfits. At the level of their
-eyes is a glass plate through which they can apparently see. Their hips
-are unnaturally wide and each has a hump between the back of the neck
-and the shoulders. The witness calls out to them, but they begin running
-into the trees. A luminous rectangular object floats up from the
-treetops about 325 feet away and hovers 100 feet from the ground. A
-blue-green light is along its sides, shading away into white in the
-middle. The UFO speeds away, leaving no findable landing traces. The
-witness claims his dogs’ front legs become paralyzed 6 months later and
-he has to put them to sleep. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists
-in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 16; ; Bronislaw Rzepecki,
-“UFOs in Poland,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987,
-pp. 124–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5941
Date: 8/1979
-Description: Dusk. A witness in Halifax, Nova Scotia, watches through a
-telescope a round object with 12–18 lights around its base approaching
-from the southeast. It hovers for about 30 seconds. He calls to his wife
-to verify the observation, which has now moved directly overhead. The
-lights give off constant beams downward. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5940
Date: 8/1979
-Description: Harry Griesberg and David Seargent form the Australian
-Centre for UFO Studies from the CUFOS Australian Co-Ordination Section.
-(Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology:
-A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5939
Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: The Fund for UFO Research is established as a nonprofit
-corporation in the District of Columbia to raise money to support
-scientific UFO research and public information projects. It remains
-active through 2011. (Fund for
-UFO Research Quarterly Report, Oct./Dec. 1983; Clark III 520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5944
Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: 1:35 a.m. Westchester County police officer William
-Shaughnessy sees apparently the same white ball of light at the Ward
-Pound Ridge Reservation, New York, as that reported by several citizens
-of Lewisboro the same night. It passes southeast directly over his car,
-at 600–800 feet altitude. It stops above some treetops, makes a complete
-right turn, and disappears to the west. 12 minutes later, it comes
-flying back, hovers, shoots over his car again, and is gone quickly.
-During this time, Shaughnessy cannot reach his station by either
-low-band FM or portable radio. (“Cop Ridiculed for NL Sighting in New
-York,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5942
Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: US Air Force Intelligence is redesignated the Electronic
-Security Command. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Intelligence,
-Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5943
Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: Astronomer Allan
-Hendry publishes The UFO Handbook, a harshly pessimistic assessment
-of his investigative experience with the Center for UFO Studies in
-Evanston, Illinois. The first part covers IFOs, showing how normal
-objects can be misinterpreted as UFOs. The remainder of the book covers
-techniques that can be used by UFO investigators. (Allan Hendry, The UFO
-Handbook, Doubleday, 1979; Clark III 569)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5945
Date: 8/2/1979
-Description: Morning. A teen who mows the lawn finds a strange design on
-the lawn of an 8-acre estate about 8 miles north of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
-The owner waits a week before reporting it to the police, who alert the
-Center for UFO Studies, which investigates the marking on August 22. The
-trace is visible as flattened, yellowed grass in a semicircle between
-two straight lines forming a 120° angle. An analysis of the soil sample
-indicated nothing unusual in the chemistry, and no herbicides or
-petroleum. (“1979
-Ground Mark Remains Unidentified,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no.
-2 (June 1980): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5946
Date: 8/2/1979
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses watch a triangular object
-flying from south to north over Herndon and Atwood, Kansas; and
-Culbertson and McCook, Nebraska. (Marler 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5947
Date: 8/4/1979
-Description: 10:35 p.m. Maria Artura and her grandson see a domed,
-disc-shaped object approach from the west over Canoga Park, Los Angeles,
-California. Two humanoid beings with oversize heads are inside. The
-object stops and hovers above an apartment building on the other side of
-the street. It tilts to one side, returns to horizontal, then flies
-behind a tree, stops, and tilts the other way. Finally, it flies away to
-the west. (“California Humanoids?” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 11;
-Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001):
-25; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December
-25, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5948
Date: 8/4/1979
-Description: Large, glowing disc with bubblelike dome on top, two
-humanoid beings visible through transparent dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Canoga Park, CA
-ID: 341
Date: 8/5/1979
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A man driving 20 miles north of Milwaukee,
-Wisconsin, sees five large red lights suddenly appear in front of his
-car. They are in a V-formation, four in one row, the fifth forming the
-other. They move downward toward the horizon, where they vanish.
-(“Strange Formation in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 3/4, Sept./Oct, 1979):
-11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5949
Date: 8/9/1979
-Description: Pilot observed two disc-shaped objects below his plane,
-contour flying “on the deck” through hills and valleys
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hayfork, CA
-ID: 342
Date: 8/10/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses are on the shore of a lake near
-Czluchow, Poland, when they see an object gliding swiftly along the
-surface and vanishing behind some vegetation on the bank. One witness
-collects his dogs and approaches the spot, but before he gets there, he
-encounters two entities dressed in black who are moving toward the
-woods. The dogs run toward them barking, but the entities turn to face
-them and the dogs stop barking and go back. The beings are dressed in
-coveralls. They have wide hips, a lump at the base of their necks, and
-curved forearms, and they are gliding rather than walking. They vanish,
-and while searching for them the witness sees a rectangular object
-hovering about 300 feet away and flashing beams of white and blue-green
-light. It vanishes suddenly. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFO
-Reports from Poland,” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 1 (March 1988):
-5–6; Poland 46–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5951
Date: 8/10/1979
-Description: Two large metallic spheres are found in Bolivia, one near
-Enconada and another near Buen Retiro, just hours after reports of a
-fireball in Bolivia and northern Chile. Newspaper reports at the time
-focus on the reentry of a satellite or rocket stage as the possible
-cause, suggested by Col. Ariel
-Coca, director of the Bolivian Air Force Academy. The Defense
-Attaché of the US Embassy in La Paz promptly informs the US Defense
-Intelligence Agency via telexed Moon Dust reports, which include
-translations of two Bolivian newspaper reports. Moon Dust is the
-unclassified name of a cold war USAF program to obtain Soviet space
-hardware that survives reentry. In 2014, amateur satellite tracker Ted
-Molczan presents strong circumstantial evidence that the spheres are
-debris from the reentry of the Delta rocket second stage 1979-072B that
-launched Westar
-3 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the same day. (“Moon
-Dust, Object Found near Santz Cruz *U*,” August 17, 1979; “Moon
-Dust, Additional
-Object Reportedly Found near Santa Cruz *U*,” August 21, 1979; Ted
-Molczan, “Re-Entry
-Sightings and
-Debris Recovery of 1979-072B, Bolivia: 1979 August 10 UTC,” Visual
-Satellite Observer, July 30, 2014; Ted Molczan, “Bolivia:
-Spheres Found August 1979, La Prensa Article,” Visual Satellite
-Observer; Good Above, pp. 322–323)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5950
Date: 8/11/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two 18-year-olds, a male college student and a
-female telephone company employee, are sitting in a car near Bergen
-Park, Colorado, looking at the homes at the base of a small mountain on
-Soda Creek Road off Interstate 70. They see a white light about
-two-thirds of the way up the mountain. It grows bigger, four times the
-brightness of the houselights at the base of the mountain. It seems to
-become a cluster of four lights with a dark space in the middle. After 3
-minutes, the light silently rises over the mountain, hovers for 3
-seconds, and drops down behind it. A glow remains over the mountain.
-(“Colorado Landing,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5953
Date: 8/11/1979
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 343
Date: 8/11/1979
-Description: 9:41 p.m. A graduate student and a friend are taking an
-evening drive in a semi-rural area in Northfield Township, Michigan.
-They notice two white stationary lights about 300 feet from the road and
-500 feet in the air. They turn the car around and see another formation
-of white lights and a flashing red light to the west. A total of three
-sets of lights appear heading south. They follow one group, which hovers
-above some power lines. The couple continues to pursue and be pursued by
-the similar formations of lights for 30 minutes. At the intersection of
-Joy and Whitmire Lake Road, one set of lights flies directly above them
-at 1,000–1,500 feet altitude, making a noise like a jet or the wind.
-(“Scientists Chase Michigan UFOs?” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5952
Date: 8/12/1979
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Engineer Y. Podvyazniy and two companions are on
-the shore of the Black Sea west of the microdistrict of Khosta near
-Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. They notice a brightly illuminated object
-approaching erratically from the sea. Suddenly it skips to within one
-mile of the witnesses, who take 9 photos, estimate its size as 165–330
-feet, and notice four glowing lights that look like portholes. The
-object is only 16–65 feet above the water when it slowly moves away to a
-distance of 9 miles. A patrol boat uses its searchlight to illuminate
-the object, which appears to be spherical. When the object lights up and
-dims, the searchlight and the patrol boat’s lights also dim. (Stonehill
-and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 133–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5954
Date: 8/12/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two teenage brothers are driving 9 miles west of
-Rolla, Missouri, in an undeveloped area. A red light and a blue light
-appear over the car, apparently circling each other. The two lights seem
-to blend into one, forming a soft white color. Sparks shoot out, and the
-single light source arcs upward and vanishes in the western sky. Both
-feel strange sensations of both pressure and floating as this occurs.
-These effects, along with involuntary body movements and trouble
-speaking and breathing, last 10 minutes. (“Teens Claim Bizarre Effects,”
-IUR 4, no 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5955
Date: mid 8/1979
-Description: Night. Hospital administrator Jon Linnell and his wife are
-driving home from Northwood, North Dakota, to Warren, Minnesota, when
-they see bright lights over a field to the left. 15 seconds later the
-lights come toward them and hover above their car. Linnell slows the car
-down and the object takes off to the north. It is silent and too bright
-to look at. (“Deputy’s
-UFO Story Evokes
-Other Tales,” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, pp. 1, 5; Clark
-III 716)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5956
Date: 8/16/1979
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A silver, pan-shaped object flies past an
-eastbound truck near Providence, Kentucky, at 2,000– 3,000 feet
-altitude. It tumbles in flight, turning over sideways before
-disappearing behind a hill. (“Kentucky Daylight Saucer,” IUR 4, no. 6
-(December 1979): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5958
Date: 8/16/1979
-Description: 4:22 a.m. A male nurse is driving south on US Highway 19
-seven miles south of Washington, Pennsylvania. Ahead of him on the left
-is a large, luminous object that looks like a football. It appears to be
-60 feet up as he drives underneath it. It remains stationary as he
-drives away. (”Pennsylvania ‘Football,’” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5957
Date: 8/17/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Elma l’Abbe is flying above Saint-Jovite, Quebec,
-in a Piper PA-28 Cherokee Warrior piloted by a friend. She looks out the
-window and notices that both wings are turning red. The pilot says his
-controls are jammed, but both feel the aircraft being pulled upward.
-They then see a large red ball of energy nearly 300 feet in diameter and
-50 feet thick close to the right wing. It speeds away rapidly and
-appears to have a white light on its tail end. The aircraft falls about
-1,000 feet and levels out at 4,000 feet. The object disappears into a
-cloud, where it rotates, showing red on one side and white on the other.
-The ball of light disappears into the orange sky of the sunset. (Chris
-Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 92–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5959
Date: 8/19/1979
-Description: 10:20 p.m. A witness at his home 16 miles southeast of
-Dallas, Texas, sees a shimmering light with amber portholes silently
-darting around near some radio towers. (“Texan NL,” IUR 4, no. 6
-(December 1979): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5960
Date: late 8/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. H. M. Dickinson and another witness see a
-small, transparent object shaped like a lightbulb moving west to east
-just outside the window of her home in Surry, Maine. Inside it is an
-entity sitting on a box and facing what seems to be a control panel. The
-object is lighted from within and blinks out after 5 seconds. (“Seated
-Occupant in Light-Bulb-Shaped 1979 Maine CE-III,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5962
Date: 8/20/1979
-Description: 7:30–9:00 p.m. Some 119 people in northern and eastern
-Poland observe several different types of cylindrical or spherical UFOs.
-Reports come from Sopot, Jurata, Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Malbork, Jastrzębie,
-Olsztyn, Świecie, and Warsaw. Vacationers in Sopot and Jurata see a
-cigar ejecting a smoky trail and flames. In Gdańsk, the objects are
-cigar-shaped or oblong changing into a sphere. Bogdan Śmiech from
-Malbork watches 9– 10 balls of light 3–4 miles above the ground. (Poland
-72–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5961
Date: 8/23/1979
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two fishing boats belonging to the Szomborg
-family, the Hel-125 and Hel-127, are in the Baltic Sea some 46 miles off
-the Hel peninsula, Poland, when their radar malfunctions and the TV set
-reception fails. Lucjan Szomborg on the Hel-127 notices two bright-red
-lights in the air less than a mile away. Suddenly another larger,
-pulsating light appears abut 1,500 feet in front of the boat and the
-original two lights, which are apparently attached to a dark object,
-move silently toward it. A white light emerges from the two smaller
-lights, which then disappear in the distance. The pulsating light begins
-flashing erratically, emitting strong vibrations, and Szomborg steers
-his boat closer. The red light places itself directly in the Hel-127’s
-path three times, matching the boat’s course changes. The crew members
-begin to get nervous, some getting severe headaches, chest pains, and
-nausea. The navigator, Henryk Elwardt, is gripped with pain, affected by
-the pulsing vibrations. Szomborg, feeling symptoms of paralysis and
-temporary blindness, manages to change course and warn his father on the
-Hel-125 of danger. All the on-board equipment has suddenly stopped
-working. After 20 minutes, Szomborg notices that the red sphere has
-moved further away. The boats safely return to Hel by 4:00 a.m., and the
-equipment is working again. Doctors, neurologists, and psychiatrists
-examine the crew and find nothing physically wrong, but they are
-prescribed sedatives and the Polish Navy prohibits them from going out
-to sea for 3 weeks. (Poland 122–124; “UFO
-nad Bałtykiem 23 sierpnia 1979 r.,” UFO-Relacje.pl, August 4,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5963
Date: 8/25/1979
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Three witnesses in a boat at Balsam Lake,
-Wisconsin, watch an object with a metallic surface move downward in an
-oscillating manner and maneuver for 6–7 minutes. (“Wisconsin DD,” IUR 4,
-no. 6 (December 1979): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5964
Date: 8/27/1979
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Flying instructor Laurie Adlington has just left
-Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, Hampshire, England, with Lt. James
-Plastow from Sandhurst Military College for his pilot’s license test in
-a Cessna 150. They are at 2,000 feet heading toward Basingstoke when
-Adlington suddenly grabs the controls and throws the Cessna into a steep
-bank and descent to avoid a collision. An object suddenly speeds past
-the front of the aircraft, coming within a few feet of the windshield.
-The rotating object is about 12 inches in diameter, shaped like a
-doughnut, reflects light with a silvery glow “like a blob of mercury,”
-and has a honeycombed surface. They can make out the hint of an aerial
-on one side. The object begins flying around the plane for a short time
-before it flies underneath it and then streaks upward and away to about
-3,000 feet. Possible early use of a drone. (Omar Fowler, “Mini-Disc
-over Blackbushe,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980):
-18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5966
Date: 8/27/1979
-Description: 1:40 a.m. Deputy Sheriff Val
-Johnson is on duty in the west end of Marshall County, Minnesota,
-driving on County Highway 5 west of Stephen when he sees a light through
-his side window. The light is to his south, shining from a grove of
-trees standing along State Highway 220 near the Red River. He thinks it
-might be from a downed drug-smuggling airplane. He turns south on 220,
-accelerates to 65 mph, and moves closer. The light moves toward him,
-traveling so fast that it crosses the 1.5 miles separating them almost
-instantaneously. It makes no sound and still looks just like a blinding
-light. Johnson hears glass breaking and sees the inside of the patrol
-car light up. After the light hits, he loses consciousness. When he
-wakes up, his head is resting on the steering wheel and his eyes are
-staring at the red “engine” light on the dashboard. He looks out the
-window and sees the car has skidded sideways across the northbound lane
-and now faces eastward. The front tires are touching the gravel on the
-shoulder. He can see only with difficulty and feels like he is moving in
-slow motion. At 2:19 a.m., he radios headquarters and asks for
-assistance. Deputy Greg Winskowski arrives on the scene shortly. Johnson
-is still inside the car with a red bump on his forehead, so he calls an
-ambulance. At the hospital, Dr. W. A. Pinsonneault examines Johnson’s
-eyes, but the probe light hurts so much that Johnson cannot stand it
-more than a few seconds at a time. Pinsonneault suspects corneal flash
-burns and covers his eyes with bandages. Sheriff Dennis Brekke drives
-Johnson’s 1977 Ford LTD patrol car back to the garage. The inside light
-on the driver’s side is smashed. On the hood, 4 feet 4 inches behind the
-smashed light and close to the windshield, is a flat-bottomed, circular
-dent, half an inch in diameter. A crack in the windshield on the
-driver’s side about 18 inches behind the dent runs top to bottom, with
-four apparent impacts; it looks as if a cluster of small objects, stones
-perhaps, have done the damage. The car’s battery-powered clock, set
-correctly at 7:00 p.m. when Johnson came on duty, is 14 minutes late. So
-is Johnson’s wind-up wristwatch, set at the same time. The red plastic
-lens covering the roof light on the driver’s side shows a triangular
-puncture, and the lens is dislodged from the housing. A radio antenna
-shaft is bent over at a 60° angle. The large “bubble” lamp just inches
-in front of the antenna is unscathed. The trunk antenna for CB radio is
-bent at 90°. Brekke, after calling the Center for UFO Studies in
-Evanston, Illinois, takes Johnson to Grand Forks, North Dakota, at 11:00
-a.m. for an eye examination by ophthalmologist Leonard Prochaska, who
-finds that Johnson’s problems have cleared up. Allan
-Hendry of CUFOS determines that the car damage is inconsistent with
-anything an airplane could have caused. Meridan French, a windshield
-expert with the Glass Division of Ford Motor Company, concludes that a
-flat-ended object had made a forceful impact with the hood and then
-tilted toward the windshield. A team of engineers at Honeywell’s
-materials testing laboratory indicates that flying particles were
-responsible for the damage to the headlight glass and lamp plastic.
-(Wikipedia, “Val Johnson
-incident”; NICAP, “Val
-Johnson Case”; “Deputy’s
-UFO Story Evokes
-Other Tales,” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, pp. 1, 5;
-“Minnesota CEII: The Val Johnson Story,” IUR 4, no. 3/4
-(Sept./Oct. 1979): 4–9; “Minnesota CEII: The Val Johnson Story, Part
-Two, Laboratory Analyses and Conclusion,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979):
-4–11; Chris Rutkowski, “Special
-Report: Stephen, Minnesota; Not Proof, But…” Swamp Gas Journal 1,
-no. 6 (April 1980): 1–4; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close
-Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 25; Clark III 713–716)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5965
Date: 8/27/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A family in Smithtown, New York, watches a round
-object with a band around its equator and many small orange lights fly
-toward them from the north. They remain outside after it disappears,
-hoping it will return, and it does, flying from west to east and rising
-up sharply and silently. (“New York NL Appears Twice,” IUR 4, no. 6
-(December 1979): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5967
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 47-year-old housewife sees the lower corner of
-a gigantic “mothership” outside her living room window in a southwest
-suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The blimp-like UFO is so huge she can’t see
-the whole length or height. It extends the whole block of houses at
-treetop level. She reports four different kinds of humanoid creatures (7
-in all) visible through the hull, which is luminous and yellow in color.
-She hears a loud humming sound. The duration is 45 minutes. (“Two That
-Got Away,” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5971
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A married couple is taking their dog on a duck
-hunt between Dziki and Ernestowo, Poland, when they notice a “strange
-orange ball” coming from behind a hill about 3 miles away. The husband
-studies it through binoculars, estimating its speed as about 95 mph. The
-ball proves to be the front of a huge steel-colored cigar- shaped
-object, which stops 1,300 feet away and hovers above some buildings for
-about 10 seconds. They can see five large, square windows with rounded
-corners; the three in the front glow with orange light, while the other
-two seem covered by a shade. The object moves forward about 40 feet and
-stops. Half a minute later, sparks shoot from the rear and the UFO
-vanishes over the horizon. An orange glow remains behind. Alojzy Pawlik
-sees the same object in Laskowice at about the same time. (Bronislaw
-Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June 1987):
-17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5970
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A woman is in her alfalfa field 10 miles north of
-Pasco, Washington, when she sees what appears to be a post sitting a
-half-mile away. It is about 4–5 feet tall. About 10 minutes later she
-sees that the object is now in the air, flying slowly in a horizontal
-position, land bullet-shaped, looking black on its flat end and silver
-on its rounded end. A neighbor also sees the object before it disappears
-in the west. (“A Flying Fence Post in Washington State,” IUR 4, no. 6
-(December 1979): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5969
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Russ Johnson is driving on Highway 50 on the
-western outskirts of Vermillion, South Dakota, when he spots a blinding
-headlight in front of him. It is stationary for 2 seconds, then it
-streaks toward him and engulfs his car. Johnson closes his eyes and hits
-the brakes, skidding the car to a stop, spinning sideways until it faces
-east. He opens his eyes and sees the light heading away west. The next
-day, the still-shaken Johnson goes to the site with Robert Adams at the
-University of South Dakota, who sees the skid marks. (Clark III 716;
-“Case 4-5- 2,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5968
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: Silvery cigar with orange light and square windows
-approached, hovered, finally sped away over horizon
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ernestowo, Poland
-ID: 344
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Harry Joe Turner is driving a 1974 Kenworth
-tractor-trailer loaded with mustard and ketchup on US Highway 17 two
-miles from Warrenton, Virginia. His CB radio starts acting up, giving
-out a noise that gets louder and louder. Something grabs him tightly on
-his left shoulder. He sees a large object looming over his cab and hears
-two thumps. Even though he is going 70 mph, he sees a figure standing
-outside. When it throws open the door, Turner grabs his .32 automatic
-pistol and fires 8 rounds at it with no effect. He then blacks out.
-Turner wakes up in the passenger seat at 3:00 a.m. at his destination in
-a Fredericksburg warehouse but can’t remember how he got there. The
-odometer indicates he has only traveled 17 miles, not 80, yet he has
-used 114 gallons of fuel. The top 2 inches of the CB antenna are melted
-off, and 30 inches of the AM/FM antenna has broken off. A filmy
-substance covers the truck. He drives back home but is confused and his
-eyes are overly sensitive to light. Turner wakes up in a Winchester
-hospital diagnosed with a broken blood vessel in his left eye. He begins
-to remember more about the experience and recalls his truck being lifted
-into a UFO piloted by two humanlike figures dressed in white shirts and
-pants, one of whom is named Alpha La Zoo Loo. He seems to take a trip in
-space to a planet beyond Alpha Centauri. On September 3, after taking
-valium, Turner is arrested for speeding. He thinks aliens are chasing
-him. Turner continues to undergo anxiety attacks. Allan
-Hendry and Fred Whiting from the Center for UFO Studies are unable
-to corroborate Turner’s story, and the two antennas appear to be
-deliberately altered. (Iris Maack, “Truck,
-Rig, Abducted (?),” APRO Bulletin 28, no. 6 (December 1979): 1–3;
-Clark III 1139–1141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5973
Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Charles Weeden and his father see an orange
-light moving erratically in the sky to the west over Sycamore, Illinois.
-They call the police, and Deputy Berna Van Vlerah looks outside the
-station 2.5 miles west of the Weedens and sees the orange light to her
-southeast, low above the horizon. Using binoculars, she sees a flat-
-bottomed orange dome shape within the light. She watches it for 5
-minutes, then drives to the Weedens and watches it there to the west.
-(“Orange NL in Illinois?” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5972
Date: 8/30/1979
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A student camping out at Slip Bluff County Park
-near Lamoni, Iowa, is awakened by her dog barking. She sees a formation
-of lights on an oval object about a city block away. It moves away
-horizontally, still close to the ground. (“Landing in Iowa?” IUR 4, no.
-6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5974
Date: 8/30/1979
-Description: 4:00 p.m. During a thunderstorm, three passengers and the
-driver watch a 2-foot yellow and green ball of light rush down from the
-north only 5 feet in front of a Metropolitan Transit Commission bus on
-the southwest side of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It hits the pavement and
-erupts into a shower of sparks and smoke with a loud explosion. The
-shocked bus driver runs over the point of impact as the vehicle is
-shaking. No lasting effects can be found in the pavement after the
-storm. (“Case 4-5-3,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5975
Date: 9/1979
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is losing momentum due to lack
-of money and public support. Search fees have become prohibitive: In
-response to a CAUS request for data on UFO trackings, NORAD informs them
-that it will require 18,383 hours and $294,157. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-October 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5976
Date: 9/3/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Two witnesses watch an “aluminum oil drum with
-wings” flying silently above Oroville, California, in a straight line.
-(“California Flying Drum,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5977
Date: 9/3/1979
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two couples in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, see a red
-disc hovering in the western sky as they are driving from their cottage.
-The dashboard and engine lights fail, so the driver pulls over. The
-lights come back on but go off again when the car moves forward again.
-This happens again 5–6 times in less than a minute. Once their view of
-the light is blocked, the lights come back on. The object moves on to
-the southwest at incredible speed. (“Car Interference Case,” IUR 4, no.
-6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5978
Date: 9/3/1979
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Two witnesses in Cape Charles, Virginia, see a
-bright light zigzagging in an unusual manner for one minute in the
-northeast. (“Virginia NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5979
Date: 9/4/1979
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two boys in Ashland, Wisconsin, watch a
-cone-shaped object with a slightly curved bottom flopping around and
-tumbling in the sky. They chase it on their bicycles but it outdistances
-them. (“Tumbling Cone in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5981
Date: 9/4/1979
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Three men are driving north along Richmond
-Township Road A near New Richmond, Wisconsin, when they see a silver
-disc 500 feet to the west over some treetops. It moves toward the road
-and crosses it at 10 mph behind their pickup, then pausing to hover
-above a field 10 feet up. They jump out to watch the UFO wobbling about
-300 feet away. Two more cars stop to watch. The object moves off to the
-east, still wobbling. (“DD and Independent Witnesses,” IUR 4, no. 6
-(December 1979): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5980
Date: 9/5/1979
-Description: 3:40 a.m. Dr. Barbara Anaczkowska-Piazza, a driver, and a
-stretcher bearer are taking a pregnant patient in an ambulance from
-Żuławka Sztumska to the hospital at Sztum, Poland. As they are passing
-through Tropy Sztumskie, they notice a large orange-red ball on their
-left that seems to parallel them as they turn toward Kalwa. At one point
-it looks so close that the driver fears it will block their way. It
-seems to have two dark, horizontal bands across it. They turn back to a
-railway crossing and alert the guards to the object, which is now less
-bright and soon turns dark. The observation lasts 20 minutes. Although
-there are some discrepancies in the accounts of its movement, Wim van
-Utrecht and others are certain that it was the full moon setting. (Emma
-Popik, “Under Intelligent Control?” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6
-(March 1981): 2–4; Poland 55–57; Wim van Utrecht, “Lunar Terror
-in Poland: A Doctor’s Dilemma,” CENAP UFO-Forschung, October 31,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5982
Date: 9/5/1979
-Description: 10 :45 a.m. Lawrence Hogan is driving on County Road MM one
-mile east of Dresser, Wisconsin. A black dot moves over the trees ahead
-of him about 50 feet up, slowing down 600 feet away and descending below
-the tree line. He stops his truck to watch it move east. He sees that
-the object is metallic and silent. He chases it, alternately moving and
-hovering, for 5 minutes. (“Then, the Next Day,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December
-1979): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5983
Date: 9/9/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A salesman and some customers are outside in
-Richfield, Minnesota, when they notice a silver form shaped like a truck
-tire with a flat underside moving to the south. It hovers for 4–5
-seconds before moving off only 80–90 feet away from them. (“Minnesota
-Daylight CE I,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5985
Date: 9/9/1979
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A driver sees a bright amber light through her
-windshield to the west in Streamwood, Illinois. It approaches, then
-moves back to the west, dipping left and right. It approaches again,
-floating downward and growing brighter. Red and yellow spikes of light
-emanate from a bright white center. When she feels her face growing hot,
-she pulls sharply onto another street. Looking through her rear-view
-mirror, she sees the light make an abrupt turn to the left and disappear
-in the north in a few seconds. By noon, her face is sunburned and sore;
-the skin flakes off the next day and she quickly recovers. (“Case
-4-5-4,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5984
Date: 9/11/1979
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Donald Schultie watches a blue-gray object
-approach him from the east in Millsboro, Delaware. His son and
-councilwoman Dorothy Grey also see it. The UFO is an oblate sphere with
-a flashing white light. He estimates it is 10 feet wide. It hovers
-300–500 feet away in a nearby field for 5 minutes then moves up and away
-to the northwest. (“Delaware DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5986
Date: 9/12/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A fire lookout at the Satus Peak tower on the
-Yakama, Washington, Indian Reservation sees a large orange ball of light
-between the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area and Mount Adams. It remains below
-the skyline for the most part, slowly moving in a number of different
-directions before fading from view. An hour and 15 minutes later, two
-more orange balls appear in the area of Simon Butte. Moving erratically.
-They are joined by a third light, and all fade away after 45 seconds.
-The third ball apparently makes another appearance 5 minutes later and
-is visible for 45 seconds. (“More NLs in Yakima,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December
-1979): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5988
Date: 9/12/1979
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A complete power failure takes place in Huaihua,
-Hunan, China. At 9:00 p.m., a bright object appears overhead, emitting a
-vertical stream of white rays. It flies upward at an angle and vanishes
-soundlessly a minute later, leaving two masses of hemispherical luminous
-clouds about 328 feet across. (Paul Dong and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFOs
-over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5987
Date: 9/14/1979
-Description: Disc with flamelike jets around perimeter hovered ahead of
-car, darted from point to point. Took off at “very high speed”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Canoga Park, CA
-ID: 345
Date: mid 9/1979
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Teenagers Holly Travis and Debbie LaRose wake up
-at the Travis house in Sanford, Maine, and see through a window a huge,
-orange, round object whose underside is clearly visible as it slowly
-(10–15 mph) passes overhead, gently spinning on its axis, at about 500
-feet elevation. It slowly descends behind the roof of the neighbor’s
-house. (Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the
-UFO,” IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5989
Date: 9/16/1979
-Description: Night. Curtis Olson is mowing hay on his farm near Lake
-City, Minnesota, when he finds a circle of flattened corn 50 feet in
-diameter. The stalks are flattened in a pattern radiating from the
-center of the circle, and some are charred. He finds a path leading to
-another circle 18 feet away. At first, he thinks lightning caused it,
-but then he considers the possibility of a UFO. County Extension Agent
-Matt
-Metz thinks it might have been a combination of wind and decay. In
-1987, Curtis’s uncle David Olson admits to creating the circles as a
-practical joke, using his burlap-covered feet and a posthole tamper.
-(“Farmer
-Says UFO Caused
-Field Damage,” Minneapolis Tribune, September 19, 1979, pp. 2B, 4B;
-“Not
-Everyone in Lake City Accepting
-Prankster’s Confession
-in UFO Mystery,” Minneapolis Star and Tribune, April 8, 1987,
-pp. 1B, 6B; Clark III 602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5990
Date: 9/17/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A witness driving in Portsmouth, Virginia, sees a
-large star approaching her until it is only 30 feet up and less than a
-block away. She says it seems as large as a three-story house and looks
-like a gigantic faceted wedding cake with three layers. She hears a
-muffled sound of a motor. One small green light is on the object’s side,
-while the underside floods the ground with light. After 2 minutes, it
-moves slowly off to the left. (“A Faceted Wedding Cake?” IUR 4. No. 6
-(December 1979): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5991
Date: 9/19/1979
-Description: Peter Gersten,
-on behalf of Ground Saucer Watch, meets with CIA attorneys and Judge John
-H. Pratt at US District Court for the District of Columbia. The CIA
-has moved for summary judgment, asserting that the GSW requests for UFO
-files are an “undue burden” and that the papers released so far are of
-little importance. Pratt gives GSW 60 days to provide a written response
-to the CIA motion. (MUFON UFO Journal, October 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5992
Date: 9/20/1979
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A woman is driving in Poplar Grove, Illinois,
-when a pear-shaped blue light, surrounded by a white haze, engulfs her
-van in blinding light. Her AM radio is racked with static. She floors
-the accelerator to get away but can’t get past 40 mph. She recalls a
-sense of lightness as if she and the van are floating. The next thing
-she remembers is driving almost 6 miles further ahead at the
-intersection of Beaverton and Poplar Grove Road. She stops a police car
-for help, and her husband comes to pick her up. She sleeps abnormally
-and exhibits bouts of hysteria for a while after the event. (“Case
-4-5-5,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5993
Date: fall 1979
-Description: MUFOB changes its name to Magonia, with a nod to Jacques
-Vallée’s book Passport to Magonia. It continues until April 2009.
-(Magonia, no.
-1 (Autumn 1979); Clark III 706; “History
-of Magonia,”
-Magonia Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5996
Date: 9/26/1979
-Alternate date: 9/27/1979
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Pat Gagliardo and another woman watch a single,
-blinking white light moving above the treetops near Norwich,
-Connecticut. They drive home to get two binoculars and another witness,
-then see the light approaching them from the east, now visibly attached
-to a boomerang-shaped object with the concave side toward them. It
-stops, tumbles end over end, and moves toward them again, slowly passing
-overhead, then shoots off to the east. (“Connecticut NL,” IUR 4, no. 6
-(December 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5994
Date: 9/29/1979
-Description: 8:45 a.m. A screenwriter sees two bright silver spheres
-moving above Hollywood, California. Each is somewhat smaller than a full
-moon and are revolving counterclockwise around a common axis between
-them. (“A Different Kind of Hollywood Spectacle,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December
-1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5995
Date: 10/1979
-Description: In a remote area near Melville, Saskatchewan, a CUFOS
-investigator is looking into a cattle mutilation when his truck begins
-swerving uncontrollably. He stops and gets out as he hears a low humming
-noise in the nearby bush. Walking toward it, he feels sharp pains in his
-back and his knees collapse. The hum becomes louder as he crawls back to
-the truck and drives away. He loses his sense of direction and hears a
-rapid clicking noise. The speedometer needle fluctuates wildly between
-10 and 85 mph. Suddenly his disorientation leaves and he drives home.
-(“Two
-CE-IIs in Western Canada,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4
-(August 1980): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5998
Date: 10/1979
-Description: Day. Cornel Alexandru Olteanu is gathering mushrooms in a
-forest near Valea Berii near the source of the Teleajen River in the
-Ciucaş Mountains, Romania. He notices a gray object like a car in a
-clearing under a high cliff about 320 feet away. He walks toward it and
-sees it looks more like a metallic disc with a turret and is sitting on
-3–4 legs. Nearby are two little men about 4 feet tall who seem to be
-working on something. They have large eyes, bald heads, and yellowish
-skin, and they are dressed in a one-piece suit. Noticing him, they turn
-toward Olteanu, who is suddenly unable to move. The men turn around and
-climb up a ladder into the object. Flashing white lights come on and the
-object takes off into the sky and over some trees, which bend over as if
-they are going through a hurricane. After it is gone, Olteanu can move
-again. He notices a yellowish stain at the landing site. (Romania
-132–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5999
Date: 10/1979
-Description: Construction for an F-117A Nighthawk support facility
-begins at Tonopah Test Range inside Area 52, Nevada. The facility at
-Area 51 serves as a model for the Tonopah project. (Jacobsen, Area 51,
-p. 343)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5997
Date: 10/4/1979
-Description: 12:00 noon. A sales manager watches a silver, domed-shaped
-object with a black flat bottom from a 38th- floor window on Madison
-Avenue and 26th Street in New York City. It is seen by three others on
-the same floor and two others on the floor immediately below. It moves
-north and makes a sharp turn before apparently hitting the Empire State
-Building. It clears the Pan Am building and flies off along the Hudson
-River at a high altitude. (“The UFO That Almost Hit the Empire State
-Building,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6000
Date: 10/6/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A couple driving south on County Road 46 near
-Amery, Wisconsin, see two red, luminous globes, each as large as the
-full moon, hovering above the southeast horizon. They drive on another
-2–3 miles watching them before the two objects join together and hovers
-250 feet above the field to their left, bathing it in a pinkish glow.
-(“Red Globes in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6001
Date: 10/6/1979
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A couple are driving on Interstate 35 east of
-Barnum, Minnesota, when they see a ball of light 3–6 feet in diameter
-approaching low over some trees. It rolls and bounces silently over the
-top of the car in about 10 seconds. After driving another 500 feet, the
-car’s engine dies and the headlights malfunction. The battery is so dead
-that it can’t be jump-started. The alternator also has to be replaced.
-The mechanic who does the repair work says that the interior looks like
-a fire has gone through it (though not the exterior). (“Case 4-5-6,” IUR
-4, no. 5 (November 1979): 12; Mark Rodeghier, “A
-Summary of Vehicle Interference Reports and a Description of a Possible
-Natural Phenomenon Causing Some Events,” The Spectrum of UFO
-Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6002
Date: 10/16/1979
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Two witnesses on the east side of Saint Paul,
-Minnesota, near Interstate 694 see a silvery domed disc with a flat
-bottom traveling toward the southwest, moving up and down and drifting
-about. (“Another Minnesota DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6003
Date: 10/20/1979
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy in a farmhouse in Baldwin,
-Wisconsin, sees two intese white lights circling counterclockwise over a
-hayfield about 1,200 feet away. He goes outside for a closer look, but
-the lights disappear. Three days later, the family finds a 30 foot-by-45
-foot triangular area of brown and dried vegetation in the hayfield.
-(“Wisconsin CE II?” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6004
Date: 10/25/1979
-Description: 5:56 p.m. A young man and his sister are driving through
-Westmont, Illinois, and see a flat-bottomed object. Bright luminous
-white in the middle, its outer edge is more yellow. It moves back and
-forth, somersaults, and disappears. (“Illinois Flipping Disc?” IUR 4,
-no. 6 (December 1979): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6005
Date: 10/27/1979
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Lou Blackburn takes three photographs of his
-friends’ fishing boat coming out of the Motunau River on the South
-Island of New Zealand. After it is developed, one of the slides shows a
-cluster of about 19 blue-white lights in the sky. (Fred and Phyll
-Dickeson, “The
-Motunau, New Zealand, UFO Photograph,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2,
-no. 6 (June 1981): 1, 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6006
Date: 10/27/1979
-Description: Three Russian aircraft approaching Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk
-Krai, Russia, encounter a large UFO about 850 feet long and only a
-half-mile away with three spheres attached to it. Each sphere has three
-portholes. The pilot of an Antonov An-26 transport cannot get his
-compass to work properly unless it is directed at the object, which
-paces the aircraft, flying over and around it. A similar object is seen
-shortly afterward at Alykel Airport near Norilsk, and the Messoyakha Gas
-Field. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6007
Date: 10/29/1979
-Description: In Hayden v. National Security Agency/Central Security
-Service the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
-rules that the records of the National Security Agency are so sensitive
-to national security that they are afforded a “special dispensation”
-from adversarial scrutiny through FOIA. (Hayden
-v. National Security Agency
-/ Central Security Service, US
-Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, October 29, 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6008
Date: 11/1979
-Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO changing colors and
-hovering for 30 minutes over secret rocket test range (Kapustin Test
-Range — where V-2 was tested)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Test Range
Date: 11/1979
-Description: During rocket tests at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan
-Oblast, Russia, a Col. Gen. Sapkov and other officers see a bright-green
-elliptical object, occasionally changing hues, hover over the range for
-30 minutes. Sapkov claims to see the same phenomenon in 1986 and is
-assured by officers that this is a common occurrence. (Paul Stonehill
-and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind
-the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6009
Date: 11/4/1979
-Description: Iran Hostage Crisis
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Iran
Date: 11/8/1979
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Five teenage girls in West Palm Beach, Florida,
-watch a round object with multiple lights, a door, and a bubble roof
-descend to the east and hover there for 5 minutes. It rises again, flies
-over a store near the witnesses and disappears over the southern
-horizon. (“Palm Beach Puzzle,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6010
Date: 11/9/1979
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Robert
-Taylor, a 61-year-old forestry worker, is out one night working in
-the Dechmont Woods near Livingston, Scotland. Taylor and his dog are on
-duty when he spots a UFO hovering completely motionless and silent above
-the ground. Described as approximately 20 feet across and 12 feet high,
-the strange object is made of a “dark gray metallic material.” Taylor
-thinks the UFO is possibly going transparent from time to time in order
-to disguise itself. A ring or platform encircles the object with spikes
-topped with propellers. Two more small spiky spheres come from the craft
-and make a sound as their spikes move across the ground. Taylor is then
-grabbed by these two smaller objects and dragged to the UFO. As this is
-happening, he can smell a strong, sickening odor. Soon after this, he
-loses consciousness and remains passed out about 20 minutes. He is woken
-up by his dog, which is running around and barking in a panic. He hears
-a kind of hissing sound and realizes that the craft is beginning to
-leave. Seconds later the UFO disappears. Taylor is unable to walk or
-talk properly after the event. He suffers from a headache, sickness, and
-pain in his chin for some hours afterward. Authorities are appointed to
-investigate the site and find tracks where Taylor says the smaller
-spheres were dragging him. (Wikipedia, “Robert
-Taylor incident”; NICAP, “Taylor Incident”; Steuart Campbell, “Close
-Encounter in Scotland,”
-Journal of Transient Aerial Phenomena 1, no. 2 (March 1980): 43–46;
-Martin Keatman and Andrew Collins, “Physical
-Assault by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part I,” Flying
-Saucer Review 25, no. 6 (April 1980): 2–7; Martin Keatman and Andrew
-Collins, “Physical
-Assault by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part II,”
-Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980): 25–28; Martin Keatman and
-Andrew Collins, “Physical
-Assault by
-Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part III,” Flying Saucer Review
-26, no. 3 (September 1980): 1–4; “A Scottish Abduction?” IUR/Frontiers
-of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 15–16; Steuart Campbell, “Close Encounter
-at Livingston,” ed., Charles F. Lockwood and Leslie W. Bayer, BUFORA
-Case History No. 1, July 1982; Patrick Gross, “Dechmont
-Woods, Scotland, November 9, 1979”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6011
Date: 11/11/1979
-End date: 11/12/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Flight JK-297, a TAE Supercaravelle outbound
-from Salzburg, Austria, has just made a refueling stop on Mallorca,
-Balearic Islands, Spain, before setting course toward Las Palmas in the
-Canary Islands. Pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada and his crew
-notice a set of red lights that are fast approaching the aircraft. They
-appear to be on a collision course, alarming the crew. The captain
-requests information about the lights, but neither the Pegaso Defense
-Radar Center in Torrejón Air Base, Madrid, nor the flight control center
-in Barcelona can provide any explanation. In order to avoid a possible
-collision, the captain changes altitude. However, the lights mirror the
-new course and stay about 1,600 feet away from the plane. Since the
-object is violating all elementary safety rules and the crew considers
-an evasive maneuver impossible, the captain decides to go off-course and
-make an emergency landing at the Manises airport in Valencia. The lights
-abandon the pursuit just before the aircraft lands. However, three new
-UFO targets are detected by the radar, each one with an estimated
-diameter of 650 feet. The objects are seen by several witnesses. One of
-the UFOs passes very close to the airport runway, and emergency lights
-are lit by the land crew in case the object happens to be an
-unregistered flight experiencing difficulties. Because the object
-answers no attempts to communicate, a Mirage F-1 takes off at 2:10 a.m.
-from the nearby Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete to intercept the object.
-The pilot, Spanish Air Force captain Fernando Cámara, has to increase
-his speed to 920 mph just to achieve visual contact with what he sees as
-a truncated cone-shaped object. Despite his initial efforts, the object
-quickly disappears. Cámara is told of a new radar target, indicating
-that another object might be near Sagunto. When he is close enough, the
-object accelerates and disappears again. This time, though, the UFO
-seems to respond, and the Mirage has its electronic flight systems
-jammed. At last, and after a third intercept attempt, the UFO finally
-disappears, heading for Africa. After 90 minutes of pursuit, the pilot
-is forced to return to the base with no results. (Wikipedia, “Manises
-UFO incident”;
-NICAP, “Spanish
-Radar Visual Case? Probably Not”; “Spanish Radar Visual Case,” IUR
-4, no. 6 (December 1979): 14–15; Good Above, pp. 156–157;
-Juan José Benitez, “Jetliner
-‘Intercepted’ by UFO near Valencia,”
-Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 (March 1980): 13–15; J. J. Benítez,
-Incidente en Manises, Plaza y Janés, 1982; J. Plana Crivellén, “Encounters
-in Spanish Air-Space between Aircraft and UFOs,” Flying Saucer
-Review 34, no. 1 (March 1989): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6012
Date: 11/14/1979
-Description: 8:10 p.m. A witness near Killaly, Saskatchewan, sees a
-white light land in a field about a quarter mile to the south of her
-house and then go out. Her dogs keep snarling and barking all night
-long. The next morning her husband passes the field and notices that it
-is emitting a dense cloud of smoke. He finds a ring of smoldering grass
-some 30 feet in diameter, but with snow still visible in the center. The
-unburnt grass next to it is flattened. (“Two CE-IIs
-in Western Canada,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August
-1980): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6013
Date: 11/15/1979
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A group of children playing in Chiraleș, Romania,
-see a milky-white object that looks like a mace head with protuberances
-moving silently from north to south about 50 feet from the ground. It
-appears to be 3 feet in diameter and lands at a nearby mound. The
-children run toward the mound but stop when they see two glowing objects
-land on it with tripod legs. Two little men 2.5 feet tall, dressed in
-metallic costumes with antennae, come out of one of the objects through
-a door and walk around with a bouncing motion. The children keep
-approaching, so the men run back into the craft, which takes off in a
-burst of red-orange flames. Small circular impressions are found,
-although they get disturbed by curious onlookers. (Romania
-134–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6014
Date: 11/15/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two teenage boys in Gadsden, Alabama, see a domed
-disc the size of a house approach them from the south until it is 900
-feet away and 750 feet in the air. The light underneath it is so bright
-that it illuminates the entire object. It makes a U-turn and passes
-overhead as it moves south with a jerky motion. (“Alabama Saucer,” IUR
-5, no. 1 (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6015
Date: 11/17/1979
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy is walking home from school
-through a clearing in the woods in Pound Ridge, New York, when he sees
-what looks like a solid, 3-foot-tall maple tree surrounded by an
-electric glow. It hovers for 3 seconds only 12 feet away from him, then
-shoots straight up into the sky, changing color from green to red. (“A
-Flying Tree in New York?” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6016
Date: 11/17/1979
-Description: 4:20 p.m. The underground Pegaso Defense Radar Center at
-Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain, detects an unknown target some 25
-miles south of Motril, Grenada, and a Mirage F1 is scrambled from Los
-Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha. By the time the jet
-arrives in the vicinity, the target has disappeared. At 6:16 p.m., the
-pilot is heading back to Los Llanos when he sees three powerful
-red-yellow lights in the shape of a triangle about 12 miles away. They
-do not register on radar. In spite of chasing the lights at 720 mph, the
-Mirage cannot close the gap. During his descent into Los Llanos, some
-childish, laughing voices break into the UHF-1 channel linking him to
-Pegaso: “Hello, how are you? Hello, hello,” they say in Spanish. The
-interference lasts 30 seconds. (“El
-OVNI que sobrevoló la ciudad de Motril,” OVNI: ¿Mitologia o
-Realidad?, May 24, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6017
Date: 11/18/1979
-Description: 1:15 a.m. A man in Antioch, California, watches a bright
-red light flying from east to the northeast. It stops for 3–5 seconds
-and changes to purple then pale blue and moves off. (“Fast NL in
-California,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6018
Date: 11/26/1979
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A phone call to police in Pontoise, Val d’Oise,
-France, brings officers to the apartment of Jean-Pierre Prevost, 25, a
-clothing seller, who has claimed that a colleague, Franck Fontaine, has
-been abducted by a UFO. Fontaine reappears on December 3, claiming to
-remember only that a luminous fog had descended on his car and he woke
-up later in a cabbage field. GEPAN investigates and finds the story
-problematic. On July 7, 1983, Prevost confesses that the story was a
-hoax intended to promote a spiritual message. (Enquête
-GEPAN 79/07:
-A propos d’une disparition, Note Technique no. 6, Groupe d’Étude des
-Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non- identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude
-Spatiales, March 31, 1981; “French Abduction: ‘Travis Walton’ Style,”
-IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 3; Jacques Bonabot, “1979 Fontaine Case Now
-Admitted to Be a Hoax,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 190 (December 1983): 10;
-“Cergy-Pontoise
-Hoax,” Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology; Clark III
-230–232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6019
Date: 11/27/1979
-Description: 4:25 p.m. Yvette Godfrey is assistant manager of a spa in
-the Barker Shopping Plaza off State Highway 82 near the Connecticut
-Turnpike in Norwich, Connecticut. She sees a cigar-shaped object
-hovering at an angle directly above the Norwich Sheraton Motor Inn about
-30 feet above the Sheraton sign on the roof. Other women at the spa
-observe it too. It moves a bit to the south and stops again for a minute
-before turning west into the clouds. (“Connecticut Cigar,” IUR 5, no. 1
-(January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6021
Date: 11/27/1979
-Description: A 13-year-old girl (“Christelle”) in France is terrorized
-by the landing of a UFO and the sight of one of its crew. GEPAN
-investigates the landing traces. Grass is flattened for several days
-after the incident, and samples are taken to Paul Sabatier University in
-Toulouse for analysis. Prof. André Touzé of the university’s Center for
-Plant Physiology says there is no “unequivocal evidence of chemical of
-biological disturbance of the samples.” (Enquête
-GEPAN no. 79/06, Note
-Technique no. 8, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-
-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, October 26, 1981; Peter
-A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, pp. 97–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6020
Date: 11/30/1979
-Description: 8:00 p.m. At Playa el Combate beach outside Pole Ojea,
-Puerto Rico, Ramonés Torres and his wife are watching television when
-they see a bright light hanging at a height of 100 feet above the sea
-about 900 feet from their house. After about 30 minutes it moves down
-toward the sea, flares up, and goes out. Torres goes back to the TV set,
-but after 15 minutes the light returns, this time shining brightly
-through the window. The light is on a platform floating on the sea only
-130–140 feet away, approaching at about 8 mph, and they can see a small
-man on it about 4 feet high wearing silvery-white coveralls and a big
-helmet. Suddenly the platform reverses and the light goes out. (Jorge
-Martín, “A
-Small Alien Being Seen in Puerto Rico,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no.
-3 (Autumn 1999): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6022
Date: 12/1979
-Description: The Moscow City Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
-forbids all activities of the BVPTS civilian UFO group, but it persists
-into the 1980s. (Nikita A. Schnee, “Ufology
-in the USSR,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 (June 1981): 8–10;
-Nikita A. Schnee, “Comments,”
-AFU Newsletter, no. 27 (Jan./Dec. 1984): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6023
Date: 12/1/1979
-Description: The US Strategic Air Command assumes control of the
-ballistic missile warning system and all Space Surveillance Network
-facilities from the deactivating Aerospace Defense Command, with data
-streams continuing to flow to NORAD. NORAD retains the radar networks
-and operates many radar sites jointly with the FAA as Semi-Automatic
-Ground Environment. (Wikipedia, “Strategic
-Air Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6024
Date: 12/3/1979
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Chris and Ralph Smith of Shag Harbour, Nova
-Scotia, see a shiny, semicircular object with red and yellow fire
-beneath it hover for 5 minutes before it disappears into the sea. (Chris
-Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022,
-pp. 102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6025
Date: 12/3/1979
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer
-John Pushie takes 7 photos (four of which turn out) of a bright light
-from his home 7 miles west of Sydney, Nova Scotia. The light hovers in
-one spot then moves quickly away at one point. He shows them to the
-commanding officer of CFS Sydney Radar Base [now closed] in Lingan Road,
-who says he wants to send them to the National Research Council. One
-month later they are returned with a note saying that Pushie had
-photographed the star Vega. (“Former
-RCMP Officer Photographs UFO
-near Sydney N.S.,” Journal UFO 2, no. 4 (March 1981): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6026
Date: 12/4/1979
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Two witnesses are driving on State Highway 32
-near Mansfield Depot, Connecticut, when they see a bright,
-football-shaped “cloud” hovering low over the trees to the north,
-turning slowly. The driver stops just north of the intersection with US
-Highway 44. The object is now seen to have a complex shape with multiple
-lights as it hovers above some power poles to the west. It starts moving
-slowly to the south. The witnesses try to follow it but lose sight of
-it. (“Six Days Later in Connecticut,” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6027
Date: 12/5/1979
-Description: 5:55 p.m. Norma White watches a bright star from her
-restaurant in Ansted, West Virginia. It remains stationary for 15
-minutes at a height of 2,000 feet over the mountains to the north. Then
-it approaches her, passing overhead at 100 mph. It hurts her eyes to
-look at it. Then the light goes out, allowing her to see a Y-shaped
-object emitting a dull green light. Clusters of red lights are at the
-three points of the Y. It silently turns and flies off to the east.
-Other lights appear in the sky (18 or so) and are observed by police
-officers Charles Crosier and Dan Cohenour. (“The Mini-Flap of West
-Virginia,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6028
Date: 12/6/1979
-Description: 6:29 a.m. An Archuleta County deputy sheriff is driving
-west on US Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, when he sees an
-orange-gold light in the western sky. It quickly grows to the size of a
-fuzzy full moon in 2–3 seconds. Holding its position, it vanishes
-without a sound. (“Colorado UFO: Head On?” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6029
Date: 12/7/1979
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A couple sees a milky-white object while driving
-through Madison, Connecticut. They pull over on Bishop Lane and watch it
-make abrupt changes of direction for a few minutes before it fades from
-sight. (“Connecticut Disc,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6030
Date: 12/9/1979
-Description: 9:45 p.m. US Coast Guard Storekeeper 1st Class Michal
-Williams sees a stationary white light above the Mississippi River near
-the dam in Keokuk, Iowa. It lights up the river below it. The light
-moves straight up at high speed, changing from white to red and coming
-to an abrupt stop. The light goes out. Williams and a radioman see it
-again in the northeast and view it through binoculars. It has two red
-lights and a white light flashing irregularly. It flies around the dam
-and into the west-northwest in a matter of seconds. (“Coast Guard
-Sighting in Iowa,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6032
Date: 12/9/1979
-Description: 9:15 a.m. French Air Force Capt. Jean-Pierre Fartek and his
-wife observe an oscillating UFO hovering near the ground in front of a
-row of apple trees at his home in a village near Dijon, Côte d’Or,
-France. It looks like two “reversed saucers pressed against each other,”
-gray-metal above and dark blue below, with no lights or portholes. He
-describes the sighting to Gen. Denis
-Letty, who
-includes the case in the 1999 COMETA report. (“1979:
-Air Force Captain Jean-Pierre Fartek Spots UFO,” UFO Casebook,
-September 14, 2010; Kean, pp. 124– 126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6031
Date: 12/11/1979
-Description: 11:45 a.m. Flight instructor Leslie Groves is tutoring a
-pupil aboard a Cessna 150 flying at 4,500 feet south of Bolton, Greater
-Manchester, England, when he spots something strange that appears to
-come out of a cloud above Winter Hill. It is clearly a solid ball of
-white light that is passing in and out of the clouds. He asks the
-student to bank in order to minimize any risk of a collision. By now the
-object is pulling away in an arc described as a “well-controlled
-swooping motion” at about 2,500 feet. (Ron Sergeant and Jenny Randles,
-“Aircraft
-in Encounters
-over Bolton,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980):
-19–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6033
Date: 12/13/1979
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two truckers (Wang Dingyuan and Wang Jianming)
-are driving separate vehicles on the Lanxi-Xin’angiang Highway near
-Longwangmiao, Zhejiang, China, when they see a bright beam of light
-ahead. When the lead driver sees two “unusual human beings” standing on
-the highway, he stops. They are short, perhaps 4.5 feet tall, and wear
-what look like spacesuits. The second driver also stops but does not see
-the beings, which soon vanish. The drivers decide to switch vehicles. A
-few miles down the road, the new lead driver sees the same entities, and
-the men again stop the trucks. The drivers turn their lights off and on,
-but the beings remain. When one of the drivers emerges with a crowbar,
-they disappear. (Paul Dong and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFOs over Modern
-China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 140–141; Good Above, pp. 214–215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6034
Date: 12/20/1979
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A pilot and two other witnesses are driving near
-Therien, Alberta, when they see an elongated object drop from 1,000 feet
-to 200 feet, turning red as it descends, for about 5–10 minutes. It
-crashes into the ground not too far away from their car. They can feel
-the impact. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
-2022, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6035
Date: 12/23/1979
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A salesman exiting the Orange Freeway at
-Riverside in Northeast Anaheim, California, sees an object silently pass
-over him at 300 feet up. The front part is octagonal and the rear is a
-rectangle. (“A California ‘Whatsit.’” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6036
Date: 12/27/1979
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Two construction workers are driving south on
-Knott Street in Coquille, Oregon, when they see a bright flash in the
-southern sky. It is caused by a reflection off a thin, metallic, domed
-object wobbling nearby. It is about 40–50 feet in diameter and 6–7 feet
-thick. The object descends to about 1,000 feet. The witnesses try to
-drive closer and look at it through inexpensive binoculars as it flies
-down the valley before it disappears to the south. (“Daylight Disc in
-Oregon,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6037
Date: 12/27/1979
-Description: Night. A car factory worker at Halewood, Merseyside,
-England, is walking home when he senses something behind him. Turning
-around, he sees a floating white sphere, several feet in diameter,
-heading silently toward him. He watches it pass, and the tingling at the
-back of his neck intensifies. When it is about 20 feet ahead, it stops
-and shoots to the southwest at a 45° angle. The man’s hair remains
-charged with static for two days. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of
-Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6038
Date: 12/30/1979
-Description: After presenting his findings to the GEPAN Scientific
-Council, Claude
-Poher resigns as director. His position is not made public, but it
-meets with strong opposition from the media. Poher then takes a one-year
-leave of absence from CNES to sail around the world with his family in a
-boat he has built himself. Mathematician Alain
-Esterle replaces Poher as GEPAN director, remaining until 1983.
-Under his direction, GEPAN is productive, issuing a series of detailed
-technical notes on cases. (J. Allen Hynek, “GEPAN: France’s Official UFO
-Agency,” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 6–8; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN
-to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter
-2000–2001): 12–13; Clark III 546)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6039
Date: 12/31/1979
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A family in Demopolis, Alabama, wakes up to the
-sound of their dogs barking wildly. When one witness goes outside to
-quiet them, he sees a bright, triangular object the size of a house
-hovering above trees about 1,200 feet away. It approaches in a zigzag
-path. (Demopolis (Ala.) Times, January 4, 1979; Marler 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6040
Date: 1980’s
-Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s
-the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with
-toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused
-them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force
-generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the
-Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to
-enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the
-Air Force.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Area 51
Date: 1980
-Description: Ann
-Druffel and D.
-Scott Rogo publish The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, a report on their
-investigations into a series of abductions and UFO-related events in
-California involving several women over a period of 25 years. (Ann
-Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall,
-1980; Clark III 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6041
Date: 1980
-Description: Richard
-F. Haines, an
-aerospace psychologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View,
-California, publishes Observing UFOs, a technical book on analyzing UFO
-reports. (Richard F. Haines, Observing UFOs: An Investigative Handbook,
-Nelson-Hall, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6042
Date: 1980
-Description: Alejandro
-Agostinelli and Juan Carlos Zabalgoitia establish the Centro de
-Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos No Convencionales in Buenos Aires,
-Argentina, and publish three issues of a boletín informativo. (CEFANC
-Boletin Informativo, no.
-1 (Jan./March 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6043
Date: 1980
-Description: An All-Russian Research Public Organization is launched
-informally by Russian science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev, aerospace
-engineer Vadim
-Chernobrov, astronaut Georgy
-Beregovoy, and other enthusiasts to explore the mysteries of the
-universe and nature, research new ways of space technology development,
-and collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet
-Union. (Wikipedia, “Kosmopoisk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6044
Date: 1980
-Description: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen publish The Search for
-Life in the Universe, an open-minded textbook on SETI. (Donald Goldsmith
-and Tobias Owen, The
-Search for Life in the Universe, Benjamin/Cummings,
-1980; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994):
-147–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6045
Date: 1980
-Description: During interception exercises, seven MiG-12s from the
-Mierzęcice Air Base [now Katowice Airport], Poland, notice a
-saucer-shaped object with flashing lights approaching them. It has a
-blue-gray cupola on top and is three times bigger than any of the
-aircraft. It flies to each of the MiGs and maneuvers around them.
-(Poland 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6046
Date: 1/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A Brazilian electronics businessman and 9 others
-see a disc-shaped object shine a light down on the water near the
-eastern bank of the Rio Tapajós 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil. The
-man, his family, and some relatives are camping at a beach. Several
-teenagers are still awake, lying in hammocks and talking, when they see
-the UFO come across the river, stopping about 30 yards from the beach
-and shining a light on the water 60 feet below. The UFO hovers briefly
-then begins moving north, parallel to the shore. It travels more than
-half a mile, with the spotlight shining straight down before it
-disappears. The light beam leaves a trail of luminescence for several
-hundred yards. (Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in
-Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, pp. 146–147;
-Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3
-(December 2010): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6048
Date: 1/1980
-Description: The Gemeinschaft zur Erforschung unbekannter Phänomene
-(later Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO- Phänomens) publishes the
-first issue of Journal für UFO-Forschung in Lüdenscheid, North
-Rhine–Westphalia, Germany, which is still in operation in 2022. (Journal
-für UFO-Forschung, no. 1 (January 1980); Journal für UFO-Forschung
-website)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6047
Date: 1/10/1980
-Description: The NSA’s Roy R. Banner releases two UFO-related documents
-to Peter Gersten, but
-states that the original 18 he has requested are exempt from release
-because of national security, adding that the NSA is reviewing 79 other
-documents originating with other federal agencies. (ClearIntent, pp. 182–187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6049
Date: 1/13/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Brenda Simanski and Janine Mattson quit their
-shift at the Seminary Nursing Home on Pioneer Road in Red Wing,
-Minnesota. Standing in the parking lot, they see a star making a bizarre
-zigzag pattern. It moves above them and they see it is a triangle 15
-feet wide and 20 feet long with two white lights in front, blue lights
-in two of the corners, and a red light between the blue ones. Three
-other witnesses come out of the building and also watch the object,
-which leaves slowly and silently to the north-northwest. (“5
-Watch Tree-Hovering UFO
-for 6 Minutes, ‘Won’t Say It’s from Space,’” Red Wing (Minn.)
-Republican Eagle, January 15, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no.
-128 (March 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6050
Date: 1/14/1980
-Description: 6:05 a.m. Truck driver William Barrett is on an early
-delivery run from Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, when he
-hears a deep humming sound. Looking ahead, he sees a machine with flames
-underneath hovering at a lay-by off the roadside. He slows his truck to
-a near crawl and moves past the object, which looks like a “toast rack”
-with curved sides and three red glows emerging from the edge to create a
-misty fuzziness obscuring the base. Now only 25 feet away, he sees that
-it has a bell- or tortoiseshell shape with a metallic sheen and a tube
-sticking up from the top. The red glows emerge from under a rim that
-runs around the lower part of the object. He can now see two figures
-standing in front of the object, one standing erect and wearing a
-uniform with a peaked cap, and the other crouched forward, wearing a
-silvery-gray jump suit. As he passes, the arc lights on the object start
-flickering like a disco. His headlights go out, and his mind gets hazier
-and he loses consciousness. He experiences missing time until he jerks
-awake sometime around 8:30 a.m. (Jenny Randles, “Close Encounter in UFO
-Alley,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 3–8, 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6051
Date: 1/17/1980
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Chilean astronomer Fernando
-Noël is at his home in the eastern suburbs of Santiago, Chile, when
-he sees a luminous point of light at 20° elevation moving from southwest
-to west. It is silent and resembles a satellite. He calls two other
-witnesses, during which time the object disappears. At 10:45 p.m., he
-sees a bright light moving slowly toward the zenith. Looking more
-closely, he sees it is actually a group of 30 objects in a V- formation.
-Each individual light of the group is pale white with a slight tint of
-yellow. The formation moves from 20° above the western horizon to about
-20° above the eastern horizon before disappearing gradually. The
-duration is approximately 2 minutes. (“Unidentified
-Atmospheric Phenomena Observed by an Astronomer,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 7, no. 4 (1993): 439–441)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6052
Date: 1/21/1980
-Description: 11:40 p.m. Seven women are driving home in two cars from a
-bridge game near Council Bluffs, Iowa. The first car with six witnesses,
-including Marilyn Anderson, sees a cluster of lights in the western sky
-as they are driving on Pioneer Trail. The lights are hovering about
-200–300 feet above a bluff less than a city block away. When they stop
-the car to get out for a closer look, the lights speed away to the
-southwest. The seventh woman, in a separate car behind them, does not
-see the lights, but Anderson tells her about them when she pulls up. She
-continues driving home, but when she gets to Longview Drive, her car
-stalls, and the radio and lights go out. She restarts the car, but it
-stalls out another quarter-mile away. A bright orange light appears in a
-cornfield about 900 feet away with an intensity that hurts her eyes.
-Scared, she locks herself inside the car and passes out. When she wakes
-up, her car is turned sideways across the road, but she is able to drive
-it home. She can still see the orange light from her kitchen window, but
-she has some blotches and redness on her skin that fades by 4:20 a.m.
-(“Possible Abduction in Iowa,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5
-(July/Aug. 1980): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6053
Date: 1/23/1980
-Description: Peter Gersten files
-an appeal with the NSA to release more UFO material. (ClearIntent, p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6054
Date: 1/24/1980
-Description: 1:00 p.m. A. Golotikin is working as a mechanic aboard the
-Brilliant, a Russian fishing trawler operating 20–30 miles off the coast
-of Western Sahara. He and the rest of the crew see a black, cigar-shaped
-object moving slowly toward the ship in complete silence. They watch it
-for 5–7 minutes through binoculars, then it disappears as it gets closer
-to the ship. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk,
-2020, pp. 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6055
Date: 2/1980
-Description: The Australian Centre for UFO Studies begins publishing the
-Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies, edited by Harry
-Griesberg and Keith
-Basterfield, until
-at least November 1985. (Journal
-of the Australian Centre
-for UFO Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6056
Date: 2/7/1980
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Daryl Browne, a ranch hand at the Glenalta horse
-ranch near Stirling, South Australia, is watching TV when he hears dogs
-howling and timber crashing outside. His two guard dogs are howling in
-fear. Outside he sees a yellow half-moon-shaped object about 25–30 feet
-long. It is 100 feet up in the branches of a 230-foot-tall cypress tree,
-branches bending under its weight. The trunk shows large gouges. Browne
-calls the police, but the object is gone by the time they arrive. For 2
-days, Browne’s dogs refuse to go near the tree. (“UFO Smashes Tree in
-Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980):
-16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6057
Date: 2/21/1980
-Description: 11:15 a.m. An 11-year-old girl getting ready for bed in
-Stamford, Connecticut, looks through a window and sees a large white
-oval of light low in the west-northwest sky, apparently four times the
-size of the moon. Her grandmother joins her and watches the object,
-which is swinging with a pendulum motion. It is still visible about 30
-minutes later. The family’s German shepherd dog barks continually at it
-while it is visible and for 20 minutes after it is last viewed. (Allan
-Hendry, “Unusual
-Backyard Visitor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6058
Date: 2/25/1980
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Oil worker Rusty Pennington is watching a pump a
-quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania. Suddenly he hears an
-explosion that lasts only a split second and sees a domed disc to the
-left of his truck. He estimates the object is 20 feet wide and 6–8 feet
-high. Flying at treetop level, it streaks silently downward from
-southwest to northeast and disappears in the distance. (“Daylight Disc
-in Pennsylvania,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6059
Date: 2/28/1980
-Description: The National Enquirer runs an article, “Former Intelligence
-Officer Reveals ‘I picked up wreckage of UFO that exploded over U.S.’”
-that includes a portion of a December 1979 interview by Bob
-Pratt with Jesse Marcel
-Sr. as a pre-publication teaser for Berlitz and
-Moore’s
-forthcoming book. (Patrick Gross, “Roswell
-1947: First
-Ufologists Investigations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6060
Date: 3/1980
-Description: Nanotechnologist Robert
-A. Freitas Jr. advocates searching for alien probes or artifacts on
-planets, satellites, and asteroids because it is more cost-effective
-than looking for distant radio signals. (Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Interstellar
-Probes: A New Approach to SETI,” Journal of the British
-Interplanetary Society 33 (1980): 95–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6061
Date: early 3/1980
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Wirth Jr. steps outside his home in
-Bulverde, Texas, and sees a large orange glow 45° up in the northern sky
-about 100 feet above his property, lighting it up with an orange glow.
-After hovering silently, it shoots up in the air and stops, now
-appearing as a red, blinking dot. His wife joins him but instantly
-becomes nauseous and throws up. He starts sweating profusely. (“Strange
-Reactions to Huge Glow,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 74–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6062
Date: 3/7/1980
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Former Navy pilot Larry Crawford sees a
-star-like light moving 700–800 mph at 30,000 feet above Memphis,
-Tennessee. While he is watching it move for 10 seconds, it executes a
-hairpin turn. (“Pilot: ‘No Human Could Have Survived Turns Like That!’”
-IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 75, 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6063
Date: 3/8/1980
-Description: Object buzzed car, jetlike sound, bright illumination. Dog
-howled as if his ears hurt
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wilmington, NC
-ID: 346
Date: 3/12/1980
-Description: 12:45 a.m. At least 10 witnesses, including city police and
-county sheriff deputies, watch an odd light maneuvering, climbing, and
-descending in the sky above Gladstone, Michigan. (“Much Ado about
-Little?” IUR/Probe, September 1980, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6064
Date: 3/13/1980
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A subcontractor on a job is driving near Haselor,
-Warwickshire, England, when he sees a white, cigar-shaped object with a
-steady red glow on either end pass in front of his windshield. The
-steering wheel instantly becomes hot, causing him to lift his hands off
-the wheel. He maneuvers the car off the road until it cools enough to
-steer. (Tony Green, “Witness
-Burned by Passing UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January
-1981): 32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6065
Date: 3/15/1980
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple in Bannock, Ohio, Spot a bright light in
-the southwestern sky. They watch it for 20 minutes before it approaches
-their home. The light is a spotlight attached to a large cigar-shaped
-object with red and blue lights along its length. The spotlight switches
-off as it passes overhead and moves to the northwest. (“Chief
-Investigator Allan Hendry Reports: Huge Cigar UFO in Ohio,” CUFOS
-Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6066
Date: 3/22/1980
-Description: Three smaller objects were observed on airport radar
-joining a larger, brighter object, then separating again
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Burlington, VT
-ID: 347
Date: 3/22/1980
-Description: Stringfield meets
-with two new sources in Erie, Pennsylvania, who show him three photos
-allegedly showing an alien cadaver encased in glass in Wright-Patterson
-AFB near Dayton, Ohio. He is suspicious and tries to verify them. (MUFON
-UFO Journal, December 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6067
Date: 3/22/1980
-Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Burlington (Vermont) International Airport
-radar tracks three small objects that join with a larger, brighter
-object then separate again. They are apparently over Malletts Bay.
-Speeds of up to 1,500 mph are recorded, and the objects quickly
-disappear to the west. Traffic controller Donald Kernan says the lights
-“did a kind of dance.” (NICAP, “Satellite
-Objects on RADAR”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6068
Date: 3/24/1980
-Description: 7:30 p.m. When his dog starts barking furiously, James
-Balkcom notices a bright light moving along the railroad tracks in
-James, Georgia, at treetop level. It comes to a stop and hovers above
-the home of Benton Evans. The Evanses go outside to watch the light,
-which has colored lights blinking inside it. After 5–10 minutes, it
-begins moving along the tracks again with a pulsing “shh-shh” noise.
-(“Low-Flying Georgian Globe,” IUR/Probe, September 1980,
-pp. 78–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6070
Date: 3/24/1980
-Description: The NSA issues a general denial of releasing all of its UFO
-materials to the public as requested by Peter Gersten. (ClearIntent,
-p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6069
Date: 3/25/1980
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Debbie Harris and Sheri Gustafson are driving on
-the Dayton–Xenia Road three miles east of Dayton, Ohio, when Harris
-notices bright, beaming lights in the sky. They assume it is an
-illuminated tower, but when they pull over, it appears to be about 25
-feet above the ground and 210 feet away. The lights seem to come from an
-airplane-sized object with a green light, a red light, and crossed white
-beams. After hovering to their north for about 2 minutes, it shoots off
-rapidly to the northeast and disappears behind a hill. (“Ohio
-Close Encounter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6071
Date: 4/1980
-Description: A farmer in central Texas is walking through his pasture to
-check on a cow that is about to give birth. Instead, he sees two
-nonhuman creatures carrying a calf between them, each holding one of its
-limbs. They are about 4 feet high and light yellow-green in color. He
-runs away and does not return to the location for two days, whereupon he
-finds the carcass of the calf. It looks as though it has been turned
-inside out, and only the head, feet, and hide remain. Researcher Tom
-Adams says the farmer is extremely reluctant to discuss the incident
-any further. (MUFON UFO Journal, July/August 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6072
Date: 4/2/1980
-Description: Car drove into “fog,” headlights deflected upwards, driver
-abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic
-table
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pudasjarvi, Finland
-ID: 348
Date: 4/6/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. William Meara and his wife Brenda are driving on
-I-84 just south of its intersection with I-90 in Sturbridge,
-Massachusetts, when they see a red blur above a road sign. The blur
-resolves into a disc about 30 feet in diameter with smaller discs
-surrounding it. The object passes silently above their car, moving
-northeast. The duration is 3 minutes. When Meara tries to start his car
-30 minutes later at home, it acts completely dead but works again
-normally the next morning. (“Connecticut Close Encounter,” IUR/Frontiers
-of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6073
Date: 4/10/1980
-Description: A businessman driving on the Philadelphia Church Road near
-Lincolnton, North Carolina, sees a red, disc- shaped object approach and
-hover above his car. It directs a light toward the ground. When he stops
-his car and rolls down the window, he hears an intense humming sound. He
-watches it for about 5 minutes until it takes off at a 30° angle and
-heads south, leaving a thin exhaust trail. (“Those
-Funny Lights in the Sky,” Hickory (N.C.) Focus, May 1, 1980, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 130 (May 1980): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6074
Date: 4/10/1980
-Description: Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground. Took
-off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lincolnton, NC
-ID: 349
Date: 4/11/1980
-Description: 7:15 a.m. Personnel at the La Joya Air Base [part of the
-Mariano Melgar Airport], Arequipa, Peru, see a strange object flying in
-the vicinity. The base commander orders a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber to
-destroy the target, assumed to be a Chilean balloon. Lt. Oscar Santa
-María Huertas commands the scrambled aircraft. As soon as the object is
-in his sights some 1,800 feet above the ground, he fires 64 rounds from
-his 30mm guns at it. The bullets seem to hit the object without causing
-any damage. The UFO then hurls skyward at tremendous speed. Huertas
-follows, putting the Sukhoi into Mach 1.2. As he approaches, the object
-makes a sudden stop and the Sukhoi flies past it at 36,000 feet. Further
-maneuvering takes place, and Huertas finds the object chasing him at one
-point at 62,000 feet. He abandons the mission 52 miles away from the
-base. After he lands 22 minutes later, the object reappears at the base
-and remains visible nearly 2 hours. A Department of Defense information
-release gives an erroneous date of May 9, 1980. (Kean, pp. 93–98, 150–151;
-Dolan II 214; Good Above, pp. 324–325,
-503–504;
-Yohanan Díaz Vargas, “Peru:
-La Joya AFB, the Perfect UFO Case (1980),” Inexplicata, November 14,
-2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6075
Date: 4/13/1980
-Description: A witness is driving on the eastern outskirts of Halifax,
-Nova Scotia, when he sees an unusually bright light. As he drives 5–6
-miles closer, it resolves into two lights side by side. After driving
-another 20 miles closer, he sees the two lights are attached to one
-object. When directly underneath, it appears to be 1,000–1,200 feet long
-and cigar-shaped with lights on the front and back and one side. A truck
-driver has also pulled over to watch the UFO. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6076
Date: 4/17/1980
-Description: Day. Michael Romanowski, 8, sees a white boomerang-shaped
-object in Buffalo, New York. (“Crescent Reports
-from New York and Illinois,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4
-(August 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6077
Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A group of nine family members are on their front
-lawn in Hyderabad, India, and see a bell-shaped cloud forming at about
-2,000–3,000 feet altitude. It remains stationary and they look away, but
-soon they see three smaller bell-shaped clouds forming evenly spaced
-below the first and forming an equilateral triangle. The smaller clouds
-then merge with the larger one and form an orange ball bright enough to
-throw a shadow on the roof near them. It shoots off at great speed
-toward the airport, then disappears after breaking into four smaller
-orange balls of light. The duration of the sighting is 15 minutes.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no.
-4 (July 2005): 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6080
Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: Five apparently metallic Saturnshaped objects, Iligh-speed
-flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Mateo, CA
-ID: 350
Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Richard
-A. Jokinen, an
-electrical engineer, is driving north on I-280 in San Mateo, California,
-on a fishing trip with his 18-year-old son. They see five bright,
-apparently metallic, Saturn-shaped objects flying very fast in formation
-at low altitude. The objects are traveling about 500 feet above the
-Crystal Springs Reservoir and are visible against trees of the coastal
-mountains west of the reservoir. The sighting lasts about 5 seconds,
-during which the objects cross 120° of viewing angle. (Allan Hendry, “Five
-‘Saturns’ in California,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5
-(September 1980): 3; UFOEv II 164–165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6078
Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Sam Puccinelli is parking his car in his garage
-in Palatine, Illinois, when he sees a crescent-shaped, gray-black object
-with flashing white lights. He looks at it with his binoculars with his
-13-year-old son for 7 minutes before it disappears. (“Crescent
-Reports from New York and Illinois,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1,
-no. 4 (August 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6079
Date: 4/21/1980
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 351
Date: 4/22/1980
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Police Officer Manuel Medina and dispatcher
-Sedilla of Springer, New Mexico, are parked on a traffic watch when one
-of them notices a bright star in the west at about 45° moving like a
-balloon with a start- stop motion. Medina shines his car’s spotlight on
-the object, which drops to a lower elevation. He turns the light off and
-the object ascends again. He turns the red cruiser light on, and the
-object seems to respond with a reddish hue. The light disappears over
-the Cimarron Mountains 20 miles away at 11:10 p.m. (Allan Hendry, “Familiar Description,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6081
Date: 4/26/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Holton, Indiana, watch a
-luminous flashing form in the northwest sky. Golden- colored and
-triangular in shape, it appears larger than the full moon. The object
-hovers, then shoots straight up in seconds. It zigzags before vanishing
-in the northwest. (“Golden
-Triangle in Indiana,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 (September
-1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6082
Date: 5/1980
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy’s attorney Peter Gersten brings
-a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to compel it to release
-135 documents it has withheld from FOIA requests. The suit also includes
-the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration
-(which it claims conducted an inadequate search for its UFO records).
-(Fred Whiting, “CAUS Goes to Court,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6
-(Sept./Oct. 1980): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6083
Date: 5/1980
-Description: Early afternoon. Thousands of base personnel and their
-families are congregating at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City, South Dakota,
-to watch an SR-71 Blackbird take off after a refueling stop. A1C John W.
-Mills III and a few other airmen are on top of the barracks for a view.
-They see an odd, triangular object above the B-52 Alert Pad about half a
-mile away. It begins to move down the flight line, and they see it is a
-gray-black delta shape at an altitude of 500 feet. For some reason it is
-not visible through the pair of binoculars they have. It makes a right
-turn and suddenly disappears above a parachute-rigging building. The
-SR-71 does not take off. Later in the day, an official “flash” message
-goes out to base personnel telling them not to talk to the press in case
-they had seen anything. (Nukes 387–392)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6084
Date: 5/1980
-Description: The Chinese UFO Studies Association is established under
-the auspices of Wuhan University, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai,
-and the provinces of Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi, Hubei, and Guangxi. It
-is headed by Cha Leping, a 26-year-old astrophysics student. The
-association later is incorporated into the China UFO Research
-Organization as an official branch of the Chinese Academy of Social
-Sciences. (Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 3; Good
-Above, p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6085
Date: 5/1980
-Description: Late afternoon. Two witnesses are driving through Manlius,
-New York, when they catch a glimpse of a disc- shaped object the size of
-a football field hovering above a patch of trees. The driver stops the
-car and steps outside. Yellow, red, and green lights are rotating around
-its perimeter. A commercial aircraft and news helicopter are also
-visible in the sky. The object is still not moving and soundless. Then
-two jet fighters, apparently scrambled from Griffiss AFB [now the
-Griffiss Business and Technology Park] in Rome, New York, fly toward the
-object, which takes off like a bullet and disappears. (Dolan II
-211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6086
Date: 5/2/1980
-Description: Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed
-through binoculars. Stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory,
-accelerated rapidly and sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Jose, California
-ID: 352
Date: 5/2/1980
-Description: 10:15 a.m. A Santa Clara County park ranger and another
-county employee are in the hills east of San Jose, California, when they
-see a shiny, mirror-like spherical object moving north to south. They
-take turns studying it through binoculars. The object has a blue-green
-band in the center and is orange at the bottom. It makes rapid up-
-and-down motions as it moves forward and spins faster as its speed
-diminishes. The object stops and spins toward Lick Observatory to the
-east of their position for 10 seconds. Then it accelerates rapidly and
-speeds away to the south. The sighting duration is 3–4 minutes. (UFOEv
-II 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6087
Date: 5/4/1980
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 353
Date: 5/5/1980
-Description: As she is driving home from Oklahoma to Eagle’s Nest, New
-Mexico, Myrna Hansen and her 6-year-old son see several UFOs in a field
-near Cimarron, New Mexico, after which they suffer confusion and a
-4-hour loss of time. Paul
-Bennewitz, an Albuquerque, New Mexico, owner of humidity equipment
-company Thunder Scientific and a UFO investigator, on May 11 brings
-psychologist R.
-Leo Sprinkle in to meet Hansen. He hypnotizes them and gets a
-detailed abduction story from the mother, who also remembers watching
-the aliens mutilate a calf. Hansen also remembers being taken by the UFO
-to an underground area in New Mexico (leading Bennewitz to suspect it is
-the Manzano Weapons Storage Area at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque) where
-she sees tanks of water with cattle body parts, as well as a human arm.
-(Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal
-Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions,
-1989, pp. 112–116; Linda Moulton Howe, Facts and Eyewitnesses, The
-Author, 1993, pp. 234–245; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 15–28;
-Marcus Lowth, “The
-Chilling and Bizarre Abduction Encounter of Myrna Hansen,” UFO
-Insight, May 19, 2018; Clark III 359–360)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6088
Date: 5/6/1980
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield finds an article in UFO Sightings by David McCarthy
-titled “Quest for Teleportation,” which features a photo of an alien
-cadaver similar to the ones he was given in March. (David McCarthy, “The Quest
-for Teleportation,” UFO Sightings 1, no. 1 (July 1980): 40–45; MUFON
-UFO Journal, December 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6089
Date: 5/7/1980
-Description: Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on
-radio
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Valdese, NC
-ID: 354
Date: 5/7/1980
-Description: Day. X-ray technician Ruth Weaver experiences interference
-on her car radio while driving near Valdese, North Carolina. It blacks
-out completely and she sees a huge object move beneath the cloud cover
-directly ahead of her car. It makes a U-turn, then it banks, revealing
-the shape of an upside-down soup bowl with a dome on top. A red triangle
-is on the underside. It looks like a Stetson hat as it moves away.
-(UFOEv II 452; George D. Fawcett, Human Reactions to UFOs Worldwide
-(1940–1983): What We Have Learned from UFO Repetitions, The Author,
-1986, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6090
Date: 5/7/1980
-Description: 3:50 p.m. A Dutch KLM airliner is flying just over 30,000
-feet above the Dachstein Mountains in the Austrian Alps. The pilot sees
-a gray spherical object flying overhead, which he reports to the Air
-Control Center in Vienna, which contacts the Austrian Air Force. Maj.
-Karl Schwarz orders three Saab 105 aircraft to intercept. Once they make
-visual contact, two of the jets attempt the intercept while the third
-takes film footage. The UFO’s erratic movements, however, make it
-impossible to follow, and the object is soon out of sight. At 5:50 p.m.,
-a German Lufthansa airliner comes in close contact with a similar
-object, Schwarz orders two more fighters to scramble. The Saab 105
-pilots think the object’s variable speed means it is playing with them.
-It is flying some 9,800 feet above them, but they cannot maneuver well
-enough to catch it. (Terry Hooper, “UFO
-Interceptions Attempted,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 (November
-1980): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6091
Date: 5/9/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman is driving home with her daughter in
-Bargersville, Indiana, when bright red flashes of light illuminate the
-inside of her truck and the surrounding area. The flashes are caused by
-red balls of light about the size of lemons in the empty fields around
-them. The balls blink on and off in succession, climbing up one
-telephone pole. Moving down, and crossing the road to perform the same
-motion on another pole. They approach the truck, forcing her to back up
-the truck. Finally, the phenomenon ceases and she drives home. When they
-get there, her German shepherd dog starts whining and barking. Her
-husband steps outside to see what’s going on. Suddenly, their two
-daughters start screaming as small red balls of light move across their
-mother’s back and behind her hair. She does not feel anything, but the
-dog runs to the barn and stays there all night. (“Allan
-Hendry Reports:
-A Spooky Experience in Indiana,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6
-(October 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6092
Date: 5/10/1980
-Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO
-twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p503)
-Location: Area 51
-See also: 7/1952
Date: 5/14/1980
-Description: Glowing disc cast light beam onto road. Car entered beam,
-headlights flickered off and on several times, afterwards worked
-normally
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Simpson County, MS
-ID: 355
Date: 5/14/1980
-Description: 9:15 p.m. John Ray spots three dark discs while he is
-driving in the rain through a rural area near Mars Hill, Maine. Each is
-larger than the full moon and has numerous white lights on the bottom.
-They pass silently above his car and hover ahead of him in close
-formation about 500 feet up. Suddenly they take off and disappear. (“Close
-Encounter in the Rain,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7
-(November 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6094
Date: 5/14/1980
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Howard and Julia Pickrel are driving on US
-Highway 49 through Simpson County, Mississippi, when they see a glowing
-disc high in the sky. A beam of light from the disc makes a spot of
-light on the ground as wide as their car. As they drive through the
-light beam, their lights go on and off 7–8 times. After they are out of
-the beam’s path, the lights do not flicker again. (Richard H. Hall,
-Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6093
Date: 5/16/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A civilian pilot is flying a Pirat glider near a
-cement mill in Działoszyn, Poland, when he notices an object maneuvering
-across the fumes from factory chimneys below. Seconds later it moves in
-front of the glider, and he takes evasive action. It is an isosceles
-triangle shape with a side length of 30 feet and a dull brownish- green.
-At one point it turns up one of its corners at an angle of 45° in an
-apparent attempt to correct its flight. Then it changes orientation to
-the horizontal, shrinks in size, and disappears. A similar object is
-seen the same day near Wielún. (Poland 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6095
Date: 5/22/1980
-Description: 11:05 p.m. The Air Transit Control Center at Gran Canaria
-Airport in the Canary Islands detects some unidentified traffic toward
-the southwest moving at 685 mph. A few minutes later, an aero-taxi pilot
-reports a bright object passing to his left and descending toward the
-ocean. A Spanish Air Force officer investigates and concludes the object
-is unknown, even though its position observed by the pilot matches that
-of Venus. A false radar echo is also possible. (Swords 436,
-528–529)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6096
Date: 5/23/1980
-End date: 5/25/1980
-Description: The first Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation,
-organized by psychologist R.
-Leo Sprinkle to bring contactees together, is held in Laramie on the
-University of Wyoming campus. Barely 20 people show up, but Sprinkle
-notes they are average, normal people, though highly susceptible to
-hypnotic suggestion. Most claim some psychic abilities, and many report
-a feeling of being monitored or experiencing continuing contact with UFO
-entities. They feel anxiety about the state of the human race and worry
-about a coming cataclysm. The conferences continue to at least 1996,
-attracting as many as 200 attendees. (Clark III 300–301)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6097
Date: 5/28/1980
-Description: Denver KMGH-TV investigative journalist Linda
-Moulton Howe releases A Strange Harvest, a 2-hour documentary that
-suggests unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of extraterrestrial
-beings who harvest body parts required for their survival or research,
-and that the US government is complicit. The documentary wins a Regional
-Emmy award in 1981. She interviews Denver surgeon Arlen
-Meyers on excising tissue with a laser; and Lou
-Girodo, chief investigator for the District Attorney’s Office in
-Trinidad, Colorado. The show also features a hypnotic regression session
-by R.
-Leo Sprinkle on Judy Dorarty, who says she witnessed a mutilation
-outside Houston, Texas, in May 1973; under hypnosis, she describes
-seeing a calf drawn up in a pale yellow beam of light into a UFO.
-(Internet Movie Database, “A
-Strange Harvest”; Clark III 363; “Alta
-Loma 1973,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 1,
-2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6098
Date: 5/30/1980
-Description: The CIA moves for summary judgment in Peter Gersten’s
-lawsuit for UFO documents. The court grants it, despite the 57 remaining
-UFO documents the CIA admits it is withholding. CAUS appeals on June 24.
-(“CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980):
-15–16) Early summer — Two women see a green, miniature airplane outside
-a house in Matsbo, near Hedemora, in central Sweden. (Clas Svahn, “Green
-Miniature Airplane Hovers in Front of a House,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall
-2004): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6099
Date: 6/1980
-Description: NICAP is disbanded after the last issue of the UFO
-Investigator is published, and its files are eventually turned over to
-the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois. (UFO
-Investigator 11, no. 6 (June 1980); Clark III 794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6100
Date: 6/1980
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is reorganized after the
-departure of W.
-Todd Zechel, with Peter Gersten as
-director and Lawrence Fawcett as assistant editor. (Clark III 240)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6101
Date: 6/1980
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield publishes The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome: Status
-Report II, New Sources, New Data, presenting the accounts and rumors he
-has heard of crashed UFOs retrieved by the military. He has contacted
-four different military sources claiming to have seen a movie film
-depicting a crashed saucer and small alien bodies. (Leonard Stringfield,
-“The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, p. 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6103
Date: 6/1980
-Description: Kenneth
-Rommel releases Operation Animal Mutilation, a long report that
-devastatingly debunks popular theories. The animals have died of natural
-causes, he contends, and the mysterious aspects can be explained
-prosaically. He cites ornithologist Kenneth Sager: “The larger the
-animal, the more difficult it is for the scavenger to gain access to the
-food supply below the tough surface. [Thus they attack the] softer
-points of entry, namely the eyes, anal openings, and the soft underbelly
-areas, especially the udders of female bovines.” L. D. Kuttner of the
-University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine says that many
-scavengers can make as clean a cut as “might be done by a surgeon with a
-knife.” (Wikipedia, “Cattle
-mutilation”; Kenneth M. Rommel Jr., Operation Animal
-Mutilation, Report
-of the District Attorney, First Judicial District, State of New Mexico,
-prepared for the US Criminal Justice Department, 1980; Federal Bureau of
-Investigation, Animal Mutilation documents, 1974– 1980, part
-1, part
-2, part
-3, part
-4, part
-5; Clark III 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6102
Date: 6/2/1980
-Description: Stringfield receives
-eight more prints showing an alien cadaver encased under glass. One
-photo shows a hand with four fingers and clawlike nails. His source
-claims they were obtained from a secret study conducted at the
-University of Pennsylvania. (MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980; Leonard
-Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 147–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6104
Date: 6/3/1980
-Description: R.
-Leo Sprinkle arrives at Paul
-Bennewitz’s house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for another hypnotic
-session with Myrna Hansen. Bennewitz, now very paranoid, meets him at
-the door with a gun, saying he needs to protect himself from aliens. A
-strained and brief hypnosis session follows, after which Sprinkle
-returns to Wyoming. (Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6105
Date: 6/11/1980
-Description: An unknown cigar-shaped object passes close to a commercial
-aircraft near Venice, Italy. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy
-Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6106
Date: 6/14/1980
-Description: Evening. Many residents of Moscow, Russia, see a huge,
-reddish-orange, horseshoe-shaped object accompanied by swirling luminous
-gases. Some 250 miles to the west, Lt. Col. Oleg Karyakin hears a low-
-frequency booming noise and sees a bright object less than 500 feet
-away. He runs toward it, feels some resistance, but continues until he
-is about 150 feet away. It gives off a high-pitched sound and briefly
-emits three white rays, then ascends rapidly, hovers for 2 seconds, then
-moves to the northwest and vanishes. Shortly afterward, he sees a large,
-reddish UFO above some treetops. Another bright object is accompanying
-the first, flying horizontally and leaving a fiery trail. Some 30 others
-witness this event. Soviet investigators conclude that the objects were
-the launches of two communications satellites, a Gorizont and
-Kosmos
-1188. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files:
-Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 59;
-Good Above, pp. 238–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6107
Date: 6/14/1980
-Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A flurry of UFO sightings by numerous
-witnesses takes place in Córdoba, Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza airports in
-Buenos Aires, and Rosario, Argentina, including airport personnel and
-meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. Objects appear singly
-and in “fleets” and are described variously as “luminous
-oval-spherical,” “spinning top,” spindle-shaped, and a sphere that emits
-“an intense luminous ray that illuminated the surface of the river.” At
-Pajas Blancas Airport in Córdoba, a UFO causes operations to be stopped
-for several minutes after it follows the landing pattern of aircraft
-into the airport. Sightings occur around the same time in Uruguay,
-Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay. CUFOS suspects many of the observations
-might be due to a high-altitude barium cloud produced by a rocket
-launch. (“The UFO ‘Flap’ in South America,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2,
-no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6108
Date: 6/15/1980
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A 70-year-old woman in Oak Park, Illinois, sees
-an object like a white half-moon with a serrated edge. At first she
-thinks it is the moon, but it begins moving to the east and disappears
-in 5 minutes. (“Allan Hendry
-Reports: A Lunar Impostor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4
-(August 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6109
Date: 6/15/1980
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Security Policeman Charles P. Wagner and two
-others at RAF Bentwaters [now closed], near Woodbridge, Suffolk,
-England, watch a 2-foot diameter spherical object maneuver above several
-A-10 aircraft parked at the base. Moments later, the orb suddenly splits
-into three smaller spheres, all of which vanish in a flash of light.
-(Robert L. Hastings, “New
-Bentwaters UFO Witness Goes on the Record,” UFOs & Nukes,
-November 22, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6110
Date: 6/15/1980
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Students Kevin Smith and Jill Harper are walking
-along Hidden Beach in Rio Del Mar, California, when a 4-foot-long,
-10-inch-wide cigar-shaped object passes about 30 feet above them moving
-southwest over the water and landing in the ocean without a splash. As
-it bobs about, a light comes on in the interior. Smith yells at it and
-the light goes out. (“Romance under a UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2,
-no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6111
Date: 6/17/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two women driving with four young children north
-on Interstate 75 near Grayling Army Airfield in Grayling, Michigan, when
-they see two lights moving from right to left in front of their car. Two
-minutes later, three more lights (two blinking, one steady) appear to
-the right and pace the car at 85 mph, moving closer until they are about
-100 feet directly above them. They are completely silent and possibly
-attached to an oblong-shaped object. (“Michigan
-Close Encounter,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1980):
-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6112
Date: 6/20/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. While descending through 15,000 feet for a
-landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observe a huge, brightly
-illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily
-eastward over Kuwait City at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft.
-“When I turned north at Wafra, the phenomenon was still clearly visible
-and remained so until we descended below the haze layer and started to
-approach the runway.” The crew of another airline flight 90 miles away
-reports sighting the same phenomenon. Radar does not detect the object.
-(American Embassy, Kuwait, “Investigation of Unusual ‘Light Phenomenon’
-Seen in Kuwait’s Skies,” telex, July 1980, in “U.S.
-State Department ‘UFO’ Documents, Reviewed and Released 7 Feb
-2000”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6113
Date: Summer 1980
-Description: Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an
-aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully,
-but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more
-hours.
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 6/21/1980
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Janet McLeod notices two large, orange, domed
-discs circling low about four blocks west of her home in Assumption,
-Illinois. They stop and hover at treetop level. The top one gradually
-fades out from top to bottom. The lower one turns on its side and shines
-a beam toward the ground for 5 minutes. Then it goes back to the
-horizontal and fades out in the same way. When she steps outside 5
-minutes later, she notices it is dead quiet, the natural sounds resuming
-after 2 minutes. (“Twin Domed Discs in Illinois,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6114
Date: 6/28/1980
-Description: Two civilian pilots, José L. Maldonaldo Torres and José A.
-Pagán Santos, are flying an ERCO Ercoupe 415-D at 1,500 feet over the
-Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. They send
-out a mayday message saying they are looking at a “weird object” that
-makes them change course three times. Their plane disappears and no
-wreckage is found. (Good Need, pp. 312, 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6115
Date: 7/1980
-Description: AFOSI special agent Sgt. Richard
-Doty writes an anonymous letter to APRO claiming that a Civil Air
-Patrol cadet named Craig R. Weitzel had seen and photographed a UFO
-landing near Pecos, New Mexico. Weitzel takes photos and is debriefed at
-Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque. An alien, a man in a dark suit from Sandia
-Laboratories, and crashed UFOs stored at the Manzano Nuclear Weapons
-Storage Facility are also mentioned. But the letter is disinformational
-bait to see whether the Lorenzens might
-prove to be “useful idiots.” Weitzel admits to investigator William
-Moore and, later, Benton Jamison in 1985 that he had seen a UFO in
-1980, but it was a classic daylight disc and took place in the
-southeast, not New Mexico. Much later on, Doty admits to Moore that he
-had composed the letter as disinformation. (Clark III 361–362; Greg
-Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 54–57, 64–66;
-Good Above, pp. 406–408;
-[Richard Doty], Craig
-Wetzel letter, July 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6116
Date: 7/12/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A professor and his wife are getting ready for
-bed in Urbandale, Iowa, when they notice three round light spots in a
-triangular formation high in the southern sky. The lower two are like
-bright stars, while the upper ones seem larger. The smaller lights are
-zig-zagging and coming together under the larger light for 20 minutes
-until all three abruptly disappear. (“Meandering
-Lights in Iowa,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 (October 1980):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6117
Date: 7/21/1980
-Description: Farmer John Scull discovers a circular swathe of flattened
-oats in his field near the Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire, England.
-He discovers a second circle on July 31 and informs the media on August
-13. (UFOFiles2, p. 117;
-Terry Wilson, “Case
-Study 1: Westbury 1980,” Men Who Conned the World, December 24,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6118
Date: 7/28/1980
-Description: Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David
-Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at
-night.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City
Date: 8/1980
-Description: Three guards reported sighting an aerial light which
-descended on the Sandia Military Reservation. Ernest Edwards reported
-the sighting to AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty, unaware that Doty had
-already heard from Russ Curtis (the Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia
-Security guard had sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just
-minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty included
-these reports and several others in his formal report, forwarding it to
-AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) Headquarters in
-Washington DC.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Manzano Test Range
Date: 8/1980
-Description: Another set of photos allegedly showing part of an alien
-cadaver is released by Charles Wilhelm and Dennis Pilichis, who receive
-them through UFO researcher Willard McIntyre, apparently from an
-anonymous US Navy source. William Spaulding of Ground Saucer Watch
-analyzes them and suggests they show a monkey used in early rocket
-tests. (Leonard H. Stringfield, “Status Report on Alleged Alien Cadaver
-Photos,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 154 (December 1980): 11–16; Leonard H.
-Stringfield, “The
-Puzzling Case of the Cadaver Photos,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 163
-(September 1981): 15–19; Juan-Vicente Ballester-Olmos, “The
-Tomato Man in Retrospective,”
-UFO FOTOCAT Blog, March 13, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6119
Date: 8/1980
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two students at Tsinghua University in Beijing,
-China, see a brilliant oval object in the sky near the Summer Palace. It
-has several lights that flash on and off 2–3 times per second. The
-object itself is shaped like “two straw hats placed brim to brim” with a
-brilliant center line. It stops hovering and ascends vertically,
-disappearing in 3–4 seconds. (“The Chinese Connection…and Some Wholesome
-Chinese Philosophy,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6121
Date: early 8/1980
-Description: Thousands of witnesses see UFOs for several days in a row
-over Tianjin, China, and the Bohai Sea. One large object keeps appearing
-and vanishing like a will-o’-the-wisp. Occasionally objects are tracked
-on radar. (Paul Dong, “Extracts
-from Paul Dong’s Feidie
-Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions
-and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984):
-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6120
Date: 8/8/1980
-End date: 8/9/1980
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Three security policemen on the
-eastern side of the Manzano Weapons Storage Area adjacent to Kirtland
-AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see a bright light descend in a
-restricted area about 3 miles to the north-northeast. It travels quickly
-and stops suddenly over Coyote Canyon. At 12:20 a.m., a Sandia guard
-observes a disc-shaped object with a bright light hovering behind a
-building. He approaches it with a shotgun and attempts to use his radio,
-but it has stopped working. The object shoots straight up. These and
-other incidents result in a report being filed with the Air Force Office
-of Special Investigations at Kirtland. The incident is subsequently
-investigated by agent Richard
-Doty, who
-files a preliminary report on the incident. The document is leaked to William
-Moore in January 1982 and obtained in a subsequent FOIA request by
-Barry
-Greenwood. Moore and Bruce
-Maccabee both interview Doty, who says there are most likely other
-documents including a longer report that he had written up. However,
-after Noah Lawrence at AFOSI Headquarters tells Maccabee there are no
-other documents on file, Doty begins to backtrack. Maccabee also meets
-Russ Curtis inside the Manzano area who says that the incident never
-took place (which contradicts Curtis’s statement to Moore in 1982).
-(Clark III 362; Good Above, pp. 405–406,
-522–523;
-Good Need, pp. 322,
-329;
-Bruce Maccabee, “UFO
-Landing near Kirtland
-AFB: Welcome to the Cosmic Watergate,” 2000; Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs
-Filmed Hovering over U.S. Air
-Force Nuclear Weapons Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, May 13,
-2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6122
Date: 8/9/1980
-End date: 9/3/1980
-Description: AFOSI Complaint Form: At Kirtland AFB three persons report
-seeing UFO over a Restricted Test Range. On Aug. 9th a Sandia Security
-Guard drove down the Coyote Canyon access road to check out an alarmed
-building and observed a landed UFO next to an alarmed building. The UFO
-was around disk shaped object. As he approached the object on foot
-equipped with a shotgun the object took off in a vertical direction at a
-high rate of speed. His radio wasn’t working right at the time so he
-couldn’t reach dispatch. The building contained HQ CR 44 material.
-(Nature of material not known.)
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Kirtland AFB
Date: 8/15/1980
-Description: UFO skeptic Philip
-Klass sends a letter to A. G. McNamara of the Herzberg Institute of
-Astrophysics in Ottawa, Canada, which serves as a repository for
-Canadian UFO reports for the Canadian National Research Council. Klass
-characterizes New Brunswick ufologist Stanton
-Friedman as a snake oil salesman and UFO guru whose lectures are
-filled with falsehoods, disparaging his credentials, his ego, and his
-modus operandi. He warns McNamara that the astronomers at the institute
-will soon be the targets of Friedman’s coverup accusations. (Dolan II
-221–222)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6123
Date: 8/17/1980
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Security guard Phil
-Battle is driving his truck in the parking lot of the Teledyne-Ohio
-Steel plant in Lima, Ohio, and sees an unusual bright light in the sky.
-He steps out and watches a round, silvery form about 270 feet away. It
-has little holes on the surface, a flashing yellow light, and white
-floodlights all around it. It hovers for about 5 minutes, moving back
-and forth. Battle’s CB radio does not work when he tries to alert
-others. Suddenly a yellow light shoots out at Battle, knocking him back
-against his truck, scarring his knee and hurting his back and kidneys.
-The beam also reddens his left eye. The UFO then takes off. He and other
-guard look for the object and see a light about 1,200 feet to the north,
-slightly larger than the moon, which drifts westward after 15– 20
-seconds. (“Knocked Back by a Light Beam,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2,
-no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 14; “Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 (January 1981): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6124
Date: 8/20/1980
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A college student is driving on a rural road
-about 5 minutes east of Mossy Head, Florida, when he becomes aware of an
-array of lights hovering above a hill ahead of him. They move low over
-the area from right to left, 300–600 feet ahead of him. It disappears,
-but another cluster of lights rushes by him on his left side with a
-quiet whoosh sound. Inadvertently he begins driving more slowly, slumped
-over the steering wheel. He continues driving to Jacksonville, where he
-notices his bare feet are red and inflamed. The redness fades away by
-the evening of the following night, leaving only some apparent bites
-marks that are sore to the touch. (“A
-CE I— or
-II—or III in Florida,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 (November
-1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6125
Date: 8/21/1980
-Description: Young woman and daughter driving home, E-M effects on car,
-car lifted off road onto craft, humanoids examined them on tables in
-room with “fog” on floor
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: East Texas
-ID: 356
Date: 8/24/1980
-Description: 4:08 a.m. Three tourists camping out in the Changping
-District near the Juyong portion of the Great Wall of China take a photo
-of an unusual object. The photo reportedly looks like three stars in an
-inverted T shape with a surrounding halo of light. (“First
-UFO Spotted in China,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March
-1981): 4; “Chinese UFO Study,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3
-(March/April 1981): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6126
Date: 9/1980
-Description: Charles
-Berlitz and Bill
-Moore publish The Roswell Incident, the first major review of the
-1947 Roswell crash, based largely on Stanton
-Friedman’s research. (Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, The
-Roswell Incident, Berkley,
-1980; Clark III 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6127
Date: 9/1/1980
-Description: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L.
-Moore is published.
-Type: book
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: US
Date: 9/1/1980
-Description: NSA attorneys move for a summary judgment in the
-CAUS-initiated lawsuit, asserting that the 135 documents are being
-justifiably withheld. (“CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1
-(Nov./Dec. 1980): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6128
Date: 9/3/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Margaret Lambert and her family are parked at a
-scenic overlook along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in
-Virginia when they notice a bright reflection. She is taking a photo of
-her son and the reflection seems to be pulsating as she focuses her
-camera. It appears as a small round light behind her son’s head in the
-photo. (“‘Glowing Object’ Photographed on Virginia Hillside,” CUFOS
-Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 (May 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6129
Date: 9/4/1980
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Flight instructor Lloyd List is flying northbound
-at 138 mph in a Cessna 172 at 6,500 feet about 5 miles south of the
-airport in Red Bluff, California. His passenger, a school official,
-calls his attention to a shiny object ahead of them. For the first 5–6
-seconds, the object grows larger in angular size. Then it stops getting
-larger, as if it has adopted the Cessna’s speed and direction. They
-close in on the object and watch it shoot right by the airplane’s left
-wingtip only 30 feet away. It looks like a metallic football no larger
-than 3 feet in size. It is silent and the surface has a mirror finish.
-It exhibits no wobble as it passes through the plane’s turbulence. List
-descends to 6,000 feet and turns to the south to look for it but cannot
-find the object. (“Plane’s Near Collision with Mini-UFO,” IUR/Frontiers
-of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6130
Date: 9/6/1980
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Ufologist Jenny
-Randles and a friend are riding a motorcycle north on the M4 after
-attending the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, when they see
-three lights that appear one after another then line up in a triangular
-formation hovering above a distant hilltop. As they drive past, one
-light blinks out, leaving two side by side. (Jenny Randles, “Mass Market
-Media Saucery,” Fortean Times 361 (Christmas 2017): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6132
Date: 9/6/1980
-Description: UFO proponents and debunkers square off at the Smithsonian
-Institution in Washington, D.C., for a day- long debate on the merits of
-UFO sightings. The proponents include Bruce
-Maccabee, J.
-Allen Hynek, and
-Allan Hendry;
-the debunkers are Philip
-J. Klass, James
-E. Oberg, and Robert
-Sheaffer. The debate is moderated by Frederick
-C. Durant. The most heated exchanges occur between Klass and Hendry
-over the Val
-Johnson close encounter case of 1979. (Stuart Rohrer, “Tempest
-in a Saucer,” Washington Post, September 8, 1980, p. B-1; J. Allen
-Hynek, “Encounter at the Smithsonian,” CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1980,
-pp. 6–10; Jerome Clark, “Phil Klass vs. the ‘UFO Promoters,’” Fate 34,
-no. 2 (February 1981): 56–67; Clark III 1081–1082)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6131
Date: 9/8/1980
-Description: After doing a radio show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bill
-Moore is contacted by phone from someone at Kirtland Air Force Base.
-He meets the man he calls “Falcon” (described as elderly and gaunt)
-later at a restaurant, beginning a long-running relationship between
-Moore and 10 members of a shadowy group connected with military
-intelligence and supposedly opposed to the coverup of UFOs. The story
-soon emerges that the Roswell incident involved alien bodies and that in
-1949 another alien, this one still alive, was found and housed at Los
-Alamos until its death in the early 1950s. It is called an
-Extraterrestrial Biological Entity (EBE) and is the first of three that
-the government would have in its custody. Moore decides to cooperate
-with these AFOSI sources and provide them with information. They tell
-him there is considerable interest in Paul
-Bennewitz and that he is to spy on Bennewitz and APRO as well,
-inundating them with disinformation that Doty and others will supply.
-(Clark III 360; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 59–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6133
Date: 9/8/1980
-Description: Doty writes
-and signs a fake two-page AFOSI complaint form, titled “Kirtland AFB,
-NM, 8 Aug–3 Sept 1980, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights
-in Restricted Test Range,” which describes several UFO sightings at
-Manzano and at the Coyote Canyon section of the Department of Defense
-Restricted Test Range, as well as an alleged report of a UFO landing on
-August 10 by a New Mexico state patrolman. (Clark III 362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6134
Date: 9/9/1980
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Barbara Kaisler is driving home with her daughter
-in Portsmouth, Virginia, when they see a dark disc some 5–6 stories
-higher than the rooftops in the north. When they stop at an
-intersection, they can see the disc tumbling end over end, now climbing
-at a 30° angle. It disappears in clouds to the northeast. (“Dark Disk in
-Virginia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 (March/April 1981):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6135
Date: 9/11/1980
-Description: 4:20 a.m. Jerry McAlister is awakened in his bedroom in
-Anderson, South Carolina, by a loud screech. He goes to the window and
-sees a round object about 70 feet wide hovering above his backyard trees
-110 feet away. Hundreds of steady bright white lights surround its
-perimeter, rotating in a clockwise direction. A row of square white
-windows is also visible. McAlister wakes up his wife Faye, who also
-watches the object, which, after tilting on its side, is now receding to
-the east-northeast at a good rate of speed. The UFO settles into place
-as a distant white light source that persists until dawn at 7:05 a.m.
-McAlister claims his ears ring for another 3 days from the initial
-noise. (“South Carolina’s Giant UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6
-(Sept./Oct. 1980): 11– 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6136
Date: 9/11/1980
-Description: 8:05 a.m. Larry Garrett is working on his car in Easley,
-South Carolina, when he hears a sound like a swarm of bees. Looking
-north, he sees a large metallic UFO with black, square windows. He
-guesses it is 80–100 feet in size. It hovers above a hill then drifts
-off to the north behind some trees. (“South Carolina’s Giant UFOs,”
-IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6137
Date: 9/11/1980
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Milton
-Shippee and his family are driving south on State Highway 32 near
-I-84 in West Willington, Connecticut, when they see a “pancake”-shaped
-object in the southeast. It is tilted on one side as it moves about 50
-mph. (“‘Domed Pancake’ over Connecticut,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3,
-no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6138
Date: 9/12/1980
-Description: A bright, round object radiating red and white colors from
-all sides is reported south of Bojnord, North Khorasan, Iran. It moves
-very quickly for one hour above the city. (“Review of Iranian UFO
-Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6139
Date: 9/13/1980
-Description: Night. Some people camping near Hamilton, Texas, wake up
-when their tent is lit up with a yellow glow. Outside is a loud humming
-sound and above them at no more than 125 feet is a triangular object.
-The underside is grayish or greenish, and two lights appear at each tip
-in a combination of yellow-white, red-green, and blue-white. The object
-is moving north very slowly but stops for about 10 seconds and begins to
-pulsate, almost sounding as if it will stall. It starts up again, heads
-north, and is soon gone. Thirty minutes later, the group hears a loud
-explosion, and some people see sparks above the top of a hill. (MUFON
-UFO Journal, January 1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6140
Date: 9/16/1980
-Description: Sgt. J.M. (initials) of the PACAF writes to Len Stringfield
-that he was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, when, on Jan. 18, 1978, an MP
-shot and killed an alien at the Ft. Dix Army base next to the AFB.
-Type: letter
-Reference: (link
-Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
-See also: 1/18/78
Date: 9/21/1980
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A witness is driving west on a county road near
-Lima, Ohio. She looks up and sees a square opening in the clouds that
-looks like a picture frame. A vivid orange or red object that looks like
-the bottom of an Army tank with runners on two sides appears in the
-opening, remaining stationary for a few seconds before disappearing back
-into the opening, which then fills up with clouds. (“Army
-Tank in the Clouds in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7
-(November 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6141
Date: 9/22/1980
-Description: 3:43 a.m. Pan Am Flight 440, flying at 39,000 feet and
-piloted by Capt. Dave Garber, nearly collides with an unidentified
-blue-green cigar-shaped object over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti.
-The UFO has a horizontal row of 5–6 steady lights, which the flight crew
-presumes are windows. The distance between the Pan Am flight and the UFO
-at its closest approach is less than a mile. The estimated length of the
-UFO is 50 feet. It changes course when the plane flashes its landing
-lights. The event is witnessed independently by the crew of two other
-airliners in the area. (“‘Chiles-Whitted’ Revisited: UFO Sighting
-Confirmed by Three Flight Crews,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1
-(Nov./Dec. 1980): 12–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6142
Date: 9/26/1980
-Description: 2:26 p.m. A woman watches a Saturn-shaped object approach
-her home in Blythe, California, from the east and pass overhead for 2–3
-minutes and shoot straight up out of sight. (“Daylight ‘Saturn’ over
-California,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980):
-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6144
Date: 9/26/1980
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Susan Southerland, Debbie Riley, and Kim Conolty
-are driving in Washington, Indiana, when they see a streetlight-shaped
-light source slightly above the treetops. It begins moving toward them.
-Even after their car turns, the light stays on their left side. They
-drive to the police station and ask officers Tim Roark and Don Grannon
-to look at it through binoculars, and they are convinced it is something
-unusual. (“UFO Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science
-3, no. 3 (Mar./Apr. 1981): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6143
Date: 9/30/1980
-Description: 1:00 a.m. George Blackwell, a farmer near Rosedale,
-Victoria, Australia, is awakened by a noise and his disturbed livestock.
-Getting up, he goes outside and sees a 24-by-15-foot sphere passing by,
-some 6–9 feet off the ground and 450 feet distant. It stops above a
-water tank, then settles to the ground. Blackwell rides a motorcycle to
-the spot and stops 45 feet from the landed object. It is making a loud
-whistling sound. After 3 minutes, the UFO emits a louder noise, gives
-off a blast of air, and moves off to the east. A 30-foot doughnut-shaped
-ring is found where the object rested, and Blackwell experiences health
-problems the next week. The 10,000-gallon water tank is mysteriously
-drained of water. (NICAP, “Rosedale,
-Victoria, Australia: September 30, 1980”; Keith Basterfield and Bill
-Chalker, “Rosedale,
-Victoria: A Close Encounter,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 2,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 17–22; Bill Chalker and Keith Basterfield, “The
-Rosedale Landing with Physical Traces,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no.
-6 (March 1981): 4–5; “Physical Trace in Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 3 (March/April 1981): 14–15; “From Foreign Lands,”
-IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1981): 17; Bill Chalker and
-Keith Basterfield, “Landing
-with Physical Traces near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia,” APRO
-Bulletin 29, no. 12 (December 1981): 3–5; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir
-Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990):
-31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6145
Date: 9/30/1980
-Description: UFO researcher William
-Moore meets for the first time with AFOSI officer Richard
-Doty (whom Moore refers to as “Sparrow”). Doty is the middleman for
-an Air Force colonel (later called “Falcon” by Moore) who Moore first
-contacted on September 5. (The identity of the colonel has not been
-established, but it may possibly be Doty’s superior officer, Col. John
-Barry Hennessey.) Doty claims that Stanton
-T. Friedman and Brad
-Sparks know him personally and will vouch for him (untrue). (Brad
-Sparks and Barry Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of
-MJ-12,” in MUFON 2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON,
-2007, pp. 92–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6146
Date: 9/30/1980
-Description: Spinning topshaped object with body lights, whistling
-sound, landed near water tank, vibrations felt, uncomfortable sound,
-livestock reacted. Physical traces
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Rosedale, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 357
Date: 10/1980
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield, who
-now has about 20 first-hand informants to various crash/retrievals,
-begins to encounter resistance and silence from some of them, who are
-apparently under increased suspicion and surveillance. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, December 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6147
Date: 10/1980
-Description: James W. Allen, 14, is photographing Ben Vrackie mountain
-in Perthshire, Scotland. As he is walking home he hears a weird humming
-noise, sees a disc-shaped object, and takes a photo of it. Analysis of
-the photo points to a hoax photo of a helium-filled balloon. (“Young
-Scottish Photographer Sends Photograph,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter
-2, no. 10 (October 1981): 1, 6; Steuart Campbell, “Investigation
-Report on 1980 Photograph at Pitlochry,
-Scotland,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985):
-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6148
Date: 10/1980
-Alternate date: 11/1980
-Description: Ground-based radar at RAF Neatishead, near Norwich,
-England, tracks an aerial object executing aerial maneuvers that “defied
-all convention.” A very bright light is seen by the pilot of an RAF F-4
-Phantom II aircraft. It vanishes as quickly as it has appeared. (Nick
-Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster,
-1997, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6149
Date: 10/1/1980 (approximate)
-Description: A group of people go to Lucky Point, east of Monroe City,
-Indiana, to look for UFOs. High in the eastern sky they notice a dark
-triangle, as large as the full moon and possibly surrounded by a light
-glow. As it moves overhead, they hear a voice announce, “the time is
-now.” It changes direction slightly and accelerates to the northwest.
-The group reports a tingling sensation and a humming noise on their FM
-scanner radios. (“UFO Mini- Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 3 (Mar./Apr. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6150
Date: 10/5/1980
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Five off-duty metalworkers at the Dagang
-Oilfield, Tianjin, China, see a cone-shaped, red, glowing object that
-lights the area below. Workers feel a scorching heat as it flies by and
-disappears over Bohai Bay. (Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over
-Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6151
Date: 10/6/1980
-Description: 5:50 p.m. A retired man is resting on his sundeck in
-Ipswich, Massachusetts, when he sees a silver object tumbling
-end-over-end. He grabs binoculars and watches as it passes overhead and
-continues, appearing to descend as it disappears behind trees toward the
-Sagamore Hill Solar Radar Observatory [now relocated to Millstone Hill,
-Westford] in South Hamilton. (“Tumbling Daylight UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6152
Date: 10/7/1980
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Witnesses near Yelm, Tenino, and Offutt Lake,
-Washington, report a large object shaped like a triangle or diamond with
-red and green lights. (“Thurston
-County Logs Some Mysterious Night Sights,” Olympia (Wash.) Daily
-Olympian, October 9, 1980, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6153
Date: 10/15/1980
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A Knox County, Indiana, deputy sheriff stops by
-the side of a road to stretch his legs. Out of the east comes a black
-triangular form, as big as a house and 10 times the angular size of the
-full moon. He estimates it is 250 feet away and 200 feet up at its
-closest. Five figures are visible from the waist up through a long
-window on one side of the triangle. Large slanted unblinking eyes, white
-skin, and a straight-line mouth are visible on their elongated heads. He
-thinks they look afraid, so he tries to telepathically assure them not
-to be afraid. They respond by asking him, “Why do you hate the
-Iranians?” The object draws closer the speeds away to the northeast.
-During the sighting, his police radio displays intermittent interference
-and his patrol car’s engine and headlights pulsate. The deputy feels
-light-headed and sluggish, and his eyes water. (“UFO Mini-Flap in
-Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 (Mar./Apr. 1981):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6154
Date: 10/15/1980
-End date: 10/20/1980
-Description: According to analyst Gary
-Sick, meetings
-are allegedly held in Paris, France, between emissaries of the
-Reagan/Bush campaign, with future CIA Director William
-J. Casey as a key participant, and “high-level Iranian and Israeli
-representatives” to make a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of
-the American hostages until after the election. In return for this, the
-United States purportedly arranges for Israel to ship weapons to Iran.
-Sick is never able to prove his claims, but the evidence suggests that
-the Reagan administration
-ships arms to Iran, both through Israel and directly, from 1981 to 1987
-as payment for Iranian cooperation. (Wikipedia, “October
-Surprise conspiracy
-theory”; Gary Sick, October
-Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald
-Reagan, Times
-Books, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6155
Date: 10/16/1980
-Description: Evening. Operators at Tianjin Binhai International Airport,
-China, are observing the movements of Flight 402 on radar when an
-unexplained echo shows up. When the airliner is about 6,500 feet from
-the runway, the plane’s blip disappears for 7 seconds. The mystery
-target gives a strong, distinct return, and it seems to cause strong
-radio interference as the airliner touches down. Other anomalous targets
-show up later that night, but none are seen visually. (Good Above, pp. 215–216;
-Paul Dong, “Extracts
-from Paul Dong’s Feidie
-Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions
-and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984):
-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6156
Date: 10/19/1980
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Donald Shive, his wife Star, and two children are
-driving west near Albion, Michigan, when they see an object with two
-white lights on the sides and a red and blue light on the front and
-back. It is moving at about 25 mph at an altitude of 200–500 feet when
-it moves over the car at an intersection. The car stalls and the lights
-go out briefly. (“UFO Stalls Van in Michigan?” IUR/Frontiers of Science
-3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6157
Date: 10/20/1980
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 358
Date: 10/21/1980
-Description: 8:35 a.m. Betty Long and a friend see a formation of three
-egg-shaped objects in the northern sky over San Diego, California. The
-bright sun makes them seem uniformly white and featureless. After moving
-to the right for three minutes, they turn 90° to the left and move away
-from the witnesses. The formation retains its triangular shape
-throughout the sighting. (“Daylight
-‘Eggs’ over California,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8
-(December 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6158
Date: 10/23/1980
-Description: Boomerang-shaped object with body lights shone brilliant
-light beam down smoke stacks, accelerated, made noninertial turn.
-Satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Morenci, AZ
-ID: 359
Date: 10/23/1980
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Randall Rogers and Larry Mortensen, employed at
-the Phelps-Dodge Corporation’s copper smelting site at Morenci, Arizona,
-go outside to pick up three other employees for an evening meal break.
-They notice a boomerang-shaped object approaching the north smokestack
-at 1,500–2,000 feet altitude and a very slow speed. It stops and hovers
-briefly, then comes down to 700–1,000 feet, just above the stack. A
-brilliant light erupts from the forward angle and shines directly down
-into the interior of the stack. 10 seconds later it goes out and the
-object moves south to hover above the south stack and shine the bright
-light inside. It then moves off at 5–10 mph to the south, then suddenly
-takes off at great speed to the southwest. A very short time later, it
-returns and hovers above the slag dump. The object is seen as dull black
-and perhaps 1,320 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Eight reddish lights are
-on each wing about 75 feet apart and connected by a white tube of light.
-Greenlee County Sheriff Ralph Gomez also observes the object, as do
-about 100 members of the Morenci High School band. (“UFO
-over Copper Smelter,” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 7 (1981): 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6159
Date: 10/24/1980
-Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz contacts Major Ernest Edwards
-of the Kirtland AFB Security Police who, over the period of the next few
-months, became concerned and requested the guards on the Manzano Weapons
-Storage Area to report to him any sightings of unusual aerial
-lights.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Manzano Test Range
Date: 10/26/1980
-Description: Paul
-Bennewitz over a number of months has become convinced that he has
-uncovered evidence of aliens controlling humans through electromagnetic
-devices, and furthermore claims that UFOs are regularly flying near
-Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and the nearby Manzano Nuclear
-Weapons Storage Facility and Coyote Canyon Test Area. He is also
-convinced there is an alien base beneath Archuleta Peak northwest of
-Dulce, New Mexico. After failing to convince APRO (who considers him
-deluded), Bennewitz contacts AFOSI special agent Sgt. Richard
-Doty at Kirtland Air Force Base, who meets with him at his home
-today along with Jerry Miller, Kirtland’s scientific advisor for the Air
-Force Test and Evaluation Center. (Clark III 359; Greg Bishop, Project
-Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 34–35, 135–137;
-Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs
-Filmed Hovering over U.S. Air Force
-Nuclear Weapons Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, May 13, 2012;
-Alejandro T. Rojas, [Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents]; Alejandro T.
-Rojas, “Ex–Air
-Force Law Enforcement Agent Claims He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies,”
-June 29, 2019; Dolan II 225–229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6160
Date: 10/26/1980
-Description: 7:00 p.m. An oddly shaped UFO is observed by a husband and
-wife on their farm 2 miles southeast of Bloomfield, Indiana. The object
-looks like two full moons spaced about 12 feet apart with a flashing red
-light in back like a lopsided triangle. Each white light is about 3 feet
-in diameter, and the white is intense but nothing around lights up. The
-object is at treetop level and passes to the right of a security light.
-There is no reflection of metal anywhere. The woman gets the impression
-that the lights are connected to something huge, saying: “The object
-passed about 20 feet above the barn making no sound and lights making no
-light. When it was over the barn roof, the sows with baby pigs in the
-barn jumped up and began wild grunting and knocking about in their pens.
-They settled down immediately after the object cleared the roof. The
-object is now coming very slowly towards the front of our house and
-yard. My husband had gone back into the house to watch from the front
-windows, my children are crying, and I am on the back porch having the
-time of my life.” The UFO disappears behind the roof line of the house.
-(“Tractor-Chasing Saucer,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5
-(July/Aug. 1981): 14–15; “October
-UFO in Indiana Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 8
-(August 1981): 6; “Greene
-County,
-Indiana, 1980 CE II,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May
-1985): 1, 6, 8; John P. Timmerman, “Greene County Close Encounter,” IUR
-28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6161
Date: 10/31/1980
-Description: Day. The airport control tower at Canoas, Rio Grande do
-Sul, Brazil, detects a UFO on its radar. An F-5 squadron has just
-landed, with the exception of one plane, whose pilot requests
-authorization to pursue. He sees a bright gold object right in front of
-him and accelerates to approach, but the object immediately speeds up.
-The control tower loses the object on its radar. The pilot continues to
-pursue for 2 minutes before the UFO speeds off over the ocean. (Clark
-III 206–207; Brazil 555–556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6162
Date: 11/2/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Mike Clampett and his wife are stepping out of a
-Toyota showroom on Solano Avenue in Vallejo, California. They see a
-group of people looking at the sky where a Piper Cub seems to be on a
-collision course with a cigar-shaped object. The plane is moving north
-to south while the UFO flies silently from high in the east to the west.
-The object is rotating or spiraling about once every second. It takes
-nearly 10 minutes for the object to reach nearly overhead, dropping in
-altitude all the while. It remains stationary in the zenith about 5
-minutes then moves to the south at a higher altitude. (“A Spiralling
-Daylight Cigar,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6164
Date: 11/2/1980
-Description: 12:42 p.m. A couple driving westbound on US Highway 50 some
-20 miles east of Montrose, Colorado, notice a silver, oblong object in
-the distance. As the highway starts to curve, it is seen against a
-background of mesa. They stop the car for a better look for another 10
-seconds. It banks like an aircraft to the right and its shape changes to
-an oval. It disappears by shooting up over the top of the mesa toward
-the northeast. (“Daylight Disc in Colorado,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3,
-no. 3 (March/April 1981): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6163
Date: 11/5/1980
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A private pilot named Dennis is flying a Piper
-PA-32R-301T Turbo Saratoga SP at 8,000 feet near Lake Berryessa,
-California. He spots an orange, bullet-shaped light that is keeping even
-with him at 212 mph. The light brightens and begins to pulse with an
-increasing frequency, then shoots forward and makes a perfect
-right-angle turn upward. Five minutes later, it reappears behind him and
-performs a similar maneuver. The sighting is corroborated by a
-commercial airliner. (“A Twin ‘Déjà vu’ Sighting?” IUR 7, no. 1 (January
-1982): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6165
Date: 11/6/1980
-Description: 7:55 a.m. Nancy Parker is a passenger on a Western Airlines
-flight passing over Monterey Bay, California. She takes three photos of
-the scenery below, but when she develops the film, a bright, disc-shaped
-object appears on the second photo. Probable reflection or lens flare.
-(“Reflection
-or Object? Photo from Airliner Being
-Studied,” CUFOS Associates Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March 1981):
-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6167
Date: 11/6/1980
-Description: Peter Gersten files
-a reply to the NSA’s September request for summary judgment. (“CAUS
-Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6166
Date: 11/10/1980
-Description: Paul
-Bennewitz visits with a small group of officials—including Brig.
-Gen. William
-Brooksher, base AFOSI head Maj. Thomas Cseh, and scientists from the
-USAF Phillips Weapons Lab—at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico to present his
-film, photos, and electromagnetic findings. (Clark III 359; Greg Bishop,
-Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 41–44;
-Alejandro T. Rojas, [Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6168
Date: 11/10/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A man observes a stationary white light some 30°
-up in the western sky near the intersection of State Highway 30 and
-Interstate 270 in Sunset Hills, Missouri. A second object, orange in
-color, silently circles it for several minutes before taking off to the
-west. (“Orbiting
-Lights near St. Louis,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8
-(December 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6169
Date: 11/10/1980
-Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz presented his evidence of
-sightings near the Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano range to high
-ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William
-Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was
-advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena.
-Type: private presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Manzano Test Range
Date: 11/11/1980
-Description: 6:40 p.m. Seven commercial aircraft—four Iberia Boeing
-727s, a British airliner, an air-taxi, and a Transeuropa
-aircraft—encounter an unusual green object over Barcelona, Maella, Palma
-de Mallorca, and other points in northeastern Spain. Spanish journalist
-Juan
-J. Benítez investigates and determines that either 7 identical UFOs
-are involved or a single object is responsible, one capable of traveling
-hundreds of miles within minutes. Comandante Ramos, one of the Iberia
-pilots, says that the object is “like an enormous soap bubble” that is
-coming straight for his aircraft. He puts it into an evasive dive. When
-it passes close to the plane, they see a second smaller ball. (Juan J.
-Benítez, “Anniversary
-Aerial Encounters,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 (March 1981):
-12–14; Good Above, pp. 157–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6170
Date: 11/16/1980
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 360
Date: 11/17/1980
-Description: SECRET USAF OSI Document: Analysis of photo of UFO
-following C-5A aircraft inclusive. Photo analysis of Cylinder Shaped UFO
-legitimate. Photo E. showed legitimate disc shaped UFO of 37 ft.
-diameter with trilateral insignia on object. USAF still has an interest
-in all UFO sightings over installations and test ranges. Several other
-Government agencies, lead by NASA, actively investigate legitimate
-sightings through COVERT COVER. One agency that deceives the public
-which such covert cover is the UFO reporting center at U.S. Coast and
-Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD. 20852. (The results of PROJECT AQUARIUS
-is still classified TOP SECRET with access limited to “MJ-12”.)
-Type: secret document
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p528)
-Location: US
-Attributes: majestic
Date: 11/17/1980
-Description: Sgt. Richard
-Doty tells Bennewitz that
-AFOSI has decided against any further investigation of his claims. The
-same day, Doty forges a communication (later called the “Aquarius
-document”) from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C.,
-to the Seventeenth District AFOSI office at Kirtland and gives it to Bill
-Moore. It
-mentions, briefly and cryptically, analyses of a UFO film apparently
-taken in October. It also mentions MJ-12 and a government UFO
-investigation “outside official intelligence channels” called the
-Aquarius Project. Bill Moore calls it a retyped version of a real AFOSI
-message with a few spurious additions. Doty tells Moore to pass it on to
-Bennewitz, which he does eventually. In 2005, Doty tells radio host Art
-Bell that AFOSI’s interest in Bennewitz has nothing to do with
-aliens; rather, it is to protect the technologies and activities at
-Kirtland AFB. (Good Above, p. 528;
-Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 43, 120–129;
-“Greg
-Bishop and
-Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with Host Art Bell, Interview
-Transcript,” February 27, 2005; Clark III 362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6171
Date: 11/18/1980
-Description: For the resolution of the CAUS v. NSA, the National
-Security Agency creates two affidavits to explain why UFO information is
-to be withheld from the public. The affidavits are written by the chief
-officer of policy for the NSA, Eugene F. Yeates. The first of the two is
-the “unclassified, softened-down” version released to CAUS and the
-public. The affidavit says that it is in the NSA’s direct interests not
-to have the documents published, as they can compromise national
-security because they contain sensitive intelligence regarding the
-interception of foreign communication; and no meaningful amount of
-information can be declassified without giving foreign intelligence
-information regarding US time and methods of information interception.
-The second affidavit is for Judge Gerhard
-A. Gesell only, classified “top secret,” which the judge can read
-with an “in camera” clearance. The judge sides with the NSA after
-reviewing the affidavit (released to CAUS through an FOIA request with
-95% redactions, later released in 1997 with only 25% redacted, and in
-2014 with a bit less missing). Gesell states that “the public interest
-in disclosure is far outweighed by the sensitive nature of the materials
-and the obvious effect on national security their release may well
-entail.” CAUS fashions an appeal to the US Supreme Court. (Wikipedia,
-“Citizens
-Against UFO Secrecy”; Eugene F. Yeates, In
-Camera Affidavit, Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects
-Secrecy v. National Security Agency, US District Court for the District
-of Columbia, October 9, 1980; J. Allen Hynek, “A Cosmic Watergate?” IUR
-9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 10–12; ClearIntent, pp. 187–188;
-Good Above, pp. 417–419,
-535–539);
-John Greenewald, “UFOs:
-The National Security
-Agency (NSA) Collection,” The Black Vault, September 10, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6172
Date: 11/18/1980
-Description: 7:30–11:00 p.m. Many people living in northern Missouri and
-northeastern Kansas, from Edina, Missouri, to Fairview, Kansas, report a
-formation of unusual lights traveling slowly and noiselessly. An airport
-and the police department in Kirksville, Missouri, receive 25 calls or
-so. The basic description is a triangular formation with two bright
-headlights. Rick Hull, a 20-year-old photographer from Trenton,
-Missouri, watches the lights pass overhead four different times; the
-underside shows a diamond-shaped array of white lights with a steady red
-beacon in the middle. There are also two bright headlights and an
-apparent dome with seven green lights around it. He manages to
-photograph the array only once out of several attempts. Most people
-provide an estimated altitude for the lights as 300–400 feet, but a
-Trenton witness puts it at 1,000–1,500 feet, and Missouri Highway
-Patrolman Bob Lober guesses 1,500–1,800 feet in Edinburg, Missouri. The
-lights change direction frequently. Radar technician Franklin West,
-located at a remote radar station of the Kansas City Air Route Traffic
-Control Center at Sublette, Missouri, finds a radar target in the same
-direction and distance as visual reports that local witnesses alert him
-to. It passes through the Kirksville area 4–5 times in a 2–3 hour
-period. He estimates its speed at 45 mph. A pilot landing at the Olathe,
-Kansas, Air Route Traffic Control Center says he recognizes the UFO as a
-refueling tanker with jets following it, which matches an established
-refueling track in the area. The Center for UFO Studies confirms that
-Altus AFB in Oklahoma, flew a huge C-5A cargo aircraft behind a KC-135
-tanker from Grissom AFB in Peru, Indiana, that evening. The two planes
-flew in tandem at 20,000 feet at an indicated air speed of 250 knots
-beginning at 8:00 p.m. and ending around 11:00 p.m. However, there are a
-few discrepancies with the reports. (“North
-Missourians Report Strange
-Lights in Night Sky,” Chillicothe (Mo.) Constitution-Tribune,
-November 19, 1980, pp. 1, 12; Joe and Doris Graziano, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 5 (June 1981): 6; “Radar-Visual
-Light Form Seen by Independent Witnesses,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3,
-no. 3 (March/April 1981): 12–14; Marler 109–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6173
Date: 11/19/1980
-Description: Light beamed onto car, lights and radio failed, car
-levitated on board domed craft surrounded by dense cloud or mist, couple
-examined. Car placed back on road
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Longmont, CO
-ID: 361
Date: 11/19/1980
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple is driving home to Longmont, Colorado,
-from Denver when they hear a loud “whish” and a beam of blue light
-strikes their car. Their headlights begin to dim and the radio emits
-static before fading out. The back wheels of the car leave the pavement
-and the car rises at an angle into the air. They lose consciousness and
-wake up as the car is resuming its 50 mph journey down the road. More
-than one hour of time is missing. The next day, the woman finds a
-rectangular mark on her abdomen and soon has vivid dreams of a craft and
-an entity. She develops a nearly fatal case of pneumonia and finds out
-she is pregnant. The man discovers a melanoma on his legs, but it
-improves. Under hypnosis they recall seeing a hovering domed craft, a
-luminous entryway, and a humanoid with a large head, gray skin, thin
-fingers, and shiny golden garb. (Richard Sigismond, “CE-IIIs: New
-Dimensions in Investigations,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982):
-9–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6174
Date: 11/24/1980
-Description: Official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that an
-association to study UFOs had been established in Peking.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: China
-ID: 362
Date: 11/24/1980
-Description: Around 10:00 p.m. A teenager in New Lenox, Illinois, sees
-two green light sources from his bedroom window. They move back and
-forth in the southern sky and disappear briefly when a plane flies below
-them. (“UFOs—or IFOs over Joliet?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2
-(Jan./Feb. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6175
Date: 11/25/1980
-Description: Early morning. Policemen in New Lenox, Manhattan, Joliet,
-and Ellwood, Illinois, watch a bright white light that fluctuates in
-brightness and mostly remains stationary. Probable sightings of Venus.
-(“UFOs—or IFOs over Joliet?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2
-(Jan./Feb. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6176
Date: 11/25/1980
-Description: 6:40 a.m. A glowing orange ball is seen maneuvering around
-the Ninian Northern oil platform in the North Sea. It is large enough to
-be seen by workers at the Brent oil platform 12–15 miles away. An RAF
-Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft is sent to the area, but no public
-conclusions are reached about its nature. (Nick Redfern, A Covert
-Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6177
Date: 11/26/1980
-Description: Doty receives
-a call from former astronaut Sen. Harrison
-Schmitt (R-N.Mex.) who asks him about AFOSI’s role in Bennewitz’s
-claims. Doty tells him they are not investigating. But Doty later admits
-what he tells Schmitt is not true. AFOSI has told him to make Bennewitz
-believe there is an impending alien invasion because Bennewitz is
-actually observing secret Air Force projects. According to Doty, the Air
-Force wants to discredit Bennewitz so no one will figure that out.
-However, Doty claims that in doing so, he created hoaxed documents that
-are given to Bennewitz and other UFO researchers, and that he broke into
-Bennewitz’s house and office. (Alejandro T. Rojas, “Ex–Air
-Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies,”
-Huffington Post, May 13, 2014; Clark III 359–362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6178
Date: 11/28/1980
-Description: Constable Alan Godfrey encountered craft on road, time
-loss. Abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK
-ID: 363
Date: 11/29/1980
-Description: 5:00 a.m. While checking reports of cattle wandering around
-a local council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, Police
-Constable Alan
-Godfrey allegedly sees a bright light ahead on Burnley Road that
-appears to be a hovering, rotating object. He sees twigs and leaves
-swirling around beneath it. He experiences missing time of approximately
-25 minutes, during which he splits a boot and acquires an itchy, red
-mark on his foot. Via hypnotic regression, he recalls being medically
-examined by alien creatures. In May, Godfrey had investigated the death
-of Zigmund
-Adamski, who
-had been missing for five days before his body was found on top of a
-coal pile. According to the coroner, Adamski died of a heart attack.
-Godfrey tells reporters at the time that he believes it possible that
-Adamski was abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile “by someone
-or something.” Godfrey self-publishes Who or What Were They? in 2017, a
-book that includes his speculations regarding the Adamski case,
-abduction claims by Travis
-Walton, and his own UFO sighting. In 2014, a partial witness to the
-event surfaces, a bus driver on Burnley Road who around 4:55 a.m.
-experiences one of the physical effects Godfrey describes—an oddly
-localized whirlwind buffeting debris and leaving a swirled road surface
-beneath. (Wikipedia, “Alan
-Godfrey”; Jenny Randles, “The
-Alan Godfrey Abduction, November 28, 1980,”
-UFO Casebook; “Alan
-Godfrey,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Jenny Randles,
-The Pennine UFO Mystery, Granada, 1983, pp. 122–135, 147–168;
-Good Above, pp. 118–119;
-Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley: Part One,” Fortean Times 325 (April
-2015): 27; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley: Part Two,” Fortean Times 326
-(May 2015): 27; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 3,” Fortean Times
-327 (June 2015): 29; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,” Fortean
-Times 328 (July 2015): 28–30; Alan Godfrey, Who or What Were They? The
-Author, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6179
Date: 11/29/1980
-Description: Mechanic Granger Taylor, 32, of Duncan, British Columbia, a
-man obsessed with aliens and UFOs to the point of building his own
-full-size model in his backyard, announces to his friends and parents
-that he is going to board an alien spacecraft and take a 42-month
-interstellar voyage. He is never seen again. In 1986, truck fragments
-and bones are found at a blast site on Mount Prevost. Though DNA testing
-is not in common use at the time, pathology work by the coroner
-attributes the adult human bones to Taylor. Fragments of clothing found
-amid the decayed material are from a shirt owned by Taylor, as confirmed
-by his mother. Representatives from the auto division of the RCMP
-confirm the truck is his. A report by the B.C. Coroners office
-officially declares Taylor dead. A CBC-TV documentary about Taylor,
-Spaceman, is released in 2019 but fails to come up with a likely
-explanation. (Tyler Hooper, “The
-Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared,” Vice, July 1, 2016; Mike
-Taylor, “What
-Happened to Granger Taylor?” Vancouver (B.C.) Times Colonist,
-February 3, 2019; CBC-TV, “Spaceman,”
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6180
Date: 12/1980
-Description: UFO landing between the Bentwaters and Woodbridge NATA
-bases in England. Nearby animals driven into a frenzy, surrounding trees
-damaged, left moderate levels of radiation, 17 firsthand witnesses,
-event filmed.
-Type: ufo landing
-Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985
-Location: between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge
-See also: 3/3/1985
Date: 12/1980
-Description: Army Lt. Col. John
-B. Alexander discusses in Military Review how psychotronic weapons
-could be developed by studying the paranormal. He discusses the
-remote-viewing studies of Russell
-Targ and Harold
-E. Puthoff and
-their potential military applications. As for psychotronic weapons, he
-sees much potential, saying, “with development, these weapons would be
-able to induce illness or death at little or no risk to the operator.
-Range may be a present problem, but this will probably be overcome if it
-has not been already.” As an example, he cites work by the Soviets, who
-have “examined the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans and
-have applied those techniques against the US Embassy in Moscow.” (John
-B. Alexander, “The
-New Mental Battlefield: ’Beam
-Me Up, Spock!’” Military Review 60, no. 12 (December 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6181
Date: 12/3/1980
-Description: 8:30 p.m. On State Highway 57 about 10 miles south of
-McLain, Mississippi, Robert and Janice Lowrey [or Lawrey?] see a
-luminous, blue-white ball of light to the east. The FM radio of their
-car quits, the car’s headlights dim, and the car heater quits when light
-comes briefly over the right side of the hood. They estimate the light
-to be about a foot in diameter and only 3 feet away. The seat belt alarm
-also comes on during the encounter. The light just vanishes. (“Vehicle
-Affected by Mini-UFO?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2
-(Jan./Feb. 1981): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6182
Date: 12/4/1980
-Description: Radar-visual sighting of four objects at airport
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Perth, Western Australia
-ID: 364
Date: 12/4/1980
-Description: 8:38 a.m. Graham Moyle and other controllers at the Perth,
-Western Australia, airport report watching “silver tumbling discs” two
-or three times through 11:00 a.m. Danielle Russell, 12, sees four
-objects with lights that change color from red to blue to green moving
-quickly north to south at 11:00 a.m. There is a reported paint on the
-radar 7 miles distant at a speed of 138 mph and a height of 5 miles. The
-target is lost in the radar’s cone of silence. The RAAF scrambles a
-Macchi jet, but it cannot find the objects. At 1:20 p.m., a target is
-detected on the radar at 21 miles, due south. The tower tracks an object
-high above one of the runways. Five minutes later, the radar returns
-another target. (“Jet Hunt for Australian UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6183
Date: 12/5/1980
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two teenagers parked next to a swimming pool in
-a subdivision of Normal, Illinois, see a stationary bright white light
-about half the size of the full moon in the western sky. Suddenly it
-splits into two smaller halves that rejoin, growing small and fuzzy,
-then brighten and enlarge. Three small lights shoot out and snap back in
-again. They watch the display for about one hour. During the last 15
-minutes, their ears begin to hurt simultaneously. The pain shifts from
-their right ears to their temples, and they both feel a pea-shaped lump
-under their skin. They return home. The next day the lumps are gone but
-they have headaches. On December 8 at 8:45 p.m., the boy returns to the
-same spot alone and sees another light for about one minute. When he
-calls his girlfriend again to tell her, both regain the painful lumps in
-their temples. (“Youths
-Link Pain with UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February
-1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6184
Date: 12/6/1980
-Description: 9:01 a.m. Jean Findley of Poole, Dorset, England, is
-waiting for a bus and feels the urge to look up. She sees a disc-shaped,
-domed UFO hovering above nearby trees. Feeling “spellbound” and
-experiencing a sensation of “peace, calm, and warmth,” she watches the
-object emit a beam of light, rotate once, and fly away at a great rate
-of speed. She looks at her watch and sees that 4 minutes have elapsed,
-seemingly in the space of a few seconds. Even though it is rush hour,
-she sees no one else around. (Clark III 866; Jenny Randles, UFO Reality,
-R. Hale, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6186
Date: 12/6/1980
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A man is driving westbound a few miles north of
-Edwardsville, Illinois, when a disc-like object cuts across his view
-from the south about 100 feet away. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter
-and 9–13 feet thick. Five intense, steady, blue-white lights illuminate
-its dark shape. He sees windows at the center. The witness tries to
-drive toward the object, but his car engine fails for 1–2 minutes. The
-object zips off after a few minutes. (“Current
-Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March 1981):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6185
Date: 12/13/1980
-Description: 5:47 p.m. James Garrigus sees an oblong, pulsating orange
-glow descending at a 30° angle in the northeast as he is driving in
-Lima, Ohio. Suddenly it curves back upward in a backwards “J,”
-continuing to move in the same direction. The light increases speed,
-still bobbing and spinning, and finally shoots upward. (“Nocturnal
-Light in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February 1981):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6187
Date: 12/15/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. About 40 witnesses at the Orpington Hospital
-redevelopment site in London, England, watch a UFO that alternately
-hovers, moves slowly, shoots across the sky, and finally divides into
-three and disappears straight up at 4:15 p.m. The object is an elongated
-triangular shape with a reddish-orange nose, silvery body, and
-diamond-blue rear section, with its nose pointing southeast. Peter
-McSherry, clerk of works for Lovell (Southern) Ltd estimates its height
-at 50,000 feet. A video of the object is taken in the presence of other
-witnesses at Seal Chart near Sevenoaks, Kent, and although it shows only
-a point of light in a cloudless sky, it does corroborate the sighting.
-(Good Above, pp. 76–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6188
Date: 12/25/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Soviet spy satellite Kosmos 749 re-enters the
-Earth’s atmosphere, breaks into several pieces, and creates a
-spectacular fireworks display over northwest Europe. Police stations,
-coast guards, and the RAF receive hundreds of calls reporting four or
-five “comet-like objects leaving bright trails.” Astronomers also record
-three fireball meteors the same night, the largest and brightest
-appearing at 3:00 a.m. (UFOFiles2, p. 105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6189
Date: 12/26/1980
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A series of reported sightings of unexplained
-lights near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, have become linked with
-claims of UFO landings. The events occur just outside RAF Woodbridge
-[now MOD Woodbridge], used at the time by the United States Air Force.
-USAF personnel, including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles
-I. Halt, claim to experience a UFO event. A security patrol (A1C John Burroughs and
-S/Sgt Budd Steffens) near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge sees lights
-apparently descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest. These lights are
-attributed by astronomers to a piece of natural debris seen burning up
-as a fireball over southern England at the time. The observers initially
-think it is a downed aircraft but, when others (S/Sgt James
-Penniston, Burroughs, and A1C Edward
-Cabansag) enter the forest to investigate they see, according to
-Halt’s memo, a glowing object, metallic in appearance, with colored
-lights. As they attempt to approach the object, it appears to move
-through the trees, and “the animals on a nearby farm went into a
-frenzy.” Penniston later claims he and Burroughs encountered a “craft of
-unknown origin” while in the forest, which he photographs and touches,
-although there is no publicized mention of this at the time and no
-corroboration from other witnesses. (Burroughs only reports a blinding
-white light.) Shortly after 4:00 a.m., local police are called to the
-scene, but they report that the only lights they can see are those from
-the Orfordness Lighthouse, a few miles away on the coast. After
-daybreak, Burroughs and Penniston return to a small clearing near the
-eastern edge of the forest and find three small impressions on the
-ground in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken
-branches on nearby trees. At 10:30 a.m., the Suffolk Constabulary are
-called out again, this time to see the impressions, which they think
-could have been made by an animal. Georgina
-Bruni, in
-her book You Can’t Tell the People (2000), publishes a photo of the
-supposed landing site taken on the morning after the first
-sighting.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6190
Date: 12/27/1980
-Description: USAF UFO report signed by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy
-Base Commander, RAF Woodbridge stating: Two USAF security police
-patrolmen saw a UFO either hovering or on legs outside the backgate,
-Woodbridge. Being early morning, it illuminated the entire forest with a
-white light. Description: Metallic in appearance and triangular in
-shape, pulsing red light on top and banks of blue lights underneath.
-Approx. 2–3 meters across and 2 meters high. It maneuvered through the
-trees and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p456)
-Location: RAF Woodbridge
-See also: 12/29/1980
Date: 12/27/1980
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Construction workers skating in Yantan Park,
-Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, notice a red triangular object moving
-slowly in the eastern sky. It moves above them and they notice it has a
-misty circle surrounding it and a dark red center. It also has a gray
-protuberance that shines a brilliant light, and the outer edge emits
-regular flashes of yellow light. They watch it for 7 minutes until it
-disappears in the northwest. (“The Chinese Connection…and Some Wholesome
-Chinese Philosophy,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6191
Date: 12/27/1980
-End date: 12/30/1980
-Description: Air Force security police encounter with landed craft in
-Rendlesham Forest, physical evidence
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bentwaters AFB, UK
-ID: 365
Date: 12/28/1980
-Description: 1:48 a.m. RAF Woodbridge Deputy Base Commander Charles
-Halt visits the alleged December 26 landing site with 20–30
-servicemen (including John
-Burroughs, Sgt. Adrian
-Bustinza, Sgt. Bobby
-Ball, and Sgt. Monroe
-Nevels). They take radiation readings in the triangle of depressions
-and in the surrounding area using an AN/PDR-27, a standard US military
-radiation survey meter. Although they record 70–100 microR/hr at the
-landing site, in other regions they detect only 30–40 microR/hr, around
-the background level. Furthermore, they detect a similar small “burst”
-over half a mile away from the landing site. Halt records the events on
-a microcassette recorder, the “Halt tape,” released to UFO researchers
-in 1984 by Col. Sam Morgan, who has succeeded Ted
-Conrad as Halt’s superior. The tape chronicles Halt’s investigation
-in the forest in real time. During this investigation, a flashing light
-is seen across the field to the east, almost in line with a farmhouse,
-as the witnesses had seen on the first night. The Orfordness Lighthouse
-is visible further to the east in the same line of sight. Later, three
-star-like lights are seen in the sky, two to the north and one to the
-south, about 10° above the horizon. The brightest of these hovers for
-2–3 hours and seems to beam down a stream of light from time to time.
-Astronomers have explained these as merely bright stars. In June 2010,
-retired Col. Charles Halt signs a notarized affidavit, in which he again
-summarizes what happened, then states he believes the event to be
-extraterrestrial and covered up by both the UK and US military.
-Contradictions between this affidavit and the facts as recorded at the
-time in Halt’s memo (dated January 13, 1981) and tape recording (made
-December 28) have been pointed out. In 2010, base commander Col. Ted
-Conrad provides a statement about the incident to UFO researcher David
-Clarke. Conrad
-states that “We saw nothing that resembled Lieutenant Colonel Halt’s
-descriptions either in the sky or on the ground” and that “We had people
-in position to validate Halt’s narrative, but none of them could.” In an
-interview, Conrad criticizes Halt for the claims in his affidavit,
-saying “he should be ashamed and embarrassed by his allegation that his
-country and Britain both conspired to deceive their citizens over this
-issue. He knows better.” Conrad also disputes the testimony of Sgt. James
-Penniston, who
-claims to have touched an alien spacecraft; he had interviewed Penniston
-at the time and he had not mentioned any such occurrence. Conrad also
-suggests that the entire incident was a hoax.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6192
Date: 12/28/1980
-End date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. USAF A1C Larry
-Warren claims he is on patrol at RAF Woodbridge with other
-servicemen who are bringing lighting equipment to a large clearing
-called Capel Green. At 12:30 a.m., he is directed into the woods to
-“investigate a disturbance.” They soon come to a large field where about
-40 military personnel are gathered. They are ordered to surround what
-appears to be a bright fog or mist. When his group enters the field,
-Warren sees it is a glowing, yellow-green, circular object not more than
-12 inches in height. Two officers walk around it with Geiger counters,
-someone takes photos, and another operates a movie camera. He hears
-shouts of “Here it comes!” and sees a small red light that quickly
-approaches his group at 1:30 a.m. The basketball-sized object makes a
-downward arc and hovers at 20 feet above the ground. It then explodes in
-a blinding flash that gives off no heat. Instantly, about 25 away,
-Warren claims he sees a large, pyramid-shaped object topped by a glowing
-red light. Covering the entire surface are what look like boxes and
-pipes. An officer orders Bustinza and
-Warren (now feeling nauseous) to approach within 10–15 feet of the
-object. Before long they are ordered further back. A staff car arrives,
-carrying Col. Gordon
-Williams and his staff. From far behind the object comes a bright
-bluish ball of light. Warren claims he can see large-headed beings
-inside. He sees Col. Williams approach the beings and stare at them.
-Warren arrives back at Security Control at 4:30 a.m. Most ufologists
-find Warren’s account unreliable, and the book he coauthored, Left at
-East Gate, is withdrawn by the publisher, Cosimo, in 2017 after finding
-“inaccurate or embellished” testimony. In 2010, Jenny
-Randles, who first reported the Rendlesham case in the London
-Evening Standard in 1981 and coauthored with local researchers the first
-book on the case in 1984, Sky Crash: A Cosmic Conspiracy, emphasizes her
-previously expressed doubts that the incident was caused by
-extraterrestrial visitors. While suggesting that an unidentified
-phenomenon might have caused parts of the case, she notes: “Whilst some
-puzzles remain, we can probably say that no unearthly craft were seen in
-Rendlesham Forest. We can also argue with confidence that the main focus
-of the events was a series of misperceptions of everyday things
-encountered in less than everyday circumstances.” The most plausible
-skeptical explanation is that the sightings are due to a combination of
-several factors. The initial sighting on December 26, when the airmen
-saw something apparently descending into the forest, coincides with the
-appearance of a bright fireball over southern England; such fireballs
-are a common source of UFO reports. The supposed landing marks are
-identified by police and foresters as rabbit diggings. According to the
-witness statements from December 26, the flashing light seen from the
-forest lay in the same direction as the Orfordness Lighthouse. When the
-eyewitnesses attempted to approach the light, they realized it was
-further off than they thought. Timings on Halt’s
-tape recording indicate that the light he saw, which lay in the same
-direction as the light seen two nights earlier, flashed every five
-seconds, which was the flash rate of the Orfordness Lighthouse. The
-star-like objects that Halt reported hovering low to the north and south
-are thought by some skeptics to have been misinterpretations of bright
-stars distorted by atmospheric and optical effects. No evidence has
-emerged to confirm that anything came down in the forest. However, Nick
-Redfern in The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy alleges that the
-events were created by US and UK military as part of a series of
-top-secret experiments involving ball lightning and the “use of
-sophisticated holograms and hallucinogens” to test the reactions of the
-personnel exposed to them. (Wikipedia, “Rendlesham
-Forest incident”; NICAP, “Rendlesham Forest
-Encounter / Halt Case”; Brenda Butler, Dot Street, and Jenny
-Randles, Sky Crash, Grafton, 1984; Jenny Randles, “Mystery at
-Rendlesham,” IUR 9, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1984): 10–11, 15; “A
-Flashlight in the Forest,” The Guardian (UK), January 5, 1985, p. 9;
-Robert H. Coddington, “An
-Analysis of the Rendlesham Forest Incident Tape,”
-IUR 10, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1985): 9–13; Jenny Randles, “The
-Cover-Up in England,” IUR 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 9–12, 20;
-Jenny Randles, “A
-Fire in the Forest: New Light on the Rendlesham Landing,” IUR 13,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1988): 4–17, 21; Jenny Randles, “Rendlescam,”
-IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 16–18; Good Above, pp. 79–96, 456;
-Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, pp. 141–165;
-Larry Warren and Peter Robbins, Left
-at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge
-UFO Incident,
-Its Cover-Up, and Investigation, Marlowe,
-1996; Jenny Randles, UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe? The Full Story of
-the Rendlesham Forest Close Encounter, Blandford, 1998; Jenny Randles,
-“Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New Twists in the Bentwaters Case,”
-IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 16–19, 29–30; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 105–111;
-Georgina Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000;
-Jenny Randles and Richard Hall, “The
-Rendlesham Forest Case: Point/Counterpoint,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall
-2000): 8–15, 30; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham
-Forest: The British MoD File,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 21–25,
-30–32; Ian Ridpath, “The Rendlesham
-Forest UFO Case,” Ian Ridpath, February 28, 2003; “Rendlesham:
-UFO Hoax,” Inside Out: BBC, June 30, 2003; Dave Cosnette, “The
-Bentwaters Rendlesham Forest Incident,” January 2005; Michael D.
-Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for
-UFO Research, 2005, pp. 145–146; Kean, pp. 169–173, 179–188;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 105–115;
-Nick Pope, with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, Encounter in
-Rendlesham Forest, Thistle,
-2014; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part One,” Fortean
-Times 336 (February 2016): 24–25; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest
-Genesis: Part Two,” Fortean Times 337 (March 2016): 28–29; Jenny
-Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Three,” Fortean Times 338
-(April 2016): 26–27; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part
-Four,” Fortean Times 339 (May 2016): 26–27; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham
-Forest Genesis: Part Five,” Fortean Times 340 (June 2016): 28–29; Andrew
-Pike, The Rendlesham File: Britain’s Roswell? Flying Disk Press, 2017;
-Nukes 403–443; Clark III 950; Matt Salusbury, “Rendlesham Revisited,”
-Fortean Times 387 (Christmas 2019): 28–29; Jim Penniston and Gary
-Osborn, The Rendlesham Enigma: Book 1, Timeline, The Authors, 2019; “Colonel
-Charles Halt Returns to Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Sept. 8th
-2019,” David Young Paranormal Dimensions Radio Presenter YouTube
-channel, October 6, 2019; Nick Redfern, The Rendlesham Forest UFO
-Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2020; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, “The
-Full Report,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website; Jim
-Penniston and Gary Osborn, “Witness Statements,” The Rendlesham Forest
-Incident Official Website; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn,
-“Others Involved,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website;
-Center for UFO Studies, [Rendlesham
-case documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6193
Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs
-and later sees 3 other UFOs.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p456)
-Location: RAF Woodbridge
-See also: 12/27/1980
Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: A low flying UFO was escorted by a large number of
-helicopters (23) including some Chinooks and possibly Hueys, near
-Dayton, Texas. It was probably escorted to the Top Secret underground
-installation within Fort Hood, Texas. The secret air force base is NOT
-listed in the Air Force Officer’s Guide or the Air Force Almanac (it is
-an Army AFB). The name of the Secret base is Gray AAF, Texas. The
-special group piloting the helicopters escort for UFO are known as the
-“BLUE BOYS”. The Texas Department of Public Safety works closely with
-Gray AAF on UFO cases.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Dayton, TX
-See also: 6/6/88
Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John
-B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon.
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: link
-Location: north of Houston, TX
Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. While driving through the Piney Woods of East
-Texas near Huffman, about 40 miles northeast of Houston, Betty
-J. Cash and her two passengers notice a bright light ahead. As they
-draw within about 130 feet, they are confronted by a fiery
-diamond-shaped object, emitting flames down toward the road. What
-happens after that is mind-boggling. Betty Cash and Vickie and
-Colby
-Landrum suffer apparent radiation illness after watching a
-flame-spewing UFO and mystery helicopters. Eventually, Cash and Landrum
-contact their US Senators, Lloyd Bentsen and
-John
-Tower, who
-suggest that the witnesses file a complaint with the Judge Advocate
-Claims office at Bergstrom Air Force Base [now Austin-Bergstrom
-International Airport]. In August 1981, Cash, Landrum, and Colby are
-interviewed at length by personnel at Bergstrom and told that they
-should hire a lawyer and seek financial compensation for their injuries.
-With attorney Peter Gersten taking
-on the case pro bono, the case winds its way through the US courts for
-several years. Cash and Landrum sue the federal government for $20
-million. On August 21, 1986, US District Court Judge Ross
-N. Sterling dismisses their case, noting that the plaintiffs have
-not proved that the helicopters are associated with the government and
-that military officials have testified that US armed forces do not have
-a large, diamond-shaped aircraft in their possession. Although there is
-no doubt that the incident occurred, it is now considered by many to be
-a non-UFO case. In December 2018, Brian
-Dunning investigates the case and reports his findings on the
-Skeptoid podcast. He finds that the notes taken by Cash’s cardiologist,
-Vasudev
-B. Shenoy, attribute
-her hair loss to the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, that her other
-symptoms could be caused by illnesses that started before the incident,
-and that Landrum’s only documented illness is developing a cataract in
-one eye. He suspects that “Cash and Landrum wrongly, but honestly,
-placed the blame for their health problems onto whatever they saw; and
-even pushed the truth a bit trying to get the Air Force to pay for it.”
-(Wikipedia, “Cash-Landrum
-incident”; NICAP, “Cash/Landrum
-Case”; “Burns
-Follow UFO Incident,”APRO Bulletin 29, no. 8 (1981): 1–4; “Physical
-Effects, Helicopters, and a Fiery UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no.
-4 (May/June 1981): 13–14; John Schuessler, “Cash-Landrum Case Closed?”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 222 (October 1986): 12, 17; John Schuessler, “Medical
-Injuries Resulting from
-a UFO Encounter,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988,
-pp. 58–69; John F. Schuessler, The Cash-Landrum
-Radiation Case, Project VISIT, 1998; “Huffman
-1980,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December 11, 2006;
-Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 2,” IUR
-34, no. 1 (September 2011): 4–5; Good Above, pp. 303–305;
-ClearIntent, pp. 106–108;
-Good Need, pp. 335–337,
-345–346;
-Clark III 226–228; Curt Collins, “The
-Cash-Landrum Case UFO Document Collection,” Blue Blurry Lines,
-October 3, 2019; Project VISIT, [case
-articles and clippings])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6194
Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Diamond- or spindle-shaped object blocked vehicle. Heat,
-sound, strong physiological effects indicating radioactivity. Mystery
-helicopters followed UFO
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Huffman, TX
-ID: 366
Date: 1981
-Description: The “China Society of UFO Research” (CSUR) research
-organization was established. More than 600 UFO’s have been reported
-within the past 5 years in China. Studies will be done on UFO’s and
-human body science relationships.
-Type: research organization
-Reference: “Above Top Secret” by Timothy Good page 219
-Location: China
Date: 1981
-Description: A husband and wife are sleeping in their farmhouse near
-Newark, Ohio, when their dogs start barking loudly. They can hear people
-talking outside their window in a “foreign” language. They do not
-investigate, but in the morning they find three sets of footprint-like
-traces outside. They look like elongated scratch marks about 12 inches
-long, are uniform in shape, and go all the way to the fence line and
-through it. The couple begins to see a “perfectly round white circle of
-light,” about 1.5 inches in diameter, moving slowly around in their
-bedroom each night. The light is seen for about a month, no matter how
-the blinds and curtains are arranged. Sometimes it would stop moving for
-hours. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June
-2007): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6197
Date: 1981
-Description: The Norsk Institutt for Vitenskapelig Forskning og
-Opplysning in Trondheim, Norway, begins publishing the NIVFO Bulletin,
-edited by Gunnar Bertelsen and Kilbjørn Stenødegård. It continues
-through spring 1995. (NIVFO Bulletin, no.
-1 (1981))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6198
Date: 1981
-Description: Center for UFO Studies researcher Mark
-Rodeghier publishes UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, a
-comprehensive catalog and analysis of 441 cases where UFOs seem to
-affect cars or motorcycles. He finds that most of these cases occur in
-the late evening or early morning hours, and that in 35% of the cases,
-witness estimate they are within 100 feet of the object. Rodeghier also
-notes a high concentration of four characteristics: the presence of a
-light beam, loss of control of the vehicle, a physiological effect on
-the witness, and the UFO chasing the vehicle. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO
-Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS,
-1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6196
Date: 1981
-Description: New York artist Budd
-Hopkins publishes Missing Time, which first describes his research
-into abductions that show they are far more plentiful than anyone
-suspects, biological in purpose, and perhaps lifelong in scope. Hopkins
-also shows that a period of unexplained missing time is a typical aspect
-of the abduction experience. The information comes primarily from
-hypnotic regression performed by licensed psychologist Aphrodite
-Clamar, who also conducts psychological tests on the abductees.
-(Budd Hopkins, Missing
-Time: A Documented Study of UFO
-Abductions, R.
-Marek, 1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6195
Date: 1/1981
-Description: A. Bindas observes a radiant object above the city of
-Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, during the polar night. It
-disappears and reappears abruptly, hovers, and directs a wide beam of
-light on the ground. After 5–7 minutes it zooms off in a spiral-shaped
-trajectory. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk,
-p. 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6199
Date: 1/3/1981
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 367
Date: 1/6/1981
-Description: Four silvery discs executed turns, maneuvers, in a diamond
-formation. Objects flashed in sunlight as they turned, crossed western
-sky
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Payson, AZ
-ID: 368
Date: 1/8/1981
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A well-documented case of physical effects from a
-UFO takes place in Trans-en-Provence, Var, France. Renato Nicolaï, a
-gardener, hears a strange whistling sound while doing agricultural work
-on his property. He then sees an object in the shape of two saucers, one
-inverted on top of the other, about 8 feet in diameter land about 150
-feet away at a lower elevation. It has a thick band around the middle
-section, two circles that look like trapdoors, and two feet that extend
-about 8 inches below the body of the machine. The object takes off
-almost immediately, rising above the tree line and departing to the
-northeast. The case quickly comes to the attention of the police and is
-soon investigated by GEPAN, the French government’s scientific team of
-UFO investigators. The physical traces include evidence of vegetation
-and soil heating, skid marks, and circular ground marks. The chemical
-analysis reveals that the soil has been heated to 300°–600° C. Jean-Jacques
-Velasco thinks that the object could have weighed between 4 and 5
-tons. Trace amounts of phosphate and zinc are found in the sample
-material, and an analysis of wild alfalfa near the landing site shows
-chlorophyll levels 30%–50% lower than expected. The police report says
-that the trace, which appears on an active road, looks like one made by
-a car tire. This explanation is dismissed by GEPAN because of Nicolaï
-saying otherwise. (Wikipedia, “Trans-en-Provence Case”;
-NICAP, “Disc
-Leaves Extensive Ground Traces”; Enquête
-81/01: Analyse d’un Trace, Note
-Technique no. 16, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux
-Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 1, 1983;
-Michel Bounias, “Biochemical
-Traumatology As a Potent Tool for Identifying Actual Stresses Elicited
-by Unidentified
-Sources,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 (1990): 1–18;
-Jean-Jacques Velasco, “Report
-on the
-Analysis of Anomalous Physical Traces: The 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO
-Case,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 (1990): 27–48;
-Jacques Vallée, “Return
-to Trans-en-Provence,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1
-(1990): 19–25; Michel Bounias, “Further Quantification of
-Distance-Related Effects in the Trans-en-Provence Case,” JUFOS 5 (1994):
-109–121; Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, 1999, pp. 257–297;
-Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 112–120;
-Swords 443–445; 2Pinotti 53–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6200
Date: 1/8/1981
-Description: Landing, physical trace case investigated by official
-French agency
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Trans-en-Provence, France
-ID: 369
Date: 1/9/1981
-End date: 3/7/1981
-Description: Local concentration of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northern California
-ID: 370
Date: 1/12/1981
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files an appeal against the
-CAUS v. NSA decision. (ClearIntent, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6201
Date: 1/13/1981
-Description: Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I.
-Halt, Deputy Base Commander.
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Bentwaters AFB
-See also: 12/27/80
-See also: 12/29/80
Date: 1/15/1981
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Three sets of witnesses in Prairieton, Indiana,
-driving past two different fields on the same road, see 7–11
-four-foot-tall humanoids that appear to be searching for something. Some
-witnesses think they are naked; others report they are wearing
-“tight-fitting suits.” Most witnesses are within 20 feet of the
-creatures, usually watching for 15–20 seconds before racing off. At
-10:30 p.m., two women in a different area of town get a fleeting glimpse
-of a 6–7-foot tall creature with fur and luminous red eyes. (“UFO
-Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3
-(Mar./Apr. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6203
Date: 1/15/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Terre Haute, Indiana, begin reporting a
-string of about a dozen lights in the sky to a local television station.
-The lights are stationary then disappear by shooting straight up. (“UFO
-Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3
-(Mar./Apr. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6202
Date: 1/17/1981
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A witness at a construction site near Virginia
-Beach, Virginia, sees two silver cigars moving northbound in the eastern
-sky. Each has distinct outlines, a surface like aluminum, and pointed
-ends. They are flying with a slight up/down motion but horizontally at
-about 1,000–2,000 feet. (“Current
-Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March 1981):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6204
Date: 1/20/1981
-End date: 1/20/1989
-Description: President Ronald Reagan in office.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 12/27/80
-See also: 12/29/80
Date: 1/22/1981
-Description: Many witnesses see a brilliant triangular object with
-multiple red lights descending swiftly above the treetops just southeast
-of Jesup, Georgia. It is only visible for a few seconds. (Marler
-171–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6205
Date: 1/25/1981
-Description: Hovering cigar- or spindle-shaped object, disc with dome,
-darting motions, numerous photographs taken
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chatsworth, CA
-ID: 371
Date: 2/7/1981
-Description: The Larry King Show carries a three-hour program on UFOs
-with a panel consisting of Richard
-H. Hall, Bruce
-S. Maccabee, and
-Don
-Berliner. The
-first hour consists of Larry
-King interviewing the panelists; then he takes phone calls for two
-hours. (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1981, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6206
Date: 2/9/1981
-Description: Red-lighted object made pass at aircraft, instant
-relocation. “Very tight turns,” hovered, accelerated away at “extremely
-high rate of speed.”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Jose, CA
-ID: 372
Date: 2/12/1981
-Description: Night. About 25–30 people on an interstate highway in
-Flagstaff, Arizona, see a cigar-shaped object like a blimp, white in
-color with dark veins. A small white object is at one end. After 2
-minutes, the small object takes off at a high rate of speed and
-disappears. Meanwhile, a fog surrounds the blimp and it drifts away.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May
-2006): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6207
Date: 2/28/1981
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies can no longer afford to keep Allan
-Hendry on as a full-time investigator, so his affiliation ends. It
-closes its Evanston, Illinois, office and moves to Allen
-Hynek’s home. (Clark III 569)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6208
Date: 3/1981
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A witness is driving toward a pancake house in
-Memphis, Tennessee, for a cup of coffee when she sees three shining
-objects in the sky. She is so engrossed in watching that she passes by
-the restaurant. Suddenly the objects disappear into what look like puffs
-of smoke. A minute later, one reappears directly over the street in
-front of her. She turns into the Admiral Benbow Inn parking lot and
-alerts the night watchman, who sees the object hovering above her car
-and then rise above the inn. (“UFOs in a Puff of Smoke,” IUR/Frontiers
-of Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 181): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6211
Date: 3/1981
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale begins a newsletter to
-supplement its official journal, Notiziario UFO, edited by Roberto
-Pinotti. Titled
-Quaderni UFO, it is edited by Gianfranco Neri in Bologna, Italy, and
-continues through at least May 1983. (Quaderni
-UFO 1, no. 1 (Mar./Apr. 1981))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6209
Date: 3/1981
-Description: The Journal of UFO Research is first published by China’s
-UFO Research Organization. (Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March
-1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6210
Date: 3/6/1981
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A registered nurse living on West Granville
-Avenue on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, watches a triangular
-array of three white lights outside her south-facing window. The lights
-seem to be connected by “spokes.” The array is rotating in a clockwise
-direction. (“Nocturnal
-Triangle in Chicago Night Sky,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6
-(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1984): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6212
Date: 3/17/1981
-Description: 4:03 a.m. Sgt. Russell Yokum of the St. Helens, Oregon,
-police is on patrol on US Highway 30 on the edge of town when he sees a
-bright light apparently above the Columbia River. He goes to the
-Columbia County Courthouse for a better view, where he is joined by
-other police, but the object is no longer visible. Meanwhile, they are
-conversing via CB radio with Donald Atkins, who is in nearby Ridgefield,
-Washington, and watching a stationary light over the river. Atkins
-transmits a faint humming sound the object is making through his CB
-radio to officer Ricky Cade, who captures it on a cassette recorder.
-Yokum and Cade look to the south and see a bright orange-red light about
-80–100 feet above the river, apparently the same one that Atkins is
-watching. (“An Orange(!) Ball at St. Helens for St, Patrick,”
-IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no 4 (May/June 1981): 11–13; Mark Rodeghier,
-“St. Helens Revisited,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 12–14; J. Allen
-Hynek and Howard R. Schechter, “Narrow-Band
-Acoustic Analysis of a Recorded UFO Sound,” The Spectrum of UFO
-Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 1–12; Julie Thompson, “The
-Strange Case of the St. Helens UFO,” St. Helens (Oreg.) Chronicle,
-October 11, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6213
Date: 3/18/1981
-Description: NORAD becomes the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
-(Wikipedia, “North
-American Aerospace
-Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6214
Date: 3/20/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Larry Tilman is on Neil Road southwest of London,
-Ohio, hoping to get a UFO photo. He notices a small orange light over
-the city moving in a zig-zag fashion. It moves closer to his location,
-so he takes a time exposure photo as the light blinks out. (“Nocturnal
-Lights, March 20–21, 1981, London, Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter
-5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6215
Date: 3/21/1981
-Description: 11:35 p.m. A friend is driving Alba Dunlap home northbound
-on Runnymede Road in Toronto, Ontario. They see a disc-shaped object
-directly ahead and above them that has a red light on a central dome and
-white flashing lights around its perimeter. It seems to be 30–40 feet in
-diameter. They watch it for 2 minutes, then it moves slowly west and
-disappears. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 6 (June 1981): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6217
Date: 3/21/1981
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Larry Tilman again takes time-exposure photos of
-orange balls of light east of London, Ohio, near Madison Lake State
-Park. One appears to be the size of a car. (“Nocturnal
-Lights, March 20–21, 1981, London, Ohio,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6216
Date: 3/30/1981
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge bright light hovers over trees for 10
-minutes in Alton, Illinois. The UFO moves towards two witnesses at about
-10 mph. Frogs stop croaking and dogs begin barking excitedly. The object
-appears oval and is black except for lights on the circumference. A
-large circular opening is visible in the bottom of the black disc.
-Inside the opening the witnesses see “this churning motion of bright
-white light with yellow and orange colors in it…like gases rolling
-around in there.” After about 20–30 minutes it takes off rapidly.
-Shortly thereafter a jet flies over. Another UFO is seen coming across
-the trees a good 5 minutes later with the same results. (“Another
-World,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1981): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6218
Date: 4/3/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Some 50 people driving on National Route 35 north
-of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina, watch an object hovering about 300
-feet directly over the Escuela Agrotécnica de Santa Rosa for several
-minutes. It is a saucer-shaped craft about 100 feet in diameter that is
-radiating light over its circumference due to an intense white light at
-its center. It speeds away to the west and disappears. (“A New Radio
-Link,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1981, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6219
Date: 4/8/1981
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A private pilot named Dennis is flying a Piper
-PA-28-181 Archer II near the San Luis Reservoir, California, when a
-bullet-shaped object pulls alongside the airplane. Simultaneously,
-Dennis’s distance-measuring equipment, navigation and communications
-radios, and transponder go out. The object shoots ahead of the plane by
-about 1,500 feet and executes some erratic motions. Then, slowly
-drifting back, it paces him. The object is glowing orange and has a
-whirling bluish ring around it. The object pulsates and shoots forward
-about 4–5 miles ahead of the plane, and makes an instantaneous
-right-angle turn upward, in somewhat of a repeat of his November 5,
-1980, sighting. (“A Twin ‘Déjà vu’ Sighting?” IUR 7, no. 1 (January
-1982): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6220
Date: 4/12/1981
-Description: Two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc hovered a few feet off
-road about 40 feet away. Climbed rapidly through sky and disappeared in
-distance
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Goodhue, MN
-ID: 373
Date: 4/15/1981
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Walking through the parking lot of the P&C
-grocery store in Windsor, Vermont, Linda Kingsbury and Lucy Slothower
-notice two bright lights in the sky moving toward them. They are part of
-a dark, triangular object with additional blue and yellow lights on the
-underside. As it passes overhead, they hear a heavy humming. (“UFO
-Cruises Windsor,” White River Junction (Vt.) Valley News, April 17,
-1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 142 (May 1981): 4; Joe and Doris
-Graziano, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 8 (August 1981): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6221
Date: 4/16/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Engineer Eugene
-A. Fucci is driving southeast on Interstate 89 in Grantham, New
-Hampshire, when he notices two bright stars, one of which descends to
-just above the horizon. Shortly afterward, a huge triangular- shaped
-object with colored lights on the underside and a bright white light on
-top flies over his car. He estimates the object is about the size of
-five B-52s and moving at 2,000 feet altitude at 200 mph. It appears to
-be all metal and black in color. It passes to the west-southwest. (“Mount
-Sunapee UFO Supports Area Sightings,” West Lebanon (N.H.) Valley
-News, April 22, 1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 143 (June 1981):
-4; “Triangular UFO,
-April 16, 1981, at Grantham, N.H.,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no
-2 (April 1981): 2, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6222
Date: 4/20/1981
-Description: Small, shiny object below private plane. Object fluttered
-or tilted, accelerated rapidly, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Reno, NV
-ID: 374
Date: 4/21/1981
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 375
Date: 4/25/1981
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Du Shengyuan notices a curious object circling in
-the sky above Beijing, China. After unsuccessfully calling media
-outlets, he goes back outside and finds the object is now directly
-overhead at more than 6,500 feet. Through binoculars he can see it is
-bullet-shaped and varies its speed, sometimes hovering. The middle part
-is white, and the bottom is luminous green. It moves out of sight at
-7:25 a.m. Some 20 other people also watch the UFO. (Paul Dong and
-Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983,
-pp. 216–218; Good Above, pp. 217,
-470)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6223
Date: early 5/1981
-Description: Merle Shane McDow is attached to the US Navy Atlantic
-Command Support Facility in Norfolk, Virginia, when a UFO is tracked
-moving at high speed on at least five radar scopes up and down the
-Atlantic coast. The UFO sets off a Condition Zebra alert in the Naval
-Command Center, and Adm. Harry
-D. Train II gives the order to force down the object and recover it.
-US jets chase the UFO for more than an hour as far north as Greenland,
-sometimes confirming it visually, but it evades them. During the event,
-KH-11 reconnaissance satellites take photos of the object. The object
-moves from Nova Scotia to Norfolk in one sweep of the radar. Eventually
-it moves off at tremendous speed. (Steven M. Greer, Disclosure: Military
-and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History,
-Crossing Point, 2001, pp. 238–245; Stephen Erdmann, “Dr. Greer’s
-Greatest UFO Query,” UFO Digest, June 1, 2018; Good Need, pp. 337–338;
-“Condition
-Zebra: UFOs Overhead, Merle Shane McDow,” Abundance of Energy
-YouTube channel, October 7, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6224
Date: 5/4/1981
-Description: 2 :00 p.m. As he is pulling up to his home in Danville,
-Pennsylvania, on a motorcycle, William F. Hummer notices “cobwebs”
-hanging over houses, telephone wires, and parked cars. Wispy material is
-falling from the sky. He sees something moving around in the sky and
-goes in to get binoculars. He and another man watch several flying discs
-as they dart overhead in groups of twos and threes. One pauses and he
-can see it is round and metallic with a dome and “kind of peak on it.”
-His sister joins them and says they can see big masses of material
-floating around for 30 minutes. (Clark III 126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6225
Date: 5/5/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. The Earl Richards family in Tewksbury, New
-Jersey, notices lights moving outside after their television goes off
-and the electric lights dim. Earl Jr. sees dozens of green, blue, and
-red lights buzzing in the southern sky, apparently accompanying an
-enormous flying object covered with hundreds of lights. It is elongated
-and he can see an outline of wings. (“UFO
-Reported in Tewksbury,” Hunterdon County (N.J.) Democrat, May 14,
-1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 143 (June 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6227
Date: 5/5/1981
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Russian cosmonaut Vladimir
-Kovalyonok is orbiting in the Salyut
-6 space station over South Africa and moving toward the Indian
-Ocean. After doing some gymnastic exercises, he notices through a
-porthole an elliptical object resembling a “melon” with two clouds like
-a “barbell,” moving in the same direction as the Salyut in a suborbital
-path. Then a “kind of explosion happened, very beautiful to watch, of
-golden light.” One or two seconds later, a second explosion follows, and
-two golden spheres appear. Soon the Salyut enters the Earth’s terminator
-and he cannot see them any longer. James
-Oberg speculates that the object could have been a South African
-test of an Israeli Jericho-class solid-fuel missile from the Denel
-Overberg Test Range near Arniston, Western Cape. (Pegasus Research
-Consortium, “Russian
-Cosmonaut Sees UFO While in Orbit Aboard Salyut-6 Space
-Station,” 2002; Mori, “The Amazing Story of the Salyut-6 UFO
-Encounter,” forgetomori, April 16, 2011; James Oberg, “Have
-Cosmonauts Seen Launches?” December 18, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6226
Date: 5/14/1981
-Description: Cosmonauts Victor
-Savinykh and Vladimir
-Kovalyonok, aboard the Salyut
-6 space station, supposedly observe a strange spherical object with
-8 windows and well-lit inside. At first it is 1/2 mile away but it
-eventually approaches to 300 feet. Inside, the cosmonauts see three
-brown-skinned beings with slanted bright blue eyes, straight noses, and
-bushy eyebrows. At a distance of 100 feet, they resemble mechanical
-robots. Their facial expressions remain emotionless. They seem to be
-requesting closer contact with the Soviet craft. The object shifts
-around erratically and from time to time it vanishes, but then reappears
-in an instant. It seems to be metallic, but it has no doors, no solar
-batteries, no optical systems, no antennae, and no marks or writing of
-any kind. The cosmonauts also notice normal-looking armchairs, some
-devices, and walls inside the craft. Using a pair of powerful
-binoculars, the cosmonauts see the beings showing them what appears to
-be a star map. Allegedly the cosmonauts film the event and the film is
-later shown to party leaders by cosmonaut Georgy
-Beregovoy. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files:
-Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998,
-pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6228
Date: 5/16/1981
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A man is fishing in the Thompson River near
-Kamloops, British Columbia, when the water about 300–450 feet away
-starts bubbling up. A 15–20-foot UFO rises out of the water and slowly
-approaches the witness at a 45° angle, passes directly above him,
-accelerates upward, and speeds away. Pellets from the UFO, apparently
-from the object, fall around him. (“A Submarine UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1981): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6229
Date: 5/20/1981
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A witness is driving south on Shawnee Road
-southwest of Lima, Ohio, when he notices lights on his left less than a
-mile ahead. He sees an object hovering silently about 150–200 feet away
-and 75–100 feet in the air. He watches it from his car for 3 minutes. It
-has a glowing lavender-colored area around its outer edge and a dim
-white light radiating from the center of its flat base. The object moves
-to the northeast and accelerates. He loses interest and drives away, but
-another object begins moving parallel to his car about 300 feet to his
-left. He speeds up, but it maintains its pacing until it veers to the
-southwest. (“Recent
-Close Encounter with UFO in Ohio,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 (July 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6230
Date: 5/22/1981
-Description: Evening. Several hundred people in Florida, Uruguay, watch
-a drum-like UFO with red lights on the rear and green and red lights on
-each side. Its appearance coincides with an electrical blackout due to a
-power overload in the area. (“A New Radio Link,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring
-1981, pp. 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6231
Date: 6/5/1981
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Ding Shiliang and other students at Xi’an
-University, Shanxi, China, see a luminous flying object that splits into
-two parts, then three, then four. Shortly afterward, two of the units on
-either side vanish, leaving the other two segments still in position.
-Another UFO appears and the objects merge into one, splitting into two
-again later. It vanishes 20 minutes later. (Paul Dong and Wendelle
-Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983,
-pp. 219–220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6234
Date: 6/10/1981
-Description: 5:19 p.m. A worker at Sandia Laboratories is in the back
-yard of his home on the east side of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he
-sees an object flying west at a high altitude, 20,000–30,000 feet. It
-begins to tumble erratically. A second object with a bright light
-appears slightly above it, moving 2–3 times faster than a commercial
-airliner. The witness can hear no sound. The duration is 5 minutes.
-(“What the Bombardier Saw,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6
-(Jan./Feb. 1982): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6236
Date: 6/10/1981
-Description: 12:15 a.m. An Indian couple on the Yakama Indian
-Reservation in Washington State are driving west when the immediate area
-around their vehicle is illuminated. Overhead they see a large
-“badge-shaped” object about 35 feet in the air. Its periphery is marked
-by small, multicolored flashing lights. There are three large
-pale-yellow lights, one on each side and one centered between these. The
-object follows them for about one mile and then ascends vertically at a
-rapid speed and disappears into a cloud-like mist of its own making.
-(“Yakima Reservation Report,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6235
Date: 6/12/1981
-Description: Disc with dome hovered over truck, forward motion impeded,
-truck lifted off road
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Alice, TX
-ID: 376
Date: 6/12/1981
-Description: Farmer Chen Kang and his wife watch an object with
-twinkling lights in southern Taiwan. After hearing a strange sound, they
-look up and see a crystal object shaped like a reversed cone gliding
-downward. It lands behind a tree and continues whirling like a top and
-emitting fog. It flies off after about 10 minutes without leaving any
-traces. (South China Morning Post, June 14, 1981; “UFO
-Lands in Taiwan,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 (July 1981):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6237
Date: 6/18/1981
-Description: The first YF-117A stealth fighter makes its maiden flight
-at Groom Lake, Nevada. The aircraft remains a tightly held secret for
-much of the 1980s. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-F-117 Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6238
Date: summer 1981
-Description: William
-Moore gives Paul
-Bennewitz an altered version of the Project Aquarius document from
-1977. Moore had seen the original in November 1980 and has had his own
-copy since February 1981. He gives Bennewitz this document on behalf of
-Air Force Intelligence, knowing it has been altered, in order to retain
-his access to inside information. The document is the first time that
-the term MJ-1 makes its appearance. According to Moore, the original
-said that the NSA had altered Bennewitz’s photos and incidentally found
-them to be authentic. In the altered memo, NSA becomes NASA. (Greg
-Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 120–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6232
Date: summer 1981
-Description: Chinese UFO researcher Paul Dong (Moon Wai), a resident of
-California, becomes the editor of the China UFO Research Organization’s
-Journal of UFO Research and goes on a month-long lecture tour all over
-China. He collects hundreds of UFO cases from the period 1978–1981. In
-the next few years, hundreds of other cases (some dating back to 1940)
-are published in the journal. Many of them are published in UFOs over
-Modern China, by Wendelle C. Stevens and Paul Dong, 1983. (Paul Dong,
-“Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 3; Good Above, pp. 206–207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6233
Date: 7/1981
-Alternate date: 8/1981
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A man is camping with the Red Cross in a small
-town to the southeast of San José, Costa Rica. He sees a well-lit,
-triangular object about 1,200 feet away and perhaps 1,000 feet above the
-ground. It is completely silent. After hovering, the object turns,
-moves, makes a sharp angular turn, and then another to draw a triangular
-path in the sky. Then it moves rapidly high, then low, back to its
-original location. A second triangle approaches, and they hover in close
-proximity to each other for 30 minutes. Then they split up and disappear
-rapidly. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2
-(Summer 2004): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6255
Date: 7/4/1981
-Description: Major airline L-1011 jumbo jet en route from San Francisco
-to New York City encountered silvery disc-shaped object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Over Lake Michigan
-ID: 377
Date: 7/4/1981
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Captain Phil Schultz is flying TWA Flight 842, a
-Lockheed L-1011 TriStar commercial airliner, east at 37,000 feet over
-south-central Lake Michigan not far from Muskegon, Michigan, when a
-silvery disc darts into view ahead and above it. Expecting a mid-air
-collision, they brace themselves for impact. The object then moves
-rapidly in an arc down to the left and rolls, presenting a side view
-with six evenly spaced black portholes along the edge. It then
-disappears to the north. Schultz estimates the disc is moving at 1,000
-mph. (Richard F. Haines, “Commercial
-Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object: Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review
-27, no. 4 (January 1982): 3–6; Richard F. Haines, “Commercial
-Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object: Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review
-27, no. 5 (March 1982): 2–8; UFOEv II 141–142; Kean, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6239
Date: 7/11/1981
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A camp director at Girl Scout camp headquarters
-near Port Byron, Illinois, suddenly hears his dog barking in a warning
-manner. Through the trees that screen the camp swimming pool, he sees
-bright lights. He moves to an unobstructed view of the pool and notices
-the pool lights are not on. Instead, directly above the pool, and higher
-than the regular lights, is a brilliant light. Suddenly the lights go
-out. He hears a whirring noise that rises in pitch as it apparently
-rises into the sky. When he turns on the lights, he notices the pump is
-not running and the water level is down three feet, meaning some 30,000
-gallons of water are gone. (“Encounter at the Pool,” IUR/Frontiers of
-Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6240
Date: 7/12/1981
-Description: Brightly lighted, dome-shaped object with windows
-approached, turned, followed car, bright illumination. Object finally
-shot away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Temuka, New Zealand
-ID: 378
Date: 7/12/1981
-Description: 12:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Thew are driving east along a
-back road from Pleasant Point to Temuka, New Zealand, with their three
-young daughters when they are confronted by a brilliant, bright green,
-gold, and red object coming from the opposite direction. It stops
-abruptly about 600–900 feet away, then changes direction and begins
-silently pacing the car. Mrs. Thew, who is driving, becomes frightened
-and speeds up to 65 mph in an effort to reach a lighted area of town.
-The UFO keeps pace and moves closer, allowing the witnesses to see more
-details, such as two slots like vertically elongated rectangles and a
-row of square portholes. After a while it shoots away to the east. When
-they arrive home in Temuka at 1:20 a.m., they are surprised to see the
-object about 1,000 feet overhead. It remains visible another 40 minutes.
-(UFOEv II 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6241
Date: 7/15/1981
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Robert H. Nelson is flying a kite on the west
-side of Westfield, Massachusetts, when he notices a white rectangular
-object motionless in the southeast. After 20 seconds it emits swirls of
-vapor along its entire length that gradually dissipate. Another similar
-object appears in the north at the same altitude and also emitting vapor
-or smoke. (Robert H. Nelson, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6243
Date: 7/15/1981
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Four witnesses, three of them fire control
-lookouts, on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State, see a
-large, bright-white object make two passes over the reservation. One
-witness sees a rocketlike flame coming out of the object. On a second
-pass, the object is moving south when it makes an almost right-angle
-turn and disappears to the west. (“Yakima Reservation Report,” IUR 8,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 11, 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6242
Date: 7/16/1981
-Description: Before midnight. Two teenage boys are driving south on
-Highway 2A past CFB Penhold [now Red Deer Regional Airport]. A
-cube-shaped object 100 feet long with flashing lights approaches them
-from the front, stops about 15 feet off the ground, circles their car,
-and moves out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
-August Night, 2022, p. 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6244
Date: 7/19/1981
-Description: 8:27 p.m. Malcolm Smith is traveling on a boat up the
-Mahakam River in Borneo, Indonesia, when he sees an odd star that begins
-to blink, move in an arc, fade, and go out. It reappears 2 minutes
-later, moving and blinking more frequently, then it veers away and fades
-out. (Malcolm Smith, “Enigmatic Objects,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995):
-30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6245
Date: 7/19/1981
-Description: Around 11:45 p.m. Chrystal Jackson and her son Chris are
-driving north on State Highway 17 near Sugar Camp, Wisconsin, when they
-see a large, reddish-orange, elliptical object hovering near some pine
-trees less than 500 feet away on their right. One minute later, their
-car’s speed unaccountably reduces from 55 to 30 mph. The car seems to be
-dragging, even with the accelerator pressed to the floor. The object
-keeps the same distance from the car for 10–15 minutes and another 10
-miles when they turn west on State Highway 70, although it appears to be
-stationary. The car regains engine power after another 2 miles. A
-mechanic later finds that the two fuses controlling the brake lights and
-tail lights have blown, and the battery is leaking. A few days later,
-they discover that the thermostat in the engine is broken. (Mark
-Rodeghier, “Two People, a Car, and a Strange Object,” CUFOS Bulletin,
-Summer 1981, pp. 9–10, 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6246
Date: 7/22/1981
-Description: 3:10 a.m. Al Wagner, toll booth operator at the Mississippi
-River bridge in Muscatine, Iowa, goes out to feed some wild rabbits that
-hang around the bridge, when he notices six of them lying flat as though
-paralyzed with fear. Wagner sees an orange, nearly spherical object
-rising from behind the trees on the Illinois side of the river. It is
-about 30 feet in diameter and is glowing with an internal yellow light,
-which goes out as the object approaches. The object clears the highest
-part of the bridge by about 10 feet, making a wheezing sound. At its
-closest, it is 150 feet above the ground and 750 feet away from Wagner.
-It disappears above a small hill to the west. (“The Case of the
-Paralyzed Rabbits,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6247
Date: 7/23/1981
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Louise
-Betulius is fishing in a lake near Evansville, Indiana, when she
-sees the reflection of a large object in the water. It is a large sphere
-about 10–12 feet in diameter and moving silently west to east. Shortly
-afterward, it returns over some trees to the east, moving slowly toward
-the lake. It comes down about 3 feet off the ground and hovers 4–5 feet
-from the edge of the water, then moves slowly back to the east. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6248
Date: 7/23/1981
-Description: 10:30 p.m. James L. McCabe is sitting outside his home on
-Highland Avenue in Dover, New Jersey, looking for satellites with
-binoculars. Suddenly, two flashing white lights appear above the
-southern horizon. Their flashes become more frequent when their speed
-increases. One speeds away, but the other approaches, slipping in and
-out of the clouds for 20 seconds. He estimates it is at 1,500 feet when
-overhead, has a flat bottom, a strange raised center section, and a flat
-metallic color. Its top has a rippled appearance. The upper section has
-two windows. (“Cast
-Metallic Object Reported over Dover, New Jersey,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6249
Date: 7/29/1981
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 379
Date: 7/30/1981
-Description: Sen. Pete
-Domenici (R-N.Mex.) meets briefly with Sgt. Richard
-Doty at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about AFOSI
-investigations into Paul
-Bennewitz’s claims. He then dashes off to talk to Bennewitz.
-However, he soon loses interest and drops the matter. (Clark III 359;
-Alejandro T. Rojas, [Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6250
Date: 7/30/1981
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Jennifer Lindsey and her three children are
-driving near Berwick, Mississippi, when they notice an object with
-bright lights moving back and forth across the sky. As they arrive home,
-the object is moving at a low altitude above the house. It is bigger
-than an airplane, shaped like an arrowhead, and appears to be metallic.
-Behind it is a red light traveling in tandem. It passes over the house
-again 30 minutes later, moving west, without the trailing red light.
-(Doris and Joe Graziano, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 30, no 1 (February 1982): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6251
Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: An interview with Russian UFO expert Felix
-Ziegel appears in the Italian weekly magazine Gente, followed by a
-second part in the August 7 issue. Ziegel claims he has 50,000 UFO
-reports on file in the Moscow Aviation Institute and has compiled eight
-volumes of research material that are still unpublished. He believes
-there are three basic types of UFO occupants: spacemen (tall beings),
-humanoids (human-like), and aliens (short and like the “greys”). He says
-that UFOs carry crews of androids that possess the ability to appear and
-disappear at will and “seem to be deliberately constructed in order to
-confound all our notions of space, matter, time, and dimension.” (Good
-Above, pp. 240–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6252
Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached
-motorboat, one surrounded by “fog.” Paralysis felt, missing time,
-physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lieksa, Finland
-ID: 380
Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Two men in a motorboat on lake Mönninselkä near
-Pielisjärvi, Finland, see a dark spot in the sky. Four lights suddenly
-appear above them, and a fog forms in front of the boat. They lose the
-ability to move and soon lose consciousness. When they wake up, they are
-differently placed in the boat, the time is 4:10 a.m., and the boat is
-drifting. They go back ashore to their cottage, their heads begin to
-ache, and they feel very sleepy. Their hands tremble for nearly 2 weeks
-afterward, and their sense of balance is disturbed. (“The
-Pielinen Event,” UFO Research of Finland Annual Report, 1981,
-p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6253
Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: 9:15 p.m. A husband and wife are driving along a bumpy road
-near Kinston, North Carolina, when their headlights and dash lights go
-out and the engine stops. They open the doors and get out to push the
-car to the side of the road (noticing later that it is odd that they can
-see the road on a moonless night) and the lights suddenly come on again.
-They start the car up again and drive the short way home. Mechanics tell
-them they don’t know why a car would do that, so they assume there was a
-UFO involved. (“Cars That Go Stop on the Night,” IUR 7, no. 1 (January
-1982): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6254
Date: 8/1981
-Description: Three mysterious flattened circles appear in a cornfield
-within a natural amphitheater known as The Devil’s Punchbowl at
-Cheesefoot Head near Winchester, Wiltshire, England. The central circle
-is 55 feet in diameter; two smaller circles are arranged on either side.
-Ufologist Pat
-Delgado examines the field and is struck by the sharply defined
-edges of the circles and the manner in which the cornstalks are
-flattened in a clockwise swirl. He suspects UFO activity. (Pat Delgado,
-“Cheesefoot
-Head Mystery Rings,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 5 (March 1982):
-13–15; Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews, Circular Evidence, Guild, 1989, pp. 20–21;
-Pat Delgado, “1981: Cheesefoot
-Head Triplet,” The Croppie, July 11, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6256
Date: 8/8/1981
-Description: 6:15 p.m. A witness is on the beach with some friends at
-Chalupy on the Hel peninsula, north of Gdynia, Poland. He leaves them
-briefly to go back to a camping area and sees, 500 feet in front of him,
-“two boys in dark suits” dashing into the bushes on his right. A moment
-later they reappear, standing on the path in front of him. They are 5
-feet tall, wear green suits, and have green faces with big,
-almond-shaped eyes and slits for mouths. He can see dark boxes, violet
-and yellow cables, and tapes and spirals hanging from belts on the
-entities. He notices a silvery object and receives a telepathic message
-to “not be afraid.” He walks closer to them and hears another message:
-“Keep walking. Don’t stop.” The witness has the curious sensation of
-“passing through the interior of a ball.” He walks past them, looks
-back, and they have disappeared. On his right, the silvery disc, 6 feet
-high and 16–20 feet long, is hovering only 3 feet above the ground.
-Investigators later find seven odd oval marks where the object had been.
-(Bronislaw Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June
-1987): 18, 21; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFO
-Reports from Poland,” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 1 (March 1988):
-6–7; Poland 48–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6257
Date: 8/10/1981
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Russell Matson is driving west on 150th Street in
-Apple Valley, Minnesota, when just west of Pilot Knob Road he sees a
-hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It
-has two green, two red, and white lights on its corners. It is 60–90
-feet across. The object pivots, making a 90° turn while stationary, then
-descends and approaches the witness. It makes a soft whooshing sound as
-it passes, like gas escaping from a propane tank. (“The Investigator’s
-Dilemma,” IUR 7, no. 1 (January 1982): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6258
Date: 8/12/1981
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Rupert Pring is several miles outside of
-Anderson, Indiana, taking time-exposure photographs of the Perseid
-meteor shower with a camera attached to a tripod. He notices a distant
-light flashing like a strobe far to the south; it is soon joined by a
-second strobing light, and both move northeast in a straight line. The
-lights are as bright as a “halogen automobile headlight at 50 feet.”
-They stop moving briefly twice near the star Eta Tauri, then make a
-sharp right turn to the southeast. When Pring first notices the lights,
-he gets out of his car for a better sight, but freezes abruptly, “like
-something heavy was pushing down on my head and shoulders.” He
-experiences nausea for three days afterward and has a temporary,
-day-long memory loss. Meanwhile, the camera has captured much of the
-6-second flight path of the lights in an 8-minute time exposure. Further
-investigation prompts Pring to reveal that he and his wife had an
-abduction experience with missing time later that morning. As for the
-photo, the lights were most likely caused by Pring failing to close the
-shutter of his camera as he removed it from the tripod and thus picked
-up two mercury-vapor lights at a farmhouse about a half-mile away. (“A
-Nocturnal Light Close Encounter,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 5–7; Mark
-Rodeghier, “March-April Cover Photo Mystery Solved,” IUR 7, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1982): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6259
Date: 8/15/1981
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Twenty workers returning from the fields at the
-Forestry Commission Station of La Rochelle, 5.5 miles northeast of
-Mutare, Zimbabwe, see a ball of light moving around at a low level.
-Clifford Muchena is in charge of the group, and he watches the 5-foot
-fireball maneuver around the grounds then move up to an observation
-tower, entering through the top window before it bursts into flame. As
-Muchena is ringing a warning bell, he sees the fireball come back down
-the tower, go past him, and burst into flame again at an outbuilding.
-Muchena goes to douse the fire but stops when he sees three men wearing
-silver coveralls. The light is too bright to see clearly, and after it
-goes out the beings are gone. Women in the compound have seen the
-fireball and the entities and run out into the bush, thinking they are
-ghosts. (Cynthia Hind, “Entities
-at New Rochelle,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 183 (May 1983): 6–10;
-Cynthia Hind, “UFOs and the African Tribal System,” UFOs 1947– 1987,
-Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6260
Date: 8/16/1981
-Description: A huge object approaches the island of Cyprus. Radar at a
-Sovereign British Base, either Akrotiri or Dhekelia, track it at 30,000
-feet going 900 mph. It comes to a sudden stop and hovers above the base
-for 45 minutes. Witnesses take many photos of a bright white triangle
-more than 700 feet long. Allegedly, the Ministry of Defence had sent an
-encrypted message to the base prior to the sighting, ordering a
-“complete stand-down of aircraft in the event that any strange ‘aerial
-phenomena’” are sighted. On August 17, a man and woman arrive at the
-base, stay for 6 hours, then leave with all the photos and other
-evidence. Shortly afterward, according to an informant, US and UK Air
-Force personnel meet at RAF Lakenheath in England to discuss the case.
-(Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon &
-Schuster, 1997, pp. 157–158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6261
Date: 8/30/1981
-Description: UFO brightly illuminated car, witness badly frightened,
-memory loss. Fired pistol at object circling the car, fled at high
-speed. Red dots like puncture marks found on wrists
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: El Cajon, CA
-ID: 381
Date: 9/1981
-Description: The Association d’Étude sur les Soucoupes Volantes renames
-its AESV Bulletin as OVNI Présence and moves its publishing operation to
-its Swiss office in Vevay, Switzerland. Yves Bosson takes over as chief
-editor. The magazine continues until February 1995. (OVNI
-Présence, no. 18 (September 1981))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6262
Date: 9/10/1981
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Denise Bishop, 23, is returning to her home in
-Weston Mill, Plymouth, England, when she sees some lights behind the
-house. As she goes to the back of the bungalow, she sees an enormous
-metallic-gray UFO hovering above houses on top of a hill. Six or seven
-broad shafts of light are shining down on the rooftops beneath it. As
-she grabs the doorknob to go inside, a lime-green pencil of light comes
-from the object and hits the back of her hand and she cannot move. The
-light remains for 30 seconds; when it switches off, she opens the door
-and goes inside. The UFO then lifts into the sky and moves away. An hour
-of so later, she notices a burn mark on her hand. The next day she
-visits Bob Boyd, an investigator with the Plymouth UFO Research Group,
-who takes photos of her hand, which has a patch of shiny dermis with
-spots of blood and bruising. On September 12, Boyd visits her with a
-nurse, who persuades her to see a doctor. Scab tissue forms on September
-15, followed by a scar that is still visible in July 1982. (Good Above,
-pp. 98–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6263
Date: 9/18/1981
-Description: Triangular objects with body lights, humming sound,
-observed three times over freeway and valley area
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Conejo Valley, CA
-ID: 382
Date: 9/18/1981
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Six members of a family in Simi Valley,
-California, watch a light approach and see a triangular object with five
-bright white lights on the front and sides. The unlit center portion
-appears to be like brushed aluminum with a grid pattern. As it passes
-overhead, they hear a low-pitched hum. A blinking, red-orange light is
-at the rear. Two or three smaller lights are following in its path.
-(UFOEv II 229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6264
Date: 9/18/1981
-Description: 9:15 p.m. John Sharwath and Randy Bandurant are driving
-north on the Moorpark Freeway north of Thousand Oaks, California, when
-they notice three bright lights like floodlights on the horizon to the
-north. As they approach the end of the freeway in Moorpark, the light
-resolves into five separate lights, three in a row above and two below.
-When they pass nearly under the lights, they notice two triangular
-bodies that the lights are associated with. At 9:25 p.m., Cherie
-Thompson and Joyce Bandurant are driving on the Moorpark Freeway some
-distance behind the other car, and they see two triangular lighted
-objects. The lowest passes over their car at 50– 100 feet altitude near
-the Olsen Road interchange. They stop along the freeway to watch, but
-the objects are disappearing behind the hills. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-January 1982; UFOEv II, 229–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6265
Date: 9/25/1981
-End date: 9/27/1981
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies holds a second conference in
-Chicago, with talks by J.
-Allen Hynek, Budd
-Hopkins, Bruce
-Maccabee, and
-Mark
-Rodeghier. Presented
-papers are printed in The Spectrum of UFO Research. (“CUFOS
-Symposium in Chicago Well-Attended,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2,
-no. 11 (November 1981): 1, 6; Mimi Hynek, ed., The
-Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988; Ron Westrum, [review], JUFOS
-1 (1989): 172–174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6266
Date: 9/26/1981
-Description: Mountaineers Reinhold
-Messner and Doug
-Scott watch a UFO the size of the full moon for nearly 3 hours
-during an unsuccessful attempt on the main peak of Mount Chamlang in the
-Himalayas near Makalu in Nepal. The object at first is moving slowly
-southward, then shifts to the east, northwest, and finally north, making
-irregular movements before it disappears somewhere over Tibet. (“Top
-Climber: I Spotted UFO,” Montreal (Quebec) Gazette, October 10,
-1981, p. 26; “From the Heart of Asia: Two UFOs, a Half Century Apart,”
-IUR 7, no. 1 (January 1982): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6267
Date: 9/28/1981
-Description: Hungarian-American filmmaker and UFO hobbyist Colman
-VonKeviczky, founder of the Intercontinental UFO Galactic Spacecraft
-Research and Analytic Network, writes a five-page letter to President Ronald
-Reagan, claiming that UFOs are an extraterrestrial task force that
-will destroy earth unless world leaders collaborate. It is the third
-time he has written, and it includes 17 documents that illustrate the
-“potential threat of the UFO forces.” In response to VonKeviczky’s
-letter to Reagan, Maj. Gen. Robert
-L. Schweitzer, White House chief military advisor, writes: “The
-President is well aware of the threat you document so clearly and is
-doing all in his power to restore the national defense margin of safety
-as quickly and prudently as possible.” VonKeviczky shows the letter to
-the Associated Press, which contacts Schweitzer, who says the letter is
-a mistake and thought the threat refers to the Soviets. Schweitzer is
-fired on October 21 for making unauthorized belligerent statements about
-Russia. (presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January
-20, 1981–January 20, 1989”; “A Top
-General Talks of War, Is
-Reassigned,” Boston Globe, October 21, 1981, pp. 1, 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6268
Date: 10/1981
-Description: Local concentration of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Texas Gulf Coast
-ID: 383
Date: 10/1981
-Description: NORAD refuses to waive fees for FOIA requests from Citizens
-Against UFO Secrecy because of “cumulative and recurring” requests.
-(ClearIntent, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6269
Date: 10/1981
-Description: USAF Airman Simone Mendez, 21, trained as a
-telecommunications specialist, is working at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas,
-Nevada, with a top-secret clearance. One of her coworkers gives her a
-top-secret message with a copy of a classified document stating that
-NORAD has been tracking UFOs entering the Earth’s atmosphere. She holds
-on to it until January 1982 when she attempts to return the document to
-Nellis. She is told that the document must be destroyed. One thing leads
-to another, and Mendez finds herself under interrogation by the FBI and
-AFOSI. This includes polygraph tests, which she fails because she finds
-them very distressing. This leads to an emotional breakdown,
-hospitalization, and medication. There are more interrogations over the
-next few months, and another hospitalization. Eventually, the Air Force
-clears her of criminal charges, but her security clearance is stripped,
-and she is transferred to another base. (“The
-Simone Mendez Case,” Alien Expanse, September 18, 2018; Paul
-Carr, “Conversation
-18: Simone Mendez,” Aerial Phenomena Investigations, September 23,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6270
Date: 10/2/1981
-Description: Afternoon. Three days after a nighttime UFO sighting, Grant
-Breiland goes down to the business district in Victoria, British
-Columbia, to meet a friend. When the friend does not show, Breiland
-calls him up from a pay phone. Immediately afterward, he sees two men
-watching him. Dressed in dark suits, they have suntanned, expressionless
-faces and unblinking eyes. When they speak, their lips do not move. The
-first one asks his name, then the second asks for his address and phone
-number. He does not respond, and after 5 seconds, the men leave through
-the main door and walk in perfect synchronization to a nearby roadway.
-Breiland follows them and sees them enter a muddy plowed field some
-80–90 feet across. Three-quarters of the way across, the men vanish,
-leaving no footprints behind. During the entire time the men are
-visible, no other human beings are in view and no cars pass by. (P. M.
-H. Edwards, “M.I.B.
-Activity Reported from Victoria B.C.,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no.
-4 (January 1982): 7–12; Clark III 733)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6271
Date: 10/8/1981
-Description: Daylight disc photo
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada
-ID: 384
Date: 10/8/1981
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Hannah McRoberts is taking photos with her
-family at a rest area some 30 miles north of Kelsey Bay, Vancouver
-Island, British Columbia. She snaps a color photo of one of the
-mountains to the west that has an interesting cumulus cloud above it.
-When the photo is developed, it shows a silvery disc to the right of and
-above the peak. UFO researcher Richard
-F. Haines examines the original and determines that the image shows
-an unknown three-dimensional object positioned at least 30 feet away
-from the camera. (NICAP, “Daylight
-Disc Photo”;
-Richard F. Haines, “Analysis
-of a UFO Photograph,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 2
-(1987): 129–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6272
Date: 10/15/1981
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Many citizens of Hällefors, Sweden, observe a
-huge cigar-shaped object “as large as a truck” that appears suddenly in
-the north gliding along just above the treetops. Four oblong windows are
-apparent, through which a blue-white light shines, and a red light is in
-the rear. A clear and piercing engine noise is evident as it slowly
-moves south for more than an hour. Former Chief Constable Björn Fagrell
-describes it as like two connected railway cars. The object makes a slow
-clockwise turn around the village, after which a flame comes out of the
-rear of the object. (“‘Flying
-Truck’ Seen over Hällefors for 75 Minutes!” Nordic UFO Newsletter,
-1982, no. 1, pp. 6–8; Stig Aggestad, “The
-Hällesfors Incident Continues to Grow: Giant UFO Still
-Unidentified,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 1, pp. 2–3; Christer
-Nordin, “The
-UFO over Hällefors: A Smuggled-In Airship,
-Says ‘Magasinet,’ a Channel 2 TV Program,” Nordic UFO Newsletter,
-1983, no. 1, pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6273
Date: 10/19/1981
-Description: Barry Goldwater, Senator, Arizona, in a letter to Lee
-Graham, Aerojet Electric Systems, Azusa, CA, states that he has given up
-trying to get into the BLUE ROOM at Wright-Patterson AFB where UFO
-artifacts are stored by the Air Force.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/19/1981
-Description: Sen. Barry
-Goldwater (R-Ariz.) responds to constituent Lee M. Graham asking
-about rumors of alien technology and bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB in
-Ohio. He writes: “I have long ago given up acquiring access to the
-so-called blue room at Wright-Patterson…. this thing has gotten so
-highly classified, even though I will admit there is a lot of it that
-has been released, it is just impossible to get anything on it.” (“The
-Color Blue and UFO’s,” Above Top Secret forum, March 30, 2011; Nick
-Redfern, “UFOs
-and Senator Barry Goldwater,” Mysterious Universe, May 1,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6274
Date: 10/28/1981
-Description: An appeal of the CAUS v. NSA case is heard by a three-judge
-panel (J.
-Skelly Wright, Roger
-Robb, and Norma
-Holloway Johnson) of the US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.
-In a brief decision issued barely a week after oral arguments, the
-judges uphold the lower court’s decision without comment. (“Suit
-Seeks to Lift Secrecy
-Veil from Agency’s Documents,” Washington Post, December 3, 1981;
-William A. Moore, “CAUS
-vs. NSA
-Lawsuit Goes to US Supreme Court,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 1 (February
-1982): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6275
Date: 11/1981
-Description: Localized concentration began, continuing off and on for
-several years. Many structured object cases, photographs (see
-January—February 1984).
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hessdalen, Norway
-ID: 385
Date: 11/1981
-Description: Residents of the Hessdalen valley, Norway, begin reporting
-frequent sightings of unusual lights that hover (sometimes for as long
-as an hour) and sometimes streak off at speeds that render them all but
-invisible. On many occasions the lights are below the horizon, either
-just beneath the tops of nearby mountains or not far from the ground or
-the rooftops of nearby houses. The lights come in various shapes, but
-three predominate: a bullet or cigar, a sphere, and an “upside-down
-Christmas tree.” They are usually yellow or white. Sometimes a small red
-light appears in front of the others, the various lights maintaining a
-fixed position, leading observers to suspect they are all attached to a
-single, dark object. More often than not, they are seen at night moving
-from north to south; but daylight sightings also occur, usually during
-the winter. Anomalous sounds are sometimes reported. Especially frequent
-activity occurs between December 1981 and mid-1984, when the lights are
-seen 15–20 times per week, attracting many tourists. (Wikipedia, “Hessdalen
-lights”; “Project Hessdalen: The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8,
-no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 6–8; “Project Hessdalen,” IUR 10, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1985): 14; J. Allen Hynek, “Tracking the Hessdalen Lights,”
-IUR 10, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1985): 10–11; Clark III 571)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6276
Date: 11/3/1981
-Description: Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift
-Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Washington
-Post
-Location: US
Date: 11/3/1981
-Description: Civil Action, Case #80–1562, goes against the plaintiff and
-for the defendant, the NSA. The NSA retains the right to withhold 156
-Top Secret records containing communications intelligence (COMINT)
-reports which were produced between 1958 and 1979. Only military
-personnel with a Top Secret Clearance were allowed to view the documents
-for the court hearing. NOT even the Judge was allowed to see them, even
-though he ruled against the plaintiff (CAUS).
-Type: court case
-Reference: Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A)
-Location: US
-See also: 6/24/83
Date: 11/3/1981
-Description: The US District Court for the District of Columbia issues a
-per curiam judgment that denies an appeal of the CAUS case against the
-NSA. (“Federal
-Court Upholds Decision Against CAUS,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2,
-no. 12 (December 1981): 6; ClearIntent, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6277
Date: 11/12/1981
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at the Greek-American
-NATO base in Chortiatis, Greece, pick up unidentified targets on their
-radar screens. Six pursuit aircraft are scrambled, but the UFOs
-disappear as soon as the planes approach. At 6:45 p.m., luminous objects
-appear over Edessa, Greece, and maneuver for 30 minutes. Other objects
-are spotted at Kalochori, Michaniona, Giannitsa, Larissa, Ptolemaida,
-and Lagyna. (“The Hide-and- Seek of the UFOs and the Six Jets That Went
-after Them,” IUR 7, no. 1 (January 1982): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6278
Date: 11/24/1981
-Description: Domed disc hovered nearby, beamed light down onto truck.
-Driver fled, object followed and beamed light on truck a second time
-before departing
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Marshall, TX
-ID: 386
Date: 11/24/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Power company employee Dale
-Spurlock sees a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level while
-driving just north of Darco, Texas, on the Darco Cutoff Road near a
-small lake and some power lines. It has four colored lights—a row of
-red, blue, green, and amber lights—at the base of the dome. It makes no
-sound as it passes left to right just above the tress, and then hovers.
-The object tilts and two headlights from the front of the UFO shine
-directly down on Spurlock’s pickup truck. The object is revolving
-counterclockwise and moves off to the east. The truck’s electrical
-system (alternator and battery) is damaged. (“Nocturnal Rural
-Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 5–8; “1977
-Sketch/Sighting and 1981 Sketch Similarity: Another One,” CUFOS
-Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6279
Date: 12/1981
-Description: A triangular object appears between Royton and Oldham in
-Greater Manchester, England. The UFO has a light on each corner; one of
-the lights detaches and flies off. (Marler 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6280
Date: 12/4/1981
-Description: President Ronald
-Reagan issues Executive Order 12333 extending the powers of US
-intelligence agencies. It is regarded by the American intelligence
-community as a fundamental document authorizing the expansion of data
-collection activities and later is employed by the National Security
-Agency as legal authorization for its collection of unencrypted
-information flowing through the data centers of internet communications
-giants Google and Yahoo! It repeats a prohibition against state
-assassinations. (Wikipedia, “Executive
-Order 12333”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6281
Date: 12/8/1981
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Alma Hobbs is driving with her two children on
-State Highway 12 three miles southwest of Reserve, New Mexico. An
-enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, estimated to be 750 feet in
-length, makes a number of turns in the sky. They arrive at a restaurant
-near the intersection of State 12 and US Highway 180, where Dan Luscomb
-and Rosie Tafoya also see the object, which executes a 90° turn near
-Luna Mountain as a jet aircraft chases the UFO out of sight. (“Hunting
-Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 13–14;
-“Update on the Reserve, N.M. ‘Tube-Like’ UFO,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June
-1982): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6282
Date: 12/15/1981
-Description: After sunset. Ali Ozel sees an extremely bright light
-hovering at a distance of 650–980 feet above his car in Aksaray, central
-Anatolia, Turkey. It performs some maneuvers and disappears to the
-southwest. (“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1983): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6283
Date: 12/19/1981
-Description: UFO swooped over vehicle, blocked road
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Areal, Brazil
-ID: 387
Date: 12/20/1981
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Journalists Nils
-Kåre Nesvold and Per Holden see a shiny, spherical object at
-Vongraven, Norway, the apparent size of a large star. It is steady and
-intense with no halo. It is flying nearly 3 miles distant and about
-3,300–6,500 feet above a mountain. Its speed is irregular, and it
-changes both course and altitude. Suddenly it disappears as though it is
-switched off. (Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean
-Tomes, 1987, pp. 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6284
Date: 12/21/1981
-Description: Captain O. Celen and other people in Aksaray, Turkey, see a
-huge, glittering, silent, egg-shaped object shedding a greenish light
-over the building site of the Aksaray Engine Factory. It is hovering at
-800–1,000 feet and shoots away to the southwest. (“‘Mysteries of
-Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6285
Date: 12/28/1981
-Description: 10:30 a.m. G. W. Schoen and two others are talking outside
-a stable on a farm south of Westminster, Maryland, when they see a
-grayish-black object flying east to west against the wind and below the
-clouds at 1,000 feet. It is shaped like a lightbulb, with visible ribs
-and dark black lines. It climbs slowly and gradually disappears from
-sight. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6286
Date: 12/29/1981
-End date: 12/30/1981
-Description: William
-Moore meets twice with AFOSI officer Richard
-Doty in a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Doty provides Moore
-with copies of three documents, one of which is a “fake” to test Moore.
-Another is the one-page Aquarius teletype. (Brad Sparks and Barry
-Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON
-2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007,
-pp. 92–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6287
Date: 1982
-Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz was sending regular reports to
-the APRO and contacted US Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter
-Domenici, as well as other UFO investigators such as Linda Moulton Howe
-and John Lear. By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz’s
-claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former
-schoolteacher turned writer and ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Bill
-Moore later stated in a public confession that he was recruited by
-someone with the code name Falcon to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by
-giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by
-AFOSI agents (believed to be Richard Doty and Steve Atwater), and that
-for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the
-forged “Aquarius Document” to Bennewitz. This disinformation included
-“verification” of Bennewitz’s beliefs about the “grays” and the
-underground base at Dulce. Bennewitz had to be hospitalized for
-“exhaustion”. He later died on June 23, 2003.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: 1982
-Description: Richard
-Mingus is coordinating security operations for Livermore in the Area
-6 section of the Nevada Test Site when, just as an unsecured, live
-nuclear weapon is being lowered into an 800-foot-deep shaft prior to
-testing, an alert goes off that the facility is under attack. It turns
-out that Wackenhut Security has decided to conduct a mock helicopter
-attack on an access point to Area 51 to test the system for weaknesses
-but neglects to inform the Department of Energy beforehand. (Jacobsen,
-Area 51, pp. 333–338)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6288
Date: 1982
-Description: The National Security Agency, through the Department of
-Justice, covertly misappropriates a Prosecutors Management Information
-System (PROMIS) developed by private firm Inslaw to aid prosecutors in
-tracking cases. Inslaw claims that the feds withheld payments on the
-software, then pirated it, making modifications to allow it to monitor
-intelligence operations, then giving or selling it to Israel and 80
-other countries through Earl
-W.
-Brian, a
-man with close personal and business ties to President Ronald
-Reagan and then-presidential counsel Edwin
-Meese. The
-NSA uses it to covertly conduct real-time electronic surveillance of the
-flow of money to suspected terrorists and other perceived threats to US
-national interests. Fabrizio
-Calvi and Thierry Pfister in 1997 claim that NSA has been “seeding
-computers abroad with PROMIS-embedded SMART (Systems Management
-Automated Reasoning Tools) chips, code-named Petrie, a Trojan horse
-capable of covertly downloading data and transmitting it, using
-electrical wiring as an antenna, to US intelligence satellites” as part
-of an espionage operation. (Wikipedia, “PROMIS
-(software)”; Ryan Gallagher, “Dirtier
-Than Watergate,” New Statesman, April 20, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6289
Date: 1982
-Description: Audits and Surveys, in a report sponsored by Merit Report,
-finds that 49% of Americans definitely or probably think
-extraterrestrial UFOs have been here. (Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of
-Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6290
Date: 1982
-Description: Brazilian ufologist Irene
-Granchi founds the Centro de Investigação sobre a Natureza dos
-Extraterrestres in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group is eventually taken
-over by her daughter Chica
-Granchi. (Claudio
-Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “Entrevista:
-Irene Granchi, a Grande Pioneira da Pesquisa Ufológica no Brasil,”
-Portal UFO, May 4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6291
Date: 1982
-Description: The Royal Australian Air Force grants permission to UFO
-researcher Bill
-Chalker to examine its UFO files. Chalker visits the archives in
-Canberra, A.C.T., and reviews more than 1,000 reports in 53 RAAF files
-through 1984, allowing him to compile a detailed summary covering the
-years 1950 to 1980. He concludes that the existence of some interesting
-cases in the files is not suggestive of an RAAF coverup. (Keith
-Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A
-Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6292
Date: 1/2/1982
-Description: Writer Bob
-Pratt flies out to Arizona to meet William
-Moore, who
-has called him to propose a non-fiction book project about UFOs. Moore
-tells him about MJ-12, Project Aquarius, and other alleged revelations.
-Pratt secretly tapes his conversations with Moore, which reveal his
-contacts with Richard
-Doty and other agents of disinformation. (Brad Sparks and Barry
-Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON
-2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007,
-pp. 92–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6293
Date: 1/3/1982
-Description: Two Brazilian Air Force F-5 fighters flying at about 5,000
-feet over Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, see a dark
-metallic-looking object about 66 feet long, 55 feet high, and 3,000 feet
-away. The control tower cannot see anything in the vicinity. The F-5s
-get closer, but the object ascends and stays above them. They stay in
-this position for 30 seconds and then the UFO accelerates and
-disappears. (Clark III 205; Brazil 552)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6294
Date: 1/5/1982
-Description: The Society for Scientific Exploration is founded by Peter
-A. Sturrock at a meeting held at the National Academy of Sciences in
-Washington, D.C., in order to study phenomena “generally regarded by the
-scientific community as being outside their established fields of
-inquiry.” (“Professors
-Join in UFO Study Forum,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4
-(Aug./Sept. 1982): 1, 3; Clark III 1082–1083)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6295
Date: 1/9/1982
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Carl (Eddie) Cox III steps outside his rural home
-near Washington, North Carolina, to photograph the rising full moon with
-a new 35mm camera using high-speed color film. He sees and takes 8
-photographs of a strange, tubular object moving from the northeast. The
-photos show a double tube with varying configurations of white and
-red-orange lights. The final photo shows the tops of nearby trees and
-distant condensation trails. Analysis suggests that the sighting is due
-to a distant aircraft passing through a condensation trail. (“Tubular
-UFO Photographed,
-January 9, 1982,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3 (June/July
-1982): 1, 4; “January
-UFO Photos
-Become Identified FOs,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6
-(Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6296
Date: 1/15/1982
-Description: 7:05–11:35 p.m. Three sightings occur one after the other
-in Turkey. An object resembling a tray is seen at 7:05 p.m. over Niğde
-in central Anatolia. At 9:35 p.m., two UFOs are reported at Havsa,
-Edirne, accompanied by reported malfunctioning TV sets in the town.
-Around 11:30 p.m., a reported UFO causes the citizens of İzmir, western
-Anatolia, to panic. When the UFO hovers above the Buca forest it takes
-on a flaming appearance, causing fire brigades to rush to the scene,
-keeping watch over the object for 45 minutes until it vanishes.
-(“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1983): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6297
Date: 2/1982
-Description: William
-Moore receives a plain envelope from one of the intermediaries of
-“Falcon.” Inside are Air Force documents signed by Richard
-Doty regarding unexplained lights over Kirtland AFB and Manzano in
-New Mexico from 1980. Moore and Bruce
-Maccabee examine the documents and conduct a detailed on-site
-investigation, finding no contradictions. (Greg Bishop, Project Beta,
-Paraview, 2005, p. 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6298
Date: 2/2/1982
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Susanne Anderson, 18, is jogging in Skövde,
-Sweden, when she notices two intense blinking lights that seem to be
-coming toward her. She hears no sound and gets frightened. After
-speeding up to a full run, she turns around and sees a metal-blue,
-saucer-shaped object with a blinking red light on the bottom. Terrified,
-she hides in a school building. (“A Short Tale of a Swedish CE-1,” IUR
-7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6299
Date: 2/6/1982
-Description: Prof. John Spencer Carr of Clearwater FL calls ufologist
-Leonard Stringfield and revealed a key USAF officer’s witness name to
-the 1948 Aztec C/R. Stringfield sat back dumbfounded, because in the
-past this officer had spoken to Stringfield and told him about UFO’s.
-The USAF officer saw the occupant bodies on location.
-Type: telephone call
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Clearwater FL
-See also: 3/25/48
Date: 2/8/1982
-Description: Capt. Gerson Maciel de Britto, piloting a Boeing 727 for
-VASP Flight 169, notices an intense light source while flying over
-Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil, on a southern course. It starts
-accompanying the aircraft in a parallel course, keeping the same
-distance. But the object soon begins changing its speed, moving ahead of
-the plane and then allowing it to catch up. As it approaches Belo
-Horizonte, the object approaches the plane, allowing crew and 150
-passengers to view its lenticular form. At this point, the light
-emanating from the UFO penetrates the interior of the cabin and
-illuminates it with a bluish tint. The UFO is still in clear view as the
-aircraft begins landing at Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro. Some
-witnesses on the Rio-Niterói Bridge also see the object. (“The Climactic
-UFO Case of the Winter 1982 Brazilian ‘Flap,’” IUR 7, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1982): 11–13; Luiz Augusto da Silva, “Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena: The VASP-169 Flight Brazilian Episode Revisited,”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 27, no. 4 (2013): 637–654; Patrick
-Gross, “UFO-Aircraft
-Encounters”; Clark III 198–200; Brazil 537–541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6300
Date: 2/10/1982
-Description: 11:35 p.m. Tammy Utt and two other 17-year-old girls are
-driving in a car on I Road and 18th Road west of Escanaba, Michigan,
-when they encounter a low-flying domed disc. The mist from the rear of
-the object looks like “lit up snowflakes.” The rim around the bottom of
-the UFO has red windows all the way around it, and a red light shines
-through the windows. The sighting lasts seven minutes. (“Nocturnal Rural
-Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 8–11; Kenneth C. Schellhase,
-“A Unique Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6301
Date: 2/12/1982
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Civil engineer Robert A. Sproat is driving south
-on Gouger Road just south of County Road 7 in Lockport, Illinois, when
-he sees a light similar to an aircraft landing light over the Lockport
-locks and dam. It begins a smooth banking turn to the left at about
-1,000 feet, and he can make out a structure about 40 feet square.
-(Robert A. Sproat, “Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 3 (June/July 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6302
Date: mid 2/1982
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Aubre Brogden is driving along Vermont Highway 36
-near Bakersfield, Vermont, when she sees a lighted triangular object in
-the sky approaching her. As she pulls into her driveway, it hovers above
-her backyard about 25 feet away then silently moves directly above her.
-She estimates it is as large as a football field. The object moves away
-noiselessly. (“Recurrent
-Sightings on Vermont Highway,” APRO Bulletin 31, no. 7 (July 1983):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6303
Date: 2/19/1982
-Description: 4:54 p.m. A strange radiance is noticed in the sky above
-the frozen Lake Onega, from Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia,
-Russia. The glow is pale blue and is shaped like a cloud, inside of
-which is an elliptical bright spot. After a few minutes, the bright spot
-disappears behind the forest, but the luminescent cloud remains in the
-sky for a time. Around 5:00 p.m., two more spots appear, moving
-together. One of them resembles the first object but is smaller. The
-other is a luminous sphere moving in a spiral. As it moves, it leaves a
-hazy trail that quickly disappears. At 5:15 p.m., a bright arrow-shaped
-object flies directly above the city a great speed, leaving a trail.
-None of the objects make any sound. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO
-Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6304
Date: 2/19/1982
-Description: E-M effects on car, dome-shaped object overhead, driver
-blacked out, taken to hospital with memory loss, physiological
-effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: medical
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina
-ID: 388
Date: 2/24/1982
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Neillsville, Wisconsin, police officer Chuck
-Urban is patrolling 12 miles west of town when a bright light approaches
-him on his left. He stops his squad car, turns off his headlights, grabs
-a camera, and takes a picture that turns out poorly. He hears no sound
-from the object. The light follows him as he returns to Neillsville. The
-light is so bright he can see the road plainly. At one point the light
-crosses the road ahead of him for a few miles, then recrosses to the
-other side. He loses sight of it as he enters town. (“Nocturnal Rural
-Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 11; “Neillsville Revisited:
-The Cop and the Light That Turned Night into Day,” IUR 7, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1982): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6305
Date: 3/1/1982
-End date: 3/5/1982
-Description: A worldwide nuclear war game was directed from the White
-House (source: House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on
-International Security & Scientific Affairs hearing, April 2, 1982.
-Rep. Larry Winn, Jr. ER-Kans.] presiding).
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington DC
-ID: 389
Date: 3/4/1982
-Description: Brinsley
-Le Poer Trench, the Earl of Clancarty, asks in the House of Lords
-how many UFO reports the Ministry of Defence has received in the past 4
-years, Viscount
-Long replies that there were 750 sightings in 1978, 550 in 1979, 350
-in 1980, and 600 in 1981. Clancarty thinks the totals must be higher,
-but Long explains that not all reports reach the MoD. The Earl
-of Kimberley asks how many of those remain unidentified, and Long
-replies that he does not have those figures as they “disappeared into
-the unknown before we got them.” Peter
-Hill-Norton asks whether all UFO reports received by the MoD before
-1962 were destroyed because they were of “no defense interest,” and if
-so, who decided that. Long says that all reports have been preserved
-since 1967. (Good Above, pp. 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6306
Date: 3/6/1982
-Description: Night. A cylindrical object passes above the Stadium
-Morenão in Campo Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, during a soccer game
-attended by more than 24,000 people. (Brazil 290–293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6307
Date: 3/8/1982
-Description: Peter Gersten’s
-84-page petition (filed in early 1982) for the Supreme Court to hear an
-appeal of CAUS v. NSA is dismissed by the US Supreme Court, which
-declines to hear the case because releasing the files “could seriously
-jeopardize the work of the agency and the security of the United
-States.” (ClearIntent, pp. 188–189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6308
Date: 3/8/1982
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two highly technically trained people separated
-by more than a mile observe a silent object near Bethel, Connecticut.
-(“The Case of the Rumbling Leviathan,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982):
-8–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6309
Date: 3/17/1982
-End date: 3/20/1982
-Description: The Project Hessdalen team manages to take four photos of
-oblong lights passing in front of Finnsåhøgda and Fjellbekkhøgda
-mountains near Hessdalen, Norway. (“Project Hessdalen: The Colored
-Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6310
Date: 3/21/1982
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Karl Stewart is driving eastbound on the Ohio
-Turnpike in northwest Ohio when he sees what appears to be a jet
-aircraft to the south at about 500 feet altitude. Its lights are much
-brighter than normal landing lights, and there are no airports in the
-vicinity. Pulling over to watch it, he sees it has three arms, small
-windows, and red and green strings of running lights. It gains altitude
-before banking north over the highway. (“A
-New Model
-UFO?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 (Feb./March 1983):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6311
Date: 3/23/1982
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Tim Miron, 18, is driving north on I Road
-northwest of Escanaba, Michigan, when he sees an orange-red light, which
-gets bigger and begins flashing red beams from its underside after he
-turns on I.5 Lane. The object keeps moving closer and he sees it
-directly behind a telephone pole to his left 125 feet from the road,
-hovering 10 feet above the ground. Miron arrives at his family’s farm,
-jumps out, and sees the UFO moving directly toward him. He wakes up his
-mother and the two of them watch the object for the next 30–45 minutes
-as it maneuvers over a wide area around the farm, finally disappearing
-behind some trees. (Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique Triad of CE-I
-Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982): 5–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6312
Date: 3/26/1982
-Description: Leading investigators from UFO-Norge hold a town meeting in
-Ålen, Norway, near Hessdalen. Of the 130 residents who attend, 17 say
-they have seen a yellow spherical light, 12 a cigar-shaped object, and 6
-an oblong object with one red and two yellow lights. Later in the week,
-two officers from Værnes Air Station in Trondheim interview some
-witnesses and conclude that Hessdalen residents have been seeing these
-lights since 1944 and their accounts are credible. (Clark III 571; Kim
-Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 89,
-90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6313
Date: 3/30/1982
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Nanette Morrison is driving home in
-Charlottesville, Virginia, when she spots a large, brilliant light in
-the sky hovering several hundred feet in the air and a quarter mile
-away. It approaches as she makes a turn and flies right over her car,
-later pacing her as she drives the remaining 15 blocks. She pulls up to
-the curb, and the UFO stops and hovers above a house across the street
-less than 400 feet away. The object reverses direction and moves away as
-she runs up to her house. (J. Allen Hynek, “A Remarkable Double
-Encounter,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 4–5; “Double Encounter
-Questioned,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6314
Date: 4/1/1982
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Nanette Morrison looks out her front window and
-sees a bright, fluorescent object hovering a few hundred feet above the
-tree line and a short distance away from her home in Charlottesville,
-Virginia. She tells her mother to come and look. As she does, the object
-flares up brightly and zips away at an incredible speed. (J. Allen
-Hynek, “A Remarkable Double Encounter,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983):
-5, 15; “Double Encounter Questioned,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6316
Date: 4/1/1982
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Three men are repairing a jeep in Petrolia,
-Pennsylvania, when one of them notices a bright object with a flashing
-red light just above the trees. A few minutes later they see it has
-risen much higher. After they turn on the jeep’s headlights, the bright
-object moves toward them. When they turn the lights off again, the
-object backs away. The lights go on again, and the UFO passes over their
-heads at 250 feet. Its bright lights go out, and its triangular shape
-becomes clear, as well as its gun-metal color and the luminescent mist
-surrounding it. A red light is on the front, with white and amber lights
-on the other angles. Two bright lights shoot away from the triangle, one
-going north and the other south. When a jet approaches from the east,
-the object stops and becomes bright. Then it rises straight up until it
-is out of sight. For several days, the witnesses have severe headaches,
-and one has diarrhea. Other triangular UFOs are seen in the Pittsburgh
-area from March 22 to May 19. (Stan Gordon, “Pennsylvania
-Low-Level UFO Sightings,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 172 (June 1982):
-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6315
Date: 4/2/1982
-Description: President Reagan issues
-Executive Order 12356, which eliminates response time limits on FOIA
-requests. Searches for UFO documents show significantly more delays of 2
-years or more, and search fees rise dramatically. (Wikisource, “Executive
-Order 12356”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6317
Date: 4/3/1982
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman schoolteacher in Bolingbrook, Illinois,
-is awakened by a high-pitched sound “like a blender running in a box.”
-She looks outside and sees a bright blue, domed, disc-shaped object land
-next to some power lines. It lifts off and then lands a second time. The
-UFO has blue lights around the rim and is only about 150 feet away. The
-blue lights illuminate the area as bright as day. A streetlight goes
-out. The police receive calls of power outages and blue flashes at the
-same time. (Fred Merritt, “A Blue Domed-Disc for Bolingbrook,” IUR 7,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1982): 6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6318
Date: 4/7/1982
-Description: The Earl
-of Cork and Orrery asks in the House of Lords how many of the 2,250
-sightings of UFOs reported to the MoD in 1978–1981 are still classified.
-Viscount
-Long says none are and there is no reason why anyone could not come
-and look at the reports in the MoD archives. (Good Above, pp. 102–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6319
Date: 4/8/1982
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Angie Parrotta and Nancy Hanson, both 18, are
-driving south on County Road 533 west of Escanaba, Michigan. They notice
-a bright star to the southwest, which soon becomes two huge
-yellowish-white “headlights” attached to an object. It descends and
-moves toward them. They speed up but the object keeps pacing them on
-their right. They become frightened when they see a blinking red light
-on the craft. They watch the UFO move swiftly toward Escanaba in the
-east and quickly lose sight of it. (Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique
-Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6320
Date: 4/22/1982
-End date: 4/23/1982
-Description: Night. A group of Polish Air Force pilots during missions
-over northwest Poland in the area from Elbląg to Ostróda and Olsztyn
-encounter a weird light at 47,500 feet that does not appear on their
-radar. It looks like a cloud with the central part a raised-up cupola
-and is emanating beams of light from the underside. Around it is some
-kind of vapor. (Poland 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6321
Date: 4/23/1982
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Officials at the Head Office of Meteorology in
-Ankara, Turkey, observe two UFOs that are maneuvering over the city for
-an hour. They are elliptical and disappear in the direction of the
-Eskisehir Highway around 6:15 a.m. (“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity
-Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6322
Date: 4/27/1982
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files a request with the
-National Security Agency for all legal documents used to prepare its
-case in CAUS v. NSA, especially any portion of the top-secret Yeates
-affidavit of November 1980. (ClearIntent, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6323
Date: 5/18/1982
-Description: NSA Director of Policy Eugene Yeates releases a highly
-redacted portion of his 21-page affidavit used in the CAUS v. NSA
-lawsuit. An unredacted section reveals that the NSA holds 79 UFO
-documents referred by other agencies as well as 160 documents
-originating with the NSA, four of which have already been released.
-(ClearIntent, pp. 189–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6324
Date: 5/22/1982
-Description: Diamond-shaped object with body lights, bright
-“headlights,” flew overhead, seen clearly in police spotlight. Abnormal
-silence
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cleveland, TX
-ID: 390
Date: 5/22/1982
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Liberty County Deputy Sheriff John McDonald
-notices two bright lights above tall pine trees near Cleveland, Texas.
-He points his spotlight toward them as they sink out of sight, but they
-reappear and pass over his head at about 1,000 feet. He shines his
-spotlight again and sees a diamond shape with four rounded corners. The
-object is large, silent, and grayish in color. Seconds later he hears a
-high-pitched whine as it quickly departs. (John F. Schuessler, “Policeman
-Encounters Diamond-Shaped UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 182 (April
-1983): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6325
Date: 5/24/1982
-Description: 10:15 p.m. An orange-colored light is seen by many tourists
-moving at a slow speed at an altitude of 4,900– 6,500 feet toward
-Marmaris, Muğla, Turkey. It hovers for about 5 minutes over the sea,
-moves to the south, speeds up, and ascends. (“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO
-Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6326
Date: 6/1982
-Description: Leonard
-H. Stringfield issues his third status report, UFO Crash/Retrievals:
-Amassing the Evidence. (Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals:
-Amassing the Evidence, Status Report III, The Author, 1982)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6327
Date: 6/1/1982
-Description: Two UFOs allegedly hover above the Baikonur cosmodrome,
-Kazakhstan, for 14 seconds, one of them directly above launch pad number
-1. On June 2, bolts and rivets are found that supposedly have been
-sucked out of the support towers, and welded sections have come apart.
-The other UFO hovers above the adjacent housing complex, knocking out
-thousands of panes of glass or making fine holes in them. The cosmodrome
-is said to be put out of action for two weeks. (Gordon Creighton, “Russia:
-Naughty Henry Gris Says It Again! ’Soviet Space- Centre
-Knocked Out by UFOs,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 6 (August 1983):
-27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6328
Date: 6/3/1982
-Description: Night. The examining magistrate and bailiff at Demirköy,
-Kirklareli, Turkey, watch an object with orange lights at an altitude of
-160–200 feet. It has two lighted hemispheres with a dark rectangular
-mid-section. The poplar trees underneath it are shaking violently.
-(“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1983): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6329
Date: 6/10/1982
-Description: Three witnesses in Madbury, New Hampshire, see a
-wedge-shaped object with bright white lights and smaller blue-green-red
-body lights hovering about 50 feet above the Bellamy Reservoir, its
-lights reflecting on the surface of the water. As they try to move to a
-better viewing location, the object moves away, almost instantly. They
-see it again hovering above a house with an oscillatory motion. A red
-light beam shines down on the house and then on the car. After a while
-the object approaches the car from behind and passes above it by about
-30 feet. (UFOEv II 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6330
Date: 6/10/1982
-Description: Wedge-shaped object with body lights hovered low over
-reservoir, lights reflecting in water. Instant relocation, red light
-beam shone on house, then on car
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Madbury, NH
-ID: 391
Date: 6/12/1982
-Description: Everyone on board a British aircraft sees a large
-translucent object 500 feet long flying at 41,000 feet altitude over
-Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany. It has the form of a “double rectangle
-surmounted by a globe (egg-shaped) crowned by a silver one.” (Nick
-Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster,
-1997, p. 162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6331
Date: 6/18/1982
-Description: 9:10–10:53 p.m. Five Chinese Air Force pilots are flying on
-patrol over the northern military frontier in Hebei province, China. At
-10:06 p.m., a large yellowish-green object appears in the northern sky,
-whirling fast and creating rings of light. After 10 seconds, the center
-of the ring explodes “like a hand grenade.” It grows larger than the
-apparent size of the full moon, and black spots appear near its center.
-The aircraft lose their communications and navigational systems and are
-forced to return to their base. (NICAP, “Five
-Chinese Pilots Encounter
-Object / EME”; Good Above, pp. 217–218, 471;
-Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo
-Archives, 1983, pp. 243–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6332
Date: 6/25/1982
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Kathy Freeman watches a bright star that makes
-two right-angle turns near Libertyville, Illinois. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6333
Date: 6/27/1982
-Description: Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los
-Alamos Monitor”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: 6/27/1982
-Description: Following a screening of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial at the
-White House, President Reagan leans
-over to director Steven
-Spielberg and comments, “You know, there aren’t six people in this
-room who know how true this really is.” (presidentialufo.com, “Ronald
-Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6334
Date: 7/1/1982
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies discontinues its toll-free 1-800
-number distributed to police offices across the country. (“Discontinue
-800 #, Report Quality Low,” IUR 7, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1982): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6335
Date: 7/6/1982
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A man driving alone near Hampshire, Tasmania,
-finds that his car is gradually losing power and stops. He turns off the
-ignition and the lights, then gets out of the vehicle when he notices a
-stationary, noiseless object that looks like a large army helicopter
-about the size of a bus. It is blue-black in color and seems to be
-gradually moving to the west for about 90 seconds. He starts the car’s
-engine and leaves the area. An inspection of the car finds nothing to
-account for its behavior. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6336
Date: 7/28/1982
-Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a
-presentation.
-Type: meeting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
Date: early 8/1982
-Description: A man is in a meadow near a forest on the shore of the
-Vistula River a few miles northwest of Warsaw, Poland. Suddenly he hears
-a sound like an electric motor and sees a rectangular, black, domed
-object above the treetops that rises and sails slowly beyond the river.
-Windows in the dome cast a flickering light (Bronislaw Rzepecki,
-“Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June 1987): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6337
Date: 8/21/1982
-Description: Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in
-Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National
-Laboratory”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Phoenix, AZ
Date: 9/1982
-Description: Rosalind Reynolds-Parnham and her boyfriend Philip are
-driving through the northwestern outskirts of Sudbury, Suffolk, England,
-when they see an object with an oval mass of orange lights moving
-through some pylons and causing sparks. They can smell a noxious odor.
-They drive on, and when they are near Cavendish on the A1092 some lights
-approach them from behind and the car loses power. When they arrive at
-their destination, they realize they have lost four hours of time.
-Rosalind begins to recall an abduction experience, aided by some
-disturbing dreams and odd scars on her abdomen. (Jenny Randles,
-“Abduction and Physiological Effects,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995):
-4–6, 23; Carl Nagaitis and Philip Mantle, Without Consent: A
-Comprehensive Study of Missing Time and Abduction Phenomena in the
-United Kingdom, Ringpull, 1994; “Aliens
-Cost Me My Boyfriend and
-Kids,” London Express, August 24, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6338
Date: 9/2/1982
-Description: 7:15 p.m. John T. Sery notices an object following a Cessna
-aircraft at an altitude of 1,500 feet above Minneapolis, Minnesota. It
-matches the pace of the airplane until it reaches a point about 4 miles
-away when it descends. His two daughters also view the UFO. The bottom
-and top of the object are jet black, and it has an equatorial band that
-is silvery metallic with a hint of rainbow reflections. (“Minnesota
-Flying Black Hamburger,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6
-(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6339
Date: 9/9/1982
-Description: A partial meltdown occurs at Chernobyl nuclear power plant
-Unit One in Pripyat, Ukraine. Officials deny that an accident has taken
-place, but radioactive contamination reaches the town and spreads as far
-as 9 miles from the plant. It includes iodine-131, fragments of uranium
-dioxide fuel, and hot particles containing zinc-65 and
-zirconium-niobium-95 consistent with partial destruction of the reactor
-core. Contaminated areas around the plant are simply sluiced with water
-and covered with soil and leaves. Lenin Square is discreetly covered
-with a new layer of asphalt. (Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl,
-Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6340
Date: 9/17/1982
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Capt. Stefan Freitag and the crew of the Romanian
-cargo ship Bosca are steaming 200 miles off the coast of Brazil in the
-South Atlantic when they see an object like a full moon, accompanied by
-a smaller, star-light object, which grows brighter and larger in size.
-Both objects disappear, leaving behind a shiny cloud. Then another
-moon-like object appears, during which a silent explosion takes place
-and an orange object is ejected. A fourth moon appears and approaches
-the ship, causing the crew to panic and the ship’s dog to howl. A fifth
-object appears briefly, leaving a glow that persists for 30 minutes. A
-Geiger counter indicates a radiation level of 5–7 rads on the ship. A
-similar phenomenon is seen by another ship in the general area at 11:03
-p.m. and on the following night. (Gerhard Cordier, “Adventure
-under the Equator,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3
-(Nov./Dec. 1983): 3; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1985; Marine Observer 53
-(1983): 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6341
Date: 9/18/1982
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Villagers in Suchowola, Poland, see a triangular
-UFO with lights at its tips. (Poland 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6342
Date: 9/30/1982
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Four women, all management personnel of New
-England Bell Company, are returning to Exeter, New Hampshire, after a
-trip to a county fair to the north. They are riding in a Mercedes owned
-by the driver, Mary Ann Poland. She and the passengers (Rose Messina,
-Mary LaMontagne, and Nicky LeClair) see a low-flying bright light
-approaching. Poland pulls the car over and they all jump out, as if the
-object has a compelling influence on them. The object is egg-shaped with
-swirling red lights around its equator and a white beam of light coming
-down from the side. After a few minutes it sinks down behind the tree
-line. (“Exeter Revisited,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6344
Date: 9/30/1982
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A man and his son finish picking fruit in their
-orchard on Wolicka street near Czerniaków Hill in Warsaw, Poland. It is
-well after curfew, so they make their way toward home stealthily. Near
-the Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych building they smell smoke and see a
-strange object 20 feet in diameter hovering 3 feet above the ground. A
-faint orange glow is emanating from its base, causing the grass to
-smolder. Two thin beings are near the object. One has a device that
-projects an orange glow. The witnesses leave the scene carefully.
-(Poland 51; “Bliskie
-spotkanie w Warszavie w 1982 roku,” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 12,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6343
Date: 10/1982
-Description: A generator explodes at Reactor Number One of the Metsamor
-Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia. The turbine hall burns down, and an
-emergency team is airlifted from the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia
-to help save the core. (Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl, Simon
-& Schuster, 2019, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6345
Date: 10/2/1982
-Description: 8:00 p.m. The North Arkansas Community College volleyball
-team (and their coach Sue McDonald) is returning from a game in Kansas
-and are near Springfield, Missouri, when they see an object with two
-brilliant white lights and a blinking red light. It hovers 100–150 feet
-nearly above the bus. The underside is in full view and about 40–50
-smaller lights are plainly visible. (“CE-I
-for a Volleyball Team,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 12–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6346
Date: 10/4/1982
-Description: 4:00–8:00 p.m. Russian Army Lt. Col. Vladimir Plantonev
-witnesses an hours-long UFO sighting near an IRBM missile base outside
-the village of Belokorovichi, Ukraine. It looks “just like a flying
-saucer,” but with no portholes and a smooth surface. It soundlessly
-makes a turn on its edge. Suddenly, an unspecified number of nuclear
-missiles spontaneously go into an automated launch sequence by
-themselves, proceeding to a countdown of 15 seconds before aborting and
-returning to standby status. (NICAP, “Russian
-Base Loses Control of Nuclear Missiles”;
-Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal
-Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 81; Robert L.
-Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1
-(August 2008): 25–26; Antonio Huneeus, “Soviet
-Nukes and UFOs,” Open Minds, January 26, 2010; Nukes 445–452)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6347
Date: 10/12/1982
-Description: Nova presents the documentary The Case of the UFO’s, which
-is criticized as a biased perspective. The participants on the US
-version of this BBC production include skeptics Philip
-Klass, James
-Oberg, and
-Michael Persinger, with
-only brief appearances by Bruce
-Maccabee and Allan
-Hendry. (Nova:
-The Case of the UFO’s, Time-Life, 1982; J. Allen Hynek, “Nova and
-UFOs,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 3–5; J. Allen Hynek, “An Editorial
-Apology,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June 1983): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6348
Date: 10/14/1982
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Four residents of Alta, Troms og Finnmark,
-Norway, see three points of light appear above the mountains to the
-south-southeast. Each point of light is made up of several smaller
-lights bunched close together. They move in a northerly direction at a
-great speed, apparently about 43–50 miles in 5 seconds, or about 35,000
-mph. Suddenly light rays flash down toward the ground simultaneously
-from all three objects. The rays are made up cones with an opening angle
-of about 15°. Their color is a powerful white with a bluish hue,
-especially at the sides. After 20–25 seconds, the rays begin to widen
-just as the light begins to diminish in strength. In 2–3 seconds the
-cones became “an ocean” of light with an opening angle of some 180°.
-Then they move off one by one with a separation time of one second. At
-the same moment as the lights go out there appears an ellipsoid object
-that gives off a faint light, but nevertheless is distinctly visible.
-Its color is pink with a deeper color tone that becomes gray just
-underneath the object. It is motionless, hanging in the sky for 30
-minutes, then it suddenly disappears. All of the observers feel a
-strange, dead silence during the entire observation. (Elbjørg Feldbjerg,
-“Extraordinary Observation
-from Alta,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 2, pp. 15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6349
Date: 10/15/1982
-Description: 1:35 p.m. A witness at the Diamond Shamrock plant at Lamar
-[now Botham Jean Boulevard] and Lenway Street in Dallas, Texas, sees a
-domed, metallic disc that apparently has risen up from the Trinity River
-bottom and is heading east. He estimates it is 60 feet wide and flying
-at 3,000–4,000 feet. It has bright red lights on top. (“Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6350
Date: Late 1982
-End date: early 1983
-Description: “Night Siege” boomerangs, continuing for a long period of
-time
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York State and Connecticut
-ID: 396
Date: 10/18/1982
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A couple is driving along Quinpool Road near
-Armview Avenue in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when they see an object about 8
-times the size of the full moon traveling silently south to north at
-about 50 mph and 300 feet altitude. It is cigar-shaped with a steady
-green light in front and a flashing green light in back. They have it in
-sight for 15 seconds. (“Correspondence,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 (Feb./March 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6351
Date: 10/19/1982
-Description: Night. A US Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft
-monitoring Soviet military activity is buzzed by a huge object (larger
-than the RC-135) over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. British personnel
-at RAF Troödos on Cyprus listen to the radio calls of the American crew
-for 90 minutes as the encounter unfolds at 35,000 feet. The UFO,
-described as a multitude of lights flashing 20 at a time, is picked up
-on the aircraft’s radar as it approaches from the south about 2 miles
-away. It circles around the plane and closes in. Two US Navy F-14
-fighters are scrambled from an aircraft carrier, and an RAF Phantom is
-diverted from a night flying exercise to intercept the object south of
-Cyprus. As the three interceptors approach, the RC-135 crew sees the
-object depart to the south. The fighter pilots can see nothing.
-Following the incident, British authorities launch a secret
-investigation, the results of which (including a transcript of the
-RC-135 crew’s conversation with ground controllers) are sent to the US
-Department of Defense in November. One senior RAF official strongly
-suspects that the object is a mirage effect from lights on the coast of
-Israel or Lebanon. (David Clarke, “A Cold War Close Encounter,” Fortean
-Times 357 (September 2017): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6352
Date: 10/21/1982
-Description: 12:35 p.m. An oval object about 3 feet in diameter descends
-into a garden in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, and hovers about 3
-feet off the ground. After 20 minutes the object takes off silently. The
-witness, a cellular biologist, reports that when the UFO rises up, the
-grass under it stands up straight. In the afternoon, the witness notes
-that two amaranth plants located near the UFO have desiccated, withered
-leaves. The witness calls the Gendarmerie, who inspect the garden and
-take some samples of the amaranth plants. The analysis of the samples
-made by GEPAN finds that the plants are dehydrated, but there is no
-evidence of radiation. (Enquête 86/06:
-L’Amarante, Note
-Technique no. 17, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux
-Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 21, 1983;
-Swords 445–446)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6353
Date: 10/24/1982
-Description: 9:20 a.m. Pilot Michael Davis and his father (a student
-pilot) are flying a 1968 Piper PA-28 Cherokee 140 about 10 miles
-southeast of Lowell, Indiana. Just after reaching their cruising
-altitude of 2,300 feet, they encounter an object they at first think is
-a malfunctioning parachute. At one point, the UFO flicks across their
-nose, veering to its left and missing the aircraft’s right wingtip by no
-more than 10 feet. It has no exhaust trail. At the instant that it
-passes, the vortex hits them so hard that the plane’s airframe groans in
-protest, and the altimeter goes “wacky.” It continues to curve to the
-left, still accelerating and eventually beginning to climb until it
-finally disappears into the distant haze. (NICAP, “Pilots
-Encounter Object over Indiana / EME”; Mark R. Remaley, “An
-Incredible Close Encounter from Credible Pilots,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June
-1983): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6354
Date: 10/27/1982
-Description: Early evening. Bonnie McCrory and her father, Maurice
-Smith, are driving south on the Richardson Highway near Summit Lake,
-Alaska, when their pickup stops with a frozen gas line. After about 20
-minutes, they notice a huge ball on the ridge to the east. It is
-silver-colored and looks like a geodesic dome. Within the next hour it
-changes color from silver to yellow to orange to fiery red-orange. It
-slowly moves up the ridge until it moves out of sight. Possibly the full
-moon. (Richard Sigismond, “Alaska Close Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1984): 8–9; Hobart Gregory Baker, “Sail Along, Silvery Disc,”
-IUR 10, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1985): 16, 20; Richard Sigismond, “Sail Along,
-Silvery Disc: A Response,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6355
Date: 11/1982
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A man and his wife are camping in
-Davies Valley, Imperial County, California, when they are awakened by a
-surge of static electricity. A huge object shaped like a manta ray 200
-feet across is hovering above them. It makes a humming sound as it
-slowly passes over them, heading east. (Doris and Joe Graziano, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 31, no. 8 (August 1983): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6356
Date: 11/2/1982
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Capt. Júlio Miguel Guerra is flying a DHC-1
-Chipmunk in the region of Serrea de Montejunto and Torres Vedras,
-Portugal, near Ota Air Base [now Military and Technical Training Center
-of the Air Force] in Ota, Alenquer, Portugal. He encounters a metallic
-disc at 4,900 feet that engages in evasive maneuvers and circles his
-plane. The object is 7 feet in diameter and its lower hemisphere is
-reddish. A circular dark area is visible on the bottom and something
-looking like a grid encircles its middle. The pilot of another Chipmunk
-trainer sees the same object at 11:05 a.m. The object continues circling
-between the two aircraft for 10 minutes, when it makes a pass at the
-second plane and speeds off to the southwest. (José Sottomayor and
-Antônio Rodrigues, “Close Sighting
-by Portuguese Air Force Pilots (November 1982),” Flying Saucer
-Review 32, no. 5 (August 1987): 12– 13; Júlio Miguel Guerra, “Circled by
-a UFO,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 3, 21; Kean, pp. 47–51;
-UFOEv II 108–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6358
Date: early 11/1982
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Rachel Morton is waiting for a bus in Whitby,
-North Yorkshire, England, when a triangular-shaped object with a domed
-covering passes noiselessly overhead. Two small white lights are at the
-front and three lights at the top. (Whitby (UK) Gazette, November 12,
-1982; Marler 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6357
Date: 11/2/1982
-Description: Shiny disc below two military aircraft darted up to their
-altitude, rapidly circled one of them, sped out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Maxial, Estremadura Province, Portugal
-ID: 392
Date: 11/16/1982
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 393
Date: 11/19/1982
-Description: Circular object with body lights shone light beam down into
-field, three humanoid silhouettes visible inside. Object rose, flew
-directly over car, humming sound
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Temperanceville, VA
-ID: 394
Date: late 11/1982
-Description: Senior Coastguard Bernard O’Reilly watches a lighted
-triangular object hovering silently for several minutes over Skegness,
-Lincolnshire, England. It moves away to the southeast. (Lincolnshire
-(UK) Daily Echo, December 1, 1982; Marler 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6359
Date: 11/25/1982
-Description: Day. US Army Military Policeman Christopher Grooms is on
-guard duty in Tower 5 at the Army Special Weapons Depot at Kriegsfeld, a
-nuclear weapons storage and maintenance site in Rhineland-Palatinate,
-Germany. He watches for over 10 minutes a dark triangular-shaped craft
-fly slowly in a straight line from the southwest, over the valley, over
-the town of Gerbach, and directly over his watchtower, flying toward the
-northeast. After approaching for about 7 minutes, it flies directly
-overhead and Grooms steps out onto the tower landing with M- 16 in hand
-and looks straight up at the object. It is completely silent and has no
-markings. As it passes over, the object rotates 360° nose down, pointing
-directly at him, then rotates back into its original position. Grooms
-has “the overwhelming feeling that it was acknowledging my presence with
-this maneuver or was ‘checking me out’ as it did it.” (Robert L.
-Hastings, “Triangular
-UFO above a U.S. Army Nuclear Weapons Depot Performs a 360- Degree
-Roll,” UFOs & Nukes, January 26, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6360
Date: 11/27/1982
-Description: Police Commander Michael McDonald was on patrol at 5:00
-a.m. when the area around his car was lighted, as if by a phosphorous
-flare. Looking up he saw a large white UFO with tinges of red at an
-altitude of 900–1000 ft. Two other officers, alerted by radio, also
-observed the UFO. The other two cars gave pursuit to the UFO at speeds
-of between 60–65 mph but the UFO outdistanced them. A few minutes later
-another UFO was noted by the commander and then the other two officers.
-It was a diffuse “domed disc” which was seen to emit a beam of light
-towards the ground. The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line of a
-forest preserve. The police report includes a tape recording of the
-radio communications during the sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Palatine, IL
Date: 11/27/1982
-Description: Luminous object brightly illuminated police car, changed
-direction when pursued. Domed disc shape seen to east, light beam toward
-ground, descended behind tree line
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Palatine, IL
-ID: 395
Date: 11/27/1982
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A luminous object with brilliant lights brightly
-illuminates a police patrol car driven by Cmdr. Michael McDonald near
-the intersection of West Northwest Highway and Smith Street in Palatine,
-Illinois. Two other officers (Ron Roszak and Dennis Somsel) in two other
-patrol cars on Lincoln Avenue see a domed, disc- shaped object 30 feet
-in diameter, which emits a light beam toward the ground, then changes
-direction when pursued. The white disc is later seen to the east, with a
-light beam extended toward the ground, as it descends behind the tree
-line, seemingly landing in Busse Woods (Ned Brown Forest Preserve). The
-entire episode lasts about 12 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, “A Police
-Puzzler from Palatine,” IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 10– 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6361
Date: 12/1982
-Description: During naval exercises in the Black Sea near the port of
-Sevastopol in the Crimea, Russia, an unidentified target is detected
-over the Balaklava District at a low altutude. It has a sharp nose and
-sparks coming from its tail section. The object does not respond to
-attempts at communication, so jet interceptors are scrambled. The object
-descends into the water when they approach. Soviet naval ships cannot
-detect it underwater. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets,
-Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 133–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6362
Date: 12/8/1982
-End date: 12/12/1982
-Description: The Third International Congress of Extraterrestrial
-Science is held in Rosario, Argentina, with representatives from Spain,
-Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and the US, as well as Argentina. (“Third
-International Congress of Extraterrestrial Science,” IUR 8, no. 3
-(May/June 1983): 3, 7, 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6363
Date: 12/10/1982
-Description: 7:55 a.m. Stephen Eric Alexander is waiting for a school
-bus with his daughter in Rosedale, Queens, New York City, when he sees
-an object among a flock of birds. The birds disperse and leave the
-object alone, drifting silently at 25 mph. After 15 seconds, it tilts
-and veers to the southwest and disappears. He estimates the object is 11
-feet wide and 5 feet tall, 150 feet away from him, and 210 feet above
-the ground. Its ends pointed slightly downward. (“1977
-Photograph/Sighting and 1982 Sketch Similarity,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6364
Date: 12/21/1982
-Description: A witness driving from Échallens to Orbe, Vaud,
-Switzerland, notes a red globe 5–6 inches in diameter closely following
-his car. The light spreads inside the car as the object apparently
-settles down on the rear seat. He experiences about 8–10 minutes of
-missing time. (“Newspaper
-Item from Bern, Switzerland, January 12, 1983,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6365
Date: 12/31/1982
-Description: Around 11:50 p.m. An off-duty police officer and his family
-see a boomerang-shaped object drift slowly over their home near Kent
-Cliffs, New York. They can see a solid structure with roughly 15 red,
-green, and white lights anchored to its underside. It maintains a
-constant altitude of about 490 feet, moves at a gentle walking pace, and
-makes only a faint hum. As it passes over, he feels a deep vibration in
-his chest. At one point, the lights go out and three blinding white
-lights in the shape of a triangle appear in their place. About 5 seconds
-later, the colored ones return, and the object drifts out of sight.
-Warehouse foreman Edwin Hansen, 55, sees what appears to be the same
-object as he is driving down Interstate 84, just moments later. Hansen,
-among others, stops on the side of the road after spotting a
-boomerang-shaped formation of lights that project a bright beam of light
-to the ground. It is so large that it fills the sky in front of him, and
-it makes slow, tight circles in the air. Just as he thinks he’d like to
-get a closer look, the object moves in his direction. He panics as it
-approaches, but then hears a voice in his head that tells him not to be
-afraid. At the same time, the object turns away and the beam goes out.
-Hansen says that he “felt thoughts that weren’t [his] own,” and believes
-that he has received a telepathic communication from the UFO.
-(NightSiege 5–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6366
Date: 1983
-Description: Philip
-J. Klass writes UFOs: The Public Deceived for Prometheus Press,
-claiming that all significant government documentation has been released
-and that UFO reports are nothing but hoaxes, misidentifications, and
-distortions. He personally attacks Hynek, Maccabee,
-Richard
-Hall, and others. (Philip J. Klass, UFOs: The Public Deceived,
-Prometheus, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6368
Date: 1983
-Description: Since 1966, some 6,700 Ummo communications have been
-received. The early ones are written in Spanish, but over time they are
-composed in French, though certain grammar and punctuation oddities
-indicate that Spanish, not French, is the writers’ first language. Other
-analyses indicate a British origin. (Wikipedia, “Planetary
-objects proposed
-in religion, astrology, ufology, and pseudoscience”; Wikipedia, “Ummo”;
-Jacques Vallée, Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception,
-Ballantine, 1990, pp. 90–121;
-Bob Rickard, “The Ummo Mystery,” Fortean Times, no. 149 (September
-2001): 34–35; Reinaldo Manso, Ummo: Un Historia de un Obsesión,
-Megustaesscribirlibros, 2015; Reinaldo Manso, “Were the Ummites
-British?” Fortean Times 336 (February 2016): 58–59; Clark III
-1185–1186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6367
Date: 1/1983
-Description: The first issue of Cuadernos de Ufologia, edited by José
-Ruesga Montiel and featuring case investigations by many Spanish
-ufologists, is published in Seville, Spain, by the Colectivo Cuadernos
-(and beginning in 1997 by La Fundación Anomalía). It continues through
-April 2012. (Cuadernos
-de Ufologia, no.
-1 (January 1983))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6369
Date: 1/10/1983
-End date: 1/11/1983
-Description: CAUS director and attorney Peter Gersten has
-two meetings with Richard
-Doty in New Mexico. During the first meeting, with Bill
-Moore in attendance, Doty is guarded in his comments. At the second
-meeting with Gersten alone, he speaks openly about the 1977 Ellsworth
-AFB “incident” that he claims AFOSI and the FBI are investigating. He
-tells Gersten that the US government knows why UFOs appear in certain
-places and that “beyond a doubt they’re extraterrestrial” and come from
-50 light years away. He mentions Project Aquarius, which he says is the
-government’s top-secret involvement in communications with aliens. He
-speaks of documents that tell of agreements between the US government
-and extraterrestrials under which the aliens are free to conduct animal
-mutilations and land at a certain base, in exchange for information
-about advanced UFO technology. (Clark III 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6370
Date: 1/12/1983
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A man and his two sons encounter a short entity
-in a gray “wetsuit” uniform holding a glowing L-shaped object in a
-swampy area near their house in Pine Township, Porter County, Indiana.
-Both are floating 2– 3 feet above the ground. A second being is peering
-over a fence at them. The encounter lasts about 5 minutes, and no UFO is
-seen. (R. A. Busse, “An Indiana CE-III,” IUR 8, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1983):
-6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6371
Date: 1/14/1983
-Description: 7:53 p.m. A bright object appears in the sky above Adana,
-Turkey, and many people stop their cars to look at it. Soon the object
-is joined by two US Air Force jets from Incirlik Air Base. One of the
-jets flies in tight circles around the UFO, which dwarfs it in size and
-is described as a disc with a dome on the underside. The object
-accelerates and disappears over the Mediterranean Sea with the jets in
-pursuit. Only one jet returns to base, although the other could have
-been lost during an unrelated search-and-rescue mission. (Good Need, pp. 312– 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6373
Date: 1/14/1983
-Description: 5:54 p.m. Amateur astronomer Todd
-Lohvinenko in Winnipeg, Manitoba, observes a “perfectly black orb”
-traversing the Sun in 3 seconds. (Todd Lohvinenko, “A
-Mysterious Object,” National Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical
-Society of Canada 77, no. 2 (April 1983): L19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6372
Date: 1/19/1983
-Description: 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. South Wales police begin to receive
-reports of UFOs. Two detectives in Swansea observe a silent, triangular
-object with three pulsating lights at 1,000 feet altitude. Carole
-Griffiths and her husband are driving home in Cardiff when they see a
-large triangular object in the sky and pull over to watch. It has 11
-lights around it. Similar objects are seen in Porthcawl and other Welsh
-localities. (Marler 114–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6374
Date: 1/27/1983
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Peggy Iery sees a large central white light with
-two flanking lights over some power lines as she is returning home 2
-miles north of Marquette, Michigan. Suddenly it appears over her car and
-seems so huge that it blocks out the sky. Its shape is a perfect
-pentagon with a small white light at each of the corners; the bottom is
-silvery and flat. She drives home quickly, and she and her husband see
-four lights nearby, which gradually recede beyond the trees. (Kenneth C.
-Schellhase, “The Marquette Pentagon,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June 1983):
-11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6375
Date: 2/7/1983
-Description: 8:19 p.m. A witness in Coffeen, Illinois, sees a triangular
-object with bright lights. A similar object is seen by a police officer
-10 miles southwest of Brighton, Illinois, around 8:27 p.m. (Marler
-209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6376
Date: 2/11/1983
-Description: The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro cites unnamed specialists
-who say that GEPAN exists only because it reflects the enthusiasm of
-former President Valéry
-Giscard d’Estaing and that it costs too much, even though it is only
-a small percentage of the CNES budget. (Clark III 547)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6377
Date: 2/26/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Monique O’Driscoll and her 17-year-old daughter
-are driving near the frozen White Pond in Putnam County, New York, when
-they see a silent, multicolored, boomerang-shaped object about 200–300
-feet wide. It has many lights, which seem to respond to their thoughts.
-It has a crisscross lattice structure and tubes on its underside. Their
-CB radio just has static. Another independent witness, Rita Rivera,
-probably sees the same object, a V-shaped array of 50 lights with amber,
-red, and blue colors. (NightSiege 8–14; Philip Imbrogno, George Lesnick,
-and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Update,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983):
-8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6378
Date: 3/8/1983
-Description: President Ronald
-Reagan delivers a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals
-in which he refers to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and the
-“focus of evil in the modern world.” He asserts that the Cold War is a
-battle between good and evil. (Wikipedia, “Evil
-Empire speech”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6380
Date: 3/11/1983
-Description: Reagan authorizes
-National Security Decision Directive 84, which substantially increases
-governmental control over federal employees, particularly their
-relationships with the media. It mandates that all employees with access
-to sensitive information are now subject to lifetime censorship of their
-writings and speeches on these topics. (“Safeguarding
-National Security Information,” National Security Decision Directive
-84, March 11, 1983; Frederick W. Whatley, “Reagan,
-National Security, and the First Amendment: Plugging Leaks by Shutting
-Off the
-Main,” CATO Institute Policy Analysis no. 37, May 8, 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6381
Date: 3/11/1983
-Description: Richard Mull finds a large star-shaped hole in his bean
-field west of Wauseon, Ohio, around which the dirt is mounded up. It has
-six long points 19 feet long and four shorter points 9 feet long. In the
-center is a depression 8 feet in diameter and 8 inches deep, and at the
-center of this depression is a small hole 2 inches in diameter that goes
-down to a depth of 6 feet. (“Two
-Physical Trace Cases in Northwest Ohio Unexplained,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July 1985): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6382
Date: 3/15/1983
-Description: 5:00 p.m. An unidentified target is tracked by USAF radar
-at RAF Upper Heyford [now closed], Oxford, England, until 9:15 p.m.
-Sgt. Byrd Cormier says they do not have radio contact with it. A slow,
-brilliant white light is seen by some civilians in Berkshire. Cpl.
-Candellin at RAF Brize Norton, Oxford, claims that RAF radar cannot pick
-up the object. (“UFO
-Alert As Mystery Light Passes over Berks,” Reading (UK) Evening
-Post, March 16, 1983, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 165 (April
-1983), p. 13; Good Above, pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6383
Date: 3/17/1983
-Description: 7:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people see a boomerang-shaped
-object moving slowly and hovering over I-84 near Brewster, New York.
-(Philip Imbrogno, “Boomerang over Three Counties,” IUR 8, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1983): 11; Philip Imbrogno, George Lesnick, and Chris Clark,
-“Boomerang Update,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 9– 10; NightSiege
-18–25; Patrick Gross, “The
-Hudson Valley UFO Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6384
Date: spring 1983
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A woman hospital employee is driving to work
-near New London, Connecticut, when she sees a light flick by quickly in
-the sky ahead. It stops above the treetops and shines a searchlight-like
-beam down on the woods. She pulls over to watch. Abruptly the object
-moves directly in front of her. There is no other traffic, although the
-road is usually busy. The object is round and has blue, yellow, red, and
-white lights flickering in a circle. She blacks out for a short time and
-finds that the engine, lights, and radio have been shut off. The window
-has been rolled down. The car stalls when she tries to start it, but the
-engine finally catches and she drives to work, where she arrives
-uncharacteristically late at 11:05. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual
-Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002):
-23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6379
Date: 3/23/1983
-Description: In what later becomes known as his “Star Wars” speech,
-President Ronald
-Reagan announces his plans to develop an anti-missile capability to
-counter the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles and to make these
-nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” This paves the way for a
-Strategic Defense Initiative as an alternative to a proliferation of
-missiles under the concept of mutual assured destruction. SDI is
-derisively nicknamed by Senator Ted
-Kennedy (D-Mass.) as “Star Wars,” after the 1977 film by George
-Lucas. By the early 1990s, with the Cold War ending and nuclear
-arsenals rapidly reduced, political support for SDI collapses. SDI
-officially ends in 1993, when the administration of President Bill
-Clinton redirects the efforts towards theatre ballistic missiles and
-renames the agency the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. BMDO is
-renamed the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. (Wikipedia, “Strategic
-Defense Initiative”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6385
Date: 3/23/1983
-Description: Night. Russian Major V. Gorsky is stationed in the Altai
-Mountains of Mongolia when he sees, along with two of his commanding
-officers, a silvery disc at an altitude of 1,300 feet and 1–2 miles
-away. Its colors seem to be changing constantly, and it is surrounded by
-a blue halo. A narrow beam of light descends from it, illuminating the
-area. More than 30 other soldiers witness the display. It studies the
-area another 4 minutes, then the beam disappears, the halo vanishes, and
-the object is gone instantly. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO
-Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6386
Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: Wing or V-shaped UFO hovered, emitted light beam
-downward
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bedford, NY, and vicinity
-ID: 397
Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Several dozen diners at a ski-resort restaurant
-near Stormville, New York, see white lights in a boomerang shape
-hovering over a utility pole 600 feet away. Three other people driving
-near the pole stop by it. The driver, a corrections officer, gets out
-and studies the object about 200 feet above him. It is silent, and the
-structure that holds the lights is dark and nonreflective. After
-watching it for 20 minutes, he heads back to his jeep, at which time the
-UFO moves down the road. He follows it to Interstate 84 and all the
-lights go out, allowing him to see the boomerang shape. The lights come
-back on and he follows the object for more than an hour, clocking it
-speed at 20 mph. (Chris Clark, “Boomerang!” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June
-1984): 10; Clark III 1278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6390
Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 10:00 p.m. The last sighting of many this night is by an
-IBM executive who sees a lighted object “larger than a 747” hovering
-over pine trees near his home in Danbury, Connecticut. (Clark III
-1278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6391
Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Police officers in Yorktown, New York, say that
-their switchboard is flooded with calls reporting a large,
-boomerang-shaped UFO with red, blue, and green lights. Police in the
-nearby villages of Millwood and New Castle receive a flood of calls as
-well, describing an object as large as a football field. William Hele, a
-meteorologist for the National Weather Corporation, sees an asymmetrical
-V-shaped object about 1,300 feet long, with 6–7 lights as he is driving
-south on the Taconic Highway. The object descends from about 2,000 to
-980 feet altitude and slows as it approaches. Hele realizes that the
-lights are all changing colors at different times, as if lit by a
-rotating prism within the structure. Suddenly, all the lights go out,
-leaving nothing in their place, as if whatever object was supporting
-them has simply disappeared. The lights reappear 30–40 seconds later,
-and a few seconds after that, the object turns to the north and flies
-away, as the lights change to a slime green. At the same time, people 15
-miles north in Putnam County see a smaller object exhibiting similar
-behavior. Ruth Holtsman describes a silent object that hangs motionless
-in the sky. While it is in view, a driver pulls up and stops almost
-directly underneath it. The lights start to flash in a wild sequence up
-and down its “wings.” The driver jumps into his car and speeds away.
-Then the UFO approaches Holtsman’s car, which is bathed in a blinding
-white light as it speeds under the boomerang. John Miller sees the
-object hovering above a pond near his home in Brewster, New York. It is
-aiming two very bright searchlight beams over the surface of the water.
-He hears a faint whooshing sound. (Philip Imbrogno, “Boomerang over
-Three Counties,” IUR 8, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1983): 10–11; Philip J.
-Imbrogno and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Saga Continues,” IUR 9, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1984): 4–6 ; Philip J. Imbrogno, “Westchester Boomerang:
-March 24, 1983,” IUR 9, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 9–12; NightSiege 15–16,
-25, 30–35, 39, 41–42; Marler 117–119; Clark III 1277–1278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6389
Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Four persons in Carmel, New York, see a
-half-circle of red and white lights and the vague outline of a larger
-object to which they are attached. The lights are hovering above trees
-several hundred yards away. They drift to the east and are lost to view,
-but almost immediately a family living a quarter mile away sees them
-drift into view. Through binoculars they can see a “huge object” with a
-dull-green metallic color connecting the lights. When the UFO turns
-slightly, they see it has a V shape. At that moment a brilliant beam of
-white light shoots down from the center of the object, and in it a small
-reddish object descends then shoots off “very, very fast toward the
-north.” The beam is shut off and the object turns and heads slowly east.
-(Clark III 1277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6388
Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A corporate executive in Bedford, New York, sees
-a half-circle of lights hovering behind some trees near a commuter-bus
-station. There is no sound. After watching for 5 minutes, he goes inside
-his house to alert his family, but when they come outside, the lights
-are gone. (Clark III 1277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6387
Date: 3/27/1983
-Description: A cigar-shaped UFO about the size of a Boeing 747 hovered
-over Gorki Airport at low altitude for 40 minutes. No jets were
-scrambled. The Soviet Government appointed a cosmonaut Pavel Popovich to
-head the Commission on Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena. Popovich declared
-the incident definitely had taken place.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us” by George C. Andrews
-Location: Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus
Date: 3/28/1983
-Description: Radar at the airport at Gorky [now Nizhny Novgorod],
-Russia, tracks an unidentified target flying at 110– 125 mph at an
-altitude of 1,310–1,970 feet. Flight Controller A. Shushkin sees the
-cigar-shaped object, which is similar to an aircraft in size but has no
-wings and is metallic. It is in view for only 10 seconds. (Good Above,
-p. 243);
-Paul Stonehill, “Pilot
-and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs,” Open Minds, June 12,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6392
Date: 4/9/1983
-Description: Linda
-Moulton Howe flies to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to interview Sgt. Richard
-Doty for an HBO series she is working on, UFOs: The ET Factor, but
-Doty does not show. She calls Jerry Miller, chief of reality weapons
-testing at Kirtland AFB, whom she knows from an earlier conversation
-about Paul
-Bennewitz’s claims. Miller drives her to his home and calls Doty,
-who arrives promptly. Doty’s attitude is defiant and nervous, but Howe
-asks him about the alleged 1971 Holloman AFB landing. Doty says Robert
-Emenegger got the date wrong and that it was actually April 25,
-1964, shortly after the Socorro landing. Transferring to his office at
-Kirtland, Doty is reluctant to talk about the 1977 Ellsworth landing. He
-shows her a bogus, undated document, A Briefing Paper for the President
-of the United States on the Subject of Unidentified Flying Vehicles. The
-document lists UFO crash/retrievals and states that UFOs are piloted by
-extraterrestrials from a nearby solar system and have been on earth for
-many thousands of years. Through genetic manipulation, they have
-influenced the course of human evolution and helped shape our religious
-beliefs. Roswell and the 1949 living alien are mentioned, as well as
-Projects Snowbird (retroengineering a crashed UFO), Aquarius (umbrella
-project involving all ET contacts), Sigma (an ongoing electronic
-communications effort with aliens), and the defunct Garnet
-(investigation of ETs on human evolution). Doty promises Howe thousands
-of feet of film of crashed discs, bodies, EBE-1, and the Holloman
-landing for her documentary. He says that a similar release of data
-through Emenegger and Allan Sandler was
-halted because “political conditions were not right.” When she tells her
-HBO contacts about this, they ask her to secure a letter of intent from
-the US government with a legally binding commitment to secure the
-promised film footage. HBO wants the film, but Doty now stalls. In June,
-Doty tells her he is officially off the project. Further contacts up to
-March 1984 are fewer. In 2008, Doty claims that the intelligence
-community targeted Howe to find out who her inside sources were. (Linda
-Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal
-Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions,
-1989, pp. 143–156; Dolan II 299–307; Good Above, p. 425;
-Clark III 363–365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6393
Date: 4/10/1983
-Description: Luminous object landed, E-M effects, animal reaction. UFO
-rose from field illuminating area, body lights visible, accelerated
-rapidly out of sight, physical traces
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ross, OH
-ID: 398
Date: 4/10/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two drivers near Ross, Ohio, see a large, bright,
-oval object that seems to land. The property owner at the location also
-sees a white light on a hillside behind his home and watches the object
-ascend slowly before moving away at speed. The drivers’ car lights
-flicker, and the engines nearly stall. The landowner reports flickering
-houselights and TV problems. Investigation of the landing site indicates
-that a heavy circular object about 50 feet in diameter has landed,
-producing a 3-foot burn mark in the center. (NICAP, “Ross,
-Ohio: April 10, 1983”;
-Charles J. Wilhelm, “Ross, Ohio, Landing Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-186 (August 1983): 3–7; UFOEv II, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6394
Date: 4/26/1983
-End date: 4/27/1983
-Description: Day. For two days, a UFO is seen above Nuremberg, Germany.
-Amateur astronomer Walter Schwarz takes a photo that apparently shows a
-balloon. A local radio station hires a Lear jet to approach it, reaching
-12,300 feet, but it is still too far away to identify it. Eckard Pohl,
-the astronomer at the Nuremberg Observatory, tracks it and says that it
-looks like a deformed pyramid with a pointed top and estimates it is
-flying at an altitude of 14.3 miles. The object is later identified as a
-balloon launched from eastern Europe. (Hans-Werner Peiniger, “‘UFO’ bei
-Nürnberg aufgeklärt,” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 27 (May/June
-1983): 68–69; Hans-Werner Peiniger, “UFO
-über Köln identifiert,” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 28
-(July/Aug. 1983): 99–100; “Excitement Chasing
-a Mysterious Flying Object,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6
-(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 3; “Nurnberg UFO
-Becomes IFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6395
Date: 4/27/1983
-End date: 5/2/1983
-Description: Divers see an object like a submarine conning tower in
-Husnesfjorden, Hordaland, Norway. By 1:00 p.m., a search team from
-Norwegian Defense is at the site, consisting of the corvette KNM
-Sleipner, two submarines, and one Orion aircraft equipped with
-antisubmarine weapons. The next day the KNM
-Oslo and two more frigates join the search. At 4:55 p.m., the Oslo
-has a first sonar contact south of Leirvik on Stord island. At 5:21
-p.m., it fires a Terne rocket as a warning. On April 29, a possible
-sonar contact is recorded in Selbjørnfjord. On the afternoon of April
-30, the Oslo, after another sonar contact, fires a Terne rocket and
-drops a mine. Five minutes later it launches four more rockets, but then
-the sonar contact is lost. Around 4:00 p.m., five Terne rockets are
-fired at nearby Halsenøy. Near midnight, a sonar contact south of
-Leirvik results in another rocket firing. On May 1, at 4:20 p.m.,
-another sonar contact takes place and six Terne rockets are fired. They
-hit the water and plunge deep before detonating. Immediately afterward,
-an Orion aircraft drops a mine at the same spot in Skåneviksfjorden. At
-5:20 p.m., the Oslo again attacks with six rockets. Five minutes later
-it launches four more rockets, and the sonar contact is lost. At 8:30
-p.m., an Orion aircraft has the last sonar contact. The aircraft drops
-mines at the entrance to the Høylandssundet. On May 2, mines are dropped
-in the Selbjørnfjord. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified
-Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6396
Date: 5/4/1983
-Description: 3:50 a.m. Police officer James Philips sees a silent,
-yellowish-orange ball of light over the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas,
-hovering 350 feet over a power line pole. It flies away toward the
-northeast slowly at 30–40 mph. The sighting lasts three minutes. (“A
-‘Yorg’ in Kansas,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6397
Date: 5/12/1983
-Description: 1:50 a.m. Three police officers on the Warrenville Heights,
-Ohio, police force see four dim lights moving silently in a wedge
-formation from south to north. They smoothly transition to a diamond
-formation as they near the constellation of Ursa Major. They shift into
-another formation again before speeding off in two different directions.
-(“Multiple
-Witness: Multiple UFO Sighting,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4
-(Aug./Sept. 1983): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6398
Date: 5/20/1983
-Description: Sam Meadows and another ranch hand discover a perfect
-circle of disturbed grass in a pasture on the Teas Ranch in Hemphill
-County near Canadian, Texas. The circle is 29 feet in diameter, with an
-outer circle of much shorter and greener buffalo grass that is 4 inches
-wide. This is a characteristic of new grass that comes up after a fire
-has burned the old grass. A prickly pear cactus pad is found at the edge
-of the ring; the side closest to the ring is devoid of spines, while all
-the spines facing away from the ring are undamaged. No UFO is seen. (W.
-Clark Ellzey, “A Ring on a Panhandle Ranch, and Others,” IUR 8, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1983): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6399
Date: 5/23/1983
-Description: Night. Farmer Alcineu Sousa is aboard his twin-engine
-airplane returning from a visit to a farm near Corumbiara, Rondônia,
-Brazil. As he is about to land on his farm near Porto Velho, Rondônia,
-he sees an opaque light about 30 feet in diameter on his left that
-begins to approach and shine more brightly. His airplane instruments
-start to go haywire. He pulls the plane sharply to the right, but the
-UFO does the same but more moderately. A few seconds later, the light
-disappears over the horizon. (Clark III 200–201; Brazil 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6401
Date: 5/23/1983
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A high school art teacher and his daughter watch
-a disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square windows, and a
-reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvering over trees in McHenry,
-Illinois. It then rocks violently, levels out, and flies off following
-the contour of the land. (“’I
-Know What I Saw…But I Don’t Know What
-I Saw,’” IUR 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6400
Date: 5/24/1983
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A schoolboy is in his parents’ backyard in
-Jüchen, Germany, when he sees a red ball shoot down and hover above a
-nearby electric power line. It ejects a pyramid-shaped array of colored
-lights toward the ground. A few minutes later, the array disappears from
-the object downward to the ground. The object then speeds away into the
-sky toward its point of origin. (Hans-Werner Peiniger, “CE
-2–Fall in Jüchen,” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 30
-(Nov./Dec. 1983): 161–168; “CEII
-Case in Jüchen, West Germany,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1
-(Feb./March 1984): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6402
Date: 6/3/1983
-Description: Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish ufologists launch Project
-Hessdalen under the directorship of Leif
-Havik, Odd-Gunnar Røed, Erling
-Strand, Håken Ekstrand, and Jan Fjellander. They secure technical
-assistance from the universities of Oslo and Bergen, as well as cameras
-with grating filters, a seismograph, Geiger counter, radar, infrared
-viewer, laser, magnetograph, and spectrum analyzer. (“Project Hessdalen:
-The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 6–8; Kim
-Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90;
-Clark III 572)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6404
Date: 6/5/1983
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Retired restaurant manager Mario Claretto wakes
-up because his dogs are barking outside his home at Varzi, Pavia, Italy.
-He sees a shining object with an orange headlight on a hill across the
-road from his house. It is hovering low above an alfalfa field. Its
-upper portion is slowly rotating, showing a silver section, a dark
-section, then the orange light. After finishing some work in the
-kitchen, Claretto goes outside for a closer look. He sees another person
-walking toward the object; after approaching very near, the person runs
-away, escaping down the road. Claretto points the object out to a
-neighbor, Bruno Stafforini, who has also woken up because of the dogs.
-The UFO rises after skimming the grass for a few feet, its dome recedes,
-and it emits a vapor. It seems to change its form to cigar-shaped.
-Suddenly it speeds off to the south-southwest. (Antonio Chiumiento, “Un
-U.F.O. a Varzi,”
-Notiziario UFO, no. 101 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 4–10; Antonio Chiumiento,
-“Close Encounter at Varzi,” IUR 9, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1984): 4–5, 13;
-Antonio Chiumiento, “A
-Landing at Varzi in Northern Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 6
-(August 1985): 2–9; Antonio Chiumiento and Paolo Toselli, “L’atterrissage
-de Varzi (Italie),” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 257/258 (Nov./Dec
-1985): 32–37; 2Pinotti 61–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6405
Date: 6/20/1983
-Description: Sen. Barry
-Goldwater (R-Ariz.) replies to UFO researcher William
-S. Steinman regarding government knowledge of UFOs: “I have no idea
-of who controls the flow of ‘need-to-know’ because, frankly, I was told
-in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never
-tried to make it my business since.” (Kean, p. 243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6406
Date: summer 1983
-Description: Richard
-Haines founds the short-lived North American UFO Federation, an
-effort to unite MUFON, CUFOS, and other groups (except APRO) to
-standardize UFO investigations, educate the public, and resolve the UFO
-mystery. Insufficient funding dooms the effort to failure. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, September 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6403
Date: 6/22/1983
-End date: 6/27/1983
-Description: At the International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics at
-Lake Tahoe, Nevada, the Los Alamos National Laboratory puts forward a
-proposal for a 3,500-square-foot (with plans for extending it to 6,000
-square feet) National Underground Science Facility beneath the Nuclear
-Test Site in Nevada. (Michael Martin Nieto, “Physics at the Proposed
-National Underground Science Facility,” Los Alamos National Laboratory,
-June 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6407
Date: 6/24/1983
-Description: Larry W. Bryant, Director of CAUS, filed a Civil Action,
-Case #83–1932 (Judge Oliver Gasch) petitioning for a Writ of Habeas
-Corpus Extraterrestrial, in the United States District Court for the
-Dist. of Columbia, seeking to obtain the release from custody of “one or
-more occupants of apparent extraterrestrial origin.” Mr. Bryant contends
-that the Government action in maintaining secret custody, detention, and
-prosecution of such extraterrestrials is unlawful and a violation of
-their basic rights and is seeking to restore their civil rights.
-Type: lawsuit
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 11/3/81
Date: 7/1983
-Description: Statistician Jean-Jacques
-Velasco replaces Alain
-Esterle as director of GEPAN. Esterle is dismissed, apparently
-because of potential scandal about GEPAN’s apparent collaboration with
-the French Army on magnetohydrodynamic propulsion experiments, done
-without the knowledge of GEPAN’s resident expert, Jean- Pierre
-Petit, who
-has suggested such a project. (Wikipedia, “Groupe
-d’études des phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés”;
-Clark III 547; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO
-Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6408
Date: early 7/1983
-Description: Debbie
-Jordan-Kauble (using the pseudonym of “Kathie Davis”) and her mother
-see a light about 2 feet in diameter moving around the family pool house
-in Indianapolis, Indiana. Some days later they notice a section of their
-backyard has turned brown, a circular area about 8 feet in diameter. She
-contacts Budd
-Hopkins, who speaks with Debbie and her family and uncovers a
-pattern of events that have affected them for years. It appears that
-Debbie, her mother, and two of her children have been abducted at
-different points of their lives. Debbie and her mother have identical
-scars on their lower legs from apparent childhood abductions, and
-Hopkins believes that Debbie and her son have implants inserted near
-their brains, one through the nasal cavity and another through the ear.
-Hopkins conducts numerous hypnotic regression sessions, revealing
-apparent pregnancies induced by aliens. (Budd Hopkins, Intruders:
-The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods, Random
-House, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6409
Date: 7/7/1983
-Description: An unauthorized target appears on the radar screens at
-Darłowo Airport, Poland, corresponding to a rotating, oblong object with
-a steel-colored covering flying at 11,0000 feet. Polish Air Force
-Captain Praszczałek and another pilot go up to intercept it and get
-within 660 feet. He sees a solid hull, 50 feet long and 6 feet across.
-Just after they are ordered to shoot it down, the object shoots up to
-30,000 feet, too high to pursue. (Poland 64–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6410
Date: 7/12/1983
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A police officer answers a call at a location
-southeast of Danbury, Connecticut, where several people are standing
-outside looking at a circular pattern of lights that are flashing red,
-blue, and green. The lights appear to be attached to a silent object 300
-feet in diameter and less than 500 feet in altitude. The officer shines
-a spotlight on it, and the object projects a brilliant flash of white
-light downward. It then moves quickly to the north and is lost behind
-trees. At 10:55 p.m., Danbury Police Chief Nelson Macedo, his
-brother-in-law Charles Yacuzzi, his son Michael, and retired policeman
-Jim Lucksky are boating on Candlewood Lake north of Danbury. They notice
-a circular gray object silently hovering high in the sky. 20–30 bright
-blue, red, orange, and green lights moving in a circular pattern are
-visible on the object. The men turn off the boat lights and the object
-shuts off its own lights. After several minutes, Yacuzzi turns the
-lights on again, and the UFO switches on bright lights and moves off
-behind the mountains. (NightSiege 96; Richard Haines, CE-5: Close
-Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Sourcebooks, 1998, pp. 132–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6411
Date: 7/22/1983
-Description: 12:40 a.m. Police constables Raymond Ellens and Peter
-Ferguson are on car patrol east of Melton, Melbourne, Victoria, when
-they see a bright, stationary light over the center of the town. As they
-approach, they discern that it is composed of two lights. The object
-turns west and hovers about 200 feet above the Melton Regional Shopping
-Centre. Soon the object flies off to the southeast, making a
-high-pitched humming sound. After rising to about 500 feet, the UFO
-moves off to the north and is lost to sight. The UFO is picked up on
-radar at Tullamarine Air Traffic Control in Melbourne. The constables
-see it again at 2:40 a.m. when it appears to be on the ground at the
-rear of the Toolern Vale stables (they inspect the paddock but find no
-traces), then it is lost to view until 4:30 a.m. when they are again at
-the shopping mall. At some point police Sgt. Barry Harman and Chief
-Inspector Hickman also see the UFO above the shopping center. The
-constables follow the object, this time with more lights visible.
-Between their position and the object is the Australian Army Rockbank
-Receiving Station, and it seems to be headed directly toward the antenna
-array. Before reaching it, the object turns and arcs again to the north.
-Ellens and Ferguson lose sight of it at about 6:00 a.m. Their written
-report states that over time the UFO flew in a triangular pattern
-bounded by Melton, Rockbank, Sydenham, and Diggers Rest in a
-counterclockwise path between 200 and 1,600 feet in altitude. The
-Australian Signal Intelligence facility at Rockbank is alerted that its
-security has been breached. (Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government
-and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 21–22; Keith Basterfield, UFOs: A
-Report on Australian Encounters, Reed Books, 1997, pp. 84–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6412
Date: 7/25/1983
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Tom Jackson is getting ready for work in Latrobe,
-Pennsylvania, when he sees a bright light outside his bathroom window.
-He opens it and sees a huge object hovering above pine trees about 750
-feet away. It is metallic gray, possibly 300 feet long, and elongated
-but with the front and back ends dropping down. It has two rows of
-evenly spaced windows. After 5 minutes it moves toward the town’s sewage
-plant. Other residents report a brilliant orange light over the sewage
-plant. Still others hear a loud, high-pitched sound so intense that it
-causes headaches and disturbs neighborhood dogs. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-October 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6413
Date: 8/1/1983
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Terry Conner is at the intersection of West
-County Line Road and South Ashland Avenue about 1.5 miles southwest of
-Beecher, Illinois, when he sees a cluster of red flashing lights. They
-are coming from an object in a farmer’s field about 450–600 feet away.
-It appears to be 30 feet tall with 40–50 continuously flashing red
-lights in the shape of a vertical U. After 2 minutes, two large steady
-red lights appear to rise until they are even with the top of the U.
-After 10 seconds, all the lights go out at once. (“Beecher,
-Illinois, Nocturnal Lights Remain
-Unexplained,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984):
-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6414
Date: 8/12/1983
-Description: 11:10 p.m. In the Maraponga neighborhood of Fortaleza,
-Ceará, Brazil, João de Lira Pessoa Neto is riding his motorcycle with
-his friend Plínio Couto de Alencar Júnior to a party. The cycle breaks
-down, so they push it home and head back on foot to the party. They pass
-the train tracks and the Cavan poles factory, where they notice that a
-transformer that always buzzes is silent. Stray dogs do not bark, and
-the lights on the poles are blinking intermittently. A strong light
-blinks near them and they see a disc-shaped object about 325 feet above
-the Lagoa da Maraponga, its shape reflected in the dark water. The
-object moves, and the two witnesses run off. Party hosts Roberto de Lira
-Pessoa Neto and his wife Rejane, Rejane’s sister, and a sailor named Cal
-are intrigued and decide to return to the site together. They look
-around and see the UFO landing on the lake shore. The disc has large
-round windows and a brightly lit interior. Inside they see human-looking
-beings moving about and looking out the windows. Roberto sees three
-humanoid figures beside the UFO. They seem to be covered in a plastic
-cloak and have a wobbling gait. Plínio thinks the object disappears and
-reappears like a mirage. The witnesses begin running away when another
-similar UFO appears above them and causes a gale. It disappears, and
-everything returns to normal, with dogs barking and the transformer
-buzzing. Later at home, João has a strong urge to return to the scene.
-The object is still there, and he has a compulsion to meet the
-occupants. He suddenly gets dizzy and nauseous and falls to the ground
-unconscious. He revives 2 hours later and finds himself in a soccer
-field and cannot remember how he got there. He goes home, but his
-behavior changes, becoming ruder. On May 21, 1989, João drowns under
-mysterious circumstances in a lagoon in Uruoca, Ceará, Brazil.
-(Reginaldo de Athayde, “Seqüestro
-por ETs no Nordesté e reavaliado,” Portal UFO, December 1, 1995;
-Clark III 710–712; Brazil 297– 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6416
Date: 8/12/1983
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Alfred Burtoo is fishing along the
-Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, when a disc-shaped
-UFO lands nearby. Two humanoid beings approach him. They are 4 feet 6
-inches tall, dressed in green overalls, and wear helmets with visors.
-They gesture at Bertoo to follow them, and he goes up a stairway into
-the craft. He is made to stand under an amber light. The beings speak to
-him in broken English, telling him that he is too old and infirm for
-their purposes. They then let him go. (Good Above, pp. 106–112;
-Marcus Lowth, “The
-Bizarre Ordeal of Alfred Burtoo: The Abduction That Wasn’t,” UFO
-Insight, August 7, 2017; Solomier, “08-12-1983: The Alfred Burtoo
-Incident,” dtube: Hive Blog, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6415
Date: 8/26/1983
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A Mrs. Zurwaski is awakened by brilliant white
-flashes of light reflecting off the trees to the east of her house in
-Cedar Lake, Indiana. She gets up, thinking a thunderstorm is
-approaching, and she sees the screen on the front door flooded with
-intense light. Her husband is also awake by now, and he describes the
-light as yellowish. Through a picture window, Mr. Zurwaski sees an
-object hovering 4–5 feet off the ground in their yard. Mrs. Zurawski
-hears a swoosh and a crackle and notices a ribbon of light moving
-southeast. Five days later, they discover in their yard a ring of dead
-grass in a perfect circle 13 feet in diameter. (Mark Remaley, “The Light
-and the Ring,” IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6417
Date: 8/27/1983
-End date: 8/29/1983
-Description: The British UFO Research Association holds its Third
-International UFO Congress in High Wycombe, London, England. (“3d
-International UFO Congress, August 1983,” BUFORA Bulletin, no. 11
-(November 1983): 8–21; “3d Bufora International UFO Congress,” IUR 8,
-no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 9, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6418
Date: 9/1983
-Description: British ufologist Jenny
-Randles publishes UFO Reality, in which she defines the “Oz Factor,”
-the “sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world
-into a different environmental framework.” She suggests that this
-feeling, often reported by UFO witnesses, “is almost suggestive of the
-witness being transported temporarily from our world into another, where
-reality is but slightly different.” (Jenny Randles, UFO Reality: A
-Critical Look at the Physical Evidence, R. Hale, 1983; Clark III
-866)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6419
Date: 9/1/1983
-Description: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet
-interceptor over the Sea of Japan near Moneron Island (just west of
-Sakhalin island) while flying over prohibited Soviet airspace. All 269
-passengers and crew aboard are killed, including Rep. Larry
-McDonald (D-Ga.) and president of the anticommunist John Birch
-Society. (Wikipedia, “Korean
-Air Lines Flight 007”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6421
Date: 9/1/1983
-Description: GEPAN is reorganized by transferring it to a smaller
-department in CNES. The seven members of its scientific council are
-given different assignments, leaving Jean-Jacques
-Velasco in sole charge with no scientific advisers. GEPAN’s
-resources and personnel are drastically reduced. During the following
-years, the scientific council no longer meets, despite repeated demands
-by one of its members, Christian
-Perrin de Brichambaut, general inspector of the National Meteorology
-Office. A last meeting of the council takes places in 1987. (Gildas
-Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25,
-no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 12– 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6420
Date: 9/3/1983
-Description: Day. Wiesław Machowski, his daughter, and a friend are
-fishing in a coastal lake near Wicie, Poland. They notice an orange
-sphere with another object below it and keep their eyes on it for 30
-minutes or so. The larger light emits a smaller one that stops and
-returns to the bigger one; the sequence keeps repeating. When they
-return to their boarding house, they see it again but much closer to the
-coast. Machowski grabs a camera and takes three photos that shows the
-large object looking like a hat standing on its brim, and the object
-disappears shortly afterward. (Poland 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6422
Date: 9/26/1983
-Description: Midnight. The Soviet orbital missile early warning system
-(SPRN), code-named Oko, reports a single intercontinental ballistic
-missile launch from the US. Lt. Col. Stanislav
-Petrov, who
-is on duty during the incident, correctly dismisses the warning as a
-computer error when ground early warning radars do not detect any
-launches. Part of his reasoning is that the system is new and known to
-have malfunctioned previously; also, a full-scale nuclear attack from
-the US would involve thousands of simultaneous launches, not a single
-missile. Later, the system reports four more ICBM launches headed to the
-Soviet Union, but Petrov again dismisses the reports as false. The
-investigation that follows reveals that the system indeed has
-malfunctioned, and false alarms are caused by a rare alignment of
-sunlight on high-altitude clouds underneath the satellites’ orbits.
-(Wikipedia, “1983
-Soviet nuclear
-false alarm incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6423
Date: 10/1983
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Paula E. Green, 12, undergoes her first abduction
-experience as she is walking through Judy Woods in Bradford, England,
-with a 14-year-old friend. It is the first of some 52 further incidents.
-(Daily Star Sunday, May 9, 2021; Nigel Watson, “Fifty-two Shades of
-Grey: Paula’s Story,” Fortean Times 407 (July 2021): 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6426
Date: 10/1983
-Description: Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon
-Creighton writes an essay on his beliefs about UFOs, which he thinks
-are piloted by Islamic jinns. (Gordon Creighton, “A
-Brief Account of the True Nature of the ‘UFO Entities,’” Flying
-Saucer Review 29, no. 1 (October 1983): 2–6; Clark III 499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6425
Date: 10/1983
-Description: Odd-Gunnar Røed begins publishing the Project Hessdalen
-Bulletin in Duken, Norway, in English. It updates readers on the latest
-sightings of nocturnal lights around Hessdalen, Norway. It continues
-through April 1985. (Project
-Hessdalen Bulletin 1, no. 1 (October 1983))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6424
Date: 10/13/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Catherine Burk is driving to her home in Altoona,
-Pennsylvania, when she sees a large, silvery disc pass about 30 feet
-above her car. The force of the UFO lifts the right side of her car
-briefly off the road, causing her lights to blink out and the engine to
-stall. She suffers hearing loss in her right ear, has severe headaches,
-and develops problems with her shoulder, chest, and spine. Local police
-investigate and find her “visibly shaking.” (UFOEv II 232; MUFON UFO
-Journal, November 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6427
Date: 10/15/1983
-Description: Silvery disc passed over car, right wheels lifted off road,
-car lights blinked off and on. Car dropped hard back onto road, engine
-stalled. Severe physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Altoona, PA
-ID: 399
Date: 10/20/1983
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 400
Date: late 10/1983
-Description: Evening. Villagers in Hollesley, East Suffolk, England,
-witness a triangular object with three powerful white lights on its base
-that illuminate the ground below it. Ron Marco says the lights form a
-triangle and remain perfectly still, until it moves above his head and
-other witnesses. Debbie Foreman and Pauline Osborne report headlight and
-engine trouble when the UFO appears. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO
-Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 160–161; Stacia Briggs
-and Siofra Connor, “Weird
-Suffolk: Hollesley, the UFO Hotspot,”
-East Anglian Daily Times (Ipswich), April 13, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6428
Date: 10/23/1983
-Description: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings
-Type: terrorist attack
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Date: 10/25/1983
-End date: 10/29/1983
-Description: The US and a coalition of six Caribbean nations attack the
-island nation of Grenada. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, the
-intervention results in an American victory in a matter of days. It is
-triggered by the strife within the People’s Revolutionary Government
-that results in the house arrest and execution of the previous leader
-and second Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice
-Bishop, and the establishment of the Revolutionary Military Council
-with Hudson
-Austin as chairman. The invasion results in the appointment of an
-interim government, followed by democratic elections in 1984, and serves
-as a tune-up for the US military, which has been out of action for 10
-years. (Wikipedia, “United
-States invasion of Grenada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6429
Date: 10/26/1983
-Description: 9:00 p.m. David Keener is driving on US Highway 321
-northeast of Hickory, North Carolina, when a diamond-shaped object, red
-in front, bright green in the rear, hovers low over his car and then
-rises up again. The observation lasts about 5 minutes and the object is
-silent throughout. He reports the incident to the sheriff’s department.
-(MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6430
Date: 10/28/1983
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Biomedical engineer Jim Cooke is driving by the
-Croton Falls Reservoir on his way back to Mahopac, New York, when he
-sees “aircraft lights” approaching and dropping very fast. Oddly, they
-seem to hover for a while, then blink out. Cooke gets out of his car,
-walks toward the shoreline, and spots a triangular object hovering less
-than 15 feet above the water and 200 feet away. After a few minutes, 9
-red lights come on from its sides and a red beam of light from the
-underside probes the water. The UFO moves to four locations above the
-reservoir, each time shining the red light on the water and remaining at
-a steady altitude. Each time a car drives by, its lights go out. Cooke
-estimates the object is 100 feet long at the base and 30 feet at the
-apex. After 10–15 minutes, it lifts upward at a 30° angle and
-disappears. (NightSiege 2–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6431
Date: 10/28/1983
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two men are driving in the countryside near
-Ithaca, New York, looking for signs of deer in order to plan their
-hunting activities. They see a lighted area low in the sky ahead of
-them. Through binoculars, they see that the light is cast by a round
-object with three rows of lighted window panels and an illuminated
-rotating dome that is bright enough to reflect off the low clouds. They
-estimate it is 15–25 feet in diameter, It stays visible for about 5
-minutes as it moves slowly and noiselessly over the ridge of a hill.
-(CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6432
Date: 11/1983
-Description: The Project Hessdalen team goes to Hessdalen, Norway, and
-explains their project to the locals. (Clark III 572)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6433
Date: 11/1983
-Description: The captain and crew of the Russian diving support vessel
-Sprut are in Kola Bay, northern Russia, when they observe an ellipsoid
-object slowly moving over the surface at an altitude of 1,640–3,280 feet
-for 90 minutes. The object separates into three parts, each of which
-increases in speed and flies to the west. (Stonehill and Mantle,
-Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6434
Date: 11/7/1983
-End date: 11/11/1983
-Description: NATO carries out a command post exercise code-named Able
-Archer 83. Its purpose is to simulate a period of conflict escalation,
-culminating in the US military attaining a simulated DEFCON 1
-coordinated nuclear attack. Coordinated from the Supreme Headquarters
-Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) headquarters in Casteau, Belgium, it
-involves NATO forces throughout Western Europe. The Soviet leadership is
-concerned that this could be a ruse for an actual US nuclear strike and
-moves to a high alert. Historians such as Thomas
-Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, and Tom
-Nichols, a professor at the Naval War College, argue that Able
-Archer 83 brought the world close to a nuclear war. (Wikipedia, “Able
-Archer 83”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6435
Date: 11/18/1983
-Description: The National Endowment for Democracy is founded in
-Washington, D.C. It is managed by such individuals as Henry
-Kissinger, Sally
-Shelton-Colby, Barbara
-Haig, and others. Although furnished with $80 million in funding
-from Congress, its private status keeps it safe from FOIA requests.
-Among its programs are: destabilizing Ferdinand
-Marcos in the Philippines and Manuel
-Noriega in Panama; supporting the Nazi PAN party in Mexico;
-channeling money to the Contras; and supporting operatives in the
-Medellin drug cartel. (Wikipedia, “National
-Endowment for Democracy”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6436
Date: 11/28/1983
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A woman in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, notices
-a ball of light approaching her. She goes inside to get her boyfriend
-and two children. They watch the light approach to within 400 feet,
-where it hovers at treetop level. It appears to be half the size of the
-house. Three smaller objects come from behind it and travel southeast,
-apparently landing in a swampy area near a manufacturing plant. The
-woman and children run toward the object on foot, while the boyfriend
-jumps in a car to pursue it. At one point he sees the object hovering
-above a small lake less than 200 feet away. But within seconds it
-vanishes. All four witnesses later experience eye irritation, and the
-boyfriend’s face and hands turn red and feel sore. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6437
Date: 11/29/1983
-Description: Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, consultant US Research and
-Development Board and President and Chairman of the Board, Washington
-Institute of Technology, in a letter to Dr. William I. Steinman states
-that Frank Scully’s book (“Behind the Flying Saucers”) story is true and
-persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John
-von Neuman and Dr. Vannever Bush. Also, Dr. Sarbacher thought that
-Robert Oppenheimer was also involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by
-President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the
-reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive
-Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT
-to remove them from his office.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (A2, B1-E p525, B1-G p49)
-Location: US
Date: 11/29/1983
-Description: Robert
-Sarbacher replies to a query by UFO researcher William
-S. Steinman about crash-retrievals in the late 1940s. He confirms he
-was “invited to participate in several discussions associated with the
-reported recoveries” of UFOs, although he was unable to attend the
-meetings. He described the retrieved saucer material as “extremely light
-and very tough,” and he had heard that the aliens “were constructed like
-certain insects we have on Earth.” (Dolan II 320; Good Above, pp. 525–526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6438
Date: 12/1983
-Description: A witness walking his dogs at Sherlocks Farm in
-Groombridge, East Sussex, England, sees a triangular UFO with an orange
-light at each apex. It makes a low droning sound as it passes by.
-(Marler 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6439
Date: 12/7/1983
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman and her son and daughter stop at the
-Pioneer Road exit off I-43 near Cedarburg, Wisconsin, to watch a
-brightly lit object silently descend and maneuver in front of them for
-5–6 minutes. (Bob Gribble, “UFO
-Hotline Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March
-1984): 5; Richard Heiden, Jeffrey Paul, and Donald Schmitt, “CE-I with
-an ‘Orgy’ of Lights,” IUR 9, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1984): 8–9, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6440
Date: 12/12/1983
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Mike and Jeff Goodwin and Robert Blanchard are
-driving in Byron, Illinois, when they see a triangular “falling star”
-that starts moving horizontally at treetop level. At one point it seems
-to nearly collide with a similar object. They both have blinking red and
-white lights. (Doris and Joe Graziano, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 6 (September 1984): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6441
Date: 12/14/1983
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Realtor Antônio Nelso Tasca is driving about 4
-miles north of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when he feels compelled
-to turn onto a dirt road. After about 5 minutes he encounters a white
-and green object like a bus about 33 feet long and 10 feet high in the
-road ahead. He stops 100 feet from it, turns off the headlights and
-engine, and walks toward it. It has 10 squarish windows and is floating
-just above the ground. A few feet away he begins to feel heat and
-decides to return to his car. Suddenly a beam of white-red light strikes
-him and somehow pulls him toward the object. He wakes up inside the UFO
-and an abduction scenario takes place, compete with sex with a
-light-haired alien female who says her name is Cabala. She gives him a
-message warning that continued deployment of nuclear weapons will lead
-to bad things for Earth. Tasca wakes up around 6:00 a.m. at a different
-spot from where he had the encounter. A medical examination reveals a
-strange burn on his ribs and other odd marks on his backbone. (Brazil
-303–311; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March
-15, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6442
Date: 12/27/1983
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A small disc-shaped object with eight green
-lights lands in an open field across the street from the home of a
-witness in Indianapolis, Indiana. After 10 seconds, the lights go out.
-The witness continues to watch from her home for an hour before
-retiring. (Bob Gribble, “UFO
-Hotline Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March
-1984): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6443
Date: 12/30/1983
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Four witnesses are driving along Illinois Highway
-70 near Eddie Road about 8 miles northwest of Rockford, Illinois, when a
-red domed-shaped object emerges from what looks like an explosion and
-moves to the south. It vanishes when it reaches an unusual configuration
-of parallel stars. (“Letter,”
-CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1984): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6444
Date: 1984
-Description: From the Air Traffic Controllers Manual: Controllers MUST
-report UFOs immediately to AIS (Military), LATCC. A completed report
-MUST be sent to MOD (AFOR). A list of phone numbers and locations is
-shown in the directory at Appendix H.
-Type: manual
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p458)
-Location: US
Date: 1984
-Description: USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom
-Lake
-Type: land seizure
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Area-51
Date: 1984
-Description: Daniel Kagan and Ian
-Summers publish a 500-page book titled Mute Evidence, arguing that
-animal mutilations are a made-up mystery. Only veterinary pathologists,
-not regular veterinarians, are truly qualified to determine the cause of
-an animal’s death, they write. They do admit there are some real
-mutilations of two kinds: copycat incidents where pranksters cut up the
-bodies of already dead cattle, and ritualistic killings by cult members.
-The latter incidents occur mostly in Idaho. (Daniel Kagan and Ian
-Summers, Mute Evidence, Bantam, 1984; Clark III 140–141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6445
Date: 1984
-Description: UK researcher Hilary
-Evans publishes Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors, which equates
-a wide range of entity experiences, including UFO events, and explains
-them all as psychosocial manifestations because percipients
-psychologically need them for some reason. He follows up with a sequel
-in 1987. (Hilary Evans, Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors, Aquarian,
-1984; Hilary Evans, Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians, Aquarian, 1987;
-Clark III 943–945)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6446
Date: 1984
-Description: UFO Research Australia is formed as an informal
-information-exchanging network. (Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and
-Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6447
Date: 1984
-Description: A Hispanic male living in the Reseda neighborhood of Los
-Angeles, California, encounters odd lights in his house and missing
-time. Although not his first abduction experience, his memories are
-uncovered through hypnosis sessions conducted by parapsychologist D.
-Scott Rogo, who gives him the pseudonym of “Sammy Desmond.” The case
-is significant for the marks on the witness’s body and the many sexual
-elements of the story. (D. Scott Rogo, “The Abduction of Sammy Desmond,”
-IUR 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): 4–13, reprinted by Aileen Garoutte, “The
-Abduction of Sammy Desmond” and “The
-Abduction of Sammy Desmond, Final,” UFOexperiences, July 5 and 7,
-2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6448
Date: 1984
-Description: The F-117 completes testing at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada
-and begins formal operations under the 4450th Tactical Group. The 4450th
-is absorbed by the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing in 1989. In 1992, the
-entire fleet is transferred to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico,
-under the command of the 49th Fighter Wing. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-F-117 Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6449
Date: 1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Brazilian Air Force Col. Marcelo Hecksher of the
-1st Squadron of the 10th Aviation Group (Poker Squadron) is flying back
-to Santa Maria Air Force Base from Rio de Janeiro. When he begins
-descent preparations over the city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul,
-Brazil, he notices a strong, slightly bluish light on his right. Radar
-in Curitiba and Santa Maria do not have it on their scopes. The light
-then accelerates forward, rises, and disappears. (Clark III 207–208;
-Brazil 557–559)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6450
Date: 1984
-Description: An antiaircraft defense system near Astrakhan, Russia,
-tracks a spherical object flying along the Caspian Sea coast at 6,500
-feet. It does not respond to radio contact. Two fighters are scrambled
-but they fail to catch up with it. When the pilots fire at the UFO, it
-descends to 325 feet. When it approaches Krasnovodsk [now Türkmenbaşy],
-Turkmenistan, a helicopter gunship is scrambled to make another attempt
-to shoot the object, which then ascends to a height beyond the copter’s
-capabilities. The UFO then heads for the Caspian Sea and disappears from
-sight. (Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s
-‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): 8; “KGB
-Blue Folder,” Above Top Secret forum, November 1, 2005; Good Need,
-pp. 353– 354)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6451
Date: 1/1984
-Description: Project Hessdalen sends out a report form to 3,300
-households in and around Hessdalen valley, Norway. January — Seven oil
-field workers in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, see a silvery disc
-flying at a high altitude. (Stars and Stripes, January 28, 1984; “U.S.
-Armed Forces Publication Tells of Lebanon UFO,” CUFOS Associate
-Newsletter 5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6452
Date: 1/1984
-End date: 2/1984
-Description: Numerous sightings, radar trackings, photographs by
-scientific field team with instruments
-Type: sighting
-Type: radar tracking
-Type: photograph
-Type: scientific field team
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hessdalen Valley, near Roros, Norway
-ID: 401
Date: 1/1984
-Description: A luminous triangle preceded by a flashing light passes
-over Guildford, Surrey, England, silently moving to the east. (Marler
-137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6453
Date: 1/3/1984
-Description: 4:14 a.m. A woman wakes up in her home near Port
-Washington, Wisconsin, when a bright light shines through the bedroom
-window. She sees a strange object with three circular lights in a fixed
-position about 50 feet from the shore of Lake Michigan. The center
-light, as bright as a searchlight, rotates north, casting an
-illumination on the water, which is seen to be turbulent. All three
-lights are rotating clockwise around a 30-foot body. She wakes up her
-husband, who suggests that it is a Coast Guard helicopter. But the
-object is completely silent. After a short time, a smaller object also
-with three lights appears over the first one, hovers a few minutes, then
-disappears. The searchlight periodically shines directly in the window.
-The object moves about 20–30 feet then hovers there another 10–15
-minutes. At 5:15 a.m., it moves away and disappears to the southeast.
-The woman goes back to bed, but soon feels a powerful electric shock
-penetrate her body with a buzzing sound. (Donald R. Schmitt and Richard
-W. Heiden, “People Who Live in Glass Houses…See UFOs,” IUR 9, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1984): 3, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6454
Date: 1/8/1984
-Description: 3:15 a.m. Three people are traveling southeast in a van at
-mile marker 236 on I-80 southeast of Cozad, Nebraska, when the highway
-lights up and they see a huge disc as big as a baseball diamond 75–100
-feet above and slightly to the right of the road. Bright lights are
-evenly spaced around the rim, most of them white, but others pink or
-blue. As the car passes it at a slow speed, they can detect no motion
-and can hear no sound. They attempt to communicate by Citizens Band
-radio, but the radio picks up strange interference like an “intermittent
-bleeping.” (J. Allen Hynek, “Nebraska Close Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1984): 10–12; “Addendum to Nebraska Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 3
-(May/June 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6455
Date: 1/9/1984
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Two witnesses driving on State Highway 208 near
-Hawthorne, New Jersey, see an object with lights descend then move away
-from their car. After driving another 300 feet they spot another object
-over the road. They drive directly under the object, which is moving
-slowly at an altitude of 200 feet. The driver pulls over, and the object
-moves toward the first UFO. (Bob Gribble, “UFO
-Hotline Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March
-1984): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6456
Date: 1/13/1984
-Description: New York Post: Soviet scientists are puzzled by the flight
-of a mysterious bright sphere followed by seven small lights which flew
-at great speed but low altitude across southern Russia and Ukraine. The
-objects changed altitude and direction and were flying less than half a
-mile above the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1/20/1984
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A mother and two children are driving near
-Jasper, New York, when they see a large, gold, oval object that seems to
-be pacing their car. It lands on a nearby ridge and after a few seconds
-ascends into the sky. It repeats this maneuver several times, speeding
-up and slowing down when she does the same. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline
-Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6457
Date: 1/21/1984
-End date: 2/26/1984
-Description: Project Hessdalen sets up three fieldwork stations, the
-primary one on Aspaskjolen mountain, and two smaller ones at Hersjøen
-and Litlefjellet, Norway. This group secures technical assistance from
-the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, the University of Oslo,
-and the University of Bergen. Over the course of one month,
-investigators see numerous lights, take photos of many of them, and
-track them instrumentally. On three occasions, lights are seen visually
-and tracked on radar simultaneously, casting a reflection on the radar
-screen so strong that a Norwegian defense expert later says that if that
-is not a solid object, then it must be a “strongly ionized gas.” One of
-the lights is tracked moving at 19,000 mph. On another occasion, a light
-under constant visual observation shows up on radar only on every second
-sweep. In most instances (33 in all), when radar shows something, the
-eye or a camera sees nothing. On two occasions the researchers direct a
-laser beam on passing lights. Out of a total of nine times, the lights
-respond all but once in a curious way, changing from a regular flashing
-light to a double-flashing light. The total number of sightings in this
-period is 188, although some may be attributable to passing aircraft.
-Only four of the photos taken through the special lens grating come out
-well enough to show light spectra, and only two of these are useful for
-analysis. Changes in the magnetic field are recorded in 40% of the
-sightings, but the Geiger counter and infrared viewer prove unhelpful.
-Researchers categorize the phenomenon into three different types: a
-white or blue-white flashing light, high in the air; a yellow light with
-a red light on the top, sometimes flashing; and a slow-moving, yellow or
-white light that maneuvers, stops for an hour or more, and continues
-maneuvering. (“Project
-Hessdalen” website; “Description
-of the
-Phenomena,” Project Hessdalen; Erling Strand, “Project
-Hessdalen 1984: Final Technical Report,” Project Hessdalen, January
-5, 1985; “Hessdalen:
-18 February 1984,” Project Hessdalen; “Project
-Hessdalen: 1984,” Project Hessdalen; “Norway Lights Continue: Update
-on Project Hessdalen,” IUR 9, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1984): 9, 12; Kim Hansen,
-“UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90; Clark III
-572–573)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6458
Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two witnesses in a car in Arnold, Missouri, see a
-circular object with three brilliant white lights and a corona of white
-light surrounding it. As it approaches the car, the driver makes an
-evasive turn, only to have the object pace them within 150 feet for 3
-minutes. A vertical shaft of light comes from the top of the object.
-(Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6462
Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:09 a.m. A witness in Huntington, West Virginia, observes
-a brilliant orange ball of light about 900 feet hovering above a
-neighbor’s house. Its glow illuminates the ground. After a minute, it
-speeds away to the west. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no.
-2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6459
Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:25 a.m. The cabin crew of United Flight 729 is flying
-westbound 30 miles east of Toledo, Ohio, at 43,000 feet. They see a
-blurry, bright-red object the size of a DC-9 move from northeast to
-southwest for a few seconds. It leaves a contrail that they pass
-through. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April
-1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6460
Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A young couple parking near Waycross, Georgia,
-spot a large object approaching their car at treetop level. It crosses a
-logging road near their car, goes across an open area to a stand of
-trees, then turns around. The driver begins speeding away, but the
-object moves directly over the car. It has an L-shaped light pattern on
-its underside with two red lights and one green light. The glow from the
-red light illuminates the car interior. The object follows them for
-about 75 down a county road before it moves away at high speed. (Bob
-Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6461
Date: 1/27/1984
-Description: 5:40 a.m. Four witnesses at Valley Center, California, see
-five stationary white lights in the northern sky about 2 miles away.
-Four are in a diamond formation while the fifth is in the center. After
-watching the display for several minutes, they notice smaller white
-lights maneuvering around the larger ones. They seem to increase to as
-many as 100. Suddenly the formation, small lights as well, moves away to
-the northwest and the witnesses can hear a soft humming sound. (Bob
-Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984):
-7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6463
Date: 1/27/1984
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Two boys delivering papers in King of Prussia,
-Pennsylvania, see a circular object with lights around its edge hovering
-above houses about two blocks away. After a few seconds it ascends at a
-45° angle. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2
-(March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6464
Date: 1/28/1984
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A young couple in Flemington, New Jersey, notice
-an orange ball descending through the cloud layer and appear to land on
-a ridge behind the tree line. At 6:50 a.m., the husband sees a bright
-object ascend from the same ridge, pause in mid-air, then move away
-horizontally in the distance. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR
-9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6465
Date: 1/30/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Nine men working on an oil platform in the Big
-Cypress National Preserve about 40 miles west of Miami, Florida, see a
-bright orange object descending at a high rate of speed about five miles
-away. At about 10,000 feet, it comes to an instant stop. The orange glow
-fades and they can see an object with a chrome dome and dozens of
-flashing lights on the underside. All witness estimate it to be at least
-200 feet in diameter. It remains stationary for 10 seconds, turns orange
-again, and speeds away to the east. Witnesses in Jensen Beach and the
-Miami area also see the object. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR
-9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6466
Date: 2/1984
-Description: The Commission for the Investigation of Anomalous
-Atmospheric Phenomena is established in Moscow, Russia, although its
-announcement in the West is delayed until May. Affiliated with the
-Committee for the Protection of Natural Environment of the All-Union
-Council of Scientific Technical Societies, the commission is made up of
-scientists and academicians and is headed by former cosmonaut Pavel
-Popovich, who tells the trade union newspaper Trud that there have
-been hundreds of reports in Russia each year, most of which can be
-explained away. (Good Above, p. 243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6467
Date: 2/1984
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale begins a newsletter, Notizie
-C.U.N., to replace Quaderni UFO. It is edited by Gian Paolo Grassino in
-Turin, Italy, and continues until September 1985. (Notizie
-C.U.N., no. 0 (February 1984))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6468
Date: 2/1984
-Description: Night. The commander of a group of soldiers in the 103rd
-Regiment guarding warehouses at Przasnysz Airfield, Poland, sees a light
-silently coming in his direction. It is attached to a huge oval object
-70–100 feet across that is moving soundlessly 150 feet above the ground.
-He and his assistant feel unexplained terror and paralysis, remaining
-rooted to the spot. Noticing a light at its rear end, he considers
-taking an AK-47 and shooting it out, but receives a mental command not
-to do so or he would be paralyzed. (Poland 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6469
Date: 2/7/1984
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A witness in Atco, New Jersey, awakes to a loud
-humming sound and finds his room illuminated by a bright light. He goes
-to the window and sees a bright circular object with a hump on top in a
-stationary position about four feet above his neighbor’s yard and 200
-feet away. It is about the size of a small car. A human- like “image” is
-standing next to it, but that vanishes and the object ascends in a
-zigzag pattern, then moves away at a high rate of speed. (Bob Gribble,
-“UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6470
Date: 2/20/1984
-Description: 6:12 p.m. Leif
-Havik is standing in the snow outside the Project Hessdalen
-headquarters on Aspaskjolen, Norway, when a red light flies around his
-feet and disappears. It is also witnessed by Age Moe. (Kim Hansen, “UFO
-Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6471
Date: late 2/1984
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A driver in Everett, Washington, sees a huge,
-silvery green, egg-shaped object moving toward his car from a wooded
-area. Within a few seconds it bounces from one side of the road to the
-other, passing over his car. (MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6474
Date: 2/22/1984
-End date: 2/23/1984
-Description: Night. Witnesses in Flushing, Michigan, see objects with
-triangular lighting patterns that shine beams of light to the ground.
-The lights approach the car of one witness who sees they are part of a
-cigar-shaped object 100 feet above the ground. A jogger reports a light
-so intense that it hurts his eyes. Another witness sees an object with
-triangular-shaped lights hovering less than 200 feet above the ground,
-illuminating the area behind her house and panicking her cats. Two more
-objects pass above her house. Investigator Shirley
-Coyne locates 12 people who have seen the lights, but only three
-will fill out a report. (MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6472
Date: 2/23/1984
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Five witnesses, all with PhDs, report an
-upside-down-ice-cream-cone-shaped object over the Ohio State University
-campus in Columbus, Ohio. It seems to be surrounded with a fog, but it
-changes its appearance about every 60 seconds, at one point looking
-rectangular. It is seen for 20 minutes, heading in the direction of Port
-Columbus Airport [now John Glenn Columbus International Airport]. (Irena
-Scott, “Description of
-an Aerial Anomaly Viewed over Columbus, Ohio,” Ohio Journal of
-Science 88, no. 2 (1988): 23; Irena Scott, “UFO Studies in the
-Scientific Literature,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6473
Date: 2/29/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, sees a
-dark, diamond-shaped object approach her at no more than 50 feet above
-the ground. White lights are at the front and back, blinking red lights
-at the sides, and smaller lights between each of the four points. It is
-“longer than a tractor trailer and wide as two tractor trailers.” It
-wobbles and passes over trees to the southwest. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6475
Date: 3/4/1984
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence, for the first time ever,
-releases UFO reports to the public. Sixteen reports, most of which are
-severely redacted and missing key data, are sent to the British UFO
-Research Association. When he is asked about possible landing cases,
-such as the 1980 Rendlesham incident, Defence Undersecretary for
-Procurement John
-Lee replies that these are not distinguished from other reports of
-aerial phenomena. In any event, he says, “none of these reports was of
-any defence significance.” (Good Above, pp. 112–113;
-Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, Appendix
-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6476
Date: 3/6/1984
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two police officers, Tom Jensen and Gary Myers,
-watch a large boomerang or U-shaped UFO west of Norris, South Dakota,
-after having been alerted by a citizen 10 minutes earlier. At its
-closest approach, Myers sees it as a pattern of lights in an inverted L
-pattern. As it passes, it blocks out the sky and stars. (J. Allen Hynek,
-“A CE-I, a Lonely Road, a Starry Night,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984):
-6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6477
Date: 3/9/1984
-Description: MP Patrick
-Wall asks in the UK House of Commons that the Secretary of State for
-Defence provide statistics on UFO landings, unexplained cases, and radar
-sightings for 1980–1983. John
-Lee responds that there were 350 UFO reports in 1980 (dodging the
-question of whether or not the MoD could identify them), 600 in 1981,
-250 in 1982, and 390 in 1983. (Good Above, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6478
Date: 3/11/1984
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A mother and her daughter see a large
-cylindrical object just a few feet away through the window of their home
-in Wolcott, Connecticut. For 7 minutes it hovers about 7 feet above the
-ground, then moves away silently. (MUFON UFO Journal. April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6479
Date: spring 1984
-Description: A Soviet pilot in a MiG-23 is scrambled to intercept an
-object flying at supersonic speed from north to south over the Mikha
-Tskhakaya Airfield south of Senaki, Georgia. The MiG-23, flying at
-16,400 feet in full afterburner at Mach 1.2, is unable to close in on
-the object. By the time the interceptor is approaching the coastline of
-the Black Sea, it is flying at Mach 1.6. The pilot activates his
-infrared search and track system when he is 7.5 miles away from the
-target and sees the largest “bloom” he has ever encountered. By the time
-he reaches Mach 2, he has to break off due to lack of fuel, never having
-acquired a visual target. (Good Need, pp. 352–353,
-365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6486
Date: 3/21/1984
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A truck driver driving on Interstate 87 south of
-Albany, New York, sees a boomerang-shaped UFO about 100 feet altitude
-that looks larger than a Boeing 747. It has red, white, and green
-lights. It paces his truck for five minutes then vanishes. (NightSiege
-71–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6480
Date: 3/21/1984
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A mother and daughter driving south on Perry Road
-near Claxton, Georgia, notice an unusual light through the trees. As
-they top a hill, they slow the car to a near stop when they see three
-boomerang-shaped objects, with wings pointing downward, hovering above a
-field. Each has two bright lights in the top center and a row of small,
-multicolored lights that blink in rapid sequence. One object is larger
-(at least 40 feet wide) than the others and moves over their car in
-perfect silence. Its underside appears dark metallic. (“Local
-Woman, Daughter Report
-‘Close Encounter,’” Claxton (Ga.) Enterprise, March 29, 1984, via
-UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 177 (April 1984): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6481
Date: 3/24/1984
-Description: 5:50 a.m. Five nuns at the Sainte-Marie Cistercian Abbey in
-Boulaur, Gers, France, see a bright oval object about 16 feet long and
-6.5 feet tall from the first-floor balcony. It is hovering at first,
-then starts moving up and down and right and left “at the speed of
-lightning.” It stops about 100 feet above the cemetery and 325 feet away
-from the witnesses. There is no sound. Then it takes off in the
-direction it came from. (Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les
-Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, “Notes
-d’Enquête, Boulaur (32) 24.03.1984,” June 30, 2014; Swords
-447)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6482
Date: 3/25/1984
-Description: Night. Hundreds of people see low-flying lights over the
-Taconic State Parkway near Peekskill, New York. The lights seem to be
-attached to a slow-moving, boomerang-shaped object with six intense
-white lights and a green light in the center. A photographer estimates
-the object is about 300 feet long and flying at 30 mph. It moves over
-some water and the lights go out. He videotapes the incident, but
-nothing shows up on the tape. (NightSiege 78–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6484
Date: 3/25/1984
-Description: 8:55 p.m. A driver in Santa Monica, California, sees a
-bright red ball of light, about 10 inches in diameter, maneuvering
-around her car with a bouncing motion. It approaches to within a foot of
-her car, lighting up the hood and windows for one minute. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6483
Date: 3/28/1984
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A triangular object passes above a car in West
-Nottingham, New Hampshire, at an altitude of 50 feet. It has two bright
-lights and is silent. (Bob Gribble, “UFO
-Hotline Reports,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 3 (May 1984): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6485
Date: 4/1984
-Description: Reported in APRO Bulletin: D.M., who lives just south of
-White Swan, WA went out to his rural mailbox just before dawn to get his
-paper. He observed a large flying triangle passing overheard. It was
-lighted completely around its perimeter with multicolored lights which
-burned steadily. He estimated it was 8k-10k feet high, made no noise and
-was in sight for several minutes as it wasn’t moving at high
-speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: White Swan, WA
Date: 4/10/1984
-Description: Night. While driving down a country road near Rhinelander,
-Wisconsin, two witnesses see a stationary, cigar- shaped object about
-225 feet from the roadway. It has a row of lighted windows, and several
-spokes protrude from the surface. Each spoke has a white light on the
-tip. While hovering at treetop level, the object pivots 360° and then
-stops. After observing it for 4 minutes, the witnesses drive past it and
-go home. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June
-1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6487
Date: 4/12/1984
-Description: 2:10 a.m. Air traffic control radar at Grantley Adams
-International Airport in Barbados tracks a large group of unknown
-targets moving at about 100 mph in “loose but distinct formation” 30
-miles southeast of the island. Authorities notify Prime Minister Tom
-Adams, the Barbados Defense Force, and the police commissioner. The
-BDF is put on Red Alert. By 2:20 a.m., the formation is 14 miles off the
-coast when two targets veer off to the island’s west side, two others
-move to the east, while the remainder keep on moving north. Police are
-deployed to the beaches. At 3:30 a.m., the BDF launches a patrol boat
-and scrambles a Cessna but does not find anything. Radar is still
-tracking objects at 4:00 a.m. over the northern part of the island. By
-4:10 a.m., they disappear to the west. A temperature inversion is a
-possible cause. (“1984:
-UFOs Place Barbados Defence Force on Full Alert, This
-Really Happened,” Notes from the Margin, March 13, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6488
Date: 4/13/1984
-Description: 10:00 p.m. While boating on a lake near Gainesville,
-Florida, two witnesses see a stationary oval-shaped object at an
-altitude of 100 feet about 300 feet from their boat. The object shines a
-cone of bright white light onto the surface of the water. After about 3
-minutes, it hovers out of sight behind some trees. (Bob Gribble, “UFO
-Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6489
Date: 4/15/1984
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Some 20 witnesses (farm workers, a police
-officer, venture scouts) at Llangernyw, North Wales, see a pink-orange
-ball that drifts to the ground and explodes in a shower of purple
-sparks. Out of the shower emerges a white disc that appears to land out
-of sight behind a ridge. A large army helicopter and two military trucks
-apparently perform a search of the area beginning at daylight. (Jenny
-Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986):
-4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6490
Date: 4/18/1984
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A married couple is driving on a road near RAF
-Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, when they come upon a huge rectangular
-object straddling the road ahead. It has at least 60 lights arrayed in
-rows on its frame. Red and green lights are at its edges, but the
-majority are white. The object remains absolutely still and silent about
-100 feet in the air. They are anxious to get home, so they do not see
-the object leave. (Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1986): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6491
Date: 4/19/1984
-Description: 8:05 p.m. A family in Llano, Texas, watches a huge
-dome-shaped object pass over their house at an altitude of only 200
-feet. It has red lights around it. A jet aircraft appears to be pursuing
-it. The mother says she can hear a humming sound coming from it. (Bob
-Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6492
Date: 4/20/1984
-Description: 10:04 p.m. Four people in a car in Beaverton, Oregon, see a
-large, pulsating, yellow light high in the sky. The driver stops, and a
-small, bright-blue object comes into view, moving toward the yellow
-object at high speed. Suddenly, a “fast red thing” shoots out of the
-blue object and knocks the yellow object in half, one part
-disintegrating and the other part falling to the ground. Two other
-objects, yellow and blue, appear with the blue object chasing and
-apparently shooting down the yellow object. The blue object then climbs
-at a high speed vertically and vanishes in the clouds. The observation
-lasts 20 minutes. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3
-(May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6493
Date: 4/22/1984
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A woman and her mother are watching TV at a
-trailer park in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, England, when they see a
-dome-shaped object with circle of white lights, a small group of red
-lights above, and a brilliant white light on top. It is hovering nearby
-and about 500 feet in the air. More lights turn on and the object begins
-to revolve. As its speed increases, the colors blend into one another.
-The object moves away to the south, but over the next hour it circles
-the trailer park in wide loops that take it several miles out to sea
-before returning over their heads. It switches a searchlight beam off
-and on. The woman’s two dogs are looking fearfully at the UFO. At one
-point the object drops to 100 feet and hovers in absolute silence above
-the witnesses. The searchlight comes from two headlight beams projecting
-forward. The UFO has a “smoky glass” dome on top. Dogs are howling for
-miles around. The object switches off all but four of its lights and
-climbs vertically before heading out to sea to circle for a few more
-minutes. (“The
-Saltfleet Encounter,” Northern UFO News, no. 113 (May/June 1985):
-10–11; Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1986): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6494
Date: 4/25/1984
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A woman is in her garden at Blairgowrie,
-Scotland, working on a tapestry when her dog leaps up and runs indoors.
-A ball of light appears in the air and seems to enter her body. She is
-blinded for a few seconds but feels calm. A white cloud rises from her
-head and hovers above some bushes. It blinks twice and climbs into the
-sky toward a large silvery object shaped like a house key. The cloud
-moves along the length of the key, flashing and lighting up bits in
-turn. She calls her son, who arrives just as the UFO sways from side to
-side and vanishes in a sudden pink flash. (Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a
-UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 7– 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6495
Date: 4/25/1984
-Description: 9:55 p.m. Three witnesses driving on American Canyon Road
-south of Napa, California, see a huge triangular object the size of a
-football field hovering 100 feet above the road. They drive beneath it,
-and after 5 minutes the object moves out of sight. (Bob Gribble, “UFO
-Hotline Reports,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 195 (May/June 1984): 11;
-Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984):
-16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6496
Date: 4/26/1984
-Description: On a visit to the 6513th Test Squadron, Red Hats at Groom
-Lake, Nevada, USAF Lt. Gen. Robert
-M. Bond requests to fly a MiG-23 BN fighter-bomber, a newly acquired
-supersonic Soviet aircraft flown for testing. Instead of the usual 2
-weeks of training, Bond is given a cursory briefing while sitting inside
-the cockpit with an instructor. Just as he is flying at 40,000 feet and
-over Mach 2 speed, a hydromechanical inhibitor activates, preventing him
-from disengaging the afterburner. Bond loses control, makes a distress
-call, and is killed while ejecting. The MiG-23 crashes on Jackass Flats
-in Area 25, still contaminated from NERVA rocket testing. Bond’s body is
-discovered by a USAF sergeant on his way to work, who removes the rank
-insignia from Bond’s flight suit with a pocketknife before going to get
-help. The USAF does not confirm or deny that Bond was flying a MiG when
-he died and states that he was flying “an Air Force specially modified
-test craft,” but it leaks the information on the MiG testing program to
-journalist Fred Hoffman. There are fears that the publicity will also
-lead to the exposure of the F-117 program, still secret and also based
-at Tonopah, but this does not happen. (Wikipedia, “Robert
-M. Bond”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6497
Date: 4/26/1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Terri West spots an odd light in the sky from her
-home on Belmont Lane, Stanmore, Greater London, England. At 10:15 p.m.,
-she joins her neighbors Ruth and Bruno Novelli to watch the light, which
-is moving back and forth and constantly changing colors from blue to
-green to pink. Soon it emits a large ball of light that shoots toward
-the ground. The witnesses call the police at 10:22 p.m. A team of police
-arrives and watches the object for about 2 hours. Police Constable
-Richard Milthorp says the light is originally at 45° but after 15
-minutes it moves up and to the right. He draws a sketch of the object,
-which is circular in the middle with a dome above and below. It has
-different colored lights on the top and bottom. One of the officers
-takes photos, but they do not come out well. Some others chase the UFO
-by car, but it is already fading from view. (Good Above, pp. 114–115;
-UFOFiles2, p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6498
Date: 4/27/1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Linda Braga and her daughter Piper see a starlike
-object that follows their car along West Ridge Road in Cornville, Maine.
-About 35–45 feet in diameter, the red and yellow object comes almost
-within touching distance. When they reach their driveway, it backs off
-and hovers above a field, then moves around to the other side of the
-house. It disappears in the distance. (“Recently
-Received Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5
-(Oct./Nov. 1984): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6499
Date: 5/1/1984
-Description: The book “Clear Intent”, later renamed to “The UFO
-Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say” in 1990, written by Lawrence
-Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood is published.
-Type: book
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 5/2/1984
-Description: Australian Minister of Defence Gordon
-Scholes announces that the RAAF will fully investigate only those
-UFO sightings that “suggest a defence or national security implication.”
-(Bill Chalker, “The North West Cape Incident: UFOs and Nuclear Alert in
-Australia,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 11; Good Above, p. 182;
-Swords 408–409)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6500
Date: 5/4/1984
-End date: 5/6/1984
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds its Third
-International Congress in Genoa, Italy. Speakers include J. Allen
-Hynek, Roberto
-Pinotti, and
-Antonio
-Ribera. (Roberto
-Pinotti, “Italian Report,” IUR 9, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1984): 3, 16;
-2Pinotti 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6501
Date: 5/5/1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Five workers on a garbage truck are near the Rio
-Seco, Tucumán, Argentina, when they see a strange light like a fireball.
-The truck stops, and later it is found that the fuses have burnt out.
-The upper part of the object is giving off a red light and the lower
-part a blue light, and it hovers above the truck for 20 seconds. It then
-moves away silently and disappears. Residents of Rio Seco also see the
-light, which illuminates the village. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on
-Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011):
-19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6504
Date: 5/5/1984
-Description: 7:30 p.m. An ultrasensitive orbiting US Defense Support
-Program spy satellite detects the entry of an unknown object that passes
-15 miles in front of it only 1.8 miles away, and then flies below it
-over the Indian Ocean. The encounter lasts 9 minutes. An alert is
-triggered at NORAD. The object is moving at 22,000 mph, changes course,
-and flies back into outer space. (NICAP, “DSP
-Satellite Tracks Fast Walker”; Ronald S. Regehr, How to Build a $125
-Million UFO Detector, 1998, pp. 27–28, 84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6503
Date: 5/5/1984
-Description: 2:55 a.m. A witness in Piedmont, South Carolina, hears a
-loud pulsating sound and looks out the window in time to see a large
-metallic object passing above his house at about 750 feet. Described as
-bigger than an Air Force C-5A transport, the object is shaped like a
-flattened football. A car stops along the road, and the driver gets out
-to watch it. All of the dogs in the neighborhood are howling as it is in
-view for 2 minutes. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3
-(May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6502
Date: 5/6/1984
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy is washing out dog pens in
-Williston, Florida, when he hears a humming sound behind him. The dogs
-start whimpering and running around the pens. Suddenly, the area turns
-red and looking up, the boy sees a bright red circular object that
-hovers for about 5 seconds at only 20 feet altitude before it shoots
-across a field and stops again. He goes inside to get his mother, who
-sees the object moving across the field before vanishing. The dogs
-remain agitated afterward. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9,
-no. 3 (May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6505
Date: 5/16/1984
-Description: Dept. of the Army letter to W. S. Steinman stating that the
-IPU was disestablished in the late 1950s and all records were
-transferred to the Air Force. Therefore the Army isn’t aware of what
-their function was even though it was a Secret unit of the Army. (FOIA
-requests to USAF)
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-A p55)
-Location: US
Date: 5/29/1984
-Description: A huge disc with a flat base and two vast searchlights
-passes silently over Fairy Cottage, near Laxey, Isle of Man. (Jenny
-Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29,
-no. 1 (Spring 2004): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6507
Date: 5/29/1984
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek gives a presentation on “Properties of the UFO
-Phenomenon” at a special session on “The Edges of Science” of the annual
-meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in
-New York City. He presents a summary of 400 UFO cases by responsible
-witnesses, “some of whom were independent of each other but observed the
-same event (and sometimes in daylight) which defied both common sense
-and common physical sense.” (J. Allen Hynek, “The UFO Phenomenon,” IUR
-9, no. 4 (July/August 1984): 3–5, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6506
Date: 5/31/1984
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A V-shaped formatio60659gme n of 15 lights,
-estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747 airliner if all are connected
-to one object, passes directly over the home of John Burdett, an IBM
-engineer in Hawthorne, New York. It makes no sound as it passes overhead
-except for a faint humming. All lights simultaneously turn blue and then
-it makes a tight 180-degree turn and flies off to the north. At 8:30
-p.m., the object is seen from Route 117 in Pleasantville, New York, and
-follows a car down the Taconic State Parkway. At 8:45 p.m., David Boyd
-in Yorktown, New York, sees a V-shaped formation of lights turn and fly
-away to the west. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “More Nocturnal Lights,” IUR 9,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6508
Date: 6/14/1984
-Description: 10:15 p.m. New York State Power Authority security police
-at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant near Buchanan, New York, watch 10 or
-more bright lights arranged in a boomerang pattern hovering for about 15
-minutes a quarter mile away. Behind them is a dark mass about 300 feet
-long that blocks out the lights of a plane that flies behind it. (Philip
-J. Imbrogno, “Incident
-at Indian Point,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1278; NightSiege
-162–164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6510
Date: mid 6/1984
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Seaman Alexander Globa and mate of the watch
-Sergey Bolotov are beginning their watch on board the Russian tanker
-Gori in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles east of Gibraltar. They
-see what seems to be an airplane with its landing lights on and flying
-toward them at an altitude of 4,920 feet about 2 miles away. It is
-shaped like a “frying pan turned upside down” with a shiny, metallic
-surface. It emits bright, irregular flashes of light. In two minutes it
-reaches the ship’s position, turns south, and keeps pace with the ship,
-gyrating for 3 minutes. The object is perfectly round and about 75 feet
-in diameter. There is a round, black spot on the bottom, and a
-cylindrical “tailpipe” is seen at the junction of two segments that are
-rotating in opposite directions. At 4:20 p.m., another ship approaches
-to the left, and the object flies quickly toward it and hovers above it.
-Capt. Sokolovsky contacts the vessel, an Egyptian dry cargo ship enroute
-to Greece, and it confirms the presence of the UFO. After 90 seconds it
-quickly moves back to the Gori, ascends at an angle of 40°–45°, veers to
-the right, and eventually disappears. Total duration of the sighting is
-12 minutes. (Sergey Romanav, “Disk with Rotating Cupola Observed near
-Straits of Gibraltar by Russian Ship in 1984,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June
-1993): 17–18; Paul Stonehill, “Questions about a Russian Case,” IUR 18,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 21; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets,
-Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6511
Date: 6/21/1984
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Investigators Dick Ruhl and Richie Petracca are
-on Interstate 84 in Dutchess County, New York, when they see a brilliant
-white wedge-shaped object floating and turning in the sky. The lights
-suddenly turn red, and as the object continues to turn, they see red,
-green-blue, and white lights. They stop and get binoculars out, then
-notice another object on the left. Both objects glide slowly and
-maneuver, constantly changing from white as they approach, and to red as
-they turn away. They finally form up into a boomerang shape. Ruhl and
-Petracca suspect they are seeing the “Stormville pilots,” so they drive
-to the Stormville airport. After waiting in the snack bar a short time,
-people see lights in the direction of the Green Haven Correctional
-Facility. It turns out they are six Cessna Skyhawks, apparently with
-mufflers on the engines, and they land one by one on a nearby runway.
-Ruhl photographs the serial number of one of the planes, N76106. (Dick
-Ruhl, Richie Petracca, Sal Giamusso, and Gerry Arena, “The
-Westchester Sightings,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 6 (September 1984):
-5–6; Philip J. Imbrogno. “The Hudson Valley Sightings: A Reply to Dick
-Ruhl and APRO,” IUR 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6512
Date: 6/21/1984
-Description: 9:44 p.m. Witnesses see unidentified lights over the
-Wanaque Reservoir in New Jersey for more than two hours. The manager of
-a tavern on Ringwood Avenue in Haskell sees an egg-shaped object moving
-faster than a blimp. (“E.T.
-Circling Area?” Wayne (N.J.) Today, July 4, 1984, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 181 (August 1984), p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6513
Date: summer 1984
-Description: Day. A Mrs. Danuta takes her 2-year-old son to a playground
-in the Podwisłocze district of Rzeszów, Poland. A green-metallic object
-with a bright cupola 8 feet tall approaches, brushing a tree, and the
-woman picks up her son and hides behind a tree. It is making a loud
-noise and hovering 30–50 feet above the ground. It then moves toward
-some nearby apartments, shoots up, and disappears. (Poland 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6509
Date: 6/25/1984
-Description: Night. A huge, slow-moving object with many lights is seen
-near Bethel, Connecticut, for 20 minutes. It looks like a big Ferris
-Wheel on its side. (NightSiege 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6514
Date: 7/1984
-Description: Prentice-Hall publishes Clear Intent by Lawrence Fawcett
-and Barry
-J. Greenwood, a
-history of Air Force, FBI, and CIA involvement in UFO investigations and
-secrecy, including many FOIA-released recent reports and documents. The
-book immediately sells out and is unavailable for most of the summer. A
-second printing in late August also sells out immediately. (Lawrence
-Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, Clear
-Intent: The Government Coverup
-of the UFO Experience, Prentice-Hall,
-1984; George M. Eberhart, “‘Clear Intent’ Reviewed,” IUR 9, no. 4
-(July/August 1984): 6–7, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6515
Date: 7/10/1984
-Description: Four members of the Italian Parliament—Giancarlo
-Abete, Publio
-Fiori, Alessandro
-Scajola, and
-Martino Scovacricchi—present
-a question to the government on whether it would consider involving
-private and civilian experts as future consultants on UFOs. Minister of
-Defence Giovanni
-Spadolini emphasizes the role of the Italian Air Force in UFO
-investigations and denies the necessity to involve outsiders, although
-it does not rule out cooperation with Italy’s National Research Council.
-(2Pinotti 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6516
Date: 7/13/1984
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A mysterious object comes into view above
-Rzeszów, Poland, remaining stationary for a long time. A flight
-controller from Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport estimates it is at 6,500 feet
-and is slowly moving to the northwest. Mielec Airport air traffic
-controller Kasimierz Lubertowicz scrambles an Iskra jet trainer on a
-scouting mission. As pilot Henryk Bronowicki approaches the object at
-24,600 feet, he realizes it is not a weather balloon and is moving away
-from him. He gives up the chase, but the object descends and he
-approaches it again, failing to reach it as it retreats. (Poland 74–75;
-Arek Miazga, “Pilot
-kontra UFO nad Mielcem 13.07.1984,” Spotkania z Nieznanym, June 1,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6517
Date: 7/19/1984
-Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Police in Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, and
-New Fairfield, Connecticut, receive reports of a low-flying, slow-moving
-object “as large as a football field.” It directs intense beams of light
-toward the ground and gives off heat felt by those beneath it. It has
-white lights in a circular pattern. (“Area
-Police Get Reports of UFOs,”
-Danbury (Conn.) News-Times, July 20, 1984, via UFO Newsclipping Service,
-no. 181 (August 1984), p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6518
Date: 7/24/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Security police at Indian Point Nuclear Plant at
-Buchanan, New York, again see a UFO with a semicircle of lights. The
-lights first flash yellow, then white, then blue. Far to the rear is a
-blinking red light. The dark mass behind the lights blocks out the stars
-as it approaches steadily. The plant’s movement-detecting sensors and
-alarm systems fail, as does the computer responsible for security and
-communications. By the time it gets to 500 feet away, the police can see
-an ice-cream-cone-shape and a solid body the length of three football
-fields. As it passes over the Unit 3 reactor, at one point getting as
-close as 30 feet, it is moving so slowly that the police can keep up
-with it by walking. An officer inside the plant watching security
-monitors is instructed to film the object using a camera atop a 95-foot
-pole; the camera has to pan almost 180° to cover the entire length of
-the object. One officer notices two hollow spheres or portals in the
-bottom. The UFO takes 5 minutes to pass over them. By the time the
-security police call Camp Smith, a National Guard base 10 miles away,
-and ask for an armed helicopter, the UFO is gone. Many other people in
-the area also report seeing the UFO over the plant. Police in Peekskill
-receive quite a few calls that evening. Police Sgt. Hoffman goes out to
-investigate and sees a giant UFO with more than a dozen white lights in
-a V formation slowly move toward the power plant. On July 25, the
-security guard supervisor tells them to forget what happened. Video and
-audio records of the event are removed, and in the next two days
-representatives of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversee a
-shakeup of the plant’s security operations. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “Incident
-at Indian Point,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1278; NightSiege
-159–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6519
Date: 7/24/1984
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Electronics executive Bob
-Pozzuoli shoots a videotape of a large object with a ring of 6
-lights in the sky over Brewster, New York. It moves behind a pine tree
-then emerges as a string of rotating multicolored lights and a flashing
-red light in the rear. The video also shows airplanes flying in
-formation. The tape is analyzed by Lew
-Allen at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who is apparently unable to
-explain it adequately. (NightSiege 117– 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6520
Date: 8/1984
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek moves to Scottsdale, Arizona, from Evanston, Illinois,
-under the influence of entrepreneurs Tina
-Choate and Brian Myers, who
-introduce him to wealthy Englishman Jeffrey (or Geoffrey) Kaye with the
-promise of funding a new UFO organization (the International Center for
-UFO Research in Phoenix), publications, and a TV series about Hynek’s
-life. The CUFOS office moves to Glenview, Illinois, where Sherman J.
-Larsen operates it. (“UFO
-Expert Moving to Arizona,” Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1984, Sec. 2,
-p. 1; Keith Basterfield, “Why
-Did J. Allen Hynek Move to Scottsdale?” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena—Scientific Research, October 8, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6521
Date: 8/20/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Irene Lunn and her daughter are driving near Deer
-Trail Drive in Mahopac Falls, New York, when they notice triangle-shaped
-UFO with an unusual L-shaped tailpiece. They stop to observe it more
-carefully. The object has one red light, one green light, and eight
-white lights, and is moving south when it makes a sudden 90° turn and
-slowly moves toward them. They drive the short way home where they
-retrieve some binoculars. She can clearly see a dark, metallic object,
-which moves off to a neighbor’s yard and hovers. A rectangular object
-with white lights in each corner comes into view and moves in front of
-the first UFO for 5 seconds, then vanishes. The triangular object
-continues to hover, then silently moves off out of sight. (“Multiple
-Sightings in New York,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 11 (May 1985):
-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6522
Date: 8/23/1984
-Description: Afternoon. Military radar at Otopeni Airport [now Henri
-Coandă International Airport] near Bucharest, Romania, picks up a target
-flying above Alexeni Air Force Base [now closed] east of Urziceni at
-13,000–14,700 feet. The target, the size of a small plane or helicopter,
-appears out of nowhere and is tracked by 4–5 different radars in
-separate locations on different frequencies. After 15 minutes, the
-object is spotted visually. Through a telescope it appears oval,
-metallic and shiny, and about 9 feet long. During its appearance, the
-base notices a strong interference on VHF and short wave radios. The
-target climbs and descends about 7–8 times to altitudes ranging from
-6,500 feet to 34 miles as it moves west at speeds up to 7,450 mph,
-making zigzagging movements and turning at sharp angles. It is under
-observation for 40 minutes and is lost at a height of 62 miles as it
-disappears into space at 620 mph. (Romania 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6523
Date: 8/25/1984
-Description: Philip
-Imbrogno and Peter Gersten convene
-a public meeting on the Hudson Valley sightings in a middle school in
-Brewster, New York, and 1,500 people show up. Hynek attends,
-as well as news media, various people from the FBI, Air Force officers
-from Pease AFB [now Pease Air National Guard Base], and a mysterious man
-who has met with Imbrogno and claims to be from the National Security
-Agency. The Pozzuoli videotape
-is shown and 900 people fill out UFO sighting reports. (“Strange
-Sights Brighten the Night Skies Upstate,” New York Times, August 25,
-1984, p. 25; NightSiege 135–147; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984) Late
-summer — 8:00 p.m. Kazimierz Lubertowicz, chief of air traffic control
-at Mielec airfield, Poland, reports that a pilot and 30–40 airfield
-workers and military personnel are watching a motionless red-orange
-light for 2 hours. It is actually floating very slowly to the southeast
-at an altitude of 1,300–1,600 feet. (Poland 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6524
Date: 9/1984
-Description: Lawrence Fawcett and Barry
-Greenwood launch a new series of Just Cause newsletters to continue
-their documentation of government involvement in UFOs discussed in Clear
-Intent. The newsletter continues until November 1997. (Just
-Cause, new
-series, no. 1 (September 1984))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6525
Date: 9/1984
-Description: Marc Leduc begins publishing Bulletin d’Information
-Ufologique in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, until June 1986. (Bulletin
-d’Information Ufologique 1, no. 1 (September 1984))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6526
Date: 9/2/1984
-Description: 7:28 p.m. Physicist Bruce
-Maccabee is standing near the Light Street Pavilion in the Inner
-Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a black spot in the air to
-the southeast. It moves slowly north for 7 minutes at a steady rate
-until it disappears. (Bruce Maccabee, “‘Black Hole’ over Baltimore,” IUR
-10, no. 2 (March/April 1985): 6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6527
Date: 9/7/1984
-Description: 4:10 a.m. While approaching Minsk, Belarus, the pilots of a
-Soviet Aeroflot Tu-134 airliner are startled to see a strange, brightly
-glowing shape that appears to their right and follows their path closely
-for several minutes. The glowing object changes shape repeatedly,
-appearing first as rays, then concentric circles, then as a cloud, and
-finally as an amorphous mass. While copilot Gennady Lazurin sketches the
-object, Captain Igor Cherkashin contacts air traffic officials, who
-report that radar shows a strange “double” object, believed to be the
-airliner and the unidentified object. Years later, reports surface of a
-second flight crew traveling in the opposite direction who also see the
-glowing object. At the same time that the pilots in the first craft
-notice the UFO, a Soviet missile is launched from the Plesetsk
-Cosmodrome. Lazurin’s sketches of the object closely parallel sketches
-made by other witnesses at rocket launches, including amateur observers
-of the Soviet missile launch watching in Finland. (“Soviet
-Airliner Given ‘Escort’ by UFO,” Houston (Tex.) Chronicle, January
-31, 1985, pp. 1, 10; Richard H. Hall, “Soviet Sky Spectacular,” IUR 11,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 11–14; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The
-Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain,
-Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 88–89; Good Above, pp
-243–247; Dmitry Sudakov, “USSR’s Most Renowned UFO Sighting Linked
-to Ballistic Missile Launch?” Pravda, August 9, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6528
Date: late 9/1984
-Alternate date: early 10/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Militia Capt. Boris Ivanovich Vladimirov is
-riding in the right seat of a patrol vehicle with another policeman in
-Bayramgulovo, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, when they notice an unusual
-triangular pattern of colored lights about 80 feet away on the right
-side of the road in a freshly plowed field. There are 11 lights on the
-left and right sides of the object and 13 lights up the center. The
-lights on the edge flash sequentially like a theater marquee. After a
-bit, all the lights turn off. The next day, Vladimirov returns to the
-field and finds three round depressions in the soil about 10 inches deep
-and 36 inches in diameter. They are at the corners of an equilateral
-triangle 26 feet apart. (Richard F. Haines, “CE2 in the Eastern Urals,”
-IUR 17, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6529
Date: fall 1984
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence is reorganized, making the group
-Sec. AS (2a) its main focal point for receiving public UFO reports. Its
-mission is to “determine whether or not UFOs present a threat to the
-security and defence of the United Kingdom.” It has no other budget than
-minor staff costs and its records are unclassified. However, Timothy
-Good uncovers evidence that the U.K Provost and Security Services at
-RAF Rudloe Manor [now MOD Corsham] northeast of Bath, England, are
-conducting more serious and secret UFO investigations. More recent
-declassified files have revealed that RAF Rudloe Manor was a filter
-center for UFO reports in the 1950s. The British Police Force’s elite
-Special Branch in 1997 opens files on two UFO researchers in the UK who
-are collecting data on the Rudloe Manor operations—Robin Cole and
-Matthew Williams. (“Churchill
-Ordered UFO Cover-up,
-National Archives Show,” BBC News, August 5, 2010; Nick Redfern, A
-Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 193,
-203, 210; Good Above, pp. 70,
-121–126);
-Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017,
-pp. 35–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6534
Date: 10/1984
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Five witnesses, including missile technician
-Shamil Yuaihmetov, see a metallic cigar-shaped object slowly descending
-at a 45° angle near the Kattakurgan tactical nuclear missile base in
-Uzbekistan. It emits a hissing sound. The next day, three apparent
-landing-gear marks in an equilateral triangle pattern are found in a
-nearby vineyard in an area of damaged vines measuring 100 by 260 feet.
-Each depression is 20 inches deep. The case is investigated by S. P.
-Kuzionov of the Russian Geographical Society. (Ted R. Phillips, “Physical
-Traces Associated
-with Unidentified Flying Objects,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 445 (May
-2005): 5; Nukes 452–453)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6530
Date: 10/5/1984
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Science teacher and UFO investigator Philip
-J. Imbrogno and Fred Dennis are returning from an interview with
-witnesses in Peekskill, New York, on US Highway 9 when they see, near
-Ossining, New York, a large half-circle of 6 bluish-yellow lights
-connected to a partially illuminated structure. Suddenly it flips on its
-side and turns like a Ferris wheel. After 30 seconds, it is lost behind
-some trees. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “Incident
-at Indian
-Point,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6531
Date: 10/8/1984
-Description: 7:40 a.m. Giuseppe Cocozza goes into his alfalfa field near
-Prata di Principato Ultra, Avellino, Italy, to get some fodder for his
-cow. On the beaten-earth path to the field he encounters an entity about
-4 feet tall, wearing a blue helmet on its head and carrying a blue box
-on its back that features tubes running into the helmet and the entity’s
-back. Its body is covered with long, dark-brown hair, and it appears to
-be using a T-shaped instrument to explore the ground. There is a wide,
-aluminum-colored slit around its eyes. After noticing Cocozza, the
-entity moves toward a clearing among some hazel bushes, emitting small
-bluish flames from its sides. The witness backtracks and loses sight of
-it, but sees a UFO ascend at an angle from the bushes, turn, and shoot
-away toward a mountain range. Cocozza returns with a shotgun and finds
-some hoof-like footprints and holes left by the strange instrument, as
-well as landing marks apparently caused by the object. (Umberto
-Telarico, “Close
-Encounter at Prato
-di Principato Ultra (Italy), October 1984,” Flying Saucer Review 32,
-no. 1 (December 1986): 9–18; 2Pinotti 72–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6532
Date: 10/9/1984
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A beam of light coming in through a window wakes
-up Isidoro Ferri in his residence on the Via della Tessaia in Polcanto,
-northeast of Florence, Italy. He sees that it is coming from the
-forehead of a dark figure on a nearby hill across the road. Suddenly the
-figure and light vanish, and Ferri sees a stationary ink light with
-three jets projecting downward. After several minutes, this light
-disappears and an extremely bright white light approaches and floods the
-area. Ferri gets up and approaches the window but finds himself
-paralyzed for a few seconds. The light then withdraws, and he finds he
-can move again. The white light is replaced by a red lens- shaped light
-that hurts his eyes then moves on to the northwest. Ferri’s dog has not
-barked through the entire encounter, refuses food for the next several
-days, and stays in its doghouse for 2 weeks. Three circular holes 4
-inches in diameter and 1 inch deep are found in an area of somewhat
-flattened grass. (Edoardo Russo, “Italian Update
-1984,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 4 (May 1985): 26; 2Pinotti
-84–92; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
-February 1, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6533
Date: 11/1984
-Description: British UFO researcher Timothy
-Good interviews astrophysicist Pierre
-Guérin on the future of GEPAN. Because it is under the aegis of
-CNES, which is ill-disposed toward UFOs, Guérin says, it is doomed.
-(Good Above, pp. 136–139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6536
Date: 11/1984
-Description: Discover magazine publishes a cover story on the
-Westchester County sightings, which claims that the UFOs are actually a
-group of pilots from Stormville, New York, who fly ultralight aircraft
-in a tight formation and use their lights in such a way as to create
-boomerang or circle patterns. The author, Glenn
-Garelik, notes that single-engine planes, even when directly
-overhead, are barely audible at ground level when they are flying above
-3,000 feet. However, it fails to disclose that many witnesses are much
-closer to the object than that, nor does it mention the hovering for
-extended periods. In his 1987 book Night Siege, Philip
-J. Imbrogno lists 12 reasons for rejecting the explanation of the
-Stormville pilots. On those occasions when witnesses see both a plane
-and a UFO, the plane is clearly audible and the UFO is not, even if it
-is much closer. The UFO also appears on nights when the Stormville
-pilots are not in the air. The UFO’s maneuvers simply are beyond the
-capacity of most aircraft, and the power and intensity of the lights is
-far beyond the power capacity of small planes. (Glenn Garelik, “The
-Great Hudson Valley UFO Mystery,” Discover 5 (November 1984): 18–24;
-NightSiege 1998; Clark III 1278–1279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6535
Date: 11/14/1984
-Description: As the space shuttle Discovery approaches the dysfunctional
-satellite Westar VI on the STS-51-A mission,
-its video camera records for 2 seconds a gray blob that seems to
-materialize near the top center of the frame and move in a curved path
-across the right side of the frame. Bruce
-Maccabee says the blob could be a “reflection of something in a
-window or a small nearby particle.” (“UFO
-Appears during NASA STS-51-A Mission
-November 1984,” Real UFO Files Disclosed YouTube channel, July 10,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6537
Date: 12/1984
-Description: Bob
-Gribble, who
-operates the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington,
-discontinues sending UFO reports to MUFON and sends them to Michael
-Hart’s Compufon for posting on the Usenet bulletin board. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, October 1985)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6538
Date: 12/1984
-Description: Night. A married couple are up late watching TV in
-Trafford, Pennsylvania, when they hear a tapping on the window. They see
-a red ball of light about as big as a basketball that moves away from
-the window. They turn on the outside lights to watch the ball, which has
-black marks among the red and gives off beams and sparks. It floats over
-a neighbor’s house. They go back to watching TV, but the red light taps
-on the window once more before going away. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick
-of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6539
Date: 12/11/1984
-Description: North Hollywood, California, film producer Jaime
-Shandera receives an unmarked package in the mail containing an
-undeveloped roll of 35mm film with the faked 1952 Eisenhower briefing
-document and the 1947 Truman MJ-12 memo. He tells researcher William
-Moore, and they have the roll developed. Postmarked Albuquerque, New
-Mexico, the package is most likely sent by individuals in AFOSI at
-Kirtland AFB, including special agent Master Sgt. Richard
-Doty, to plant disinformation in William Moore’s UFO research. They
-wait until 1987 to release the document. (Michael Hesemann and Philip
-Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 90;
-Clark III 365–366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6540
Date: 1985
-Description: Scientific UFO Conference in Darlian, China. China Daily
-reported that 20,000 people involved in UFO research. Professor Renglin
-of Guangzhou Jinan University said more than 600 reports in China in
-prev. 5 years.
-Type: conference
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: China
Date: 1985
-Description: Near the town of Krasnovodsk [now Türkmenbaşy],
-Turkmenistan, a radar station under the command of Captain L. Valuev
-tracks a disc-shaped object at an altitude of 60,000 feet and apparently
-more than one-half mile in length. The object is stationary, and some
-time later a small disc about 16 feet in diameter flies out of it and
-then lands on a lengthy spit on the Caspian Sea. Patrol boats rush to
-that area, but when they reach a distance of 325 feet from the object,
-it takes off and flies more than one-half mile away. This happens five
-times. Then the object ascends at a huge speed and reaches the larger
-disc, which rises up and disappears. (Alexander Dremin, “Soviet Army
-Fought UFOs,” Pravda, January 2004; Good Need, p. 354;
-Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s
-‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings,
-Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 403 (November 2001):
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6541
Date: 1/1985
-Description: Jerome
-Clark begins to take over as editor of the International UFO
-Reporter as Hynek distances
-himself from operations at the Center for UFO Studies. (Clark III
-628)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6542
Date: 1/1985
-Description: A Roper Organization poll finds that 25% of Americans think
-that UFOs come from somewhere else in the universe. (Robert J. Durant,
-“Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993):
-13, 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6543
Date: 1/10/1985
-Description: US physicist Bernard
-Eastlund files a patent on a “Method and apparatus for altering a
-region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere,”
-that proposes a 40-square-mile radio transmitter using Alaskan natural
-gas to generate current to create electromagnetic radiation to excite a
-section of the ionosphere. The patent speculates on “possible
-ramifications and potential future developments” including
-magnetotelluric surveys, local weather modification, and missile
-defense. Eastlund later claims that HAARP is built using his patents,
-prompting Nick
-Begich Jr. to charge in 1995 that HAARP is capable of secretly
-controlling the weather. According to HAARP program manager John
-L. Heckscher, “HAARP certainly does not have anything to do with
-Eastlund’s thing, that is just crazy. What we have here is a premier
-scientific research facility with military applications.” (US Patent,
-“Method
-and Apparatus for Altering a Region of the Earth’s Atmosphere,
-Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere,”
-granted August 11, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6544
Date: 1/13/1985
-Description: Journalist James
-Bamford reveals the existence of the still-secret National
-Reconnaissance Office in a New York Times article. (James Bamford, “America’s
-Supersecret Eyes in Space,” New York Times Magazine, January 13,
-1985, Sec. 6, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6545
Date: 1/13/1985
-End date: 1/27/1985
-Description: Project Hessdalen II is launched to study the recurring
-lights of Hessdalen, Norway, with the participation of J.
-Allen Hynek, who
-arrives on January 26, but little light activity is noted. The
-phenomenon ceases in 1986. Investigators disagree on what the Hessdalen
-lights are. Odd-Gunnar Røed thinks they have some complex natural cause.
-Erling
-Strand finds it odd that the lights are so localized in time and
-space and must be an unknown phenomenon. Paul
-Devereux is convinced that they are earthquake lights resulting from
-seismic activity (even though the seismograph recorded no tremors).
-University of Oslo physicist Elvand Thrane says the lights remain a
-mystery. (J. Allen Hynek, “Tracking the Hessdalen Lights,” IUR 10, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1985): 10–11; “Projekt
-Hessdalen, Teil II,” Journal für UFO-Forschung 48 (Nov./Dec. 1986):
-164–170; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes,
-1987, pp. 90–92; Gerson S. Paiva and C. A. Taft, “Hessdalen Lights
-and Piezoelectricity from Rock Strain,” Journal of Scientific
-Exploration 25, no. 2 (2011): 265–271; Clark III 573; G. Pascoli, “Are
-Hessdalen Lights a Reality, an Illusion, or a Mix of the Two?”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 35, no. 3 (2021): 590–622)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6546
Date: 2/1985
-Description: 2:35 a.m. Freight train #1702, consisting of 70 empty cars
-and a locomotive, is paced by a strange object for 31 miles from Essoyla
-station through Suoyarvi, Karelia, Russia, for 1 hour and 20 minutes. It
-comes from the side and crosses the railway about 100–160 feet ahead of
-the train. The men feel as if hypnotized and stare at an object about 13
-feet in diameter that moves silently above the ground as if drifting.
-When the train is approaching the Novye Peski station, Engineer Sergei
-Orlov switches on his portable radio and contacts a woman on duty who
-goes out to meet the approaching train. She is surprised to see the
-shining ball followed by the vibrating object looking like an “upturned
-basin.” The train appears, moving at about 37 mph. She thinks the ball
-might hit the station, but right before the switch, it suddenly
-separates from the locomotive and passes around the building. When it
-returns, the object moves again toward the train, which speeds up as if
-the UFO is pulling it. The train manages to stop only near the Zastava
-station and the ball disappears behind the forest. The crew has to wait
-for a train coming from the opposite direction toward Petrozavodsk.
-Conductor Mironov gets out of the cab to examine the wheels, and as soon
-as he walks around the locomotive he feels a strange force press him
-against the train. He cannot move, but eventually it lets up; he reaches
-the cab and the train starts off as if it is waiting for him to take his
-seat. The train keeps moving for some time until the ball disappears
-behind trees. Automatic recorders on the locomotive and other official
-documents corroborate the testimony. The shining ball is noticed earlier
-at the Kutizhma station even before it is spotted by the train. (NICAP,
-“Objects
-Pull Train”; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files:
-Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998,
-p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6547
Date: 3/1985
-Description: Noon. At a military shooting range at Mălina, west of
-Galaţi, Romania, Doru Voloşeniuc is sent to collect compasses from a
-military vehicle when he sees a flat, silvery object hovering about 5
-feet above the ground. It becomes shrouded with a blue-green mist as it
-increases its rotation. He hears an unusually strong and penetrating
-ringing sound and he is lifted off the ground more than 12 inches and
-slams into the road face down. Looking up, he sees the object is no
-longer there. (Romania 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6548
Date: 3/3/1985
-Description: Meeting between researchers Ray Boeche and Scott Colborn
-and US Senator J. J. Exon D-Neb concerning the 12/1980 Bentwaters and
-other incidents. Exon is described as concerned that as a member of the
-Armed Services Committee he has not been fully appraised of the
-Bentwaters and other UFO events.
-Type: meeting
-Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 12/1980
Date: 3/7/1985
-Description: 11:40 a.m. A witness is driving south on North Stevens
-Street between 12th and 16th streets in Tacoma, Washington, when he sees
-a long, glowing, oval object to his left less than 2 miles away. The
-object, the width of four full moons, begins banking to the northeast.
-At a traffic light, the witness is able to take three photographs of the
-distant object, and he drives another mile toward the UFO, taking a
-fourth photo before it shoots straight up and out of sight. The photos
-only show a blur of distant light. A day later, the witness develops a
-rash on his face. (“Sighting
-Report from Tacoma,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July
-1985): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6549
Date: 3/21/1985
-Description: Philip
-J. Imbrogno and his team of investigators (Sheila Sabo and George
-Lesnick) see a UFO immediately after leaving the University of
-Bridgeport, Connecticut, where they took part in a call-in TV show about
-the Hudson Valley sightings. They see a circular structure ringed in 7
-brilliant lights hovering over a 15-story building, watch it turn in the
-sky, and chase it down Interstate 95. The object glides effortlessly
-across the sky. The FAA later tells them that the sighting involves
-pilots flying in an illegal formation. (NightSiege 189–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6550
Date: 4/19/1985
-Description: In a letter from Ministry of Defense, Lord Trefgarne
-states, “There is no organization in the MOD appointed solely for the
-purpose of studying UFOs, and no staff are employed on the subject full
-time… the staff in the Department… examine the reports as part of their
-normal duties… and we cannot inform observers of the probable identity
-of the objects seen.”
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: London, England
Date: 5/20/1985
-End date: 5/25/1985
-Description: Army Col. John
-B. Alexander (Howard
-Blum gives him the pseudonym “Harold Phillips”), director of
-advanced concepts at the US Army Laboratory, forms a UFO working group
-titled Advanced Theoretical Physics Group made up of scientists and
-officers throughout the defense and intelligence community. His intent
-is to credibly gain access to actual deep-black military programs on
-UFOs or provide consultants for them. It meets for the first time this
-week, with only three other meetings: August 6–7, 1985; April 24, 1986;
-and November 18, 1987. They meet at BDM McLean Secure Facility in
-Virginia, and the last time at the Pentagon. This first meeting’s
-attendees include Robert
-M. Wood (McDonnell Douglas), Lt. Col. Ronald
-F. Blackburn (Air Force), Milt Jansen (or Janzen), Don Keuble
-(Lockheed), Harold
-E. Puthoff (SRI), Ed Speakman (Army Intelligence), Howell
-McConnell (NSA), William
-S. Wilkinson (CIA), and others. The group’s effort appears to be
-connected to an engineering project under retired Adm. Bobby
-Ray Inman. Wood says the meetings are top secret, but he hears
-“nothing that was truly classified.” Wood gives a presentation on UFO
-propulsion. Other people supposedly connected to the group are Maj.
-Gen. Albert
-Stubblebine, Jack
-Houck (Boeing), and remote viewer Ed
-Dames. Alexander states that one of ATP’s goals is: “Study of the
-UFO data could provide a potential for a leap in technology. This would
-not require access to a craft, but could be derived from scientific
-examination of the reports determining the theoretical physics required
-to achieve such results.” The group dissolves in 1988, since no
-government agency wants to openly fund it. (Howard Blum, Out
-There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials, Simon
-& Schuster, 1990; John B. Alexander, UFOs:
-Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, Thomas Dunne, 2011; Good Need,
-pp. 340–341;
-Dolan II 382–384; Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 3, Anomalist,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6551
Date: 5/23/1985
-Description: 10:35 p.m. A Soviet bomber regiment carrying out a
-scheduled mission spots an oval, orange object over the Khabarovsk Krai,
-Russia. Radar does not track it, but observers estimate it is traveling
-close to 350 mph. A light halo surrounds it. The sighting lasts 13
-minutes, during which time the object occasionally descends and remains
-motionless. Two hours later, a similar object is seen at high altitude
-for 10 minutes, emitting beams of light. (Paul Stonehill and Philip
-Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron
-Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6552
Date: 5/26/1985
-Description: 9:30–10:15 p.m. More than 100 people around Newtown and
-Southbury, Connecticut, see a low-flying, silent, circular formation of
-lights that passes over Interstate 84, causing many cars to pull over
-for a look and some to lose power. Commercial airline pilot Randy Etting
-sees the lights as he is driving along I-94. He pulls off the road and
-snaps a photo of the formation. He is sure there is a solid object
-behind the lights. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “1985: Close
-Encounter on Interstate 84, Connecticut,” UFO Casebook; NightSiege
-200–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6553
Date: 6/11/1985
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A Chinese Boeing 747 airliner encounters a UFO
-on its flight from Beijing to Paris that almost forces the captain to
-make an emergency landing. Flight CA 933 is over Lanzhou, Gansu
-province, China, when Captain Wang Shuting and his crew first observe
-the object. The UFO crosses the path of the airliner at an altitude of
-33,000 feet at a very high speed. The object illuminates an area of
-25–30 square miles and is huge, with an apparent diameter of 6 miles. It
-is elliptical in shape and has an extremely bright spot in the center,
-with three horizontal rows of bluish-white lights on the perimeter. The
-sighting lasts for 2 minutes. Passengers do not see the object.
-(“Translation from China of June 11th UFO over Dung Kou,” CUFOS
-Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July 1985): 6; Good Above, p. 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6555
Date: summer 1985
-Description: Midnight. Biochemist Kary
-Mullis (who in 1993 won a Nobel Prize for his work on the polymerase
-chain reaction) is outside his cabin in Mendocino County, California,
-when he sees a glow next to a fir tree. Pointing his flashlight in that
-direction, he sees that the glow is coming from a raccoon with black
-eyes. The raccoon speaks to him, saying, “Good evening, doctor.” He
-gives a friendly reply, and a moment later it is suddenly morning and he
-is walking on a road uphill from the cabin with no idea how he has
-gotten there. His clothes are clean and dry. Mullis goes back to the
-cabin for some sleep. Later, he returns to the area near the fir tree
-and experiences an irrational panic. In 1987, he sees the cover of Whitley
-Strieber’s Communion and feels a vague sense of recognition. His
-adult daughter Louise, who has also experienced missing time at the
-cabin, has the same reaction. Mullis has no memory of seeing a UFO or
-having an abduction experience, but he insists the experience is real.
-(Kary B. Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon, 1998, pp. 130–136;
-Bill Chalker, “An
-Interesting Aside,”
-1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6554
Date: 6/27/1985
-Description: During startup of the first reactor at the Balakovo Nuclear
-Power Plant, Saratov Oblast, Russia, a relief valve bursts and
-superheated steam at 572° F. escapes into the annular compartments
-surrounding the reactor well. Fourteen men are possibly boiled alive.
-The incident is covered up by Soviet authorities. (Adam Higginbotham,
-Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6556
Date: 6/28/1985
-Description: USAF ACCESS RESTRICTED NOTICE: Report TR-DE-3A, Oct. 15,
-1955, from Air Tech. Intel. Ctr., file no. TS5–2862, has been WITHDRAWN
-from the National Archives and is classified a TOP SECRET UFO
-Report.
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p529)
-Location: National Archives, Washington DC
Date: 7/1985
-Description: 3:00 p.m. As a pilot is flying a Grumman AA TR-2 toward the
-Port Columbus International Airport [now the John Glenn Columbus
-International Airport] in Ohio, the airport gives him authorization to
-investigate a “second sun” about two-thirds the size of a football field
-a few miles to the northwest. It is not tracked on ground radar. As he
-approaches, he sees it is a huge bright light that switches off as he
-gets closer, revealing a gray sphere. The object apparently consists of
-“millions” of clearly visible, pentagon-shaped, partially translucent
-crystals. The pilot estimates they are 6 inches in diameter, all spaced
-identically about 12 inches apart. He decides to penetrate the mass with
-his left wing, hoping he can knock some to the ground. As his wing
-slices through, he hears what sounds like a hailstorm on a tin roof and
-he sees hundreds of crystals breaking along the wing. The aircraft
-turbulence does not disturb the small objects, but their impact on the
-wing nearly destabilizes him. Later, he looks for fragments embedded in
-the wing, but does not find any. (George Filer, “Filer’s Files,”
-#12-2005, March 16, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6557
Date: 7/14/1985
-Description: 12:56 a.m. Brian McMullan Sr., Brian McMullan Jr., and a
-third member of the rock band C.E.IV (because of their interest in UFOs)
-are in the garden outside the home of their bass player in a northern
-suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, when they see an amber ball skipping along
-the sky. It crosses the sky in 25 seconds, slowly changing color to red.
-They estimate it is about 60 feet across and vanishes toward Fenwick
-Moor. The band remembers being “paralyzed with awe” for several minutes
-after the sighting. (Jenny Randles, “Cosmic Rock,” Fortean Times 397
-(October 2020): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6558
Date: 7/18/1985
-Description: Jaime
-Shandera and William
-Moore discover the unsigned, carbon-copy 1954 Cutler-Twining memo in
-Box 189 of Record Group 341 in the National Archives in Washington,
-D.C., between two file folders.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6559
Date: 7/22/1985
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Two Hawk jets of the Zimbabwe Air Force piloted
-by C. Cordy-Hedge and T. R. Van Rooyen are scrambled from Thornhill Air
-Base in Gweru, Zimbabwe, following sightings in Bulawayo and five other
-cities in Matabeleland South. The object is seen and tracked on radar at
-Bulawayo Airport. It looks orange and round with a short cone on top.
-When the jets arrive at Bulawayo, the object is hovering at 7,000 feet,
-but it suddenly accelerates to a height of above 70,000 feet in less
-than a minute. The Hawks level off at 31,000 feet and return to
-Thornhill, where the object is seen for a few moments before
-disappearing horizontally at high speed. Air Commodore David
-Thorne states: “As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we believe
-implicitly that the unexplained UFOs are from some civilization beyond
-our planet.” UFO researcher Cynthia
-Hind speaks to some Bulawayo witnesses who think the object is a
-balloon coated with reflecting material, but radar operators say it is
-clear it is no balloon. (Good Above, pp. 433–434;
-MUFON UFO Journal, November 1985; Cynthia Hind, “Report
-on the UFO
-Sighting in Zimbabwe: July, 1985,” BUFORA Bulletin, no. 21 (May
-1986): 5–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6560
Date: 8/1985
-Description: Several dozen Chinese scientists gather in Dalian,
-Liaoning, China, to exchange views on UFO research for the first time.
-Some 40 papers are presented and 17 of them are selected to be published
-in the proceedings. An article in China Daily reports that there is an
-enormous interest in UFOs in China and that the China UFO Research
-Organization has a membership of 20,000. The organization’s chairman,
-Liang Renglin of Jinan University in Guangzhou, says that more than 600
-reports were made in the past 5 years. (“UFO Conference Held in
-Darlian,” China Daily, August 27, 1985; Good Above, pp. 219,
-472)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6561
Date: 8/5/1985
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Antiaircraft batteries open fire on a UFO that is
-flying from west to east over northeastern Tehran, Iran. They apparently
-miss. The batteries believe the object is an Iraqi warplane. (“Iran
-Fires on Shining Object in Sky,”
-Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, August 7, 1985, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6562
Date: 8/10/1985
-Description: The Russian nuclear submarine K-431 is refueling at the
-Chazhma Bay naval facility near Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. A
-reactor tank lid is improperly replaced, which quickly results in a
-thermal explosion. There are 10 fatalities, and 49 other people suffer
-radiation injuries. The explosion releases a massive amount of
-radioactivity and contaminates large areas of land and water. The
-disaster is kept secret for many years. (Wikipedia, “Soviet
-submarine K-431”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6563
Date: 8/15/1985
-Description: 4:05 p.m. Greek Olympic Airways Flight OA 132, piloted by
-Christos Stamulis, is flying from Zürich, Switzerland, to Athens and is
-just passing the Swiss-Italian border at 25,000 feet when a wingless
-projectile passes 200–500 feet below them from left to right. The object
-is about 6 feet long, dark brown or black, and is coming from the
-Italian side of the border. Italian and Swiss military deny any tests.
-(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown
-Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6564
Date: 8/17/1985
-Description: Afternoon. For several hours, witnesses throughout central
-Chile see distinct, luminous spots in the sky, sometimes motionless,
-sometimes moving slowly. Television crews film the objects, astronomers
-in Santiago photograph them, and the Arturo Merino Benítez International
-Airport tracks them on radar. Early explanations by the Chilean Air
-Force center on weather or research balloons, but a Chilean Civil
-Aeronautics report states that the sightings remain an enigma. (J.
-Antonio Huneeus, “A
-Chilean Overview,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 218 (June 1986):
-5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6565
Date: 8/18/1985
-Description: Four civilian pilots are flying a Cessna on a southerly
-course at 3,200 feet altitude near Söderhamn, Gävleborg, Sweden, when
-they spot a missilelike object, some 20 feet long, going in the opposite
-direction. They see it is a metallic missile with steering fins in the
-back. It occasionally changes its course according to the terrain. The
-pilot dives down a bit to follow it, but they can’t keep up. The Swedish
-military spends 6 months trying to identify it. (Clas Svahn and Anders
-Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1994): 12; Swords 369–370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6566
Date: 8/27/1985
-Description: Darlian, China, the “China Daily” reports: 20,000 people
-are involved in UFO research. The first recognized photo of a UFO in
-China was taken in 1945.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p472)
-Location: Darlian, China
Date: 9/9/1985
-Description: 12:05 p.m. British pilot David J. Hastings is flying a
-Cessna 337 Super Skymaster with his instructor, US pilot David
-Patterson, south of Las Vegas, Nevada, with the Mojave Desert in
-California just coming into view, when they nearly collide with an
-oblong-shaped object that suddenly appears directly in front of them.
-They duck beneath the instrument panel. When they get up, they sense
-something moving on the port side of the plane, so Hastings takes two
-photos in that direction. When the film is developed, one shot shows a
-blurry image of a UFO. (David J. Hastings, “Across the USA in a Cessna
-Skymaster,” Pilot, June 2000, pp. 56–59; UFOFiles2, pp. 132– 133;
-Good Need, pp. 399–400)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6567
Date: 9/13/1985
-Description: The US P78-1 Solwind solar observation satellite is
-destroyed in orbit at an altitude of 326 miles by an ASM-135 ASAT
-missile launched from a USAF F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. The test
-results in 285 cataloged pieces of orbital debris. (Wikipedia, “Solwind”;
-Wikipedia, “ASM-135
-ASAT”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6568
Date: 9/15/1985
-Description: Disc-shaped object hovered ahead of car. Second object
-paced alongside car, bright illumination of area
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bagshot Heath, Surrey, UK
-ID: 402
Date: 9/27/1985
-Description: Two police officers in Long Clawson, England, are the
-latest witnesses of a triangular-shaped object that has been seen
-multiple times in the area around Leicester since August. (“Throwing
-a Light on UFO,” Leicester (UK) Mercury, December 2, 1985, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 199 (February 1986): 12) Autumn — 8:30 p.m. A
-father and son are driving in Cannock Chase toward Rugeley,
-Staffordshire, England. As they round a bend in the road, they see a
-large, black, triangular object stationary 150 feet in the sky about 100
-feet away. A bright light appears at each point of the triangle. After a
-short time, it shoots away at incredible speed. (“Tale
-of a Chase Hi-Tech Triangle,” Wolverhampton (UK) Cannock Chase Post,
-December 21, 2000, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 383 (June 2001):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6569
Date: 10/1985
-Description: The Russian motorship Baltiysky-35 is in the Baltic Sea
-bound from Lübeck, Germany, to Riga, Latvia, when the crew observes a
-bright dot in the sky emanating concentric circles of a light-green
-color. Researcher Konstantin Khazanovich considers this to be the result
-of a Soviet ballistic missile laiunch from the Murmansk area. (Stonehill
-and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6570
Date: 11/1985
-Description: GEPAN has received 1,615 UFO reports from the Gendarmerie
-in France dating as far back as 1974. (Clark III 546)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6571
Date: 11/3/1985
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two men in a small vessel in the waters off
-Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, notice a high- altitude object in
-the north looking a bit larger than a star, rapidly moving toward them.
-It sends a beam of light to earth at a sharp angle, although the beam
-does not reach the ground. As the UFO approaches the boat its engine
-stops. The captain restarts the engine, but it dies again when the
-object is overhead. The UFO moves off toward the city and disappears.
-The men use oars to return to shore. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle,
-The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain,
-Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6572
Date: 11/16/1985
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 403
Date: 11/16/1985
-Description: Mark
-Rodeghier is named deputy scientific director of the Center for UFO
-Studies. (“To Our Readers,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6573
Date: 11/19/1985
-Description: Silent, triangular object with body lights
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Madison, WI
-ID: 404
Date: 11/19/1985
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman is returning to her home near Madison,
-Wisconsin. Suddenly she sees three lights above a row of trees
-descending toward a house on the north side of the street. She pulls
-over to the curb and sees the lights make a sharp, 90° turn toward her
-car. Then it rises several feet in front of the car avoiding the power
-lines. Triangular and black, the object is the size of a large car with
-a light on each side. Sweeping to the north, the triangle stops and
-hovers directly over a house. She leaves and calls the Madison police
-department. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1988): 17–18; Marler 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6575
Date: 11/19/1985
-Description: At the 1985 Geneva Summit between President Ronald
-Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan
-remarks during a toast that if the people of the world were to find out
-that there was some alien life form that was going to attack the Earth
-approaching on Halley’s Comet, then that knowledge would unite all the
-peoples of the world. (presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th
-President, January 20, 1981– January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6574
Date: 11/22/1985
-Description: Silent triangular object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: DeForest, WI
-ID: 405
Date: 11/22/1985
-Description: Hynek writes
-a letter to International UFO Reporter Editor Jerome
-Clark, effectively resigning as editor-in-chief, citing health
-reasons. He also states that his connection with Tina
-Choate, Brian Myers, and the ICUFOR operation in Phoenix, Arizona,
-is “null and void.” Funding from the British investor Kaye has fallen
-through, and Choate and Myers are more interested in the commercial
-aspects than UFO research. (“Dr. Hynek Resigns,” IUR 10, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1985): 20; O’Connell, 2017, pp. 332–338)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6576
Date: 11/22/1985
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. A Wisconsin state employee is driving north
-on County Highway CV near DeForest, Wisconsin, when he notices three
-white lights hovering 20–30 feet above a farmhouse. He exits the highway
-for a closer look. The UFO is roughly triangular, dull gray, 40 feet
-across, and its bottom is sloped into contours. It is hanging stationary
-over a 60-foot-high tree as the witness pulls his car past it. He gets
-out of his car about 200 feet away, and the object moves closer toward
-him to about 100 feet over the road. Smoothly and quickly it moves away
-to the west. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1988): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6577
Date: 12/1985
-Description: Some members of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale, including
-Paolo
-Toselli, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Edoardo Russo, are dissatisfied
-with its administration and priorities. They break off and form the
-Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici. The newsletter Notizie C.U.N. becomes
-Notizie UFO with the same editor, Gian Paolo Grassino, in Turin, Italy.
-It changes the name in February 1998 to UFO Notizie and is now published
-as Notizie CISU. (Notizie
-UFO, no.
-11 (December 1985); UFO
-Notizie, no. 57 (February 1998); Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici,
-“Notizie
-CISU”; 2Pinotti 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6578
Date: 12/23/1985
-Description: 3:10 a.m. The merchant ferry Manuel
-Soto, owned
-by Transmediterránea Company, is sailing from Las Palmas to Arrecife in
-the Canary Islands when the third officer on duty sees a light on the
-horizon ahead. Initially he identifies it as the star Antares but soon
-realizes the position is wrong. He takes measurements of its height and
-azimuth. It remains in the same spot for 15 minutes, after which it
-begins moving quickly. Other crew members see the light approaching the
-ship and reaching the zenith 2 minutes later. The object’s outline does
-not resemble an airplane or helicopter, and it has an intense white
-light at its center, a weaker red light near it, and another soft light
-set apart. The object is flying low and silently. (Swords 436)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6579
Date: 12/26/1985
-Description: Whitley Strieber alien encounter
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ulster County, NY
-ID: 406
Date: 12/26/1985
-Description: Night. Novelist Whitley
-Strieber undergoes a bizarre UFO abduction in his cabin in upstate
-New York. After he is awakened by a peculiar noise, he opens his eyes to
-see a small, inhuman creature rushing toward his bed. The next thing he
-knows it is morning, and he is feeling disoriented and angry but can’t
-tell why. Later, the full story of missing time, terrifying flashbacks,
-and intrusive examinations by entities he calls the “visitors” unfolds
-under the direction of Budd
-Hopkins in hypnosis sessions by Donald
-Klein of the New York Psychiatric Institute beginning in March 1986.
-Strieber tells the story in his 1987 book Communion. (Whitley Strieber,
-Communion:
-A True Story, Avon,
-1987; Clark III 1112–1113; Nick Redfern, “Whitley
-Strieber’s Communion
-at 30,”
-Mysterious Universe, March 2, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6580
Date: 1986
-Description: NORAD technical intelligence works on 813 initial Unknown
-targets this year (whittled down quickly from an even greater number of
-Uncorrelated Targets). Nearly two-thirds are pursued by fighter
-interceptors and more than one-third of the scrambled cases are
-successfully intercepted and identified. Almost half of the total are
-identified by further Air Traffic Control correlation, leaving 123
-Remaining Unknowns at the end of the year. This is reduced further in
-early 1987 to 87 “Not Identified” REMs by additional intelligence
-correlation analysis, leaving roughly 10% of the initial amount
-unidentified. (Clark III 801)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6581
Date: 1986
-Description: Night. Dissident Chinese writer Ma
-Jian has escaped from custody and is making his way through
-dangerous terrain in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County in southern Yunnan,
-China. Suddenly, a ball of light the size of a cantaloupe appears in the
-darkness. It rises from a stream and floats through the trees, then
-stops by some branches 30 feet away. It drops to his eye level and he
-follows it through the forest, guiding his way for 12 miles until dawn.
-(Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path through China, Pantheon, 2001, p. 279;
-Clark III 652–653)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6582
Date: 1986
-Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test
-Range
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Test Range
-See also: 11/79
Date: 1/1986
-Description: Jimmy Goddard begins publishing Amskaya, a newsletter of
-the contactee-oriented STAR Fellowship, in Weybridge, Surrey, England.
-It continues through July 2018. (Amskaya,
-no. 1 (January 1986))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6583
Date: 1/1/1986
-Description: The Usenet bulletin board service ParaNet is launched,
-managed by James J. Speiser in Arizona. It quickly develops into a
-thriving community where a full range of researchers, skeptics, and
-cranks can post articles. Dale Goudie takes over the online information
-service Computer UFO Network. Operating out of Mercer Island,
-Washington, it functions as a UFO bulletin board using a voice and data
-line connected to an IBM personal computer. CUFON receives most of its
-reports from Bob
-Gribble of the National UFO Reporting Center. In Seattle. By late
-1986, Goudie has more than 1,700 members and is receiving many calls per
-day, mostly IFOs. (MUFON UFO Journal, February 1986; MUFON UFO Journal,
-July 1986; Walt Andrus, “Director’s
-Message,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 223, November 1986, pp. 19, 18;
-Dolan II 380–381)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6584
Date: 1/3/1986
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 407
Date: 1/7/1986
-Description: UFO emitted six light beams toward ground. About n minutes
-later in Pittsburgh, silver-gray disc with body lights hovered, mist
-formed around it. Object tilted, moved out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Butler, PA
-ID: 408
Date: 1/7/1986
-Description: A UFO emitting beams of light toward the ground is seen in
-Butler, Pennsylvania. In Pittsburgh, 20 minutes later, a silver-gray
-disc is seen hovering. Mist forms around it, the object tilts, and it
-moves out of sight. (MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6585
Date: 1/9/1986
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Multiple cars stop along Interstate 84 in
-Hartford, Connecticut, to watch a silent boomerang- shaped object,
-estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747, with white, red, blue, and
-green lights. It moves low through the sky then hovers for 15 seconds
-before heading off to the west. The boomerang is also seen by dozens of
-witnesses in Torrington, Connecticut. A family sees the UFO, with 10
-white lights, hover directly over their house, engulfing their home in a
-brilliant white light. They are so frightened they flee to the basement.
-The building inspector for Torrington sees a “cigar with square windows”
-near Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks. The FAA claims the
-object is a blimp, although there are no blimps flying in the area.
-(NightSiege, 5–6, 194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6586
Date: 1/29/1986
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Inhabitants of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai,
-Russia, see a reddish ball about half the size of the full moon. The
-ball is flying soundlessly parallel to the ground. It is later
-determined that its speed is approximately 34 mph and that it is about
-2,300–2,625 feet in altitude. When the object reaches Height 611 (also
-known as Mount Izvestkovaya) it starts to descend and then crashes into
-the hill. All witnesses but one agree there is no sound when the object
-reaches the ground. Some say the object falls with a flash and is not
-visible after that; others claim it oscillates at altitude above the
-hill, radiating light of varying intensity as it goes up and down. The
-light given off by the object is described by some as a forest fire,
-which lasts for approximately one hour. A scientific team led by Valery
-Dvuzhilny, head of the Far Eastern Commission for Anomalous
-Phenomena, arrives on the site on February 3. Some rocks at the impact
-site have drops of silvery metal, which are later determined to be lead.
-The type of lead found on Height 611 is different from lead found in
-local lead deposits. Also, black, glassy, drop-shaped beads and mesh
-fragments are found at the site. In all, approximately 70 grams of lead,
-5 grams of mesh fragments, and 40 grams of beads are discovered. The
-radiation level of the landing ground is normal. Photos of the site
-using two different cameras all develop as blank. Chemical analyses of
-the beads show they are mostly composed of lead, silicon, and iron. Some
-of the drops contain significant amounts of zinc, bismuth, and rare
-earth elements. An analysis of the soil, rocks, and burned wood taken
-from the landing ground shows that the chemical composition is similar
-to the composition of samples taken from the site of the 1908 Tunguska
-event. The mesh fragments are also analyzed; the material does not
-dissolve in strong acids and organic solvents, even when exposed to high
-temperatures for prolonged periods of time. One of the mesh fragments is
-discovered to be composed of scandium, gold, lanthanum, sodium, and
-samarium. An analysis of another mesh fragment shows gold, silver, and
-nickel. After that fragment is heated in a vacuum, the analysis no
-longer shows these elements; however, molybdenum and rhenium are
-detected. The concentration of gold found in one of the mesh fragments
-is equivalent to 1,100 grams per metric ton. This is much higher than
-gold deposits in the region, which become economic to extract when the
-concentration of gold reaches 4 grams per metric ton. There are no gold
-deposits in Dalnegorsk that contain gold at concentrations high enough
-to extract. (StealthSkater Archives, [Dalnegorsk
-articles]; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, Russia’s Roswell
-Incident, Flying Disk Press, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6587
Date: 2/4/1986
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman in Reseda, California, wakes up with a
-sinus headache. She hears animals in the neighborhood barking, growling,
-and howling. Looking outside, she sees above a power line a black object
-hovering with a peculiar vibrating motion. It is “like a black mirror
-with a small, white fluorescent aura around it.” After 3–4 minutes, it
-emits orange bands of light. She wakes her husband, who manages to see a
-thin, white mist floating away. A strong wind comes up for 5 minutes
-afterward. (Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR
-11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6588
Date: 2/6/1986
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Valery
-Dvuzhilny reports that two yellow globes appear in the north and
-approach the Dalnegorsk crash site, circle it four times, and disappear
-in a flash. (StealthSkater Archives, [Dalnegorsk
-articles])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6589
Date: 2/8/1986
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Matthew Woodard, 16, and Melinda Hays, 17, are
-driving toward Lima, Ohio, from the west on State Route 117. As they are
-crossing the bridge over the Ottawa River, they see a large, dark object
-about 50–60 feet long hovering above some trees on the right side of the
-road. It parallels them as they turn left on Seriff Road. It has a
-rectangular upper section with a single steady white light on top and
-sloping sides with a red and blue light on the lower left. The object
-eventually disappears in the distance behind trees and houses. (John P.
-Timmerman, “A Giant Triangle,” IUR 11, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6590
Date: 2/12/1986
-Description: 12:33 a.m. A woman who lives on the northwest edge of Lima,
-Ohio, is awakened by a loud sound. She looks out and sees a “strange
-dark object” in the southeast sky. It is triangular in shape, has white
-lights in the two lower corners and a red light in the top corner, and
-is hovering about 250 feet away. She goes to wake her husband, but when
-she returns the object is gone. (John P. Timmerman, “A Giant Triangle,”
-IUR 11, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6591
Date: 2/26/1986
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Charles,
-the Prince of Wales, is returning to London, England, after a tour
-of Dallas, Texas. While flying over the Irish Sea, the pilot of his
-Vickers VC10 observes a bright red flash in the sky. Charles does not
-see it, but several other aircraft in the vicinity also report a reddish
-ball of fire with a tail (undoubtedly a meteor or space debris reentry).
-(Jenny Randles, “Nonencounter with a non-UFO,” IUR 11, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1986): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6592
Date: 2/28/1986
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses in New Castle, Pennsylvania,
-watch a 50-foot-long lighted object, with two apparent legs for landing,
-hovering and moving up, down, and sideways. A dog becomes completely
-agitated. (MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6593
Date: 2/28/1986
-Description: Hovering oval object, body lights, brightly illuminated the
-area, moved up, down, and sideways. Dog agitated during sighting
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Castle, PA
-ID: 409
Date: 3/18/1986
-Description: Two triangular objects flying one behind the other with
-their points forward are seen near Newport, South Wales. The first is
-covered with multicolored lights, while the second has three lights at
-each point. Both are a few hundred yards long. (Marler 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6594
Date: 3/19/1986
-End date: 6/15/1986
-Description: Concentration of sightings including many physiological
-effects cases and traumatic effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brazil
-ID: 410
Date: 3/26/1986
-Description: Night. Some 500 witnesses in Kingston, New York, see an
-object “like a giant Ferris wheel” the size of a football field. It
-makes a humming sound and has intensely bright lights, mostly white but
-also red, yellow, green, and blue. A dark mass behind the lights blots
-out the sky. Suddenly the object flips on its side before moving away. A
-police officer who sees the UFO says it cannot be “a bunch of guys
-flying in planes.” (NightSiege 197– 198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6595
Date: 4/22/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two people are driving on the Via Flaminia near
-Pesaro, Italy, when their car engine stops. After hearing a strange
-sound, they see 3 discs 65 feet in diameter with domes and tripods
-standing on the left of the road. They have white and blue lights. After
-hovering for 20 seconds, the discs emit a strong whistle, accelerate,
-and disappear. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6597
Date: 4/22/1986
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Medical technicians taking an injured man
-in an ambulance to Debrecen, Hungary, see a huge, luminous, orange
-sphere flying silently above the right side of the road at Hajdudorog
-and moving along with them. It is about 325 feet away from them,
-floating at 100–130 feet. The sphere is surrounded by a ring, and flames
-appear on its surface from time to time. Two flames blaze on opposite
-sides, while another moves to and fro along its middle. The sighting
-lasts for 15 minutes for a distance of nearly 12 miles. When the
-ambulance reaches Hajdúböszörmény, the object speeds up, stops above a
-forest, and slowly descends while radiating a bright light that
-illuminates the trees. It goes out shortly afterward. On the return from
-Debrecen, the huge sphere returns over Józsa, this time with 6–7 flames
-instead of 3. It speeds over the village and “waits” on the other side
-for the ambulance, following it again to the north. The perplexed
-technicians decide to stop the ambulance. The UFO slows down, but does
-not stop, moving over a power line and illuminating the cables below.
-The ambulance recommences its journey, with the object following for
-another 10 minutes. A short time later, covering the same route, the
-technicians notice that the forest where the sphere landed is on fire.
-They find the grass all wet, with 5- foot flames (natural gas?)
-emanating from the ground. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in
-Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6596
Date: 4/25/1986
-Description: 9:05 p.m. A private pilot sees a V-shaped configuration of
-approximately 12 spherical nocturnal lights for about 15 seconds in
-Memphis, Tennessee. He estimates they are moving at 300 knots at an
-altitude of under 1,000 feet. (Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files:
-1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6598
Date: 4/26/1986
-Description: 1:23 a.m. The Number 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl
-Nuclear Power Plant at Pripyat, Ukraine, has a power surge during a
-backup generator test. Flawed reactor design and inadequately trained
-personnel lead to the fuel rods overheating, causing an explosion and
-meltdown, necessitating the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area.
-Around 5% of the core is released into the atmosphere, dispersing
-radioactive material across Europe. The reactor explosion kills two of
-the reactor operating staff. In the emergency response that follows, 134
-firemen and station staff are hospitalized with acute radiation syndrome
-due to absorbing high doses of ionizing radiation. Of these 134 people,
-28 die in the days to months afterward, and approximately 14 suspected
-radiation-induced cancer deaths follow within the next 10 years. Among
-the wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths
-are documented as of 2011. The United Nations Scientific Committee on
-the Effects of Atomic Radiation at multiple times reviews all the
-published research on the incident and finds that at present, fewer than
-100 documented deaths are likely attributable to increased exposure to
-radiation. Determining the total eventual number of exposure-related
-deaths is uncertain based on the linear no-threshold model, a contested
-statistical model that is used in estimates of low-level radon and air
-pollution exposure. (Wikipedia, “Chernobyl
-disaster”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon &
-Schuster, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6599
Date: 4/26/1986
-Description: About 4:30 a.m. During the nuclear disaster at the
-Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Mikhail Varitsky and other
-technicians observe a fiery sphere, similar in color to brass, within
-1,000 feet of the damaged Unit 4 reactor at the height of the fire. Two
-bright rays shoot out from the object, directed at the reactor. It
-hovers in the areas about 3 minutes, then the rays vanish as the UFO
-moves slowly away to the northwest. Radiation levels taken just before
-the UFO appears read 3,000 milliroentgens/hour; after the rays, the
-readings show 800 milliroentgens/hour. (Paul Stonehill and Philip
-Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron
-Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 68–69; “UFO
-Prevents Blast at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,” Pravda, September 16,
-2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6600
Date: 4/27/1986
-Description: J.
-Allen Hynek dies in Scottsdale, Arizona, from a malignant brain
-tumor. (Mark Rodeghier, “Good-bye, Allen,” IUR 11, no 3 (May/June 1986):
-3, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6601
Date: 5/6/1986
-Description: Several witnesses are driving from Worthing to Billinghurst
-in West Sussex, England, when they see a trapezium-shaped object with
-two square lights in front, and two green and one red light in the rear.
-Making a dull humming sound, it hovers above the road then zigzags
-behind their car. After they step out of their vehicle, the object comes
-straight at them, turns, and proceeds to the north. (Marler 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6602
Date: 5/8/1986
-Description: UFO researcher Lee M. Graham, who has met several times
-with Bill
-Moore and received documents about Project Snowbird and Project
-Aquarius, writes to the Defense Investigative Service about Moore’s
-contacts. Moore had sported an ID badge that is identical to other DIS
-badges Graham has seen. Moore says his superior was named “Richard,”
-which probably indicates USAF intelligence agent Richard
-C. Doty. (MUFON UFO Journal, June 1989; Dolan II 406–407)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6603
Date: 5/11/1986
-Description: Minister Robert H. Henderson and his wife, Nann, of
-Phoenix, AR, were flying at an altitude of 8500 ft. at 4 p.m. when a
-very bright UFO was seen approaching head-on to them. As he prepared to
-take evasive action the UFO passed quickly to the left and below of his
-plane. The UFO was seen to be wingless and resembling a “modified
-half-sphere, with the flat side down.” The closure rate was estimated at
-about 1200 mph.
-Type: aerial ufo encounter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: near Sedona, AR
Date: 5/11/1986
-Description: Cessna pilot and wife saw dome-shaped object make head-on
-pass at plane
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sedona, AZ
-ID: 411
Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: Near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Between 9:00 to
-12 midnight the Brazilian Air Defense and the Civil Air System were
-swamped with Radar and pilot UFO sightings. As Ospires Silva, President
-of Petrobras Oil Company were preparing to land, the control tower
-informed him of UFO targets on their radar. He and his companion, Alcir
-Pereira da Silva, saw bright red-orange UFOs, not at all like stars or
-planes. They attempted to pursue the UFOs for 30 min. but gave up as the
-UFOs seemed to be jumping from place to place. At this time three F-5E
-fighter jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB. Capt. Marcio Jordao was
-able to approach within 12 miles of an UFO, visible to him as a bright
-light changing from white to green. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho chased
-another UFO which was a very intense light, changing from white to green
-then red again. Both pilots broke off chase as they were running low on
-fuel. Ground Radar picked up 10–13 more UFOs that surrounded another
-plane with Capt. Armindo Souza Viriato de Marinho, K.C. Freitas piloting
-it. Capt. Freitas tracked the UFOs on his radar, but only de Freitas,
-A.S.V. saw them visually once as they climbed vertically past him. Brig.
-Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima made these events public at a press conference
-and allowed the pilots and radar operators to be questioned by the
-media.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
-Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-See also: 7/52
Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 10:23 p.m. By this time, the Air Defense and Air Traffic
-Control Center is on full alert, radar screens showing numerous
-unidentified targets. Three F-5E fighter jets are scrambled from Santa
-Cruz Air Force Base near São Paulo. One of the pilots, Capt. Marcio
-Brisola Jordão, is able to approach within 12 miles of an unidentified
-target, visible to him as a strong, constant light that is changing
-colors continuously from white to green. He breaks off contact when the
-object moves away out to sea. Another F-5E, piloted by Lt. Kleber Caldas
-Marinho, chases a very intense red light that changes to white, then
-green, then red again. Running low on fuel, he has to return to base.
-Both ground and airborne radar are tracking the objects. After the F-5E
-pilots make visual contact, more jets are scrambled from Anápolis Air
-Force Base, Goiás, about 10:50 p.m. This second flight consists of three
-Mirage III fighters equipped with Sidewinders and Martra missiles. One
-of the pilots, Capt. Armindo Sousa Viriato de Freitas, is vectored
-toward 10–13 unidentified targets at a distance of 20 miles. Radar
-controllers see the objects surrounding his plane, 6 stationed on one
-side and 7 on the other, and later following his plane at a distance of
-two miles, but only see them visually once when they are climbing
-vertically. During the night, a total of 21 luminous objects, apparently
-spherical and ranging in size from 165 to 330 feet in diameter, are
-seen, captured on radar, and pursued by jet fighters. Activity ceases
-around 11:20 p.m. The Air Force Minister, Brig.Gen. Octávio
-Júlio Moreira Lima, makes
-the events public at a press conference and allows the pilots and radar
-officers to submit to news media questioning in Brasilia. (NICAP, “Brazilian
-Aircraft / UFO Encounter / Radar-Visual”;
-Wikipedia, “Noite
-dos discos voadores”; Willy Smith, “The Brazilian Incident,” IUR 11,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 4–6; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1986; J.
-Antonio Huneeus, “UFO
-Alert in Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 223 (November 1986): 6–7,
-9, 15; Willy Smith, “UFO
-Chase in Brazil (May 1986),” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 1
-(December 1986): 6–8; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–
-1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 111–113; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 121–127;
-Kean, pp. 199–202;
-Good Above, pp. 427–428;
-Clark III 830–835; Brazil 417–441; Patrick Gross, “Jets
-Chase UFOs over Brazil in 1986”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6607
Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Xingu light airplane piloted by Col. Ozires
-Silva, an aeronautical engineer and a manufacturing CEO for
-Petrobras, is preparing for a landing at São José dos Campos. His
-copilot Cmdr. Alcir Pereira da Silva receives a call from CINDACTA in
-Brasilia asking them to confirm some unidentified targets. They look and
-see bright red or red-orange lights “not at all like stars or planes.”
-Aborting the landing, they attempt to pursue one of the objects, which
-blinks on and off irregularly, appearing in a new location each time as
-if changing position rapidly. After about 30 minutes, they give up the
-chase and land. The Xingu makes three other attempts to land, but each
-time is diverted toward looking at other unidentified lights and
-targets.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6606
Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Visual UFO sightings continue over São José dos
-Campos, with objects remaining motionless for long periods of time. By
-8:00 p.m., CINDACTA radars in Brasilia track 8 unidentified targets on
-their screens.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6605
Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 6:30 p.m. 2ndSgt Sergio Mota da Silva, airport flight
-controller for São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, sees two luminous
-objects about 6,500 feet above the city and 9 miles away. Through
-binoculars, the objects have distinct borders and intense multicolored
-flashing lights in the lower part. At 7:00 p.m., flight controllers at
-Brasilia and São Paulo confirm three primary radar targets above São
-José dos Campos. Around 7:30 p.m., da Silva sees more lights,
-predominantly red, but changing to yellow, green, and orange.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6604
Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: Radar-visual and pilot sightings, military jet interceptors
-scrambled in pursuit
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-ID: 412
Date: 6/1986
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici in Turin, Italy, begins
-publishing its official journal UFO–Rivista di Informazione Ufologica
-through autumn 2017. (UFO–Rivista
-di Informazione Ufologica, no.
-1 (June 1986))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6608
Date: 6/26/1986
-Description: 9:49 p.m. A husband and wife see two objects traveling from
-southwest to northeast, about as bright as Venus, in Pittsburgh,
-Pennsylvania. They move on parallel paths below a scattered cloud cover.
-After a minute, they appear to begin rotating, then stop and move out of
-sight. (Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11,
-no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6609
Date: 7/11/1986
-Description: A Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft crashes
-in Sequoia National Forest, California, killing pilot Maj. Ross
-E. Mulhare and starting a fire. The Air Force establishes restricted
-airspace around the site. Armed guards prohibit entry, including
-firefighters, and a helicopter gunship circles the area. All F-117
-debris is replaced with remains of a F-101A Voodoo crash stored at Area
-51. (Jeffrey T. Richelson, “When
-Secrets Crash,” Air Force Magazine, July 1, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6610
Date: 7/15/1986
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A single witness walking home from the bus
-station in Watertown, Massachusetts, is watching airliners land at Logan
-Airport when he sees a string of three bright-orange lights. They are
-moving along the same glide path as the incoming jets but seem to slow
-down, come to a dead stop, then vanish instantly. (Mark Rodeghier, “From
-the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6611
Date: 8/1986
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Meteorologist Ion Lazeanu is making routine radar
-observations at the National Meteorological Administration in Bucharest,
-Romania, when he picks up a stationary target that appears to be above
-the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, at an altitude of 18.6 miles. It suddenly
-disappears and relocates 3 miles lower down. After a short while it
-relocates to its original position. Over the next 3–4 weeks, he detects
-the same target every night he is on duty for periods of 3–20 minutes.
-He discovers another target above Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In February 1988
-it reappears above Sofia, and in March 1988 he tracks it moving
-horizontally toward Varna, Bulgaria. At one point he locks the radar
-directly on the target and the system is temporarily disabled. He
-estimates that the target has a length of at least 4,920 feet. (Ion
-Lazeanu, “Unusual
-Phenomenon Observed with Radar Device in Romania,”
-European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies 1 no. 1 (March 2000):
-33–34) August 11 (approximately) — 6:00 p.m. A retired factory worker
-and his wife are sitting in their driveway in Lima, Ohio, when they see
-a rotating, diamond-shaped object about 20 feet in diameter pass nearby.
-They watch it for less than 2 minutes. It is flying low, passing behind
-several trees as it moves from west to northeast and out of view. (Mark
-Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1986): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6612
Date: 8/11/1986
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 413
Date: 8/12/1986
-Description: 9:50-10:10 P.M. Lighted object seen over wide area moving
-SW to NE was Japanese satellite.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eastern United States
-ID: 414
Date: 8/12/1986
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A single witness in Cridersville, Ohio,
-sees two UFOs, one while watching the Perseid meteor shower, and the
-other 7 hours later while driving to work. The first object is a white
-ball of light seen for about 60 seconds; the second is a circular bluish
-object in the western sky seen for 1–2 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, “From
-the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6613
Date: 8/13/1986
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A family of three observes a metallic,
-hamburger-shaped object through a sixth-floor hospital window in
-Indianapolis, Indiana, for 4–5 minutes. It passes above an airliner
-going in the opposite direction. The object tips on its edge at one
-point, and it has a haze of pale green along one side. (Mark Rodeghier,
-“From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6614
Date: 8/15/1986
-Description: UFO landed, witness had two-hour memory loss, strong
-physical traces at site. Memory later returned of two humanoid beings,
-views inside a craft
-Type: landing
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Calalzo di Cadore (Bellino), Italy
-ID: 415
Date: 8/15/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A married couple on vacation in Calalzo di
-Cadore, Belluno, Italy, are sitting near a wood outside town when they
-see a bright light descend. It soon becomes a disc-shaped, domed object,
-blue in color and luminescent. They see it land, then their awareness
-ceases until two hours later. By this time the object has disappeared,
-and only a dark circular trace is left on the ground where grass is bent
-and blackened for a diameter of 30 feet. Strange dreams and difficulty
-sleeping, as well as the memory of two humanlike beings in coveralls,
-persuade them to be hypnotized on August 23–24 by a physician in
-Pordenone. They relate that a being had come out of the disc and took
-them on board without touching them. Inside they are laid down and given
-a medical examination of some kind. The entities have long, oval-shaped
-heads with phosphorescent eyes, pointed ears, and narrow mouths. (Paolo
-Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in
-Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6615
Date: 8/31/1986
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A man is driving home when his car engine stops
-in Manzuno, Italy. He gets out to find out what happened, hears a sharp
-whistle and dogs barking, and sees two bright lights. The objects
-descend and remain visible for more than 15 minutes. He sees their shape
-as rectangular with a luminous trail. The engine comes back on as the
-objects disappear. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6616
Date: 9/1986
-Description: Vicki
-Ecker and Sherie Stark launch a newsstand magazine, California UFO,
-which becomes one of the most widely read periodicals in ufology. It
-soon changes its name to just UFO, varying its frequency from quarterly
-to bimonthly, to erratically with the final issue of 158 appearing in
-2012. (Wikipedia, “UFO
-Magazine”; Clark III 1155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6617
Date: 9/1986
-Description: George
-M. Eberhart publishes UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact
-Movement, a comprehensive, two- volume bibliography of all UFO
-literature known up to this time. (George M. Eberhart, UFOs and the
-Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography, Scarecrow, 1986, vol. 1 and
-vol. 2;
-Clark 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6618
Date: fall 1986
-Description: USAF Lt. Col. Ernie Kellerstrass (Hawk), who works at the
-Foreign Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio,
-invites several individuals—Harold
-E. Puthoff (Partridge), John
-B. Alexander (Chickadee), C.
-B. Scott Jones (Hummingbird, an aide to Sen. Claiborne
-Pell, D-R.I.),
-USAF Capt. Robert
-M. Collins (Condor), William
-Moore, and Jaime
-Shandera—to his home in Beavercreek, Ohio, to discuss UFOs,
-extraterrestrials, and Area 51. Kellerstrass claims to know USAF Lt.
-Col. Robert
-R. Hippler (allegedly an officer in a top secret Air Force UFO
-study), physiological studies of actual aliens, and the presence of an
-alien base on Area 51. The group meets several times. Moore and Shandera
-become concerned that their telephones are being monitored, so they
-decide to assign a bird name to anyone they discuss UFO military
-activities with. Others in the “Aviary” are forensic medical doctor and
-CIA officer Christopher
-(Kit) Green (Blue Jay), Defense Intelligence Agency officer Dale
-E. Graff (Owl), CIA agent Harry
-Rositzke (Falcon, according to Greg Bishop), and USAF OSI agent Richard
-C. Doty (a Falcon substitute). Another, only known as Raven (alleged
-to be DIA scientist Jack Verona, Richard
-Helms, or
-possibly Henry
-Kissinger), appears to be the most connected. (Robert Collins and
-Richard Doty, Exempt from Disclosure: The Disturbing Case about the UFO
-Coverup, Peregrine, 2005, pp. 8, 86; Bruce Maccabee, “Hawk
-Tales,” June 2005; Dolan II 384–386, 466)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6619
Date: fall 1986
-Description: Night. A group of five lights maneuver at high speed above
-the Malmstrom AFB Alpha-01 missile alert facility southeast of Belt,
-Montana. Air Force Security Policeman Joseph C. Pscolka watches them
-make sharp-angled turns and stop at the same time instantly. Other
-launch control facilities in the same sector call in to report the
-lights. Soon five more lights descend from the clouds to join the
-others. They stop momentarily, then all 10 dart around “like crazy
-fireflies” for a minute before moving close to the ground. They zip off
-at high speed in all directions. (Nukes 396–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6620
Date: 10/10/1986
-Description: 1:30–2:00 a.m. Witnesses see strong lightning-like flashes
-in the sky northeast of Fürjes, near Békéscsaba, Hungary. The flashes do
-not go lower than some 700 feet from the ground. The flashes are
-vertical, yet 5 times “thicker” than lightning. The flashes stop and a
-shining, metallic-blue, misty phenomenon appears and floats about for
-5–6 minutes until it gradually fades away after breaking into several
-parts, each about 30–80 feet long. The display is followed by an unusual
-odor that persists for 20–30 minutes. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO
-Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6621
Date: 10/14/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A couple driving north on US Hwy 45 near
-Bristol, Wisconsin, sees red and white lights flickering on the road
-ahead. They drive cautiously forward and see a large, triangular object
-hovering 30 feet above the pavement. The lights are running along its
-outer edges. They pull up almost directly underneath it, park, and step
-out of the car. They see a grid structure on its lower surface. Two
-minutes later the UFO drifts slowly toward the southeast and vanishes.
-(Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1988): 18–19; Clark III 247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6622
Date: 10/20/1986
-Description: Blue-green oval ahead of car, forward motion impeded
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Edmonton, Queensland, Australia
-ID: 417
Date: 10/20/1986
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 416
Date: 10/28/1986
-Description: UK researcher Jenny
-Randles receives a call from a British military man who refuses to
-give his name or phone number. He says his commanding officer has given
-him her phone number and suggests she might want 600 pages of UFO
-reports that have come into his possession. One document appears to be a
-report from 1948 that uses the term “befabs” to describe “beings from
-alien objects.” Another file, from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio in 1977,
-is titled “Elimination of Non-Military Sources.” Randles is suspicious
-but intrigued. The two speak again on October 30 and agree to meet at a
-local pub a couple hours later. She brings along a colleague, Peter A.
-Hough. The informant (“John”) is in his late 20s and a former member of
-the Royal Army Corps. In 1983, his commanding officer had befriended a
-USAF computer technician at Wright-Patterson AFB who had accidentally
-tapped into UFO files. The British officer copied many of the files but
-is arrested for being in a secure area without permission. During
-questioning, the technician withholds the fact that he still has copies
-of the files and manages to tell the British officer where they are and
-request he take them out of the US. For 2 years, his commanding officer
-shows “John” some of these reports until he leaves active duty in 1985.
-In August 1986, “John” returns for a reservist training camp, and his
-former commander gives him a key to where the documents are stored and
-tells him to take them, read them, and offer them to Randles. The pub
-meeting ends with an agreement for “John” to deliver the files the next
-time they meet on November 7. “John” never shows up but writes a letter
-to Randles saying that he has been detained at a base and interrogated
-about the documents, which he is informed was the “creation of an
-educated prankster.” He apologizes for letting her down, and she never
-hears from him again. (Jenny Randles, “The Cover-Up in England,” IUR 12,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 9–12, 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6623
Date: 11/1986
-Description: Brilliant Pebbles, a non-nuclear system of satellite-based
-interceptors designed to use high-velocity, watermelon-sized,
-teardrop-shaped projectiles made of tungsten as kinetic warheads, is
-conceived by physicist Lowell
-Wood at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Livermore Director
-John
-Nuckolls describes the system as “the crowning achievement of the
-Strategic Defense Initiative.” Though regarded as one of the most
-capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program is canceled in 1994
-by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. (Wikipedia, “Brilliant
-Pebbles”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6624
Date: 11/16/1986
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Between Nocera Umbra and Valtopina, Perugia,
-Italy, two witnesses see a dark disc, 26 feet in diameter with a blue
-dome, fly over their car. The car stops and restarts after the object
-goes away. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6625
Date: 11/16/1986
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 418
Date: 11/17/1986
-Description: Japan Airlines flight #1628, a Boeing 747 freighter, was
-cruising at 35000 ft. altitude and at 5:11 p.m. the pilots noticed
-bright lights 30 degrees to the left and below them. The UFOs moved up
-directly in front of the 747 and, said Capt. Kenju Terauchi, “most
-unexpectedly, two spaceships stopped in front of our face, shooting off
-lights (like numerous exhaust pipes). The inside cockpit shined brightly
-and I felt warm in the face.” The UFOs appeared as two rectangular
-clusters or arrays of light, one above the other. As the larger UFOs
-moved away from the 747 Airlines Flight 1628 there remained two smaller
-flat white UFOs. At about 5:30 p.m. Capt. Terauchi checked the pale
-white light behind their craft visually. He saw a gigantic
-“walnut-shaped” UFO (Saturn-shaped) following them. As an evasive action
-the Capt. ordered the 747 to turn away from the giant UFO that was
-following them, at which time the UFO “spaceship” disappeared.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: Fort Yukon, Alaska
Date: 11/17/1986
-Description: 5:10 p.m. Japan Air Lines Flight 1628, a Boeing 747 cargo
-plane with a crew of three, is in the vicinity of Fort Yukon, Alaska, on
-its way to Anchorage. The jet is carrying a cargo of French wine and is
-flying at 35,000 feet through darkening skies, a red glow from the
-setting sun lighting one horizon and a full moon rising above the other.
-Capt. Kenju Terauchi and First Officer Takanori Tamefuji, along with
-Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuda, see two small objects and one huge
-Saturn-shaped object visually and on radar for more than 30 minutes. The
-objects follow the airplane for about 350 miles. The pilot changes
-course and altitude several times, with FAA permission, in an effort to
-identify the objects. Two rectangular-appearing objects sparkling with
-arrays of lights suddenly loom directly in front of them, one above the
-other. After a few minutes they abruptly change position and appear side
-by side. They move quickly, stop suddenly, and swing from side to side
-in unison, as if linked together. VHF radio communications are
-occasionally garbled at this time and cease when the two objects move
-away to the left of the aircraft. Two flat white lights continue to pace
-the airplane, then drop back and are lost from view both visually and on
-radar. About 5:30 p.m., while in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Terauchi
-checks a white light behind the plane and sees “a silhouette of a
-gigantic spaceship.” It is walnut-shaped, symmetrical above and below,
-with a central flange. He says, “It was a very big one—two times bigger
-than an aircraft carrier.” At its closest point, the large object casts
-such a bright light that it illuminates the cockpit, and Terauchi can
-feel heat on his face. Radio communications again became garbled during
-the close approach. The crew becomes frightened by the large object and
-requests permission to change course. After the course change, they look
-back and see the object still following them. Increasingly fearful, they
-request a descent to get away from the UFO (“We had to get away from
-that object”). After they descend and turn again, the object disappears.
-The FAA at first confirms that several of its radar traffic controllers
-had tracked both the 747 and the large object, and that USAF radar has
-also done so. Later official statements back away from this and try to
-ascribe the radar targets to weather effects. On December 29, the FAA
-issues a report stating, “We are accepting the descriptions of the crew,
-but are unable to support what they saw.” (Wikipedia, “Japan
-Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident”; NICAP, “Fantastic
-Flight of JAL 1628”; Bruce Maccabee, “The Fantastic Flight of JAL
-1628,” IUR 12, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1987): 4–23; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 128–132;
-Kean, pp. 218–229;
-Swords 342; Good Above, pp. 432,
-532;
-Good Need, pp. 400–401);
-“JAL
-Flight 1628 over Alaska,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 630–632)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6626
Date: 11/17/1986
-Description: Japan Airlines freighter aircraft encountered lighted
-maneuvering objects. bright illumination, heat, radar-visual, E-M
-effects, satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Fort Yukon, AK
-ID: 419
Date: 11/24/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Dale Goretske is driving in Waukesha, Wisconsin,
-when he notices some flashing red lights in the sky to the southeast
-about 450 feet away. They are attached to a flattened triangle about 75
-feet wide with pairs of flashing red lights at each corner. On the sides
-are pairs of steady white and red lights. The object is rotating
-silently. He tries to approach it in his car, but it moves away and is
-lost to sight. (Joe and Dorie Graziano, “Press
-Reports,” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 7 (September 1987): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6627
Date: 11/25/1986
-Description: Afternoon. Civil and military personnel in Magadan Airport,
-Russia, notice an unidentified radar target. Since there is another
-aircraft in the vicinity, air traffic control asks the pilot to be aware
-of an unknown object. The plane and UFO “pass clear of each other,”
-although no details are given. Afterward, the object turns east and
-speeds up to 1,800 mph over the water toward Kamchatka and disappears
-from radar screens. (Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s
-‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6628
Date: mid 12/1986
-Description: Navy Commander “Sheila Mondran” is on duty at the US Space
-Command’s Surveillance Center inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex near
-Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sensors detect something tripping the US
-Navy Space Surveillance System (the Space Fence), a multistatic radar
-system built to detect orbital objects passing over the US. The
-intrusion occurs above Lake Kickapoo, Texas. Mondran’s team tracks the
-object’s maneuvers, including loops, backtracks, crash dives, and fast
-climbs. She sends a flash alert to the Commander- in-Chief of NORAD, but
-the object immediately disappears. Two searches are ordered: one by
-NORAD’s Space Detection and Tracking System, the other by a network of
-sophisticated telescopes. Nothing turns up. The flash alert is recalled
-the following day. A summary of the incident is sent to the Joint Chiefs
-of Staff and President Ronald
-Reagan for his daily briefing. Reagan recommends a follow-up
-investigation, but none is known to have occurred. The story has not
-been verified. (Howard Blum, Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest
-for Extraterrestrials, Simon & Schuster, 1990, pp. 25–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6629
Date: late 12/1986
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A road-maintenance engineer is driving on the
-highway between Hajdúböszörmény and Debrecen, Hungary, when he sees a
-“trailer with lit-up windows” landed in a field about 900 feet away. An
-orange light is flooding through the windows. The object is in the same
-spot where the sphere chasing the ambulance in April had passed above
-power lines. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14,
-no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6630
Date: 1987
-Description: Abduction researcher and folklorist Thomas
-E. Bullard publishes UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, a
-two-volume comparative analysis of nearly 300 alleged abduction cases up
-through 1985, 103 of which offer both extensive information and reliable
-investigation. Bullard’s study summarizes key episodes and descriptive
-elements of the abduction narrative and attaches percentages to each to
-indicate how often a given feature occurs. He finds that the classic
-abduction story consists of eight possible episodes—capture,
-examination, conference, tour of the ship, journey or otherworldly
-journey, theophany, return, and aftermath. Few reports contain every
-episode; only capture and return are universal. He also examines
-features of the entities’ behavior and appearance, the UFO involved in
-the abduction, and the methods of mental and physical control. Bullard
-examines the literalist and reductionist hypotheses for abduction
-events, critiquing each. (Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure
-of a Mystery, Fund for UFO Research, 1987; Thomas E. Bullard,
-“Abductions in Life and Lore,” IUR 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): 14–19;
-Thomas E. Bullard, “Hypnosis and UFO Abductions: A Troubled
-Relationship,” JUFOS 1 (1989): 3–40; Thomas Bullard, The
-Myth and Mystery of UFOs, University
-Press of Kansas, 2010; Clark III 13–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6631
Date: 1987
-Description: Fortean Tomes publishes UFOs 1947–1987, edited by Hilary
-Evans and John
-Spencer and sponsored by the British UFO Research Association, in an
-attempt to place current knowledge about the UFO phenomenon in
-perspective. (Hilary Evans and John Spencer, eds., UFOs 1947–1987: The
-40-Year Search for an Explanation, Fortean Tomes, 1987; Mark Rodeghier,
-[Review], JUFOS 1 (1989): 169–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6632
Date: 1987
-Description: Thomas F. McDonough discusses the possibility of
-extraterrestrial life in The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,
-addressing UFOs in a largely negative and uninformed chapter. (Thomas F.
-McDonough, The
-Search for
-Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening for Life in the Cosmos,
-John Wiley, 1987; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5
-(1994): 151–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6633
Date: 1/1987
-End date: 3/1987
-Description: Flurry of sightings including cigar-shaped objects, a radar
-tracking, and other features
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Belleville, WI
-ID: 420
Date: 1/9/1987
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A road-maintenance engineer is on a routine
-checking tour between Hajdúböszörmény and Debrecen, Hungary, at the same
-point where his colleague had seen a “trailer” in December. He sees a
-“farmhouse” with the windows lit up, but knowing there is no farmhouse
-in that location, he stops the truck. The object is sitting near the
-overhead power lines between two stacks of straw. It is about 50 feet in
-diameter, disc- shaped, and rounded off at the rim. Through the center
-line runs a row of 8–10 portholes with warm, yellow light emanating from
-them. Between each window is a grayish-white streak of light. He can see
-an open door about 5– 6 feet high under the row of windows, through
-which he can see light and a floor with transverse ribs. Then he notices
-two entities wearing dark coveralls standing outside the object, while
-another appears in the door opening. Yellowish flashes erupt every 2–4
-seconds from the top of the object. The witness flees the scene. (Karoli
-Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2
-(Mar./Apr. 1989): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6634
Date: 1/15/1987
-End date: 1/16/1987
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Police officer Glen Kazmar and Jeff Furseth watch
-a triangular configuration of red, white, and blue blinking lights that
-remain stationary in the southwestern sky over Belleville, Wisconsin. At
-2:50 a.m., they are driving along Quarry Road west of town and see a
-“close-knit cluster of red, blue, and white lights.” After 15 minutes,
-they alert the Dane County Sheriff and are soon joined by a deputy from
-Verona and two Green County sheriff’s deputies, all of whom leave after
-debating what to do about reporting the lights. At 3:20 a.m., Kazmar and
-Furseth see the object move to the southwest. They call the FAA Center
-in Aurora, Illinois, which admits it has a slow-moving target in the
-area that won’t respond. Other witnesses near Monroe, New Glarus, and
-Verona also see lights. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part
-One,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987): 4–6; UFO Wisconsin, [Belleville
-articles]; “The
-Other UFO Days: Belleville, WI,” UFO Days, August 13, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6635
Date: 1/27/1987
-Description: The National Security Agency responds to a letter from
-Sen. John
-Glenn (D-Ohio) stating that the NSA’s Project Aquarius does not deal
-with UFOs, but that “Apparently there is or was an Air Force project by
-that name which dealt with UFO’s.” (Dale Goudie and Christian Lambright,
-“The
-Ice Documents Press Conference,” June 25, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6636
Date: 2/1987
-Description: Horror-fiction writer Whitley
-Strieber publishes Communion, the first-person account of his
-abductions and encounters recovered through hypnosis, as well as his
-lifelong involvement with mysterious events. The book remains on the
-bestseller list for a long time, and Ted
-Seth Jacobs’s
-cover illustration of an alien with large black eyes jars many people to
-recall their own apparent encounters with similar creatures. Strieber
-follows up on his experiences in seven subsequent books, in which he
-elaborates on his belief that the human species is in the process of
-being ushered into a higher level of understanding and existence.
-(Whitley Strieber, Communion:
-A True
-Story, Avon, 1987; Wikipedia, “Communion
-(book)”;
-Clark III 5, 1112–1113; Whitley Strieber, Transformation: The
-Breakthrough, William Morrow, 1988; Whitley Strieber, Breakthrough: The
-Next Step, HarperCollins, 1995; Whitley Strieber, The Secret School:
-Preparation for Contact, HarperCollins, 1997; Whitley Strieber and Anne
-Strieber, eds. The
-Communion Letters, HarperPrism,
-1997; Whitley Strieber, Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens among
-Us?, St. Martin’s, 1998; Whitley Strieber, The
-Key: A True Encounter, Jeremy
-Tarcher, 2001; Whitley Strieber, Solving the Communion Enigma, Jeremy
-Tarcher, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6637
Date: 2/6/1987
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Jeff Zweifel is walking home from work near
-Belleville, Wisconsin. He sees an object nearby with a bright white
-directional light aimed at a right angle to him. A red light is also
-visible, then a blue light. As he continues to walk, the object
-approaches him. When it is directly in front, a white light comes on.
-From left to right, red, white, and blue lights flash. A short gray
-trail of smoke is coming out the back. The object continues moving
-slowly and silently east at the same altitude. (Don Schmitt, “The
-Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987):
-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6638
Date: 2/7/1987
-Description: Motorists encountered hovering large oval object, lights
-around perimeter, terrain brightly illuminated
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Potters Mills, PA
-ID: 421
Date: 2/15/1987
-Description: The San Jose Mercury states that the Pentagon has a “Black
-Budget” which has become a “Black Hole” for secret projects spending. It
-is far bigger than the federal budget for education, transportation,
-agriculture or the environment. These Projects are classified above TOP
-SECRET, therefore very few federal investigators have the security
-clearances necessary to audit black programs.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Pea
-Research (J4-B)
-Location: San Jose, CA
Date: 2/16/1987
-Description: At a conference in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow,
-Russia, Soviet President Mikhail
-Gorbachev discloses that President Reagan had
-raised the possibility of an alien invasion during the Geneva Summit in
-1986: “I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it’s early
-yet to worry about such an invasion. It is much more important to think
-about the problems that have entered our common home.” (“Russians
-Worried UFOs Could Trigger
-Wars,” UFO Evidence)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6639
Date: 2/25/1987
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Filmmaker Paul
-Davids is at work in his home office in East Los Angeles,
-California, when his children call him to see a “flying saucer.” Looking
-outside, he sees a metallic, domed disc making its way silently and
-smoothly across the sky over the valley in front of his house. They open
-the window and go out on the roof for an unobstructed view and spend the
-next 4–5 minutes watching it. At its closest point, about 500 feet away,
-it hovers in one position for about 2 minutes, wobbling with an even,
-slow oscillation. Its bottom seems to transform from silver to pitch
-black and back to silver again. Then it flies away at a faster but
-uniform speed. (Paul Davids, “Starry Night,” IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June
-1989): 13–15, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6640
Date: 3/1987
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A British Army communications officer is sleeping
-alone on the moors near Bishop Monkton, North Yorkshire, England, during
-a military exercise. He sees a strange red light in the sky circling
-slowly and silently around him. He watches it for 20 minutes as it makes
-three circuits that are precisely the same. Two F-4 Phantom II jets
-appear and give chase to the light, which plays cat and mouse with them.
-This continues for 5 minutes, then the light shoots away at great speed.
-The jets remain a few more minutes before returning. (“Brief
-Cases,” Northern UFO News, no. 157 (October 1992): 13; Nick Redfern,
-A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997,
-pp. 163–164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6643
Date: 3/1987
-Description: The Society for Scientific Exploration publishes the first
-issue of its Journal of Scientific Exploration, edited by astronomer Bernard
-Haisch. (Journal
-of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 1 (1987); Clark III
-1082–1083)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6641
Date: 3/1987
-Description: San Antonio, Texas, freelance journalist Ed Conroy begins
-to find himself a target of an unmarked Bell 47 helicopter that hovers
-around his apartment building. The instances increase as he researches
-Whitley
-Strieber’s abduction story for a possible article. Black helicopters
-and CH-47 Chinooks also appear in his vicinity, and someone repeatedly
-changes the outgoing message on his home answering machine. Several
-people close to him begin to tell him about their nighttime experiences
-with entities and balls of light. These occurrences continue through
-1988. (Ed Conroy, Report
-on Communion, Avon,
-1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6642
Date: 3/6/1987
-Description: 5:30 p.m. County surveyor Harvey
-Funseth and Fred Gochenauer are driving north of Belleville,
-Wisconsin, and spot four peculiar objects one above the other in the
-western sky. They take a side road to get a better look and stop
-alongside an open field. The main cigar-shaped object is silhouetted
-against the sunset, standing vertically above three smaller sections.
-The objects are all about a quarter mile away at low altitude. As they
-watch, the top object moves away from the smaller ones toward their
-right. It looks like an airplane fuselage without any markings, wings,
-or tail. It has a flashing light on top and two red glowing areas on the
-back, followed by a short vapor trail. Funseth estimates it is about
-2,000 feet altitude. It picks up speed and streaks away to the
-northeast. The remaining smaller objects are now obscured by a mist.
-Witnesses in other parts of town also see a similar display. (Don
-Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1987): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6644
Date: 3/7/1987
-Description: A family of three in Pingwu county, Sichuan, China, is
-awakened by a loud, high-pitched hum. They go outside and are blinded by
-a beam of light coming from a huge reddish object shaped like a straw
-hat that is hovering above them. They pass out and wake up later to find
-themselves strapped to steel tables in a circular room occupied by
-humanoid entities with 3 eyes and standing 3 feet tall. The aliens take
-blood samples from them and probe them with needles, also making an
-incision on the child’s thigh. The next thing they know, they are
-walking down a road 7 miles from their home. (Chris Saunders, “UFOs over
-China,” Fortean Times 331 (October 2015): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6645
Date: 3/12/1987
-Description: Gallup releases a report indicating that there are three
-adult Americans who believe that “UFOs are real” for every two skeptics.
-(“1
-Person in 2 Now Believes in UFOs,” Santa Rosa (Calif.)
-Press-Democrat, March 12, 1987, p. 13; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of
-Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6646
Date: 3/12/1987
-Description: US Army Intelligence letter: The IPU (Interplanetary
-Phenomenon Unit) of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter
-intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished
-during the 1950’s and never reactivated. All of its records were turned
-over to the USAF (which can’t seem to locate them). This letter was sent
-to Timothy Good.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (B1-E p484)
-Location: US
-See also: 5/16/84
Date: 3/12/1987
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Cmdr. Alvaro de Camargo is flying a Transbrasil
-Boeing 737-300 from Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, to Manaus, Amazonas, when
-his radar detects an object directly in front of him. The Rio Branco
-tower says it has nothing on its radar. Suddenly the blip disappears
-from the screen, just as three orange lights appear on the left side of
-the airplane’s wing. Some passengers now can see the lights, flying
-parallel to each other and to the plane for about 20 minutes. (Clark III
-201; Brazil 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6647
Date: 3/20/1987
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Police in Verona, Wisconsin, view a triangular
-pattern of red, white, and blue flashing lights from the police station.
-The on-duty officer takes a squad car to investigate as the object moves
-behind a hill and hovers above a field. Within a minute, the lights move
-to the southwest and soon are out of sight. (Don Schmitt, “The
-Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987):
-8).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6648
Date: 3/23/1987
-Description: Evening. A woman hears a crash outside her home in Concord,
-North Carolina, and goes outside to investigate. She sees a domed disk
-in her backyard about 75 feet away, partially obscured by a tree. The
-dome is about 6 feet in diameter on top of an object about 25 feet high.
-The dome is projecting an intensely bright orange light that creates
-shooting pains in her eyes and lights up the entire yard. The lower part
-of the object is blue-silver and an 18–20 foot wide ramp extends down
-from it. Her eyes still hurt, so she does not see the UFO leave. No
-ground markings are found the next day, although two days later she
-discovers that a metal post on her dog lot has been magnetized. (Michael
-D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2
-(Summer 2002): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6649
Date: 4/1987
-Description: UFO abduction researcher Budd
-Hopkins publishes Intruders, an account of his investigation into
-the abduction experiences of Debbie
-Jordan-Kauble (using the pseudonym of “Kathie Davis”) an
-Indianapolis woman whose long series of abductions include an instance
-when the beings impregnate her by artificial insemination aboard a UFO,
-then return a few months later to remove the fetus. During a subsequent
-abduction several years later, the beings introduce her to a frail
-little girl, half-human, half-alien, and tell her this girl is her
-daughter. (Budd Hopkins, Intruders:
-The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods, Random House, 1987;
-Jerome Clark, “A Conversation with Budd Hopkins,” IUR 13, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1988): 4–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6650
Date: 5/1987
-Description: William
-Moore announces that for the past six and a half years he and some
-associates “succeeded in establishing a cooperative relationship with a
-number of well-placed contacts within the American intelligence
-community.” He provides a copy of one page of the MJ-12 briefing
-document, with some text blacked out FOIA-style. (MUFON UFO Journal,
-June 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6651
Date: 5/1/1987
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies moves from Glenview, Illinois,
-to 2457 West Peterson Avenue in Chicago. (“CUFOS Is Moving,” IUR 12, no.
-1 (Jan./Feb. 1987): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6652
Date: 5/16/1987
-Description: Huge unidentified target on weather radar for four
-minutes
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Airliner en route from Toronto to Winnipeg, Canada
-ID: 422
Date: 5/31/1987
-Description: British ufologist Timothy
-Good has also received a copy of the MJ-12 briefing document (the
-same one received by Moore and
-Shandera)
-in March and shares it with the press, adamantly refusing to say who
-sent it to him. The first mention appears in the London Observer, and
-soon it is the subject of pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post,
-and ABC-TV’s Night Line. Many ufologists denounce the documents as a
-forgery. Good admits to researcher Richard
-Dolan in 2008 that the source was probably “connected to” Richard
-Doty. (Good Above, p. 544;
-Dolan II 398; Clark III 366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6653
Date: 6/1987
-Description: Moore provides
-photocopies of all the pages of the Majestic-12 briefing document.
-Certain areas that had been blacked out are now readable, although
-redacted sections still exist. Moore has done his own redacting. He also
-reveals the Cutler-Twining memo. (MUFON UFO Journal, July 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6654
Date: 6/9/1987
-Description: 7:00 p.m. At RAAF Base Learmonth, near Exmouth, Western
-Australia, observers see a white light at 5,000 feet about 16 feet in
-diameter moving silently in a zigzag fashion from east to west. It
-hovers at the north end of the airstrip for 6–7 minutes, changes from
-white to amber, moves up into a cloud, then speeds off to the northeast.
-A Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport that takes off during the
-observation has difficulty establishing VHF radio communication. (Swords
-409–410)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6655
Date: 6/11/1987
-Description: Bill
-Moore, Jaime
-Shandera, and Stanton
-Friedman hold a press conference on the MJ-12 briefing document and
-the Cutler-Twining memo, asserting that they appear to be genuine.
-Friedman has found that Eisenhower did
-attend a briefing in Washington on November 18, 1952. He has also
-uncovered evidence that astronomer Donald Menzel was
-also a leading cryptographer and an elite member of the intelligence
-community. (Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 13–17; Dennis Stacy, “18th International
-Symposium,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 232 (August 1987): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6656
Date: 6/19/1987
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Brazilian Air Force Capt. Faria de Sousa is
-landing his aircraft at Anápolis Air Base ALA 2, Goiás, Brazil, when the
-control tower asks him to investigate “strange traffic” nearby. When he
-arrives at the location, his onboard radar registers the presence of
-another aircraft close by and his cockpit lights up. He sees a huge ball
-of light about 10 feet in diameter above his plane, but the light does
-not register on his radar. After 3 minutes he lands because he is
-running out of fuel. (Clark III 206; Brazil 554–555)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6657
Date: summer 1987
-Description: UK researcher Timothy
-Good publishes Above Top Secret, containing clean copies of the
-MJ-12 documents. The book is an international exposé of UFO
-investigations and secrecy by the governments of the UK, US, France,
-Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Canada, China, and Russia. (Timothy
-Good, Above
-Top Secret: The Worldwide
-UFO Cover-Up, Sidgwick
-& Jackson, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6659
Date: 6/25/1987
-Description: Capt. William
-Cantrell and the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 1083 are near
-Charleston, West Virginia, when they see a small missile heading
-straight for the aircraft before it swerves to the side about 500–600
-feet below. Cantrell describes the projectile as short, squatty, and
-homemade looking, about 4–6 feet long with large fins. It appears to be
-descending and unpowered. (Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close
-Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994):
-12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6658
Date: late 7/1987
-Description: 9:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m. A married couple and their daughter are
-riding in a horse cart, returning to their home near Będzienica, Poland.
-They notice two huge red spheres, apparently attached to each other,
-descending toward the northeast a few miles away and disappearing behind
-the horizon. After arriving home a few minutes later, the area outside
-their house becomes flooded in white light. The family rushes outside
-and sees two groups of three white lights silently floating low above a
-field less than one mile away to the northeast. The man alerts his
-neighbor and they return to the road to watch the lights for several
-minutes. Soon they notice a large red triangular light moving up and
-down in the northeast less than 2 miles away. After 6 minutes they hear
-a high-pitched sound like a car horn and the red light disappears. They
-continue watching the white lights, but soon notice that another
-neighbor’s barn about 1,000 feet away seems to be on fire. The man goes
-home to get his motorcycle and two daughters, but when they get to the
-barn there is no fire and the light is coming from another set of white
-spheres to the south. By this time it is after 10:00 p.m., and they ride
-the motorcycle to a nearby hill to watch the lights. Soon one of the
-daughters sees a large object like a vertical white TV screen 10 feet
-high approaching from the east about 60–100 feet above the ground. Two
-humanoids with angular heads and in green coveralls are visible against
-the screen, one large and one smaller. The man restarts the motorcycle
-with difficulty and returns home. Some 300 feet from their farmhouse,
-they see another object, a fireball with a tail descending in the area
-where they had seen the red triangle. Tired, the daughters and his wife
-go to sleep around 11:00 p.m., but the man stays up to watch the UFO
-activity. Around 4:00 a.m. the original two sets of white objects
-rearrange into a complex group of 7 lights and remain that way for
-another hour. The next day, the man feels sick with heart problems and
-is taken to a hospital for a short stay. (Arek Miazga, “Z
-historii UFO na Podkarpaciu: Bliskie spotkanie w Będzienicy–Nockowej
-(1987),” Spotkania z Nieznanym, July 3, 2011; Poland 77–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6662
Date: 7/22/1987
-Description: The Military Archives Division of NARA issues a list of 10
-problems with the Cutler-Twining memo: it was incorrectly filed; no
-other researchers have found information on MJ-12; the classification
-“Top Secret Restricted Information” was not in use until the Nixon administration;
-the memo does not bear an official letterhead or watermark; it does not
-match the paper Cutler used
-at the time; no records are found of an NSC meeting on July 16, 1954;
-another memo is found saying that NSC members were called to a civil
-defense exercise on July 16; and there is no entry in Eisenhower’s
-appointment books on a special meeting. (National Archives, “Majestic
-12 or ‘MJ-12’
-Reference Report”; “The
-MJ-12 Fiasco,” Just Cause, new series, no. 13 (September 1987):
-1–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6660
Date: 7/27/1987
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Witnesses in Accra and the Volta Region of
-Ghana see a large and apparently silent object over the Gulf of Guinea.
-Some people report the sound of explosions associated with it. A Ghana
-Air Force pilot views the missile-shaped object from the ground near
-Accra, traveling south over the ocean. It displays a yellow light at its
-trailing end, similar to a rocket. It appears to be at least twice as
-large as a Boeing 747. It stops descending and begins to climb, gaining
-altitude. Eight smaller, bluish lights appear in circular formation,
-seemingly the result of the object’s propulsive power. (Dolan II
-413–414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6661
Date: early 8/1987
-Description: A Soviet soldier serving with the military contingent in
-Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] is dispatched with four others to
-northern Karelia, where they join up with another unit. Their job is to
-guard a UFO that soldiers had recently discovered near Vyborg. A
-military plane had taken it to Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, and
-deposited it in a former fuel depot. The guards get a close look at the
-object, which is more than 50 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 9 feet high,
-grayish-tan in color, smooth, and seamless. It is tube-shaped, with fins
-extending from the mid-section all the way to the rear. At the tip of
-its nose are outward-pointing triangles in a triangular formation. One
-week later, senior officers show up and attempt to enter the craft
-unsuccessfully. The craft is moved to a hangar and all but one of the
-soldiers are sent back to Leningrad. In September, a successful entry is
-made, according to the remaining officer. Inside, they discover two
-armchairs, two steering wheels, and a featureless control panel. The
-cockpit is so small that two adults can hardly fit inside. Investigators
-who collect “rod-like items” from inside experience mild burns on their
-hands (though gloved). (Clark III 345; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle,
-The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain,
-Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6663
Date: 8/4/1987
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Gordon Baker and two others watch two
-cross-shaped objects pass slowly and silently over his home from
-northeast to southwest in Exmouth, Devon, England. Describing it like a
-“flying fairground” at 38,000 feet, he watches a jet aircraft fly
-underneath it. They watch it for 15 minutes until it disappears on the
-horizon. Observers in Lympstone and Budleigh Salterton also see the
-object. Two huge, delta-shaped objects are seen making successive passes
-over Plymouth, Devon, between 10:30 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. Observations were
-also made in Bude, Cornwall, and Exeter, Devon, where they were
-apparently tracked on radar. (“‘Flying
-Fairground’ Is Seen
-over Town,” Exmouth (UK) Herald, August 7, 1987; “Whitehall
-Silent over Flying Fairground,” Exmouth (UK) Herald, August 14,
-1987, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 222 (January 1988): 16; Marler
-139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6664
Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: A witness in Osbornville, New Jersey, sees a shiny, oval
-object that hovers, becomes brighter, and takes off like a shot, leaving
-a white trail. It then stops abruptly, maneuvers, flashes more lights,
-and shoots straight up out of sight. (UFOEv II 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6665
Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: Several people see a triangular object with three lights
-over Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia. A yellow light surriounds the
-perimeter, and a bright white light is seen inside. The object hovers
-and maneuvers for 3 hours with a trajectory that changes unpredictably.
-It disappears, reappears, and smaller objects separate rom it and take
-off at great speed. It finally takes off quickly away from the shoe.
-(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6666
Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 424
Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: Shiny oval, hovered; brightened, took off like a shot, left
-white trail. Stopped abruptly, maneuvered, lights flashed, shot straight
-up out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Osbornville, NJ
-ID: 423
Date: 8/23/1987
-Description: 2:00–3:00 a.m. A witness sees a circular, white object west
-of Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary, flying slowly to the north. A thin,
-orange-colored light beam sweeps from it several times from west to
-east. Suddenly it “jumps” with tremendous speed from one place to
-another and remains stationary, still sweeping its light beam for at
-least 30 minutes. Then it suddenly disappears. (Karoli Hargitai, “The
-UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6667
Date: 8/30/1987
-Description: William
-S. Steinman makes another attempt to contact possible crashed-saucer
-insider Eric
-A. Walker, whom Robert
-Sarbacher has indicated was a behind-the-scenes participant.
-Steinman calls Walker, saying he is inquiring about “meetings that you
-attended at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in/around 1949–1950,
-concerning the military recovery of flying saucers, and bodies of
-occupants.” Walker replies: “Yes, I attended meetings concerning that
-subject matter.” Walker agrees they are talking about recovered aliens
-and seems nonchalant about the subject. Walker adds: “Yes, I know of
-MJ-12. I have known of them for 40 years… You are delving into an area
-that you can do absolutely nothing about… Forget about it!” Walker tells
-Steinman that he would consult his notes on the topic and hints he might
-cooperate further. Steinman writes Walker on August 31, sending him the
-MJ-12 briefing document and asking about Project Aquarius. Three weeks
-later, Walker replies, saying, “Some things you have right and some
-things you have very wrong.” He admits a machine was recovered and is
-still stored near “Wright Field.” Four normal looking males were found
-at the site, very much alive. “They learned the English language within
-a few hours and it was our decision not to make public spectacles of
-them, but to allow them to be absorbed into American culture.” Each of
-the four, Walker alleges, became highly successful in technology,
-sports, and finance. (Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr., UFOs, MJ-12,
-and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash
-Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, pp. 7–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6668
Date: 8/31/1987
-Description: 10:55 p.m. A dark, domed, disc-shaped UFO with a mast or
-antenna on top comes down quickly over the high-security Naval Submarine
-Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington,
-which houses the Trident nuclear ballistic submarine fleet. It hovers
-over a playground. Randy Springsteen, 8, and Dennis Mauer, 10, sons of
-military personnel, are sitting on the swings and see an entity with a
-big head, big pointed “cat” ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish
-complexion in an open hatch. It has a thin, spindly body, long webbed
-fingers and toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of its fingers
-and toes. It also has a wrinkled mouth “like an old grandma’s.” The boys
-estimate the being is about 6 feet tall. It points a device that directs
-a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing the levitation
-of the metal swings. The boys flee quickly into the Springsteen home and
-get Charlene Springsteen, who sees a row of lights in the sky as the UFO
-takes off and flies away. Charlene then has the boys draw separate
-sketches of both the UFO and the alien, which are remarkably similar.
-(Donald A. Johnson, “The
-Bangor CE3,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1989): 4–6, 23) Early autumn —
-Evening. Rich and
-Kathy Dicenzo, their children, and a family friend are sitting outside
-their weekend residence in the southern Ohio hills in front of a
-campfire. Suddenly a dark shape appears passing from in back of them
-from the north over the roof of the house and blotting out the stars in
-a precise boomerang shape. The perimeter of the shape is covered with
-12–20 individual lights. All sounds from insects, tree frogs, and
-distant dogs stops. The campfire flame rises straight up, frozen. The
-aspen tree in the front yard stops “quaking” and the children gasp. The
-soundless object is low, and it extends beyond the 72-foot length of the
-house. After one minute, the light configuration wobbles, the lights
-change from amber to red, and the object splits into three sections,
-spreads out, and dissipates. (Jennie Zeidman, “Strangeness in the
-Night,” IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 5, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6669
Date: 9/1987
-End date: 12/1987
-Description: Sighting concentration, including 60 reports to sheriff’s
-office in Little River County.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Foreman and Ashdown, AR
-ID: 426
Date: 9/1987
-Description: Three witnesses in Taunton, Somerset, England, observe a
-triangular object with bright white lights at each point and red lights
-underneath, rotating to the left. Its size is estimated to be comparable
-to three C-130 aircraft. (Marler 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6671
Date: 9/1987
-Description: The final issue of the APRO Bulletin is published by Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen. (APRO
-Bulletin 33, no. 7 (September 1987))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6670
Date: 9/1/1987
-Description: Ellipse with windows beamed light down on children in
-playground, two humanoids visible in object
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bangor, WA
-ID: 425
Date: 9/4/1987
-Description: JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to
-President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut Gordon Cooper,
-Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) (now deceased), MUFON (Sequin, TX),
-APRO (Tucson, AZ) and Just Cause (Coventry, CT) states that: “WE
-(military personnel) have been ordered by the CIA to shoot at UFOs,
-silence pilots who have seen UFOs, intimidate, harass, jail, confine to
-institutions, and destroy military careers of witnesses to UFO
-sightings. We VIOLATED the Freedom of Information Act by hiding
-Government documents.” Maj. Keyhoe sent this letter to PEA Research in
-1987.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research (JMP)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 7/52
-See also: 9/24/47
Date: 9/11/1987
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Lydia B. Lövendal-Papae and her husband are
-walking between Herăstrău Park [now King Michael I Park] and Aviators
-Square in Bucharest, Romania, when they see a large, reddish-orange star
-hovering above the nearby Arcul de Triumf. After a minute, it moves to
-right above them and stops for a couple minutes before it sways back and
-forth. Suddenly it makes large zigzag movements toward the Romanian
-National Television building and disappears to the northeast. After 5
-minutes, her husband sees a white beam shooting briefly from the
-direction it has gone. (Romania 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6672
Date: 9/13/1987
-Description: A radioactive contamination accident takes place in
-Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after a forgotten radiotherapy source is taken
-from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It is subsequently handled
-by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people are
-examined for radioactive contamination and 249 of them are found to be
-contaminated. In the cleanup operation, topsoil has to be removed from
-several sites, and several hundred houses are demolished. All the
-objects from within those houses, including personal possessions, are
-seized and incinerated. (Wikipedia, “Goiânia
-accident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6673
Date: 9/14/1987
-Description: 6:05 p.m. A man and his daughter are walking in Debrecen,
-Hungary, when she sees a “flying log.” The man looks up and sees a
-cylindrical object flying very slowly to the north. After 3 minutes it
-disappears without a trace. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in
-Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6674
Date: 9/21/1987
-Description: President Reagan states to the UN General Assembly “Perhaps
-we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common
-bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would
-vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
-Type: statement
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City
Date: 9/22/1987
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A young couple is sitting outside in Bossier
-City, Louisiana, when they see a large, conical or triangular object
-pass silently in the sky. It has sparsely distributed lighting on its
-base and seems metallic and solid. They estimate it is several football
-fields in length. On October 6, the man sees the object again, moving in
-the same direction toward Barksdale Air Force Base. (Michael D. Swords,
-“Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6675
Date: 9/25/1987
-Description: Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: DC
Date: mid 10/1987
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A man is driving up Candlewood Lake Road, near
-Brookfield, Connecticut, when he sees a low-flying aerial object that
-passes over the trees to the left. After making a turn, he notices four
-cars stopped with no lights on off the side of the road. He flashes his
-headlights and his car’s radio and electrical power dies. All the other
-drivers—three men and a woman—are out of their cars. They tell him that
-their vehicles stopped as a large, bright aircraft flew over and passed
-silently over a hill in the west. It had all white and amber lights and
-was triangular in shape. Two other cars drive by at that time and their
-engines sputter but they do not stop. He notices a glow in the woods. He
-wants to investigate it, but no one will accompany him. Grabbing a
-flashlight, he walks into the woods for about a quarter of a mile,
-watching the glow get brighter. As he climbs a hill, the glow turns deep
-red and then off-white. As he reaches the top of the hill, he sees a
-lighted object, but trees block his view. He climbs down the hill to a
-clearing and sees an object like a dark triangle hovering silently in
-(not above) the trees. He hears a noise and sees a figure wearing a
-helmet and a dark suit with glowing metallic stripes around the arms and
-waist approaching the object. It reaches the UFO and looks in the
-witness’s direction. He hears thoughts in his head saying that he
-shouldn’t come closer. As he watches, the figure raises its hand as if
-to say goodbye and vanishes in a flash of red light. The object then
-blinks out as if someone has just turned it off. (NightSiege 201–
-203)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6676
Date: 11/1987
-End date: 12/1987
-Description: Flurry of sightings including oval objects with flashing
-body lights.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Central North Dakota
-ID: 427
Date: 11/11/1987
-Description: First five photos reported taken by builder Ed
-Walters
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gulf Breeze, FL
-ID: 428
Date: 11/11/1987
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Edward Walters, president of a construction
-company in Gulf Breeze, Florida, has his first alleged encounter with a
-UFO. He sees a glowing, top-shaped craft with a row of portholes across
-the midsection and a luminous ring on the bottom. He rushes in and grabs
-a Polaroid camera and snaps a photo just as the UFO is moving from
-behind a tree. He takes three more photos as the object, 150 feet away,
-drifts in a northeasterly direction. As he is taking more photos, the
-object moves above him, and Walters is hit by a blue beam that paralyzes
-him and lifts him several feet off the ground. After hearing a
-computerlike voice and a female voice, he sees images of dogs. Then he
-falls hard on the pavement and the UFO is gone. Over the next few
-months, Walters (initially concealing his identity as “Mr. X”) and his
-family claim a bewildering variety of close encounters, including
-abduction incidents, and Walters continues to produce more photos of the
-UFOs plaguing him. The veracity of his claims causes a rift in ufology,
-with MUFON championing the case and CUFOS very skeptical. California
-ufologist and songwriter Zan
-Overall produces evidence that Walters knew how to double-expose
-photos well before his UFO pictures. In June 1990, a model UFO,
-seemingly a prototype for a fake UFO in his photos, is found in the wall
-of the house formerly occupied by Walters. One week later, Tom Smith
-Jr., 22, comes forward claiming he has seen Walters fake some of the
-photos. Photoanalyst Bruce
-Maccabee continues to support Walters’s claims, coauthoring a book
-with him in 1997. (Wikipedia, “Gulf
-Breeze UFO incident”; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1988; Donald M. Ware,
-Charles D. Flannigan, and Walter H. Andrus Jr., “The Gulf
-Breeze, Florida, Photographic Case: Supplement to Part I,” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 240 (April 1988): 13–14, 21; Jerome Clark, “Editorial: Ill
-Breeze,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 3, 23; Dennis Stacy, “Gulf
-Breeze: A Note to the Skeptical,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988):
-10–11; Mark Rodeghier, “Gulf Breeze: A Note to the Committed,” IUR 13,
-no. 2 (March/April 1988): 12–13, 23; Mark Rodeghier and Robert D. Boyd,
-“Gulf Breeze, Florida: The Other Side of the Coin,” CUFOS Bulletin,
-April 1988, pp. 1–4; Jerome Clark, “Editorial: Breeze from the Gulf,”
-IUR 13, no. 3 (May/June 1988): 3; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1988; MUFON
-UFO Journal, July 1988; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988; Bruce Maccabee,
-“A History of the Gulf Breeze, Florida, Sighting Events,” in MUFON 1988
-International UFO Symposium, MUFON, 1988, pp. 113– 204; Richard H. Hall
-and Willy Smith, “Balancing the Scale: Unanswered Questions about Gulf
-Breeze,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 248 (December 1988): 3–7; Dan C.
-Overlade, “Psychological Evaluation of Mr. Ed,” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-248 (December 1988): 7–8; Bruce Maccabee, “The
-Scale Remains Unbalanced,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 252 (April 1989):
-3–24; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989; Bruce Maccabee, “Billy, No; Ed, Yes,”
-IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 16–19, 24; Wim van Utrecht, “How to Take
-Your Own Gulf Breeze Photos,” IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 20–21, 24;
-MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990; Ed Walters and Frances Walters, The
-Gulf Breeze Sightings, Morrow, 1990; Zan Overall, Gulf Breeze Double
-Exposed: The ‘Ghost-Demon’ Photo Controversy, CUFOS, 1990; Craig Myers,
-“Gulf
-Breeze UFO
-Model Found,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 10, 1990, pp. 1,
-8; Craig Myers, “I
-Saw UFO Photos Faked, Witness
-Says,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 17, 1990, pp. 1, 4; Bruce
-Maccabee, “The Gulf Breeze Lights,” IUR 17, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1992):
-4–12; Art Hufford, “The Gulf Breeze Lights, Continued,” IUR 17, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1992): 11– 12; Zan Overall, “The Gulf Breeze RUFOs,” IUR 17,
-no. 2 (March/April 1992): 14–18; Barbara Becker, “The Invention of a
-Gulf Breeze UFO,” IUR 17, no. 2 (March/April 1992): 19–21, 23; Bruce
-Maccabee and Ed Walters, UFOs Are Real: Here’s the Proof, Avon, 1997;
-James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth!
-Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 287–297;
-Clark III 550–552)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6677
Date: mid 11/1987
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Jim Dawes is one of the witnesses of an object in
-the shape of the supersonic airplane Concorde at Wolverhampton, England.
-When it reaches overhead, he sees it is composed of many different
-lights in a triangle shape. (“Mystery of ‘Concorde shape UFO,’”
-Wolverhampton (UK) Express-Star, December 2, 1987; Marler 120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6679
Date: 11/18/1987
-Description: The US Congress issues its investigative report on the
-Iran–Contra Affair. It concludes that “the central remaining question is
-the role of the President in the Iran–Contra affair. On this critical
-point, the shredding of documents by Poindexter, North,
-and others, and the death of Casey,
-leave the record incomplete.” (Wikipedia, “Iran–Contra
-affair”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6678
Date: 11/23/1987
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Rick Devine goes out the back door of his home in
-Shreve, Ohio, to round up the family dogs and cats. He glances up and
-sees four blobs of cool-white light maneuvering in a cloverleaf pattern
-(elliptical orbits with a common center of flight, meeting at the
-center) in an area of sky a few hundred feet in diameter. The objects
-move slower at the outer edges of the orbit and faster as they near the
-center. Devine shoos the animals inside (no reaction to the display) and
-calls to his wife Janet. She joins him and they continue to watch the
-objects. She describes the lights as rectangular. They cross the street
-into a schoolyard to get closer to the lights, which move away as if in
-response. At no time does the brightness or color or altitude of the
-lights change. Seemingly, the display covers an area equivalent to a
-baseball diamond. It moves back across the road, and the Devines follow.
-As they watch, the four blobs of light come together in the center, move
-outward and continue onward, disappearing 90° from each other. The
-sighting lasts 35 minutes. (Jennie Zeidman, “Strangeness in the Night,”
-IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6680
Date: 11/28/1987
-Description: 9:10 p.m.–12:00 midnight. 33 unknown objects fly at low
-altitude over the coast of Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern district, Russia,
-on the Sea of Japan. Witnesses describe various shapes—cylinders,
-cigars, globes—all moving silently. Thirteen UFOs are seen above
-Dalnegorsk. The objects cause a 2-minute disruption of electrical
-circuits, including TVs and computers. More than 100 witnesses are
-questioned by the Far Eastern Commission. (Paul Stonehill and Philip
-Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron
-Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6681
Date: 12/1987
-Description: John Grace founds the Leading Edge International research
-group after receiving the “Dulce Papers,” a set of documents allegedly
-disclosing unethical experiments on humans—such as breeding techniques,
-DNA manipulation, and genetic modification—at an underground base in
-Dulce, New Mexico. The papers inspired and are included in The Matrix
-series of six books published from 1988 to 2007 by Grace under the
-pseudonym Valdamar Valerian. These huge compilations of supposed
-documents and insider information discuss the alien visitors and
-treaties with earthly governments, harvests of human body parts,
-friendly and unfriendly alien species, the creation of humans and
-culture by aliens, acquisition of alien technology, and the dangers of
-an alien takeover. (Darryl Smith, “The
-Dulce Papers,” Crowded Skyes; “Leading Edge International,”
-UFO-Alien Database; Clark III 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6684
Date: 12/1987
-Description: Barry
-Greenwood calls the MJ-12 documents hoaxes, most likely contrived by
-Richard
-C. Doty, who has apparently been Moore’s source for much of his UFO
-information. He cites the disparity between the briefing document’s
-extensive discussion of the Roswell crash and the mere 7 lines of text
-on the 1950 Texas crash. Greenwood also charges that the Cutler-Twining
-memo had been planted, as it had been found in a virtually empty box in
-the National Archives containing a small number of non-UFO documents. Bruce
-Maccabee thinks the Cutler-Twining memo is genuine. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, December 1987; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1988)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6683
Date: 12/1/1987
-Description: 7:15 a.m. A former London policeman (pseudonym Philip
-Spencer) is walking across Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, England, to
-visit his father-in-law in East Morton. He was walking up a small hill
-when he notices an odd-looking figure in the trail ahead of him. It is
-dark green and about 4 feet tall with an oversized head and long, thin
-arms. The creature makes a gesture at Spencer, which he takes to be a
-warning telling him to stay away, but he takes out his camera and snaps
-a picture. The creature then runs away and Spencer follows it. He loses
-the creature in the fog but then sees an object rise from the moor and
-disappear into the sky. It is a whitish color and consists of two
-saucer-shaped parts on top of each other. He hears a loud hum. He fails
-to take a photo of the object. Rather than continue with his planned
-route, Spencer heads to another town that was about 30 minutes away.
-When he arrives, he finds that it is about two hours later than he
-expects it to be. Additionally, the compass he has taken with him is
-pointed in the opposite direction than it should be. While the photo is
-getting examined by experts, Spencer has strange dreams. Following
-ufologist Peter Hough’s advice, he attends a session of regressive
-hypnotherapy carried out by Jim Singleton on March 16, 1988. Under
-hypnosis, Spencer’s original account of the incident changes. Singleton
-calls it a genuine recall. Spencer now remembers that when he saw the
-creature on the hill he was instantly paralyzed, lifted up a few feet,
-and pulled into the craft. When he enters, a voice tells him to be calm.
-A group of green aliens then performs medical experiments on him,
-inserting items into his nose and mouth. He is given a tour of the craft
-and shown a film with apocalyptic imagery, including nuclear explosions,
-famines, and floods. He is then shown a second film, but he never
-reveals the contents of this film, saying that the aliens who abducted
-him do not want humanity to know. Following this, Spencer is returned to
-Ilkley Moor, where he then takes his photograph. He claims that the
-alien is actually waving goodbye to him, not telling him to stay away,
-as in his original account. (Wikipedia, “Ilkley
-Moor UFO incident”; Peter Hough, “The
-Green Alien of Ilkley Moor,” Fate, March 1999, pp. 35–41; Matty
-Sweeney, “Ilkley
-Moor Alien Photograph,”
-The Paranormal Guide, October 7, 2014; “Picture
-Post: When Ilkley Moore Became an Alien Landing
-Site,” Yorkshire Post, October 13, 2014; Nick Redfern, Top Secret
-Alien Abduction Files, Red Wheel/Weiser, 2018; Patrick Gross, “The
-Ilkley Moor Encounter of the 3rd Kind, 1987”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6685
Date: 12/9/1987
-Description: Night. Oddly moving lights in the sky appear over
-Nottingham, England, traveling quickly and emitting a deep hum. A
-triangular object about 250 feet long covered in 150 red and white
-lights is observed over a farm near Hull around the same date. Similar
-UFOs are seen in Staffordshire and Long Eaton, Derbyshire. (“Mystery of
-City UFO Sightings,” Nottingham (UK) Evening Post, December 10, 1987;
-Hull (UK) Daily Mail, December 11, 1987; Long Eaton (UK) Trader,
-December 23, 1987; Marler 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6686
Date: 12/12/1987
-Description: About 8:50 P.M. (CST). Soviet rocket casing orbital decay
-and atmospheric re-entry, multiple fiery objects from NW to SE.
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 429
Date: 12/13/1987
-Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 430
Date: 12/13/1987
-Description: Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12
-Type: statement
-Reference: Article by John Lear (TODO)
-Location: Nevada
Date: 12/14/1987
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A gray, oval-shaped object lands on the road
-ahead of a Mercedes car near Launceston, Tasmania. The engine and lights
-fail instantly, and the driver brakes to a stop. Intense light comes
-from the base of the object that is painful to the driver’s eyes. He
-leaves the car and gets sick, hiding behind a tree from where he watches
-his car being dragged about 33 feet, as if attracted by a magnet, and
-leaving tire marks on the road. A Land Cruiser approaches the scene and
-its lights fail, but the diesel engine continues to operate. The object
-takes off with a whirring sound. The car is covered with melted specks
-of asphalt, and serious electrical problems must be fixed after the
-incident. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6687
Date: 12/14/1987
-Description: Elliptical object landed ahead of car, blocked road.
-Headlights and engine failed, blinding light from underside. Car dragged
-toward object
-Type: landing
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Launceston, Northern Tasmania
-ID: 431
Date: 12/21/1987
-Description: CIA letter to former assistant director of NICAP
-Mr. Richard H. Hall stating the CIA’s reasons for denying certain FOIA
-requests about himself on the basis of national defense reasons and must
-be kept secret. Mr. Hall is an UFO investigator and book author.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Langley, VA
Date: winter 1987
-Description: Night. Air Force Security Policeman Joseph C. Pscolka is
-awakened by the night shift flight security controller at the Malmstrom
-AFB N-01 missile alert facility northwest of Grassrange, Montana, who
-tells him that an alarm response team responded to a security alert at
-the N-06 launch site and had not been heard from for nearly an hour.
-Pscolka assembles a security response team and joins them to drive to
-the site. The security lights are out and the alarm team’s vehicle
-parked 50 feet from the wide-open gate with its lights out and engine
-off. Pscolka drives up to the vehicle when his own Peacekeeper APC loses
-power. At that moment, the alert team bursts from its vehicle and runs
-to the APC, begging to be let in. Their vehicle had shut down entirely,
-even the flashlights. The entire launch facility, up to 20 feet outside
-the gate, is devoid of snow, even though the snow outside is knee- deep.
-Pscolka goes up to the facility alone after posting guards. When he gets
-to the snow-free zone, he notes the temperature is warmer, even hot.
-Everything within the facility is warm to the touch, including the soil.
-But there are no intruders. A few more APCs approach down the access
-road, and suddenly all the facility and vehicle lights come on again.
-After the incident, the teams are debriefed and ordered not to tell
-anyone about it. (Nukes 397– 401)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6682
Date: 12/29/1987
-Description: Lear Jet heir John
-Lear, based on stories by Albuquerque businessman Paul
-Bennewitz, claims
-in a statement on ParaNet that he has independent confirmation of a
-secret underground base near Dulce, New Mexico, populated by gray aliens
-and humans. Direct communication between one alien group and the US
-government took place at Holloman AFB in April 1964. Lear alleges that
-the MJ-12 group entered into a relationship with possible ET
-intelligences between 1969 and 1971 and in exchange for super
-technology, gave carte blanche to the ETs to conduct experiments and
-abductions on unsuspecting human beings. Lear also claims that the ETs,
-with our government’s knowledge, are mutilating domestic cattle and
-sheep, and in some cases even humans are the victims. In 1972–1973, a
-secret underground facility at Groom Lake, Nevada, was built “for and
-with the help of” the ETs. Lear claims that William
-Moore is being used as a conduit by MJ-12 (which includes Edward
-Teller, Henry
-Kissinger, Bobby
-Ray Inman, and
-possibly John
-Poindexter) to release information about the alien presence on
-earth. Many ParaNet members question his assertions. (Wikipedia, “Dulce
-Base”; “Statement
-Released by John Lear,” December 29, 1987; Don Ecker, “Driven to
-Destruction,” Fortean Times 121 (April 1999): 40–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6688
Date: 1988
-Description: College instructor Karla
-Turner and her husband are in counseling to learn why they are
-feeling physical symptoms of stress. She reads Missing Time by Budd
-Hopkins and Communion by Whitley
-Strieber and soon recalls having seen an odd light in the sky as a
-girl and begins to dream about UFOs. Having learned hypnotic regression
-techniques from her therapist, she regresses her husband, whereupon he
-remembers several childhood experiences with gray aliens. Several nights
-later, Karla awakens to sounds of clicks and bumps in the house,
-followed by disembodied voices in her bedroom. She later remembers a
-nightmare from her childhood in which an insect-like being holds her
-hand and tells her it is her mother. Soon she and her husband undergo
-regression by an Oklahoma UFO researcher, which produces accounts of
-repeated abductions since childhood and evidence that her whole family
-was involved. After one session, Karla, her husband, and a third person
-see a lighted, disc- shaped craft hovering above them. Two weeks later,
-she again hears voices in the night and loud knocking sounds. She wakes
-to find small punctures on her inner wrist and three white circles on
-her abdomen. Into 1989, more body marks appear, including a solid red
-triangle on her arm, puncture wounds, scratches, and bruises.
-Poltergeist phenomena occur. The Turners begin to notice a white car
-parked near their house, and unmarked helicopters seem to follow them.
-They begin to suspect the US military is monitoring them. (Karla Turner,
-Into the
-Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction, Berkley, 1992)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6690
Date: 1988
-Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John
-Lear
-Type: meeting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: NV
Date: 1988
-Description: Michael
-Corbin becomes administrator of ParaNet, which runs through the
-mid-1990s.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6689
Date: 1/1988
-Description: A family in the vicinity of Pasadena, California, notices a
-large, perfectly circular brown spot, 13 feet in diameter, in their
-backyard in the midst of their lush, well-cared for St. Augustine grass.
-It seems to have appeared the morning after the wife awakens to see a
-small, gray-skinned entity standing beside her and probing her torso
-with medical instruments. She had seen a strange light beam one month
-earlier. The brown area slowly fills in with Bermuda grass after 6
-months. The Los Angeles County agricultural pathologist who examines a
-soil sample finds four southern chinch bugs (Blissus insularis) that he
-says can cause similar damage, although the progression is much slower
-and requires many more insects than four. (Ann Druffel, “CE3—and CE2?”
-IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 10–12, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6691
Date: 1/5/1988
-Alternate date: 1/15/1988
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Cristian Tuţă is doing mandatory military service
-in a unit at Roşu, Romania, on the shore of Lacul Morii. While on guard
-duty, he notices an oval light positioned vertically 30 feet above the
-bridge to the only island on the lake. He estimates it is 45 feet high
-and 15 feet wide. Inside are four much brighter lights in the shape of a
-cross. At first it remains motionless, but begins quickly moving up and
-down along the bridge like a sine wave for 30 minutes. It stops abruptly
-and moves slowly to the southwest at an altitude of 60 feet. When it
-comes to a clump of trees, it changes its shape to two discs put
-together. In a split second it zooms away to the west. (Romania
-46–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6692
Date: 1/12/1988
-Description: Ed Walters produces his most famous photo—a brightly lit
-structured craft hovering above a road near his home in Gulf Breeze,
-Florida. (Ed Walters and Frances Walters, The
-Gulf Breeze Sightings, Morrow,
-1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6693
Date: 1/19/1988
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A father and daughter are driving to pick the
-mother up from work in Benton, Louisiana. When they pull into the mall
-parking lot, the daughter notices a streak of light in the sky that
-suddenly moves right in front of them about 150 feet away and 50 feet
-above the ground. It is a dull silver disc with “turbines” or openings
-around its perimeter that are spinning like a slowly moving fan. From
-the top of the object emerges a sheath with rotary blades, although the
-blades do not rotate. The disc is about the size of an automobile,
-around 5 feet tall, and completely silent. For 90 seconds, all the noise
-of the mall seems muted. Then the device begins to move and zips away
-quickly. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman
-Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6694
Date: 1/19/1988
-Description: Glowing red object followed car, moved up and down as if
-following contours of local terrain
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Foreman, AR
-ID: 432
Date: 1/20/1988
-Description: 4:10 a.m. Faye Knowles and her three sons Patrick, Sean,
-and Wayne are en route along the Eyre Highway from Perth, Western
-Australia, to Melbourne, Victoria, by car, when they observe a bright,
-egg-shaped object ahead of them on the road near Mundrabilla, Western
-Australia. Sean is driving and has to swerve to miss the object. The
-egg-shaped object then begins to follow their station wagon. At some
-point, Sean does a U-turn to approach the object, but soon goes back to
-driving eastward. The family becomes disoriented, and the sequence of
-events is difficult to reconstruct. They roll down the windows and a
-“grayish-black mist” enters into the car. Faye reaches out the window to
-touch the roof and feels something warm, soft, and rubbery that covers
-her hand in black dust. They hear a thud on the roof and come to believe
-that the object has lifted their car off the road. They are let down
-suddenly and the right rear tire blows out. A truck driver named Graham
-Henley is driving ahead of the Knowles’s car; he sees a bright light in
-his rearview mirror for about 5 minutes. Shortly after Henley pulls into
-Mundrabilla, the Knowles family arrives in a state of disorientation. He
-inspects the damaged tire, sees dents in the roof, and smells something
-burnt. Henley and another trucker drive back to the scene and find skid
-marks and footprints. In the afternoon, the family report to police in
-Ceduna, South Australia, who note their distress and the dents in the
-roof. Samples of the black dust are collected for forensic analysis. The
-police tests are never done, but at least half of the material is
-obtained by ufologists Keith
-Basterfield and Ray
-Brooke, who take it to a laboratory. The analysis reveals ordinary
-materials: sodium chloride, sodium, aluminum, magnesium, sulfur,
-potassium, silicon, chlorine, clay particles, and calcium. The Seven
-Network pays the Australian Mineral Development Laboratories to test the
-vehicle for radioactivity, but there is none above background. AMDEL
-states that the car tire has failed due to being underinflated, and the
-dust, smell, and smoke is due to the blowout. Another set of samples is
-taken from the car by the Victorian UFO Research Society and sent to two
-different labs, again with commonplace results. However, one analysis by
-Richard
-Haines in the US concludes that the interior dust is different from
-the exterior dust, which contains a possible trace of astatine, a
-radioactive chemical element. Faye’s hand became red and swollen in the
-days after the event. (Keith Basterfield and Ray Brooke, “The
-Mundrabilla Incident,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 6, no. 1
-(April 1988): 3–20; Keith Basterfield and Ray Brooke, “The
-Mundrabilla Incident: An Update,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter
-7, no. 1 (May 1989): 3–9; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony
-Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 36-37; Keith
-Basterfield, “Samples from the Mundrabilla CE2,” IUR 15, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1990): 12–13; UFOEv II 232–237; Siani, “UFOs on the Nullarbor
-Plain (Part 1),” Strange Days, September 27, 2007; Siani, “UFOs on the
-Nullarbor Plain (Part 2),” Strange Days, September 27, 2007; Brian
-Dunning, “The
-Knowles Family
-UFO Incident,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 715, February 18, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6695
Date: 1/20/1988
-Description: Knowles family encounter with oval object that buzzed car,
-car lifted off road, physical traces
-Type: encounter
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mundrabilla, Western Australia
-ID: 433
Date: 1/21/1988
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Ex-Navy Lt. Dan McIndoe and his family are at
-their home 5 miles north of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island,
-Washington, when they see a white light with red and blue flashes. They
-watch it maneuvering for 2 hours. (Donald A. Johnson, “UFOs in
-Washington Skies,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6696
Date: 1/28/1988
-Description: Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About
-Aliens On Earth
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 2/4/1988
-Description: 8:10 p.m. A woman is driving between Bacup, Lancashire, and
-Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, when she sees an intense orange,
-egg-shaped light to the south-southeast above Tooler Hill when she is
-crossing the border between the two counties. Its interior is like a
-“swirling liquid (or fire embers) with constantly changing patterns.”
-She stops to watch it as it hovers for another 2–3 minutes. As she
-drives away it starts to move, so she pulls over again and watches it
-(now dimmer) move away to the southwest. It speeds up as it descends
-below the level of the hillside. (Jenny Randles, “Another
-Pennine Earthlight?” Northern UFO News, no. 137 (June 1989):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6697
Date: 2/9/1988
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A man looking for farm work near Oswestry,
-Shropshire, England, sees a dog run from a parked car he is passing. The
-dog crosses the road and runs barking straight int a swirling,
-yellowish, glowing mist about 45 feet in diameter that straddles a
-hedgerow. The mist is making a noise like rushing air. The dog owner
-gets out of the car, and the witness follows her toward the glow and
-tries to calm her down. As they approach, their hair stands on end,
-their skin begins tingling, and they smell sulfur as an eerie stillness
-envelops them. Moments later, the glow disappears as if it is melting
-away. The dog is lying on the ground looking ill. Its eyes are red and
-its coat is soaking wet, yet the moisture is evaporating rapidly with
-steam visibly rising. The man carries the dog back to the car and the
-woman drives off with it. He later finds out that the dog recovered
-after an hour or so but died a few weeks later. (Jenny Randles, Time
-Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel,
-Piatkus, 2001, p. 11; Jenny Randles, “UFOs Can Damage Your Health, Part
-Two,” Fortean Times 365 (April 2018): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6698
Date: 2/10/1988
-Description: 7:45–8:30 p.m. Numerous independent observers on the border
-of Cambria and Somerset counties near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, see a
-60-foot object with several rows of lights that make it look like a
-“cruise ship in the sky.” The object passes over cars and trees at an
-altitude of 50–100 feet. It emits a slight humming sound and projects
-multiple beams of light toward the ground. (“Number
-of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.)
-Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235
-(February 1989): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6699
Date: 2/11/1988
-Description: Pilot saw hovering object, intense lights like searchlights
-in a triangle. Climbed vertically out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Beira, Mozambique
-ID: 434
Date: 3/3/1988
-Description: 8:30 p.m. The brothers Farisano are returning home from a
-soccer championship near General Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, when
-they notice some strange lights above a nearby bridge. As they approach
-the lights, their vehicle engine suddenly stalls. They try to restart it
-but cannot, so they remain in their truck watching the lights. They now
-see that the lights are on a spherical object with a large red light on
-the top and several white lights in a row on the bottom section. The
-object hovers close to the ground. Inside the transparent midsection the
-witnesses can see a shadow-like figure moving about. The object suddenly
-moves slowly out of sight, after which the truck engine restarts and
-they drive home. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6700
Date: 3/4/1988
-Description: Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering
-over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged,
-zipped around independently
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eastlake, OH
-ID: 435
Date: 3/4/1988
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Sheila and Henry Baker and their three children
-are driving home to Eastlake, Ohio, after going to dinner. As they near
-the waterfront, Sheila notices something hovering above Lake Erie, so
-they drive down to the beach to investigate. A huge, metallic-gray,
-football-shaped object like a blimp is silently rocking back and forth,
-blinding white light emanating from both ends. It begins circling,
-moving overhead at about 1,300 feet. Somehow it causes the lake ice to
-rumble and crack. The Bakers get nervous and drive home, where they can
-still see the UFO with red and blue blinking lights along the bottom
-edge. 5–6 bright triangular lights detach from the side, hovering at
-first, then darting and zigzagging around at high speeds. Each is
-smaller than a Cessna and cross 50- mile stretches low over the ice “in
-the snap of a finger.” They make several passes toward the Perry Nuclear
-Power Plant about 20 miles away. The Bakers alert the Coast Guard, and
-Seaman James Powers and Petty Officer John Knaub drive to the beach,
-where the triangular objects approach them. They give a blow-by-blow
-radio report to the Coast Guard base in Detroit. Other witnesses in
-different locations also see the triangles. Suddenly the smaller objects
-return to the large one, which seems to be landing on the ice. They
-reenter it, the ellipse flashes a series of red, blue, and yellow
-lights, and the light at the end turns from white to red. Suddenly the
-lights go out and the ice booming stops. The witnesses assume the object
-has gone beneath the surface. The Coast Guard report the next day
-suggests that the lights were Venus and Jupiter. (NICAP, “Eastlake
-Close Encounter”; Richard P. Dell’Aquila, “Ohio
-Flap,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 249 (January 1989): 15–17; Dolan II
-428–431; John Lasker, Technoir: 13 Investigations from the Dark Side of
-Technology, the US Military, and UFOs, The Author, 2010, pp. 23–28;
-Marcus Lowth, “The
-Baker Family UFO Encounter over Lake Erie,” UFO Insight, August 2,
-2018; Michael Lee Hill, “Never
-Before Heard! Famous 1988 Lake Erie Coast Guard UFO Event Update:
-Audio Witness
-Testimony!” Michael Lee Hill blog, August 18, 2018; Patrick Gross,
-“Lake
-Erie, USA 1988”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6701
Date: 3/5/1988
-Description: Richard
-Doty writes to ufologist Larry
-W. Bryant that he had never promised film footage to Linda
-Moulton Howe. (Clark
-III 365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6702
Date: 3/7/1988
-Description: During a campaign rally in Rogers, Arkansas, vice president
-and presidential candidate George
-H. W. Bush is approached by a UFO buff named Charles
-Huffer, who
-asks him if he will tell the truth about UFOs. He sort of promises to
-declassify the information. Later, Huffer declines to send him any UFO
-cases because “you’re a CIA man. You know all that stuff.” “I know
-some,” Bush replies, “I know a fair amount.” (presidentialufo.com,
-“George Bush, 41st President”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6703
Date: 3/20/1988
-Description: John Salter, Jr., and John, III, abduction
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wisconsin
-ID: 436
Date: 3/23/1988
-Description: Motorists saw bright light ahead, engine lost power, radio
-failed. Four square yellow lights and light beam visible. Car returned
-to normal after lights disappeared (Basterfield, 1997a).
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: East Tamar Highway, Tasmania
-ID: 437
Date: 4/1988
-Description: William
-Steinman again contacts Eric
-A. Walker at his Florida residence and asks about the current
-members of MJ-12. Within a week, Walker mails Steinman’s handwritten
-note back to him from Penn State, not Florida. At the top of the letter,
-Walker has written, “Must reply, did code (–1),” and placed numbers from
-1 to 26 above certain words in Steinman’s letter. Later in the month, T.
-Scott Crain calls Walker, who says he cannot talk about the UFO subject.
-(Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr., UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government:
-A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO
-Network, 1991, pp. 16–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6704
Date: 4/12/1988
-Description: Coral
-Lorenzen, founder
-of APRO, dies in
-Tucson, Arizona. CUFOS had been attempting to purchase the APRO
-archives, but is thwarted by someone who convinces Coral’s son, Larry
-Lorenzen, that this is a bad move and that the APRO board should
-reconsider. He wants the archive to stay in Arizona. Tina
-Choate and Brian Myers, with
-their dubious International Center for UFO Research, convince the APRO
-board that they are the most logical recipients. In 1989, the board
-gives them the archives free of charge. Former APRO board member Robert
-Dean later realizes Choate and Myers are scam artists. They
-immediately bar anyone from using the files and move them to a garage at
-an undisclosed location in Scottsdale or Sedona, Arizona. It is not
-known if the paper archives still exist, although fortunately APRO case
-files prior to 1957 have been preserved digitally. In 2010–2012, Choate
-and Myers are involved in a fraudulent scheme to acquire and illegally
-sell a valuable collection of fossils. (“Obituary:
-Coral Lorenzen,” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 3 (September 1988):
-15; Clas Svahn, “Unique
-UFO Archive Hidden in Warehouse (APRO Archives and Files),” UFO
-Evidence; Jamie Ross, “Collector
-Sues over $25M in Fossils,” Courthouse News Service, May 17, 2010;
-Isaac Koi, “Rare Microfilms of UFO Documents Now Online: APRO, US Air
-Force, etc. (PDF archives),” Above Top Secret forum, December 15,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6705
Date: 5/4/1988
-Description: MUFON Director of Investigations Dan
-Wright poses a set of open questions for John
-Lear, nearly
-all of which concern Lear’s sources. Lear claims that most of his
-information comes from confidential sources within the intelligence
-community, while a lesser portion comes from open sources and his own
-“informed speculation.” (Richard P. Dell’Aquila, “Who
-Is John Lear?” UFONet.it, 1988)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6706
Date: 5/4/1988
-Description: During a question-and-answer session following a speech to
-the National Strategy Forum in Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel, President
-Reagan is
-asked about the most important “need” in international relations. He
-replies: “I’ve often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered
-that we were threatened by an outer– a power from outer space, from
-another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any
-differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the
-world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat?”
-(presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20,
-1981–January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6707
Date: 5/5/1988
-Description: For the third time, publicly, President Ronald Reagan
-states that the nations of the earth would unite if we were threatened
-by an Alien race from a hostile planet.
-Type: statement
-Reference: Pea
-Research (J4-A)
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 5/16/1988
-Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Eileen Ballard and four friends are outside
-in Stafford, England, when they notice two spotlights in the sky. The
-objects they are attached to position themselves side by side, one above
-the other, and fly slowly and silently across the sky. Red and green
-lights are visible on the undersides. BUFORA initially attributes the
-sighting to two US Air Force F-117 stealth fighters, an aircraft that
-had not yet been acknowledged, but this is considered unlikely as other
-witnesses come forward. (“Did
-Mystery Lights Reflect Secret Flights of F- 19?”
-Stafford (UK) Newsletter, May 20, 1988, p. 3; “After
-MP’s Plea, More Tell of UFO Mystery,” Stafford (UK) Newsletter, July
-1, 1988; Marler 121–123, 139–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6708
Date: 6/1/1988
-Description: 8:10 p.m. A Boeing 737 pilot, on a final approach to the
-runway at El Tepual Airport in Puerto Montt, Chile, suddenly encounters
-a large white light surrounded by green and red. The light is coming
-straight toward the airplane, and the pilot makes a steep turn to the
-left to avoid a collision. The object is also seen by air traffic
-control personnel. (Kean, pp. 194–195;
-“1988:
-La historia del Ovni de El Tepual, Puerto Montt,” Prensa Vértice TV
-YouTube channel, August 17, 2012; Rodrigo Bravo Garrido and Juan
-Castillo Cornejo, “Incidente
-del Boeing 737
-del Vuelo Lan Chile 045 con un F.A.N.I. el 01 de Junio de 1988,”
-Parinacota UFO Arica, October 10, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6709
Date: 6/6/1988
-Description: Letter received from ufologist Paul F. Bennewitz describing
-Project Beta: Alien base located in New Mexico consisting of type “Grey”
-Aliens. NASA CIR film has aided in locating this base and revealing US
-Military involvement with the “Greys”. Aliens helped US Military to
-build a working saucer, Atomic Powered. Two women and a boy exposed to
-radiation burns by this saucer. Government is not picking up the medical
-bills. “Grey” base is currently abandoned. Another group called “Orange”
-is based on the west slope of Mt. Archeleta near “the Diamond”. Goal of
-Project Beta: to locate, inventory and propose ways of destroying Alien
-bases.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Location: New Mexico
-See also: 12/29/80
Date: 7/1988
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici launches another
-newsletter, Rassegna Casistica, edited by Alessandro Cortellazi in
-Turin, Italy. It continues through December 1991. (Rassegna
-Casistica, no. 1 (July 1988))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6712
Date: 7/1988
-Description: Walter Corrêa do Prado of Boqueirâo, Paraiba, Brazil,
-undergoes about one hour of missing time after seeing a strong light
-illuminating three blocks in his neighborhood. After witnessing other
-UFOs over the next month or so (one with his wife that leaves traces of
-burned grass), he begins reading UFO literature. In April 2000, do Prado
-is hypnotically regressed by Mario Rangel, and an abduction narrative
-surfaces. (Clark III 308–309; Brazil 329– 333)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6711
Date: 7/1988
-Description: Cynthia
-Hind begins publishing UFO Afrinews in Harare, Zimbabwe. It
-continues until July 2000. (UFO Afrinews, no.
-1 (July 1988))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6710
Date: 7/17/1988
-Description: Night. Several witnesses see two objects with red and green
-flashing lights make two crisscross passes near the generating station
-in Homer City, Pennsylvania. Later one object drops from the sky and
-makes two passes about 200 feet from the ground. It is circular in shape
-and about the size of a large car. It has four leg-like structures with
-lights on them that protrude from the bottom. A hissing noise can be
-heard as the object passes close by. (“Number
-of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.)
-Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235
-(February 1989): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6713
Date: 8/1988
-Description: José Semitiel Martínez begins publishing the newsletter
-Búsqueda in Gerona, Spain. It folds in March 1995. (Búsqueda, no.
-1 (August 1988))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6715
Date: 8/1988
-Description: After eight years of stress, fear, and paranoia, Paul
-Bennewitz has turned over his business to his sons and barricaded
-himself in his house. His family, convinced his sanity and health are in
-danger, commits him to the Anna Kaseman Hospital in Albuquerque, where
-he stays for a month. After his release, his family keeps him away from
-ufology and ufologists. (Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 217–218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6714
Date: 8/3/1988
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Kaye Stricker is stopped at a traffic light at
-the corner of Gadsden Avenue and West Avenue K in Lancaster, California,
-when she sees a shiny object in the sky coming from the northwest. It
-hovers briefly over the Sierra Highway before “evaporating.” (“Van
-Driver Reports Sighting UFO in Sky over Lancaster,” Palmdale
-(Calif.) Antelope Valley Press, August 4, 1988, via UFO Newsclipping
-Service, no. 232 (November 1988): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6716
Date: 9/2/1988
-Description: Afternoon. A man sitting by a pond on his rural residence
-near Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, is startled to see an object come out of
-the sky from the north and hover 50 feet away from him about 30 feet
-above the ground. It is spherical and about 15–20 feet in diameter. The
-upper section is red and the underside orange-red. The center is divided
-by a glass-like, amber-colored window, and lights can be seen flashing
-inside. The object emits a mist toward the ground. It silently hovers
-for about 2 minutes before moving off to the north. Later, the man finds
-a depressed area in the tall grass about 12 feet in diameter where the
-grass is swirled counterclockwise. (“Number of
-UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.) Bulletin,
-January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 (February 1989):
-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6717
Date: 9/15/1988
-Description: An agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations
-contacts the Dallas, Texas, office of the FBI and supplies the Bureau
-with a copy of the MJ-12 documents. The set is obtained from a source
-whose identity AFOSI has decided must remain classified. (Kremlin
-181–182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6718
Date: 9/19/1988
-Description: The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to
-Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction
-research.
-Type: funding
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 9/25/1988
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A man is driving along State Highway 113 in
-Lorain County, Ohio, when his car stalls. He sees two other stalled cars
-on the side of the road, so he gets out and talks to the four people
-from the other cars for a few minutes. They realize there are lights
-nearby in the woods that come from a silvery triangular object with a
-rim and rounded base. The treetops above it seem to be moving, although
-it is a calm night. After 15–20 minutes the object rises at an angle and
-moves away slowly and silently, passing overhead. It seems wider than
-the road. From the center of the base there is a white light like a
-fluorescent lamp. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6719
Date: 10/1988
-Alternate date: 11/1988
-Description: Pilot Robert
-Hopkins is flying a USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball reconnaissance aircraft
-east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia when he is notified that the
-USSR has launched an RSD-10 Pioneer IRBM toward the Kura Missile Test
-Range at Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai. The 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear
-Forces Treaty allows the Soviets to test-fire IRBMs into the sea, rather
-than breaking them up. Moving into position to collect telemetry
-information from the launch, Hopkins observes a “translucent, milky
-white wall moving from the left, over the USSR, to the right, over the
-Northern Pacific Ocean. It covered the entire sky from ground level to
-as far up as we could see looking out the front windows of the
-airplane.” The wall of light passes at an estimated 6,200 mph,
-disappearing eastward and leaving darkness behind it. Some analysts at
-the USAF Foreign Technology Division think it is caused by something in
-the first-stage fuel of the RSD-10; others suggest it is produced
-deliberately to dazzle US observation satellites. Some speculate that
-Russia has a secret Dome of Light weapon that has been observed several
-times since and that might involve a plasma that can temporarily disrupt
-electronics and blind a satellite. (Tyler Rogoway, “U.S.
-Spyplane Pilot’s Account Indicates Soviet Russia Tested a
-‘Dome of Light’ Superweapon,” The Drive: The War Zone, February 6,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6727
Date: 10/8/1988
-Description: After speaking to John
-Lear by phone for the first time on October 4, conspiracy theorist
-Milton
-William Cooper receives
-in the mail a number of Lear’s writings, as well as the dubious “O.H.
-Krill” document, allegedly written by a USAF NCO named John Grace,
-claiming that the US government has a long-standing relationship with an
-alien civilization; a version of Abraham
-Zapruder’s John
-F. Kennedy assassination film enhanced to show Secret Service Agent
-William
-Greer shooting a pistol at Kennedy; Lear’s transcription of
-statements by a former Green Beret captain named William English
-regarding a nonexistent Project Grudge Report number 13 that refers to
-alien bodies; and a paper on Project Excalibur regarding underground
-facilities that was supposedly written by Bob
-Lazar while working at Los Alamos. (O. H. Krill [John Grace], “A
-Situation Report on Our Acquisition of Advanced
-Technology and Interaction with Alien Cultures,” IllumiNet BBS, June
-1988; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 (May
-1999): 28–31; Dolan II 443–447)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6720
Date: 10/13/1988
-Description: Former Sen. Barry
-Goldwater appears on Larry
-King’s syndicated radio show and responds to a caller who asks him
-whether the story about a secret Blue Room at Wright-Patterson AFB is
-true. He says his friend Gen. Curtis
-LeMay got quite angry at him when he tried to gain access to the
-room, which is said to hold evidence related to UFOs. (Nukes
-488–489)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6721
Date: 10/14/1988
-Description: “UFO Cover-Up?: Live!” Broadcast from Washington DC on 130
-syndicated stations throughout the US. Soviet ufologists appeared live
-by satellite. AFOSI officer Rick Doty played the part of ‘Falcon’ in the
-Kodak-produced documentary, but it is generally accepted he wasn’t the
-‘real’ Falcon of the Aviary.
-Type: TV broadcast
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/14/1988
-Description: Bill
-Moore and his associates cooperate with “Falcon” and others in the
-“Aviary” to present a nationally televised two-hour special titled UFO
-Cover-Up? Live! Host Mike
-Ferrell interviews Betty
-Cash and Vickie Landrum, and
-finally “Falcon” (or someone pretending to be him) and “Condor”
-(identified by some as DIA employee Col. Robert
-Collins), who appear in silhouette with voices altered. They
-embarrassingly proclaim that the ETs have a preference for Tibetan music
-and strawberry ice cream. Robert
-Emenegger also appears, claiming he is convinced of the reality of
-the alleged UFO contact at Holloman AFB. Paul Shartle describes the
-Holloman film footage, saying it shows aliens emerging from a
-disc-shaped craft. (presidentialufo.com, “Disclosure Pattern 1972–75”;
-Internet Movie Database, “UFO
-Cover-Up? Live!”; Don Ecker, “Driven to Destruction,” Fortean Times
-121 (April 1999): 40–43; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 200–202, 211–212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6722
Date: 10/25/1988
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A Miami, Florida, couple is on their balcony
-terrace when they see 3 yellow lights moving erratically from west to
-east. They pass behind the only cloud in the sky then disappear.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no.
-4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6723
Date: 10/25/1988
-Description: The Dallas, Texas, office of the FBI transmits a 2-page
-secret Airtel to headquarters that says the MJ-12 documents have been
-getting local publicity and asks if the documents are still classified.
-(Kremlin 182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6724
Date: 10/26/1988
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Many residents of the San Joaquin Valley around
-Fresno and Kingsburg, California, see a low- flying object with three
-red lights in a V-formation. It seems to be circling and is visible for
-45 minutes. (“Unidentified
-Object Steals
-across Valley Sky,” Fresno (Calif.) Bee, October 28, 1988, pp. 1,
-16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6726
Date: 10/26/1988
-Description: Jim Speiser ejects both Milton
-William Cooper and John
-Lear from ParaNet for bad behavior and peddling probable
-disinformation. (Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times
-122 (May 1999): 28–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6725
Date: 11/1988
-Description: GEPAN is renamed Service d’Étude des Phénomènes de Rentrées
-Atmosphériques (SEPRA), but the Scientific Council is still closed, and
-no more technical reports are produced. Velasco is
-still tasked with studying UFO reports, but not in making analyses.
-(Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,”
-IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 13; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and
-Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 13;
-Clark III 547; Swords 448)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6728
Date: 11/10/1988
-Description: Assistant Secretary of Defense J.
-Daniel Howard holds a Pentagon press conference and reveals the
-existence of the F-117A stealth fighter. After the announcement, pilots
-can fly the F-117 during daytime and no longer need to be associated
-with the LTV A-7 Corsair II for training, flying the T-38 supersonic
-trainer for travel and training instead. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-F-117 Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6729
Date: 11/11/1988
-End date: 11/12/1988
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A truck driver returning from Utah to Baker,
-California, goes through a series of bizarre and inexplicable
-experiences, some of them ufological, that leave him convinced that his
-truck is possessed and “they” have been in control of him all along. The
-experiences end shortly after midnight before he returns to Baker and
-leave him terrified. During the drive he has been drinking copious
-amounts of coffee, which may have contributed to his hallucinatory
-excitement. (Ann Druffel, “The Caffeine Zone,” IUR 13, no. 3 (May/June
-1988): 18–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6730
Date: 11/12/1988
-Description: Aviation designer Brad
-Sorensen attends an air show at Norton AFB in San Bernardino,
-California, and is taken to a huge hangar by a former high-ranking
-Defense Department official to view the Lockheed Pulsar, nicknamed the
-Aurora, that allegedly can be anywhere in the world 30 minutes after
-launch. Behind a big black curtain are three flying saucers hovering
-above the floor. The small saucer is about 24 feet in diameter. The next
-biggest one is 60 feet in diameter at the base, and another one is 130
-feet. They are referred to as Alien Reproduction Vehicles. A videotape
-shows the smallest of the three vehicles making three little, quick,
-hopping motions; then it accelerates straight up and out of sight,
-completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds. There is
-a cut-away illustration that shows oxygen tanks and a robotic arm that
-can extend out from the side of the vehicle for collecting samples in
-space. (Mark McCandlish, “Alien
-Reproduction Vehicles,” Filer’s Files, #19-2011, May 4, 2011; Dolan
-II 457–461)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6731
Date: 11/15/1988
-Description: First and only test of the Soviet Buran orbital spaceplane.
-It was the first spaceplane to perform an uncrewed flight, including
-landing in fully automatic mode.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union
Date: 11/22/1988
-Description: The Northrup Grumman B-2 stealth bomber is first publicly
-displayed at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California,
-where it is assembled. This viewing is heavily restricted, and guests
-are not allowed to see the rear of the B-2. However, Aviation Week
-editors find that there are no airspace restrictions above the
-presentation area and take aerial photographs of the aircraft’s
-then-secret rear section with its suppressed engine exhausts.
-(Wikipedia, “Northrop
-Grumman B-2 Spirit”; Steve Pace, B-2 Spirit: The Most Capable War
-Machine on the Planet, McGraw-Hill, 1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6732
Date: 11/28/1988
-Description: Physicist Edward
-Teller allegedly calls the out-of-work physicist and electronics
-technician Robert
-Lazar and gives him the name of a contact in Las Vegas, Nevada.
-Lazar makes contact, and later receives a call from EG&G, a
-high-tech company with contracts at Groom Lake, Nevada. (Dolan II
-475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6733
Date: 11/29/1988
-Description: Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar
-Type: telephone call
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 11/30/1988
-Description: An arranged meeting takes place in Washington, D.C.,
-between AFOSI and FBI agents, who request information about the MJ-12
-documents. The Air Force tells the FBI the documents are completely
-bogus and the FBI should cease its inquiry. (Kremlin 182–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6734
Date: 12/1988
-Description: Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at
-Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Area 51
Date: 12/1/1988
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A captain of the Brazilian Air Force flying a
-Mirage fighter jet is returning from a mission and is over Jaboãtoa dos
-Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil, when his radar indicates traffic about
-one mile from his position. He requests permission to intercept and goes
-after the brilliant disk-like object that has a dull glow like copper.
-The CINDACTA III radar still finds nothing. The UFO begins to approach
-the jet and suddenly his instruments begin to fail. A red light in the
-center begins to grow stronger and the pilot arms his missiles; but the
-missiles do not respond to his command and the UFO flies off in mere
-seconds. But the chase continues another 10 minutes, during which time
-the UFO plays with its pursuer. After landing, the pilot is told that
-another aircraft has seen a strange object about 15 minutes earlier in
-the state of São Paulo more than 1,242 miles away. (Clark III 207;
-Brazil 556–557)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6736
Date: 12/1/1988
-Description: Robert
-Lazar allegedly interviews at EG&G, but is informed that he is
-overqualified for the position in question (Dolan II 475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6735
Date: 12/4/1988
-Description: 5:25 a.m. A police officer en route to his station in
-Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, notices a brilliant glow in the sky ahead
-of him. It is so bright he can hardly see as he drives down a four-lane
-road, and he swerves and blocks two lanes. About 150 feet in the air is
-a 75-foot-long, highly polished silver object shaped like an ellipse. It
-is emitting a humming sound and casting light into and all around his
-car. It moves left and right, then shoots straight up into the sky,
-stopping again briefly before departing. The officer’s eyes hurt badly
-from the brightness and he feels ill. There is a sunburn-like rash on
-his face, and he has severe eye irritation, headache, and neck pain
-after the incident. He notes that the paint on his car has been dulled
-and an unusual powder-like substance is found on the exterior. (“Number
-of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.)
-Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235
-(February 1989): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6737
Date: 12/4/1988
-Description: Silvery oval object hovered, brilliant illumination,
-physiological effects. UFO maneuvered erratically, emitted silvery white
-trail when flew away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Harrisburg, PA
-ID: 438
Date: 12/5/1988
-Description: Robert
-Lazar interviews at EG&G again for what seems like a part-time
-position. (Dolan II 475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6738
Date: 12/6/1988
-Description: Lazar reports
-to work at the EG&G building at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas,
-Nevada. There he meets with a security officer named Dennis Mariani, who
-escorts him on a flight to Area 51 at Groom Lake, where Lazar signs a
-secrecy agreement that requires intensive monitoring of his activities.
-He and Mariani board a bus with blacked-out windows and ride for 30
-minutes down a dirt and gravel road. They arrive at a base near Papoose
-Dry Lake known as S-4. Lazar’s ID is prepared, he is given a physical
-and treated for allergic reactions to unknown substances, then he begins
-work at S-4. Lazar claims he only visits S-4 on six or seven occasions
-between December 1988 and April 1989 to learn about Project Galileo,
-which deals with gravity and propulsion, and training on an “antimatter
-reactor.” He also reads about a second project, Looking Glass, concerned
-with seeing back in time. (Dolan II 475; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6739
Date: 12/18/1988
-Description: Milton
-William Cooper surfaces on CompuServe online network, claiming that
-while working as a quartermaster with an intelligence team for Adm. Bernard
-A. Clarey, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he had seen two
-documents, Project Grudge Special Report 13 and an MJ-12 briefing. He
-elaborates on Moore’s
-and Lear’s
-tales of crashes and alien bodies, adding that the aliens are called
-Alien Life Forms (ALFs) and that he has seen photos of aliens that
-supposedly landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in 1964 or 1977. (Dolan
-II 452– 453; Clark III 367)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6740
Date: 12/28/1988
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Many people in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, see a
-huge, bright-yellow triangular object in the sky. Mañuel Marcado watches
-as two F-14 Tomcats (probably from an aircraft carrier) approach the
-object from either side then cross in front of it. The light stops in
-mid-air and absorbs both planes, according to Marcado. The object moves
-over Lago Samán, then divides itself into two triangles, one of which
-shoots off to the east and the other to the north. Allegedly, the
-triangular objects were tracked on US Navy radars. (Good Need, p. 379)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6741
Date: 1989
-Description: The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD
-for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program”
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
Date: 1989
-Description: Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2
-statement
-Type: tax statement
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 1/1989
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield issues his fifth Status Report. (Leonard H. Stringfield,
-UFO Crash/Retrievals: Is the Coverup Lid Lifting? The Author,
-1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6742
Date: 1/1989
-Description: The Long Island UFO Network begins publishing the Long
-Island UFO Reporter, which soon changes its name to the Long Island UFO
-Update, edited at first by George McLain in Center Moriches, New York.
-It continues through December 1992. (Long
-Island UFO Reporter 1 no. 1 (January 1989))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6743
Date: 1/20/1989
-End date: 1/20/1993
-Description: President George H. W. Bush in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 1/28/1989
-Description: Evening. A triangular UFO is seen over Tiptree, Essex,
-England. Its color changes from bright to dull white before it shoots to
-the southwest. Other triangular UFOs are observed in southeast Essex in
-January. (Marler 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6744
Date: 2/1989
-Description: Local concentration of sightings.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Fyffe, AL
-ID: 439
Date: 2/1989
-Description: Numerous witnesses in Gloucestershire, England, report a
-noiseless triangular UFO “ablaze with lights.” One report describes a
-series of light beams emanating toward the ground that give it a “tripod
-effect.” (Wilts & Gloucester Standard of Cirencester, February 24,
-1989; Marler 124–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6745
Date: 2/8/1989
-Description: 3:40 a.m. A man in Gulf Breeze, Florida, wakes to the sound
-of dogs barking outside. He sees a small object descending low over a
-nearby lot. It appears to be two connected discs, one on top of the
-other, not more than 3 feet in diameter. A white light is on top, and
-many other lights are blinking in shades of red, orange, and green. He
-approaches it, but it disappears in a flash of light. The duration is
-about 12 minutes. (NICAP, “Gulf Breeze,
-Florida: February 8, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6746
Date: 2/10/1989
-Description: 8:42 p.m. A woman in Grove Oak, Alabama, tells the Fyffe,
-Alabama, police department that she has been watching a curved object
-for more than an hour with a pair of binoculars. It has a red light on
-each end and a white light in between, with the top of the curve
-outlined in green light. Police Chief Junior
-Garmany and Assistant Chief Fred Works drive to the site and see the
-object at 1,000–1,500 feet, completely silent. It begins moving away as
-they approach. The officers drive after the object, following it for 12
-miles when it suddenly reverses direction and flies over their patrol
-car at 300–400 mph. It is soon seen by law enforcement officers to the
-south in Crossville, Geraldine, and Collinsville, Alabama. The DeKalb
-County Sheriff’s Office receives more than 50 calls from citizens in
-surrounding communities, including Dawson and Dog Town, Alabama, and
-Lick Skillet, Tennessee, regarding a “silent thing streaking through the
-dark.” (“Friday
-Night UFO Remains a Mystery,”
-Fort Payne (Ala.) Times Journal, February 14, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping
-Service, no. 236 (March 1989): 10; Meghan Mitchell, “Alabama’s
-UFO Capital Still Has a Story to Tell,” The Crimson White
-(University of Alabama), October 28, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6747
Date: 2/13/1989
-Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. A large, low-flying, cylindrical UFO is
-reported by many witnesses in the North Caucasus region of Russia. It
-has spotlights in front and back, porthole-like openings along the
-sides, fins on its tail, and travels at about 65 mph. As it flies over
-Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, it drifts down to an altitude of 150 feet
-then flies off. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A
-Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6748
Date: 2/15/1989
-Description: Fyffe, Alabama, police officer Dennison Scott and two other
-officers investigate a citizen’s report of a strange object in the sky,
-flashing multicolored lights for more than an hour before it moves away
-toward the northwest. (Dolan II 472–473)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6749
Date: 3/1989 (approximate)
-Description: Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 3/1989
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies launches a new series of its
-Journal of UFO Studies, edited by Michael
-D. Swords, who examines the literature relating to extraterrestrial
-intelligence in order to provide a basis for judging the ETH as an
-acceptable concept for use in analyzing UFO phenomena. (Michael D.
-Swords, “Science and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis in Ufology,” JUFOS
-1 (1989): 67–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6750
Date: 3/1989
-Description: Robert
-Lazar allegedly sees a disc on his third visit to S-4 at Groom Lake,
-Nevada. It is a classic-looking flying saucer, resting on three legs in
-a hangar. It is about 35–40 feet in diameter, 15 feet tall, and the
-color of pewter. During his stay at S-4, he sees a total of 9 flying
-saucers, each distinctive in design and size. His assignment, however,
-involves just one craft he nicknames the “sport model,” which he is
-allowed to examine on his fourth visit to S-4. The disc has three
-levels, and he is cleared for the lower two. Lazar crawls underneath the
-craft and sees three “gravity amplifiers” that focus a “Gravity A” wave
-from the “total annihilation” reactor in the center level of the craft.
-In this level, he sees a control panel and very small chairs—too small
-for human pilots. He discovers that part of the skin of the craft can
-become transparent, allowing one to look through it like a window.
-According to Lazar, the fuel for the craft is Element 115 [later
-synthesized in 2003 and named moscovium in 2016, but this is much
-different than what Lazar describes], housed in the reactor where it
-undergoes bombardment and spontaneous fission, producing antimatter
-particles that are converted to electricity with 100% efficiency. This
-power operates the amplifier, distorts the surrounding gravitational
-field, causes the craft to be invisible, and shortens the distance to a
-charted destination. Speed-of-light limitations are irrelevant. But
-Element 115 cannot be manufactured on Earth. The aliens have left only
-500 pounds of it, but just 223 grams (half a pound) can fuel a craft for
-a long time. On another occasion, Lazar witnesses a demonstration of the
-craft, which lifts off the ground, moves left and right, and sits back
-down. He has access to and reads more than 100 documents dealing with
-the craft, its propulsion, and alien technology, as well as photos of
-gray alien bodies. The aliens are allegedly from the Zeta Reticuli 1 and
-2 star system. The Reticulans claim to have genetically corrected human
-evolution up to 65 times over the past 10,000 years using viruses. They
-have given humans religion to prevent them from self-destructing and
-claim to be able to exert mind control on people when they are relaxed
-or sleeping. Lazar allegedly catches a glimpse of a small, gray alien
-standing between two men in white coats in a small room inside the
-secret S-4 facility. The documents also mention an exchange of
-information and hardware between the US government and the Reticulans
-until 1979, when some kind of conflict occurred. This is when the aliens
-leave and the military begins reverse-engineering what alien tech they
-have acquired. Then in May 1987, some scientists take an antimatter
-reactor to an underground Nevada test facility, where they are killed
-when attempting to cut the reactor open. Lazar claims he was hired as a
-substitute for one of these men. (“Billy Goodman Happening, Nov. 21,
-1989,” transcript of call-in radio show, KVEG-AM, Las Vegas, Nevada;
-MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990; Grant R. Cameron, T. Scott Crain, and
-Chris Rutkowski, “In the Land of Dreams,” IUR 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1990): 4–8; “S-4
-Papoose Lake,” Bob Lazar Debunked; “New
-High-Def Photos of S-4,” Bob Lazar Debunked; “Element
-115,” Bob Lazar Debunked; Dolan II 475–478; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6751
Date: 3/1/1989
-Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico, ufologist Robert
-Hastings issues a 13-page statement with 37 pages of appended
-documents and mails it to many prominent individuals in ufology. He
-claims “Falcon” is Richard
-Doty and “Condor” is Robert
-Collins, and
-that Doty and Moore are
-spreading disinformation. (Clark III 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6752
Date: 3/9/1989
-Description: Night. Susan Stockman, a reporter for the Rainsville (Ala.)
-Weekly Post, is with general manager Teri Baker when she snaps three
-time-lapse photographs of a distant UFO just above the treetop level,
-showing a movement unlike that of an airplane that appears shortly
-afterward. (Susan Stockman, “Section
-Native Says UFOs Are Real,” Rainsville (Ala.) Weekly Post, March 9,
-1989; Susan Stockman, “A
-First-Hand Glimpse of the UFO,” Rainsville (Ala.) Weekly Post, March
-16, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 237 (April 1989): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6753
Date: 3/12/1989
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Gary
-Coker of Skirum, Alabama, sees a large UFO with red and green
-flashing lights on the side and two white lights about 6 feet in
-diameter on the bottom hovering about 5 miles away. Another man in
-Geraldine, Alabama, sees an object the size of a football field hovering
-above his chicken house at about the same time. In both cases, the
-object disappears after the witnesses go inside to get a camera or
-binoculars. (“Some
-Say UFO
-Is As Big As a Football Field,” Rainsville (Ala.) Weekly Post, March
-16, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 237 (April 1989): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6754
Date: Spring 1989
-Description: Bob Lazar takes groups of friends on Wednesday nights into
-the desert around Papoose Dry Lake, 15 miles south of Groom Lake. They
-appeared to be large glowing, disc-shaped objects. At least one sighting
-was recorded on video.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: late 3/1989
-Description: 9:20 p.m. After a training exercise at Mihai Kogălniceanu
-Air Force Base [now Mihai Kogălniceanu International Airport] in
-southeast Romania, 18–20 aircraft pilots of Regiment 57 are inside a
-building at the base planning future exercises; outside, Col. Aurelian
-Dobre notices multiple lights appear above some nearby trees. He alerts
-the oher pilots to come out, and they see a triangular formation of
-objects at an equal distance from each other, all bathed in a silver
-light, moving south to north at a height of 4 miles. Dobre hears a noise
-like the rustle of a flight of birds; unlike his colleagues, he thinks
-the lights are on a single object the size of a football stadium. Col.
-Dan Aloanei is flying a MiG-29 and sees them as a V-formation of neon
-lights that disappear to the northeast. The next day, all the witnesses
-are required to submit written reports. (Romania 105–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6755
Date: 3/22/1989
-Description: 8:30 p.m. After telling writer Gene
-Huff and pilot John
-Lear about his UFO secrets, Lazar and
-his wife Tracy drive Lear’s RV to Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, off Highway 375
-to view a test flight of a flying saucer at S-4. Lear sees an
-elliptical-shaped light through Lear’s Celestron telescope for 7
-minutes. Lear videotapes the encounter, and the tape shows a bright
-light apparently maneuvering. When the camera zooms in close to the
-object, it seems to be spinning. They watch it descend behind a
-mountain. (Tom Mahood, “The
-Robert Lazar Timeline,” Other Hand, January 1997; Susan Wright, UFO
-Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity,
-St. Martin’s, 1999 ed., pp. 186–209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6756
Date: 3/25/1989
-Description: The Soviet Mars probe Phobos
-2 takes an infrared photograph of what appears to be a large and
-long cylindrical object very close to Mars moonlet Phobos. If this
-Phobos Mystery Object is at the same distance as the moonlet itself, it
-would be roughly 1.2 miles wide and 15 miles long. Its surface
-brightness is the same as Phobos. Its sides are parallel and both of the
-ends are rounded. The end toward Phobos narrows slightly; the other end
-has a short protrusion. This is the last image taken by the probe. On
-March 27 it fails to reestablish communications with Earth due to an
-onboard computer malfunction and goes into a spin. (Paul Stonehill and
-Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the
-Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 70–73; Patrick Gross, “Soviet
-Probe Meets UFO on Phobos Mission”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6757
Date: 3/29/1989
-Description: Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to
-viewing area for 2nd time
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 3/29/1989
-Description: Bob and
-Tracy Lazar, Gene Huff, John
-Lear, and Jim Tagliani drive to Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, to observe
-another flight test. They videotape a moving light.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6758
Date: 4/2/1989
-Description: Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom
-Lake
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 4/5/1989
-Description: Robert
-Lazar, Tracy
-Lazar, her sister, Gene Huff, and John
-Lear make a third trip to view a flight test along Groom Lake Road,
-Nevada. They are discovered by guards and questioned by the Lincoln
-County sheriff.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6759
Date: 4/6/1989
-Description: Lazar is
-prevented from going to work at Groom Lake and is taken to Indian
-Springs Air Force Base [now Creech AFB] for questioning. He is told he
-is no longer employed by EG&G, and if he comes near Groom Lake again
-he will be arrested for espionage. He is allegedly given a transcript of
-Tracy’s telephone conversations which indicate she is having an affair.
-(Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6760
Date: 4/7/1989
-Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at
-work
-Type: employment
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake
Date: 4/13/1989
-Description: The Kerry Committee report, the result of an investigation
-led by Sens. John
-Kerry (D-Mass.) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
-by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism,
-Narcotics, and International Operations, shows that Lt. Col. Oliver
-North and other members of the Reagan administration
-had set up a private network involving the National Security Council and
-CIA to deliver military equipment to the Contras, US-backed right-wing
-rebel groups in Nicaragua. This has not been authorized by Congress, and
-much of the funding comes from drug trafficking. DEA agent Celerino
-Castillo testifies that from 1985 to 1987, he discovered that the
-Contras were transporting cocaine through El Salvador’s Ilopango
-Airport. Castillo tried to bust the operation, but discovers that the
-traffickers were protected by the CIA. The subcommittee determines that
-there is “substantial evidence of drug smuggling… on the part of
-individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who
-worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters.” It does “not find that
-Contra leaders were personally involved in drug trafficking.”
-(Wikipedia, “Kerry
-Committee report”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6761
Date: 4/15/1989
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A father and his 16-year-old son watch from their
-front lawn in Novato, California, a slowly descending object shaped like
-“two spheres connected by together like a stem.” They are golden with a
-white halo around them. Through binoculars, they can see four smaller
-objects, golden discs, maneuvering near the original dumbbell-shaped
-UFO. The father notes a “strange absence of kids and dogs at the time.”
-(Richard F. Haines, “Daylight Dumbbell,” IUR 14, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1989): 12–13, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6762
Date: 4/21/1989
-Description: Witness aimed rifle at hovering disc, brilliant white light
-on underside, humming sound. Light beam engulfed him, rifle misfired,
-object sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Crestview, FL
-ID: 440
Date: 4/21/1989
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 441
Date: 4/24/1989
-Description: 10:55 p.m. An object described as three times the size of
-an aircraft hovers above Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia, at a
-height of 1,000 feet. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet
-Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6763
Date: 5/1989
-End date: 11/1989
-Description: Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things
-Bob Lazar.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/2/1989
-Description: Pilot Manoel Luiz Christóvão, flying a small plane about 6
-miles west of Arapongas, Paraná, Brazil, sees a huge circular light in
-the sky as he is preparing to land. Another plane flying nearby cannot
-see the light. Christovào continues to land, but the light positions
-itself in front of the plane, forcing him to make a sudden maneuver. The
-object moves in front of him again, forcing him to maneuver again. The
-pilot decides to head directly toward the light, after which the UFO
-accelerates abruptly and disappears. The maneuvers last approximately 10
-minutes. (“Piloto
-se arrisca em prova de fogo no Paraná,” Portal UFO, December 1,
-1995; Clark III 201; Brazil 542–543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6764
Date: 5/7/1989
-Description: Hoaxed South African Air Force documents purport to
-describe a UFO crash in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana 50 miles north
-of the South African border. Two Mirage fighter aircraft allegedly
-pursue a fast-moving UFO and shoot it down with an experimental “thor 2
-laser cannon.” However, UFO researcher Cynthia
-Hind notices ludicrous errors in the documents, not least among them
-that they are in English, not Afrikaans. (Wikipedia, “UFO
-sightings in South Africa”; Clark III 1096–1098)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6765
Date: 5/14/1989
-Description: Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s
-secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp.
-Type: interview
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/15/1989
-Description: Robert
-Lazar is first interviewed by George
-Knapp on KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, in silhouette, using the
-pseudonym “Dennis.” Lazar discusses his purported employment at S-4, a
-subsidiary facility he claims exists near in Area 51. He says the S-4
-facility is adjacent to Papoose Lake, which is located south of the main
-Area 51 facility at Groom Lake. He claims the site consists of concealed
-aircraft hangars built into a mountainside. Lazar says that his job was
-to help with reverse engineering the antigravity propulsion system of
-one of nine flying saucers, which he alleges are extraterrestrial in
-origin. Lazar claims one of the flying saucers, the one he terms the
-“sport model,” is manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in
-appearance and touch to stainless steel. (Tom Mahood, “The
-Robert Lazar Timeline,” Other Hand, January 1997; Grant R. Cameron,
-T. Scott Crain, and Chris Rutkowski, “In the Land of Dreams,” IUR 15,
-no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1990): 4–8; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,”
-Fortean Times 122 (May 1999): 28–31; George Knapp and Matt Adams, “I-Team:
-The Man Who
-Sent Shock Waves through UFO Circles 30 Years Ago,” KLAS-TV, May 15,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6766
Date: 5/17/1989
-Description: Kalahari Desert, close to the borders between the Republics
-of South Africa and Botswana: UFO shot down by 2 scrambled Mirage jets.
-2 live EBE’s and craft debris transported to Wright Patterson AFB. A
-South African Air Force Intelligence officer leaks photos of the
-EBE’s.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African
-Sky”
-Location: Kalahari Desert
Date: 5/23/1989
-Description: Milton
-William Cooper produces a 25-page document titled The Secret
-Government, in which he claims that an unscrupulous group of covert CIA
-and other intelligence operatives actually runs the country. He says
-they were responsible for murdering one-time Secretary of Defense James
-Forrestal in 1949 because he threatened to expose the UFO cover-up.
-He claims there have been at least 16 downed alien craft, 65 bodies, and
-one live alien retrieved between 1947 and 1952, with at least 10 more
-crash/retrievals during the Eisenhower years. Cooper says aliens from a
-dying planet orbiting Betelgeuse landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in
-1954 and reached an agreement with the government. A second meeting took
-place with President Eisenhower at
-Edwards AFB, California, and signed a formal treaty with an alien
-ambassador, His Omnipotent Highness Krill. But, he claims, the aliens
-broke the treaty, abducting humans, conspiring with the Soviets, and
-manipulating society through secret organizations. Cooper also claims
-that Eisenhower had created a scientific advisory group in 1960 called
-the Jason Group to “discover the truth of the alien question.” Much more
-spurious and outlandish tales develop. (Milton William Cooper, The
-Secret Government: The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12, The
-Author, May 23, 1989; Clark III 367–368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6767
Date: 5/24/1989
-Description: Bob Lazar interviews on KLAS-TV in silhouette using assumed
-identity “Dennis”. Sometime after this, Popular host Billy Goodman
-organizes bus trips to the outskirts of Groom Lake for UFO viewing
-parties.
-Type: interview
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/30/1989
-Description: 3:46 a.m. TAM Airlines Flight 573 in the vicinity of
-Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, is contacted twice by the local control
-tower to ask if they can see an aircraft in their vicinity. Both times
-the pilot answers no, but at 3:52 a.m. the pilot says he can now see a
-strong light near the airplane. It maneuvers near the aircraft and one
-of the pilots estimates its size as about 164 feet. About 8 minutes
-later, they lose visual contact. (Clark III 201; Brazil 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6768
Date: 5/30/1989
-Description: 9:15 p.m. A man and his son in Winnipeg, Manitoba, observe
-a “silvery, metallic hot dog,” oriented vertically and moving steadily
-west. After several minutes, the object is lost in the distance. (Chris
-Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1989): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6769
Date: 6/1989
-Description: Jacques
-Vallée presents “five arguments against the extraterrestrial origin”
-of UFOs at the eighth annual conference of the Society for Scientific
-Exploration in Boulder, Colorado. (1) There are too many close
-encounters to explain them as a physical survey of the earth. (2) The
-humanoid body structure is unlikely to have originated elsewhere and is
-not biologically adapted to space travel. (3) The behavior of alien
-abductors contradicts the idea that advanced aliens are conducting
-genetic or scientific experiments. (4) UFOs have been recorded
-throughout human history. (5) The apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate
-space and time suggests different and richer alternatives to the ETH.
-Vallée cites the earthlight theory, the control system hypothesis, and
-travel via wormholes as viable explanations. (Jacques Vallée, “Five
-Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of
-Unidentified Flying Objects,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4,
-no. 1 (1990): 105–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6770
Date: 6/1989
-Description: Robert
-Hastings lines up an impressive case against Bill
-Moore, saying that the Project Aquarius message was altered by
-Moore, that Richard
-Doty had forged the Ellsworth AFB document, that Doty’s typewriter
-at Kirtland AFB was implicated in the July 1980 Craig R. Weitzel letter,
-that Doty had given data to Linda
-Moulton Howe that contradicted data in the Eisenhower briefing memo,
-and that Moore admitted to faking a government ID card and passed
-himself off as an intelligence operative for two years. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, June 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6771
Date: 6/2/1989
-Description: Paul Paulsen Frøyen sees two “U-boats” in Sognefjord
-between Lavik and Vadheim, Vestland, Norway. He watches them for
-two-and-a-half minutes, noting their periscopes and towers. When they
-submerge, he can see the spray. The Norwegian Air Force sends two jets
-to look for them, and the Coast Guard is also alerted. (Ole Jonny
-Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR
-20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6772
Date: 6/4/1989
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A security guard and an air traffic controller at
-Air Force Facility 42 in Palmdale, California, witness a silver flying
-object and three orb-shaped UFOs during testing of the B1-B bomber.
-There is also a rumor of an abduction occurring on this date at the same
-facility. (MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6773
Date: 6/6/1989
-Description: School children near the village of Konantsevo, Vologda
-Oblast, Russia, see a luminous dot in the sky. It gets larger, turns
-into a shining sphere, lands in a meadow, and moves to the Reka Kubena
-river about a quarter mile away. It seems to split, and a “headless
-person in dark garb” appears. The entity and sphere become invisible.
-Three more spheres are said to land later in the same meadow. (Jacques
-Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat,
-Ballantine, 1992, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6774
Date: summer 1989
-Description: Night. Edward Chard sees some odd lights hovering in Essex,
-England. He looks at them through binoculars and sees a large triangular
-object. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon &
-Schuster, 1997, p. 183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6777
Date: 6/24/1989
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A. N. Olkhovay goes out on her balcony in
-Kyiv, Ukraine, and sees a dim, twinkling, rectangular object shaped
-“like a loaf of bread” hovering above the Obolon neighborhood. She calls
-her neighbors, and one of them named Ivanitsky hastily takes two photos.
-The film is developed in the offices of the Pravda Ukrainy newspaper but
-it shows nothing. (V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no.
-1 (Jan./Feb. 1990): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6775
Date: 6/30/1989
-Description: 9:30 p.m. G. I. Lerman and his wife Ann watch a fiery
-object with a tail over Lake Radunka in Kyiv, Ukraine, flying at an
-altitude of 1,640–3,280 feet, first slowly, then speeding up. After a
-minute or two the flames die out and they see a silver-white object.
-During the sighting they feel their own movements slowing down. (V. D.
-Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1990):
-21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6776
Date: 7/1989
-End date: 10/1989
-Description: Several abduction cases. (Vallee, 1992).
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Soviet Union
-ID: 442
Date: 7/1/1989
-Description: Bill
-Moore makes a stunning presentation at the MUFON UFO Symposium in
-Las Vegas, speaking candidly for the first time about his part in
-counterintelligence operations against Paul
-Bennewitz. Moore
-says he provided Doty with
-information about Bennewitz’s thinking and activities. Moore suggests
-that Doty was chosen by the real Falcon as a liaison person. He says
-that by mid-1982 Bennewitz had put together the story that contained all
-the elements later circulated by Lear and
-Cooper. Moore
-decided to go along with the disinformation game in order to keep in
-good graces with people who knew something about UFOs and national
-security. He withheld and blacked out certain portions of UFO-related
-government documents. He says he stopped cooperating in 1984 because he
-realized the documents he was receiving from AFOSI were faked, much of
-the scenario similar to the alien-contact mythos later spun by Lear and
-Cooper. All of it originated in the disinformation directed at Paul
-Bennewitz. He gives the names of others who “were the subject of
-intelligence community interest between 1980 and 1984”: Leonard
-H. Stringfield, Pete Mazzola,
-Peter Gersten,
-Lawrence Fawcett, Jim
-and Coral Lorenzen, and Larry
-W. Bryant. Moore
-leaves the stage through a back door, his reputation in ruins. (Don
-Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 (May 1999): 28–31;
-Clark III 370–372; Curt Collins, “Bill
-Moore and UFO Disinformation
-Accusations,” Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6778
Date: 7/4/1989
-Description: Night. Members of the Iskuskovs family are on vacation in
-the Podgortsy section of southern Kyiv, Ukraine. They watch
-silver-suited beings emerge from a landed UFO. (V. D. Musinsky, “Letter:
-Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1990): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6780
Date: 7/4/1989
-Description: Twilight. Two women are walking with a 6-year-old girl
-along the Dnieper River in a park near Kyiv, Ukraine, when they see a
-“boat” with three beings on board. The entities have absolutely
-identical faces—extremely pale, long blond hair, large eyes, and
-collarless silver shirts that look like nightgowns. They tell the women
-they are from another planet and want to show them their spaceship. The
-women walk with them but experience odd physical sensations and beg to
-be let go. They see a ship behind some trees, and the little girl gets
-frightened. The beings relent and board the craft by a ladder that then
-retracts. The door closes silently, and the craft departs. (V. D.
-Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1990):
-20–21; Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic
-Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 37–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6779
Date: 7/6/1989
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Yasuhiko Hamazaki takes an 8mm videotape
-recording of a brightly luminous object that passes nearly overhead in
-Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. At one point he uses a zoom lens to
-get a clearer image. The object has a central ring like the planet
-Saturn, except that it is squarish and dome-shaped. About one minute of
-the video captures the object descending rapidly at a shallow angle,
-then suddenly changing direction and rising at a steep angle at very
-high speed. Bruce
-Maccabee’s photo analysis shows that the object is not an airplane,
-balloon, kite, or model airplane. (UFOEv II 297–298; Bruce Maccabee, “A
-Rare Photo Coincidence,” IUR 15, no. 3 (May/June 1990): 4–9, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6781
Date: 7/6/1989
-Description: Videorecorder film taken of a white, Saturn-shaped object
-with squarish ring that changed direction, rose at a steep angle at high
-speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hakui City, Kanazawa Prefecture, Japan
-ID: 443
Date: 7/22/1989
-Description: Private pilot saw shiny oval object making quick starts and
-stops
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Blue Hill Bay, ME
-ID: 444
Date: 7/26/1989
-Description: 2:40 p.m. R. H. Stepanian, air traffic controller at Sochi
-International Airport, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, receives information from
-a Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crew flying from Simferopol, Crimea, that they
-have seen UFOs from a distance of 20–30 miles. According to the pilots,
-first one, then two “strange objects” pace them on their left. One is
-almost exactly square, while the other is the shape of an elongated
-rhombus. At the time of the radio transmission, the two objects are
-swiftly moving away and beginning to separate. Apparently two other
-flights report multiple UFOs to the airport. (Paul Stonehill and Philip
-Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron
-Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 74–76; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s
-USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 134–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6782
Date: 7/28/1989
-End date: 7/29/1989
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A domed disc-shaped object is seen over the
-rocket weapons depot at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The
-object is flashing an intensely bright light from its underside. It
-hovers above the site at a height of 65 feet. Roughly 13–17 feet in
-diameter, its hull is illuminated with a dim green, phosphorus-like
-color. It circles two or three times and moves toward a railway station,
-still flashing its light, then returns to the weapons depot at a height
-of 200–230 feet. Soviet soldiers Levin and Klimenko say the object
-performed acrobatic maneuvers, at one point dividing into three shining
-points and taking the shape of a triangle. A fighter jet is scrambled,
-but the object evades it. Two other objects appear at low altitudes of
-980–1,300 feet. The last one to appear, a cigar-shaped object, gives off
-flashes of red light at constant intervals, then lights of all colors.
-At around 1:30 a.m., it flies to the southwest and disappears. (Don
-Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 133–138;
-Good Need, pp. 354–
-355, 363;
-Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal
-Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 79; Nukes
-453–456)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6783
Date: 8/1989
-Description: Day. A man is walking his dog in a nature preserve between
-Wolverhampton and Dudley, England, when he sees a tennis-ball-sized
-“soap bubble” that has a white, feathery mass inside floating slowly
-about 12 feet above the ground. It floats into a field where there are
-several horses, which do not seem concerned about it. Suddenly the
-object changes direction and moves into a strong wind, coming straight
-toward him. In moments it is just inches away from him, seemingly
-surveying him. At close quarters he could see that the object has an
-oily look. At the instant he thinks about popping the bubble, it speeds
-off to the east, covering about 30 feet in one second, and disappears.
-(Jenny Randles, “Don’t Forget the Y-Files,” Fortean Times 405 (May
-2021): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6784
Date: 8/2/1989
-Description: The Russian tanker Volgoneft-161 is in the Sea of Japan off
-the region of Primorsky Krai, Russia, when rew members notice an unusual
-shere about 35° above the northern horizon. It is pale yellow and
-surrounded by a hazy luminescence. The object movres t the northeast,
-ascending, and is visible for 5 minutes. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s
-USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6786
Date: 8/2/1989
-Description: Richard L. Huff in the FBI Office of Information and
-Privacy affirms in a letter to researcher Larry
-W. Bryant that
-it keeps a classified personal file on Stanton
-T. Friedman and denies access to it. (Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers
-in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6785
Date: 8/10/1989
-Description: Videotape taken of hovering object that rotated, split in
-two, then faded or “dissolved.”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Estepona, Spain
-ID: 445
Date: 8/10/1989
-Description: 9:00 p.m. William Heijster, a Dutch military psychologist
-who works at the Ministry of Defence at The Hague, Netherlands, is
-driving with his family near Estepona, Spain, when they see an object
-hovering over a mountain. Heijster stops the car and videotapes the
-object off and on for the next hour. The incident is plausibly explained
-by Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos as the flight of a Transmediterranean research
-balloon launched from Sicily in a joint operation by CNES (France), INTA
-(Spain), and the Italian space agency. (UFOEv II 298–299; Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos, Expedientes Insólitos, Temas de Hoy, 1995, pp. 125–130;
-“El
-caso ovni acaecido en
-Malaga en 1989,” El Blog de Malaga, October 1, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6787
Date: 8/11/1989
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 446
Date: late 8/1989
-Description: While working as an engineer on the jack-up barge GSF
-Galveston Key in the North Sea, Chris Gibson and another witness see
-an unfamiliar isosceles triangle–shaped delta aircraft, apparently
-refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of
-F-111 fighter-bombers. Gibson and his girlfriend watch the aircraft for
-several minutes until they move out of sight. He subsequently draws a
-sketch of the formation. (Christopher Bellamy, “Oil
-Rig Engineer Sketches Secret US Spy Aircraft,” The Independent (UK),
-December 14, 1992; Bill Sweetman, “Secret Mach 6 Spy Plane,” Popular
-Science 242 (March 1993): 56–63,
-98–101;
-Bill Sweetman, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane,
-Motorbooks, 1993, pp. 12–15,
-88–89;
-Susan Wright, UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current
-Extraterrestrial Activity, St. Martin’s, 1999 ed., pp. 154– 155;
-Simon Gray, “Chris
-Gibson’s Aurora Sighting,” Secret Projects forum, November 1, 2007;
-UFOFiles2, p.
-144;
-Marler 178–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6791
Date: late 8/1989
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A woman is driving north of La Salle,
-Manitoba, when she sees a “cloudlike boomerang” pass over her car.
-(Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1989): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6790
Date: 8/22/1989
-Description: 2:40 p.m. A circular, flashing light is in view for about 5
-minutes near Sunderland, England. At first it is stationary, but then it
-moves rapidly upward, leaving a hole in a cloud that then glows red.
-(Mark Rodeghier, “Another Hole in the Cloud,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010):
-24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6788
Date: 8/28/1989
-Description: Larry
-W. Bryant files suit in District Court for the District of Columbia
-for the FBI to release its files on Stanton
-T. Friedman. (Nick
-Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6789
Date: 8/31/1989
-Description: Luminous mushroom-shaped object hovered over field, two
-smaller objects with red lights emerged, operated independently,
-departed at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Butler Township, PA
-ID: 447
Date: 9/1989
-Description: CAUS devotes all of one issue of its Just Cause newsletter
-to a harshly critical review of Moore’s
-activities. (“A
-Majestic Deception,” Just Cause, new ser., no. 21 (September 1989):
-1–16; Clark III 371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6792
Date: 9/1989
-Description: Marc Leduc begins publishing a newsletter, Lettre
-d’Information Ufologique, in Lac-Beauport, Quebec. It runs until June
-1993. (Lettre
-d’Information Ufologique 1, no. 1 (September 1989))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6793
Date: 9/6/1989
-Description: 11:13 p.m. Tong Yuwei, a worker in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
-Autonomous Province, China, sees a dark cloud light up with a yellow
-flash. A rotating, saucer-shaped object with a black gap on its edge
-appears. It makes a noise louder than a car engine. After hovering for a
-minute, the red-and-yellow glowing object moves out of sight at high
-speed to the southwest. (Central Intelligence Agency, “UFO
-Sighted over Urumqi Evening of 6 Sep,” [memo on Xingua news report],
-September 13, 1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6794
Date: 9/13/1989
-Description: A woman is returning home from the grocery store in
-Protvino, Moscow Oblast, Russia, when two tall women in tight, silvery
-suits jump out from behind some boulders and paralyze her. The women
-have light blonde hair, gray-green skin, and hats with antennae. They
-take her to a small, disc-shaped craft by the side of the road and
-invite their captive for a ride, which they insist will not last long.
-She hesitantly accepts. Inside are three chairs, one of them occupied by
-a man. The woman offers them some of the bread she has just purchased,
-but the women decline, offering her some of their own bread. Without
-thinking, she reflexively pops a piece into her mouth and swallows. She
-later describes the taste as a lightly sweet rye bread. The craft
-ascends and flies over Protvino before dropping the woman off at her
-apartment. The space people tell her they will meet again. (Vladimir
-Azhazha, Inaya Zhizn’, Golos, 1998; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien
-Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November 2015): 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6795
Date: 9/15/1989
-Description: 3:40 a.m. A woman in eastern Winnipeg, Manitoba, is looking
-out her kitchen window when a deltoid- shaped object sails past. It has
-lines of “Christmas lights” spreading out from its leading edge and
-moves silently out of view in 4–5 seconds. (Chris Rutkowski, “The
-Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6796
Date: 9/15/1989
-End date: 9/19/1989
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies conducts the first expedition to
-the Roswell debris field site near Corona, New Mexico. The 10-member
-team includes Mark
-Rodeghier, Mimi
-Hynek, Donald
-R. Schmitt, and Kevin
-Randle. They find no unusual debris but survey the site and take
-soil samples. (Mark Rodeghier, “Roswell, 1989,” IUR 14, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1989): 4–8, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6797
Date: 9/16/1989
-Description: Night. A female employee at a meat packing plant in
-Mykolaiv, Ukraine, steps outside for a quick break when a beam of light
-strikes her from above. Looking up, she sees a hovering disc-shaped
-craft about 130–260 feet in diameter. She feels no fear and has a
-euphoric feeling as she begins rising up into the air toward the object.
-She also hears a voice extolling her to “fly with them.” Other workers
-come to the scene and begin yelling and running toward the woman. The
-beam disappears, and the UFO flies away. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles
-of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6798
Date: 9/21/1989
-End date: 10/7/1989
-Description: UFO sighting concentration in vicinity. Four landings and
-three different kinds of entities reported. Geodesic engineer saw
-maneuvering airship-like object September 24
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Voronezh, USSR
-ID: 448
Date: 9/27/1989
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Several children playing at a park in Voronezh,
-Russia, see a pinkish aerial glow approaching them. As it passes
-overhead, they see that it is a deep red, ball-shaped object. The object
-flies around in circles for a few minutes and then leaves. When it
-returns, it hovers briefly, and then descends close to the ground. A
-hatch opens and a heavy-set figure emerges. The being moves very slowly
-and looks around. It has a small head resembling that of a doorknob, set
-in between the shoulders. It has three luminous eyes, the middle one
-moving around like “radar.” On its chest is a shield-like object. The
-being then closes the hatch and the object lands gently on four legs.
-The hatch opens again and three huge humanoids with small knob-like
-heads step out. They wear silvery coveralls and bronze-colored boots. A
-strange robot-like creature accompanies the giants. All four walk around
-the object several times. A beam of light comes out of the chest of one
-of the beings and strikes the ground, creating several luminous
-triangles that later fade away. At one point the craft and beings become
-briefly invisible but then reappear. One of the boys screams in fear.
-Then one of the beings looks at the boy and points a tube at him. A
-luminous beam comes from the tube and hits the boy, which makes him
-disappear. The boy later reappears after the beings and the objects have
-gone. Subsequent information reveals that on the craft’s hull and on the
-landing prop of another craft is the letter or symbol “zhe,” reported as
-similar to the “Ummo” insignia reported in Western Europe in the 1970s.
-In a work published by Socialist Industry slightly after the incident, a
-self-proclaimed UFO specialist asserts the marks left by the supposed
-landing were simply scorch marks from a burnt hay-bale. (Wikipedia, “Voronezh
-UFO incident”; “UFO
-Lands in U.S.S.R.: Read All about It in Tass,” Philadelphia Daily
-News, October 9, 1989, p. 5; “A
-Tass Bulletin: Knobby Aliens Were Here,” New York Times, October 10,
-1989, pp. 1, 10; “U.F.O.
-Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist,” New York Times,
-October 11, 1989, p. 6; “Aliens
-Visit Voronezh,” Moscow News, no. 43 (October 1989), via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, November 1989, p. 12; Jacques Vallée, UFO
-Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 40–61;
-Clark III 1229–1231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6799
Date: 9/28/1989
-Description: Night. Long Island UFO Network founder John
-Ford claims that a UFO is shot down and retrieved at Moriches Bay,
-Long Island, New York. Although UFOs are observed on the southern coast
-of Long Island, the crash/retrieval seems to be an exaggerated fantasy.
-Ford is convinced the nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory is part of a
-UFO coverup and is developing ET-related weaponry. On June 12, 1996,
-Ford and LIUFON member Joe Mazzachelli are arrested in a sting operation
-on conspiracy charges to poison John
-Powell, the head of the Suffolk County Republican Party, who Ford
-believes is covering up UFO retrievals and engaging in illegal
-activities, by putting radium in his toothpaste. Ford is convicted
-without a trial and sent to a mental institution because of his paranoid
-conspiracy obsession. (John Ford, “The
-Moriches Bay Case of September 28, 1989,” Long Island UFO Reporter
-1, no. 3 (November 1989): 2–6; John Ford, “The
-Chairman’s Corner,” Long Island UFO Reporter 2, no. 1 (February
-1990): 2–4; John Ford, “UFO
-Captured at Moriches Bay?” The East Ender, February 9, 1990, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, April 1990, p. 7; Elaine Douglass, “The Ordeal of
-John Ford,” John Ford Defense Committee; “The John Ford Affair,” UFO
-UpDates, November 26, 1998; Dolan II 489–492)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6800
Date: 9/28/1989
-Description: UFO landing and Government attempt at intercept: Six
-helicopters circle around an UFO, between 574–1000 ft. in diam. while it
-was close to a downed UFO on the beach. The UFOs apparently got away.
-The eyewitness took 48 photos of the event. This even occurred in
-Suffolk County.
-Type: ufo retrieval attempt
-Reference: Pea
-Research
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: Smith’s Point Beach, Shirley, NY
Date: 10/1989
-End date: 5/1990
-Description: Concentration of triangular UFO sightings, jet interceptor
-chases, radar-visual sightings (see November 29, 1989, March 30,
-1990).
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: radar-visual sighting
-Type: jet interceptor chase
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Belgium
-ID: 449
Date: 10/1989
-Description: Night. Hundreds of residents of Omsk, southwestern Siberia,
-Russia, report seeing a UFO. Major V. Loginov sees an object about 1.5
-the size of the full moon passing overhead at an altitude of several
-kilometers. It projects four bright lights, some downward, others
-parallel to the horizon. Loginov watches it for 5 minutes hovering above
-the civil airport before descending. The lights turn off, and a whirling
-plume trail appears around the sphere. Pilots taking off from the
-airport can see the object, but it is not visible on radar screens. (“USSR:
-Media Report
-Multitude of UFO Sightings,” Foreign Press Note (Foreign Broadcast
-Information Service), November 22, 1989, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6801
Date: 10/6/1989
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A woman driving near Tyndall, Manitoba, sees a
-bright light flash upward out of sight in front of her car. (Chris
-Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6802
Date: 10/9/1989
-Description: 2:50 p.m. A couple and their child are getting into their
-car at a wildlife sanctuary in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They see a white
-“boomerang-shaped” object hanging silently and motionless in the east
-over the city. The mother puts the child in the back seat for safety.
-The man continues to watch as the object tilts and moves, revealing a
-bulge on its underside. It moves away, and the object goes home. (Chris
-Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6803
Date: 10/9/1989
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Carl
-Weselak is observing a meteor shower from his third floor apartment
-in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, when he sees a large boomerang-shaped
-object flying north to south over the city. Over the next few hours he
-sees more UFOs ranging from balls of light to other boomerangs. He
-telephones a newspaper to have a reporter verify the sightings. However,
-UFOROM discovers that several aircraft takeoffs and landings at the
-airport correspond to some of Weselak’s observations. (Chris Rutkowski,
-“The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989):
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6804
Date: 10/11/1989
-Description: A 16-year-old girl in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia,
-sees a “net” fall from the sky, apparently surrounding her, in the
-center of which is a bright point. She tries to push it away but gets a
-shock. She screams, but her voice sounds distorted. Her family rushes
-out of the house and sees a flying disc hovering less than 50 feet away.
-It soon vanishes. The girl remains paralyzed a while, the tips of her
-fingers burned and enlarged, and she is taken to a hospital. (Jacques
-Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat,
-Ballantine, 1992, pp. 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6805
Date: 10/11/1989
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Brad Schmidt, 13, Todd Weinheimer, 13, Paul
-Goddard, 12, Kevin Still, and one other boy are skateboarding outside
-the town pool in Centennial Park, Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when they
-see an object with multicolored lights approaching them from the east.
-They wave their skateboards at it, and the lights hover silently 400
-feet away at 100–200 feet in the air. They duck down in the tall grass.
-The object moves away over nearby Parkside School, pauses for a moment,
-then takes off to the west. The boys alert two teachers in the school,
-Bob Markham and Mark MacMurchy, and they go out to all watch the object
-for another 10–15 minutes. One of the teachers says the object has a
-bright flashing light on top and a red light on the bottom. It is more
-than half a mile away and only 650 feet in the air. The top light
-flashes every 15–20 seconds. Soon it moves away to the west. (“Strange
-Lights over
-the Park,” Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, November 4, 1989, pp. C1–C2;
-Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6806
Date: 10/12/1989
-Description: 12:20 a.m. A shift worker in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is
-returning home through a park when he sees a “shimmering boomerang” in
-the sky. He goes closer and hears a high-pitched whine coming from it.
-The object starts to move slowly then shoots away making a noise like a
-sonic boom. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14,
-no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6807
Date: 10/13/1989
-Description: 10:20 a.m. Rose Neumeier is in her kitchen 7 miles
-southwest of Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when she sees a flash of light
-near a shed about 50 feet away. An object like “two pie plates rim to
-rim” is motionless in the air about 50 feet above the shed. It is shiny
-and metallic, 30 feet long and 10 feet thick, and has a flattened top
-and “corrugated” bottom. Light is shining brightly from the joint
-between the two halves. It is silent and the dog and cattle are not
-disturbed. After a few minutes, it rises slowly, moves north, curves
-through the hayfield, circles the barn, and moves away across the
-pasture. (“Object
-Hovers over Garage,” Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, November 4, 1989,
-p. C2; Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6808
Date: 10/16/1989
-Description: 7:45 a.m. A woman is driving near Langruth, Manitoba, when
-she sees a “star with a tail of smoke going up” in the east. After a few
-minutes, the object takes on a dome shape and its tail is no longer
-visible. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no.
-6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6809
Date: 10/16/1989
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A man in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, is driving
-with his daughter when they observe an object “as wide as a small
-airplane is long” with colored flashing lights. It coasts silently over
-the highway “right over our heads.” (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO
-Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6810
Date: 10/21/1989
-Description: Witnesses in Burkhala, Magadan Oblast, Russia, watch a red,
-shining sphere maneuvering near an electric power transmission line for
-30 minutes. About 7–9 lights are seen along its edge. One witness
-estimates its speed as 600 mph. (Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s
-‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO
-Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6811
Date: 10/25/1989
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A resident of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, sees a
-large object with red flashing lights. It is moving slowly and silently
-at an altitude of 200 feet. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of
-1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6812
Date: 11/1989
-Description: “UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by
-George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public.
-Type: TV series
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 11/1/1989
-Description: 6:50 p.m. A pilot flying a small airplane 20 miles north of
-La Ronge, Saskatchewan, sees a pair of blinking lights moving across his
-path at 8,500 feet. Air traffic control confirms there are no other
-aircraft in the area at the time. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO
-Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6813
Date: 11/4/1989
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A couple and their two children are sitting in
-front of a large living room window in Hall Beach, Nunavut, watching
-television. The family dog begins barking, and soon the man’s attention
-is drawn to a strange object in the sky. The family watches the UFO,
-which looks like an upside-down cup and saucer. The bottom portion has a
-red light in the center, and three windows emitting white light are
-across the middle. After only a couple of seconds, the object departs,
-seemingly straight up, and disappears. A local employee of the
-Department of Public Works also sees the object. (Chris Rutkowski and
-Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006,
-pp. 142–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6814
Date: 11/7/1989
-Description: Double abduction case investigated by John Carpenter
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Western KS
-ID: 450
Date: 11/7/1989
-Description: 12:40 a.m. Two women in their 40s are driving on Interstate
-70 west of Goodland, Kansas, when they encounter a UFO and lose 2 hours
-of time. They experience anxiety, insomnia, irritability, and
-bewilderment as a result. Neither women claim any interest in UFOs. They
-initially believe that they never left their car or observed anything
-further. Hypnotic regressions (obtained independently) reveal abduction
-scenarios with at least 40 direct correlations between their accounts.
-(John S. Carpenter, “Double Abduction Case: Correlation of Hypnosis
-Data,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 91–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6815
Date: 11/10/1989
-Description: KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, identifies and interviews Robert
-Lazar, unmasked and using his real name. Lazar claims that during
-his onboarding to the Area 51 program, he read briefing documents
-describing the historical involvement of Earth for the past 10,000 years
-with extraterrestrial beings described as grey aliens from a planet
-orbiting the twin binary star system Zeta Reticuli. The Zeta Reticuli
-system was previously claimed by Barney
-and Betty Hill as the origin of aliens they allegedly encountered in
-their abduction. Lazar’s story quickly garners enormous media attention,
-controversy, supporters, and detractors. Lazar admits he cannot support
-with evidence his core claim of alien technology. (Tom Mahood, “The
-Robert Lazar Timeline,” Other Hand, January 1997; Don Ecker,
-“Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 (May 1999): 28–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6816
Date: 11/10/1989
-Description: Communion, a feature film based on abductee Whitley
-Strieber’s book of the same name, premieres in the US. Directed by
-Philippe
-Mora, Strieber
-is played by actor Christopher
-Walken. (Internet
-Movie Database, “Communion”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6817
Date: 11/13/1989
-Description: The FBI releases a handful of its files on Stanton
-T. Friedman as a result of Larry
-Bryant’s lawsuit. (Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert,
-Paraview, 2005, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6818
Date: 11/18/1989
-Description: Early evening. A large, black, boomerang-shaped object
-glides over downtown Lancaster, California. Low-intensity lights,
-similar to stars, outline its frame. Witness Robert Puskas estimates its
-size as 800–900 feet wide. Off its left tip he sees a silvery metallic
-disc about 30–40 feet in diameter, reflecting the streetlights. (MUFON
-UFO Journal, November 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6819
Date: 11/20/1989
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A couple in the rural town of Marieville, Quebec,
-wakes up to the sight of a strange blue light shining through the
-curtains. They hear a noise like an electric generator and feel a
-vibration. But looking outside they can see nothing. About 900 feet down
-the road, a neighbor is also awakened by the bright light and observes
-four blue objects over the other couple’s house. He also feels a
-vibration and describes the lights as intermittent, blinking out and
-reappearing in a different spot. At one point, the streetlights along
-Route 112 weaken when one of the objects gets too close. He thinks the
-lights are about 30 feet off the ground. Two other witnesses also see
-the lights interact with power lines. One reports that her power goes
-out for 10 minutes. On November 22, a strange pattern is discovered
-about 150 feet from the first couple’s residence—a perfectly round
-circle, 65 feet in diameter, of flattened (not burned) grass. The RCMP
-visits the circle on November 23 and 28, noting a striking difference in
-color of the flattened grass within the circle and the straight grass
-outside it. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report,
-Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 149–150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6820
Date: 11/22/1989
-Description: The USAF SR-71 Blackbird program is officially terminated.
-The odd thing is that there is no dissension in the military about this.
-The alleged additional savings of $300 million is insignificant.
-Analysts point out that satellites, though useful, simply cannot perform
-the type of missions for which the Blackbird is suited. Some observers
-suspect there is a secret, better replacement. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-SR-71 Blackbird”; Bill Sweetman, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret
-Hypersonic Spyplane, Motorbooks, 1993, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6821
Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: Police patrol car illuminated by brilliant light beam,
-hovering dark triangular object, humming noise, alternately moved and
-hovered
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eupen, Belgium
-ID: 451
Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 5:15 p.m. While patrolling on the road between Eupen,
-Belgium, and the German border, two federal policemen, Heinrich Nicoll
-and Hubert von Montigny, see an intense light in a nearby field. Above
-the field is a triangular object with three spotlights shining down and
-a red flashing light in the center. Without making a sound, it moves
-slowly toward the German border for 2 minutes and then suddenly turns
-back toward Eupen. Nicoll and von Montigny follow it. (Patrick Vantuyne,
-“Mystery
-Craft: Eupen, Belgium,” Patt Nayeu & Son, June 12, 2010; Kean,
-p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6822
Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Gendarmes Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von Montigny
-see another object near Eupen, Belgium, which appears from behind a wood
-and makes a forward tilting maneuver. It has a dome on top with
-rectangular windows. It then departs to the north. (Joël Mesnard, “The
-UFO ‘Wave’ of November/December 1989
-over Eastern Belgium,” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 2 (June 1990):
-4; Kean, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6824
Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 6:45 p.m. A man is driving alone in his car on the Rue
-Mathieu de Lexhy at the intersection with the Rue Hector Denis near
-Grâce-Berleur, Belgium, when he sees to his left an immense stationary
-object at about 325 feet altitude and 1,600 feet away. He slows down,
-lowers his window, and hears a soft sound like an electric motor. The
-object is larger than a Boeing 707. It has flashing red, green, and
-white lights and a light beam directed toward the ground. He drives away
-while the UFO is still visible. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg,
-“The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6825
Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Two federal policemen, Dieter Plummans and Peter
-Nicoll, see a triangular UFO near a monastery [Kloster Garnstock?] north
-of Eupen, Belgium. The object has three very strong spotlights and a
-flashing red central light. It is at an altitude of about 250 feet and
-about 300 feet away. It is immobile and silent, but it suddenly emits a
-hissing sound and its lights fade a bit. Simultaneously, a red ball
-comes out of the center and heads straight downward, but soon veers
-horizontal and disappears behind some trees. The object then passes
-above the police car, moving northeast. They follow it for 5 miles
-before losing it. (Kean, pp. 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6826
Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 5:24 p.m. About 250 witnesses, in 143 separate
-observations, watch the same or similar triangular or delta-winged craft
-maneuvering overhead at Eupen, Belgium. Two police officers in a patrol
-car are illuminated by a brilliant light beam from a dark triangular
-object hovering at 600–900 feet and making a faint humming noise. The
-light is so dazzling that “we could read a newspaper under it.” The UFO
-moves slowly away to the southwest, where it hovers near the Lac de la
-Gileppe dam for 45 minutes. Policemen Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von
-Montigny watch it repeatedly emit two red beams with a red ball at the
-spearhead of both beams; the beams soon disappear, leaving the red
-balls, which return to the object. Then around 7:23 p.m., it moves
-further to the southwest and is seen over Spa for 30 minutes before it
-disappears. (UFOEv II 50–51; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1990, pp. 3–7;
-Société Belge d’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, Vague d’OVNI sur la
-belgique: Un dossier exceptionnelle, SOBEPS, 1991; Auguste Meessen, “The
-Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 4–5; Wim van Utrecht,
-“Triangles
-over Belgium: The SOBEPS Report,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 286
-(February 1992): 5–6; Steven M. Greer, “UFOs
-over Belgium,” MUFON UFO Journal, no, 289 (May 1992): 8–12; Auguste
-Meessen, “Étude
-approfondie et discussion de certaines observations du 29 novembre
-1989,” Inforespace, no. 95 (October 1997): 16–70; Auguste Meessen,
-“The Belgian Wave and the Photos of Ramillies”; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp.
-137–144;
-Kean, pp. 24–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6823
Date: 11/30/1989
-Description: 3:15 a.m. New York City resident Linda Napolitano
-(pseudonym “Linda Cortile”) is allegedly abducted by aliens from her
-12th-story apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan. Five aliens
-come into her bedroom while she is still awake. They paralyze her and
-move her into the living room. Linda and three of the five aliens are
-floated out through her living room window, directly through the window,
-to a large hovering UFO. Three independent witnesses to the abduction
-are two security intelligence agents (“Richard” and “Dan”), who see the
-UFO and abductees from a car near the Brooklyn Bridge, and a VIP
-political dignitary later identified as UN Secretary General Javier
-Pérez de Cuéllar, who does not confirm any involvement. The UFO then
-dives into the East River. Budd
-Hopkins delves into the case, although he never meets the two
-security guards or even confirms their existence. Music critic Greg
-Sandow writes an insightful analysis of the case in 1997. Hopkins’s
-former wife Carol Rainey has been critical of the quality of his
-abduction research in this case and in that of singer Phoebe Snow, which
-he never publicized. (Budd Hopkins, “The
-Linda Cortile Abduction Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 293 (September
-1992): 12–16; Budd Hopkins, “The
-Linda Cortile Abuction Case, Part II: The Woman on the Bridge,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 296 (December 1992): 5–9; Joseph J. Stefula,
-Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen, “A
-Critique of Budd Hopkins’ Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda
-Napolitano,” January 8, 1993; Jerome Clark, “Saucer Smearers,” IUR
-18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 3, 22–24; “The Claims in Question,” IUR
-18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 4–5; Donald A. Johnson, “Why the Linda
-Case Is a Hoax,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 5, 22; Willy Smith,
-“The Impossible Testimony of Janet Kimball,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April
-1993): 6–7, 21; Budd Hopkins, “House of Cards: The Butler/Hansen/Stefula
-Critique of the Cortile Case,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 8–14,
-21; David M. Jacobs, “A Matter of Ethics,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April
-1993): 15–16; John E. Mack, “Stirring Our Deepest Fears,” IUR 18, no. 2
-(March/April 1993): 17, 21; Willy Smith, et al., “The Linda Case,” IUR
-18, no. 3 (May/June 1993): 22–23; Linda Cortile [Napolitano], “A
-Light
-at the End of the Tunnel,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 302 (June 1993):
-12–17; Budd Hopkins, Witnessed: The
-True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions, Pocket
-Books, 1996; Greg Sandow, “The Linda Cortile Case Analyzed: Part 1,” IUR
-22, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 18–23; Greg Sandow, “The Linda Cortile Case
-Analyzed: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 3–10, 35–36; Kevin D.
-Randle, “A
-Response to Budd Hopkins,” A Different Perspective, February 18,
-2011; Carol Rainey, “The
-Singer’s Hybrid Daughter, Part I,” The UFO Trail, February 5, 2016;
-Carol Rainey, “The
-Singer’s Hybrid Daughter, Part II,” The UFO Trail, February 22,
-2016; Sean F. Meers, “The Linda Cortile UFO Abduction Case: Abstract,”
-February 27, 2012).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6827
Date: 11/30/1989
-Description: Linda Cortile’s (pseudonym) abduction from 12th floor
-apartment, allegedly witnessed by international figure and security
-guards (Hopkins, 1996). 1990
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York City
-ID: 452
Date: 12/1/1989
-Description: Weather forecaster Francesco Valenzano and his young
-daughter are walking in the Square Nicolaï in Ans, Liège, Belgium, when
-they see a large, slow-moving craft approaching at low altitude. The
-object silently makes a tour of the square; when it passes over their
-heads, they notice it has a delta shape with three lights in a
-triangular position and a red rotating light in the middle and
-positioned lower than the belly of the object. (Kean, pp. 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6828
Date: 12/1/1989
-Description: 6:50 p.m. An amateur photographer is sitting in his living
-room at Eupen, Belgium, when he sees a lozenge-shaped UFO with two white
-lights at each corner. He draws a sketch but fails to take a photo. He
-sees a similar object on January 10, 1990. (Auguste Meessen, “The
-Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6829
Date: 12/2/1989
-End date: 12/3/1989
-Description: President George
-H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail
-Gorbachev meet in Malta, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin
-Wall. During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev declare an end to the Cold
-War, although whether it is truly such is a matter of debate.
-(Wikipedia, “Malta
-Summit”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6830
Date: 12/5/1989
-Alternate date: 12/12/1989
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A couple is driving on the Trierer Strasse in
-Aachen, Germany, when they see a flying object cut across the road in
-front of them to the right. It has two headlights in front, emitting
-beams that slant downwards. There is a flashing orange light on the
-underside. The same object reappears at their home around 11:15 p.m.
-(Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June
-1991): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6831
Date: 12/11/1989
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy and his family in Trooz,
-Belgium, watch a domed, triangular object for 15 minutes. It is hovering
-at first, then passes above their house. (Kean, p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6832
Date: 12/11/1989
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Lt. Col. André Amond of the Belgian Army and his
-wife spot a strange aerial object while they are driving on the deserted
-Rue de Sart Ernage between Ernage and Gembloux, Belgium. It looks like a
-series of 3–4 panels of light traveling north to south at an altitude of
-650–980 feet. Beneath the series of panels, and close to the center, is
-a rotating red lamp. Amond stops where the road dead ends and watches
-the UFO pass for 2–4 minutes. Then the object abruptly changes course
-and silently heads in his direction. Only an enormous spot of white
-light is visible now, “much bigger than the spotlight of a big air
-carrier.” They both are frightened, so Amond starts the car again. The
-big light disappears, and three smaller white spotlights become visible,
-which form a more or less equilateral triangle. The rotating red light
-is still there, now seen in profile. The object then performs a turn of
-180° to the left. The distance between the white luminous points is
-estimated at approximately 33 feet. They cannot distinguish any solid
-object around this triangle of three lights. The maneuver is majestic
-and slow. Next, the luminous points disappear. Only the red rotating
-light is still visible, and it takes off in a south- southwesterly
-direction. The duration of the sighting is about 5–8 minutes. (Kean, pp. 28–29;
-Wim van Utrecht, “The
-Lieutenant-Colonel and the UFO,” Caelestia, January 7, 2016;
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6833
Date: 12/12/1989
-Description: 2:15 a.m. A man in Jupille-sur-Meuse, Belgium, wakes up to
-a dull throbbing noise coming from outside. He sees an enormous oval
-object seemingly jammed between two fir trees. On its circumference,
-small lights are changing color from blue to red and back. The object is
-metallic, with an oar or paddle at its rear. In the front is a window or
-cockpit. On the front part is a logo consisting of several ellipses
-crossing themselves. After a few minutes, the object rises slightly, the
-sound it emits changing slightly. It moves toward a neighbor’s meadow,
-shining down three beams of lights. Some moments later, it emits an
-intense and well-defined shaft of light into the sky. The witness goes
-back to bed. The next morning, he reports his sighting to the
-Gendarmérie, which investigates and finds a gigantic circular trace in
-the meadow. At the center, the grass has been cut off, but the cuttings
-are nowhere to be seen, and the grass within the circle is yellow.
-(Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1991): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6834
Date: 12/21/1989
-Description: Belgian Minister of Defense Jean-Pol
-Poncelet states that there have been many UFOs reported and that the
-ministry and the Army have no idea what they are. (Swords 456–457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6835
Date: 12/24/1989
-Alternate date: 12/25/1989
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Pilot Vladimir Kuzmin sees a dark gray,
-cigar-shaped object hovering southwest of Chelyabinsk, Russia, while he
-is flying a two-seat Aero L-29 Delfin. He estimates its altitude at 4.6
-miles. The sighting lasts more than 8 minutes with the object in direct
-view for over 4 minutes. Within hours, Kuzmin experiences a strange,
-crustlike skin rash on the exposed portion of his face that lasts for
-more than 11 days. (Richard F. Haines, “UFO Activities in the Soviet
-Union,” IUR 16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 14; Richard F. Haines,
-“Encounter over Siberia,” IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1991): 12–13,
-21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6836
Date: 1990
-Description: Journalist and lawyer Marek
-Rymuszkoz establishes the magazine Nieznany Świat in Warsaw. (Poland
-81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6842
Date: 1990’s
-Description: USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name
-Area 51
-Type: court filings
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
-Location: US
Date: 1990
-Description: Donald
-Johnson obtains a copy of UFOCAT on 10 3.5-inch diskettes from David
-R. Saunders, courtesy of John S. Derr of the US Geological Survey.
-Derr has created the diskette version from one of the tape backups for
-use in his own research. Unfortunately, he is unable to read the first
-portion of the tape, so it is lacking the first 10,000 records.
-Fortunately, the Center for UFO Studies has another backup copy, and
-Johnson is able to merge the two sources and recreate the database as it
-existed in 1982. Since then, more than 10,000 additional records have
-been added. (“UFOCAT Is Back!” IUR 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1991): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6838
Date: 1990
-Description: The NORAD Unknown Track Reporting database includes 7,000
-incidents since 1971, averaging about 350 a year, representing objects
-still unidentified after jet interception, but before ATC analysis and
-NORAD/FTC intelligence whittles down the numbers further to about 10%.
-NORAD Unknowns are effectively equivalent to Project Blue Book
-unknowns—high-strangeness UFOs that cannot be rated until full details
-are released. (Clark III 801–802; Swords 348)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6837
Date: 1990
-Description: A Gallup survey this year indicates that the belief in
-“real” UFOs has declined to 47% from a peak of 57% in 1978 and 54% in
-1973. Only 27% report a belief that extraterrestrial UFOs have actually
-visited earth, while 14% report they have seen a UFO. (Robert J. Durant,
-“Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993):
-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6839
Date: 1990
-Description: Jerome
-Clark publishes volume one of the first edition of his UFO
-encyclopedia. (Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia: UFOs in the 1980s,
-vol. 1, Apogee, 1990; Michael D. Swords, [review], JUFOS 2 (1990): 189–
-191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6840
Date: 1990
-Description: Mathematician Arne
-Gjärdman replaces Sture
-Wickerts as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National
-Defence Research Institute. He holds the position until 1999. During
-this time, the institute starts sharing information and ideas with
-UFO-Sweden, creating an atmosphere of understanding and cooperation.
-(Swords 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6841
Date: 1/1990
-Description: David
-Gotlib begins publishing the Bulletin of Anomalous Experience (at
-first under the title of Ratchet Patrol) in Toronto, Ontario, focusing
-on abduction experiencers. It folds in December 1994. (Ratchet
-Patrol 1, no. 1 (January 1990); Bulletin
-of Anomalous Experience 1, no. 3 (March/April 1990))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6844
Date: early 1/1990
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Two women are driving southwest near
-Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, when they see a bizarre object on their
-right, moving at an altitude of 980–1,300 feet. Dark and massive, it
-resembles an iron seen from underneath. After a few seconds, it
-disappears behind a farmhouse. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg,
-“The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6843
Date: 1/8/1990
-Description: Dark round or oblong object with red body light
-photographed by several people
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gulf Breeze, FL
-ID: 453
Date: 1/20/1990
-Description: 1:15–1:20 a.m. A silvery dome-shaped object with two rows
-of lights flies just ahead of a car for two to three miles on Highway
-446 at Boyle, Mississippi. The engine and lights fail until the object
-departs. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports,
-Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6845
Date: 1/20/1990
-Description: Silvery object with two rows of lights paced just ahead of
-car for two to three miles. Engine, lights failed until object
-departed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Boyle, MS
-ID: 454
Date: 1/22/1990
-Description: 10:00 a.m. UFOs approach the Santa Cruz Air Force Base, Rio
-de Janeiro, Brazil. Air traffic controllers spot them on their radars
-but cannot identify them because they do not make movements like an
-airplane or helicopter. Interceptors approach, but the objects move away
-and disappear. They return about 40 minutes after the interceptors land.
-Two other fighters are assigned to chase the objects, which are at an
-altitude of 4,800 feet. The case is investigated by an internal
-commission of the Brazilian Air Force, which can find no explanation.
-(Clark III 205–206; Brazil 553)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6846
Date: 1/24/1990
-Description: Fireball meteor observed about 6:15 A.M. arcing from
-northwest to southeast.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Central United States
-ID: 455
Date: 1/26/1990
-Description: British-Armenian orchid hunter Habib
-“Henry” Azadehdel (pseudonym “Armen Victorian”) calls Eric
-A. Walker and
-has an extended conversation about an alleged South African UFO crash
-with insect-like aliens. Walker hints that there has been governmental
-collaboration with aliens in the past. (Grant Cameron and T. Scott
-Crain, UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government
-Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991,
-pp. 27–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6847
Date: 1/26/1990
-Description: Long-lasting fireball meteor, blue-green with short tail,
-changing to white and orange as it broke up, observed about 7:10 P.M.
-moving northeast.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eastern United States
-ID: 456
Date: 2/1990
-Description: The Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Phénomènes
-Aérospatiaux in Marseille, France, begins publishing
-Aérospatial-Météorologie-Astronomie (A.M.A.), edited by Bernard Hugues.
-It continues until September 1994. (Aérospatial-Météorologie-Astronomie,
-no. 1 (February 1990))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6850
Date: 2/1990
-Description: Arranged by Norio
-Hayakawa, Robert
-Lazar is interviewed in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Nippon TV for 3–4
-hours. Hayakawa and the TV crew drive out to Tikaboo Peak, where they
-film an orange light maneuvering above Groom Lake. (Jacobsen, Area 51,
-p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6848
Date: 2/1990
-Description: The Sauvegarde et Conservation des Études et Archives
-Ufologiques is established in Brunoy, France, by Jacques
-Scornaux. Its
-goal is the preservation and conservation of ufological documents and
-information. It publishes a SCEAU Bulletin from 1991 to 2008. (SCEAU
-Bulletin, no.
-0 (1991))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6849
Date: 2/1/1990
-End date: 2/4/1990
-Description: An invitation-only research conference on abductions is
-held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
-Blacksburg, Virginia, organized by Rima
-E. Laibow and Daniel
-Schneck. (Rima E. Laibow, Robert N. Sollod, and John P. Wilson,
-eds., Anomalous Experiences and Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research,
-and Clinical Perspectives, Center for Treatment and Research of
-Experienced Anomalous Trauma, 1992; Michael D. Swords, [review], JUFOS 4
-(1992): 201–205)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6851
Date: 2/21/1990
-Description: 9:07 p.m. A woman, her mother, and son are driving through
-Koblenz-Karthause, Germany, when they notice two lights beaming down at
-them at a 45° angle. The woman pulls to the side of the road at an angle
-to watch. The object bearing the lights stops almost directly overhead.
-She sees a large triangular object, stationary and noiseless, at rooftop
-height. The sides of the triangle measure about 65 feet. Three milky,
-yellowish-white lights are at each of the corners. In the center is a
-larger, primarily gray-blue light, although its colors change as
-something rotates on the UFO. The object itself has a metallic
-appearance. It has some structures that look like riveted plates. The
-object remains for 2–3 minutes then departs suddenly to the southwest
-behind the roofs of nearby houses. The woman succeeds in locating two
-other witnesses at nearly the same time. (Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian
-Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6853
Date: 2/21/1990
-Description: Sundown. Norio
-Hayakawa, a Nippon TV journalist, takes a crew to the Area 51
-Mailbox Site (near the 29 ½ mile marker, Highway 375, Tikaboo Valley) to
-watch the test flight of an object from Groom Lake, Nevada. The group
-sees an orange-yellow light appear above the hills. They get a second
-sighting later that evening when an object moves to the right, descends,
-performs a back turn and a 5,000-foot sudden descent, more or less
-instantly. (Michael Hesemann, UFOs
-and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World, Lightworks
-video, 1995; “Norio Hayakawa,”
-Dreamland Resort)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6852
Date: 2/23/1990
-Description: Prominent fireball meteor changing color from white to
-green to orange observed about 7:50 P.M.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern United States
-ID: 457
Date: 2/28/1990
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Gary Schultz goes to the Area 51 Mailbox site in
-Nevada with his wife Pearl. He leaps out of his lawn chair when he spots
-the first object. Every 45 minutes, a new object arrives, 6 in all. Two
-or three of the craft are bright, pulsing, ellipsoid objects. He takes
-photos, one of which clearly captures an object shaped like a bell. (“Unknown
-Craft over Area 51 in 1990, Photographed by Gary Schultz,” Norio
-Hayakawa YouTube channel, January 25, 2010; Michael Hesemann, UFOs
-and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World, Lightworks video,
-1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6854
Date: 3/1990
-Description: A classified US Department of Defense document, Joint Staff
-Information Report #5049, “Belgium and the UFO Issue,” states that
-“Numerous UFO sightings have been made in Belgium since Nov 89. The
-credibility of some individuals making the reports is good…
-Investigation by BAF [Belgian Air Force] continues.” It notes that
-Belgian General Wilfried De Brouwer asked whether the objects were
-American B-2 or F-117 military aircraft, stating that he made the
-inquiry despite knowing that “the alleged observations did not
-correspond in any way to the observable characteristics of either US
-aircraft.” The US Air Force does confirm to the Belgian Air Force and
-Ministry of Defense that no US stealth aircraft were operating in the
-Ardennes area at the time.” (Nick Redfern, “Belgium
-and the UFO Issue,” Mysterious Universe, February 11, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6856
Date: 3/1990
-Description: Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine breaks the
-news that the term “Aurora” has inadvertently been included in the 1985
-US budget, as an allocation of $455 million for “black aircraft
-production” in FY 1987. According to Aviation Week, Project Aurora
-refers to a group of exotic aircraft and not to one particular airframe.
-Funding of the project allegedly reaches $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987,
-according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. In
-1994, Ben
-Rich, the
-former head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works division, writes that the Aurora
-is the budgetary code name for the stealth bomber fly-off that resulted
-in the B-2 Spirit. (Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal
-Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, Little Brown, 1996, pp. 309–310;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 143–144;
-“Aurora Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6855
Date: 3/1/1990
-Description: The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the first stealth
-satellite in STS-36 for
-the National Reconnaissance Office. Nicknamed “Misty,” little is known
-about it other than it has visual and radar stealth characteristics,
-making it difficult to detect. The satellite is seen and tracked later
-in 1990 and in the mid-1990s by amateur observers. The second satellite
-is launched on May 22, 1999, and by 2004 the launch of a third satellite
-is planned for 2009. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the third
-satellite might be the payload of the Delta
-IV Heavy launch designated NROL-15,
-which is launched in June 2012. That launch deposits a payload into
-geosynchronous orbit but, given the stealth/deception hypothesis, there
-remains the possibility of other, undetected payloads. (Wikipedia, “Misty
-(satellite program)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6857
Date: 3/2/1990
-Description: Brilliant white pulsating oval paced truck, hovered over
-road, instant relocation over truck, cast light beam down
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Beavercreek, IL
-ID: 458
Date: 3/4/1990
-Description: Sphere with windows seen from boat near lighthouse. Several
-objects took off at high speed with loud booms, stopped, hovered,
-flashed bright white lights
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wood End, Provincetown, MA
-ID: 459
Date: 3/7/1990
-Description: A woman feeding her infant in Gulf Breeze, Florida, notices
-a beam of white light about 3 feet in diameter descend to the ground
-beyond her window. She feels a slight vibration and 2 seconds later the
-object is gone. The next morning her husband finds a circle of burned
-grass 11 feet in diameter near the window. Several people detect a
-strong “perfume” odor from the scorched area. (MUFON UFO Journal, May
-1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6858
Date: 3/8/1990
-Description: Henry
-Azadehdel calls Eric
-A. Walker a second time. Walker provides some vague and bizarre
-information involving MJ-12, ESP, and technology from crashed UFOs. A
-third conversation on August 18 is much more guarded. (Grant Cameron and
-T. Scott Crain, UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government
-Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991,
-pp. 27–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6859
Date: 3/12/1990
-Description: Night. Large, shining discs appear in the sky along the
-Yaroslavskoye Shosse outside Moscow, Russia. Their place is taken by
-three groups of objects, some like pineapples (with platelets) but about
-18 feet long. Others are like “triangular milk cartons,” and the third
-group are like upside-down basins about 40 feet across. (“UFO’s Reported
-near Moscow,” [telegram], April 15, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6860
Date: 3/21/1990
-Description: Jet interceptor scrambled to identify radar target, saw two
-flashing white lights, locked radar gunsight on object
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia
-ID: 460
Date: 3/21/1990
-Description: 8:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. UFOs are seen over a wide area of
-Russia encompassing Novoselye, Sergiyev Posad, Yakovlevo, Dubki,
-Kablukovo, Fryazino, Khabarovsk, and Kirzhach. Radar stations and
-aircraft are put on alert. At 9:38 p.m., a UFO is seen at 6,500 feet
-altitude over Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Lt. Col. A.
-A. Semenchenko is sent up in an interceptor to find it. At 10:05 p.m.,
-he sees the object ahead and to the right. He tracks it on the in-flight
-radar as it flashes two white lights and changes speed and altitude. It
-does not respond to a radio challenge to identify itself. The pilot
-turns steeply and flies 1,600–1,900 feet above the UFO, but he can see
-only a vague shape. Between 8:00 p.m. and midnight, UFOs are also seen
-over a wide area. Witnesses in Khabarovsk watch bright red spheres
-flying in complete silence and darting above the icebound Amur River,
-and a black cigar-shaped object 160 feet long with a ruby-red exhaust is
-seen traveling low above the ground. Radars do not register it. The
-commanding officers of several antiaircraft defense units around Moscow
-gather more than 100 visual reports from their subordinates, which are
-forwarded to the chief of the antiaircraft defense headquarters,
-Gen. Col. Igor
-Maltsev, who says that the object is a disc between 325–650 feet in
-diameter with two blinking lights. It turns on its axis and its course
-is “snakelike.” (“UFOs
-on Air Defense Radars,” Rabochaya Tribuna, April 19, 1990; MUFON UFO
-Journal, June 1990; V. D. Musinsky, “Through the Secrecy Barrier,” IUR
-15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 14–15; Central Intelligence Agency, “USSR:
-UFO Sightings No. 2—General Maltsev Comments,”
-Foreign Broadcast Information Service PROD Group, May 24, 1990; Patrick
-Gross, “FOIA Declassified
-Documents”; Antonio Huneeus, “Airplane
-Pilot UFO Encounters in the USSR and CIS, Part 2,” OpenMinds, August
-20, 2010; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-p. 116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6861
Date: 3/27/1990
-Description: Blindingly bright oval object approached car, passed low
-overhead. Driver fled, looked back, saw object hovering over a
-field
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kokomo, IN
-ID: 461
Date: 3/28/1990
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A silent UFO is seen about 25 miles north of
-Chongqing, China. It is about 65 feet long with orange and pale green
-lights, and it flies toward the northeast at an altitude of 150 feet.
-(Defense Intelligence Agency, [unclassified
-report], The Black Vault, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6862
Date: 3/30/1990
-End date: 3/31/1990
-Description: 11:00 p.m. The Glons (Belgium) Control Reporting Center
-receives reports that three unusual lights are moving toward
-Thorembais-Gembloux, Belgium, constantly changing color, in the shape of
-an equilateral triangle. It requests the Wavre gendarmerie to send a
-patrol car to investigate. Ten minutes later, a second formation moves
-toward the first. Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake tracks one object
-only on its radar, and an order to scramble two F-16 fighters from
-Beauvechain Air Base is given. Throughout this time, in reports after
-the event, some people claim that the phenomenon is visible from the
-ground, describing the whole formation as maintaining relative positions
-while moving slowly across the sky. Over the next hour, the two
-scrambled F-16s attempt 9 separate interceptions. On three occasions,
-they manage to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds, but these are
-later shown to be radar-locks on each other. The pilots never see any of
-the claimed visual sightings or the claimed maneuvers, and they never
-get a lock on any objects apart from the other F-16. Investigator Wim
-van Utrecht suspects that the lights in the sky that triggered these
-scrambles were misperceptions of bright stars and planets. The other
-contacts are all the result of a well-known atmospheric interference
-called Bragg scattering, in which an aircraft’s own radars interfere
-with each other. After 12:30 a.m., radar contact becomes much more
-sporadic and the final confirmed lock takes place at 12:40 a.m.
-Following several further unconfirmed contacts, the F-16s eventually
-return to base shortly after 1:00 a.m. Members of the Wavre gendarmerie
-sent to confirm the original report describe four lights as arranged in
-a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually
-losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at
-around 1:30 a.m. They also hear a low engine noise and that it seems to
-have a stick coming out one end with a turbine on it, which many claim
-shows it was a helicopter. (Wikipedia, “Belgian
-UFO wave”; NICAP, “Three
-Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up
-on Radar”; NICAP, “Three
-Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up on Radar”; “Remarkable
-Military Encounter in Belgium,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 23; Joël
-Mesnard, “Belgium
-Haunted by Huge Triangular
-Craft, Part II,” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 4 (December 1990):
-2–6; Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June
-1991): 4–8; Bob Pratt, “The Great Belgium UFO Flap,” MUFON UFO Journal,
-no. 267 (July 1990); Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “F-16
-Radar Tracks UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 (August 1990): 6–7;
-Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “An
-Interview with Professor Jean-Pierre Petit,” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-273 (January 1991): 3–9; Kean, pp. 37–38;
-Swords 457; Jean-Michel Abrassart, “In Defense of the
-Psycho-Sociological Hypothesis: Another Reply to Auguste Meessen,”
-SUNlite 3, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2011): 9– 12; Patrick Gross, “The
-Belgium Flap Official Reports,” the full version of the Belgian Air
-Force report by Major Lambrechts, VS3/Ctl-Met 1, February 22, 2001;
-Patrick Gross, “The
-Belgium Flap Official Reports,” summary report on observations 30–31
-March 1990, February 22, 2001; Marler 20–23; David Clarke, “Echoes and
-Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6863
Date: 3/30/1990
-Description: Gendarmes reported luminous, high speed objects. Jet
-interceptors scrambled, multiple radar tracks of fast-moving
-objects
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brussels and Wavre, Belgium
-ID: 462
Date: 3/31/1990
-Description: Night. Lucien
-Clerebaut (secretary general of the Belgian UFO group SOBEPS), film
-director Patrick Ferryn, and
-José Fernandez take four photos, using high-sensitivity film, of one of
-the triangular objects passing directly overhead about 19 miles
-southeast of Brussels, Belgium. Ferryn estimates its altitude is only
-1,000 feet with a diameter six times that of the full moon. As a
-control, he photographs an ordinary airplane several minutes later in
-the same spot, using all the same camera settings. The spotlights on the
-UFO, which seemed very bright to the observers, are barely discernible
-on the photos. The triangular shape, clearly visible to the naked eye,
-is also lost on the film. At the same time, the airplane lights come out
-brighter than those on the UFO, appearing just the way it looked from
-the ground, even though the UFO was much closer to the observers than
-the airplane. Lab experiments show that this is probably due to the
-effect of infrared light around the UFO. (Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “Un
-OVNI sur le Radar du F16,” Paris-Match, July 5, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6864
Date: early 4/1990
-Description: Many observers, including a journalist with Sovetskaya
-Estoniya, see UFOs hovering above power lines along the Tallinn Highway,
-Estonia, on several occasions. Maj. V. Stroynetskiy and several hundred
-other witnesses repeatedly observe UFOs over the Yaroslavl Highway in
-Russia, many of which look like large “triangular milk cartons.” The
-objects are flying at altitudes of 1,600–2,600 feet. At times, the
-entire body of an object “scintillates,” while at other times it becomes
-iridescent with “lights of various colors.” The objects fly at great
-speeds, make sudden stops in mid-air, and suddenly break off in lateral
-directions from the line of flight, “at which time they emitted rays.”
-(Central Intelligence Agency, “USSR:
-UFO Sightings No. 2—General Maltsev Comments,”
-Foreign Broadcast Information Service PROD Group, May 24, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6865
Date: 4/4/1990
-Description: Patrick Maréchal, a young worker at Petit-Rechain, Belgium,
-takes a photo of a delta-shaped object on which three lights are visible
-at each corner. Maréchal admits the photo is a hoax in an interview for
-RTL on July 26, 2011. He and some friends take a sheet of Styrofoam, cut
-it into a triangle, paint it black, embed a flashlight in each corner,
-then hang it from a string. Maréchal shows reporters many trial photos
-they had taken trying to get the perfect look. (Wikipedia, “Belgian
-UFO wave”; NICAP, “Petit-Rechain,
-Belgium Photo”; “Classic Belgian Photos a Fake?” IUR 34, no. 1
-(September 2011): 6; Wim van Utrecht, “Battle
-over Belgian UFOs,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 292 (August 1992): 20;
-Wim van Utrecht, “Famous
-Belgian UFO Photo a Hoax,” Caelestia; Kean, pp. 29–31;
-Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Wave and the Photos of Ramillies”; Patrick
-Ferryn, “La
-photo de
-Petit-Rechain: Un état de la question,” Inforespace, no. 111
-(December 2005): 4–21; André Marion, “Nouvelle analyse
-de la diapositive de Petit-Rechain,” Inforespace, no. 111 (December
-2005): 22–27; Benôit Mussche, “Le rapport
-SeerSight,” Inforespace, no. 111 (December 2005): 28–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6866
Date: 4/5/1990
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A motorist driving near the shore at Gulf Breeze,
-Florida, sees what looks like a jet fighter about to crash. Two military
-jets approach from the north, and the original object immediately shoots
-laterally southward, halting 1–2 miles away. The man gets out of his car
-to watch. The object appears to be a white disc with red and green
-lights spaced evenly around the side and an unlit dome on top. Slowly,
-it begins to rise. He calls a friend and the sheriff’s office. Two
-deputies arrive on the scene, and for the next 2 hours all three
-witnesses watch a bright light continue to ascend slowly. (MUFON UFO
-Journal, May 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6867
Date: 4/10/1990
-Description: A triangular UFO is seen for 10 minutes over Abakan,
-Republic of Khakassia, Russia. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The
-Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain,
-Quadrillion, 1998, p. 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6869
Date: 4/10/1990
-Description: A couple driving north on the Pensacola Bay Bridge in
-Florida see an object that looks like a long isosceles triangle with a
-centered red light on the bottom and pairs of white lights at the three
-apexes. As they near the end of the bridge in Pensacola, the object
-moves toward the west. It hovers, then moves off over the bay and out of
-sight. (Dan Wright, “Current
-Case Log,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 (August 1990): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6868
Date: 4/11/1990
-Description: Evening. Several residents of Gulf Breeze, Florida, watch a
-red light move toward the southwest and out into the Gulf of Mexico
-before winking out. Some think they can see clusters of balloons
-associated with the light, but others disagree. (MUFON UFO Journal, June
-1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6870
Date: 4/12/1990
-End date: 4/13/1990
-Description: Night. Two witnesses see a bright red light hovering above
-Little Sabine Island off Pensacola Beach, Florida. It stays there for
-several minutes before blinking out. It reappears the next night to the
-west of Gulf Breeze. (MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6871
Date: 4/14/1990
-Description: At least seven people report a red light to the north of
-Gulf Breeze, Florida. It approaches from the east at high speed and
-comes to a dead stop. It hovers, moves back and forth several times,
-then ascends out of sight. Other red lights appear and are seen in
-various locations around Pensacola by other groups of people. Some of
-these sightings are undoubtedly hoax balloons. (MUFON UFO Journal, June
-1990; Dan Wright, “Current
-Case Log,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 (August 1990): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6872
Date: 4/22/1990
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Two workers in a factory courtyard
-in Basècles, Belgium, watch two enormous spotlights illuminate the area.
-A huge trapezoid-shaped “platform” moves slowly and silently above a
-smokestack, at one point covering the entire courtyard, 330 by 200 feet.
-They observe six lights on the object, which is grayish. Structures on
-the bottom of the platform look like “an aircraft carrier turned upside
-down.” (Kean, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6873
Date: 4/26/1990
-Description: Mikhail
-Gorbachev is visiting the Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk, Russia, when
-he is asked for the first time whether the USSR studies UFOs. He answers
-vaguely that “there are scientific organizations which study this
-problem.” However, he later tells a group of workers that the “UFO
-phenomenon is real and we should approach it seriously and study it.”
-(Pravda, April 27, 1990; Sovetskaya Molodezh, May 4, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6874
Date: 5/4/1990
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A retired archaeologist in Stockay, Liège,
-Belgium, is about to return home after checking his greenhouse when he
-hears neighborhood dogs barking. He sees, in a field about 325 feet away
-from him, a pyramidal or conical illuminated object topped by a “bright
-white mushroom cone” floating about 1 foot off the ground. He approaches
-to about 165 feet and watches the object change color from white to
-orange as its upper part rises. He calls his wife to watch the UFO too.
-She sees two small antennas on top. They leave to get their son, but
-when they return the object is gone. The next day, he finds four
-circular holes about 3 feet in diameter with a thin layer of yellowish
-powder sprayed on the grass. Some days later, the traces vanish after a
-rainstorm. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR
-16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6875
Date: 5/21/1990
-Description: A joint Russian and Chinese endeavor to study UFOs is
-initiated in Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia. An agreement is made to
-share videos and photos of new sightings. (Central Intelligence Agency,
-“USSR,
-PRC Scientists
-in Joint Study of UFO’s,” May 21, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6876
Date: 5/24/1990
-Description: Dark, delta-shaped object with large white lights around
-edge hovered. Departed at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: North Huntingdon, PA
-ID: 463
Date: 5/25/1990
-Description: Day. A giant reddish-orange disc some 980 feet in diameter
-and with portholes around its rim is seen hovering at an altitude of
-3,300 feet above Mary, Turkmenistan. Col. Anatoly Kurkchy, chief of the
-Air Defense Division of the Russian 12th Army, orders three
-ground-to-air missiles fired at it. The UFO makes a slight horizontal
-maneuver, and three beams of light coming from its port side destroy the
-missiles. Kurkchy then scrambles two jet interceptors, but at a point
-about 3,200 feet from the disc, the jets are allegedly thrown to the
-ground and destroyed, killing the four pilots. Kurkchy is removed from
-his post and transferred to a remote location. (Good Need, pp. 356–357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6877
Date: 6/1990
-Description: Raymond
-E. Fowler continues his exploration of the Betty
-Andreasson Luca abduction case in The Watchers, which reveals that
-Luca is often having an out-of-body experience during her abductions.
-She sometimes encounters human-like entities with blonde hair, blue
-eyes, and white robes who are apparently “in charge” of the other
-aliens. Luca feels that the human race is being “watched” by these
-beings, who tell her they foresee serious problems in the future
-regarding the survivability of the human species. (Raymond E. Fowler, The
-Watchers: The Secret
-Design behind UFO Abduction, Bantam,
-1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6878
Date: 6/5/1990
-Description: Robert
-Lazar is arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, for aiding and abetting a
-prostitution ring. The charge is reduced to felony pandering, to which
-he pleads guilty on June 18. At sentencing on August 20, he is ordered
-to do 150 hours of community service, stay away from brothels, and
-undergo psychotherapy.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6879
Date: 6/10/1990
-Description: Reporter Craig
-Myers announces in the Pensacola (Fla.) News-Journal that a foam UFO
-model, seemingly a prototype for a fake UFO, has been found by new
-homeowners in the attic of the former residence of Gulf Breeze, Florida,
-UFO photographer Ed Walters. Myers writes a series of articles showing
-how Walters likely hoaxes some photos using a double-exposure technique.
-In late June, Tom Smith Jr., 22, a former Gulf Breeze resident, comes
-forward and claims that he has seen Walters fake some of the photos, the
-entire Walters family is in on the hoax, and they had tried to enlist
-his help unsuccessfully. Investigators apply a voice stress analysis
-(VSA) test to Smith’s taped testimony, which he passes. A controlled VSA
-test has also been successfully applied to testimony by Ed Walters, in
-which he denies perpetrating a hoax. (Craig Myers, “Gulf
-Breeze UFO
-Model Found,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 10, 1990, pp. 1,
-8; Craig Myers, “I
-Saw UFO Photos Faked, Witness
-Says,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 17, 1990, pp. 1, 4; UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no.
-252 (July 1990): 1–6; Geoff Price, “Lie Detection in UFO Controversies,”
-IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 31; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about
-Polygraphs,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6880
Date: summer 1990
-Description: The crew of a Russia ship harbored in the Anadyr’ River off
-Ust-Belaya, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, sees a perfectly circular
-opening in the cumulus clouds above the village. Groups of objects enter
-the circle and fly away. Watch officer Aleksandr Polorotov begins taking
-photos of them until his camera malfunctions. When the film is
-developed, a luminous cigar-shaped object can be seen on some of the
-photos, but the open circle of sky is not on any of them. Some crew
-members experience severe headaches after the episode. (Stonehill and
-Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 109–110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6881
Date: 7/6/1990
-Description: Day. Anna Dmitrievna Yerygina is herding goats on a
-lonesome road near Zvarykino, Belgorod Oblast, Russia, when a woman
-appears, seemingly out of thin air. Dressed in a light-gray,
-loose-fitting outfit with a hood, she seems somewhat tall and lean. The
-woman greets her and asks whether goats’ milk is tasty. Yerygina says it
-is, but she prefers cows’ milk. The woman then abruptly invites her on a
-brief excursion that will last no longer than three hours, touching her
-on the shoulder and saying, “Do not be afraid.” She takes Yerygina to a
-large oval craft in a nearby field, A man awaits them and helps them
-aboard. Yerygina sits in the dimly lit interior, then suddenly finds
-herself in another room with others dressed in the same gray coveralls.
-She feels as if she has been transported to another world. The entities
-radiate spiritual warmth and hospitality. One of them offers her some
-tasty bread and a strange liquid. After she finishes the meal, her
-memory goes blank and she finds herself back in the field with her
-goats, the strange woman by her side. The woman says goodbye with a
-smile, promising to meet her again. (Priyma Alexey, XX
-vek. Hronika Neobyasnimogo: Fenomen za fenomenom, AST Olympus, 2000;
-Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November
-2015): 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6882
Date: 7/9/1990
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A witness is traveling toward Germany and makes a
-stop east of Brzózka near the bridge over the Bóbr River southwest of
-Krosno, Poland. He goes for a short walk in the woods when he hears an
-odd sound and sees a landed object like an overturned bowl. He estimates
-it is nearly 17 feet across and 80 feet tall, and has a nauseating odor
-like burned chocolate. About 15 entities resembling mummies are in front
-of the UFO, poking plants with a prod and hopping about like kangaroos.
-They are about 4.5 feet tall and wear deep-green uniforms and headgear
-like welding masks. Their fingers resemble claws. At some point the
-witness coughs and loses consciousness, waking up an hour later. (Poland
-82; “Bliskie
-spotkanie w Brzózce w 1990 roku,” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 12,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6883
Date: 7/11/1990
-Description: Belgian Air Force Col. Wilfred De Brouwer gives a public
-talk on UFOs at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He states that
-the March 30–31 sightings were highly unusual, witnessed by gendarmes
-and others, and necessitated the scrambling of two F-16 fighters. He
-says the target was detected on radar and conformed to ground visual
-observations. The objects remain unidentified. (Swords 457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6884
Date: 7/19/1990
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. The base perimeter at Fort
-Allen Training Center in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, is suddenly
-illuminated by a powerful white light. An officer orders that all
-personnel must remain in the barracks or other base facilities and not
-come out under any circumstances. From a window, the officer can see a
-brightly lit, circular, metallic object over the base. It has windows
-around a central rim, with yellowish-white lights revolving in them. On
-the underside there is a round, turbine-like protrusion with many
-colored lights around it. A bright beam of pinkish-white light is coming
-from the underside, as if searching for something—this is the light
-illuminating the perimeter. Two F/A-18 Hornets (probably scrambled from
-Roosevelt Roads Naval Station) fly at high speed over the base toward
-the UFO, which departs at high speed to the west with the jets in
-pursuit. The officer later tells UFO investigators that Fort Allen
-personnel have been briefed on UFOs with training films that show
-crashed UFOs, and it is just the most recent of several briefings since
-the 1988 Cabo Rojo incident. (Good Need, pp. 380–381)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6885
Date: 7/26/1990
-Description: 10:35 p.m. A married couple is driving south through
-Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium, when they see a triangular object hovering in
-the sky. It seems to measure about 39 feet on each side. A belt of white
-light like a large neon tube runs along two sides. The witnesses see
-three spotlights beaming down, apparently detached from the object but
-connected to each other by a support “bracket.” Two flashing lights, one
-red and one green, are on the underside. The man flashes his car lights
-twice, and two white lights at the base of the triangle rotate, tilt
-toward the car, and flash on and off three times. Keeping these lights
-pointed at the moving car, the object moves with its base forward and
-positions itself 330 feet away at a height of 200–300 feet, It makes a
-banking turn and paces the car, moving with the terrain and maintaining
-a constant height above the sloping ground at the same speed as the car
-(around 40 mph). When they approach the bridge at Seraing, the object
-crosses the Meuse River right next to them, ascending silently and
-moving back toward Grâce-Hollogne. (Kean, pp. 32–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6886
Date: 8/2/1990
-End date: 1/17/1991
-Description: Operation Desert Shield
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Iraq
Date: early 8/1990
-Description: Many witnesses in Rostock, Greifswald, and the islands of
-Rügen and Usedom, Germany, see groups of luminous spheres that
-accelerate rapidly and abruptly. One witness, Gerald Schwab, watches the
-lights stand still for 3 minutes before they accelerate rapidly forward.
-(Illobrand von Ludwiger, “The
-‘Greifswald Lights,’” MUFON Central European Section, May
-2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6887
Date: 8/4/1990
-Description: Day. Two hikers near the A9 near Calvine, Perthshire,
-Scotland, see a diamond-shaped object that appears to be shadowed by an
-RAF Harrier jet. The object is visible for about 10 minutes. One of the
-hikers takes color photographs of the incident. Desk officers from DI55
-suspect the image might show a US Air Force black project aircraft. The
-prints are sent to the Glasgow Daily Record newspaper, which forwards
-them to the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre at RAF Brampton
-[now closed] for scrutiny. The prints subsequently disappear and the MoD
-claims there is no surviving record of the conclusions reached about the
-investigation. However, in October 2020 the Ministry of Defence blocks
-release of the photos from their scheduled declassification on January
-1, 2021, until 2072 without any explanation. Former MoD official Nick
-Pope, one of the few people to see the photos and the analysis, says
-the photos are authentic and show a material device of unknown origin
-that has no wings, no fuselage, no tail, no visible engine, and bears no
-inscription. Compared to elements in the landscape, the object appears
-to be about 98 feet in diameter. The British government continues to
-deny that its US ally has ever been allowed to operate experimental
-aircraft in UK airspace, but David
-Clarke discovers that a dossier of evidence was shared with US
-intelligence after the British expressed “concern about a possible
-stealthy platform flying in UK airspace.” A 1992 letter from the British
-Defence Staff in Washington, D.C., reveals that one of the Calvine
-photos was brought to the US by British Intelligence officials to be
-examined by their US counterparts. (UFOFiles2, pp. 148–149;
-Paul Sims, “Alien
-Mystery: Government Bans Release of Secret
-UFO Dossier about Calvine for 50 Years,” Scottish Sun, October 10,
-2020; Nick Pope, “‘Dark
-Forces’: I’ve
-Seen Top Secret Photos of Calvine UFO Sighting—It Left Me
-Shell-Shocked,” Scottish Sun, October 10, 2020; David Ramasseul, “Ovni
-de Calvine: L’interminable secret,” Paris Match, October 13, 2020;
-David Clarke, “The Jox Files: Was a US ‘Special Project’ Captured on
-Film in Scotland?” Fortean Times 409 (September 2021): 52–53; Simon
-Houston, “What
-Was the Calvine UFO Sighting and Are the Photos Real?” Scottish Sun,
-May 2, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6888
Date: 8/24/1990
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Many witnesses in northern Germany see a
-formation of seven luminous objects over the Baltic Sea. They hover for
-nearly 30 minutes near Peenemünde (on Usedom) and the Soviet-built
-nuclear power plant at Lubmin [shut down soon afterward]. Five people,
-including nuclear physicist Ludmilla Ivanova, videotape the event from
-Greifswald, enabling researchers to triangulate the lights and
-reconstruct their positions. Ufologist Illobrand
-von Ludwiger’s group MUFON-Central European Section obtains 6 videos
-and 11 photos from different observers and interviews more than a dozen
-witnesses. They conclude that two groups of luminous spheres hovered
-nearly motionless for about 30 minutes over the sea. The brighter and
-closer group forms a circle of 6 spheres. The second group is in the
-shape of a “Y,” with some spheres performing individual movements. Some
-of them move back and forth between the two groups. They are able to
-move extremely fast, estimated by one witness as “supersonic velocity,”
-then come to an abrupt stop when reaching the formation. (Jacques
-Vallée, “Estimates
-of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with
-Defined Luminosity Characteristics,”
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 356–357; Illobrand
-von Ludwiger, “The ‘Greifswald
-Lights,’” MUFON Central European Section, May 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6889
Date: 9/1990
-Description: US journalist Tim
-Weiner publishes Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget, based on
-his articles on black-budget spending at the Pentagon and CIA for the
-Philadelphia Inquirer. Weiner shows that the funding is classified above
-top secret and that few, if any, federal oversight investigators have
-the security clearances to audit this budget. He estimates its size as
-at least $35 billion (although by 2012 is has increased to $52.8
-billion, according to information revealed by Edward
-Snowden), three times the estimated total of what it was in 1981.
-(Tim Weiner, Blank
-Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget, Warner, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6891
Date: 9/1990
-Description: New York Times journalist Howard
-Blum publishes Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for
-Extraterrestrials, describing his investigation—after a tip given him by
-a National Security Agency official—of a mysterious agency called the
-UFO Working Group, a top secret, interagency body headed by “Col. Harold
-E. Phillips” of the Defense Intelligence Agency (actually a pseudonym
-for Col. John
-B. Alexander). Founded in 1987, according to Blum, after a flurry of
-suppressed UFO sightings, including the tracking on radar of a UFO by
-the US Space Command Space Surveillance Center, the UFO Working Group,
-calling on CIA, FBI, and other resources, has come up with nothing
-solid. It has, however, dug into many of the major events of ufology.
-Blum also claims that NORAD deep-space radars (the Defense Satellite
-Program) have tracked about 500 UFOs (fastwalkers) entering Earth’s
-atmosphere every year. (Howard Blum, Out
-There: The Government’s Secret Quest for
-Extraterrestrials, Simon
-& Schuster, 1990; Mark Rodeghier, “In the Black,” IUR 15, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1990): 9–11, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6890
Date: 9/2/1990
-Description: Early morning. Residents of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, see a
-large illuminated ball above the Arctic Ocean. It is at a high altitude,
-gives off no electronic signals, and moves slowly toward the Kola
-Peninsula. Soviet Air Defense thinks it resembles a large airship.
-Finally, the order is given to destroy it, and it turns out to be an
-enormous weather balloon. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Airship-Like
-UFO Sighted over Murmansk,” September 4, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6892
Date: 9/13/1990
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. A Soviet radar unit in
-Samara, Russia, tracks an approaching object that apparently causes the
-equipment to malfunction and go blank. Going outside, the operators see
-a flying black triangle giving off three bright rays pass directly
-overhead at no more then 30 feet. It lands nearby and gives off more
-bursts of energy for 90 minutes. Cpl. S. Dudnik sees it knock out a
-radar aerial with a light beam. Two sentries, A. Blazhis and A.
-Varenitsa, allegedly disappear and reappear with no memory of the event
-and without realizing they have been missing. The ground where they were
-standing guard seems to be blasted by an explosion. Their wrist watches
-are running nearly 2 hours slow. Capt. D. Rudzit tells a military
-reporter from Za Rodinu who is investigating the incident that nothing
-has happened. In November, Deputy Minister of Defense Gen. Ivan Tretiak
-claims the incident was all a newspaper hoax. (Paul Stonehill and Philip
-Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron
-Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 50; Good Need, pp. 358–360, 364)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6893
Date: 9/19/1990
-Description: The KNM
-Stavanger has a sonar contact with an unknown “U-boat” in the
-Norwegian Sea off Ona lighthouse, Husøya, Norway. The ship sends
-international warning signals but gets no response, so it drops hand
-grenades into the water. At 5:30 p.m., it shoots off three Terne
-rockets. The sonar contact ends, and the next day the search is called
-off. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects
-in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13, 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6894
Date: 9/27/1990
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Cosmonauts Gennady
-Manakov and Gennadi
-Strekalov are aboard the Mir space
-station. When Strekalov is looking down at Newfoundland through a clear
-atmosphere, he sees a glittering, iridescent, perfect sphere. He calls
-Manakov and together they study the object. Strekalov says it “shone
-like the balls that hang on trees at Christmas, greenish in color and
-all shimmering.” It appears to be 12–18 miles above the Earth. They
-watch it for 10 seconds when it disappears abruptly. (Central
-Intelligence Agency, “Take
-1 of 3—Foreign Press
-Note—FB PN 91-014—USSR,” January 11, 1991; Good Need, p. 360;
-2Pinotti 119–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6895
Date: 10/1/1990
-Description: William Scott writes an article in Aviation Week on 45
-sightings of strange aircraft over the southwestern part of the United
-States. Some of the objects move as slowly as 20 mph, then accelerate to
-supersonic speed. He concludes that there are at least two types of
-vehicles beyond the F-117A and B-2. One is a “triangular-shaped, quiet
-aircraft seen with a flight of F-117A stealth fighters several times
-since the summer of 1989.” Another is a “high-speed aircraft
-characterized by a very deep rumbling roar.” A third is a high-altitude,
-high-speed aircraft, typically observed as a bright, pulsating light,
-moving much faster than other aircraft, giving no engine noise or sonic
-boom. He also writes about some “exotic” propulsion systems used in new
-aircraft and comes very close to stating that these might be antigravity
-devices. (William Scott, “Multiple
-Sightings of Secret Aircraft Hint at New Propulsion,
-Airframe Designs,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, October 1,
-1990, pp. 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6896
Date: 10/8/1990
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Near Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, an unidentified
-target appears on ground radar screens. Commander S. Prokoshin orders an
-interceptor jet scrambled and pilot Maj. P. Riabishev takes off in
-pursuit. Something makes him turn his head and he sees to his right rear
-two large, cigar-shaped objects. The length of the first is about 6,500
-feet and the second about 1,300 feet. They are too distant to make out
-details. When he starts closing on them, both disappear from his field
-of vision, although ground radar continues to track them. (Central
-Intelligence Agency, “Take
-1 of 3—Foreign Press Note—FB PN 91-014—USSR,” January 11, 1991; Good
-Need, pp. 360–361)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6897
Date: 10/10/1990
-Description: Formations of white objects with red and green body lights
-alternately hovered and darted around. Unidentified objects also tracked
-on radar
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Skibo, MN
-ID: 464
Date: 10/14/1990
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Frau Wengere and her husband are driving from
-Lostorf to Zürich, Switzerland, when she sees two motionless, bright
-white lights ahead of them to the left over a range of mountains. Her
-husband can’t stop because there is no place to pull over. The lights of
-an approaching aircraft are much smaller and paler. They lose sight of
-the lights while driving through a village, but they see them again a
-little higher in the sky to the right of the road. A third light is now
-visible a bit to the left of the others and they watch it moving closer
-to the other two lights, which move from a 45° angle to horizontal,
-keeping the same space between them. The witnesses see two chains of red
-and green lights joining the two. They drive on and lose sight of the
-lights. (Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3
-(May/June 1991): 11, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6898
Date: late 1990
-Description: A US Army captain is stationed in the Iraqi desert with his
-unit during Operation Desert Shield. He is informed by a superior
-officer that his unit is not to fire on any objects that might appear
-within a specific, rather restricted, area of the sky. A few nights
-later, he and his men see several bright objects maneuvering in an
-extraordinary fashion. “We could not have shot them down if we had
-tried,” he said. He does not know what they are, although UFOs are
-primary suspects. (Dolan II 555)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6902
Date: 10/21/1990
-Description: 10:05 p.m. Mme. Henquinet and her 15-year-old son Stephane
-are at the intersection of NB47 and N30 near Rachamps, Belgium, when two
-lights suddenly drop toward them. But the lights disappear, and as they
-turn south on the N30, another light appears behind a hedge bordering
-the right-hand side of the road, about a dozen yards from the car. The
-light paces the car at the same speed, slowing down when she does. When
-they reach the end of the hedge, Mme. Henquinet brakes, and Stephane
-runs out of the car to look. They see a dark mass, more than 50 feet
-across, rise up rapidly and silently into the sky. On the lower part of
-the object is a circle of 7–8 lights. (Patrick Vidal and Michel
-Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6899
Date: 10/23/1990
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Four witnesses, ages 15–17, see an unusual object
-with very bright lights in Pepinster, Belgium. The have the impression
-that the object is taking off at a low altitude about 1,640 feet away.
-The object moves silently to the northeast, displaying on its lower part
-three bright white lights in the form of a triangle. At the center of
-the triangle is a steady red light. The object is shaped like a pyramid
-with the apex pointing forward. The sighting lasts for about 30 seconds.
-(Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1991): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6901
Date: 10/23/1990
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A young woman in Athus, Belgium, wakes up, looks
-out the window, and sees a light 1,300 feet away on or just above a
-nearby hill. It consists of two bright headlights directed at her. A
-smaller blue light is between the two white ones. About 10 minutes
-later, the lights rise together and move in toward her. The ground below
-lights up as they pass. A few moments later, the object passes silently
-over her house. She notices a small red light on its underside. The
-object then veers left in the direction of Luxembourg and disappears in
-the distance. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,”
-IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6900
Date: 11/3/1990
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies and the Santa Barbara Centre for
-Humanistic Studies cosponsor a conference on “The UFO Phenomenon in the
-1990s” at the Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, California. (“The UFO
-Phenomenon in the 1990s,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6903
Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: Around 6:00 p.m. The pilot and copilot of a British Airways
-flight from Rome to Gatwick Airport notice a large, silver-shaped object
-over the North Sea. They bring two crew members into the cockpit to
-observe it with them. Ground radar sees nothing unusual. (Nick Redfern,
-A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997,
-p. 169; Good Need, pp. 382–383)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6904
Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: 7:00 p.m. French pilot Jean-Gabriel Greslé is standing
-outside a gym in Gretz-Armainvilliers, Seine-et- Marne, France, with six
-of his martial arts students when a massive UFO comes into view. His
-first impression is of a huge crane with many lights. It is about 2,600
-feet away at an altitude of 985 feet, moving downward. Another witness
-sees it level off and turn. It is projecting two very long, divergent
-beams of solid light that do not quite touch the ground. The object
-itself is at least 1,000 feet long and 200–250 feet thick with
-triangular substructures and many lights. Its rear section is
-trapezoidal. When it flies above them at no more than 100 mph, t somehow
-tunes out all surrounding noise as if carrying a “zone of silence.” As
-Greslé moves around a tree to view it better, it dims and moves away,
-disappearing into a cloud. (Good Need, p. 382)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6906
Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two different explosions are heard in the area
-around RAF Rhendahlen in Mönchengladbach West, North Rhein–Westphalia,
-Germany. Two RAF Phantom jets are performing practice intercepts under
-strict radar control. After the second explosion at 10:00 p.m., one of
-the crews sees UFOs heading north in “finger” formation. (Paul
-Whitehead, “Special
-Report to FSR (May 1991),” Flying Saucer Review 36, no. 2 (Summer
-1991): 10; Good Need, pp. 383–384)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6907
Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: Night. Witnesses report a large, cigar-shaped object, some
-accompanied by spheres, over many localities in southern Poland.
-Hundreds of people in Opole see a group of 15–20 spheres emitting bright
-trails. (Poland 73– 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6908
Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two RAF Tornados over the North Sea encounter two
-large round objects, each with five blue lights and several white lights
-around the rim. As the jets close to investigate, one of the UFOs heads
-for one of the jets, which is forced to take evasive action. The two
-objects then head north and disappear. Nothing shows up on the jets’
-radar. Commercial aircraft also report odd lights over the North Sea.
-Other high-speed contacts take place along the border of Germany and
-southern Belgium. (Paul Whitehead, “Special
-Report to FSR (May 1991),”
-Flying Saucer Review 36, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 10; Good Need, pp. 383–384;
-Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 177;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 140–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6905
Date: 11/7/1990
-Description: 7:15 p.m. An American woman tourist is swimming in the
-rooftop pool of the International Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in downtown
-Montreal, Quebec, when she sees a yellowish, oval object hovering
-directly overhead. Other hotel guests come to view it, as well as the
-pool lifeguard, who describes it as “a lighted object with six lights on
-the perimeter of a large circle with a ray of light emitted from each
-one.” Municipal police and the RCMP are called and they also view the
-UFO. Around 9:00 p.m., Marcel Laroche, a journalist from La Presse,
-takes some photos. The object disappears around 10:10 p.m. due to
-increasing cloud cover. Other people around the city and at the airport
-also report seeing unusual lights. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman,
-The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 172–174; Wim van
-Utrecht, “Large
-Stationary Object over Montreal,”
-Caelestia, September 28, 2007; “OVNI
-du Hilton-Bonaventure (17 Nov 1990),” Réseau OVNI Alerte / UFO-Alert
-Network Facebook page, November 7, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6909
Date: 11/9/1990
-Description: Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense Ivan
-Tretyak speaks with a writer from Literaturnaya Gazeta and confirms
-that fighter-interceptors have encountered UFOs in Russian air space.
-However, most are explainable as natural phenomena, rocket launches, or
-satellites. He admits that some pilots report UFOs apparently of
-artificial origin, but their real nature remains unknown. (Central
-Intelligence Agency, “Take
-1 of 2—Foreign Press Note— FB
-PN 91-003—USSR,” January 5, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6910
Date: 11/22/1990
-Description: 5:28 a.m. Mme. Bouffioux is lying awake in bed at her home
-in Fleurus, Belgium, when she senses an intense light. She looks out the
-window, which is covered in vapor, and sees the light about 80 feet away
-behind the wall bordering her neighbor’s garden and in an abandoned
-field. After a while, the light turns off, and she sees bluish flashes
-erupting from a spot to the right of where the object was last seen.
-(Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1991): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6911
Date: 12/9/1990
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Mme. Cortvriendt and her husband are at the
-Waterloo exit of the Brussels Ring Road near Belle-Vue, Belgium, when
-they see a luminous triangle off to the right at an altitude of 160
-feet. On its circumference are a multitude of white lights that are
-“bright as diamonds.” Stretching from the center of the object are four
-brass-colored arms in the shape of a cross. They lose sight of it as it
-travels away from them to the northeast. (Patrick Vidal and Michel
-Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6912
Date: 1991
-Description: Milton
-William Cooper publishes Behold a Pale Horse, an elaborate
-collection of conspiracy theories and a manifesto of the militia
-movement. According to sociologist Paul
-Gilroy, Cooper claims to explain the “Kennedy assassination, the
-doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety
-of other covert activities associated with the Illuminati’s declaration
-of war upon the people of America.” Political scientist Michael
-Barkun characterizes it as “among the most complex superconspiracy
-theories” and one of the most influential due to its popularity in
-militia circles as well as mainstream bookstores. Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke describes
-the book as a “chaotic farrago of conspiracy myths interspersed with
-reprints of executive laws, official papers, reports, and other
-extraneous materials designed to show the looming prospect of a world
-government imposed on the American people against their wishes and in
-flagrant contempt of the Constitution.” (Milton William Cooper, Behold
-a Pale Horse, Light Technology, 1991; Wikipedia, “Milton William
-Cooper”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6913
Date: 1991
-Description: Mark
-Rodeghier, Jeff
-Goodpaster, and Sandra Blatterbauer conduct a study on the psychosocial
-characteristics of 27 abductees for the Center for UFO Studies in
-Chicago, Illinois. They conclude from the data that the subjects cannot
-be classified as fantasy-prone personalities or as especially
-hypnotically responsive. However, a cluster analysis of MMPI scales
-reveals two types of abductees, one with higher fantasy-prone scores,
-more loneliness as adults, lower levels of happiness, more problems
-sleeping, and a greater incidence of sexual abuse as children. (Mark
-Rodeghier, Jeff Goodpaster, and Sandra Blatterbauer, “Psychosocial
-Characteristics of Abductees: Results from the CUFOS Abduction Project,”
-JUFOS 3 (1991): 59–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6914
Date: 1991
-Description: Psychic Sean
-David Morton begins going to Area 51 in Nevada. He and a friend tape
-a glowing, disc-shaped object that approaches within a few hundred
-yards. Several times it shoots up then descends with a falling-leaf
-motion. They return with burned faces and mild radiation poisoning.
-Morton later shoots more video showing glowing objects with
-extraordinary acceleration and maneuverability. Area 51 insiders
-allegedly contact him, including someone who claims he transported large
-disc-like and bell-shaped objects that he concludes are alien. He speaks
-of numerous underground levels, alien bodies in liquid tanks, and even
-several humanoid aliens from the Pleiades. Later Morton leads tours
-around Area 51 and suggests that the aliens there are from “Krondac,” a
-planet 800 light-years away. Morton is the subject of an article by the
-website UFO Watchdog, “The Shameless Psychic and His Prophecy of Lies.”
-which throws doubt on many of his claims. Morton sues the site for libel
-but the case is dismissed. In 2010, Morton and his wife are charged with
-securities fraud by the SEC. In February 2013, Morton is ordered by a
-judge to pay $11.5 million to the SEC within 14 days. They are arrested
-in 2016 and begin serving federal sentences in 2017. (Wikipedia, “Sean
-David Morton”; Carole Masciola, “Mysterious Earthlings
-Scour the Desert for Space Alien Tourists,” Seattle Times, May 2,
-1993; Royce Myers III, “The Shameless
-Psychic and His Prophecy of Lies,” February 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6915
Date: 1991
-Description: The Argentine Ministry of Defense creates a small office
-devoted to the study of UFO sightings within the Instituto de
-Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de las Fuerzas Armadas, a federal
-agency in charge of scientific research and development. It lasts until
-1997. (Milton W. Hourcade, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,”
-UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6916
Date: 1991
-Description: Visión Ovni, a national UFO research organization, is
-launched in Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina, by Silvia Pérez Simondini.
-(Wikipedia, “Visión
-Ovni”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6917
Date: 1991
-Description: The Soviet Union launches the Thread III Project, a
-wide-ranging scientific and technical analysis of unusual space
-phenomena conducted by more than 15 separate military units, scientific
-institutes, and the Ministry of Defense. The organization driving it is
-an ambiguously named group called Soveit Military Unit 73790.
-(Skinwalkers 115–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6918
Date: 1/1991
-Description: The SOS-OVNI group (formerly Association d’Étude sur les
-Soucoupes Volantes) begins publishing Phénomèna, edited by Perry
-Petrakis, in Aix-en-Provence, France. It continues through 2001. (Phénomèna 1,
-no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1991))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6919
Date: 1/6/1991
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Four family members driving along the E411
-motorway near Spontin, Belgium, watch a gigantic, plate-shaped UFO with
-many lights and a cupola pass overhead heading northwest. At 6:30 p.m.,
-a family driving south on the A4 in Beez, Belgium, see three lights
-attached to an object hovering above a quarry. An army veteran named
-Hardy estimates the UFO to be about 260 feet long and 30–50 feet high,
-with the forward three lights in the form of a rectangle and a red light
-on the lower rear end. The bottom part is bulged out and dark gray in
-color. On the side, 15 portholes are lit up in white light. After
-parking their car on the side of the road, the witnesses watch the
-object for another minute or so. As soon as Hardy turns on his
-headlights, the object moves away to the northeast. (Patrick Vidal and
-Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991):
-8, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6920
Date: 1/13/1991
-Description: U.S. Air flight crew saw a rectangular, light-reflective
-object that flew into clouds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pittsburgh, PA
-ID: 465
Date: 2/1991
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A security camera at Birchwood Shopping Mall four
-miles east of Warrington, Cheshire, England, picks up a white light,
-seemingly tennis-ball sized, moving around an open walkway. It appears
-to inspect a garbage bin, climbs a wall, and at one point approaches the
-camera. The security guard zooms the camera in on it, revealing a white,
-doughnut shape. It flies away, hovering above a tree to the south, and
-vanishes. About 8 minutes has elapsed. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,”
-IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6921
Date: 2/6/1991 (approximate)
-Description: Evening. A woman is walking with two friends near the Etang
-de l’Ursine in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France, when they see a large
-and brilliant star in the west. At nightfall, they return to their
-homes. One, named Sylvia, who lives on the Rue Alexis Maneyrol, goes
-back to look for the star and notices now that it is moving in a
-triangular motion. While walking back through the woods, she is struck
-by a beam. Suddenly, she is enveloped by a beam of light that seems to
-be trying to trap her, but she escapes back to her house. She goes to
-sleep but is surprised by an intruder in her house, a small figure in a
-watery-green cosmonaut suit who points to a screen showing the interior
-of a spaceship. The screen and figure dissolve. The next day, near a bus
-stop, she sees a strange figure wearing a cape who scowls at her
-terrifyingly. (Joël Mesnard, “A Failed Abduction at Chaville?” IUR 32,
-no. 3 (July 2009): 21–22, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6922
Date: 2/18/1991
-Description: Richard
-Haines meets with members of the Expert Group on Anomalous Phenomena
-of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow to discuss UFO events in the
-US and USSR. (Richard F. Haines, “UFO Activities in the Soviet Union,”
-IUR 16, no 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6923
Date: 2/22/1991
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Three youths driving home from a school reunion
-at Maids Moreton, Buckingham, England, see a white, cigar-shaped object
-glowing with numerous lights. It comes closer with an unsteady, jerky
-motion. They park the car in a field to watch the object, which
-approaches to within 100 feet. As they try to leave, their engine and
-headlights fail to respond. A brilliant beam of light envelops the car
-and they hear a faint humming sound. The light beam and sound disappear
-suddenly, along with the UFO, and they restart the car and drive away.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,”
-IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6924
Date: 2/28/1991
-Description: Operation Desert Storm
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Iraq
Date: 3/6/1991
-Description: (Maine to West Virginia). 2:50 to 3:00 A.M. Fireball
-meteor, green and red sparks, moving east or north.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern United States
-ID: 466
Date: 3/6/1991
-Description: 7:58 a.m. A glowing turquoise, cigar-shaped object on an
-easterly course crosses the path of Air Charter Flight 866 near
-Kingston, Ontario, stops ahead of the airliner, then proceeds to the
-north. (UFOEv II, 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6925
Date: 3/6/1991
-Description: 7:58 A.M. Glowing bluegreen cigar-shaped object crossed
-path of airliner
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 467
Date: 3/12/1991
-Description: On two occasions an object is seen over the Tihange Nuclear
-Power Station, Belgium. One witness reports a UFO directly above the red
-lights on one of the plant’s huge chimneys, where it hovers about 1
-minute, beaming one of its lights on the outside structure while another
-light points directly down one of the chimneys. After its inspection, it
-flies straight through the enormous white plume of steam before
-disappearing in the dark. (Kean, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6926
Date: 3/15/1991
-Description: Night. An electronic engineer in Auderghem, Belgium, wakes
-up and hears a barely audible, high-frequency, whistling tone. He looks
-outside and sees a large rectangular object at a low altitude with
-irregular structures on the bottom. He walks upstairs to an upper-level
-terrace and watches the dark-gray object drift overhead slowly without
-lights. The whistling noise has stopped. (Kean, pp. 31–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6927
Date: 3/18/1991
-Description: Captain Zho, the pilot of a regional airliner over Kunshan,
-Jiangsu, China, sees a ring-shaped object, two rectangular objects
-moving back and forth, and a red blaze of light coming from the ring.
-(UFOEv II, 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6928
Date: 3/31/1991
-Description: For two nights in a row a couple in Palmarejo, Puerto Rico,
-hears their two Dobermans howling as if frightened, apparently upset by
-a peculiar sound like a phonograph record played at the wrong speed. It
-seems to move around the house, but the sound source cannot be located.
-Suddenly one of the dogs shrieks, and the husband runs outside to find
-two strange beings on his patio. They are 3–4 feet tall, gray, with big
-heads, big black eyes, and a slit for a mouth. The beings flee. The
-female Doberman is unharmed, but the male is found killed, with empty
-eye sockets and internal organs missing. (Clark III 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6929
Date: 4/11/1991
-Description: 7:00–9:00 p.m. A bright, oval-shaped object that changes
-color from blue to red flies over the Complexo Penitenciário da Papuda,
-a federal prison in São Sebastião in the Federal District of Brasilia,
-Brazil. The object is seen by dozens of residents of the Lago Sul area
-and by more than 20 police officers on duty that night. The first to see
-the UFO is Lt. Damasceno of the Independent Company of the Military
-Police. He calls colleagues and is greeted with jokes. But he persuades
-them to go outside and see the UFO. He says the object is blue when
-vertical but turns red when it changes position. It appears to be no
-more than 1,650 feet above the prison. It flies up and down and
-horizontally without leaving a trace, and the intensity of its lights
-and colors vary. Carloads of people descend upon Papuda and dozens of
-people observe the UFO. After 100 minutes, a strange haze begins to
-engage the UFO, which disappears about 20 minutes later. Damasceno
-informs Sgt. Petronius, a CINDACTA flight controller, that he is seeing
-a “strong blue light that changed to red in the direction of three hours
-to the right.” Petronius is following the object on radar; it seems to
-be rectangular and moving at about 435 mph. CINDACTA confirms that the
-object has been tracked over much of the Lago Sul area and close to the
-Brasilia airport. Later, it identifies the object as a meteorological
-balloon, deemed an inadequate explanation by witnesses. (Clark III 874–
-875; Brazil 336–338)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6930
Date: 4/19/1991 (approximate)
-Description: Afternoon. Two militiamen on patrol in Almaty, Kazakhstan,
-notice a flare at the top of Kok Tobe Mountain. They watch flames go up
-and down and then see an array of red light beams. They drive to within
-650 feet of a hovering UFO. At that point, a few rays sweep across the
-car and it stops dead. The object then dims its lights and disappears.
-The men return to the police station but cannot recall how they did so.
-(Central Intelligence Agency, “Alma-Ata
-Patrolmen Report UFO Sighting,” from Tass, April 19, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6931
Date: 4/21/1991
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Captain Achille Zaghetti and his copilot are
-flying a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Alitalia airliner with 57 passengers.
-They are over the English Channel just off the coast of Romney, Kent,
-England, and preparing to land at Heathrow Airport, London, when they
-see a round object or missile, about 10 feet long, approaching from
-their left. It is less than 100 feet away. The control tower confirms a
-radar target, which is now behind them. The British Army denies firing
-any missiles. The British Civil Aviation Authority concludes that
-“extensive enquiries have failed to provide any indication of what the
-sighting may have been.” Nick
-Redfern notes that the description of the UFO is consistent with a
-pilotless drone of the type used for defense practice. (Clas Svahn and
-Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no.
-4 (July/Aug. 1994): 13–14; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy
-Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 170–172; Nick Pope, Open Skies,
-Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 196;
-“Britain
-Releases UFO Files, Dispels Some Mysteries,”
-KPIC, Roseburg, Oregon, October 19, 2008; UFOFiles2, pp. 135–137;
-2Pinotti 113–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6932
Date: 4/21/1991
-Description: Alitalia Airlines plane on final approach saw round object
-cross its path, confirmed by radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Heathrow Airport, London, UK
-ID: 468
Date: 4/21/1991
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 469
Date: 4/26/1991
-Description: A different security camera at Birchwood Shopping Mall near
-Warrington, Cheshire, England, records a similar object to the one
-detected in February in a location several hundred yards away. The
-camera records it for 20 minutes as it moves across the ground, passes
-by a road sign, climbs onto the roof of the mall, and vanishes in the
-sky above the M6 motorway. The camera operator lets the object enter the
-camera’s infrared spot beam, then switches the beam off; the light
-vanishes, then returns when the beam is turned back on. Investigators
-suspect that the light was caused by an insect interacting with the
-beam. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993):
-16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6933
Date: 5/1/1991
-End date: 5/7/1991
-Description: Wendelle
-C. Stevens holds the First World UFO Congress in Tucson, Arizona,
-which brings together UFO researchers, witnesses, and others from Spain,
-Italy, Japan, Russia, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Chile,
-Brazil, Canada, and the US. (2Pinotti 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6934
Date: 5/12/1991
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer Moisés Campelo is walking home from his
-brother’s house in Campo Redondo, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, when a
-bright light approaches and stops right above his head, spinning slowly.
-His eyes begin to burn and he feels paralyzed, as if he is being sucked
-into the light. He remains suspended under the light for about 5
-minutes, after which he is dropped to the ground. Campelo starts
-crawling home, but the light returns and levitates him again. This time
-he is suspended for 15 minutes before being dropped. He remains
-traumatized and sustains an eye injury. (Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone:
-Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, pp. 9–13;
-Brazil 340–342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6935
Date: 5/17/1991
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A nurse in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium, hears an
-intense hum and looks out her window to see a large triangular object
-moving slowly overhead. At the front of the triangle, there is a group
-of lights located symmetrically along the edges. They are grouped toward
-the front point of the triangle. At least four of these lights are white
-and flickering quickly, with approximately two lights on the left and on
-the right flickering each second, but never reproducing the same
-sequence. She thinks there is also a steady red light. Slightly back
-from the central axis, she sees a ray of light, inclined on 45°, coming
-from an opening that is larger than the diameter of the flickering
-lights. This beam projects to the ground onto the street, and traced a
-brief series of figure 8s. Suddenly, after 5 seconds the UFO instantly
-reappears far away, its blinking lights (but not the ray) still visible.
-(Vague d’OVNI sur la Belgique, Tome 2: Une énigme non-resolué, SOBEPS,
-1994, pp. 16–19; Patrick Gross, “The
-Belgium Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6936
Date: 5/22/1991
-Description: Col. Alvaro Fernández Rodas, head of the Flight Safety
-Section of the Spanish Air Staff (where the UFO archives are kept),
-issues an Informative Note to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force
-Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros titled “The UFO Archive and Its Possible
-Release.” The note is the result of meetings between Vicente- Juan
-Ballester Olmos, who
-is developing a catalog of UFO observations by military personnel and
-police officers; Maj. Ramón Alvarez Mateus, head of the Air Force Public
-Relations Office; and the Flight Safety Section. It mentions that no
-investigations have been made since 1980 and that since 1988 cases are
-not even archived. The note recommends that UFO cases be declassified.
-(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR
-18, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 13; Swords 424–425, 515)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6938
Date: 5/22/1991
-Description: A husband and wife in Nottingham, England, see an array of
-lights in an “elongated triangle” formation. The same object is seen 15
-minutes later by another man in the area. He estimates it is about 1,000
-feet high and gives off a low humming noise. (Nick Redfern, A Covert
-Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6937
Date: 6/1/1991
-Description: 2:38 p.m. A Britannia Airways Boeing 737 is descending for
-a landing at 8,000 feet near Heathrow Airport, London, England, when the
-pilots see an unknown object for 1–2 seconds through the windshield. It
-disappears rapidly on the left. The missile has a yellow-orange
-cylindrical body with a “wrinkled” appearance and is about 10 feet long.
-(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown
-Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6939
Date: 6/8/1991
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Pilot Cesar Escobar and Copilot Angel David
-Farina are flying two passengers to Asunción, Paraguay, in his Cessna
-210. While monitoring airport frequencies near Concepción, he overhears
-a conversation between the control tower and a Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas
-airliner, with the pilot reporting a brightly lit object approaching on
-a convergent course. The object is also showing on airport radar. He
-hears the pilot exclaim as the UFO speeds past. A few minutes later,
-Escobar sees a bright, blue-white light approaching on his right side.
-Just then radar control radios to ask if he has traffic on his right,
-and he replies affirmatively. The object paces his plane for 25 minutes
-within about 1,300 feet. Its intense light tends to conceal its exact
-shape, but it appears to be oval. Several times it moves in closer, as
-if playing a game, and Escobar becomes frightened. When it approaches,
-his instruments go crazy, including his automatic direction finder,
-which drifts around aimlessly. As he begins descending into Asunción
-Airport at 7:22 p.m., the object stops following and hovers. Anibal
-Gavigan, the air traffic control specialist on duty, is called by radar
-control and informed that a strange object has followed the Cessna 210
-into the airport. He is asked if he can see it, and he can see the
-luminous object. After the Cessna lands, the airport lights are turned
-off to better identify the glowing object, which remains motionless over
-the field. At one point a luminous, yellow ray briefly shoots from the
-object to the western horizon. When it departs, the object accelerates
-so rapidly that it disappears after one sweep of the radar scope. (Jorge
-Alfonso Ramirez, “UFO
-Intercepts Aircraft over Paraguay,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 310
-(February 1994): 8–10; UFOEv II, 144–145; Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6940
Date: 6/8/1991
-Description: Pilots encountered and radar tracked reddish oval object
-that paced a small aircraft and hovered above airport, E-M effects on
-plane
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Concepcion, Paraguay
-ID: 470
Date: 6/16/1991
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A businessman stops by the side of the road to
-relieve himself near The Bridestones, Cheshire, England, a Neolithic
-site with standing stones. He sees a golden beam of light above the
-stones from which emerges a shower of sparks. He returns to the car, but
-the engine will not start. He begins to run away when a large, glowing
-ball heads from the sparks straight toward him. It is so bright that it
-causes pain in his eyes and he feels rooted to the spot. He blacks out
-and regains his senses several hundred yards away from his car. He is
-naked above the waist and his shoes are missing. As he tries to get up,
-he brushes down his trousers and finds that they are charged with static
-electricity, causing sparks to jump from his body. After staggering
-around, he finds his car with the keys still in the ignition. Next to
-the door are his shoes and shirt, folded on the ground and warm to the
-touch. The car starts without trouble and he drives away, realizing that
-it is now 3:05 a.m. (Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean
-Times 311 (March 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6941
Date: 6/17/1991
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Walter Leiss and three other passengers on board
-Dan Air Flight DA 4700 from London (Gatwick Airport) to Hamburg,
-Germany, see a wingless projectile below and to the left of the plane
-flying at an altitude of 4,000–5,000 feet with no vapor trail. The
-object is slender, gray, and cigar-shaped. The crew does not see it.
-(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown
-Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 14– 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6942
Date: summer 1991
-Description: An effort is made by Raven to encourage the Bush
-administration to reveal the US government’s interactions with aliens
-and crashed saucers. Meetings are allegedly held in safe rooms at
-Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., with
-administration officials and cabinet and agency heads. Much seems to
-depend on the confirmation of Robert
-Gates as CIA director. A meeting to brief President Bush on
-the topic is scheduled for August but canceled due to the Soviet
-military coup. (Robert Collins and Richard Doty, Exempt from Disclosure:
-The Disturbing Case about the UFO Coverup, Peregrine, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6943
Date: 7/1991
-Description: Kevin
-D. Randle and Donald
-R. Schmitt publish UFO Crash at Roswell, disclosing the results of
-their interviews and reconstruction of the Roswell incident of 1947.
-They publish an update in 1994. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt,
-UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Avon,
-1991; Richard Hall, “Roswell Matters,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June 1993):
-23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The
-Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Avon,
-1994; Clark III 951)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6944
Date: 7/1991
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield issues his sixth status report, UFO Crash/Retrievals:
-The Inner Sanctum. (Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The
-Inner Sanctum, The Author, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6945
Date: 7/5/1991
-Description: Customs and bank regulators in seven countries raid and
-lock down records of branch offices of the Bank of Credit and Commerce
-International, which has been investigated for being involved in massive
-money laundering and other financial crimes and illegally gaining the
-controlling interest in a major American bank. In addition to violations
-of lending laws, BCCI is also accused of opening accounts or laundering
-money for figures such as Saddam
-Hussein, Manuel
-Noriega, Hussain
-Muhammad Ershad, and
-Samuel
-Doe, and for criminal organizations such as the Medellín Cartel and
-Abu Nidal. William
-von Raab, a
-former US Commissioner of Customs, tells the Kerry Committee that the
-CIA holds “several” accounts at BCCI. According to a 1991 article in
-Time magazine, the National Security Council also has accounts at BCCI,
-which are used for a variety of covert operations, including transfers
-of money and weapons during the Iran–Contra affair. (Wikipedia, “Bank
-of Credit and
-Commerce International”; Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, False
-Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, the World’s
-Most Corrupt Financial Empire, Houghton
-Mifflin, 1992; David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin, “Follow the Money: How
-John Kerry Busted the Terrorists’ Favorite Bank,” Washington Monthly,
-September 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6946
Date: 7/11/1991
-Description: 12:21 p.m. While many people in Mexico City, Mexico, are
-looking to the sky to see the last total solar eclipse of the 20th
-century, they also notice a bright object hovering in the sky. Videos
-are recorded as far south as Puebla and Oaxaca. Skeptics claim the
-object is the planet Venus, but the full eclipse lasts just under 7
-minutes, and the object is seen for more than 30 minutes—before, during,
-and after the event. Guillermo Arragin, a reporter, videotapes the
-object, and Jaime
-Maussan, host of the Mexican version of the CBS TV show 60 Minutes,
-shows the Arragin footage a week later. He asks his viewers to share any
-sightings they had during the eclipse. Fifteen videotapes are submitted,
-each taken by a witness in a different location. Maussan enlists the
-help of the station’s video experts for digital enhancement and
-enlargement. The videos show solid, metallic-looking objects that
-reflect light. Maussan looks into balloons, helicopters, and other
-conventional objects, but comes up empty. The enhancements reveal a
-“hockey puck” shape, and many of the recorded objects pass in front of
-clouds. (Unsolved Mysteries Wiki, “Mexico
-City UFO”; Tim Printy, “The
-July 11, 1991, Mexico City UFOs: Basic Astronomy Ignored,”
-February 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6947
Date: 7/15/1991
-Description: 5:45 p.m. The copilot of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 on
-a flight from Crete to Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex,
-England, sees a small, black, lozenge-shaped object about 1.5 feet in
-diameter, smooth, and some 1,600 feet ahead and above. It is on a
-collision course, and within 2 seconds it passes the aircraft’s wing at
-a distance of only 325 feet. The London Air Traffic Control Center picks
-up a target moving away from the plane to the southwest at 100 mph.
-(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown
-Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 15; UFOFiles2, p. 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6948
Date: 7/26/1991
-Description: Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Ramón Fernández
-Sequieros passes instructions to the Spanish Air Regions to centralize
-all UFO registers into Madrid Air Force headquarters. (Swords 425,
-515)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6949
Date: 8/4/1991
-Description: Night. Seven hikers near Lacul Bucura in the Retezat
-Mountains in west central Romania see a bright red light approaching
-them from behind. Thinking it might be a lost tourist, they wave their
-flashlights at it, but it starts zigzagging and increasing its speed.
-Soon they see other lights of varying colors, shapes, and
-configurations, all moving in the Valea Rea. Through binoculars they
-take on the shape of discs with luminous portholes. (Romania
-55–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6950
Date: 8/10/1991
-Description: US freelance writer Danny
-Casolaro is found dead in a bathtub in room 517 of the Sheraton
-Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, his wrists slashed 10–12 times. The
-medical examiner rules the death a suicide. His death becomes
-controversial because his notes suggest he is in Martinsburg to meet a
-source about a story he calls “the Octopus.” This centers on a sprawling
-collaboration involving an international cabal, primarily featuring a
-number of stories familiar to journalists who worked in and around
-Washington, D.C., in the 1980s—the Inslaw case, about a software
-manufacturer whose owner accused the Justice Department of stealing its
-work product; the October Surprise theory that during the Iran hostage
-crisis, Iran deliberately held back American hostages to help Ronald
-Reagan win the 1980 presidential election, the collapse of the Bank
-of Credit and Commerce International, and Iran–Contra. Casolaro’s family
-argues that he has been murdered; that before he left for Martinsburg,
-he told his brother that he frequently received harassing phone calls
-late at night; that some of them were threatening; and that if something
-were to happen to him in Martinsburg, it will not be an accident. They
-also cite his well-known squeamishness and fear of blood tests, and
-state they find it incomprehensible that if he were going to commit
-suicide, he would do so by cutting his wrists a dozen times. A number of
-law-enforcement officials also argue that his death deserves further
-scrutiny, and his notes are passed by his family to ABC News and Time
-magazine, both of which investigate the case, but find no evidence of
-murder. (Wikipedia, “Danny Casolaro”;
-Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death
-of Danny Casolaro, Feral House, rev ed., 2003; Cheri Seymour, The Last
-Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS
-Software Scandal, TrineDay, 2010; “Danny
-Casolaro’s Files and Notes”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6951
Date: 9/1991
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Security policeman T/Sgt Anthony W. Keel is
-working as an alert response team leader at the Ellsworth AFB Oscar
-Flight area 30 miles west of Opal, South Dakota, when he is dispatched
-to a missile launch site with multiple alarms. They arrive, clear the
-site, and reset the alarms. Then he gets another call for a different
-site with the same alarm pattern, which they then reset. On the way back
-to the Oscar Launch Control Facility, he gets another call, and the team
-can see a blue, pulsating light above the site experiencing the alarm.
-The light moves away as they pull in to secure the site. The light is
-the size of a small helicopter, semicircular and oblong, and completely
-silent. (Nukes 468–469)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6952
Date: 9/9/1991
-Description: Self-professed pranksters Doug
-Bower and Dave Chorley make headlines claiming they started the UK
-crop circle phenomenon in 1978 with the use of simple tools consisting
-of a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire
-to help them walk in a straight line. To prove their case, they make a
-circle in front of journalists; cerealogist (advocate of paranormal
-explanations of crop circles) Pat
-Delgado examines the circle and declares it authentic before it is
-revealed as a hoax. Inspired by the Tully, Australia, crop circle
-accounts from 1966, Bower and Chorley claim to be responsible for all
-circles made prior to 1987, and for more than 200 crop circles in
-1978–1991 (with 1,000 other circles not being made by them). After their
-announcement, the two men demonstrate making a crop circle. According to
-University of Oregon fractal expert Richard
-Taylor, “the pictographs they created inspired a second wave of crop
-artists. Far from fizzling out, crop circles have evolved into an
-international phenomenon, with hundreds of sophisticated pictographs now
-appearing annually around the globe.” (Wikipedia, “Crop
-circle”; William Tuohy, “‘Crop
-Circles’ Their Prank, 2 Britons Say,” Los Angeles Times, September
-10, 1991, p. 14; Jenny Randles, “Round and Round in the Circle Game,”
-IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov/Dec. 1991): 17–18, 22–23; Richard Taylor, “Coming
-Soon to a Field near You,” Physics World, August 2011, pp. 2–7;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 120–123;
-“Necrolog: Doug Bower,” Fortean Times 371 (October 2018): 28–29; “The
-Man Who Launched a Million Conspiracy Theories,” Daily Mail (UK),
-October 20, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6953
Date: 9/15/1991
-Description: One of the cameras on Space Shuttle Discovery Flight STS-48 captures
-several anomalous, glowing objects that float along and then sharply
-change direction, apparently in response to a flash in the lower left
-portion of the picture. NASA explains the objects as ice particles
-reacting to a Space Shuttle thruster firing. Astronomer Philip
-C. Plait discusses the issue in his book Bad Astronomy, agreeing
-with NASA. However, physicist Jack Kasher and Mark Carlotto dispute that
-explanation, arguing that there are two groups of correlated object
-motions involving at least a dozen distinct events. Kasher’s analysis
-reveals that the objects behaved oddly for any type of particle, ice or
-otherwise, and Carlotto indicates that no thruster was fired in that
-timeframe. (NICAP, “STS
-Video Footage of Possible UAP Phenomenon in Orbit”; Wikipedia, “STS-48”;
-Mark J. Carlotto, “Digital
-Video Analysis of Anomalous Space Objects,” Journal of Scientific
-Exploration 9, no. 1 (1995): 45–63; Jack Kasher, “Anomalous Images on
-Videotape from Space Shuttle Flight STS-48: Examination of the Ice-
-Particle Explanation,” JUFOS 6 (1995/96): 80–148; Lan D. Fleming,
-“Examination of the Trajectories of Anomalous Objects Imaged during the
-STS-48 Space Shuttle Mission,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 71–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6954
Date: 9/19/1991
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Maria Kulis is visiting Medjugorje, Bosnia, and
-takes a photo of St. James Church from a distance of about 500 feet.
-When she has the film developed, she notices an odd dark object in the
-sky almost above the church. The image is sharp and silhouetted against
-a purplish-blue sky. The object would be about 6.6 feet long if it was
-at an altitude of 1,000 feet. (Bruce Maccabee, “The Medjugorje UO,” IUR
-17, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1992): 12–13, 23; UFOEv II 301–302;)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6955
Date: 9/19/1991
-Description: American tourist took photo of church, unexplained image
-showed up in picture when developed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Medjugorje, Yugoslavia
-ID: 471
Date: 10/1991
-Description: Following a request by Russian cosmonaut Pavel
-Popovich, the KGB declassifies several documents from its so-called
-“Blue Folder.” The material is obtained by Vadim K. Ilyin from the late
-Vyacheslav Shtyepa of the Ufological Committee of the Russian
-Geographical Society. (Good Need, p. 353)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6956
Date: 10/1/1991
-Description: The Air Force’s Electronic Security Command is redesignated
-the Air Force Intelligence Command and reacquires the Foreign Technology
-Division. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
-Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6957
Date: 11/6/1991
-Description: The small near-Earth Object 1991 VG is discovered by
-American astronomer James
-Scotti at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The uncertainty of the
-object’s origin and its small size (16–39 feet), combined with rapid
-variation in the object’s brightness in images obtained during its close
-passage with Earth in early December 1991, leads to some speculation
-that 1991 VG might be a spent rocket fuel tank from a space mission, or
-even an alien artificial object. However, a detailed analysis of the
-available evidence confirms that there is no compelling reason to
-believe that 1991 VG is unnatural. (Wikipedia, “1991
-VG”; Duncan Steel, “SETA
-and 1991 VG,” The Observatory 115 (1995): 78–83; Mark Rodeghier,
-“Alien Probe Detected in Solar System?” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995):
-9–10; Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “Dynamical
-Evolution of Near-Earth
-Asteroid VG 1991,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
-473 (2018): 2938–2948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6958
Date: 1992
-Description: The Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena is
-established in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to study UFOs and extraterrestrial
-visitation. It has Russian and Ukrainian ufologists on its board, and it
-publishes RIAP Bulletin (in English, edited by Vladimir
-Rubtsov) from January 1994 to June 2006. (RIAP
-Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Jan./March 1994); Vladimir Rubtsov, “Ukraine
-Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena,” IUR 18, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1993): 15– 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6962
Date: 1992
-Description: El Ojo Crítica, an independent and skeptical newsletter,
-begins publication in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. (El Ojo Crítica, no. 1
-(1992); “(Pre)
-Historia de El
-Ojo Crítica”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6961
Date: 1992
-Description: Jerome
-Clark publishes the second volume of the first edition of his UFO
-encyclopedia. (Jerome Clark, The Emergence of a Phenomenon: UFOs from
-the Beginning through 1959, Omnigraphics, 1992; Michael D. Swords,
-[review], JUFOS 4 (1992): 181–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6960
Date: 1992
-Description: A man is driving near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England,
-when he sees a bright glow approaching from the opposite direction.
-Thinking it is from a speeding motorcycle, he stops the car and leaves
-the engine idling. As it approaches, the light changes direction and
-passes over the roof of the car. The engine stalls. The object seems to
-be emitting light all around it, but a few seconds later it disappears.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,”
-IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6959
Date: 1/15/1992
-Description: The Spanish Air Force transfers responsibility for handling
-UFO reports to the Air Operative Command (whose head is Gen. Alfredo
-Chamorro Chapinal) at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain, which updates
-the procedures for reporting and investigating UFO sightings by military
-personnel. The added responsibility is placed in the intelligence
-section, commanded by Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida. (Vicente-Juan Ballester
-Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1993): 13; Swords 425, 517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6963
Date: 2/1992
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory,
-Australia, five people are in a car driving around a bend when they
-encounter a huge area lit up from above. The engine, headlights, and
-dash lights cut out. They stop the car, restart it, and drive on, but 2
-minutes later the same thing happens, then again 2 minutes after that.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,”
-IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6964
Date: 2/15/1992
-End date: 2/16/1992
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies and the Fund for UFO Research
-hold the Plains of San Agustin Conference in the Sofitel Chicago Hotel
-in Rosemont, Illinois, in order to examine the nature and quality of the
-evidence for a reported crash of a UFO and the recovery of aliens—both
-dead and alive—on the Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico, in July 1947. A
-focal point for the discussion is the testimony of Gerald
-Anderson, who contacted investigators Kevin
-Randle and Stanton
-Friedman with his claim that he had been present on the Plains when
-he was 5 years old. The separate stories of archaeologists and Grady
-L. “Barney” Barnett at this retrieval are also considered. Moderator
-Michael
-D. Swords concludes that the evidence for the Plains of San Agustin
-crash is “single-witness testimony with no physical or instrumental
-evidence to support the story” as well as problematic and inconsistent
-testimony. A summary report on the conference is published in June 1992.
-(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, UFO
-Crash at Roswell, Avon,
-1991, pp. 31–32, 87–90; Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the
-Archaeologists,” IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1991): 4–9, 21; Stanton T.
-Friedman, Thomas J. Carey, Kevin D. Randle, and Donald R. Schmitt, “The
-Search for the Archaeologists: An Exchange,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June
-1992): 6–12, 22–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Second
-Thoughts on the Barney Barnett Story,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June 1992):
-4–5, 22; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Missing Time,” IUR 17,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 21–23; The
-Plains of San Agustin Controversy, July 1947: Gerald Anderson, Barney
-Barnett, and
-the Archaeologists, CUFOS/Fund
-for UFO Research, 1992; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the
-Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 8–9;
-Kevin D. Randle and Karl T. Pflock, “Barney Barnett’s Crashed Saucer:
-Where Did It Come From?” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 15–18, 24–
-25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6965
Date: 2/24/1992
-Description: 12:15 A.M. Bright green fireball meteor, wavered, split up,
-bright illumination, sonic boom.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pacific Northwest (Oregon)
-ID: 472
Date: 3/1992
-Description: US historian David
-M. Jacobs publishes Secret Life, in which he lays out a detailed
-study of abduction phenomenology based on his research with numerous
-abductees. He finds many accounts of hybrid making and clues that the
-aliens exploit human genes to repopulate their planet or perhaps plot a
-takeover of the Earth. (David M. Jacobs, Secret
-Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions, Simon & Schuster,
-1992; Mark Rodeghier, [review], JUFOS 4 (1992): 184–189; Clark III
-8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6966
Date: 3/1992
-Alternate date: 4/1992
-Description: 4:30 a.m. S/Sgt Joseph M. Brown is posted to a security
-team at the Malmstrom AFB A-3 flight launch facility outside Sluice Box
-Canyon near Monarch, Montana. Due to an alarm-system malfunction, two
-men are staked out in a security camper. Just after arriving at the
-site, Brown sees a bright white light moving erratically through the sky
-with sudden direction changes and abrupt stops and starts. He watches it
-for 15–20 minutes, then the light moves closer to the facility. He wakes
-up his partner, who also watches the light. Another security team at
-A-10 about 10 miles away can also see the light, which is less than a
-mile away. They continue to watch the light until about 6:30 a.m. when
-it shoots up into the sky and stops. With more daylight, they see a
-black area around the light. (Nukes 457–461, 466–468)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6967
Date: 3/3/1992
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Roger Cross is driving on Highway 3A in Concord,
-New Hampshire, when he hears an unusual drumming sound. He pulls to the
-side of the road and sees an immense triangular object with pulsating
-lights flying 400–500 feet above the road. (Marler 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6968
Date: 3/4/1992
-End date: 3/5/1992
-Description: UFO sightings at the Benito Juárez International Airport in
-Mexico City, Mexico, are confirmed by radar. (Don Berliner, with Marie
-Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available
-Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6969
Date: 3/5/1992
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Military Policeman Luis Ribeiro and a colleague
-are hunting in the interior of Ceará state, Brazil, when a domed disc
-lands nearby. Five 4.5-foot tall humanoids emerge and take Ribeiro
-inside the craft. The beings communicate with him in Portuguese and tell
-him they are from “Catandório.” After a 5-hour abduction experience, he
-is returned to the encounter site. (Brazil 342–344)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6970
Date: 3/19/1992
-Description: Glowing green dome-shaped object maneuvered around patrol
-car, E-M effects, officer badly frightened
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Haines City, FL
-ID: 473
Date: 3/20/1992
-Description: 3:51 a.m. Patrolman Luis Delgado has just checked the doors
-on a local business at Haines City, Florida, and turns onto 30th Street.
-He sees a green light in his rear-view mirror. The light seems to come
-from a small plane that is about to crash. Just seconds later, the
-interior of his patrol car is illuminated with a green glow. The object
-begins to pace his car which is traveling about 40 mph. The object moves
-from the right side to the front of the vehicle several times. When it
-has moved to the front for the third time, Delgado slows his car and
-pulls off the roadway, fearing he might collide with the object. It is a
-color of green he had never seen before that seems to flow over the
-surface. It is 15 feet long with a 3-foot-thick center. The object
-hovers approximately 10 feet off the ground. The engine, lights, and
-radio on his patrol car cease to function. The object hovers in front of
-his car and then shines a bright white light into the interior. He exits
-and begins to walk backwards away from the object. He tries to radio
-Haines City dispatch on his radio, but it does not function. The air
-around him has chilled to the point that he can see his breath. The
-object is hovering about 20 feet northeast of his car, then it speeds
-away after approximately 2–3 seconds. It departs the area in a
-northeasterly direction at 10 feet altitude. Delgado loses sight of the
-object in only seconds. (UFOEv II 193–194; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update
-on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6971
Date: 3/23/1992
-Description: Near Amarillo, Texas, radio hobbyist Steven Douglass
-photographs a “donuts on a rope” contrail and links this to distinctive
-sounds. He describes the engine noise as “strange, loud pulsating roar…
-unique… a deep pulsating rumble that vibrated the house and made the
-windows shake… similar to rocket engine noise, but deeper, with evenly
-timed pulses.” In addition to providing the first photographs of the
-distinctive contrail reported by others, Douglass also reports
-intercepts of radio transmissions: “Air-to-air communications… were
-between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign Dragnet 51 from Tinker AFB,
-Oklahoma, and two unknown aircraft using the call signs Darkstar
-November and Darkstar Mike. Messages consisted of phonetically
-transmitted alphanumerics. It is not known whether this radio traffic
-had any association with the ‘pulser’ that had just flown over
-Amarillo.” (Wikipedia, “Aurora
-(aircraft)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6972
Date: 3/31/1992
-Description: The Spanish Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Ramón
-Fernández Sequieros, issues Instrucción General 40-5, a 28-page set of
-procedures for UFO investigations that is issued to all units in June.
-Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida admits it is inspired by several questionnaires
-that Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos has supplied, including those used by the US Air
-Force. (Swords 426, 520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6973
Date: 4/13/1992
-Description: Gen. Alfredo Chamorro Chapinal signs a proposal for full
-UFO document disclosure to the Spanish Chief of Staff of the Air Force,
-Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros. (Swords 426, 518)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6974
Date: 4/22/1992
-Description: The Spanish Joint Chiefs of Staff downgrade UFO documents
-from secret to “internal reserve” (confidential). (Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1993): 13; Swords 426, 519)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6975
Date: 4/28/1992
-Description: A crop circle appears in a rapeseed field at Sutton
-Scotney, close to Winchester, England. (Chris Talarski, “Going around in
-Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6976
Date: 5/1992
-Description: The Roper Organization releases the results of its “Unusual
-Personal Experiences” survey of nearly 6,000 US adults devised by Budd
-Hopkins, David
-Jacobs, and Ron
-Westrum, and conducted in 1991. Its intent is to determine how
-widespread the abduction phenomenon might be. Five indicator questions
-in the survey assess the respondents’ sleep paralysis, dreams of flying,
-missing time, observations of unusual lights inside a room, and puzzling
-body scars. The poll, financed by the Bigelow Holding Corporation,
-suggests that 2% of adult Americans (more than 3.7 million) think they
-have been abducted by aliens. (Geraldo Fuentes, “Abductions:
-A Report
-on the Roper Analysis Data”; Robert L. Hall, Mark Rodeghier, Donald
-A. Johnson, “The Prevalence of Abductions: A Critical Look,” JUFOS 4
-(1992): 131–135; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on
-UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 20–22; Susan Blackmore, “Abduction
-by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3
-(May/June 1998): 23–28; Mark Rodeghier, “Counting Abductees: What Can
-Surveys Tell Us?” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6977
Date: 5/1/1992
-Description: University of Connecticut psychologist Kenneth
-Ring publishes The Omega Project, in which he argues that ostensible
-aliens, angels, and otherworldly entities exist in an imaginal realm, a
-“third kingdom” between reality and fantasy that is accessible through
-certain altered states of consciousness that undermine ordinary
-perception and conceptual thinking. Through extensive psychological
-testing, Ring finds that abductees and those who have near-death
-experiences are emotionally indistinguishable, with childhoods that
-typically involve episodes of abuse, trauma, and serious illness. One
-consequence is the development of a dissociative state as a means of
-coping with stress; it is the key to experiencing the imaginal realm, a
-shamanic journey through which symbolic language and images are
-expressed. (Kenneth Ring, The
-Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters,
-and Mind at Large, Morrow,
-1992; Kenneth Ring and Christopher J. Rosing, “The Omega Project: A
-Psychological Survey of Persons Reporting Abductions and Other UFO
-Encounters,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 59–98; David A. Gotlib, “Abductions:
-Imagined or Imaginal?” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 18–20; Clark III
-886)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6978
Date: 6/1/1992
-Description: The US Strategic Command is established as a successor to
-the Strategic Air Command in response to the end of the Cold War. Its
-principal mission is to deter military attack and, if deterrence fails,
-to counter with nuclear weapons. (Wikipedia. “United
-States Strategic Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6981
Date: 6/13/1992
-End date: 6/17/1992
-Description: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosts an
-Abductions Study Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, chaired by David
-E. Pritchard and John
-E. Mack, with
-presentations, panels, and discussions about the UFO abduction
-phenomenon. UFO researchers like Budd
-Hopkins, David
-Jacobs, and Mack hold forth beside relative novices and abductees
-themselves. Representative non-US research is also contributed (Brazil,
-Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). Even skeptics are represented and
-speak. The conference marks the cracking apart of the public unity of
-American researchers into at least two major schools of opinion, which
-deeply disagree to this day. Both continue to believe that the
-phenomenon is extraterrestrial. Hopkins, Jacobs, and others are present
-to elaborate what some have come to refer to as the “Dark Marauders”
-view of abductions. But conference co- organizer and Harvard
-psychologist John Mack presents an entirely different spin: These
-experiences are extraterrestrially caused but are positively
-transformational for the human spirit. Despite the severe disagreements
-that follow, this gives researchers like Joseph Nyman a foundation stone
-authority figure around whom to rally. The so-called pessimist and
-optimist schools take shape right before the attendees’ eyes. A third
-major position exists within the US research community, the “probably
-extraterrestrial but I don’t know the details” viewpoint, represented at
-the conference in the persons of Mark
-Rodeghier, Stuart
-Appelle, and David
-Gotlib. Kenneth
-Ring also presents his interesting view comparing abductions and
-near-death experiences, and David
-Hufford does likewise regarding the “Old Hag” imagery of sleep
-paralysis. (Andrea Pritchard, et al., Alien Discussions: Proceedings of
-the Abduction Study Conference Held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, North
-Cambridge, 1994; Michael D. Swords, [review],
-Journal of Scientific Exploration 11, no. 1 (1997): 101–104; John E.
-Mack, “Helping Abductees,” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 10–15, 20; C.
-D. B. Bryan, Close
-Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien
-Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T., Knopf, 1995; Stuart
-Appelle, “The Abduction Phenomenon at MIT,” IUR 20, no. 4
-(July/Aug. 1995): 20–21, 24; Thomas E. Bullard, [Book reviews], JUFOS 6
-(1995/96): 231–248; Ralph Blumenthal, The Believer: Alien Encounters,
-Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack, University of New Mexico,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6982
Date: summer 1992
-Description: Héctor and Jaime Feliciano watch a gigantic silent triangle
-pass over Salinas, Puerto Rico, heading toward the MATES Camp Santiago
-military base. It is a metallic dark gray with a rough undersurface
-containing multiple small colored lights and two large white lights.
-White beams shine down from the object at three points. (Jorge Martín,
-“Triangular
-UFOs over Puerto Rico,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn
-1999): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6980
Date: summer 1992
-Description: An unnamed family from Albuquerque is hiking and
-prospecting about 12 miles from Horse Springs, New Mexico, in the
-general area of the Plains of San Agustin, when they discover an odd
-piece of metal. They unsuccessfully try to cut it, burn it, and bend it.
-The discovery remains unconfirmed. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R.
-Schmitt, “The Hatch Enigma,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6979
Date: 7/9/1992
-Description: A 450-foot “Snail” pictogram appears in a wheatfield at
-Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England. (Chris Talarski, “Going around in
-Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6983
Date: 7/17/1992
-End date: 7/19/1992
-Description: The First International Conference of the Center for Crop
-Circle Studies is held at King Alfred’s College in Winchester,
-Hampshire, England. (Chris Talarski, “Going around in Circles,” IUR 17,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 4– 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6984
Date: 7/23/1992
-Description: 7:30 a.m. An abduction event takes place in a suburb of
-Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, involving a rare case of physical
-evidence. Businessman Peter Khoury had at least one previous abduction
-experience in 1988 that left him so disturbed that in 1993 he forms a
-support group to help others like him. The details of his 1992 abduction
-slowly emerge through extended conversations with Australian ufologist
-Bill
-Chalker. Khoury wakes up suddenly and finds two nude females seated
-on his bed, one blonde and the other dark-haired with some Asian
-features. They are human-like but have some odd physical
-characteristics: narrow heads and large eyes. Khoury says that what
-happens next feels weird and dreamlike, “like looking through
-binoculars, but through the back of my own head.” The blonde reaches out
-and forces him towards her. Before he knows what he is doing, he takes a
-small bite out of her and swallows it. There is no blood or screaming.
-The two beings look at each other in a puzzled way, then vanish. Khoury
-has a coughing fit and goes to the bathroom where he discovers a blonde
-hair wrapped around a body part. He turns the hair over to Bill Chalker
-for mitochondrial DNA analysis in 1999 (by Horace
-R. Drew of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
-Organisation) using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The
-results are startling: DNA from the shaft of the hair reveals very rare
-and unusual Asian signatures common to the isolated Lahu people of China
-and Thailand, but DNA from the root shows sequences indicating rare
-Basque/Gaelic and Asian results—suggesting advanced cloning techniques
-and possible hybrid characteristics. (Bill Chalker, “Strange Evidence,”
-IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 3–13; Anomaly Physical Evidence Group,
-“Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Analysis of a Shed Hair from an Alien
-Abduction Case,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 13–16, 31; Bill Chalker,
-“Aliens, Hair, and DNA,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 3–5, 10; Bill
-Chalker, Hair
-of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction,
-Simon & Schuster, 2005; Bill Chalker, “Peter
-Khoury and the ‘Hair of the Alien’: 20 Years On,” TheOzFiles, July
-29, 2012; Clark III 651–654)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6985
Date: 8/1992
-Description: Crop circles appear in wheatfields near Ipswich and
-Strathclair, Manitoba. (Chris Rutkowski, “‘A Looney a Look’: Crop
-Circles in Western Manitoba,” IUR 17, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1992):
-9–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6986
Date: 8/5/1992
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Pilots of United Airlines Flight 934 are flying
-at 23,000 feet some 50 miles northeast of George AFB [now Southern
-California Logistics Airport], Victorville, California, when an unusual
-aircraft comes directly toward them and passes underneath at an
-estimated distance of 500–1,000 feet. It resembles the forward fuselage
-of a Lockheed S-71, without wings but with a sort of tail. The size is
-about 50 feet long and its speed is supersonic. (Aviation Week and Space
-Technology, August 24, 1992; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close
-Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6987
Date: 8/11/1992
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 474
Date: 8/14/1992
-Description: Triangular silvery object passed over car, blue flashing
-body lights. Made sharp turns, moved out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Homer City PA
-ID: 475
Date: 8/19/1992
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness is driving near Tucson, Arizona, when
-he notices a strange light in the distance. As it approaches from the
-northeast, it descends rapidly, moves across a field, and hovers. A cone
-of light emerges from the bottom that completely bathes the area,
-illuminating the ground. At this point the witness is about 600– 900
-feet away and is able to see that it is a solid object that looks like a
-manta ray with a dull-black matte finish. He pulls over and can hear no
-sound coming from it. The object moves directly overhead, and the
-witness gets back in the car and speeds away. He sees the object again
-as it stops 15 feet above a nearby farmhouse. Again a bright light comes
-from its base, engulfing the entire house for 20 seconds. It moves away
-and illuminates a large area of trees behind the house. (“Current
-Cases,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 296 (December 1992): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6988
Date: 8/19/1992
-Description: Manta ray—shaped object with body lights approached car,
-falling leaf motions, hovered, light beam brightly illuminated
-terrain
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tucson, AZ
-ID: 476
Date: 9/1992
-Description: The first Spanish Air Force UFO document is declassified.
-The process lasts until 1999, when 84 files (covering 122 cases between
-1962 to 1995) are disclosed. (Swords 427, 521–522)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6989
Date: 9/18/1992
-Description: The existence of the US National Reconnaissance Office is
-declassified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, as recommended by the
-Director of Central Intelligence. (Wikipedia, “National
-Reconnaissance Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6990
Date: 9/23/1992
-Description: The last US underground nuclear test, Divider, takes place
-at the Nevada Test Site. (Wikipedia, “Operation
-Julin”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6991
Date: 10/1992
-Description: The first official Spanish UFO reports are declassified,
-leaving only witness names redacted. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The
-Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6992
Date: 10/9/1992
-Description: About 7:50 P.M. Greenorange fireball meteor southwest to
-northeast on flat trajectory for about 17 seconds, broke up over
-southeastern New York. Large meteorite fell in Peekskill, NY.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kentucky to New York State
-ID: 477
Date: 10/9/1992
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A fragment of the Draconid meteor stream strikes
-a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu owned by Michelle Knapp while she is home in
-Peekskill, New York. She goes outside after hearing a crash and
-discovers a hole in the trunk of the car and a 6-inch crater in her
-driveway. The stony fragment (oval shaped and about 1 foot in length) is
-in the crater, along with pieces of the car. The rock is still hot and
-weighs about 30 pounds. (Wikipedia, “Peekskill
-meteorite”; “A
-Hot Rock from Outer Space? Meteorite May Have Hit Teen’s Car,”
-Yonkers (N.Y.) Herald Statesman, October 11, 1992, p. 28; Mark
-Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring
-2002): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6993
Date: 10/15/1992
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Lubbock, Texas, see a gray
-cigar-shaped object that becomes visible for about 20 minutes after a
-cloud disappears. It moves close enough to them so that they can see
-windows on the object. The cloud reappears and the object is no longer
-visible. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,”
-IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6994
Date: 10/27/1992
-Description: Just before 12:00 midnight. A1C Michael R. Reager and A1C
-Jason H. Barrier are approaching the operations hanger of the 44th Field
-Maintenance Missile Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota.
-A group of bright white lights suddenly appears in the air, moving
-rapidly in rigid formation. Witnesses assume the lights are attached to
-a large, dark aircraft. It hovers briefly above the hangar at 300–500
-feet then moves away. (Nukes 470–472)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6995
Date: 11/1992
-Description: Night. A man in Brighton, England, calls the RAF to report
-a brightly lit UFO shaped like a “squashed rugby ball” hovering above
-his house. Through windows in its side, he can see two men wearing beige
-uniforms standing in front of machinery. When one of the crew members
-appears to notice him, the object’s lights go out and the UFO zooms away
-over the English Channel. (UFOFiles2, p. 128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6996
Date: 11/1992
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Three Romanian military helicopters are
-flying at an altitude of 328 feet at a speed of 93 mph on a night
-exercise near Buzău, Romania. Col. Marcel Smoleanu notices a silent,
-bright-red sphere about 60 feet in diameter to his left that begius to
-fly parallel to the helicopters. The other pilots confirm the sighting.
-After a minute or so, the object accelerates sharply, makes a 90° turn,
-and cuts across their flight path. The helicopters slow to a hover and
-the object disappears suddenly. The flight exercise is scrapped and the
-helicopters return to the military airfield at Buzău. One of the pilots,
-Lt. Col. Doru Drăgoi, is called into the radar room where operators show
-him more than 10 unidentified targets on the screen making odd movements
-northeast of Buzău, including sharp 180° turns near Săpoca. Drăgoi also
-sees bright objects crossing overhead from east to west at an amazing
-speed. (Romania 110–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6997
Date: 11/1992
-End date: 12/1992
-Description: Numerous sightings in Saguache County
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Luis Valley, CO
-ID: 478
Date: 11/16/1992
-Description: Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida, head of the Intelligence Section of
-the Spanish Air Operative Command, establishes an informal agreement of
-cooperation with Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos to act as a civilian consultant on the
-declassification of UFO reports and establish a direct contact procedure
-for future cases. This allows him to personally view, handle, and copy
-all of the agency’s original UFO case files. It ensures that all reports
-in official custody are released, increases the momentum of the process,
-and secures copies of all related documentation. (Swords 428–429;
-Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Monitoring
-Air Force Intelligence (Spain’s 1992–1997 UFO Declassification
-Process),” MUFON 1997 International UFO Symposium Proceedings,
-pp. 139–178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6998
Date: 12/16/1992
-Description: Night. Werner Noeske observes a large, brightly illuminated
-disc with a large triangular window in the base over Leipzig, Germany.
-Additional witnesses come forward, but an investigation reveals that two
-unrelated incidents contributed to the sightings: a “sky tracker”
-searchlight common in European discos, and a cargo plane that makes
-routine flights at the same hour. A photograph confirms the latter
-interpretation. (Hans-Werner Peiniger, “UFO-Beobachtungen,”
-Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 86 (Mar./Apr. 1993): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6999
Date: 12/24/1992
-Description: 6:09–8:15 p.m. Twenty civilian witnesses and police south
-and west of Monroe, Louisiana, watch a silent, boomerang-shaped UFO with
-bright beams of light pass over cars in a forested area and bounce up
-and down for 6 minutes. The object is videotaped by one of the
-witnesses, Cecil Cullipher, in West Monroe. (W. L. Garner Jr., “UFOs
-Compete with Santa for Christmas Eve Limelight,” IUR 18, no. 5
-(Sept./Oct. 1993): 8–11, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7000
Date: 1993
-Description: Jean-Jacques
-Velasco coauthors OVNIs: La science avance, with journalist Jean-Claude
-Bourret, in
-which he admits the physical reality of UFOs and the probability of
-their extraterrestrial origin. He stresses that it’s his personal
-opinion, although he has been authorized by CNES to write the book. Its
-foreword is written by astrophysicist Jean-Claude
-Ribes, president of the French Astronomical Society. (Jean-Claude
-Bourret and Jean- Jacques Velasco, OVNIs: La science avance, Laffont,
-1993; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in
-France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7001
Date: 1993
-Description: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
-facility begins construction north of Gakona, Alaska, just west of
-Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park, funded by the Air Force, Navy,
-University of Alaska Fairbanks, and DARPA. Its original purpose is to
-analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing
-ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and
-surveillance. As a university- owned facility, HAARP is a high-power,
-high-frequency transmitter used for study of the ionosphere. The most
-prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument
-(IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in
-the high frequency band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited
-area of the ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF
-radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde (an ionospheric sounding
-device), and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical
-processes that occur in the excited region. (Wikipedia, “High-frequency
-Active Auroral Research Program”; University of Alaska Fairbanks,
-“About
-HAARP”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7002
Date: 1/1993
-Alternate date: 2/1993
-Description: Night. T/Sgt John W. Mills III is driving back to Malmstrom
-AFB near Great Falls, Montana, with another tech sergeant. Near Monarch,
-Montana, they watch a bright light in the sky for about 5 minutes.
-Suddenly it makes a sharp banking maneuver. Thinking it is a helicopter,
-they drive on toward Belt, Montana, where they encounter a roadblock
-with cars backed up for miles. The base dispatcher asks if they saw
-anything on their drive. When they answer yes, he tells them to proceed
-to the Alpha-01 missile launch facility not far away. They are
-redirected to Malmstrom, where they find that many “anomalies” have been
-reported zooming over missile sites that night. The “anomaly” they had
-seen apparently came down and landed near the highway west of Belt.
-Another light reportedly flew in and out of the open doors of the base
-vehicle barn; at least 4 witnesses say it was the size of a softball and
-flew at a height of about 10 feet. At least six balls of light maneuver
-around the flight line of the base at high speed and different
-altitudes. (Nukes 462–466)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7006
Date: 1/1/1993
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A taxi driver has just dropped off revelers at a
-remote house in Hethersgill, Cumbria, England. She heads home down a
-remote track toward the main road when suddenly her CB radio begins to
-crackle then fades entirely. Moments later her car engine and lights
-fail, and she coasts to a stop. She gets out, hoping to walk back to the
-house, when she sees a ball of light low over the road heading towards
-her. It swoops over her car and shoots into the sky, causing her skin to
-tingle. The headlights come back on, the car lurches forward, and she
-hears her sister talking on the CB asking where she has been for the
-past 30 minutes. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean
-Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7003
Date: 1/14/1993
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Jerzmanowice, Kraków County, Poland,
-see a flash of light just before limestone debris falls around them,
-breaking window panes and plunging through roofs. A local rock
-formation, Babia Skała, has been shattered by an apparent lightning
-strike, although some in the village have seen one or two bluish objects
-colliding with the rock face. Although the blast is seen in Kraków,
-registered on seismic equipment, and observed by the fight controller in
-Balice, the Polish Army refuses to disclose any further details. (Poland
-119– 120; “Babia
-Skała,” Rowerowa Matopolska, May 26, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7004
Date: 1/19/1993
-Description: Night. Jackie Chown and her family see a huge triangular
-object with flashing lights above their home in Ellastone, West
-Midlands, England. They chase after it in their car but lose track of
-it. (“UFO
-Spotters Chase Mysterious
-‘Flashing Triangle,’” Ashbourne (UK) News Telegraph, January 21,
-1993, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 283 (February 1993): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7005
Date: 1/20/1993
-End date: 1/20/2001
-Description: President Bill Clinton in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 2/1/1993
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A witness is driving in Cedarburg, Wisconsin,
-when he sees a large, black, triangular UFO hovering above a water tank.
-The object has 9 lights, including a row of lights on one side. Two
-police officers had seen bright beams of lights in the vicinity earlier.
-(Marler 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7007
Date: 2/4/1993
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Kevin Crump and his grandmother, Betty Barnick,
-spot an object in the sky near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, that spits out
-a blue glowing ball from its tail end, which hangs in the sky over an
-old school. Crump gets out and sees the UFO almost directly overhead.
-The moonlight reflects off its black metallic surface. It has the shape
-of an “oblong triangle” with a light at each point—a red light and a
-blue light at the front and a white light in the back. The UFO
-eventually moves away but returns with another bright blue light below
-it. (Marler 218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7008
Date: 3/1993
-Description: US Rep. Steven
-Schiff (R-N.Mex.) writes to Defense Secretary Les
-Aspin, asking the US Air Force to declassify and provide him with
-all material relating to the Roswell crash. There is no response. After
-a second request, USAF Col. Larry G. Shockley refers him to the National
-Archives, which has no information.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7009
Date: 3/12/1993
-Description: Paramount premieres Fire in the Sky, a feature film
-directed by Robert
-Lieberman that is based on abductee Travis
-Walton’s book of the same name. Walton is portrayed by actor D.
-B. Sweeney. (Internet
-Movie Database, “Fire
-in the Sky”; Chris Talarski, “Film Review: Fire in the Sky,” IUR 18,
-no. 3 (May/June 1993): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7010
Date: 3/16/1993
-Description: A couple who are viewing aerial activity from a hill
-adjacent to Area 51 in Nevada see strange lights that seem to transform
-themselves into an automotive vehicle. After the encounter, the
-witnesses sense that 30 minutes are unaccounted for. They undergo
-hypnosis and recall an abduction by gray-skinned aliens. The man is
-taken into a craft, while the woman is taken into a white van. Inside
-the van are two men dressed in black with black baseball caps. They
-administer intrusive procedures in her eyes, ears, and elsewhere. She
-remembers seeing electronic instruments and automatic rifles inside the
-van. (William F. Hamilton, “Area
-51 Encounter,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 304 (August 1993): 14–17;
-Clark III 734)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7011
Date: 3/31/1993
-Description: 1:10–1:15 a.m. Dozens of people across Devon, Cornwall,
-South Wales, Shropshire, and central Ireland see triangular UFOs
-speeding across the sky. An MoD police patrol sees the lights from RAF
-Cosford in Shropshire, England. The UFO passes over the base “at great
-velocity … at an altitude of approximately 1,000 feet.” It looks like
-two white lights with a faint red glow at the rear, with no engine
-noise. The RAF police report also contains details on other civilian UFO
-sightings that they had learned about in the course of making enquiries
-with other military bases, civil airports, and local police. The police
-call ahead to alert the meteorological officer at nearby RAF Shawbury
-that the UFO is coming his way. The officer at Shawbury sees the object
-moving slowly across the countryside toward the base at a speed of no
-more than 30–40 mph. He sees the UFO fire a narrow beam of light (like a
-laser) at the ground and watches the light sweeping backwards and
-forwards across the field beyond the perimeter fence, as if it is
-looking for something. He hears and feels the vibrations from an
-unpleasant low- frequency humming sound coming from the craft. He
-estimates its size as midway between a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
-and a Boeing 747. The light beam retracts in an unnatural way, then the
-object accelerates to the horizon many times faster than a military
-aircraft. Ministry of Defence UFO Officer Nick
-Pope says there are multiple sightings at different times that
-cannot be attributed to the reentry, concluding on April 16 that “It
-seems that an unidentified object of unknown origin was operating in the
-UK Air Defence Region without being detected on radar; this would appear
-to be of considerable defence significance, and I recommend that we
-investigate further, within MoD or with the US authorities.” However, Jenny
-Randles suspects that the sightings are caused by the Soviet Tsyklon
-rocket booster 22586U, which launched the Kosmos 2238 radio satellite
-into orbit the previous day. Pope later comes around to that viewpoint
-after hearing about sightings at the same time in Ireland and France.
-(Jenny Randles, “A New Broom at the Ministry,” IUR 19, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1994): 18–20; Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon
-& Schuster, 1996, pp. 134–141;
-Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. 146;
-David Clarke, “The Cosford
-Case,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 30–31; Kean, pp. 165–167,
-251–252;
-Good Need, pp. 384–
-385, 431–432;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 142–143;
-Jenny Randles, “Irish Mid-Air Spectacular,” Fortean Times 375 (January
-2019): 33; Nick Pope, “The Cosford Incident,” 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7012
Date: 4/1993
-Description: Michael
-D. Swords examines the position of establishment astronomers on the
-existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life in the first six decades
-of the 20th century, especially regarding Mars, Venus, and deep space.
-He then speculates on the likely advice received by the USAF
-intelligence community by astronomical experts in the early days of the
-UFO phenomenon. (Michael D. Swords, “Astronomers, the Extraterrestrial
-Hypothesis, and the United States Air Force at the Beginning of the
-Modern UFO Phenomenon,” JUFOS 4 (1992): 79–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7013
Date: 4/1993
-Description: Didier Gomez begins publishing UFOmania in Paris, France.
-It continues through April 2015. (UFOmania,
-no. 1 (April 1993))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7015
Date: 4/1993
-Description: Spanish communications technician José
-Luis Jordán Peña confesses for the first time to hoaxing the Ummo
-letters as well as the UFO sightings at Aluche, Spain, in 1966 and San
-José de Valderas in 1967. He says that he used the word “Ummo” because
-it suggests the Spanish word humo (smoke) and randomly chose Wolf 424 as
-the home star for the imaginary planet. “I wrote the reports on Saturday
-and Sunday afternoons, and I took advantage of my trips to France,
-England, Mozambique, etc., or those of friends, to send letters from
-there.” However, other hoaxers begin copying his style, and after he
-receives an invitation to an Ummo conference in Cuba, he decides to
-admit the hoax he had started 25 years earlier. (Wikipedia, “Ummo”;
-Jim Keith, Casebook on the Men in Black, IllumiNet, 1997)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7014
Date: 4/1993
-Description: The Centro de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Inusuales in
-Buenos Aires, Argentina, publishes the first issue of Los Identificados,
-a journal focusing on Argentine occupant cases. It is edited by Roberto
-E. Banchs and runs for 15 issues until 1998. (Los
-Identificados, no.
-1 (April 1993))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7016
Date: 4/26/1993
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A witness in Muskegon, Michigan, is taking her
-dog for a walk when she notices two red lights and one white light
-arranged like a triangle above Muskegon Lake. The lights separate, and
-the white light shoots across the sky. The two red lights move back and
-forth like a pendulum before heading south. Another witness in
-Whitehall, Michigan, sees a similar display at the same time. (“Two
-See Unidentified ’Triangle of Lights,” Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle,
-April 28, 1993, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 287 (June 1993):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7017
Date: 4/28/1993
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Jefferson County Air Unit police officers Kenny
-Graham and Kenny Downs are on helicopter patrol over General Electric
-Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, when Graham sees something like
-a small fire off to his left. Downs shines his spotlight on the light,
-which begins to drift back and forth as the spot washes over it. Then it
-gradually floats up to the helicopter’s altitude at 500 feet, where it
-hovers for a few seconds before moves away at high speed, making two
-counterclockwise loops and doubling back to the rear of the helicopter.
-Graham pushes his speed up to 100 mph. The object passes them and climbs
-hundreds of feet into the air before descending again toward the
-helicopter. Graham tries to close the gap, but it eludes him. As it
-approaches again on a parallel course, the object releases three
-fireballs. Fearing a collision, Graham banks away. When his move is
-complete, the light has vanished. Two officers in their squad cars, Mike
-Smith and Joe Smolenski, also see the light and the fireballs. Smolenski
-tries to follow the light for a full minute before it disappears. (“Police
-Officers Describe ‘Dogfight’
-with a UFO,” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, March 4, 1993, pp. 1,
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7018
Date: 4/29/1993
-Description: A Rockwell-MBB X-31 experimental jet fighter designed to
-test thrust-vectoring technology successfully executes a rapid
-minimum-radius, 180° turn using a post-stall maneuver, flying well
-outside the range of angle of attack normal for conventional aircraft.
-This maneuver has been called the “Herbst maneuver” after Wolfgang Herbst, a
-Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm employee and proponent of using post-stall
-flight in air-to-air combat. It looks nothing like a triangular UFO and
-cannot match the performance of the Belgian triangles. (Wikipedia, “Rockwell-MBB
-X-31”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7019
Date: 5/9/1993
-End date: 9/20/1993
-Description: Artist and ceramicist Filiberto Caponi has a series of
-encounters with a humanoid alien near his home in Pretore, Ascoli
-Piceno, Italy. He takes six Polaroid photos of the creature in seemingly
-painful physical conditions. (Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure:
-Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence,
-Random House, 2001, pp. 140–206; Patrick Gross, “The
-Filiberto Caponi Close Encounters of the 3rd
-Kind, 1993”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7020
Date: 5/20/1993
-Description: Airliner crew saw dark blue, metallicappearing triangular
-object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ottawa, Canada
-ID: 479
Date: 6/1993
-End date: 11/1993
-Description: Numerous sightings, photographs reportedly taken
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antelope Valley, CA
-ID: 480
Date: 6/3/1993
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A passenger on a flight 15 minutes out of Los
-Angeles International Airport in California sees a small cloud moving in
-the opposite direction of the aircraft, which has leveled off at 30,000
-feet. He watches it fly in between two vertical columns of clouds, then
-when it approaches to a point directly in line with his window, it dives
-into the cloud mass below at a 30° angle and disappears. (Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July
-2005): 19, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7022
Date: 6/3/1993
-Description: Ordinary Conversations about Extraordinary Matters, a
-documentary film by Allen
-Ross, premieres at the theatre of the School of the Art Institute of
-Chicago. Illinois. It features interviews with attendees at R.
-Leo Sprinkle’s
-12th Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1991. (“New
-Abduction Documentary Debuts,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June 1993): 21; George
-M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004):
-22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7021
Date: 6/5/1993
-Description: Reinhard Nühlen founds Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für
-UFO-Forschung in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, and begins publishing DEGUFOrum
-in January 1994. It is currently (2020) edited by Nikolaus Bettinger in
-Würselen, Germany. (DEGUforum, no.
-1 (January 1994))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7023
Date: 6/8/1993
-Description: Round UFO with satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antelope Valley, CA
-ID: 481
Date: 6/26/1993
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Witnesses in Hartcliffe, Bristol, England, see a
-large cigar-shaped object (a possible blimp) drifting slowly and
-silently over the rooftops. large white light (the planet Venus) in the
-southeast climbing slowly upward. It fades into the lightening sky
-shortly before dawn. One witness takes many minutes of video of this
-object, compressing several hours of its appearance. The same light
-appears at the same time for weeks. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR
-18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7024
Date: 7/13/1993
-Description: Cigar-shaped object with red body lights maneuvered at low
-level
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Syracuse, IN
-ID: 482
Date: 7/20/1993
-Description: Round UFO with satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antelope Valley, CA
-ID: 483
Date: 7/22/1993
-Description: Richard L. Huff in the FBI Office of Information and
-Privacy informs researcher Nick
-Redfern that it has a file on Majestic-12, although it is in “closed
-status.” The file title is labeled “Espionage.” (Kremlin 191–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7025
Date: 8/1993
-Description: Day. A witness takes a video of an odd figure on a beach at
-Rhyl, Clwyd, Wales. As the camera pans through the crowd on the beach, a
-strange semi-transparent figure in a silver suit becomes visible for a
-couple of seconds standing and facing a wooden fence. Looking up, he
-cannot see the figure, which appears to have vanished. Investigators
-suspect it is merely someone in odd clothing. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in
-Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7026
Date: 8/1/1993
-Description: MARAUDER (Magnetically accelerated ring to achieve
-ultrahigh directed energy and radiation) is, or was, a USAF Research
-Laboratory project to develop a coaxial plasma railgun. It is one of
-several US efforts to develop a plasma-based projectile. It began
-development in 1990, and its first published experiment takes place on
-this date. The project’s initial success leads to it becoming
-classified, and only a few references to MARAUDER appear after 1993. No
-information about the fate of the project is published after 1995.
-(Wikipedia, “MARAUDER”;
-C. R. Sovinec and R. E. Peterkin Jr., “Phase
-1b MARAUDER Computer Simulations,” 1990 IEEE International
-Conference on Plasma Science, Abstracts)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7027
Date: 8/8/1993
-Description: Early morning. Kelly
-Cahill and her husband Andrew are returning from a party in Narre
-Warren North, in the Dandenong Foothills of Victoria, Australia, and are
-near Eumemmerring Creek south of Belgrave when they see a huge lighted
-object with windows in front of them on the road. It seems to have
-people in it, but it quickly shoots off to the left and disappears. They
-continue driving, and about one kilometer ahead they encounter another
-bright light. Her husband continues driving, and they do not recall
-anything else until they get home. They agree they saw a UFO but can’t
-agree on whether they had missing time or saw people. They both can
-smell vomit and feel stomach pains. Kelly notices a triangular mark
-below her navel, which is bleeding a bit. Kelly has a strange dream
-immediately after the encounter, and two subsequent dreams in September,
-October 23, and January 1994—all involving entities and a “strange
-physical dimension.” A few weeks later, both of them start remembering
-that the UFO has landed in an adjacent field and that they get out of
-the car to look at it. An abduction scenario ensues involving tall black
-beings. They also recall that there is another car stopped by the road
-with at least two people in it. By November 17, Phenomena Research
-Australia has located the couple in the other car and a woman who was
-with them. They have also undergone an abduction experience and have
-missing time. These witnesses, unknown to the Cahills, confirm the UFO
-landing site, and their drawings of the UFOs and entities closely
-coincide with Kelly’s. The second group also recalls seeing a third car
-with one male who is gazing fixedly toward the encounter site.
-Unfortunately, Kelly’s account of the incident is the only one that has
-come to light. (Bill Chalker, “An Extraordinary Encounter in the
-Dandenong Foothills,” IUR 19, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 4–8, 18–20; Bill
-Chalker, “Aliens, Hair, and DNA,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 3; Kelly
-Cahill, Encounter, HarperCollins, 1996; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The
-Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; Bill Chalker, “The
-Kelly Cahill Case Revisited: An Extraordinary Lost Opportunity,”
-TheOzFiles, March 2, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7028
Date: 8/8/1993
-Description: Five people in two separate cars encountered UFO on road,
-experienced missing time. Memories returned gradually without hypnosis,
-including tall beings who abducted them (Chalker, 1996).
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 484
Date: 8/11/1993
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 485
Date: 8/12/1993
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Two friends are watching the Perseid meteor
-shower in a dark school yard in North Lethbridge, Alberta, when they see
-a dark, gray-black, triangular object pass quickly and silently overhead
-for 4–5 seconds. Each point of the triangle has a red light on it. As it
-disappears to the south, it flips upward at a 45° angle. Another witness
-in a different location watches a similar object around the same time.
-Local radar does not show any unusual traffic. (David Thacker, “Flight
-of the Triangle,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 4–8, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7029
Date: 8/13/1993
-Description: Night. Costin and Mariana Popa are driving with their
-daughter Diana in a rural area a few miles south of Telega, Romania,
-when their car engine stops unexpectedly and the headlights go out.
-Examining the engine, they are suddenly hit by a “wall of air” and see a
-fog-like rectangular screen on the right side of the road floating 18
-inches above the grass. It is pulsating every 2–3 seconds with a
-yellowish-white light. They hear no noise and feel no heat. After about
-20 minutes the screen begins to move across the road and stops in front
-of them, having become a narrow band of light 90 feet long and 3 feet
-wide. Soon it becomes brighter and shoots into the sky and disappears.
-The car starts normally again. (Romania 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7030
Date: 8/14/1993
-Description: 1:56 a.m. Four UFOs with red and green flashing lights are
-seen flying at low altitude above Henri Coandă International Airport at
-Otopeni, Romania. They first turn up on radar, then are seen visually
-and observed through binoculars. (Romania 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7031
Date: 9/2/1993
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A black-and-white security camera at a private
-company in West Manchester, England, captures a pulsing ball of white
-light that appears in the northwest, moving toward the north, for
-several minutes. The camera operator also sees it visually. Estimates
-place its speed as low as 50 mph. Possible blimp. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs
-in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7032
Date: 9/16/1993
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Pilots of two airliners preparing to land at
-Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, see an
-object like a balloon, but it is going too fast. One pilot describes it
-as looking like a praying mantis. (Jaime Maussán, “OVNIs sobre la
-Terra,” La Epoca (Mexico), November 19, 1993; Antonio Huneeus, “UFO
-Chronicle: UFOs and IFOs from Mexico, Part II,” Fate 47, no. 12
-(December 1994); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus,
-UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, p.
-146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7033
Date: 10/1993
-Description: The Foreign Technology Division becomes the National Air
-Intelligence Center. (Wikipedia, “National
-Air and
-Space Intelligence Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7035
Date: 10/1993
-Description: Rep. Steven
-Schiff asks Charles
-Arthur Bowsher, head
-of the US General Accounting Office, to prepare a report on the status
-of records related to the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico. (Mark
-Rodeghier, “Roswell and the GAO Investigation,” IUR 19, no. 2
-(March/April 1994): 3, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7034
Date: 10/12/1993
-Description: Air Force Col. Richard L. Weaver tells researcher Nick
-Redfern that USAF considers both the MJ-12 group and its documents
-to be “bogus.” However, he concedes that there are “no documents
-responsive” to his request on how such a determination was made.
-(Kremlin 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7036
Date: 10/18/1993
-Description: A memo on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study” from a UK
-wing commander to the Sec(AS)2, the Air Staff deputy director, proposes
-a secret government study of UFOs, which will become Project Condign in
-1997– 2000. Paragraph 2 reads: “I am aware, from intelligence sources,
-that xxxxx believes that such phenomena exists and has a small team
-studying them. I am also aware that an informal group exists in the
-xxxxxxxxxxx community and it is possible that this reflects a more
-formal organization.” Leslie
-Kean suspects that the first redacted word is “Russia” and the
-second is “US intelligence.” (“Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena Study,” October 18, 1993, UK UFO Documents, Part 1,
-pp. 198–199; Kean, pp. 238–240)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7037
Date: 10/25/1993
-Description: 5:30–9:30 p.m. Multiple sightings of diamond- or
-triangular-shaped objects with multicolored light occur around La
-Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium. (Patrick Gross, “The
-Belgium Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7038
Date: 12/1993
-Description: Héctor Escobar begins publishing Perspectivas Ufológicas in
-Mexico City, Mexico. The periodical continues until February 1996. (Perspectivas
-Ufológicas, no.
-1 (December 1993))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7040
Date: 12/1993
-Description: The RAAF formally concludes its UFO investigations in a
-revised “RAAF Policy: Unusual Aerial Sightings.” (Bill Chalker, “The
-Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7039
Date: 12/1/1993
-Description: The European Parliament considers a resolution that enables
-the French UFO agency, Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée
-Atmosphérique (SEPRA), to carry out UFO investigations throughout the
-member countries of the European Community. The resolution was first
-proposed in 1991 by Belgian deputy Elio
-Di Rupo in the wake of the Belgian UFO wave to set up an
-all-European agency to study UFO reports. The EP’s committee on
-industry, external trade, research, and energy, chaired by physicist Tullio
-Regge, holds
-several meetings on the proposal in consultation with SEPRA’s Jean-Jacques
-Velasco, and
-approves the motion for a resolution. However, the Parliament does not
-have the necessary votes to implement and fund the resolution, the
-agency is never created, and SEPRA has its own funding problems. (George
-M. Eberhart, “The European Parliament,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April
-1994): 19; 2Pinotti 137–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7041
Date: 12/17/1993
-Description: The first operational Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth
-bomber is delivered to Whiteman AFB, south of Knob Noster, Missouri,
-where the fleet is based. (Wikipedia, “Northrop
-Grumman B-2 Spirit”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7042
Date: 1994
-Description: Wim van Utrecht founds Caelestia in Antwerp, Belgium, to
-collect, investigate, and document UFO reports. (Wim van Utrecht, “About
-Caelestia,” July 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7046
Date: 1994
-Description: Karla
-Turner writes Taken, in which she describes accounts from eight
-women, none of whom know each other, all of whom consciously recall a
-large portion of their abduction experiences without the aid of
-hypnosis. She is disturbed to find that at least 10 people close to her
-seem to have a pattern of alien intrusions and disturbances. The women
-describe a variety of alien types: grays, insectoids, humanoids, blue
-humanoids, and dwarves. Several of the women describe not only hybrid
-nursery rooms, but also cloning rooms in which living but inert humans
-are suspended in liquid-filled cylinders. There are accounts of aliens
-apparently taking human souls and placing them into a box. One alien
-group appears to harvest “negative emotional energy.” Not all
-experiences are harmful or exploitative; some women claim to have had
-miraculous healings by aliens. Still, Turner suggests that this does not
-make the aliens humanity’s benefactors. If they cared for humans, it
-could be the way in which a farmer cares for cattle. Four of the women
-describe being abducted by human military personnel and taken to
-underground military facilities. Human and alien workers are sometimes
-described as being there. The abductees remember being questioned by
-military types who ask “What do you know about the alien agenda? What
-have they told you? What implants have you received? What procedures
-have they carried out on you?” A number of medical problems develop,
-apparently related to the abductions: cancer, depression, post-traumatic
-stress disorder, sexual dysfunction, and suicide. One thing that
-perplexes Turner is why military groups would need to interrogate
-abductees about alien intrusions. (Karla Turner, Taken:
-Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, The Author, 1994)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7047
Date: 1994
-Description: A video of a UFO is taken by a ground radar station at the
-Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range, part of the Nellis Range northwest
-of the Nevada Test Site. At times the UFO appears to be four globes tied
-together; at other times it appears to be a fuzzy, gaseous cloud. The
-film is genuine, according to Steven
-Greer, who shows it at CSETI’s Congressional Briefing on April 9,
-1997, in Washington, D.C. It is aired by the Fox TV show Sightings and a
-few other TV networks. (Patrick Gross, “The
-Nellis Test Range UFO Video”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7043
Date: 1994
-Description: More than 300 pages of Army CIC documents relating to
-Operation Harass are declassified after researcher Timothy
-S. Cooper files a FOIA request. There is a concentration on frantic
-wartime efforts to find the Horten brothers, as
-well as an “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft:
-Draft of Collection Memorandum,” undated but prepared prior to October
-20, 1947. (“FOIA:
-Army CIC UFO Files Various Subjects Including
-‘Horten Brothers: Flying Wing,’” Above Top Secret forum, December
-17, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7044
Date: 1994
-Description: Mark
-Rodeghier, Stuart
-Appelle, David
-Gotlib, and
-Georgia Flamburis develop and publish an “Ethics Code for Abduction
-Experience Investigation and Treatment.” It is approved by the CUFOS and
-MUFON boards. (“News from the Field,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 3;
-David Gotlib, Stuart Appelle, Georgia Flamburis, and Mark Rodeghier,
-“Ethics Code for Abduction Experience Investigation and Treatment,”
-JUFOS 5 (1994): 55–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7045
Date: 1/4/1994
-Description: RAAF Wing Commander Brett
-Biddington informs civilian UFO groups in Australia that the number
-of UFO reports submitted to the RAAF has declined significantly in the
-past 10 years, saying “there is no compelling reason for the RAAF to
-continue to devote resources to recording, investigating, and attempting
-to explain [Unusual Aerial Sightings].” He says that reports will be
-forwarded to civilian groups. (Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government
-and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 22, 36; Swords 411–412)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7048
Date: 1/12/1994
-Description: Rep. Steven
-Schiff (D-N.Mex.) tells the press that he has been stonewalled by
-the US Defense Department when he requested information about the 1947
-Roswell incident on behalf of his constituents and witnesses. Schiff
-calls the lack of response “astounding” and indicative of a cover-up.
-(“Roswell Declaration 1994,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7049
Date: 1/15/1994
-Description: President Bill
-Clinton issues an executive order to create an Advisory Committee on
-Human Radiation Experiments to investigate US government records on
-radiation studies done at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Certain records
-involving programs in and around Area 51, Nevada, are excluded on the
-basis that the president does not have a need to know. (Wikipedia, “Advisory
-Committee on Human Radiation Experiments”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7050
Date: late 1/1994
-Description: The Secretary of the Air Force’s office of Security and
-Special Program Oversight directs its research and classification team
-to locate any official records on the Roswell incident. (Swords
-351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7052
Date: 1/27/1994
-Description: Luminous UFO maneuvered erratically near airliner
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kazakhstan Republic
-ID: 486
Date: 1/28/1994
-Description: 1:14 p.m. Air France pilot Jean-Charles Duboc and two
-members of his A320 airliner crew briefly observe over
-Coulommiers–Voisins Aerodrome, Seine-et-Marne, France, an elliptical
-UFO, reddish-brown in color and possibly of large size. Radar at CODA,
-the Taverny air operations center, tracks the object for 50 seconds but
-places the target closer to the airplane than the pilot’s estimate.
-SEPRA investigates the case and determines that based on the radar
-trajectory the UFO is about 750 feet long. (Joel de Woolfson, “UFO
-‘Evidence’ Grows,” This Is Guernsey, February 5, 2007; Gildas
-Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR
-31, no. 2 (June 2007): 16; Kean, pp. 135–136;
-Good Need, pp. 401–402;
-“1994-01-28:
-Sighting of Air France Pilot
-Jean Charles Duboc,” Tom Owens YouTube channel, June 16, 2019;
-Patrick Gross, “UFO
-Sighting of Flight AF-3532”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7051
Date: 1/28/1994
-Description: Air France airliner—UFO encounter, tracked on military
-radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Paris, France
-ID: 487
Date: 2/1994
-Description: Leonard
-Stringfield releases his seventh and final status report on UFO
-crash/retrievals. (Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Search
-for Proof in a Hall of Mirrors, Status Report VII, The Author,
-1994).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7053
Date: 2/1/1994
-Description: Cigar-shaped object illuminated car with light beam, E-M
-effects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Badalucco, Liguria, Italy
-ID: 488
Date: 2/9/1994
-Description: Richard Davis, director of the National Security Analysis
-group at the General Accounting Office, writes to Secretary of Defense
-William
-Perry that the GAO is initiating a review of “DOD’s policies and
-procedures for acquiring, classifying, retaining, and disposing of
-official governmental documents dealing with weather balloon, aircraft,
-and similar crash incidents” to find out whether “proper procedures to
-ensure government accountability” were followed. (Mark Rodeghier,
-“Roswell and the GAO Investigation,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994):
-3, 24; Swords 351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7054
Date: 2/15/1994
-Description: Vehicle encounter with glowing oblong object, E-M
-effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Enkoping, Sweden
-ID: 489
Date: 2/15/1994
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Kerstin Hallman is on her way home from work
-near Grillby, Sweden, when she sees an oblong light with spikes on top.
-The car lights go out and the engine fails. (Clas Svahn and Jorgen
-Granlie, “The Light That Stopped a Car,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter
-1997–1998): 12; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7055
Date: 3/1994
-Description: Night. A married couple are driving in Bestwood Village,
-Nottinghamshire, England, when they see a huge triangular object hanging
-in the sky. It has three steady white, green, and red lights and is
-apparently only 200 feet from the ground. Its base has a ribbed pattern.
-It moves off slowly to the northwest, then accelerates, changing
-direction to the south. (“UFO
-Sighting Convinces Hucknall Man,” Hucknall (UK) Dispatch, March 11,
-1994, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 298 (May 1994): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7057
Date: 3/1994
-Description: In response to Steven
-Schiff’s getting stonewalled by the US Defense Department over
-information on the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico, airline pilot
-Kent Jeffrey circulates the Roswell Declaration, a statement calling for
-an “Executive Order declassifying any US government information on the
-existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial intelligence” and a release from
-the security oaths taken by military or civilian personnel involved in
-UFO cases. Promoted by CUFOS, MUFON, and the Fund for UFO Research, the
-declaration is signed by more than 20,000 people interested in finding
-out the truth. (“Roswell
-Declaration,” International Roswell Initiative; “The Roswell
-Declaration,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7056
Date: 3/6/1994
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Two men flying an ultralight aircraft 250 feet
-over Termoli, Campobasso, Italy, see a small, spherical object flying
-northward. Approximately 4 miles from them, it is lost to sight in a few
-seconds. Earlier in the afternoon an unknown dark object crashes on
-Monte Mutria, Campobasso. The witness, Angelo Gianbattista, 18, tells
-his father, police officer Franco Giambattista, that an airplane has
-fallen. Franco goes outside and spots with binoculars two dark shadows
-in a ravine. The military police are notified and converge on the site.
-At 8:00 p.m., guided by a powerful light beam, eight volunteers climb
-the mountain. Three helicopters hover overhead. Nothing is found, even
-conventional objects that might be mistaken for something else. (Renzo
-Cabassi, “UFO Crash
-at Guardioaregia?” Italian UFO Reporter 2, no. 4 (October 10, 1996):
-2–4; Clark III 345; 2Pinotti 140– 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7058
Date: 3/8/1994
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Residents of Holland, Michigan, begin observing
-odd lights in the sky. To some, the lights appear to be attached to one
-another, or at least coordinated in their movements. The commonest
-description is of four lights strung together, high in altitude, moving
-from southeast to southwest. The Graves family sees a disk with lights
-turning clockwise on its underside. Police officer Jeff
-Velthouse is dispatched to investigate, and he watches some lights
-through binoculars around 9:40 p.m. The Allegan County sheriff’s office
-contacts the Muskegon National Weather Service radar station about 30
-miles to the north to ask whether they have any targets. They do, and
-the radar operator gives a live report, recorded by the police, of the
-returns he is tracking. The majority of the returns are of three,
-well-separated targets, sometimes in line, both usually in a triangular
-array. An intermittent fourth signal blinks in and out. The visual
-sightings last until 11:00 p.m., but the weather radar continues to see
-targets for another 20–30 minutes. (Michael D. Swords, “The Holland,
-Michigan, Radar- Visual Case, 1994,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 3–7; Don
-Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing
-Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 146–147;
-Swords 343)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7059
Date: 3/20/1994
-Description: “Groom Lake Toxic Burning Alleged” A former worker at the
-secret Air Force base says poisonous substances were routinely ignited.
-Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20, 1994, Page 1B.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: Groom Lake
Date: 4/1994
-Description: The UK government introduces a Code of Practice on Access
-to Government Information, a limited right to access government records
-from the previous 30 years, as a precursor to a full freedom of
-information act. (Campaign for Freedom of Information, “Code
-of Practice on Access to Government Information: Guidance on Interpretation,”
-April 1994, second
-ed., 1997)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7060
Date: 5/1994
-Description: Research psychologist Susan
-Marie Powers publishes a study on 20 abductees to explore the
-presence of PTSD symptoms. The results show that 45% of the abductees
-manifest PTSD symptoms and 70% manifest dissociative symptomatology. A
-content analysis of the narratives suggests that sexual abuse could be
-at the root of some of the stories. (Susan Marie Powers, “Thematic
-Content Analyses of the Reports of UFO Abductees and Close Encounter
-Witnesses: Indications of Repressed Sexual Abuse,” JUFOS 5 (1994):
-35–54; Susan Marie Powers, “Dissociation
-in Alleged Extraterrestrial Abductees,” Dissociation 7, no. 1 (March
-1994): 44–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7062
Date: 5/1994
-Description: The Dean of Harvard Medical School, Daniel
-C. Tosteson, appoints a committee of peers to confidentially review
-Department of Psychiatry Head John
-E. Mack’s clinical care and clinical investigation of the people who
-had shared their alien encounters with him (some of their cases are
-written up in Mack’s 1994 book Abduction). Angela Hind writes, “It was
-the first time in Harvard’s history that a tenured professor was
-subjected to such an investigation.” Upon the public revelation of the
-existence of the committee (inadvertently revealed during the
-solicitation of witnesses for Mack’s defense, 10 months into the
-process), questions arise from the academic community (including Harvard
-Professor of Law Alan
-Dershowitz) regarding the validity of an investigation of a tenured
-professor who is not suspected of ethics violations or professional
-misconduct. Concluding the 14-month investigation, Harvard then issues a
-statement stating that the dean has “reaffirmed Dr. Mack’s academic
-freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without
-impediment,” concluding “Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of
-the Harvard Faculty of Medicine.” (Wikipedia, “John
-E. Mack”; John E. Mack, Abduction: Human
-Encounters with Aliens, Wheeler,
-1994)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7061
Date: 5/21/1994
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A witness in Plauen, Germany, is watching TV
-when she notices a light outside. She sees a disk with several rings of
-lights illuminating a tree and causing it to whip around violently. It
-is about 30 feet in diameter, and its top and bottom halves are rotating
-in opposite directions. After it hovers silently for a minute, it stops
-shaking the tree and moves behind a building and shoots away, leaving a
-hole in the clouds above. Two other witnesses see the disc from a
-different perspective and feel a strong wind. (Illobrand von Ludwiger,
-Best UFO Cases: Europe, National Institute for Discovery Science,
-1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7063
Date: 6/1994
-Description: Day. An object like a balloon suddenly appears in the sky
-above US Highway 22 and East Kemper Road in Symmes Township, Ohio,
-outside Cincinnati. It remains perfectly stationary until after dark.
-One witness takes at least three photos of it. At one point it ascends
-to a higher altitude. The object is approached and circled three times
-by local air traffic. (Patrick Gross, “The
-Symmes Township Orb, USA, June 1994”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7065
Date: 6/1994
-Description: The TNS Emnid Institut in Bielefeld, Germany, conducts a
-one-question survey on UFO beliefs among 1,069 Germans. Although the
-question is ambiguous, 22% respond yes and 78% no, in both the former
-West and East Germanies. The belief is much stronger in younger
-populations. (Mark Rodeghier, “Do Germans Believe in UFOs and
-Extraterrestrials?” IUR 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 25, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7064
Date: early 6/1994
-Description: A tree farmer named Meng Zhaoguo is at Red Flag logging
-camp near Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China, with two other workers when they
-see a strange light in the sky. Thinking it is either a downed satellite
-or helicopter, Meng goes to retrieve the wreckage. However, at some
-point he is hit in the forehead by a shining light and knocked
-unconscious. He wakes up at home some time later, with no recollection
-of how he got there. A few nights later, he wakes up in his bed to find
-that a 10-foot-tall female alien with six fingers and braided leg fur is
-in his room. He and the alien have sex for 40 minutes before it
-disappears, leaving a 2-inch scar on his thigh. He also claims that on
-July 17, he levitates through a wall and meets with a group of
-three-eyed aliens on their ship. He asks to see the female alien again
-but is rebuffed. The aliens show him images of Mars (or Jupiter), which
-they claim is their home world, and tell him that “on a distant planet
-the son of a Chinese peasant will be born in 60 years.” His story is
-examined by the UFO Enthusiasts Club at Wuhan University throughout
-1997. They conclude that while the initial contact may have occurred,
-the subsequent reported events are almost certainly untrue. However,
-other UFO groups in China think that his ongoing story is true. In
-September 2003, Zhang Jingping and the state-sponsored Chinese UFO
-Association give Meng a medical exam, a lie detector test, and a
-hypnotic regression session to prove his claims. The results supposedly
-confirm his story. (John Kohut, “UFO
-Group Probes
-Claims of Sex with Jupiter Visitor,” South China Morning Post (Hong
-Kong), October 30, 1994; Teresa Poole, “Close
-Encounters of an Intimate Kind: Peking Days,” The Independent (UK),
-March 17, 1995; “Calling Occupants
-of Inter-planetary Craft,” China Daily, October 31, 2010; “One
-of the Strangest Alien Abduction Cases
-in China Ever Told,” Before It’s News, July 20, 2014; Chris
-Saunders, “UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 (October 2015): 28–30;
-Michael Meyer, “Meet
-the Chinese Lumberjack Who Slept with an Alien,” HuffPost, October
-16, 2015; Bill Chalker, “The
-Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation or the
-Devouring Dragon?” New
-Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 (January 2020))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7066
Date: 6/24/1994
-Description: 2:40 a.m. Three gendarmes at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre,
-Seine-et-Marne, France, notice a bright set of lights in the sky. They
-drive closer and find that the source is a stationary object with three
-yellow-white lights. Its underside is triangular with a central
-pyramidal spire that points downward. They stop their patrol car, and
-the object moves slowly toward them until it stops directly above the
-vehicle. There is no noise, smoke, or odor. As soon as they start the
-car again, the object moves west at high speed and becomes a speck on
-the horizon within a second. The total duration is 10 minutes. The
-police radios stop functioning, and the car becomes hot even though the
-windows are open. (“Ussy-sur-Marne
-(77) 24-06-1994,” GEIPAN, March 22, 2007; Swords 449)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7067
Date: 7/2/1994
-Description: 1:30–1:45 p.m. A resident of Limelette, Belgium, is at home
-in the Petit-Ry neighborhood when he looks out a window and sees a group
-of 10 white vertical structures with rounded edges moving back and forth
-about 180 feet above a vacant lot. They are all about 15–26 feet high
-and somewhat translucent, moving in an erratic pattern. The dry grass
-below has risen up into the air, forming a tornado shape and spinning
-anticlockwise. He watches it for 2–3 minutes, and the phenomenon moves
-slowly to the north and disappears. Possibly a wind devil. (Wim van
-Utrecht, “Dancing
-Ice-Lollies over a Waste Ground,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7068
Date: 7/3/1994
-Description: The first flight of a CIA-developed Predator drone takes
-place at the El Mirage Field in the Mojave Desert, California.
-(Wikipedia, “General
-Atomics MQ-1 Predator”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7069
Date: 7/24/1994
-Description: Motorists encountered glowing orange oblong objects, one
-followed car. Diamond-shaped object hovered overhead when they stopped
-to look. Missing time period discovered upon arrival home (Basterfield,
-1997b).
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 490
Date: 7/31/1994
-Description: Roswell, a made-for-TV movie directed by Jeremy
-Kagan and produced by Paul
-Davids, premieres on Showtime. It stars Kyle
-MacLachlan, Martin
-Sheen, and
-Dwight
-Yoakam, and is based on UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin
-D. Randle and Donald
-R. Schmitt. (Paul
-Davids, “Roswell: The Movie,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994):
-15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7070
Date: 8/23/1994
-Description: 5:40 a.m. A delivery man and other early risers observe a
-V-shaped object low in the sky above the business district of a western
-suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Strobe lights emerge from the object at
-both its top and bottom, shining continuous beams of light on the object
-both while it is hovering and in flight. It disappears behind some
-buildings to the south. (Marler 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7071
Date: 8/31/1994
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Six witnesses in Mongo, Indiana, see a light
-glowing through the treetops to the southwest at a low altitude. It
-looks somewhat like the Moon, but it starts moving from behind the trees
-into an open area near a road and hovers. It looks like a domed disc
-with a white strobe light on top of the dome. A bright red light on the
-bottom flashes 3–4 times like a strobe, then the object it disappears to
-the south east within 2 seconds. One of the witnesses takes at least
-four good pictures with a Vivitar fully automatic 35 mm camera with a
-standard lens and loaded with 400 ASA color film. Dogs do not react to
-the object. (NICAP, “The
-Mongo Photos”; Patrick Gross, “The
-Mongo Multiple Visual and Photographic Case, August 31, 1993”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7072
Date: 9/8/1994
-Description: In response to Rep. Steven
-Schiff’s request for information, Col. Richard L. Weaver, director
-of security and special program oversight of the USAF Office of Special
-Investigations, publicly releases the Report of Air Force Research
-Regarding the “Roswell Incident,” a 23-page executive summary (dated
-July 27) that concludes that “the material recovered near Roswell was
-consistent with a balloon device and most likely from one of the Mogul
-balloons that had not been previously recovered.” (Report
-of Air Force Research Regarding the “Roswell Incident,” in
-Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1Lt. James McAndrew, The Roswell Report: Fact
-versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, US Air Force Headquarters, July
-1995, pp. 5–32; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “The Air Force Report
-on Roswell: An Absence of Evidence,” IUR 19, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 3,
-20–24; Karl T. Pflock, “Roswell, the Air Force, and Us,” IUR 19, no. 6
-(Nov./Dec. 1994): 3–5, 24; Swords 351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7073
Date: 9/9/1994
-Description: Green- and red-lighted object with satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Racoon Lake, IN
-ID: 491
Date: 9/13/1994
-Description: 5:30 p.m. As Larry Gardea is hunting for bear near Luna
-Canyon in Mora County, New Mexico, he sees a cow lying dead some 30 feet
-away. In the place where its rectum should be is a large, cylindrical
-hole. Ten feet beyond that cow is another one, apparently alive, sitting
-on its knees. At that moment a dozen cattle stampede in the opposite
-direction, and Gardea hears a loud humming noise coming from the nearby
-woods. A third cow is suddenly propelled through the air nearby at near
-ground level, as if carried by an invisible beam. Gardea fires two shots
-and the humming stops. (Clark III 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7074
Date: 9/14/1994
-Description: 8:50–9:05 p.m. A brilliant ball of fire with a long trail
-of sparks is seen over a wide range of territory in Zimbabwe, Botswana,
-and southern Zambia, followed by a sonic boom. Some people see three
-large lights in front, with from 8–20 smaller lights behind. Many report
-that the objects are traveling very fast from north to south; others see
-it moving slowly, and one man says he walked along with it more than 320
-feet. Geologists Euen Nisbet and
-Kathy Silva, working in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe, report that the display
-takes a minute to cross the sky on a path angled about 10° away from
-north to south. Witnesses at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, variously see three
-orange-red lights with trails, a bright link with a dark center and 14
-lights flashing around it, a light flying at treetop level, a row of
-green lights with a trail, and an object several times larger than a
-Boeing 747. Possibly debris from the rocket that launched the Russian
-satellite Kosmos 2290. (Cynthia Hind, “UFO
-Flap in Zimbabwe,”
-UFO Afrinews, no. 11 (February 1995): 4–18; Cynthia Hind, “UFO Flap in
-Zimbabwe,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 20–21; James Oberg, “Zimbabwe:
-1994 Sep 14 near 18:51 UTC,” PowerPoint presentation)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7075
Date: 9/16/1994
-Description: Ariel school incident
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Ruwa, Zimbabwe
Date: 9/16/1994
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Some 60 children in a grassy playground outside
-Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, see three or four objects landing in the
-“rough bush area” about 330 feet away. An entity of some kind emerges
-from the largest object and stands on top. It has long, straight, black
-hair tied back with a headband around its larger than normal head,
-stands about 3 feet tall, and is dressed in black. Some of the younger
-African children are afraid it is a Tokoloshe, a folkloric entity. After
-15 minutes, the craft and entity fade from view. The headmaster asks
-each child to draw what they saw. Researcher Cynthia
-Hind interviews them on September 17 and psychologist John
-E. Mack several
-months later. (Cynthia Hind, “The
-Children of Ariel School,” UFO Afrinews, no. 11 (February 1995):
-19–25; “Never-Before-Seen
-Photos Reveal Extraordinary Wedge-Shaped Impressions,” Daily Mail
-(UK), May 20, 2022; Internet Movie Database, “Ariel
-Phenomenon”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7076
Date: fall 1994
-Description: Terry and Gwen Sherman purchase a 512-acre ranch in western
-Uintah County, southeast of Ballard, Utah. The couple soon encounter
-various types of UFOs and paranormal phenomena, including cattle
-mutilations, bigfoot, flying orbs, discarnate voices, crop circles,
-poltergeist activity, electromagnetic anomalies, orange portals, and a
-giant wolflike creature. Colm
-Kelleher and coauthor George
-Knapp subsequently write a book, Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005), in
-which they describe the ranch being acquired by Robert
-Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science in 1996 for
-$200,000 to study the sightings at the ranch, soon dubbed the Skinwalker
-Ranch after the shape-shifting creature in Navajo folklore. Between June
-and August 1997, NIDS personnel observe anomalies on every occasion they
-are at the ranch, but they are unable to prove anything scientifically.
-Among those involved are retired US Army Col. John
-B. Alexander who characterizes the NIDS effort as an attempt to get
-hard data using a “standard scientific approach.” However, the
-investigators admit to “difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with
-scientific publication.” (Wikipedia, “Skinwalker
-Ranch”; Colm Kelleher and George Knapp, Hunt
-for the Skinwalker, Paraview,
-2005; Gildas Bourdais, “Hunt for the Skinwalker: New Challenge for the
-ETH?” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 25–31; Clark III 1073–1075; John B.
-Alexander, “From Los Alamos to Skinwalker Ranch,” Fortean Times 363
-(February 2018): 39–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7078
Date: 9/26/1994
-Description: An aircraft crash at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire,
-England, appears closely linked to US black missions, according to a
-report in Air Forces Monthly. Further investigation is hampered by USAF
-aircraft flooding into the base. Special Air Service personnel arrive in
-plainclothes and in an Agusta 109 helicopter. The crash site is
-protected from view by fire engines and tarpaulins, and the base is
-closed to all flights soon afterwards. A USAF C5 Galaxy is redirected to
-the station, which takes the disassembled aircraft back to the US.
-(Dreamland Resort, “RAF
-Boscombe Down’s Black Day,” April 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7077
Date: 10/1/1994
-Description: TV host Larry
-King broadcasts “Larry King Live at Area 51,” which includes a
-prerecorded interview with former Sen. Barry
-Goldwater, who
-says: “I think the government does know. I can’t back that up, but I
-think that at Wright-Patterson field, if you could get into certain
-places, you’d find out what the Air Force and the government knows about
-UFOs… I called Curtis
-LeMay and I said, “General, I know we have a room at Wright-
-Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?’
-I’ve never heard him get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed
-me out, and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’” (“UFOs:
-Oct 1, 1994, Filmed
-Outside Area 51,” SmokingMan47 YouTube channel, November 28,
-2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7079
Date: 10/7/1994
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Jerzy Bulczyński and his family in Biskupice,
-Poland, see two identical large discs with rotating rings consisting of
-smaller spheres, all grayish-green in color and around 6–8 times the
-size of the full moon. (Poland 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7080
Date: 10/8/1994
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Military personnel at Poligon Nadarzyce airbase
-near the village of Nadardyce, Poland, report a spherical UFO surrounded
-by a ring of lights. It changes shape to a triangle and an ellipse. In
-reaction to the initial report, Krzesiny AFB sends two MiG-21
-interceptors that allegedly experience technical malfunctions during
-their pursuit. The Polish Army concludes that the phenomena were caused
-by a laser searchlight operated by the local Olimpia Circus. (Poland
-87–89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7081
Date: 12/1994
-Description: SOM1–01 “MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual”
-document “leaked” to UFO researcher
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
-See also: 4/1954
Date: 12/1/1994
-Description: A strong, flaming light with a train-like rumbling noise
-causes destruction to 1,700 square feet of woodland in the Guiyang
-Baiyun Duxi Forest Farm near Guiyang, Guizhou province, China. Trees are
-broken off at the same height and some roofs are damaged. Although a
-probable airburst from a meteor, some Chinese researchers argue it could
-be a ufological event. (Bill Chalker, “The
-Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation
-or the Devouring Dragon?” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 (January
-2020))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7082
Date: 12/18/1994
-Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Cincinnati, OK
Date: 12/29/1994
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A mother and her six children are driving
-northwest on Zaring Cutoff Road west of Dusty, Washington. To the east
-she sees three bright yellow lights that appear to be sitting in a
-snow-covered field. She stops the car to look and realizes that the
-lights are attached to triangular objects, each with stubby wings and a
-bright light on the nose. They move slowly and pass in front of the car
-to a field on the left. Suddenly they pivot 90° and move parallel with
-the road toward the southeast, maintaining the same configuration. Each
-has a window on the bottom that emits a bluish light and a buzzing
-sound. (Marler 225–226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7083
Date: 1995
-Description: Astronomer Carl
-Sagan publishes The Demon-Haunted World, in which he aims to explain
-the scientific method to laypeople and encourage them to learn critical
-and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between
-ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered
-pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for
-consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and
-should stand up to rigorous questioning. He argues that the chances of
-extraterrestrial spacecraft visiting Earth are vanishingly small.
-However, he does think it plausible that Cold War concerns contributed
-to governments misleading their citizens about UFOs, and writes that
-“some UFO reports and analyses, and perhaps voluminous files, have been
-made inaccessible to the public which pays the bills … It’s time for the
-files to be declassified and made generally available.” He cautions
-against jumping to conclusions about suppressed UFO data and stresses
-that there is no strong evidence that aliens are visiting the Earth
-either in the past or present. He worries that fake news and conspiracy
-theories will become the reality of the future, predicting: “I have a
-foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when
-the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all
-the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when
-awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one
-representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the
-people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably
-question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously
-consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to
-distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost
-without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” (Carl Sagan, The
-Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, Random
-House, 1995; Wikipedia, “The
-Demon-Haunted World”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7084
Date: 1995
-Description: The National Research Council of Canada announces that it
-will no longer accept UFO reports for analysis. As a consequence, the
-Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigations on its behalf ceases.
-Ufologist Chris
-Rutkowski casually suggests that the NRC could forward any
-non-meteoric sightings it runs across. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7085
Date: 1995
-Description: The China UFO Research Organization in Beijing has now
-collected more than 5,000 reports of UFOs in Chinese airspace. (Good
-Need, p. 403)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7086
Date: 1/6/1995
-Description: 6:48 p.m. Capt. Roger Wills and First Officer Mark Stuart
-are piloting a British Airways Boeing 737 aircraft with 60 passengers
-when they are buzzed by a bright wedge-shaped object as they are
-preparing to land at Manchester Airport, England. The object appears
-only yards in front of the airliner as it flies at 4,000 feet. It is so
-close that Stuart instinctively reacts by ducking down inside the
-cockpit. It has small lights, makes no attempt to change course, and
-makes no discernable sound or turbulence. The object does not appear on
-radar. Possibly a fireball meteor. (David Boras, “UFO Nearly Collides
-with British Airliner,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 26–27; “UFO
-Near Miss over the Airport,” Manchester (UK) Evening News, February
-18, 2010; Good Need, pp. 402– 403;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 137–139;
-Marler 140–143, 266–269; Patrick Gross, “Air
-Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7087
Date: 1/12/1995
-Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Farmer Beto Lima is hunting armadillos on
-his property near Feira de Santana, Bahía, Brazil, when he finds an
-object the size of a Volkswagen beetle floating on a pond. He manages to
-pull it to the shore when suddenly liquid flows from it and two
-creatures emerge. One of them is hairy and clawed like a sloth, the
-other is apparently dead and looks like a child. The object is
-lightweight, and Lima carries it into his house. Brazilian soldiers
-allegedly retrieve the wreckage and the creatures. (“O
-caso Roswell nordestina: Queda da UFO na
-Bahia, em janeiro de 1995,” UFOs-Wilson, May 20, 2012; Brazil
-521–529)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7088
Date: 2/1995
-Description: A Boeing 737 is starting a landing approach at 7,900 feet
-at Guiyang Airport [now Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport],
-Guizhou province, China, when its anti-collision system detects an
-object rushing toward the aircraft. Some 6,000 feet away, the pilot sees
-a UFO changing from a rhomboid to a circular shape and from yellow to
-red. The pilot lands safely, even though the object remains on his radar
-screen for some time before disappearing to the south. (Good Need, p. 403;
-Patrick Gross, “Air
-Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7089
Date: 2/20/1995
-Description: In briefing notes on the safety implications of UFO close
-approaches for the Joint Airmiss Working Group in the UK, former British
-Airways Capt. Graham Sheppard comments: “It would not be surprising to
-discover that, in the past, unexplained aeroplane losses have been
-caused by instinctive maneuvering to avoid a conflicting UFO… The
-commercial sensibilities of the airlines should now be set aside along
-with the media’s inability to give serious treatment to the subject.
-Otherwise this discrete and notifiable hazard to aircraft safety will
-continue to be concealed and thus gratuitously omitted from the briefing
-syllabus.” (Good Need, p. 404)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7090
Date: 2/22/1995
-Description: Researcher Timothy
-S. Cooper receives a document purporting to be the first annual
-report of the Majestic 12 Project, supposedly written in 1951 and
-referring to possible virus contamination stemming from retrieval of the
-Roswell aliens. Nick
-Redfern has examined it and says it is definitely a hoax, though it
-could possibly represent disinformation from Russia. (Timothy S. Cooper,
-“Research
-Synopsis on the Majestic Documents,” The Author, December 30, 1999;
-Nick Redfern, “Why
-the Majestic 12 ‘1st Annual Report’ Is a Hoax,” Mysterious Universe,
-July 30, 2019; Kremlin 202–208)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7091
Date: 3/8/1995
-Description: A military radar installation near Luzern, Switzerland,
-detects a series of anomalous radar targets that, taken together, appear
-to make up the straight-line trajectory of an unidentified object
-traveling at a speed near Mach 3. The consistency in velocity and
-direction of the three track segments strongly suggests that it is a
-single object traveling about 150 miles in just over 4 minutes, which
-corresponds to an average velocity of about 2,147 mph. Another track
-going in the same direction was picked up 70 seconds after the first one
-dropped off the radar, separated by a few miles. This time the system
-recorded six consecutive returns, each registering a radial speed
-component of about 2,088 mph. Again the system dropped the track. A
-minute later the Luzern radar records hits on yet another object, loses
-it again, and detects it three more times over 40 seconds before it is
-dropped for the final time. (Bruce Maccabee, “Atmosphere
-or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 13, no. 3 (1999): 421–459)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7092
Date: 3/14/1995
-Description: 3:40–4:00 a.m. Ismailovich Borovkov wakes up to a bright
-light shining in his home on Serebristy Boulevard in St. Petersburg,
-Russia. He sees a bright orange light hovering outside the window for 10
-minutes, then it suddenly diminishes to a point and disappears. Borovkov
-hears a loud ringing in his right ear. Around 4:00 a.m., another
-resident sees a UFO over the Pulkov Highway. (“Close Encounters over St
-Petersburg, March 14, 1995,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7093
Date: 3/14/1995
-Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A further cluster of UFO sightings, some of
-them close encounters and one a radar case, take place around
-St. Petersburg, Russia. (“Close Encounters over St Petersburg, March 14,
-1995,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 12–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7094
Date: 3/30/1995
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Farmer Jan Pienaar, 45, is driving in the North
-West Province, South Africa, when his truck stops dead. About 240 feet
-ahead is a huge object on three landing pads. It has the form of two
-inverted soup plates with a pudding bowl on top, and the upper level has
-portholes. The object buzzes like a “giant electric beater.” He gets out
-of the car but feels paralyzed as if a magnet is holding him. After 3–5
-minutes the UFO takes off, and he regains his senses and the car starts
-up. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part
-1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7095
Date: 4/1995
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici begins publishing UFO
-Forum, edited by Giuseppe Verdi in Vittoria, Italy. It continues through
-at least October 2001. (UFO
-Forum, no.
-1 (April 1995))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7096
Date: 4/10/1995
-Description: 7:30 a.m. An 11-year-old boy is on his way to school with
-his mother and two younger sisters near Merweville, South Africa, when
-they see a strange object on a side road. It looks like a cloud but is
-stationary. Then it moves north, although the prevailing wind is to the
-west, and disappears behind some clouds. The object is about the size of
-a large truck. (Marie van Staden, “A
-Peculiar Cloud-Like Object,” UFO Afrinews 13 (February 1996):
-10–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7097
Date: 4/14/1995
-Description: President Bill
-Clinton issues Executive Order 12,958, which establishes a system to
-automatically declassify information more than 25 years old, unless the
-government takes discrete steps to continue the classification of a
-particular document or group of documents. The order takes effect on
-October 14, 1995. (US Department of Justice, “FOIA
-Update: Executive Order 12,958,” 1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7098
Date: 4/18/1995
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman in Prospect, Chebucto Peninsula, Nova
-Scotia, sees a large, brilliant, white light hovering in the sky to the
-northwest. She can see its reflection on the surface of the still water.
-She calls her husband, who gets binoculars and determines there are two
-lights side by side. After several minutes or so, his mother on the
-floor above says she can see the light too. As soon as they switch the
-deck lights off for a better view, the two lights start moving directly
-toward their house, and he watches it slowly fly about 100 feet above
-the house. It seems to be a rectangular object about 200 feet long by
-100 feet wide. It disappears behind the tree line. (Don Ledger, “The
-Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7099
Date: 5/5/1995
-Description: 4:15 a.m. A senior master sergeant and an airman are
-patrolling the perimeter of the Ghedi Air Force Base near Brescia,
-Italy. Suddenly they notice an unusual yellow light zigzagging and
-maneuvering in the sky, much bigger than a star and heading toward the
-northern part of the airfield. After several minutes it increases in
-size and becomes a round, orange object as big as the full moon, moving
-at least 186 mph before hovering a while and zooming away. It returns
-and leaves twice more, the last time descending to 65 feet above their
-patrol vehicle. They think this time it will land, but it ascends and
-zooms away again. They prefer not to report the incident. (2Pinotti
-150–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7100
Date: 5/25/1995
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An America West B-757 airliner is cruising at
-39,000 feet near Bovina, Texas. To their right and somewhat below their
-altitude, Capt. Gene Tollefson and First Officer John J. Waller see a
-row of bright white lights that sequence on and off from left to right.
-Waller contacts the Albuquerque FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center
-while the sighting is in progress and checks with military installations
-in the area, but no explanation can be found. As the airliner proceeds
-to the west and the object begins dropping behind, the crew sees it
-against a background of thunderclouds. When the background clouds pulse
-with lightning, the UFO appears as a dark, wingless, elongated
-cigar-like object around the strobing lights. Though they do not know
-the exact distance, Tollefson and Waller estimate the object to be
-300–400 feet long. One of the air traffic controllers at Albuquerque
-contacts NORAD, which confirms an unidentified radar target in the
-vicinity. But this later proves to be a small aircraft whose transponder
-is not initially operative. (NICAP, “America
-West Airlines Flight 564 / NORAD/ F- 111
-Incident”; Walter N. Webb, Final Report on the America West Airline
-Case, May 24–25, 1995, Fund for UFO Research, July 1996; “1995:
-The America West UFO Sighting,” ufocasebook.com; Patrick Gross, “Texas,
-May 1995”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7101
Date: 5/25/1995
-Description: America West airline crew observed cigar-shaped object with
-pulsating lights
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The
-UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bovina, TX
-ID: 492
Date: 6/15/1995
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A triangular UFO with two other brightly lit
-round objects is seen over RAF West Drayton [now closed], England.
-(Marler 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7102
Date: 6/22/1995
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Soldiers guarding a military ammunition dump in
-the southern Carpathian Mountains near the Buzau River, Romania, notice
-several bright lights in the valley below. They are attached to an
-object that begins ascending and approaching them from the southwest. It
-is a flat triangular object with rounded edges that passes straight
-above their unit, illuminating the ground from a height of about 150
-feet. They can hear a loud buzzing noise. It glides to the northeast
-over the mountains near Întorsura Buzăului and disappears. The next day
-the unit is rounded up and told never to speak about the sighting.
-(Romania 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7103
Date: 7/1995
-Description: USAF Headquarters publishes, through the Government
-Printing Office, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New
-Mexico Desert, by Col. Richard L. Weaver and Lt. James McAndrew, blaming
-the Roswell debris on a top-secret Project Mogul balloon array sent
-aloft to detect signs of Soviet nuclear explosions. The first part of
-the 1,000+-page document is an introductory summary, supported by 31
-attachments, by Weaver that was released in September 1994. The second
-part is a synopsis of Project Mogul balloon research findings by
-McAndrew, with additional attachments and appendices. A photo section
-includes photos of various Air Force personnel and Mogul scientists. The
-report claims Mogul flight number 4, launched on June 4, 1947, was
-responsible for the Roswell debris. The attachments and appendices are
-mostly memos dealing with the Air Force requests of its departments for
-Roswell records; statements and interviews with persons connected with
-Project Mogul; and New York University progress reports on the Constant
-Level Balloon project (a study to determine how balloons and their
-payloads could be maintained at high altitudes for long periods of
-time). About 95% of the report is padding. (Robert A. Galganski, “The
-Roswell Debris: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul
-Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 (March/April 1995): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B.
-Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project
-Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 (March/April
-1995): 7–9, 19–22; Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1Lt. James McAndrew, The
-Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, US
-Air Force Headquarters, July 1995; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “The
-Final(?) Air Force Report on Roswell,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 5–6;
-Richard Hall, “Fact vs. Fiction in the Pentagon,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter
-1995): 7–8; Swords 352–354; “Air
-Force Reports on the Roswell UFO Incident,” Military Wiki; Clark III
-32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7104
Date: 7/1/1995
-Description: Dusk. As a Varig Airlines flight is descending about 37
-miles from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, the commander sees a very bright
-disc-like object spinning in the sky in a curious way. The UFO is about
-215 feet in diameter and emits a bright white light. As they approach
-the landing, the light speeds up and crosses in front of them. (Clark
-III 201; Brazil 543–544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7105
Date: 7/15/1995
-Description: 2:45 p.m. Two witnesses (an emergency room nurse and her
-husband) are driving home (probably along State Highway 8, adjacent to
-the Naugatuck River) after a fishing trip to Harwinton, Connecticut. A
-shadow crosses the road as they are driving north, and they look up to
-see a large metallic disc about 500 feet in diameter at an altitude of
-about 200 feet, over trees about a half mile away. The object is
-traveling 65–70 mph and its surface is metallic gray with a band of
-apparent panes of dark glass and facets on its upper portion. It passes
-behind trees to the right in about 10–15 seconds. A group of independent
-witnesses at another location does not observe the object. (Mark
-Cashman, “The Harwinton Daylight Disc,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000):
-14–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7106
Date: 7/28/1995
-Description: The US General Accounting Office releases Results of a
-Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash near Roswell, New Mexico,
-which says that all administrative records from Roswell Army Air Field
-in New Mexico from March 1945 to December 1949 have been destroyed, as
-well as outgoing messages from October 1946 to December 1949. This is
-perhaps not unusual for the time, as record retention and disposition
-procedures were unclear; however, Nick
-Redfern suggests the possibility that the records were destroyed or
-removed to hide evidence of unethical radiation and other experiments on
-unwilling human subjects. The GAO agrees with the Air Force that the
-wreckage was most likely from a Project Mogul balloon train. The report
-is in response to a request by Rep. Steven
-Schiff (D-N.Mex.). (Results
-of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash near Roswell, New
-Mexico, General Accounting Office, July 1995, reprinted in IUR 20,
-no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 3–6; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “What the
-GAO Found: Nothing about Much Ado,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 7–8,
-24; Swords 354–355; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa
-Hagan, 2017, pp. 134–139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7107
Date: 7/29/1995
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Five witnesses in Low Bradfield, South
-Yorkshire, England, watch a triangular object, “bigger than a commercial
-airliner, “ flying flat side forward. A low humming sound is heard.
-(Marler 143–144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7108
Date: 7/31/1995
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Aereolíneas Argentinas Flight 734, a Boeing 727
-with three crew and 102 passengers, is in the landing pattern for San
-Carlos de Bariloche Airport, Rio Negro, Argentina. Capt. Jorge Polanco
-suddenly sees a white light bearing down on the aircraft before halting
-only 300 feet away. The object then makes a turn and flies parallel to
-the 727. It looks like an inverted flying saucer as large as the
-airliner, has two green lights at each end and a flashing orange light
-in the center, and very powerfully illuminated, according to the
-captain. As Polanco begins to land, the runway and airport lights go
-out, so he is forced to climb back to 9,800 feet, accompanied by the
-UFO. Airport chief Maj. Jorge Orviedo reports that the airport’s radio
-support is cut off, and there is a blackout in many parts of the city.
-When the ground lights come back on, the UFO shoots away at tremendous
-speed. The object is also observed by a Gendarmeria Piper PA-31-310 that
-is flying 1,900 feet above the 727. (Good Need, pp. 403–404;
-Patrick Gross, “Air
-Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7109
Date: 8/8/1995
-Description: Two airliners, one from TAM and the other from Rio Sul
-Serviços Aéreos Regionais, watch a UFO over Macapá, Amapá, Brazil. TAM
-Cmdr. Marcos Aurélio de Castro reports that he and his copilot see a
-metallic glow ahead of them to the right. The air traffic center cannot
-see anything but notes that the Rio Sul flight has reported something
-similar 5 minutes earlier. Suddenly the silvery object approaches the
-TAM aircraft. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. (Clark III 201–203;
-Brazil 544–545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7110
Date: 8/14/1995
-Description: 11:55 p.m. An enormous, roughly triangular object is seen
-by three family members near the Brighton Racecourse, Sussex, England.
-(Marler 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7111
Date: 8/27/1995
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Tim Edwards shoots a video of a disc-shaped
-object hovering then darting about the sky over Salida, Colorado. A
-series of ripples or moving lights are seen to rotate from left to right
-on the object, which stays just above the sun while Edwards, his
-daughter, and four construction workers also watch. UFO investigators
-are not impressed with the video, which might be spider web or
-cottonwood fluff. Bruce
-Maccabee thinks it might be a genuine UFO. (“UFO
-Video Salida Tim Edwards 1995,” UFOvideodotcom YouTube channel,
-October 4, 2012; “Colorado
-Man and His Films Bring UFO Meet Back to Earth,” Salt Lake City
-Deseret News, November 30, 1995; Jennie Zeidman, “The Will to Believe:
-Gnats, Moths, and Cottonwood Fluff from Outer Space,” IUR 21, no. 4
-(Winter 1996): 14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “Salida: An Analysis of the
-Video,” IUR 21, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 17–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7112
Date: 8/28/1995
-Description: Fox TV broadcasts for the first time the “alien autopsy
-film,” a 17-minute black-and-white film supposedly depicting a secret
-medical examination of autopsy of an alien by the US military. The
-program, hosted in the US by Jonathan
-Frakes, is
-given the title Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction. The film is broadcast by
-Channel 4 in the UK as a segment of “The Roswell Incident.” London-based
-entrepreneur Ray
-Santilli presents it as an authentic autopsy on the body of an alien
-recovered from the 1947 crash of a flying disc near Roswell, New Mexico.
-The film footage is allegedly supplied to him by a retired military
-cameraman who wishes to remain anonymous. Experts, including pathologist
-Cyril
-Wecht, special effects specialist Stan
-Winston, and
-cinematographer Allen Daviau, are
-shown commenting on the film’s authenticity. The program causes a
-sensation, with Time magazine declaring that the film has sparked a
-debate “with an intensity not lavished on any home movie since the Zapruder film.”
-Fox rebroadcasts the program twice, each time to higher ratings. But
-even segment director John
-Jopson tells producer Robert
-Kiviat that he suspects the entire film is a fake, but Fox makes it
-clear that such suspicions will not be allowed. Mike
-Maloney, a
-former photographer for the London tabloid Daily Mirror, says it is the
-same footage that he saw in the late 1970s at a private viewing in the
-Los Angeles house of a Disney executive. In 2006, Santilli admits the
-film is not authentic but rather a staged reconstruction of footage
-(using sheep brains and jelly stuffed into puppets made by a UK sculptor
-John Humphreys) he claims to have viewed in 1992, but which has
-deteriorated and become unusable by the time he made his film. The
-military cameraman is portrayed by a homeless man in Los Angeles.
-Santilli claims that a few frames from the original are embedded in his
-film, but he never specifies which ones. Producer Spyros
-Melaris claims that he has made all the auxiliary footage, including
-that of the homeless man. The existence of an original filmstrip of the
-alleged autopsy has never been independently verified. Philip
-Mantle of BUFORA has spent 25 years examining both the footage and
-the story surrounding it. (Wikipedia, “Alien
-autopsy”; Internet Movie Database, “Alien
-Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?”; “Alien Autopsy,”
-Orbitalmedia YouTube channel, February 14, 2013; Richard Corliss, “Autopsy
-or Fraud-topsy?” Time, November 27, 1995; Joseph A. Bauer, “A
-Surgeon’s View: Alien Autopsy’s Overwhelming Lack of Credibility,”
-Skeptical Inquirer 20, no. 1 (January 1996): 23–24; Michael Hesemann and
-Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell: The Alien Autopsy Film, Area 51, and the
-US Government Coverup of UFOs, Marlowe, 1997, pp. 182–210;
-“Eamonn Investigates: Alien Autopsy,” UFOHighway YouTube channel,
-September 19, 2010, part
-1, part
-2, part
-3, part
-4; Philip Mantle, Alien Autopsy Inquest, The Author, 2007; Philip
-Mantle, “Alien Autopsy Film, R.I.P.,” IUR 32, no. 1 (August 2008):
-15–19; Nathalie Lagerfeld, “How
-an Alien Autopsy Hoax Captured the World’s Imagination for a
-Decade,” Time, June 24, 2016; Philip Mantle, Roswell Alien Autopsy:
-The Truth behind the Film That Shocked the World, Flying Disk Press,
-2017, revised ed., 2020; Stu Neville, “Effects, Lies, and Videotape: 25
-Years of the Alien Autopsy,” Fortean Times 395 (August 2020): 32–36;
-Nigel Watson, “Alien Autopsy: The Interview,” Fortean Times 395 (August
-2020): 37–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7113
Date: 9/21/1995
-Description: The USAF Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory issues a Report on
-Project Mogul by 1Lt. James McAndrew. (1Lt. James McAndrew, Report
-on Project Mogul: Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings, Lawrence
-Berkeley Laboratory, September 21, 1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7114
Date: 9/29/1995
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Near Vejle, Jutland, Denmark, a 24-year-old man
-is driving when the dashboard lights behave erratically, the wipers go
-on, and his dog gets agitated. Then the engine goes completely dead.
-Without warning, a powerful light explodes over the vehicle, coming from
-a huge disc directly above the car. (“Bilstop
-med Effekter,” UFO-Nyt 1996, no. 1, pp. 4–5; Herbert S. Taylor, “An
-Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May
-2011): 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7116
Date: 9/29/1995
-Description: 8:50 p.m. A witness in Stanley, Durham, England, watches a
-strange triangular object through binoculars. It flies pointed-end
-forward and has a pulsing red light on its front tip and steady white
-lights on its other tips. (Marler 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7115
Date: 10/1/1995
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Fernando Beserra and Wilson da Silva Oliveira
-are fishing off the Ilha do Major, a mangrove area near the Rio
-Piaçabuçu adjacent to São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil, when a bright
-yellow object approaches swiftly and silently, landing on a nearby
-islet. Their boat engine fails as the UFO passes over, but they restart
-it and flee the area. They return the next morning and find an area of
-dry vegetation twisted clockwise in a circle 18 feet in diameter. Four
-marks of apparent landing gear are also found, each measuring 4 by 6
-inches and half an inch deep. Researchers from the Instituto Nacional de
-Investigações de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais find that in the soil samples
-obtained within the burned area seeds germinate easily, but those
-planted in the samples harvested outside the circle do not germinate and
-are attacked by fungi. (Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, “UFO
-Landing in São Vicente:
-UFO Lands and Leaves Marks on Ground,” Nexus Newsfeed, October 2,
-2019; “Caso
-de OVNI avistado em
-São Vicente completa 25 anos,” Diário do Litoral (Santos, São
-Paulo), March 9, 2020; Brazil 354–360)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7117
Date: 11/27/1995
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Mohammad Ahsan and four colleagues see two
-triangle-shaped objects emitting laser-like blue rays splashed with red
-over Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They are silently moving from the
-al-Hamriya Fish Market southeast toward Dubai International Airport.
-(“UFO
-Sighting in UAE Reported,” Saudi Gazette, November 28, 1995, via UFO
-Newsclipping Service, no. 317 (December 1995): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7118
Date: 12/1995
-Description: Real-estate developer Robert
-Bigelow founds the National Institute for Discovery Science in Las
-Vegas, Nevada, to research and advance serious study of various fringe
-science and paranormal topics, especially ufology. It holds its first
-organizational meeting in December. Bigelow soon hires retired US Army
-Col. John
-B. Alexander part-time
-and biochemist Colm
-Kelleher as deputy administrator. Alexander puts together a
-Scientific Advisory Board that includes ufologist Jacques
-Vallée, parapsychologist Harold
-E. Puthoff, astronaut Edgar Mitchell,
-mathematician Gian-Carlo
-Rota, physicist O’Dean
-Judd, physicist
-Johndale
-Solem, astronaut and Senator Harrison
-Schmitt, psychologist
-Albert
-Harrison, and
-Christopher
-(Kit) Green as chair. The first official board meeting takes place
-in January 1996. NIDS disbands in October 2004. (Wikipedia, “National
-Institute for Discovery
-Science”; John B. Alexander, “From Los Alamos to Skinwalker Ranch,”
-Fortean Times 363 (February 2018): 38–39; Skinwalkers 14–15, 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7119
Date: 12/12/1995
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Farmer Egon Kratz and his son-in-law, Adilson
-Marcílio, are working on their Bela Vista Farm off Highway 227 about 5
-miles from Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when a bright, silent,
-disc-shaped object appears low above some nearby trees, moves swiftly
-about 30 feet from the ground, and disappears into a valley. On December
-15, Marcílio and some friends return to look for traces and find much of
-the vegetation scorched. Technicians from the Federal University of
-Santa Catarina arrive on December 20 to collect soil samples and rocks.
-Kratz notes in January that much of the foliage and vegetation where the
-UFO has passed is dead or defoliated. (Brazil 350–353)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7120
Date: 1996
-Description: The Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale, a
-French strategic planning agency, decides to create a 12-member COMité
-d’ÉTudes Approfondies (COMETA) to review well-documented UFO cases and
-cooperate with agencies in other countries to assess national security
-factors. It is chaired by French Air Force General Denis
-Letty and begins by interviewing French witnesses, consolidates the
-best information, and presents its research to appropriate French
-agencies. (Wikipedia, “Rapport
-COMETA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7121
Date: 1996
-End date: 1997
-Description: Crimean ufologist Anton Anfalov made a map of the Soviet
-secret sensitive site “Zhitkur” with instructions on the location of all
-sites and drew diagrams of their devices.
-Type: document
-Reference: link
-Location: Crimea
Date: 1996
-Description: Nick
-Pope, a
-former Ministry of Defence official who served on the Sec (AS) 2a UFO
-desk in 1991–1994, publishes a memoir titled Open Skies, Closed Minds
-that recounts his conversion from UFO skeptic to believer due to his
-investigation of cases that seem to be evidential. He concludes that
-“extraterrestrial spacecraft are visiting Earth and that something
-should be done about it urgently.” (Nick Pope, Open
-Skies, Closed Minds, Simon
-& Schuster, 1996; Wikipedia, “Open
-Skies, Closed Minds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7122
Date: 1996
-Description: La Fundación Anomalía is created by a group of Spanish
-ufologists headed by José Ruesga Montiel in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
-It takes over publishing Cuadernos de Ufologia from the Colectivo
-Cuadernos in 1997 and publishes a new journal, Anomalía, from September
-2000 to 2011. (Anomalía,
-no. 1 (September 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7123
Date: 1996
-Description: Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Skinwalker Ranch
Date: 1/13/1996
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Businessman and pilot Carlos de Souza is driving
-from Très Coracões to Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, along Highway 491.
-About 3 miles from Varginha, he hears a sound like an engine rumbling,
-so he stops by the side of the road and gets out of his vehicle. He sees
-a cylindrical airship 33–40 feet long and 13–16 feet in diameter flying
-about 395 feet above him toward Varginha. It is metallic, polished, and
-reflects the morning sunlight. He notices a hole in the right side of
-the ship and white smoke pouring out. After it crosses the highway, de
-Souza gets into his car and starts chasing it. When it crashes into the
-woods, he finds a dirt road that leads him to the scene, which is
-covered with debris that looks like tinfoil. He picks up a larger piece
-that is thin and light. When he kneads it, he is amazed to see that it
-returns to its original state. Further away, he sees an Army helicopter,
-two tarpaulins, an ambulance, and three cars. He smells a powerful
-ammonia odor and is startled by a military police officer who approaches
-him and shouts, “Go away, you saw nothing.” Two more soldiers appear and
-force him to leave, so he returns to his car, drives away, and stops at
-a restaurant. A man approaches him and asks if he is Carlos de Souza, He
-replies yes, and the man calls him over and says, “What you saw, I saw
-too. You should not talk to anyone about it.” The man then relates
-details about de Souza’s private life. Meanwhile, two soldiers from the
-Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões contact ufologists Ubirajara
-Franco Rodrigues and Claudeir
-Covo about the incident to tell them that the area has been cordoned
-off and that trucks are loading odd material. There are rumors that
-NORAD has alerted the Brazilian authorities that it has tracked a large
-number of UFOs over the western hemisphere and that one has penetrated
-Brazilian airspace. (Wikipedia, “Incidente
-de Varginha”; Clark III 1222; Good Need, pp. 369–376;
-Roger K. Leir, UFO Crash in Brazil: A Genuine UFO Crash with Surviving
-ETs, Book Tree, 2005; “ET
-de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios
-e incertezas,” G1, January 20, 2016; Patrick Gross, “The
-Varginha Affair”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7125
Date: 1/13/1996
-Description: Oralina Augusta de Freitas is watching TV in her home near
-Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when she sees a UFO hovering over the
-cattle, which are agitated. She calls her husband, Eurico Rodrigues, and
-they watch the object, which is the size of a microbus and the shape of
-a submarine. For 40 minutes the object flies less than 20 feet above the
-ground, heading toward town. The object has a hole in its structure
-through which white smoke is billowing. Pieces of its fuselage sway in
-the wind. (“ET
-de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e incertezas,”
-G1, January 20, 2016; Clark III 1222)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7124
Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: 8:00 a.m. The Varginha, Brazil, fire department receives a
-call from someone who asks them to investigate a strange creature seen
-in a park north of the Jardim Andere neighborhood. At 10:00 a.m.,
-firefighters arrive expecting to find a wild animal, but they encounter
-a 5-foot-tall bipedal entity with red eyes and brown skin. Fish peddler
-João Bosco Manoel comes across firefighters Sgt. Palhares, Cpl. Rubens,
-and soldiers Santos and Nivaldo, who are carrying a net with a strange
-being inside it. One of its feet is brown, and the firefighters are
-trying to conceal it from curious onlookers. A smell of ammonia
-permeates the scene. (Clark III 1222–1223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7126
Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: Around 6:00 p.m. After a hailstorm halts the search for
-several hours, the Varginha, Brazil, search units venture back into the
-woods. Two plainclothes officers of the Military Police Intelligence
-Service, one of them Marco Eli Chereze, locate and capture a fourth
-creature, forcing it into the back of their car. They bring it to a
-health clinic but are turned away, so they take it to the Hospital
-Regional do Sul de Minas, where the first examinations are performed.
-(Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7129
Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Sisters Liliane Fátima da Silva, 16, and
-Valquíria Aparecida da Silva, 14, and their friend Kátia Andrade Xavier,
-22, are crossing a vacant lot at Rua Dr. Benevenuto Bráz Viêrira in the
-Santana neighborhood of Varginha, Brazil, when they encounter a thin,
-hairless, dark-skinned creature with dark veins, two legs with enormous
-two-toed feet, two arms with only three fingers, a huge head two three
-bony protrusions (one on each side and one in the center), and huge red
-eyes crouching beside a wall. At first they think it is a statue, but
-then it turns its head and they think it is a devil. They run home and
-call their mother, Luzia Helena da Silva, but when they return to the
-vacant lot, all they find is two footprints and an awful stench.
-(Wikipedia, “Incidente
-de Varginha”;
-Clark III 1223–1224; “ET
-de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e incertezas,” G1,
-January 20, 2016; “Caso
-Varginha Minuto a Minuto,” João Marcelo YouTube channel, July 13,
-2016; Brazil 494– 509)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7128
Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: Afternoon. According to testimony by an ex-soldier,
-uniformed military men open fire while they are sweeping the small
-forest near Varginha, Brazil, where the creature had been found earlier.
-A soldier becomes frightened when he sees a creature apparently helping
-a wounded comrade. Two shots strike its belly and one its chest. A
-fourth shot hits its shoulder. These two creatures differ from the
-earlier one and have black hair. Immediately afterward, soldiers come
-out of the woods carrying the creatures in two black sacks. Something is
-moving in one of them. (Clark III 1223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7127
Date: 1/21/1996
-Description: The strange creatures are transferred to Hospital Humanitas
-Unimed in Varginha, Brazil. There are many reports of unusual movements
-of the Army, the police, and the fire department between the two
-hospitals. Vehicles are also seen arriving at a hospital in Belo
-Horizonte, where allegedly one of the creatures dies. (Clark III
-1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7131
Date: 1/21/1996
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Marco Eli Chareze returns home to his mother’s
-house to change clothes because his are drenched with rain. He begins to
-fall ill. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7130
Date: 1/22/1996
-Description: The Brazilian military uses three trucks and several other
-vehicles to move the covered bodies. The trucks are parked on the side
-of Hospital Humanitas Unimed, and a series of cover-up operations are
-performed involving doctors, nurses, soldiers, firemen, and military
-police. The bodies inside the three trucks go to the Escola de Sargentos
-das Armas in Très Coracões, Brazil. (Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7132
Date: 1/23/1996
-Description: 9:00 a.m. The creatures are delivered in a metal box
-punctured with holes to the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil,
-where doctors Fortunato Badan Palhares and Conradín Metz begin
-performing autopsies. Lab workers are prevented from entering the site.
-According to three military sources, at least one creature is taken to
-underground labs located at the university. Another creature is referred
-to the Legal Medical Institute at the Cemitério dos Amarais in Campinas.
-Army officials continue making decisive movements around Campinas
-through April. There are rumors that metal fragments of an unknown
-origin are taken to the Brazilian Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia
-Aeroespacial in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, where they are examined
-in secret underground facilities. The same day, a cargo aircraft takes
-off from Canoas Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, transporting three
-containers, a box, several soldiers, and a sophisticated radar system to
-be deployed near Varginha. (Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7134
Date: 1/23/1996
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A military convoy leaves the Escola de Sargentos
-das Armas for Campinas, Brazil. (Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7133
Date: 1/25/1996
-Description: The US military arrives in Campinas, Brazil, by helicopter,
-where the entire university is on standby. (Clark III 1224–1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7135
Date: 1/26/1996
-Description: Several scientists and military personnel linked to NASA
-arrive at the University of Campinas, Brazil. The cover story is that US
-scientists are choosing Brazilian scientists to take part in future
-space missions. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7136
Date: 2/6/1996
-Description: Marco Eli Chereze, 23, one of the military policemen
-involved in the Varginha, Brazil, creature capture, begins exhibiting
-strange symptoms and notices inflammation and a small abscess under his
-left arm. At the barracks infirmary, physician Robson Ferreira Melo
-performs surgery to remove the abscess, found to be due to
-staphylococcus. Then Chereze develops a fever and pain all over his
-body. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7137
Date: 2/8/1996
-Description: Wall Street Journal on Area 51 worker toxic disposal fires
-lawsuits: “A Secret Air Base Hazardous Waste Act, Workers’ Suit Alleges
-U.S. Cites National Security In Fighting Claims Tied to Toxic Disposal
-Fires Plaintiffs Fear Retaliation”
-Type: article
-Reference: link
-Location: Area 51
Date: 2/11/1996
-Description: Chereze is admitted to Hospital Bom Pastor in Varginha,
-Brazil.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7138
Date: 2/12/1996
-Description: Chereze is transferred to the emergency room of the
-Hospital Regional do Sul de Minas, Brazil, suffering from intense pain
-in the lower back and fever.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7139
Date: 2/15/1996
-Description: Chereze wakes up very tired and in a state or torpor, with
-signs of cyanosis. He is transferred to intensive care, where his
-condition deteriorates rapidly. Chereze dies at 11:00 a.m. An autopsy
-confirms septicemia caused by a urinary infection, but the cause of
-death is unclear, according to Dr. Cesário Lincoln Furtado, who says it
-is highly unusual for a young man to quickly acquire an immunodeficiency
-followed by an attack of three kinds of virulent bacteria. Doctors order
-his body to be cremated immediately, but his family will not allow it.
-The death certificate gives the cause of death as acute respiratory
-failure, sepsis, and pneumonia. The family begins a legal challenge to
-have the records released. (A. J. Gevaerd and Ubirajata Franco
-Rodrigues, “Varginha
-Case: New Revelations,”
-translation of “Novas
-revalações agitaram Varginha,” UFO Brazil, no. 102, August 1, 2004;
-Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7140
Date: 3/1996
-Description: Area-51 workers and their widows lose suite against the
-federal government in Las Vegas. “..the Air Force could invoke the
-common law state secrets privilege to protect military secrets at Area
-51, and that once invoked, the privilege is absolute, protecting even
-innocuous-seeming information from disclosure.”
-Type: lawsuit
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 3/1/1996
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A man driving past a field in Southport,
-Merseyside, England, sees a triangle-shaped object with a white light in
-each corner and a green light in the center. It stays motionless for 5
-minutes before it starts circling the field. Then it stops and the
-lights merge into one long green light. Without warning, it takes off
-and disappears. (“Mystery
-in the Evening Skies,” Southport (UK) Visitor, March 8, 1996, via
-UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 325 (August 1996): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7141
Date: 3/9/1996
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Two groups of motorists at Gallows Corner,
-Romford, East London, England, watch a triangular UFO as large as a
-soccer field with a white light in each corner and a pulsating orange
-light in the center. (Marler 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7142
Date: 3/12/1996
-Description: Two hunters are snowmobiling near Trout Lake, Northwest
-Territories, Canada, when they come upon two metallic “spaceships”
-blocking their trail. Both objects are about 300 feet in diameter, with
-a bright light on their tops and windows on their sides. One stands on
-three legs while the other hovers. As the hunters drive around the
-objects, the lights go out. Later, Trout Lake officials find large
-rectangular impressions in the snow. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in
-Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7143
Date: 4/21/1996
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Terezinha Gallo Clepf is celebrating her
-67th birthday at the restaurant at the Parque Zoobotânico Municipal
-Dr. Mário Frota in Varginha, Brazil, when she steps onto a porch to
-smoke a cigarette. She looks to her left and sees a strange creature
-with bright red eyes and a yellow helmet on its head. It is behind a
-fence that circles the porch. They stare at each other. Clepf goes back
-into the restaurant but soon comes back out and the creature is still
-there. She gets her husband to take her home. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7144
Date: 4/29/1996
-Description: Luzia Helena da Silva is visited in Varginha, Brazil, by
-four men in suits who do not identify themselves. After hearing her
-daughters’ story of their January 20 encounter, they offer the family a
-large sum of money to record a video denying what they had seen that day
-and claiming the whole thing was a joke. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7145
Date: 5/8/1996
-Description: Brig. Gen. Sergio Pedro Coelho Lima, commander of the
-Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões, Brazil, reads a
-statement saying that no officer at the school has participated in the
-alleged operation. He insists to journalists that nothing unusual has
-happened in the city. When asked what the ESA military was doing on
-January 20, he replies that the military was “working for the sake of
-the Army and the nation.” In 1999, the story is amplified when a Major
-Calza says a “dwarf, disfigured and mentally retarded,” was behind some
-of the creature reports in Varginha. (Clark III 1225, 1226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7146
Date: 5/17/1996
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Hildo Lúcio Gardino, 20, is traveling from Très
-Coracões to Varginha, Brazil, when she sees a strange creature on the
-side of the road. She dims her headlights and speeds past as the
-creature places its hands over its eyes and flees into the woods. (Clark
-III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7147
Date: 5/22/1996
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A motorist on the West Tamar Highway near Bradys
-Lookout State Reserve in Tasmania, notices an upright, vapor-like trail
-to the north. The trail changes into an upright, bronze-colored cigar
-shape that disappears in front of their eyes. (“Northern
-Flap,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 79 (October 1996): 3; Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7148
Date: 5/29/1996
-Description: About 1:00 p.m. A vertical, misty cloud is seen against the
-clear blue sky above Launceston, Tasmania. It forms into a vertical
-upright cylinder that seems to have a long hole. The witness and a
-friend look away for a second, and the object is gone. (“Northern
-Flap,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 79 (October 1996): 3; Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7149
Date: 6/17/1996
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness is driving east on East Kingsfield
-Road in the northern part of Pensacola, Florida, when he sees a large,
-black triangular object. He pulls to the side of the road to watch, as
-does a truck in front of him. The object has a single white light at
-each corner and hovers directly above the road. A red blinking light is
-at the center. (“Triangular
-Shaped Craft Hovers over Witness,” Pensacola Beach (Fla.) Islander,
-July 10, 1996, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 325 (August 1996):
-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7150
Date: 6/24/1996
-Description: Day. Spasso Maximovitch notices an unusual object in the
-western sky over Rosh HaAyin in central Israel. He grabs his video
-camera to film it, just as a glowing white oval-shaped object appears
-some 20° west of the object and streaks toward it at high speed. Within
-3 seconds it strikes the stationary orb, causing a huge explosion in the
-sky that seemingly destroys both objects. Stunned, Maximovitch stops
-filming immediately after capturing the explosion. (Patrick Gross, “UFO
-Mid-Air Crash—or Military Drill—Filmed in Israel”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7151
Date: 7/1996
-Description: Day. A private pilot is flying his Piper Cherokee PA-28-140
-from Waterville, Nova Scotia, to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, at
-3,500 feet. While over Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, the pilot’s
-father-in-law (next to him in the right seat) spots a chrome-colored
-sphere 60 feet in diameter about 2 miles away and traveling at the same
-speed as the aircraft but about 500 feet lower. The pilot banks gently
-in its direction, and the sphere speedily darts toward Springhill, Nova
-Scotia, 20 miles away, and hovers there as a bright dot, then
-disappears. The pilot is distressed about the encounter and is
-distracted for the rest of the flight. (Don Ledger, “Two Spherical UAP
-Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July
-2010): 9, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7152
Date: 7/4/1996
-Description: John
-P. Timmerman investigates a mystery crop circle found in a wheat
-field belonging to Dan Arend off County Road 126 near Paulding, Ohio.
-(John P. Timmerman, “The Paulding, Ohio, Crop Circle,” IUR 21, no. 3
-(Fall 1996): 24–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7153
Date: 7/9/1996
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Police Sgt. Marian Mancu and volunteer guard
-Maricel Rusu are patrolling on the main road through Cerțești, Romania.
-Rusu sees a lighted object descending silently, causing nearby neon
-lights to vary in their intensity. Mancu hears a whistling sound and
-sees an object with flashing blue and red lights hovering 2 feet above
-the pavement. Three small people with elongated heads, white faces, big
-eyes, and scaly bodies are moving around inside it. The object is
-top-shaped, 15–20 feet across and 8 feet tall, and has a girdle of
-lights around the edge like a rainbow. After 2 minutes it rises
-vertically, its lights become brighter, and nearby streetlights go out.
-It turns northwest and departs with tremendous speed. Other residents of
-the town witness unusual light phenomena. (Romania 135–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7154
Date: 7/17/1996
-Description: Dusk. A woman near Langruth, Manitoba, is startled to see a
-disc-shaped object moving quietly and slowly through her farmyard. The
-object, 9–12 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet thick, has slitlike lights
-along its edge. The next morning, she finds three circular patches of
-deep green growth in the area where the object had been. She thinks her
-well water has been affected by the incident. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in
-Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7155
Date: 8/1996
-Description: Sen. Harry
-Reid (D-Nev.) attends the fifth meeting of the National Institute
-for Discovery Science scientific advisory board in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jacques
-Vallée delivers the main presentation. Reid stays in frequent
-contact with Robert
-Bigelow afterward. (Skinwalkers 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7156
Date: 8/12/1996
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A witness in Smithton, Illinois, sees a faint,
-dull-red, glowing triangular object as he is looking for the Perseid
-meteor shower. It appears from the south, flies north above his house,
-and vanishes after 10 seconds. (Marler 171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7157
Date: 8/17/1996
-Description: A couple camping in Riding Mountain National Park,
-Manitoba, see a strange blue light dancing behind a hill. When they
-investigate, they find an object moving along the ground, occasionally
-emitting fames from its base. After a short while, it zips into the sky,
-then returns and hovers near them. It then shines a beam of light around
-the ground, illuminating them at one point. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in
-Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7158
Date: 8/18/1996
-End date: 8/20/1996
-Description: Journalist Gary
-Webb publishes his “Dark Alliance” series in the San Jose (Calif.)
-Mercury News, with one long article and one or two shorter articles
-appearing each day. It claims that “For the better part of a decade, a
-San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and
-Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits
-to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence
-Agency.” This drug ring “opened the first pipeline between Colombia’s
-cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles” and, as a
-result, “The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in
-urban America.” The Mercury News continues to pursue the story,
-publishing follow-ups to the original series for the next three months.
-Other papers are slow to pick up the story, but African Americans
-quickly take note, especially in South Central Los Angeles where the
-dealers discussed in the series are active. They respond with outrage to
-the series’ charges. By the end of September, three federal
-investigations are announced: an investigation into the CIA allegations
-conducted by CIA Inspector-General Frederick
-Hitz, an
-investigation into the law enforcement allegations by Justice Department
-Inspector-General Michael
-Bromwich, and
-a second investigation into the CIA by the House Intelligence Committee.
-After his resignation from The Mercury News, Webb expands the “Dark
-Alliance” series into a book that responds to the criticism of the
-series and describes his experiences writing the story and dealing with
-the controversy. A revised version is published in 1999 that
-incorporates Webb’s response to the CIA and Justice Department reports.
-The February 2000 report by the House Intelligence Committee in turn
-considers the book’s claims as well as the series’ claims. Webb’s
-reporting in “Dark Alliance” remains controversial. Many writers
-discussing the series point to errors in it. The claim that the drug
-ring of Meneses- Blandón-Ross sparked the “crack explosion” has been
-perhaps the most criticized part of the series. Webb commits suicide in
-2004. (Wikipedia, “Gary
-Webb”; Wikipedia, “Dark
-Alliance (book)”;
-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine
-Explosion, Seven Stories, 1998, revised
-ed., 1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7159
Date: 8/29/1996
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A mechanic notices a white mass of light at Port
-Arthur, Tasmania. His car acts up a bit, but the light vanishes, and it
-returns to normal. At 9:30 p.m., on the return trip, the white mass
-returns and paces the car for several kilometers. The engine misses and
-the headlights go out. He can now see a cigar-shaped object about 650
-feet away, so he gets out, checks the engine, and finds nothing wrong.
-The UFO moves off and the car starts again. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An
-Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May
-2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7160
Date: 9/10/1996
-Description: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is adopted by the
-United Nations General Assembly. It opens for signature in New York on
-September 24 and is signed by 71 states, including five of the eight
-then- nuclear states. The treaty will enter into force 180 days after
-the 44 states listed in Annex 2 of the treaty have ratified it. These
-“Annex 2 states” are states that participated in the CTBT’s negotiations
-between 1994 and 1996 and possessed nuclear power reactors or research
-reactors at that time. As of 2016, eight Annex 2 states have not
-ratified the treaty: China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, and the United States
-have signed but not ratified the treaty; India, North Korea, and
-Pakistan have not signed it. (Wikipedia, “Comprehensive
-Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7161
Date: 9/16/1996
-Description: Day. A witness is repairing a fence on his property near
-Valley, Ohio, when his dog starts barking loudly. Going over to his dog,
-he looks up to see a low-flying space-capsule-shaped UFO hovering and
-moving slowly over one of his cow pastures. He takes six photos of the
-object. Black to dark green in the photos, the cone-shaped object, when
-enlarged, shows a black Teflon-like covered bottom and a flange or rim
-that goes around near the top. In each photo the UFO is shown at a
-slightly different position and altitude, making it more difficult to
-hoax. (Patrick Gross, “Mysterious
-Photos”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7162
Date: 10/1996
-Description: Psychologist Stuart
-Appelle evaluates factors of deception, suggestibility, personality,
-sleep phenomena, psychopathology, psychodynamics, environment, and
-event-level alien encounters as origins of the abduction experience. He
-argues that no one theory enjoys enough empirical support to be accepted
-as a general explanation. (Stuart Appelle, “The Abduction Experience: A
-Critical Evaluation of Theory and Evidence,” JUFOS 6 (1995/1996):
-29–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7163
Date: 10/5/1996
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Businessman-pilot Haroldo Westendorff is flying
-a single-engine EMB-712 Tupi (Piper PA-28 Cherokee) over Ilha da
-Sarangonha, near São José do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he
-sees a gigantic object about the size of a football stadium. It is
-pyramidal in shape with 8 sides, on each of which are 3 protruding
-domes. Westendorff follows it for 2 minutes. The UFO is revolving slowly
-on its own axis and moving toward the ocean. A hatch opens on top of the
-object and three disks emerge and fly away quickly. When Westendorff
-tries to get closer, the UFO emits reddish rays, causing him to maneuver
-about 650 feet away. Soon the object begins to rise at great speed.
-Operators at the Infraero control room at Pelotas Airport visually
-confirm the observation. (“Caso
-Ufológico Haroldo Westendorff, 1996,” Canal Fenomeno OVNI YouTube
-channel, January 18, 2015; “Completam-se
-20 anos do Caso Haroldo Westendorff,” Portal UFO, October 5, 2016;
-Clark III 203; Brazil 545– 548)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7165
Date: 10/5/1996
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Police Constable David Leyland in Skegness,
-Lincolnshire, England, sees some rotating colored lights in the sky and
-reports them to the coast guard. Police in nearby Boston see a single,
-stationary bright light, while the crew of an offshore tanker report
-another colored light. Air traffic control radar at Claxby by Normanby,
-Lincolnshire, picks up a strong target over Boston, and RAF Waddington
-near Lincoln also picks up an unidentified target in another position.
-Talk of a UFO wave becomes embellished in the media, and MP Martin Redmond calls
-for an investigation by RAF Air Defence. Wing Commander Norman
-Hutchinson conducts an in- depth investigation of all the sightings
-and radar targets, producing a 23-page report that he completes on
-November 13. It’s pretty clear that the mysterious radar blips are a
-permanent radar echo caused by the 273-foot steeple of St. Botolph’s
-Church in Boston, the stationary white light is Venus, and astronomer Ian
-Ridpath identifies the rotating colored lights as misobservations of
-Sirius and Vega. (UFOFiles2, pp. 159–162;
-David Clarke, “The 1996 East Anglian UFO Flap,” Fortean Times 223 (July
-2007): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7164
Date: 10/15/1996
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A couple is driving near Trois Rivières, Quebec,
-when they see three strange triangular objects flying in the northern
-sky. One object, shaped like a “topper” and much larger than an
-airplane, aims an intense white light at their car for 20 minutes. They
-feel like “time was stopped.” Dozens of other people in the region see
-UFOs that same night. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada—1996,” IUR 22,
-no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7166
Date: 10/16/1996
-Description: 8:30–9:00 p.m. Many people over a wide area of
-south-central Ohio and northern Kentucky phone police to report strange
-lights in the sky. A husband and wife watch a fiery orange object near
-Ripley, Ohio, for 20 minutes. Charles Fite and Bill Adams in Aberdeen,
-Ohio, see several lights to the north in a “T” formation. A man in
-Tollesboro, Kentucky, reports 8–10 objects in a group that blink out and
-reappear in three-minute intervals. An airport operator in Jackson,
-Ohio, receives two calls describing a group of red lights moving
-erratically in the northwestern sky. Terry Howard, between Waverly and
-Chillicothe, Ohio, videotapes a group of glowing objects at about the
-same angle of altitude as the moon. Ohio UFO investigators suspect that
-the sightings are a result of military maneuvers by the Ohio Air
-National Guard. (Terry Endres and Ron Schaffner, “UFO Flare-Ups in
-Ohio,” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 9–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7167
Date: 10/25/1996
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A family sees a bowl-shaped disc with five
-rectangular windows in Gypsumville, Manitoba. It is seen through
-binoculars as it directs a beam of light down at a lake it is hovering
-above. Two nights later it returns, moving high above the lake. They
-drive to the home of a neighbor who joins them outside to watch four
-objects flying in formation. Two of the objects suddenly change
-direction and disappear from view, then the other two shine beams of
-light on the lake again and disappear by moving into the clouds. (Chris
-Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press,
-2006, pp. 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7168
Date: 11/16/1996
-Description: During an exhibition by the Brazilian Air Force’s Smoke
-Squadron over the coastline of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, one of the
-EMB-312 Tucano aircraft’s wings breaks off and causes it to crash. A
-piece of the wing falls on a swimmer and kills him. A video taken at the
-time of the accident shows a small spherical object approaching the
-aircraft from behind and passing just at the point where the wing breaks
-off. Ufologist Reginaldo de Athayde analyzes the video images and finds
-that the object is real, metallic, reflective, and boasts a speed five
-times greater than the airplane. It measures about 3-by-3 feet in
-diameter and has a speed of 746–932 mph. It passes about 6.5 feet from
-the wing of the plane. (Clark III 205; Brazil 549–551)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7169
Date: 12/1996
-Description: 11:00 p.m. T/Sgt Anthony W. Keel is engaged in a field
-training exercise about one mile from the Weapons Storage Area at
-Ellsworth FB near Rapid City, South Dakota. He looks at the top of a
-hill and sees a light bobbing around and moving west to east. About 10
-minutes later, he looks up again and sees it moving east to west and
-then back several times. It now moves in a straight line east away from
-Ellsworth but stops and hovers 2–3 miles from the base. Then it makes
-several short darts in different directions. After about 5 minutes, the
-radio operator announces that all flights from Ellsworth are grounded.
-The light eventually blinks out. (Nukes 469–470)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7170
Date: 12/11/1996
-Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. At least 31 people in the Yukon Territory,
-Canada, witness a giant UFO. Indications are that it may be the size of
-several football stadiums. The sightings principally take place in four
-locations in the central Yukon: Fox Lake, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, and
-Mayo, with 6, 9, 8, and 8 witnesses respectively. (NICAP, “Dec. 11,
-1996: Yukon Territory”; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The
-Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 188–194; Chris Rutkowski,
-“The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September
-2011): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7171
Date: 12/19/1996
-Description: A Boeing 757-200 operated by China’s Southern Airlines
-takes off from Beijing on a routine flight south to Wuhan. As the
-jetliner reaches an altitude of 31,500 feet, the copilot spots a bright
-flash in the sky just ahead of them. A silver-gray metallic UFO strikes
-the top of the 757’s cockpit, cracking the outer windshield. The pilot
-immediately declares an in-flight emergency and radios Beijing’s Capital
-International Airport, requesting permission to land. The plane lands
-safely 10 minutes later. (Patrick Gross, “Air
-Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7172
Date: 1997
-Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland”
-radio show
-Type: radio appearance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Rachel, NV
Date: 1997
-Description: Contactee Billy
-Meier’s ex-wife Kalliope in Switzerland tells interviewers that his
-photos are of spaceship models he has crafted with items like trashcan
-lids, carpet tacks, and other household objects (verifying the
-allegations made by California skeptic Kal
-R. Korff in 1981), and that the stories he told of his adventures
-with the aliens were similarly fictitious. She also says that photos of
-purported extraterrestrial women “Asket” and “Nera” are really photos of
-Michelle DellaFave and Susan Lund, members of the singing and dancing
-troupe The Golddiggers. It
-is later confirmed that the women in the photographs are members of The
-Golddiggers performing on The Dean Martin Show. (“Asket
-and Nera Photo Deconstruction,” Billy Meier Case)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7174
Date: 1997
-Description: Douglas
-Torr and Timir
-Datta are involved in the development of a “gravity generator” at
-the University of South Carolina. According to a leaked document from
-the Office of Technology Transfer at USC and confirmed to Wired reporter
-Charles
-Platt in 1998, the device would create a “force beam” in any desired
-direction and that the university plans to patent and license this
-device. No further information about this university research project or
-the “Gravity Generator” device is ever made public. (Wikipedia, “Anti-gravity”;
-Charles Platt, “Breaking
-the Law
-of Gravity,” Wired, March 1, 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7175
Date: 1997
-Description: In his 1997 article “Dead Cows I’ve Known,” cattle
-mutilation researcher Charles T. Oliphant speculates that cattle
-mutilations are the result of covert research into emerging cattle
-diseases and whether they can be transmitted to humans. He suspects the
-NIH, CDC, or other federally funded bodies are involved, and they are
-supported by the US military. Pazrt of this is based on allegations that
-human pharmaceuticals have been found in mutilated cattle, and that
-necropsies show cattle mutilations commonly involve areas of the animal
-that relate to “input, output, and reproduction.” To support his
-hypothesis, Oliphant cites the 1990 Reston Ebola virus case in which
-plainclothes military officers, traveling in unmarked vehicles, entered
-a research facility in Reston, Virginia, to secretly retrieve and
-destroy animals that were contaminated with a highly infectious disease.
-(Wikipedia, “Cattle
-mutilation”; Ted Oliphant III, “Mad
-Cow Disease and Cattle Mutilations?” Our Strange Planet, 1997; Ted
-Oliphant III, “Dead
-Cows I’ve Known, Part 3,” 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7173
Date: 1997
-Description: Chile sets up a new government agency tasked with studying
-UFO reports. (Kean, p. 116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7176
Date: 1/10/1997
-End date: 1/12/1997
-Description: Roswell witness Jesse
-Marcel Jr. undergoes a second series of hypnosis sessions, this time
-with Washington, D.C.–area clinical psychologist Neil
-Hibler. They
-are paid for by Roswell Declaration author Kent Jeffrey, who concludes
-that Marcel is indeed describing weather balloon debris. However, this
-interpretation is disputed.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7178
Date: 1/13/1997
-Description: Morning. A woman driving on Highway 1 from Abbotsford to
-Chilliwack, British Columbia, notices a fluffy cloud in a clear sky that
-“bursts downward” with a bright white light three times in succession.
-It dissipates, leaving behind a black bar. After 5 minutes, a solid
-stream of white light comes downward from it and another black bar
-appears, about 45° below the first one. They both start moving east in a
-wavy motion. She loses sight of them when she gets off the freeway at
-the Sardis exit. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud
-Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7179
Date: 1/27/1997
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A man is driving on a quiet back road just south
-of Llangynidr, Powys, Wales, when he sees a “massive star” moving toward
-him. His car radio fails, and he is unable to use his mobile phone to
-call for help. He stops and gets out of the car. The glowing tube of
-smoky gray and blue light descends and encircles the car, remaining for
-5 minutes. The witness can move around in the cloud but can hear no
-sound associated with the object. After the glow vanishes, he remains
-frightened and a bit sick. The car is coated with dust of unknown
-origin. He drives home to Newport, and the following morning he notices
-a skin rash. (Jenny Randles, “A Sprinkling of Star Dust,” Fortean Times
-392 (May 2020): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7180
Date: 2/1997 (approximate)
-Description: “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4, speaks
-in “Area 51: The Alien Interview” by Rocket Pictures. Claims two
-psychics were present to interpret the responses from an alien in
-custody. Aliens were highly psychic.
-Type: interview
-Reference: Youtube
-Reference: IMDB
-Location: US
-See also: 5/23/97
-See also: 2008
Date: 2/22/1997
-Description: Near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada, two
-silver-gray objects follow five people along a road. They hover above
-the highway then glide smoothly down to the snow behind them. The
-objects have rows of windows with bright blue light shining through
-them. After 15 minutes, the objects are lost to view as the witnesses
-turn along an ice road. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,”
-IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7181
Date: 2/27/1997
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A luminous blue sphere appears over Aviano Air
-Base, Italy, and hovers. After it disappears, a larger,
-orange-yellow-red sphere appears, and six fighters are scrambled to
-intercept it. The jets circle around the sphere but it disappears.
-(2Pinotti 155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7182
Date: 3/1997
-Description: Cheltenham, England, researcher Robin Cole and his UFO
-group named Circular Forum have looked into the activities of the nearby
-Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) facility known as the
-Oakley Installation. He issues an unpublished report on their findings,
-titled “GCHQ and the UFO Cover-Up,” which includes information on
-radar/visual encounters reported by RAF personnel in the 1950s, evidence
-that GCHQ studied gun-camera footage of UFOs taken by British military
-pilots, the fact that the GCHQ library contains numerous UFO
-publications, and evidence that GCHQ still monitors military UFO
-encounters. Shortly afterward, he is visited by two Cheltenham policemen
-who ask him about a UFO group called the Truth-Seekers. It turns out
-they are actually from the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, a
-counter-terrorism division. (Wikipedia, “GCHQ”;
-Nick Redfern, “Paranoia or Surveillance?” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 7–9;
-Nick Redfern, “UFO Encounters,
-Saucers, and Secrets,” Mysterious Universe, August 23, 2018; Nick
-Redfern, “UFO
-Researchers: What
-Can Happen When You Go Looking for Secrets,” Mysterious Universe,
-September 18, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7183
Date: 3/3/1997
-Description: The Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, chaired by
-Sen. Daniel
-Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), after conducting an “investigation into
-all matters in any way related to any legislation, executive order,
-regulation, practice, or procedure relating to classified information or
-granting security clearances,” issues its final report. It concludes
-that secrecy is a form of government regulation; that excessive secrecy
-has significant consequences for the national interest when policy
-makers are not fully informed, the government is not held accountable
-for its actions, and the public cannot engage in informed debate; that
-some secrecy is important to minimize inappropriate diffusion of details
-of weapon systems design and ongoing security operations as well as to
-allow public servants to secretly consider a variety of policy options
-without fear of criticism; that the best way to ensure that secrecy is
-respected, and that the most important secrets remain secret, is for
-secrecy to be returned to its limited but necessary role; that secrets
-in the federal government are whatever anyone with a stamp decides to
-stamp secret; and that a new statute is needed to set forth the
-principles for what may be declared secret. Moynihan reports that
-approximately 400,000 new secrets are created annually at the highest
-level, Top Secret. (Wikipedia, “Moynihan
-Commission on Government Secrecy”; Donald R. Burleson, “UFO Secrecy
-and the Law,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7184
Date: 3/6/1997
-Description: 6:45–10:30 p.m. Dozens of UFOs descend from the sky and
-briefly hover above Aviano Air Base, Italy. They zoom toward Venice
-Marco Polo Airport before heading toward Istrana and Treviso air bases,
-where they remain hovering in the sky for a while before returning to
-Aviano. The display repeats several times, despite Italian and US
-fighters attempting to intercept them. (2Pinotti 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7185
Date: 3/8/1997
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Folkestone Herald journalist Sarah Hall is
-driving through Burmarsh, Kent, England, when she sees a large
-triangular object descend and hover above a field some 700 feet away
-near Dymchurch. It has a disc attached to it on the back and a big light
-on the front. When she pulls to a stop, it shoots away to a spot about
-1,500 feet away and hovers. It does this four times, making a humming
-sound, and moving westward in increments for only a few seconds at a
-time. The UFO seems to be twice the size of an airliner. Other witnesses
-to a strange object come forward after Hall writes an article about her
-sighting. The residence of Conservative Home Secretary Michael
-Howard in Lympne is one epicenter. (Good Need, pp. 385–387)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7186
Date: 3/13/1997
-Description: 6:55–10:30 p.m. Aerial lights of varying descriptions are
-seen by thousands of people (many of whom are looking for Comet
-Hale-Bopp) in a space of about 300 miles from Henderson, Nevada, at 6:55
-p.m., through Phoenix to the edge of Tucson, Arizona. Tim Ley and his
-family at first see a tiny arc of five white lights just after 8:00 p.m.
-in the northwestern sky. They slowly draw nearer (around 30 mph), and
-Ley discerns a V-formation flying no more than 100 feet above the
-ground. The lights hold this pattern for more than 15 minutes, leading
-him to believe they are on one structure. Ley’s report is the most
-detailed, but there are many others. There are two distinct events
-involved in the entire incident: a triangular formation of lights seen
-to travel around 8:10–9:30 p.m. from Paulden to Tucson, passing over
-Prescott and Phoenix. Some witnesses see a huge carpenter’s
-square-shaped UFO, containing five spherical lights or possibly
-light-emitting engines. Gov. Fife
-Symington is one witness, although he does not reveal this until
-2007; he calls the object “otherworldly.” One overriding characteristic
-prevails: The UFO is a massive solid object, not merely lights, and it
-appears low in the sky, blocking out the stars behind it. Many witnesses
-say it is the size of multiple football fields and up to one mile long.
-Reports vary in terms of the number and color of lights and their
-movements. The second group of events is a series of stationary lights
-seen in the Phoenix area around 10:00 p.m. The Air Force identifies this
-group as magnesium LUU2 flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft in a
-training exercise at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona as
-part of Operation Snowbird; news coverage later shows a video taken
-around 10:00 p.m. by an amateur photographer that clearly shows the
-flares, not the earlier UFO. Phoenix city councilwoman Frances
-Emma Barwood is
-the only elected official to launch a public investigation, but she
-receives no help from any level of government. She speaks to more than
-700 witnesses who call her office, including police officers, pilots,
-and former military personnel. Minimal coverage is provided at the time
-by the media, even in Phoenix. (Wikipedia, “Phoenix
-Lights”; NICAP, “The
-Phoenix Lights Case: More Than Lights and Flares?”; Tony Ortega, “The
-Great UFO
-Cover-up,” Phoenix New Times, June 26, 1997; Bruce Maccabee, “Report
-on Phoenix Lights Arrays,” 2000; Donald R. Burleson, “UFO Secrecy
-and the Law,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 16; Lynne D. Kitei, The
-Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic’s Discovery That We Are Not Alone, Hampton
-Roads, 2004; “Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw ‘Phoenix lights’ UFO,”
-American Chronicle, March 18, 2007; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,”
-IUR 34, no. 2 (March 2012): 12–13, 30; Kean, pp. 247–249, 253–261;
-Good Need, pp. 387– 390;
-Clark III 901–905; Patrick Gross, “The
-Phoenix Lights, Arizona, USA, March 14, 1997”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7187
Date: 3/15/1997
-Description: 5:00 p.m. An object explodes in the air and crashes to the
-ground near Węgorzewo in northeastern Poland. The debris is allegedly
-retrieved by soldiers. The Polish Army denies all knowledge of the
-incident, but Col. Zdzislaw Czekierda of the General Staff admits there
-is a special division that has gathered information about UFO sightings
-since the early 1980s. (Good Need, p. 391;
-Poland 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7188
Date: 3/21/1997
-End date: 3/23/1997
-Description: A Space and UFO Science Symposium is held at Cosmo Isle
-Hakui, a museum of space history in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
-Symposium speakers include Richard
-F. Haines, Jesse
-A. Marcel Jr., Bruce Maccabee, R.
-Leo Sprinkle, hypnotherapist
-Derrel
-Sims, podiatrist
-Roger
-K. Leir, and
-crop circle researcher Colin Andrews. (Richard
-F. Haines, “The 1997 Space and UFO Science Symposium at the Cosmo
-Isle–Hakui Center, Japan,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 15–18, 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7189
Date: 3/24/1997
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Reports come in from the public that there is a
-low-flying aircraft over Howden Moors, Yorkshire, England. These reports
-soon turn into accounts of bright flashes, loud booming noises, and
-“several plumes of black smoke” rising from somewhere in the woodlands
-of the open countryside. Several search operations from several
-different counties are launched, both on foot and in the air. These
-continue through the night. The main concern is that a light aircraft or
-a helicopter has come down. However, no survivors or any wreckage is
-discovered during the search, which goes on well into the following day.
-At one stage, no-fly zones are put in place, an action that some UFO
-researchers later find suspicious—particularly when there are commercial
-airliners “stacking” as a result. Despite all of this activity, the
-official word from the military is that there is no crash at all. It is
-simply a mistaken sighting—despite many reports from the general public.
-Soon, rumors circulate from the many volunteer searchers. The most
-prominent comes from a unit of Yorkshire Water workers who happen to be
-in the area. They see a wrecked pile of metal in a clearing and a
-“military presence” that is loading “body bags” onto a Sea King
-helicopter. When the military is confronted with this, they claim they
-are merely moving equipment. An explanation remains elusive, although a
-military exercise did take place, at least 3 groups of observers
-reported UFO-like sightings, the sonic events did take place, and at
-least 1–2 civilian aircraft are reported in the area. (David Clarke and
-Martin Jeffrey, “The Mystery of Howden Moors: Part One,” IUR 24, no. 2
-(Summer 1999): 13–20; David Clarke and Martin Jeffrey, “The Mystery of
-Howden Moors: Part Two,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 24–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7190
Date: 3/26/1997
-Description: 3:30 p.m. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office takes a 911
-call from a man later identified as Richard Ford, reporting a group
-suicide in a house in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Two deputies find 39
-bodies of identically dressed, androgynous-looking men and women.
-Autopsies establish that each had drunk a lethal combination of vodka
-and barbiturates then smothered themselves with a plastic bag.
-Videotaped statements left behind explain that the suicides, members of
-a religious millenarian cult called Heaven’s Gate, were leaving their
-“earthly vehicles” behind and expect to board a spacecraft trailing
-Comet Hale-Bopp. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall
-Applewhite and Bonnie
-Nettles (formerly called Bo and Peep). (Wikipedia, “Heaven’s
-Gate (religious
-group)”; Clark III 566–567)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7191
Date: 3/30/1997
-Description: A mother and her three children are chased along a highway
-near Whitehorse, Yukon, by an object “like a small satellite dish.” At
-one point, the object is directly above the car at treetop level. (Chris
-Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7192
Date: 3/30/1997
-End date: 4/1/1997
-Description: Aerial lights are seen for several nights west of Arica,
-Chile, and over the Pacific Ocean, causing some alarm. Witnesses include
-civil servants and aeronautical experts at Chacalluta International
-Airport. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation issues a public
-statement confirming the observations. (Kean, pp. 190–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7193
Date: 4/10/1997
-Description: Rear Adm. Thomas
-R. Wilson, vice
-director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets in a
-Pentagon conference room with former astronaut Edgar
-Mitchell and UFO Disclosure founder Steven
-M. Greer to discuss the rogue nature of certain “special access
-programs” (SAPs) connected to the study of alien technology that are
-dominated by private contractors. Others allegedly there are retired
-Cmdr. Will Miller, Adm. Mike Crawford, Gen. Patrick Hughes, Shari
-Adamiak (Greer’s assistant), and Stephen Lovekin. Greer claims he has
-extracted a pledge from Wilson during the meeting to investigate SAPs
-involving UFO technology. But Wilson soon reports that he doesn’t have
-the proper security clearance to inspect those files. As Greer informs a
-Portland, Oregon, audience in 2001, Wilson says, “‘I am horrified that
-this is true. I have been in plenty of black projects, but when we tried
-to get into this one,’ he was told, and I quote, ‘Sir, you do not have a
-need to know.’ The head of intelligence Joint Staffs. You don’t have a
-need to know. Neither did the CIA director, and neither did the
-president.” In a July 4, 2008, appearance on Larry King Live, Mitchell
-tells the audience he had learned the admiral “had found the people
-responsible for the cover-up and for the people who were in the know and
-were told, I’m sorry, admiral, you do not have need to know here and so,
-goodbye.” Shortly afterward, Wilson admits meeting with Mitchell but
-denies he was ever refused access. (Steven M. Greer, “Dr. Steven
-Greer Disclosure Project
-Talk, Sept. 2001, Portland, Oregon,” UFO Evidence; Steven M. Greer,
-Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge, Crossing Point, 2006, pp. 158–160;
-“Astronaut
-Dr. Edgar Mitchell Recounts Admiral Wilson Story on
-CNN’s Larry King Live, 7/4/08,” The Black Vault YouTube channel,
-June 17, 2020; “Admiral: Never Looked for UFO Data,” Sarasota (Fla.)
-Herald-Tribune, August 6, 2008; Dolan II 538–539; Kean, pp. 234–235;
-Joe Murgia, “The
-Wilson/Davis Documents: My Twenty-Three Year Journey, Part 1,” Part
-2, UFO
-Joe, June 21, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7194
Date: 4/20/1997
-Description: 1:40 p.m. A woman is sitting on a park bench along the
-St. Clair River in Sarnia, Ontario. A grayish-white object suddenly
-appears in front of her, suspended vertically, with the bottom party
-positioned 25° above the horizon. The object has tubelike shape, rounded
-at both ends. She then notices a white spherical object that seems to
-have been ejected from the first. It travels a short distance north to
-Lake Huron and vanishes. The original object then disappears after
-another few seconds. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further
-Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7195
Date: 5/18/1997
-Description: Day. A tradesman sees a “flying entity” near Ponte a
-Mensola in the hills northeast of Florence, Italy. It descends
-vertically and lands in a field not too far away. He approaches it and
-sees that it is a man wearing black overalls with a red belt, helmet,
-and dark glasses, and with no apparent flying apparatus. The intruder
-notices him and disappears in the long grass, which is flattened where
-the man has landed. (2Pinotti 156–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7196
Date: 5/23/1997
-Description: Art Bell anonymously interviews “Victor”, who claimed to
-have worked at Area-51 S-4 (see 2/1997). Claims no successful
-communication has taken place and that most psychics used in the program
-were frauds.
-Type: interview
-Reference: Youtube
-Location: US
Date: 5/30/1997
-Description: About 11:20 a.m. Writer Georgina
-Howell is crossing the tarmac at Kirkwall Airport in Orkney,
-Scotland, to board British Airways Flight 8773 to Aberdeen when she
-notices a silvery chevron about 45° in the sky to her left. She thinks
-it is odd, but suspects it is some kind of aircraft. Suddenly she falls
-down on her face, sustaining some minor scrapes and bruises. Asked why
-she fell, she says she was looking at a sky object, but it is no longer
-there. Later, she hears about chevron-shaped objects over Phoenix. (Good
-Need, pp. 390–391)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7197
Date: 6/1997
-Description: Roswell Declaration author and pilot Kent Jeffrey announces
-that he is unable to find sufficient evidence of an extraterrestrial
-crash in New Mexico in 1947 and that the Corona debris was probably from
-a Project Mogul balloon. (Keau Davidson, “UFO
-Fan: Roswell Saucer Story Is Bunk,” San Francisco Examiner, June 23,
-1997; Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell:
-Anatomy of a Myth,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 350 (June 1997): 3–17;
-Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell:
-Anatomy of a Myth,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1
-(1998): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “A
-Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 (1998): 103– 125; Robert M. Wood, “Critique
-of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration
-12, no. 1 (1998): 127–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7199
Date: 6/1997
-Description: US Army Col. Philip
-J. Corso writes, with William
-J. Birnes, The Day after Roswell, a tell-all memoir about the
-Roswell, New Mexico, crash and retrieval. Much of the book is an account
-of Corso’s claims that he was assigned to a secret government program
-that provided some material recovered from a crashed spacecraft to
-private industry (without saying where the items came from) to reverse
-engineer them for corporate use. Corso was a special assistant to Lt.
-Gen. Arthur
-Trudeau, who headed Army Research and Development, and was in charge
-of the Foreign Technology Desk. In this position, he would take
-technological artifacts obtained from Russian, German, and other foreign
-sources and have American companies (including IBM, Hughes Aircraft,
-Bell Labs) reverse engineer that technology. The book contends that
-several aspects of modern technology such as fiber optics and integrated
-circuits were developed by using information taken from the craft. Corso
-also claims the world was “at war” with extraterrestrials and that the
-Strategic Defense Initiative project in the 1980s was part of that
-campaign successfully concluded in Earth’s favor. The book concludes
-with information about Project Horizon, a 1959 US Army plan to construct
-a base on the Moon. When first released, the book contains a foreword
-written by Sen. Strom
-Thurmond (R-S.C.), for whom Corso had served as an aide. Thurmond
-writes, “He has many interesting stories to share with individuals
-interested in military history, espionage, and the workings of our
-Government.” The foreword does not mention anything about UFOs, since
-Thurmond has assumed the book is a straightforward memoir. When he
-learns about the book’s contents, Thurmond asks for his foreword to be
-retracted, saying, “I know of no such ‘cover-up,’ and do not believe one
-existed.” (Wikipedia, “The
-Day after Roswell”; Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes, The
-Day after Roswell, Pocket Books, 1997; George M. Eberhart, [review],
-IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 22–24; Good Need, pp. 424–425;
-Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017,
-pp. 145–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7198
Date: 6/1997
-Alternate date: 7/1997
-Description: Twilight. A Polish passenger on a ferry to Stockholm,
-Sweden, watches a large ball of light, 30 feet across, follow the ship’s
-course low over the surface of the Baltic Sea. As many as 10 smaller
-spheres emerge from the upper part of the object and remain 10 feet away
-from it. Some darker colored spots can be seen rotating on the surface
-of the original light. After several minutes, the lights go off. (Poland
-121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7209
Date: 6/1997
-Description: Night. Two police officers responding to an emergency call
-in Daniec, Poland, see two bright spheres maneuvering 1,000 feet to the
-left of their patrol car. The lights stop, then accelerate, and make
-sharp turns in the air. One of the lights approaches them to about 40
-feet away, while the other is still circling above a field. Suddenly,
-both lights depart at high speed. (Poland 110–111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7200
Date: 6/6/1997
-Description: The Gomzyakov family is traveling on the Krutikha River,
-Altai Krai, Russia, when they see a luminous flying object moving at a
-speed of 300 mph. The object turns around over the Ob River and flies
-north. An hour later, they arrive at the vilage of Krutikha, where they
-see another object engulfed in brownish gas and emitting powerful
-floodlights toward the ground. Another crescent-shaped object appears
-carrying a light that is 8 times as big as itself. The family watches
-the display for 15 minutes, after which all the objects move off to the
-north, leaving behind an odor reimiscent of blast furnaces ar a steel
-factory. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-p. 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7201
Date: 6/8/1997
-Description: A former police officer sees a turquoise object that seems
-to land in a field near a highway he is driving along at Treherne,
-Manitoba. It remains on the ground for 10–15 minutes and appears to have
-a light on its front and back. The witness is inexplicably frightened.
-(Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer
-1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7202
Date: 6/18/1997
-Description: USA Today breaks the media silence about the Phoenix,
-Arizona, UFOs in a front-page story. NBC and ABC evening newsrooms pick
-up the story and nickname the object(s) the “Phoenix Lights.” (Richard
-Price, “Arizonans
-Say the Truth about UFOs Is Out There,” USA Today, June 18, 1997,
-p. 4; “1997
-NBC News Report on
-the Phoenix Lights w/ Tom Brokaw and Robert Hager,” Roadside
-Television YouTube channel, March 8, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7203
Date: 6/18/1997
-End date: 6/19/1997
-Description: Evening. Grzegorz Nowak and four friends are visiting the
-monument to the Battle of Annenberg in Góra Świętej Anny, Poland, when
-they see glowing fireballs playing about on the hill and a large orange
-sphere. They try to communicate with the fireballs by flashing their
-headlights on and off; one of the lights responds with a similar signal.
-They watch other aerial objects and two of the youths have some missing
-time of more than an hour. The next night, they improve their headlight
-signaling. An enormous cigar-shaped object appears, shooting out
-multicolored lights that hover almost directly above them. Some of the
-orange spheres seem to transform into cloaked beings, each carrying a
-light ball. Some Polish researchers consider this a concocted episode
-amplified by fantasy proneness. (Poland 85–87; “Seria
-dziwnych zdarzeń w Opolu w 1997 roku,” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 13,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7204
Date: 6/19/1997
-Description: Arizona Gov. Fife
-Symington calls a press conference, stating that “they found who was
-responsible” for the Phoenix Lights. He proceeds to make light of the
-situation by bringing on stage his 6-foot-4 chief of staff Jay Heiler dressed
-in an alien costume and proclaiming him “the guilty party.” He jokes
-that the media is taking the story “entirely too serious” as Heiler
-removes the mask. Symington also notes that he requested information
-from the commander of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, the general in
-charge of the Arizona National Guard, and the head of the Arizona
-Department of Public Safety. But none of them have an answer for what.
-In 2007, Symington responds to an Air Force explanation that the lights
-were flares:
-“As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that
-this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it
-was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in
-formation.” In a December 10, 2008, episode of the television show UFO
-Hunters called “Arizona Lights,” Symington says that he contacted the
-military asking what the lights were. The response was “no comment.”
-(“Symington
-Claims He Saw UFO in Phoenix Sky,” Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen, March 24,
-2007, p. 4; Kean, p. 249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7205
Date: 6/24/1997
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman in Lachlan, Tasmania, is home alone in
-her kitchen when she notices a bright light source on the window blinds.
-Looking outside, she sees a large circle of light seemingly at ground
-level, some 550 feet to the east of the house. The circle is in a
-paddock at a higher elevation and in front of the trees and the other
-end. She goes outside, but can’t see any further details or head any
-sound. The light does not reflect on any of the nearby trees. Later, the
-light disappears. (“UFOs in Tasmania,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998):
-28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7206
Date: 6/24/1997
-Description: USAF releases The Roswell Report: Case Closed, by
-Capt. James McAndrew, stating that any alien bodies found at Roswell,
-New Mexico, were really anthropomorphic test dummies carried aloft in
-high-altitude balloons, and the unusual military activities were balloon
-launch-and-recovery operations. Although the dummy tests occurred
-several years after 1947, witnesses had been confused about the exact
-date. Claims of alien bodies at Roswell Army Air Field hospital are a
-combination of two incidents: the June
-26, 1956, crash of a Boeing KC- 97G Stratotanker at Roswell-Walker
-AFB in which 11 crew members die; and a May 21, 1959, manned balloon
-mishap, in preparation for Project Excelsior, at Holloman AFB,
-Alamogordo, in which Capt. Joseph
-Kittinger is injured. The Project Mogul balloon is still invoked to
-explain the 1947 debris field at Corona, New Mexico. (Capt. James
-McAndrew, The
-Roswell Report: Case Closed, Headquarters
-US Air Force, 1997; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy
-Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 7–10;
-Swords 355–357; “Air
-Force Reports on the Roswell UFO Incident,” Military Wiki; Clark III
-321)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7207
Date: 6/28/1997
-Description: Four witnesses in Blind River, Ontario, watch the flight of
-a triangular red object with jagged edges and a “square forward
-section.” Within seconds of its disappearance, an egg-shaped object
-appears in the same location and flies along a similar path, flaring
-every two seconds into a bright white from a dull gray. (Chris
-Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7208
Date: 7/1997
-Description: Witnesses, one of whom is an Air Force and Coast Guard
-veteran, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, see a “square of eight lights” in
-the sky. Fifteen minutes later, a silent boomerang-shaped object glides
-above them “like a huge bat” at low altitude. Its underside is covered
-with hundreds of small, dim, rectangular lights. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997
-Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7210
Date: 7/3/1997
-Description: Two witnesses driving along Highway 16 near Nojack,
-Alberta, see a “black ring” with faint lines hanging down into a
-motionless “big puff of smoke.” It is in view for 5 minutes. (Chris
-Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998):
-15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7211
Date: 7/14/1997
-Description: 10:49 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Henri Coandă
-International Airport at Otopeni, Romania, are supervising the landing
-of an airliner when they notice a light about 3 miles distant between
-Buftea and Corbeanca and well below the scattered cloud layer. It does
-not appear on radar. The duty officer turns the airport video cameras
-toward the UFO and records its image for 2 hours. Through binoculars the
-light is seen to have a horizontal band colored white, orange, and red.
-When the airport lights are switched on for another landing, the light
-blinks out and reappears in a different location, this time looking like
-two light balls joined together. The lights appear brighter when the
-airport lights are on and dim as soon as they are turned off. The lights
-disappear abruptly at 1:10 a.m. (Romania 75–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7212
Date: 7/23/1997
-Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appeared on Coast to Coast AM and
-again was interviewed by Art Bell. This time, he was accompanied by
-Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C.
-and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts
-of Corso’s public service. He indeed had served honorably as a
-Lieutenant Colonel under Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau and worked in
-the White House for four years.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Rachel, NV
Date: 8/3/1997
-Description: The New York Times’s William
-J. Broad reports on a study, “The C.I.A.’s Role in the Study of
-U.F.O.’s, 1947–90,” by National Reconnaissance Office historian Gerald
-K. Haines in a CIA journal, Studies in Intelligence, that Project Blue
-Book had known that more than half of UFO reports in the 1950s and 1960s
-by citizens and aviation experts were based on “fleeting glimpses of U-2
-and SR-71 spy planes.” Rather than acknowledging their existence, Blue
-Book came up with “false cover stories” like ice crystals and
-temperature inversions. Not a single linkage of a reconnaissance flight
-to a UFO report is provided. These allegations are treated uncritically
-in the news media. One-time Blue Book head Robert
-J. Friend says the story is “laughable” and denies ever having to
-conceal U-2 sightings. Bruce
-Maccabee points out that the greater number of UFO sighting are at
-night when U-2s cannot be seen, and even in the daytime a U-2 flying at
-72,000 feet is “essentially invisible.” Haines also reveals that in the
-1970s and 1980s CIA analysts devoted some time to “counterintelligence
-concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using US citizens and UFO
-groups to obtain information on sensitive US weapons development
-programs (such as the Stealth aircraft), the vulnerability of the US
-air-defense network to penetration by foreign missiles mimicking UFOs,
-and evidence of Soviet advanced technology associated with UFO
-sightings.” (Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s
-Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence, 1997,
-pp. 67–84; William J. Broad, “CIA
-Admits Government Lied about UFO Sightings,”
-New York Times, August 3, 1997, p. 12; Mark Rodeghier, “The CIA’s UFO
-History,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 3–6, 36; Bruce Maccabee, “CIA’s
-UFO Explanation Is Preposterous,” 2000; Swords 349–350; Clark III
-926–927; Kremlin 187–188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7213
Date: 8/4/1997
-Description: Two forest rangers in different towers near Hadashville,
-Manitoba, simultaneously observe a silver ball that hovers above the
-trees some distance away. A second object approaches the first and the
-two travel away together. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,”
-IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7214
Date: 8/9/1997
-Description: 5:07 p.m. Swissair Flight 127 to Zürich, Switzerland, is
-flying northeast over Queens, New York, near John F. Kennedy
-International Airport, when pilots Capt. Philippe Bobet and First
-Officer Kurt Grunder see a cylindrical, glowing-white object, about the
-size of a fuselage of a small light aircraft, heading toward the Boeing
-747 at high speed. The airliner is in level flight at 20,000 feet and
-cruising at 390 mph in a cloudless sky, and the UFO is 100–200 feet
-above it. There is no noise from the object, and no trail or wake
-disturbance is detected. The near collision lasts about only one second.
-The object is not detected on radar, and it does not trigger the
-aircraft’s collision warning system. The object is explained as a
-weather balloon, which is spotted by a United Airlines pilot in nearly
-the same location and height 72 minutes after the incident. (NICAP, “Swiss
-Air Has Near Miss with UFO”;
-Don Berliner and Robert J. Durant, Near Miss with a UFO: Swissair Flight
-127, UFO Research Coalition, 1999; Robert J. Durant, “Swissair
-jet Has ‘Near Miss’ with UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 377 (September
-1999): 3–9; Good Need, pp. 405–406)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7215
Date: 8/12/1997
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Two police officers are on patrol near Lacock
-Road in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, when a triangular object flies past
-them at only 30 feet altitude and 45–50 mph. It heads to the northeast
-and is joined by a second object that seems to be following it. Their
-speed increases as they are lost to sight within seconds. (Marler
-144–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7216
Date: 9/1997
-Description: Didier Charnay begins publishing UFO Log in Grenoble,
-France. It continues through autumn 2000. (UFO Log, no.
-1 (September 1997))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7217
Date: 9/29/1997
-End date: 10/3/1997
-Description: Through the auspices of the Society for Scientific
-Exploration and funded by Laurance Rockefeller, who
-has a long-time UFO interest, English physicist Peter
-A. Sturrock holds a workshop at the Pocantico Conference Center in
-Tarrytown, New York, in which UFO researchers present their best data to
-a panel of scientists agreeable to hearing them out. The panel is
-charged with deciding whether the available physical evidence can
-produce results that will lead to the resolution of the UFO question.
-For the panel, Sturrock recruits astronomers (and SSE members) Thomas
-E. Holzer and Charles
-R. Tolbert, electrical engineer Von
-R. Eshleman, geophysicist
-J.
-R. Jokipii, photoanalyst
-François
-Louange, geologist H.
-Jay Melosh, atmospheric physicist James
-J. Papike, radiation
-physician Günther
-Reitz, and
-plant biologist Bernard
-Veyret. To present the UFO evidence, Sturrock brings in aviation
-psychologist Richard
-F. Haines, German ufologist Illobrand
-von Ludwiger, CUFOS
-director Mark
-Rodeghier, retired NASA engineer John
-F. Schuessler, Norwegian ufologist Erling
-Strand, science
-professor Michael
-D. Swords, computer
-scientist Jacques
-Vallée, and
-SEPRA director Jean-Jacques
-Velasco. The panel makes several observations: The UFO problem is
-not a simple one, and it is unlikely that there is any simple, universal
-answer; whenever there are unexplained observations, there is the
-possibility that scientists will learn something new by studying them;
-studies should concentrate on cases that include as much independent
-physical evidence as possible; continuing contact between the UFO
-community and physical scientists could be productive; and institutional
-support for research in this area is desirable. After four days of
-presentations and discussions, Sturrock announces that the panel will
-issue a statement to be drafted later that encourages UFO study by
-scientists. (Michael D. Swords and Mark Rodeghier, “The History-Making
-Sturrock Workshop,” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 3–8; Peter A. Sturrock,
-et al., “Physical
-Evidence Related to UFO Reports:
-The Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Pocantico Conference Center,
-Tarrytown, New York, September
-29–October 4, 1997,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 2
-(1998): 179–229; Peter A. Sturrock, The
-UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, Warner,
-1999; Clark III 1115–1117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7218
Date: 10/3/1997
-Description: The Chilean Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos
-begins operations in Santiago, Chile. Air Force Gen. Gonzalo Miranda has
-created the agency within the Department of Civil Aeronautics after the
-series of sightings in Arica earlier in the year. CEFAA is charged with
-compiling, analyzing, and studying every incident involving anomalous
-aerial phenomena observed by any aviation personnel, civil or military.
-(Kean, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7219
Date: 10/17/1997
-Description: In an effort to gauge the vulnerability of military
-satellites to laser attacks, the US military tests a directed energy
-weapon, Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) developed by the
-US Navy in 1980, against an aging USAF reconnaissance satellite. From
-its location at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, MIRACL
-sends two blasts of its deuterium fluoride laser against MSTI-3 at a
-distance of 238 miles. The Pentagon claims mixed results because a
-computer glitch prevents the satellite from reporting back that the
-second shot has struck the target. (“Call
-it a MIRACL,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54, no. 1
-(Jan./Feb. 1998): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7220
Date: 11/4/1997
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Between Minehead and Porlock, Somerset, England,
-a man driving home in foggy conditions sees three white beams of light
-that suddenly permeate the fog from above and converge into a circle on
-the hood of his car. The electrical system fails, and he cannot restart
-it. After about 5 minutes the light beam disappears suddenly and the
-headlights come back on, so he resumes driving. When he gets home, he
-finds that his watch and car clock are 5 minutes slow and that a compass
-placed near the car gives a reading 90° from true. (Herbert S. Taylor,
-“An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May
-2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7221
Date: 11/13/1997
-Description: Night. Two witnesses are driving home near Lac La Biche,
-Alberta, when they see a diamond-shaped object, consisting of three
-white lights in the front and one red light in the rear, suddenly “turn
-on.” It hovers above trees about 900 feet away, and they can see the
-bottom of the object. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR
-23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7222
Date: 11/17/1997
-Description: Night. A woman sees an “inverted triangular object with no
-wings” outside her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has many rows of
-lights across its surface and is “lavender and steel gray” on one side,
-which is illuminated. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR
-23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7223
Date: 11/28/1997
-End date: 11/30/1997
-Description: The panelists from the Sturrock workshop
-reconvene in a San Francisco, California, hotel to draft a statement on
-science and UFOs, but the language continues to be hashed out and
-debated for months. The process goes on until April 27, 1998, when the
-report is sent to the editorial office of the Journal of Scientific
-Exploration. The report’s release engenders a mostly positive press
-response, but with little effect on scientists’ continuing refusal to
-examine UFO reports. (Clark III 1117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7224
Date: 12/1997
-Description: Retired Sergeant-Major Cherd Chuensamnaun is deep in
-Buddhist meditation at his home in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, when he
-begins receiving communications from space aliens. The following day his
-skeptical son and son-in-law Jaroen Raepeth are lifted up from the
-living room sofa and thrown outdoors into the yard. His daughter Wassana
-sees a 33–50-foot long UFO outside at treetop level. Cherd continues to
-transmit messages from the extraterrestrials (who hail from Pluto and
-another planet named Loku) until his death in 2000. His family now
-continues the tradition, and nearby Khao Kala hill regularly attracts
-crowds of meditating UFO enthusiasts. According to the opinions of a
-theologian from Silpakorn University, this cult is based on a
-combination of beliefs in ghosts, god, aliens, and
-Buddhism combined. (Wikipedia, “UFO
-Sightings in Thailand”; Richard S. Ehrlich, “The
-UFO Seekers Flocking to a RemoteThai Hilltop in Search of Buddhist
-Aliens,” CNN, October 6, 2019; “Buddhist Aliens,” Fortean Times 388
-(January 2020): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7225
Date: 12/7/1997
-End date: 12/14/1997
-Description: The first World Forum of Ufology takes place in Brasília,
-Brazil, coordinated by the Brazilian Ufologists Commission. The
-coalition of researchers is comprised of Claudeir
-Covo, from
-the National Institute of Aerospace Phenomena Investigations (INFA);
-Rafael Cury, from the Núcleo de Pesquisas Ufológicas (NPU); Reginaldo
-de Athayde, from
-Ufological Research Center (CPU); Marco
-Antônio Petit, from Fluminense UFO Research Association (AFEU); and
-Ubirajara
-Franco Rodrigues and Ademar
-José Gevaerd, both
-from the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV), the
-largest UFO group in the country. The event culminates in the Brasilia
-Letter, a document signed by nearly all ufologists present, representing
-their nations and research entities. The letter conveys the position of
-ufologists to the Brazilian government to take the necessary steps
-required to clarify the UFO question. (A. J. Gevaerd, “Brazilian
-Researchers Organize the Biggest UFO Conference Ever,” UFO Updates,
-December 8, 1997; Clark III 209; 2Pinotti 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7226
Date: 12/8/1997
-Description: Night. After two brightly lit objects fly above Surrey,
-British Columbia, a large, disc-shaped, pewter- colored craft spins and
-bobs around in the sky. The witnesses give chase in their car, but lose
-sight of it. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2
-(Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7227
Date: 12/14/1997
-Description: Seven people in Vancouver, British Columbia, see an object
-shaped like an “@” sign. It zooms into view and stops in mid-flight,
-appearing as a “flattened silver pyramid.” It bobs up and down then
-disappears suddenly. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR
-23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7228
Date: winter 1997
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Sgt. John F. Duffy is serving as loadmaster and
-radio operator aboard a KC-130R Hercules cargo plane flying at an
-altitude of 24,000 feet north of the Horne Islands in the South Pacific.
-He notices a white object on the left side of the aircraft. At first it
-seems stationary, then appears to jump behind a nearby cloud, moving in
-a horizontal direction and disappears after only 2 seconds. (Richard F.
-Haines, “South Pacific Sighting, 1997,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999):
-11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7177
Date: 12/22/1997
-Description: An object like an “airplane wing cross-sectioned” is seen
-by a witness near Halifax, Nova Scotia. It has a solid appearance and is
-slow-moving, disappearing after 8 minutes. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997
-Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7229
Date: 12/31/1997
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Many people in the area of Rzeszów, Poland,
-watch a spherical orange object. Jan Skobran and Maciej Robert see it
-briefly before it disappears. At 11:50 p.m., it reappears and they
-videotape it on VHS. After about 40 seconds it disappears, but another
-shows up at 12:20 a.m., pulsating with an intense orange glow. Seconds
-later it disappears, but another light appears over the Słocina forest.
-(Poland 153–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7230
Date: 1998
-Description: The Roper Organization conducts a second survey on
-abductions, using the same indicators as its 1991 survey. This one is
-commissioned by Robert
-Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science. Results indicate
-that the number of potential abductees has dropped from more than 3.7
-million in 1991 to 2.2 million in 1998. (Mark Rodeghier, “Counting
-Abductees: What Can Surveys Tell Us?” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000):
-21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7231
Date: 1998
-Description: Podiatrist Roger
-K. Leir publishes The Aliens and the Scalpel, in which he reviews
-his investigation of alien implants since 1995. Leir has performed
-surgery to remove small objects from the feet and hands of 17 abductees.
-Robert
-Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science provides the
-funding for the analysis of these objects. Some of the findings are
-potentially noteworthy—the objects are found on the left side of the
-body, most of them fluoresce under ultraviolet light, some are magnetic,
-and most appear metallic and seem to emit radio signals. Calcium,
-copper, and iron are the most common constituents. Critics dismiss the
-objects as tiny slivers of metal or glass embedded in tissue and find no
-evidence for radio emissions. None of the objects reveal any apparent
-technological structure. (Roger K. Leir, The
-Aliens and the Scalpel: Scientific Proof of Extraterrestrial
-Implants in
-Humans, Granite,
-1998; Roger K. Leir, “Alien Implants and Physical Evidence,” MUFON 2005
-International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2005; Clark III
-11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7232
Date: 1/1998
-Description: David
-Jacobs’s book The Threat expresses his belief that the aliens are
-not doing research; rather, they are carrying out a deliberate and
-massive breeding program using individuals from childhood onward and
-families for generations. The aliens create pregnancies, steal fetuses,
-and grow hybrids in vats and incubators. When those hybrids become
-children, they require emotional nurture from humans to thrive, so the
-aliens bring abductees back to touch and interact with the children. The
-abductees report seeing hybrids that look less and less like the gray
-aliens. Another series of hybridizations occurs as the aliens breed or
-engineer early-stage hybrids into progressively more human late-stage
-hybrids, who are all but indistinguishable from ordinary people (blond,
-blue- eyed Nordics). Some adult hybrids assist the aliens in their work,
-while others live on earth and mingle with humans for a time. Jacobs
-raises the alarm that apparent benevolence from the aliens is a con to
-lull us into complacency and hide their true intentions. (David M.
-Jacobs, The
-Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, Simon & Schuster,
-1998; Thomas E. Bullard, “Apocalypse in Gray,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer
-1998): 20–27; Clark III 9, 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7233
Date: 1/2/1998
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Fernando Mariano de Oliveira and Luciene da Cunha
-Lopes are in a townhouse on the Rua Luis Augusto Ferreira in the Capão
-Redondo neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil, when they see a small
-luminous sphere about 8 inches in diameter moving up and down in the sky
-at variable speeds about 500 feet away from them. Other family members
-join them to watch the silent white light, and the neighborhood dogs
-bark constantly. Fernando’s brother, Alan Bruno de Oliveira, 10, picks
-up a camcorder and films the light with the help of his cousin Katiuscia
-da Cunha Lopes for 4.5 minutes. The light disappears around 10:00 p.m.
-(Brazil 385–392)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7234
Date: 1/11/1998
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A pair of dark triangular objects appear to merge
-together over Cuddington, Cheshire, England. (Marler 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7235
Date: 2/1998
-Description: Night. Two young men are driving from Opole to Niemodlin,
-Poland, when the car radio goes off and the engine of their Polski Fiat
-125p fails just as a large object flies over them. The lights, radio,
-and engine come back on by themselves after the object is gone, but they
-can still see it in the west as it apparently descends toward the road a
-mile or two ahead. From the top of a hill, they see it emitting a
-dazzling light and hovering above the trees. Suddenly it approaches
-them, flying 65–100 feet off the ground, and they speed ahead into town.
-(Poland 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7236
Date: 2/17/1998
-Description: An Army intelligence document summarizes the “Bioeffects of
-Selected Nonlethal Weapons,” including microwave, acoustic, and
-radio-frequency directed energy devices. As for RF energy, “There is no
-sound propagated through the air like normal sound. This technology in
-its crudest form could be used to distract individuals; if refined, it
-could also be used to communicate with hostages or hostage takers
-directly by Morse code or other message systems, possibly even by voice
-communication.” And, “The phenomenon is tunable in that the
-characteristic sounds and intensities of those sounds depend on the
-characteristics of the RF energy as delivered. Because the frequency of
-the sound heard is dependent on the pulse characteristics of the RF
-energy, it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the
-point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word,
-except that it could only be heard within a person’s head. In one
-experiment, communication of the words from one to ten using ‘speech
-modulated’ microwave energy was successfully demonstrated. Microphones
-next to the person experiencing the voice could not pick up the sound.
-Additional development of this would open up a wide range of
-possibilities.” (US Army, “Bioeffects
-of Selected Nonlethal Weapons,”
-February 17, 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7237
Date: 2/28/1998
-End date: 6/11/1999
-Description: Kosovo War and NATO intervention
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Kosovo
Date: early 3/1998
-Description: William Weitzel and the Fund for UFO Research discover and
-later secure copies of the unsanitized, pre- redaction record copy 16mm
-microfilm of the Blue Book Files, filmed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery,
-Alabama, in February 1975 that the National Archives inadvertently makes
-available at the Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7238
Date: 4/22/1998
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A former Canadian F-104 pilot watches a UFO
-embedded in a cloud of green light fly toward the south over his car as
-he is driving near Whistler, British Columbia. It is visible only a few
-seconds. Other witnesses further south see the UFO stop over Puget Sound
-for 5–10 seconds, jump instantly to another location, and hover again
-before speeding away to the south. (George Filer, “Washington Large Disc
-with Hole in Its Center,” Filer’s Files, #34-2007, August 22, 2007;
-Nukes 495)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7239
Date: 4/22/1998
-Description: 9:23 p.m. Civilian Larry Swanson sees a disc-shaped UFO fly
-silently north to south at about 300–400 feet altitude over the center
-of Naval Submarine Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on the Kitsap
-Peninsula, Washington. At one point, the disc tilts slightly, allowing
-Swanson to view its underside, which is glowing white except for a
-central circular area about 30 feet in diameter. It slowly glides out of
-sight. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, January 28,
-1999; Nukes 494–498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7240
Date: 6/5/1998
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Paul Best and his girlfriend are driving near
-Llanidloes, Powys, Wales, when they notice three triangular objects that
-are rounded on the bottom. They remain stationary for 6–7 minutes, then
-begin moving slowly before shooting away at high speed. (“UFOs
-Spotted near Llani,” Welshpool (UK) County Times, June 12, 1998, via
-UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 351 (October 1998): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7241
Date: 6/25/1998
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness and her children in Cleveland, Ohio,
-see 8 white, balloon-like objects moving across the sky into a large
-cloud, pausing before entering it one by one. They watch the cloud and
-follow it to the horizon, but the objects do not emerge. (Herbert S.
-Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July
-2005): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7242
Date: 6/26/1998
-Description: Early morning. Two witnesses spot a triangular UFO hovering
-above Corbett Hospital in Stourbridge, England. The object has white
-lights at each corner and projects a white beam of light onto the
-buildings. (“Strange
-Shape in Sky,” Wolverhampton (UK) Express and Star, July 10, 1998,
-via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 351 (October 1998): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7243
Date: 7/2/1998
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple working outside in their yard at
-Ticonderoga, New York, see a soundless, wingless object moving swiftly
-through the sky. The man takes a video of it as it flies past the
-eastern side of St. Mary’s Church. Probable aircraft. (Bruce Maccabee,
-“‘Flying
-Peanut’/Double UFO Video Seems to Be Authentic,” MUFON UFO Journal,
-no. 369 (January 1999): 3–7; Wim van Utrecht, “Luminous
-Peanut over Ticonderoga, New York,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7244
Date: 7/21/1998
-Description: 11:19 p.m. An object the size of a small trailer appears
-suddenly over Napoleon, Ohio. It is emitting a dense fog and stays
-stationary for 7 minutes, then branches out and grows until 5 smaller
-craft are seen circling it. The large object seems to dissolve and
-disappear, the smaller objects still circling for another few minutes.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May
-2006): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7245
Date: 8/10/1998
-Description: 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m. At least four witnesses at Quirindi,
-New South Wales, see “20 silver balls” performing complex maneuvers.
-Angel hair streams from the objects during acceleration and right-angle
-turns. The substance consolidates into long, white strands that slowly
-fall to earth, draping on telephone lines and trees. It is white,
-cotton-like, and strong, requiring a good tug to break, but quickly
-sublimates to nothing on handling. A sample is sent to UFO researcher Bill
-Chalker for analysis. Microscopic imaging by indicates it is spider
-web. Another witness in Piallaway, New South Wales, reports similar
-material at 2:00 p.m. (Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair,
-1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 10; Keith Basterfield, “Angel
-Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Brian
-Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006):
-107–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7246
Date: 8/21/1998
-Description: Israeli-American astrophysicist Mario
-Livio speculates that extraterrestrials are not particularly rare,
-it’s just that the most likely time for them to have developed was 3
-billion years ago. (Mario Livio, “How
-Rare Are Extraterrestrial
-Civilizations and When Did They Emerge?” arXiv, August 21,
-1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7247
Date: 9/13/1998
-Description: A sensationalized TV documentary, The Secret KGB UFO Files,
-is released in the US and hosted by actor Roger
-Moore, who
-recounts a dubious story about a Soviet crash/retrieval in Sverdlovsk
-Oblast, Russia, in March 1969 that involved an alien autopsy. (Internet
-Movie Database, “The
-Secret KGB UFO Files”; “The
-Secret KGB
-UFO Files, 1998,” M TUFONC YouTube channel, September 24,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7248
Date: 9/14/1998
-Description: Lt. Col. Enrique Rocamora, in charge of declassification of
-UFO reports for the Spanish Air Force from 1993 to 1999, enters the 57th
-staff course at the Escuela Superior del Aire in Madrid, Spain. Along
-with consultations and contributions from Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos, he
-creates a massive monograph, “The Process of Declassification of UFO
-Documentation in the Air Force,” with 10 chapters and 16 attachments
-amounting to 296 pages. (Swords 428, 523)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7249
Date: 9/28/1998
-Description: UFO researchers Ion
-Hobana, Harald
-Alexandrescu, and Dan
-D. Farcaş establish the Asociația pentru Studiul Fenomenelor
-Aerospațiale Neidentificate (ASFAN) with offices in the Admiral Vasile
-Urseanu Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest, Romania. (Romania 69–70;
-“Association
-for the Study of Unidentified Space
-Phenomena (ASFAN), Romania”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7250
Date: 10/1998
-Description: Scott
-Corrales begins publishing Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic
-Ufology. It persists through December 2004 but continues as a blog in
-December 2005. (Inexplicata:
-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology, no. 1 (Fall 1998); Inexplicata
-blog)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7251
Date: 10/18/1998
-Description: 12:40 p.m. Dave Rose is at Sandwell Valley, West Midlands,
-England, with his parents when they see a motionless sphere in the sky.
-After 20 minutes another object, a metallic-looking triangular UFO, also
-appears. The triangle moves from side to side in short bursts before
-vanishing completely. The sphere dwindles to a dark spot in another 10
-minutes. (“Did
-You See This UFO?” Wolverhampton (UK) Express and Star, October 29,
-1998, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 353 (December 1998): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7252
Date: 10/19/1998
-Description: Four different radar stations in Hebei province, China,
-pick up an unknown target moving above a military flight training base
-near Cangzhou. At least 140 observers at the base see the object as a
-small star that grows larger and larger as it descends. It has a
-mushroom-shaped dome on top and a flat bottom covered with rotating
-lights. The base commander scrambles a Shenyang J-6 fighter, which gets
-to within 2.5 miles of the UFO over Qing County, whereupon it abruptly
-shoots upward. The UFO plays cat and mouse with the jet, appearing and
-reappearing. Permission to fire on the UFO is denied by ground control.
-The fighter is forced to return after running low on fuel, and the UFO
-disappears before other aircraft arrive. (Good Need, p. 393)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7253
Date: 11/6/1998
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A man is driving with his wife near Childers,
-Queensland, when he sees an object moving quickly across the road. Five
-minutes later he sees a green beam of light shining down from the sky.
-The light source seems to be about 3,000 feet above them. Both he and
-his wife, who is asleep in the car, experience swelling in the hands and
-lips, as well as headaches. They both feel compelled to take their
-wedding rings off and sense that something else will happen to them.
-(“Australian CE2,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7254
Date: 11/6/1998
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A witness in Bothell, Washington, sees a thin,
-horizontal cloud that tilts and descends. A taller horizontal cloud
-tilts to the left, but it soon appears to be a dark, cylindrical object.
-Two small oval clouds emerge from a larger cloud. All of the objects
-slowly descend past the Cascades Mountains. A few jets fly toward them
-one at a time, until 9:30 p.m. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and
-the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7255
Date: 11/11/1998
-Description: 11:55 a.m. Two daylight discs are seen by Ms. R. M. Jones
-as she is driving through Alexander, Arkansas: “The first was larger,
-more white, more stationary and lasted longer. The second was a white
-cigar sort of thing, sort of shimmery.” (“UFOs
-Dominate Night Sky over Arkansas,” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December
-7, 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7256
Date: 11/16/1998
-Description: Newspaper Article: “High court won’t review “state secrets”
-privilege in ‘Area 51’ case”. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in early
-November to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by workers at a “secret” air
-base near Groom Lake, Nev., dubbed “Area 51.”
-Type: lawsuit
-Reference: link
-Location: Area 51
Date: 11/27/1998
-Description: 7:00–7:30 p.m. A woman is driving east on 25 Mile Road
-north of Mount Clemens, Michigan, when she sees a “highly intense,”
-basketball-sized ball of white light coming directly at her from the
-right at high speed. There is no sound and no time to avoid a collision.
-The object hits the car with a low thud, but the car’s motion is not
-affected. She does not see it again and continues driving home. Upon
-inspecting her car, she finds a cream- colored residue where it hit the
-car, forming a streak about 12–13 inches long that is broken in several
-spots. The residue is saved and after several months it is sent to
-analytical chemist Phyllis
-Budinger for tests and analysis. The results show prominent
-components of kaolin (aluminum silicate), a hydrated metal (perhaps
-manganese) oxide, and a celluloidal material. Only the oxide is not
-attributable to the car’s own finish. There is no evidence of heat
-transferred to the car’s paint. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close
-Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7257
Date: 11/30/1998
-Description: Night. Bright blue-white lights are seen throughout Sussex
-County, Delaware. One man reports a “large blue light that was moving
-all over erratically,” with smaller lights coming from the larger one.
-Local researcher Jane Segal receives reports that “fighters from Dover
-Air Force Base were flying all over the region.” (“UFOs Seen
-by Many in Southern Delaware,” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7,
-1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7258
Date: 12/1998
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Christopher Cabrera is at the end of his patrol
-shift at Area 2 in Nellis AFB in Nevada and chatting with a few other
-guards. All four of them notice three extremely bright amber lights in
-front of them in the southeast blinking sequentially in a vertical,
-triangular formation. The bottom two lights are about 100 feet off the
-ground and a quarter-mile away. They seem to be attached to one solid
-object that blocks out the stars behind it. It remains eerily silent.
-The event lasts about 10 seconds and the lights are so bright that it
-looks like daytime. The guards report the incident to the Flight Chief,
-who tells them not to repeat the story to anyone or they will be
-eligible for dishonorable discharge. (Robert L. Hastings, “Triangular-Shaped
-UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear
-Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, April 23, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7259
Date: 12/2/1998
-Description: Night. UFO activity in Brisbane, Queensland, consists of a
-bright white light, an orange ball of light, and a missing time
-experience, all by different witnesses. (“UFOs
-Converge on Brisbane,” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7,
-1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7260
Date: 12/3/1998
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A witness is driving in Kirkland, Washington,
-when she notices a cluster of four white lights and one red light to the
-south. They seem to be approaching, and when she arrives home she sees
-they are attached to a large equilateral triangle that passes overhead.
-(Marler 227–228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7261
Date: 12/11/1998
-Description: During mission STS-88,
-the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavor takes photos of an unusual dark
-object in low earth orbit. Conspiracy theorists claim it is an alien
-satellite, dubbed the Black Knight, in polar orbit around the Earth.
-However, the object is later identified as a thermal blanket that became
-dislodged and lost during a December 9 EVA by astronauts Jerry
-L. Ross and James
-H. Newman during their installation of antennas on the International
-Space Station. (Wikipedia, “Black
-Knight satellite conspiracy theory”; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
-Story, Signet, 1969, p. 220; James Oberg, “Phantom
-Satellite?” PowerPoint presentation; Martina Redpath, “The Truth
-about the Black Knight Satellite Mystery,” Armagh Observatory and
-Planetarium, July 18, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7262
Date: 1999
-Description: Harvard University psychologist John
-E. Mack publishes a second book on abductions, Passport to the
-Cosmos, in which he continues to focus on the experience as
-transformative and ultimately benevolent. Much of the experience
-consists of a life lesson in symbolic form, Mack asserts. The hybrids
-combine the human and alien in a shared mission to save the Earth. The
-nurturing of hybrid children emphasizes the importance of emotion, and
-the otherness of the aliens awakens a sense that humans are not the apex
-of existence. The shock and terror of kidnap by unearthly beings breaks
-the illusion that the world is under our control. Although Mack hears
-the usual accounts of examinations and reproductive procedures from
-dozens of other experiencers, he still reads these events as symbolic
-agents of the larger purpose to save Earth from humans and humans from
-themselves. Whether or not the abductors are extraterrestrial hardly
-matters. (John E. Mack, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and
-Alien Encounters, Crown, 1999; Clark III 9, 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7265
Date: 1999
-Alternate date: 2000
-Description: Retired NASA psychologist Richard
-F. Haines founds the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous
-Phenomena as a place for pilots, crews, and air-traffic controllers to
-report their UFO sightings on a confidential basis. Ted Roe is executive
-director and Haines is the chief research scientist. (“New Organization
-Promotes Aviation Safety in UFO Sightings,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter
-2000–2001): 22, 30; Richard F. Haines, “NARCAP’s Project Sphere: Are
-Spherical UAP a Threat to Aviation Safety?” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010):
-4–5; Clark III 553)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7263
Date: 1999
-Description: Austrian astrobiologist Helmut
-Lammer and his wife Marion publish MILABS: Military Mind Control and
-Alien Abduction, a review of people claiming to have been abducted by
-military personnel who interrogate them about their UFO experiences,
-remove or insert implants, and perform medical examinations and memory
-eradication. (Helmut Lammer and Marion Lammer, MILABS: Military Mind
-Control and Alien Abduction, IllumiNet, 1999; Helmut Lammer, “Preliminary
-Findings of Project-MILAB: Evidence for Military Kidnappings of Alleged
-UFO- Abductees,”
-October 16, 1996; Helmut Lammer, “Further
-Findings of Project-MILAB: Looking behind the Alien/Military
-Abduction Agenda,” August 13, 1997; Malcolm Robinson, “MILABS:
-Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction,” Strange Phenomena
-Investigations England, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7264
Date: 1/22/1999
-Description: 7:03 a.m. A witness driving south on State Highway 3 near
-the off-ramp to Naval Submarine Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on
-the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, sees an orange volleyball-sized light
-20 feet above the overpass moving at 60–70 mph toward the base.
-(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003;
-Nukes 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7267
Date: 1/22/1999
-Description: Peter Gersten, executive
-director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, files a FOIA lawsuit in
-federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona, to release documents
-relating to the Phoenix Lights and (later) the St. Clair Triangle in
-Illinois in 2000. The Department of Defense files a motion to dismiss
-the suit. Assistant US Attorney Richard Patrick says the department has
-conducted a reasonable search for information requested by Gersten’s
-group and cannot find any records. (“UFO
-Lawsuit to Get Hearing,” Phoenix Arizona Republic, February 4,
-2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7266
Date: 2/3/1999
-Description: A British Debonair Bae146 charter jet encounters a “long
-cylindrical object” the size of a battleship while flying at 28,000 feet
-over the North Sea off Denmark. The captain observes rows of square
-portholes on the UFO just before it bathes the airliner in incandescent
-light. The object comes to an abrupt halt, then accelerates past the
-airplane at an incredible speed. RAF radar stations track the object,
-which is also seen from three other nearby aircraft. A Civil Aviation
-Authority source says the object is tracked by a military radar station
-in Yorkshire after it enters British air space. (“North Sea Encounter,”
-IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7268
Date: 3/1999
-Description: Kevin
-D. Randle, Russ
-Estes, and William
-Cone publish The Abduction Enigma, offering a rigorous critique of
-the alien explanation for the abduction phenomenon and arguing instead
-that abductee personalities, cultural ideas, and investigator influences
-have coalesced to create false memories. (Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes,
-and William Cone, The
-Abduction Enigma: The Truth behind the Mass Alien Abductions of the Late
-Twentieth Century, Forge,
-1999; Thomas E. Bullard, [review], JUFOS 7 (2000): 94–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7269
Date: 3/5/1999
-Description: Midnight. A diamond-shaped UFO is blamed for the
-unexplained collapse of a theatre roof in Kimberley, British Columbia.
-An object covered with flashing lights is seen by several witnesses
-prior to the incident. (East Kootenay (B.C.) Weekly, March 23, 1999;
-“Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7270
Date: 3/24/1999
-Description: Night. Five people in the towns of Brinsley,
-Nottinghamshire, and Crich and Belper, Derbyshire, England, watch a
-flying object that looks like a black wedge with two bright headlights.
-The blunt end of the wedge is facing forward as it flies at about 35
-mph. (“‘Black
-Wedge’ Seen in Skies over Town,” Belper (UK) News, March 24, 1999,
-via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 360 (July 1999): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7271
Date: 4/2/1999
-Description: Two Chilean national police officers see a UFO hovering
-above Mount Balmaceda in Puerto Natales, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. They
-see red, green, and yellow lights on the object, which performs several
-side-to-side displacements as it hovers near the summit. (La Tercera
-(Santiago), April 4, 7, 1999; “Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring
-1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7272
Date: 4/7/1999
-Description: 10:58 p.m. A woman is looking through the second-story
-window of her home in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. She sees strange,
-double, white lights resembling car headlights attached to a triangular
-object silently moving across the sky through the maple trees. It is in
-view for only 4–5 seconds. (“Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring
-1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7273
Date: 6/9/1999
-Description: A huge fall of “white filamentous threads” covers hedges,
-trees, and power lines over 10,000 square kilometers in Esperance,
-Western Australia. Some strands are 30 feet in length. Witness Marilyn
-Burnet has a sample analyzed and finds copper, aluminum, zinc, iron,
-sodium, manganese, silicon, and other minerals. (Brian Boldman, “Angel
-Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 108; Keith
-Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1
-(Spring 2002): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7274
Date: 6/30/1999
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Two witnesses are walking their dog in the Park
-Zachodni in Wrocław, Poland, when they see a blue-gray, disc-shaped
-object with a row of blue lights pass over the trees to the northeast.
-Another similar object follows a similar path shortly afterward. (Poland
-83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7275
Date: 7/2/1999
-Description: Abduction researcher and folklorist Thomas
-E. Bullard expands on his description of the abduction experience in
-an examination of 437 reports from the literature. He looks at location
-and duration, the sequence of the episodes and common events within
-each, the appearance and behavior of the entities, interior and exterior
-descriptions of the UFO, and the mental and physical controls the aliens
-use on the abductees. (Thomas E. Bullard, “What’s New in Alien
-Abduction? Has the Story Changed in 30 Years?” MUFON 1999 International
-UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1999, pp. 170–199; Clark III
-13–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7276
Date: 7/16/1999
-Description: A 90-page report, Les OVNI et la Defense: A Quoi doit-on se
-Préparer? (UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare for?), is published
-as the result of an in-depth study of UFOs carried out over several
-years by an independent group of former advanced workshop participants
-at the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale in Paris, France,
-and by other experts. Before its public release, it is sent to President
-Jacques
-Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel
-Jospin. The
-report is prefaced by Gen. Bernard
-Norlain of the Air Force and begins with a preamble by André
-Lebeau, former president of the Centre National d’Études Spatiales.
-The Comité d’Études Approfondies (COMETA) group, collective author of
-the report, is presided over by Gen. Denis
-Letty of the Air Force. The report analyzes various UFO cases and
-concludes that UFOs are real, complex flying objects, and that the
-extraterrestrial hypothesis has a high probability of being the correct
-explanation for the UFO phenomenon. The study recommends that the French
-government should adjust to the reality of the phenomenon and conduct
-further research. (Comité d’Études Approfondies, “UFOs and Defense: What
-Should We Prepare For?” part
-1 and part 2, July 16, 1999; Gildas Bourdais, “The
-French Report on UFOs and Defense: A Summary”; Swords 449–450; Mark
-Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense,” IUR 25,
-no. 2 (Summer 2000): 20–22, 30; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA:
-Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001):
-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7277
Date: 7/27/1999
-Description: Day. Several people living near the shore of Lake Backsjön,
-near Gunnarskog, Värmlands, Sweden, see and hear a rocket-shaped object
-plunge into the water. The object is 6–10 feet long and descends at high
-speed, creating a splash in the water before sinking. One witness
-contacts the rescue station at Arvika, who in turn contact the police
-and military. Stellan Jansson, chief of staff for the I 2/Fo52 Värmland
-Regiment, interviews the witnesses. In September, the army begins an
-intensive search of the lake under the code name Operation Sea Find
-using divers, sonar equipment, and a mini-sub. The operation conducts a
-10-day search and examines 75% of the lake, but the search is
-discontinued on September 16 after finding no evidence. On October 1, a
-secret report is completed for military intelligence in Stockholm. (Clas
-Svahn and Eileen Fletcher, “The Swedish Military and UFOs,” IUR 25, no.
-3 (Fall 2000): 16–17; Swords 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7278
Date: 9/1999
-Description: The peer-reviewed European Journal of UFO and Abduction
-Studies is launched in Southampton, England, by Totton College
-psychology professor Craig A. Roberts. Its editorial board features UFO
-researchers in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine, Russia,
-France, and Italy. It continues through the September 2002 issue. (European
-Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies, launch volume (September
-1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7279
Date: 9/30/1999
-Description: 10:35 a.m. A serious criticality incident takes place in
-the Tokaimura uranium processing facility operated by JCO in the village
-of Tokai, Iberaki Prefeccture, Japan. The accident occurs as three
-workers are preparing a small batch of fuel for the Jōyō experimental
-fast breeder reactor, using uranium enriched to 18.8% with the
-radioisotope uranium-235 (with the remainder being the fertile
-uranium-238). It is JCO’s first batch of fuel for that reactor in three
-years, and no proper qualification and training requirements appear to
-have been established to prepare those workers for the job. A
-precipitation tank reaches critical mass when its fill level, containing
-about 35 pounds of uranium, reaches about 11 gallons. The two
-technicians who receive the higher doses die several months later.
-(Wikipedia, “Tokaimura
-nuclear accidents”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7280
Date: 10/9/1999
-Description: The last flight of a temporarily reactivated SR-71
-Blackbird takes place. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7281
Date: 10/9/1999
-Description: 7:57 p.m. While fishing off Fort Pickens near Pensacola,
-Florida, an ex-Air Force security policeman and a city police officer
-watch a triangular UFO with high-intensity blue arcing lights traveling
-west over the Gulf of Mexico in a zigzag fashion. It is about 200 feet
-in the air, a quarter of a mile distant, and moving at 115–350 mph. At
-least four times it seems to hover for 30 seconds. After 15 minutes, it
-moves away to the west. (George Filer, “Florida Triangle with Blue
-Ionization near Gulf Breeze,” Filer’s Files, #43-1999, October 18,
-1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7282
Date: 10/10/1999
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple in Lewiston, Michigan, see a hazy,
-pulsing object outside their bedroom window. Other lights seem to be
-flying around it, so that it resembles moths flying around a light bulb.
-They watch it for 45 minutes, then go back to sleep. (Herbert S. Taylor,
-“Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7283
Date: 10/29/1999
-Description: 5:45 p.m. A man and woman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, see a
-nickel-colored object emerge from a strange contrail-like cloud and fly
-back into it. A few seconds later, it shoots out again and circles
-around it for 15 minutes. About an hour later, they see jets flying
-around, apparently searching for the object. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud
-Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7284
Date: 11/11/1999
-Description: A sample of “angel hair” is recovered from a fall in
-Sacramento, California, and sent to analytical chemist Phyllis
-Budinger for Fourier Transform infrared spectrometry analysis. She
-finds that the fibrous material is not spider web but consists of a
-silk-like substance containing secondary amide linkages similar to
-protein. It also contains volatile hydrocarbons. (Brian Boldman, “An
-Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001):
-14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7285
Date: 11/11/1999
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two men are loading gravel onto a truck in
-Tomelilla, Skåne, Sweden, when they see a boomerang-shaped object flying
-overhead, blocking out the stars. The object is solid and observed for
-5–10 seconds. UFO-Sweden researchers Clas
-Svahn and Anders
-Persson check with the Swedish military for their radar data at the
-time and find that it has recorded many targets. They conclude that a
-flock of migrating birds, probably eiders, flying in formation is
-responsible. (Clas Svahn and Eileen Fletcher, “The Swedish Military and
-UFOs,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7286
Date: 12/1999
-Description: Cao Gong, a middle-aged man from Beijing, China, claims he
-is abducted by aliens and flown to Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, in a
-UFO. The entities look like humans but have large hands and are very
-pale. Zhang
-Jingping of the World Chinese UFO Association begins to investigate
-the Cao case in April 2000 and has him hypnotically regressed by a
-psychologist from Suzhou. Cao also passes a lie detector test at the
-Beijing Bureau of Public Security. Cao remembers meeting in the
-spacecraft a Chinese girl who looks about 13 years old. She tells him
-the aliens cured her of a disease. Zhang brings Cao to the Tangshan
-Bureau of Public Security in July 2000, where the police construct a
-computer reconstruction of the girl’s face according to his description.
-In November 2002, Zhang leads a group of students from Beihang
-University on a trip to Qinhuangdao to look for the girl. They arrive in
-Qinglong County and begin a blind search among the area’s 400,000
-inhabitants. On the second day, an old man recognizes the girl in the
-image. They locate her and she turns out to be 15 years old. Zhang
-brings her back to Beijing to meet Cao Gong, who identifies her as the
-girl he met. (Bill Chalker, “The
-Untold
-Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation or the Devouring
-Dragon?” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 (January 2020))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7287
Date: 2000
-Description: The National Nuclear Security Administration is created by
-Congress in the wake of the Wen
-Ho Lee spy scandal and other allegations that the Department of
-Energy’s lax administration has resulted in the loss of nuclear secrets
-to China. It is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy
-responsible for safeguarding national security through the military
-application of nuclear science. (Wikipedia, “National
-Nuclear Security Administration”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7292
Date: 2000
-Description: Ufologist Chris
-Rutkowski and Ufology Research of Manitoba begin receiving UFO
-reports made to Canadian agencies, allowing them to create a yearly
-statistical report on sightings in Canada. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s
-UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7290
Date: 2000
-Description: Walter
-Andrus retires as director of MUFON and is replaced by John
-Schuessler.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7289
Date: 2000
-Description: Ufologist Richard
-H. Hall completes a sequel to NICAP’s 1964 report to Congress. The
-UFO Evidence, Volume II covers UFO sightings since 1964. (Richard H.
-Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, Scarecrow,
-2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7288
Date: 2000
-Description: The results of the Russian Setka program are disclosed by
-Boris
-Sokolov, coordinator
-of Setka-MO, and Yulii Platov, deputy
-coordinator of Setka-AN, in an article in the Bulletin of the Russian
-Academy of Sciences. According to them, 90% of the anomalous atmospheric
-phenomena observed in Russian territory can be explained by the effects
-of human activities (especially rockets and weather balloon launches),
-while the remaining 10% are unexplained. For the latter cases, they
-could be rare or still unknown natural phenomena. However, no evidence
-is found of UFO landings, crashes, close encounters, or alien
-abductions. No evidence of an extraterrestrial UFO origin has emerged
-either. Paul
-Stonehill, a
-Russian UFO scholar, believes that only the results of Setka-AN’s
-studies are disclosed, while those of Setka-MO still remain secret.
-Stonehill further claims there is nothing to indicate that anyone in the
-Setka program attempted to seriously analyze the cases that remain
-unexplained. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files:
-Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998,
-pp. 43, 52; Pyotr N. Rybalko, “Bureaucratized
-Pseudoscience,” RIAP Bulletin 6, no. 2–3 (Apr./Sept. 2000): 11–12;
-Boris Sokolov and Yulii Platov, “A
-History of State UFO Research in the USSR,” Skeptical Briefs 10, no.
-4 (December 1, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7294
Date: 2000
-Description: Alleged abductee Stan
-Romanek of Loveland, Colorado, claims his first UFO experience. He
-has many experiences with aliens since then, allegedly discovering
-mysterious wounds on his body that glow under a black light and claiming
-electronic communications with aliens. He also claims aliens have
-followed his car, visited his home, and communicated with him
-telepathically. In 2003, he claims he woke up and found himself wearing
-a ladies’ flannel nightgown, which makes him suspect he has been
-abducted and returned in woman’s clothing. Romanek eventually comes to
-suspect that the clothing belongs to another supposed abductee, Betty
-Hill. When
-asked if the gown has been tested for Hill’s DNA, Romanek claims that it
-has not because the test is too expensive. Appearing on ABC
-Primetime in 2009, Romanek makes the unsubstantiated claims that he
-underwent hypnosis by R.
-Leo Sprinkle, a
-psychologist who specializes in alien abduction cases. Romanek claims
-that under hypnosis he wrote out the Drake equation, a formula used to
-estimate the number of communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in
-our galaxy, and then added “x100” to it. Skeptic Joe
-Nickell suggests the equation is written through simple
-memorization. On August 8, 2017, Romanek is found guilty of felony
-possession of child pornography. (Erik Dofge, “New
-Alien Video Shines (Photoshopped) Light on UFO Hoaxers,” Popular
-Mechanics, June 8, 2008; Alan Scherstuhl, “In
-Kansas City, Celebrity UFO-Filmer Stan Romanek Finds an Audience
-of Believers—and One Reporter,” The Pitch (Kansas City), August 13,
-2009; “Man
-Claims Aliens Send Him
-Messages,” ABC News, August 18, 2009; Joe Nickell, “Abductions
-or Hoaxes? The Man Who Attracts Aliens,”
-Skeptical Inquirer 34, no. 3 (May/June 2010): 19–20; Jack Brewer, “Ufology
-Indicted,” The UFO Trail, August 7, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7296
Date: 2000
-Description: Mathematician Karsten
-Jöred replaces Arne
-Gjärdman as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National
-Defence Research Institute. He holds the position until 2006. (Swords
-370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7295
Date: 2000
-Description: Polish journalist and author Igor
-Witkowski publishes Prawda o Wunderwaffe, describing a purported
-top-secret Nazi technological device or secret weapon called Die Glocke
-(“The Bell”). It is later popularized by military journalist and author
-Nick
-Cook in The Hunt for Zero Point, who associates it with Nazi
-occultism, antigravity, and free energy research. Mainstream reviewers
-have criticized claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific,
-recycled rumors, and a hoax. Die Glocke and other alleged Nazi “miracle
-weapons” have since been dramatized in video games, television shows,
-and novels. (Wikipedia, “Die
-Glocke (conspiracy theory)”; Igor Witkowski, The Truth about the
-Wunderwaffe, European History Press, 2013; Nick Cook, The
-Hunt for Zero Point:
-Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology, Broadway,
-2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7293
Date: 2000
-Description: Vicente-Juan
-Ballester Olmos launches UFO FOTOCAT, a project to create a
-worldwide catalog of UFO photos. He eventually accumulates close to
-13,000 cases in the database. Based on its content, Ballester Olmos
-releases eight research reports as of August 2020. (“The
-Year 1954 in
-Photos (Expanded)”; “Argentina:
-The Year 1965 in Photos”;
-“Avistamientos
-OVNI en la Antártida en 1965”; “Norway
-in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue”; “Spheres
-in Airborne UAP Imagery”; “An
-Approach to UFO Pictures in France”; “Belgium
-in UFO Photographs, vol. 1
-(1950–1988)”; and “The Marfa Lights: Examining the Photographic
-Evidence (2003–2007)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7291
Date: 1/5/2000
-Description: Shortly after 4:00 a.m. The “St. Clair Triangle,” “UFO Over
-Illinois,” “Southern Illinois UFO,” or “Highland, Illinois UFO” sighting
-takes place over the towns of Highland, Dupo, Lebanon, Shiloh,
-Summerfield, Millstadt, and O’Fallon, Illinois. Five on-duty police
-officers around these locales, along with various other eyewitnesses,
-report a massive, silent, triangular or rectangular craft operating at
-an unusual treetop-level altitude and speeds. One of the police officers
-manages to get a single yet ambiguous Polaroid photograph of the object.
-The incident is examined in the ABC special Seeing Is Believing with Peter
-Jennings, an
-hour-long Discovery Channel special UFOs Over Illinois, an episode of
-the 2004 Syfy series Proof Positive, and a 30-minute independent
-documentary titled The Edge of Reality: Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000 by
-Darryl Barker Productions. (Wikipedia, “Black
-triangle (UFO)”; “Police
-Officers in St. Clair County Report
-Seeing Early- Morning
-UFO,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 9, 2000, pp. D1–D2; “UFO
-Sighting Brings Media Attention, Investigative
-Team to Southern Illinois,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 12,
-2000, pp. A1, A6; “UFO
-Baffles Observers,”
-Waterloo (Iowa) Republic-Times, January 12, 2000, p. 2; “Buffs
-Baffled by UFO,” Chicago Sun- Times, January 20, 2000; David B.
-Marler, “Illinois
-Police Officers Track UFO near Scott AFB,” MUFON UFO Journal, no.
-383 (March 2000): 3–8; Internet Movie Database, “UFOs
-over Illinois”; “Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000,” IUR 26, no. 2
-(Summer 2001): 16; “Hypothesis:
-The Illinois Flying Triangle Is a Department of Defense, Not
-an ET Craft,” National Institute for Discovery Science, July 2002;
-Darryl Barker, “The
-Illinois Triangle? Do We
-Have the Technology?” Darryl Barker Productions, August 2, 2002;
-Internet Movie Database, “Proof Positive,”
-Episode 108, November 24, 2004; Internet Movie Database, “Peter
-Jennings Reporting: UFOs, Seeing Is
-Believing”; “UFOs:
-Seeing Is Believing (2005), ABC Documentary,” Movie Buff Guy YouTube
-channel, June 18, 2019; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no.
-2 (March 2012): 33; Marler 26–60; Skinwalkers 106–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7297
Date: 1/5/2000
-Description: Bill
-Sweetman writes in Jane’s International Defence Review that there
-are approximately 150 “special access programs” within the Pentagon at
-the close of 1999, many of which are unacknowledged. They often have
-completely independent systems of classification, with total control
-exercised by the program manager. He concludes that most are dominated
-not by Defense personnel but by private contractors. He has no idea how
-they are funded. (Bill Sweetman, “In Search of the Pentagon’s Billion
-Dollar Hidden Budgets: How the US Keeps Its R&D Spending under
-Wraps,” Jane’s International Defense Review, January 5, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7298
Date: 1/10/2000
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A young man near Sézanne, Marne, France,
-encounters a bright white light near the town water tower. His engine
-cuts out and the radio stops working. (Mark Rodeghier, “Vehicle
-Interference near Sézanne,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7299
Date: 3/1/2000
-Description: In a campaign press conference in Stockton, California,
-Sen. John
-McCain (R-Ariz.) acknowledges that the Phoenix Lights incident “has
-never been fully explained, but I have to tell you that I do not have
-any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs.” (Kean, p. 250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7300
Date: 3/30/2000
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Leah Isaac, a friend, and their small boy are
-driving on the Klondike Highway at the west end of Little Fox Lakes,
-Yukon Territory, when they spot a 40-foot wide disc hovering some 300
-feet away. The UFO shoots across the road at “incredible speed,” then
-stopped abruptly for a split second before shooting off at a 90º angle.
-The car’s headlights dim and the tape deck ceases working when the UFO
-is nearby. Leah’s analog watch stops, and her friend’s digital watch
-goes blank. (Martin Jasek and Mark Rodeghier, “Vehicle Interference at
-Little Fox Lake, Yukon,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 23–24, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7301
Date: 3/30/2000
-Description: US District Court Judge Stephen
-M. McNamee dismisses the CAUS lawsuit seeking documents on the
-Phoenix Lights in Arizona, concluding that “a reasonable search was
-conducted” by the Department of Defense, even though no information was
-found. (Kean, pp. 251–253)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7302
Date: 4/2000
-Description: Sergio Sánchez and Diego Zúñiga launch the UFO magazine La
-Nave de los Locos in Santiago, Chile, which continues until October
-2006. (La
-Nave de los Locos, no. 1 (April 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7303
Date: early 7/2000
-Description: Evening. Ceri Kenyon is walking home in Littleborough,
-Greater Manchester, England, when he sees a flickering object in the
-sky. As he approaches, he hears a buzzing sound and sees that it is a
-triangular object surrounded by lights. (Marler 223–224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7304
Date: 7/17/2000
-Description: 10:50 p.m. A witness in Silverdale, Washington, sees four
-orange lights descending to the west over the Olympic Mountains. When
-the second to last light is gone, the witness sees a flash like an
-explosion. About 15 minutes later, another orange light appears, moving
-south to north at a speed too slow for a meteor. It descends behind the
-same mountain. A Blackhawk helicopter is visible in the same area at the
-same time. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February
-11, 2003; Nukes 498–499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7305
Date: 8/2000
-Description: Two police officers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, watch a large,
-triangular-shaped object hovering just above the trees. It is about 660
-feet on each side. (Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR
-27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7306
Date: 8/5/2000
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A witness spots a silver disc in the sky over
-Old Noarlunga, South Australia, and calls out his wife to watch. Over
-the next 90 minutes they see 3 whitish additional balls and something
-that looks like a helicopter, all traveling west to east. Long, silver,
-cobweb-like substance falls in large wads or strands. Once touched with
-a stick, it shrivels up and evaporates. Similar material falls on Moana
-and Aldinga Beach, where one witness also sees a bright light. (Keith
-Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1
-(Spring 2002): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7307
Date: 8/20/2000
-Description: 3:09 p.m. Two blurry round objects appear in a photograph
-hovering above the copse of trees next to the High Water Mark of the
-Rebellion Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania. They are
-not noticed at the time the photo is taken. (Patrick Gross, “Gettysburg,
-Pennsylvania, USA, 2000”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7308
Date: 9/2000
-Description: UFO researchers Karl
-Pflock and Peter
-Brookesmith organize an invitation-only symposium to re-evaluate the
-Betty
-and Barney Hill abduction case in depth. It takes place at the
-Indian Head Resort in Lincoln, New Hampshire, near the site of the
-abduction event itself. The other researchers are Dennis
-Stacy, Marcello
-Truzzi, Thomas
-E. Bullard, Hilary
-Evans, Robert
-Sheaffer, Joe
-Firmage, and Greg
-Sandow. Betty
-Hill joins the group for an evening’s entertainment and a morning tour
-of the site where the abduction took place. The essays written by
-participants, along with reflections by Walter
-N. Webb and an appendix by Martin
-S. Kottmeyer, are compiled in Encounters at Indian Head. (Karl T.
-Pflock and Peter Brookesmith, eds., Encounters at Indian Head,
-Anomalist, 2007; Robert Sheaffer, “Betty
-Hill’s Last Hurrah: A Secret UFO Symposium in New Hampshire,”
-Skeptical Inquirer 31, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2007); Greg Sandow, “The Hill
-Case and the Limits of Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 3–7,
-19–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7309
Date: 9/3/2000
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man is out walking in Stroud, Gloucestershire,
-England, when he sees a large and unusual aircraft looming up over the
-skyline. It is black with no discernible tail section and is shooting
-three powerful beams of light from dome-like globes set in a triangular
-pattern on its underside. Small red lights appear on the tips of its
-swept-back wings. (UFOFiles2, pp. 139–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7310
Date: 9/27/2000
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Four men are camped in a trailer at a rural
-hunting camp near Challis, Idaho. One goes out to the truck for food and
-sees a massive, dark, triangular object hovering motionless above him.
-He yells for the others to come out, lights on the object turn on, and
-it slowly moves toward the nearby mountains. When it reaches one, it
-tips upward and ascends the side of the mountain vertically. When it
-reaches the top, it tips forward and disappears from sight. (Marler
-228–229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7311
Date: 10/15/2000
-Description: Richard
-Haines’s National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena
-releases a 90-page report that summarizes more than 100 UFO incidents
-reported by pilots and their crews, including 56 near misses, all
-affecting aircraft safety. Most cases involve multiple witnesses, and
-many are backed by ground radio communications and radar corroboration.
-Experienced pilots present accounts of objects, ranging from silver
-discs to green fireballs, flying loops around passenger aircraft, pacing
-planes despite pilots’ evasive attempts, or flooding cockpits with
-blinding light. Haines documents cases with electromagnetic interference
-on navigation and operating systems. He writes that a crew’s ability to
-perform its duties safely is disrupted when the crew is faced with
-“extremely bizarre, unexpected, and prolonged luminous and/or solid
-phenomena cavorting near their aircraft.” The primary danger is in the
-human response, since the objects do not appear to be hostile and seem
-to be able to avoid collisions using extraordinary maneuvers. (Richard
-F. Haines, “Aviation
-Safety in America: A Previously
-Neglected Factor,” National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous
-Phenomena, October 15, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7312
Date: 10/31/2000
-Description: After sunset. A woman delivering pizzas in Cygnet, Ohio, is
-stopped along Cygnet Road when she sees an elongated, football-shaped
-object clearly visible just beyond a thin grove of trees ahead of her.
-It is slowly moving westward toward and above Interstate 75, which is
-busy with cars and large trucks. It hovers for a few seconds and turns
-brighter, then shoots off westward in a streak of light. Two men driving
-north on I-75 also see the object. (John P. Timmerman, “Possible Close
-Encounter in NW Ohio,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7313
Date: 11/2000
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A retired law enforcement officer and several
-friends are cooking dinner over an open fire in a wooded area near
-Elsberry, Missouri, when they see a huge flying wing with white lights
-on each end. It seems to be flying completely silently at 3,000 feet.
-They watch it for 30 seconds before it disappears into the
-southeast.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7314
Date: 11/4/2000
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A family in Scottsdale, Arizona, sees a
-triangular formation of three bright lights in the southern sky blinking
-irregularly. The object they are attached to is larger than a commercial
-airliner that happens to pass by. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of
-Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, #49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7316
Date: 11/4/2000
-Description: Two witnesses near the Del Lago Golf Club north of Vail,
-Arizona, see a teardrop-shaped object flying at 300 feet. It has
-multiple lights around its perimeter. They drive toward it, flashing
-their lights, and the object climbs another 300 feet and moves west
-along some railroad tracks. Two A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter aircraft
-appear and try to follow the object, but it accelerates and loses them.
-(George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files,
-#49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7315
Date: 11/20/2000
-Description: 8:45 p.m. An 11-year-old boy on the north side of Phoenix,
-Arizona, watches three dark triangle-shaped objects maneuvering and
-hovering. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,”
-Filer’s Files, #49- 2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7317
Date: 11/28/2000
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Jason Ingraham sees a flying triangle with a deep
-red blinking light on each point in Phoenix, Arizona. It moves northwest
-for about 10 seconds, then it leans to the left and begins to rotate in
-a clockwise motion. It makes a full rotation before disappearing behind
-some distant trees. There are 6 normal airplanes in the sky at the same
-time. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s
-Files, #49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7318
Date: 11/30/2000
-Description: The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 is given royal
-assent but will not come into full force until 2005. The legislation
-creates a public “right of access” to information held by public
-authorities. (Wikipedia, “Freedom
-of Information Act 2000”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7319
Date: 12/1/2000
-Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness in Avondale, Arizona, sees a bunch of
-lights in the shape of a triangle to the southeast. Helicopters seem to
-be flying around it. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying
-Triangles,” Filer’s Files, #49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7320
Date: 12/4/2000
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence notes in a “loose minute” that
-DI55, the space weapons section of the Defence Intelligence Staff, has
-completed a study of UFO reports, concluding that there is nothing of
-value in its assessment of “threat weapons systems” and will carry out
-no further investigations. It will be released in 2006 as the Project
-Condign report. (UK Defence Intelligence Staff, “Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena (UAP): DI55 Report,” December 4, 2000, in David Clarke, comp.,
-Project
-Condign documents, pp. 46–47; David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The
-British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006):
-7–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7321
Date: 12/13/2000
-Description: 10:00 pm. A group of five people is traveling in a
-Volkswagen on a dirt road 9 miles from Iturama, Minas Gerais,
-Brazil—João Caiana, his wife Valdeir Martins, daughter Magui Martins, a
-3-year-old granddaughter, and an 18-year-old friend. Some odd colored
-lights in the sky seem to follow them for 2 miles. Suddenly the interior
-of the car begins to get hot, and a light gray entity with big eyes
-approaches them. Everyone loses control and seems to be sucked into a
-UFO for an abduction scenario. (Laura Maria Elias, “Caso
-Caiana: Desdobramentos
-de um clássico de Ufologia Miniera,” Portal UFO, February 1, 2015;
-Brazil 393–396)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7322
Date: 12/19/2000
-Description: 6:10 a.m. Reporter Alfondo Reyes is observing the eruption
-of Popocatépetl southeast of Mexico City, Mexico, and taking
-time-exposure photographs. On one 20-second exposure he catches a bright
-luminous object that contrasts with the smoke of the eruption and seems
-to make a turn toward the crater. He does not actually see the object
-and only discovers it after the photo is developed. (Patrick Gross, “UFOs
-Photographed over Erupting Mexico
-Volcano”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7323
Date: 12/24/2000
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A woman living in the Baranówka neighborhood of
-Rzeszów, Poland, sees a light outside her window on the 4th floor of an
-apartment building. It makes unusual maneuvers like a figure-8 and
-zigzags, and is joined by another light that flies at a constant speed.
-Both are about 5 feet in diameter. She snaps two motion-blur photos with
-her Minolta that shows an object hovering above the apartment block
-opposite her. The second object approaches the first one and they fly
-away together. (Poland 151–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7324
Date: 2001
-Description: Gérard
-Brachet, the
-new director of CNES, decides to audit SEPRA. It is conducted by an
-outsider, François Louange, an
-expert in photoanalysis who has participated in UFO studies at CNES.
-(Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO
-Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7325
Date: 1/1/2001
-Description: 12:01 a.m. Five people driving along Highway 3 south of New
-Plymouth, New Zealand, spot an orange object about 30–50 feet in
-diameter pacing their car 100 feet above them. They pull over to watch
-and see three similar objects hovering and swaying around. They look
-like they are changing color from metallic glowing orange to metallic
-deep purple and shades of blue. One more larger object appears on the
-horizon and speeds toward the other four. Each seems to react in a way
-similar to an army unit and forms a line and disappears almost instantly
-to the south. As they leave several minutes later, they realize they
-haven’t seen any traffic for 30 minutes and only see some as they enter
-New Plymouth. (George Filer, “New Zealand Discs Start New Millennium,”
-Filer’s Files, #2-2001 (January 9, 2001))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7326
Date: 1/5/2001
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A white, “self-lit” cigar-shaped object with a
-small vapor trail is seen at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Its hops
-forward in its progress through the sky before it moves out of view
-behind a mountain. It returns and flies back again. (Mark Rodeghier,
-“UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7327
Date: 1/14/2001
-Description: Late afternoon. Witnesses on both sides of the hill see a
-small object appear to strike the telecommunications mast on top of
-Snaefell, Isle of Man. Two women on horseback see a 20-foot-long object
-that crashes in a shower of sparks and smoke. The emergency services
-think a small plane has crashed, because they have lost power and are
-using a backup generator. As light fades, however, helicopter crews can
-see damage to the mast, but no sign of wreckage. The UK government
-blames a model aircraft. (Jenny Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO
-Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7328
Date: 1/20/2001
-End date: 1/20/2009
-Description: President George W. Bush in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/22/2001
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Barnaul Airport in Altai Krai, Russia, shuts
-down after a slightly tilted, oscillating, disc-shaped object is
-detected hovering above its runway. The crew of an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo
-plane refuses to take off, claiming they can see a luminous object. An
-incoming Yakovlev Yak-40 passenger plane also sees an object at Barnaul
-and lands at another airport. Sergei Kurennoi, the chief airspace
-controller at Barnaul, sees the object at an elevation of 15°–20º above
-the horizon above the end of the track. With his binoculars, he
-distinguishes a solid structure that radiates light of various colors
-(red, green, purple). Nothing is tracked on radar. The UFO noiselessly
-takes off to the northwest, changes direction to the southwest, and
-vanishes after 90 minutes. (Patrick Gross, “UFO
-Shuts Down Russian Airport”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7329
Date: 1/25/2001
-Description: In the UK House of Lords, Peter
-Hill-Norton asks the Ministry of Defence what is the “highest
-classification that has been applied in any MoD document concerning
-UFOs.” Its reply is: “A limited search through available titles has
-identified a number of documents graded Secret. The overall
-classification of the documents was not dictated by details of specific
-sightings of UFOs.” (David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD
-Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7330
Date: 1/31/2001
-Description: 3:30 p.m. As many as 10 witnesses observe two cigar-shaped
-“shining lights” in the sky, hanging motionless over the horizon at Gjoa
-Haven, Nunavut. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4
-(Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7331
Date: 1/31/2001
-Description: The entire USAF Solid State Phased Array Radar System goes
-into operation at five units worldwide including Beale AFB near
-Marysville, California; Cape Cod Air Force Station in Massachusetts;
-Clear Air Force Station, Alaska; RAF Fylingdales in north Yorkshire,
-England; and Thule Airbase in Greenland. These radars are designed
-primarily to detect ICBM or sea-launched cruise missiles directed at the
-US. (Wikipedia, “Solid
-State Phased
-Array Radar System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7332
Date: 2/2001
-Description: French ufologist Dominique Weinstein creates a massive
-catalogue of 1,305 UFO sightings by pilots from 1916 to 2000. She finds
-that 606 cases (36.7%) are sightings by military pilots and crews; 444
-cases (26.9%) are by civilian pilots; and 196 cases (11.8%) are by
-private pilots. In 200 cases (12.1%) the visual observation is confirmed
-by on-board or ground radar. And in 57 cases (3.45%) the pilots note
-electromagnetic effects on one or more of the plane’s transmission
-systems. (Dominique F. Weinstein, “Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years
-of Pilot Sightings, a Catalog of Military, Airliner, and Private Pilots
-Sightings from 1916 to 2000,” National Aviation Reporting Center on
-Anomalous Phenomena, February 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7333
Date: 3/11/2001
-Description: 6:30 p.m. An irregularly shaped object like a cluster of
-red spheres flies against the wind above a witness in Calgary, Alberta,
-who manages to take a photograph. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada,
-2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7334
Date: 4/1/2001
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Farm manager George Hofer and several children
-from the Rosedale Hutterite Brethren Colony near Etzikom, Alberta, see a
-brilliant fireball falling and apparently striking the Earth only a few
-miles away. On April 16, Ken Masson, who farms 13 miles south of
-Etzikom, discovers a circular, crater-like formation on his land. On May
-1, Pano Karkanis of the University of Lethbridge Department of Geography
-visits the site, interviews the witnesses, measures the crater, and
-takes soil samples. The crater is 6 inches deep, with an inside diameter
-of 7.9 feet, surrounded by a mound of dirt 16 inches high. He notes four
-indentations inside the circle that he suspects are caused by rainwater.
-The dirt inside is cracked and sere, and he finds some odd reddish-brown
-particles of dirt on the mound. He concludes the crater was formed by a
-meteorite fragment that vaporized, leaving only the reddish-brown
-particles. Meteorite impact expert Alan
-Hildebrand the University of Calgary doubts the crater was made by a
-meteorite. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report,
-Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 204–206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7335
Date: 5/2001
-Description: Christian Morgenthaler founds the Sciences et Phénomènes
-Insolites du Ciel et de l’Aéronautique in Odratzheim, Bas-Rhin, France.
-It publishes the SPICA News from January 2002 to December 2010. (SPICA
-News, no. 1 (January 2002))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7336
Date: 5/3/2001
-Description: In the UK House of Lords, Peter
-Hill-Norton asks the Ministry of Defence why the UFO documents it
-referred to in January were classified secret. Its answer is, “One
-document was classified ‘Secret’ with a ‘UK Eyes Only’ caveat because it
-contained information about the UK air defence ground environment that
-could be of significant value to hostile or potentially hostile states.
-Associated correspondence was given the same classification. Generally,
-however, notifications of and correspondence on the subject of UFO
-sightings are unclassified.” (David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The
-British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006):
-32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7337
Date: 5/9/2001
-Description: Twenty government workers from military and civilian
-organizations speak about their experiences regarding UFOs and UFO
-confidentiality at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The press
-conference is initiated by Steven
-M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, which has the goal of
-disclosing alleged government UFO secrecy. The purpose of the press
-conference is to build public pressure through the media to obtain a
-hearing before the US Congress on the issue. Aerospace illustrator Mark
-McCandlish testifies that gravity control propulsion research
-started in the 1950s and successfully reverse engineered the vehicle
-retrieved from the Roswell, New Mexico, crash site to build three Alien
-Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs) by 1981. McCandlish describes their
-propulsion systems in terms of Thomas
-Townsend Brown’s gravitators and provides a line drawing of its
-interior. The diagram closely resembles the drawing provided earlier in
-Milton
-William Cooper’s book Behold a Pale Horse. Another Disclosure
-Project whistleblower, Philip
-J. Corso, states in his book The Day after Roswell that the craft
-retrieved from the second crash site at Roswell had a propulsion system
-resembling Brown’s gravitators. Corso’s book also features several
-gravity control propulsion statements made by Hermann
-Oberth.
-Although major American media outlets report on the conference, interest
-quickly dies down, and no hearing takes place. (“Group
-Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info,” ABC News, May 10, 2001; “UFO
-Spotters Slam ’US Cover-Up,’”
-BBC News, May 10, 2001; Jean-Pierre Petit, “I
-Have a Doubt about ‘Disclosure,’” March 19, 2003; Wikipedia, “United
-States gravity control propulsion research”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7338
Date: early 6/2001
-Description: A Hellfire missile is successfully launched from an MQ-1A
-Predator drone on a replica of Osama
-bin Laden’s
-Afghanistan Tarnak residence in Area 51, Nevada. A missile launched from
-a Predator explodes inside one of the replica’s rooms; it is concluded
-that any people in the room would have been killed. However, the armed
-Predator does not go into action before the September 11 attacks.
-(Wikipedia, “General
-Atomics MQ-1 Predator”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7339
Date: 6/23/2001
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Three witnesses are sitting in their yard in
-Fernandina Beach, Florida, when they see a bright white light with a
-bluish tinge descend and hover about 2,000 feet due east of them above
-the ocean. After one minute it emits a mist from three points on its
-underside so that it appears to be sitting on a cloud. Then it emits
-mist from its upper area and becomes enshrouded with the light shining
-through. Then the light blinks off, leaving only a cloud that stands
-there for about one minute. It disappears 5–10 seconds afterward.
-(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003;
-Nukes 506–507)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7340
Date: 6/30/2001
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Electrical power goes off in the small village
-of Năneşti, Romania, even though the lights in neighboring villages are
-still on. A number of witnesses notice a red, round ball moving slowly
-in the air. When it stops it begins to spin, turning into a rotating
-segmented ring of pale yellow light. The ring becomes larger in
-diameter, coming closer to the ground where it gets as large as 600 feet
-in diameter. After a short period of time it climbs again, still
-rotating but shrinking and turning into a red dot that moves around in
-the sky until it starts rotating again and repeating the cycle some 8–20
-times over the course of 45 minutes. Some witnesses see it as a dark red
-cloud lit from inside by squares of light. The display ceases sometime
-after midnight and the power returns mysteriously at around 2:00 a.m.
-(Romania 70–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7341
Date: 7/4/2001
-Description: Art Bell interviews Linda Moulton Howe, Philip J. Corso,
-and Bill Birnes were interviewed live in Roswell, NM, about the infamous
-UFO crash in 1947.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Roswell, NM
Date: 7/9/2001
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A man and his daughter watch six orange, oval
-objects flying in a V-formation toward the west at Portage la Prairie,
-Manitoba. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter
-2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7342
Date: 7/14/2001
-End date: 7/15/2001
-Description: Evening–night. Dozens of Staten Islanders and residents of
-Carteret, New Jersey, observe lights in the southwestern sky on a clear,
-cloudless night. The lights appear in various formations at about 45°
-above the horizon. Witnesses view the scene from Arthur Kill Road and
-the West Shore Expressway on the New York side. The Waterloo Cafe,
-located opposite the Blazing Star Burial Ground on Arthur Kill Road,
-provides the most significant witnesses. The consensus of their
-testimonies reveals a series of lights, numbering from 4–5 to as many as
-16–20, bright orange or orange-red in hue, and appearing as solid round
-objects. Witnesses number about 50, including the owner of the cafe, but
-not all come forward. Those who do, agree that there was no sound
-emanating from the lights, and no one can see any wings. The lights are
-often no more than 1,000 feet in the air, often described as flying in
-an inverted V-shaped configuration. Unknown targets without
-transponders, some at heights of 99,000 feet, are picked up on radar at
-Newark International Airport. (Dennis K. Anderson, “The Arthur Kill
-Sightings, July 14–15, 2001,” IUR 28, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 3–6,
-26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7343
Date: 8/3/2001
-Description: Day. A Brazilian Air Force pilot and four others are taking
-supplies from Belém to Salvador, Brazil, aboard a C-130 Hercules
-transport. One of the military officers draws the colonel’s attention to
-a disc-shaped object that is accompanying the plane about 6t0 feet away.
-Ground control cannot detect anything on radar. The object has a brushed
-gray color and is the size of a bus. It has a dome at the top and flat
-at the bottom. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. (Clark III 208;
-Brazil 559–560)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7344
Date: 8/6/2001
-Description: Afternoon. Two Turkish Air Force pilots from 122 Squadron
-are practicing maneuvers in a Cessna T-37B Dragonfly jet trainer over
-the Gulf of Çandarli, an inlet of the Aegean Sea in western Turkey. 1Lt.
-Ilker Dinçer and his student Lt. Arda Gunyel are surprised by an
-extremely bright object, shaped like something between a disc and a
-cone, with a pod on its lower part. Ground control has nothing on its
-radar. The UFO approaches the Cessna at high speed, then positions
-itself alongside, behind, and above the jet. It plays cat and mouse with
-the plane for some minutes before it disappears at high speed. The
-Turkish Air Force announces that it is a weather balloon. (Good Need, pp. 393–394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7345
Date: 8/12/2001
-Description: 12:25 a.m. Five people watch seven gray objects flying in a
-straight line over Victoria, British Columbia, which change position in
-flight into a hexagonal formation and ascend into the sky. They are lost
-to view after 15 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR
-26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7346
Date: 8/17/2001
-Description: 9:30 p.m. An astronomer in Mitchell, Manitoba, hears loud
-booming sounds and runs outside to see three steady lights in triangular
-formation moving east to west. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,”
-IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7347
Date: 8/20/2001
-Description: Dozens of passengers on the Rogalin ferry returning from
-Sweden to Gdansk, Poland, with 50 passengers on board watch an object 10
-feet in diameter rise to the surface about 500 feet away. It approaches
-the boat, submerges, and maneuvers underwater. After three minutes, the
-ferry leaves it behind. (Poland 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7348
Date: 8/25/2001
-Description: 3:27 p.m. An astronomer and others at St.-Laurent, Quebec,
-watch two solid-appearing objects moving slowly through the clear sky.
-They take some photos. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26,
-no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7349
Date: 9/6/2001
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Police on patrol in Sampacho, Cordoba,
-Argentina, receive an alert on their car radio about several UFOs above
-the Cerro Sampacho. They appear to be silently hovering at an altitude
-of 5,000 feet. (“UFOs Seen in Argentina,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002):
-4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7350
Date: 9/9/2001
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A family traveling in a pickup truck between
-Achiras and Sampacho, Argentina, notice an intense red light in the sky
-moving from the southwest. It looks like an intense red beam with bright
-flashes behind it. In the front is something like an arc of light. The
-object seems as if it about to fall on top of them, but it changes
-course and heads toward the mountains. (“UFOs Seen in Argentina,” IUR
-27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7351
Date: 9/11/2001
-Description: September 11 Terrorist Attack
-Type: terrorist attack
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
-Location: New York City
Date: 10/7/2001
-End date: 8/30/2021
-Description: Afghanistan War begins
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Afghanistan
Date: 11/5/2001
-Description: Apache County sheriff’s deputies attempt to arrest Milton
-Willian Cooper at his Eagar, Arizona, home on charges of aggravated
-assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes
-with local residents. After an exchange of gunfire during which Cooper
-shoots one of the deputies in the head, Cooper is fatally shot. Federal
-authorities report that Cooper has spent years evading execution of a
-1998 arrest warrant for tax evasion. According to a spokesman for the
-Marshals Service, he vowed that “he would not be taken alive.”
-(Wikipedia, “Milton
-William Cooper”; “Arizona
-Militia Figure Shot to Death,” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2001,
-p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7352
Date: 11/11/2001
-Description: An oval object with several lights flies on an irregular
-path above Policeman’s Point, Yukon Territory. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in
-Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7353
Date: 12/2001
-Description: Peru sets up a new Air Force agency, the Departamento de
-Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (DIFFA), tasked with studying
-UFO cases. It is founded and directed by Comandante Julio Chamorro
-because “these anomalous events had occurred frequently enough over
-national territory to create a danger, and we recognized that they
-needed to be taken seriously.” It is first publicly acknowledged in
-February 2003 by Col. José Raffo Moloche, but it closes in 2008 (“Perú
-reabre oficina para recopilar datos sobre ovnis,” BBC News, October
-20, 2013; Kean, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7354
Date: 12/11/2001
-Description: 8:06 p.m. Pilots of a commercial airliner flying above
-Craik, Saskatchewan, see lights that they think belong to another
-aircraft at a higher altitude, but air traffic controllers have no other
-aircraft on their radar. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR
-26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7355
Date: 1/18/2002
-Description: The Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center opens in
-Istanbul, Turkey, with an exhibition area that showcases UFO incidents
-in both Turkish and English. (“International UFO Museum Opens in
-Turkey,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7356
Date: 2/2/2002
-Description: 2:53 a.m. A witness is driving down a road in Clermont,
-Florida, when he sees a silent, bright light over Lake Minnehaha. The
-object passes over his car at about 15–20 feet in the air, and his
-engine dies. It shoots off like a slingshot and disappears. The car
-starts again. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference
-Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7357
Date: 2/20/2002
-Description: 8:15 a.m. A witness aboard a cruise ship off the southern
-coast of Puerto Rico sees an irregularly shaped object like a cloud high
-in the sky. He takes a photo, then leaves to attend a meeting. Analysis
-indicates that the object is most likely a Tethered Aerostat Radar
-System airship used to provide radar data in support of the US drug
-interdiction program. (John P. Timmerman and Mark Rodeghier, “Snapshot
-from a Cruise: An Aerostat Sighting,” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003):
-13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7358
Date: 3/15/2002
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Lisa Stone is driving with her 16-year-old son
-when she sees a triangular object with white lights that is maneuvering
-around Magazine Hill, outside Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The object is
-massive, perhaps the size of a university football field. She drives
-directly underneath, and “hail” starts falling from it. The object does
-a figure eight before heading in the direction of Fall River to the
-northeast. (Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3
-(Fall 2002): 7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7359
Date: 4/2002
-Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information begins publishing UFO-Mail in
-Ringsted, Denmark. (UFO-Mail,
-no. 1 (April 2, 2002))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7360
Date: summer 2002
-Description: Two men see an object over Mosinee, Wisconsin, that shines
-a straight, 5-foot-wide beam of light on the Wisconsin River like a
-searchlight. The beam does not change shape as the object goes higher
-above the water. (Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,”
-IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 23.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7361
Date: 7/26/2002
-Description: 1:00–1:55 a.m. Near Andrews AFB, Maryland, just outside of
-Washington, D.C., independent witnesses 8 miles apart become aware of
-unusual and persistent aircraft activity. In both locations, witnesses
-see odd lights or objects pursued by one military jet. Two pairs of
-fighters take off from Andrews at 1:00 a.m., remain airborne for 50
-minutes, fly at low altitude using afterburners over residential areas,
-and pursue an unidentifiable light on three occasions. Gary Dillman,
-working late shift at a sand-and-gravel operation in Brandywine,
-Maryland, sees the first two fighters at 1:00 a.m., then at 1:30 a.m.
-and 1:40 a.m. he sees a glowing, round, hard-edged orange object that
-one of the fighters is chasing. The pursuit takes place between broken
-clouds at about 4,000 feet and a light overcast at about 6,000 feet; the
-unknown object and fighter are about 1–2 miles away. In Waldorf,
-Maryland, around 1:35 a.m. Renny Rogers feels the walls of his home
-rattling from a low-flying aircraft and goes out to see a single jet
-fighter. At 1:40 a.m., he sees a bright, pale-bluish light in the
-north-northeast moving at a high rate of speed. He calls a neighbor to
-come watch the display. Soon a fighter comes over his house in obvious
-pursuit of the light and about 1,000–2,000 feet behind it. The four
-fighters return to base around 1:50 a.m. (Kenny Young, “UFO
-Violates D.C. Airspace,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 413 (September
-2002): 11; Joan Woodward, “The Washington, D.C., Jet Chase of July 26,
-2002,” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): 3–7, 22–25; Good Need, pp.
-394–396)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7362
Date: 8/2002
-Description: The Roper market research firm conducts a telephone poll,
-sponsored by the Sci-Fi channel, to ask a national sample of adult
-Americans a series of questions about UFOs and abductions. The results
-indicate that two-thirds think there are other forms of intelligent life
-in the universe, 56% think that UFOs are something real, 48% think that
-UFOs have visited Earth in some form, 11.6% have seen a UFO at close
-quarters, 72% think the US government is not telling everything it knows
-about UFOs, and 21% think that humans have been abducted by other life
-forms. (Mark Rodeghier, “Attitudes toward ETI, UFOs, and Abductions,”
-IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002– 2003): 10–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7363
Date: 8/2002
-Description: Day. Three witnesses in Szczuczyn, Poland, watch a V-shaped
-object with brilliant white lights at each of its corners moving slowly
-from west to east with its flat point forward. (Poland 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7364
Date: 8/5/2002
-End date: 8/18/2002
-Description: A third team of Italian researchers, code named EMBLA and
-led by Massimo
-Teodorani and Gloria Nobili, visits Hessdalen, Norway, and collects
-evidence pointing to an unknown atmospheric light phenomenon “able to
-produce a luminous power of up to 100 kW.” However, a 2003 analysis by
-Matteo Leone demonstrates that the lights reported by the EMBLA team are
-consistent with automobile headlights. (Massimo Teodorani, “A Long-Term
-Scientific Survey of the Hessdalen Phenomenon,” Journal of
-Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 (2004): 217–251; Matteo Leone, “A
-Rebuttal of the EMBLA 2002 Report on the Optical Survey in
-Hessdalen,” 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7365
Date: 8/13/2002
-Description: 2:15 a.m. A woman watching the Perseid meteor show in Cow
-Bay, Nova Scotia, sees a large meteor with a long tail appear out of
-Ursa Major and arch over her head to the southeast. Suddenly it
-disappears as if it has passed behind something. She also sees a
-straight, black line advancing trough the sky, then a “perfect black
-triangle of gargantuan proportions” crossing directly over the clearing
-around her house. It is pitch black and enormous, moving only about 10
-mph and taking 5 minutes to disappear over the trees to the northwest.
-Ufologist Don
-Ledger investigates and finds that radar at Moncton Center in New
-Brunswick had picked up an unidentified target at that time and place.
-(Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall
-2002): 3–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7366
Date: 9/6/2002
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Police in Sampacho, Cordoba, Argentina, receive
-an alert about a mystery light. They see 7–8 objects over the Cerro
-Sampacho hovering silently at about 5,000 feet altitude. They have them
-in view for several minutes. (“Argentinsk
-politi ser åtte UFOer,” UFO-nytt, 2002, no. 2, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7367
Date: 9/9/2002
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A family is traveling in a pickup truck
-northward along Provincial Highway 24 between Achiras and Sampacho,
-Cordoba, Argentina. In the vicinity of Cerro Aspero, they begin noticing
-“a very intense red light in the sky” in the southwest. The object looks
-like an intense red beam with an arc of light on its front section. The
-observation lasts for several minutes as the light approaches then heads
-towards hills in the south. (“Another
-UFO Spotted near Sampacho, Argentina,” UFO Roundup 7, no. 39
-(September 24, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7368
Date: 9/16/2002
-End date: 9/24/2002
-Description: Scientists from the University of New Mexico initiate an
-archaeological dig at the debris field site near Corona, New Mexico,
-funded by the Sci-Fi channel. The team finds a small number of artifacts
-of unknown provenance and some soil deformation anomalies, but no furrow
-or unusual debris. (Sci Fi Channel, Sci Fi Declassified: The Roswell Dig
-Diaries, Pocket Books, 2004; “The Roswell Dig Diaries,” IUR 28, no. 4
-(Winter 2003–2004): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7369
Date: late 9/2002
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Security Policeman Christopher Cabrera is on
-guard an entry control point at the Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary
-Field [now Creech AFB] in Clark County, Nevada. He looks toward the base
-and sees an amber/red object hovering above it. He stares at it for
-about 2 minutes then suddenly a red beam shoots out from the orb and
-hits the side of the nearest mountain. The beam lasts about one minute
-and Cabrera notices what looked like molten rock dripping from the
-mountain. The beam abruptly ceases and the orb just disappears. A few
-seconds later, the molten effect on the mountain also dissipates.
-(Robert L. Hastings, “Triangular-Shaped UFO
-Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes,
-April 23, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7370
Date: 10/2002
-Description: A “three-foot diameter orb” quickly moves along the
-perimeter fences of Area 2, a weapons storage area of the Nevada Test
-Site [now the Nevada National Security Site]. It eventually outpaces the
-security teams that attempt to pursue it in Humvees. (Nukes 513)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7371
Date: 10/1/2002
-Description: The US Strategic Command is restricted by Secretary of
-Defense Donald
-Rumsfeld, merging with the US Space Command and assuming all duties
-for full-spectrum global strike, operational space support, missile
-defense, intelligence, and planning. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Strategic Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7372
Date: 10/4/2002
-Description: 7:06 p.m. A rotating CCTV camera at Terminal 2 in Kota
-Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah, Malaysia, records a video of an
-oblong object passing by in seconds. No unusual object is tracked by the
-airport radar. A security guard sees the object moving silently west to
-east before disappearing in the hills. (Patrick Gross, “Radar/Visual/Camera
-UFO Case at Airport in Malaysia?”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7373
Date: 10/10/2002
-Description: Day. A military pilot off the coast of Southern California
-or Baja California, Mexico, is looking down at the ocean at a 78° angle
-and sees, at a 7,238-foot visual slant range, a submerged, white,
-egg-shaped object about 20–50 feet below the surface. It is about 130 by
-200 feet in size and appears silent and stationary. (Keith Basterfield,
-“A
-BAASS Data Report of a 2002 Submerged Egg-Shaped Object in the SOCAL
-OPEAREA,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 13,
-2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7374
Date: 10/16/2002
-Description: Rear Adm. Thomas
-R. Wilson, who has retired as director of the Defense Intelligence
-Agency on July 29, has a meeting in Paradise, Nevada, with Eric
-W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc., an astrophysicist who is a
-member of the National Institute for Discovery Science and an associate
-of Harold
-E. Puthoff. He talks about his previous meetings with Cmdr. Will
-Miller, in which he admits he was denied access to an Unacknowledged
-Special Access Program dealing with reverse engineering an alien craft.
-Davis takes 15 pages of notes, which are leaked to researcher Grant
-Cameron and others in April 2019. (Eric W. Davis, “Eric
-Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson”
-[notes], Imgur, April 19, 2019; Richard Dolan, “The
-Wilson Leak: Latest Developments,” Richard Dolan Member Forum, June
-19, 2019; “The
-Admiral Wilson Leak: Evidence of USAPs (Unacknowledged Special Access
-Programs) and Reverse Engineering of Extraterrestrial Technologies,”
-Metallicman, December 23, 2019; Joe Murgia, “The
-Wilson/Davis Documents: My Twenty-Three Year Journey, Part 1,” Part
-2, UFO Joe, June 21, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7375
Date: 10/18/2002
-Description: A fall of angel hair covers a large area of Alessandria,
-Italy, including roofs, cars, and trees. A sample is recovered and
-examined by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche in Parma and shows
-“unequivocally” that the filaments are not organic, but similar to
-synthetic polymer textile fibers. They have a clear alternation of
-bright and dark segments. The Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione
-Ambientale in Turin disputes the finding and proclaims the material
-spider web. (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,”
-JUFOS 9 (2006): 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7376
Date: 10/23/2002
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Pilot Thomas J. Preziose takes off from Mobile,
-Alabama, in a Cessna 208B single-engine cargo plane en route to
-Montgomery. Six minutes later, he collides with an unknown object at
-3,000 feet and descends uncontrolled into swampy water in the Big Bateau
-Bay in Spanish Fort, Alabama. The pilot’s final words are: “Night Ship
-282, I needed to deviate, I needed to deviate.” A strange red residue
-(“transfer marks”) is found coating at least 14 different areas of the
-downed airplane that are widely separated in location both inside and
-outside the aircraft. The engine block has been split. The final NTSB
-report indicates that the accident is caused by pilot disorientation.
-However, an independent investigation finds numerous discrepancies with
-regard to both the FAA documentation and the NTSB investigation. The
-composition of the red residue is variously found to be tere- and
-isophthalate polymer with possible presence of inorganic silicate
-compounds; and epoxy material with some inorganic silicate filters. (“NTSB
-Solves Riddle of ’02 Small-Plane Crash,” Washington Post, January
-11, 2006; Kean, pp. 61–62;
-Marcus Lowth, “Just
-What Did Happen to Tom Preziose? Contact, or Cover-Up?” UFO Insight,
-November 8, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7377
Date: 10/31/2002
-Description: Astronomers Margaret
-C. Turnbull and Jill
-Tarter publish a catalog of nearby habitable stellar systems, each
-at least 3 billion years old, stable, and supporting liquid water on the
-surface of a habitable planet. (Margaret C. Turnbull and Jill C. Tarter,
-“Target
-Selection for SETI: 1. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar
-Systems,” arXiv, October 31, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7378
Date: 11/2002
-Description: After an audit, photoanalyst François
-Louange recommends the reactivation and redevelopment of SEPRA. The
-report is picked up by the French press. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death
-and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007):
-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7379
Date: 11/8/2002
-Description: The Sci Fi channel sponsors a symposium on “Interstellar
-Travel and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Science Fiction or Science
-Fact?” at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Speakers
-include astrophysicist Richard
-Conn Henry, theoretical physicist Michio
-Kaku, astrophysicist
-Bernard
-Haisch, computer scientist Jacques
-Vallée, aviation expert John
-Callahan, and
-physicist Peter
-Sturrock. (“GWU’s
-SciFi UFO Symposium,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7380
Date: 11/16/2002
-Description: A boomerang-shaped object surrounded by mist is seen in the
-Old Town district of Rzeszów, Poland. (Poland 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7381
Date: 11/21/2002
-Description: 7:00 p.m. James
-Bunnell sees a pulsating light on the side of a mesa near Marfa,
-Texas. It is yellow and hovers for 8–10 minutes, then begins descending,
-blinks out, and reappears as a bright red light that lasts only 2–3
-seconds. (James Bunnell, Hunting Marfa Lights, Lacey, 2009, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7382
Date: 11/28/2002
-Description: Night. Two policemen in Buenos Aires, Argentina, see a
-large light maneuvering in the sky and emitting colored sparks before it
-approaches their patrol car. The light reverses its course, and the
-engine and headlights fail. About 30 minutes later, the object moves
-away, the car starts again, and the siren suddenly comes on. The UFO
-paces them to one side before it finally disappears. Five police cars
-are involved in the incident. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle
-Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7383
Date: 12/2/2002
-End date: 12/13/2002
-Description: The Sci Fi channel airs a fictional miniseries about UFOs
-and abductions titled Taken, produced by Steven
-Spielberg. The
-show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three
-families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the
-existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent
-experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the
-surviving aliens from the crash. (Wikipedia, “Taken
-(miniseries)”;
-Internet Movie Database, “Taken”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7384
Date: 12/26/2002
-Description: Roswell, New Mexico, witness Walter
-G. Haut signs an affidavit that asserts he had seen bodies recovered
-from the 1947 crash in a temporary morgue at Roswell Army Air Field.
-Haut dies December 15, 2005, and the affidavit is released by his
-family. (Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell:
-Unmasking the Government’s Biggest Cover-Up, New Page, 2007,
-pp. 215–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7385
Date: 1/31/2003
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Two witnesses in Villeneuve, Alberta, watch a
-large white object described as “two saucers rim to rim” move slowly
-through a farmyard and over some houses, then out of sight. (Mark
-Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7386
Date: 2/8/2003
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Carlos Eduardo Montilho wakes up in his home in
-Guará I, Brasilia, Brazil, to tend to his dog in the backyard. An
-intense white light comes down about 23 feet in front of him that is
-attached to an oval object abut 10 feet in diameter. The grass stirs
-beneath it as if blown by wind, and it is making a humming sound. His
-wife starts screaming for him to get back inside. He retreats to the
-kitchen, where they both watch the object for 3 minutes before it rises
-slowly and disappears. The dog is asleep the entire time. (Brazil
-400–402)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7387
Date: 2/12/2003
-Description: 9:02 p.m. A dark triangular object with some sort of
-structured undercarriage is seen flying over Vancouver, British
-Columbia. It is in view for 3 minutes by two witnesses. (Mark Rodeghier,
-“UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7388
Date: 2/15/2003
-Description: The National Air Intelligence Center becomes the National
-Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), which coordinates a “wide
-variety of complex space/counterspace analytical activities.”
-(Wikipedia, “National
-Air and
-Space Intelligence Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7389
Date: 2/19/2003
-Description: 9:20 a.m. A fast-moving silvery object “like a cruise
-missile” flies swiftly across snow-covered fields near Raymore,
-Saskatchewan, heading north. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,”
-IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7390
Date: 2/25/2003
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A witness in downtown Bremerton, Washington,
-looks up and sees a triangular object with a light at each point flying
-silently over Naval Submarine Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on the
-Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, at an altitude of 800–1,000 feet.
-(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 4, 2003; Nukes
-499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7391
Date: 3/2003
-End date: 4/2003
-Description: Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II)
-Type: war
-Reference: link
-Location: Iraq
Date: 3/3/2003
-Description: 7:55 a.m. The drive and passenger of a truck traveling
-along a highway in Houston, British Columbia, watch as a silver object
-the size and shape of an Airstream trailer flies alongside them, then
-zooms away. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall
-2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7392
Date: 4/2003
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Some Air Force security policemen for Area 2, a
-weapons storage area of the Nevada Test Site [now the Nevada National
-Security Site], are having a meal outside when they notice a red glow at
-their feet. The light is coming from a giant sphere perhaps 100 feet
-across approaching them from the south. By the time they notice it, the
-reddish-orange object has passed silently overhead at about 75 feet
-altitude in a few seconds. Apparently, it projects a zone of silence and
-exerts a zone of pressure directly below it, causing the guards’ ears to
-pop. It disappears over some mountains to the north, where it apparently
-explodes in a burst of white light with no sound or shockwave. Building
-in intensity, the explosion keeps growing until it is painful to
-perceive through closed eyes, then quickly dies down. The light effects
-last for 5 seconds. The security controller orders all outside units to
-search for the downed object. They look until 7:00 a.m. but find
-nothing. (Nukes 512–515)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7393
Date: 6/2003
-Description: The Turkish press announces that Turkey’s National
-Intelligence Service has received a top-secret request from the US
-Central Intelligence Agency for details on all its latest UFO reports.
-The Service accordingly asks the Turkish Air Force, Turkish Airlines,
-and other agencies to submit reports. It recommends that the Air Force
-should establish an investigative agency headed by a colonel. (Good
-Need, p. 394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7394
Date: 6/5/2003
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Shortly after TAM Flight 3287 takes off from
-Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues Airport in Palmas, Brazil, to
-Brasilia, air traffic control asks the pilot if he can see any other
-aircraft near his plane. He cannot, but ground control says there is
-another object in his flight area. When they are over Palmas, the
-copilot sees a gigantic object on the right side of the plane. It is
-metallic and surrounded by bright multicolored lights. It flies as if it
-is sliding with no friction. The UFO follows the aircraft for almost an
-hour before moving away. (Clark III 203–205; Brazil 548)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7395
Date: 6/10/2003
-Description: Serbian astrophysicist Milan
-M. Ćirković theorizes that because it is reasonable to assume that
-there is an inhabited planet somewhere 3 billion years older than Earth,
-we are likely to encounter an alien civilization significantly older
-than 1.8 billion years. (Milan M. Cirkovic, “The
-Temporal Aspect of the Drake Equation and SETI,”
-arXiv, June 10, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7396
Date: 7/5/2003
-Description: The Sci-Fi Channel places a stone marker at the Roswell
-debris field site to commemorate the 1947 crash. (Thomas J. Carey and
-Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell, New Page, 2007, p. 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7397
Date: 7/7/2003
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness in Verdun, Quebec, watches a gray,
-teardrop-shaped object moving slowly at low altitude over rooftops,
-making an unusual whirring sound. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada,
-2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7398
Date: 7/28/2003
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Hundreds of witnesses see a large, white,
-moon-shaped object flying over the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia,
-zigzagging from northwest to southeast and changing direction in some
-cases to move over local mountains and drop into valleys. At 1:00 a.m.,
-a beam of white light arches across the sky from horizon to horizon and
-persisting until at least 2:00 a.m. Dubbed the “Okanagan Arch,” the beam
-is seen from Kamloops to Jaffray. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman,
-The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 207–209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7399
Date: 8/6/2003
-Description: 12:32 a.m. Three witnesses in North Bay, Ontario, watch as
-a gray, cigar-shaped object, stationary in the sky, becomes “wavy” and
-then suddenly disappears from view after 5 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier,
-“UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7400
Date: 8/10/2003
-Description: 2:22 p.m. A large fuselage-shaped object flies low along a
-road, under some guy wires, and among trees in Whitehorse, Yukon. (Mark
-Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7401
Date: 8/11/2003
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Diana Luca and her mother are chatting at the
-kitchen table in her home in New Westminster, British Columbia. Out of
-the corner of her eye, Luca spots a black object behind the trees in the
-back alley. The two step out on the patio for a better look and see a
-UFO flying behind the trees and over the top of the shorter ones. The
-object, flat and shaped like a Frisbee, flips on its underside, which is
-as red and shiny as a Coke can. She calls her husband, Mark Murphy, who
-is inside. By the time he gets to the porch, the UFO looks cigar-shaped
-and is an estimated 1.8 miles away. Murphy rushes inside to get a
-camcorder and gets the rest of the sighting on tape. (“UFOs
-over British Columbia,” Vancouver (B.C.) Courier, March 15, 2004;
-“B.C. Sighting,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7402
Date: 8/20/2003
-Description: Day. Frank Delephine takes a video of a formation of five
-yellowish lights leaving a smoke trail above the beach at Nowa Karczma
-on the Vistula Spit, Poland. (Poland 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7403
Date: 8/23/2003
-Description: Three witnesses observe a saucer-shaped object with
-protrusions for 30 seconds as it flies above some cars on a highway in
-Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no.
-3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7404
Date: 8/26/2003
-Description: Members of the Defense Committee on the Chilean Chamber of
-Deputies analyze information on UFOs for the first time. It hears
-testimony, largely reports from pilots and air traffic controllers,
-provided by the Comité de Estudios de Fénomenos Aéreos Anómalos and the
-director of OVNIvision (both UFO research groups in Chile). Defense
-Committee Chairman Arturo Cardemil tells the media that UFOs have
-sometimes disrupted air-traffic operations. (George Filer, “Chile:
-Congress Acknowledges Importance of UFO Research,” Filer’s Files, #36-
-2003, September 3, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7405
Date: 9/2003
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Arthur A. Larson is sitting in a truck at a
-gravel crossroads near Clara City, Minnesota, when he sees a round,
-black object at an altitude higher than a passing passenger jet but
-below the cirrus clouds. He watches it for 10–12 seconds and estimates
-its speed as 3,000–5,000 mph. (Arthur A. Larson, “Recent Minnesota
-Sighting,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7406
Date: 9/11/2003
-Description: A triangular object with red lights flies over two people
-in Whitehorse, Yukon. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28,
-no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7407
Date: 12/8/2003
-Description: 8:45 p.m. An unusual white, oval object with a ring of blue
-lights hovers above a house in Houston, British Columbia, dropping
-sparks. It then flies steadily toward the mountains and is lost to
-sight. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall
-2003): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7408
Date: 12/24/2003
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Three people in Airdrie, Alberta, watch a
-chrome-colored “marble” hanging motionless in the sky. After about 15
-seconds, it vanishes without a trace. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada,
-2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7409
Date: 2004
-Description: TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel
-off the coast of southern California
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: TODO
-Location: off the coast of southern California
Date: 2004
-Description: Afternoon. A Brazilian pilot flying an ATR 42-300 twin
-turboprop airliner has a near-miss with a luminous sphere near the São
-Paulo–Congonhas Airport, Brazil. The encounter lasts 14 minutes.
-(Richard F. Haines, “Near Miss with UAP near São Paulo Airport,” IUR 32,
-no. 3 (July 2009): 9–18, 23–24; Robert J. Durant, “Commentary on the São
-Paolo Near Miss,” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7410
Date: 2004
-Description: Night. Three teams of security policemen at Nellis AFB in
-Nevada are sent to investigate a mysterious light seen in a distant
-corner of the weapons storage compound in Area 2. Upon arriving at the
-location in vehicles, they cannot see any light. However, seconds later,
-one policeman spots a towering, silhouette-like, 8- or 9-foot-tall
-figure, visible against the moon-lit sky. It quickly turns and runs.
-After disappearing over a rise in the terrain, with six Security
-Policemen in hot pursuit, the unknown intruder seemingly vanishes into
-thin air. (Robert L. Hastings, “Triangular-Shaped
-UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear Storage Area,” UFOs &
-Nukes, April 23, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7412
Date: 2004
-Description: Vadim
-Chernobrov registers the All-Russian Scientific Organization,
-Kosmopoisk, as an international association. (Wikipedia, “Kosmopoisk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7411
Date: 1/2004
-Description: CNES decides to close SEPRA, perhaps because engineer Jean-Jacques
-Velasco is publishing a book, OVNIs: L’évidence, in April. (Gildas
-Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR
-31, no. 2 (June 2007): 13; Swords 450)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7413
Date: 1/4/2004
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Another Airbus 330-200 is approaching the east
-coast of Ireland, bound for Dublin Airport, when the crew sees a
-flashing strobe light over Slane, County Meath. As the aircraft
-throttles back to 265 mph at 2,500 feet, the UFO takes on a triangular
-shape, passes in front of the plane, and gives off a bright flashing
-light. The UFO begins circling the Airbus in an aggressive manner. The
-crew expects a collision with the object, which is about 360 feet wide.
-The interior lights dim (power drain) and the encounter continues for
-8–10 minutes as passengers watch. At one point, wake turbulence from the
-UFO triggers the wind shear warning device. Other aircraft in the
-vicinity are watching the encounter and listening in to radio
-transmissions. Just 2 minutes before landing, the UFO shoots away to the
-southeast. (Good Need, pp. 407–410;
-Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland,
-Mercier, 2006, pp. 42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7415
Date: 1/4/2004
-Description: 8:30 p.m. An Aer Lingus Boeing 737 with 135 people on board
-is about 2 miles off the east coast of Ireland approaching Dublin
-Airport. It is being followed in for landing on Runway 10 by a British
-Midland Airbus A330- 200 at a distance of 6 miles. Both are at an
-altitude of 3,000 feet and moving at 287 mph. As the 737 approaches
-Slane, the A330 crew observes unidentified traffic take off vertically
-from a field. The object has bright strobe lights and is triangular in
-shape. It begins to circle the 737, which experiences a power drain. The
-A330 sees a purplish glow surround the 737, whose captain requests a
-course change to avoid the object, which is passing in front of the
-airliner. The UFO angles to the port side and the 737 experiences a huge
-wake turbulence and an increase in outside air temperature to 327° F.
-for about 15 seconds. The A330 also feels the turbulence, and the UFO
-heads southeast at great speed. When the 737 lands, the crew cannot
-raise the speed brakes on the wings, which are found to be damaged, as
-if dented by a hammer. There is also aircraft skin damage and hydraulic
-damage to the brakes caused by the UFO wake. (Good Need, pp. 406–410;
-Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland,
-Mercier, 2006, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7414
Date: 1/17/2004
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A witness at Bass River, New Brunswick, sees a
-bright, fast-moving fireball. Around 11:00 p.m., a couple near
-Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, watch two flashing lights low in the
-west. They descend rapidly then fly in front of the witnesses at
-tremendous speed. They then stop and settle above some trees on the
-eastern horizon and disappear. A man in Caraquet is looking south and
-sees two objects, one on top of the other, flying west to east. They
-take 5 minutes to cross the sky but do not look like airplanes. In
-Moncton, another witness sees a single light moving steadily and rapidly
-across the ocean toward the east. In Saint Paul, another witness sees
-two lights heading toward the northwest, They make no sound, rotate
-around each other, hover, then leave at high speed. (Chris Rutkowski and
-Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006,
-pp. 210–211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7416
Date: 1/20/2004
-Description: European Parliament Member Nello
-Musumeci submits a proposal to create a Europe-wide “body for the
-study of unexplained atmospheric phenomena.” He suggests that the
-European Commission should pay special attention to UFO studies by
-various European space centers and recommends SEPRA in Toulouse, France,
-as a model. (2Pinotti 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7417
Date: 1/21/2004
-Description: A man is driving on the Trans-Canada Highway 10 miles north
-of Sussex, New Brunswick, when he sees a blinking light off to his left,
-apparently hovering above the road. As he approaches, he sees the object
-is composed of two bright white lights that seem to be attached to a
-structured object. It descends and hovers above a field. The witness
-can’t pull over, so the light is soon lost to view behind him. (Chris
-Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press,
-2006, p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7418
Date: 1/22/2004
-Description: 9:00 p.m. S/Sgt Shawn Burke of the 86th Operations Support
-Squadron stationed at Ramstein Air Base outside Ramstein-Misenbach,
-Kaiserslautern, Germany, sees a row of seven lights directly overhead
-and glowing a bright white. When the clouds become thicker, the display
-disappears briefly, then reappears and become more elongated, looking
-more like lines than dots. Burke takes a few photos. They remain
-stationary all night. His cellphone and the internet in his building
-goes out when the lights get brighter. Possible light pillars. (Wim van
-Utrecht, “Seven
-Unidentified Lights over Ramstein Air Base,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7419
Date: 1/25/2004
-Description: 6:26 p.m. A woman and her son watch a strange triangular
-object in the sky above Richibucto, New Brunswick. It has sparkling
-lights on top and a V shape on its underside. In a telescope, they can
-see it is a large gray object with something like a round door on the
-bottom. It suddenly speeds up and disappears in the distance. (Chris
-Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press,
-2006, p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7420
Date: 1/27/2004
-Description: Night. Alec Birch, who has confessed to faking a UFO photo
-in 1962, takes a series of color slides showing the town hall in
-Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, for a photography competition. He
-sees nothing unusual at the time, but on examining one transparency he
-finds an image that appears to be an elliptical UFO. Ruling out lens
-flares and aircraft, he contacts the Ministry of Defence, which sends
-the slide to the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency for
-analysis. The agency reports back to the MoD on August 2, saying that no
-definite conclusions can be reached, but “it may be coincidental that
-the illuminated plane of the object passes through the centre of the
-frame, indicating a possible lens anomaly, [for example] a droplet of
-moisture.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 147–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7421
Date: 2/20/2004
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Lt. Ribeiro of the Brazilian Air Force is
-retuning on a flight from São Paulo to Recife, Brazil. He is ordered to
-intercept a radar return that he can visually confirm as a yellow light.
-During the interception, the light remains stationary. Suddenly it
-begins moving toward the aircraft and gets very close. The pilot can
-only see a sphere of light coming closer, so he maneuvers sharply to the
-right. At this point his plane is illuminated by a beam of light.
-Seconds later everything is back to normal and the object is gone.
-(Clark III 206; Brazil 553–554)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7422
Date: 3/5/2004
-Description: Mexican Air Force pilots flying a C-26A Metroliner using
-infrared equipment to search for drug-smuggling aircraft record 11
-unidentified objects on infrared video and radar near Ciudad del Carmen,
-Campeche, Mexico. The objects are not visible to the crew. Secretary of
-Defense Gen. Gerardo
-Clemente Vega issues a press release on May 12 accompanied by
-videotape that shows moving bright lights at 11,500 feet. Mexican
-journalist Jaime Maussan interprets
-the videotape as “proof of alien visitation,” but science writer and
-skeptic Michael
-Shermer is critical of witness accounts that vary wildly, saying,
-“it was like a fisherman’s tale, growing with each retelling,” while
-NARCAP suggests the lights are most likely burn-off flares on offshore
-oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. (Mark Rodeghier, “Special Failures
-Down Mexico Way,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 12–13, 28; “NARCAP
-Statement on the Mexican FLIR Case,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004):
-17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7423
Date: 4/15/2004
-Description: Ademar
-José Gevaerd’s Brazilian Ufologists Commission launches a campaign
-called “Freedom of Information Now!” with the goal of convincing the
-Brazilian government to publicly release official information on the
-Varginha case, the Official Night of the UFOs, and the Trindade Island
-photos. (Clark III 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7424
Date: summer 2004
-Description: Two security guards at a glass factory in Częstochowa,
-Poland, watch a large, oblong-shaped object with two bright yellow
-lights on both ends fly 90 feet above their guard post. (Poland
-110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7425
Date: 7/31/2004
-Description: CNES is now embarrassed by its decision to close SEPRA and
-is planning a rebirth. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of
-Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7426
Date: 8/2004
-Description: The National Institute for Discovery Science releases a
-report, “NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma,” with
-analyses of triangle-shaped UFOs in the US, Belgium, and elsewhere.
-(“NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma,” August 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7427
Date: 8/21/2004
-Description: Three red lights hovering in a triangular formation are
-seen by several witnesses in Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois.
-Further observations take place on October 31, 2004; October 1, 2005;
-and once again on October 31, 2006. The lights are captured on video by
-some witnesses. The video evidence suggests that the lights keep the
-geometrical shape and move as if they are attached to each other through
-a dark object. The incident is examined in a Dateline NBC episode on May
-18, 2008, and in the episode “Invasion Illinois” of the television
-series UFO Hunters that premiers on The History Channel on October 29,
-2008. (Wikipedia, “Black
-triangle (UFO)”;
-Marler 211–216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7428
Date: 8/28/2004
-Description: 10:11 p.m. A circular metallic UFO the size of an airliner
-is seen above the Pemex oil refinery in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. It
-is accompanied by six luminous spheres at an altitude of about 3,300
-feet. The larger craft performs erratic maneuvers at high speed.
-(“Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7429
Date: 9/12/2004
-Description: Evening. Laura Simmons sees a “silent, abstract blob almost
-like the underside view of a manta ray shape, moving quickly, quietly
-across the sky” above Fulton Street in San Francisco, California. She
-describes it as “very large, almost gossamer, sprinkled with lights but
-almost like dusted with luminous powder.” (“Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29,
-no. 1 (Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7430
Date: 9/16/2004
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Brian Junkin, Chuck Martin, and three children in
-Poulsbo, Washington, watch a multicolored light move erratically for 10
-minutes about 500–1,000 feet above the canal adjacent to Naval Base
-Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. The light keeps changing colors from
-green to red to orange. Flashes of light also come from what appear to
-be corners of an underlying object. Another light comes speeding in from
-the north on a straight course and stops close to the first light, which
-continues to dance around. Suddenly, both lights blink out at the same
-time. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, September 29,
-2004; Nukes 499–502)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7431
Date: 9/17/2004
-Description: 3:39 a.m. A woman in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, wakes up to
-a humming sound and lights shining through her window. She runs out and
-sees a large object “shaped like a large submarine” with lights. It has
-beams of lights shining down the middle of it in a straight line from
-one end to another. She hears a loud thunderclap and the object rises
-higher until it is lost to sight. (“Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1
-(Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7432
Date: 9/27/2004
-Description: Early morning. A five-member team of geologists and
-glaciologists (including Rajiv Kalia, Sunil
-Dhar, Sushil Singh) led by Anil
-V. Kulkarni of the Indian Space Research Organization’s Space
-Applications Centre in Ahmedabad are on a research trip in the barren
-Samudra Tapu valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, at an elevation of 17,000
-feet. They spot a strange white, oblong object about 3–4 feet on the top
-of a mountain ridge that is floating just a few feet from the ground and
-approaches the camp to a distance of 160 feet. Kulkarni and Dhar grab
-cameras and take several photos. It has a cylindrical head with 2
-balloon-type attachments and looks like a robot walking. The object
-hovers motionless for a few seconds, then starts a steep ascent, hovers
-another 5 minutes, then rises high in the sky. Kalia says it does not
-look like a man-made object. (“UFO
-Sighting in Himachal Lahaul-Spiti
-District Remains a Mystery,” India Today, February 13, 2006; Mark
-Rodeghier, “Scientists Would Investigate Sightings by Other
-Scientists—Wouldn’t They?” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7433
Date: 10/1/2004
-Description: The US Air Force 20th Space Control Squadron at Eglin AFB,
-Florida, takes over the operation of the US Navy’s Space Surveillance
-System until 2009. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Space Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7434
Date: 10/4/2004
-Description: Pilot Brian
-Binnie reaches a world record altitude of 367,490 feet in
-SpaceShipOne, an air launched rocket plane. (Wikipedia, “Brian
-Binnie”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7435
Date: 10/27/2004
-Description: Day. The crew of a military jet near Naval Air Weapons
-Station China Lake, California, observes a dark gray, egg-shaped object,
-approximately 62 feet long, engaging in high-speed maneuvers at 45,000
-feet. It is moving east at 575 mph, then makes an aggressive vertical
-turn. (Keith Basterfield, “A
-BAASS Data Report of a 2002
-Submerged Egg-Shaped Object in the SOCAL OPEAREA,” Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 13, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7436
Date: 10/28/2004
-Description: Night. An Iranian Air Force F-14 is on combat air patrol
-near the heavy water reactor near Khondab, Iran, when it picks up an
-unidentified target at a distance of 50 miles away that is making rapid
-changes in altitude, heading, and speed. The pilot is ordered to bank
-toward the target after regional command receives a visual confirmation
-from an Arak Air Defense Group observer. Approaching at 22,000 feet, the
-pilot spots the target at 5,000 feet. The object is spherical and has a
-green halo surrounding it and a green light on its tail end. When the
-pilot turns toward the light, it disappears then reappears a few miles
-away, apparently moving at a speed of Mach 7 or greater. The F-14 is
-ordered to turn all lights off and descend to pursue the target. At
-7,800 feet the target disappears again, but after the F-14 makes a turn
-at 7,000 feet, it picks up the target again and flies 2,000 feet below
-it. The F-14 arms its weapons and the pilot requests clearance to engage
-the object. Every time the radar officer attempts to lock on the object,
-the radio, radar, and other instruments become jammed. Finally, the F-14
-ascends to 19,000 feet because it is low on fuel and spots the object
-one last time at low altitude. The pilot returns to the 8th Predator
-Tactical Fighter Base in Isfahan. (Air Forces Monthly, December 18,
-2017; “Iran
-UFO Reports Revealed,”
-Key Aero, December 18, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7437
Date: 11/10/2004
-Description: Navy Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day, stationed on the guided
-missile cruiser USS
-Princeton,
-notices the clear radar traces of 8–10 objects travelling southwards in
-a loose though fixed formation at 28,000 feet in the immediate vicinity
-of Catalina and San Clemente islands, California. He is startled by
-their slow speed of 120 mph but receives confirmation of their presence
-from radar operators on other vessels. Regular observations are made of
-a similar number of objects over the following six days. The objects are
-also faintly detected by an E- 2C Hawkeye plane after Princeton sends
-them coordinates. (Wikipedia, “Pentagon
-UFO videos”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7438
Date: 11/14/2004
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Navy Commander David Fravor and pilot Jim
-Slaight, flying two McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets over the California
-coast on a routine training mission, are diverted from their exercise to
-investigate some unusual radar contacts detected by the cruiser USS
-Princeton that
-is part of the USS
-Nimitz Carrier
-Strike Group. They observe a 40-foot-long wingless craft flying at
-incredible speeds in an erratic pattern. Controllers on one of the Navy
-ships report objects that are dropping out of the sky from 80,000 feet
-and going “straight back up.” As they are looking for the object that
-appears on the radar, Fravor spots a white disturbance in the water and
-a white object (nicknamed “Tic-Tac”) moving in random directions. The
-planes fly lower to investigate the object, which seems to be about 40
-feet long and then starts to mirror their movements before accelerating
-at high speed and disappearing. Fravor and another pilot, Alex Dietrich,
-say in an interview that a total of four people (two pilots and two
-weapons systems officers in the back seats of the two airplanes) witness
-the object for about 5 minutes. The disturbance in the water vanishes.
-Soon the same or a similar object reappears at their rendezvous point 60
-miles away, but by the time they arrive it has disappeared. Another
-plane launched from the USS Nimitz has its radar jammed and is able to
-pick up the object on an infrared channel. Two objects emerge from the
-bottom of the blip, which takes off and goes off the right side of the
-screen. The speed of the object, which has no exhaust trail, is
-stunning. However, the Navy claims it “never obtained an accurate” radar
-track of the objects reported by Fravor; they are quickly dropped by the
-Princeton’s radar when the computer categorizes them as “false targets.”
-After the return of the first team to USS Nimitz, a second F-18 team,
-led by Chad Underwood, takes off at approximately 12:00 noon, this time
-equipped with an advanced infrared camera (FLIR pod). This camera
-records an evasive unidentified aerial system on video. Underwood says
-“he never had visual, only seeing the object via FLIR.” David Fravor
-says that the radar operator on the USS Princeton briefed him that they
-had been tracking radar targets for two weeks. The footage is publicly
-released by the Pentagon in 2017. This footage is known as the 2004 USS
-Nimitz FLIR1
-video. It
-officially sheds some light on a decade-old story that had been largely
-unknown and unreported, aside from a 2015 secondhand story on
-FighterSweep.com that, in spite of providing many details, remained
-unconfirmed at that time. Jonathan Axelrod [possibly Naval officer John
-F. Stratton], investigating the case in 2009 for BAASS, concludes tat
-the object “was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the
-inventory of the United States or any foreign nation,” and that it
-remained “stationary with little or no variation in altitude
-transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than
-any known aerial vehicle with little or no visible signature.” Analysis
-of the FLIR footage by Mick West of Metabunk claims that the impressive
-sudden departure is an illusion; the object does not actually move
-except when the aircraft’s own infrared camera moves. West thinks the
-object resembles an “out-of-focus low-resolution backlit plane” filmed
-at a distance. [A second film of infrared footage, known as the GIMBAL
-video, is released by the Pentagon alongside the 2004 FLIR1 footage.
-Although the media often present the two videos together to illustrate
-the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident, the GIMBAL video is unrelated and was
-filmed on the East Coast of the United States in early 2015 by planes
-from the USS
-Theodore
-Roosevelt.] (NICAP, “Object
-Outmaneuvers 2
-Jets over Pacific”; Wikipedia, “Pentagon
-UFO videos”; “Pentagon
-Declassifies Navy ‘UFO’ Videos (Video 1/3),”
-ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020; “Navy
-Pilot Recalls Encounter with UFO: ’I Think It Was Not
-from This World,’” ABC News, December 18, 2017; Keith Basterfield,
-“Did
-the AAWSA Program / AATIP Really
-Start in 2007?” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research,
-May 16, 2018; “2004
-USS Nimitz Navy
-Strike Group Incident Report,” Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies,
-March 3, 2019; “Scientific
-Findings Regarding
-a Major U.S. Navy Encounter with UFOs,” Scientific Coalition of UAP
-Studies, April 25, 2019; Matthew Phelan, “Navy
-Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: ’It Wasn’t Behaving by the
-Normal Laws of
-Physics,’” New York, December 19, 2019; Mick West, “Explained:
-New Navy UFO Videos,” Metabunk, April 27, 2020; David Clarke,
-“Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021):
-40–42; Skinwalkers 45–46, 111–114, 118–119; Bill Whitaker, “UFOs
-Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,” CBS News, August 29, 2021; “Famous
-Navy UFO Is Camera Glare Hiding Something ‘Really Interesting,’
-Researcher Says,” The Independent (UK), March 18, 2022; Internet
-Movie Database, “A
-Tear in the Sky”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7439
Date: 11/16/2004
-Description: An unmanned NASA X-43A hypersonic scramjet, the fastest
-free-flying air-breathing vehicle, achieves a speed of 7,546 mph.
-(Wikipedia, “NASA
-X-43”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7440
Date: 2005
-Description: More than 9,500 UFO reports and related documents (of an
-estimated 15,000) are digitized by Library and Archives Canada and made
-available online. It releases a virtual exhibition titled “Canada’s
-UFOs: The Search for the Unknown.” (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
-Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7441
Date: 1/1/2005
-Description: The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into full
-force. Around 120,000 requests are made in the first year. Private
-citizens make 60% of them, with businesses and journalists accounting
-for 20% and 10% respectively. However, requests from journalists tend to
-be more complex and consequently more expensive. UFOs are one of the
-three most popular FOI requests made to the Ministry of Defence.
-(Wikipedia, “Freedom
-of Information
-Act 2000”; UFOFiles2, p. x)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7442
Date: 1/15/2005
-Description: UFO researcher Keith
-Basterfield interviews a man in Adelaide, South Australia, whose
-British father had worked for MI5 after World War II. His father had
-told him in 1959 when he was 12 that the American military had been
-experimenting in 1947 with monkeys and pigs being dropped in devices
-equipped with retrorockets from stratospheric balloons to test them for
-eventual space rocket research. In one of these experiments, which were
-conducted at night, they used live 2–3 humans with a hydrocephalic
-condition (enlarged heads caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid) whom
-they obtained from a facility. The retrorockets failed, the balloon
-crashed, and a rancher found the material and one of the humans who was
-still alive. A medical retrieval team came for it. The UFO cover story
-for this crash near Roswell, New Mexico, was concocted to keep the
-experiments secret. (Keith Basterfield, “Jacobsen,
-Redfern, and an Adelaide Informant,” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena—Scientific Research, July 8, 2011; Nick Redfern, The Roswell
-UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 153–163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7443
Date: 1/31/2005
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two men ice fishing at Columbia City, Indiana,
-encounter a large triangle above the east end of the pond. It crosses
-the frozen water at a low altitude, then hovers for some seconds before
-rising silently upward, leaving a trail of steam from the surface of the
-ice. The men try to call the local sheriff, but their cellphones are
-dead, as is their electrical fish locater. After the object disappears,
-they find a two-inch hole in the ice where the object had hovered.
-(Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005):
-28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7444
Date: 1/31/2005
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A large oval mass is seen floating above a
-cornfield at Wood River, Nebraska, by a man leaving his parents’ house.
-It rocks slightly from side to side for some 10 minutes and then sends
-out bursts of light toward the ground before climbing upward, seeming to
-suck up an object, apparently a large cow, from the field below. (Jenny
-Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7445
Date: 2/7/2005
-Description: 2:00 a.m. In the farming area of El Paraiso, Mar del Plata,
-Argentina, a resident hears a noise like a strong wind or turbine and
-sees two misty yellow lights drifting above a copse of trees and
-climbing slowly. Other witnesses hear and see the phenomena, and others
-are wakened by their farm animals going crazy and dogs howling as if in
-pain. At dawn, two circular marks are found near the copse. Police
-forensic experts take samples of an ash-like deposit that leaves a
-greasy smear when touched. Meanwhile, the daughter of one of the locals
-involved is having nightmares about a UFO trying to catch her. (Jenny
-Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7446
Date: 2/24/2005
-Description: UFOs: Seeing Is Believing, a two-hour American TV
-documentary narrated by Peter
-Jennings, airs on ABC-TV. The show mentions the Kenneth
-Arnold sighting, the Phoenix lights, southern Illinois
-triangle-shaped UFOs, and the Roswell incident, which Jennings
-sneeringly dismisses as a myth. Guests include James
-McGaha, Seth
-Shostak, Jill
-Tarter, Stanton
-Friedman, Budd
-Hopkins, Susan
-Clancy, and
-Michio
-Kaku. (Wikipedia,
-“UFOs: Seeing Is Believing”; Internet Movie Database, “Peter
-Jennings Reporting: UFOs, Seeing Is Believing”; “UFOs: Seeing
-Is Believing (2005), ABC Documentary,” Movie Buff Guy YouTube
-channel, June 18, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7447
Date: 2/27/2005
-Description: Richard
-Doty appears on Art
-Bell’s Coast to Coast radio program and describes his disinformation
-campaign against Paul
-Bennewitz. (“Greg
-Bishop and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with Host Art Bell, Interview
-Transcript,” February 27, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7448
Date: 4/27/2005
-Description: Late morning. Air traffic radar detects an unidentified
-target in restricted air space near Ronald Reagan Washington
-International Airport in Arlington, Virginia, causing President George
-W. Bush to be taken to a bunker and Vice President Dick
-Cheney to be evacuated to safety. The target gets within 7 miles of
-the airport, then vanishes. Although it is not identified, officials
-argue it is caused by a radar anomaly. (“Radar
-Blip Causes White
-House Security Scare,” Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, April 28, 2005,
-p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7449
Date: 5/1/2005
-Description: Night. A biotechnologist and his daughter are driving on
-the Central Oregon Highway about 50 miles southeast of Bend, Oregon.
-They notice three bright blue objects zigzagging around each other about
-300 feet away above a field. Suddenly two of the lights move toward them
-and through their vehicle. One passes through the windshield and passes
-through a window. The second passes through the man’s left arm and upper
-body, exiting his right arm. He feels a bit hazy, but notices the light
-is spherical and about the size of a softball. Still driving, the man
-feels nauseous and scared. The next 45 minutes into Bend seems like 3
-hours. Days later, he develops a red rash on the left side of his face
-and loses some hair on that side. His ankles swell, and he loses some
-sight and hearing on the left. In the next few weeks, he gains about 50
-pounds (although exercising and dieting) and sleeps a lot. In February
-2007 he is diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in his left chest, a
-pre-cancerous condition, and undergoes surgery in May, his health
-gradualy improving by the end of 2008. (Skinwalkers 70–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7450
Date: 5/3/2005
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A witness sees strange red and white lights
-crossing the flight path into Dulles International Airport in Virginia,
-west of Washington, D.C. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times
-199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7451
Date: 5/4/2005
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Angler John Walker sees an object the size of a
-house, shaped like a large gray bullet, in the sky above Squeaking
-Point, Tasmania. He estimates its height at 150 feet. It moves extremely
-slowly, taking 15 minutes to cross his view. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal
-Points,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7452
Date: 5/8/2005
-Description: Night. A witness captures video footage of pulsating,
-kaleidoscopic lights over the Denbigh Moors near Llannefydd, North
-Wales. The lights had appeared for several nights and remained visible
-for a lengthy amount of time. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean
-Times 199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7453
Date: 5/9/2005
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man getting into his car in Bradford, West
-Yorkshire, England, spots a huge, pulsating mass overhead, shaped like a
-double cross, and brilliantly studded with red, green, and white lights.
-It stays visible for a long time. The witness goes to bed at 1:20 a.m.,
-and the object, or a similar one, is still visible. (Jenny Randles,
-“UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7454
Date: 5/9/2005
-Description: 11:25 p.m. A woman outside her house in Kuujjuaq, Quebec,
-watches multi-colored lights heading northeast at a slow pace and low
-altitude. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 (September
-2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7455
Date: 5/11/2005
-Description: 11:28 a.m. Radar trackers spot a plane entering the Air
-Defense Identification Zone around Washington, D.C. As the aircraft
-bears down on Washington from the north and officials cannot contact the
-pilot, the White House’s internal threat level goes from yellow to
-orange and then to red within four minutes. Fighters are scrambled, and
-occupants and visitors to the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the White
-House are sent scurrying for safety. The aircraft flies over the vice
-president’s residence and comes within moments of reaching the White
-House and close to being shot down. Officials say 35,000 people are
-evacuated from the Capitol and adjacent office complexes. An additional
-200 are evacuated from the White House. First lady Laura
-Bush and former first lady Nancy
-Reagan, who
-is visiting, are ushered to a bunker beneath the White House for safety,
-and Vice President Dick
-Cheney is taken to a secure location. The airplane is a Cessna 150
-piloted by two aviators flying with outdated maps from a rural
-Pennsylvania airstrip and they are lost. Authorities say the pilots are
-so clueless that when officials finally make radio contact and order the
-plane to divert at 12:06 p.m., the fliers refuse, asserting their right
-to proceed. The F-16s then fire four bright flares across the plane’s
-nose, and the two men realize the gravity of their situation. The plane
-then veers northwest, out of town, escorted by the interceptors,
-security helicopters, and a US customs jet. The 15-minute aerial
-encounter is watched by rapt workers in downtown Washington office
-buildings. (“Confused
-Fliers Trigger Capitol Scare,” Washington Post, May 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7456
Date: 5/20/2005
-Description: Ademar
-José Gevaerd leads a delegation of ufologists who meet with
-Brazilian Air Force officials in Brasília, Brazil, headed by Brigadier
-Telles Ribeiro, chief of the Air Force’s Center for Public
-Communications. In an interview after the meeting, Gevaerd says his
-group has been shown information on three specific cases: the testimony
-of the head of Varig, Nagib Ayub, on a UFO seen in the airspace in Rio
-Grande do Sul in 1954; testimony from pilots who pursued 21 UFOs flying
-over São Paulo, São José dos Campos, and Rio de Janeiro in May 1986; and
-a Brazilian Air Force investigation of UFOs held in 1977 in Pará by Col.
-Uyrange
-Hollanda, who
-died in 1997. According to Hollanda, “we detected at least nine forms of
-objects. Probes, flying saucer-shaped spaceships… All reports were sent
-by the 1st COMAR to Brasilia.” (Wikipedia, “Ademar
-José Gevaerd”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7457
Date: 6/2005
-Description: British author Nick
-Redfern publishes Body Snatchers in the Desert, which purports to
-show that the 1947 Roswell crash may have been military aircraft tests
-using Japanese POWs, suffering from progeria (an early aging syndrome)
-or radiation effects. He has interviewed elderly whistleblowers—a woman
-he calls the Black Widow, Al Barker, Bill Salter, and a retired military
-man he calls the Colonel. In 2001, the Black Widow claims to have worked
-at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, in the late 1940s and
-early 1950s, at which time elements of the Usgovernment conducted
-high-altitude balloon tests with attached gondolas that contained live
-test subjects and sometimes dead bodies. These subjects were handicapped
-humans, possibly Japanese, including sufferers of progeria. She claims
-to know of 3 classified balloon flights in May–July 1947. The bodies
-were broiught to Oak Ridge under stringent security. In 2003, the
-Colonel states that Roswell and other crashes were a cover for research
-linked to high-altitude balloon experiments. He mentions crashes in May
-and July 1947 of two experiments with handicapped persons on board.
-(Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the
-Heart of the Roswell Story, Paraview, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7458
Date: 6/19/2005
-Description: 3:10 p.m. Three witnesses in Silverdale, Washington, see a
-black, rectangular object fly silently in a straight line and constant
-speed from south to north almost directly above the town. (“Sighting
-Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, June 20, 2005; Nukes
-502–503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7459
Date: 6/28/2005
-Description: Early morning. Following reports of unidentified lights
-above Dublin Airport in Ireland, a UFO 30 feet wide and 10 feet high
-approaches dangerously close to a commercial aircraft flying at 3,000
-feet. The plane experiences intense waves of heat and wake turbulence. A
-strobe light on the object induces dizziness and nausea; the copilot
-vomits a few times, but after a while both pilots feel strangely
-relaxed. After heading in the direction of Malahide, County Dublin, the
-UFO returns and continues further harassment, causing the aircraft to
-become uncontrollable for a few minutes. The pilot reports to London Air
-Traffic Control Centre: “Need assistance… We have a hostile craft and we
-have made dangerous maneuvers to avoid it.” London confirms the presence
-of unauthorized air traffic. Some RAF Tornados are scrambled and reach
-the aircraft 25 minutes later, but there is little they can do except
-escort the plane to a UK airport, accompanied by the UFO. (Good Need, pp. 409–410;
-Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland,
-Mercier, 2006, pp. 229–232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7460
Date: 7/2005
-Description: The new CNES director, Yannick
-d’Escatha, again creates a department for UFO investigations.
-Another engineer, Jacques Patenet, replaces Jean-Jacques
-Velasco as head. It is under the authority of CNES but reports to a
-steering committee (Comité de pilotage) called COPEIPAN, headed by Yves
-Sillard. The committee has 15 permanent members: representatives of
-civil and military authorities, and representatives of the scientific
-world. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO
-Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14; Swords 451)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7461
Date: 7/5/2005
-Description: 8:50 p.m. A woman is driving home from a fishing trip at
-Sargent, Texas, on FM2611 when her lights blink twice and the engine
-goes dead. She gets out of the car to check the battery cables, and sees
-a bright bluish glow lighting up a wooded area across the highway. The
-light gets brighter and moves upward through the trees. The outer edges
-of the light seem to vibrate or tremble slightly. The higher it goes the
-faster it gets until it disappears. The car starts right up afterward.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,”
-IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7462
Date: late 7/2005
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Just as an airliner is making its final approach
-to the Santa Rosa Airport, La Pampa province, Argentina, the airport
-control tower operator notices an unknown, luminous object moving slowly
-and parallel to the aircraft. The flight plan operator is alerted, and
-they both watch the UFO stop, emit a brilliant flash of blue- white
-light, move again, emit another flash, and vanish. The airliner crew
-does not see the UFO. (Good Need, p. 411)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7464
Date: 7/22/2005
-Description: Industrial chemist Phyllis
-Budinger reports on her laboratory tests on stains from the dress
-that abductee Betty Hill was
-wearing on the night of her abduction in 1961. The samples indicate
-protein and oily materials from an external source. She also reports on
-materials brought back from a recent abduction by Stan
-Romanek, which prove to be bismuth trioxide, used in the making of
-ceramics and glass but uncommon in everyday situations. No direct link
-between the materials and an extraterrestrial source can be established.
-(MUFON 2005 International UFO Symposium Proceedings)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7463
Date: 8/4/2005
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness in Fernandina Beach, Florida, sees two
-rose-red objects approach from the ocean and move silently to the south,
-disappearing in about 75 seconds. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO
-Reporting Center, September 2, 2005; Nukes 507)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7465
Date: 8/27/2005
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Dennis Speed is outdoors at his home in Lenah
-Valley, Tasmania, when he sees a formation of six orange lights
-approaching from the north. They are the size of bright stars and are
-moving slowly below the cloud level. Suddenly, they scatter about 1,650
-feet apart, and a white aura appears in the sky around them. He watches
-them for 15 minutes. Up to 9 oranges UFOs are seen elsewhere in Hobart.
-(“Orange UFOs over Hobart,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7466
Date: 9/1/2005
-Description: The 30th Reconnaissance Squadron, which operates Lockheed
-Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drones, is activated at Tonopah Test Range
-Airport in Nevada. RQ-170 Sentinels have been deployed to Afghanistan,
-where one was sighted at Kandahar International Airport in late 2007.
-This sighting, and the Sentinel’s secret status at the time, leads Bill
-Sweetman to dub it the “Beast of Kandahar.” (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-Martin RQ-170 Sentinel”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7467
Date: 9/17/2005
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A man is at his home on 31st Avenue in Peoria,
-Arizona, when he sees a bright object approaching from the east. Seven
-other objects appear around it, staying in the same spot for about 15
-minutes, then moving to the left quickly. They go higher, moving left to
-right and right to left, almost hitting each other. They are completely
-silent. (“Spherical UFOs in Arizona,” IUR 30, no. 1 (October 2005):
-32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7468
Date: 9/20/2005
-Description: Attorney and Army Reserves Brig. Gen. Stephen
-Lovekin, who had worked for the Army Signal Corps in the 1950s and
-early 1960s, speaks with writer Peter
-Janney about the extraterrestrial presence on Earth and the official
-coverup. He claims that in 1995 he attended a conference on the
-Strategic Defense Initiative in Monterrey, Mexico, that included
-high-level US and Russian participants. The purpose of SDI is to protect
-both countries from incursions by UFOs, he alleges. (Dolan II 289)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7469
Date: 9/22/2005
-Description: The French UFO agency is given the name Groupe d’Études et
-d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEIPAN) in
-order to emphasize the “information-gathering” aspect of the agency. At
-its first meeting, it renews the agreements with a network of
-specialists so that it can work effectively on new cases. (Wikipedia,
-“Groupe
-d’Études et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux
-Non-identifiés”; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official
-French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14; Swords 451)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7470
Date: 9/29/2005
-Description: Space scientist Yves
-Sillard is interviewed on Radio France International about GEIPAN.
-He states that the UFO phenomenon is serious and involves many witnesses
-who deserve an answer about what they have seen. The sightings, he says,
-include impressive radar-visual cases and landing traces. (Swords
-451–452)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7471
Date: 10/2005
-Description: Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, formerly the Indian
-Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, activates the Joint Unmanned Aerial
-Systems Center of Excellence and the 3d Special Operations Squadron (the
-latter is the 1st MQ- 1 Predator squadron in the Air Force Special
-Operations Command (AFSOC). (Wikipedia, “Creech
-Air Force Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7472
Date: 10/2005
-Description: Cognitive psychologist Susan
-Clancy publishes Abducted: How People Came to Believe They Were
-Kidnapped by Aliens, in which she describes her psychological testing of
-a sample of abductees. These tests reveal a propensity for false
-memories and magical ideation, making abductees more likely than average
-to imagine, be led by investigators, and integrate cultural scripts like
-the abduction story into memory. Clancy demonstrates that alien
-abduction stories give people meaning and a way to understand their own
-lives and circumstances. It also gives them a feeling that they are not
-alone in the universe. New York Times reviewer Benedict
-Carey’s takeaway is that “in this sense, abduction memories are like
-transcendent religious visions, scary and yet somehow comforting and, at
-some personal psychological level, true.” However, Clancy fails to ask
-her subjects about their religious beliefs. (Susan Clancy, Abducted:
-How People Came to Believe They Were Abducted
-by Aliens, Harvard University, 2005; Benedict Carey, “Explaining
-Those Vivid Memories of Martian Kidnappers,”
-New York Times, August 9, 2005; Clark III 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7473
Date: early 10/2005
-Description: 12:30 p.m. The crew of a Magnicharters Boeing 737
-encounters a luminous disc in the air corridor over Oaxaca state,
-Mexico, at 20,000 feet. The object emerges from one cloud and enters
-another at a distance of 12 miles from the aircraft. (Good Need, p. 411)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7474
Date: 11/1/2005
-Description: An anonymous email is received by Victor Martinez, who runs
-a discussion list for retired intelligence people who are interested in
-UFOs. This person, in return for anonymity, passes on a huge volume of
-information each month for the next three years, all of it extracts from
-an alleged original document—a top secret, 3,000-page report compiled by
-the Defence Intelligence Agency in the late 1970s. The major revelations
-are: There were two crash sites in New Mexico, one southwest of Corona,
-and the second at Pelona Peak, south of Datil. The Corona site was
-discovered a day later by an archaeological team, who reports the crash
-site to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. One live entity (EBE 1)
-was found hiding behind a rock; it and some dead bodies were later
-transferred to Loa Alamos National Laboratory. Roswell Army Air Field
-took the craft and sent it on to Wright- Patterson AFB. The second site
-was not discovered until August 1949 by two ranchers. It took the
-sheriff several days to reach this crash site. He took photos, drove
-back to Datil, and notified Sandia Army Base, which recovered six bodies
-that were first sent to Sandia then to Los Alamos. The live entity
-established communication and supplied the name of his home planet,
-Serpo, in our constellation of Zeta Reticuli. It died in 1952 after
-being allowed to use a communication device in the crashed UFO to
-contact his home planet. An alien/US military meeting was set for April
-1964 in Alamogordo, where the aliens (nicknamed Ebens) landed and
-retrieved their comrades’ bodies (which had been frozen). In 1965, the
-US had an exchange program with the aliens, where one entity was left
-behind and 12 trained Americans (10 men, 2 women) left for Serpo from
-the Nevada Test Site. They were supposed to stay 10 years, but something
-went wrong. In 1978, seven men and one woman returned; two had died on
-Serpo, and four others decided to remain. Of the 8 that returned, all
-have since died, the last in 2002. A few months after the documents
-became known, a UK Ministry of Defence official nicknamed “Chapman”
-claims the events were not as described but that the document is real,
-as he had seen it in 1969 or 1970 in London. He claims is was a CIA
-document authored by Alice
-Bradley Sheldon (a science fiction author using the pseudonym James
-Tiptree Jr. who worked for the CIA in 1952–1955) in response to Soviet
-disinformation in the 1960s about nuclear bombs in the US. (Wikipedia,
-“Planetary
-objects proposed in religion, astrology,
-ufology, and pseudoscience”; Rational Wiki, “Project
-Serpo”; Mark Pilkington, Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia,
-Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, Skyhorse, 2010; Kremlin
-161–166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7475
Date: 12/15/2005
-Description: The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, a single-seat,
-twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for
-the Air Force, officially enters service. USAF officials consider the
-F-22 a critical component of the service’s tactical air power. Its
-combination of stealth, aerodynamic performance, and avionics systems
-enable unprecedented air combat capabilities. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-Martin F-22 Raptor”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7476
Date: 2006
-Description: The UFO Research Coalition (CUFOS, MUFON, Fund for UFO
-Research) launches an Abduction Monitoring Project (later changed to
-Ambient Monitoring Project), an effort to create a compact,
-multi-instrumental device to be placed in the homes of recurrent
-abductees to record magnetic, electrical, and atmospheric anomalies over
-an extended period. The goal is to compare any reported abduction
-experiences with the anomalies to see if they coincide. After
-considerable difficulty with the design and construction of these boxes
-through 2008, data are recorded from participating abductees. However,
-funding is not available for the analysis needed to reach any
-conclusions. (Tom Deuley, “The
-Ambient Monitoring Project: Data Colleced in Abductee’s Homes
-Being Analyzed,”
-MUFON UFO Journal, no. 483 (July 2008): 3–7, 15; Jack Brewer, “What
-Happened to the Ambient Monitoring
-Project?” The UFO Trail, April 2, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7477
Date: 1/2006
-Description: GEIPAN’s Jacques Patenet announces that the organization
-will make its UFO files available to the public worldwide and placed on
-the CNES website. (Swords 452)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7478
Date: 5/15/2006
-Description: The UK Defense Intelligence Staff releases (after a
-September 2005 Freedom of Information Act request by David
-Clarke and Gary Anthony) a 400-page report on a secret UFO study,
-codenamed “Condign,” undertaken by DIS between 1997 and February 2000.
-Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, written by
-former Marconi Electronic Systems scientist Ron Haddow, draws on
-approximately 10,000 sightings and reports that have been gathered by
-the DI55, a section of the Directorate of Scientific and Technical
-Intelligence (DSTI) within the Defence Intelligence Staff. The report
-concludes that UFOs have an observable presence that is “indisputable,”
-but also that no evidence has been found to suggest they are “hostile or
-under any type of control.” According to its authors, the majority of
-analyzed UFO sightings can be explained by the misidentification of
-common objects such as aircraft and balloons, while the remaining
-unexplainable reports are most likely the result of a supernormal
-meteorological phenomenon not fully understood by modern science. This
-phenomenon is referred to in the report as “Buoyant Plasma Formation,”
-akin to ball lightning, and it supposedly produces an unexplained energy
-field that creates the appearance of a Black Triangle by refracting
-light. The electromagnetic fields generated by plasma phenomena are also
-said to explain reports of close encounters due to inducing perceptual
-alterations or hallucinations in those affected. The Condign report
-suggests that further research into “novel military applications” of
-this plasma phenomenon is warranted, and that “the implications have
-already been briefed to the relevant MoD technology manager.” The report
-also notes that scientists in the former Soviet Union have identified
-the close connection between the ‘UFO phenomena’ and Plasma
-technologies,” and are “pursuing related techniques for potential
-military purposes.” The report describes people who believe themselves
-to have had close encounters as being convinced of what they said that
-they had seen or experienced, but also as not representing proof that
-such encounters are real. It attributes a number of cases to the “close
-proximity of plasma related fields” which it said can “adversely affect
-a vehicle or person.” (“Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena in
-the UK Air Defence Region (The Condign Report): Summary of
-Contents,” The Real UFO Project; UK Defense Intelligence Staff, Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, released 2006; David
-Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR
-30, no. 4 (August 2006): 3–13, 29– 32; Kean, pp. 173–175;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 149–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7479
Date: 5/16/2006
-Description: At least three green fireballs brighter than the moon but
-not as bright as the sun blaze over northeast Australia. A farmer sees
-one with a blue tapering tail pass over the mountains of the Great
-Divide about 75 miles west of Brisbane, Queensland, then watch a
-phosphorescent green ball about 12 inches wide roll slowly down the side
-of a mountain, bouncing over a rock along the way. A commercial airline
-pilot landing in New Zealand sees a meteor breaking up into fragments
-that turn green as the bits descend in the direction of Australia. The
-timing of the fireballs suggests they might be debris from Comet
-73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3, according to physicist Stephen
-Hughes at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.
-(Charles Q. Choi, “Mystery
-of Green Fireball
-‘UFOs’ Solved,” Live Science, November 30, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7480
Date: 7/13/2006
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman camping on the beach at Wicie, Poland,
-sees several red and blue lights maneuvering within a glow about 10 feet
-above the water. Then she realizes that the glow surrounds a huge
-metallic saucer- shaped object with lights that are turning on
-alternately from left to right. Her cellphone is acting crazy and she
-thinks the sea is roaring louder than usual. The object scares her so
-much that she hides in the forest nearby. (Poland 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7481
Date: 7/28/2006
-Description: The Cheyenne Mountain Realignment consolidates NORAD’s
-day-to-day operations at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs,
-Colorado, with Cheyenne Mountain as an Alternate Command Center.
-(Wikipedia, “North
-American Aerospace Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7482
Date: 9/2006
-Description: The UK Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne, approves
-a proposal from the Directorate of Air Staff (the former Sec(AS)) to
-transfer all remaining UFO files to the National Archives. Funds are
-found to scan approximately 160 files and remove sensitive personal
-information. This is described as “the largest release of documents
-younger than 30 years in the MoD’s entire history.” (UFOFiles2, p. 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7483
Date: 9/5/2006
-Description: Residents of Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see
-several types of UFOs maneuvering near the city. One looks like a
-radaint sphere with three parts. Other witnesses report four lights. A
-police officer sees an object with 10 yellow lights moving around in a
-circular motion and hovering above the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 1–
-2 miles. Other smaller objects approach it, one of which explodes in a
-bright flare-up. The official explanation is that these are candle bombs
-used as aerial targets for Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft.
-(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020,
-pp. 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7484
Date: 9/22/2006
-Description: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighter is retired by US
-Navy, having been supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
-(Wikipedia, “Grumman
-F-14 Tomcat”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7485
Date: 10/6/2006
-Description: Night. Ufologist Bill
-Chalker is along the Mekong River in Phon Phisai District, Thailand,
-for the annual Naga Light (ghost light) festival. He witnesses and
-videos many of the Naga light balls arising from the river: “This
-phenomenon has a tremendous social and human dimension and while it is
-tempting to try to explain the lights, however correctly or incorrectly,
-as planted ‘rockets,’ ‘submarine’ firings, Naga Dragons speaking, they
-all seem to fall short of entirely convincing explanations.” Orb
-sightings are on the increase, with up to 408 counted at the Phayanak
-festival on October 24, 2018 (260 in Rattanawapee District and 148 in
-Phon Phisai). (Wikipedia, “Naga
-fireball”; Bill Chalker, “The
-Mystery and Allure of the Naga Light Festival: My 2006 Adventure on
-the Mekong,”
-TheOzFiles, January 28, 2015; “Buddhist Aliens,” Fortean Times 388
-(January 2020): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7486
Date: 11/2006
-Description: Many people in a village in Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu
-Autonomous County, southern Yunnan, China, see seven white hemispherical
-objects hovering directly over the property of a local Chinese Communist
-Party cadre for nearly two hours. They appear to keep changing shape.
-Many people from neighboring villages hear about the phenomenon and
-arrive to watch it. People try to pursue the lights, but they soon
-disappear. (Clark III 653)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7487
Date: 11/1/2006
-Description: John
-Schuessler retires as director of MUFON. He is succeeded by James
-Carrion of Bellevue, Colorado. (“Schuessler Retires As MUFON Head,”
-IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7488
Date: 11/7/2006
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Federal authorities at O’Hare International
-Airport in Chicago, Illinois, receive a report that a group of 12
-airport employees are witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft
-hovering over Gate C-17. The object is first spotted by a ramp worker
-who is pushing back United Airlines Flight 446, which is departing
-Chicago for Charlotte, North Carolina. The employee apprises the crew of
-the object above their aircraft. It is believed that both the pilot and
-copilot also witness the object. Several independent witnesses outside
-of the airport also see the object. One describes a “blatant”
-disc-shaped craft hovering over the airport, which was “obviously not
-clouds.” According to this witness, nearby observers gasp as the object
-shoots through the clouds at high velocity, leaving a clear blue hole in
-the cloud layer. The hole reportedly seems to close itself shortly
-afterward. According to the Chicago Tribune’s Jon
-Hilkevitch, “The
-disc was visible for approximately five minutes and was seen by close to
-a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors,
-who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it.” So far, no
-photographic evidence of the UFO has surfaced, although Hilkevitch finds
-out that one of the pilots is in possession of a digital camera at the
-time of the sighting and may have photographed the event. NARCAP
-publishes a 155-page report and has called for a government inquiry and
-improved energy-sensing technologies: “Anytime an airborne object can
-hover for several minutes over a busy airport but not be registered on
-radar or seen visually from the control tower, [it] constitutes a
-potential threat to flight safety.” The FAA stance concludes that the
-sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would
-not be investigating the incident. (Wikipedia, “2006
-O’Hare International Airport UFO Sighting”; Jon Hilkevitch, “What WAS
-That Thing in
-the Sky at O’Hare?” Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2007, pp. 1, 19;
-Mark Rodeghier, “Media Take Notice When Media Take Notice: UFO Seen over
-O’Hare Airport,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 32; Richard F. Haines,
-“Report
-of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and Its Safety Implications at
-O’Hare International
-Airport on November 7, 2006,” NARCAP, May 14, 2007; Leslie Kean,
-“Incident at O’Hare Airport,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 3–7; Richard F.
-Haines, et al., “A UAP and Its Safety Implications: O’Hare International
-Airport, Nov. 7, 2006,” IUR 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 3–7; Kean, pp. 65–72;
-Clark III 835–838; Mutual UFO Network, [case
-report])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7489
Date: 11/8/2006
-Description: The 42d Attack Squadron is formed at Creech AFB, Nevada, as
-the first MQ-9 Reaper drone squadron. (Wikipedia, “Creech
-Air Force Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7490
Date: 12/13/2006
-Description: Fastwalkers, a documentary on NORAD’s Defense Satellite
-Program and its detection of UFOs (fastwalkers and slowwalkers) entering
-the Earth’s atmosphere, is released. (Internet Movie Database, “Fastwalkers”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7491
Date: 2007
-Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, an astrophysicist, starts
-working as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O.
-program (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or
-AATIP)
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 2007
-Description: The US National Archives allows the entire collection of
-sanitized Blue Book documents to be placed on the web through a private
-company called Footnote.com (now called Fold3), totaling nearly 130,000
-pages, each one an individual JPG image. (Sparks, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7492
Date: 2007
-Description: John Carpenter launches the Journal of Abduction–Encounter
-Research in Springfield, Missouri, which continues until July 2010. (Journal
-of Abduction–Encounter Research, no.
-1 (January 2007))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7493
Date: 1/11/2007
-Description: China conducts an anti-satellite missile test in which a
-Chinese weather satellite, the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the
-Fengyun series orbiting at an altitude of 537 miles, is destroyed by a
-kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite
-direction. It is launched with a multistage solid-fuel missile from
-Zichang Satellite Launch Center or nearby. It is the first known
-successful satellite intercept test since 1985. The kill produces an
-estimated 35,000 pieces of one-centimeter-wide debris and another 1,500
-pieces that are 10 centimeters or more. (Wikipedia, “2007
-Chinese anti-satellite missile test”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7494
Date: 1/12/2007
-Description: Afternoon. Amateur radio enthusiasts record the
-conversation of pilots in two USAF F-15C fighters on a training mission
-just north of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England. One fighter gets a
-radar lock on an unidentified target 17 miles in front of him. He breaks
-the lock and reacquires it to validate the target, which is moving
-slowly at 17,700 feet. Closing to 500 feet, the pilot sees a small,
-irregular object like a “black rock.” His wingman joins him and they
-make three additional passes as they track it on airborne radar.
-(Skinwalkers 126– 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7495
Date: 3/5/2007
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Several witnesses around Bremerton, Washington,
-see a steady red light above the smokestack at Naval Base Kitsap on the
-Kitsap Peninsula. It moves slowly north for 10 minutes, stops for 3
-minutes, then suddenly dims, brightens, and disappears. (“Sighting
-Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 8, 2007; Nukes 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7496
Date: 3/18/2007
-Description: Former Arizona Gov. Fife
-Symington admits that he witnessed one of the “craft of unknown
-origin” during the 1997 Phoenix
-Lights event, but notes that he didn’t go public with the
-information. In an interview with Leslie Kean in
-the Prescott Daily Courier, Fife says: “It was enormous and
-inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and
-I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn’t have been flares because
-it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.”
-(“Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw ‘Phoenix lights’ UFO,” American
-Chronicle, March 18, 2007; “Former
-Arizona Governor Says He Saw a UFO during the 1997
-Phoenix Lights,” Wikinews, March 19, 2007; Kean, pp. 253–257,
-262–264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7497
Date: 3/22/2007
-Description: GEIPAN, the French office in charge of UFO investigations,
-begins to put all its UFO files on its website. These reports have been
-gathered in more than 30 years of investigations since its creation in
-1977. Some 400 files, covering the period 1988–2005, are put online
-first. (Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes
-Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés website;
-Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,”
-IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 12, 14–15; Swords 452–453; “French
-Space Agency Puts UFO Files Online,” Fox News, January 13,
-2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7498
Date: 3/30/2007
-Description: GEIPAN’s Jacques Patenet appears, with Ciel et espace
-editor Alain
-Cirou, on
-a well-known French TV program called C dans l’air. Questioned bluntly
-by host and journalist Yves
-Calvi about UFOs, Patenet says unequivocally that yes, there are
-UFOs. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO
-Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7499
Date: 4/2007
-Description: French space scientist Yves
-Sillard consolidates his ideas on UFOs in the landmark book
-Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifies: Un défi à la science, written in
-collaboration with other scientists. (Yves Sillard, et al., Phénomènes
-aérospatiaux non identifies: Un défi à la science, Le Cherche midi,
-2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7500
Date: 4/6/2007
-Description: Night. Brian Vike is driving near North Park Lake,
-McCandless, Pennsylvania, with friends when he sees a strange light
-shining directly on the lake from high above it. They get out and walk
-towards the lake. Vike is able to see fish swimming beneath the surface
-of the lake under the beam. The object projecting the light moves away
-to above the trees and is only the size of a streetlight. (Carl W.
-Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December
-2010): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7501
Date: 4/23/2007
-Description: Afternoon. The passengers of Flight A-Line 544 depart
-Southampton, England, in a BN2a Mk3 Trislander aircraft at about 2:00
-p.m. in fine weather with good visibility for miles around, though a
-haze layer is present at 2,000 feet, and a continuous cloud layer at
-10,000 feet. They rise to an altitude of 4,000 feet and are cruising on
-autopilot about 10 miles south of the Isle of Wight. Capt. Ray Bowyer
-notices, exactly in the direction of Guernsey in the Channel Islands
-(southwest and 12 o’clock ahead) what appears to be a brilliant yellow
-lamp or light. He thinks that it might be an airplane or reflections
-from the ground, as Guernsey is immediately behind it. The reflection of
-the sun off a greenhouse is a possibility but the UFO persists for a
-couple of minutes. It is brilliant yellow, with a dark grey band
-enveloping it one third from the right, like a band around a cigar.
-Bowyer makes contact with Jersey ATC to check on traffic heading his
-way. Paul Kelly at Jersey ATC cannot see any traffic in that position,
-but he picks up a faint primary return radar signal. A passenger behind
-the captain confirms what Bowyer is seeing and points out a second UFO
-immediately behind the first: Bowyer estimates both lights to be “up to
-possibly a mile across.” Radar traces also seem to register the presence
-of two objects, which Bowyer believes to be correlated with the position
-and time of the sighting. The first object is presumed to have been near
-the Casquets, west of Alderney, and the second some miles north of
-Guernsey. A study by David Clarke, however,
-cannot establish a definite link, as the radar reflections of cargo or
-passenger ferries may have affected at least some of the readings.
-Bowyer disagrees with Clarke’s team on the supposed link between the
-radar traces and ferries and proposes that two solid airborne UFOs are
-working in unison that day. Captain Patterson, the second pilot witness,
-posits some type of “atmospheric phenomenon” as an explanation.
-(Wikipedia, “2007
-Alderney UFO Sighting”; Kean, pp. 73–81;
-UFOFiles2, pp. 166–168;
-Jean-François Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “Report
-on Aerial Phenomena Observed near the Channel Islands, UK,
-April 23, 2007,” February 2008; Jean-François Baure, David Clarke,
-Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “Unusual
-Atmospheric Phenomena Observed near Channel Islands, UK, 23 April
-2007,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 22, no. 3 (2008):
-291–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7502
Date: 6/8/2007
-Description: The US Air Intelligence Agency is redesignated the Air
-Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency. (Wikipedia,
-“Air
-Force intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7503
Date: 6/11/2007
-Description: The Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in
-Brussels, Belgium, is officially dissolved. Its place is taken by a less
-formal group, Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomenes Spatiaux, headed by
-Patrick Ferryn. (“Bienvenue
-sur le site de COBEPS,” Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomenes
-Spatiaux)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7504
Date: 6/19/2007
-Description: Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer and
-scientist James T. Lacatski contacts Robert
-Bigelow for permission to visit the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, a
-project under study by the National Institute for Discovery Science. He
-wants to see how the DIA might develop a strategy to characterize the
-“potential threat aspects of the phenomena.” (Skinwalkers 17–18,
-38–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7505
Date: 7/16/2007
-Description: 12:52 a.m. A witness is walking a dog in Port Orchard,
-Washington, when an orange fireball travels from southeast to northwest
-for 30 seconds. It disappears in thick clouds over Green Mountain.
-(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, August 7, 2007; Nukes
-503–504)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7506
Date: 7/26/2007
-Description: Robert
-Bigelow accompanies DIA official James T. Lacatski on a visit to
-Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. During his 2-hour visit, Lacatski witnesses a
-bizarre tubular object hovering in the kitchen of the Homestead 1
-building. After 30 seconds, it vanishes. He describes it is as similar
-to the object depicted on Mike
-Oldfield’s 1973 album Tubular Bells. (Skinwalkers 39–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7507
Date: 9/2007
-Description: Project Oxcart, the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft program,
-is declassified. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7508
Date: fall 2007 (approximate)
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, at the initiation of
-Sen. Harry
-Reid (D-Nev.) and the urging of government contractor and Las Vegas
-billionaire Robert
-Bigelow, quietly establishes the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System
-Applications Program (AAWSAP)—purposly misidentified as the Advanced
-Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a Pentagon program to
-study UFOs—as a DIA project on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring
-to evaluate the threat potential of UFOs. With the support of Sen. Ted
-Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel
-Inouye (D-Hawaii), Reid secures $22 million in black-project funding
-in the 2008 Supplemental Funding Act directed to the DIA Directorate of
-Analysis, specifically the Defense Warning Office. Its goal is “to
-understand the physics and engineering of these [advanced aerospace
-weapon system] applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to
-the far-term, i.e., from now through the year 2050.” The Pentagon will
-spend this money between September 2008 and December 2010. (Wikipedia,
-“Advanced
-Aerospace Threat Identification
-Program”; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “Glowing
-Auras and ’Black Money’:
-The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16,
-2017; Clark III 48; Skinwalkers 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7509
Date: 10/10/2007
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A man sees a silver-gray disc about 70 feet wide
-hovering above Lake Easton, Washington, for 3–5 minutes. A beam of
-bright greenish light is extended from it, illuminating the lake. He
-sees small objects floating up to it, apparently fish. (Carl W. Feindt,
-“Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010):
-24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7510
Date: 10/17/2007
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A man is driving on Interstate 90 near Cle Elem,
-Washington, when he sees a bluish-gray disc hovering about 600–700 feet
-in the air. It bobbles slightly for about 5 minutes then disappears.
-(Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3
-(December 2010): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7511
Date: 10/30/2007
-Description: Afternoon. Pilot Marin Mitrică is flying a MiG-21 LanceR
-fighter on a training flight from Romanian Air Force 71st Base at Câmpia
-Turzii, Romania, when he is suddenly hit by an unknown object. The
-collision breaks the plastic window covering the cockpit, punches a hole
-in his helmet, and wounds his face. He reduces speed and descends from
-his altitude of 4 miles to avoid hypoxia and hypothermia. After landing,
-an examination of the flight recorder shows two small triangles
-approaching from the right. No traces of organic matter are found on the
-plane, ruling out birds, and there are no other civilian or military
-aircraft or balloons in the area. (“A
-Mid Air Collision
-between a MiG 21 and a UFO over Romania in October 2007?” Flying
-Saucer Review 53, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 1; Romania 114–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7512
Date: 11/12/2007
-Description: A press conference, moderated by former Arizona Gov. Fife
-Symington, is held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
-Nineteen former pilots and military and civilian officials speak about
-their experiences with UFOs and demand that the US government engage in
-a new investigation. (Bonnie Malkin, “Pilots
-Call for New
-UFO Investigation,” The Telegraph (UK), November 14, 2007; “I
-Touched a UFO: Ex-Air Force Pilot,” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald,
-November 14, 2007; Marler 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7513
Date: 12/14/2007
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Witnesses in Kingsland, Georgia, see a triangular
-object with a light in each corner that changes from red to blue to
-white, with a bright burst happening occasionally. The object moves
-slowly at about 500 feet altitude. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO
-Reporting Center, March 4, 2008; Nukes 507–508)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7514
Date: 12/29/2007
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses driving near the Kitsap Mall in
-Silverdale, Washington, see an object with three white lights apparently
-hovering above Trigger Avenue near Naval Base Kitsap to the north. As
-they approach its location, they see that it is large, triangular and
-made out of reflective metal. It is silently hovering 500 feet in the
-air over a farm a few yards from the highway. (“Sighting Report,”
-National UFO Reporting Center, January 21, 2008; Nukes 504–505)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7515
Date: 2008
-Description: Luis
-Elizondo, an employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of
-Defense for Intelligence, claims that he is the director of the Advanced
-Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a small group of
-UFO-curious personnel at the Pentagon who are studying UFOs encountered
-by military personnel. Confusingly, it has the same name as the nickname
-of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s secret Aerospace Advanced Weapon
-System Applications Program (AAWSAP) used in 2008–2010 as a way to mask
-its real name. The group has the direct knowledge of their superiors.
-The core people in this group will form the basis of what will become
-the UAP Task Force, created by Congress in the summer of 2020, but it
-now operates without a budget, office, or formal name until Elizondo
-resigns from his job in 2017. The Department of Defense has claimed that
-AATIP ended in 2012. (Clark III 49; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and
-Leslie Kean, “Glowing
-Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s
-Mysterious UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16, 2017;
-Skinwalkers xxiii–xxiv, 157–158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7516
Date: 2008
-Description: Claimed Area-51 S-4 worker named “Victor” appears
-anonymously in bonus footage for the re-release of “Alien Interview”.
-“Victor” claims that Donald Rumsfeld has been aware of alien interviews
-since 1974.
-Type: video interview
-Reference: link
-Location: US
-See also: 2/1997
-See also: 5/23/97
Date: 2008
-Description: The Swedish Defence Research Agency begins sharing a
-database with UFO-Sverige to make all reports coming into the institute
-available to the organization’s field investigators. (Swords 371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7517
Date: 1/8/2008
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Truck driver Harlan Cowan is traveling east
-toward Stephenville, Texas, when he sees two stationary lights directly
-ahead. They are as bright as welding arcs. They split apart and move
-rapidly away from each other to the north and south at a high rate of
-speed. At 6:15 p.m., private pilot Steve Allen and three other witnesses
-5 miles southeast of Stephenville see four lights similar in intensity
-to burning magnesium. They come out of the northeast at a speed faster
-than a military jet. Allen thinks the lights are spread out over a
-one-mile area. They slow down and remain stationary northwest of his
-position, then they shift from 4 lights in a horizontal position to 7
-lights in a vertical position, emit a white flame, and blink out. Over
-30 more witnesses come forward to report odd lights until about 9:30
-p.m. Some also see fighter jets chasing the light. Angela
-Joiner, a reporter with the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, calls Maj.
-Karl
-Lewis, spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at Naval Air Station
-Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, who first tells her he thinks the lights
-are reflections of the sun on high- altitude aircraft. When she asks
-about military aircraft reported by witnesses, Lewis volunteers the
-information that there were no F-16s from his unit operating that night,
-and no other pilots had reported a UFO. On January 16, a FOIA request is
-sent to the Federal Aviation Administration for any radar data from
-sites around Stephenville. On January 23, the Air Force admits in a
-press release that there indeed were 10 F-16s performing training
-operations that night between 6:00 and 8:00. Joiner contacts Lewis
-again, who now merely reads the press statement and is not helpful. In
-February, responses to FOIAs by Robert
-Powell and Glen Schulze begin to arrive. Military bases unanimously
-respond with “we have found no records responsive to your request.”
-However, the FAA releases its raw radar information in mid-February. It
-is clear that the unknown lights are not related to F-16 activity, but
-there is intense Air Force activity that night. Ten F-16s and one AWACS
-jet make figure-8s over the area. Two F-16s from Oklahoma fly south to
-the Stephenville area. FAA radar returns also show a target four miles
-north of Allen’s sighting that moves at an apparent speed of 2,100 mph.
-At 7:20 p.m., two radar sites pick up a target that corresponds to
-Constable Lee
-Roy Gaitan’s observation of an unknown light. Another radar track
-begins at 6:51 p.m. An unknown object without a transponder signal is
-tracked with FAA radar for more than one hour. Two different radars (one
-at Fort Worth and another at Temple) make contact with the object 187
-times as it covers a distance of 50 miles on a constant trajectory to
-the southeast. Its speed varies from stationary, to accelerating to 532
-mph in 30 seconds, to deaccelerating to 49 mph in 10 seconds. It is
-traveling on a direct course to President George
-W. Bush’s Western White House in Crawford, Texas. At 8:00 p.m. it is
-10 miles from Prairie Chapel Ranch. Two witnesses riding bicycles 2
-miles away from the ranch see a light that slowly descends, makes a 90°
-turn, then speeds out of sight in 1–2 seconds. But no F-16s pursue this
-potential interloper. (NICAP, “Large
-Object Seen / Tracked by Radar / Near Bush Ranch”; “Stephenville
-2008,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library; Angela K. Brown, “Military
-Reverses Itself, Says F-16s Were in Texas
-Area Where Residents Reported UFO,” Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer,
-January 23, 2008; “MUFON
-Releases Report
-on UFO Sighting in Stephenville, Texas,” Wikinews, July 18, 2008;
-Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, “Stephenville
-Lights: A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding the
-Events of January 8, 2008,
-4pm to 8pm,” December 18, 2010; Swords 344–348)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7518
Date: 2/21/2008
-Description: The US Navy destroys the malfunctioning US spy satellite
-USA-193 orbiting at 153 miles altitude using a RIM-161 Standard Missile
-3 launched from the USS
-Lake Erie. The US claims it created no space debris because the
-satellite was so close to earth that the particles burned up in reentry.
-(Wikipedia, “Operation
-Burnt Frost”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7519
Date: 3/5/2008
-Description: The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron becomes operational
-at Creech AFB, Nevada, as “the Air Force’s [first] test squadron for
-unmanned aerial systems.” The base is home to drone operators for both
-the US Air Force and the CIA in missions across Afghanistan and the
-Middle East. (Wikipedia, “Creech
-Air Force Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7520
Date: 4/2008
-Description: After publication of the 99th issue of Magonia, John Rimmer
-decides to cease print publication. (“History
-of Magonia,”
-Magonia Archive; Clark III 706)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7521
Date: 4/22/2008
-Description: The last F-117 stealth fighter-bomber is retired and
-returned to Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. Although officially retired,
-the F-117 fleet remains intact and photos show the aircraft carefully
-mothballed. Some of the aircraft are flown periodically and have been
-spotted flying as recently as July 2019. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed
-F- 117
-Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7522
Date: 5/2008
-Description: Scripps-Howard News Service and Ohio University conduct a
-telephone poll on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. 55.8% of respondents
-believe that the existence of intelligent life in space is either likely
-or somewhat likely, while 33.1% believe it is likely or somewhat likely
-that intelligent life has visited earth. Only 7.6% answer that they have
-had a UFO sighting. (Mark Rodeghier, “Influences on Opinion about ETI
-and UFOs,” IUR 32, no. 2 (December 2008): 19–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7523
Date: 5/5/2008
-Description: At the request of the Brazilian Commission of Ufologists,
-the office of the Deputy Chief of Legal Affairs contacts the Ministry of
-Defense and requests access to documents related to UFO material that is
-no longer classified and can be turned over to the National Archives.
-(Clark III 1072)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7524
Date: 5/6/2008
-Description: Political scientists Alexander
-Wendt and Raymond
-Duvall publish an article, “Sovereignty and the UFO” in Political
-Theory, in which they point to the fundamental weakness of anti-UFO
-arguments, which claim falsely that no evidence exists. When skeptics
-are not arguing along those lines, they use a priori logic, which
-insists that if extraterrestrials exist, they would not behave or look
-as UFO witnesses describe. Another assertion is that spacecraft could
-never get to Earth, given the constraints of distance and speed. The
-authors argue that the problem is that the idea of real UFOs challenges
-anthropocentric norms, making it a taboo even to acknowledge a
-phenomenon that has been declared non-existent. (Alexander Wendt and
-Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty
-and the UFO,”
-Political Theory 36, no. 4 (August 2008): 607–633; Clark III 537–538;
-Kean, pp. 269–281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7525
Date: 5/12/2008
-Description: The first tranche of UFO files is released by the UK
-National Archives, whose UFO webpage, set up to provide direct public
-access, receives more than 1.7 million visitors in the first few days.
-Internet searches on UFOs triple overnight across the globe. (“UK
-Releases Classified UFO Files,” New Scientist, May 13, 2008;
-UFOFiles2, p. x)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7526
Date: 5/26/2008
-Description: New York Times staff reporter Sarah Lyall, based in the UK,
-selectively focuses on some of the silliest UFO documents released by
-the Ministry of Defence (letters written to the agency by citizens) and
-provides readers with standard ridicule and the biased approach
-traditionally associated with New York Times coverage. (Sarah Lyall, “British
-UFO Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth,” New York
-Times, May 26, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7527
Date: 6/26/2008
-Description: 9:20 a.m. At the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for
-Scientific Exploration in Boulder, Colorado, Jerome Clark gives
-a lecture on the distinction between “event anomalies” (which cannot be
-easily explained) and “experience anomalies” (which are effectively
-inexplicable). Event anomalies require a scientific investigation to be
-understood, documented, and incorporated into current or future
-knowledge. Experience anomalies are indifferent to truth narratives,
-supporting false ones just as readily; they embrace the notion of
-liminality, in which it is possible to enter a “realm between the
-daylight of science and reason and the dark night of dreams and
-superstition.” Clark expands on the concept in later books and articles.
-(Clark III 444-446; Jerome Clark, “Experience Anomalies,” Fortean Times
-243 (December 2008): 42–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7528
Date: 7/29/2008
-Description: Former UK Ministry of Defence official Nick
-Pope offers a rational response to the biased reportage in the May
-26 issue of the New York Times, citing the O’Hare Airport and Alderney
-UFO cases. He concludes: “The United States Air Force or the National
-Aeronautics and Space Administration should reopen investigations of UFO
-phenomena. It would not imply that the country has suddenly started
-believing in little green men. It would simply recognize the possibility
-that radar alone cannot always tell us what’s out there.” (Nick Pope,
-“Unidentified
-Flying Threats,” New York Times, July 29, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7529
Date: 8/18/2008
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency issues a small-business
-set-aside solicitation (HHM402-08-R-0211) for a company to handle its
-new Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), with
-a due date of September 10. The solicitation states that the primary
-focus is on “breakthrough technologies and applications that create
-discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends.” (Skinwalkers
-20–21, 42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7530
Date: 8/20/2008
-Description: 4:45 p.m. A military witness one mile outside Hrubieszów,
-Poland, watches a silvery isosceles triangle hovering and rotating
-around its axis in the west. He estimates it is 50 feet long on one side
-and less than 2 miles away. It flies over the area at an altitude of 330
-feet. At one point it dims and literally vanishes in mid-air in a matter
-of seconds. (Poland 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7531
Date: 9/16/2008
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness and his fiancée are driving north near
-Radomsko, Poland, when they see a black triangle with lights (apparently
-gas jets) at its corners slowly floating 500 feet above the road. Two of
-the lights are blinking and one is steady. The 30-foot-wide object has
-cubical protrusions on its side and a smooth bottom. It seems to be
-rotating at first and takes another pass over the highway at a higher
-altitude after doubling back. (Poland 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7532
Date: 9/22/2008
-Description: A $10 million initial contract for the Advanced Aerospace
-Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) is awarded to Bigelow
-Aerospace, the only bidder on the August solicitation, by the Defense
-Intelligence Agency. The program contract directs that the “contractor
-shall complete advanced aerospace weapon system technical studies” on 12
-topics, such as propulsion, power generation, materials, configuration,
-structure, and directed-energy weapons. The intent is to research
-technology that could shed light on the UFO/UAP phenomenon. Robert
-Bigelow sets up the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS)
-project with 40–50 full-time support staff to carry out the contract
-through September 30, 2010. DIA intelligence officer James T. Lacatski
-becomes the program manager, and biochemist Colm
-Kelleher is deputy administrator. (Clark III 48; Keith Basterfield,
-“Dr. Colm
-Kelleher and the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications
-Program,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 14,
-2018; Keith Basterfield, “Did
-the AAWSA Program/AATIP Really Start in 2007?” Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 16, 2018; Skinwalkers 20, 22–25,
-42–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7533
Date: 10/31/2008
-Description: The National Archive in Brasília, Brazil, receives from the
-Center for Aeronautical Documentation and History a set of publications
-dated 1952–1969 on UFOs. Among them are documents identifying the
-government’s System of Investigation of Unidentified Aircraft and UFO
-cases investigated from October 1968 to August 1969. Another batch is
-received on April 23, 2009, covering the years 1970–1972. (Clark III
-1072–1073; Kean, p. 199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7534
Date: 10/31/2008
-Description: 6:00 p.m. An architect in Sandomierz, Poland, sees a
-boomerang- or half-moon-shaped object surrounded by a mist filled with
-red points of light. It is silently moving 93) northeast at tremendous
-speed. (Poland 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7535
Date: 11/2008
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Polish woman living in Aarhus, Denmark, looks
-up and sees a gigantic luminous object silently heading west. It looks
-like it s made of glass or jelly and is surrounded by a misty
-illumination. (Poland 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7537
Date: 11/2008
-Description: Robert
-Bigelow hires biochemist Colm
-Kelleher as deputy administrator of the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced
-Space Studies project in Las Vegas, its first full-time employee.
-(Skinwalkers 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7536
Date: 11/5/2008
-Description: Researcher Robert
-Powell writes to NORAD’s Gen. Victor
-E. Renuart Jr. and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael
-Chertoff, with
-copies to the FAA and chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on
-Homeland Security, asking for an investigation of the Stephenville
-Lights case of January 8 as a violation of restricted airspace by
-“unknown aircraft” near the Bush ranch.
-(Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, “Stephenville Lights:
-A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding the Events of
-January 8, 2008, 4pm to 8pm,”
-December 18, 2010; Swords 348, 510–511)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7538
Date: 11/17/2008
-Description: A teacher is taking his dog for a stroll in Sulejówek,
-Poland, when he comes across a triangular object with lights along its
-rounded edges and in the center. It flies directly over him. (Poland
-93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7539
Date: 12/22/2008
-Description: Maj. Gen. John
-H. Bordelon, NORAD
-chief of staff, responds to Powell’s
-request. He claims an “exhaustive search” in data files was conducted,
-and the Air Force “could find no tactical or technical information that
-would corroborate this event.” He refers Powell to the National UFO
-Reporting Center hotline. (Swords 348, 512)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7540
Date: 2009
-Description: The operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day
-management and operation of the US Air Force Space Surveillance System
-is awarded to Five Rivers Services, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
-(Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Space Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7544
Date: 2009
-Description: Visión Ovni and many other UFO researchers
-in Argentina form Cefora, an organization to study the UFO phenomenon in
-detail. Silvia Simondini and others start collecting signatures on a
-petition to declassify Argentine military documents on UFOs. However,
-since most agencies are not required to keep documents more than 5
-years, their efforts are frustrated by bureaucratic deaccession rules,
-especially for interesting Argentine reports. (Wikipedia, “Cefora”;
-Milton Hourcade, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7543
Date: 2009
-Description: Denmark and Sweden publicly release more than 15,000 UFO
-files each. (Kean, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7542
Date: 2009
-Description: CUFOS creates an updated version of its UFOCAT database
-containing more than 209,551 UFO reports and related information.
-(Center for UFO Studies, “UFOCAT
-2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7541
Date: 1/1/2009
-Description: Yvan White takes over as director of GEIPAN from Jacques
-Patenet, who continues as an advisor. (Swords 453)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7545
Date: 1/5/2009
-Description: 8:15–9:00 p.m. Mysterious floating red lights in the sky
-are reported near Morristown, New Jersey. The red lights are also
-observed on January 26, January 29, February 7, and February 17. The
-events are later revealed as a hoax perpetrated by Joe Rudy and Chris
-Russo, who are conducting a social experiment to expose ufology as a
-pseudoscience and raise consciousness around the unreliability of
-eyewitness claims. They release five flare lights attached to helium
-balloons. Reports are concentrated in the towns of Hanover Township,
-Morristown, Morris Plains, Madison, and Florham Park. On April 7, Russo
-and Rudy plead guilty to charges of disorderly conduct and are sentenced
-to fines of $250 and 50 hours of community service. (Wikipedia, “Morristown
-UFO hoax”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7546
Date: 1/20/2009
-End date: 1/20/2017
-Description: President Barack Obama in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 3/2009
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO
-files. (UK National Archives, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified
-Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7547
Date: 5/8/2009
-Description: 11:45 p.m. “Derek Jones” is alerted by his two dogs barking
-in his backyard in northern Georgia, where his 10- year-old son is
-camping out in a tent with a friend. He sees a large triangular object
-about 300 feet long with yellowish lights at each apex moving silently
-above him. There is a bluish-white light in the center. Behind the
-triangle are four small objects, two egg-shaped and two round, with
-bluish-white lights that change to greenish to white and back to bluish.
-The smaller objects dart up and down soundlessly and erratically. He
-attempts taking pictures of it with a camera and a videocamera, but the
-batteries fail in both devices. When he points a bright spotlight beam
-at the triangle, it responds immediately with a beam of intense
-bluish-white light about 2–3 feet in diameter that strikes him for about
-3 seconds, causing a burning sensation. He runs back into the house,
-where he watches two of the smaller objects move away to the
-south-southwest while the other two shoot straight up. He goes to bed,
-but is awakened by low-flying helicopters at 2:00 a.m. Around 7:30 a.m.,
-he is visited by two men who want to talk about his “sighting report.”
-They are driving a black sedan, produce no identification, one of them
-is armed, and they behave oddly as they interview him for 30–40 minutes.
-After he sees the same men in the black sedan a week later, he reports
-the license plate to BAASS, which tracks it to a Department of Homeland
-Security carpool. Jones experiences hair loss and general unwellness
-within 18 days of the incident. In October he develop lumps on his legs,
-groin, and back; they enlarge, multiply to 24, and become painful in
-February 2010. One of the lumps is diagnosed as non-malignant lymphoma,
-but a BAASS-contracted physician suspects Jones has undergone about 300
-grays of ionizing radiation. (Skinwalkers 99–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7548
Date: 5/26/2009
-Description: 9:52 p.m. A man in Rzesnów, Poland, notices from his
-balcony five strange, whirling red-orange lights twinkling above the
-suburban villages of Chmielnik and Tyczyn. He captures them on a video.
-(Poland 153–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7549
Date: 6/2009
-Description: The Uruguayan Air Force declassifies its UFO files and
-makes them public, including records of 40 cases that remain
-unexplained, some involving military pilots. Col. Ariel Sánchez, in
-charge of the UFO office, says that the “Air Force does not dismiss an
-extraterrestrial hypothesis based on our scientific analysis.” (“Uruguay
-Joins the Party,” Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, June 12, 2009; Kean,
-p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7550
Date: 6/16/2009
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A woman in Kansas City, Kansas, is looking toward
-a public forest area behind her home when she notices a large white
-light moving toward her. It stops, and she uses her binoculars to get a
-closer look. The object consists of three large spheres connected
-together with a large arm or protrusion extending from beneath it. The
-arm is moving around in a circle. It stays in that position until it
-just disappears. Shortly afterward, military planes and helicopters move
-into the area and seem to be searching for something for about one hour.
-(Roger Marsh, “Reports from Louisville and Kansas City,” IUR 32, no. 3
-(July 2009): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7551
Date: 6/24/2009
-Description: Sen. Harry
-Reid (D-Nev.) decides that the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System
-Application Program (misidentified intentionally as the Advanced
-Aerospace Threat Identification Program) has made such extraordinary
-discoveries that he asks for additional security (individuals
-“specialized in the areas of advanced sciences, sensors, intelligence,
-counterintelligence, and advanced aerospace engineering”) to protect it.
-He writes Deputy Defense Secretary William
-J. Lynn III that AATIP has made “much progress” with the
-“identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional
-aerospace-related findings” that will “likely lead to technology
-advancements.” He requests that it be designated a “restricted Special
-Access Program.” Some of the ongoing projects include power and
-propulsion systems (nuclear propulsion, anuclear fusion, positron
-propulsion, magnetohydrodynamics, traversable wormholes, warp drives,
-antigravity, zero-point energy), materials science (metallic glass,
-programmable matter), recalculating the Drake Equation, invisibility,
-and weaponry (pulsed microwaves, high-powered lasers). (Harry Reid,
-Letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III, June 24, 2009;
-Skinwalkers 27, 90–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7552
Date: 6/24/2009
-Description: 1:55 p.m. A package handler at Louisville International
-Airport in Kentucky sees a reflection in the sky from the south end of a
-runway. As it approaches, he sees it is a rotating object, first a
-cylinder, then a diamond shape. It moves over the runway in a straight
-line and at a steady speed about 1,500 feet high. The object stops at
-the end of the ramp and hovers for 30–40 seconds, then moves up into the
-clouds and disappears. (Roger Marsh, “Reports from Louisville and Kansas
-City,” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7553
Date: 7/2009
-Description: At the invitation of Robert
-Bigelow, naval
-aerospace engineer Jonathan Axelrod [possibly John F. Stratton], Jim
-Costigan, and David Wilson arrive at the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah to
-deploy a wide variety of sensory equipment to detect and record
-anomalies. They experience an odd temperature drop, intense anxiety, and
-a menacing dark oval shape. After Axelrod returns home to suburban
-Virginia, paranormal phenomena plague his family, including a humanoid
-shape, phantom footsteps, blue orbs, and a wolf-like creature standing
-on two legs. (Skinwalkers 1–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7554
Date: 7/5/2009
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Retired police officer Buck Scarsdale is sitting
-with his son Bo and girlfriend Joanna Fife on the porch of his ranch
-home in Lagol, Ventura County, California. They notice seven bright blue
-lights silently hovering several feet off the ground in the orchard
-about 500 feet away. They jump in a truck and drive slowly with the
-lights off toward the display. When they get there, the lights are gone.
-After returning to the house, they decide to drive back, this time with
-flashlights. After 10 minutes of searching on foot, they hear two loud
-clicks coming from some dense bushes, and three others clicks coming
-from different directions. They return to the house. Buck’s brother
-Roger arrives at 10:30 p.m., and both of them return to the orchard.
-Just before 11:00 p.m., Roger sees a silver, gray, and blue flash as an
-oblong object disappears into an opening in the sky that closes quickly.
-On July 10, Buck, Bo, and Joanna see an intensely blue light at the
-northern end of the pasture. Buck and Roger approach it and watch a
-floating light 5 feet in diameter maneuvering for 5 minutes 900 feet
-away before it vanishes. Two teams of investigators sent by Robert
-Bigelow also see lights and orbs the rest of the month, and their
-camera and video equipment behaves oddly. (Skinwalkers 59–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7555
Date: 8/2009
-Description: Robert
-Bigelow brings Pentagon technical analyst Juliett Witt to the
-Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Along with Colm
-Kelleher, she
-experiences a cone of silence and a weird pig-like creature the one
-night she is there. Like Jonathan Axelrod, the phenomena follow her back
-home to Virginia, where she experiences poltergeist phenomena and sees a
-huge owl that attacks her car. (Skinwalkers, 50–58, 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7556
Date: 8/6/2009
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO
-files. (UK National Archives, “Briefing Document:
-Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7557
Date: 8/21/2009
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Tomasz Skorupski sees a deep-black object in the
-shape of the letter M flying west to east 200 feet above the ground at
-50 mph at Kowale Oleckie, Poland. He estimates it is 10 feet in length
-and 30 feet at the widest point. Seven dimly yellow lights are
-positioned on the craft, while the rest seems dark and obscures the
-stars on its flight path. (Poland 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7558
Date: 9/2009
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Jim Costigan, who had visited Skinwalker Ranch
-in Utah two months earlier, is walking his dog with his wife Laila in
-suburban Maryland when they see a blue, softball-sized light moving in
-their direction about 6 feet off the ground to the left. It accelerates
-and shoots between them, grazing Laila’s shoulder as it passes. Within
-seconds it is lost behind a house. The dog does not notice it. Laila
-becomes lethargic the next day and shows severe flu-like symptoms for
-the next few weeks. She is ultimately diagnosed with Hashimoto’s
-thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. (Skinwalkers
-77–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7559
Date: 11/2009
-Description: Sen. Harry
-Reid’s request for Special Access Program status for the US Defense
-Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications
-Program is denied by a group at the Pentagon consisting of Deputy
-Defense Secretary William
-J. Lynn III, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Gen. James
-R. Clapper, special
-programs officer at USDI Susan Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
-Defense for Legislative Affairs Marcel
-Lettre, and
-Defense Intelligence Agency defense warning officer Bob Carlsberg.
-(Skinwalkers 92- 93; Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “How
-the Pentagon Started Taking UFOs Seriously,” The New Yorker, April
-30, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7561
Date: 11/2009
-Description: The RAF Air Command prepares a briefing for UK Defence
-Minister Bob
-Ainsworth recommending that the Ministry of Defence “should seek to
-reduce very significantly the UFO task which is consuming increasing
-resources, but produces no valuable defence output.” (“Britain’s
-Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,” USA Today, June 21,
-2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7560
Date: 11/6/2009
-Description: ex-Police Detective and ufologist James Clarkson gives a
-presentation at a UFO Conference about ex-Wright Patterson AFB worker
-June Crain, who had heard of 3 crash retrievals during her time working
-there.
-Type: presentation
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: US
Date: 11/25/2009
-Description: 12:15 a.m. A mental health professional in Port Jervis, New
-York, is driving home listening to Christmas CDs on the car’s player.
-Coming around a bend, he sees an object about one mile away. As he comes
-to the next turn, he slows down to 25 mph to get a better look, but by
-then he is surprised to see that it is almost on top of him. He stops
-the car on the side of the road, putting it in park with the engine
-running. The object is cigar-shaped and turning clockwise slowly as it
-approaches. It is moving slowly like a hot-air balloon. He hears a sound
-like a cat purring at a low frequency. The UFO passes overhead and his
-vehicle suffers a complete power failure. His cellphone is also dead. He
-opens the driver’s door and looks up, seeing lights on the bottom of the
-object, which immediately blink out. The car starts again spontaneously.
-(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,”
-IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7562
Date: 12/1/2009
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP program issues the
-first of 38 Project Physics position papers (Defense Intelligence
-Reference Documents) that define the current and projected state of the
-art in aerospace technology, all pertaining to the 12 areas chosen by
-the DIA. Bigelow’s group has subcontracted with Harold
-E. Puthoff, CEO
-of EarthTech International in Austin, Texas, to choose the precise
-nature and scope of the papers. The first paper is on “Advanced Nuclear
-Propusion for Manned Deep Space Missions” by physicist Friedwardt
-Winterberg. (US
-Defense Intelligence Agency, [list
-of products produced under the AATIP contract], January 9, 2018;
-Skinwalkers 47, 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7564
Date: 12/1/2009
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence shuts down its UFO hotline and
-closes its UFO desk, ostensibly because it has produced “no defence
-benefit” and no evidence of extraterrestrial aliens in more than 50
-years. But the staff is overwhelmed by public inquiries, which are at a
-10-year high. (“UFO
-Investigations Unit Closed by Ministry of Defence,”
-BBC News, December 4, 2009; “Britain’s
-Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,” USA Today, June 21,
-2013; UFOFiles2, pp. 175–176,
-178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7563
Date: 12/9/2009
-Description: Night. A large beam of light is seen and photographed for
-10 minutes over all of northern Norway from Trøndelag in the south
-through all the counties further north, as well as parts of northern
-Sweden. The phenomenon consists of a blue beam of light with a grayish
-spiral emanating from one end of it. It moves from behind a mountain,
-stops in mid-air, and starts to spiral outwards. A similar, though less
-spectacular, event also occurred in Norway the month before. Both events
-have visual features of failed flights of Russian RSM-56 Bulava SLBM.
-The Russian Defense Ministry admits shortly afterward that such an event
-had taken place at the time on December 9. (Wikipedia, “2009
-Norwegian spiral anomaly”; Tony Spell, “Estimation
-of the Trajectory, Location,
-Size, and Altitude of the ‘Norway Spiral’ Phenomenon,” December 29,
-2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7565
Date: 12/11/2009
-Description: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) directors
-James T. Lacatski, Colm
-Kelleher, and
-Larry Grossman meet at Bolling AFB [now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling] in
-Washington, D.C., with Jack Angelo, director of operations for the
-Office of Special Projects of the Air Force Office of Special
-Investigations. They brief him on their operations and security, and ask
-AFOSI for data on the Northern Tier UFO incursions of October–November
-1975. Angelo promised to see what he could do, but BAASS needs to be
-accepted into some Special Access Programs to progress much further.
-(Skinwalkers 94–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7566
Date: 1/2010
-Description: The RAF asks the Home Office to cancel standing
-instructions to police forces who have, in the past, routinely forwarded
-UFO sightings by officers to the MoD. (UFOFiles2, p. 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7567
Date: 1/2010
-Description: US Navy Petty Officer John Baughman sees a “Tic-Tac” shaped
-object from the flight deck of the supercarrier USS
-Carl
-Vinson off the coast of Haiti. It is a solid, white object, some 20
-feet long, that darts into the water and appears to collapse on itself
-and disappear. (Ryan Sprague, “New
-Navy Witness Says He Saw a ‘Tic Tac’ Operating
-Underwater,” Medium: Trail of the Saucers, July 11, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7568
Date: late 1/2010
-Description: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) Director
-of Investigation Larry Grossman meets in Washington, D.C., with former
-AFOSI Col. Barry Hennessey (Ret.). He acknowledges that AFOSI could not
-identify many of the UFOs associated with the Northern Tier air force
-bases in 1975. Hennessey suspects that many of the AFOSI investigative
-records for those cases have been purged, and hinted to Grossman that
-some odd unmanned aerial vehicles could be military projects.
-(Skinwalkers 97–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7569
Date: 2/17/2010
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO
-files, more than 6,000 pages of documentation and reports from 1994 to
-2000. (“UFO
-Sightings from the National Archives,” The Guardian (UK), February
-17, 2010; UK National Archives, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7570
Date: 3/2010
-Description: The Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) asks
-remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle to observe a target designated as 22610
-using traditional blind targeting protocols. 22610 is actually
-Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. McMoneagle’s sketch of the ranch, its
-environment, animals, two ranch managers, and two security guards are
-accurate, but he indicates a fifth individual is present. He describes a
-male, 60–70 pounds, 4 feet 3 inches high, with no hair. McMoneagle says
-this person is invisible to ranch personnel, although he attempts to
-ciommunicate with them to see their response. (Skinwalkers
-120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7571
Date: 3/3/2010
-Description: Evening. S/Sgt. Omar Gonzalez and the crew of Dakota Air
-Traffic Control at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, South Dakota, pick up
-unidentified traffic crossing a passing aircraft, which reports visual
-contact with an object 2,000 feet above him. The target appears to be 18
-miles south of the Ellsworth AFB runway. Suddenly the object vanishes
-from view and the radar track disappears. A few minutes later, the
-target reappears on radar behind the aircraft. (Skinwalkers 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7572
Date: 3/8/2010
-End date: 3/12/2010
-Description: Dozens of independent witnesses in Kraków and Rzeszów,
-Poland, report a strange disc-shaped object of considerable size with
-white or red lights on its perimeter and red-green lights on its base.
-(Poland 104–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7573
Date: 4/22/2010
-Description: An unmanned HTV-2 Falcon hypersonic glider, the fastest
-unmanned aerial vehicle, reaches a record speed of 13,201 mph.
-(Wikipedia, “Hypersonic
-Technology Vehicle 2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7574
Date: 4/22/2010
-Description: The first X-37B, an uncrewed, reusable, robotic spaceplane,
-launches on its first mission, Orbital Test Vehicle 1 / USA-212, on an
-Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The
-spacecraft is placed into low Earth orbit for testing. While the Air
-Force reveals few orbital details of the mission, a worldwide network of
-amateur astronomers claims to have identified the spacecraft in orbit.
-It lands on December 3 after more than 224 days in orbit. (Wikipedia,
-“USA-212”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7575
Date: 6/4/2010
-Description: First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL
Date: 6/14/2010
-Description: European Parliament Member Mario
-Borghezio calls for the European Union to have its own centralized
-information center where anyone can access information on UFOs, even
-records held by the military. Borghezio argues that governments should
-go public with the information they hold and stop what he believes is a
-systematic cover-up. Not satisfied with a central archive, Borghezio
-also wants a scientific center to study UFOs that could encourage
-research and development. “I think that, under the principle of
-transparency,” he says, “the EU member states have a duty to make public
-and available to all scientific data on UFOs which today are partially
-or wholly withheld.” (“MEP
-Calls for Declassification of UFO Files,” Euractiv, July 7,
-2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7576
Date: 7/7/2010
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A UFO is seen hovering above Hangzhou Xiaoshan
-International Airport near Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. An airliner
-preparing for descent first notices the object and notifies the tower.
-Within minutes, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) closes
-the airport down, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones
-to other airports. Normal operations resume an hour later. Nearby
-residents take photos of the UFO. One daylight photo taken earlier in
-the afternoon shows an object with a clear, comet-like tail; another,
-taken after dusk shows a glowing object emitting golden light. Another
-photo clearly shows an airplane with a contrail. CAAC conducts an
-investigation but refuses to release it publicly because there is a
-“military connection.” MIT weapons analyst Geoffrey
-Forden says the most credible photo shows an arc streaking across
-the sky around sunset and that the most likely cause is the launch of a
-DF-21 missile somewhere near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and aimed
-at a point somewhere in the eastern Gobi Desert. (“Flights
-Diverted, Delayed As UFO Detected Hovering,”
-People’s Daily Online, July 9, 2010; “UFO Forces Hangzhou Airport to
-Shut Down,” China Central Television, July 10, 2010; “Hangzhou
-Light Show,” Arms Control Wonk, July 12, 2010; “UFO
-in China’s Skies Prompts
-Investigation,” ABC News, July 14, 2010; Alexis C. Madrigal, “A
-UFO over China? Well, No,” The Atlantic, July 19, 2010 “UFOs
-over China? Not Quite, Analyst Says,” CNN, July 20, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7577
Date: 8/2010
-Description: The Nevada Test Site is renamed the Nevada National
-Security Site. (Wikipedia, “Nevada
-Test Site”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7578
Date: 8/5/2010
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another 5,000 pages of
-UFO files to the public. This release alone generates 196 separate news
-items and reaches a readership of 25 million people. (“Churchill
-Ordered UFO Cover-Up,
-National Archives Show,” BBC News, August 5, 2010; UK National
-Archives, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified
-Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013; UFOFiles2, p. xi)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7579
Date: 8/13/2010
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A circle of six yellow lights appears in the sky
-above the Jardim Bela Vista district of Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Dentist Daniela Tamarossi and others spend more than 2 hours watching it
-maneuver. (Brazil 403– 405)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7580
Date: 8/16/2010
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two people camping on Cumberland Island National
-Seashore in Georgia are walking on the beach when they notice above them
-a low-flying triangular object with lights at each of its points. It is
-moving silently to the south toward Jacksonville, Florida. About 45
-minutes later they see it through some trees from their campsite, again
-silent and heading south. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting
-Center, November 21, 2010; Nukes 508)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7581
Date: 9/27/2010
-Description: Researcher Robert
-Hastings organizes a briefing at the National Press Club in
-Washington, D.C., that brings together former US Air Force personnel who
-testify to the existence of UFOs and their ability to neutralize
-American and Russian nuclear missiles. Those appearing include former
-Capt. Robert
-Salas, retired nuclear missile targeting officer Robert C. Jamison,
-and retired Col. Charles
-I. Halt. Several of the ex-servicemembers say that when they brought
-their concerns to superiors, they were told it is “top secret” or that
-it “didn’t happen.” Hastings suggests the presence of such phenomena
-means that aliens could be monitoring our weapons and perhaps warning us
-about their use. (“Ex-Air
-Force Personnel: UFOs Deactivated Nukes,” CBS News, September 28,
-2010; Robert L. Hastings, “The
-UFOs–Nukes Connection Press Conference,” October 11, 2010; “Military Witnesses
-of UFOs at Nuclear Sites: National Press Club,” QUFOSR YouTube
-channel, December 15, 2016; Nukes 511–512)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7582
Date: 9/30/2010
-Description: The contract for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced
-Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program is extended until December
-21, 2010, at no cost to the government. However, there is no
-congressional funding available for 2011. One of its most significant
-achievements is the development of a Data Warehouse that links 11
-separate UFO databases and supporting documentation. The databases are
-the NIDS database airline and military pilot sightings, the USAF Blue
-Book database, UFOCAT, the MUFON Case Management System database,
-Project Colares, the Canadian government’s UFO releases, the UK
-government’s UFO releases, BAASS cases investigated, Skinwalker Ranch
-database, and a database of Skinwalker Ranch contagious health effects.
-Each UFO case is assigned a credibility rating designed by Jacques
-Vallée, and
-the database configuration is based on a six-layer model developed by
-Vallée and Eric
-W. Davis in 2003, using layers designated as physical,
-anti-physical, psychological, physiological, psychic, and cultural. The
-Data Warehouse is not retired at the end of the AAWSAP, but is used by
-the UAP Task Force and its successor organization. (Skinwalkers 26–27,
-167–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7583
Date: 10/11/2010
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A man named Qiao sees two luminous objects, one
-small one and the other larger, over the Xincheng district of Taiyuan,
-Shaanxi, China. They keep circling in a regular pattern. Other luminous
-objects are reported above the Sanqianglu district. Soon the media
-hotlines are flooded with phone calls. Two luminous objects circling in
-the air are seen at 8:55 p.m. in the Xinhuajie district, at 9:01 p.m.
-near the Apparel Town area, and at 9:05 p.m. near the racetrack. When
-reporters arrive at the plaza of the Taiyuan Railway Station, they see a
-large, milky-white, luminous spot circling above the clouds with a
-diameter of at least 32 feet. The object first looks like a luminous
-spot produced by a searchlight against the clouds, but it has no obvious
-light beams. The object circles and moves up and down and from side to
-side until it disappears around 9:10 p.m. (“Chinese
-UFO Report
-Affirms Reality of Manipulative Extraterrestrial Abduction,”
-Canadian Business Daily, September 24, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7584
Date: 10/13/2010
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A village in the Qinling mountains of southern
-Shaanxi province, China, supposedly disappears overnight after witnesses
-contact news agencies to report UFOs in the area. Chinese troops
-allegedly cordon off the area with no explanation. A video circulates
-online, reportedly showing bright blue lights in the sky over the
-village. Subsequent reports deny a military presence in the area and
-attribute the story to rumor and misinformation. Other reports indicate
-the “disappearance” took place in 1987 and was part of a rural
-relocation program to alleviate poverty in the area. (“Inexplicable
-Disappearance of a Village in the Qinling Mountains: UFO
-Village Vanishing?” Before It’s News, October 14, 2010; “China
-Qinling Mountains Village Vanishing after
-UFO (13/10/2010),” Marco Maia YouTube channel, October 14, 2010; “UFO
-Abduction of Whole Village Exposed
-As Rumor,” People’s Daily Online, October 18, 2010; Chris Saunders,
-“UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 (October 2015): 31; Robert Foyle
-Hunwick, “China
-Unsolved: The Village That Vanished,” SupChina, July 11, 2018; Brent
-Swancer, “A
-Mysterious Vanishing Village in China,” Mysterious Universe, June
-26, 2019; “Across
-China: Revisiting a Disappearing Village in Northwest China,”
-Xinhua, June 17, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7585
Date: 10/23/2010
-End date: 10/24/2010
-Description: Air Force personnel at Francis E. Warren AFB near Cheyenne,
-Wyoming, report seeing an enormous cigar-shaped craft maneuvering high
-above its missile field. The UFO appears similar to an advertising blimp
-but has no passenger gondola or advertising on its hull. On the same
-day, the missile site temporarily loses its ability to communicate with
-50 of its Minuteman III nuclear missiles. The five Missile Alert
-Facilities affected, Alpha through Echo, are responsible for launching
-those ICBMs in time of war and comprise the 319th Strategic Missile
-Squadron. The Air Force then quickly acknowledges the problem, saying
-that a backup system could have launched the missiles if necessary and
-that the breakdown lasted only 59 minutes. But according to two missile
-technicians stationed at the base, the communications problem, while
-intermittent, lasts several hours. These confidential sources further
-report that the commander of the squadron sternly warns its members not
-to talk to journalists or researchers about “the things they may or may
-not have seen” in the sky near the missiles in recent months and
-threatens severe penalties for violating security. (NICAP, “Base
-‘Loses’ 50 Missiles”; Marc Ambinder, “Failure
-Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles,” The Atlantic, October 26,
-2010; Robert L. Hastings, “Huge
-UFO Sighted near Nuclear Missiles during October 2010 Launch System
-Disruption,” UFOs & Nukes, June 21, 2011; Nukes 515–517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7586
Date: 11/5/2010
-Description: In a letter to Spanish UFO researcher Ignacio
-Darnaude, admitted Ummo hoaxer José
-Luis Jordán Peña elaborates on the reason why he began writing the
-fake letters. He acknowledges that he used collaborators (Vicente
-Ortuno, Norman West, John Child, Mercedes Carrasco, Alberto Borras,
-Trinidad Pastrana, Sean O’Connelly, Iker J.) who sent letters from
-distant places and that he created the fictional character of John Axee
-to better disseminate his knowledge. He claims he was contacted at the
-outset by two American doctors, Jonathan F. McGuire and Arnold J.
-Lebotski (he previously said that they were CIA agents), working for a
-foreign organization who offered him, for a fee, to carry out a
-sociological experiment in the interest of western culture. (Wikipedia,
-“Ummo”;
-Alain Moreau, “Ummo:
-Une imposture?” Les Cles de l’Inexplique; Scott Corrales, “The Ummo
-Experience: Are You Experienced?” Strange Magazine; UmmoWiki, “Jóse
-Luis Jordán Peña”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7587
Date: 11/14/2010
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A swiftly moving light is seen maneuvering in the
-sky above Logradouro, Ceará, Brazil, apparently following witnesses, for
-more than 6 hours. (Brazil 407–408)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7588
Date: 12/22/2010
-Description: The New Zealand Ministry of Defence releases 12 volumes of
-documents related to UFOs dating from 1952 to 2009. (Suzy Hansen, “Relinquishing
-Responsibility? Circumstances Surrounding the Release of the New Zealand
-MOD UFO Files 2010/2011,” Ufocus.nz, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7589
Date: 1/2011
-Description: Philippe
-Ailleris, amateur
-astronomer and founder of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Reporting
-Scheme, publishes “UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters” in the
-European Space Policy Institute Perspectives newsletter. Although he
-makes it clear that a large percentage of UFO sightings are explainable,
-an open-minded approach toward the phenomenon is necessary. He argues
-that UFOs have had a positive influence on public support for space
-exploration and SETI, and that 60 years of UFO sightings have opened our
-minds to the inevitability of direct contact with nonhuman
-intelligences. (Philippe Ailleris, “UFOs
-and Exogenous Intelligence
-Encounters,” European Space Policy Institute Perspectives, no. 43
-(January 2011))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7590
Date: 2/7/2011
-Description: James T. Lacatski provides an in-depth briefing to Jim Bell
-and Sacha Mover of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and
-Technology Directorate on the accomplishments of the AAWSAP in an
-attempt to transfer the program out of the Department of Defense. He
-recounts the BAASS investigations into UAPs and the paranormal events at
-the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, as well as AAWSAP’s research into advanced
-technologies. Lacatski works with Sen. Harry
-Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Joe
-Lieberman (I-Conn.) to attempt to get the BAASS-like project funded.
-Negotiations and presentations continue through December, but DHS is
-ultimately uninterested and concerned about negative publicity.
-(Skinwalkers 28, 142–143, 148–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7591
Date: 3/11/2011
-Description: 2:46 p.m. A 9.0 Mw earthquake takes place with an epicenter
-near Honshu, Japan. Immediately after the earthquake, the
-electricity-producing Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi
-Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, automatically
-shut down their sustained fission reactions by inserting control rods in
-a safety procedure referred to as a SCRAM, which ends the reactors’
-normal running conditions, by closing down the fission reaction in a
-controlled manner. Because the reactors are now unable to generate power
-to run their own coolant pumps, emergency diesel generators come online,
-as designed, to power electronics and coolant systems. These operate
-normally until a 46-foot tsunami sweeps over the plant’s seawall and
-destroys the generators for Reactors 1–5. Large amounts of water
-contaminated with radioactive isotopes are released into the Pacific
-Ocean during and after the disaster. (Wikipedia, “Fukushima
-nuclear disaster”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7592
Date: 3/31/2011
-Description: The New Zealand Ministry of Defence releases a further 3
-volumes of documents related to UFOs. (Suzy Hansen, “Relinquishing
-Responsibility? Circumstances Surrounding the Release of the New Zealand
-MOD UFO Files
-2010/2011,” Ufocus.nz, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7593
Date: 5/6/2011
-Description: The Argentine Air Force creates the Comisión de Estudio de
-Fenómenos Aeroespaciales for the study of aerospace phenomena. Capt. Moriano
-Mohaupt, Air
-Force press spokesman, says that the commission is composed of
-meteorologists, air traffic controllers, pilots, and radar experts, who
-will look into sightings. Since 2015 it has been managed with rigor and
-transparency by Commodore Rubén Lianza. (“Argentina Creates UFO
-Commission,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sep. 2011): 21; Milton Hourcade, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.– G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7594
Date: 6/6/2011
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A Mrs. Beata is walking her dog in the Baranówka
-neighborhood of Rzeszów, Poland. She sees an elliptical, dull metallic
-object crossing the sky just above the trees about 180 feet away. It is
-about 30–50 feet long and 15–30 feet across and completely silent. It
-disappears after emitting some flashes of light from its perimeter.
-(Poland 155–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7595
Date: 7/2011
-Description: Igor Kalytyuk begins publishing Novosti Ufologii, an online
-UFO newsletter, in Rivne, Ukraine. It continues through December 2016,
-accompanied by occasional special bulletins of the Ufology News Project
-from 2012 to 2018. (Novosti
-Ufologii, no.
-1 (July 2011); “About
-the Ufology News Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7596
Date: 8/2011
-Description: The UK National Archives makes available its first batch of
-Ministry of Defence UFO files from 1985 to 1995, followed shortly
-afterward by files for 1997 and 1998–2000. (UK National Archives, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified
-Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7597
Date: 9/11/2011
-Description: 5:00 a.m. An 18-year-old girl in Baborów, Poland, is
-awakened by a light from a blue triangular object hovering outside her
-bedroom window. Its contours are outlined with white halogen-like lights
-and there is what looks like a hatch in its center from which a mist is
-emanating. She can feel the heat from the object on her face and
-forehead. The object departs to the west but does not disappear until
-6:30 a.m. (Poland 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7598
Date: 11/2011
-Description: Out of its 1,170 fully investigated UFO cases, the French
-UFO agency GEIPAN shows that 22% are unidentified. (Swords 453)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7599
Date: 2/18/2012
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A father and son, both pilots, are in their
-propellor-driven Mooney Ovation II flying at 7,480 feet. Shortly after
-they cross the border of Virginia from Charlotte, North Carolina, they
-prepare to land in Richmond. Above Chase City, Virginia, the father
-unexpectedly sees a bright, glowing sphere about 30 feet in diameter
-flying alongside the aircraft. As the UFO begins to soar about 50 feet
-away from the right wing, the plane loses power. All of the electrical
-equipment (including the computer) suddenly turns off. A few seconds
-later, the plane regains all systems as the UFO swiftly shoots away at
-an incredible speed. (NICAP, “Aircraft Encounters
-UFO and E-M Effects”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7600
Date: 3/2012
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies publishes the final issue of the
-International UFO Reporter.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7601
Date: 4/13/2012
-Description: Afternoon. Mihnea Mustaţa and other observers north of
-Ploieşti, Romania, watch a white, hat-shaped object passing over a field
-to the east at about 53 mph toward the village of Pleaşa. It disappears
-for a few minutes and reappears in a different location. Starting at
-2:28 p.m., Mustaţa takes several photos of the object before it
-disappears, accompanied by several balls of light. (Romania 80–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7602
Date: 5/10/2012
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness in Hermanowa, Poland, watches a light
-approach him until it is only 100 feet away, only 6–10 feet above his
-neighbor’s house. An identical object, also about 1 foot in diameter, on
-the same flight path appears and stops in the same position above the
-adjacent house. After 20 seconds, it veers off at an angle of 130° and
-both objects fly away. (Poland 155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7604
Date: 5/10/2012
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Workers at a warehouse in Rzeszów, Poland, see a
-group of spherical objects converging from various directions to a point
-where a large object shaped like a “screw-thread” is hovering. Two
-spheres fly away after maneuvering in the air. The other objects
-disappear (Poland 155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7603
Date: late 5/2012
-Description: Evening. Two wind-farm engineers are on top of a 4–5 story
-building in Mamaia-Set, Romania, when they see a large V-formation
-consisting of clusters of three lights approaching at high speed from
-the south. The formation crosses the sky in 4–5 seconds. (Romania
-82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7605
Date: 7/2012
-Description: The UK National Archives opens more UFO policy files,
-covering 1995–1997, 1997–1998, and 2002–2008. (UK National Archives, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7606
Date: 7/5/2012
-Description: 10:04 p.m. A security camera at a well site in the Eagle
-Ford Shale Field near Cotulla, Texas, snaps an image of what appears to
-be a 60-foot-diameter object with an array of four lights hovering above
-the caliche pad of an oil well. Later, in October, workers at the site
-report UFOs in the night sky. One of them named Xavier Garza takes a
-blurry video of a reddish-orange orb in the northern sky. (“Observers
-Think UFOs Hovered above the Eagle Ford Shale,”
-San Antonio (Tex.) News-Express, January 12, 2013; “Cotulla
-2012: Security Camera Shows UFO Hovering
-over South Texas Oil Field,” Texas UFO Museum and Research
-Library)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7607
Date: 8/1/2012
-End date: 8/15/2012
-Description: Indian Army troops deployed along the Chinese border from
-Ladakh to Arunachal Pradash report as many as 100 UFO sightings. The
-14th Corps, which is deployed in the Kargil and Leh districts and
-patrols the frontier with China, sends reports to Army headquarters
-about sightings by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police unit in the Thakung
-district near lake Pangong Tso in the Himalayas. The reports describe
-yellowish spheres that appear to lift off from the horizon on the
-Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for 3–5 hours before
-disappearing. The Army uses a mobile ground-based radar unit and a
-spectrum analyzer to verify the identity of the UFOs, but they cannot
-track the spheres on radar. Officials insist the objects are not Chinese
-drones. (“Over
-100 UFOs Seen along
-China Border,” Times of India, November 6, 2012; Dirk Vander Ploeg,
-“Chinese,
-Russian, and Indian Troops
-Jointly Spot UFOs,” UFO Digest, March 16, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7608
Date: 8/3/2012
-Description: Kathleen Marden reports on a survey of abductees in which
-38% report seeing hybrids, usually in a large facility along with humans
-being examined. These respondents see short and tall gray humanoids
-along with a few mantis-like, reptilian, Nordic, and occasional rarer
-types. One surprise finding is that 40% suffer chronic fatigue syndrome
-or mononucleosis. They also report examinations focused on glandular
-tissue, especially the thymus, a gland that has been implicated in these
-illnesses. (Kathleen Marden, “Abduction Experiencers’ Perception of the
-Alien Agenda,” MUFON 2012 International UFO Symposium Proceedings,
-MUFON, August 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7609
Date: 9/19/2012
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Jennifer Styer is driving north on Antelope Lane
-near Roy, Montana, when she sees two V- shaped objects to the northwest
-that speed silently toward her. They have orange lights on each arm and
-are flying in a straight line quite close to each other. (Robert L.
-Hastings, “UFOs
-Reported near Malmstrom AFB’s Nuclear Missile
-Sites in September 2012,” UFOs & Nukes, November 4, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7610
Date: 9/21/2012
-Description: 8:30 pm. Dale Uhler and his wife are driving
-north-northwest of Moccasin, Montana, two miles north of the
-intersection of North Star and Fieldstone roads when they notice a
-bar-shaped, yellow-orange light about 30°– 35° above the horizon. It
-then splits into three lights, which persist for about 20 seconds before
-disappearing. A second witness on the Old Musselshell Trail south of the
-Missouri River, Montana, sees what may be the same display, which
-appears to him as four orange lights that appear and disappear in
-sequence. A third witness, about 20 miles east of Roy, Montana, also
-sees the lights to the north. (Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs
-Reported near Malmstrom
-AFB’s Nuclear Missile Sites in September 2012,” UFOs & Nukes,
-November 4, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7611
Date: 2013
-Description: The Pentagon’s black budget is at $52.6 billion, according
-to documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden. Although
-the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence
-spending since 2007, it does not divulge how it uses the money or how it
-performs against the goals set by the president and Congress. (“‘Black
-Budget’ Summary Details U.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures, and
-Objectives,” Washington Post, August 29, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7612
Date: 1/4/2013
-Description: Night. Dogs belonging to Carlos Torres of Pine Bush, New
-York, become noisy and agitated. When he goes outside, he sees a huge
-rectangular object blocking out the stars and moving silently overhead.
-His young daughter is terrified. It takes 2 minutes to travel out of
-sight. (Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7613
Date: 1/8/2013
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two policemen in a village near Nysa, Poland,
-notice distant lights that appear and reappear. At one point, they stop
-their patrol car to observe the light, which is changing shape and
-radiating a number of colored lights. The light approaches them and
-stops a half-mile away. Small points of light break off from its base,
-some returning into it and others disappearing in mid-air. The primary
-light then gives off a stroboscopic flash of light that illuminates a
-large area. The officers drive away, but the light follows them. They
-stop again at a parking lot and see that the light is coming from a
-domed disc emitting dazzling yellow lights. Three blue lights are on its
-base. They drive off again, but the object paces them at a distance of
-about one mile. Both officers experience strong anxiety during the
-sighting, and there is a possible element of missing time. (Poland
-110–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7614
Date: 1/12/2013
-Description: 8:20 p.m. A married couple pull out of their driveway in
-West Melbourne, Florida, to go out to dinner. As the couple drive west
-down their street, they see three bright lights in a row in the sky.
-They assume that the lights are Chinese lanterns, since they are all at
-or above the same elevation. As they draw closer, they realize that the
-lights form a single object. As the object turns, the lights are in a
-pyramidal shape (indicating rotation of the object that causes the three
-horizontal lights to appear like a pyramid). At the same time, the
-object bolts away at an incredible speed and disappears in a few
-seconds. (NICAP, “Pyramid-Shaped
-Object Observed by Couple”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7615
Date: 3/5/2013
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A witness in the Słocina neighborhood of Rzeszów,
-Poland, lets her cat outside, but it panics. She looks up and sees
-strange lights about a quarter of a mile away. She looks through
-binoculars and sees that the lights are attached to an object with a
-cupola hovering about 650 feet above some houses in the area. It flies
-away to the east. (Poland 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7616
Date: 3/19/2013
-End date: 3/20/2013
-Description: In the early hours of March 19, a couple living in a rural
-section of Warkworth, New Zealand, see a blue flash and hear a loud
-explosion that causes the building to shake. The next morning they find
-their telephone service is out and their fax machine’s circuitry is
-melted. Around midnight on March 20, the woman is watching TV while her
-husband has gone to bed. She hears a loud sound like jet engines
-thrusting and goes outside to see a large, black isosceles triangle
-about 800 feet away and 600 feet in the air, slowly rising among the
-treetops. It drifts sideways and gradually turns or pivots. The
-underside of the craft is flat and smooth, a pale pearly metallic color.
-It has three reddish-orange rings with black centers, one at each point
-of the triangle, which resemble hot glowing metal rather than actual
-lights. In the center of the underside is a white strobe light, rotating
-with a circular movement and casting an intermittent short beam of
-light. She watches it for 20 seconds as it moves above the house, tilts
-its nose upwards, and rises more quietly up the ridge-line behind the
-house, briefly pausing near a transmitter mast positioned on the top of
-the hill. From there it gains altitude rapidly and suddenly shoots away
-at phenomenal speed and disappears within seconds. (Suzy Hansen, “Sightings
-of a ‘Black Triangle’ (Air)craft,
-2013,” Ufocus.nz, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7617
Date: 3/31/2013
-Description: Twilight. A young couple watches a triangular formation of
-lights hovering above a forest near Biała, Lower Silesian Voivodeship,
-Poland. It looks to be about 400 feet wide. After a change in position
-it moves off in the direction of Chojnów to the south. (Poland
-95–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7618
Date: 4/18/2013
-Description: Members of the Brazilian Ufologists Commission meet with
-representatives of the Brazilian armed forces at the Ministry of Defense
-to discuss gaining access to military documents involving UFOs.
-Attendees determine that Navy, Army, and Air Force documents related to
-UFOs are to be made public, as established by the law on access to
-information. More than 10,000 pages of previously confidential documents
-are released to the public and are available at the National Archives in
-Brasilia and online. (Alejandro Rojas, “UFO
-Researchers Meet with Brazilian
-Ministry of Defense,” OpenMinds, April 26, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7619
Date: 4/25/2013
-Description: 9:20 p.m. An unknown object flying at a low altitude passes
-directly above the Rafael Hernández Airport runway in Aguadilla, Puerto
-Rico, causing the delayed departure of a commercial aircraft. No
-transponder signal or other communication from the object alerts the
-airport tower, creating a dangerous situation with departures and
-arrivals. The pilots of an airborne US Customs and Border Protection De
-Havilland Canada Dash 8 turboprop aircraft see a pinkish or reddish
-light over the ocean in their vicinity, so they film the object on
-infrared thermal video. The object is 3–5 feet in length and its speed
-varies from 40 to 120 mph. The 3-minute footage shows the flight of an
-object that crosses into northwestern Puerto Rico from the Atlantic
-Ocean, traverses the space over the airport twice, then returns to the
-Atlantic where it apparently submerges. Its speed through the water
-reaches a high of 95 mph. Chemist Robert
-Powell and five other members of the Scientific Coalition for UAP
-Studies later obtain the video and subject it to a thorough analysis.
-Their conclusion in 2018 is that the video is the “best documentation of
-an unknown aerial and submerged nautical object exhibiting advanced
-technology” that the authors have seen. (Robert Powell, et al., “2013
-Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP: The Detailed Analysis of an Unidentified
-Anomalous Phenomenon Captured by the Department of Homeland
-Security,” Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, August 15,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7620
Date: 4/29/2013
-End date: 5/3/2013
-Description: Stephen
-Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group holds a Citizens Hearing on
-Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Forty UFO
-researchers, along with political and military representatives (Robert Salas, Paul
-Hellyer, Nick
-Pope), testify to six former members of the US Congress: Carolyn
-Cheeks Kilpatrick, Merrill
-Cook, Lynn
-Woolsey, Darlene
-Hooley, Roscoe
-Bartlett, and
-Mike
-Gravel. The
-witnesses speak for 30 hours over five days. The panel reaches the
-conclusion that the US government and other governments need to share
-what is known about UFO sightings and the United Nations should take the
-subject of UFOs seriously. (Richard B. Muhammad, “What
-Is the Truth about UFOs?” The Final Call, May 7, 2013; “Citizen
-Hearing on Disclosure
-(2013),” The Unidentified, May 27, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7621
Date: 6/2013
-Description: Researcher David
-Marler publishes Triangular UFOs, an evaluation of hundreds of
-reports of delta-shaped UFOs seen worldwide. Marler assesses whether
-these represent an extraterrestrial UFO visitation or a secret project
-developed by one or more governments. (David Marler, Triangular UFOs: An
-Estimate of the Situation, Richard Dolan Press, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7622
Date: 6/5/2013
-Description: Based on material supplied to them by former National
-Security Agency contractor Edward
-Snowden, The Guardian exposes a top-secret court order showing that
-the NSA has collected phone records from over 120 million Verizon
-subscribers. Under the order, the numbers of both parties on a call, as
-well as the location data, unique identifiers, time of call, and
-duration of call are handed over to the FBI, which turns over the
-records to the NSA. (Wikipedia, “Global
-surveillance disclosures (2013–present)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7623
Date: 6/6/2013
-Description: The Guardian and the Washington Post reveal the existence
-of the PRISM surveillance program (which collects the emails, voice,
-text, and video messages of foreigners and an unknown number of
-Americans from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, and other tech
-giants). (Wikipedia, “PRISM
-(surveillance program)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7624
Date: 6/14/2013
-Description: US prosecutors charge Edward
-Snowden with espionage and theft of government property, but in late
-July he is granted temporary asylum by the Russian government. The
-extent to which the media reports have responsibly informed the public
-is disputed. In January 2014, President Obama says
-that “the sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has
-often shed more heat than light” and critics such as Sean
-Wilentz note that many of the Snowden documents do not concern
-domestic surveillance. The US and UK Defense establishment weigh the
-strategic harm in the period following the disclosures more heavily than
-their civic public benefit. In its first assessment of these
-disclosures, the Pentagon concludes that Snowden committed the biggest
-“theft” of US secrets in the history of the United States. Sir David
-Omand, a former director of GCHQ, described Snowden’s disclosure as
-the “most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever.” (Wikipedia,
-“Global
-surveillance disclosures
-(2013–present)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7625
Date: 6/19/2013
-Description: A triangular object with lights in each tip is seen at
-Szklarska Poręba, Poland. (Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7626
Date: 6/21/2013
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of 209 UFO
-files, approximately 52,000 pages, covering 2009. The full set of files
-show that the Ministry of Defence received an average of 150 sightings
-annually from 2000 to 2007, increasing to 643 in 2009. This is supposed
-to be the final batch, but more files are discovered later. (“Britain’s
-Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,” USA Today, June 21,
-2013; UK National Archives, “Briefing
-Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7627
Date: 6/25/2013
-Description: The CIA publicly acknowledges the existence of Area 51 for
-the first time, following a FOIA request filed in 2005, and it
-declassifies documents detailing its history and purpose. (Wikipedia,
-“Area
-51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7628
Date: 6/27/2013
-Description: 12:20 p.m. An F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter
-Squadron 11 (VFA-11, the “Red Rippers”), flying out of Naval Air Station
-Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has an encounter with an “aircraft
-[that] was white in color and approximately the size and shape of a
-drone or missile” in the W-72 warning area, a patch of airspace off the
-coast of Virginia and North Carolina. The jet’s crew visually acquires
-it as they see it “pass down the right side of their aircraft with
-approximately 200 feet of lateral separation” while flying at an
-altitude of 17,000 feet. It is climbing and has a visible exhaust trail.
-Neither the Super Hornet nor NAS Oceana records a radar track of the
-object. The Navy tells units to be aware of the potential hazards posed
-by unauthorized or uncoordinated drone operations. (Tyler Rogoway and
-Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious
-Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7629
Date: 7/15/2013
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 60-year-old postal worker and his wife see a
-rectangular-shaped object maneuver through the sky and come within 100
-feet of them in Bellingham, Washington. It executes precise turns that
-avoid electrical poles, wires, and streetlights. The object’s color
-changes from a glowing red to a dull gray as it performs a banking turn
-and comes to a standstill. The color change is not uniform because it
-begins at the top of the object and moves downward. The object appears
-about the size of a large SUV, and at its closest approach it is about
-palm-width in size at arm’s length. The wife sees it as tumbling along
-its central axis. (NICAP, “Rectangular
-Object Viewed at 100ʹ”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7630
Date: 7/19/2013
-Description: 6:35 p.m. The pilot of a Thomas Cook Airbus A320 cruising
-at 34,000 feet near Reading, Berkshire, England, sees a silvery metallic
-object shaped like a rugby ball streak within a few feet of his cockpit
-on his left-hand side. The UK Airprox Board rules out another aircraft
-or weather balloon. (Phil Davies, “Thomas
-Cook Aircraft in UFO
-‘Near Miss,’” Travel Weekly, January 24, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7631
Date: 8/1/2013
-Description: Night. A group of young people at Góra Ossona in
-Częstochowa, Poland, see a triangular object. (Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7632
Date: 8/3/2013
-Description: 10:30–11:00 p.m. Witnesses in multiple points in Poland
-report three successive sightings of unidentified triangular objects. A
-woman in Lubliniec walking her dog sees a giant boomerang floating
-silently to the west only about 150 feet above her housing estate. It
-has dim symmetrical lights that are the same intensity as stars and is
-about 65 feet long. A young couple in Łosice watches a dark, triangular
-UFO with gray-violet colored lights. An engineer in Dobrzykowice
-observes a high-altitude, delta-shaped formation of lights. (Poland
-96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7633
Date: 8/14/2013
-Description: Night. An amateur astronomer in Lublin, Poland, is tracking
-an object in an orbital trajectory. Close-up, it resembles a rocket with
-a triangular contour, crimson-red color, and yellowish center. A smaller
-isosceles triangle seems to be embedded in it. (Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7634
Date: 8/18/2013
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A family that owns a dacha in Tyczyn, Poland,
-watches a wingless object with spear-shaped panels maneuvering slowly
-and silently above them. It has an apparently rotating blinking light
-and is making constant turns and ascents. (Poland 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7635
Date: 8/20/2013
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Three vehicles pull over on Homer Watson
-Boulevard just west of Doon South Drive in Kitchener, Ontario, to
-observe a strange object that is crossing in front of them. The highway
-lighting makes it easy to see a spherical object 30 feet in diameter
-move very slowly across the freeway just above the utility poles. The
-object, only a few hundred feet from the stopped cars, is apparently
-solid with a glow that illuminates the trees as it passed by. The
-primary witness exits his car and attempts to take a photo with his
-cellphone, but its camera functions are dead. He continues to watch the
-object for another 45 seconds. Once the object leaves, the cellphone
-operates properly again. (NICAP, “E-M
-Effects from Sphere near Highway”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7636
Date: 8/28/2013
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A three-man hunting party observes a
-barbell-shaped object within 400 feet of their camp in rural Ontario.
-The object interferes with the operation of their Motorola radio, a
-cellphone, and a Sony Cybershot video camera. The object is in view for
-about 5 minutes. The primary witness owns a company that receives
-Department of Defense contracts and puts together a 17-page report and a
-video on the sighting. (MUFON case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7637
Date: 9/9/2013
-Description: Two witnesses in Sokółka, Poland, see a gigantic triangular
-UFO flying by in a few seconds. (Poland 98) September 12 — Night. A
-delta-shaped UFO is seen above Franciszka Hynka street, Warsaw, Poland.
-(Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7638
Date: 10/2013
-Description: Peru reopens its Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos
-Aéreos Anómalos (DIFFA), which had closed in 2008, as a result of
-“increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena” in the country’s
-skies. DIFAA will bring together sociologists, archaeologists,
-astronomers, meteorologists, and Air Force personnel to analyze these
-events. (“Peru
-Reopens UFO Investigation Office,” Homeland Security News Wire,
-October 28, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7639
Date: 10/1/2013
-Description: The first-generation Air Force Satellite Surveillance
-System ceases operation. The main advantage of the system was its
-ability to provide uncued data on new objects as opposed to tracking
-objects based on existing information. However, the system was also said
-to be inherently inaccurate due to its dated design. (Wikipedia, “Air
-Force Space Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7640
Date: 10/6/2013
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A father and daughter are traveling west on
-Highway 40 through Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, when the father notices
-two white lights in the distance. The dimmer of the two begins to
-descend erratically. It seems to wave back and forth, rather than just
-move straight down, as it disappears behind a stand of tall pine trees.
-Then the brighter light begins to grow as it approaches quickly. He
-tells his daughter to look up, and she immediately sees the object as it
-speeds toward them. The white light develops a red border that
-transitions into a solid red light. A very short bright green line also
-appears just below and to the immediate left of the solid red light. The
-object then slows and swerves to the north. When the object is
-positioned just to the left and in front of them, it drops in elevation
-and begins to pass slowly overhead. The father sees that the short green
-line is actually a long, flat, bright, rectangular strip. Both note how
-crisp and clear the green box angles are and how there is no glow, given
-the brightness of the green light. The father, who had previously worked
-with low-powered lasers, identifies the green color as exactly 532nm.
-They cannot see any reflections on the body or wings. The object slows
-almost to a hover as it passes above them. Once the object passes out of
-view to the rear, they are unable to see it again out the back window or
-in the rearview mirrors. They do not want to stop and get a better look.
-The father comments that he has never seen a solid object emit such a
-bright green light. (NICAP, “Solid
-Object Emits Bright
-Green Light”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7641
Date: 10/13/2013
-Description: 12:05 a.m. A Mr. Mateusz notices a large boomerang-shaped
-object with yellow lights flying above Pabianice, Poland, from northeast
-to west. It is surrounded by a hazy mist or glow, making it seem semi-
-transparent. (Poland 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7642
Date: 11/1/2013
-Description: Media outlets report that Skunk Works has been working on
-an unmanned reconnaissance airplane it has named SR-72, which can fly
-twice as fast as the SR-71 at Mach 6. However, USAF is officially
-pursuing the Northrop Grumman RQ-180 UAV to take up the SR-71’s
-strategic surveillance role. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed SR-71
-Blackbird”; Guy Norris, “Exclusive: Skunk Works Reveals SR-71
-Successor Plan,” Aviation Week, November 1, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7643
Date: 11/8/2013
-Description: 4:36 p.m. Two witnesses are driving on the Ring Road around
-Bucharest, Romania, near the exit for the Autostrada Soarelui. They see
-a light-brown cylinder-shaped object rotating on its axis and hovering
-silently above some high-voltage power lines. They watch it for 10
-minutes until it disappears suddenly without moving. (Romania
-83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7644
Date: 11/18/2013
-Description: 12:55 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter
-Squadron 143 (VFA-143, the “Pukin Dogs”), flying out of Naval Air
-Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, spots an object in the W-72
-warning zone via radar off its nose at around 12,000 feet and a speed of
-approximately 0.1 Mach. “The aircraft had an approximately 5-foot
-wingspan and was colored white with no other distinguishable features,”
-according to the pilot, who is able to visually acquire the object and
-track it for one hour. The Navy concludes that this object is an
-unmanned aerial system (UAS), but that Commander, Strike Fighter Wing
-Atlantic and Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia
-Capes (FASCFAC VACAPES), the latter of which is also identified here by
-its callsign “Giant Killer,” is not able to ascertain the operator. A
-Navy vessel is in the area traveling south, but the Navy is unable to
-identify it. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters
-with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War
-Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7645
Date: 11/19/2013
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Two witnesses, each with 30+ years experience as
-Army and Air Force aircraft maintenance technicians, see a huge
-triangular UFO that flies from north to south about 500 feet above them
-near Adel, Georgia. The surface of the object is not clear and has a
-rippling effect like “a heat mirage down the road on a hot summer’s
-day.” There are no anti-collision lights required for all aircraft. The
-object has a wingspan larger than a C-5A cargo plane and flies slowly at
-12–17 mph with absolutely no noise. The rear of the object displays a
-row of white pulsing lights that are set back or surrounded by a shroud.
-As the object moves further away, a small drone- like object is seen
-flying alongside on the left. Soon it banks to the southeast, allowing
-them to see clearly its triangular shape. (NICAP, “Triangular
-UFO Observed by Experienced Military Men”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7646
Date: 12/18/2013
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Another Super Hornet pilot from VFA-143
-encounters a white object visually and on radar in the W-72 warning
-zone. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters
-with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War
-Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7647
Date: 2/2014
-Description: Day. An aircraft matching the black triangle description is
-photographed multiple times over Kansas and Texas. Amateur photographer
-Jeff Templin snaps pictures of a triangular aircraft while photographing
-wildlife in Kansas. (“Texas
-Mystery Aircraft Also Photographed over Kansas,” Deep Blue Horizon,
-April 17, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7648
Date: 2/24/2014
-Description: US journalist Glenn
-Greenwald publishes information in The Intercept about a slideshow
-document, The Art of Deception, released by Edward
-Snowden and issued by the UK’s formerly secret Joint Threat Research
-Intelligence Group concerning “online covert operations.” The slideshow,
-probably dating to spring 2012, was shared with the US National Security
-Agency and other intelligence partners and reveals existing techniques
-to manipulate public opinion and online discourse. The document even
-includes three UFO photos as illustrations of these techniques.
-Greenwald writes: “These GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters]
-documents are the first to prove that a major western government is
-using some of the most controversial techniques to disseminate deception
-online and harm the reputations of targets. Under the tactics they use,
-the state is deliberately spreading lies on the internet about whichever
-individuals it targets, including the use of what GCHQ itself calls
-‘false flag operations’ and emails to people’s families and friends. Who
-would possibly trust a government to exercise these powers at all, let
-alone do so in secret, with virtually no oversight, and outside of any
-cognizable legal framework?” (Wikipedia, “Joint
-Threat Research Intelligence Group”; Glenn Greenwald, “How
-Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and
-Destroy Reputations,” The Intercept, February 24, 2014; “The
-Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert
-Operations,” The Intercept, February 24, 2014; Mark Pilkington,
-“Tricksters, Saucers, and Cyber Magicians,” Fortean Times 313 (May
-2014): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7649
Date: 3/10/2014
-Description: Day. Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett photograph a
-triangular aircraft giving off a long contrail over Amarillo, Texas.
-(Bill Sweetman, “Mystery Aircraft over Texas,” Aviation Week, March 28,
-2014; “’Mystery Aircraft’
-over Texas Draws Speculation of Real Spy Plane,” Houston Chronicle,
-March 28, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7650
Date: 3/26/2014
-Description: 4:30 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter
-Squadron 106 (VFA-106, the “Gladiators”), flying out of Naval Air
-Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, detects a possible radar
-track at around 19,000 feet and with a speed of 0.1 Mach in the W-72
-warning area. The pilot’s wingman does not have the object on radar and
-there is a debate about whether it might be a false track given high
-winds that are gusting at over 100 knots at 18,000 feet. “The unknown
-aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a
-suitcase, and silver in color,” according to the report. The pilot is
-only able to pass within 1,000 feet of it and cannot identify it. After
-that pass, they lose sight of it and never regain visual contact. “I
-feel it may only be a matter of time before one of our F/A-18 aircraft
-has a mid-air collision with an unidentified UAS [unmanned aerial
-system],” the head of VFA-106 comments. The report also says that
-“FACSFAC VACAPES has received multiple UAS sightings in the recent
-months,” but does not say how many of those sightings resulted in
-sending in hazard reports. The jets’ radar has been upgraded, allowing
-them to zero in on unidentified targets with infrared targeting cameras.
-(Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft
-off the
-East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020; Bill Whitaker,
-“UFOs
-Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,”
-CBS News, August 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7651
Date: 4/23/2014
-Description: 10:51 p.m. Another F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter
-Squadron 11 (VFA-11, the “Red Rippers”) has an encounter with multiple
-“unidentified aerial devices” while flying out of Naval Air Station
-Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and operating in the W-72 warning
-area. The crew initially detects two UADs on radar, one at 12,000 feet
-and another at 15,000 feet, both apparently stationary or
-near-stationary. They then confirm both of these objects using the jet’s
-Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) system. While
-investigating the first pair of UADs, another two appeared to pass
-through the ATFLIR field of vision at high speed. The two moving objects
-do not appear on the aircraft’s radar. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph
-Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off
-the East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7652
Date: 4/24/2014
-Description: 12:47 p.m. Two more F/A-18Fs make radar contact with
-another UAD in the W-72 warning area while conducting Basic Fighter
-Maneuvering out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
-Both aircraft are able to maintain a radar track with the object, which
-is stationary or near-stationary at 11,000 feet. The aircraft are also
-able to lock onto the object with CATM-9Xs, a captive-carry training
-version of the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. However, in this instance,
-neither one makes visual contact. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick,
-“Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off
-the East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7653
Date: 4/27/2014
-Description: The crew of a F/A-18F from Strike Fighter Squadron 11
-(VFA-11), flying out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and
-operating in the W-72 warning area, encounters an unknown aerial device.
-This report is the most spartan in its details of the three, but it
-describes a “near mid-air collision with balloon-like object.” (Tyler
-Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft
-off the
-East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7654
Date: 6/13/2014
-Description: 2:36 p.m. The pilot and first officer of an Airbus 320
-flying at just under 3,500 feet and headed into Manchester Airport
-observe a man-like object that passes them to the northeast over
-Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. They estimate it is about 200–300 feet
-above their altitude and only a few hundred yards distant. They cannot
-see any parachute or paraglider apparatus. Air traffic control confirms
-there are no other radar targets in the area. The object is in sight for
-only 3–4 seconds. (Jenny Randles, “Superman vs. Airbus,” Fortean Times
-323 (February 2015): 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7655
Date: 7/31/2014
-Description: Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez, director of Chile’s official UFO
-agency, Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, convenes a
-three-hour meeting at the offices of the Directorate General of Civil
-Aviation (DGAC) in Providencia of 19 experts from a wide range of
-disciplines to discuss whether UFOs pose a threat to aerial safety.
-Among those present are astronomers, psychologists, meteorologists,
-physicists, and representatives of the armed forces. All seem to accept
-the premise that UFOs, whatever they are, exist and are worthy of
-investigation. The DGAC chief of operations says that because many
-witnesses believe UFOs demonstrate intelligent behavior, it is the
-government’s duty to look for the intention behind that intelligence.
-However, the group concludes that, despite some accidents attributed to
-UFOs around the world, they “do not present a threat or a danger to air
-operations.” (Leslie Kean, “Chile
-Declares UFOs Pose No Threat to Aircraft,” HuffPost, August 12,
-2014; “Capitulo
-55 DGAC TV,” DGAC TV Institucional YouTube channel, August 7,
-2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7656
Date: 9/29/2014
-Description: The Air Force Intelligence agency is restructured as the
-Twenty-Fifth Air Force and aligns the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the
-55th Wing under the new numbered air force. Its primary mission is to
-provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products,
-applications, capabilities, and resources to include cyber and
-geospatial forces and expertise. Additionally, it is the service
-cryptologic component (SCC) responsible to the National Security Agency
-and Central Security Service for Air Force cryptographic activities. It
-is headquartered at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. (Wikipedia, “Twenty-Fifth
-Air Force”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7657
Date: 10/5/2014
-End date: 10/20/2014
-Description: Unidentified drones are observed over seven nuclear plants
-in France. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve tells
-France Info radio that a judicial investigation is underway. The tiny,
-unmanned craft appear late in the evening, at night, or early in the
-morning. The nuclear plants are the Superphénix in Creys-Malville
-(closed in 1997); the Bugey Nuclear Power Plant, Ain; Blayais Nuclear
-Power Plant near Blaye, Gironde; the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant,
-Moselle; the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant, Ardennes; the Gravelines Nuclear
-Power Station, Nord; and the Nogent Nuclear Power Plant, Aube. (“Drones
-Spotted over Seven French Nuclear Sites, Says EDF,”
-The Guardian (UK), October 30, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7658
Date: 10/16/2014
-Description: The Swedish military reportedly intercepts a radio
-transmission in Russian on an emergency frequency, sparking a massive
-search for a Russian submarine thought to be stricken in Swedish waters,
-the largest Swedish mobilization since the Cold War. Further encrypted
-radio traffic from Kanholmsfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden,
-and in Kaliningrad, Russia (home to the Russian Baltic fleet), is
-intercepted the next day. The search involves stealth ships,
-minesweepers, and helicopters, as well as hundreds of sailors, pilots,
-and divers. On the island of Korsö, Finland, a mysterious man dressed in
-black with a backpack is seen wading to shore and is later photographed
-wading off the nearby island of Sandön, Finland. (It later turns out
-that the man is a Stockholm pensioner named Ove who is doing some trout
-fishing.) At a press conference later in the month, the Swedish navy
-shows a photograph of an unidentified foreign vessel (although it later
-turns out to be a Swedish ship). A Russian defense ministry spokesman
-announces that there have been no emergency situations involving Russian
-military vessels. (Wikipedia, “Swedish
-submarine incidents”; “Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322
-(January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7659
Date: 10/20/2014
-Description: Strands of cobweb-like “angel hair” fibers fall from the
-sky in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. (“Cobwebs Like Particles Floating in
-Polonnaruwa Skies,” Gossip Lanka News, October 21, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7660
Date: 10/21/2014
-Description: Swedish military commander Gen. Sverker
-Göranson announces that he aims to force the unidentified submarine
-object to the surface with depth charges if necessary. He reveals there
-have been visual observations twice on October 17 and once on October
-19. (“Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 (January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7661
Date: 10/24/2014
-Description: Sweden calls off its search for the mysterious Russian sub.
-Russia asserts that the vessel was a Dutch submarine, a claim rejected
-by the Netherlands. The public has reported 250 sightings, five of which
-the navy takes seriously. Rear Admiral Anders
-Grenstad says the object could not have been a conventional
-submarine but a “craft of a lesser type.” (“Swedes
-Call off Search for Mystery Submarine,” USNI News, October 24, 2014;
-“Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 (January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7662
Date: 10/25/2014
-Description: Afternoon. Miguel Monteiro is walking in the parish of
-Alverca do Ribatejo e Sobralinho, Portugal, when he sees white, cottony
-flakes or fibrous strands falling from the sky and sticking to
-electrical wires. They feel somewhat like cobwebs but are whiter and
-thicker. Monteiro takes some home and stores them in liquid nitrogen. He
-claims that under ultraviolet light the fibers wiggle “as if alive.”
-Another witness says the strands fell two weekends in a row. (“Mysterious
-Rain of ‘Alien Angel Hair’ Falls from Sky in Portugal,” Metro (UK),
-November 26, 2014; “Strands
-of White ‘Angel Hair’ Rained from Sky—Which Wriggle under UV Light,”
-Metro (UK), December 17, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7663
Date: 10/31/2014
-Description: Retired Swedish naval officer Sven Olof Kviman snaps a
-picture of what looks like a 65–98-foot long, black submarine in waters
-just outside Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. The incident remains
-unconfirmed but has been classed by the military as a “potential”
-submarine. (“Up
-to Four Subs Feared in Stockholm Waters,” The Local (Sweden),
-January 24, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7664
Date: 11/11/2014
-Description: 1:52 p.m. A Chilean Navy Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter is
-flying northward west of Santiago, Chile, at an altitude of 4,500 feet
-and 152 mph. The technician aboard is taking video footage when he
-notices an object about 40 miles away. He zooms in on it using infrared
-film. The naval pilot sees it as a “flat, elongated structure with two
-thermal spotlights like discharges that do not coincide with the axis of
-motion.” The video shows a dark, disc-shaped object flying above the
-sea, which “in two instances discharged some type of gas or liquid with
-a high thermal track or signal.” The official Comité de Estudios de
-Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos spends two years studying the film, then
-releases the footage, admitting it cannot ascertain what the object is.
-CEFAA Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza says: “We do not know what it was,
-but we do know what it was not.” (“Conclusive
-Proof? Airforce
-Probe Finds Navy Filmed Real UFO over Ocean,” The Express (UK),
-January 7, 2017; “Chilean
-Navy Helicopter
-Pilot Shoots Video of UFO,” Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, February 8,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7665
Date: 11/14/2014
-Description: Swedish Prime Minister Stefan
-Löfven announces that there is “clear evidence” of a submarine
-incursion in Swedish waters in October. (“Sweden
-Confirms Submarine Violation,” The Guardian (UK), November 14, 2014;
-“Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 (January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7666
Date: 1/10/2015
-Description: John
-Greenewald Jr. puts the Fold3 Blue Book files online into his Black
-Vault website and makes many of the case files into easily downloadable
-PDFs. The work is done by a contributor to the ATS website since 2012.
-Unfortunately, the JPG conversion to PDFs is done incorrectly so that
-documents with many pages are out of correct order. (Sparks,
-pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7667
Date: 1/27/2015
-Description: 9:10 p.m. Ufologist Steven
-M. Greer is leading a group of UFO watchers at Vero Beach, Florida,
-when they spot two UFOs that appear one after another then fade from
-sight. A video is taken of the event and posted on Greer’s website.
-Greer claims it is the result of the group’s meditation and “coherent
-thought” practices, and there are no ships or aircraft in the area at
-the time. However, journalist Tom
-Rogan determines that the UFO is a Beechcraft Model 76 Duchess
-aircraft moving at 85 mph deploying parachute flares. (Tom Rogan, “Did
-Steven Greer
-Fake a UFO with Flares?” Washington (D.C.) Examiner, July 31,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7669
Date: 1/27/2015
-Description: Ancestry.com, the owner of Fold3, illegally demands that Greenewald remove
-his Blue Book collection from the Black Vault website, falsely claiming
-copyright. They are still unavailable. (Sparks,
-p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7668
Date: 2/2015 (approximate)
-Description: Two infrared video recordings, known as the Go
-Fast and GIMBAL videos,
-are taken by an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the USS
-Theodore Roosevelt off the East coast of the US in the vicinity of
-Jacksonville, Florida, sometime between January and February 2015. The
-two videos are reported by the New York Times to have been taken a few
-weeks apart, with the audio of the pair including voices of military
-personnel who are questioning what they are observing. The Navy confirms
-the authenticity of the videos, stating only that they depict what they
-consider to be “unidentified aerial phenomena.” Susan
-Gough, a
-Pentagon spokeswoman, confirms that the videos were made by naval
-aviators and that they are “part of a larger issue of an increased
-number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in
-recent years.” In April 2020, the two videos are declassified and
-officially released by the Department of Defense, alongside footage from
-the 2004 USS
-Nimitz incident. Five pilots from the VFA-11 “Red Rippers” fighter
-squadron report sighting UFOs “almost daily” while training for a
-deployment to the Persian Gulf. Three of those pilots have chosen to
-remain anonymous, while two, Lieut. Ryan Graves and Lieut. Danny Accoin,
-have given interviews and appeared on a History Channel program about
-UFOs. Radar contacts, infrared detections, and visual sightings by the
-pilots and weapon systems officers are reported for several months.
-According to Accoin, the objects have “no distinct wing, no distinct
-tail, no distinct exhaust plume.” One pilot describes something “like a
-sphere encasing a cube.” Another source confirms to “The War Zone” that
-the same description is given by several other pilots and that
-encounters are commonplace among multiple squadrons including the nearby
-E-2 Hawkeye squadrons from Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Accoin says
-that “multiple sensors [are] reading the exact same thing.” Graves
-states that the objects are showing up at 30,000 feet as well as sea
-level and can accelerate, slow down, and hit hypersonic speeds with
-maneuvers “beyond the physical limits of a human crew.” The pilots also
-report that the objects persist in the air for long periods of time and
-might “be out there all day.” When one of the sightings is made,
-“usually we’d just say, ‘we’re seeing one of those damn things again,’”
-Graves says. Once, an object almost collides with two jets, prompting
-the VFA-11 fighter squadron to submit a Notice to Airmen aviation flight
-safety report. According to the pilots, the squadron has speculated that
-the sightings could be a classified drone development program, but the
-near miss angers the pilots and convinces them that this is a safety
-issue and not a black project. (Wikipedia, “Pentagon
-UFO videos”; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean,
-“‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects,”
-New York Times, May 26, 2019; Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway, “Carrier
-Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Defense Tech Like Nimitz
-in
-2004 Incident,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 30, 2019; Clark III 49;
-“Unidentified:
-UFO Testimony from Lt. Ryan Graves (Season 1)
-/ History,” History YouTube channel, September 22, 2019; Jan Tegler
-and Cat Hofacker, “Mystery
-of the ‘Damn
-Things,’” Aerospace America, November 2019; “Pentagon
-Declassifies Leaked ‘UFO’ Videos (video 2/3),”
-ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020; “Pentagon
-Declassifies Navy ‘UFO’ Videos (video 3/3),” ABC News YouTube
-channel, April 27, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7670
Date: 3/1/2015
-Description: Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope
-in Supreme Court ruling”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 4/13/2015
-Description: Swedish Rear Admiral Anders
-Grenstad tells the media that the Armed Forces reported to the
-Swedish government on April 8 that the suspected underwater vessel in
-October 2014 was in fact only a civilian “working boat.” (“‘Submarine’
-in Sweden Was Only Civilian Boat,” The Local (Sweden), April 13,
-2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7671
Date: 5/5/2015
-Description: In a four-hour long presentation in front of nearly 7,000
-people at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, journalist and
-ufologist Jaime
-Maussan presents BeWitness, an unveiling of two Kodachrome slides
-that purport to show a dead alien. The slides, discovered in 1998 in the
-estate of Sedona, Arizona, lawyer Hilda Blair Ray, whose husband Bernerd had
-been a petroleum geologist in West Texas. The slides had found their way
-to Chicago videographer Adam
-Dew, who wants to create a documentary (tentatively titled
-Kodachrome) about the supposed alien. In the process he has gathered UFO
-researchers Thomas
-J. Carey, Donald
-Schmitt, Anthony Bragalia, and
-others to lend credence to the authenticity of the images as possibly
-related to the Roswell incident, since they seem to have a provenance of
-1947. The two nearly identical slides show what appears to be a short
-mummy on a glass exhibit case with an undecipherable placard next to it.
-Within days of the presentation in Mexico City, a skeptical group uses a
-SmartDeBlur program to read the text of the placard, which reveals that
-the supposed alien is actually the mummified body of a two-year-old
-Native American child taken from the ruins of Montezuma Castle cliff
-dwelling in Camp Verde, Arizona, in 1894 by an S. L. Palmer and loaned
-to the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde, Colorado, where
-it had been on display for many years before it was returned to the
-Montezuma Museum in June 1947. (David Clarke and Peter Brookesmith,
-“From ‘Smoking Gun’ to #Epicfail,” Fortean Times 329 (August 2015):
-26–27; Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence As It
-Exists Today, Speaking Volumes, 2016; Les Carpenter, “The
-Curious Case of the Alien in the Photo
-and the Mystery That Took Years to Solve,” The Guardian (UK),
-September 20, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7672
Date: 9/2015
-Description: In Walking Among Us, David
-M. Jacobs explains how 14 abductions have detailed for him how an
-alien invasion is already underway. The alien hierarchy consists of
-insect-like entities as the leaders, tall Grays the skilled workers,
-short Grays the menial workers, and masses of hybrids—the end products
-of the abduction program. These hybrids begin as half-human/half-Gray
-entities and become progressively more human over four successive
-stages. The ultimate product is the human hybrid (“hubrid”), fully human
-in appearance, capable of integration into society. Hybrids have become
-deeply embedded on Earth, living in their own apartments, mingling with
-humans, working their way into positions of influence. Their growing
-numbers on earth advance the Change, the day when they and their alien
-masters supplant or absorb humankind. (Dana DiFilippo, “Space Aliens
-Walk Among Us? Indeed, Claims Retired Temple Prof,” Philadelphia
-Inquirer, July 15, 2014; David M. Jacobs, Walking
-Among Us: The Alien Plan to Condition Humanity, Disinformation
-Books, 2015; Clark III 10– 11, 629–630)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7673
Date: 12/22/2015
-Description: Janel Sturzl, 31, an employee of the Daily Mining Gazette
-in Houghton, Michigan, dies while in a coma after being diagnosed with
-thallium poisoning at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The
-police investigate her death as a homicide. (“Poisoning
-Still under Investigation,” Houghton (Mich.) Daily Mining Gazette,
-October 24, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7674
Date: 2/3/2016
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A married couple is driving on Interstate 10 near
-Katy, Texas, when they look up through the sunroof and see three black
-dots that they at first think might be breaks in the cloud cover.
-Watching them while stopped at a traffic light, they see the dots are
-part of a vast, noiseless triangular object that emerges from the
-clouds. The witnesses think it is generating a kind of night fog low
-above the ground. The witnesses try to take a video, but their
-cellphones are not working properly; both devices die and do not
-recharge the entire night. (Roger Marsh, “Texas
-UFO Kills Allegedly Ground Electronics, Creates Fog to Hide in,”
-OpenMinds, February 10, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7675
Date: 4/2016
-Description: Robert
-Bigelow, founder
-of Bigelow Aerospace, sells the Skinwalker Ranch in Uintah County, Utah,
-to Utah real estate developer Brandon
-Fugal. In 2020, he partners with the History Channel on a TV
-documentary series, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, in its third season
-in 2022. (Skinwalkers 86, 219–221; Internet Movie Database, “The Secret
-of Skinwalker Ranch”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7676
Date: 4/15/2016
-Description: Night. The Canadian Air Defence Sector is notified of a
-WestJet flight near Toronto, Ontario, that “reported a very bright light
-pass overhead of them” when “there was no other traffic in the area.” In
-the day’s log, the lines following what’s clearly referred to as a “UFO
-report” are all redacted in white. (Daniel Otis, “Credible
-UFO Reports
-Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents
-Reveal,” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; CADORS
-Report, no.
-2016O0730, April 24, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7677
Date: 5/13/2016
-Description: James T. Lacatski retires from the Defense Intelligence
-Agency, following failed attempts to get the AAWSAP program funded agin
-through the Department of Defense. (Skinwalkers 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7678
Date: 6/2016
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici begins publishing Cielo
-Insolito, a journal of UFO history edited by Giuseppe Stilo and Maurizio
-Verga. (Cielo
-Insolito, no. 1 (July 2016))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7679
Date: 7/1/2016
-Description: NORAD releases figures indicating that radar Tracks of
-Interest have averaged 1,800 per year since 2011. It states that it
-routinely withholds Unknown tracks and Tracks of Interest data because
-the release of any details might affect national defense. (“‘Alien
-Cover Up’: Nearly 2,000 UFOs Tracked by Radar System But Details Suppressed,”
-The Express (UK), July 1, 2016; Clark III 801)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7680
Date: 8/11/2016
-Description: In Roswell in the 21st Century, Kevin
-D. Randle upends his previous position and argues that while the
-Roswell incident remains shrouded in mystery, it was almost certainly
-not generated by the recovery of a downed spacecraft and dead occupants.
-(Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence As It Exists
-Today, Speaking Volumes, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7681
Date: 9/19/2016
-Description: 11:45 p.m. An Air Canada Express pilot flying to Vancouver,
-British Columbia, reports “3 red lights 3,000 feet above him and going
-slower” while at 25,000 feet over an uninhabited stretch of British
-Columbia’s rugged northern coast. Vancouver air traffic controllers
-report the incident 20 minutes later to the RCAF in Ontario as a “vital
-intelligence sighting.” The RCAF reviews radar data, but finds nothing
-near the plane. Within an hour, reports are faxed to the Canadian
-government’s transportation department and the RCAF’s secretive
-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Division in Winnipeg.
-There is no further follow-up. (Daniel Otis, “Credible
-UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government
-Documents Reveal,” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; CADORS
-Report, no. 2016P1783)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7682
Date: 10/27/2016
-Description: Two Georgia men are arrested on drug charges. They are
-reportedly plotting domestic terrorism based on conspiracy theories
-about HAARP. The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office says the men possess a
-“massive arsenal” that includes AR-15 rifles, Glock handguns, a
-Remington rifle, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. According to
-police, the men want to destroy HAARP because they believe the facility
-manipulates the weather, controls minds, and even traps the souls of
-people. Police say the men confess that “God told them to go and blow
-this machine up that kept souls, so souls could be released.” (“Georgia
-Men Plotted Attack on Alaska Aurora Research
-Facility to ‘Release Souls,’ Detective Says,” Anchorage (Alaska)
-Daily News, November 1, 2016; “Suspected Terrorists Believe Research
-Facility Controls Minds, Traps Souls,” WALB, Albany, Georgia, November
-1, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7683
Date: 12/10/2016
-Description: 4:44 a.m. A married couple is driving near Windsor, Maine,
-when they observe a “large triangle-shaped object” in two pieces (“like
-a carpenter’s framing square”) in the northeast sky. The object has six
-flashing red lights and one turquoise light that goes out as they are
-watching. It shows a black surface that is about 300 feet long. When
-they get out of the car for a better look, the man grabs his wife’s
-phone to take photos and a video. He shoots 6–8 minutes of video, but
-when he views it, it shows only black. The object seems to move
-effortlessly like a boat coasting through the water—“slow enough to
-where we could make out some detail but fast enough to where it was out
-of sight within 10 minutes or so.” They both feel weird as they watch
-the object. The woman becomes nauseous and the man feels strangely
-“awestruck.” (MUFON case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7684
Date: 2017
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile has dwindled to 3,822 bombs. (“Stockpile
-Numbers,” DoD Open Government) 2017 — The increasing number of drone
-cases posing a risk to aircraft leads the UK Airprox Board to launch a
-Small Unmanned Air System (SUAS) assessment that classifies incidents
-into one of four categories: drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
-balloons (including toys and weather), model aircraft, and unknown
-objects. (UK Airprox Board, “Small
-Unmanned Air System (SUAS) Assessment”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7685
Date: 1/1/2017
-Description: Richard
-F. Haines retires from his role as chief scientist for NARCAP. He
-reports: “The fact that no cause- effect relationship has been found in
-major UFO airborne safety incidents doesn’t support the notion of
-nearby, material objects or phenomena in the air. Finally, the
-well-intentioned change of the term UFO into UAP—hoping to reach a
-larger scientific audience—served little and no relevant achievement
-followed.” (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Haines
-Retires from NARCAP,” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, April 17, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7686
Date: 1/20/2017
-End date: 1/20/2021
-Description: President Donald Trump in office
-Type: historical document
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC, US
Date: 4/18/2017
-Description: The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 8648 about
-the Maury Island Incident. It stated “The FBI’s conclusions and Dahl’s
-(the main witness) secret were sealed for fifty years.” It also states
-“Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an
-investigation of the deaths of Davidson and Brown and ultimately
-concluded that Dahl did not recant his story but that his claim of hoax
-was itself a fabrication to avoid further public attention and
-ridicule.”
-Type: state resolution
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Olympia, WA
-See also: 6/21/1947
Date: 5/9/2017
-Description: Steven
-M. Greer releases a documentary, Unacknowledged, on the history of
-UFO secrecy. Interviews with George
-Filer, Tom
-Bearden, Glenn
-Dennis, Richard
-Doty, Stephen
-Lovekin, and
-John
-Podesta are featured. Narrated by Giancarlo
-Esposito. (
-Internet Movie Database, “Unacknowledged”;
-“Unacknowledged:
-An Exposé of
-the World’s Greatest Secret,” Free Movies YouTube channel, October
-28, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7687
Date: 5/28/2017
-Description: Evening. Rik Koops and Harm Duursma see UFOs over Park
-Sonsbeek, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Koops shoots a 3-minute video of three
-globular objects. A spokesperson for the Defence Helicopter Command at
-nearby Deelen Air Base denies that the objects are drones. (“3
-bal vormige objecten bewegen in de lucht,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland,
-May 29, 2017; “UFO
-boven Arnhem? ’Ledeeren die het ziet, zit met open mond van verbazing,’”
-de Gelderlander, May 30, 2017; “Het
-ufo-seizoen is veer aangebroken,” de Gelderlander, May 31,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7688
Date: 6/2017
-Description: Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash,
-EBE-1
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: link]
-Reference: archive.org
-Location: US
Date: 6/2017
-Description: Nick
-Redfern publishes The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, a sequel to his 2005
-Body Snatchers in the Desert. In 2001, Redfern interviewed an elderly
-woman (the Black Widow) who had worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
-in Tennessee from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s, who told him that
-just after World War II she had seen some 15 human “guinea pigs,”
-including Japanese prisoners and handicapped persons, who were involved
-in government experiments involving exposure to high altitudes in
-balloons. Through her testimony and that of other witnesses, Redfern
-concludes that the “aliens” found at the Roswell crash in New Mexico in
-1947 were likely these humans deemed expendable by the US government,
-and that flying saucers and aliens were a convenient cover story. The
-experiments were inconclusive and the methods unethical, so all the
-records were destroyed. (Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy:
-Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret, Lisa Hagen, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7689
Date: 6/2017
-Description: Some additional dubious MJ-12 documents (47 pages total)
-are provided to Heather
-Wade, host
-of the Midnight in the Desert streaming radio show. (Nick Redfern, “The
-Majestic 12 Documents Are Back,” Mysterious Universe, June 16, 2017;
-Kremlin 214–220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7690
Date: 7/1/2017
-End date: 7/2/2017
-Description: The second Dulce Base UFO Conference is held at the Wild
-Horse Casino and Hotel in Dulce, New Mexico. The event is organized by
-members of the Jicarilla Apache, Southern Ute, and Navajo nations and
-features speakers Chuck and Nancy Wade; the Paranormal Rangers (Stanley
-Milford Jr. and Jonathan Dover), Navajo law officers; abductee Travis
-Walton; and actor Alan
-Tafoya. (Paul
-Ross, “‘The Truth Is Around Here…Someplace,’” Fortean Times 361
-(Christmas 2017): 42–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7691
Date: 7/14/2017
-Description: 7:20 p.m. The pilot of an Airbus A319 is holding at 7,000
-feet at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, when the
-First Officer, in the right-hand seat, notices an object close to the
-aircraft. He mentions it to the captain, who also sees it. Both believe
-the object is not close enough to hit the aircraft and that they will
-miss it. It is black and shiny metallic in color and appears to be a
-square or cube. It maintains its altitude and takes about 7 seconds to
-pass, making them believe it is hovering. They are not certain it is a
-drone because they cannot see any propellors. They alert Gatwick, but
-the controllers there do not report seeing it. (“UKAB ‘Unknown Object’
-Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43; UK Airprox Board,
-“Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 11th October 2017”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7692
Date: 7/19/2017
-Description: 9:00 a.m. The FBI conducts a raid on Robert
-Lazar’s United Nuclear Scientific business in Laingsburg, Michigan,
-in connection with the thallium poisoning death of Janel Sturzl in 2015,
-apparently to determine if the company sells or distributes thallium.
-Apparently it does, but only a harmless radioactive isotope. (John
-Greenewald, “Documents
-on 2017 Bob Lazar / United Nuclear Raid—Laingsburg Police
-Department,” The Black Vault, July 1, 2019; Tim McMillan, “Bob
-Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51’s Alien Fuel: The Truth
-Is Weirder,” Motherboard, November 13, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7693
Date: 8/2017
-Description: Reports begin to surface that US and Canadian diplomatic
-personnel in Havana, Cuba, have experienced unusual, unexplained health
-problems dating back to late 2016. The health problems typically have a
-sudden onset: The victim suddenly begins hearing strange grating noises
-that seem to come from a specific direction. Some of them experience it
-as a pressure or a vibration; or as a sensation comparable to driving a
-car with the window partly rolled down. The duration ranges from 20
-seconds to 30 minutes, and always happens while the diplomats are either
-at home or in hotel rooms. Other people nearby, family members and
-guests in neighboring rooms, do not report hearing anything. Affected
-individuals describe symptoms such as hearing loss, memory loss, and
-nausea. Some US embassy individuals reportedly experience lasting health
-effects, including one unidentified diplomat who now needs a hearing
-aid. In October, the Associated Press releases what it says is a
-recording of the sound some embassy workers are hearing. Accusations are
-made that these are a result of attacks using unspecified technology,
-perhaps a sonic or ultrasonic weapon. (Wikipedia, “Havana
-syndrome”; David Hambling, “The Sound of Violence,” Fortean Times
-360 (December 2017): 14; “Ottawa
-Doctor Treating Canadian
-Diplomats with Mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome,’” Ottawa (Ont.) Citizen,
-November 30, 2018 )
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7694
Date: 8/9/2017
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A couple are walking south along North Lake Shore
-Drive just north of Schiller Street in Chicago when they notice
-something large and dark flying toward them from the east and crossing
-ahead of them at an altitude of 20 feet or so. It sweeps upward over the
-trees in front of 1400 North Lake Shore Drive, then stops in mid-air
-after it reaches a height just below the top of the building. It hovers
-with a large pair of wings for about 5 seconds, then dives toward the
-ground. As the witnesses quicken their pace toward the building, the
-“winged being” descends in front of them, no more than 25 feet away, and
-hovers 5 feet above the sidewalk with its wings spread open. They can
-see its bright red eyes that vary in intensity. Several people on the
-other side of the street also see the being, which hovers for 10
-seconds, pulls its wigs in close, and silently shoots up into the sky.
-The witnesses describe it as “human-like” with a small head that narrows
-at the top, two legs with long tapered feet, and no apparent arms. It is
-5–6 feet in height and has wide wings that resemble the top wings of a
-butterfly. The sightings is the most recent of 29 reported in the
-Chicago area in the summer. (Lon Strickler, “Winged
-Humanoid Confronts
-Shocked Chicago Witnesses,” Phantoms and Monsters, August 10, 2017;
-Joe Vince, “Winged
-Freak Terrorizes
-Chicago? Wait’ll You Get a Load of These 29 Sightings,” Chicago
-Patch, August 11, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7695
Date: 9/2017
-Description: The US State Department removes non-essential staff from
-the US embassy in Havana, Cuba. (Wikipedia, “Havana
-syndrome”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7696
Date: 9/2017
-Description: The To the Stars Academy begins offering to the public $50
-million worth of stock through a Regulation A+ equity crowdfunding
-campaign. The company is cofounded earlier in the year by rock guitarist
-Tom DeLonge, engineer
-and parapsychologist Harold
-E. Puthoff, and Jim Semivan and is composed of aerospace, science,
-and entertainment divisions. Its science and aerospace divisions are
-devoted to the “outer edges of science,” such as investigating UFOs. It
-employs Luis
-Elizondo as a key investigator. Its Virtual Analytics UAP Learning
-Tool (VAULT) is a public-facing database of UFO sightings. The VAULT
-team collects, analyzes, and provides their authentication of UFO
-sightings, most famously reported in the media as having been obtained
-through declassified government materials. Some evidence suggests that
-TTSA is sponsored or heavily influenced by the Department of Defense ,as
-there are 11 former DoD counterintelligence and information specialists
-associated with it. (Wikipedia, “To
-the Stars (company)”; Althea Legaspi, “Tom
-DeLonge Announces Stars Academy
-for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research,” Rolling Stone, October 12,
-2017; Tyler Rogoway, “Tom DeLonge’s
-Origin Story for To the Stars Academy Describes a Government UFO Info
-Operation,” The Drive: The War Zone, June 5, 2019; “The
-UFO Information Operation,” Medium: INFO-OPS, November 23,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7697
Date: 9/23/2017
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Witnesses in Son, Netherlands, watch a white,
-U-shaped light for 5 minutes. One witness manages to take a photo of the
-light, which by then is diminishing in size before disappearing. (“U-vormig
-wit licht
-hoog ver weg in die hemel, stilstaand,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland,
-September 23, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7698
Date: 10/4/2017
-Description: Luis
-Elizondo resigns from his Pentagon UFO office to protest what he
-says is excessive secrecy and internal opposition. He declines to
-identify his successor. He states there is a need for more serious
-attention to the “many accounts from the Navy and other services of
-unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and
-displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He tells Secretary of
-Defense Jim
-Mattis that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and
-intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the
-nation.” (Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “Glowing
-Auras and ’Black Money’:
-The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16,
-2017; Paul Dean and Keith Basterfield, “A
-Formal Job Description of an AASWAP/AATIP UFO Case Investigations
-Scientist,” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 3, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7699
Date: 10/12/2017
-Description: Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges
-of Science’ Research (TTSA)
-Type: company formation
-Reference: link
-Location: US
Date: 10/19/2017
-Description: ’Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1), the first known interstellar object
-detected passing through the Solar System, is discovered by Robert
-Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakala Observatory,
-Hawaii, 40 days after it passes its closest point to the Sun on
-September 9. When it is first observed, it is about 21 million miles
-from Earth and already heading away from the Sun. ʻOumuamua is a small
-object estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long, with its width
-and thickness both estimated to range between 115 and 548 feet. It has a
-dark red color similar to other objects in the outer Solar System. Its
-light curve presents its motion as tumbling,
-rather than smoothly rotating, and it is moving sufficiently fast
-relative to the Sun that few possible models define a Solar System
-origin, although an Oort cloud origin cannot be excluded. Extrapolated
-and without further deceleration, its path will not allow it to be
-captured into a solar orbit, so it will eventually leave the Solar
-System and continue into interstellar space. (Wikipedia, “’Oumuamua”;
-“Small
-Asteroid or Comet ‘Visits’ from Beyond the Solar System,”
-NASA, October 26, 2017; Patrick Gross, “’Oumuamua:
-Extraterrestrial Device or Natural Object?”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7700
Date: 10/24/2017
-Description: The Cuban government employs about 2,000 scientists and law
-enforcement officers who interview 300 neighbors of diplomats, examine
-two hotels, and medically examine non-diplomats who could have been
-exposed. Cuban officials analyze air and soil samples and consider a
-range of toxic chemicals. They also examine the possibility that
-electromagnetic waves are to blame and even look into whether insects
-might be the culprits but find nothing they can link to the medical
-symptoms. The FBI and Cubans meet to discuss the situation, although the
-Cubans say that the US declines to share the diplomats’ medical records
-with Cuban authorities or to allow Cuban investigators access to US
-diplomats’ homes to conduct tests. (“Cubans
-Forcefully Reject Blame for U.S. Diplomats’
-Mystery Ailments,” NBC News, October 24, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7701
Date: 10/25/2017
-Description: The FAA detects an unidentified aircraft flying “fast”
-(relative to commercial air traffic) at around 35,000 feet over Northern
-California towards Oregon. In an effort to identify the aircraft, the
-FAA contacts commercial airline pilots in the vicinity who visually
-confirm a white object traveling northbound. After the commercial
-passenger jets confirms the position, NORAD scrambles F-15Cs from the
-142nd Air Wing in Portland, Oregon, to investigate. Bearing the most
-advanced targeting system available (the Sniper pod), the F-15s are
-unable to locate or identify the vehicle. FAA and NORAD both confirm the
-event and NORAD publicly confirms the launch of the F-15s. (Tyler
-Rogoway, “You
-Need to Hear These FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent
-F- 15s
-Scrambling,” The Drive: The War Zone, February 15, 2018; US Air
-Force, “Sniper
-Pod”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7702
Date: 10/27/2017
-Description: A group of scientists, former military and law enforcement
-officials, and other professionals form the Scientific Coalition for
-Ufology [later changed to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies] to
-conduct and encourage the rigorous scientific examination of UFO
-phenomena. Its executive board includes Robert
-Powell, Richard
-Hoffman, and other scientists and professionals. (Scientific Coalition
-for Ufology, “Scientific
-Study of UFOs
-To Be Focus of New Organization,” October 27, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7703
Date: 12/5/2017
-Description: In Moscow, Russia, covert CIA operative Marc Polymeropoulos
-suddenly gets symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome. In the spring of
-2018, a private neurologist gives Polymeropoulos a diagnosis: occipital
-neuralgia, a condition resulting from damage to the two nerves that run
-from the base of the skull, curving toward the front of the head. (Julia
-Joffe, “The
-Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7704
Date: 12/16/2017
-Description: The US Department of Defense confirms the existence of a
-Defense Intelligence Agency program used to collect data on military UFO
-sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program
-(misidentified as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program)
-that was disbanded in 2010. (Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie
-Kean, “Glowing
-Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious
-UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16, 2017; Clark III 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7705
Date: 12/16/2017
-Description: NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 12/19/2017
-Description: Luis
-Elizondo states on CNN that he believes there is “very compelling
-evidence we may not be alone.” (“Former
-Pentagon Official: ‘We May Not Be Alone,’” CNN, December 19,
-2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7706
Date: 2018
-Description: The British UFO Research Association publishes Vehicle
-Interference Report, compiled by Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson,
-summarizing 1,188 EM cases from 1908 to 2013. (Geoff Falla and Michael
-Hudson, Vehicle Interference
-Report, BUFORA,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7707
Date: 2018
-Description: Jerome Clark completes the third edition of his two-volume
-UFO encyclopedia. (Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, Omnigraphics,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7708
Date: 1/2018
-Description: A total of 11 satellites carrying Space-Based Infrared
-System or Space Tracking and Surveillance System payloads are operating
-in medium-earth, highly elliptical, and geosynchronous orbits that
-together provide continuous global coverage of infrared energy sources.
-Originally designed to detect missile launches, and later aircraft, this
-highly sophisticated capability continues to evolve and improve. This
-work is being undertaken at the Air Force’s Overhead Persistent Infrared
-Battlespace Awareness Center at Buckley AFB in Aurora, Colorado, as well
-as its new Data Utilization Lab. (Wikipedia, “Spaced-Based
-Infrared System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7709
Date: 1/5/2018
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman looking from her bedroom window in
-Linden, Michigan, sees a large object emitting red-orange light
-approaching her. It stops dead above her head, accelerates, then slows
-down. Her husband goes outside and watches it before it blinks out.
-(Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374
-(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7710
Date: 1/8/2018
-Description: The Associated Press reports that a non-public FBI report
-has found no evidence of an intentional sonic attack in Havana, Cuba.
-(“Tillerson
-Tells AP Cuba Still Risky; FBI Doubts Sonic Attack,” Associated
-Press, January 8, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7711
Date: 1/9/2018
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency responds to an inquiry by
-Sen. John
-McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Jack
-Reed (D-R.I.) regarding 38 projects that the military’s Advanced
-Aviation Threat Identification Program [in reality, the Advanced
-Aerospace Weapon System Application Program] has been involved with. The
-letter is released on January 16 in response to a FOIA request by Steven
-Aftergood, director
-of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy.
-One such research topic, “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative
-Energy,” was led by Eric
-W. Davis of EarthTech International, which was founded by Harold
-E. Puthoff, who was formerly involved in the Stargate Project.
-Another project called “Invisibility Cloaking” was headed by German
-scientist Ulf
-Leonhardt, a
-professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Yet another
-title, “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra
-Dimensions,” was attributed to theoretical physicist Richard
-Obousy, director
-of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar. One of those papers was released
-to the public by Popular Mechanics on February 14, 2020. Titled
-“Clinical Medical Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal and
-Neurological Tissues,” it is written by Christopher
-(Kit) Green, formerly
-a CIA agent, forensic clinician, and neuroscientist, who describes it as
-“focused on forensically assessing accounts of injuries that could have
-resulted from claimed encounters with UAP.”
-(Joseph Trevithick, “Here’s
-the List of Studies the Military’s
-Secretive UFO Program Funded, SomeWere Junk,” The Drive: The War
-Zone, January 18, 2019; US Defense Intelligence Agency, [A
-list of all products produced under the AAWSAP contract])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7713
Date: 1/9/2018
-Description: At the direction of US Secretary of State Rex
-Tillerson, the State Department conveys an Accountability Review
-Board to “review security incidents involving diplomatic personnel.”
-Retired US Ambassador to Libya Peter
-W. Bodde is chosen to lead the board. (“Retired
-Ambassador to Libya to Lead Cuba Attacks Review,” CNN, January 10,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7712
Date: 2/2018
-Description: The Brazilian Ufologists Commission begins a new phase of
-its “UFOs: Freedom of Information Now” campaign called “We Have the
-Right to Know.” The campaign demands that the Brazilian Army, the Minas
-Gerais military police, and the fire brigade of Varginha release the
-secret files on the 1996 Varginha case. (Clark III 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7714
Date: 2/1/2018
-Description: 6:10 p.m. An Airbus A321 pilot is descending from 10,000
-feet into Manchester Airport, England, when he sees a grayish,
-thin-profiled object that passes by very close at the same altitude at
-great speed down the left side of the aircraft. His initial reaction is
-that he has seen an internal reflection, but the First Officer and
-another person have also seen it. None of them have a clear view because
-it is in the landing-light beam for a split second. (UK Airprox Board,
-“Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 25th April 2018”; “UKAB
-‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021):
-43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7715
Date: 2/16/2018
-Description: 9:16 p.m. A witness in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands,
-sees three irregularly flashing lights flying toward the northwest. One
-of the lights suddenly leaves the formation and flies off in another
-direction. The lights fly slowly and silently for 6 minutes. (“3
-rode oplichtende punten aan de hemel,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland,
-February 16, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7716
Date: 2/20/2018
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A woman in Ede, Netherlands, sees three points
-of light (one brighter than the others) on a triangular object that is
-moving toward the northwest. She watches it for 2 minutes. (“Driehoek
-formatie 3 lichtpunten,”
-UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 21, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7717
Date: 2/23/2018
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Two witnesses in Oudenaarde, Belgium, see a
-“hanging dot” that ascends at an enormous speed. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt,
-March 4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7719
Date: 2/23/2018
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Several people traveling to work in Wielsbeke
-from the village of Waregem, Belgium, see a hovering triangle with two
-bright lights like a star. There are red lights on its wings, and it is
-shaped like a B2 stealth bomber. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7718
Date: 2/23/2018
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A witness going outside for a smoke in
-Biervliet, Netherlands, sees three globes flying in a straight line.
-They move closer together and disappear at the same time as they seem to
-merge. (“Drie lichtbollen,”
-UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 23, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7720
Date: 2/24/2018
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A Learjet 36 belonging to Phoenix Air flying at
-37,000 feet reports an object passing above them going in the opposite
-direction at about 40,000 feet. Minutes later, Blenus Green, pilot of an
-American Airlines Airbus A321 flying on the same air route at 40,000
-feet, reports a bright object passing above them in the opposite
-direction by about 2,000–3,000 feet. The planes are moving east between
-the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona and the New
-Mexico border. The air traffic controller in Albuquerque is unable to
-verify any other aircraft in the area. (Tyler Rogoway, “Learjet
-and Airbus Had Strange Encounter with Mysterious Craft
-over Arizona,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 8, 2018; “2
-Airline Pilots Report Seeing UFO While Flying
-over Arizona,” CBS News, March 29, 2018; Jenny Randles, “The Sonora
-Desert Incident,” Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 31; Patrick Gross, “Pilots
-Sightings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7723
Date: 2/24/2018
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A man steps outside his house in Mol, Belgium,
-when it suddenly becomes light outside. Looking up, he sees an orange
-fireball flying past with small fragments falling off it. It is silent
-and does not explode. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7721
Date: 2/24/2018
-Description: 1:15 a.m. A man in Breda, Netherlands, looks out his
-bedroom window and sees an enormous globe of white and turquoise light
-as large as the full moon. The light is so brilliant it hurts his eyes
-to look at it for 6 seconds. (“Felle
-turqouise-witte bewegende lichtbol, grootte van een volle maan,” UFO
-Meldpunt Nederland, February 24, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7722
Date: 2/25/2018
-Description: 6:45 a.m. A witness in Lendele, Belgium, looks out the
-window and sees a large, bright globe without a tail shooting toward the
-ground. After a few seconds it disappears. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March
-4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7724
Date: 2/26/2018
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A man walking his dog in Sibculo, Netherlands,
-takes a video of a bright, flashing object. (“Snel bewegend
-verspringd licht,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 26, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7725
Date: 2/27/2018
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A cluster of 3–5 orange-white lights is seen
-moving and hovering above Heerlen, Netherlands. (“3–5
-oranje witte lichten in de lucht kijk hoek 44° Noord Oosten,” UFO
-Meldpunt Nederland, February 27, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7728
Date: 2/27/2018
-Description: The Trump administration
-requests $81.1 billion, the largest amount ever, in funding for the
-black budget that bankrolls US intelligence operations. $59.9 billion is
-earmarked for the National Intelligence Program for non-military
-efforts. The other $21.2 billion would go to the Military Intelligence
-Program for the Defense Department. (“DNI
-Releases Budget Figure for FY 2019 Appropriations Requested for the
-National Intelligence Program,”
-Office of the Director of National Intelligence, February 27, 2018; “Trump
-Administration Requests Record
-$81.1 Billion for ‘Black Budget,’” Washington Times, February 28,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7726
Date: 2/27/2018
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy in Briele, Netherlands, watches
-two black discs with red lights flying together. (“2
-zwarte (met rode streep) schijven die naast elkaar vliegen,” UFO
-Meldpunt Nederland, February 27, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7727
Date: 2/28/2018
-Description: 6:20 p.m. A semi-transparent oval object flies 30–50 feet
-above the A2 highway near Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands, before
-moving over an adjacent meadow. (“Grijs
-semi-transparante bal vloog boven snelweg,”
-UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7729
Date: 3/2018
-Description: University of Pennsylvania researchers examine 21 affected
-diplomats from the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, and the preliminary
-results are published in the Journal of the American Medical
-Association. The report “found no evidence of white matter tract
-abnormalities” in affected diplomats, beyond what might be seen in a
-control group of the same age and describe “a new syndrome in the
-diplomats that resembles persistent concussion.” While some diplomats
-recover swiftly, others have symptoms that last for months. The study
-concludes that “the diplomats appear to have sustained injury to
-widespread brain networks.” Some experts criticize the study, arguing
-that there is “no proof that any kind of energy source affected the
-diplomats, or even that an attack took place.” MRI scans and other tests
-taken by a chief neurologist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on an
-unspecified number of Canadian diplomats posted in Havana show evidence
-of brain damage that mirrors the injuries of some of their US
-counterparts. Global Affairs Canada withdraws all staff with families.
-(“Fresh
-Row over Mysterious Sickness
-Affecting US Diplomats in Cuba,” The Guardian (UK), February 24,
-2018; Randel L. Swanson II, et al., “Neurological
-Manifestations among US Government Personnel Reporting Directional
-Audible and Sensory Phenomena
-in Havana, Cuba,” Journal of the American Medical Association 319
-(March 20, 2018): 1125–1133; “Blood
-and Bureaucracy: Inside Canada’s Panicked Response to ‘Havana
-Syndrome,’” Toronto (Ont.) Globe and Mail, December 12, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7730
Date: 3/2/2018
-Description: The US State Department announces it will continue to staff
-its embassy in Havana, Cuba, at the minimum level required to perform
-“core diplomatic and consular functions” due to concerns about health
-attacks on staff. The embassy has been operating under “ordered
-departure status” since September, but the status is set to expire. This
-announcement serves to extend the staff reductions indefinitely. (“US
-Embassy in Cuba to Reduce Staff Indefinitely
-after ‘Health Attacks,’” CNN, March 2, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7731
Date: 3/9/2018
-Description: The US Air Force officially retires the MQ-1 Predator drone
-from operational service. The aircraft was first operationally deployed
-in 1995 and in 2011 the last of 268 Predators were delivered to the
-service, of which just over 100 were still in service by the start of
-2018. While the Predator was phased out by the Air Force in favor of the
-heavier and more capable MQ-9 Reaper, the Predator continues to serve in
-the MQ-1C Gray Eagle derivative for the US Army as well as with several
-foreign nations. (Wikipedia, “General
-Atomics MQ-1 Predator”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7732
Date: 3/13/2018
-Description: 4:15 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter
-Squadron 106 (VFA-106, the “Gladiators”) tracks four separate unknown
-objects on its radar in the W-122 warning area, which sits off the coast
-of North Carolina. The objects are all flying at approximately 0.1 Mach
-at altitudes between 16,000 and 22,000 feet. The pilot visually
-identifies one at 20,000 feet that “appeared to be a quadcopter-type
-drone, 3–4 feet wide.” The objects do not appear to be doing anything in
-particular and are stationary or near-stationary. They are also spread
-out across an area approximately 40 to 50 miles wide, with the closest
-one being 15 miles away from the one boat that the pilot noted seeing
-below. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters
-with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War
-Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7733
Date: 4/5/2018
-Description: Night. Dogs belonging to a witness in DeRidder, Louisiana,
-begin growling in the living room, and cows in the pasture are mooing
-excitedly. Outside, he sees a huge white light growing and intensity and
-pulsating for 15 minutes. When it disappears, the animals calm down.
-(Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7734
Date: 5/5/2018
-Description: 12:45 p.m. A B757 airliner pilot is approaching Gatwick
-Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, in busy airspace when the
-First Officer and Captain see a fairly large, irregular-shaped,
-dark-lack object pass down the left side at the same altitude within 200
-feet of the aircraft, heading in an easterly direction. No avoiding
-action is needed, but the incident is reported to Gatwick control. (UK
-Airprox Board, “The UKAB Meeting on 20th June 2018 Consisted Solely of
-Consolidated Drone/Balloon/Model/Unknown Object Report Sheet”; “UKAB
-‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021):
-43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7735
Date: 5/23/2018
-Description: After an employee of the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China,
-reports medical symptoms (abnormal sensations of sound and pressure) in
-April that are similar to the diplomats in Havana, Cuba, Secretary of
-State Mike Pompeo confirms
-to the House Foreign Affairs Committee that there are several reports
-from diplomatic staff in Guangzhou of symptoms “entirely consistent”
-with those reported from Cuba. A medical team arrives at the end of the
-month to conduct baseline medical evaluations on consulate staff. Some
-are evacuated to the US, including security engineering officer Mark
-Lenzi, who has been hearing sounds like “marbles bouncing and hitting
-the floor” since April 2017, followed by excruciating headaches and
-insomnia. (“US
-Embassy Pulls More China Staff over
-Mystery Illness,” BBC News, June 7, 2018; Richard Stone, “Sonic
-Attack or Mass Paranoia? New Evidence Stokes
-Debate over Diplomats’ Mysterious Illness,” Science, June 20, 2018;
-“US
-Diplomat Mark Lenzi, Who Suffered
-Mysterious Injury While Stationed in China, Pledges to Donate Brain to
-Science,” South China Morning Post, May 11, 2019; Julia Joffe, “The
-Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7736
Date: 7/5/2018
-Description: 9:30 a.m. A King Air BE90 pilot is cruising at 16,000 feet
-about 10 nautical miles north of Birmingham, England, when he sees a
-rectangular or elliptical object pass 500–1,000 feet below the aircraft.
-He estimates it is 20–40 inches long, although it is only in sight for 2
-seconds below it passes beneath the plane. It is either hovering or
-traveling in the opposite direction. (UK Airprox Board, “Assessment
-Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 12th September 2018”; “UKAB ‘Unknown
-Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7737
Date: 7/26/2018
-Description: The To The Stars Academy’s ADAM Research Project is
-announced to test extraterrestrial materials for commercial and military
-applications. The testing will be done through Harold
-E. Puthoff’s EarthTech International in Austin, Texas. (To The Stars
-Academy, “An Introduction to the ADAM Rsearch Project,” July 26,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7738
Date: 8/6/2018
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A resident of Heemstede, Netherlands, is
-skywatching when he suddenly sees a silent triangular object with three
-white lights moving faster than an airplane. (“Drie
-lichtjies in driehoeksvorm leek zwart vlak in het
-midden te zitten,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, August 6, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7739
Date: 8/12/2018
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Frédéric K. and a companion are watching the
-night sky in Viry, Haute-Savoie, France, when they see a black triangle
-with lights at each of its points. The object is nearly motionless, but
-it is rotating slightly and is completely silent. K. is struck by its
-immense size, which he estimates is several times the size of an
-airliner. After a few seconds it moves slowly northeast toward Geneva,
-Switzerland. (Daniel Robin, “Les triangles de la nuit (suite),”
-Ovnis-Direct, August 23, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7740
Date: 8/14/2018
-Description: TTSA’s “ADAM Project” (an acronym for Acquisition &
-Data Analysis of Materials) hand delivers exotic materials claimed to be
-from a crashed UFO to EarthTech in Austin, TX.
-Type: delivery
-Reference: YouTube)
-Location: Austin, TX
Date: 9/1/2018
-Description: According to a New York Times report, Douglas
-H. Smith, the lead author of the March study on Havana Syndrome and
-director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of
-Pennsylvania, says that microwaves are now considered a main suspect and
-that the team is increasingly sure the diplomats have suffered brain
-injury. Strikes with microwaves, some experts now argue, more plausibly
-explain reports of painful sounds, ills, and traumas than do other
-possible culprits—sonic attacks, viral infections, and contagious
-anxiety. In particular, a growing number of analysts cite an eerie
-phenomenon known as the Frey effect, named after Allan
-H. Frey, an
-American scientist, who in the 1960s found that microwaves can trick the
-brain into perceiving what seem to be ordinary sounds. The false
-sensations may account for a defining symptom of the diplomatic
-incidents—the perception of loud noises, including ringing, buzzing, and
-grinding. Initially, experts cited those symptoms as evidence of
-stealthy attacks with sonic weapons. (William J. Broad, “Microwave
-Weapons Are Prime
-Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers,” New York Times, September
-1, 2018; Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, “Diplomats’
-Mystery Illness and Pulsed Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation,”
-Neural Computation 30 (2018): 2882–2985)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7741
Date: 10/11/2018
-Description: Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public
-presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning
-UFO’s.
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Tucson, AZ
Date: 10/15/2018
-Description: The Five Continents UFO Forum is held in the Cosmos Hotel
-in Moscow, Russia, to serve as a platform to launch a worldwide UFO
-organization. The nine founders of the World Coalition on
-Extraterrestrial Contact include Don
-Schmitt (US), Roberto
-Pinotti (Italy), Gary
-Heseltine (UK), Ademar
-José Gevaerd (Brazil), Andrea Simondini (Argentina), Haktan
-Ardogan (Turkey), Gabor Tarçali (Hungary), Lachezar
-Filipov (Bulgaria), and Anthony
-Choy (Peru). The conference is promoted by the Russian Kosmopoisk
-group and the International Chinese UFO Association. (2Pinotti
-230–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7742
Date: 10/26/2018
-Description: Harvard astronomer Avi
-Loeb and his postdoctoral assistant Shmuel Bialy submit a paper
-exploring the possibility that the recently discovered interstellar
-object ʻOumuamua is an artificial thin solar sail accelerated by solar
-radiation pressure in an effort to help explain the object’s
-nongravitational acceleration. Other scientists state that the available
-evidence is insufficient to consider such a premise and that a tumbling
-solar sail would not be able to accelerate. In response, Loeb writes an
-article detailing six anomalous properties of ʻOumuamua that make it
-unusual, unlike any comets or asteroids seen before. A subsequent report
-on observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope sets a tight limit on
-cometary outgassing of any carbon-based molecules and indicates that
-ʻOumuamua is at least 10 times shinier than a typical comet. A detailed
-podcast produced by Rob Reid provides the full details about the
-differences between ʻOumuamua and known comets. (Wikipedia, “’Oumuamua”;
-Abraham Loeb, “How to
-Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations,” Scientific American blog,
-September 27, 2018; Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb, “Could
-Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ’Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?”
-arXiv, October 26, 2018; Matt Williams, “Could
-’Oumuamua Be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail?” Universe Today,
-October 31, 2018; “Cigar-Shaped
-Interstellar Object May Have Been an Alien Probe, Harvard Paper
-Claims,” WPSD-TV, Paducah, Kentucky, November 6, 2018; Kerry
-Sheridan, “Scientists
-Push Back against Harvard ’Alien Spacecraft’
-Theory,” Phys.org, November 7, 2018; Abraham Loeb, “6
-Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor ’Oumuamua,”
-Scientific American blog, November 20, 2018; D.E. Trilling, et al., “Spitzer
-Observations of Interstellar
-Object 1I/’Oumuamua,” aeXiv, November 20, 2018; Rob Reid, “Nailing
-Down the Nature of ’Oumuamua:
-It’s Probably a Comet, But…” Ars Technica, November 29, 2018; Oded
-Carmeli, “If
-True, This Could
-Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History,” Haaretz,
-January 16, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7743
Date: 11/6/2018
-Description: Around midnight. The pilots of a US Army AH-64 Apache
-attack helicopter are preparing to take off from an airstrip about 40
-miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, when they spot three objects in a
-loose triangular formation in the sky at a low altitude. The copilot
-continues to follow the three objects with the aircraft’s multi- sensor
-imaging system, the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night
-Vision Sensor. As the three objects approach the foothills of nearby
-Picacho Peak, they suddenly appear to rotate around each other, as if
-revolving around an unseen axis, all while maintaining a steady eastward
-trajectory. Pilot Chris Lehto says they are moving at an unexpectedly
-high rate of speed. After several rotations, the objects then resume an
-obtuse triangular formation before speeding out of sight as the Apache
-begins to take off. (Tim McMillan, Micah Hanks, and Christopher Plain,
-“Incursions
-at the Border: Homeland Security Agents Tell of Encounters with
-Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena,” The DeBrief, May 27, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7744
Date: 11/9/2018
-Description: 6:47 a.m. A British Airways 787 is flying eastward just off
-the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, near the Dingle peninsula at 330 mph
-at an altitude of 39,000 feet. Two other aircraft, a Norwegian Airlines
-737 in front of it and a Virgin VA 76 behind, are on the same flight
-path. The pilot of the British Airways plane notices a bright light
-moving fast on the left and rapidly veers north. She asks Shannon
-Airport if there are military planes in the area. They tell the pilot no
-and that nothing is showing on their radar. The Virgin pilot has seen it
-and thinks it is a meteor or satellite re-entry. The Norwegian pilot has
-seen two bright lights. Shannon verifies that other aircraft have
-witnessed the event. (Jenny Randles, “Irish Mid-Air Spectacular,”
-Fortean Times 375 (January 2019): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7745
Date: 11/9/2018
-Description: A report finds that the earlier FBI investigation into the
-Cuban health attacks has been stymied by conflicts with the CIA and
-State Department. The CIA is reluctant to reveal, even to other US
-agencies, the identities of affected officers. Federal rules on the
-confidentiality of medical records also hindered the investigation.
-(Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson, “The
-Mystery of the Havana Syndrome,” New Yorker, November 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7746
Date: 11/17/2018
-Description: Day. A Cargojet flight from the Cincinnati area to Calgary,
-Alberta, observes bright lights high above Saskatchewan, while a
-corresponding Canadian Air Defence Sector log entry describes “bright
-shining lights” that are “maneuvering and moving fast.” (Daniel Otis,
-“Credible
-UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian
-Government Documents Reveal,” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; CADORS
-Report, no. 2018C4984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7747
Date: 11/19/2018
-Description: The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive
-Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization announces that all 21 monitoring
-facilities located in Australia are completed “and sending reliable,
-high-quality data” to Vienna, Austria, for analysis. The global
-monitoring system consists of 337 facilities worldwide to monitor the
-planet for signs of nuclear explosions. It includes 60 infrasound
-stations that monitor for micropressure changes in Earth’s atmosphere,
-which are caused by infrasonic waves. These waves have a low frequency
-and cannot be heard by human ears, and can be caused by nuclear
-explosions. (Wikipedia, “Preparatory
-Commission for the Comprehensive
-Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7748
Date: 11/21/2018
-Description: Morning. The Canadian Air Defence Sector detects an
-unidentified radar target approaching North America from the direction
-of Greenland. Canadian CF-18 fighter jets are soon launched from CFB
-Bagotville in Quebec to locate the “unknown track,” but find nothing. A
-declassified report from the following day blames the “spurious data” on
-equipment issues at a NORAD radar installation on Canada’s north
-Atlantic coast. Later that day, CADS receives a UFO report from Edmonton
-air traffic controllers about “3 red lights in the sky, hovering at the
-approximate height of a cell phone tower” near High Prairie, Alberta.
-This time, CADS responds by notifying Canadian NORAD headquarters in
-Winnipeg and Transport Canada, the federal transportation department.
-(Daniel Otis, “Credible
-UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government
-Documents Reveal,”
-Motherboard, November 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7749
Date: 12/4/2018
-Description: The independent documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying
-Saucers is released. The film, available on Netflix beginning in June
-2019, “chronicles the challenges and travails of a cosmic whistleblower.
-Burdened with a revolutionary secret, he had to choose between his oath
-to his country or his conscience. Jeremy
-Corbell’s film explores Lazar’s
-groundbreaking claims and the devastating impact it has had on his life
-over the course of the last 30 years, including rare and never before
-revealed footage guaranteed to alter the landscape of the debate.”
-“Unfortunately, Corbell busies up the documentary with a barrage of
-images of atomic age archival footage and such that after awhile make
-the movie seem more like a collage than a film. There is also the
-psychobabble narration that is mumbled by Mickey
-Rourke; at times poetic, at times it comes off like comic relief.
-It’s distracting and unnecessary.” (Internet Movie Database, “Bob
-Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers”; “Watch
-Bob Lazar:
-Area 51 and Flying Saucers, 2021,” News of the World YouTube
-channel, November 5, 2021; Amy Zimmerman, “Why
-Did the FBI Raid the Home of the Biggest Alien Truther?” The Daily
-Beast, December 4, 2018; Carlos, “Bob
-Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers,” Cinema365, December 26,
-2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7750
Date: 12/19/2018
-End date: 12/21/2018
-Description: Sightings of drones disrupt around 1,000 flights at Gatwick
-Airport in West Sussex, England, causing flights to be diverted or
-canceled. There are multiple reports but no physical or photographic
-evidence. The military are called in with special anti-drone equipment.
-Gatwick goes back to normal operations on December 21 after two people
-are arrested then released without charge. (Wikipedia, “Gatwick
-Airport drone incident”; “Who is
-Drone Ranger?” The Sun (UK), December 21, 2018; “Gatwick
-Drone Attack Possible Inside Job, Police Say,” BBC News, April 14,
-2019; “The Gatwick Drone Enigma,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021):
-40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7751
Date: 12/30/2018
-Description: 6:45 p.m. The pilot of an Embraer 175 passenger plane
-approaching the runway at Glasgow Airport, Scotland, sees an “object
-pass between three and 10 feet from the aircraft at the same level.” The
-pilot cannot tell what it is, but it is “lit up in various places and
-was more horizontally long than it was vertically.” The Airprox board is
-unable to identify the object, but decides there was a definite risk of
-collision and luck played a part in missing it. (UK Airprox Board,
-“Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 13th February 2019”; “UKAB
-‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021):
-43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7752
Date: 1/2019
-Description: Ufologist Jenny
-Randles retires the Northern UFO News after its 200th issue is
-published. (Jenny Randles, “January
-Issue Now Out,” Oz Factor Books)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7753
Date: 1/4/2019
-Description: Biologists Alexander
-L. Stubbs of the University of California, Berkeley, and Fernando
-Montealegre-Z of the University of Lincoln analyze the recording of
-a sound made by US personnel in Cuba and release it to the Associated
-Press. They conclude that the sound is caused by the calling song of the
-Indies short-tailed cricket (Anurogryllus celerinictus) rather than a
-technological device. They match the song’s “pulse repetition rate,
-power spectrum, pulse rate stability, and oscillations per pulse” to the
-recording. (Carl Zimmer, “The
-Sounds That Haunted
-U.S. Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say,” New York
-Times, January 4, 2019; Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew,
-Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story behind the
-Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, Springer, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7754
Date: 1/6/2019
-Description: The crew of a Vanguard Air Care flight sees an unidentified
-light moving parallel to them for about three minutes while they are
-travelling at about 265 mph at an altitude of 7,500 feet around the 55th
-parallel over northern Manitoba. The CIRVIS report says the brightness
-of the light in the night sky is what attracted the observer’s attention
-and that NAV Canada’s Winnipeg Air Control Centre assumes that it is
-another aircraft. 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron at Canadian
-Forces Base North Bay in Ontario is notified of the sighting. An
-unclassified intelligence report is then faxed to Transport Canada. (“2019
-Sighting of Unidentified Light
-in Northern Manitoba Sky Was Reported to Air Force, Vice Says,”
-Thompson (Man.) Citizen, April 14, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7755
Date: 1/8/2019
-Description: The television series Project Blue Book premieres on the
-History channel. The main role of J.
-Allen Hynek is played by Aidan
-Gillen, with
-Laura
-Mennell as Mimi Hynek. The series runs for a second season in 2020
-before it is canceled. UFO skeptic Robert
-Sheaffer, reviewing the first four episodes, points out numerous
-historical inaccuracies and falsehoods, some of which he characterizes
-as “absurd.” Concerned over misguiding viewers, he concludes that “this
-program references real people by their real names, a real government
-program, and real incidents. It then mixes in absurd and invented
-details, while claiming that the show is based on real events.”
-(Wikipedia, “Project
-Blue Book (TV
-series)”; Internet Movie Database, “Project
-Blue Book”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7756
Date: 1/15/2019
-Description: 11:40 a.m. An RAF Typhoon pilot is leading a pair of
-fighters from Coningsby, England, to an exercise in the North Sea. After
-receiving clearance to climb to 30,000 feet from 15,000 feet, he notices
-an object at 11 o’clock about one nautical mile away, slightly higher
-and maintaining a constant altitude. The radar and data link show no
-traffic conflictions. The object reflects sunlight and appears to have a
-linear form. It passes down the left- hand side of the aircraft. The
-wingman independently sees the same object as it passes over the
-leader’s aircraft. He maintains the formation at 15,000 feet until they
-are clear of the object. Nothing unusual is noticed by ground radar. (UK
-Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 13th March
-2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June
-2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7757
Date: 1/30/2019
-Description: The government of Canada announces that it is reducing its
-embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, after a 14th Canadian diplomat reports
-symptoms of Havana syndrome in late December 2018. (“‘Havana
-Syndrome’ Forces Canada
-to Halve Its Diplomatic Presence in Cuba,” Radio Canada
-International, January 30, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7758
Date: 2/6/2019
-Description: The Canadian government is served with a $28 million dollar
-lawsuit by five diplomats, on the alleged basis that Ottawa has not
-promptly addressed the serious health concerns the Canadian diplomats
-and their families have faced in Havana, Cuba, more than 2 years ago.
-The origin of these health concerns is unknown, but these ailments
-manifest as symptoms that are similar to that of a concussion. None of
-these allegations have been proven in court. (“Ailing
-Canadian Diplomats Who Served in Cuba Have ‘Visible and Real’ Health
-Impacts, Trudeau
-Says,” Toronto (Ont.) Star, February 7, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7759
Date: 2/10/2019
-Description: Afternoon. Several people in Cogollos de Guadix, Granada,
-Spain, observe three mysterious lights flash across the sky at great
-speed, each of which falls in a different part of the village. José
-María Madiedo at the Universidad de Huelva rules out meteorites because
-the objects are only seen locally. (“Seen in the Skies,” Fortean Times
-382, August 2019, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7760
Date: 2/13/2019
-Description: 4:35 p.m. The crew of an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare
-aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23), flying out
-Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and
-conducting activities in the W-386 warning area, visually spot what they
-specifically describe as “a red weather balloon” at 27,000 feet. Neither
-Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia Capes (FASCFAC
-VACAPES), nor the Echo Control team responsible for overseeing
-operations in the Atlantic Test Ranges off the coast, are aware of any
-scheduled balloon activity. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here
-Are the Navy Pilot
-Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East
-Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7761
Date: 3/2019
-Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, Aerospace Corporation (a
-defense contractor), gives a classified briefing to a Defense Department
-agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this
-earth.”
-Type: senate briefing
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 3/2019
-Description: An airline passenger films a supposed UFO over the Aegean
-Sea between Turkey and Greece. The film is taken through the airplane
-window and shows a massive, gray-black, contrail-like object cutting
-through a layer of clouds. Some investigators conclude it is an F-4
-fighter jet of the Greek Air Force. (“Seen in the Skies,” Fortean Times
-382, August 2019, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7762
Date: 3/4/2019
-Description: An FA-18 pilot flying out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach,
-Virginia, takes cellphone images of a UAP out of his cockpit in the W-72
-warning area off the coast. His weapons systems officer captures three
-different objects using the same cellphone. (Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer
-Corbell, “The
-US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7763
Date: 3/30/2019
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A B787 airliner pilot flying over London,
-England, sees a red object pass down the right-hand side of the aircraft
-at 6,000 feet. It is impossible to identify, although it is large enough
-to cause concern. (UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB
-Meeting on Wednesday 15th May 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log
-2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7764
Date: 4/2019
-Description: The UK National Archives releases 18 more UFO files that
-had been missed since the last release in 2013. (“Ministry
-of Defence Insider Reveals Contents of Britain’s ‘Final’ UFO Files,”
-Metro (UK), January 30, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7765
Date: 4/2019
-Description: The Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, picks
-up a 982.992 MHz radio signal, labeled BLC1, emitted from Proxima
-Centauri. Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project cannot
-attribute it to any Earth-based or near-Earth human-created source.
-Shifts in the signal’s frequency are consistent with a planet’s movement
-and may be suggestive of a third planet within the system. As of
-December 2020, follow-up observations have failed to detect the signal
-again, a step necessary to confirm that the signal is a technosignature.
-(Wikipedia, “BLC1”;
-“Signal from Space,” Fortean Times 404 (April 2021): 15; David Appell,
-“Meet
-the Technosignature
-Researcher on the Lookout for Exocivilizations,” Physics World,
-February 2, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7766
Date: 4/4/2019
-Description: The Argentine Air Force’s Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos
-Aeroespaciales is renamed the Centro de Identificación Aéroespacial.
-(Milton Hourcade, “Argentina:
-UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020;
-Government of Argentina, “Centro
-de Identificación Aéroespacial”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7767
Date: 4/28/2019
-Description: 12:40 p.m. An Airbus A319 is climbing out from Gatwick
-Airport, near Crawley, West Sussex, England, when the pilot sees an
-object a few seconds after breaking through cloud at 17,000 feet. It
-passes beneath them from the center of the aircraft and under the
-right-hand wing and is clearly contrasted against the clouds. The small
-object appears dark green in color with a white light on top. The UK
-Airprox Board places this incident in the highest risk category. (UK
-Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on
-Wednesday 19th June 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,”
-Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7768
Date: 4/30/2019
-Description: In an interview, Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD (who has a security
-clearance) talks about the “crash retrieval program” that was terminated
-in 1989 for lack of progress.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: US
Date: 5/5/2019
-Description: 2:00 p.m. An Airbus A320 pilot departing from Gatwick
-Airport, England, sees a totally white object resembling a shoebox-sized
-cube with a ball on top. It passes down the left-hand side of the
-aircraft, slightly above and within 16 feet at 6,000 feet altitude. The
-object appears to be in level flight. (UK Airprox Board, “Assessment
-Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on Wednesday 19th June 2019”; “UKAB
-‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021):
-43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7769
Date: 5/13/2019
-Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies
-age 84
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Toronto, Canada
Date: 5/22/2019
-Description: Pentagon spokesman Christopher
-Sherwood confirms to the New
-York Post that the AATIP program “did pursue research and
-investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena,” dispelling rumors
-that the program only focused on theoretical physics. (Steven
-Greenstreet, “The
-Pentagon Finally Admits It Investigates UFOs,” New York Post, May
-22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7770
Date: 5/24/2019
-Description: Researchers who examine Canadian diplomats affected by
-Havana Syndrome come to the conclusion that neurotoxin exposure is
-compatible with the symptoms. Their explanation of the root cause is the
-increased use of fumigation as pest control by the embassies themselves,
-which is supported by blood analysis. (“Havana Syndrome:
-Exposure to Neurotoxin May Have Been Cause, Study Suggests,” CBC
-News, September 19, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7771
Date: 5/26/2019
-Description: The New York Times reports that US Navy pilots fully
-briefed AATIP about encounters they had with unexplained objects during
-the summer of 2014 to March 2015 while flying at high altitudes off the
-East coast of the United States. (Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and
-Leslie Kean, “‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying
-Objects,” New York Times, May 26, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7772
Date: 5/31/2019
-End date: 8/22/2020
-Description: First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside
-America’s UFO Investigation”
-Type: documentary
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 6/2019
-Description: The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous
-Phenomena issues an advisory for pilots that offers recommendations on
-how to deal with UAPs by Ted Roe. It offers a general history of UAP,
-some common profiles of unidentified objects, safety factors that can
-arise during an incident, and cautions and recommendations for aircrews
-and air traffic controllers. (Ted Roe, “Advisory
-for Pilots, Aircrews, Air Controllers, and Aviation Professionals:
-Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, UFOs, and Aviation Safety,”
-NARCAP, June 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7773
Date: 6/15/2019
-Description: Approximately 4:45 p.m. The Skinwalker Ranch project in
-Uintah County, Utah, orchestrated by Utah real estate developer Brandon
-Fugal (who purchased the land from Robert
-Bigelow in April 2016) and led by University of Alabama
-astrophysicist and science fiction author Travis
-S. Taylor, sends
-up three instrumented small rockets to locate the source of strong RF
-and gamma radiation apparently coming from about one mile above the
-property. Between the rocket tests, the team observes and films on two
-occasions a round, white ball that moves erratically around the sky for
-a few seconds before disappearing. Cows in a neighboring field are
-agitated and group closely together in one spot. (The Secret of
-Skinwalker Ranch, Season 1, Episode 4, 2020; Internet Movie Database,
-“The
-Secret of Skinwalker Ranch”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7775
Date: 6/15/2019
-Description: President Donald
-Trump tells ABC News’ George
-Stephanopoulos that he has been briefed on Navy pilots reporting
-increased sightings of UFOs. Trump raises his eyebrows and grins
-incredulously when asked what he makes of the reports. “I want them to
-think whatever they think,” Trump says of the Navy pilots. “I did have
-one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs.
-Do I believe it? Not particularly.” (Matthew Choi, “Trump
-Says He Was Briefed on Navy Sightings of UFOs,” Politico, June 15,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7774
Date: 6/20/2019
-Description: Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an
-interview with Joe Rogan
-Type: interview
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
-Location: US
Date: 6/23/2019
-Description: The catalog of space objects built by the US Space
-Surveillance Network lists 44,336 objects including 8,558 satellites
-launched into orbit since 1957. 17,480 of them are actively tracked
-while 1,335 are lost. The rest have re-entered Earth’s turbulent
-atmosphere and disintegrated, or survived re-entry and impacted the
-Earth. The SSN typically tracks space objects that are baseball size or
-larger. The Space Surveillance Network has numerous sensors that provide
-data. They are separated into three categories: dedicated sensors,
-collateral sensors and auxiliary sensors. Additionally sensors are
-classified as Near-Earth (NE) tracking (observing satellites, space
-debris, and other objects in lower orbits), or Deep Space (DS) tracking
-(generally for asteroids and comets). This global program consists of at
-least 29 distinct worldwide space surveillance systems, featuring the
-world’s most powerful radars (including the Solid State Phased Array
-Radar System), the DARPA Space Surveillance Telescope, the ground-based
-optical GEODSS space surveillance system (which detects “uncorrelated
-targets”), the Geosynchronous Space-Based Situational Awareness Program,
-and the Navy’s sea-based X-band radar system. The Combined Space
-Operations Center (formerly the Joint Space Operations Center) at
-Vandenberg Space Force Base and the Space Control Center at Cheyenne
-Mountain are both repositories of data from the SSN. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Space Surveillance Network”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7776
Date: 6/27/2019
-Description: The Storm Area 51 Facebook event is created by college
-student Matty Roberts as a joke, unaware of the viral attention it will
-receive. He comes up with the idea of suggesting a raid on the Nevada
-facility to search for aliens after watching Area 51 conspiracy theorist
-Bob
-Lazar and filmmaker Jeremy
-Corbell on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on June 20. The event
-plans for the raid in Amargosa Valley on September 20. More than 2
-million people responded “going” and 1.5 million “interested” on the
-event page, which subsequently attracts widespread media reaction and
-makes the event become an internet meme. (Wikipedia, “Storm
-Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7777
Date: 7/2019
-Description: Subsequent findings by the University of Pennsylvania team
-find that, compared to a healthy control group, the US diplomats who
-report injury in the Havana, Cuba, embassy have experienced brain
-trauma; advanced MRI scans (specifically res-fMRI, multimodal MRI, and
-diffusion MRI) reveal “differences in whole brain white matter volume,
-regional gray and white matter volume, cerebellar microstructural
-integrity, and functional connectivity in the auditory and visuospatial
-subnetworks” but find no differences in executive functions. The study
-concludes that the US government personnel have been physically injured
-in a way consistent with the symptoms that they describe but express no
-conclusion on the cause or source of the injury. The New York Times
-reports: “Outside experts were divided on the study’s conclusions. Some
-saw important new evidence; others say it is merely a first step toward
-an explanation, and difficult to interpret given the small number of
-patients.” (Benedict Carey, “Were
-U.S. Diplomats Attacked in Cuba? Brain Study Deepens Mystery,” New
-York Times, July 23, 2019; Ragini Verma, et al., “Neuroimaging
-Findings in US Government Personnel with Possible Exposure to Directional
-Phenomena in Havana, Cuba,” Journal of the American Medical
-Association 322 (July 23/30, 2019): 336–347)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7778
Date: 7/14/2019
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two unmanned aerial systems (UAVs, or “drones”)
-are sighted by the crew of the guided missile destroyer USS
-Kidd off
-the western tip of San Clemente Island, California. The ship immediately
-activates its photo expert team (SNOOPIE) and enters into a condition of
-restricted communications designed to enhance operational security and
-enhance survivability. Less than 10 minutes later, the USS Kidd advises
-the USS
-Rafael Peralta of
-the situation. The USS Rafael Peralta logs show that at around 10:00
-p.m. it had activated its own SNOOPIE team. Reports of possible UAV
-sightings and a red flashing light come in from the USS
-John
-Finn. A white light hovers above the flight deck of the USS Rafael
-Peralta. The drone manages to match the destroyer’s speed, moving at 16
-knots in order to maintain a hovering position over the helicopter
-landing pad. By this point, the encounter has lasted over 90
-minutes—significantly longer than what commercially available drones can
-typically sustain. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple
-Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off
-California over Numerous Nights,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7779
Date: 7/15/2019
-Description: 8:39 p.m. The USS
-Rafael
-Peralta again spots unidentified UAVs between San Clemente Island
-and San Diego, California, and by 9:00 p.m. the USS
-Kidd is
-also reporting them. The drones seem to be pursuing the ships, even as
-they continue to maneuver throughout the incident. By 9:20 p.m., the USS
-Kidd logs simply remark “Multiple UAVs around ship.” 17 minutes later,
-the Kidd issues orders for the crew to man what is possibly a Mark 87
-Electro-Optical Director to provide surveillance and tracking data. At
-approximately the same time, the USS
-Russell records
-a frenzy of activity, with drones dropping in elevation, and apparently
-moving forward and backward, left and right. Meanwhile, the USS
-Rafael
-Peralta receives a radio call from a passing cruise ship, the Carnival
-Imagination, notifying
-them that the drones are not theirs, and that they also see as many as
-five or six drones maneuvering nearby. The incident continues into the
-night, with the USS Rafael Peralta first recording two UAVs and then
-four UAVs near their ship. Approaching midnight, the USS Russell reports
-a final sighting involving multiple pyramid-shaped objects. Despite the
-nearly three-hour duration of the event, none of the warships involved
-appear to have been able to identify the drones. The Navy, Coast Guard,
-and FBI investigate the natter and are unable to provide an adequate
-investigation. Leaked photos and videos said to pertain to this incident
-are released by filmmaker Jeremy
-Corbell. The
-materials consisted of footage of radar screens showing multiple unknown
-contacts, video of an object apparently falling into the ocean, and a
-brief video of a triangular- shaped light flying over the deck of a
-ship. The apparent triangular shape of the object has been strongly
-debated, as many have posited it was the result of a common optical
-artifact. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple Destroyers
-Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over Numerous
-Nights,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Jeremy Kenyon
-Lockyer Corbell, “The
-US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8,
-2021; “2019
-the US Navy Filmed ‘Pyramid’ Shaped UFOs: Here Is That Footage,”
-Jeremy Corbell YouTube channel, April 8, 2021; “Pyramid
-UFO, New Footage: It’s Just Bokeh, Not a Pyramid,” Mick West YouTube
-channel, April 15, 2021; “VFX
-Artists Debunk Pentagon UFO Videos,” Corridor Crew YouTube channel,
-August 15, 2021; Graeme Rendall, “‘Drone
-Swarms’: UAPs or Other Actors?” UAP Media UK, April 20, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7780
Date: 7/16/2019
-Description: Rep. Mark
-Walker (R-N.C.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence and
-Counterterrorism subcommittee, asks Secretary of the Navy Richard V.
-Spencer to outline what resources the Navy is dedicating to
-investigating UFO sightings. He also asks if officials have found
-physical evidence to substantiate the claims and whether they are aware
-of any foreign nations or private companies that have introduced
-breakthrough technologies that could explain them. (Mark Walker, Letter
-to Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, July 16, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7781
Date: 7/17/2019
-Description: 7:56–10:39 p.m. The Navy destroyer USS
-Paul Hamilton is cruising 80 nautical miles southwest of San
-Clemente Island, California, when it spots a UAS (unmanned aerial
-systems) about one mile distant. Twenty minutes later, the timeline
-indicates two UASs are seen with one of them falling in the water. By
-8:26 p.m., multiple objects are spotted. The timeline also indicates
-that the bridge was able to see flashing red lights. At 8:50 p.m., the
-timeline notes a “UAS swarm.” By 9:11 p.m., the timeline notes that one
-of the objects is directly overhead at 2,000 feet. Just a minute later,
-all of the objects appear to change course and head away from the ship
-at 69 mph. However, eight minutes later, UASs are again seen behind the
-ship. The last event noted in the slide takes place when one of the UAS
-crosses the ship at approximately 2,000 feet. A photo is taken with a
-forward- looking infrared (FLIR) system that is of extremely low
-resolution. Three blurry dots are discernible, but there are no other
-visible details. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Navy
-Releases Timeline for Mysterious 2019 ’UAS Swarm’
-Involving Warships Off California,” The Drive: The War Zone,
-February 10, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7782
Date: 7/18/2019
-Description: An investigation into the UAS incidents is routed to the
-Chief of Naval Operations. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Harassment
-of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off California Went on for
-Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7783
Date: 7/23/2019
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Another drone is spotted by a SNOOPIE team on the
-USS
-Russell at an elevation of about 400 feet. A little over an hour
-later, flares are spotted, though the logs do not remark if these are
-connected to the ongoing drone sighting. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti,
-“Harassment
-of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off
-California Went on for Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7784
Date: 7/24/2019
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A new term is introduced to the USS Russell log:
-“ghostbusters.” A log entry reflects an apparently brief counter UAS
-exercise lasting about eight minutes. Though official references are
-hard to come by, “ghostbuster” is a term sometimes used to refer to
-lower-end counter UAS devices that look similar to rifles. These
-anti-drone countermeasures are increasingly being used by security
-forces around the world. They operate by using highly-directional
-radiofrequency jammers designed to disrupt communications between drones
-and their operators. One key limitation of these devices is that they
-can only disable drones that are directly controlled by a human
-operator. Autonomous systems are far more resilient against such
-countermeasures. It is not perfectly clear if the Russell had this
-equipment onboard previously, or if “ghostbuster” devices were brought
-onboard in reaction to the earlier drone incidents. (Stew Magnuson, “OSD
-to Recommend Big Budget Increase for Counter- Drone
-Technologies,” National Defense, March 23, 2017; Brett Tingley, “Check
-Out the Anti-Drone Weapons Carried
-by Security at Biden’s Meeting in Brussels,” The Drive: The War
-Zone, June 15, 2021; Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Harassment
-of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off California Went on for
-Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7785
Date: 7/25/2019
-Description: 1:20 a.m. Another unidentified drone incident, lasting 32
-minutes, is reported by the USS
-Kidd.
-(Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple
-Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over
-Numerous Nights,”
-The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021;)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7786
Date: 7/30/2019
-Description: 2:15 am. The USS
-Kidd reports
-another UAV incident. Its SNOOPIE team remains activated until 3:27 a.m.
-Ships’ logs show a sustained, but an intermittent pattern of drone
-sightings throughout the month of July by Navy ships operating off
-Southern California. These events seem to have spurred additional
-training and the rapid deployment of unique capabilities like the
-“ghostbuster” counter-UAS equipment. It remains unknown what impact, if
-any, this training and equipment has on deterring drone operations. At
-least three ships report sighting drones in the very early hours of July
-30, with unusual and extensive redactions in the logs of the USS
-Russell, but
-we do not know what happened the next day, or in the weeks that
-followed. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple
-Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over
-Numerous Nights,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Adam
-Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Harassment
-of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone
-Swarms off California Went on for Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone,
-December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7787
Date: 7/31/2019
-Description: In response to the inquiry by Mark
-Walker, Navy
-Undersecretary Thomas
-Modly writes in a brief letter that “the Department of the Navy
-takes these reports very seriously and continues to log sightings and
-fully investigate the accounts.” (Bryan Bender, “Navy
-Withholding Data on UFO Sightings, Congressman Says,” Politico,
-September 6, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7788
Date: 8/2019
-Description: An anonymous White House staffer who is accompanying
-National Security Adviser John
-Bolton in London, England, is in her hotel room when she suddenly
-feels a tingling in the side of her head that is facing the window. The
-intense pressure in her head is accompanied by a tinning in her ears.
-When she leaves the room, the symptoms stop. She reports the incident to
-the Secret Service because it is uncannily similar to the symptoms
-described by American diplomats who had served in Cuba and China. (Julia
-Joffe, “The
-Mystery of the Immaculate
-Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7789
Date: 8/8/2019
-Description: An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range near
-Nyonoksa, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, triggers radiation levels to rise.
-According to official Russian sources, the explosion is the result of a
-failed test of an “isotope power source for a liquid-fueled rocket
-engine,” possibly a 9M730 Burevestnik cruise missile test or recovery.
-Five nuclear scientists die immediately and three suffer from burns.
-Russian authorities order the evacuation of the village near the blast
-site, suggesting grave dangers due to nuclear radiation. (Wikipedia, “Nyonska
-radiation accident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7790
Date: 9/6/2019
-Description: Rep. Mark
-Walker (R-N.C.) accuses the US Navy of withholding information about
-reports of unidentified aircraft after officially requesting more data
-on the mysterious encounters. “While I am encouraged the Under Secretary
-of the Navy confirmed that UAP encounters are fully investigated, there
-is frustration with the lack of answers to specific questions about the
-threat that superior aircraft flying in United States airspace may
-pose,” Walker tells Politico. (Bryan Bender, “Navy
-Withholding Data on UFO Sightings, Congressman Says,” Politico,
-September 6, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7791
Date: 9/20/2019
-Description: The Storm Area 51 Facebook event takes place with about 150
-people showing up at the entrance to Area 51. Although no one succeeds
-in entering the site, an estimated 3,000 attend the related music
-festivals in Rachel and Hiko, Nevada, according to state and local law
-enforcement, and up to 10,000 people visit the area over the weekend.
-Air Force spokeswoman Laura
-McAndrews says government officials are briefed on the event and
-discourage people from attempting to enter military property. Nevada law
-enforcement also warns potential participants in the event against
-trespassing. The event, although intended as a joke, has an effect on
-businesses both locally in Nevada and around the US, which prepare
-products for visitors for those attending. (Wikipedia, “Storm
-Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7792
Date: 9/20/2019
-Description: “Storm Area-51” event planned
-Type: event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Area 51
Date: 9/29/2019
-End date: 9/30/2019
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Security officers at Palo Verde Nuclear
-Generating Station near Tonopah, Arizona, observe 5–6 drones flying at
-200–300 feet and showing flashing red and white lights. The objects also
-have spotlights turned on during their approach but turned off as they
-maneuver above the site. They remain over the plant for more than 80
-minutes and are estimated to be at least 2 feet across, ruling out
-commercial drones. They return the following night, with 4 drones
-operating above the station for an extended period. Polie unsuccessfuly
-attempt to track down the operators. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph
-Trevithick, “The
-Night a Mysterious Drone Swarm
-Descended on Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant,” The Drive: The War
-Zone, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7793
Date: 10/11/2019
-Description: The Twenty-Fifth Air Force for intelligence activities is
-merged with the 24th Air Force to form a reactivated 16th Air Force
-responsible for information warfare. Its headquarters is still at Joint
-Base San Antonio– Lackland in Texas. (Wikipedia, “Sixteenth
-Air Force”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7794
Date: 10/17/2019
-Description: The To the Stars Academy announces it has entered into a
-cooperative research and development agreement with the US Army Combat
-Capabilities Development Command. The five-year contract will focus on
-“inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials,
-electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum
-communications, and beamed energy propulsion.” According to the US Army,
-no public funding will go the group, but at least $750,000 will be
-provided in support and resources for developing and testing To the
-Stars technologies. The contract states that To the Stars will provide
-samples in its possession of “metamaterials,” any data or “obtained
-vehicles” that use “beamed energy propulsion,” and any information or
-technology related to “active camouflage” for testing and analysis of
-potential application on Army ground vehicles. Doug Halleaux, a
-spokesperson for the CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center, has stated that
-the US government has approached To the Stars because “If materials
-represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and
-presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA,
-it makes sense to look deeper here.” According to Halleaux, the Army is
-also interested in the results of a collaboration between To the Stars
-and TruClear Global, a company that creates custom video screen
-billboards, aimed at providing “advanced technology solutions to United
-States Government clientele.” (Wikipedia, “To
-the Stars (company)”; “Cooperative
-Research and Development Agreement between To the Stars Academy of Arts
-and Science, Inc., and
-the U.S. Army Combat Capavilities Development Command, Ground Behicle
-Systems Center,” October 10, 2019; Travis J. Tritten, “UFO
-Group Sharing Exotic Materials with Army for Combat Vehicles,”
-Bloomberg Government, October 21, 2019; M. J. Banias, “Tom
-DeLonge’s UFO Research Group Signs Contract with U.S. Army
-to Develop Far-Future Tech,” Motherboard, October 21, 2019; Mindy
-Weisberger, “Rock
-Star’s Company Seeks
-UFOs, Finds Military Contract,” Live Science, October 27, 2019; M.
-J. Banias, “The
-Army Told Us Why It Partnered
-with Tom DeLonge’s UFO Group,” Motherboard, November 4, 2019; To the
-Stars Academy, “CRADA FAQ,”
-November 15, 2019);
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7795
Date: 10/21/2019
-Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on
-retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed
-Services Committee.
-Type: senate briefing
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/23/2019
-Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on
-retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate
-Intelligence Committee
-Type: senate briefing
-Reference: NY
-Times
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 10/27/2019
-Description: The fifth X-37B mission, Orbital Test Vehicle-5, lands at
-the Shuttle Landing Facility on Merritt Island, Florida, after spending
-nearly 780 days in space. The Boeing X37B is an uncrewed, reusable,
-robotic spaceplane that is launched by an Atlas V rocket and uses solar
-panels for power in space. While the complete payload for OTV-5 is
-classified, the Air Force announces that one of its experiments is the
-Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader II (ASETS-II), which
-measures the performance of an oscillating heat pipe. (Wikipedia, “Boeing
-X-37”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7796
Date: 11/9/2019
-Description: 5:16 p.m. A young couple are driving home on the A629 near
-Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, when they see a white glow over the
-moorland. They stop and get out to watch as they hear the roar of what
-seem to be fighter jets headed for the glow. Other cars also stop and
-watch. Some start to film the object and the jets, as d o the couple on
-their cellphones, but the footage is blurry. The mother of the driver
-starts an appeal on social media for any other witnesses who filmed the
-event to come forward. Jenny
-Randles determines that two aircraft at that location, but they are
-not military and not jets; they are Partenavia P.68 Observers belonging
-to Ravenair and flying at 2,200 and 2,300 feet side by side and landing
-at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool 25 minutes later. No radar target
-matches the UFO itself. (Jenny Randles, “2020 Vision,” Fortean Times 389
-(February 2020): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7797
Date: 11/11/2019
-Description: 5:33 p.m. A commercial aircrew is flying a Boeing 737-800
-airliner at 37,000 feet altitude and 506 mph near Marseille, France. The
-pilot observes an unusual light flying just above their altitude on a
-collision heading from the right side into the 2 o’clock position
-relative to the aircraft. It performs a 180° turn and then matches the
-speed and heading of the airliner before beginning to cross above and in
-front of its flight path. At this point the pilot uses a cellphone to
-take a photograph and record 47 seconds of the UFO crossing their flight
-path, accelerating, and moving away. (Ted Roe, “NARCAP
-Technical Report 19: Analysis of a November 11, 2019, Aviation
-Safety-Related Incident Involving a Commercial Airliner and a UAP Over
-Europe,” July 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7798
Date: 11/26/2019
-Description: The same White House staffer who had an attack in August is
-hit again by Havana Syndrome while walking her dog in Arlington,
-Virginia. As she passes a parked van, a man gets out and walks past her.
-Her dog starts seizing up. Then she feels it too: a high-pitched ringing
-in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her
-face. (Julia Joffe, “The
-Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7799
Date: 12/2019
-Description: The Federal Aviation Administration launches an
-investigation into multiple nighttime sightings of unidentified “drones”
-with 6-foot wingspans flying in formation at about 150 feet over rural
-areas of northeastern Colorado (Phillips, Yuma, Washington, Lincoln, and
-Morgan counties) and southwestern Nebraska (Perkins County) for the last
-2 weeks in December, and as early as November 23. The objects usually
-fly in square grid patterns nearly every night between 5:00 and 10:00
-p.m. They have blinking lights and hover, then descend and take off very
-fast. Sen. Cory
-Gardner (R-Colo.) says he is glad the FAA is investigating. The
-Colorado Department of Homeland Security also opens an investigation, as
-Gov. Jared
-Polis vows to get to the bottom of the case. Sheriffs say the drones
-are not breaking Colorado law, but industry experts note that the drone
-operators could be violating FAA regulations on flying after dark and
-above a certain height. (“FAA
-Probes Clusters of Mysterious
-Drones Flying over Colorado,” Reuters, December 31, 2019; Sam
-Tabachnik, “A
-Night on the Plains: Chasing
-the Mysterious Drones of Eastern Colorado,” Denver Post, January 3,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7800
Date: 12/3/2019
-Description: The CIA team investigating the Havana Syndrome attacks
-brings its findings to CIA director Gina
-Haspel. According to two sources, after listening to the
-investigators lay out their evidence that suggests the Russian security
-services are behind the hits on Agency personnel, Haspel challenges
-them. She accuses the investigators of both hiding information from her
-and lying to her about what their inquiry has uncovered. The director
-questions the motives of those looking into the attacks. “This is why we
-need to clean out Russia House,” she says, referring to the CIA’s
-operations unit focused on Russia, according to two sources. “You’re
-just trying to stir up trouble on Russia.” A third source confirms that
-“the meeting did not go well.” (Julia Joffe, “The
-Mystery of the
-Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020; Ana Swanson, Edward
-Wong, and Julian E. Barmes, “U.S. Diplomats
-and Spies Battle Trump Administration over Suspected Attacks,” New
-York Times, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7801
Date: 12/20/2019
-Description: The United States Space Force Act, part of the National
-Defense Authorization Act for 2020, is signed, creating an independent
-space service by renaming and reorganizing Air Force Space Command into
-the United States Space Force. (Wikipedia, “United
-States Space Force”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7802
Date: 12/31/2019
-Description: Dusk. Placido Montoya, a plumber from Fort Morgan,
-Colorado, gives chase to a mystery drone in Morgan County after seeing
-blinking lights in the sky. But they take off rapidly and he speeds up
-to 120 mph before losing them. Vince Iovinella, deputy sheriff at the
-Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, receives more than 30 calls from locals
-reporting drones “zipping around all over the place.” Iovinella himself
-sees one with red, white, and green lights that he also tries to chase,
-but it outruns him. (“Attack
-of the Drones,” The Guardian (UK), April 18, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7803
Date: 1/6/2020
-Description: A meeting of local, state, and federal agencies brings 75
-people to Brush, Colorado, to share information and strategy on the
-mystery drones. Officials are looking for a command vehicle (such as a
-“closed box trailer with antennas or a large van”) that might be
-controlling the drones. (“Command
-Vehicle Focus of Colorado Drone Investigation,”
-Mystery Wire, January 6, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7804
Date: 1/8/2020
-Description: Drones are now being seen in Castle Rock and Parker in
-Douglas County, Colorado, and Fort Collins in Larimer County. Kerry
-Garrison, a vice president at drone vendor Multicopter Warehouse in
-Centennial, claims the drone reports are actually sightings of Starlink
-satellites launched by SpaceX; although they are at orbital altitude, in
-a clear sky they can look lower than they really are. But Garrison also
-visited the eastern planes with other aviation experts to view the
-drones. He says he saw red lights go zipping by at 100 mph, faster than
-any drone. A close call with a drone and a Flight for Life helicopter
-near Fort Morgan, Colorado, prompts officials to add ground-based
-spotting teams and aircraft equipped to hunt drones. However, an
-investigation by Colorado Homeland Security later say the incident is
-unrelated to the drone activity. (“Local
-Drone Dealer Says Lights Spotted
-over Castle Rock Were Satellites,” KDVR, Denver, January 7. 2020;
-Paul Seaburn, “Mysterious
-Drones Fly
-near Denver As Colorado Residents Fear a Government Cover-Up.”
-Mysterious Universe, January 8, 2020; Brett Tingley, “Surveillance
-Plane Joins Intensifying Hunt for Mystery Drones over Colorado and
-Nebraska (Updated),”
-The Drive: The War Zone, January 8, 2020; Kevin D. Randle, “X-Zone
-Broadcast Network: Drones, Drones,
-Drones,” A Different Perspective, February 7, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7805
Date: 1/13/2020
-Description: State agencies and the Colorado Division of Homeland
-Security announce that they are scaling back investigations into drone
-sightings. Between November 23 and January 13, the Colorado Information
-Analysis Center received 90 reports of drone activity. Of those, 14 are
-confirmed by law enforcement to be hobbyist drones. Between January 6
-and January 13, when state officials investigate drone sightings in the
-field, there are 23 drone activity reports. Of those, 13 are determined
-to be planets, stars, or small hobbyist drones. Six reports are ruled
-out as “atmospheric conditions or unidentified commercial aircraft.”
-Finally, four reports are confirmed by law enforcement, but the aircraft
-are unidentifiable. (“State
-Plans to ‘Scale Back’ Investigation of Drones in Northeast
-Colorado,” KDVR, Denver, January 13, 2020; “Drone Swarms,” Fortean
-Times, no. 416 (March 2022): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7806
Date: 1/20/2020
-Description: President Joe Biden in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/30/2020
-Description: The UK National Archives and Ministry of Defence announce
-another “final” release of UFO files. (“Ministry
-of Defence Insider Reveals Contents of Britain’s ‘Final’ UFO Files,”
-Metro (UK), January 30, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7807
Date: 2/14/2020
-Description: A Popular Mechanics article by UFO investigative writer and
-retired police lieutenant Tim
-McMillan says that Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS)
-was contracted under the auspices of the AATIP program to study UFO
-reports and purported paranormal phenomena. According to Steven
-Aftergood, director
-of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy,
-the AAWSAP contract “sounds like it was a good deal for the contractor.
-But it would be hard to argue that either the military or the public got
-their money’s worth.” (Tim McMillan, “Inside
-the Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program,” Popular Mechanics, February 14,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7808
Date: 3/3/2020
-Description: Science writer Sarah Scoles publishes They Are Already
-Here, focusing on the beliefs and attitudes of UFO researchers through
-first-person interviews. (Sarah Scoles, They Are Already Here: UFO
-Culture and Why We See Saucers, Pegasus, 2020; Curt Collins, “UFO
-Culture Examined: They
-Are Already Here by
-Sarah Scoles,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, Mar h 26, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7809
Date: 3/11/2020
-Description: COVID-19 Pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO)
-declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern
-on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
-Type: pandemic
-Reference: Wikipedia
Date: 3/19/2020
-Description: Night. A commercial Boeing 767 airliner is flying from
-Mexico City to Houston, Texas. At an approximate position somewhere west
-of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the plane is flying north at
-37,000 feet at 575 mph when the first officer, looking across to the
-left side of the cockpit, sees a yellowish-white light descend into view
-from above. He first thinks that it is a meteor and begins to say so
-when it suddenly stops at nearly the same altitude as the aircraft. The
-UFO then projects an illuminating beam of bright white light on the
-aircraft and appears to take a collision heading. The captain takes a
-defensive attitude and prepares for evasive measures, but the beam of
-light illuminating the aircraft ceases, and the UFO suddenly accelerates
-to the same speed and heading of the aircraft, maintains separation, and
-begins pacing. The captain estimates that the UFO maintains a distance
-of 1,000–2,000 feet, near the minimum allowable separation of 1,000
-feet. The copilot describes the UFO as a “brilliant yellow white plasma
-object, teardrop shaped.” There are no navigation lights or other
-features associated with airplanes, and the light seems to have a tail.
-During the following 30 minutes, the crew observes and takes 8
-photographs and four video segments of the UFO, one of which lasts 4:47.
-The video documents that the Airborne Collision Avoidance System SSR
-radar does not detect anything while the crew is actively observing the
-object. As the aircraft and its attendant UFO approaches the Mexico/US
-border, the light begins to flicker, changes colors from yellow-white to
-pinkish-purple, and turns on a perpendicular heading away from the
-aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the US. (Ted
-Roe, “An
-Independent Analysis of a March 19, 2020, Aviation-Safety
-Related Incident Involving UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, over
-Mexico,” NARCAP, June 1, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7810
Date: 3/23/2020
-Description: Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce
-Type: layoff
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 3/28/2020
-Description: The US Space Force declares the Space Fence, its
-second-generation space surveillance system, operational. The system is
-designed to track more than 25,000 artificial satellites and chunks of
-space debris in Earth orbit (and UAPs, presumably), some as small as a
-marble. The initial Space Fence facility is located at Kwajalein Atoll
-in the Marshall Islands, along with an option for another radar site in
-Western Australia. The US Strategic Command has data-sharing agreements
-with Australia, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, South Korea, the United
-Kingdom, the European Space Agency, and Europe’s Eumetsat weather
-satellite organization. With this and other surveillance capabilities,
-former assistant secretary of defense Christopher
-Mellon wonders why the US Air Force has not simultaneously detected
-the same UAPs that the US Navy has been doing with less sophisticated
-equipment. (Wikipedia, “Space
-Fence”; Lockheed Martin, “Space
-Fence”; Christopher Mellon, “Why
-Is the Air Force
-AWOL on the UAP Issue?” The Debrief, February 3, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7811
Date: 4/27/2020
-Description: The Pentagon officially releases the three videos (Tic-Tac,
-GIMBAL, and GoFast) showing UFOs that were previously released between
-December 2017 and March 2018 by the private company To the Stars Academy
-of Arts and Sciences. The release states that “the aerial phenomena
-observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’” (“Pentagon
-Officially Releases UFO Videos,” CNN, April 29, 2020; David Clarke,
-“Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021):
-40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7812
Date: 5/1/2020
-Description: The US Office of Naval Intelligence holds a classified
-briefing to destigmatize the UAP problem and to promote more
-intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions and encounters with
-active military deployments. (Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, “The
-US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8,
-2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7813
Date: 5/28/2020
-Description: Postdoctoral researcher Darryl Seligman and astrophysicist
-Gregory Laughlin argue that the interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be a
-hydrogen iceberg generated by a giant molecular cloud. The hypothesis
-explains the object’s strange cigar shape, as cosmic radiation would
-chip away at its edges (in some directions more than others) that would
-produce an elongated shape. The fact that it sped up as it entered the
-Solar System can be explained because it is outgassing hydrogen
-increased by the solar flux. (Darryl Seligman and Gregory Laughlin, “Evidence
-That 1I/2017 U1 (’Oumuamua) Was Composed of Molecular Hydrogen Ice,”
-arXiv, May 28, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7814
Date: 6/2020
-Description: Robert
-Bigelow launches a new effort, the Bigelow Institute for
-Consciousness Studies, to study the survival of human consciousness
-after death. (Skinwalkers 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7815
Date: 6/6/2020
-Description: Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler
-dies
-Type: death
-Reference: link
-Location: Edgewater, Maryland
Date: 6/23/2020
-Description: The US Senate Intelligence Committee, apparently disturbed
-by the lack of a coordinated investigatory process, asks the Pentagon
-for a detailed, unclassified report on UFOs, or “unidentified aerial
-phenomena.” In his report attached to the 2020–2021 Senate Intelligence
-Authorization Act, Sen. Marco
-Rubio (R-Fla.), acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence
-Committee, instructs the director of national intelligence, the
-secretary of defense, and other agency heads to compile data on UFOs.
-“The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be
-sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information
-sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been
-inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders,”
-the report states. It also confirms the existence of an ongoing
-Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force managed by the Under Secretary
-of Defense for Intelligence in collaboration with the Office of Naval
-Intelligence, as was its informal predecessor program, the Advanced
-Aerospace Threat Investigation Program. The task force is headed until
-January 2021 by Naval officer John F. Stratton. (Wikipedia, “Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena
-Task Force”; M. J. Banias, “Senate
-Intelligence Committee Confirms the US Navy Has a UFO Task Force,”
-Motherboard, June 23, 2020; “Classified
-UFO Briefings May Have Left Senators ‘Disturbed,’ Expert Says,”
-Fox News, June 24, 2020; George Knapp, “More
-UFO Heraings? Congress Might Consider Hearing from These
-2 Men,” Mystery Wire, May 23, 2022) June 24 – The Intelligence
-Committee votes to require the US Intelligence Community and the
-Department of Defense to publicly track and analyze data collected on
-unexplained aerial vehicles. Reports from the task force are to be
-issued to the Intelligence Committee every six months. (Bryan Bender,
-“Senators Want the Public to See the Government’s UFO Reports,”
-Politico, June 23, 2020; “Senate
-Panel Votes to Let Public Access UFO Records,” Courthouse News
-Service, June 24, 2020; “Pentagon
-UFO Unit to Publicly Release Some Findings after Ex- Official
-Says ‘Off-World Vehicle’ Found,” The Independent (UK), June 24,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7816
Date: 7/16/2020
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Paul Froggatt sees a glowing orange sphere that
-follows him as he is cycling through the Oakwood and Blacklow Spinney
-Woods in Warwickshire, England. The usual early morning birdsong has
-gone silent. Turning a bend, he encounters a 7-foot-tall, green-colored
-creature that stands on two legs and looks like a praying mantis. It has
-a triangular head and two large black eyes that stare at him. He thinks
-it is trying to transmit evil thoughts into his mind, so he speeds up
-and escapes it. (Nigel Watson, “M Is for Mantis and Missile,” Fortean
-Times 404 (April 2021): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7817
Date: 7/23/2020
-Description: Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie
-Kean report in the New York Times that Sen. Rubio is
-primarily concerned about reports of unidentified aircraft over US
-military bases and that China or Russia or some other adversary has made
-“some technological leap” that “allows them to conduct this sort of
-activity.” Rubio says some of the unidentified aerial vehicles over
-military bases possibly exhibit technologies not in the US arsenal. But
-he also notes: “Maybe there is a completely, sort of, boring explanation
-for it. But we need to find out.” The paper reports that while former
-Sen. Harry
-Reid “believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have
-occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say
-that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied
-secretly for decades.” News reports also repeat a claim made by Eric
-W. Davis that an “off-world vehicle” might be in the possession of
-the US government. (Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, “No
-Longer in the Shadows, Pentagon’s
-UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public,” New York Times, July 23,
-2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7818
Date: 7/28/2020
-Description: NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved
-materials”, all information is classified
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: New York, New York
Date: 8/2020
-Description: The National Academy of Sciences completes a report on
-Havana Syndrome, concluding that embassy personnel in Cuba, China,
-Russia, and other countries were most likely subjected to “directed,
-pulsed radiofrequency energy” in malicious attacks. A committee of 19
-experts says that the immediate symptoms that patients
-reported—including strange sensations of pain, pressure, and sound that
-often appear to emanate from a particular direction or occurred in a
-specific spot in a room—are more consistent with a directed “attack” of
-radiofrequency energy. The report does not point to a perpetrator,
-though it mentions “significant research in Russia/U.S.S.R.” on pulsed
-radiofrequency technology, as well as the exposure of military personnel
-in Eurasian communist countries to microwave radiation. The CDC
-concludes, “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a
-mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or
-mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by
-those stationed in Havana.” The report is inexplicably withheld from
-congressional and public scrutiny after it is submitted. Only after key
-senators learn of its existence later in the fall and press
-then-Secretary of State Mike
-Pompeo to turn it over does the Trump administration finally provide
-the report to a few Senate offices. The New York Times and NBC News
-first report on details of the unclassified NAS study, titled “An
-Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at
-Overseas Embassies,” in early December. (Ana Swanson and Edward Wong,
-“Report
-Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ As Likely
-Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies,” New York
-Times, December 5, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7819
Date: 8/4/2020
-Description: Deputy Secretary of Defense David
-L. Norquist approves the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial
-Phenomena Task Force. The Department of the Navy, under the oversight of
-the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and
-Security, will lead the effort. The Department of Defense says it is
-establishing the UAPTF to improve its understanding of the nature and
-origins of UAPs. Its mission is to detect, analyze, and catalog UAPs
-that could potentially pose a threat to US national security. Its
-mandate includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported
-as UAPs when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is
-seeing. (Wikipedia, “Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena Task Force”; US Department of Defense, “Establishment
-of Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena Task Force,” August 14, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7820
Date: 8/29/2020
-Description: 6:45 p.m. An American Airlines pilot reports that a man
-flying in a jet pack has passed by them about 90 feet away at their
-altitude of 3,000 feet coming into Los Angeles International Airport in
-California. About 10 minutes later, a Jet Blue Airways pilot spots the
-flying man. (“A
-Man Flying a Jetpack Was Reported by Pilots above
-Los Angeles,” CNN, September 3, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7821
Date: 9/1/2020
-Description: 10:13 p.m. A B737 is approaching the runway at Leeds
-Airport, England, at 1,800 feet. Both pilot and First Officer suddenly
-see a bright light and an object that appears to be headed toward the
-aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left. It appears
-without warning and gives them no time to act. After landing, the crew
-informs Air Traffic Control, who tells them that the West Yorkshire
-police helicopter had earlier seen “lanterns” in the area, but neither
-crew member thought that matched what they saw. The UK Airprox Board
-concludes that a “definite high risk of collision had existed.” (UK
-Airprox Board, “Monthly
-Meeting October 2020”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,”
-Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7822
Date: 9/15/2020
-Description: Japanese Defense Minister Taro
-Kono announces at a press conference that members of the Self-
-Defense Forces must make a visual recording of any unexplained aerial
-phenomena they encounter and that the footage must be analyzed to the
-fullest extent. The military is also being tasked with looking into
-reports of UFO sightings from the public. The issue is brought up when
-Kono meets with US Defense Secretary Mark
-Esper in Guam in late August for a regularly scheduled talk on
-regional security issues. (“Japan’s
-Defense Ministry Launches
-Protocol for UFO Sightings,” The Diplomat, September 18, 2020; “Japan
-Orders Military Pilots to Report
-UFO Sightings,” Deutsche Welle, September 28, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7823
Date: 10/14/2020
-Description: 1:45 p.m. A China Airlines crew member reports what appears
-to be someone in a jet pack flying at about 6,500 feet roughly seven
-miles northwest of Los Angeles International Airport, California. The
-air traffic controller alerts another pilot who is preparing to land,
-and the Federal Aviation Administration alerts local law enforcement and
-the FBI. However, it’s more likely that the pilots were seeing a
-battery-powered electric drone fitted with a mannequin. Jet packs would
-take up too much fuel to get to those altitudes. (“A
-Man Flying in a Jetpack
-Has Been Spotted Again in the Skies over Los Angeles,” CNN, October
-14, 2020; “This
-Jetpack Maker Isn’t
-So Sure That’s What’s Been Spotted over the L.A. Skies,” NBC News,
-October 15, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7824
Date: 11/2020
-Description: An official from the National Security Council suddenly
-falls ill with symptoms similar to those previously experienced by
-diplomats in Havana, Cuba. It takes place on the Ellipse in Washington,
-D.C., close to the White House. (“US
-Investigating Possible Mysterious Directed Energy Attack near White
-House,” CNN, April 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7825
Date: 11/2020
-Description: The extensive case files of the Center for UFO Studies
-(including files originating from the National Investigations Committee
-on Aerial Phenomena, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, and J.
-Allen Hynek’s Project Blue Book copies) are transferred from
-Chicago, Illinois, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a digitization
-project begins that will ultimately make them widely available, headed
-by CUFOS board member David
-Marler. (“David
-Marler: CUFOS Digitization Project 2021,” Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7826
Date: 12/2020
-Description: The CIA re-launches its task force on Havana Syndrome and
-expands its efforts under new Director William
-J. Burns, who
-has vowed during his confirmation hearings to review the evidence on the
-attacks on CIA personnel overseas, which have long been publicly
-reported. (“CIA
-Launches Task Force to Probe Invisible Attacks
-on US Diplomats and Spies As One Victim Finds Some Relief,” CNN,
-February 24, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7827
Date: 12/27/2020
-Description: President Donald
-Trump signs a $2.3 trillion government funding bill—the Consolidated
-Appropriations Act, 2021—containing a number of long-anticipated
-provisions, including an Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021. The
-latter contains a subheading labeled “Advanced Aerial Threats,” which
-requires the Director of National Intelligence (Avril
-Haynes under the Biden administration) to consult with the Secretary
-of Defense (Lloyd
-Austin under the Biden Administration) to submit a report on
-“unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as ‘anomalous aerial
-vehicles’), including observed airborne objects that have not been
-identified” and the potential threats they pose. The premise behind the
-provision is that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was
-concerned that the US government has no coordinated or comprehensive
-process for collecting and assessing intelligence data about
-unidentified aerial phenomena. It demands a detailed analysis of UAP
-data to be delivered to the Joint Armed Services Committee by the end of
-June 2021. It also calls for a streamlined reporting structure under the
-aegis of a named official The director of the US Navy’s UAP Task Force,
-Brennan McKernan, leads this new Pentagon-wide project. (Helen Lin, “Sci-Fi
-Stimulus Secrets: Why Did UFOs Appear in the December 2020
-COVID-19 Relief Package?” Reference, July 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7828
Date: 1/2021
-Description: Ash Ellis, who runs the online site UFO Identified,
-compiles a breakdown of 484 sightings reported in the UK during 2020.
-The majority (396) were made in England. There is a sharp increase in
-March and April due to the launch of SpaceX satellite trains. The most
-likely time to see a UFO is between 9 and 10 p.m. on a Sunday, and the
-shapes vary from star-like, triangular, oval, disc-shaped, and
-cylindrical to unknown. There were only three CE-3s and one abduction
-report. (Ash Ellis, “The
-UK UFO Report 2020,” UFO Identified)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7829
Date: 1/1/2021
-Description: Using Freedom of Information requests, UK reporter Dean
-Kirby analyzes 128 separate calls to 16 police forces since 2016 that
-mention UFOs. Several are obvious UAVs, including one reported by a
-caller to police in Bangor, Northern Ireland, who described a flying
-object that appeared to have solar panels. But the true figure could be
-much higher, with more than 30 police forces including Police Scotland
-saying they have no easy way of counting the calls and three saying they
-would each have to search through more than 700 records where the
-letters UFO were used. (Dean Kirby, “In
-One of the Strangest Years of Our Lives, Reports of UFO Sightings Have
-Reached New Heights in Lockdown,” News UK, January 1, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7830
Date: 1/15/2021
-Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
-conducted a two-year “epidemiologic investigation” of the mysterious
-medical incidents suffered by US personnel in Cuba but cannot determine
-the nature of the injuries nor the cause, according to its 18-page
-report. “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a
-mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or
-mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by
-those stationed in Havana, Cuba,” concluded the CDC study. Titled “Cuba
-Unexplained Events Investigation—Final Report,” the CDC study was
-completed more than a year ago. But its existence was revealed only
-after a more recent evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences,
-which references the CDC report leaked to the press in December. (Dan
-Vergano, “Medical
-Records Can’t Explain ‘Havana
-Syndrome,’ a Buried CDC Report Says,” BuzzFeed News, January 15,
-2021; “CDC
-Report on the ‘Havana
-Syndrome’: Medical Mystery Remains Unsolved,” National Security
-Archive, February 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7831
Date: 1/23/2021
-Description: Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles,
-CA
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2/7/2021
-Description: The British UFO Research Association reports that it
-received 583 reports in 2020, which is 40% less than in 2019. However,
-the number of high-strangeness reports doubled (37). (“An
-Overview of Sightings, Photographs,
-and High Strangeness Reports in 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021,”
-BUFORA, February 7, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7832
Date: 2/9/2021
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An unidentified drone with a green light on its
-underbody is spotted from the corner of East Ajo Way and South Palo
-Verde Road in Tucson, Arizona, directly adjacent to a fuel terminal just
-west of Davis- Monthan. It flies into controlled airspace surrounding
-the base and Tucson International Airport after the Tucson Police
-Department and US Customs and Border Protection helicopters began to
-pursue it. The law enforcement helicopters follow the drone northwest
-out of the city for nearl 45 minutes before losing it in the clouds
-around 14,000 feet. The CBP is operating an Airbus AS350, while Tucson
-police are flying a Bell 206B-3 Jet Ranger. The CPB pilot says that the
-drone is highly modified and able to outperform any other he has seen
-previously, flying circles around both helicopters at speeds well in
-excess of 100 mph. (Brett Tingley, “Police helicopter Crew Says
-Mysterious Craft They Chased Was ‘Not Like Any Other’ Drone,” The Drive:
-The War Zone, June 22, 2021; Tim McMillan, Micah Hanks, and Christopher
-Plain, “Incursions
-at the Border: Homeland Security Agents
-Tell of Encounters with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” The DeBrief,
-May 27, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7833
Date: 2/17/2021
-Description: Tom
-DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy files a report to the US Securities
-and Exchange Commission, saying that it is restructuring its operations
-to “scale back its initiatives in science and commercialization.” This
-is given as justification for dropping advisors Luis
-Elizondo, Stephen
-Justice, and Christopher
-Mellon. (Nigel
-Watson, “M Is for Mantis and Missile,” Fortean Times 404 (April 2021):
-22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7834
Date: 2/21/2021
-Description: 12:19 p.m. An American Airlines Airbus A320 pilot reports a
-long, cylindrical object like a cruise missile pass above his location
-west of Clayton, New Mexico. The FAA has no reports of objects on air
-traffic controller radar screens. (“Intercept:
-American Airlines Flight 2292 Reports Close Encounter with Unknown
-Flying Object,”
-Deep Blue Horizon, February 21, 2021; Tyler Rogoway, “FAA
-Releases Statement on Airliner’s Encounter
-with Unknown Object over New Mexico,” The Drive: The War Zone,
-February 24, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7835
Date: 3/12/2021
-Description: The US State Department names a senior official to lead the
-agency’s response to the Havana Syndrome attacks. Pamela
-L. Spratlen, a
-career foreign service officer, will serve as the senior advisor to the
-Health Incident Response Task Force, which was created in 2018 to
-coordinate the response to the spate of incidents. (“State Department
-Names Senior Official to Lead Response to Mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’
-Attacks,” CNN, March 12, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7836
Date: 3/29/2021
-Description: Chris
-Rutkowski’s annual review of UFO sightings in Canada shows there was
-a 46% rise in reports in 2020; 30% of the 1,243 sights were in Ontario
-and 24% from Quebec. 13% remain unexplained. (Chris Rutkowski, “The
-2020 Canadian UFO Survey,” Ufology Research, March 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7837
Date: 4/13/2021
-Description: According to the National UFO Reporting Center, there was
-an increase of some 1,000 sightings in the United States during 2020,
-reaching a peak of 7,200 reports. (“UFO
-Sightings in US Rose Sharply during the Pandemic, Data
-Reveals,” WION, April 13, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7838
Date: 4/15/2021
-Description: Tyler Rogoway of The War Zone summarizes the defense
-implications of drone and UAP interference with military aircraft,
-ships, and weapons systems, concluding that “at least one of our
-adversaries, and possibly two, have played our own cultural norms
-against us and have executed what may be among the most successful and
-ingenious intelligence-gathering plays of all time. Meanwhile, it seems
-that the DoD is either incapable of identifying and evaluating what
-should no longer be considered an emerging threat—swarming drones and
-radar target balloons—or they are playing along by acting like they do
-not know, which could be the case for a number of reasons.” (Tyler
-Rogoway, “Adversary
-Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and the Pentagon Acts Like They’re UFOs,”
-The Drive: The War Zone, April 15, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7839
Date: 4/19/2021
-End date: 4/26/2021
-Description: The US Navy kicks off a secretive experiment to launch a
-missile at a surface target using information from a combination of
-manned and unmanned aircraft and surface vessels to test their direct
-attack and electronic warfare capabilities. (Joseph Trevithick, “Huge
-Navy Unmanned-Focused Experiment Underway Featuring Live Missile
-Shoot and ‘Super Swarms,’” The Drive: The War Zone, April 20,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7840
Date: 4/26/2021
-Description: Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming
-the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD
-program
-Type: letter
-Reference: TODO
Date: 5/2021
-Description: During a briefing prior to a planned US Air Force exercise,
-USAF personnel observe a slide presentation that explains what to do if
-they encounter a UAP. They are clearly instructed to complete the Air
-Force reporting form, which features shapes of several different types
-of UAP they could encounter (plasma-like balls, tic-tacs, discs). It
-also features specific questions, such as whether the UAP interferes
-with their radar operation. This is all new, the officer points out to
-researcher Robert Powell, something that would not have occurred 18
-months previous. He finds the stigma associated with this subject in the
-Air Force has significantly changed. (Robert Powell, “Opinion:
-When It Comes to the USAF and UAP, the Tide May Finally Be Turning,”
-The Debrief, February 7, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7841
Date: 5/18/2021
-Description: Former President Barack
-Obama admits on The Late Late Show with James Corden that “When I
-came into office, I asked … is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping
-the alien specimens and spaceship? And you know, they did a little bit
-of research and the answer was no. But what is true, and I’m actually
-being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of
-objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t
-explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily
-explainable pattern.” (“Barack
-Obama Talks
-about UFOs Again on Late Night Television,” WIAT, Birmingham,
-Alabama, May 19, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7842
Date: 6/4/2021
-Description: South China Morning Post: China military uses AI to track
-rapidly increasing UFOs. To the People’s Liberation Army they are
-‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best
-way to keep up with them.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: China
Date: 6/25/2021
-Description: The US Office
-of the Director of National Intelligence releases a summary 6-page
-report on UAPs, largely centering on evidence gathered in the last 20
-years from US Navy reports. It claims that 143 of the 144 are
-unidentified, though none of the data is provided. (The full report,
-available only to those with proper security clearances, is released in
-a redacted version in March 2022.) The report comes to no conclusion
-about what the UAPs were, based on a lack of evidence, though in a
-limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appear to exhibit unusual
-flight characteristics, including high velocity, breaking the sound
-barrier without producing a sonic boom, high maneuverability not able to
-be replicated otherwise, long duration flight, and an ability to
-submerge into the water. Some of the UAPs appear to move with no
-discernable means of propulsion, and it is noted that the alleged high
-speeds and maneuvers would normally destroy any craft. These
-observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer
-misperception, and require additional rigorous analysis. The report
-indicates that, in some cases, the UAP recordings are of physical
-objects and not false readings, as individual instances had been
-detected by different sensor mechanisms, including visual observation.
-The report also states that “UAP probably lack a single explanation,”
-and proposes five possible categories of explanation: airborne clutter,
-natural atmospheric phenomena, US government or industry development
-technology, foreign craft, and an “Other” category. The report raises
-concerns that the UAPs could be a safety issue, with regard to a
-possible collision with US aircraft, and that they could pose a security
-threat if they are foreign craft gathering information about the US. The
-report indicates that investigation of the topic will continue,
-including development of reporting protocols. The report also indicates
-that, of the sightings reported, all except one (confirmed as a weather
-balloon) lack sufficient information to attribute a specific explanation
-or explanations. (Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Preliminary
-Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [6-page summary report],
-June 25, 2021; Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Preliminary
-Assessment: Unidentified
-Aerial Phenomena [redacted full report], June 25, 2021; Julian E.
-Barnes and Helene Cooper, “US Finds
-No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, But Can’t Rule It
-Out, Either,” New York Times, June 3, 2021; Andrew Desiderio, “‘We’ve
-Got to Get an Answer’: UFOs Catch Congress’ Interest,” Politico,
-June 23, 2021; “US
-Report on Pentagon-Documented UFOs Leaves Sightings Unexplained,”
-ABC News (Australia), June 25, 2021; “Pentagon
-Won’t Rule Out Aliens in Long-Awaited Report,” BBC News, June 25,
-2021; David Clarke, “Beyond Blue Book: The Pentagon UFO Report in
-Context,” Fortean Times 409 (September 2021): 48–51; John Greenewald,
-“June
-2021 Classified UAP/UFO Report Given to Congress Partially
-Released,” The Black Vault, March 23, 2022; Micah Hanks, “Analysis:
-Newly Released Version of Once-Classified Report Presents New Clues
-about the U.S. Government’s UAP Investigations,” The Debrief, March
-24, 2022; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “On
-the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report,” Academia.edu, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7843
Date: 7/20/2021
-Description: Reports surface of American diplomatic officials coming
-down with Havana Syndrome in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. (“American
-Personnel in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Reported As among ‘Havana Syndrome’
-Victims,” bne IntelliNews, July 21, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7844
Date: 7/26/2021
-Description: The Galileo Project, headed by a multi-institutional team
-of scientists led by Avi
-Loeb of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, announces
-that it will investigate evidence that could represent defunct or still-
-active “extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” or ETCs. The
-project, which includes Luis
-Elizondo, Christopher
-Mellon, Nick
-Pope, and Michael
-Shermer, will analyze data from astronomical surveys and telescope
-observations, and design new algorithms using artificial intelligence,
-in order to identify potential interstellar travelers, alien-built
-satellites, and UAPs. Ufologist Jacques
-Vallée joins the project in January 2022. (Mindy Weisberger, “Harvard-Led
-Team to Search Cosmos for Extraterrestrial Space Tech and UFOs,”
-Live Science, July 26, 2021; Robert Sheaffer, “Galileos
-Galore: Now Including Dr. Jacques Vallée!” Bad UFOs, January 25,
-2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7845
Date: 7/30/2021
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright green fireball illuminates the night
-sky over Izmir, Turkey. The visual part of the event lasts several
-seconds before the object disintegrates. Several residents report a
-sonic boom. According to Hassan Ali Dar, deputy director of the
-Astronomical Observatory of Aegean University, the object is part of the
-Perseid meteor shower. (Teo Blašković, “Very
-Bright Fireball over Izmir, Sonic Boom Reported, Turkey,” The
-Watchers, August 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7846
Date: 8/2021
-Description: Reports of Havana Syndrome come to light among more than 20
-US diplomats in Vienna, Austria, since January. The numbers are greater
-here than in any city outside Havana, Cuba. The CIA removes its station
-chief in Vienna for not adequately responding to the outbreak. (“‘Havana
-Syndrome’-Like Mystery Illness Affects Vienna
-US Diplomats,” BBC News, July 17, 2021; “CIA
-‘Removes Vienna Boss’ over Havana Syndrome Outbreak,”
-BBC News, September 24, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7847
Date: 8/29/2021
-Description: In a breakthrough interview on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes, US Navy
-pilots line up to recount their experiences with UFOs on the eastern
-coast. It happens so frequently that the encounters became commonplace,
-Ryan Graves, a retired navy pilot, tells the show. “Every day,” Graves
-says. “Every day for at least a couple years.” (Bill Whitaker, “UFOs
-Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,” CBS News, August 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7848
Date: 8/30/2021
-Description: Afghanistan War ends
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Afghanistan
Date: 9/5/2021
-Description: Australian journalist Ross Coulthart releases a
-documentary, The UFO Phenomenon, which recounts the history of the
-Australian government’s involvement with UFOs. (“The
-UFO Phenomenon: Full Documentary 2021,”
-7NEWS Spotlight YouTube channel, September 5, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7849
Date: 9/15/2021
-Description: 4:03 p.m. One adult and two children witness a hovering
-metallic object in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California.
-After watching it for a few seconds, the adult takes a video as the
-object slowly moves toward the east. (“Video
-Taken of Hovering Bright, Metallic, Flashing Object,” UFOs
-Northwest, October 12, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7850
Date: 10/2021
-Description: US diplomats in Bogota, Colombia, and Berlin, Germany, are
-being affected by Havana Syndrome. (“Havana Syndrome:
-Berlin Police Probe Cases at US Embassy,” BBC News, October 9, 2021;
-“Havana
-Syndrome Reported
-at US Embassy in Colombia,” BBC News, October 13, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7851
Date: 10/8/2021
-Description: The Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological
-Attacks (HAVANA) Act is signed by President Joe
-Biden. It
-authorizes the CIA Director and the Secretary of State to provide
-financial support for personnel suffering brain injuries. However, while
-funding for it has not yet passed, it has been included in drafts of a
-Defense Department appropriations bill. (“Biden
-Signs Legislation to Compensate Victims of Mysterious ‘Havana
-Syndrome,’” New York Times, October 8, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7852
Date: 10/9/2021
-Description: Day. Witnesses watch a small, rounded, silver-metallic
-object at high altitude (perhaps above 15,000 feet) for 5 minutes during
-the Wings Over Houston Air Show at Ellington Air Force Base near
-Houston, Texas. The object leaves no trail as it alternately maneuvers
-and hovers. One of them takes a photograph. The MUFON investigator
-suspects the object might be a US Army Long Endurance Multi Intelligence
-Vehicle, a hybrid blimp, making an appearance at the air show. (Kevin D.
-Randle, “Coast
-to Coast: The National Defense Authorization Act
-and Two Interesting Sightings,” A Different Perspective, December
-11, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7853
Date: 11/2021
-Description: Optical engineer Vincent Costes takes over from Roger
-Baldacchino as manager of Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les
-Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, the official French UFO agency
-in Toulouse, France. (“Un
-nouveau responsable au GEIPAN à partir de novembre 2021,” GEIPAN,
-November 3, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7854
Date: 11/6/2021
-Description: 8.55 a.m. A witness in Marietta, Georgia, photographs a
-white, cigar-shaped object moving in a westerly direction. (“Strange
-Cigar-Shaped Object Seen and Photographed,” UFOs Northwest, November
-23, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7855
Date: 11/8/2021
-Description: Night. A couple from Hubbard, Ohio, see a triangular-shaped
-object with a bright yellow light on top and two sets of three white
-lights along the side, just above the treetops. It appears to be
-football-field sized and is hovering about 100 feet above the highway.
-As they approach, it swiftly moves to the left and flies over some
-trees. Their car begins to act funny and the check-engine light comes
-on, indicating reduced engine power and traction control. (Kevin D.
-Randle, “Coast
-to Coast AM: EM Effects and Current UFO Sightings,” A Different
-Perspective, December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7856
Date: 11/11/2021
-Description: 11:10 a.m. A witness sees nine white orbs flying in
-formation and mimicking a flyby of F-16s during the Leavenworth, Kansas,
-Annual Veterans Day Parade. Prior to the F-16 flyby, the witness sees
-the orbs forming and reforming into various groups. At times they
-disappear and reappear at an incredible speed. One of the orbs is in an
-“overwatch” position, while at least six are in a “three-by-two
-formation.” After passing the flyby, they form a four-point formation
-then disappear to the west at great speed. A photo is taken showing the
-orbs and the F-16s. (“9
-White Orbs Seen at F16 Airshow,” UFOs Northwest, November 19,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7857
Date: 11/19/2021
-Description: The governmental Centro de Identificatión Aerospaciale in
-Argentina issues an annual report on its investigation into 45 UFO cases
-analyzed during the previous year, plus occasional investigations on
-older events. CIAE investigates only those UFO sightings supported by
-evidence (photography, video, or material). All of them are technically
-explained, the distribution of causes being birds & bugs (40%),
-balloons and airborne objects (18%), optical artifacts (11%),
-astronomical (11%), astronautical (11%), aircraft (7%), or ground
-facilities (2%). (Rubén E. Lianza, “Informe
-de Resolución de Casos Recibidos en 2021,” CIAE, November 19,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7858
Date: 11/23/2021
-Description: US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen
-Hicks establishes the Airborne Object Identification and Management
-Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) to synchronize the detection and
-identification of UAPs. It is to be overseen and directed by the
-Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council
-(AOIMEXEC), led by Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and
-Security Ronald
-Moultrie. (Kathleen
-Hicks, “Establishment
-of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization
-Group,” November 23, 2021; “Ex-Officials
-Express Deep Concerns over New Pentagon UFO Unit,” The Hill,
-December 1, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7859
Date: 12/3/2021
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A woman driving in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin,
-in foggy conditions, spots five lights moving in different directions.
-The lights merge into one. Three other oval, blue-purple lights also fly
-through the clouds. She then sees green lights moving very quickly. The
-sighting lasts 45 minutes and she takes several photos. (“Groups
-of Multicolored Lights Move Rapidly on Foggy Night,” UFOs Northwest,
-December 4, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7860
Date: 12/15/2021
-Description: A new camera system goes into operation at the University
-of Würzburg, Germany, designed to detect UAP using artificial
-intelligence. Professor for Space Technology Hakan Kayal has set up
-SkyCAM-5 on the roof of a university building on the Hubland campus.
-“When the camera detects known objects, it recognizes them with a
-Convolutional Neural Network, classifies them and stores the
-corresponding video sequences in a database,” Kayal explains. (“UAP:
-SkyCAM Searches the Sky,” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg,
-December 20, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7861
Date: 12/27/2021
-Description: President Joe
-Biden signs into law the National Defense Authorization Act for FY
-2022. It includes an amendment, “Establishment of Office to Address
-Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.),
-that requires the Defense Department to coordinate with other federal
-agencies to collect, analyze, and report on UAP cases, including those
-with “adverse physiological effects.” It funds a new office, the
-Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, to
-replace the UAP Task Force program coordinated by the US Office of Naval
-Intelligence. The new office will serve as a “centralized repository”
-for such information and will coordinate with US allies to “better
-assess the nature and extent” of UAP incidents. It requires the office
-to submit an annual report to Congress. (“Sen. Gillibrand
-Introduces Amendment to Defense Bill
-Establishing Office to Study UFOs,” WTI-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
-November 9, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “Coast
-to Coast AM: Official Study of UFOs and a UFO Picture,” A Different
-Perspective, November 27, 2021; “Biden
-Signs $770 Billion Defense Bill,” New York Times, December 27,
-2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7862
Date: 12/28/2021
-Description: Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
Date: 1/2022
-Description: Ash Ellis of UFO Identified issues a summary report on 413
-UFO sightings made in the UK 2021. The majority originate in England.
-(Ash Ellis, “The
-UK UFO Report 2021,” UFO Identified)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7863
Date: 1/17/2022
-Description: A military-style drone circles the Forsmark Nuclear Power
-Plant in Forsmark, Sweden, operating even though there is a high wind.
-Similar drones with large wings are reported over the Ringhals and
-Oskarshamn nuclear power plants. The previous week, drones are seen
-circling the Parliament buildings and the Royal Palacec in Stockholm, as
-well as the Kiruna and Luleå airports. A police helicopter is seen
-pursuing a drone flying above it at a height of 3,280 feet to the west
-of Stockholm, but authorities do not manage to down any of these. All
-the drones seem to be larger and have greater endurance than commercial
-models. (“Sweden
-Drones: Sightings Reported
-over Nuclear Plants and Palace,” BBC News, January 18, 2022; “Drone
-Swarms,” Fortean Times, no. 416 (March 2022): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7864
Date: 1/19/2022
-Description: The CIA announces it has ruled out a sustained global
-campaign by a hostile power aimed at hundreds of US diplomats and spies
-as the cause of Havana Syndrome symptoms. In about two dozen cases, the
-agency cannot rule out foreign involvement, including many of the cases
-that originated at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, beginning in 2016.
-Another group of cases is considered unresolved. But in hundreds of
-other cases of possible symptoms, the agency has found plausible
-alternative explanations. (“CIA
-Says ‘Havana Syndrome’ Not Result
-of Sustained Campaign by Hostile Power,” NBC News, January 19,
-2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7865
Date: 2/2/2022
-Description: An intelligence panel investigating the cause of Havana
-Syndrome says that some of the episodes could plausibly have been caused
-by “pulsed electromagnetic energy” emitted by an external source,
-according to a partially declassified intelligence report. A panel of
-intelligence community experts drew up the report after analyzing over
-1,000 documents and interviewing affected individuals. They determine
-the symptoms associated with the illness to be “genuine and compelling,”
-and note that while some cases can be attributed to known psychological
-or medical factors, others remain unexplained. The authors sought to
-determine the feasibility of five potential causal mechanisms, including
-“acoustic signals, chemical and biological agents, ionizing radiation,
-natural and environmental factors, and radiofrequency and other
-electromagnetic energy.” They assessed the potential of each of these
-mechanisms to account for cases that cannot be easily explained by other
-means. More specifically, they looked at cases involving a combination
-of four particularly puzzling “core characteristics.” These include “the
-acute onset of… sound or pressure in only one ear or on one side of the
-head,” as well as vertigo, “a strong sense of locality or
-directionality,” and an absence of any obvious environmental or medical
-causes for such symptoms. Ruling out the possibility that Havana
-syndrome could represent an underlying brain disorder, the authors state
-that “the combination of the four core characteristics is distinctly
-unusual and unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and so far
-have not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality.” On
-the other hand, they conclude that “pulsed electromagnetic energy,
-particularly in the radiofrequency range, plausibly explains the core
-characteristics,” although they do concede that such a theory is riddled
-with “information gaps.” Addressing the possibility that Havana syndrome
-could therefore be caused by a nefarious device, they go on to explain
-that devices do “exist that could generate the required stimulus, are
-concealable, and have moderate power requirements” that could produce
-the observed symptoms. (“Havana Syndrome
-Could Be Caused by Pulsed Energy Devices, Intelligence Report Says,”
-IFLScience, February 3, 2022; “US
-Intelligence Community Report Says ‘Pulsed Electromagnetic Energy’ Could
-Cause Havana Syndrome,” CNN, February 3, 2022; Office of the
-Director of National Intelligence, [IC
-Experts Panel on Havana Syndrome executive
-summary], declassified February 1, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7866
Date: 2/6/2022
-Description: Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with
-the show title “UFOs and Aliens”
-Type: interview
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: US
Date: 3/25/2022
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency releases Defense
-Intelligence Reference Documents on 37 of the 38 projects that its
-Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) has
-produced as part of its Project Physics under the direction of Hal
-Puthoff. The
-topics range from “Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology” to
-“Invisibility Cloaking” and “Antigravity for Aerospace Applications.”
-(John Greenewald, “The
-Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP)
-Documentation,” The Black Vault, March 31, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7867
Date: 3/29/2022
-Description: Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and
-Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79
-Type: death
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 4/22/2022
-Description: 8:52 p.m. The pilot of an Embraer Phenom business jet
-flying at 45,000 feet above Kessel, West Virginia, notices a light
-10,000 feet above him. It changes to a string of lights. As he passes
-underneath, he notices the object’s lights go out and the aircraft’s
-avionics system fails. Other pilots can see the light as well. (John
-Greenewald, “FAA
-Confirmed UFO Sighting April 22, 2022, by LXJ359 over Kessel, West
-Virginia,” The Black Vault, May 19, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7868
Date: 5/12/2022
-Description: Department of Defense officials choose Deputy Director of
-Intelligence and physicist Sean
-Kirkpatrick to head the Airborne Object Identification and
-Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG). (Douglas Dean Johnson, “Scientist
-and Intelligence Officer Sean Kirkpatrick Piced to Head the New
-Pentagon-IC Office Empowered by Congress
-to Study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” Mirador, May 12,
-2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7869
Date: 5/17/2022
-Description: 9:00 a.m. The House Intelligence Committee’s
-Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation
-Subcommittee holds hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, as
-directed by the National Defense Authorization Act, which calls on the
-military to provide an annual report and semiannual briefings on the
-topic to Congress. The hearing features Ronald
-Moultrie, under
-secretary of defense for intelligence and security, who is involved with
-the newly created Airborne Object Identification and Management
-Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), and Scott
-W. Bray, deputy
-director of naval intelligence. Bray testifies that their database of
-reports of UFOs now includes about 400 incidents, up from 143 assessed
-in a report released in 2021. He cites improved sensors, an increase in
-drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and aerial
-clutter such as Mylar balloons as causes for the uptick. Incidents in
-the 2021 report date as far back as 2004 and are based on both sensor
-data and observations by military aviators. Bray says that “Navy and air
-force crews now have step- by-step procedures for reporting UAPs on
-their kneeboard, in the cockpit.” In a back-and-forth with Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio),
-Bray agrees that standardizing the civilian reporting process will be
-useful. While the military database does include some civilian reports,
-the vast majority have come from within. Rep. Adam
-Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,
-pushes for the Pentagon and the public to understand that UAPs are
-becoming a national security concern. At the hearing, officials play a
-declassified video clip showing a mysterious UAP that zipped by a
-pilot’s aircraft in a US Navy training yard. It appears to be a
-spherical object traveling at extremely high speeds. Bray says that he
-does not have an explanation for what this specific object is. Bray and
-Moultrie both say they will commit to declassifying more information
-when possible and when it does not pose a national security risk, adding
-the task force will operate with more transparency than past Pentagon
-programs. (Christopher Dean Hopkins, “The
-Military’s UFO Database Now Has Info from About 400
-Reported Incidents,” National Public Radio, May 17, 2022; Brad
-Dress, “UFOs
-Pose ’Potential National Security
-Threat,’ Lawmakers Warn,” The Hill, May 17, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7870
Date: 5/27/2022
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies launches its first Facebook
-page. (CUFOS, Facebook
-page)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7871
Date: 6/3/2022
-Description: Ex-US Navy Aviator Ryan Graves gives a keynote titled “UAP
-& Government: The Innovation Imperative” at the SCU AAPC conference
-near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL. Graves states at the
-conference that aviators are reporting sightings, but are being ignored,
-and if this continues they will stop reporting them.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 6/4/2022
-Description: ex-Col. John B. Alexander states on video at the SCU AAPC
-conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL that MJ-12 was
-real, but then claimed it had nothing to do with UFO’s. Stubblebine said
-it was very secret.
-Type: public statement
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 6/4/2022
-Description: Panel held at the SCU APC conference near the Redstone
-Arsenal in Huntsville AL: “The National Security Implications of
-Scientifically Studying UAP”- Dr. Joseph DiNoto (moderator), Dr. Matthew
-Szydagis, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Joshua Pierson, and Mr. Richard
-Hoffman.
-Type: public panel
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 6/4/2022
-Description: Dr. Alexander Wendt gives the virtual presentation
-“Dangerous Knowledge — UFO Science and the Last Humans” at the SCU AAPC
-conference, near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL, on potential
-societal collapse and mass panic if Disclosure of the reality of UFO’s
-is rushed. Mentions a 20 year process of acclimation focusing on young
-people.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL
Date: 12/23/2022
-Description: President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense
-Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections
-and references to back-engineering
-Type: law
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
Date: 1/12/2023
-Description: CNBC: “More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to
-U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021”
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: US
Date: 1/12/2023
-Description: CBS News: “Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest
-report”. “On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National
-Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on
-UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
-The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional
-sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new
-sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the
-total number of UFO sightings to over 500. The assessment revealed that
-the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004.
-This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial
-report in 2021. Department of Defense has determined that about half of
-the additional sightings displayed “unremarkable characteristics.” A
-U.S. official told CBS News that none of the incidents have yet been
-definitively linked to China, Russia or any other country.”
-Type: unclassified report
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC